Chapter 48 Recruit 30,000 soldiers
When Wang Ze heard Ji Xiang's report, he stopped Cao An, who was leading people to move gold and silver, and said, "Erlang, let's go and see together, who told me the secret that caused me to suffer such heavy casualties in the cottage!" ”
The soldiers nearby also heard the news from Ji Xiang and knew that the informant had been arrested, and they were immediately emotional, eager to rush over immediately and bite the man alive.
Nearly 10,000 people were killed in the cottage during the Qi attack, and although most of these people were new refugees, more than 3,000 old troops were still killed.
In particular, the soldiers led by Wang Yong and Cheng Chong to stop the Qi army had been living in the cottage for several years, and some of their relatives and friends were here at this time.
When Wang Ze arrived in the front yard, the informant had already been brought here, and hundreds of soldiers surrounded the man.
Xu heard the sound of Wang Ze and the others coming, and the 'woman' looked up.
Although Wang Ze had known that the informant was a 'woman', he still didn't expect this 'girl' to be so young, only seventeen or eighteen years old.
The clothes on his body have long been 'messy' by the ropes that bind him, and although there are large stains on his face, he can still distinguish his beautiful appearance.
As soon as he saw Wang Ze's 'daughter', he gritted his teeth and said: "I know you, it is your father Wang Yong who killed my father, although I failed to avenge my father in person this time, but your cottage must have killed many people, which is enough to comfort my father's soul in the sky!" ”
At this time, the news that Yining's troops had been wiped out by Wang Ze had not yet arrived, but according to the performance of Wang Ze's soldiers, it was known that the loss of the cottage would not be small.
After listening to the words of the 'female', Wang Ze slowly paced in front of the 'female' son with his hands behind his back and said: "You said that my family has a grudge against you to kill your father, but I don't know who your father is?" It's not a cat or a dog! ”
"Phew! My father was killed a few years ago, and your father did not kill the 'women' and children on my island that day, but I found a chance to escape. I only hate the sky and have no eyes, but you and others escaped! "The 'girl' said hatefully.
When Wang Ze heard this, he was not angry, but only said to the 'female' son: "My father had good intentions and did not kill you, so he was able to escape; Your father is happy to kill the crippled and murderous, and he covets my cottage assets and comes to plunder and kill the party is retribution. ”
After speaking, Wang Ze said to Cao An again: "Back then, there were many 'women' who were married, and this 'girl' was only seventeen or eighteen years old and had a delicate face to escape, and it was not easy for Erlang to find out when he returned to the cottage!" Cao An nodded yes.
At this moment, Zhu Bofu, who was originally patrolling in Dongcheng, came to the Assassin's Mansion, and as soon as he entered the 'door', he said loudly: "Let me see where the informant is?" ”
Wang Ze angrily pulled Zhu Bofu over and said to him, "Brother, aren't you patrolling in Dongcheng?" Why did you come here? ”
"Then you still need me, it's enough for Brother Xun to bring three or four hundred cavalry, he still thinks I'm in the way over there, it just so happens that my brothers and I have stayed up for most of the night, just let our brothers in the White Wolf Camp go to rest, I heard that the culprit has been caught and hurried over!" Zhu Bofu said to Wang Ze with a smile.
Speaking of seeing the 'girl' tied up on the ground, Zhu Bofu was surprised: "It turned out to be the secret of this 'girl'?" But is there anyone else? ”
Cao An nodded and said, "Yes, it's this 'girl' who was just captured by Team Ji from the Taishou Mansion of Qi County!" Xiao Langjun was about to check who helped her escape! ”
Zhu Bofu shook his head and said: "There is no need to check, I recognize this 'girl', the year before last, she was promised to a cavalry leader under the command of Cheng Erbo, I also went there to steal wine and drink, and the team had died when blocking the Qi army last month!" ”
Listening to Zhu Bofu's words, everyone looked at Wang Ze silently.
After pondering for a while, Wang Ze spoke: "Since this is enough, this 'woman' will be pushed to the street and beheaded, and then the four cities will be sent to tell the soldiers that the informant has been killed!" ”
"Lang Jun, do you want to put this 'girl' Ling Chi to death, otherwise it will be too cheap for her!" Ji Xiang next to him came up with an idea.
Wang Ze waved his hand and said, "Forget it, we are only here to kill for revenge, not for the pleasure of killing, just execute directly!" ”
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In a few days in a row, the powerful troops in Jinan City were killed, although some of the powerful people in the middle were ready to collude to resist together, but due to the rush of time, they were finally killed by Wang Ze and wiped out.
"Dalang! I'm here to get back to my life! "Cheng Hu, who rushed to the Assassin's Mansion with a meteor in stride, poured a large cup of tea made by Wang Ze on the case into his mouth as soon as he entered the 'door'.
Because he was not suitable for the way of boiling tea in this period, Wang Ze prepared some tea bricks by himself and brewed them with boiling water, which was somewhat similar to the Pu'er tea drunk in later generations.
July was the hot day, it seemed that Cheng Hu was really thirsty, so he drank a large cup of tea in one go, and then wiped the tea stains on his mouth, so that he had time to talk to Wang Ze.
"Da Lang, it's not easy to recruit troops in the city, after all, we are rebelling, I only recruited a total of five or six thousand people in the south of the city in the past two days!" Cheng Hu looked left and right with his eyes, grabbed two more pieces of glutinous rice cakes on the table, and stuffed them into his mouth.
Seeing that Cheng Hu was becoming more and more like Cheng Chong, Wang Ze felt a little funny, and comforted him: "Second brother, don't panic, it's good to have so many, you let them organize their families to prepare to move to Long Island first, and then I will arrange people to reorganize"
Cheng Hu held a glutinous rice cake in his hand and asked: "I'm afraid it's not easy to move their families away!" Wouldn't it be nice if we just wanted to be young? ”
Wang Ze replied with a smile: "Second brother doesn't know, I want them to send their families to the island, first, their families can settle their hearts by sending them to the island, and second, we have hostages in our hands, even if someone buys some of them, it will not be easy to repeat!" ”
"Well, you should pay more attention to Da Lang, since this is the case, then I will arrange it!" Cheng Chong said that he was going out.
Wang Ze helplessly grabbed Cheng Hu again and said, "Second brother, I haven't finished talking yet, you first separate these people according to the weapons they are good at and whether they have horses, so that it will be easier to distribute them to various departments." I'll let Cao An and Brother Bo Fu help you! ”
"Okay, okay, then I'll wait for them in the south of the city, let them hurry up!" Saying that, Cheng Hu grabbed another piece of glutinous rice cake from the plate, went out of the 'door' and left.
Cheng Hu recruited five or six thousand people here in two days, although it is not much, but it is not less, Wang Ze did not think about how many people can be recruited in the city, but people in big cities are always more knowledgeable than those from the countryside, and people are too 'shrewd' to manage.
During the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang never recruited young men from cities and towns, but only recruited honest and honest men from farmers, fishermen, and miners.
The next day, Xu Zheng, who went to recruit troops outside the city, brought good news, Xu Zheng played a banner to recruit troops after leaving the city, and a large number of poor people around Qi County who lost their land defected one after another.
In just three days, more than 15,000 young people were recruited from Simian Township, and these were still young people under forty who had been selected by Xu Zheng.
Not to mention these, the southern part of Qi County is adjacent to the Taishan Mountains, and there are a large number of thieves in the nearby mountains.
First of all, Li Shun and Hu Bing, the Taishan thieves near Jinan City, led two or three hundred people to defect successively, and were appointed by Wang Ze as the captain of the infantry army, and each commanded the people of the headquarters.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Zhong, a native of Gaoyang, killed the Taishou of Qi County who was lingering in Gaoyang City and rebelled, and then led more than 1,000 men and horses to defect. Immediately, Zhao Kun, a heroic man in Dongping (near present-day Tai'an), led six or seven hundred people under his command to defect, and both of them were appointed as infantry captains.
When the two brothers Yang Fei and Yang Wu heard that Wang Ze led a large team of men and horses to capture the Qizhou Governor's Office, they immediately led more than 500 horsemen under their command to defect.
That's not all, even Qu Liulang, who was patrolling Jishui, sent a message that there were eight or nine hundred Daze water kous from Jibei County.
Although these water robbers are Daze water bandits, they often have to go to the prosperous Jishui waters to loot, and only return to Daze to hide after looting, and this time they also heard the news and took the initiative to come to run.
It's good to have a lot of people, but there are a lot of things to deal with. The heroes who came to defect should be received, and the newly recruited young men should be trained and armed.
Although Wang Ze got a lot of weapons, grain and grass after taking Jinan City, he recruited too many soldiers and horses this time, plus these people who came to defect, the daily grain and grass needed alone was not a decimal, and Wang Ze was busy all at once.
Fortunately, yesterday there was a scribe Pu Yangxun who recommended himself and was a great talent; There are also Taishan people and sheep withered to come to defect, and Wang Ze is worshiped as a staff officer.
In addition, Hu Bingchang is still 'fine' at these miscellaneous things, and sometimes he helps to top them, plus Pu Yangxun's idea to bring several Gao Ji-style staff members out of the prison, which solved Wang Ze's trouble!
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"Tell Lang Jun, this time 50,000 stone of grain was seized from the treasury of Qizhou, nearly 10,000 stone of grain was seized by the Lou family, and nearly 60,000 stone were seized by other powerful families, excluding the grain that helped the poor people inside and outside the city, there are still 100,000 stones, which is enough for the 50,000 army to eat for more than half a year!"
Wang Ze sat on the cushion and looked at the documents on the desk, and Zhuo Ran, the staff member next to him, was introducing the materials in his hand to him.
Looking at the documents in front of him, Wang Ze thought about it carefully, and then said to Zhuo Ran: "Qi County should also have an independent treasury, plus the grain of other counties must have at least tens of thousands of stones, so that only 30,000 stones of grain will be left in the city, and the other 70,000 stones will be transported to Long Island by Qu Liulang!" All the cloth, gold and silver that were seized were taken away! ”
Zhuo Ran took the order here, and Wang Ze said to another staff member, Fan Wenzhong: "How much worse are the weapons of our army now?" How many weapons have been made by the Iron Smelting Supervisor now? ”
Fan Wenzhong, who was sorting out the case documents, heard Wang Ze's question, and immediately got up and replied: "Hui Langjun, our army has captured tens of thousands of weapons of all kinds in the arsenal in the city, plus tens of thousands of captured county weapons and weapons obtained from various powerful families in the past few days!" After all, the time of the Iron Smelting Supervisor is too short, and so far he has only made two kinds of long knives and spearheads, and has created nearly a thousand weapons! ”
Wang Ze patted his head, he had a headache, he still had a lot of weapons, and the newly recruited young men had to be reorganized and trained as soon as possible.