Li Yuchun was in panic all day long, always thinking that the next moment the Ming army would drag him to cut out his heart and liver. His mind was now full of those people he killed during the Yangzhou Blood Massacre, as well as Xiashi Town and Zhu.
The miserable faces of the people who had their families slaughtered were still there.
"If I had known better, I would have killed myself with one knife." Li Yuchun sighed to Mr. Yan.
"The army must never give up. Unless it is absolutely necessary, there must always be a glimmer of hope. Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope."
"Now that I have fallen into the hands of the Ming army, there is no way I can survive. I shouldn't have hesitated at that time."
Although he believed in his heart that the Ming army would not let him go as the executioner, he did not have the courage to kill himself and was reluctant to die. Finally, he lamented Mr. Yan's perseverance and said that if he could really escape, he would not treat Mr. Yan badly.
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In the lake, in Zhu Yihai's ship, all the generals gathered.
After the victory, everyone's faces were full of joy.
With one move, he managed to divert the tiger away from the mountain and successfully annihilated 500 Tatars and 500 traitors at the shore of Ma Yao Lake. This was a tough battle and inspiring.
Shen Wenzhong, the Supervisor Censor and Assistant Supervisor of the Supervisory Office, suggested that all the captured Tatars be brought to Zhujiazhuang and beheaded in public, and then attack Zhujiazhuang and kill all the remaining traitors.
"These people's hands are stained with the blood of our soldiers and people of the Ming Dynasty. No one can be spared."
Chen Qianfu proposed to take the captive Li Yuchun, Ji Shiha and others to Zhujiazhuang to persuade them to surrender, so as to prevent the 3,500 people left behind in Zhujiazhuang from engaging in a trapped beast fight and avoid additional casualties.
But no matter who they were, they had no intention of letting these Tatar traitors go.
It's not enough for them to die a thousand times.
In this battle, the enemy dispatched 500 Jurchen horse infantry, 100 light cavalry from Li Yuchun's family, and 400 horse infantry, a total of 1,000. They killed more than 300 in formation and captured more than 600, and none of them escaped.
Tatar Jia Lazhangjing Qishiha was seriously wounded and captured, while Li Yuchun was surrounded and surrendered with his troops.
The Ming army captured more than 500 intact war horses, more than 200 lightly injured war horses, and many horses that had been killed or seriously injured and could no longer be used. In addition, they captured a lot of armor, which was basically usable.
In particular, the 500 Tatar soldiers are all mounted on horseback and have infantry armor. Their full set of cotton armor is very sophisticated. Their bows and knives are also good. Even the equipment of Li Yuchun's men is also good. His one hundred servants basically have armor, and the rest
The four hundred people are also well equipped.
Now these armor weapons have basically been captured by the Ming army.
However, Zhu Yihai was not too happy when he saw these statistical reports. It might be a great victory for them, but for the Tatars, it was almost like pulling out a hair on their head.
Hangzhou Boluo had over 10,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, as well as numerous traitor and puppet troops led by Zhang Cunren, Tian Xiong and others. However, this army of no less than 100,000 was just a partial division of Nanjing Duduo. Duduo, who was stationed in Nanjing, had two or three soldiers.
One hundred thousand horses.
Annihilate one thousand enemies and injure eight hundred.
The generals were discussing how to execute these prisoners, how to distribute the captured armors, weapons and horses, etc., but Zhu Yihai was thinking about longer-term issues.
There are still more than 3,000 puppet troops in Zhujiazhuang. After annihilating Li Yuchun's main force in this battle, especially after capturing the two generals, Zhujiazhuang's troops must have no fighting spirit. It is not difficult to capture them, but if the opponent has no hope of escape,
If we resist desperately, we may suffer a lot of casualties.
Another one, even if we take Zhujiazhuang and wipe out Li Yuchun's entire army, what's the next step?
Li Yuchun was just the deputy commander-in-chief of Jiaxing Xiezhen appointed by the Tatars. There were also commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang, the governor-general of Zhejiang, and even Bolo, the general of the Southern Expedition.
When the news of Li Yuchun's annihilation spreads back to Hangzhou, I am afraid that more Qing troops will come, and even Boluo will personally lead an army, and Zhu Yihai's new army of 10,000 people will definitely not be able to defeat it.
"I propose that these newly captured war horses, armor, swords, guns, bows and arrows be given priority to the Flag Bearer Battalion and the Yulin Battalion, while the firearms will be given to the Shenji Battalion." Admiral Zhang Mingzhen suggested.
Ruan Jin said at this time, "The general thought it was time to establish a water camp."
Zhu Yihai retracted his thoughts, "The captured weapons and horses should be divided equally among the battalions. It would not be fair to the other battalions if they were all given to the banner-bearer Yulin Battalion. This victory was achieved by everyone. In addition, the army has already stipulated that seizures
Weapons, etc., half of the captured battalion heads can be kept for themselves, and the remaining half can be handed over to be distributed among the battalions."
Thousands of sets of equipment and hundreds of horses were divided equally among each battalion, but in fact they were not allotted much.
But you still need a bowl of water.
"If you seize half of the equipment you keep for yourself, and you have a surplus, you can exchange what you need with other camps on a fair and voluntary basis."
"As for the establishment of the water camp division, Gu believes that the time has indeed come. This time, General Ruan and others performed outstandingly, so they formally established the water division, with the battalion name Fubo. Four battalions were established first, each battalion still had 500 regular soldiers, and
It is equipped with one hundred and eighty men. The existing ships in the army are assigned to the naval camp for unified dispatch."
Ruan Jin's ability in water warfare is obvious to all, and he has made great achievements this time. Zhu Yihai naturally fulfilled his promise and appointed Ruan Jin as the commander of Fubo Camp and the title of general.
"Zhang Ying was given the title of branch commander of Fubo Camp, with the rank of guerrilla general, and command of the front and rear battalions. Ruan Mei was given the rank of branch commander of Fubo Camp, with the rank of guerrilla general, and command of the left and right battalions."
"Ruan Jun, Gu Zhong, Zheng Lin, and Luo Yunzhang were awarded the positions of officers of the front, rear, left and right battalions of Fubo Camp of the Navy, and were awarded the title of Capital Division."
For the newly established Shuiying, the seven generals appointed by Zhu Yihai were all awarded one level higher than the normal rank. These seven people, Ruan Jin, Ruan Mei, and Ruan Jun, were cousins. They all originally belonged to Zhang Mingzhen, Shipuying Navy, and Zhang Ying was originally a brave man.
The veteran of the Wei camp, who was the first to join Zhu Yihai following Wang Chuangzi, was also a Fujianese. He was good at watercraft and knew firearms. This time, he was specially transferred from the Banner Camp to serve as a branch commander.
Gu Zhong and the other three were originally officers of Wang Zhiren's command, and they were all from Shuiying.
"Let's set up another horse camp."
This time against the Tatars, Zhu Yihai felt that it was still necessary to form a cavalry unit.
The best horsemen and archers from all the camps were selected to form a horse camp. The new camp was named Jinwu. The left and right camps were first built with 500 men each.
So the whole army consisted of four battalions of Zhejiang Zhenbiao Battalion, four battalions of Shenji Battalion of Jingying Camp, four battalions of Yongwei Battalion of Supervisor of the National Guard, four battalions of Bannerman Battalion, four battalions of Yulin Battalion, and four battalions of Zhejiang Soldier Shizhong Battalion.
As well as the newly established four battalions of the Fubo Battalion of the Navy, and the two newly established Jinwu Battalions of the National Guard Cavalry.
In total, there are twenty-four battalions of infantry, four battalions of navy, and two battalions of cavalry, a total of thirty battalions, with a total of 15,000 men and 5,400 auxiliary officers.
However, the 4th Yulin Battalion among the 24 Army Battalions is relatively special. It is a special battalion head that is equivalent to the military police and supervising bodyguard.
From the 8,000 soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers when crossing the sea, it was now suddenly expanded to 20,500 people. The army doubled in just half a month. Everyone felt that it was a bit fast, but they were unwilling to stop. After all, the Tatars would not stop next time.
There may be more and stronger troops in the future.
Just doubling the army will result in a shortage of weapons and armor, and an even greater shortage of veterans.
"Are you selecting some from the captured puppet troops to add to the march?" Zhang Mingzhen asked tentatively.
Zhu Yihai didn't like to use those captured soldiers with corrupt military discipline, but Zhang Mingzhen pointed out at this time that it was indeed the army that lacked experienced veterans. It expanded again and again, and now there were too few veterans in the army. He divided his troops from Ningbo Songpu and Wang Zhiren
At that time, Zhu Yihai led 3,000 men to the north, and Yuyao expanded the number to ten battalions.
Now it has been expanded twice, from 3,000 to 20,000, an increase of almost seven times, and the number of veterans is less than 20%. This is very dangerous.
"After careful screening, select some for later use." Zhu Yihai had no choice but to compromise in the end, but still emphasized not to do it if there was too much blood on his hands.
Even if they are retained, they must be completely dispersed and used under observation. Once they disobey discipline and fail to observe military discipline, they will be strictly disciplined. If they do it again, they will be expelled.
"Kill all those who have suffered heavy blood debts."
"Kill all the captured Tatars."
Zhu Yihai said the final decision coldly. The Tatars captured more than 200 prisoners, nearly half of whom were wounded, and many of them were wounded. After being surrounded, they were still very fierce and caused many casualties to the Ming army.
Zhu Yihai could not release these people, nor could he persuade them to surrender and retain them.
No one had any objections to this decision.
Since the Tatars invaded, they have never regarded the Ming people as human beings, so why should the Ming army care about their life and death? They did not torture them and directly executed them, which was already considered a kindness to them.
Otherwise, if Shen Wenzhong was left to deal with it, his suggestion was to send these people to the mines or shipyards in eastern Zhejiang to work as slaves until they died.
To talk about kindness to these people is to be cruel to your own people.
Although Zhu Yihai has not been in Ming Dynasty for a long time, he seems to be a little numb to killing. Anyway, if you don't kill the enemy, the enemy will not be polite to you.
When he thought of the Yangzhou Massacre, Zhu Yihai could no longer be merciful.
At the end of the meeting, Zhu Yihai agreed to hand over the more than 300 Li Yuchun's men to each battalion for screening, selection and replenishment. Everyone left happily. He knew that except for Li Yuchun and a few officers under him, the remaining 300 people would not be replaced unless
No one wants the seriously injured and disabled, and the rest will basically not be wasted and will definitely be snatched away by the battalions.
At this time, an experienced veteran is in high demand, and they may not care whether these people have killed many people before.
As for whether they are trustworthy or obedient, it doesn't bother them. Zhang Mingzhen is a gangster and Ruan Jin is a pirate. Those guys don't have a fuel-efficient lamp. No matter what you did in the past, in their hands, you will be a dragon.
Even if they are lying down, there must be a way to keep them in check and integrate them into the camp.
There were more than 300 people scattered among nearly 20,000 people, so there was no need to worry too much, although this still made Zhu Yihai feel a little uncomfortable. He felt that these people were not pure enough, and his new army would feel contaminated after accepting them.
But due to the situation, we had to compromise in the end.
Zhu Yihai left Chen Qianfu behind. After a while, Yang Boxing, who had been promoted to the rank of commander-general of the Yulin Camp, came in, followed by a man wearing a cloak.
The cloak was taken off, but it was Mr. Yan who had a bright scalp.
"Students pay homage to His Highness."
"Thank you for your hard work, Qing Yan. Please sit down."
Zhu Yihai first took out the secret edict that had previously been sealed on my father-in-law, granting him a Jinshi background and granting him the rank of editor and editor of the Hanlin Academy.
"Yan Qing has indeed fulfilled his mission. He successfully lured the thieves into an ambush and helped our army achieve a great victory. It is a great achievement."
"The student is just trying to atone for his sins and make up for his uncle's mistakes."
"If you have merit, you will be rewarded. I will also make you a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and reward you with a hundred taels of silver."
Thank you, Mr. Yan.
"Originally Thief Li has been captured, and Yan Qing is expected to return from this dangerous mission. I just have an idea and want to trouble Yan Qing again. I wonder if Yan Qing is willing to go through the hard work again?"
Yan Wogong immediately said, "Is it related to the Li thieves guarding Zhujiazhuang? I have a plan that can help His Highness win Zhujiazhuang without bloodshed."
"Oh, tell me, sir!" Zhu Yihai was even more surprised at this scholar who shaved his hair and grew braids for his country and sneaked into the enemy camp.