Chapter 032

Qin Wu led the remnants of the territorial bandits to continue to escape, but it was a pity that in order to escape for their lives, when Qin Wu's troops were fleeing, they simply ran as fast as they could, and they didn't know how to use their physical strength rationally.

Anyone who has been trained in long-distance running knows that if you don't use your physical strength properly, you won't be able to run far at all. Although the bandits ran desperately in front, they still didn't run as fast as Cheng Shijie's family, Ding Jie.

In this chase and escape, the distance between the two sides did not widen, but got closer and closer.

By the afternoon of the next day, Qin Wu suddenly found that there were less than a hundred bandits around him.

As for Cheng Shijie and his family soldiers, they were not fighting at all, they were just running, encountering those bandits who were too tired to run.

Some bandits couldn't stand being chased, they threw away the weapons in their hands before Cheng Shijie's soldiers waved their knives, knelt down, raised their hands and cried: "The military master spares his life, the military master spares his life, the military master spares his life!" ”

Originally, these fierce and vicious bandits knelt in front of the military households and burst into tears.

Cheng Shijie did not order the killing of these bandits, these bandit captives will be handed over to Dengzhou Wei in the future, after making sure that these bandits have thrown away their weapons, let them tie each other up with trouser belts, and continue to chase after the bandits who did not surrender.

It is true that there are so many bandits who tried to attack Cheng Shijie's soldiers, but they were immediately stabbed into a sieve or chopped into pulp, and after discovering that surrender could save their lives, more and more bandits rushed to kneel, throw away their weapons, and kowtow like pounding garlic.

Their courage, their courage in ravaging women, their brutality in slaughtering the old and weak, women and children, were all beaten to the ground, and they no longer had the idea of confronting these terrible officers and soldiers, they only thought about surviving, and one more day was one day!

Cheng Shijie divided the troops into two, the ordinary military households were responsible for capturing prisoners, and the family soldiers were responsible for pursuit, and the division of labor between the two sides was very clear.

Cheng Shijie is very comfortable, he sits in a carriage, because it is a modified carriage, the shock absorption effect is very good.

Along the way, the bandits discarded dry food, weapons, including looted silver, gold and silver jewelry, in fact, a lot. But Zuo Qianhu is poor, and many people don't even have clothes to wear. When the soldiers clean the battlefield, it is really clean, and there will not be even a piece of rag left, and the rags can be used to make shoes.

"Shen Mingyu"

"What do you command?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "How far are we from Qin Wu's old nest, Linglong Mountain?" ”

"Almost fifty miles!"

"Good!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Let Zhang Yu continue to chase with the hundred households in the middle and left, let's grab in front of Qin Wu together, and arrive at his cottage one step ahead!" ”

From Linglong Mountain to Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhusuo, the distance is more than 250 miles, and it took the bandits six days to reach Qianhusuo, and after Qin Wu broke and fled, it only took the first two days to run very fast, but in the past two days, they have been exhausted of their physical strength, and they are said to run, barely running forty or fifty miles a day.

But Cheng Shijie's family soldiers are different, they train every day, get up in the morning is five kilometers, practice military posture and steering in the morning, and then come five kilometers to relax, in the afternoon it is still five kilometers to warm up and then train, and then rest after five kilometers in the evening.

Cheng Shijie's family soldiers train 20 kilometers every day, which is commonplace, it can be said that Cheng Shijie's family soldiers may not be the most capable of fighting, but in Dengzhouwei, they are definitely the most capable of running.

As Cheng Shijie decided to speed up the detour, the speed of the two hundred soldiers under Shen Mingyu's command increased sharply.

Linglong Mountain was originally just one of the mountains and hills in Zhaoyuan County.

It's just that more than 100 years ago, Bian Gong, one of the seven sons of the Ming Dynasty's literary circle, led his servants to play, and when he saw this strange scenery, he built a courtyard, saying that it was another courtyard, but in fact it was just five grass houses.

He Jingming, who is also the seventh son of the literary world, offended the eunuch Liu Jin, and was forced to pay tribute, passing through Dengzhou, and being warmly entertained by Bian Gong.

Later, this mountain became Linglong Mountain, and later gold mines were found here, after decades of mining, the gold mines were abandoned, leaving a large number of caves, Linglong Mountain is actually not difficult to attack, it is difficult to attack the rugged mines.

Looking at the gate of the cottage in Linglong Mountain, Qin Wu finally gasped: "Lao Tzu has finally escaped!" ”

Like a beggar, Qin Wu strode towards the gate.

At this moment, messy footsteps sounded, and Qin Wu turned his head to see that more than a hundred embarrassed "bandits" appeared behind him, and these bandits were covered with dirt and looked panicked.

Qin Wu shouted at the bandits in the direction of the walled gate: "Open the door, open the door!" ”

There was no movement at the gate of the village, and after a long while, a tall figure appeared at the gate of the village, although Qin Wu could not recognize the entire cottage of more than 4,000 mouths, but he felt that this fat man was a little familiar.

"Master Qin, long time no see!"

"You ......"

"It's not talented, it's Cheng Shijie of Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households!"

In front are Cheng Shijie's 200 Ding soldiers, behind are more than 200 people under Zhang Yu's command, and there are hundreds of military households, while Qin Wu's side is full of less than 50 people, and they are still a fart.

Qin Wu and his bandits raised their hands to surrender, this battle can be completely anticlimactic, and it was done by Cheng Shijie with a drone and thirty liters of gasoline.

The bandits who lost the morale of the army did not organize to resist, otherwise Cheng Shijie would not have fought so easily.

After occupying the cottage in Linglong Mountain, Cheng Shijie began to let people count and seize, and there were more than 100 women robbed by Qin Wu and others in the entire cottage, of course, these women have been assigned to the bandits, and Qin Wu himself received more than 20, among which two are the concubines of a large household, and they look quite smart.

After more than two hours, the seized materials and property finally had a preliminary accounting, Qin Wu is also a talent, in just over two years, he actually robbed 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver, of which 800 ingots are 50 taels of silver, with the surnames of Huang, Duan, Liu, and Wei.

It is said that it is a ransom extorted from four large households, except for the 40,000 taels of silver, the others are scattered silver, and there are more than 100,000 copper coins, in addition to the silver, there are forty firecrackers in Qin Wu's warehouse, all of which are good firearms, not the kind of tattered that explodes as soon as a shot is fired in the guardhouse.

There are also more than 20 bird mills, which are advanced firearms originating from Portugal, with a gun length of 1,855 millimeters, weighing about 10 catties (5940 grams), firing 7.44 grams of lead bullets, a charge of 15.98 grams, and a maximum range of 100 meters. This is not a firearm equipped in the army, because it is too expensive to build.

One of these bird mills costs more than twenty taels of silver, and the same money can equip six pikemen, or two crossbowmen, or three archers, but the problem is that whether it is six pikemen, two crossbowmen, and three archers, it is enough to easily kill a bird miller.

In terms of cost performance, the Ming court still likes to arm the cheapest pikemen, because the spear is cheap, each pikeman only needs a spear, even if the spear made of a good ash rod needs more than one or two silvers at most, plus the blade, it is a great two or three taels of silver.

What made Cheng Shijie feel most incredible was that there were more than 300 sets of cotton armor in Qin Wu's warehouse, that is, the Ming army standard, and more than 100 pairs of iron armor.

In terms of family background, Qin Wuke is much richer than Cheng Shijie, a Zuo Qianhu.

Cheng Shijie looked at the materials in the warehouse, a little numb, thousands of coarse cloth, more than 200 silk, more than 30 cotton cloth, and more than 5,000 stones of grain.

"Rich!"

Cheng Shijie's soldiers high-fived each other and cheered loudly.

In another large warehouse, there are antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jewelry, and everything in a mess, and it is estimated that there is also a value of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Cheng Shijie looked at these belongings and said: "Shen Mingyu, let people load the car and transport all the things back to the Thousand Households!" ”

"Yes!"

"Tell the brothers, these things will be distributed by Ben Qianhu in the future, no one should use their brains, whoever dares to stretch out their hands, Ben Qianhu wants someone's head!"

"Don't worry, Lord Qianhe, I'll be watching with my own eyes!"

Cheng Shijie's family soldiers cheered loudly, although the money did not let them do it, but the problem is that they cut off a lot of heads, one head is five taels of silver, and ten is fifty taels.

In the process of pursuit, only more than 400 Jiading soldiers cut down seven or eight hundred heads, which was almost two heads per person, which meant that each of them could have at least ten taels of silver.

It's really fun to fight with Cheng Shijie, not to mention that this battle is easy to win, and you can get a large amount of reward, I don't dare to say more, it's sure that they have more than half a year's salary, it's too cost-effective, they are all looking forward to fighting every day......

An army is a monster fed with victory, and no matter which army it is, the more victories it has, the stronger its combat effectiveness and will to fight will be.

Just when Cheng Shijie returned with a full load, Zhou Yandong and the military household also met Cheng Shijie.

"Lord Qianhu, this time we have won a big victory,

"These are known to the thousand households, you don't have to repeat them, say something that the thousand households don't know, such as how many prisoners were captured, how many horses were captured......"

"A total of 2,150 captives were captured, and more than 400 could have been captured, but they were cut off one by one, and they were of little value, so we gave them a happy ......."

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly, but frowned slightly. Even if he had never been a soldier, he knew that he could not kill prisoners for no reason, let alone slaughter the enemy's wounded, which was a rule that both warring sides must abide by, and once this bottom line was crossed, it would not only arouse the extreme anger of the enemy, but also attract more bloody revenge, making the war emotional and more and more cruel, which would not benefit both sides.

However, things have happened.

Cheng Shijie did not criticize Zhou Yandong harshly, because of the grain, there are more than 14,000 mouths in Zuo Qianhu, and they have to eat hundreds of stones of grain every day, and if there are hundreds of more mouths, there will be more than a dozen stones of grain.

"We have collected a total of fifty-seven horses, and some have run away, and we will take them back, in addition to the horses, we have also seized 1,300 spears, more than 600 broadswords, and hundreds of axes, hammers, bows and arrows, and other weapons, and also found some belongings from the bandits, and the miscellaneous ones add up, and there are also five or six thousand taels of silver."