Chapter 047
"Sergeant, do you have land?"
"Yes, I have!"
Zhou Ning, captain of the Ning Navy, is the second son of Zhou Yandong, the former deputy Qianhu of Dengzhou Wei. Because military households are hereditary, Zhou Yandong's hereditary official of hundreds of households, if nothing else, is Zhou Yandong's eldest son, that is, Zhou Ning His eldest brother Zhou An. When Cheng Shijie was recruiting servants, he also participated behind Zhou Yandong's back.
By the time Zhou Yandong found out, Zhou Ning had already been promoted to Xiaoqi because of his decisive action in the battle to rob and kill his predecessor, Qianhu Gaowang, and for his meritorious service in killing the guards except Li Da Yuan.
At this time, Zhou Yandong was promoted to Deputy Qianhu by Cheng Shijie, and Zhou Yandong had no reason to object. In this way, Zhou Ning started from Chongjinpu and participated in the battle to annihilate the King of Qin, beheading six levels successively.
"How much land do you have?"
"Eighty acres!"
The surrounding Navy officers Ning looked surprised: "Sentinel Commander, do you mean to behead the eighth level?"
"That's right!"
Zhou Ning said with a proud face: "This sentry commander tells you that on the battlefield, you must not be timid. The more timid you are, the more afraid you will be, and the faster you will die!"
Several soldiers were ready to make a move. In their eyes, Zhen Sanshan and the bandits under his command were just money and the hope of life.
If you chop off one head, you will get ten acres of land.
Unknowingly, Ning Haijun's momentum changed. Whether they are new recruits or veterans, their eyes are red. Everyone wants a house and land. Ning Haijun's soldiers do not have separate houses now, but those veterans of Ning Haijun, Cheng Shijie's original more than 400 servants, all own houses.
The house Cheng Shijie built for them in Ning Haijun has three main rooms for each person, and two side rooms on the left and right, for a total of five houses. Although it is made of red bricks and red tiles, it is not as strong as a house with blue bricks and gray tiles. However, these houses are free.
What's more important is that they join the Ning Navy and get military pay every month, but the military pay is not much, only one tael of silver per month, the captain gets 1, 22 taels of silver, and the captain level is 1, 28 taels of silver.
Even the sentry commander can allocate ten acres of wasteland for the first level of beheading. Although it is wasteland, not everyone can reclaim it. If ordinary people want to reclaim the wasteland without an owner, no one will care about it. However, when the wasteland turns into mature farmland, gentry and powerful people will immediately come to tell them with the land deed. You, this is their ancestral land.
When it comes to lawsuits, people are taking advantage of others, so they can only admit that they are unlucky. The common people were so frightened that they were unwilling to cultivate wasteland even if they encountered it, because cultivating wasteland meant making wedding clothes for others and working as labor.
This point is actually similar to that of later generations. Although there are also wastelands, you can try building a house or farming and you will know the result. Even the groundwater belongs to the state. Digging a well to draw water privately is really a crime, it is called the crime of stealing state minerals.
However, after reclaiming the wasteland endorsed by Cheng Shijie, you can get the title deed and become your real property.
Ning Haijun's team appeared on the official road, one team after another, neat and well-equipped, because each of Ning Haijun's officers had a waist knife and a spear or spear, but at the moment there were no crossbows and muskets. Not much, and there are three old-fashioned cannons.
This kind of artillery is actually the Crouching Tiger Cannon invented by Qi Jiguang. It has four legs. The front two legs are slightly higher and the back two legs are slightly lower. It looks like a lying tiger. It is also called the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
The Crouching Tiger Cannon is similar to a bowl-mouth blunderbuss. They both fire shotguns and have a very short range. They can only cause damage to enemies within about 300 steps. For permanent targets, such as city walls, they are not very lethal, even if they are casual. Stack a few sacks, fill them with sand or soil, and you'll be fine.
Cheng Shijie rode a horse. Most of the horses captured from Qin Wu were mules or crossbow horses and could not be used as war horses. Therefore, only two of Ning Haijun's sentries were cavalry. They were said to be cavalry. These cavalry were just riding horses. As for falling down and letting their cavalry rush into battle, it would be really difficult for them.
However, the speed advantage of war horses was not comparable to that of infantry, so the cavalry from these two sentries were released by Cheng Shijie as scouts.
At this time, Cheng Shijie was followed by Chen Guodong. At this time, Chen Guodong was riding a black war horse, carrying a four-foot-long special compound bow, Tang straight sword and horizontal sword, black horse horizontal sword, red bow and white feather arrows. He was so handsome. What a mess.
In Ning Haijun's army, which is extremely short of horses, except for scouts, Shen Mingyu, and Cheng Shijie, other officers including Zhang Yu, who is at the same level as Shen Mingyu, do not ride horses. Chang Yu is qualified, but he cannot ride.
It's a bit outrageous that Chen Guodong can ride a horse and keep pace with Cheng Shijie, but no one among the more than 2,000 people up and down thought there was anything wrong because he had this ability.
The military is a place that values strength.
Chen Guodong used his fists and kicks to defeat fifty of Ning Haijun's captains in three days in a one-on-one situation, and defeated Shen Mingyu in a one-on-five situation. As a result, Ning Haijun's officers Acquiescing to Chen Guodong's specialness.
Chen Guodong told Cheng Shijie that he was once a commander in chief of the Dongjiang Army, and he was written by Geng Zhongming. He had a conflict with the Dengzhou Army because he couldn't stand the soldiers of the Dengzhou Army killing the people of Liaodong. But Geng Zhongming handed him over in order to settle the matter. If he hadn't met Cheng Shijie to help him, he would have died long ago.
Cheng Shijie also thought he had found a treasure, a commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, and a warrior who had been killed in the sea of blood. Cheng Shijie said at the time that Chen Guodong would be the commander-in-chief of the Ning Navy, on the same level as Shen Mingyu.
But he refused and only wanted to be a personal guard.
Cheng Shijie also expressed regret for this.
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"Son, run quickly!"
A guard dripping with blood helped a middle-aged handsome man onto his horse with great difficulty.
The handsome middle-aged man said anxiously: "I can't ride a horse..."
However, the guard could not control so much and slashed hard at the horse's buttocks. The horse was in pain and rushed forward. The middle-aged handsome man was carried by the horse and ran less than fifty steps before he was thrown away. Get off your horse.
The middle-aged handsome guy has never encountered this kind of situation: "Ouch..."
The trampled dirt road surface is very hard. In desperation, the handsome middle-aged man covered his face with his hands, leaving a blood trail of more than ten meters on the ground with his arms.
Although his face was saved, the handsome middle-aged man’s arms were bloody and bloody.
The guard couldn't help but cover his face.
After a while, the handsome middle-aged man struggled to get up. The guard looked at the bandit chasing after him and used his body to protect the handsome middle-aged man.
The handsome middle-aged man pushed away the guards around him. There was nothing he could do. More than two hundred bandits rushed towards him from the opposite side. As a guard, even if his whole body was made of iron, he wouldn't be able to twist a few nails.
"Master!"
"Gu Shun, step back!"
The handsome middle-aged man looked at the approaching bandits. His arm was hurting more and more, and his face was distorted by the pain: "Gu and you have no grievances in the past, and we have no enmity in recent times. If you are seeking money, why not talk to him?" !”
The bandits dispersed, and a young man with handsome features but sinister eyes walked over. He was a soft persimmon in Cheng Shijie's eyes. In fact, Zhensanshan's real name was Zhang Huairen, but his name was obviously wrong. What he did had nothing to do with benevolence.
Unlike most people who can't survive, they can only go into the mountains and become bandits. Not only was Zhang Huairen unable to survive, but he came from a family of officials. His grandfather was Zhang Mengli, the governor of Gansu and the minister of Dali Temple, and his father was Zhang Sicheng, deputy envoy of Shanxi Province. Zhang Huairen was born in the 39th year of Wanli as a noble son born into a family of officials.
Zhang Huairen didn't like studying, but he liked fighting and became a tyrant in Laiyang. Because of the fights, the Zhang family often cleaned up his mess. Later, he took a group of servants and took over the mountain as king, nicknamed Zhen Sanshan.
However, he has two brands and one set of people. When he was guarding Sanshan, he actually acted very harmlessly. The targets of his attacks were mainly passing business travelers. If they encountered a caravan escorted by bodyguards and armed servants, they were willing to accept the other party's money to buy the way, three or five taels of silver. That's fine, twelve or eighty taels of silver is fine too.
However, after paying the money to buy the way, he made the other party relax their vigilance, and then he led his men to chase him all the way up, robbed all the goods, and left no one alive. He had been entrenched in this area since the first year of Chongzhen, and did not attract the attention of the government for more than four years.
"Mr. Gu, how much do you want to spend on your life?"
Zhang Huairen showed his full white teeth.
Gu Shizhang's expression turned extremely miserable. Zhang Huairen's teeth are very white, which shows that his living conditions are superior and he is definitely not from a poor family. Once such a person becomes a gangster, he will usually silence him either with ulterior secrets or to cover his identity.
"Why did you deceive Gu? Even if Gu pays more money, you will not spare Gu!"
Gu Shizhang kept his mouth shut and just wanted to die quickly.
However, at this moment, the sound of horse hooves sounded.
Zhang Huairen's expression changed drastically.
He followed the sound and saw a cavalry team appearing behind him. Although the cavalry team was not large in number, it was well-equipped. The cavalry team had dismounted and formed a formation.
But due to the north, a huge army appeared. Compared with Zhang Huairen's more than 200 bandits, Ning Haijun's more than 2,000 troops were naturally considered huge.
"The wind is tight, pull!"
Zhang Huairen was not even interested in slashing Gu Shizhang, and directly ordered a retreat. It didn't matter whether Gu Shizhang died or not, the key was that he was in big trouble.
All the bandits ran away without any hesitation.
Zhang Huairen casually took off his money bag and threw the scattered silver inside on the ground.
"Quick, throw away the valuables!"
Zhang Huairen had not never encountered encirclement and suppression by the army. Relying on this little trick, he could escape calmly.
However, the problem was that the army he encountered was too strange. Not only was it well-formed, it was as motionless as a mountain, it was mute and silent. The more biting the dog, the less it barked.
Sure enough, when Zhang Huairen led the bandits to rush towards the east hills, the army finally moved, but no one picked up the copper coins and silver scattered on the ground.
In the eyes of Zhongning navy officers, these silver and copper coins are nothing. The bandits' heads are valuable, not to mention that during this training period, Ning Haijun did not train combat skills, attack and defense drills, but only trained them to execute orders.
Once they disobey the order, they will be expelled. Once they are expelled, they and their families will also be expelled from Ninghai City. This is a fatal thing.
The more he ran, the more Zhang Huairen's heart sank.
There seems to be an army that doesn't love money, but it only exists in historical records.
"We're in big trouble!"
Zhang Huairen's guess was very correct. The army behind him was running too fast.
"Puch, plop!"
The sound of swords and guns piercing flesh and screams came from behind.
