Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 119 The relationship between heads and money

The yellow belts lined up in two formations. The first row waved their five-eyed machine and smashed the enemy who was charging forward. The second row had already raised it and immediately smashed the head of the enemy who rushed forward again. Then the first row had already raised it. It's like a huge rotating gear, rolling forward.

Whether it's a shield or a head, it can be solved with one hammer.

The enemy's spearman pierced the chest of a brother. The brother grabbed the enemy's spear with blood-red eyes. It was not until his brother's five-eyed machine smashed the guy to death that he died with a smile.

The fifth army's five-eyed machine was flying up and down, and began to slowly advance towards the enemy, like a millstone from hell, crushing the enemy into flesh and blood.

The soldiers of the Fifth Army have fully utilized the functions of the five-eye machine. Killing the enemy is no longer a battle, but an artistic performance.

The two sides have been fighting together, and the enemy has begun to penetrate deep into the formation.

Although there was no support from the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, the Han army refused to retreat.

The Ming army fought to the death because they wanted to defend their homeland. Why did the Han army fight so hard? They were doing it for their master and to show merit to their master.

Li Yan stood on the command platform and waved the red flag violently. Following the flag's command, the front line of the second army facing the enemy began to shrink inward.

The enemy of course advanced.

Li Yan grabbed the green flag, the yellow flag, and waved it again. The Third Army was on the left, and the Fifth Army was on the right. They began to protrude outward from both wings, slowly wrapping up the enemy layer by layer. At this time, Li Yan grabbed the commander's flag and waved it again, and Lu Mou directed the war drums to be beaten.

The entire army began to launch a comprehensive encirclement and annihilation campaign against the enemy.

The grenadiers kept throwing small explosive packets into the dense enemy group, which exploded into a large area. Countless five-eyed machines flew around, knocking down enemies layer by layer.

At this time, the surrounded enemy could no longer hold on, and suddenly a fearful voice sounded harshly: "No more fighting, no more fighting, we surrender."

The first-sheep effect appeared, and the Han army's fighting will collapsed in an instant, and voices praying for surrender were heard everywhere.

Lu Mou smiled: "Send the order to accept the surrender."

When Duoze and Li Yangeng saw that their soldiers were surrounded, they knew that the battle was over. Duoze said: "Let's join up with the brothers across the river. Let's go."

In this battle, 20,000 of the main force of Duozezheng White Banner were annihilated, 10,000 horses were captured, and all 40,000 of Li Yangeng's Xianglan Banner were annihilated. Among them, 1,000 Eight Banners soldiers were captured, and 10,000 Han Eight Banners were captured.

The Ming army lost 15,000 soldiers killed and wounded in battle. There was no loss of artillery, only fifty crossbows and one hundred three-bow crossbows.

No seizures.

With such a report, Lu Mou regretted: "With such advanced firearms, I have killed so many enemies and caused so many casualties to my soldiers. I have suffered a huge loss in this battle."

Li Yan has not yet come out of the shock: "Facing the powerful Manchu Qing, with five to one casualties, what else do you want?"

Lu Mou then said seductively: "You are calculating the battle loss ratio, but I am calculating the money. Do you know that for the casualty compensation of these 15,000 soldiers, I have to pay at least 300,000 silver dollars; and my loss Gunpowder, etc., converted into money, it is no less than 100,000. And what I can’t accept the most is that for killing nearly 70,000 enemies, I have to pay nearly 100,000 in reward head money. In addition to the consumption of soldiers during this period, it is no less than 200,000. Ten thousand. And the pension for those killed in battle is still a huge sum. With this simple addition and subtraction, I have to pay a small million. My money, my life." Then I felt so sad that I almost lost my head. The ground is gone.

Li Yan said sternly: "You made a mistake in your calculation, because you were not allowed to spend any money on those more than 10,000 prisoners."

Lu Mou was shocked: "What do I want from those prisoners? Aren't they human heads?"

Li Yan was shocked: "You want to kill prisoners?"

Lu Mou was even more shocked than him: "Why don't I kill them? Do I still have to spend money to support them?"

"The account cannot be settled like this."

"That's how my account is settled."

"But that's not how you treat bandits."

"Because the rogues are Han people. They are just our father and son. No, that has nothing to do with me. They are good and desperate people forced by my father. But the traitors are no longer my people. Why should I keep them? ?Although I have to pay one silver dollar to each soldier for killing them, I am willing to pay this money."

Then he looked to the east: "Not only that, I want to restore the order of killing slaves during the Wei Zhongxian period. No matter who kills a slave, I will pay five silver dollars." When Wei Zhongxian, who was the best at managing money, was in power, he once calculated that if the officers and soldiers killed One slave, converted into cost, requires fifty taels. And if there is an income of three to five hundred people every year, it is considered a great success.

It is actually more cost-effective to buy Jurchen heads from the Mongols.

So, he announced to the Mongols that if he killed a slave, young or old, he would be given five taels of silver; if he killed a soldier of the Eighth Banners, he would give him a rice cooker. If the Eight Banners soldier you kill is young and strong, you will be thoughtfully given a rice spoon as a gift.

The effect was remarkable. As long as the Mongolians had nothing to do, they would ride on an old horse, attach a scimitar, and wander around the Manchu territory to earn extra money.

Wei Zhongxian was in power for just four years and harvested a total of 40,000 Jurchens. In the past four years, Guan Ning's main force, not counting Mao Wenlong, only surrendered 500 slave heads. The difference was as much as a hundred times.

The most obvious impact is that they were originally related to the Jinmeng family, but after that, when a Jurchen meets a Mongolian, an old friend for many years, he has to stand far away, hold the knife tightly, and be on guard against the old man at any time. A friend gives you a knife.

Wei Zhongxian fell. In the eyes of the Donglin Party members, Wei Zhongxian's policies were of course bad governance, so they were abolished.

"If I resume Wei Zhongxian's policy of purchasing human heads, then this time I will only have to pay 350,000 for these 70,000 heads. It will not damage any of my soldiers, and I may earn money every day. What a deal."

Li Yan was shocked by this calculation method.

Can this account be settled in this way? But think about it, is this quite right?

Annihilate the invading Qing soldiers, and the people will return home.

However, just by the Gu River, countless people were summoned and stood on the river bank to watch the execution.

Rows of prisoners were pulled out one by one and made to kneel by the river. Then, the executioner shouted: "Those who are condemned to their mother's clan will be killed without mercy."

The sword flew down and heads rolled.

Another batch was taken to the execution ground. The executioner shouted: "Those who oppressed my parents will be killed without mercy."

The sword flew up again.

The third batch.

The executioner shouted again: "Those who forget their ancestors will be killed without mercy."

"Those who betray our ancestors will be killed without mercy."

"Those who are willing to be slaves will be killed without mercy."

"Those who do not resist external humiliation will be killed without mercy."

"Anyone who offends our strong men will be killed without mercy."

With roars one after another, they were slashed and killed one after another.

In the end, the Gu River turned red, and at the beginning of spring, the river course became blocked.

Therefore, there is a folk song among the people: If you don’t drink the water of the Gu River for three years, you won’t eat the fish of the Gu River for ten years. This is not the kind of thing that later generations will do, but it is because they are afraid of being polluted by traitors.

Rivers of blood flowed from the killings outside. In the big tent, Lu Mou was arranging the next step: "From this battle, I saw the bravery of all armies. Now, we have achieved a decisive victory. There are not many enemy soldiers left, so what I have done is officially Announce that the Manchu Qing's sixth invasion of Japan ended with our complete victory. Report victory to the court and the world."

All the soldiers hugged and cheered.

"The remnants of the enemy cannot be let go, and we must make persistent efforts. So I ordered that the Second Army, the Third Army, and the First Army return to their respective places, leaving only the Fifth Army, the Fourth Army, the First Division that just arrived on the battlefield, and the Third Army The division encircles and annihilates the remaining enemies.”

We really can't afford to support an army of nearly 100,000 people. The cost of stationing and field operations is completely different. Save money if you can.

(End of this chapter)