Except for Zhang Chi and Zheng Jianchong, no one else had any accidents when they came to Wang Xiaolie. He highly praised Zhang Zhen and encouraged him to make meritorious service to the country. He even met Shu Jiming and Wang Zhongfu and praised them repeatedly, saying that they are the pillars of the country.
After all the people had seen each other, a banquet was held in the city to welcome everyone.
The next day is already the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and it’s almost time to celebrate the New Year. After the victory, the entire Suide City was filled with a joyful atmosphere.
Suide is a military city, and almost every household has soldiers. During the New Year holiday, relatives go home, and the New Year is especially lively.
Wang Xiaolie ordered the army to prepare some programs to entertain the people. All the troops took the time to rehearse, and the tension revealed joy.
In this tense and cheerful atmosphere, Zhang Zhen's army began to nervously count military achievements. Although Zhang Zhen kept a battlefield log, it was very incomplete and many things had to be redone. Especially in the past, military merit statistics were mainly based on officers, and the military merits of many soldiers were ignored. Wang Xiaolie emphasized that this time all the military achievements of the soldiers should be fulfilled one by one. Wang Zhongfu has been extremely busy these days.
Tian Wenge, the secretary-general, hurriedly came in and said: "In custody, a document has been sent from the Right Army Camp, asking us to quickly count the military exploits of a soldier named Mengdu here. The matter is urgent and cannot be delayed."
Wang Zhongfu said: "Why do you want us to count their soldiers?"
After speaking, he reached out to take the official document and frowned.
Tian Wenge said: "This Mengdu was transferred to our former military camp in many battles and finally died in Dantou Village."
Wang Zhongfu nodded. Tan Song said to the utility man next to him: "Look up what military achievements this soldier named Meng Du has in our place. Speaking of which, this name is very familiar, but I can't remember what it is."
Tan Song checked briefly and said: "Imprisonment, I remembered! Meng Du came here with their escort team, but the escort team was quickly killed. He was transferred several times, and different escort teams ended up like this. Sometimes Mengdu was assigned to other teams, and sometimes he was temporarily promoted to the escort team. In several battles, Mengdu dared to kill and charge, and made many meritorious deeds. However, many of the merits were made here, not in the main camp. What fame.”
Wang Zhongfu was startled: "That said, I also remembered it. I remember that he killed a lot of people, and we talked about it for a long time for the reward. By the way, how did he die in the end? I remember it was different, but I can't think of it. What's going on?"
Liang Song said: "While chasing the Jin army's retreat, he was ambushed by the Jin army and hacked to death with random swords. Before he died, he killed three people in return, but no one dared to approach. Finally, the army caught up and killed all the Jin army. .”
Wang Zhongfu thought for a moment and remembered what happened that night. When he arrived, a steel knife was thrust out of Mengdu's chest from behind. He was still kneeling there, with the steel knife in his hand knocking the Jin Jun in front to the ground. Although he was dead, no one dared to approach him, and the Song army did not dare to move his body. It was me who burned three sticks of incense in front of his body, lit the incense candle, and then moved the body away.
Sighing: "Now that I think about it, although Meng Du is dead, he is still alive. I remember that he killed a lot of enemies and had many military exploits."
When the sergeants of the Song Army killed the enemy, they were usually rewarded on a per-person basis, and there was generally no military merit. Only when an officer has reached a certain level and his superiors are willing to count merit for you will military merit be counted based on the number of enemies killed. Meng is a soldier. No matter how many enemies he kills, he will only be rewarded with a few more coins. When the reward was calculated, Wang Zhongfu had not caused any dispute among the officers because his reward was too large.
Liang Song dug out the records and couldn't help but open his mouth. After a while, he said: "It is written here that Mengdu killed sixty-seven enemies..."
Wang Zhongfu nodded: "That's almost it. I remember that because the reward was too high, some of the enemy kills were not counted as his. In particular, none of the grenade kills were recorded."
Liang Song whispered: "In custody, Xuanfu now lets the soldiers kill the enemy, he is amazing! Now it is not a matter of how many coins are paid, but military merit! I don't know how to calculate such military merit in the end, it is estimated to be huge." "
Wang Zhongfu said: "That's right. In total, he is amazing."
After saying that, he ordered Liang Song to calculate Mengdu's military achievements in detail, and as many as he could get. Wang Xuanlie once said that military achievements must be realistic, not exaggerated, and certainly not underreported. Kill as many people as you want, and if you have doubts, you have doubts. The people below are not allowed to change it randomly.
When the final statistics were calculated, Liang Song said with some surprise: "He participated in three battles here. There are clear records of killing 86 enemies, and there are 32 doubtful ones. This - one person is almost catching up with one person." record."
Wang Zhongfu took the record and urged him to watch it.
In the battles of this era, if you deliberately kill people, you will kill a lot of enemies. Among the rebellious army, there was no cold-blooded attack. When encountering those who were bold, careful, and extremely skilled in combat, they would almost always shoot one by one.
Compared with the general army, the Jin army was particularly tenacious and almost no one surrendered. The Song army had the intention of killing people, and it can be said that they killed people like crazy on the battlefield. Meng Du is extremely talented, tall, extremely strong, and agile. He is a killing machine on the battlefield. Especially in the battle outside Dantou Village, a total of fifty-eight Jin soldiers were killed in the first battle, which was astonishingly efficient.
Because the Song army killed many enemies in these battles, many soldiers had astonishing records of killing enemies. Moreover, when I first recorded it, Meng Du was not from the camp, so I forgot to remember it intentionally or unintentionally. Among a group of people who had killed twenty or thirty enemies, he was not particularly outstanding. Re-stating it now is a bit scary.
In general army battles, except for the core fighting group, no matter how great the victory is, ordinary soldiers will not kill too many people. Those who kill the most are the core people. The greater the result, the more amazing their record. And Mengdu was the one who killed the most people in this battle.
Putting down the record, Wang Zhongfu said: "Send this record to the Youjun camp. Also, after Meng Du was transferred to our camp, find someone to record in detail his daily life and his performance on the battlefield. Remember, seek truth from facts, Don’t add fuel to the fire.”
Liang Song said yes.
Wang Zhongfu said to Tian Wenge: "If it weren't for Xuanfu's plan to count the military merits of his soldiers, Mengdu would have died in obscurity. His family might have received the reward for killing the enemy, but nothing else. Speaking of which, This is a bit sad.”
Tian Wenge said with some emotion: "Especially Mengdu, who was originally from the You Army Camp and was transferred to us. Since he does not belong to the same commander as us and is not familiar with each other, he will inevitably be buried. A few days ago, we gave the right army to He has too many murder records in the military camp. Now when the military merits are tallied, the Youjun camp discovered something extraordinary. Sometimes in life, a person needs a chance. "
Wang Zhongfu nodded.
Tian Wenge said: "This Mengdu is originally from Pucheng, Huazhou. He joined the army this year. Because of his excellent training, he was selected into our army. He was originally going to be promoted to an officer, but he was illiterate and had no choice. In the army He said he wanted to organize unified learning of literacy, but he came to fight first. And in this battle, he lost his life."
Such is life. Not only must you have extraordinary talent, but you must also have the opportunity to stand out. Mengdu was born with extraordinary talents, but if Wang Xiaolie hadn't massively expanded his army recruitment, he would not have joined the army and would have ended his life in the countryside. He joined the army and took a small step towards getting ahead, but he failed to continue.
