Chapter Fifty-Eight: Sending Border Troops to Suppress Bandits
It's not just Zhang Hongbin who has gained along the way, but also the other two roads.
Zhang Hongbin's group directly broke up Dong Wenbo all the way, and the 25,000-strong troops suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, captured more than 6,000, and the rest scattered and fled.
Dong San'er was shot into a hedgehog, Dong Wenbo was thrown into prison after simple treatment, and after waiting to return to Tongzhou, Ming Zhengzheng was sentenced to be beheaded again. Zhang Hongbin wanted to pass guò in this way and establish the self-confidence and courage of the people in the base area to resist the Ming court.
Li Dingguo had the least number of long-range troops along the way, but with the good nutrition of the soldiers, he launched a surprise attack in the middle of the night, and with the help of the grenadiers, he quickly broke into the enemy's camp. After paying more than 300 people killed, Shun Lì defeated the enemy from Yan'an Province. In this battle, 2,000 enemy troops were destroyed and more than 8,000 were captured, among which the main general, the guerrilla general Ma Wencheng, surrendered.
The ruthless road was a pretended attack on Lintong, but in fact, it ambushed 500 grenadiers and 100 strong crossbowmen on the way to go.
When the enemy passed, 500 grenadiers took the lead and the officers were sniped by crossbowmen. After this hand, with the end of the second projectile, the landing begins. At the same time, the troops on the Lintong side also came back one after another, encircling the remnants. More than 500 were killed and wounded in this battle, nearly 15,000 were captured, and most of the officers below died in the first round of sniping.
Well, the main general is a relative of the governor of the same state, one of the targets of revenge, so he will never spare his life.
The three-way army slaughtered out with great momentum and returned to the base area with joy and festivities.
A large number of seizures, as well as discouraged captives, were the most favorable evidence of victory. The people in the base area who saw this scene along the road welcomed the return of the warriors, and even organized batches of labor regiments to come over with some boiled corn or something.
Such a situation of fish and water in the eyes of the captives is simply incredible. According to their understanding, the people have a natural aversion and resistance to the soldiers, at least when they are still the people, they hate the soldiers coming to their hometowns the most. But why is this situation different here at The Salvation Army?
"The people are the water, the community is the boat, the water can carry the boat or overturn the boat......" General Ma Wencheng saw this qiē and immediately remembered Li Shimin's classic quotations.
At the same time, I also understand that the Salvation Army is not a rogue, nor a thief, but a real anti-thief. Interestingly, this anti-thief team is very popular, and the weapons and equipment, the soldiers are not inferior to the border army in brave battle. No, maybe even face the Mongols or the Houjin Tartars directly!
Such an army, if it does not take over the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply unreasonable! En, that's abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, and I've done it too right!
As a general, Ma Wencheng still doesn't know what his fate will be, and whether he can continue to lead the troops. But since you surrendered, you will have a military position, right? But before that, he still has to keep comforting himself, after all, the surrender is indeed a bit ugly to say.
What he saw and heard along the way made Ma Wencheng also confirm one thing, that is, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were collectively beheaded. Look, this Tongzhou has completely fallen, what just fell into Chengcheng, can those literati really talk nonsense with their eyes open?
In fact, this is very correct, if you can keep your privileges and interests by opening your eyes and talking nonsense, then why not do it? Telling the truth with your eyes open will cost you your official position or even your life, and even if something happens later, you can at least ensure your own interests at this stage, and no one is a fool, so you naturally know how to choose.
"Welcome, my warriors!" Zhang Hongbin was the first to come back, and naturally held a welcome ceremony for the other two soldiers by the way.
"Living up to his mission, the last general has defeated the new army from Xi'an and captured nearly 15,000 people." Desperate took the lead in stepping forward and dismounting.
"I also completed the task along the way, captured more than 8,000 people, and at the same time the guerrilla general Ma Wencheng surrendered to our army!" Not to be outdone, Li Dingguo stood up.
"Ahem...... You all did a very good job, it's better than me just killing nearly 10,000 people and capturing thousands at the same time......" Zhang Hongbin said embarrassedly.
Well, everyone knows that this is actually the one with the most achievements.
However, everyone knows that his greatest ability lies in 'maximum kills', not 'most efficient kills'.
Also, if it is not necessary, it is actually the last thing that all courtiers want to see. No emperor would go into battle in person when he had enough men below. After all, this is all about grabbing credit with the generals. Therefore, unless there is a lack of generals, or a battle with some kind of political connotation, the imperial expedition will appear.
If it happens, the pattern of the battle will also change, and the battle that would have been captured and captured to the maximum extent will become the fastest and most effective killing of the opponent's soldiers, in order to ensure that the remaining soldiers do not endanger the life of the monarch.
"Well, we can't let our warriors stay outside the city gates, can we? The welcome ceremony for you is ready, so let's have a blast for the next three days! Zhang Hongbin looked at their embarrassed faces and smiled, and issued a notice.
Everyone was cheering, but the captives were bowing their heads, and the sight made them even more embarrassed.
In the next three days, Zhang Hongbin really held an unprecedented carnival, and the banquet was held for three days and three nights, and most of them were good things that had never been seen before. Zhang Hongbin also made a lot of money, and in order to increase consumption, he bought a lot of materials for the consumption of this banquet. In fact, if you really calculate it, according to his fourth-level level, you can enjoy a discount of 8.5%, and these materials are sold in the flooded future Tongguò time and space supermarket, the price is naturally much lower than that of this era, and the taste is so luxurious for people in this era.
That is to say, the banquet set by Zhang Hongbin may be worth nearly 10,000 taels of silver in this era, but in the supermarket, it is actually less than 1,000 taels of silver...... The consumption of 10,000 taels of silver is really not so easy to reach.
He also suddenly understood why there is a luxury area, which is not only used to win people's hearts, but mainly because luxury goods are very expensive, and very expensive things mean that a lot of consumption needs to be consumed, which can help the consumption amount to meet the standards required by the system, and then upgrade faster.
He has already decided that if the consumption amount of 10,000 taels of silver is reached, the first one to open is the luxury area!
Those captives also ate a lot of good things in the past three days, after all, according to Zhang Hongbin's meaning, many of them can be absorbed into the Salvation Army. This is more than 20,000 captives, even if only 15,000 people are selected to join, these captive troops who already have a certain amount of combat experience can quickly increase the combat effectiveness of the Salvation Army.
Therefore, their treatment in the past three days is still very good, at least there will be no shortage of white rice and white flour steamed buns, and at the same time, they can enjoy some meat or fish or something. For them, who live a hard life, almost hungry and full, and can only eat two meals a day, today's life is comparable to the old wealth of the landlord in their township!
Prisoners are treated like this, so what if they join the Salvation Army? Many people's minds began to come alive, and they felt that since they had been captured, they would either work as coolies, be executed, or be absorbed into the Salvation Army. If they were to choose, it would be the last one to be the best.
At least, it's been a good day!
Compared with the carnival of the Salvation Army, the imperial court is worried, and the destruction of the three-way army is a big thing, and it can't be covered if you want to.
However, when it was reported, it was written that the main general was ambushed by the light army, or that the thief army suddenly attracted 100,000 reinforcements, and after strong resistance, our side was finally exhausted and killed. Ma Wencheng is completely stinky, and it was written that he had long been opposed, and when the thieves killed him, he surrendered with his soldiers almost without resistance.
Well, this seems acceptable, Chongzhen actually wants to break out, but looking at this information, thinking of Shaanxi, which lost the three-way army, can only continue to carry the turtle suit and silently pretend to be his grandson.
"Ladies and gentlemen, how should we deal with this Salvation Army and thieves from all walks of life in Shaanxi?" Chongzhen asked weakly.
"For the sake of today's plan, we can only send the border army to kill ...... The border army guarded Cao Wenzhao, and his nephew Cao Bianjiao was a first-class brave general, and he was also a rare cavalry general. As long as there are 5,000 cavalry troops in its headquarters, even if there are 100,000 anti-thieves, they are not opponents at all! "The first assistant made a list of advice.
"Well, that's it......" Chongzhen is out of options, he can't say that his internal funds have no money to support the establishment of the new army, right?
As a result, the eunuch who read the decree began to move towards the Shanxi border where Cao Wenzhao was located......