Chapter 158: Ambitious
After the victory, the soldiers of the Huaihuang Army did not distinguish between dignity and inferiority, regardless of the fatigue after the battle, one by one, they carried horizontal knives as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and frantically cut off the heads on the dead bodies of the enemy soldiers. Although the bounty of a first-class head is the same as that of a captive, it only costs more than two to chop a head, and a half-dead wounded soldier has to be carried to the wounded camp, which is too troublesome. As for whether this is too unkind, few people care. When they encounter some soft-hearted ones, their superiors will teach them a hard lesson, what do such half-dead captives want? It is a waste of time and strength, and it is a waste of decoction to carry it to the medical camp, and after the war, the few doctors in the medical camp can't even take care of their own comrades and wounded, so how can they have time to take care of these thieves. Of course, if you are only slightly injured, you can still ask for your life.
Ling Yun sat under the shed of Xiaoyou by the river on the battlefield, watching these tireless soldiers search for corpses one by one, cut off their heads, and then carry them back to the office to join the army and the main book, and Si Gong to join the army and other groups of soldiers under the open hood, smiling and reporting the account. In order to prevent the occurrence of the situation of competing for the first rank, the military merit system of the Huaihuang Army is actually very strict, and it is not allowed to cut off the head during the war, but only after the war. At the same time, it is mainly based on the battlefield collective performance, then the first level of gong, and the second is the individual performance. Even if it is the first-level merit, it is counted as the whole team. Just like this battle, the battle by the river, the corpses on the battlefield in the middle are the results of the longbowmen, and when they finally counter-charge, the infantry cavalry also killed a lot, and finally took out two percent of the first rank to distribute to the charging troops. The remaining eighty percent was divided equally among the Longbow Battalion. And on the battlefield on both flanks, it is the results of two cavalry, and no one can share with them. The results of the rest of the pursuits are the first rank. It is divided equally among the pursuing parts, and the archers have no share.
Ling Yun originally planned to send the soldiers to the battlefield directly to nod their heads, and there was no need to cut off their heads. It can be seen that the soldiers were so excited, and finally they gave up and went with them.
Wei Zheng and other civilian staff members frowned and endured the bloody gas, and registered the number of heads of this group of bloodied but passionate soldiers. Each one should be skimmed out, although it is unlikely that this battle will be a killing act. But you also have to go through the motions. After looking at the bloody head again, Wei Zheng waved his hand and pointed into the distance. There was already a pile of heads there, "Throw it there!" "Under normal circumstances, these first-level registrations have to be sealed with lime and so on, and they have to be transported back for inventory and verification. However, this battle was personally commanded by the leader of the Yi Da Alliance. Sitting on the spot, naturally there is no need to bother to transport it back.
One by one, the heads were thrown into the heads of the small hill, adding a few points to the hill.
In the distance, soldiers are searching for the battle dead, striving to cut off the head of every enemy's corpse, and never waste a single head skill. Wei Zheng rubbed his wrist, which was a little sore, and looked at the long queue in front of him waiting for registration, with a sad face. Who would have thought that five thousand would be killed in the first battle. 20,000 prisoners, one enemy five. And wiped out the other party's entire army? He can be regarded as familiar with the book of soldiers, under normal circumstances, if the killing or wounding is more than 30%, the opponent will be defeated, and when the average bandit or even the battlefield casualties reach 10%, the morale is no longer directly defeated. Every time Wei Zheng registered a head, thinking that Huai Huang was paying five times for reward, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh.
The shogunate's chief steward of money and grain, Uncle Zuo Sima Zhang rode to the Lingyun tent, and his face did not have the slightest joy after victory, but was full of sadness.
A first-level military merit reward is five times, a prisoner is rewarded five times, and there are also special rewards such as collective military merit rewards and individual combat bravery, plus the casualty compensation is just a rough calculation in his heart, Uncle Zhang's head is big. Not counting the others, just 5,000 heads and 20,000 captives, this will cost 125,000 yuan, and the money has always been four catties and three taels, and these 125,000 guan is a copper mountain of more than 500,000 catties.
"Isn't it a little bit lowered?" Uncle Zhang hesitated for a long time, but still said his thoughts.
However, this idea was immediately resolutely rejected by Ling Yun, joking, if the reward was low before, and now it is raised, then everyone must be happy. But the original reward was placed there, and now that everyone has made meritorious contributions, the soldiers have already calculated their share in their hearts, and now you suddenly want to lower the reward, in everyone's opinion, isn't it just robbing them of their money? It is absolutely not permissible to spit out the meat that has been eaten to the mouth. Don't look at these people who are now willing to work for Ling Yun and charge into battle, but they really dare to reduce their rewards, and everyone is going to rebel against Ling Yun. Throughout the ages, nine out of ten mutinies in the army have been due to the issue of real money such as rewarding money and food, and there is no ambiguity in this kind of matter. Don't say 100,000 guan, it's 200,000 guan and 300,000 guan, it should be given or it has to be given.
What's more, Ling Yun didn't feel that his reward was too high, in the Ming Dynasty, a first-level merit was fifty taels of silver, even in the Song Dynasty, it was only a lot more. The first battle of Shihe and the first battle of Momoyama of the Huaihuang Army were amazing, but in fact it was not a normal situation. Under normal circumstances, it is not bad to be able to capture one-tenth of the number of troops in a battle, and 10,000 people in a battle can kill a thousand-level, which is already amazing. On average, in a battle, a soldier may only have a 0.1 or slightly higher first-class skill. And the two battles of the Huaihuang Army are indeed an exception among the exceptions. First, the other party is not an army at all, and second, the Huaihuang army wins with strategy, battle formations and weapons.
On the other hand, the high reward is actually a good thing, and the Huaihuang army has gained a lot of sweetness in the battle twice in a row, which will only stimulate their desire to fight more and more. In the future, if they fight, they will definitely be very brave, after all, this is a great opportunity to make a fortune. And Ling Yun seems that there is another advantage of high rewards, that is, he can better obtain the military heart of this army and horses, everyone has such a high reward and generous rewards, if others want to buy his soldiers, the cost will definitely be higher. If you can't come up with better conditions, why should everyone switch to the camp and work with him. Ling Yun will not forget that he is actually just a small member of the army now, compared to the king of the Great Sui and Jin Dynasty like Yang Guang. He is just a small existence like an ant. This Huaihuang army, which was finally built, must be firmly controlled by him to gain the loyalty of his subordinates. It's not as rich as real money.
"The reward can't be reduced by half a point, and besides, this time the soldiers are outstanding, and they have to be rewarded!" Ling Yun waved his hand and pulled Uncle Zhang to his side and sat down, "Uncle Zhang, don't worry too much, don't just stare at the moment." Actually, we won a big win this time. Since it is a great victory, it will not be a loss, but a little reward from the brothers. We can afford it. Not to mention the weight of these knives, guns, armor, and food captured on the battlefield, if you think about it again, a full 20,000 prisoners of war, aren't these money? There are also hundreds of cottages in Daqingshan today. But it's already in the bag. You see, just a peach cottage, we have obtained tens of thousands of stones of grain, a large number of cattle, horses, mules and donkeys, we have made a fortune this time. We need to reward our brethren well, not only for them, but also for them! ”
The harvest obtained by the Huaihuang army in Taoshan is indeed extremely rich, and the old knife handle runs Taoshan, and the grain in the cottage alone stores the grain of the whole village for three years. In addition, there are countless cattle, horses, sheep, etc. Even if other cottages are not as rich as Peach Cottages, they can accumulate a lot. The harvest will also be very gratifying.
In fact, Lingyun Taoshan personally sat in charge for half a month, and every day he had to return from the west with a steady stream of horses and mules. Wei Zheng and other civil servants set up a huge shed on the side of the road at the foot of the mountain, and they were busy there every day to register all kinds of loot that had been transported back, all of which were brought back from various cottages.
There are too many things, and the wrists of Wei Zheng and others who have registered are about to break, so they have to requisition more than 100 people who can write from the army to help register together.
Grain, horses, cattle and sheep, ordnance, people, and here there is gold, silver, copper coins, cloth, and even pearls and jade. Although the cottages are not just simple bandit villages in this era, they also contain many people of all ethnic groups on the border, but in the final analysis, the business of robbery is basically the basic business of each village, and almost all villages have carried out. This also leads to zhì, there are many gold and silver treasures at the bottom of the box in each village, especially those gold, silver, jewelry and other things, which are directly useful for grain and cloth, and the cottage snatches back these things, and has to be handed over to the merchants to sell, and those bold and black-hearted businessmen, for this kind of robbed luxury goods are often to be purchased at a very low price, after all, many items have obvious style marks, and it is not easy to sell. This leads to these gold and silver treasures, which are in the hands of cottages, and are not very willing to sell them directly to merchants. As long as they are not in urgent need of money and food, they would rather put it at the bottom of the box than sell it to the merchants at a low price.
This time, the Huai Huang army went to copy the old bottoms of various cottages, and there were not a few kinds of money and food recovered, but these jewels were even more numerous.
Wei Zheng can be regarded as a Hebei clan, but he has never seen so much wealth at one time. In the temporary warehouses set up with tents behind him, pearls were packed in sacks, jade was packed into boxes, and all kinds of gold and silver jewelry were only roughly classified according to gold and silver, packed in large wooden boxes one by one, and every time he watched the soldiers carry the boxes of jewelry that had just been registered into the temporary warehouse behind, Wei Zheng felt a sense of dazzle.
Gold and silver mountains, nothing more!
After the convoy full of gold, silver, money and grain went for many days, a large number of livestock began to be behind, all of which were raised by each village and robbed back from each village, and now, they have all become the property of the Huaihuang army. After that, it was the population that had been moved out of each village, and Ling Yun's order was to copy all the property, money, grain, and livestock of each village, and then directly dismantle the village, so that all the men, women, and children of each village could work together, while carrying their own rations on the road, and at the same time bringing all the useful things that could be transported back to Huaihuang.
This is a larger-scale relocation than the Huaihuang Evacuation of the village to build a city, the two foothills of the Daqing Mountain Range, the north and south foothills of the Daqing Mountain Range, almost all of the cottages that participated in this or did not participate in the coalition army were swept all the way by the Huaihuang army, and those cottagers were all driven down the mountain and moved to Huaihuang. Along the way, the relocation team was huge, and the population was even twice the total number of Huaihuang soldiers and civilians, and it was estimated that there would be no less than 200,000 people.
Ling Yun insisted on moving all the population to Huaihuang, instead of throwing these people in place and waiting to die after robbing the cottage of all the money. Wei Zheng looked at these cottagers who were dragging their families and worrying, and vaguely knew some of Ling Yun's thoughts in his heart, maybe these people were Ling Yun's real biggest gain this time. Wei Zheng can see some eyebrows, Yi Feng will not be satisfied with being a green forest leader at all, in fact, what Yi Feng is doing now, withdrawing the village to build a city and building a city, etc., all reveal Yi Feng's ambitions, but in this regard, Wei Zheng's heart is only a pride that has been ignited, if he wants to realize his ambitions, he has to choose the master to live, and the Shandong scholars are now suppressed by the Guanlong nobles, and it is difficult to get ahead at all.
Yi Feng may be able to show his ambitions and live up to what he has been born in his life! (To be continued......)