The main reason why Jia Ke indulged the Manchu Eight Banners in this way was to make them hate the Tatars, and also to let them release the depression they had been feeling for more than a year. More than tens of thousands of young men had not seen a woman for a year, and no one could bear it.
If you don't give them a chance to indulge, it will be difficult to lead the team in the future.
This feast lasted until noon. Jia Ke held a military meeting in the big tent of the leader of the Erut tribe. Each of the Eight Banners commanded thousands of households in Kaiping Town. Everyone stood in the big tent contentedly.
Everyone was talking and laughing, comparing their achievements with each other. In the past, the slight estrangement between the two parties has disappeared after this action, and the atmosphere between the two parties is very harmonious.
Jia Ke walked in from outside the tent, and the generals in the tent immediately became silent. Jia Ke sat directly on the big seat in the center. The commanders of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Qianhu of Kaiping Town stood on both sides.
After sitting down, Jia Ke looked down, and then said with a serious face: "Now that you have relaxed, it's time to get down to business. Liu Yu, please tell me what we have gained this time." Liu Yu did not participate.
Their activities were instead responsible for counting the materials seized this time.
After hearing Jia Ke's order, Liu Yu immediately stood up and said to Jia Ke and everyone in the tent: "This time, we seized more than one million taels of gold and silver, mainly from the tribal leaders and their cronies.
Judging from the appearance of the casting, it should have been plundered from the Central Plains over the years. There are also some gold and silver jewelry, jewelry agate and other items."
Jia Ke interrupted him from above and said: "I am a man of my word. Half of the money will be distributed to all the soldiers participating in the war. This time, we will no longer collect the seizures. This is a compliment to everyone."
After hearing what Jia Ke said, the big tent burst into cheers. According to the price distribution method, each soldier can get at least a dozen taels of silver. Plus what they secretly hid, for ordinary soldiers, this time
The harvest was more than their annual salary. Not to mention these Eight Banners generals and Qianhu, their own soldiers had already collected a large amount of property for them.
Liu Yu waited for Jia Ke to finish speaking, and then continued: "I also captured more than 20,000 horses and hundreds of thousands of other livestock at one time. I also captured more than 30,000 people. That's about it."
Jia Ke said dissatisfiedly: "What is the population composition of these more than 30,000 people? Tell us more."
When Liu Yu heard Jia Ke's question, she realized that she had been negligent. She quickly stood up again and said to everyone: "Among them, there are more than 15,000 young and middle-aged women, 78,000 or 8,000 children, and the rest are old and weak.
." As for why there are no young and strong men, it's because they have all been killed.
Jia Ke said to the following: "Everyone has heard it. How should these people be dealt with? Let's talk about it."
Meng Genqiqige, the commander of Tianghongqi, stood up and said: "Master, according to the rules on our grassland, all the old and weak will be executed. Just take away the women and children."
After hearing what he said, Jia Ke couldn't bear it, so he continued to ask: "What else is there? Let's talk about it later."
Mo Rigen, the commander of the Xianglan Banner, immediately stood up and said: "I don't agree with Meng Gen's words. These women will be distributed to our tribe in the future. If all their relatives are killed, I'm afraid there will be trouble in the future."
To stabilize the situation, it is better to identify the woman’s relatives and deal with the rest.”
Jia Ke thought this method was very good, so he stopped asking for other people's opinions and directly ordered: "Jiri Gela, this is your original tribe. I will leave this matter to you. All the soldiers of our Eight Banners in Manchuria will be handed over to you."
Relatives, including the women's relatives, were all picked out. All others were disposed of."
Jirigela didn't hesitate at all and said loudly: "Master, don't worry about this matter. You will be right to teach it to your slave." After saying that, he kowtowed to Jia Ke and went out.
After Jia Ke dealt with this matter, he said to Jiya, the commander of Zhengbai Banner: "Now you, Zhengbai Banner, go out on patrol and replace Ma Zuo. The others let the soldiers have a good meal and a rest. Tonight, we will set off overnight and move immediately.
"
That night, Jia Ke took all the cavalry and the captive population and moved northeastward overnight. Jia Ke did not dare to be careless during the march. This time with the captive population, the march was not very fast. So he discharged to the Fourth Middle School.
Use a large number of scouting horses to detect the enemy in advance.
However, the situation went smoothly, and the Tatars' defense was too lax. They walked nearly 80,000 people on the grassland for two days, and they did not encounter any Tatar horses.
After Jia Ke's army marched for nearly two days, they finally encountered a small tribe again. This time, the people of the small tribe were very vigilant and discovered Jia Ke in advance. But even if they discovered Jia Ke's whereabouts, there was nothing they could do. Like this
A small tribe of several thousand people had no power to fight back when faced with an attack by tens of thousands of people.
The left-behind leader of this small tribe was very smart and did not put up any resistance at all. When he saw that the situation was irreversible, he led the entire tribe to surrender to Jia Ke.
Jia Ke gained another group of people without losing any blood. Jia Ke rested in this tribe for a day, dispersed the young people and the population of the tribe, and assigned them to the Eight Banners. The young people in these tribes directly became Eight Banners soldiers.
By participating in the fighting, they can completely sever ties with the Tatars. And they can no longer be gathered together to prevent changes.
In this way, Jia Ke kept sweeping through the grassland. During this period, Jia Ke's troops swept across the entire northern grassland like locusts. All the tribes he encountered had only two endings. Most of the small tribes
They all surrendered, but large tribes would not surrender so easily. As a result, all the men were wiped out, and the women and children were packed away as trophies by Jia Ke's troops.
In more than a month, the number of people under his Eight Banners has increased from 30,000 to 50,000. The number of prisoners under his command has also exceeded 100,000. And he
Yue did not consume any supplies. They ate wherever they went, using the Tatars' cattle and sheep as their food.
Jia Ke felt that it was almost time to stop at this time. All the tribes on the grassland should have received the news and started to move north, which would make their chances of finding isolated tribes less and less. And during this period,
, there are horses constantly moving around them.
Jia Ke had already felt the danger coming, so he did not immediately lead his troops back to Kaiping Town. He felt that the Tatars must be waiting for him in that direction.
Jia Ke ordered the men and horses to turn around and head directly to the northwest. His goal was Zhangbei, where King Alsileng Khan's tent was located.
Alsileng Khan was stationed in Zhangbei at this time. This year, he did not concentrate his troops to attack one place like last year. Instead, he dispersed his troops throughout the border, deploying 10,000 to 20,000 people in each direction to attack various passes in the Central Plains.
.This year he deliberately avoided Xuanfu Town, a place that made him stumble several times. As a result, the results this year were still very good. Through the good news sent from various places, a large amount of population, wealth and food were plundered in each place.
Since Jia Ke was avoided this year, the losses of each tribe were very small, which made the leaders of each tribe satisfied and their criticism of him also decreased.
This year's situation made Alsileng Khan extremely happy. This year can be said to be a bumper harvest. Just when Alsileng Khan was excited about the rich life, he received bad news from the tribes behind him. A few days ago, Alsileng Khan
, there is a troop that is constantly raiding the grassland. They are burning, killing, looting and doing everything on the grassland. Many tribes have been attacked, including many large tribes like the Erut tribe.