On the official road from Muzhou to the capital, a cavalry team of forty people was riding slowly. Five carriages were in the middle of the cavalry team, tightly wrapped by forty horsemen.
White flags were flying in the cavalry and stuck on the carriages, and the fluttering paper money was never broken along the way.
This is a funeral procession. To be precise, this is a procession for sending ashes. The ashes of all the soldiers who were killed in the Battle of Weizhong on the Bodaoling Jingqi of Zhu Biao's tribe crashed into the five Bailing covered vehicles.
On the carriage.
The red robes of the cavalry have turned into the white robes of the mourners. Even the horses have a white forehead tied on their foreheads and white flowers on their tails.
They are forty people selected by Zhu Biao from forty teams of two thousand cavalry. One person from each team came to send their comrades home. The team will drive to Bodaoling, where all the soldiers of Zhu Biao's army are
The roster is used to find the place of origin of the family members of the fallen soldiers, and then the ashes are sent home. This has been the practice that Zhu Biao has maintained since he led the army alone.
There are still many such soldiers who look monotonous and alone, especially those recruits recruited before Bodaoling. Many of their relatives and family members have been harmed by wild dogs. So, a mountainous area under Bodaoling
This is their final destination!
The cemetery has grown from scratch, and the number of tombs has grown from a few to many, and the number of tombs has exceeded 10,000 unconsciously. Standing on the nearby mountains and looking down, you can see that they are densely packed and neatly arranged in a large area. This is the spirit of the Bodaoling Cavalry.
Holy place!
And every time Zhu Biao thinks of that big piece of separation, the words "one will become famous and one's bones will wither" will haunt his heart all the time, torturing his conscience.
Accompanying the cavalry back to Bodaoling was a handwritten letter from Zhu Biao. This handwritten letter needs to be handed over to Fu Shaoxue, the chief bookkeeper of the camp, and an additional note will be added to the camp's account book immediately.
Expenses of more than 40,000 taels of silver.
This is the death and disability pension issued by Bo Daoling to his soldiers.
The fallen soldiers received one hundred taels of silver; the disabled soldiers received twenty to seventy taels of silver, depending on the severity. In this battle, more than 300 of the two thousand Bodaoling elite cavalry were killed and more than 500 were injured.
, among them there are more than 60 people who are disabled or unable to return to the army after being cured.
Of course, the imperial court also provided pensions to the fallen soldiers. But Zhu Biao didn't care about that, and he wasn't worried at all about someone being a mastermind in this matter, saying that he was trying to win people's hearts. Zhu Biao just wanted to give a sum of money himself.
So as to alleviate the guilt in my heart and make my conscience feel better.
What's more, what is the pension given by the court enough for? How long can the money given by Zhu Biao himself be used?
Let’s take a simple family of six, including old parents, wife, oneself, a pair of children, and a family of six. Without the soldier himself as the backbone, the family basically has no support and sustained considerable income, let alone the future.
It's almost the same if you just sit back and eat.
A family of five, old, weak, orphaned and widowed, only needs about two taels of silver to survive for a month. Countless uncles in Peiping city rewarded them with much more than this amount, but for the most basic people,
, this is one month’s expenses.
The twelve months in a year are twenty-four taels. If you add one tael during the New Year, you will get twenty-five taels. The one hundred taels of silver given by Zhu Biao is only enough for four years!
Zhu Biao really wanted to give more pensions or continue his management, such as giving one tael of silver every month to the bereaved families of martyrs. But he did not have that much financial resources, nor did he have the authority. All Zhu Biao could do was to make people
When returning the ashes, leave a small iron plate to the families of the fallen soldiers and tell them that if they really can't survive, they will come to you with the iron plate...
Even eight million taels of silver cannot afford such an expense, but fortunately the battlefield has been moved to the Zhongshan Kingdom. From the Battle of Dongjiang, the Battle of Yuzhou to the entry into Zhongshan, whether it is the capture of Zhongshan soldiers or the capture of Zhongshan soldiers,
The seizure made Zhu Biao's purse suddenly bulge, and more importantly, Zhu Biao's purse was bulging in the Bodaoling army. The purses of his generals and soldiers were also bulging.
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According to the rules of Bodaoling, the entire army captured and distributed uniformly. Zhu Biao took 30% himself, the generals took 20%, and the soldiers took 30%. Then 10% was handed over to the public, and 10% was reserved as public funds in the camp, which was handed over to Lord Bo.
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From the battlefield of Hanhu, where there were only bones and no meat, to the battlefield of Hanzhongshan, where there were less bones and more fat, even Zhu Biao himself could feel that there was endless motivation to push himself.
This involves not only national justice and hatred for betrayers, but also the power of money.
At the Dashun Pass, more than 30,000 Zhou army prisoners of war were queuing up to enter the prisoner of war camp. Zhu Biao had an extra one hundred thousand taels of silver notes in his hand. This was not the capture and reward of the Battle of Weizhong, but the harmony of the Muzhou army.
The governor's office expressed their gratitude to Zhu Biao for his great contribution to Muzhou. In other words, this hundred thousand taels of silver was the "meaning" given to Zhu Biao by the people in Muzhou.
Because Zhu Biao completely opened up the situation between Muzhou and Yuzhou, in the future, the Muzhou Army and the newly formed civilian army in Muzhou, relying on Dashunguan Pass for support, can also transform into a locust army against the rich Yuzhou.
In this situation, one hundred thousand taels of silver is too trivial and too worthy.
In the battle to burn down Sanshi County, a coalition of 65,000 people fought hard before and after the fire. The number of casualties was not less than 10,000, nor less than 7,000 or 8,000. There is no statistics on the number of people who were killed in the fire, but I guess
It will not be less than five thousand.
The killings and captures of the Bodaoling cavalry outside the city were the final blow of Yang Yanzhang's troops. After the remnants of the Zhou army completely fled into the camp in the south of the city, the general Meng Ruhu was beheaded and Fan Chunzhong of the Zhongshan army was injured, so he had no choice but to be elected.
A new general, before he had time to count the number of people and reorganize the troops, the infantry of the Muzhou Army, which was more than 20 miles away, rushed to Sanshi one after another.
The huge fire in the county seat could be clearly seen from more than twenty miles away.
Zhu Biao handed the prisoners to the guards of the Muzhou Army who came over, and led the cavalry to the Zhou Army's south camp without stopping.
A very simple campsite!
There were no trenches, no traps, no watchtowers, and no antlers to stop the horses. When Zhu Biao led his troops to rush to the edge of the camp from the west, the Zhou army inside was still in a mess, and even the large-scale arrows and crossbow formations were not organized.
A fire and a panicked flight caused all the structures of the Zhou army to be in disarray.
The army is a disciplined and organized creature. Without discipline and organization, the army is no longer an army, but a group of rabble.
The hoops clasped the fence of the camp one by one, and the horses pulled back, easily creating a huge gap in the west of the Zhou army's camp. In an instant, the shocked Zhou army panicked again, and the whole army fled.
After a smooth and flowing horseback attack, more than a thousand Han cavalry shouted, "Surrender a lot, disarm a lot," and one after another took ten times as many prisoners as themselves.
In the end, more than 30,000 people were captured by the Zhou army. Including more than 1,000 Zhongshan troops, the total number of prisoners reached more than 33,000. No less than 10,000 people fell dead outside Sanshi County. In the end, it was possible
It is certain that the number of Zhou soldiers who escaped was between 5,000 and 7,000.
This number is quite large. If they can gather together and stick to one county, such as Wuting, then with the current strength of the Han army, it will be difficult to break away from the Weizhong area and gain a direct passage to Taigu County. But from Sanshi to
Wuting had to go through four counties, hundreds of miles away. How could they catch up with Zhu Biao with just their legs?
What's more important is that the morale of these five to seven thousand Zhou troops is not only low, but also many people will lose their armor and armor in the process of escaping, and they will not even have anyone to save their lives, and they will be scattered into countless groups, large and small.
If no well-known and popular figure appears.
Such a group of people is nothing to worry about. The only thing Zhu Biao hates right now is that he let Zhu Xie and Fan Chunju run away. The latter was still seriously injured according to the prisoner's confession. They can run away. They are just two Xiaoqiang.
cockroach.
After Zhu Biao had packed up in Sanshi County, he ordered Zhu Zhong to lead some people to chase down. There were not many people, less than 700 horses, so he left 500 horses in his hands to help the Muzhou army suppress the prisoners. But
This kind of military strength is definitely enough compared to the defeat of the coalition forces.
Gaoming, at the junction of Dianshan Mountain, the sun sets in the west.
"General, we have been guarded. The Han cavalry team behind us has been following us for half an hour and has been hanging at a distance."
The person speaking in front of Fan Chunju was Zhu Xie, and the person Zhu Xie was talking to, Fan Chunju, was lying in a carriage with a pale face at the moment. The wound on his back was covered with thick gauze, but the pain was still severe from the bumps of the carriage.
Blood seeped out from time to time. I didn't know if I had to change the bedding five or six times along the way, but they were all soaked in blood.
Hearing this, Fan Chunju smiled bitterly, "So we are being targeted. I was just thinking about how we should defend the city when we get to Wuting... ahem..."
Fortunately, the Han army did not pursue him to the end that day, otherwise Fan Chunju would have been caught long ago. He also knew that he was seriously injured, and it was pure luck to escape yesterday's disaster. But now he was facing Dian Mountain, and there were 500 people staying there.
, it is not as close as Sanshi to Gaoming, and then there is Wuting, which is guarding the main road from Longshan area to Taigu County. He was in sight but was targeted by the Han cavalry who never showed up. Fan Chunju was unwilling to accept that his success fell short.
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Zhu Xie looked at Fan Chunju's back and said hesitantly, "How about speeding up? I'm afraid the general won't be able to hold on."
"It's too late..." Fan Chunju coughed while holding his chest, sweat dripping down his forehead, "Since it's been embroidered, we can't run away now even if we want to." After decades of service in the army, Fan Chunju gained war wisdom.
Not bad, "I'm afraid the large cavalry of the Han army has arrived."
The team led by Fan Chunju and Zhu was formed based on the remaining 100 personal guards of the two. They gathered the defeated troops along the way. Those Zhou soldiers could not care about them. The two were generals of the small country of Zhongshan. They blended in like a tired bird returning to the forest.
Come in.
Over the course of a night and a day, the number of soldiers had increased to more than 500. Unfortunately, the soldiers lacked weapons and weapons, such as spears and shields, which hindered their escape. The soldiers lost all of them on the way to escape. crossbow!
"Find a place to hold on. If you hold on until night, you will have a chance!" There are several military masters on Fan Chunju's left and right! (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
