Chapter 032
Qin Wu led the remnants of the territorial bandits to continue to escape. It was a pity that in order to escape for their lives, Qin Wu's troops simply ran as fast as they could and did not 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 rationally, you won't be able to run very far at all. Although the bandits were running desperately in front, they still couldn't run as fast as Cheng Shijie's servant Dingjie.
After chasing and escaping, the distance between the two parties did not widen, but instead became closer and closer.
By the afternoon of the next day, Qin Wu suddenly discovered that there were less than a hundred bandits around him.
As for Cheng Shijie and his servants, they were not fighting at all. They were just running and encountered bandits who were too tired to run.
Some bandits couldn't stand being chased any longer. They threw away their weapons before Cheng Shijie's servants could swing their swords, knelt down, raised their hands in the air and cried: "Master, please have mercy, Master, please have mercy, Master, have mercy!" "
These vicious-looking 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 were to be handed over to the Dengzhou Guards in the future. After confirming that the bandits had thrown away their weapons, he asked them to tie each other up with their belts and continue to chase the bandits who did not surrender.
It is true that a few bandits tried to attack Cheng Shijie's servants, but they were immediately stabbed into sieves or chopped into pulp. After discovering that surrendering could save their lives, more and more bandits rushed to their knees and threw them away. Weapons, kowtow is like pounding garlic.
Their courage, their bravery in trampling women, and their ferocity in slaughtering old, weak, women and children were all beaten to pieces. They no longer had the thought of confronting these terrible officers and soldiers. They only wanted to survive and live one more day!
Cheng Shijie divided the army into two. The ordinary military households were responsible for capturing the prisoners, while the servants were responsible for the pursuit. The division of labor between the two sides was very clear.
Cheng Shijie was very comfortable. He was riding in a carriage. Since it was a modified carriage, the shock absorption effect was very good.
Along the way, the bandits discarded a lot of dry food and weapons, including stolen silver and gold and silver jewelry. But Zuo Qianhu is so poor that many of them even have no clothes to wear. When military households clean the battlefield, they are so clean that not even a single rag is left behind. The rags can also be used to make shoes.
"Shen Mingyu"
"What are your orders, Master Qianhu!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "How far are we from Qin Wu's home base of Linglong Mountain now?"
"Almost fifty miles!"
"very good!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Let Zhang Yu lead the Zhongzuo Baihu Institute to continue chasing. Let's get ahead of Qin Wu and reach his stronghold one step ahead!"
The distance from Linglong Mountain to Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Station is more than 250 miles. It took the bandits six days to reach Qianhu Station. After Qin Wu fled, he only used the first two days to run very fast. But these two days have been drained of their energy. They just run, barely running forty or fifty miles a day.
But Cheng Shijie's servants are different. They train every day. They get up in the morning and run five kilometers. After practicing military posture and steering in the morning, they go to five kilometers to relax. In the afternoon, they still warm up for five kilometers before training, and then rest after five kilometers in the evening.
Cheng Shijie's retainers train for 20 kilometers every day, which is commonplace. It can be said that Cheng Shijie's retainers may not be the best at fighting, but in Dengzhou Guard, they are definitely the best at running.
As Cheng Shijie decided to speed up and take a detour, Shen Ming's speed suddenly accelerated when he encountered the two hundred servants under his command.
Linglong Mountain was originally just one of the mountains in Zhaoyuan County.
It's just that more than a hundred years ago, Bian Gong, one of the seven literary men of the Ming Dynasty, led his servants to visit. Seeing the strange scenery, he built a separate courtyard. It was called a separate courtyard, but in fact it was just a five-room thatched cottage.
He Jingming, who was also one of the Seven Literary Men, offended the eunuch Liu Jin and was forced to become an official. He passed through Dengzhou and was warmly received by border tributes. He Jingming wrote a poem for this courtyard, taking the meaning of Linglong Villa.
Later, this mountain became Linglong Mountain. Later, gold mines were discovered here. After decades of mining, the gold mines were abandoned, leaving a large number of mines. Linglong Mountain is actually not difficult to attack. What is difficult to attack is Rugged mines.
Looking at the gate of the Linglong Mountain cottage, Qin Wu finally gasped: "I finally escaped!"
Qin Wu strode towards the gate like a beggar.
At this moment, messy footsteps sounded. Qin Wu turned his head and saw more than a hundred embarrassed "bandits" appearing behind him. These bandits' faces were covered with dirt and their expressions were frightened and uneasy.
Qin Wu shouted towards the bandits in the direction of the village gate: "Open the door, open the door!"
There was no movement at the entrance of the village. After a while, a tall figure appeared at the entrance of the village. Although Qin Wu could not recognize the entire village of more than 4,000 people, he felt that this fat man looked familiar.
"Master Qin, long time no see!"
"Who are you……"
"A mere incompetent, it is none other than Cheng Shijie, a fifth-rank Qianhu, who is appointed by Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu!"
In front were Cheng Shijie's 200 servants, and behind were more than 200 Zhang Yu's men, as well as several hundred military households. Qin Wu was surrounded by dozens of soldiers, less than fifty people, and what a fart.
Qin Wu and his gangsters raised their hands and surrendered. This battle might have ended in an anticlimax, but Cheng Shijie's drone and thirty liters of gasoline were all it took.
The bandits who had lost their military morale did not organize to resist, otherwise Cheng Shijie would not have fought so easily.
After occupying the mountain stronghold in Linglong Mountain, Cheng Shijie began to have people count the seizures. There were more than a hundred women in the whole stronghold that Qin Wu and others had robbed. Of course, these women had been assigned to the bandit leaders, big and small, and Qin Wu and others I have collected more than 20 concubines, two of whom are concubines of a wealthy family, and they are pretty good-looking.
After more than two hours, a preliminary calculation of the seized materials and property was finally made. Qin Wu was considered a talent. In just over two years, he actually robbed 50,000 to 60,000 taels of silver. Among them, eight hundred ingots are fifty-two ingots of silver, with the surnames of Huang, Duan, Liu and Wei.
It is said that the ransom was extorted from four large households. Except for the 40,000 taels of silver, the rest were scattered silver, and there were hundreds of thousands of copper coins. In addition to the silver, there were forty fire guns in Qin Wu's warehouse. , they are all high-quality firearms, not the kind of junk in the guardhouse that explodes as soon as they are fired.
There are also more than 20 gun guns, which are advanced firearms originated from Portugal. The gun is 1,855 mm long, weighs about ten kilograms (5,940 grams), and fires 7.44 grams of lead bullets. It has a 15.98-gram charge and can shoot to a maximum range of 100 meters. This is not a blunderbuss equipped in the army, because the cost is too expensive.
One such bird mill requires more than twenty taels of silver. The same money can equip six spearmen, or two crossbowmen, and three archers. But the problem is, whether it is six spearmen or two crossbows, Hands, and three archers, enough to easily kill a bird miller.
In terms of cost performance, the Ming court still preferred to arm the cheapest spearmen, because spears were cheap, and each spearman only needed one spear. Even a spear made of a good pewter rod would only cost one or two silver at most. The spear blade is worth two or three taels of silver.
What struck Cheng Shijie most unbelievably was that there were more than 300 sets of cotton armors in Qin Wu's warehouse, which were the Ming army's standard, and more than 100 pairs of iron armors.
In terms of family wealth, Qin Wu is much richer than Cheng Shijie, a Zuoqian household.
Cheng Shijie felt a little numb when he looked at the supplies in the warehouse. Thousands of pieces of coarse cloth, more than 200 pieces of silk, more than 30 pieces of cotton cloth, and more than 5,000 shi of grain.
"Get rich!"
Cheng Shijie's servants high-fived each other and cheered loudly.
In another large warehouse, there are piles of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jewelry, and everything else. A rough estimate is that it is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Cheng Shijie looked at these belongings and said, "Shen Mingyu, have someone load the truck and transport everything back to Qianhu Station!"
"yes!"
"Tell brothers, these things will be distributed uniformly by this Qianhu in the future. No one can use their brains. Whoever dares to reach out will get whose head this Qianhu wants!"
"Don't worry, Master Qianhu, I'm watching with my own eyes!"
Cheng Shijie's servants cheered loudly. Although they were not allowed to use the money, the problem was that they chopped off many heads. One head was worth five taels of silver, and ten heads were worth fifty taels.
Just over 400 servants chopped off 700 or 800 heads during the pursuit, almost two heads per person, which meant that each of them could get at least 10 taels of silver as a reward.
It was so enjoyable to fight with Cheng Shijie. Not only did he win this battle easily, but he also got a large reward. I dare not say it was more. It was for sure that he paid them more than half a year's salary. It was such a bargain. They were all a little bit Looking forward to fighting every day...
The army is a monster fed by victory. No matter which army it is, the more victories it has, the stronger its combat effectiveness and will will be.
Just when Cheng Shijie returned with a full load, Zhou Yandong and his military household also met Cheng Shijie.
"Master Qianhu, this time we have won a great victory.
"Everyone knows this, so you don't have to repeat it. Tell me something that I don't know, such as how many prisoners were captured and how many horses were captured..."
"The prisoners captured a total of 2,150 people. We could have captured more than 400 more, but their hands and feet were cut off one by one, and they were of little value, so we gave them a happy life..."
Cheng Shijie frowned slightly, but slightly. Even if he has never been a soldier, he knows that he cannot kill prisoners for no reason, let alone massacre the enemy's wounded. This is a rule that both warring parties must abide by. Once this bottom line is crossed, not only will the enemy be extremely angry, but Inviting more bloody revenge and making the war more emotional and cruel will not be beneficial to either side.
However, things have happened.
Cheng Shijie did not criticize Zhou Yandong harshly. Because of the food, there were more than 14,000 mouths in the Zuoqian household, and they had to eat hundreds of shi of food every day. If there were a few hundred more mouths, then there would be more than ten shi of food.
"We collected a total of fifty-seven horses, and some ran away. We will capture them. In addition to the horses, we also seized 1,300 spears, more than 600 broadswords, and hundreds of We also found various weapons such as axes, hammers, bows and arrows, and some property from the bandits. All in all, there are five to six thousand taels of silver."
