Chapter 141: Reward [Ask for Collection]
[Bitter, it's going to start at two o'clock in the afternoon......]
"Report to the general, the soldiers and horses are all supervised and the pigeon is passed on the book, and our army is completely victorious outside Ru Town, and the Shaanxi soldiers are ......"
Chen Hui's legs that kept pacing had already stood still, his face was as red as if he was drunk, and his hands were trembling when he borrowed the narrow note, but when he saw with his own eyes that there was a small black dot in the top and bottom corners of the note that seemed to be unintentional, he could finally say to everyone exactly: The battle of Linru, our army won a great victory!
The roar in the General's Mansion became louder and louder, and it didn't take long for the entire Lushan County to fall into a boil.
The voice of joy became clearer and clearer, and finally, in the Chen Gang Mansion, which was only two alleys away from the General's Mansion, there was a glass of wine from the afternoon, and the whole person was really drunk until now Chen Gang finally understood the voice full of joy, he was surprised and delighted, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably, and he even strode to the door of the small flower hall, looking forward to the good news from the next person, just like the wife who was separated from the two places looking forward to her husband who was about to come home.
When he got up and took a big stride, the wine jugs on the table were swept to the ground by him and shattered, and Chen Gang didn't seem to hear it.
And those 'small shareholders' of the Chen family, who had been sitting in the political hall with Chen Hui all day, heard it clearly, their faces were full of disbelief at first, but after seeing Chen Hui's smug and confident face, they all realized that the news was true, so they couldn't help but stand up one by one.
The eldest of them, the seventh and ninth princes, had tears streaming down their eyes, and as soon as they stood up, the two white-haired old men sat back on the bench again, and they didn't know if they were numb from sitting on their legs and feet after a day, or they couldn't stand it anymore under great sorrow and joy.
It brought Chen Hui back to reality from a moment of ecstasy.
As the old nest of the Chen Jiajun, as the home of many dignitaries, officers and soldiers of the Chen Jiajun, the news of the victory spread as quickly as the wind.
The sound of firecrackers kept going all night long, as if it was the New Year. The whole Lushan was plunged into a sea of joy.
Some hotel and tavern owners who have their eyes in the eyes of money do not close all night, and the wine and meat in the store, especially the wine, are being snapped up at ten or dozens of times the speed of the past.
I don't know how many family members of the soldiers of the Chen family army danced and danced in this night, and irrepressibly let out a high-pitched shout, at the moment there are tens of thousands of people in the Chen family army, together with the large block of officials and logistics, the number is even more, the fate of these people is shared with the Chen family army, as long as the people who receive the news this night will not mention how happy and excited they are.
As Liu Wu said, the pressure of the so-called 'four provinces convergence and suppression' was collapsed by Chen Ming's battle outside Linru Town in the most elite Shaanxi Green Battalion, and the final giant mountain in everyone's hearts was finally pushed to the ground. And many people are beginning to wonder if the weight of these huge mountains is really as heavy as they think.
Chen Hui's mind is still sober, because he has not yet received the secret report of the flying pigeon, and the flying pigeon transmission between Chen Ming and his father and son has never been straightforward. After Chen Hui received the note from the flying pigeon, he didn't look at the contents, but first looked to see if there were black spots in the top and bottom corners of the note, which was the mark of Chen Ming's agreement with him, and there were black dots that meant that the news was true, and no black spots meant that the news was fake, or even the opposite. The real exact news cannot be written in plaintext, there are not too many birds in the sky that can hunt pigeons in these years, there is a set of passwords between Chen Ming and his cheap father, and Chen Hui has not yet received the secret report.
However, the two black dots confirmed the accuracy of the victory in plain text, so Chen Hui was not embarrassed at all and officially announced the news of Chen Jiajun's victory in Linru Town. And it was officially announced to Baofeng, Jiaxian, Xiangxian, Yuncheng, Wuyang, Yexian, Fangcheng, Nanyang Fucheng and other places overnight.
Early the next morning, the government hall was full of people again, and many of the officials of the General's Mansion present were red-eyed, but everyone's spirit was incomparably high.
Chen Hui first set the tone, rewarded him, and rewarded him in a big way. All the soldiers who participated in the Battle of Linru Town, depending on their own merits and injuries, were rewarded with silver dollars ranging from two to 50 yuan, which means that Chen Hui's reward for participating in the Battle of Linru was two silver dollars; As for the officer class, there is no cap on the bottom of five silver dollars, and this reward alone will cost 30,000 or 40,000 silver dollars. It is also Chen Jiajun's family background that is now rich, otherwise a reward of 30,000 or 40,000 silver dollars can squeeze out the original Chen Jiajun.
And then there is the military merit field, and with a wave of the hand, it is tens of thousands of acres of land.
Chen Hui has not received an exact secret report from Chen Ming until now, and he doesn't know how much Chen Ming's men and horses have lost and how much he has gained, but he doesn't mind being extravagant. Because this battle of Linru has too much significance for Chen Jiajun.
Some people may not know that early this morning, Chen Hui, who had not slept all night, told Gao to prepare some good packing and jewelry and jade, and send them to his daughter-in-law later. Chen Hui has only been sitting in the position of general for a few days, and he already has a trace of the style of a superior, and he has learned to reward his family.
The fast horse sent back to Lushan by Chen Ming did not arrive at the general's mansion until the afternoon, and the pigeon with the secret letter was never there. As very grass-roots soldiers, these newspapermen themselves did not know the exact results of the battle, but in the face of the eager eyes of Chen Hui and a group of bigwigs such as the Seventh Duke and the Ninth Duke, they still hurriedly drank a few sips of water and talked vividly about the beautiful battle between Chen Ming and the Shaanxi Green Battalion.
A group of core figures in the General's Mansion, as well as the general Chen Hui himself, were stunned when they heard that Chen Ming might not take half an hour to defeat the 8,000 Shaanxi Green Battalion. When Chen Ming was fighting the Fode Department in the west of Zhoujiakou, he also blasted out thirty or forty gunpowder packs, and also used snipers to beat the artillery and officers of the Qing soldiers, coupled with the neat chain of fire of the musket battalion, it took a multi-pronged approach to overcome it in one fell swoop, and the five thousand Qing soldiers + militia were in chaos, and finally they were taken into the ditch by the charging tank team and the armor soldiers, but compared with the Shaanxi Qing soldiers, it seems that the team put together by Fode is more capable of fighting.
How can this group of so-called elite soldiers of the imperial court not even be as good as the defeated soldiers in Henan and Hubei? Seven or eight thousand people, and it was in an uproar in half an hour???
Chen Hui took over the paperwork, and his precious son first pointed out that the work of sweeping up the war had not been completely completed, and the results of the war were only an approximation. As of this document, the Chen Jiajun has captured more than 3,500 Qing prisoners of war, and 23 officers of the green battalion have been arrested. The highest is a battalion of officials.
More than 20 large and small cannons, 10,000 catties of gunpowder, at least 3,000 shotguns, knives, guns and shields were not counted, and more than 100 mules and horses were seized. Food, military tent materials, etc. are not counted. In this battle, the Chen family army suffered less than 200 casualties, which also included the casualties of the defenders of Linru Town, which can be said to be a perfect victory.
Chen Ming also mentioned that he planned to move the northern defense line to the north to Pengpo Town in Henan Province, expand the Yang Ping and Feng Shaohua departments, and then Gao Jinghui, who was sitting in the state city of Ruzhou, went south to Nanyang, and Chen Jianbai was in charge of the northern line.