Wearing a breastplate and a steel helmet, Shen Wenzhong had a scroll in his left hand and a writing brush in his right hand, carefully checking the Tatar heads at his feet.
"A total of sixty-seven true Tatar heads." Shen Wenzhong looked at the pile of ferocious and terrifying heads of Jiannu, but felt his blood was racing with excitement.
Several other civil servants who accompanied the driver also recorded it in their own books.
"Great victory!"
Everyone was extremely excited. Sixty-seven people were really excited.
"Captured thirteen wounded soldiers from the prison."
"The formation killed one hundred and thirty-six puppet Tatar and Han thieves, and captured sixty-nine puppet prisoners."
They checked very carefully, checking every head carefully, and even asked to see the body. From the scalp to the braids, even the teeth and beards, and the calluses on the hands, everything had to be checked, not to mention the body.
personal belongings such as waist tags.
"Your Highness, great victory!" Shen Wenzhong took the statistical report and ran up the wall to report the victory.
Zhu Yihai was sitting on the wall of the village, personally checking the injuries of Zhang Mingzhen, Huang Zongxi and others. After a battle, countless people were injured.
Huang Zongxi was lying on a bed board. After hearing the news, he struggled to get up and asked, "How many dogs and Tatars have been killed?"
"The formation beheaded sixty-seven of the real Tatars, and captured thirteen alive."
Zhu Yihai didn't feel much after hearing this. He had four battalions of 5,000 men under his command to make a surprise attack, and the Shizhong Battalion of Meishan Village had 600 volunteers. In addition, there were thousands of young women and children in the village to help out. Nearly 7,000 men attacked these 600 men, but failed.
The encirclement and total annihilation was considered a failure.
"So many real Tartars?"
"Absolutely true."
Huang Zongxi sat up excitedly, "Hahaha, these Jianlu are nothing more than that."
"Mr. Huang, please don't get excited. You have been injured in many places, but don't open the newly bandaged wound." Zhu Yihai comforted him and lay down again. This Huang Zongxi is indeed both loyal and brave. I heard that he was at the top of the city today.
The last person killed six or seven people, shot and wounded more than ten others, and suffered more than ten wounds himself, but he still shouted that he would not retreat until he died.
Who would have thought that this was actually a famous scholar from Fushe, the son of Huang Junsu, one of the Seven Gentlemen of Donglin.
I thought that such a person should be the same as Qian Qianyi, but I didn't expect him to be so loyal and brave.
It was as if he had found a treasure, and he was really afraid that Huang Zongxi would die here like this.
Feng Jingdi and several other righteous men from the Shizhong Camp were very pleased to hear this.
Zhu Yihai asked about the casualties of those Han army flags. After learning that one hundred and thirty-six were killed and sixty-nine were captured, he quickly calculated in his mind that it equaled a total of two hundred and thirty-six killed and eighty-two captured, a total of two hundred and ninety.
5. The Tatars, a force of about 600 men, have lost almost half of their strength here.
This casualty rate is still very alarming. If the average army suffered half casualties, it would have completely collapsed or even surrendered.
Just like the Apocalypse and Chongzhen dynasties used troops outside the Pass so many times, each time they did not mobilize all the armies, but each time they did not collapse quickly.
The great traitor Hong Chengchou's defeat of all the troops in Songjin Battle is a good example. It was said to be a breakout, but before the appointed time, people from all walks of life rushed to escape first, all trying to get friendly troops to help the rear.
In the end, Hong Chengchou was trapped. Surprisingly, he held on for a long time, and he was indeed capable.
But in most cases, on cold weapon battlefields, especially field battles that are not city defense battles, few troops can remain unbroken after suffering more than 20 to 30% casualties.
Those Tatars were able to fight their way out even when the Ming army was ten times their size and even lost half of their troops, which really proved their ferocity.
But neither Huang Zongxi nor Zhang Mingzhen felt that they were defeated if they attacked the opponent with ten times the force and allowed the opponent to escape half of the force.
They all thought it was a great victory.
He actually killed half of the Tatar troops in one battle. What is this if not a great victory?
An unprecedented victory!
The only thing that surprised Zhu Yihai was that he actually killed sixty-seven Zhen Tatars and captured 13. The Zhen Tatar casualties were at least 70%, which was actually higher than the Han army flag.
"Have our casualties been counted?" he asked.
"The casualties are considerable, especially those of Shizhong Camp." Shen Wenzhong looked sad, and Huang Zongxi, Feng Jingdi and others fell silent.
This is the first battle of the Shizhong Camp. The new army has not yet been formed. It has neither training nor sufficient equipment. It is good to be caught off guard and fight to the end.
"The Shizhong camp is all good," Zhu Yihai praised them. "A newly formed army can win such a tough battle and achieve such a victory. You deserve the name of Shizhong and can be called a righteous and brave division.
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Huang Zongxi looked pained, "How many brothers died in Shizhong Camp and how many were injured?"
"Three hundred and seventeen died, and the rest were injured. Among them, more than a hundred were seriously injured. Half of them could not be saved, and half of them could be saved, but they would be left disabled and unable to stay in the camp anymore."
Huang Zongxi clenched his fist angrily and hammered the ground.
"I'm ashamed of them. These are such loyal and good men. I persuaded them to join the army and serve the country, but I didn't prepare weapons and armor for them, and I didn't have time to train them in battle formations, so I just let them go.
I'm on the battlefield and trapped in death. I'm sorry for them, I'm sorry for their father, wife and children who trusted me!"
As he spoke, Huang Zongxi vomited out several large mouthfuls of blood and fainted.
Zhu Yihai's heart was clogged and felt very uncomfortable.
He clenched his fists and said with choked sobs, "The brothers of Shizhong Camp will not die in vain. They died to protect their homeland, their country, their hometown, and their parents, wives, and children. They died a great death."
"Shen Wenzhong, I miss you so much."
"On the battlefield today, whether it is the Fourth Battalion led by Gu or the Shizhong Battalion, regardless of fighting and defending, regardless of the righteous and heroic troops, they are all guards of the country. Each victim will be given a pension of ten taels of silver. Those who are seriously injured and disabled will be given a pension of ten taels.
Give eight taels of compensation, and those with minor injuries will receive five taels."
"After the war ends, those who have wives, sons and daughters will be given salary and monthly rations for another three years, and after three years they will be paid half salary for another three years. If they have children who have grown up, they will be given priority to be recruited into the army."
"Disabled people, those with wives and children, will be given three and a half years' salary, and their children will be given priority in employment."
The Ming Dynasty originally had a complete set of military pension standards since the beginning of the People's Republic of China. However, under current circumstances, it is difficult to achieve this, so Zhu Yihai mainly used money as a pension.
Those who died in war were directly given ten taels first, those who were disabled were given eight taels first, and those who were slightly injured were also given silver. In addition, full or half pay for three to six years was given to the family members of the war dead or the disabled person themselves.
Zhu Yihai had no conditions to say that he would be well-educated for the rest of his life, but he gritted his teeth and took out a sum of money. He thought it was right.
There is no need to treat his pro-army, Zhenbiao, and volunteers separately. They all died fighting the Tatars. There is no need to come up with another one. Although Shen Chenquan wanted to speak, Zhu Yihai pretended not to see it.
Now that the rebels have just begun, they need more support from the people.
He doesn't have an official source of money now, but he can't spare the effort.
Ten taels of silver was quite a lot, but compared to one life, Zhu Yihai felt it was too little, but he couldn't afford more.
"In the future, when the two capitals are recovered and the world is restored, all the soldiers who fought and sacrificed their lives for the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty will not be forgotten."
Everyone in the village couldn't help but be excited after hearing Zhu Yihai's words, especially some of the disabled people who were deeply moved. Shen Chenquan couldn't help but come to Zhu Yihai's side to persuade him, "Your Highness, now we have no food, no taxes, and no fixed income." We have no income, let alone sufficient reserves. Now that His Highness has offered such a generous pension, what will we do in the future? As soon as this case is opened, we will be burdened with a heavy burden."
"Mr. Shen, I am not Chongzhen. I can't let the soldiers go to war hungry. They even sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty, but the court is still calculating and thinking about how to save their lives? I know now We don’t have money, but we can find ways to make money, but when our hearts are cold, it’s hard to keep warm!”
"Besides, the imperial court originally had a preferential payment system. Those who died in the war and had wives would be given full monthly rations. Those who observed the law and had no one to depend on after three years would be given six dou of rice per month for life. Those with disabled military officers would be given three shi of rice per month and good food for ten years. A son can attack without hesitation, but there will be no sons for the people."
"Now I can't promise to provide everyone with a full salary to provide for them in old age, but I can still grit my teeth and scrape together a sum of money to pay for their funerals and support their children and their wives."
"If Gu wants to plot against everyone even at this point, then what qualifications does Gu have to talk about sacrifice with everyone?"
Shen Chenquan could not refute, so he nodded and left.
When Huang Zongxi, who had just woken up, heard these words, he was so excited that he almost fainted again.
"Gute gave the Shizhong camp a quota of one thousand people, and Gute gave him food and salary every month, just like the troops in the imperial camp."
In one sentence, Zhu Yihai directly gave this rural regiment-type volunteer to the national regular army establishment and the same treatment as the imperial camp, with establishment and food and salary.
"Huang Zongxi was granted a Jinshi background, and was granted the title of Supervisory Censor, and he was appointed to patrol Zhejiang. Feng Jingdi was granted a Jinshi background, and was granted the title of Supervisory Censor, and Supervisor of the Shizhong Camp of the Army. Lu Yuding was granted a Jinshi background, and was granted the title of Supervisor of Qianshi in Zhejiang, and Shaoxing Military Preparation... ···”
"Zhang Shixun, the flag-bearer and sentry commander, was awarded the title of guerrilla general of the Shizhong Camp. Huang Zonghui granted him a Jinshi background and was awarded the title of associate director of the grain station of the Shizhong Camp."
After the battle of Shizhong Camp, the 600 people were basically wiped out. Zhu Yihai gave him a staff and included food and salary, so he could recruit new troops. Zhu Yihai also reused several of the founders of Shizhong Camp. Ningbo Six Kuangsheng Lu Yuding of the First Class was awarded the highest position, Zhejiang Inspector General and Shaoxing Military Preparation Road. This is the fifth rank, in recognition of his outstanding loyalty and bravery in Ningbo and Shizhong Camp.
But in terms of reuse, Huang Zongxi is actually more reused. His supervisory censor is only of the seventh rank, but he patrols Zhejiang, but his rank is inferior and the power is low. In addition to the two capitals in the Ming Dynasty, each of the thirteen provinces has a patrol censor. Generally speaking, For a period of one year, he would patrol local areas and be equivalent to the leader of the central governor. He had astonishing power and was in charge of all aspects including civil affairs, military affairs, finance, taxation, justice, and even academic administration.
Anyway, he is a senior official, comparable to the six subjects of the central government.
These are the people who are called the "eight governors" among the people.
Patrolling Zhejiang, he can supervise all provinces.
Feng Jingdi also supervised the censor, but he supervised the army with the title of censor, and only supervised the Shizhong camp. His powers were very different.
Therefore, grade is not the key, the key lies in the real power in hand.
Zhu Yihai directly gave Huang Zongxi such great power, and he already knew that he was a loyal minister. And his performance today also proves that the historical records are correct, so he must be reused in an unusual way.
As for the transfer of General Zhang Shixun from the Banner Camp to serve as the battalion officer, it is also because if the Shizhong Camp wants to become a regular army, it must be led by an officer of the real regular army. Zhang Shixun is a veteran of the Yongwei Camp, an old brother of Wang Xiang, and came from Linhai.
The old man asked him to take over Shizhong Camp, and Zhu Yihai felt relieved.
"General Zhang, you take your post directly from Banner Camp to Shizhong Camp and use it as the backbone. Then recruit volunteer recruits from Shaoxing. The Shizhong Camp will be fully staffed with 1,000 men. You have the ability to pull Shizhong Camp back."
Get up?"
Zhang Shixun also performed very well during this period. Zhu Yihai usually noticed it and had already written it down in the small notebook for promotion.
"Thank you for your honor and promotion, Your Highness. I will fight to the death to train the Shizhong Camp well and never let Mr. Huang, Mr. Feng and the others create a weak Shizhong Camp."