Section 108 Military Merit

This time he suddenly encountered the Jiang bandits, Yang Chao's performance was indeed not good, but considering that it was the first time he had fought to the death with the enemy, at least he had completed the command, so it could be regarded as decent and qualified.

Wang Pu's performance was acceptable, although it was very bad at the beginning, but it got better and better later, especially after killing a few enemies who boarded the ship, he immediately turned around to support Yang Chao, which was even a little unexpected by Yang Chao.

The performance of the archers can only be described as terrible, not a single arrow hit the target from start to finish, and in the face of a slowly climbing enemy, they did not even cause the slightest impact on the opponent.

Of course, the most calm, in fact, is Zhang Dawei and other four veterans, especially Zhang Dawei is very calm, although he is very cowardly to the struggle, but when he really encounters the battle, he is very calm from beginning to end.

Of course, these veterans did not participate in the battle, but in the course of the battle, they were always in their positions and held their positions.

"Are you alright, my lord?"

As soon as the battle was over, Zhang Dawei freed his hand and immediately rushed to Yang Chao's side, asking with concern.

Yang Chao sat on the ground at this time, a skirmish, and he didn't participate too much, which actually made him lose his strength.

"I'm fine! Let's see if Li Wuliu is okay with them? ”

Li Wu or Liu and several people were all cut down by the Jiang bandits who boarded the boat from the front, and Yang Chao was a little worried that they would suffer casualties.

Zhang Dawei immediately took someone to check.

Soon returned: "My lord, five are injured, but none of them are serious. Only one hurt his face. ”

Yang Chao took a few more breaths, reluctantly stood up, and walked over to check.

At this time, the archers began to struggle to stand up, in fact, they were mainly out of strength, so they were knocked down by the opponent, unable to stand up, in the battle, although they performed poorly, but they were very hard, and kept firing bows and arrows.

A good archer often can't support it after pulling the bow more than a dozen times, and these rookie archers, at least no one has pulled them ten or twenty times, I'm afraid it's not just out of strength, maybe several people's arms are strained.

"Your Excellency!"

Several archers looked depressed when they saw Yang Chao coming, including the injured archers who were hurrying up.

"Sit down and get some rest."

Yang Chao comforted.

But none of the archers were willing to sit down, bowing their heads in shame and saying nothing.

"Stand upright!"

Yang Chao shouted, he couldn't see his soldiers bowing his head at every turn, looking cowardly.

Several people immediately straightened up, but everyone's eyes were red.

On the other side, a few spearmen were talking and laughing, smiling, and talking about their performance from time to time.

"Haha, I stabbed to death at least three Jiang bandits just now, I just don't know what their names are, and if they can die in the hands of Lao Tzu, it can be regarded as his creation."

A soldier bragged.

"Lao Tzu killed four!"

"You three, you four, all for you to kill, what do the others kill?"

"Hahahaha!"

In fact, it is not necessarily that the soldiers are lying or bragging, in the chaotic battle just now, several spears stabbed a person at the same time, piercing a person, these injuries are enough to kill people, so it is inevitable that the calculation will be repeated, and the credit will be attributed to their own heads.

Zhang Dawei took four veterans at this time and did a kind of gruesome work - cutting off people's heads!

Cutting off people's heads, they didn't hesitate to pick up the discarded waist knives on the ship, and slashed them twice, making a piercing sound of metal and bone rubbing.

Soon Zhang Dawei came back and arched his hand at Yang Chao: "Congratulations, sir!" Cut off nine heads! ”

Yang Chao nodded, silently calculated in his heart, and suddenly felt a little regretful.

In the military merit system of the Ming Dynasty, there were various calculation methods in the early days, such as how to award merit to beheading generals, how to confer merit for capturing the flag, how to confer merit for capturing alive, and how to confer merit for siege.

But in the middle and late periods, all military merit calculations are based on the enemy's head, which is similar to the Qin State during the Warring States Period, the advantage is that one head is a head, soldiers cannot take the lead merits, officers cannot lie about military exploits, the disadvantage is that many bad armies will kill good and take merits, and slaughter the entire village where they pass, just for the heads of the common people, and use the heads of good people to pretend to be the heads of thieves to defraud the credit.

During the Yongle period, there was "a whistle horse and a thief, and a thief came, and the reward was thirty taels of silver; Whoever beheads the thief will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver. Although this standard has basically not changed, there may not be so many that can really be in the hands of soldiers, all kinds of nominal deductions, as well as the exploitation of officers, soldiers cut off a person's head, and can receive three or five taels of silver, which is already an unexpected joy.

But what makes the soldiers' eyes even hotter is that according to the Ming military merit system, if a sergeant beheads a single head, he can be promoted to the first level, so the nine heads here can make nine soldiers be promoted to the team.

But for Yang Chao, the general with 500 soldiers, the total number of soldiers he brought must be beheaded by ten levels, and he can only be promoted to one level.

This time, there were thirteen river bandits, ten of whom were in the open and Yang Chao's soldiers in front of each other, and the three hidden river bandits secretly boarded the boat from behind, and the result was that the three river bandits in the dark were killed first, and six of the ten river bandits in the open were successfully forced to get on the boat, and they were all killed.

Only three did not board the boat, and one fell into the water and escaped.

Just one less head, Yang Chao can be promoted to one level.

According to the establishment of the Xinjiang Estuary Water Camp, the total is a thousand generals, and if there is one more head, Yang Chao can rise to a thousand generals.

Seeing Yang Chao's expression, Zhang Dawei immediately asked, "My lord, are you worried that the first level is not enough to be promoted to one level?" ”

Yang Chao nodded.

Zhang Dawei said: "In fact, it is also accommodating to receive a reward for the head, at present, the Jiang bandits are rampant, and I heard that the military department is in a hurry. ”

Although the Ming army mainly calculates merit based on the reward of the head, under special circumstances, it will also evaluate the merit of wonder and the head, and can get additional rewards.

Yang Chao was rampant in the waters of Nanjing, but the military department was suffering from the fact that the army was guarding against the peasant army in Jiujiang and Fengyang, and could not mobilize troops to exterminate it.

"But you need to be careful with your attention, and I'm afraid it will cost you money."

Zhang Dawei continued.

Yang Chao nodded: "Silver is not a problem, these credits are even more rare." ”

Zhang Dawei said: "What the adults said is extremely true! ”

But Zhang Dawei immediately asked again: "My lord, I don't know if we are going to Pu ** goods now, or going back to the barracks." ”

Yang Chao did not hesitate and said, "Go back first." Several brothers were injured and sent back to recuperate. If the goods are not delivered, go back to the owner to discuss it, and it is a big deal to lose some money to them. ”

Zhang Dawei praised: "My lord is noble. ”

A sense of relief appeared on his face as he spoke.

Yang Chao waved his hand: "Turn around!" ”

Zhang Dawei arched his hand: "Yes!" ”

Then beckoning to the person who can move, lowering the sail and turning the rudder to turn around.