As his subordinates began to search for loot among the corpses, Shen Lie and two veterans of the Zhejiang Army stood aside, pacing leisurely and thinking together.
"Hi!"
Thinking of such a great achievement, Shen Lie smiled happily, and it seemed that even the wound on his arm didn't hurt much anymore.
We started chatting with the two old soldiers, and the two old soldiers also smiled happily.
While walking, Shen Lie looked at the Tatar bandits lying around in different shapes and forms, and Shen Lie couldn't help but smile coldly, full of ridicule.
Do you know what a regular army is?
No matter how good your riding skills are or how good your archery skills are, can you stop a volley of muskets?
A large number of seizures were looted. According to the Ming Dynasty's military system, if you kill one enemy soldier, you can be promoted to one level, or you can receive fifty taels of silver. If you kill three people in formation, you can be promoted to another level, and the reward is doubled.
This is a genuine military reward!
"Speaking of the Ming Dynasty's military exploits."
The old pawn narrowed his eyes and complimented with a smile: "My lord is mighty!"
This Ming Dynasty’s military exploits are still very valuable!
In the early years, there were indeed border army generals, ranging from ordinary big-headed soldiers to slaves who escaped from Mongolia. They relied on military merit to rise to the rank of guerrilla, general, town general, deputy general...
Finally became the general soldier!
This man is called Ma Fang, who started to rise to prominence in the Jiajing Dynasty. With his martial arts and Tatar heads, he went from being a runaway slave to commanding the general affairs, the governor of the left, and the general soldier of the Xuanfu.
He can be called the most powerful general in the frontier army of Jiajing Dynasty!
It was not until the seventh year of Wanli that he returned home due to illness.
Died in the ninth year of Wanli.
His second son is called Ma Lin, who is now a military commander in Datong.
Think about it.
Shen Lie's mood became more and more cheerful.
Of course.
In this era, the importance of rewards mainly depends on whether the person who has performed meritorious service has someone in the court. Just like Qi Jiguang, who had no one in the court in the early years, made countless meritorious services during the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties.
But still not welcome.
If there is someone in the court...
That would be different!
Not long after.
A scream came from the front: "There is someone alive!"
As soon as Shen Lie's eyes lit up, he hurried over with a flintlock musket and watched as several people pulled out a bloody man who was pressed under the belly of the dead horse.
Take a closer look at this man's attire, which includes breeches, a mandarin jacket, and a pullover. He is also wearing a leather armor with a saber hanging on the leather armor. His unshaven face is stained with blood.
As everyone gathered around.
The Tatar horse bandit lowered his head as if he felt guilty.
Shen Lie frowned slightly and said coldly: "Can you speak Chinese?"
The horse bandit bared his teeth very fiercely and cursed at Shen Lie in a harsh accent: "Ming Gou..."
The words have not yet fallen.
Shen Lie became furious and smacked the Tatar horse bandit with the butt of his rifle, knocking him to the ground. He couldn't help but hit the Tatar horse bandit several times in the face.
"Sir, please calm down!"
"stop fighting!"
The crowd was startled and hurriedly grabbed the angry Shen Lie. The value of his life was too great, and it would be worthless if he was beaten to death.
Shen Lie then gave up angrily and spat.
With whom!
The gangsters quickly tied up the Tatar and continued to clean up the battlefield.
Do a rough count after a while.
The soldiers soon finished counting the seizures, and the total formation killed thirty-eight Tatar cavalry, capturing eight war horses, forty bows, some leather armor, and no arrows...
But here comes the problem.
A young fanzi ran over and asked with some embarrassment: "Sir... do you want to have the leader's head... We can't take away so many heads!"
Shen Lie was stunned.
I couldn't help but touch my head.
Then I remembered that the Ming army's method of recording merit was to cut off the heads. This method was indeed a bit inhumane. Besides, since we were escorts, it really didn't make sense to carry so many heads with us.
"fool."
As Shen Lie rolled his eyelids, he smiled angrily and said, "This rule has to be changed... scalping!"
Several of his men were stunned for a moment and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency is wise!"
Guess.
It’s almost the same for scalping. The scalps of Tatars are indeed different from those of our Ming people, and they look obvious at a glance.
As the fans started to be busy, a voice came from not far away.
"grown ups!"
As Shen Lie stopped and turned around, he saw the heroic young man from the Pingyao Escort Agency walking over with the support of the woman in white from another abandoned military fort a hundred meters away.
The young man was holding a musket in one hand and one leg was still bleeding.
"Why."
Shen Lie hurriedly took the people over and was so focused on picking up military merits that he forgot about him.
When speaking.
The brother and sister walked up to Shen Lie. The young man hugged his fists with gratitude and said softly: "Li Chaohua will never forget your kindness in helping me!"
The slightly embarrassed woman in white also thought of a blessing and said softly: "Thank you so much, Sir, for saving my life."
Shen Lie smiled slightly and returned the gift: "I'm in Xiadongchang, Shen Lie...you don't need to thank me."
See you again.
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"Dongchang...Master Shen Lieshen."
As Li Chaohua, brother and sister Li Susu murmured to themselves, the three of them looked at each other and smiled, filled with the joy and joy of surviving the disaster.
Perhaps this is the instinct of helping each other among compatriots.
It took a whole morning to count the war achievements, collect the captured items, and load all the captured trophies onto the eight captured war horses.
Until noon.
Only a group of border troops stationed nearby came in a hurry to investigate the military situation. They looked at the stunned border guerrillas and thousands of guardsmen.
Shen Lie grinned and called the guerrilla over to show his teeth.
"you."
A command.
Shen Lie asked the guerrilla to lead his troops and a few followers to escort the trophies back to the capital to report the victory, and then he left with his escort, chariot and horse team.
The unshaven frontier guerrillas were left disheveled in the wind.
When you hit the road again.
for safety.
The two cavalry teams simply joined forces and left the dangerous area where they had fought all night with the seven or eight Pingyao escorts who died in the battle.
Then before it got dark, we slowly drove into a county town ahead.
Within the city.
In the inn.
After briefly washing up, Shen Lie came to the yard.
Seeing Li Chaohua dragging a lame leg, he was busy going out to buy coffins, hire horses and vehicles, and bury the bodyguards who died in the battle.
Shen Lie walked over slowly and said softly: "My condolences, Mr. Li."
Li Chaohua smiled bitterly: "Thank you, sir... Now that I have eaten this bowl of rice, I will tie my head to my belt... life and death are determined by destiny, wealth and honor are in heaven."
Shen Lie said no more words.
After a hasty night's rest in the county town, before dawn, the two escort teams set off again, slowly heading towards Datong Prefecture.
The most dangerous section of the road has passed.
It’s a smooth road ahead.
The escort carriage creaked and creaked as brother and sister Shen Lie and Li Chaohua rode side by side, chatting about the dangers of the journey.
Li Chaohua was very polite and humble, while his beautiful girl was very curious and looked at this strange team of Dongchang elite riders from time to time.
