Chapter 122: Rich Spoils
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The light of light is faint, and the dawn is gradually open.
The war is over, but the battlefield is still being cleaned. The infantry of the inner army under Lingyun's tent began to be responsible for cleaning the battlefield in groups, and the soldiers walked back and forth in the corpses with horizontal knives, carefully identifying the bodies of each corpse on the battlefield, all the ones on the side of the Tiger Alliance were brought by Lingyun to the stretcher team of the auxiliary battalion to the back of the riverbank, and those who still had a breath would carry out the final rescue, even if it didn't work, but as long as there was still a breath, Lingyun ordered not to spare the medicinal materials for treatment. For those who have died in battle, they should also be cleaned and identified, registered, placed aside, and brought back to Huaihuang City together on the return trip.
And for those who ridicule and pull out the wild solid people, they are not so merciful. Except for those who were only slightly injured, or those who fainted and were not seriously injured, the rest of those who were killed in battle or seriously injured and disabled were stabbed in the heart first, and then directly chopped off their heads. Those who are slightly injured can be saved, and their fate is likely to be slaves from now on. And those who are seriously injured or disabled, these people will not waste precious medicine to save them. Anyway, it's worthless for these people to be saved, so just give them a good time. Their only surplus value, to Ling Yun, was their head. The heads of all the dead were cut off, and a Jingguan was piled up on the edge of the Stone River. This is the strict warning of the Tiger League, warning those Hu people who are ready to move against Huaihuang, dare to provoke Huaihuangcheng, this is the end.
The heads were piled up, and the bodies were thrown into the river.
Of course. In addition to killing and saving people, the infantry soldiers in the tent were also collecting loot.
The booty was very rich, and the Baye Gu people wiped out dozens of small tribes of Xi people before and after. There were thousands of young and strong captives, and their harvest was abundant. The war horse that Ling Yun valued the most alone was enough to make Ling Yun sigh that he didn't lose this time. In the melee, many horses died and some ran, but in the end nearly 3,000 horses were still harvested on the battlefield. This is a war horse, not an ordinary horse. For Ling Yun, who is bent on forming an elite soldier, this can be described as the best trophy. The Bayegu people have been robbing the area of the dam for months. The harvest is amazing. War horses, cattle and sheep, young and strong Xi people, male and female populations, as well as gold, silver, leather weapons, etc., these Bayegu people swept the dam like locusts at the beginning. Adopt a slaughtering strategy for those tribes that are not strong, and even take people and livestock to snatch what they can. Now, these have all become Lingyun's trophies. While cleaning up the battlefield, Ling Yun sent the horse army to the other two camps in Nantan and Xigou. Receive the spoils of war from the Bano Goto.
Li Wan and the others all watched with envy as Ling Yun's cronies cleaned up the battlefield. Receive loot. They also wanted to step forward, but Wang Bao and Murong Ying leaned next to them with the white horse and the two halls of Erlong, faintly surveilling, which made them have to stay aside honestly and dare not mess around.
After dawn, Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong, two horse teams that had gone to Nantan and Xigou, returned, and they brought back a large amount of booty.
Herds of cattle, sheep and horses, and more of a population. As many as 5,000 Xi prisoners. Ba Ye Du is very powerful, and he takes advantage of the characteristics of these Xi people who belong to many different tribes. These captives were placed in Goubo, Nantan, and Xigou, and then those women, children and young men were arranged in different camps, the women and children of tribe A were arranged in dogber, the prisoners of war slaves of tribe B were placed to guard the women and children of tribe A, and the men of tribe A were placed to guard the women and children of tribe C in Nantan Tongguò, and this arrangement was made to successfully control tens of thousands of Xi prisoners with 1,000 people and maintain stability. Even if he left the camp with all the Baye Gu people and a large number of Xi people, the camp in the rear still remained stable, which Ling Yun had to admire.
But now, all the prisoners of war and booty in Nantan and Xigou have been successfully received by Shan Xiongxin and Qin Qiong. More than 1,000 young men, more than 4,000 young women and children. and the robbery of mountains of booty and countless cattle, sheep and livestock during this time.
The Ten Taibao looked at the loot that had been gathered together, and their breathing accelerated a little, and even the Tuoba Hengdao father and son couldn't help but have red eyes. Those minions of the Tiger Alliance almost drooled one by one.
This is really a big fat sheep, they used to grab a small caravan or something, when did they have such a big deal as the Baye Gu people, directly robbed dozens of small tribes of Xi people, and captured tens of thousands of people? And now, all of this qiē belong to the Tiger League. No, it's the alliance leader Lingyun.
Thousands of horses, tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and a total of more than 3,000 young and strong captives, more than 4,000 years of young Xi women and children, plus the wealth accumulated by these tribes.
The cleaning of the battlefield was very professional, they even collected all the knives, guns, arrows and other weapons on the battlefield, and did not forget to cut off the heads of those who died in battle, and stripped off the clothes and armor on their corpses. There was no waste of what could be used, and even the broken arrows on the battlefield were recovered.
The battlefield was cleaned up at an extremely fast pace, and countless loot were piled up in different categories.
Everyone was waiting for Ling Yun to speak, after such a big battle, Li Wan and the other Taibao were waiting for Ling Yun to redraw the power pattern of the Tiger Alliance, and the minions below, they experienced such a big battle, at this time, they were all excited and waiting for the reward of the leader of the Yi Alliance.
The rewards and punishments are clear, and this is the only way to command and obey the people.
The battle is over, but how to reward and punish is something that everyone is waiting for.
Ling Yun was also thinking about this issue, the Tiger League had never fought such a big battle in the past, so there was no old precedent to follow. Generally speaking, in various dynasties, the soldiers were evaluated and rewarded, and there were generally two criteria for considering military merits. First, proceeding from the overall situation that determines the outcome of the battle, we should examine the actual role and courageous spirit of the soldiers. This second is the reward grade that has been evaluated since the Qin period based on the number of enemy heads captured.
According to the military merit system of the Sui army at this time, whenever the city and formation are broken, the number of fewer strikes is the 'battle', the number is slightly equivalent to the 'middle battle', and the more strikes are the 'lower battle'. According to the number of thieves, the rate is 10 points, and four points have been obtained as 'upper capture', two points have been obtained as 'medium capture', and one point has been obtained as 'lower capture'.
Those who have won the first class award for five turns, the first class award for the battle, the first class award for the middle battle, and the first class award for the battle, the first class award for the middle battle, and the first class award for the next battle three times; Its second and third degrees each descend and turn once. The first class medal was awarded twice in the middle and lower ranks, and the second and third prizes were awarded one turn in each award. Although it broke the city and the formation, and killed those who did not participate, the third-class array was rewarded for one turn.
In addition, there are also jumping and lowering gong. Where the battle is against the coward, the arrows and stones are not handed over, the vanguard is strong, and the thieves are therefore broken; Secondly, the pioneer is the one who receives the merit.
According to this system of the imperial court, on the whole, it is based on the overall table of the battlefield situation, with less strikes and more battles, the number is quite medium, and more strikes and fewer battles are down. In each battle, more than 4 out of 10 kills are the upper score, more than 2 points are the middle score, and more than 1 point is the lower score. After the war, different merits were decided according to the battle and the victory. In addition, there is a jumping and lowering power. Overall, this is actually a collective military achievement.
In addition to this kind of collective performance, of course, there is also an individual military merit system, and the main expression is the first-level merit that began in the Qin period. The first merit system is the head reward with a clear price, so that the border army has an order, and the sentry horse captures one enemy and rewards 20,000 yuan. Behead the enemy and reward 10,000 yuan.
This person's head reward is not low, the scout captures the enemy and returns, 20,000 each, and 10,000 heads of the enemy killed in the battle array. 10,000 is ten, and for Doumi at this time, 10,000 is not a lot of money.
Of course, in addition to the first level of personal merit, there is also a manifestation of xiàn merit. Those who break into the thief formation at the time of the confrontation and reveal their backs to kill the defeated thieves, those who dare to enter the battle bravely and cut the flag, the team has defeated the thieves, can rescue other teams to defeat the enemy, and those who are ordered to do whatever they want and succeed in breaking the thieves by surprise, are all miraculous feats; Those who advance together and defeat the thieves first, the front team has an unresolved confrontation, and the back team moves forward to break the thieves is the first credit. Whoever establishes miraculous feats and head merits, his personal management of the leader is to report the knowledge, and those who make false reports will be punished with serious crimes. Those who capture spies when they go to camp and go down to camp will be rewarded for their first merit. Rest of the work.
The three aspects of miraculous work, head work, and secondary gong are all based on the expression.
However, the calculation of military merit at the first level is not simple, and there are often drawbacks of buying merit, impersonating merit, sending fame, stealing fame, and meritorious.
For example, if someone takes money to buy the first rank obtained by others in exchange for merit, it is to buy merit. There is also a charge into the battle to kill the enemy is A, but B cuts off the head, and even directly kills civilians as thieves, which is a risky merit. And some people stay at home, but their names are hung in the army, that is, they send their names. bribing officials and washing up the books is called fame; As for the body of one person, in one day, he does not go out of the Beijing Division, and those who report merit in the east, west, north and south are accumulating according to their names and suddenly reaching a high level, which is called meritorious.
Of course, there are still two biggest problems in the first-level military merit system, one is to kill the good and take the merits, and the other is to cut the rank in battle. Killing good people and risking merit is the greatest and has the worst impact, especially the border army, which often does this kind of thing. Some directly slaughtered the village and cut off the heads of the people as thieves. There are also some border generals who even go directly to the outside of the country, attack the villages, cut off their heads and come back to take credit. Ling Yun remembered that Luo Yi, the general of Youzhou in the Sui Dynasty, had done such a thing, and the border was peaceful, but he often led troops to break into the Xi realm, robbed and killed people, and then brought the head back to ask for merit, saying that the Xi people were attacking and were killed by him.
Cutting off the head in battle, this is not a very good system in Ling Yun's opinion.
When the two armies faced each other, the battle was fierce, and where did the time come to cut your head. And after cutting off the head, you have to take it with you, which will definitely affect the war. In particular, there is another point, which is prone to competing for the first place. (To be continued......)