The sun rises higher and higher, and the milky white light disperses the thunderclouds bit by bit. The sky has revealed a dazzling white light, and the earth that was originally wet by rain is slowly turning into mud.
Shake off excess moisture.
Hundreds of artillery carriages were pushed to the fighting position very close to Ma Muji. One after another, the dark cannons cast a deep and textured luster in the sunshine after the rain.
The soldiers who broke into the artillery mark were already in place. In order to cover the artillery position, Li Shiwei also mobilized many "Tingjun" infantrymen equipped with new muskets. They were arranged in an array that was only three-fifths as thick as the average musket array.
The soldiers slowly opened the battle line, and the well-made heavy-duty muskets were placed on one support after another. From a distance, they looked like stacks of fortresses.
However, Chen Yongfu did not just sit back and watch the intruders complete their offensive deployment. He was anxiously waiting for Chen De to evacuate the German soldiers and civilians to Mamuji, and he prayed ten times more for Xuzhou's reinforcements to appear as soon as possible in order to achieve this goal.
To advance from east to west and defeat the invading army's goal, Chen Yongfu must also desperately buy the last time for himself.
Chen Yongfu had originally advocated accepting Yuan Shizhong's surrender, but under the current situation, he would not hide anything from Xiao Yuan, and directly handed over a large part of the large sum of money he had collected from the Guide gentry to Yuan Shizhong.
Control, to boost the morale of the soldiers of Xiaoyuan camp.
Yuan Shizhong was flattered by Chen Yongfu's actions. Yuan Shizhong always looked at Li Zicheng's wining over and favoring him with colored glasses, but Chen Yongfu's current relief actions were regarded as a gift from the imperial court.
A kind of inferiority complex.
"Why should Chen Zhentai be like this! Xiao Yuanying has been favored by the imperial court, why should he reward him with such a reward? Even if there is no money, I will definitely try my best to kill the thieves for the imperial court!"
Yuan Shizhong's impassioned spirit moved Chen Yongfu, who has always been both a rat and a rat. What kind of spirit is this? A selfless spirit that is completely uninterested and completely beneficial to others!
If the generals of the Ming army were all honest men who could repay the kindness of Yuan Shizhong by serving the imperial court, why should they worry about the uncertainty of the world? Why would Chen Yongfu himself want to fight against the invaders with all his strength?
Do you maintain correspondence with Li Laiheng and Chen Xin?
Chen Yongfu ordered his servants to open more than a dozen boxes of gold and silver treasures, and he grabbed a large pile of silver ingots and threw them on the ground. Chen Yongfu used such force that the silver fell into the mud after the rain, and there was a trace of it.
Two ingots were thrown out of the crack.
The servants immediately dumped all the dozen boxes of treasures on the muddy ground. Chen Yongfu pointed at the windfall he had forcibly distributed from the Guide gentry and shouted:
"Brothers! Brothers from Henan Town, brothers from Xiaoyuanying! I scraped some land in Guide, but so what? I tried every possible means to plunder it, not to return to my hometown to accumulate land and buy beautiful concubines, but to
Find a way out for brothers!
Today, I have made it clear. All this money was taken from the homes of the famous gentry in Guide. If everyone can successfully fight to Xuzhou, we will have achieved a great success, which will be easy to say. If we lose the battle, these gentry will be held accountable.
Get up, we, Old Chen, can't even save our heads, let alone you?"
In fact, not all of Chen Yongfu's money came from the homes of powerful gentry, but a considerable part of it was also plundered from ordinary people.
But he naturally did not mention this inside story now, and only said that the money came from the hands of the gentry, which showed how upright he was.
Chen Yongfu said that it was not satisfying enough, so he held the waist knife in his hand, jumped onto the hill made of a pile of gold and silver, and said loudly to the officers and soldiers:
"Today the Chuang army attacked me because of this huge sum of money! But I will never be like Zuo Liangyu. The Chuang army wants to steal this huge sum of money? Then the worst I can do is give all the money to our brothers!
Today's battle is related to the life and death of all the brothers in Henan Town and Xiaoyuan Camp. As long as the brothers are injured by an arrow, they will be rewarded with one tael of silver. If they are injured by a knife, they will be rewarded with two taels of silver. If they can hurt an enemy, they will be rewarded with
Five taels of silver, if you can kill an enemy, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
The high reward offered by Chen Yongfu made the officers and soldiers gathered in the Mamu Concentration Center a little ready to take action. However, when they thought of the strong soldiers and horses of the Chuang Army, they became a little timid, and the fighting spirit they had barely raised quickly disappeared.
half.
But Chen Yongfu then went on to announce:
"Brothers! If anyone can get a head from the Chuang Army, he will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. If he can capture a war horse from the Chuang Army, he will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver!"
These two rewards, which were ten times higher at once, reignited the morale and fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers. The soldiers of the Ming army were stunned by Chen Yongfu's words at first, and they all stood dumbly, but soon
Someone reacted, with an incredible look of joy on their faces.
Then Chen Yongfu's servants and Yuan Shizhong's soldiers began to make loud noises, and all the soldiers were immediately mobilized. Everyone shouted "Long live Taiwan Zhentai" and "Our army will win".
Chen Yongfu waited until the atmosphere in the entire army was completely ignited, then stretched out his hand to press it down, and then shouted:
"If you capture one of the invader's cannons, you will be rewarded five hundred taels of silver!"
After Chen Yongfu searched in Guide, he held in his hands gold and silver treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings worth hundreds of thousands of taels. But a large part of them is difficult to cash in. The gold and silver that can be distributed immediately to the soldiers is estimated to be
Only a little over one hundred thousand taels.
He can't think too much now, so he will give out as much promise as he can.
After that, Chen Yongfu glanced at Yuan Shizhong again. Yuan Shizhong understood and stood up and added to the generals of Xiao Yuan Ying: "The reward mentioned by Chen Zhentai is also a treat for Xiao Yuan Ying! If you win a horse, you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver.
If you seize a cannon, you will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver!"
The Xiaoyuan camp has been fighting with the Chuang army for a long time, and the military discipline of the Chuang army is much stricter than that of the Ming army. The management of the distribution of spoils and the private collection of gold and silver by soldiers can be described as extremely strict. "No one can pocket a single gold."
So how had the soldiers of Xiaoyuan Camp ever had a good opportunity to get such a reward of five hundred taels all at once?
When they heard Yuan Shizhong say that this reward was also effective for them, of course they all became more motivated.
The Xiaoyuan camp, which had been at a low morale for a long time since rebelling against the camp, was finally stimulated by Chen Yongfu's silver bullet regardless of the cost and consequences.
Especially the old soldiers who have been fighting with Yuan Shizhong for a long time, these people have spent a lot of time with the Chuang Army. Although they are grateful for Yuan Shizhong's kindness, they are also very reluctant to do anything to their old friends with the Chuang Army who they have been with day and night.
Now this huge reward, as well as the situation that is almost dead, have pushed Xiao Yuanying to the extreme point where it has to explode.
"We must die for Zhentai!"
"We must die for the old master!"
The veterans of Xiaoyuan Camp were still accustomed to calling Yuan Shizhong Lao Zhangpan. This old title with a strong gangster tone made Yuan Shizhong very unhappy. He frowned tightly, wanting to correct this wrong name for his old subordinates.
, I hope they will call themselves General Yuan or Shenrong instead.
However, the current atmosphere in the army does not allow Yuan Shizhong to say such words that damage the atmosphere.
All he had to do was grit his teeth and eat his discomfort back into his stomach.
To put it bluntly, what exactly did Yuan Shizhong do when he rebelled against the camp and defected to the imperial court? Could it be that he himself knew it very well?
If Yuan Shizhong himself doesn't know it, how can he let the soldiers of Xiao Yuan Camp know why he is fighting?
All we can do is rely on free money!
But it has to be said that Chen Yongfu's move had an immediate effect, and the morale of the Ming army improved significantly. Both Chen Yongfu and Yuan Shizhong felt that their military morale was now available, and they immediately prepared to organize an assault to destroy the deployment of artillery of the Chuang army.
Originally, Yuan Shizhong took the initiative to propose that the veteran soldiers of Xiao Yuan Battalion be responsible for this arduous and important task that would inevitably involve heavy casualties.
However, Chen Yongfu felt that it was not the time to get rid of the trouble and kill the donkey. He and Xiao Yuanying still needed to work together to tide over the difficulties. Therefore, Chen Yongfu rejected Yuan Shizhong's excessive kindness and smashed most of his elite servants.
, organized a raid with the veterans of Xiaoyuan Camp.
This approach touched Yuan Shizhong's heart even more. He felt more and more that although there were some cunning and cunning people in the court, most of them were loyal and good generals like Chen Yongfu.
It seems that the resurgence of the imperial court is imminent.
It is obviously the right choice for me to find such a correct way to recruit and rehabilitate my brothers in Xiaoyuan camp!