407 The Confusion of Frontier Army (seeking Monthly Pass)
An Mi, the county lieutenant of Juyong County, watched helplessly as Xu Yue kept saying that there would be no big move, but in fact, she had quietly changed the entire Shanggu County.
He was so frightened that he would touch his neck carefully every day when he woke up to make sure he was still alive.
It wasn't until he felt the beating of his pulse that he dared to continue drafting various documents for the female leader with confidence.
For so many years, he suppressed his love for literary creation and worked hard to be a qualified military attache, thinking that he would spend the rest of his life suppressing his nature like this.
Who would have thought that when the sky above his head changed and Xu Jiajun arrived, he would actually be able to pick up paper and pen again and be the person he most wanted to be - as a military attache, show off his articles!
Although every document he drafted would be rejected and revised by Xu Yue, she would always say to him:
"Well written, don't write like this next time."
Well written?
This is an affirmation for him!
An Mi found that by following Xu Yue, she could always get the satisfaction she wanted.
Although the way to obtain it sometimes seems strange...
At the end of November, the main Xianbei army, which had been pursued by Xu Dalang for a full month and a half, was completely wiped out by the Xu family's cavalry in Wancheng, the capital of Xianbei.
Immediately afterwards, the battle ended when Wang Pingping, who came for reinforcements, shot off King Xianbei's head.
After this battle, the major tribes of Xianbei suffered heavy losses. All the men in their prime were killed in the battle. The remaining group of old, young, women and children died of cold and hunger, and some were sold.
This sale is different from the usual sale of captive slaves.
They were sold to the Xu Jiajun by the newly appointed King of Xianbei in exchange for chips to offset the losses suffered by the Xu Jiajun in this battle, in exchange for the Xu Jiajun stopping the attack on Xianbei.
At the same time, it was not enough to sell women and children. Almost all the cattle and sheep in the tribe were included in the huge compensation payment.
In this way, the Xianbei tribe on the northern grasslands will no longer be able to pose a threat to the Central Plains for at least the next hundred years.
After getting this result, the Xianbei people don't know if they will regret that they went south to provoke the Xu family army who cannot be provoked.
The winter snow has fallen, and no one cares about how the defeated Xianbei people in the northern grassland will survive this cold winter.
The officers and soldiers of the Xu family army who returned from victory have received heavy military uniforms sent from Yuyang.
This military uniform is half made of cloud-white, fluffy and warm cotton and half cashmere. Just a coat that can cover you from head to toe can keep you warm throughout the winter.
When the three thousand frontier troops who had just retreated from the battlefield received such coats, they all showed expressions of disbelief.
As a team that was forcibly taken along by Xu Jiajun halfway, they never thought that they would be treated the same as the regular soldiers of Xu Jiajun.
Two completely different regimes, the old and the new, have completed their transition in Shanggu County. As representatives of the old forces, what they thought at first was to use their military exploits in exchange for their lives.
But the border troops also felt something unusual about the Xu Jiajun soldiers during more than a month of joint operations.
Unlike these rough guys who can't read a word, Xu Jiajun's brothers can all write and do math, and their brains are smarter than them.
So in this battle, they can't get any credit at all.
However, after retreating from the battlefield, the young general Xu Jiajun in charge of statistics carefully recorded the achievements of each of them with pen and paper.
The young statistician also smiled at them and said: "Go to your respective centurions to receive the rewards you deserve."
After spending so long with the soldiers of the Xu Jiajun, the border troops all know that the soldiers of the Xu Jiajun are called volunteers.
The so-called voluntary means voluntarily joining the Xu family army and voluntarily going to the battlefield without any military pay.
For the frontier soldiers who used to receive military pay, this was simply more outrageous than the bullying of soldiers by generals in the old days.
Fortunately, the Xu Jiajun still took care of the food, clothing and housing of the volunteers. Otherwise, the border troops thought, there would be countless deserters.
They go to the battlefield and fight with their lives, but the Xu family army doesn't pay them. It's really too much!
However, the slap in the face came quickly. When they captured Wancheng, a Xu family soldier in the same team excitedly counted with them on his fingers:
"I killed five Xianbei soldiers today, and also completed the first-class task of climbing the wall and planting flags. After counting this time, I can also record a first-class merit. When the rewards are distributed and sent home, my father
Mom can go to the government to get ten more acres of land again!"
Ten acres of land?
The frontier soldiers in the same team looked at the Xu Jiajun in surprise. This man was indeed a fierce man. He was at the forefront of every charge.
This momentum was something the border troops could not understand.
The Xu Jiajun would definitely give rewards to the soldiers who successfully completed the charge, but the border troops thought that this would not be much.
In their past, the ones with the most rewards would have been the wall-climbing pioneers.
No matter life or death, as long as you join the Wall Climbing Pioneers, you can get an extra 10,000 yuan in military pay.
For their frontier army, ten thousand dollars is indeed very attractive, but only those soldiers who come from extremely poor families or who specialize in earning high bounties will take the initiative to join the wall-climbing vanguard.
But Xu Jiajun's brothers are different. Each of them will rush forward without hesitation. They are afraid that they will not be able to rush to the front, and they don't even think about it. Rushing to the front will often die the fastest.
In the past, the frontier soldiers could not understand why the Xu family soldiers were so brave, but now, listening to what the Xu family soldiers in the same team said, they suddenly understood.
All Xu Jiajun volunteers can exchange their military service for fields!
First-class meritorious deeds are entitled to ten acres of first-class farmland, second-class meritorious deeds are entitled to two acres of first-class farmland, three acres of medium-grade land, and third-class meritorious deeds are also entitled to three acres of medium-grade land.
For these rewarded fields, only 30% of the grain tax was charged, and the remaining 70% of the income belonged to the soldiers themselves.
The volunteers are all ordinary people from poor backgrounds. For farmers, nothing is more important than land.
The reason why they dare to rush to the front every time is because they want to win more acres of land for their families.
Thinking of the rewards received by the Xu Jiajun in the same team, the frontier soldiers couldn't help but look forward to what rewards they would receive from the centurion.
It doesn't matter whether they have military pay now, because except for the extremely poor food they had under the difficult conditions when chasing the Xianbei King on the grassland, most of the time, the Xu family's dedicated cook squad would prepare hot soup noodles for the soldiers.
pimple.
This food is much better than what they had before.
If you can eat like this every meal, who cares about the little military pay in the past?
Especially on the day when Wancheng was captured, reinforcements from General Wang also came, and they even had extra meat pie.
I heard that those Xu Jiajun who made first-class achievements also drank a sip of the unforgettable fairy syrup.
