Chapter 1250: The aggressive Bohai Fleet
Wei Zhongxian was a little reluctant to fight Wu'an City just now, which he personally led the fleet to defeat. But Cheng Mingzhen reminded him that the lonely city is difficult to defend.
The advantage of their Bohai fleet is at sea, but if they are reluctant to give up this Baekje city, they will fall into passivity.
"Gonggong Wei, the city has been breached, and the concert of the song has also been sent. Now that the population, money, grain, and livestock in the city have been collected, there is no need to stay any longer, we just take the prisoners of war, the population, the livestock, and the money and grain with us. ”
"Can't you really keep it?" Wei Zhongxian sat in the city lord's mansion in Wu'an City, and he had just personally inscribed the name of the city gate in Wu'an City.
"Let's withdraw to Tamna Island to rest first, send these loot back first, rest for a while, and then come back, this Baekje coast is so vast, we can fight anywhere." You can even go to the Japanese country for a walk. ”
Wei Zhongxian thought about it, and it seemed right.
"Okay, let's get out."
Gritted his teeth, "But we can't hand over this county city to the Baekje people in vain, just like the way the saint did in Goguryeo Pyongyang, we also let these captives tear down the city and fill in the trenches." We have harvested all the crops in the field, and we have dug up the embankment for him, and all the villages outside the city have been burned, and the wells have been buried. ”
Eunuchs are ruthless, sometimes more ruthless than normal people.
Cheng Mingzhen didn't expect this, all he wanted was to leave with a vote, and accept it when he saw it. But what Wei Zhongxian thought was, I can't get it, and I won't leave it for you Baekje people.
Take away everything you can take, and destroy everything you can't take away.
"Why didn't my subordinates think of it, but my father-in-law thought it through."
Wei Zhongxian said proudly, "Actually, I'm just learning from a saint." ”
Give it a command.
The fleet was divided into two parts, one part was responsible for transporting the looted money, grain, livestock and other booty from the river to the coastal islands by boat, and the other part was responsible for pumping the prisoners of war and civilians, breaking down the city, breaking the embankment, harvesting crops, burning villages, and destroying roads and bridges.
The Bohai Fleet was busy for more than half a month, during which the scouts from all over the world sent out nearby Baekje scouts approaching, but the Baekje army never appeared.
The Baekje officers and local officials in several nearby counties not only did not immediately lead troops to counterattack, but on the contrary, they fled from afar after hearing that the Qin army had landed here and defeated more than 10,000 Japanese allied troops.
Within 300 miles, not a single Baekje army could be found.
This gave the Bohai Fleet plenty of time to do everything they wanted, and Cheng Mingzhen even boldly sent light cavalry out in all directions, and some of the nearby small cities either abandoned the city and fled, or the city gates were closed and did not dare to leave the city.
The fleet plundered again.
Half a month later, the Baekje court finally sent a few generals to lead the troops, mobilized many local soldiers and horses, and many young and strong people, claiming to be surrounded by tens of thousands of troops.
However, they also thundered loudly and rained little, and they kept shouting very loudly, but the marching speed was extremely slow, and they only walked twenty or thirty miles a day.
Obviously, he just wanted to scare the Qin people away, and he didn't want to really fight.
Seeing that everything that could be robbed and moved was robbed and moved, and everything that could be destroyed was destroyed, Wei Zhongxian also patted his ass, boarded the fleet and went down the river, and evacuated.
The fleet first withdrew to the island off the coast, where the loot was temporarily stored.
As long as they are at sea, the Qin army is not afraid of the Baekje people at all, no matter how many people there are.
In fact, the Baekje people waited for the Qin army to walk for ten days, and they finally slowly moved to Mu'an City, looking at the ruins of Mu'an County, but the Baekje general still asked people to play the king, and they had already defeated the Qin thieves and recovered the lost territory.
Knowing that the Qin army was on an island dozens of miles away, the people of Baekje pretended not to know.
Several islands off the coast.
The Bohai Fleet was very happy, and the cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens and ducks pulled from Wu'an County were slaughtered every day except for the cattle and horses, and the sailors and soldiers ate big fish and meat every day.
It's a pleasure.
This trip to Wu'an County, I really didn't have any capital, and the harvest was so big.
The will of the saints has come down.
For Wei Zhongxian, Cheng Yuanzhen and others, they are all added to the official rank.
And those sailors and soldiers were also awarded according to their merits.
Originally, the people in the fleet were not from the imperial court, but only royal privates, but the world belonged to the imperial court, and the emperor wanted to award some honors to these people, and the imperial court had nothing to say, after all, the honors were not officials and ranks.
Of course, in addition to the honor, there are also rewards.
The emperor's reward was generous.
Half of the capture of this battle went into the emperor's inner treasury. And then the remaining half went to the fleet.
Although Wei Zhongxian likes others to flatter him, he can still do things.
He immediately said that of the half of the fleet, 20 percent will be used for rewards and pensions, 30 percent will be reserved for the fleet for backup, and the remaining 50 percent will be used to reward the people of the fleet, including those who did not come out this time.
Even if half of it was handed over to the emperor first, there were still a lot of things that could be shared in the end.
There were more than 10,000 prisoners of war, more than 20,000 Baekje captives, and tens of thousands of cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock, not to mention those rich food and materials.
Each person in the fleet can get a slave for the foundation, and the rest of the money and livestock will not be less.
Of course, it is not very convenient to directly divide slaves and livestock materials, but fortunately, Wei Zhongxian, as a commercial envoy of the Bohai Fleet, used to specialize in trade, and the relationship in this regard is strong enough.
A few letters were sent to the ports across the sea, and within a few days, many merchant ships arrived.
Wei Shizhong directly held an auction on the coastal island of Mu'an City, and on the ruins of Mu'an County on land, dozens of miles away, was the Baekje army.
But the merchants who came and went didn't pay attention to them, they only knew that the loot that had just been brought down from the battlefield, whoever came quickly, then whoever could pick it up.
The Bohai Fleet had to quickly cash in so that it could continue the next operation, so that it could be handed over to the emperor's inner treasury and rewarded the soldiers, who themselves were unwilling and unwilling to have the energy to transport these things back to the Central Plains and then slowly sell them.
Of all the loot, the most popular is still the slave.
Whether it was a prisoner of war or a common man, at this time they were only slaves of the fleet, and they were divided into different ranks according to men, women, and children, as well as skills, and the price was clearly marked.
The things of the Bohai Fleet, the merchants didn't think about taking the opportunity to step on the price, and everyone usually had to rely on Grandpa Wei to take care of it.
Therefore, although it was an auction, everyone had a tacit understanding of the bidding, and the final transaction price was very good.
Most of the businessmen came directly with the banker and silver bills of the major commercial ports and banks, which were easy to carry and cash.
Wei Zhongxian smiled and thanked these businessmen, and said that next time he will give priority to everyone who is cheering.
Here, Cheng Mingzhen also began to disclose the accounts obtained from the auction to the people of the fleet, and then issued the accounts, and finally divided the accounts one by one according to the proportion of the income.
As for each sailor and each escort, how to calculate how many there were in total, all of them were clear, and they were all folded into copper coins in the end.
However, because he is still overseas, the reward is only recorded in the account, and when he returns to the Central Plains Seaport, then he can redeem his reward.
Looking at the big account posted out, seeing their respective numbers, and then going to get the white slips, everyone was very careful to figure it out, and they were all smiling.
The merchants began to load their slaves, livestock, and utensils onto the ship, and many captains over there were already asking questions around Wei Zhongxian.
"Gong Wei, where are we going to fight next, the brothers have been idle for a long time, and they can't sit still."
Wei Zhongxian laughed, "These little bunnies! ”