Chapter 142: A Great Harvest
Jia Cong was fighting on the periphery, looking at the battle in front of him, he couldn't help but feel his heart fluctuate.
This is the first time I have seen a big battle of this scale, and the scene of more than 4,000 people catching and fighting each other is really shocking.
As soon as a person was killed here, before he could pull out the knife, he was stabbed in the chest by a person who rushed over next to him.
The man was also stiff, grabbed the other's knife with his left hand, picked up the knife with his right hand, and slashed at the other's neck, and both of them fell to the ground.
Such a scene appeared everywhere on the battlefield, and it was extremely tragic.
Lao Balai's team is indeed stronger than Zarim's team, and it is not inferior at all in the fight.
Lao Balai even took the lead in killing Zarim, and when Zarim saw this, he also took his own soldiers to meet him.
Jia Cong was not in a hurry to let his cavalry enter the battlefield, now was not the time, wait for them to kill for a while.
As the so-called snipe and clam compete, the fisherman wins.
The more terrible these two tribes kill and the more people die, the greater the benefit to themselves.
Zarim and Lao Balai, the two have already killed together, but they are a bit evenly matched.
Suddenly, a cold arrow shot out from the opponent's camp and shot straight at Zarim.
Zarim and his guards were fighting, and it was a little late when they found the cold arrow, so they had to dodge to the side as best they could, avoiding the vital parts.
With a "whoosh", the long arrow shot into Zarim's shoulder.
Zarim screamed in pain, and he almost fell.
Old Barai saw an opportunity and quickly stabbed him, but Zarim was powerless to dodge, and he was about to be stabbed in the chest with a long knife.
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Seeing this, the guards next to him pounced without hesitation, blocked in front of Zarim, was stabbed in the chest by a long knife, and collapsed to the ground weakly.
Old Barai secretly screamed pity, pulled out his long knife, and pounced on it with the knife again.
Zarim hated in his heart, but he had no choice but to retreat, and his eyes swept to see Jia Cong who was still standing on the periphery.
shouted loudly: "Boss Jia, where are your people?" Why don't you make a move? ”
Jia Cong said: "Brother Zha, don't worry, let them take action immediately." ”
Nodding at Qingwen, Qingwen raised her hand and sent out an arrow.
As the cloud-piercing arrow rose into the air, a sharp whistle sounded, and a rapid sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and the horses' hooves stepped on the ground and also stepped on people's hearts.
Two hundred horses ran, causing the earth to shake, and the two sides of the fight invariably slowed down their attacks.
Old Barai shouted angrily with a frightened face: "Okay, you Zarim, you guys actually gang up to sinister me? ”
Zarim laughed and said, "Old Balai, today is your death, and from now on your tribe will also belong to me." ”
Just as Zarim was laughing proudly, a black light flashed at great speed, piercing Zarim's throat, causing his laughter to come to an abrupt end.
Seeing this, Lao Balai laughed and said: "Zarim, I didn't expect you to have today, from now on your tribe will belong to me, Zarim is dead, you still don't surrender?" ”
But as soon as he finished speaking, a sharp arrow flew from front and shot him off his horse.
Jia Cong slowly put down the bow and arrow in his hand and shouted at the battlefield: "Old Balai is dead, those who put down their arms and surrender will be spared death, and those who resist will not be spared." ”
At this time, Wang Shun and Zhang Hu had already entered the battlefield with cavalry and launched a crazy killing.
Yesterday, a head of ten taels of silver made most people crazy.
When I went to the battlefield today, I went forward bravely, and I didn't talk nonsense, and when I saw the enemy, I raised my knife and cut it.
In particular, those horse bandits who were co-opted were slow to move yesterday and did not reap the benefits, but today they rushed forward at the expense of their lives.
The two groups of people on the battlefield were directly dumbfounded when they saw these people desperately rushing forward to kill, and they all avoided from afar.
The leaders of both sides were killed at the same time, and then a third party appeared, and what else was there to fight, and the battle between the two sides was so miraculously stopped.
Seeing that the leader was all dead, and that the other side had cavalry joining, Lao Barai's men simply threw down their weapons and surrendered.
Zarim's cronies were also killed in the battle, and the entire tribe was left without a person to call the shots.
Jia Cong came forward, found a few remaining hundred households, and a few of Zarimu's personal soldiers, arranged for people to clean up the battlefield first, and escorted the captives back to the tribe before making plans.
After a busy day, everyone came to the big tent in Zarim.
There were still six hundred families in the tribe of Zarim, all of whom came, and there were four guards.
Jia Cong has Wang Shun, Xu Hua, Tie Zhu, Wangcai and others.
Glancing at everyone, Jia Cong said: "Everyone, the Zari Mutou people unfortunately died in battle, but fortunately, we have won this victory, and now it is imperative that you elect a new leader to continue to manage the tribe."
Another is that we took advantage of the great victory to annex the tribe of Lao Balai in one fell swoop, and if it is too late, it will be picked up by others, and our losses will be irreparable, what are your opinions? ”
Several people quarreled for a long time, but they didn't make a decision, Jia Cong shook his head secretly, none of these people are suitable to be the leader.
Xu Hua said: "Everyone, since you can't make up your mind for the time being, why don't you let Boss Jia call the shots first, let's join forces, go and take down the tribe of Lao Balai first, and migrate them together, and then we will discuss it slowly?" ”
Everyone was at a stalemate, and they could only listen to Xu Hua's opinion first.
"We are willing to obey Boss Jia's command and take down Lao Balai's tribe first."
Jia Cong nodded and said: "Since you can trust me, then you are welcome, this time to achieve victory, then reward the meritorious first, and those who kill one person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, or equivalent materials."
I will provide these supplies and silver taels, but I will ask for the war horses that I have captured this time, and in addition, I will recruit a group of guards in the tribe and form a cavalry guard, and each person will be paid two taels of silver per month, and there will be another reward for his military exploits. ”
When a few people heard this, their eyes immediately widened, there are twenty-four taels of silver a year, which is much stronger than following Zarim.
Immediately, someone said they wanted to join, and the four guards directly chose to join.
Jia Cong readily agreed, and then Wangcai reported the casualties and losses.
"Third master, everyone, this time we have killed more than 700 enemies, captured more than 1,200 people, suffered more than 300 casualties on our side, captured more than 1,900 horses, and more than 2,000 weapons."
Jia Cong said: "You go down, first count the list of enemies, hand it over to Wangcai, and Wangcai will distribute the silver taels in public, and then gather people and horses to go to Lao Balai's tribe to surrender the entire tribe and migrate over." ”
Everyone said yes and dispersed.
Soon everyone counted the list of enemies killed and handed it over to Wangcai.
At the behest of Jia Cong, Wangcai asked people to carry out a few boxes of silver, put them on the square, distribute them in public, and personally handed over the silver to everyone.
These Mongolian guards got the white flowers and silver, and they all smiled happily.
Those who did not get the silver were even more envious.
"I don't know if there will be such a good thing in the future? This Boss Jia is too righteous. ”
"Yes, this time Boss Jia's guards are acting with us, we are stained with Boss Jia's light, and it will be difficult to say in the future."
"I heard from our centurion that Boss Jia wants to recruit guards in our tribe, and the military salary is two taels of silver per month, and there are other rewards for meritorious service, and I already plan to sign up."
"What? There is such a good thing, I also want to sign up, but the tribe let us go? ”
"Our leaders are dead, who cares about you? Even our centurion has already signed up, and I heard that Boss Jia has already agreed. ”
"Really? It's so good that I'll sign up in a minute. ”
Jia Cong's silver bullet offensive had a better effect than expected.
The military salary of two taels of silver a month is already the ceiling in the military salary, even the Imperial Forest Army of Dachu does not have such a high military salary.
What's more, these Mongolian soldiers, who worked as errands in their own tribes, almost had no military pay, and they were all called into the army.
Even if they herd in the tribe for a year, the income is very small, and now they have such a good errand, who wants to refuse?
After the reward was distributed, he gathered his team and completely occupied the tribe of Lao Balai.
Kill a group of rebels, and relocate all the rest of the tribe to form a large tribe.
Old Barai's family was also raided and moved over.
Lao Balai was shot to death by Jia Cong, and Lao Balai's family property, and even the women in the family, became Jia Cong's trophies.
With a little beauty like Qingwen by her side, she has no interest in these women at all.
However, Lao Balai's family has a lot of good things in his collection.
There are more than 200 pieces of high-quality mink and fox skins, and there are also a lot of valuables such as Dongzhu, ginseng, and precious stones.
Jia Cong asked Qingwen and Han Nianci to store these things separately and leave them for their own use, and the other materials were handed over to the caravan to deal with.
After returning to the tribe, let Zhang Hua and Wangcai come forward and settle all the people in the tribe.
Let Wang Shun and Zhang Hu take charge and start recruiting cavalry in the tribe.
The recruitment conditions are tribal warriors between the ages of fifteen and thirty, who must first have good riding skills, and secondly, they must be physically strong and strong.
In the same way, it is better to lack mothers, and if it does not meet the standards, it is not so easy to take two taels of silver per month.
When the herdsmen got the news, they all rushed over to join first, and the registration office was immediately full of people.
After the arrangement, Jia Cong returned to his big tent.
The whole tent is divided into two parts, the front is the hall of the council, and the back is Jia Cong's bedroom, which is separated by a screen.
Jia Cong, Qingwen, and Han Nianci slept in the inner room, and the four of them slept in the outer room as personal bodyguards in spring, summer, autumn and winter, in case of emergencies.
Now Han Nianci and Qingwen are responsible for their own food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Qingwen and Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter still have to find time to practice martial arts, and they have to follow them when they go out, and these things all fall on Han Nianci's head.
After returning to the tent, Han Nianci had already set up the meal.
"Third master, the meal is ready, you can wash up and eat first."
A few people simply washed up, and they didn't pay so much attention outside, so they also sat down together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Almost all of the Mongolian dishes are beef and mutton, one roast whole lamb, two roast lamb legs, one grilled bear's paw, one smoked chicken, a large plate of beef in sauce, one milk tofu, a large pot of whole sheep soup, and five or six green vegetables.
Several people are martial arts practitioners, the consumption is relatively large, the amount of food is relatively large, and the demand for meat is also relatively large, so this table is quite suitable.
Qingwen took the cup and poured a glass of mare's milk wine, handed it to Jia Cong, and poured another glass for herself, and the others also filled it up.
Jia Cong asked suspiciously, "Qingwen, don't you like to drink mare's milk wine?" It doesn't taste very good. ”
Qingwen smiled: "Third master, these are different, can you taste them?" ”
Jia Cong picked up the cup and took a sip gently, it was indeed much better than before.
"Well, these wines are still in the mouth, where did you get that?"
Qingwen said: "Sister Nianci has processed the previous mare's milk wine again, and it is much better than the previous one." ”
Han Nianci said with a smile: "This mare's milk wine is still quite nutritious, but the taste is a little worse, after I learned about their production process, I added a few processes and steamed it a few times, so that the third master can also drink it every day." ”
Jia Cong said: "Well, you did a good job, it is indeed much better, it's okay to let them make more, when the caravan goes back, bring some back, and let the family taste it." ”
Han Nianci said: "Knowing the third master, I will prepare more, as well as those mink, fox skins and other items that I got today, how do we deal with them?" ”
Jia Cong said: "Keep these for our own use, the winter here is very cold, we must prepare cotton clothes in advance, make a mink coat for each person, scarfs and hats can also be made, protect yourself first and don't freeze." ”
Qingwen said: "Third master, what color do you like, I'll prepare one for you." ”
"Black, white, purple, you can watch it."
As soon as a few people finished eating, someone came to the door.
This man was a centurion of the tribe named Borchi, who came in and gave Jia Cong a great gift.
"Bolchi meets Boss Jia."
Jia Cong was stunned for a moment, hurriedly stepped forward to help the person up, and said puzzledly: "Brother Borchi, you make such a big salute, my brother can't afford it, please hurry up, if there is anything you can say directly." ”
Borchi didn't get up, but raised his head and said: "Boss Jia, I want to be the head of the tribe, I hope you can support me, I can't give you anything now, I am willing to recognize you as the master, and I will not betray you for the rest of my life." ”
Ever since Bolchi came in, Jia Cong had guessed his intentions, but he didn't expect that this person's determination was so great.
In order to become the leader, he even wants to recognize himself as the Lord.
The head of a tribe of 10,000 people is actually the master of the tribe, which is equivalent to a prince, in charge of military and political power, as well as the power of life and death.
The current tribe has just merged a tribe of 10,000 people, and it is already a large tribe of more than 20,000 people, and this authority is even heavier.
With his own support, he can easily become a prince, and even go further.
Jia Cong didn't help him anymore, but sat back in his chair and pondered.
If you help him, the caravan can have a fixed foothold in the future, and this trade route is enough to raise a team by yourself.
With a big tribe as the backing, you will be more comfortable here.
In other words, this big tribe will be its own in the future, and you can say it yourself.
"Okay, I promise you, I will help you sit in the position of the leader, and I will help you grow and develop, but I hope you don't forget your promise."
Borchi happily kowtowed and said: "Borchi thank my master for his fulfillment, I am willing to swear here, I will never betray my master for the rest of my life, if I violate this oath, I will be pierced by ten thousand arrows through my heart and die." ”
I didn't expect to come to the grassland this time, and I got such a big benefit, God really helped me.
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Get up, we are a cooperative relationship to the outside world, the best partner, and I will help you become the head of the tribe tomorrow." ”