Even though Chen Yannian and others were on guard and on guard all night, Cai Pengbo really didn't come back to kill anyone.
And because of Cai Pengbo's incident late last night, all the soldiers under his command had been struggling all night, so early the next morning, Ye Mingsheng issued an order to extend the morning assembly time by an hour to allow his soldiers to have a good rest. .
But Ye Mingsheng himself got up early and listened to Kong Ruian's report.
"The food sent by the Japanese pirates, for the time being, seems to have not been tampered with. It is just that the food is mixed with a lot of stones and other debris!" Kong Ruianhui reported:
Ye Mingsheng thought for a moment after hearing this, pondered for a moment and asked: "Not counting this batch of food, how much do we have now?"
"About ten stones!" Kong Ruian, as the money and grain officer, said without hesitation:
Upon hearing this number, Ye Mingsheng's eyebrows immediately wrinkled. Although the number of his soldiers had been reduced a lot after the fierce battle just now, the number of ten stones was still too small. Even three days Can't hold on.
"How much money do we still have in our small treasury?" Ye Mingsheng asked in a low voice:
As a combat unit with more than a thousand people in its heyday, Ye Mingsheng, like other members of the Forbidden Army, quietly established a small treasury to earn some gray income while receiving military pay from above. .
However, this money does not go into Ye Mingsheng's personal pocket, but exists as a welfare for everyone. The army generals and soldiers, the usual meals, the rice, flour, grain, oil, meat, cloth and cloth bought for everyone during the holidays all come from this small treasury. Inside out!
The existence of small treasury is a very common existence among the 200,000 forbidden troops, and it can be regarded as an open secret!
The small treasury of Ye Mingsheng's department is naturally controlled by the money and grain officer Kong Ruian!
Kong Ruian swallowed when he heard this and quietly stretched out a finger.
Seeing this, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but frown, and said with some suspicion: "One hundred taels of silver? Why is there only so much left?"
"My Lord Commander, we have been in the palace for so long. Except when we were in Ruishan County, where we received some filial piety, the rest of the time we were all miserable. It is already very good to have a hundred taels of silver left. !" Kong Ruian spread his hands and said aggrievedly:
After hearing this and recalling the miserable situation on his side, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but nodded, and then said: "The Japanese pirates sent the sixty shi of grain and return it to Luwang Town, and let them prepare it for us again. You spend another twenty taels of silver to buy some more meat in the town and supplement it for everyone. The rest will be made into dried meat. Once we enter Huishan, we will have no place to supply..."
After speaking, Ye Mingsheng took out some scattered silver, handed it to Kong Ruian, and said, "Distribute this silver to the brothers who guarded the barracks with me yesterday. I promised to reward each of them with two taels. Remember! Said the money came from the small treasury!”
Although it hurts a lot to spend the money, but a manly man, every spit and nail, must not break his promise, and he will do what he promised.
But the closer you get to Dazhou now, the more careful you have to be. Ye Mingsheng doesn't want to be accused of being a man who secretly recruits his subordinates with evil intentions because of this matter, so the money rewarded is still given in the name of the small treasury. It's safe to go down...
Looking at the broken silver, which amounted to more than two hundred taels, Kong Ruian was slightly stunned. Then after taking the silver, he blinked at Ye Mingsheng and whispered: "Mingsheng, it seems that you are not in Liujing." Stop fishing!"
"Both, each other, don't you also make a lot of money?" Facing his best friend, Ye Mingsheng did not hide it, shrugged and said frankly:
He knows very well that Kong Ruian, this guy, was not idle at all when he was in Liujing. He helped the Kong family contact a lot of business. As long as the situation calms down, their family can make a lot of money. .
Seeing that Ye Mingsheng knew about his affairs, Kong Ruian's small eyes flashed with surprise, but he smiled and did not go into details. It was considered that he and Ye Mingsheng had reached some kind of tacit understanding.
After the explanation of Kong Ruian, Ye Mingsheng's soldiers gathered together one after another. The three sentry commanders, Lin Huaiwu, Chen Yannian, and Wang Xian, began to count how many men and horses were left in each department and how many wounded were there.
At 4 o'clock in the morning, Ye Mingsheng officially held a meeting with his subordinates above the head level to listen to their reports.
"I am reporting to the Commander-in-Chief that we still have one hundred and eighty-seven people in our unit. Thirty of them were slightly injured and seventeen were seriously injured. Among them are all military attachés below the rank of head, and five of them were killed in battle!"
"I am reporting to the Commander-in-Chief that we still have one hundred and fifty-two people in our unit. Forty of them were slightly injured and nine were seriously injured. Among them are all military attachés below the rank of first rank, and six of them were killed in battle!"
"I'm reporting to the Commander-in-Chief that we still have one hundred and thirty-one people in our unit. Fifty-three of them were slightly injured and fifteen were seriously injured. Among them are all military attachés below the rank of first rank, and six of them were killed in battle!"
Listening to the reports of Chen Yannian, Wang Xian, and Lin Huaiwu, Ye Mingsheng couldn't bear to close his eyes. Although he had already been mentally prepared, when he really heard the casualties of his subordinates, his heart still felt. Bleeding!
When he followed him in the surprise attack on Liujing, there were more than a thousand people in his entire army. In less than a month, his brothers had already suffered such serious casualties, with only 460 people left in total. .
Nearly half of them were injured. According to the current medical level, if the forty-one people who were seriously injured followed him over the mountains and Huishan, most of them would not survive... ····
Taking a deep breath, Ye Mingsheng also understood the principle of not being in charge of soldiers. He forced himself to calm down and asked Chen Yannian calmly: "Are all the brothers who died in the battle buried?"
"They have all been laid to rest. My men have gone to find the masons in the town to erect a monument for the brothers!" Chen Yannian looked solemn and said in a low voice:
After speaking, he hesitated for a moment, looked at Ye Mingsheng, and asked for instructions: "Lord Commander, what should we do with our seriously injured brother?"
"Brothers, what do you think?" Ye Mingsheng was silent for a moment and said slowly:
How to deal with the seriously injured is a very serious issue. The more than 41 seriously injured are all living lives and warriors fighting for the country. If we take them all with us, the road in the mountainous area will be bumpy and we will not get anything. Very good treatment, there is a high probability that forty-one people will be killed, and no one will survive.
