After the battle of Siming Mountain Palace, the Nantang battalion captured a lot.

In terms of weapons and armor, two Furlong cannons and six Tiger squat cannons, although they are not large-caliber goods in their respective types, they are still a very good start for an army like the Nantang Battalion that has no artillery at all.

The gunners of the Qing Army's Tiger Squat Cannon were killed in the battle, and the gunners of the Fran cannon were over before they could enter the battlefield, so they were lucky to survive. It's just that Chen Wen completely gave up the idea of recruiting these gunners after questioning them, these gunners all have families, and there are even old and young, Chen Wen can't leave them behind, and it is impossible for Chen Wen to kill them.

However, for Chen Wen, who has begun to get used to plucking the feathers of geese, there is no reason to let go of these technical arms in vain.

On the way to Xinchang County, Chen Wen told the gunners that they could leave, but they had to pass on the gunners of the newly formed Chinese artillery team in the Nantang Battalion with data on the gunpowder handling techniques and the amount of gunpowder used in the two Franc cannons.

Regarding Chen Wen's slogan that if you don't leave your skills, don't expect to go home, the Qing army, who has heard the head without hair and hair without hair, expressed 100,000 points of support. Due to the casting technology of the artillery of this era, the firing range of each gun, the amount of gunpowder and other data are different, so the artillery crew is fixed, and there is a record in history that the front-line requisition and deployment of artillery at the same time are specified.

The artillery is already in the hands of the Ming army, and it is definitely impossible to bring it back, so these data are completely useless, although the target of the Ming army using these artillery must be the Qing army, but it is also those armored infantry who are beaten first, and the caliber of these artillery pieces is not large, and it is estimated that they will not be able to hit these gunners.

So why not trade these useless things for the life of returning home?

The gunners of the Qing army felt that they could think clearly about these stakes with their butts, especially after Chen Wen kept his promise to release those Qing troops who had no bad deeds under Xinchang City, and offered three taels of silver per person, these Qing soldiers did not hesitate to teach all the methods and data of the use of the Furlong cannon to the artillery of the Ming army, and even a versatile Qing army said that he would also use the tiger squat gun. After verifying the technology, this business-minded Qing army received a reward of ten taels of silver alone, thus taking a big step ahead of other colleagues at the starting line of life.

In addition to the artillery, which Chen Wen was most concerned about, armor was also a rarity in the ancient army.

In this battle, it was not easy for the Qing army to flee due to the road, so it was beheaded and captured by Chen Wen, and it was the middle of winter, many of the Qing army's sharp soldiers were wearing two layers of armor, and more than 800 sets of cloth armor [Note 1] were captured.

If you think about it carefully, it is normal, the Ming army of Dalanshan has rarely been defeated in recent years, and has captured a lot of armor of the Qing army, among which there are not a few damaged and inferior ones. These craftsmen have been repairing armor for many years, and it is estimated that they are much better than the craftsmanship of making them alone.

In addition, there were more than 200 sets of leather armor, chain mail, armor and Li Rong's set of mountain armor, which were also handed over to the craftsmen of the old camp for repair.

There is armor in the capture, and naturally there is also a blade, just as the spear and the shield must be together.

In terms of the types of weapons, this seizure is also very in line with the tradition of this era, and it can be said that there is everything.

Among them, the most popular weapons are spears, swords, and bows and arrows. Needless to say, the length of the spear is seven or eight feet, the infantry of the Ming and Qing armies are almost the same, and the bows and arrows are also similar, only the shape of the sword card is not very different.

There are two kinds of knife cards used in Nantang Camp, one is a long card, and the other is a rattan card. These two cards are the standard configuration of Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck array when he resisted the Japanese in the south, while the Qing army is all composed of round cards, some are wooden, some are iron-cladned, and there are also pure iron shields, which are mainly decided according to personal preferences.

The number of blades captured this time is extremely large, almost all the weapons of the Qing soldiers are thrown on the battlefield, and the auxiliary soldiers are almost the same, the most lovely is Li Rong, this guy even brought some spare.

Chen Wen also reciprocated his admiration for such an opponent, who was old in military affairs and paid attention to being prepared, -- after learning of the amount of seizures, he immediately ordered a piece of shredded meat to be added to Li Rong's thin prison meal, which should be a kind of reward for his spirit of tirelessly delivering goods to his door.

After refitting the better of them, Chen Wen was going to leave some of the remaining weapons for expanding the army, and those things that were not used at all and those of poor quality were ready to be sold to the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain. In this regard, several Ming army generals such as Yu Guowang and Jin Tang showed strong interest, so Chen Wen made an appointment with them to hold a weapons commodity fair tomorrow.

As for the last part of the seizure, it was the property looted from the Qing army and the carts loaded with war booty. Although nothing unexpected was found except for the power bank, from copper coins, to gold and silver ingots, to cloth and silk, and jewelry and antiques of uneven value, Chen Wen still made a lot of money. And the problem also appeared in this batch of loot.

Since the current Qing army has been completely defeated, and the reason for the acceleration of the Tibiao battalion is that the Shaoxing Green Battalion has arrived in Xinchang, Chen Wen scavenged these trophies and stacked them on several carts loaded with trophies at will, and marched under the supervision of the pacifying soldiers.

Along the way, whether it was Chen Wen, Qi Xiufeng, the quartermaster of the Nantang battalion, or the officials of the old battalion, no one had time to sort and sort out these things. Therefore, it was not until he arrived on the rooftop to meet Yu Guowang that Qi Xiufeng took a few officials to classify, sort out, and evaluate its value.

During the chaotic period when he had just arrived at the station, Qi Xiufeng was busy for a day and a night before sorting and registering these things, and then he rushed to count the number of weapons and equipment with the officials of the old camp arsenal without sleeping. After everything was done, Qi Xiufeng, who had a pair of panda eyes, went back to rest, but at this time, several of his subordinates colluded with a captain in charge of guarding to modify the account books and embezzle a small part of the booty.

Because the amount of ink they were greedy for ink was not very large, and there were very few people involved, coupled with the chaos of that period, neither Chen Wen nor Qi Xiufeng, who was in charge of making the book, could not remember the details of those trophies clearly. This should have passed like this, but who would have thought that after a few months, there would be an accident.

Most of Chen Wen's subordinates were born poor, and many of them were singles, and this time the Ming army in the Siming Lake Palace won more with less, plus the rewards of beheading and military exploits, it was quite rich.

Unfilial piety has three undescended queens, but where is the child without a daughter-in-law? After receiving these rewards, many soldiers chose to marry their daughters-in-law. This is human nature, marrying a wife and marrying a man, in the final analysis, two people live together, if they marry a non-person, or marry a non-person, it is likely to be not just a simple matter as chickens flying and dogs jumping.

The chief of the guard, who was in charge of guarding, became a relative during that period, and he became pregnant not long after he got married, which is also a gratifying thing. It's not good to be pregnant, but this soldier couldn't bear the loneliness, and it didn't take long for him to hook up with a widow, and even gave the widow a hairpin he had stolen a lot of money.

The widow was originally a swaggering person, and when she got such a hairpin, she naturally wanted to wear it out to show off, but this back and forth was discovered by the wife of the chief of the house, so she made a fuss, and someone with a heart discovered that the hairpin was of unknown origin.

Since the offender was a military commander in the army, Chen Wenwen thought that it was just a matter of secretly hiding the booty, so he asked Gu Shouli, who had just been idle, to deal with the matter, but after interrogation, he learned that it was a case of corruption and fraud, and it also involved the problem of quartermaster management and the officials sent by the old battalion to assist. Seeing this, Chen Wen transferred the matter to Sun Yu for strict investigation, and there should be an answer at this moment.

"Master Sun, can you find out which thing that doesn't know whether it is alive or dead that dares to be greedy for military supplies and capture?"

Seeing that Chen Wen had returned, Sun Yu informed Chen Wen of the results of the investigation. "General Chen, the lower officials have already investigated, and this matter was done by these petty officials in collusion with the commander who was in charge of guarding the spoils of war at the time, and the quartermaster Qi was not involved in this matter."

Not involved in this?

Hearing this, Chen Wen couldn't help but sigh, corruption has existed since ancient times, and it is an unsolvable problem until future generations. As long as people are greedy, they will use illegal means to seek money, and this cannot be eradicated. Since it cannot be eliminated, it is necessary to find ways to reduce the occurrence of such incidents. How to reduce it, Chen Wen's thinking is to strengthen the supervision of the system, so as to increase the cost of corruption, only in this way can the occurrence of such time be reduced.

It's just that Chen Wen didn't have time to think about these at all, and he didn't have the authority to establish a corresponding system, so he chose Qi Xiufeng, a blank sheet of paper, as the quartermaster, but in fact, it was just a helpless move to place his hopes on morality.

This time, Qi Xiufeng did not participate in this matter, and it can be regarded as Chen Wen's luck that he did not see the wrong person, but Qi Xiufeng, who is responsible for poor supervision, is to blame. It's just that at this moment, the voice of an angry voice sounded in Chen Wen's ears.

"General, according to military law, all the seizures of this battalion will be returned to the public, and they shall not be kept privately, and after the war, they will be rewarded according to military merits, and those who are privately saved will be forcibly rewarded for military merits of others, and they should be beheaded to show the public! The offender used his position to steal the spoils of war, and he thought that he should be punished in the same case. ”

The person who spoke was Qi Xiufeng, and Chen Wen turned his head to look at this quartermaster who had served for more than half a year and had always been loyal to his duties as soon as he heard the voice. The reputation that has been built up by long-term hard work is ruined, and the anger between the words is self-evident, but when Chen Wen thinks that this is just a vent of anger, this angry voice resounds.

"As a quartermaster, the offender is a subordinate of the lowly position, and the property embezzled is also within the scope of the lowly position.

Same penalty?

Beheading?

When Qi Xiufeng spoke, he saw Gu Shouli secretly pull Qi Xiufeng back, as if he wanted him to retract his sincerity. However, Qi Xiufeng arrogantly threw off the sleeve he was pulling for Gu Shouli and continued to speak.

Chen Wen shook his head, he didn't need it, the key was to take care of these military supplies before establishing an effective regulatory system, which was the top priority at present. The punishment that Qi Xiufeng deserves is not so much, but it cannot be left unpunished.

"The offender this time is an official of the old camp, and the punishment will be carried out after consultation with Wang Weixian. As for the quartermaster of Qi, he will be temporarily dismissed, and the quartermaster reserve of this battalion will be represented by Director Sun, and the rest of the matter will be dealt with early tomorrow morning. ”

Note 1: Cloth armor is a kind of composite armor, which was popular in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, replacing the status of zha armor and becoming the standard armor of soldiers. The reasons are simple, firstly because it is easy to manufacture and inexpensive to build, and secondly because it is resistant to early firearms. Of course, from the point of view of being convenient for cutting corners, cloth face armor has also reached the peak of the development history of armor.

PS: The first volume is updated every day and is always 4000+, and the chapters in the second volume are all 3000+. Of course, there are still two chapters that have not been made up in the few chapters owed last year, so forgive me for being busy with this paragraph.