A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 129 Kou can go or I can go
The horn sounded, and the Qing soldiers dispersed like a tide, including those wounded and able to move, they all ran fast.

The Shunxiang army at the head of the city was surprised and delighted, and the Tartars really retreated.

The general officer of the Qing Dynasty came to the city under the protection of several Baiba Yala soldiers. He stopped about fifty steps away from the city.He cautiously poked his head out from behind several large shields, and shouted to the Ming army at the top of the city: "Ming soldiers on the city, listen up, I, Rao Yubeile of the Qing Dynasty, respect those Ming people who died in battle, and will not The damage alarmed their remains. I also hope that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty on the city will stop the artillery fire and let us collect the remains of those warriors who died in battle."

The Shun Township Army on the city looked at Wang Dou to see how he would deal with it.

Wang Dou shouted: "Leave the Daming people captured outside the city, and I will let you collect them!"

The official of the Qing Dynasty had a troubled look on his face, so he hurried back to report. Soon he came back and shouted to the city: "Rao Yu Baylor, I have agreed to your request."

Soon, there was an uproar in the city, and hundreds of Ming people were escorted to come. It is estimated that there are as many as 400 to [-] people, all of whom were military households captured by the Qing soldiers in the nearby castle.They were all terrified, not knowing what the Tartar soldiers wanted them to do again.

They were sent to the city, and the official of the Qing Dynasty shouted behind them: "The people of the Ming Dynasty have already been sent, you should let us collect the remains of the fallen soldiers."

Wang Dou asked Lin Daofu to guide the people to the side of the new castle, and when they knew they were rescued, they all wept with joy, and they hurried to the side of the new castle pit.

Seeing those people walking away, Wang Dou waved his hand, and all the Qing soldiers in the city were frightened. Rows of firecrackers pointed outward, and several black tiger crouching cannons retracted to the top of the city. A large number of Qing soldiers The auxiliary soldiers came in a hurry and carried away the bodies of the Qing soldiers who had been killed outside the city.

Wang Dou estimated that there were more than 100 corpses of the Qing soldiers under the city. Seeing the auxiliary soldiers collecting the corpses, the Shunxiang army on the city had a look of pity in their eyes. The removal of those heads was another great achievement.However, the Shun Township Army had beheaded 240 three ranks a few days ago. Even if there were no such heads under the city, it would have been an astonishing achievement.

Soon, the Qing soldiers collected the bodies of their own soldiers who died in battle. Their horns sounded one after another, and they were seen lined up in groups, and finally merged into one piece. Looking from the top of the city, there was another sea of ​​red and white. Among them, Wang Dou saw the huge gold-woven dragon banner again.

They rode and rode together, and slowly pulled out of the camp. Under the sun, they were densely packed, and their shiny weapons still shone dazzlingly in the sun.But for Wang Dou, he used to feel a sense of awe when he saw the might of the Qing soldiers, but now it seems that their aura is nothing more than that.

The Qing soldiers came and went quickly, and soon their army formation left only some small black dots in the distance, and the surrounding area of ​​Shunxiang Fort was silent again, as if the cruel fighting these days was just a dream.

Seeing their leaving figures, Wang Dou knew that the battle he had been preparing for for the past two years was over, and he said silently in his heart: "Abate, we will meet again in two years!"

……

Noon on July [-]th, the ninth year of Chongzhen.

In the past two days, Wang Dou kept getting no rewards at night. The Qing soldiers indeed withdrew from Baoan Prefecture. Even the Qing soldiers from Huailaiwei and other places left their camps in groups. Most of the Qing soldiers converged.It seems that they really retreated from the security area.

This morning, all the soldiers and civilians who died in the fort were also buried at the foot of Busan in the south of Shunxiang Fort.

Although the gains were great, the entire area of ​​Shunxiang Fort also suffered heavy losses. More than 100 soldiers and civilians died in the battle alone, and there were hundreds of Ming civilians who died under the Shunxiang Fort, and there were many injured soldiers and civilians.There are also innumerable property losses after the wall was cleared.

Except for Shunxiang Fort and Huiyao Fort, all the military forts and fortresses in the territory have been destroyed. To rebuild these castles, I don’t know how much manpower and material resources are needed. Fortunately, most of the people in Shunxiang Fort are there. As long as there are people, There will be a day when the home will be rebuilt.

From early in the morning, outside Shunxiang Fort, there was a dense funeral procession, with white flags like a forest, and all the soldiers and civilians in the fort wore hemp belts and mourned, and went to Busan to see off.The desolate suona sounded straight into the sky, and the paper money scattered along the way scattered all over the ground, making the ground a vast expanse of whiteness.

More than 100 soldiers and civilians who died in the battle of Shunxiang Fort were collectively buried on a sunny slope. In the future, Shunxiang Fort will specially set aside manpower, money and food for maintenance of this cemetery, and build a temple in front of the grave for people inside and outside the fort. Military and civilian worship.

Not far from this cemetery, there is another sunny sloping land, on which hundreds of women and children who died in the city are buried, and a Yimin Temple is built in front of the grave, and Shunxiang Fort will also allocate money and food for maintenance. .

At the same time as the burial and sacrifice, another ten captured Qing soldiers were dissected and their livers were cut out in front of the grave, and placed together with the incense offerings to comfort the spirits of the soldiers and civilians who died in battle.Their heads will also serve as military leaders.

At the burial and sacrifice ceremony, Wang Dou promised the soldiers and civilians on the spot that the land distributed by the soldiers and civilians who died in battle can also continue to be owned. Their families lack labor, and the army will specially organize people to cultivate them for them in the future.Every family of a soldier who died in battle will receive a pension of ten taels of silver in one go, and in the future, their family will receive five buckets of rice as a monthly ration from Shunxiangbao.

Those soldiers who were injured and retired, in addition to receiving five taels of silver as pensions at one go, can also receive five buckets of rice as pensions from Shunxiang Fort every month. No matter how difficult it is, Wang Dou will guarantee the lives of these casualties at home worry free.

Wang Dou's promise made the families of those casualties feel grateful, and also strengthened the confidence of those who were alive to continue to serve Wang Dou.

Sorrow and joy are intertwined, which is the situation outside Shun Township Castle this morning.

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For Shunxiangbao, the war is basically over, and it will take time to heal the wounds of the war.However, life must go on, the home must be rebuilt, and what to do in the future for Shunxiangbao requires careful study.

In the Qianhu official hall, Lin Daofu said to Wang Dou: "My lord, I have inspected by my humble official. In our Shunxiang Fort, except for Shunxiang Fort and Huiyao Fort, the rest of the military forts and forts have been destroyed and cannot be lived. To build these castles, the manpower and material resources required will be lost, can your lord decide to rebuild these forts?"

Wang Dou pondered for a long time, and sighed: "Building cities and fortresses is useless in the end. No matter how much we build, we will still be destroyed in the flames of war. How about using the money and food to train soldiers so that they can repel the slaves with dignity in field battles?" , so that they are afraid, and dare not step half a step into our Shun Township Fort, so it is much better than simply building a city."

Everyone nodded. After these days of fighting, the officers in the fort were almost no longer afraid of the Qing soldiers, and their confidence in their own army's field fighting was greatly enhanced.A lot of training of sergeants, no matter how much money and food it costs, is better than hard work in building a city, but after the arrival of the Qing soldiers, it is better to fortify the walls and clear the fields, and burn them all down.

In the end, everyone discussed that those burnt military fortresses would not be rebuilt, and only barracks were built along the north walls of the old and new forts in Shun Township, for the military households who moved after the fortified walls were cleared.In the future, after the new barracks are built, no city walls will be built around them, and only a small two-meter-high wall will be built on the side.

Those fortresses also gave up all of them. Only when the military households of Shunxiangbao went out to farm, and some of the fields were far away from Shunxiangbao, the nearby fortresses were slightly repaired, and they were used as a rest for the military households to go out to cultivate. just fine.

Then Wang Dou discussed with everyone about the upcoming autumn sowing, and Wang Dou asked Feng Dachang, the magistrate, about the current population situation of Shun Township Fort.

According to what Feng Dachang said, the households that have been relocated several times after clearing the walls, now have a total population of more than 6000 in the old and new forts of Shun Township. Life inside is stable, and the Ming army in the fort is strong, fully capable of protecting their safety, and decided to stay in Shunxiang Fort.

Now Shun Xiangbao has a population of more than 6000 and close to 200, half of which are male and half male. Among them, there are more than [-] registered households and many retail households.It is a long way to go to feed these people.

Wang Dou now has less than 3000 taels of silver in stock, and less than a thousand shi of grain and rice.After a series of killing bandits and slaves, although they ate a lot these days, there are still more than 300 pigs and sheep, more than 200 cattle, and more than 200 mules and horses.This is all of Wang Dou's family fortune.

However, with a population of nearly 7, there are hundreds of households. According to Wang Dou's standards, if each household needs to divide dozens of acres of land, a total of more than [-] acres of land is needed.

Now Shunxiangbao has more than 3000 mu of new land, and Jingbianbao has also reclaimed nearly [-] mu of new land.Still too far from the intended goal.After the wall was cleared, most of the life of the soldiers and civilians in the castle still depended on Wang Dou's support.

In ancient times, there was a lack of meat, people ate a lot, and with heavy work, it was very easy for a grown man to eat one liter of rice per meal.One liter of rice needs five hectares of rice, which is about one catty of rice according to later generations.One stone of rice and wheat in Daming is 180 eight catties, and the bran is removed, which is much less.

Including the army, there are about [-] young and middle-aged men in the fort, who eat at least fifteen shi of Wang Dou a day, plus the old and weak women in the castle, who eat twenty shi of Wang Dou a day, One month is six hundred shi.

Even if there are these deposits of silver and food in the fort, they can only support them until the beginning of next year at most, not counting the cost of reclaiming wasteland.If you eat some meat, you will eat less rice, but even if those young and strong men eat two taels of meat a day, a pig in the Ming Dynasty only grew to 140 catties a year, and about [-] catties of meat, these young and strong men, a day He also ate Wang Dou's five pigs and sheep.

There are many difficulties, but the officers present here are full of confidence and full of confidence in the future. Anyway, they have Wang Dou around. In their concept, it seems that as long as Wang Dou comes out, everything can be solved.

Wang Dou knew that he was suffering, he looked at the roof, just thinking about what to do in the future?
The guards came to report, and the leader Wen Daxing came back from spying on the enemy at night, so Wang Dou hurriedly let him in.

Soon, the burly and bearded Wen Daxing came in. After Abatai retreated from Shun Township Fort, he was ordered by Wang Dou to follow them quietly to Huailai, Yanqing and other places. It is true that most of the Qing soldiers from Lai and other places retreated to Yanqing and other places. They entered Juyongguan and Changping City one after another, and there were not many Qing soldiers staying in Yanqing Prefecture.

Wen Daxing and the others followed all the way to Yanqing Prefecture. After confirming the news, his task had been completed, so he led the Ye Bu Shou back.

After he handed over the order to Wang Dou, he reported the latest news to Wang Dou: "On the way back, the humble officials met slaves and bandits, and about one Jiala's troops escorted more than five thousand captured Daming people. People, more than a thousand cattle and sheep, and a large number of vehicles passed by, probably carrying a lot of grain, rice and silver. When I came back, they were marching around the Tumu Fortress. I saw that their journey was slow, and it was estimated that they would reach Yanqing Prefecture. It will take many more days.”
"In the territory of Huailaiwei, except for this thief slave, no slaves have been seen passing by."

There was a look of contempt in his eyes: "Although the officers and soldiers of the castles everywhere saw the slaves passing by, they still stayed in the castle and did not dare to attack."

In the past few days, Wang Dou had sent people to Zhoucheng and other places to inquire about the news. Yishun Township Baoye did not receive the information. Naturally, the news of the victory over the enemy was not delivered so quickly.

Wang Dou said indifferently: "Is it just a soldier of Jiala who escorted the people of Ming Dynasty?"

Wen Daxing said with a smile: "The humble officer can see clearly, is that Jiala, the thief slave, or the army that was defeated under our Shun Township Castle?"

Everyone laughed.

Wang Dou shouted, "Bring the map."

Soon the guards fetched the map, and spread it out on the desk in a large size. Of course, the maps of thousands of households like theirs can only be the roughest kind. Excellent military maps are not for Wang Dou's level. can have.In the future, it is still necessary to send out Ye Bu Shou to draw excellent maps in various places.

Wang Dou watched carefully on the map, and Han Zhong, Han Chao, Lin Daofu and others who were beside him also came to Wang Dou's side to take a closer look.

Wang Dou looked at it for a long time, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and suddenly he slammed the desk with a loud bang.

Wang Dou yelled: "Thieves and slaves are mad, poisoning living beings, but I, Wang Dou, as an official of the Ming Dynasty, how can I sit back and watch the disaster of the people? Rescue them from the flames."

The rest of them came to their senses one after another. There was only one Jiala left in Huailaiwei territory, and he was defeated under his own castle. What's more unfortunate is that they dared to escort so many Daming people and money away, swaggeringly, Still walking so slowly.

Everyone in Shun Township Fort was full of disdain for these Qing soldiers, and they said one after another: "Yes, as the king's army, how can we just sit back and watch the people suffer? My lord has a kind heart and is willing to rescue the people from the sea of ​​fire. We should follow your lord , even if you die, you will not regret it!"

Wang Dou shouted: "Decree, leave a sentry to guard the city, and the rest of the soldiers will follow me to fight and take back the looted people and wealth!"

(End of this chapter)