In the center of the Shajianzi camp, Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhaosun, with the expectant eyes of all the soldiers, personally handed ingots of silver to the soldiers. All the soldiers who received the silver were grateful to Commander-in-Chief Liu and thanked him repeatedly.
Liu Zhaosun announced loudly that according to the wishes of the General, all those who participated in the night attack, regardless of whether they were fire soldiers or soldiers, would be rewarded with thirty taels of silver, and the injured soldiers would be compensated with an additional thirty taels of silver.
"What? Even the fire soldiers are rewarded with silver, this is too..."
The lower-level soldiers were talking about it. As a relatively low-level unit in the army, fire soldiers were responsible for cooking and carrying luggage. After the soldiers or archers shot the enemy, the fire soldiers were responsible for cutting off the head with a sword. In short, fire soldiers The status of soldiers is quite low, and they are only slightly better than auxiliary soldiers.
In addition to the white money pension, Liu Zhaosun also told the soldiers that Kang Supervisor's army had reported the documents for the night attack to the court. Soon, all the soldiers whose names were on the victory report would be rewarded by the court. For generals, they can get promotion.
The soldiers cheered again. The news spread quickly in the camp. Everyone knew that the imperial court attached great importance to the extermination of the slave slaves. The reward given by Emperor Chrysostom was terrifyingly high. Even the reward for capturing Nurhachi could be hereditary. Killing eight big beile will reward you with a thousand gold, and you will be promoted to commander.
Now that everyone has just made military exploits and killed so many soldiers with blue flags, the rewards from the imperial court must be generous.
Thinking of this, everyone looked at Mr. Kang next to Mr. Liu, and began to think about how to have a good relationship with this master.
Military camps are not shopping malls, and generals are not businessmen. A certain level of material rewards can motivate soldiers, but if there are too many, it will corrode the soldiers' courage to rush into battle and kill the enemy, and affect the army's combat effectiveness. In short, too much is not enough.
So after the pension rewards are distributed, the next step is to provide pensions to the dead.
The fifteen soldiers who died on the way back to the main camp were carried up to Shajianzi Mountain. Liu Zhaosun personally selected the site and buried them in a favorable location in the mountain col. All the soldiers worked together and soon built fifteen new graves. , piled with thick pebbles.
Qiao Yiqi asked his soldiers to find a few wooden boards and carve them into tombstones with a sharp knife. He wrote on the wooden boards with a pen the words "Tomb of the fallen soldiers of the East Road Army in the 47th year of Wanli", and the pen moved like a wandering dragon. Vigorous and powerful, Liu Zhaosun remembered that in addition to being a military attaché, Qiao Yiqi was also a calligrapher. Today, it seems that calligraphy is indeed well-deserved, and it has quite the charm of Wang Xizhi.
"Exquisite handwriting! In the future, Qiao Yiqi will be the one to write the war speeches against the slave thieves!"
Liu Zhaosun looked at the words written on the wooden board and was already making silent calculations in his heart.
Qiao Yiqi asked his servants to insert wooden boards in front of the graves, and impromptuly wrote an epitaph for the dead soldiers. It was very short, with only one or two hundred words in total. Mr. Qiao read it aloud in public, with melody and simple words, summarizing the Ming army night The reason, process, and final result of the attack, Liu Zhaosun's knowledge of classical Chinese had long been returned to the high school teacher. A group of warriors could not understand what the epitaph meant, but Qiao Yiqi's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and he was struggling on the wooden board. Everyone still felt very touched by the scene of writing with a pen.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the idea of noblesse and military inferiority had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even officials of the same level would not take the initiative to say hello to military attachés. The court supervisor in front of him, a fourth-grade civil servant, would actually take the initiative to write an epitaph for a group of warriors today. , such an impact was a bit difficult for them to accept. After all these years, someone finally saw their soldiers as human beings.
After the tomb was built, Liu Zhaosun made a strong oath in front of the soldiers, saying that after the slave traitors were eliminated and the Tatars were driven out of Liaodong, he would come back to carve monuments for the dead soldiers and offer incense to them. , let them accept offerings forever.
The soldiers were deeply moved, thinking that if Shangguan treated the dead like this, let alone the living?
Along the way, Mr. Liu took great care of the soldiers. During the night attack, it was all thanks to him to make prompt decisions, so that everyone could escape from the pursuit of thousands of Tatars, escape and save their lives.
Seeing Mr. Liu being so humble and considerate of his subordinates, everyone's eyes were filled with tears of emotion.
More than a hundred North Korean archers led by Jin Yinghe were moved to tears. For the first time, these North Korean soldiers felt the magnanimity of the heaven. In the past, when Jiang Hongli was not dead, he made things difficult for the soldiers in every possible way. He did everything possible and did not treat the North Korean soldiers at all. From a human perspective, military supplies are never distributed. Not to mention the reward of silver, they were not even given cotton-padded clothes. They watched the soldiers freeze to death and starve to death. This Commander-in-Chief, Liu, paid out rewards and buried the dead. As expected, the general of the Celestial Dynasty was extraordinary.
There are many soldiers present, whether they are Zhejiang soldiers, servants, or Korean soldiers, they are all rough and rough. They don’t know the difference between national justice and China, and they don’t understand it, but who gives them money and who gives them benefits , these Qiu Ba are willing to sacrifice their lives for anyone who treats them as human beings.
"I am willing to follow General Liu to kill Jiannu and kill Jiannu!"
Liu Zhaosun nodded slightly and looked back at his two civil servant friends. Kang Yingqian reminded the Thirteenth Master that after what he had done just now, there was not much left of the tens of thousands of taels of silver left by Jiang Hongli.
"We will come back after all the gold has been spent. Don't panic. Once we destroy the Xilan Banner and capture Hetuala, we will have a lot of money!"
After Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, he led several of his close servants and walked away, leaving Kang Yingqian, Qiao Yiqi and others looking at each other in shock.
Of course it is unrealistic to destroy the Xianglan Banner, and it is even more delusional to capture Hetuala. What Liu Zhaosun needs to consider now is how to leave a complete body for himself and his adoptive father.
After being attacked at night, Fei Yangwu sent two more teams of white-armored soldiers to the south, compressing the Ming army within a few miles of the Shajianzi camp at night. There is a heavy price to pay.
After yesterday's night attack, Liu Wei's servants were severely weakened, and it was impossible for them to invest a large number of troops to block the blue-flag sentry as they did yesterday.
Since then, the Shajianzi Camp has been exposed to the surveillance of the Xianglan Banner Sentries, and the Jiannu Sentries have been roaming around the Ming Army's camp all day long, reporting the intelligence they spied to Amin.
Erbeile was shocked when he heard that the Ming army had fortified themselves in layers, and even the trees on the surrounding mountains were chopped down by them. He did not expect that the Ming army could build a defense line so calmly in such a short period of time.
Yesterday's night attack, Xianglan Banner lost more than 500 soldiers, 30 white-armored soldiers, and about a thousand casualties. At this time, all the generals in the banner were furious, wishing they could cut Liu Wei into pieces with a thousand swords. .
Amin ignored Fei Yangwu's dissuasion and immediately began to prepare for the attack on the Ming army. When Liu Zhaosun distributed pensions to the soldiers, Erbeile had already led five thousand soldiers to attack the south aggressively.
Without the night guard, Liu Zhaosun knew nothing about Xianglanqi's actions, but he had already expected that Amin would soon go south for revenge.
This night attack not only gave Xianglan Banner a disincentive, but also allowed Liu Zhaosun to gather a group of elite buddies. Whether it was Deng Qilong's Zhejiang soldiers or Jin Yinghe's Korean soldiers, as well as his servants, they would play a vital role in the subsequent battle. role.
The longer he waited, the less likely he would come. From early morning until dusk, there was still no sign of the slave thief. Ye Bu, who was sent out, came back and reported that Amin was still on the way. Liu Zhaosun was a little hairy. Could it be that Erbeile wanted to repay him and wanted to do it? Carry out a night attack with a blue flag.
After nightfall, Liu Wei summoned the generals and repeated the defense plan of the Shajianzi camp tirelessly. He asked the generals to be careful when they returned and beware of Amin's night attack. Kang Yingqian asked Yang Jinglue about reinforcements, and General Liu sighed and stopped talking.
Everyone already knew from the expression on the face of the Commander-in-Chief that there was no need to think about the reinforcements. I wonder if the Tangma sent out arrived safely in Shenyang. If they arrived safely, why did Yang Jinglue have no news? It seems that time was too urgent and he set off from Kuandian yesterday. , it will be at least two days before we can return to Shenyang.
The generals were still discussing, and Liu Wei signaled everyone to be quiet. He looked around and said coldly:
"I'm afraid Yang Jinglue won't send troops. I guess that Li Rubai has retreated to southern Liaoning. I don't know what these two people said. Anyway, they won't save our Eastern Route Army."
"What about Ye Hebu?"
Hope flashed in Qiao Yiqi's eyes. The Ye He tribe and the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe were feuding, and they fought to the death. In this expedition to Nurhaci, the Ye He tribe joined the Ming Dynasty as a backup for Liu Wei of the East Route Army, a little later than the Ming army. North Korean soldiers arrived.
But now it seems there is no hope.
"Ye He's tribe has long been frightened. Counting on them is better than counting on the Mongols."
Liu Wei chuckled. He had been in the North for many years and knew some Jurchen history, and he was quite familiar with the Mongols.
When the two civil servants heard this, their faces turned pale and they couldn't help but look at each other. They originally thought that they would gain some military glory in the East Route Army, and maybe join the Sixth Army in the future, but they did not expect that they would lose their lives here.
Liu Zhaosun saw their thoughts and knew that these two civil servants had to win over, so he comforted him: "There are no reinforcements anywhere. Don't you think General Jin is just a reinforcement?"
Jin Yinghe stood nearby and smiled awkwardly. Everyone also laughed, but Liu Wei, Kang Yingqian and others had bitter smiles on their faces.
"Zhaosun, how do you think this battle will be fought?"
Liu Wei finally stood up, looked around everyone, and finally his eyes fell on his adopted son.
"Guard the road, concentrate the bombardment with firearms, regardless of the gains and losses of a city or a place, and inflict maximum damage on the slaves and thieves!"
It sounds reasonable, but how to implement it, everyone is confused.
