When Zhao Yan and his group returned, their appearance on the battlefield had changed drastically, and the shouts of killing had subsided. Many bandits were kneeling on the ground, almost one or a few prisoners were guarding these vigilant young and strong people.

Seeing their vigilant appearance, Zhao Yan shook his head in disappointment. The mob was a mob, and he could only take his own captives and could not capture them again.

This is a matter of discipline, and everyone is thinking, if you walk away, will the prisoner be snatched away by someone else?

This idea is very right and very correct. Once they walk away, the captives will indeed be snatched away by others because this is an unorganized mob.

They couldn't trust their teammates, and Zhao Yan couldn't clearly record who captured several enemies.

If a disciplined and trained army does not need to use any money at all, and without such intuitive interests, this phenomenon would naturally not occur.

"Young Master." Zhao Quan was overjoyed when he saw Zhao Yan's figure and hurried over.

"How is the situation? How many hungry people were caught?" Zhao Yan nodded and asked around the battlefield.

"It should be able to catch three or four thousand! Many people have already chased them out and have not come yet!" Zhao Quan estimated.

"Start gather the team! A prisoner can't stand it if there is too much silver." Zhao Yan ordered. A prisoner is indeed too expensive.

Nowadays, refugees are everywhere in Dengzhou, and it is still easy to recruit refugees. And you just need to give me a full meal. A three tael of silver is really a waste of money.

But there was nothing I could do before. If you want to defeat the thief, you will definitely need some reward.

However, if you say it, you still can't go back on your word, it will undoubtedly ruin your own signature. In ancient times, credit was very important.

Because there are not so many legal guarantees in this era, this is even more true for business people. In many cases, it is just a verbal agreement.

If you want to complete the verbal agreement, you must require both parties to be honest. If anyone does not complete the verbal agreement, it will ruin your reputation and will be difficult for businessmen to make a move.

This is the rules of the shopping mall in the Ming Dynasty. Just like the unspoken rules of the officialdom, anyone who violates them will inevitably be hit.

A golden signboard for keeping trust is like doing business, and many people will be willing to cooperate with you. Integrity was the most important thing in business in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhao Yan is not a pure businessman, Zhao Yan would not smash his own sign for the money, and this small gain or loss would not be cared about.

When I returned to the car array, the scene was in a mess.

There were corpses everywhere, and some of the goods on the truck were still stained with blood. There was not a lot of them, but the top layer, and the goods underneath were fine.

I found all the servants, carried boxes full of silver, and distributed reward silver on the spot. The young and strong who caught the prisoners all came to pick up the rewards with their own prisoners.

The person who received the silver showed a happy smile on his face. One person was only a three-liang. This was the salary of a big soldier for two months. Those young and strong men who worked in coolies had to work for three or four months to earn so much.

The silver collected seemed to be picked up, but they followed the rushing flags and shouted behind them, which made them catch the prisoners.

It's really too easy.

The hungry people who were taken to receive rewards were dejected, and some hungry people had numb eyes and could not see any agility.

They were nervous about their fate, but they were taken down very much. Zhao Yan had already made food for the hungry people, so they gave food to the hungry people very much.

The hungry people were shocked to see the food they were harvested, and they still had food? And the portion was quite large. Although they were not full, there was no problem with eating half full.

Maybe it was because they had just experienced a life-and-death battle and were captured by the other party. Or maybe they had eaten, and the prisoners cried in a short while.

Zhao Quan took the man to start counting the losses.

After counting, more than ten members of the Zhao family lost their families, all of whom were killed in battle against the bandits. The bandits were no worse than those of the Zhao family in terms of weapons, and there were even more outlaws.

Zhao Yan was silent for a while and said, "Go back and give their family one hundred taels of silver."

"Yes." Zhao Quan nodded and wrote down.

As for how many drivers and the recruited refugees died, it is unknown. Many of them were still catching prisoners outside but not returning. However, the old and weak among the refugees were not in trouble. They were always protected in the center of the vehicle array. When they attacked, they only waved flags and shouted in the back and did not contact the bandits head-on.

Zhao Yan walked slowly on the battlefield. Looking at the corpses on this place, he felt a little sad. It was really an era when human life was like a mustard of grass.

In this era, only force is the most credible.

"Young Master, I have already asked. The thief Qiu is called Zhang Dukeguo. He is a bandit in Zhaoyuan. Seeing that the hungry people in Dengzhou are everywhere, I wanted to take the hungry people to vote and then go to Yangzhou to retire." The servants under him came to report.

"I have a lot of ambitions to ride a crane to Yangzhou!" Zhao Yan sneered. The thieves in the late Ming Dynasty could be roughly divided into three types.

A kind of thief who wants to make a fortune and enjoy wealth is easy to deal with. As long as the court scrupulously surrenders, it will be transformed into an official army. The case of the successful recruitment of thiefs in Mingting belongs to Liu Guoneng. After Liu Guoneng surrendered, he joined the encirclement of the thiefs and was eventually captured and killed.

The second type is the kind of thief who likes to live happily. While plundering hungry people, they completely release their desires. Every time they go to the place, they sleep with a few rich women and grab a lot of gold, silver and treasures. Many surrendered thief leaders are used to such days, and soon after they are slaughtered, they rise up again.

The third type is the second type of ambitious people born from the thief. They found that Mingting's strength was declining during long-term robbery. Both sides gradually developed ambitions to compete for the world under the victory or defeat, so they began to adopt the advice of the scholars and shouted some slogans to deceive the poor people.

But even if such thieves gained the world, they could not resist the attack of the Qing Dynasty. As a result, Mingting was finished and they were finished.

Zhang Dukeguo, a bandit in his thirties, was tall and big. At this moment, the servant who had been interrogated was covered with scars with horse whip.

According to the account, he was a bandit who had fallen into trouble before. When Kong Youde rebelled, Zhaoyuan City was trapped. Although he was recovered, it was in chaos. Therefore, he provided him with the opportunity to cause trouble. More than 100 brothers under him took half a month to collide nearly 10,000 people.

Originally, I went to rob with confidence, but I ran into Zhao Yan's caravan on the way. Two newly formed teams collided, which was really a point-to-head approach.

In the end, this guy fell into Zhao Yan's money and conspiracy. The one who was best at using such conspiracies in the late Ming Dynasty was Hong Chengchou. He was familiar with military books and although he was not good at training troops, his methods were one after another, but he was destined to be just a path.

The real way is to have absolute strength. In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is futile.

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The battle was over, and Zhao Yan and his men began to clean the battlefield and restrain their bodies. As for the killed bandits, they just dug a hole and buried them at will.

Before dark, the people who went out to pursue the prisoners came back one after another.

After counting, Zhao Yan's convoy lost more than 300 people, and it is not ruled out that those who did not return were captured. The captive bandits reached more than 4,500, and nearly 2,000 enemies were killed.

Zhao Yan was bleeding heavily. After a rough calculation, he lost nearly 110,000 taels of silver after the battle. The more than 300 people who died in battle would have to spend more than 90,000 taels of silver.

Give up blood!

If this is fought again, Zhao Yan will lose everything. The army that uses money as combat power is indeed unreliable.

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The power outage was again, so I could only go to the Internet cafe to write tragically...

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