"Li Qianhu has been too polite." The fat man in front of him bowed deeply, and Min Yuanqi used some strength with both hands to help this person up.

"How dare you be rude?" Li Kecheng didn't dare to raise his head, and said respectfully: "Lord Min's reputation as a thief will soon spread, and the court will have a heavy reward. ”

The fat man in front of him has really become much more pleasing to the eye, Min Yuanqi thought about it for a moment, thinking about his original plan to uproot the Li family, is it still necessary?

Each thousand households and hundreds of households will have a family that has been inherited for a long time, and the real top level will generally have the worldly position of commanding the same knowledge and affairs, for example, Qi Jiguang's family is the worldly position of commanding the affairs of the Shandong Metropolitan Division.

The Li family is also a commander every few generations, normal but a thousand households, because of the early death of Min Yuanqi's father disrupted the family layout, the Li family took the opportunity to take the position, and the Min family has continued to suppress over the years, if you start from personal vendetta, even if Min Yuanqi wields a knife to cut the guy in front of him, it is not an exaggeration.

But from the overall situation, it is meaningless to kill a colleague military attache for no reason, and it is a secular military attache who is also in Dahewei, and it is completely unnecessary.

In general, it depends on whether Li Kecheng is really interested.

If this person is interested and cooperates with Min Yuanqi, it is much more cost-effective to leave him than to kill him.

"We are also fighting thieves to protect the city of Qianhu and all the soldiers and civilians." Min Yuanqi said to Li Kecheng in front of him: "We will cut off the heads of bandits and pirates to repay their merits, and the corpses will have to be disposed of by Lord Qianhu as soon as possible." ”

"It's a little thing, a little thing." Li Kecheng is still quite smart and awake in these matters, and he agreed again and again: "I will return to the city in a while, and dispatch hundreds of households on the north bank to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses, all without Lord Min worrying about it." ”

"We have also damaged a lot of armor and weapons this time, especially the firecrackers that blew up many of them."

"It's a trifle." Li Kecheng hurriedly said: "There are still more than 100 collars of cotton armor in the arsenal of Suocheng, but it is a little damaged, and it needs to be repaired before it can be used, and the scale armor is really rare, only less than ten collars." In addition, there are some helmets, small bows, Kaiyuan bows, arrows, fire guns, and about twenty doors, and there are also some sub-medicines, and we don't have any decent soldiers and horses now. ”

Min Yuanqi smiled lightly, and also sighed that the fat man in front of him was really interesting.

Previously, Min Qiande had transported all the armor hidden by the family to the 300th household, and most of the iron helmets worn by the armor worn by the banner army were donated by Min Qiande and purchased by the Zhu family with heavy money.

A collar of cotton armor is always worth more than ten or twenty taels of silver, and more than 100 collars are about two thousand silver, plus knives and guns, iron helmets, firearms, bows and arrows, etc., it is estimated that the total price will be about five thousand.

This is almost the limit of the arsenal of a thousand households, Li Kecheng, a thousand households, is qualified to open and grant, but Min Qiande cannot do so.

At this time, it can be regarded as exhausting the entire Yunti Pass, and it is impossible to get such a large amount of supplies at once in the future.

However, Min Yuanqi also doesn't care, the banner army has become a big trend, he can accumulate more wealth next, find more suitable craftsmen, expand the scale of the blacksmith shop, create more and more sophisticated firearms, stronger armor, sharper flag guns and knives, these objects in front of him are just a help on the way to accumulation, Min Yuanqi will not lose a big deal because of a small one.

"Thank you so much, Senho-sama."

Since Li Kecheng knew each other so well and cooperated in every possible way, Min Yuanqi also put a smile on his face, held Li Kecheng's hand and said several words of thanks.

Li Kecheng felt that the other party's palm was big and thick, but cold and powerful, if this hand was not on his own hand, but on his throat, he was afraid that he would be able to strangle himself in a few strokes...... He wanted to pull his palm away, but he didn't dare to kill him, so he could only smile all over his face, bow slightly, and listen to Min Yuanqi say polite words for a while.

As for Li Kecheng, he thinks that Min Yuanqi is even more terrifying, if this person is angry and even insults himself, it is fine, if this is the case in front of him, Li Kecheng only feels that the person in front of him is a cobra with a deep disguise, and he doesn't even dare to have the slightest strange thought.

Min Yuanqi didn't plan to knock out some money and food, so he directly ordered Li Kecheng to quickly gather people to come over and clean up the mess for himself.

Looking at Li Kecheng's departing figure, Min Yuanqi, Min Qiande, Min Yuanzhi, Min Yuanzhong, Min Yuanjin, Liang Shifa, Han Sen and others all laughed together.

Min Yuanqi also laughed, this time in the big battle, he gave himself seven points, there were many mistakes, there were also losses, but the gains were also very much.

This time, the consumption of the war is not small, and the food will not be consumed too much, after all, it is fought at the doorstep.

However, there must have been a lot of damaged weapons and armor, armor, spears, swords, helmets, firearms, or damaged, or all the medicines were destroyed, or the weapons and firearms that were destroyed and exploded, and this kind of loss was gone.

There are also the deaths and injuries of soldiers, in addition to the death and serious injuries of the subordinate brothers who get along day and night, which makes Min Yuanqi feel distressed, the money and food for the pension are also a big head, Min Yuanqi will not spare money and food in this matter, and he must not make a person feel cold.

Now that everyone is in their hearts, the most fundamental reason why everyone trusts Min Yuanqi is that he can protect everyone, protect this land, including everyone's property, the foundation of survival, the lives of military families and the safety of their families are of course the most important things.

Winning the first battle, of course, everyone was excited and happy, and even the prestige of the Min family and Min Yuanqi was soaring.

But the underlying crisis is the number of dead and wounded.

If the casualties are too serious, then this promise is meaningless, and people will feel that the Min family and Min Yuan used everyone's lives to win credit for themselves and their families, and everyone's flesh and blood lives have become a ladder for the Min family to climb up and down.

Once people have this kind of thought, they will definitely go up and down, and Min Yuanqi will lose everyone's trust.

Don't look at the current distribution of six liters of refined food to the flag army every day, this is indeed a lot. But if these people are willing to risk their lives to fight for a future, they can go directly to the battalion like Shen Liang.

The general battalion soldiers are not paid, but when they have the opportunity, they can loot the people's property, and there is always an income of ten or twenty taels of silver or even dozens of taels of silver a year.

If it's all about money and food, the choice is much greater.

People trust Min Yuanqi and believe in Min Yuanqi, that is, Min Yuanqi has always been for the good of everyone, whether it is against the scoundrels in Shuiguan, or the salt pond to dry salt, or the training of troops to protect the territory and the people, the fundamental reason why people trust Min Yuanqi is this.

A strong man in the local area can make everyone live a good life, at least they have a head, and they can also protect everyone from being brutalized by rogues or rebels, which is the real reason why Min Yuanqi can rise in a short period of time.

The so-called heroes create the current situation, or the current situation creates heroes, this is an unspeakable thing, but from the current point of view, Min Yuanqi is not enough to reverse the overall situation alone, he can only do something to strengthen his strength under the overall situation.

The current 300th household is far from the point where Min Yuanqi can make everyone fully support Min Yuanqi regardless of the dead and injured.

Fortunately, the casualties were not serious.

The soldiers who died in battle have been moved to a high place on the left side of the official road and placed side by side. The battlefield was very close to the 300th household, and these dead and wounded soldiers naturally had to be transported back to the 100th household, and their families would collect their bodies and bury them.

When Min Yuanqi passed by the place where the fallen flag army was killed, he stopped and quietly stared at these soldiers who died in battle.

At least 10 or so were stabbed to death by arrows, most of them were the second and third platoons of unarmored banner soldiers.

They had no armor, and at a distance of fifty or sixty paces they were hit by arrows or multiple arrows, and their lives were lost to them in pain and bleeding.

Despite the power of the firecracker, the bandits' archers were later directly broken down, and they did not work at all.

But at the beginning of the two armies, a large number of arrows rained down, blocked by shields and cotton armor, there were still a small number of flag army arrows, most of them were slightly injured, but there were still ten people who died under the arrows, Min Yuanqi felt sad in his heart, but also felt regretful, if everyone had armor and helmets, even if it was just cotton armor and inferior iron helmets, I am afraid that there would not be so many people who died under the arrows.

More than a dozen others were stabbed in the vital position by bandits and died of their injuries.

More than 20 other people were seriously injured, who had been simply cleaned and bandaged and medicated, and now lying on a stretcher, Han Sen had already organized the fire soldiers and the people to carry these seriously injured back to the hundred households for treatment first.

Trauma doctors and various medicinal herbs have been prepared for a long time, but at least a third or even half of these seriously injured people will have to die, and whether they can survive or not depends entirely on their personal constitution.

That is to say, the banner army of more than 400 people may have at most 30 people killed in battle, and more than 10 people will be disabled after being seriously injured and will not be able to stay in the ranks.

The one-tenth casualty rate is quite a brilliant achievement relative to the results of the battle, but Min Yuanqi's eyes are still very heavy, for every soldier and their family who died in battle, these people have lost everything.

"Your Excellency." Liang Shifa also held the position of military logistics, and he also followed at this time, he hugged his fists and said to Min Yuanqi: "Fifty coffins have been ordered by subordinates in advance, and other necessary items, including paper ties, have also been prepared. After a while, these brothers will be sent back, and the subordinates will distribute the coffins and bundles to each family, and the pension will be allowed to each family? ”

Liang Shifa and the others were also in an extremely heavy mood, each of them had slightly red eyes, Min Yuanzhong and Yang Zhijin were both injured, and they were simply bandaged, it was impossible for them to cry when they were injured, but when they saw relatives and friends lying quietly on the ground, these officers still couldn't help but redden.

"The matter of bereavement can be said." Min Yuanqi originally planned to agree, but when he saw everyone's expressions, he changed his mind, he made a powerful hand gesture, and said in a deep voice: "Shifa, you promise for me, every brother who died in the war will be given twenty stones of fine grain and ten horses of cloth at a time, and now although hundreds of households rely on the salt pond to make a lot of money, but we need money and grain to train and build weapons, expand the scale of the flag army, and repair the salt pond and build houses, so we can only do this for the time being." However, I promised each family for me that every brother is the pillar of the family, and if I lose this pillar, I am afraid that my wife and children will have no one to support them, which is also the most worrying thing for the brothers who died in the war. From then on, the family of each brother who died in the battle received one stone of fine grain per month, four horses of cloth every year, as well as meat, eggs, firewood, etc., which were distributed on the annual festival. If there are children in the family, we will run a school in the future, and the children in the families of the brothers who died in the war can go to school for free regardless of gender...... This kind of treatment ends when the children of the brothers who died in the war grow up, and they are eighteen years old. That's basically it, Shifa, you register your name, and go back to the hundred households to inform everyone first. ”

Of course, this errand is drudgery, and Liang Shifa can't imagine what kind of performance the families who receive the bad news will be...... His face was also quite ugly, but after listening to Min Yuanqi say those condolences one by one, Liang Shifa's face turned cloudy and clear, although he didn't laugh, but he was also much brighter.