Chapter 147: Harvest, Fame
The cannons were all loaded with shotguns, and each shot meant that twenty or thirty lead pellets with much greater kinetic energy than bullets were scattered at the cavalry.
War horses, family generals, even if they are wearing iron armor, have been turned into blood bags that have exploded one by one by the projectiles......
The sudden terrible blow made the generals fall into an uncontrollable panic and fear, in this extreme mood, some people did not know the direction of the chaos, some people buried their heads on the back of the horse, only to fight the horse, but did not know that the horse had already run away, with them towards the artillery charge, of course, there are also people who are calmer, recognize the direction, desperately hit the horse.
Huo Yi was undoubtedly one of the calmers, and he buried his head in his horse, and galloped all the way to the foot of the hillside farthest from the cannon.
Because the distance was too far, when the shotgun arrived at Huo Yi's position, it was already scattering very strongly, so the chance of being hit at this position became very small, and in the end, Huo Yi and his 130 generals were lucky enough to rush out of the death zone pointed by the cannon.
Running out of the firing range of the cannon, Huo Yuanwai kept rushing to the west for a moment, and disappeared behind a grove of trees after a while.
After running out of more than ten miles in one breath, Huo Yuanwai finally stopped, he looked at the more than 100 generals perched behind him, and couldn't help but sigh deeply.
However, Huo Yi knew that today's matter was not over, as the tandem and leader of this attack, if he couldn't give an explanation to the other heroes who had suffered heavy losses, I am afraid that he would not have a good time in the future.
Huo Yi thought about it for a while, called his subordinate generals, and asked him to bring a hundred people back to Nanzhuangzi first, on the one hand, as the Huo family's main station, Nanzhuangzi's defense was empty, and on the other hand, Huo Yi couldn't let others know that his subordinates still retained so much strength, otherwise those Haoqiang who had just been beaten and annihilated by the whole army would not let him go.
The commander of the Huo family took a hundred generals and drilled into the forest in the south, and they wanted to bypass the He family village in front, so as not to be seen through Huo Yi's small movements.
After sending away his subordinates, Huo Yi took the remaining thirty or so horsemen and ran up a dirt slope next to the road to look east.
Not together, there were scattered generals and cavalry running over from the east like lost dogs.
Huo Yi asked his subordinates to go down the mountain and guide the defeated generals and cavalry to the mountain where he was.
In the end, Huo Yi was allowed to gather more than 400 horses.
With more than 400 generals and cavalry with more than 400 generals and cavalry who were panicked like lost dogs, Huo Yi returned to Liujiazhuang.
After a short rest in Liujiazhuang, each family will go back to their respective homes.
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It is said that the grizzled generals here went back to their respective homes, but Chen Xian over there was happily counting the spoils.
In this chaotic world, the heroes have to rely on the horse team to maintain trade exchanges, especially the heroes of Laiwu, most of the wealth comes from copper and iron trading, and it is more important for them to maintain trade, so these heroes of Laiwu are also more willing to invest more capital in their own horses.
The group of generals killed by Chen Xian not only had good iron armor, but the quality of the war horses under their crotches was also quite good.
In the battle just now, there were almost 12,300 generals killed and injured by Chen Xian's team, leaving behind almost 3,400 horses that were not injured, or not seriously injured.
These war horses alone are more than all the war horses in Chen Xian's hands.
Coupled with the armor pulled from the dead and wounded, as well as a large number of dead horses, Chen Xian can be said to have gained a lot this time.
These dead horses are pickled and smoked, which is a good storage grain, although the armor Chen Xian can't look down on, but after repairing, it can be sold for money, a piece of armor can also be sold for a price of forty yuan, and a horse armor also has a price of twenty yuan.
Plus a war horse of forty or fifty times. (This is still the price of the Jin Kingdom, to the Southern Song Dynasty, such a middle-class war horse, I am afraid that it can be sold for two or three hundred!) )
The total value of these booty is more than 70,000.
While counting the loot and making a record of the grades, Chen Xian returned to Tangjiazhuang as soon as possible, and asked people to bring all the movable oxen and mule carts in the village, pull the booty, and bring all the salt stored in Tangjiazhuang by the way.
In addition to ordering the transfer of vehicles from Tangjiazhuang, Chen Xian also asked people to pass orders to the suits, and the cars in the suits were also transferred later.
Chen Xian also asked the militiamen to rush back the loot and oxen, horses, and mule carts they had grabbed in the past few days, and then come back to pull them after unloading the goods.
Chen Xian himself led the regular army to guard Baotaiping, guarding these trophies, whoever came would fight with whom, anyway, there could be no army that could beat him within three days of this vicinity.
When it was almost noon, more than 30 mule carts from Tangjiazhuang arrived, and many people arrived along with the mule carts.
Chen Xian immediately arranged for someone to dispose of the horse meat, nearly a thousand horses died here, although it was still cold at this time, but it was impossible to store the dead horses for too long, if they were not processed quickly, the horse meat would be wasted.
It is unrealistic to pull back the dead horse as a whole, a horse weighs six or seven hundred catties, an ox cart in this era can only pull one horse at a time, and there are more than 30 ox carts in the entire Tangjiazhuang, even if the vehicle in the suit is transferred, plus the vehicle grabbed this time, it is only more than 100 carts, and the thousand horses don't know when to pull it, so Chen Xian can only let people deal with horse meat on the spot and abandon the useless parts.
Chen Xian concentrated all the more than 100 carts that he could use, and pulled them back and forth for nearly three days before pulling all the horse meat and other trophies of more than 1,000 dead horses back to Tangjiazhuang.
In order to deal with these horse meats, Chen Xian asked the shopkeeper of the Li family to buy several large truckloads of salt from the county town to Baotaikou.
After this armed procession, no one in the county dared to stop the business of the Li family shopkeeper with Chen Xian's background, and the salt shop that was selected by the Li shopkeeper heard that the Li shopkeeper wanted salt, and without saying a word, he loaded several large cars, and in the process of loading, the salt shop shopkeeper carefully asked the Li shopkeeper what he was anxious to do with so much salt.
Among Chen Xian's orders to the shopkeeper Li, there was a task for him to find a way to publicize their victory in Baotaikou, and the problem of the shopkeeper of the salt shop was really sleepy and sent pillows.
Shopkeeper Li immediately said loudly: "It's not for the sake of pickling horse meat, the Huo family has gathered more than 2,000 generals and cavalry from more than 2,000 Zhuangzi, and wants to sneak attack our Master Chen, who is Master Chen, who can let him sneak attack?" Boy! More than 2,000 generals and cavalry were killed by our Master Chen, and more than 1,000 dead horses alone died, and these more than 1,000 dead horses were hundreds of thousands of catties of meat, what a pity to throw away, no, Master Chen asked us to come to you to buy some salt, first marinate the horse meat, and bring it back to Yiyuan to smoke it. ”
The shopkeeper of the salt shop smacked his tongue when he heard it, and he didn't know if he believed it or not, but the guy in the salt shop next to him spread the word, and it didn't take long for the entire county to know.
The next day, the old men in the county confirmed the news from the Zhuangzi and confirmed the news from the salt shop, and the county town was even more silent.
On the third day, the county and the powerful people sent over to the horses finally determined that Chen Xian's army had left, and the Zhuangzi organized people to come and collect the corpses.
Soon, the news that Baotaikou had discarded the meat and horse bones all over the ground and that the horses had been launched into the water spread all over the nearby Zhuangzi and the county seat, and the poor households in the nearby Zhuangzi and the county were moved by the wind and flocked to Baotaikou to pick up horse meat.
After such a fuss, the name of Master Yiyuan Chen has become an existence that can stop children crying at night.