Chapter 17 Buying the hearts of soldiers
"Si Xing, you go back to the house immediately and let the house prepare a banquet, and this king will give Brother Ma the wind and dust." Li An instructed Li Sixing next to him.
Turning to Ma Bao, he said: "Brother Ma can defeat Wu Sangui, the thief, it is really a great achievement, and from now on, Brother Ma will lead a town alone." Li An explained his adjusted military system to Ma Bao, and Ma Bao was greatly moved after understanding, and secretly decided in his heart that he must not live up to King Jin's trust in him in the future.
Li An is actually very relieved of Ma Bao, in the real history Ma Bao followed Wu Sangui against the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi remembered his bravery, and sent an edict to Ma Bao and said: "You and others are the descendants of Wu Sangui's domain, Sangui rebelled, and you led the party to resist the soldiers, or not your own heart." If you can repent and return to sincerity, forgive your previous sins, still talk about the merits, mark the soldiers, be lenient, give grace at your discretion, and try to relieve your doubts and try to have a later effect", Ma Bao was loyal, refused to surrender, and finally returned to a foreign country after defeat.
In other words, Ma Bao will abandon the darkness and turn to the light this time, and he will definitely follow himself with all his heart, because this is the third time that Ma Bao has defected, and if he betrays again, his reputation will be completely stinky, and there is no place for him in the world.
That's why Ang Lee dared to use Ma Bao boldly with confidence.
Then Li An asked Ma Bao to bring the soldiers and horses to the barracks, while himself, Wu Sanxing and others went to the barracks to wait first.
After the generals dismounted at the gate of the barracks, Li An said to Ma Siliang: "Siliang, you go back to the city to get 30,000 taels of silver and send it, and this king will give these people a month's salary anyway." ”
Ma Siliang received the order and led the people back to the city quickly.
After Li An finished instructing Ma Siliang, he asked Wu Sanxing: "Sansheng, how are the soldiers training?" How is the run-in between the towns? ”
Wu Sanxing sighed and said: "Because of the shortage of gunpowder and firearms, I can only train the battle formation skills now, and I also ask the king to replenish the gunpowder and firearms in the army as soon as possible." ”
Li An frowned when he heard this, although he had already begun to prepare for the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau, he would definitely not be able to produce a large number of gunpowder firearms for a while. The training of the soldiers was urgent, and it seemed that another way to get a batch of ready-made gunpowder and firearms had to be obtained.
So he said to Wu San: "Don't worry, this king will find a way to replenish a batch of firearms as soon as possible." ”
The two walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army while talking, and at this time, Zhao Yulin hurriedly walked over with two soldiers, and Li An saw it and shouted: "Yulin, why are you in such a hurry?" "Righteousness
Zhao Yulin heard someone calling him, and when he looked up, he saw that it was King Jin, so he hurriedly went over to pay his respects.
After seeing the ceremony, Zhao Yulin spoke: "The herbs in the camp have been exhausted, and the students are in a hurry to go to the city pharmacy to buy herbs. ”
Hearing this, Li An asked, "How is the plague treated in the army?" ”
"There is no major problem, and the plague in the army can be completely eliminated in another month." Zhao Yulin replied without thinking.
"Okay, good, if the plague in the army is completely resolved, after the Tai Hospital is re-established in the future, you will be sentenced by the hospital." Li An promised Zhao Yulin.
Zhao Yulin's eyes flashed with joy, and he said: "The students will live up to the king's trust, and they will completely eliminate the plague in the army."
Subsequently, Li An asked Zhao Yulin to hurry up to the city to buy herbs, and he took Wu Sanxing and others to the big tent of the Chinese army.
Li Angang sat in the Chinese army battle for a while, and Ma Bao walked into the Chinese army tent with his subordinates. As soon as they entered the big tent, Ma Weixing, Ta Xince, Li Gui, Jiao Hongcao, He Tianyun, Cao Fu, Shan Taizheng and other seven people knelt on one knee and saluted Li An.
Li An saw that the braids of the seven people kneeling on the ground had not been cut, so he took out his waist knife and walked to the seven people.
Ma Weixing and the others saw Li Dingguo pull out his waist knife and come over, although they were frightened, they still knelt on the ground steadily.
Li An walked to Ta Xince's side first and ordered him to take off his helmet, although Ta Xince was frightened, he still did so. After taking off the helmet, Li An grabbed the money rattail braid on the back of his head, cut it with a knife, and the braid broke in response to the sound and slowly fell to the ground.
Only then did Ta Xince know that King Jin actually cut his braids with his own hands, and he was moved in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Thank you, King."
Li An helped Ta Xince up and said: "From now on, we are a family again, and this king hopes that Daming Zhongxing will have your strength."
Subsequently, Li An took the waist knife and continued to cut the braids of the other six people and Ma Bao, after cutting all the braids, Li An personally put on all the helmets for them one by one, and ordered all these people to sit.
After the generals sat down, Lei Pilgrim sighed: "Sanbao, you and I haven't seen each other for a long time, I wonder if you still remember this old friend?"
Ma Bao smiled when he heard this: "Haha, Chongren, you and I have only been seen for more than a year, how did you become so raw, and asked if you remember you?" Of course, I remember you, Lei Chongren. ”
Jin Tongwu also said at this time: "Did the Three Treasures remember me?"
"Harm, who should I be, isn't this a unified martial arts, why are you also separated from me?" Ma Bao said to Jin Tongwu with a smile.
When Ma Bao and the generals were talking about the old days, Ma Siliang took two silver taels from the city and came back, and Li An immediately interrupted the generals to talk about the old days and said: "It's not too late to talk about the old days back to the city at the banquet, now settle the soldiers first." The generals said yes, so the group got up and walked out of the tent and walked to the Dianjiang platform.
At this time, more than 10,000 people of Ma Bao were resting on the spot outside the camp, and Ma Weixing, Ta Xince and other generals came to the camp and brought the soldiers into the camp in batches.
Half an hour later, more than 10,000 soldiers all gathered neatly under the general's stage, and Li An immediately began to speak.
"You are all sons of my Han family, we are all Han compatriots who are related by blood, this land of China has been our Han people since ancient times, and we do not allow foreign races to meddle in my land of China.
Now that the Manchus have entered the Central Plains and stolen artifacts, our compatriots should have united to fight against the Manchus at this time of crisis. However, there are many soft bones who defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, aided in the abuse, mutilated their own flesh and blood compatriots, and were willing to be sinners of China.
Thinking back to 200 years ago, I issued the "Edict to the Central Plains" to the world, "Drive out the Hulu and restore China; Establish a program of Chen Ji and relieve the people! "In the end, we drove away Meng Yuan, recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, which had been lost for more than 500 years, and restored the rivers and mountains of my Han family.
In those years, Taizu stood up to save the land of China, and now we don't have Taizu, only if we stand up and work together to fight against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, can we save these thousands of miles of beautiful rivers and mountains.
This king does not dare to compare himself with Taizu, but he will also do his best to lead all the soldiers to work together to expel the Tartars and restore China. ”
With the last shout of "expel the Tartars and restore China", the soldiers below also shouted in unison excitedly, "Expel the Tartars and restore China." ”
The soldiers spontaneously picked up the knives or swords in their hands and cut off the money rattail pigtails at the back of their heads, and the braids were thrown to the ground by the soldiers.
Then Li An said to the soldiers: "Today, I will give you a month's salary." When the soldiers heard that they were going to be paid, they erupted in louder cheers than before.
Li An is still very satisfied with his wave of buying people's hearts, which not only satisfies the spiritual needs of the soldiers, but also satisfies the material needs of the soldiers.
Then Ang Lee asked Ma Siliang to start paying the soldiers.