Chapter 114: Smoke Cloud
There was a gradual commotion all around.
Min Yuanqi walked at the core of the battlefield, the members of the sword repair team had completely completed their tasks, everyone was sitting cross-legged on the high place on the side of the official road, and everyone's battle jackets and boots were soaked with blood.
There was originally a strong fishy smell on the beach, coupled with the smell of blood, the smell of human sweat, the smell of feces, and all kinds of peculiar smells, and the smoked Min Yuanqi was particularly dizzy.
In addition, there are shocking corpses everywhere, bandits whose heads were shattered by firearms, broken corpses that have been chopped down, many people who are unwilling to die with their eyes wide open, corpses that have lost too much blood, and whose facial skin is pale and contracted, and corpses that are horrific in shape, severed heads scattered on the ground, and various severed arms and stumps......
Walking in such a place, the mind really has to be extremely strong.
There were many flag soldiers who sat and rested with pale faces, and many people were nauseous and vomiting, and this time they really vomited.
The battlefield was too tragic, and people had exhausted their physical strength in the battle just now, coupled with all kinds of odors and stenches, it was strange not to vomit.
If you vomit, you can't leave the battlefield, there is no military order, everyone sits cross-legged and rests in groups according to the flag.
Most of the people had empty kettles, but no one had the idea of eating, and many of them had empty brains and blank expressions on their faces, and they looked at the corpses from time to time, as if they couldn't believe that they had done it.
When Min Yuanqi was on patrol, when he approached each flag team, each flag team would stand up and salute.
In any case, after this battle, Min Yuanqi's prestige will rise to a higher level, and the reverence of the banner army for him will also increase.
Although people were encouraged to have courage and determination to protect their families' property before the end of this war, no one would have imagined that this battle would actually be such a result?
The pirates may have swam and ran away, but there will be no more than 100 people, Yang Shili was beheaded, and none of the bandit leaders such as the swarm of sweeping kings have run away, and now the mending knife team is resting, and after a while, each flag team will take turns to cut the head.
This is the order of the officers, and of course it is also the meaning of Min Yuanqi.
Although it is already the end of the Ming Dynasty, the beheading of nearly a thousand levels is still quite a sensational military feat.
The common people are suffering from pirates and bandits, and serious officers and soldiers will not go to these little reptiles, they will pay attention to the big stream of rogues. Moreover, the military discipline of officers and men is not as good as that of bandits, and bandits must take into account sustainable income, and it is impossible to rob and kill all of them at once; officers and men are basically swaggering and robbing all of them, and whoever dares to resist will kill people, and even if no one resists, they will kill people, and they will kill people even if they do not resist, and they will kill people by killing good people and beheading a large number of innocent people, including women, and officers and men have done a lot of these things.
Beheaded nearly 1,000 levels, Min Yuanqi planned to send people south along the river to Nanjing, first from the Huai River to Huai'an, and then along the middle canal to the south, to Yangzhou, across the river and directly to the west gate of the water, a large number of heads directly to the Nanjing military headquarters, but then it depends on what kind of reward Shi Kefa will give.
Min Yuanqi is not greedy for money or anything, what he wants is official position and fame.
Especially fame.
In the chaos of the Southern Ming Dynasty, if there are always hundreds of elites under his command, it is not difficult to get the rank of chief soldier, but a loud and good reputation is quite rare.
In the eyes of many scholars, martial artists are untrustworthy and unreliable.
In the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, many examples of success and failure were caused by the suspicion and alienation of civil officials and military generals.
For example, the loyal battalion reorganized by more than 100,000 people of the remaining part of the Dashun army, if the food and salary keep up, and there is a stable territory and a reason to fight, the combat effectiveness of this army is not weak.
In the Huguang battlefield in the early Southern Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Shun army won many victories.
However, the Southern Ming army, under the command of several civilian bigwigs, not only did not cooperate with the Shun army, but also guarded against and excluded.
The two sides were suspicious of each other, even to the point of a fierce fight, but when the Qing army was weak, they failed to seize the opportunity to restore Huguang and occupy the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Many things are ruined in senseless battles and suspicions, missed opportunities, and hateful.
After all, Min Yuanqi was born as a military attache of the guard for generations, and his background in the Jiangmen family did prove his loyalty at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The general commander of the army, who was born in the battalion or non-guard, such as Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui, really can't talk about loyalty. There are countless Jiangmen families who were born and martyred to the death, especially the You family, the He family and other families at the last moment, fighting to the death, Li Zicheng almost returned to Xi'an because of these Jiangmen sacrifices.
The Min family is also a serious generational general, and Min Yuanqi has the reputation of suppressing bandits and killing thieves, and in the eyes of the scholars, he can almost be trusted.
With a good reputation and strength to rely on, then you can go anywhere in the world, whether you live in Zhejiang, Fujian or Huguang Yungui, you can have a place to live anyway.
Min Yuanqi didn't feel that his current achievements were worth mentioning, and there were only two things that pleased him, one of which had kept his foundation and could continue to make money and consolidate his foundation. Second, it encouraged the soldiers through this battle, won the hearts of the people to a greater extent, and made the soldiers more loyal and brave.
Of course, the benefits brought by Min Yuanqi's military exploits, as well as the fact that all the soldiers have become veterans with actual combat experience, will greatly increase their power in Dahewei and Yunti Pass, and these benefits will also be continuously obtained by Min Yuanqi, but they are not as important as the first two.
"Everyone has worked hard, but the beginning and the end have to be done, clean up the battlefield, pack up weapons and property, and the pacifying soldiers are responsible for monitoring, and those who dare to embezzle privately will be dealt with by military law before the battle. Each flag team took turns mending the knife and beheading, and in addition, the body was collected. ”
After Min Yuanqi made his inspection, he gathered all the officers together and gave an order.
Min Yuan rode back on horseback, and at this time he was not only covered in blood, but even the war horse under him was sweating profusely, as if he had just been fished out of the water.
"My lord, what should I do with the corpse?" Min Yuanzhong said: "The weather is getting warmer, you have to burn it quickly, otherwise it is not easy to cause a plague." ”
Min Yuan interjected directly: "Didn't you see that my father and Li Kecheng are here? It is a trivial matter for them to mobilize thousands of people, and it may not be that we even have to do this kind of miscellaneous work ourselves. ”
This guy is straightforward and fast-talking, and he invisibly sold his own father.
Min Yuanqi laughed and said, "The third uncle is here, I'll go to greet him, and ask Li Qianhu to solve the chores below, and give us some appropriate rewards." Our 300th household was met by 1,000 households to meet the incoming pirates and bandits, and solved the big trouble, and the 1,000 households official hall could not say nothing. ”
Many military attachés laughed, and before today, Min Yuanqiruo said that he wanted to knock on Li Kecheng's bamboo pole, I am afraid that most people would object.
Li Kecheng is already worry-free if he doesn't come to find trouble, how can he take the initiative to provoke?
Now no one feels wrong, not only Min Yuanqi and Min Yuanzhi, but also Min Yuanzhong, who has always been cautious and cautious, also feels that it is taken for granted.
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Seeing more than twenty horsemen driving towards him, Li Kecheng felt his mouth dry, and even his hands were trembling.
Although there are only more than 20 horses, the power is better than thousands of horses.
The cavalry had just slaughtered a lot, and even the men and horses seemed to have just been fished out of the pool of blood, because they were not used to this kind of thing, in other words, they were not really soldiers of a hundred battles, so the murderous aura on their bodies was too obvious, and even when they arrived in front of Li Kecheng's eyes, the murderous aura was like substance, stinging the eyes of this thousand households.
Li Kecheng almost didn't dare to wait for Min Yuanqi to come close, although Min Yuanqi's robe was clean, not like the terrifying appearance of other people covered in blood, but in Li Kecheng's eyes, this nominal deputy Qianhu was an out-and-out devil.
"Xiaguan...... The official ...... I've seen Min-sama next! ”
Li Kecheng changed several titles in an instant, before that, how could he put Min Yuanqi in his eyes, even the entire Min family was suppressed by Li Kecheng, the Li family has a family in Huai'an Mansion City that commands affairs, which is to steadily overpower the Min family.
Min Yuanqi beat people at Shuiguan, which caused Li Kecheng's fleet to pay more money, which made Li Kecheng very angry, not only taking the opportunity to attack Min Qiande, but also wantonly attacking and suppressing Min Yuanqi.
Later, Min Yuanqi took the water pass and killed 100 people, and Li Kecheng stopped a lot.
The matter of coming down to the salt pond again made Li Kecheng and some forces behind him red-eyed, they are accumulating strength and trying to figure out the technology of drying salt, and then Li Kecheng will choose a suitable place to build a salt pond and fight with the Min family......
This kind of intention is completely bankrupt today.
Seeing the humble appearance of Li Kecheng, who was wearing a five-grade supplement suit in front of him and was as fat as a bear, Min Yuanqi was fine. What is the end of the dynasty, the discipline does not exist etiquette, those scholars, the six books, the squire, the imperial history, the matter, the civil officials who stayed in the two capitals are the essence of the essence of the civil official group, the famous people among the celebrities, which one is not in this last days to choose Mingzhe to protect his life, choose to die martyrdom only a few people?
When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, more than 800 Beijing officials knelt down in the road and chose to surrender, which of those civil officials is not out of Beijing as an official can be a big official, if in peacetime, a royal history is enough to control more than 10,000 local soldiers and horses, reprimanding the general army like a slave, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, these famous ministers and Confucians in the sea are honestly kneeling in front of the hooves of the rogue horses they have always looked down on, respectful, sincere and fearful.
When the Qing soldiers entered Nanjing, when it rained heavily, the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty wore red robes and knelt at the city gate with their handbooks and waited for the Qing soldiers to enter the city.
Those Confucian ministers are still like this, what kind of discipline does a thousand military attachés talk about?
Min Qiandeqiang suppressed his excited emotions, and could not be as arrogant and domineering as his children, and it seemed that the Min family had no background, but the happy look on his old face could not be hidden.
At this point, everyone has realized that in such a time, it is true to have soldiers at hand, and the rest of the wealth, official position, and family background are all just passing by the clouds.
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These days, my eyes are very uncomfortable, so I can only change it first, forgive me.