Chapter 274 Victory in the first battle
I saw the tiger and leopard army moving boxes filled with various finances out of the yurt and piled them onto the open space in the center of the tribe. This book is from
The only remaining hundreds of women and children in the Mongolian tribe, without exception, were full of anger, wishing to swallow these tiger and leopard soldiers alive. However, when they saw the barrels pointing at them around them, they thought that during the battle just now, their relatives had no time to react, and they died after the bloody scene under these barrels.
These herders could only lower their former high heads with a frustrated face and watched the wealth they had robbed from the Ming Dynasty were taken back bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by tiger and leopard army in front of them.
When Wei Zheng was escorted by the personal guard camp, he walked into the tribe that was still filled with blood.
More than a thousand Mongolian corpses scattered in the tribe have been piled up together. As long as Wei Zheng gave the order, these corpses will turn into ashes in the flames.
When Wei Zheng first saw these corpses piled up into mountains, a hint of anger was replaced by a hint of anger. Because Wei Zheng not only saw the young and strong among these corpses, but also saw countless old, weak, women and children.
However, after hearing Wang Feng's report on these Mongolians' vow to resist to the death, the anger on his face was directly replaced by shock. Then, he said with emotion: "Now it seems that the news that the Mongolians and the Later Jin Tartars are soldiers are true... However, it would be a pity if so many free laborers die... "
After saying that, Wei Zheng turned his attention to the gains he expected the most.
When Wei Zheng, surrounded by his subordinates, walked into the tent of the most luxurious tribal leader in the center of the tribe, the various finances accumulated in front of the tent had already piled up into a small hill.
While Wei Zheng was waiting, a leader of Wang Feng's subordinate reported with excitement on his face.
"Report to the generals. All the generals... our seizures in the tribe have been counted..."
"After preliminary statistics, we found more than 15,400 taels of gold in the entire tribe. More than 350 kilograms of various gold products..."
"In terms of silver, a total of more than 254,000 taels of cash were found. More than 1,230 kilograms of various silver products..."
"If all these gold and silver are converted into silver, there will be at least 550,000 taels..."
Seeing the satisfied smile slowly showing on Wei Zheng's face, the team leader continued to report.
"In addition to gold and silver, our greatest harvest in this tribe is war horses, cattle and sheep..."
"In addition to the more than 250 war horses that were killed by us on the battlefield, we found a total of 4,581 young war horses that could serve as military horses, and 739 war horses that were underage..."
"As for the number of cattle and sheep in the tribe, there is too much, and there is no way to conduct detailed statistics. However, the final data has been calculated: In the tribe, we seized a total of more than 1,500 cattle and more than 30,000 sheep..."
"In the end, the brothers seized various cowhides and sheepskins worth 50,000 taels of silver in the tribe... As for the food, except for tens of thousands of kilograms of jerky and fresh meat, no other seized..."
Hearing this, the smile on Wei Zheng's face was already covered by excitement without realizing it...
Not to mention the gold and silver, just one war horse is enough to form a cavalry of thousands of people. Not only that, the seized cattle and sheep are all livestock urgently needed by the Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. Because if you want to carry out large-scale military farming in the two provinces, it is impossible to complete it with manpower alone.
Now, more than a thousand plowing oxen can be added at one time, which can at least ensure the military farming of one mansion. With the help of these plowing oxen, the spring plowing will be completed on time and in season for the next year...
As for the 30,000 sheep, while ensuring the supply of meat from the Tiger and Leopard Army and all local garrisons in Shanxi Provinces, it also greatly alleviated the increasingly severe grain pressure in Shanxi and Shaanxi Provinces.
You know, the prerequisite for deciding to buy grain from Jiangnan was only aimed at hundreds of thousands of refugees in Datong Prefecture. Now, I have become the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and the millions of refugees in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces need to be managed by themselves.
In this case, the road to buying grain in Jiangnan alone will definitely not meet the needs of millions of people in Shandong and Shaanxi Provinces.
Therefore, in addition to buying grain from Jiangnan, I also need to obtain grain from other channels, so that millions of refugees from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces can survive until the second year of military farming harvest.
Anyone with some common sense knows that if a person can eat one pound of food at a meal, if he only eats meat, at most half a pound, he can eat enough, and he is also very hungry.
Therefore, generally speaking, for ordinary people, a pound of meat is worth three pounds of food.
According to this ratio, if all 30,000 sheep are slaughtered, it will be at least 30,000 pounds, or 3 million kilograms of grain.
If I can loot 300,000 sheep from the Mongolians this time, it will be equivalent to solving the gap of 30 million ounces of food for both Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.
Thinking of this, Wei Zheng could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart and spoke loudly and ordered.
"Immediately cook all the beef and mutton seized, so that the soldiers can have a big meal... In order to avoid exposing the target, today, the entire army will rest in this tribe during the day. At night, we will launch an attack on the second Mongolian tribe."
"General Zhao, you immediately send a commander to quickly return to Datong... Order the military advisor to draw 3,000 troops from the Datong Prefecture garrison, quickly arrive at Zuo Yun on standby, receive all the cattle, sheep and property we robbed in Mongolia, and send all of them back to Datong Prefecture without any remaining..."
An hour later, a strong smell of meat wafted in the already crowded tribe...
When tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army began to feast in the military camp, Wei Zheng, who was sitting in the main seat in the luxurious tribal leader's tent, was eating beef while issuing a new round of military orders to several confidant generals...
"Soldiers, this time we attacked Mongolia, we won the first battle, and we harvested so many cattle, sheep and wealth and war horses, which was far beyond our expectations. Therefore, we decided to conquer as many large and medium-sized Mongolian tribes as possible before we were truly exposed. From the hands of the Mongolians, we plundered more cattle, sheep and wealth and wealth, and formed the war horses necessary for cavalry...."
"This commander: General Zhou...the scouts continued to attack from all sides, expand the scope of reconnaissance, and clarify the distribution of all Mongolian tribes within one or two miles around."
Chapter completed!