Chapter 19: The Bounty Hunter
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Huang Sheng and his family have won two or three times over Jiannu, and now they have a little bit of popularity in Liaodong officialdom. The Ming army wanted to fight Jiannu to the death by fighting in a dignified battle, and finally won and got the head of Jiannu, which seemed to be wishful thinking.
Ma Rulong, the chief military officer who knew the virtue of his army, felt that it was more reliable for Liaodong Shizi Huang Sheng to cut off Jiannu's head with conspiracy, so he sent his henchman Ai to trade with Huang Sheng in the future.
Ma Shihu said honestly: "Lord Huang, the subordinate officer knows that the task assigned by the Chief Soldier this time is a little difficult. Therefore, he gave a very high reward of silver, three hundred taels for each level of Jiannu. Although you can't give your military merits, but you can rest assured, my family is the favorite general of Inspector Sun, you are in Liaodong, he will find an opportunity to give you convenience, and with the secret help of my family, Lord Huang will definitely rise to the top in the future. β
Huang Sheng was originally planning to make trouble with Jiannu, and all the arrangements made in Ningyuan were for this.
Now I find it even more interesting, this time I am completely in the role of a bounty hunter.
Scenes from his previous American Westerns came to mind, cowboys roaming the wilderness on horseback and with guns, hunting Indians.
I actually got this role, and I also hunted the skilled Jiannu with a gun and horses, which is a bit ridiculous. Of course, this is a good thing, and it is also something that I am willing to do.
The cunning Huang Sheng seemed to be more embarrassed when he saw Ma Shihu, so it can be seen that Ma Shilong, the chief military officer, should also be a last resort, and this job must be accepted.
But the benefits can't just be a Jiannu head sold for 300 taels of silver, and you have to extort oil and water to be worthy of your IQ.
Huang Sheng said: "This official can go from birth to death for the chief soldier, but there is one condition. β
Ma Shihu was still afraid that Huang Sheng would not agree, after all, Jiannu's combat effectiveness was obvious to all, and where could he cut their heads casually.
Huang Sheng is a civil official who has entered the sight of Inspector Sun, although the grade is not high, but it is not something that a military attache can command, even if it is a first-class military attachΓ©.
If he refuses to do it, the task given to him by the chief soldier will be in vain, and Baba will run hundreds of miles, and he will be shameless when he goes back.
Seeing that Huang Sheng agreed, but there were still requirements, he hurriedly said: "Lord Huang, Xia Guan also brought two hundred and twenty people to fight together, these people are the henchmen of my family, and they are all brave and good soldiers. β
Huang Sheng even affirmed that Ma Shilong, the chief military officer, is determined to win the first rank of Jiannu, of course, he has to extort a lot of money!
Huang Sheng said: "What is the combat effectiveness of Jiannu, the general should know better than this official in Liaodong for a long time." This mission is extremely dangerous, doesn't the general know? β
Ma Shihu sighed and said, "Alas! I don't know how Xia Guan is, it's just that my family is as kind to Xia Guan as a mountain, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, I have to rush forward. β
Huang Sheng said: "This official can arrange for the general to take the men and horses to shake a shot, there is no need to fight with Jiannu, the task of killing Jiannu to obtain the first level naturally does not bother the general." It's just that after the matter is completed, the officer wants the chief soldier to get a brand new No. 2 fortune boat for the lower officer, and I don't know if the general can do it. β
The No. 2 Fu Ship is currently the largest and best sea ship of the Ming Dynasty, and the Great Fu Ship has disappeared in the vast history with the departure of Zheng He's fleet.
The ship type of the ship is flat and balanced, the lower side is like a knife, the bottom tip is wide, the head tip and the tail are wide and the two ends are warped, this ship structure is a major invention in China's shipbuilding, which improves the ship's anti-sinking performance and increases the safety performance of the voyage.
There are too many sea ships in Liaodong, and the sea ships used by the Ming Dynasty sailors to transport supplies here all use Juehua Island as their home port.
Juehua Island has been built into a logistics supply base in Liaodong by the Ming Dynasty, where warships and merchant ships are endless.
Ma Shihu pondered for a moment, he was thinking. Huang Sheng just said that he didn't want him to take people and horses to fight Jiannu, and he was already happy that Huang Sheng was so good at being a man.
Besides, he also promised to cut off the head of the slave for his own lord, but the No. 2 Fu ship is too big and conspicuous, and if he loses one for no reason, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain.
However, the black one, which is smaller than the No. 2 Fu ship, is also called a sentry ship, which should not be troublesome for the chief soldier, and it is okay to report the battle damage or the sinking of the reef when the time comes, and the appearance is not ugly.
Ma Shihu reciprocated Li and said: "Lord Huang is righteous and thin, the lower officials admire, although you arrange it, the lower officials and their subordinates will definitely not make a mistake." It's just that the goal of the No. 2 Fu ship is too big, and it is difficult to explain all aspects. Do you think this will work, the lower official asked my family to build a sentinel boat, and in the future, this boat will be your private property. β
Huang Sheng was originally asking for a sky-high price, and the cost of a No. 2 lucky ship would cost 50,000 taels of silver, if Ma Shihu would have agreed to it quickly, it would be unreliable.
He bargained and promised to give a straw skimming boat that cost more than 10,000 taels, and Huang Sheng was already satisfied.
Of course, Ma Shilong, the chief military officer, would not spend money to buy a ship for Huang Sheng, he is a first-class military attachΓ©, so he will naturally have countless methods. Huang Sheng has nothing to do with himself, as long as he can get the sea boat, it doesn't matter how it came from!
As long as the ship is in hand, the quality is excellent, and the knowledge is used to transform it, it will be one of the best sea ships of this era.
However, it takes too much money to spend time and effort, and you have to personally lead people to operate and produce it manually. In the future, you can set up your home on this sea boat, and you can do business and make a fortune.
You can sneak attack Jiannu along the coastline of Liaodong, and you can also go straight to the backyard of Jiannu along the Yalu River, which is safer to fight guerrillas.
The two negotiated the conditions and were happy, and Huang Sheng became the glorious bounty hunter of the Ming Dynasty. This time, the task was ten Jiannu heads, and the reward was three thousand taels of silver, plus a sentinel ship of the Great Ming Sailor.
Huang Sheng began to actively prepare for war, and the battlefield was prepared to be sixty miles northeast of Ningyuan City, avoiding the plain area along the Daughter River, and acting in the hilly area of Lianshanyi.
There are ditches and ditches everywhere here, the original dense forests are everywhere, and there are more than a dozen people lurking, as long as they bring enough supplies, they can't find 10,000 people who are sent out by Jiannu.
It's just that Jiannu is recuperating now, I'm afraid he may not come to this area to carry out activities, and the bad Huang Sheng has a way. The Ming army was too weak to huddle in the city, and there were almost no fierce generals who dared to fight to lead the troops to take the initiative to provoke Jiannu.
Huang Sheng had a preliminary plan, he was going to let Ma Shihu take his loyal and brave two hundred generals and come to the vicinity of Lianshan Station with him.
He led people into the dense forest and mountain hills to lurk, and Ma Shihu took more than 200 cavalry to the Jiannu-controlled area to show his little face.
Jiannu didn't know that the Ming army would suddenly come, and in a hurry, he would definitely not be able to organize men and horses to encircle or attack them, and the two cavalry teams armed to the teeth would be in a hurry.
After Ma Ruhu completed the task of letting Jiannu see the Ming cavalry team attacking, he quickly retreated back to Ningyuan City to wait for good news.
Jiannu's guards here will be so harassed by the Ming army, of course they will be suspicious, and they will inevitably send sentry horses to find out along the retreating route of the Ming army.
Huang Sheng, who was ambushed in the jungle in advance, seized the opportunity, he could selectively find scattered sentry horses to attack, and it should be no problem to complete the task of killing ten Jiannu.
When Huang Sheng explained his plan to Ma Shihu, the officer with developed limbs and a simple mind rubbed his hands excitedly.
He already knew that this Lord Huang relied on intrigue and trickery every time to build a slave, and he was completely waiting for the rabbit, that is, looking at the heavens, and whether he could succeed completely depended on luck.
But this time, with his own cooperation, he made a big move, and with his knowledge of more than ten years in the army, he concluded that Jiannu would come.
And it will definitely pass through the area where Lord Huang is ambushed, but there are only a dozen of them, and it seems that there are still a few people who have no combat effectiveness, and I am afraid that they can only deal with no more than three Jiannu sentry horses at one time.
Once Jiannu found out that the sentry horses with too few numbers were missing, they would not be stupid enough to send such a small team.
If they all sent a team of one or twenty sentry horses to come, I am afraid that Lord Huang would only be able to sigh at the slaves.
It's best to count more than ten Jiannu teams at a time, and I, Ma Shihu, also bring a team of general flags to do it with them.
Fifty or sixty people are counted as more than a dozen people, and the certainty of success is very large, anyway, it is enough to succeed once, and everyone evacuates quickly after cutting off Jiannu's head, it shouldn't be too dangerous.
Ma Shihu made up his mind and said to Huang Sheng: "Lord Huang really has a clever plan, Jiannu should have to come, but the adult's family is too small, and it should not be possible to calculate the Jiannu team of more than ten people at a time, and the lower officials also have a plan." β
Huang Sheng said: "Oh? Could it be that General Feima is willing to take the risk and ambush Jiannu with his own officer? β
Ma Shihu Alexander, this Lord Huang is too smart, and he hasn't said a plan yet, and people will break it down.
He said: "That's right, if the adults choose only three or two Jiannu sentry horses to start, they will be startled, and it will be difficult to find such an opportunity in the future, so it is better to have a good time all of a sudden and pick a team of more than a dozen of them." β
Huang Sheng said with a smile: "The general's words are wrong, most of the Jiannu are from deep mountain hunters, their insight into danger is innate, we have dozens of cavalry to fight an ambush, and it may be too big to be detected by them, and when the time comes, the tiger will not be killed but injured." β
If you are not afraid of god-like opponents, you are afraid of pig-like teammates. When his life was at stake, Huang Sheng didn't dare to connect his fate with those unruly and unruly martial artists under the command of Ma Shilong.
If these family members exposed themselves before the ambush and were eaten by Jiannu, they would definitely flee as soon as possible, Lord Huang Sheng couldn't even ride a horse, how could he escape? When the time comes, they will become cannon fodder to cover their retreat.
Huang Sheng wouldn't do such a stupid thing anyway, and if he succeeded and obtained the head of Jiannu, would he be willing to complete the task with the fierceness of these family members?
Nine times out of ten, they will also cut off their heads by the way, and when the time comes, as long as the general Huang Sheng and Jiannu are brave and unyielding in the bloody battle, and die for the country, the matter will be over. If you can't die in a war, General Huang is just unlucky this time.
They will get military merits, and they can also have 3,000 miles of silver for private sharing, and there are so many good things in one fell swoop, who is not tempted!
If you miscalculate for a while, you will not only harm yourself, but also harm more than a dozen family members. Although all this is conjecture, these Liaodong soldiers may not be so bad, but the heart of defense is indispensable.
If you don't have any contact with them, let alone understand them, this is what the Art of War says, you don't know how to fight.
I don't think they can be trusted, and it is estimated that they can't trust a young eight-rank civil official like themselves.
Leaders and subordinates are on guard against each other, how can they form combat effectiveness on the battlefield where the choice of death will happen in an instant? Moreover, Huang Sheng is familiar with history and knows the virtues of Liaodong generals and soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the chief soldier Zu Dashou guarded the city of Dalinghe, the grain and grass were cut off, the city killed people for food, and burned the bones for salary.
But Wu Xiang, who is also a general of Liaodong, is still Zu Dashou's tobacco relative, and he can't be saved when he sees death, and he retreats in Jinzhou City, or the court gives a death order, so he slowly goes out of the army.
He didn't dare to fight Jiannu at all, and when he saw the Jiannu cavalry, he fled. With such Liaodong soldiers and horses, does Huang Sheng dare to expose his back to them?