Ga Li Guang wiped his forehead, "Wu Zhiyuan, have you eaten?" ”

The good Tartar Wu Zhiyuan replied honestly: "I was chased and killed for a long time by the Tanma who loved the new Jin Kingdom, and the dry food and water bladders were lost. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Ga Li Guang took out a pot of helmet buns and a few milk bumps from the pocket of the leather chest guard, and handed them to him, "Eat enough, I will send someone to send you across the river to the headquarters in the evening." ”

Ga Li Guang made up his mind that if he went up the mountain again, it would take two days to use the walkie-talkie on the top of the mountain to report the situation to the headquarters. If you cross the Yellow River directly at night, it will only take one night and half a day to return to the old camp in the woods by land.

Wu Zhiyuan took the pot helmet and milk bump, and there was excitement in his eyes: "General, did the Ming Dynasty send troops?" ”

Ga Li Guang was stunned for a moment, and replied with a straight face: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask." ”

Wu Zhiyuan even claimed that it was, took a bite of the pot helmet, and couldn't help but raise his head tentatively and asked: "General, when you arrive at the camp, is there any reward?" ”

Ga Li Guang was unhappy, "Aren't you a good tartar?" How do you know that you are worried about rewards? ”

Wu Zhiyuan hurriedly explained, "The general is angry, I don't mean anything else." It's not because of the good wages that are said that Mingguo just doesn't pay it. ”

One sentence evoked Ga Li Guang's sadness. He served as a soldier in the Ming Dynasty for two years, and he never saw a salary at all.

If the Shoukouyi people don't see pay for half a year and a year, they will make a fuss, and the literati of the Ming Dynasty called it "rewarding". When the guards are in a hurry, they will make trouble, and the guards will steal over the unguarded side walls and loot. In the end, the Ming court had no choice but to give in.

The poor border army of the Ming Dynasty didn't even have the qualifications to "ask for rewards", and daring to make trouble was rebellion, so everyone had to really rebel in the end.

Wu Zhiyuan was eating, Ga Li Guang poured bitter water on him, scolding the court for not being a thing, and the arrears made everyone have no way to live.

Wu Zhiyuan originally wondered that this team of Ming Dynasty men and horses was dressed differently from the border army, could it be a fake Ming army, but now there is no doubt at all.

At the beginning, Wu Zhiyuan and Ga Li Guang scolded the Ming Dynasty for arrears of wages, and after scolding, Wu Zhiyuan comforted Ga Li Guang, "General, be careful to speak, you are different from us who are tight-lipped, if someone reports it to Shangguan, I am afraid that it will not be good for the general." ”

Ga Li Guang was angry enough and patted Wu Zhiyuan on the shoulder, "You are indeed a good tartar." ”

The name of Tartar was very common inside and outside the border wall in the late Ming Dynasty. The original meaning of the word Tartar is indeed somewhat derogatory, but there are more people who call it, and it loses its depreciatory meaning.

The good Tartar Wu Zhiyuan also comforted himself: "The reward for selling secrets will not be in arrears for too long." That's it, even if the official doesn't give a reward for selling secrets, I won't blame the general. ”

To sell secrets is to sell intelligence. The Ming court had a tradition of buying information on the grasslands from nomads outside the border.

"We are different from other Ming troops, you will know when you go." Ga Li Guang said, "You just have to tell you 1510 acres, maybe I can reward you with 50 acres of land." ”

The Tiemu Camp has already established a rule, except that the primitive people of the first five townships can be divided into 100 acres of land and 100 acres of grassland, and those who join the Tiemu Camp later can only be divided into 50 acres of land.

Wu Zhiyuan laughed, "It's good to have two coins of silver." If the official of the Ming Kingdom promised to reward me with fifty acres of land, it would be perfunctory to me, and I don't think my grandson's grandson would be able to ask for it. ”

Ga Li Guang didn't say anything.

The existence of the Iron Battalion is still classified. Whether it is Aixin Jinguo or Chahar, they may be the enemies of the Ironwood Battalion. Except for the composite helmet and chest guard, the scout team was dressed the same as the Ming army, so they simply lied to the Ming army.

Wu Zhiyuan pointed to the heavens and the earth to ensure that the other two captives were also good Tartars. They were originally the Haraqin nomads under the rule of the Ming Jin Kingdom, and they were robbed by the Aixin Kingdom and fled back. At present, Chahar and the Ming Dynasty have made peace, Chahar succeeded the Ming Jin State to the Ming Dynasty to guard the border, and the Ming Dynasty paid a "reward" of 81,000 taels to Chahar's Lin Dan every year, and the two families fought together against the new Jin Guoyun.

At that moment, the "Ming Dynasty" scout team and the three "good Tartars" formed a unit, had dinner together, discussed that it was good to go out of the valley at dawn in the evening, and sent two scouts and Wu Zhiyuan to ride the three horses hidden in the valley mouth of the "good Tartars" to the Yellow River first, and then use the sheepskin raft hidden by the scout team to cross the river overnight and return to the headquarters to report the news. Others stayed at Castle Hill to see the opportunity.

There was no word all the way, and everyone waited to fetch the horses and came to the valley mouth.

Because the three good Tartars had been chased and killed by the Aixin Jin Kingdom Tanma, Ga Li Guang was extremely cautious when he left the valley. He divided the twelve into three bands, each of which consisted of four scouts and a good Tartar, and the front, middle and rear armies covered each other.

Sure enough, the scouts of the former army spotted two rangers outside the valley.

The two rangers also wore red tassels on their hats, but were dressed in very different ways from the tartars. The two kept wandering around the valley, wanting to enter the valley but not daring to enter.

Wu Zhiyuan immediately recognized that this was the Aixinguo Tanma who chased and killed them all the way!

"It's just two people who will drive you around!" , Ga Li Guang scolded dissatisfiedly, but secretly regretted in his heart, it was probably the sound of the gun just now that attracted Aixinguo Tanma.

Ga Li Guang ordered the three Wu to disperse to form a simple encirclement.

Ga Li Guangchong turned his head at Wu Zhiyuan, "Go and bring them in." ”

Wu Zhiyuan first looked at the outside of the valley with some fear, and then looked at the scouts in ambush in the valley, gritted his teeth and turned on his horse.

Lying on the back of the horse, Wu Zhiyuan had just come out of the valley, and ran back with a flick of the horse's head.

Wu Zhiyuan immediately sounded the crisp sound of horses' hooves behind him.

Wu Zhiyuan was in front, two Jin Guo horses were in front of him, and three horses rushed into the valley.

Wu Zhiyuan, who was in the front, had just run over a boulder, and a scout stood up behind the stone, holding a three-eyed gun aimed at the two Jin Guo Tanma who followed.

The scout horse in front was not afraid, urging the horse to raise his sword and go straight to the scout.

The probe in the back grabbed the reins of the horse, and the bow was an arrow.

At such a distance, even if the arrow can reach it, it is not powerful. The scout simply ignored it, staring at the Aixin cavalry who had rushed in front of him to send him to death.

Two hundred feet, one hundred feet, seventy feet, fifty feet, the eyebrows and eyes of the new cavalry can be seen clearly......

Thirty feet, the scout found that an obvious gap had been knocked out of the blade of the saber held high by the cavalry of the Aixin Jin Kingdom......

The scout pressed the gate firmly.

"Boom!"

The cavalry of the Aixin Kingdom passed through a cloud of gunpowder smoke and fell to the ground with men and horses.

"Poof"

An arrow sank into the scout's chest.

The scout looked at the arrow stuck in his chest in puzzlement, and then raised his eyes to look at the Ai Xinguo Tanma who was shooting the arrow, this distance was obviously four hundred feet, how could it be?

Just when the archery probe horse sent out the second arrow, two war horses were killed on the left and right.

Immediately, the two scouts clinged to the horse's body, sticking out two black holes along the horse's belly.

The archery probe did not hesitate, turned the horse back and rushed to the valley mouth.

Taniguchi immediately appeared with two three-eyed guns, one on the left and one on the right, and the crossfire just stopped the archery from exploring the horse's way.

As if he didn't know the three-eyed gun, the archery detective horse rushed straight towards the space between the two guns.

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Nomads beg for rewards

In view of the economic situation of the imperial court during the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty could not even pay the salaries of its own border army, and the imperial court owed the nomads the border military salaries, the Jin Khan's border military expenses, and the horse market trade money was commonplace, often delaying for several years.

For nomads to ask for wages and goods, the Ming Dynasty always called it "begging".

For discounting arrears and talking about conditions, the Ming Dynasty always called it "reward".

Lu Xun commented: "The Tang Dynasty has a lot of anger, and the Ming Dynasty is a scoundrel." ”

Penetrating!

If you can't afford to pay your wages, don't hire someone!

The inscription of the Ming Dynasty military department recorded a large number of reward incidents.

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According to Shen Tang, the governor of Xuanfu, Shen Tang reported, "Inserting the chieftain to make the liberation of life is equivalent to the third day of the first month of this month, when the export of the border has been reported, the fourth day of the first month of the first month of the year to import the reward and seek insatiable, the post repeatedly persuasive, a little food and wine." Laiyi has not been arbitrary, that is, on the fifth day of the first day, and according to the Longmen garrison Li Huaixinyu, today there are 17 people who have come back to the city to import to the city, that is, according to Laiyi, and not to mention the reward of the wind, first to go down the north road along the border of the forts in the early years of Yi chief Aomu, Mao Qitan, Ahong, Suona and other 17 Taiji old example rewards. Seeing that there is a harvest of the original relics of each Yi in the old days to receive the reward of the Yi people to lead the quality of the equivalent language, and to the post".

-- It can be seen that the nomads are so hard to "beg for rewards." It's May, and I can't even get last year's "reward".

The draft was issued on February 20 of the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ministry of War. According to Xuanzhen's surveillance of Wang Kun, and according to Yin Laichunyu, the garrison of Fuyi, "Tian Zaisheng and others said that the prince would come to Zhangjiakou from the outer edge of the monolith to ask for rewards." ……。 On the 14th of this month, the Yi people begged for secrets and said that the chieftain sent 20 Yi people to each outpost to do evil in the Southern Dynasty. He also said, "They will not be imported for sixteen days." ”

According to the inscription of Wang Kun, the eunuch of Xuanzhen, "The thief arrived on February 16, and there were more than 300 horsemen on the night of the 15th. From the border town of Dabaiyangbao, Hutai Dongkong demolished the wall and entered the country, and robbed Xiaocun Fort, Loess Slope Fort, Lijiaying Fort, Yu Shi Youning and other horses, mules and cattle, a total of 145 heads, and Yang Shiyuan sheep 281. Yan Tianyunchen, the leader of this fort, heard the call of the Feng Sect, and the integrity of Xiaobaiyang Fort Ning Zhi was the first soldier in the middle of the body, and the flying horse came to help, and the road general Pang Yonglu led the camp Ma Shirong, the general Wu Kui, the general Huang Chaoliang, and the army Ding Qi to, and the joint camp was so that the front chased the thief and the enemy behind the palace. Huang Chaoliang, a member of the general manager, 80 soldiers including Wang Shen, 13 people including Yang Zhenqi, 13 people, Wu Kui, a member of the Qianguan General Customs, 68 people including Han Yingdeng, 66 people, and 56 people, including Li Wanyou, shot and killed one horse in the middle of the guard, 73 horses in the middle of the army, and 73 horses in the army, and several iron cannons. Exit at noon today."

On March 1, the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Ministry of War, reported that according to the eunuch of Xuanzhen, "According to the antecedents, the chieftain came to the west, aiming to coerce the reward." First of all, he was a prisoner in the ministry, and he bowed and stationed nearby, claiming to ask for the reward of the six seasons, and before the Fuzhen ceremony, he went north to the letter, and he didn't know what the effect was. ”

On March 20 of the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ministry of War, according to the title of Wang Kun, the eunuch of Xuanzhen, Dong Jishu, the chief military officer of Xuanfu, reported the surrender of the Yi, "Today, the chieftain is afraid that the families will meet the crowd, and on February 234 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, there will be about 20,000 or 30,000 silver rice, and the people will be rewarded with 230,000 taels, 120,000 taels, and other things.

It can be seen that Lin Dan personally failed to "ask for rewards" and changed them to "coerce rewards". Lin Dan Khan ordered people to tear down the two-zhang side wall and plunder the border. After that, Lin Dan distributed the reward money of each department and went out to meet the Aixin Jin Kingdom and the Horqin coalition army.