I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 33
Chapter 032

Qin Wu led the remnants of the bandits to continue to flee. It is a pity that Qin Wu's troops ran as fast as they could in order to escape for their lives, and they didn't know how to use their physical strength reasonably.

Anyone who has been trained in long-distance running knows that if you don't use your energy properly, you won't be able to run very far.Although the bandits ran desperately in front, they still couldn't run as fast as Cheng Shijie's servant, Ding Jie.

After this pursuit and escape, the distance between the two sides did not widen, but became closer and closer.

In the afternoon of the next day, Qin Wu suddenly found that there were less than a hundred bandits around him.

As for Cheng Shijie and his servants, they were not fighting at all, they were just running, meeting those bandits who were too tired to run.

Some bandits couldn't stand being chased, they threw away their weapons before Cheng Shijie's soldiers swung their knives, knelt down, raised their hands and cried: "Master, please forgive me, please, please forgive me! "

Originally, these ferocious bandits knelt down in front of the military households and wept.

Cheng Shijie did not order these bandits to be killed. These bandit captives will be handed over to the Dengzhou Guard in the future. After confirming that these bandits have thrown away their weapons, let them tie each other up with their belts and continue to chase the bandits who did not surrender.

It is true that a few bandits tried to attack Cheng Shijie's family soldiers, but they were immediately stabbed into a sieve or chopped into meat. After discovering that surrendering can save their lives, more and more bandits knelt down and threw away Weapons, kowtow like pounding garlic.

Their courage, their bravery in ravaging women, their brutality in massacring the old and the weak, women and children, were all blown away, and they no longer had the idea of ​​confronting these terrifying officers and soldiers.
Cheng Shijie divided the army into two. The ordinary military households were responsible for capturing the prisoners, while the household soldiers were responsible for chasing them. The division of labor between the two sides was very clear.

Cheng Shijie was very comfortable. He was sitting in a carriage. Since it was a modified carriage, the shock absorption effect was very good.

Along the way, the bandits discarded a lot of dry food, weapons, including looted silver, gold and silver jewelry.But thousands of households are poor, and many people don't even have clothes to wear.When the military households clean the battlefield, it is really clean, not even a piece of rag is left, and the rag can be used to make shoes.

"Shen Mingyu"

"Master Qianhu, what are your orders!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "How far are we from Linglong Mountain, Qin Wu's lair?"

"About fifty miles!"

"very good!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Let Zhang Yu continue to chase with the Zhongzuo Hundred Households. Let's rush ahead of Qin Wu together and reach his cottage one step ahead!"

From Linglong Mountain to Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhusuo, the distance is more than 250 miles. It took the bandits six days to reach the Qianhusuo. After Qin Wu fled, he ran very fast in only the first two days. Today they have been drained of physical strength, they are said to be running, and they barely run forty or fifty miles a day.

But Cheng Shijie’s soldiers are different. They train every day. They get up in the morning for five kilometers. After practicing military posture and steering in the morning, they go for another five kilometers to relax.

Cheng Shijie's soldiers train for [-] kilometers every day, which is commonplace. It can be said that Cheng Shijie's soldiers may not be the best at fighting, but in Dengzhou Wei, they are definitely the best at running.

As Cheng Shijie decided to speed up and take a detour, the speed of the two hundred soldiers under Shen Mingyu's command suddenly accelerated.

Linglong Mountain was originally just one of the mountains in Zhaoyuan County.

It’s just that more than 100 years ago, Bian Gong, one of the seven sons of the Ming Dynasty, led his servants to play. Seeing the strange scenery, he built a courtyard.

He Jingming, who is also one of the seven sons of the literary world, offended the great eunuch Liu Jin and was forced to resign. He passed through Dengzhou and was warmly received by the border tribute. He Jingming wrote a poem for this other courtyard, which means Linglong Villa.

Later, this mountain became Linglong Mountain, and gold mines were discovered here. After decades of mining, the gold mines were abandoned, leaving a large number of mines. Linglong Mountain is actually not difficult to attack. Rugged mines.

Looking at the gate of the cottage in Linglong Mountain, Qin Wu finally gasped: "I finally escaped!"

Qin Wu, who was like a beggar, walked towards the gate with big strides.

At this moment, the sound of messy footsteps sounded, and Qin Wu turned his head to see that more than 100 "bandits" in distress appeared behind them.

Qin Wu yelled at the bandits in the direction of the gate: "Open the door, open the door!"

There was no movement at the gate of the village. After a while, a tall figure appeared at the gate of the village. Although Qin Wu couldn't recognize the entire four thousand village, he felt that the fat man looked familiar.

"Master Qin, long time no see!"

"You are……"

"It's not a mere talent, it's Cheng Shijie, the fifth-grade thousand households of the Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households!"

In front are Cheng Shijie's 200 Ding soldiers, and behind are more than 50 people under Zhang Yu's command, and there are hundreds of military households, and Qin Wu is surrounded by less than [-] people, so what a fart.

Qin Wu and the gangsters under his command raised their hands to surrender. This battle could be completely anticlimactic, and it was settled by Cheng Shijie with a drone and [-] liters of gasoline.

The bandits who lost the morale of the army did not organize to resist, otherwise Cheng Shijie would not have fought so easily.

After occupying the cottage in Linglong Mountain, Cheng Shijie began to have people count and seize it. In the whole cottage, there were more than 100 women who were robbed by Qin Wu and others. Of course, these women had been assigned to the bandit leaders, and Qin Wu himself I have accepted more than 20 of them, and two of them are concubines of a big family, and they look pretty juicy.

After more than two hours, the seized supplies and property finally had a preliminary calculation. Qin Wu can be regarded as a talent. In just over two years, he actually robbed five or sixty thousand taels of silver. Among them, 6 ingots are 50 taels of silver, with the surnames of Huang, Duan, Liu and Wei.

It is said that the ransom was extorted from four big families. Except for the 4 taels of silver, the others were scattered silver, and there were 10,000+ copper coins. In addition to the silver, there were forty firecrackers in Qin Wu's warehouse. They are all high-quality guns, not the kind of junk that explodes when fired in the guard.

There are also more than 20 bird mills, which are an advanced gun from Portugal. The gun is 850mm long and weighs about ten catties (5940g). It fires 15.98g of lead bullets and charges 100g. , can limit the range of [-] meters.This is not a firecracker equipped in the army, because the cost is too expensive.

A single shot of this kind of bird gun needs more than 20 taels of silver. The same money can equip six spearmen, or two crossbowmen, or three archers, but the problem is, whether it is six spearmen or two crossbowmen , and three archers, enough to easily kill a bird shooter.

In terms of cost-effectiveness, the Ming court still prefers to arm the cheapest spearmen, because spears are cheap, and each spearman only needs one spear, even if a spear made of a good ash rod costs at most one or two taels of silver, plus On the blade of a gun, it's a great two or three taels of silver.

What surprised Cheng Shijie the most was that there were more than 300 sets of cotton armor in Qin Wu's warehouse, that is, the Ming army standard, and more than 100 pairs of iron armor.

In terms of family background, Qin Wuke is much richer than Cheng Shijie, a Zuoqian household.

Cheng Shijie looked at the supplies in the warehouse and felt a little numb. Thousands of coarse cloths, more than 200 bolts of silk, more than 5000 bolts of cotton cloth, and more than [-] shi of grain.

"Get rich!"

Cheng Shijie's servants clapped each other's hands and cheered loudly.

In another large warehouse, there are antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jewelry, everything in a mess, and it is estimated that there is also a value of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Cheng Shijie looked at these belongings and said, "Shen Mingyu, get someone to load the car and transport everything back to Qianhu House!"

"Yes!"

"Tell the brothers, these things will be distributed uniformly by Benqianhu in the future, and no one should use their brains. Whoever dares to reach out, whose head does Benqianhu want!"

"Master Qianhu, don't worry, I will watch with my own eyes!"

Cheng Shijie's soldiers cheered loudly. Although the money did not let them do anything, the problem is that they chopped off a lot of heads. One head is worth five taels of silver, and ten heads are worth fifty taels.

During the pursuit of only four hundred famous masters, Ding Bing chopped off seven or eight hundred heads, which is almost two heads per capita, which means that each of them can be rewarded with at least ten taels of silver.

Fighting with Cheng Shijie was really enjoyable. Not to mention that it was easy to win this battle, you can also get a large reward. I dare not say that if it is too much, it will definitely pay their salary for more than half a year. It is too cost-effective. Looking forward to fighting every day...

The army is a monster fed by victories. No matter which army it is, the more victories it has, the stronger its combat effectiveness and fighting will will be.

Just when Cheng Shijie came back with a full load, Zhou Yandong and his military household also met Cheng Shijie.

"Master Qianhu, this time we won a big victory,

"These Benqianhus know it all, you don't need to repeat it, tell me something that Benqianhu doesn't know, such as how many prisoners were captured, how many horses were captured..."

"The captives captured a total of 150 people. We could have captured more than 400 more, but they lost their hands and feet one by one, so they were of little value, so we gave them a happy ending..."

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly, but slightly.Even if he has never been a soldier, he still knows that killing captives for no reason, let alone massacring enemy wounded, is a rule that both warring parties must abide by. Once this bottom line is crossed, it will not only arouse the extreme anger of the enemy, Inviting bloodier reprisals and making the war more emotional and brutal will not benefit both sides.

However, things have happened.

Cheng Shijie didn't criticize Zhou Yandong either, because there are more than 4000 mouths in Zuoqian households, and they have to eat hundreds of grains every day. If there are a few hundred more mouths, there will be more than ten stones of grain.

"We gathered a total of 57 horses, and some ran away. We will catch them back. In addition to the horses, we also seized 600 spears, more than 6000 large knives, and hundreds of axes. Various weapons such as hammers, bows and arrows, and some property were found from the bandits, and the sum of all the miscellaneous things was [-] taels of silver."

(End of this chapter)