This carrot and stick tactic really boosted the morale of these troops. When those thieves heard this, they just thought that killing a person would cost ten taels or even fifty taels of silver, and this rate of return was much higher than robbing a house. The soldiers' eyes lit up.

You must know that although the imperial court has long had rules about beheading and rewarding, it is silver on paper, and whoever is serious is SB. Every time a battle is over, first of all, the commander must report the results to the military department, and the military department must verify it, which will be greatly discounted. Even if the Ministry of War verifies it, the Ministry of Household controls the silver, whether it can be sent down, how many percent it can be sent down, and how much discount it will be in condition. Even if the military department is unobstructed, the household department is gracious, and the silver is taken down, the middle has to go through layers of exploitation by the commanders, and there are really few in the hands of the big soldiers. And this time, Chief Yan added an additional reward in addition to the prescribed reward, and said that it would be distributed on the same day, and there would be no discount. This kind of preferential treatment has never been seen before.

At that moment, everyone rubbed their fists and shook their hands, shouting loyalty. Especially the little soldier who killed Shen Yu last night, he even opened his throat and shouted: "Qin is true to his word, my bounty last night has been received this morning!" The little one must sacrifice himself to kill the thief, and there will be no second heart. ”

Yan Hong struck while the iron was hot, and said: "There are Tartars who invade the territory tonight, thanks to the officers and soldiers of the Right Guard of Jinan and the officers and soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion who fought hard to kill the enemy, and destroyed many enemies. Ben Qincha ordered that the 600 officers and soldiers of the right guard of Jinan and the 500 officers and soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion who killed the enemy at the north gate tonight would be rewarded with two taels of silver each! In addition, the two battalions were each given 1,000 taels of silver, which were distributed by General Qin and General Wei respectively, and rewarded those who took the lead! Come on. Unboxing. Reward! ”

Immediately, two brocade guards walked to the corner of the school with a few people. Cut open the two chests, and all the silver ingots that rolled out were ten taels and one ingots. The soldiers' eyes suddenly straightened. The two brocade guards counted out one hundred and ten ingots, let the two people hold them, walked to the front of the team, and issued them to the right guard and the officers and soldiers of the Fubiao battalion at the north gate tonight, each with one ingot. Another brocade guard counted out two hundred ingots, divided them into two piles, and let the four people hold them separately. Sent to Qin Delu and Wei Guoliang.

This white silver is in front of him, and the officers and soldiers who get the silver are of course smiling, but those who don't get it are greedy, and some of them scolded in a low voice: "Damn, what kind of battle is going on at the north gate tonight, Lao Tzu is not ignorant of the way." If you shoot a few arrows in the dark, you will get two taels of silver, why didn't Lao Tzu catch up with this good thing! "You must know that the ordinary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had very low salaries, and Qi Jiguang trained the new army in Zhejiang. As a soldier, the military salary is three cents of silver, and nine dollars a month. This is already an impressively high salary, and there are many applicants. Two taels of silver is enough to cover the total income of these soldiers for three months.

At this time, the bandit leader Zuo Shenlei asked with a smiling face: "Qincha niece and son-in-law, what are your arrangements?" ”

Yan Hong sneered in his heart, you have the face to call Qincha's niece and son-in-law, when Lei Zhanbiao wanted to force Sun Yuerong the night before, where was your uncle? If it weren't for the strong enemy pressing the realm, it would be the time to use people, and I would have cut you down now! Maybe this time, I will use you as cannon fodder to see if you have a life to enjoy happiness.

He was ruthless in his heart, but he said good things in his mouth: "Uncle, don't worry, as long as the Mongols are repelled this time, I will ensure that all high-ranking officials can sit and horses can be ridden." Leaders, the youngest is also a five-grade background. Nowadays, ordinary brothers are judged by soldiers, small leaders are judged by hundreds, big leaders are judged by thousands, and the lords of each village and large village are judged by commanders. ”

These people didn't expect that what Yan Hong said was all empty checks, and they heard that the leaders were all from the fifth grade, and they were also elated. They have occupied the mountain for a long time, and they are all outlaws in the first place, and they have never taken their work seriously. Usually being a robber may die at any time, and the risk level this time is not much bigger, on the contrary, the benefits are much greater than those of eating big ones. They did not understand the rules of the army, and shouted excitedly, shouting that they would go out and kill the Mongols, which provoked the officers and soldiers on both sides to look at them with idiotic contempt.

Yan Hong added fuel to the fire, and announced that he would pay an additional month's military salary to all the people here on the spot! At this moment, all the soldiers were even more joyful, and their morale was shocked, and they all held back that Ming'er wanted to hack a few people to death, and borrowed their hair to make a profit. Here he was counting the silver and distributing money, and over there Yan Hong ordered dozens of pigs and sheep to be slaughtered, and more than 100 jars of wine were brought as a reward. Of course, you can't drink too much wine when you eat all the meat. After a while, the aroma of wine and meat around the school field was fragrant, and the soldiers were eating and munching on the silver in their hands, which was really full of interest. After eating and drinking, a part of the guards was assigned to defend the city, and the rest returned to their respective camps to rest.

Yan Hong arranged the army on the school ground, returned to the governor's yamen, and gathered the current officials of the government offices in Jinan again. During the day, Yan Hong had already summoned them to give a lecture, and Hai Rui arranged government affairs. Yan Hong and Hai Rui's beheading operation this time, quickly captured the three divisions of Jinan, one envoy and one governor, so that the high-level officialdom was swept away, but most of the middle and lower-level officials were retained, so that although the head is broken, the torso still exists, so as long as you change the brain command, you can still act. In addition, Hai Rui is skilled in government affairs, so the arrangement is also well organized.

Yan Hong also knew that he was inferior to these professional personnel in handling administrative affairs or counselors in military aircraft, because he did not have the addiction of interfering in his own affairs, but only ordered them to follow the arrangements of the deputy envoy and handle their own work well. At present, the siege of the Mongols is imminent, and everyone is working hard to do the king's affairs, and after the siege is lifted, they will have their own rewards. If there is any laziness, it will be judged according to the general understanding.

Then he sent people to rectify the strength of the local Jinyi Guard. Shandong Jinyiwei is a thousand households, but there are only more than 100 people in Jinan City. Ma Tengyun, a thousand households in brocade clothes, colluded with the White Lotus Sect to rebel, and was defeated and captured. Most of the subordinates did not know about it, so in addition to those who were killed in the war and those suspected of being thieves, there were about seventy or eighty people left. Yan Hong selected a hundred households with the title of deputy thousand households, called Liu Luhan's temporary agents, and used them as a supplement to the Jinyi guards in the capital he led.

In military and political affairs, it is not easy to find a person who can take full responsibility, and Yan Hong can only be named as the governor of the three armies. Qin Delu assigned the soldiers and horses of the right guard to defend the city, Wei Guoliang led the Fubiao battalion to be on standby at any time, and He Bingzhong's Beijing battalion served as the general reserve of the Qin mission. And those green forest horse thieves are still the driving force of the attack, led by Sun Lie and Zuo Shenlei, Sun Lie is the nominal commander, but in fact Zuo Shenlei is the commander. The security of the city is the responsibility of quasi-armed forces such as the catcher and the county's archers.

The Yellow River Shuangxia is now entrusted with important tasks, and Yun Chuqi cooperated with Licheng County to order Zhang Jingzhai to rectify the people's strong team. said that it was cooperation, Zhang Jingzhai also knew that this Mr. Yun was a confidant of Qincha, not to mention that he commanded the victims alone the night before to participate in the battle to encircle and annihilate the rebel army, so it was actually Zhang Jingzhai who was cooperating with Yun Chuqi. There are hundreds of thousands of victims in Jinan City, including no less than 100,000 Ding Zhuang. At the beginning, more than 15,000 people were selected from them as the first batch of candidates for the people.

These selected people, Lai Yanhong and Hai Rui originally got their lives, needless to say, grateful to the imperial court. After recruiting, Yun Chuqi took ten of them as a group, ten groups as a team, ten teams as a battalion, a total of fifteen battalions, and tried to arrange acquaintances, fellow clansmen, and fellow villagers in the same team, and selected those who had courage and could convince the crowd as the leader. Each battalion is equipped with a battalion flag, several drums, or a big black dot on a white background, or two large black dots on a white background, or a black horizontal line on a white background, and so on. It was very convenient to carry goods to the city in battalions. Each person was given three liters of grain and two cents of silver every day, and the people were naturally grateful.

As for Ye Zhengfei, he also bid farewell to the glorious post of relief, and instead stayed in the army and led the musket team. Under his repeated proposals, Yan Hong monotonously separated the bird guns and fire guns in the Jinyi Guard and the Beijing camp, and selected some fire guns from the Fubiao camp and the right guard to form a direct musket team and use them intensively in case of emergency. As for the daily disaster relief work, it was handed over to the Jinan officials and the attaché of the Qin Mission.

Other chores are also busy. Although all kinds of work are being carried out in an orderly manner, although in the face of ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, Yan Hong spoke loudly and emphasized that he could hold on. But the officials in Jinan who are really awake are still worried. The big war is coming, but there is a lack of sufficient military preparation in the city of Jinan, and all kinds of messes are piling up. In particular, there were not many arrows and gunpowder stored in the arsenal, and a lot of them were consumed by the turmoil of the previous night. If you really want to fight, it is really difficult to ensure everything.

Besides, outside the city of Jinan, the Mongolian army's two thousand-man team gave full play to the mobility of one man and two horses, galloping on the land of Qilu, and had already approached Jichengchi that morning. As for those White Lotus Divine Soldiers, they were scattered in various villages along the way, and at this time, they gathered one by one, and coerced a large number of ordinary people, which seriously affected their mobility. And its own combat effectiveness is not ranked at all in the Mongols' combat system. After the Mongols delayed for a while, they really didn't bother to wait for their slow gathering, so they simply went first.

According to the original plan, by the time they arrived, Jinan should have fallen into the hands of the White Lotus Sect. The next thing that may be faced is only the local Ming troops who have been trying to recover Jinan for four weeks. These troops came from all over the place, and they did not belong to each other, and their combat effectiveness was originally greatly reduced, not to mention that the convergence of Jinan from all directions just gave the Mongolian cavalry a good opportunity to intercept and kill halfway and break through.

Moreover, the Mongolian soldiers in front of him are the elite divisions specially selected by Kuten Khan, and their combat power is strong. When King Yan was in the Jingnan War, he borrowed the 3,000 cavalry of Duoyan Sanwei as the vanguard, and charged to crush the 30,000 troops of Emperor Jianwen, which can be seen in the fierceness of the Mongolian elite soldiers.

The combat power of the two thousand-man teams of Bala and China may not have lost to the cavalry of Duoyan Sanwei back then; And the troops of the Daming Shandong Local Guard, I am afraid that they cannot be compared with the troops of Emperor Jianwen in the early Ming Dynasty. In a field battle, even against tens of thousands of local officers and soldiers, these 2,000 people are afraid that it will be an unstoppable situation. What's more, although the Ming Dynasty has 100,000 garrisons in Shandong in name, they are scattered in various states and counties, and there are quite a lot of shortages, and the scale of troops to rescue Jinan from all over the country is probably only a few thousand at most, which is even more vulnerable. (To be continued......)