Chapter 033
The silver carried by the bandits was only an insignificant part of Qin Wu's treasure house.
Of course, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat.
Cheng Shijie said: "All seizures will be handed over to be used as casualty compensation and rewards for our soldiers of Qianhu Station. In addition, don't waste the horse meat of those who were killed or injured. Take all the horse meat back."
"Thank you, Master Qianhu!"
Cheng Shijie was going to reward him with thousands of taels of silver this time, but he didn't feel bad. This was Qin Wu's money. Cheng Shijie didn't have any psychological burden on using other people's money as a favor.
Although most of the weapons captured this time were in tatters, they could be remade when returned to Qianhu Station, at least giving Qianhu Station a chance to replace a shotgun with a cannon.
"What to do with the prisoners this time?"
"When we get back, hand it over to the guard station!"
Cheng Shijie thought that Commander Jin Yousheng also longed for military glory. As a veteran in the organization, Cheng Shijie knows very well that in any organization or unit, people with strong business capabilities are the easiest to get along.
Just like in later generations, although he has no backstage, because of his strong business ability, no matter how many leaders are changed, his position will be indispensable unless someone can replace him.
Through the interrogation of Qin Wu, Cheng Shijie also learned about the previous battle between Qin Wu and the Dengzhou Guard. Although the Dengzhou Guard had eight thousand households, the only ones who could fight were probably Jin Yousheng's five hundred soldiers. The other thousands of households more or less support some servants and soldiers, which is the true combat effectiveness of the Dengzhou Guards.
Literally, Dengzhou guards have strong horses and strong horses, but in fact, Dengzhou is just an empty show.
The morale of the military households who returned from victory was definitely different. Especially the carts loaded with food and property. Thanks to the carts prepared by Qin Wu, although part of them was destroyed, most of them were still intact. Even if they were broken, Qianhu owned them and could be repaired by craftsmen.
With more than 5,000 shi of grain and more than 60,000 taels of silver, Cheng Shijie had more resources in his hands and could do more things.
Cheng Shijie was riding in a carriage, flanked by his two generals Chang Yu and Shen Mingyu.
Cheng Shijie said calmly: "This victory is really a fluke. You two must not be complacent. There are serious problems with our equipment configuration. First of all, long-range attack weapons must be equipped. This time, more than 40 firecrackers were seized. It’s still more than twenty years old, and I’m not going to allocate it to you two hundred households, so I hope you don’t have any grudges in your heart.”
"Lord Qianhu, what are you talking about!"
Shen Mingyu said: "Without Master Qianhu, I, Shen Mingyu, would still be a beggar in Dengzhou City!"
"If it weren't for Mr. Qianhu, I would still be carrying my bag on the dock!"
"The organization of our health center is not reasonable!"
Thousand households are directly under the jurisdiction of ten hundred households, but as a company-level unit, the number of people in the cold weapon era is too many. However, if a thousand households command ten hundred households, the number of people will be too many.
Cheng Shijie considered that his servants could not stick to formalities. The best way is to organize according to the style of the frontier army. Cheng Shijie has too few firearms. There are only six so-called artillery pieces, which are bowl-mouth blunderbuss. The original power of bowl-mouth blunderbuss is small. If they are used scattered, it is equivalent to Spread pepper on a flatbread.
In this case, Cheng Shijie decided to use the fire blunderbuss, bird blunderbuss, bowl-mouth blunderbuss and the three artillery captured in Qin Wu's hands.
"How do you want to organize it, Mr. Senhu?"
"Two modes!"
Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "The original establishment of the Thousand Household Office remains unchanged. It is still ten hundred households, each in charge of a hundred household office. The servant soldiers are based on the establishment of Qi Shaobao when he was in Ji Town. Every twelve people are in a team, and the team is set up. One person is regarded as a small flag, and each team has ten soldiers and one cook."
According to the standard configuration of the Qi family army, the team is equipped with bird guns and Japanese knives, a cook, and a double-pointed shoulder pole. Two spearmen, plus bows and arrows. There are two sword and stick hands, equipped with sword and stick, bow and arrow. There are two card swordsmen, equipped with rattan cards, waist swords and javelins. Two musketeers, equipped with matchlocks and Japanese swords. The two quick shooters are only equipped with single-eyed quick guns, and use quick guns instead of sticks in close combat.
Some teams also use boring and palladium hands instead of sword and stick hands, and use rockets as long-range weapons. The three teams form one flag, and there is a flag general, one person in charge of the thirty-pound tiger squatting cannon. The three banners form one department, with a hundred generals. The hundred generals have several attendants, and one person is in charge of a hundred catties of cannons for destroying captives. The three divisions form one bureau, with a general manager.
Cheng Shijie doesn't have this kind of equipment now, so he can only simplify it. Each of his servants is equipped with four spearmen, two sword and shield bearers, and four fire gunners.
Shen Mingyu thought for a while and said: "Sir Qianhu, we still lack a lot of equipment. The spears are enough, but the shields and muskets are far from enough!"
"Then take your time. Fortunately, the bandits did not line up to fight in the field this time, otherwise, we would suffer a big loss!"
Cheng Shijie continued: "The plan of this Qianhu is that every four teams will be one sentry, and there will be a sentry captain, who will be regarded as the general flag... Every five sentry posts will be one division."
Zhang Yu said: "Master Qianhu, what you mean is that the servants and soldiers need to be streamlined?"
"No, we need to expand!"
Cheng Shijie said solemnly: "This thousand households can now support two divisions, that is, five hundred soldiers."
From the attack on Linglong Mountain, Cheng Shijie saw a way to make money. As an army, it was as poor as a beggar. Governments from various places cooperated to suppress bandits.
When officials get political achievements, Cheng Shijie wants to benefit from it. If both parties cooperate to achieve win-win results, why not do it?
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When Cheng Shijie returned to Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Station with prisoners and captured property, news that the fierce bandit Qin Wu led more than 4,000 bandits to attack Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Station also spread in Dengzhou City.
Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, was calculating how much grain and money to withhold from the autumn tax to support the military expenses of Denglai's new army, when he suddenly heard the news.
Sun Yuanhua's mood couldn't help but become very bad. He was not worried about the bandits attacking Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu Station. Any trouble would be Jin Yousheng's problem. But the problem was that once the bandits attacked the state and attacked the government, this would be evidence of his ineffective governance.
As a governor who has not passed the official imperial examination, Sun Yuanhua himself is under tremendous pressure. Although his teacher Xu Guangqi is the Minister of Rites, Xu Guangqi is seeking to take a further step and enter the cabinet.
At this critical moment, he must not hold Xu Guangqi back.
"Somebody come!"
"What are your orders, Lord Futai!"
"Order Jin Yousheng, the commander of Dengzhou Guard, to send troops to annihilate these bandits. If he can't deal with these bandits, he will no longer be the commander!"
Sun Yuanhua's words were very serious and full of threats. Of course, this isn't just a threat either. The governor himself is a place where he mounts his horse to manage the army and dismounts his horse to manage the army. Not to mention the Dengzhou Guard Command and Envoy Department, even the Shandong Capital Command and Envoy Department must be managed by Sun Yuanhua.
Normally, these bandits, rebellions and other things would not be noticed by Sun Yuanhua. These are extraordinary times, so of course we must do extraordinary things.
Sun Yuanhua was also very clear about the fact that the guard station was too rotten to be reused. He thought about it and said: "Order General Zhang Tao to be prepared and ready to suppress the bandits at any time!"
Sun Yuanhua was able to serve as a second-grade border official as a juren, in fact, because of his political opinions. Sun Yuanhua advocated using the Denglai New Army to cooperate with the Dongjiang Army to regain the four states in southern Liaoning and Lushun.
After the four southern Liaozhou states were lost in the first year of Tianqi, Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, instigated a rebellion against the Jin Dynasty deputy general and Liu Xingzuo, the commander of the four southern Liaozhou states, to rebel against Jin Guiming. However, after the four southern Liaozhou states were briefly recovered, they were again lost in the sixth year of Tianqi. . Under this circumstance, regaining Liaonan would indeed help alleviate the embarrassing and passive situation of Ming Dynasty.
In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, Sun Yuanhua became the governor of Denglai after being recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi and Liang Yandong, the then Minister of War. His political ambition was to regain the four states in southern Liaoning. At this critical moment, he didn't want trouble in Shandong.
Si Yamen, commander of the Dengzhou Guards, soon received a strict order from Lord Futai. The order was harshly worded, and Jin Yousheng hurriedly summoned his generals to discuss countermeasures.
Huang Zuxin sighed: "We can't avoid this!"
"But Qin Wu is fierce, and many of his subordinates are fierce bandits who came from the border army, so it is not easy to deal with him!"
"If it were easy to deal with, the grass on Qin Wu's grave would have grown three feet high!"
Jin Yousheng looked at the generals under his command and said: "There is no need to delay now. If Qin Wu is allowed to attack Zuo Qianhu's place and hijack Zuo Qianhu's military households, the battle will be even more difficult to fight. Now we need you to unite and work together!" "
Zhang Weihan, the front household guard in Dengzhou, was Jin Yousheng's confidant. At this time, he immediately expressed his position: "Master Commander, at the end of the day, there will be one hundred elite servants, and the thousand households in front of the front can draw 500 young men!"
Although Zhang Weihan is in the fifth rank of Qianhu, he still has the military rank of General Wu Jie, but Cheng Shijie is different. He is also in the fifth rank, and his first rank was just General of Wude. Of course, officers at the rank of Qianhu can call themselves the last general. of.
Thousand households from the center, left, center and right all expressed their stance, you have three hundred, I have five hundred. Soon the seven thousand households gathered more than 3,500 elites.
This is actually the basic situation of the Ming Dynasty's garrison. In general, when a garrison fights, it is very impressive to be able to draw two to three thousand people. Most of them can only draw less than two thousand people. Dengzhou Guards is a strengthened guard post, so in the absence of Zuo Qianhu Post, there are still more than 3,500 military households, plus the central guards and the servants who command Tongzhi, Qianshi and others, and they will soon be A full five thousand elite troops were gathered together.
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first.
Just when Jin Yousheng was hurriedly preparing food, grass and weapons to support Dengzhou Guard Zuo Qianhu Post, a scribe came outside the door.
"Urgent military report from Zuo Qianhu Station!"
"No, it's only been a few days, and Zuo Qianhusuo can't hold on anymore?"
"Cheng Shijie is not a hereditary man. It's good that he can persist for so long. You still think of him as a famous general!"
"Master Commander, how about the general leading the cavalry to set off first?"
The buzzing voices suddenly stopped, and Jin Yousheng looked at the emergency report in his hand with a dull look on his face: "This is... how is this possible? Capture the bandit leader Qin Wu alive, and behead his leader, the second master Liang Youcai, below, 1,383 people , captured 2,150 people..."
