Chapter 42: Benevolence and Righteousness

Seeing him coming, the people around Zhai Rang got up silently, his little son knelt at his father's feet and cried, Dong Ce remembered that this little guy was only seven years old, and he was naughty and mischievous. Zhai Rang's wife was almost fainting from crying, the heart-rending cry made Dong Ce's heart twitch for a while, his eldest daughter was only fifteen years old, but she already had the appearance of a small family, although she also had tears in her eyes and sad eyes, she was crying while comforting her mother.

"Your Excellency is here?"

The eldest daughter caught a glimpse of Dong Ce and hurriedly knelt down to salute, Dong Ce waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Excuse me." ”

He walked to Zhai Rang's side, touched the ground on one knee, Zhai Rang seemed to see him, his originally loose eyes suddenly brightened, he struggled to sit up, and with a lot of force, a mouthful of blood foaming spurted out of his mouth.

"Don't move, don't move, if you have anything to say slowly, this official will definitely do it for you!" Dong Ce held him up and said gently.

Zhai Rang made a powerful voice and stretched out his finger to point at his pair of children.

Dong Ce nodded heavily, he suddenly stood up and clapped his high-fives hard, all his attention was attracted to this side.

I only heard Dong Ce say loudly: "Today, there is a ten-mile shop Anxiang Dunjun Hu Zhai Rang, bravely kill the enemy, serve the country, kill Jiannu Aha one, according to the rules of the imperial court, should be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" Datong town and give two stones of white rice! This official is here today in front of ~one~this~read~ novel ybdu in front of everyone, these ten taels of silver, I, Dong Ce, will definitely get for Brother Zhai, a lot of money, and hand it over to his family! In the days to come, his family will be harmonious and beautiful! His daughter got married, and I, Dong Ce, bought a rich dowry for him! His son, I will find a future for him! Brother Zhang Qisi is the same as Brother Zhai Rang! ”

He glanced at everyone and was solemn and solemn: "What Dong Ce said today, if it is false, let me thunder five thunders, and I will never be able to live forever!" ”

Zhai Rang seemed to hear his words clearly, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, his head tilted, and he couldn't breathe anymore.

The ancients revered ghosts and gods, and in this era, there is nothing more trustworthy than swearing, and it makes people feel more pious and heavy. What's more, it's such a poisonous oath?

Listening to Dong Ce's words and looking at Dong Ce's solemn face, everyone's hearts seemed to have a warm current surging through, and they were comfortably ironed. can have such a benevolent and righteous official, even if he dies for it, he will not be wronged.

Zhai Rang and Zhang Qisi's family members even knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Dong Ce to thank them, thanking Dade, and their heads banged on the blue brick floor.

Dong Ce hurriedly helped them up.

Li Gui's injury was not serious, the arrow seemed to have been shot through his thigh, but in fact it only passed through the side of the outer edge of the thigh, and the wound was not big or deep. And there is another advantage of shooting through, just break the arrow cluster and arrow shaft directly, and there is no need to dig out the arrow for such a tedious and extremely painful process. The effect of the gold sore medicine in the red sleeves is excellent, and Li Gui is bandaged, and he can barely move.

Dong Ce asked him to direct the women and children to clean up the two empty rooms as a mourning hall and put the corpses in.

The rest of the people gathered around the corpses.

Shi Jin and these people looked at the corpses of those Jiannu armor soldiers and Aha one by one, their eyes lit up one by one, this is all white silver!

"So much money!" Zhou Zhong smacked his lips and said: "When I was still in Jizhen, Jiannu attacked, and a brother in the team cut off the head of a real Tartar, and the credit was repaid. Those officials and children were paid to the greedy ink, but they didn't dare to hide it, and they were rewarded with fifty taels of silver. Later, the brother left with the money, and I heard that he was buying a house and land in the countryside of Baoan Prefecture, and now he is living a prosperous life. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all excited, except for Su Dacheng, who still looked miserable, everyone was full of elation, and they all said how to spend the money when it arrived. Most of them buy houses and land and be a small rich man, which is also what Chinese people have always done.

"Look at your little bit of talent, what are these things! There are still a few slaves waiting for us to exchange their heads for money! ”

Zhou Zhong was happy when he said it, and he had already received a slap on the back of the head, so he heard Dong Ce laugh and said: "Not to mention the military merits that their heads have been exchanged for, just because they have looted these days in our Ming Dynasty, I don't know how much net worth they have, and they have killed them, and these gold, silver and jewelry are all ours!" ”

When everyone heard this, they became even more excited, and they said: "Kill those dog tartars and rob them of their money!" ”

Dong Ce smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and pressed it weakly, everyone suddenly stopped talking, and looked at him with both eyes.

He glanced at everyone and said in a deep voice: "I, Dong Ce, act, everyone also sees it, everyone here today has a share, and no one will lose the benefits." But now is not the time to discuss this, we still have to kill those few Jiannu, and the distribution of military merits will be talked about when we come back! Who has objections? ”

Who has objections?

No one objected, and said in unison: "Let's listen to the leader!" What does the boss say to do? ”

After this battle, Dong Ce's prestige can be said to have climbed to the top, his calculations, his step-by-step strategy, and his deep scheming to kill the opponent little by little, all made everyone admire and fear in their hearts. At this time, the eyes of several people looking at Dong Ce were full of admiration and admiration.

Cheng did not know that the army was ruled by strict military law, and the soldiers were afraid of military law and superiors, so they were strictly disciplined and forbidden. Li Guang has a good wrist and loves soldiers like a son, so the soldiers support and respect, fight to the death, and have high morale.

Awe, awe, reverence and awe, if you can do one of these two points, it is already commendable, and the army under your command can be called a strong army in the world.

And it can make his subordinates respect and fear him, and he can do this job as an official, which can also be called amazing.

Before Dong Ce knew it, he was gradually integrating into this era, and he was constantly improving, turning into a butterfly step by step.

Next, it was to drag these Houjin soldiers aside, and Dong Ce instructed several Dunjun family members to clean up the bloodstains.

Two vests, one step armor, five aha, eight corpses were placed together, and under the light of the torches, these dead men were pale and hideous, and their bodies and faces were covered with blood.

"There is also an Aha waiting in the woods not far away, the night is long and dreamy, we can't delay any longer, hurry up and clean up these dog tartars, and then attack and kill the remaining Jiannu."

Dong Ce gave an order, and everyone started together, and soon these Houjin Horse Armor and Aha were stripped into bare pigs, and their bodies were naked, revealing a body of black hair, and there was not even a single trace left.

Dong Ce was a little ridiculous when he saw this scene, he originally wanted to arm his own people with the weapons and armor of these Houjin soldiers.

Other handicrafts in the Houjin industry are not very good, such as silk and satin, porcelain, gold and jade, these things are far worse than the big tomorrow, but their iron smelting and casting industry is quite developed. The root cause of being strong and prosperous is to pay attention to it. Like their ancestors, this people, who originated between the white mountains and black waters, fished and hunted on horseback, and before their rise, the most valuable possession of a family was a pair of iron armor. After Jianzhou occupied Liaodong and established the Houjin Khanate, it was even more vigorous in this area, and every time he went south to enter the Kou, the first person to plunder was the blacksmith of the Han people.

It is said that in the north and south of Liaoyang City in Houjin, there are blacksmith shops that stretch for more than ten miles, and the firelight is continuous day and night, and the weapons and armor are constantly being created.

In late November of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the new senior brother of Liaodong Jingluo ordered to take the initiative to abandon the 200-mile Liaoxi Corridor outside the Guanhai on the grounds of the new defeat in Yaozhou and the low morale of the officers and soldiers. As soon as Brother Gao's order to disperse troops reached Ningyuan, the Sanxie Ming Army under Shanhaiguan was immediately ordered to go south. Fifteen battalions of the Guanning Iron Cavalry -- the famous Guanning Iron Cavalry -- left behind everything that could be left behind, and none of the countless warehouses stocked with large quantities of grain, grass, and weapons were burned down, and the Guanning Army simply left in a hurry after affixing seals to each warehouse.

In this battle alone, the materials abandoned by Guan Ningtieqi's cavalry north of Ningyuan included 150,000 stones of rice beans, one million catties of hay, more than 80,000 horses of cotton cloth, more than 1.2 million taels of silver, more than 30,000 pieces of armor, more than 1,000 artillery pieces, and countless guns, bows and arrows, swords and shields.

With an opponent like Daming, why can't Houjin be invincible!?

There are all kinds of reasons in it, Houjin is getting stronger and stronger, and Daming is getting weaker and weaker. This point can be vividly reflected from the equipment, compared with the armor of the Ming soldiers, the mandarin duck broken battle jacket and the armor of other people, it is simply a world away, the armor of these horse step armor, any one of them is picked out, and it can only be worn by the hundred household officers in the Ming army. Their big bows and heavy arrows, their long iron knives, spears and axes are not comparable to the weapons of the Ming army.

But he didn't expect that after the soldiers stripped off their armor, they also stripped off the inner clothes of these Houjin soldiers. Soon Dong Ce knew the reason--the clothes of these Houjin soldiers were actually made of silk--this was a rare thing that could not be seen at all among the poor military families of Xuanda in the North, and it was an absolute valuable.

Wang Tong took a look at it and concluded that if this was in a ready-to-wear shop in the town or county, this silk underwear would cost at least three or four taels of silver.

Wang Yu had already said with bright eyes that he would give his daughter a dowry in the future.

Dong Ce couldn't help but sigh that these Houjin soldiers were really rich - in fact, if you think about it, the Jurchens in Jiannu at this time were only about 200,000 people, 60,000 Dingkou, and there were millions of Han people in Liaodong. These post-golden horse armor are almost all military aristocrats who do not produce anything, and everyone has a lot of land and a few people, more than a dozen people, dozens of people's slaves, and often has a large amount of wealth plundered by the south, so it is strange to be poor.