After all, Jiannu failed to catch up with the Ming army.
Three days later, the Ming army successfully returned to Xia Town.
The first thing I did after I came back was to confess my merits and pay my salary at the same time.
After reading the account book, Chongzhen couldn't help but feel a little painful.
Just this wave will cost nearly 200,000 taels.
Among them, 23,000 taels are rewards, 24,000 taels are war pay in Huang Shi'an Town, 90,000 taels are wages in the other nine towns, and pensions for more than 500 fallen soldiers.
Each soldier who died will pay 50 taels of silver in one lump sum.
This number is indeed a little small, but there is nothing we can do about it.
Who made the current Ming Dynasty expensive and expensive? It can only lower the standards.
So, the money is really not enough to spend, so 160,000 taels have been spent.
If you have to add the military pay from Yi Ding and the Five Military Camps, you will have to pay an additional 30,000 taels.
Because the standards for Yiding and the Five Military Camps are doubled, the total is almost 200,000 taels.
However, the effect of sufficient food and salary is also great. The morale of the Ming army has been significantly improved. The victory of Anshan Town gave the Ming army a lot of fantasy space. It turns out that he could defeat Jiannu in the field?
After receiving the military order, the Ming army in the Ten Towns, together with a thousand Yi Dings and more than 2,600 Jin Xuan's servants gathered at the large gun platform in the center, waiting to receive the salary.
The salary should have been paid on the 15th of each month.
Because Chongzhen went out, it was delayed until the 21st.
This time the front line is no longer one thousand Wilds.
But the border soldiers from Huang Shi'an's town, which was specially arranged by Chongzhen.
I saw more than 4,000 people all had their chests and bulging belly, and they were so angry that they were so angry.
"Ma Laoqi, I heard that you kid killed a real slave?"
"I'm just a little bit. If the spearhead hadn't been cut off at that time, I would have stabbed two of them to death."
"Baby dog, you are going to get rich this time. The war salary plus rewards are 56 taels of silver. You can buy a few acres of land and marry a wife when you get home. Just wait to be your father."
"Marry a wife? Who do you look down on? I want to marry two!"
"Look, you can do it. You still want to marry two people like this? Are you busy at night?"
"This is not a big deal for you. Anyway, our village king widow is very fond of me, saying that I am as strong as a calf."
The soldiers around him burst into laughter, all of whom were so happy. When they were in the army, they all liked such dirty jokes, otherwise they would not have been too hard and difficult to endure.
With the envious eyes of everyone, the first border army stood in front of the gate of the frontier.
Yang Laipi, who was ranked first, was about to rise to the sky. I have to say that this feeling of attention is really good, even more enjoyable than lying on Widow Wang.
"Whose soldier is you?" As usual, a eunuch asked.
This time, Yang Laipi became familiar with him: "He was a soldier from the Ming Dynasty."
"Whose grain should be eaten?" the eunuch asked again.
"I can eat the food of Master Long live." Yang Laipi replied with a loud bang.
Yang Laipi's voice was full of pride and honor.
"Yang Laipi, kill Zhennu and reward 50 taels of silver for one, pay 6 taels of war, and 56 taels of 56 taels."
Chongzhen personally handed Yang Laipi a silver ingot of 50 taels and two silver turfs.
"Liar Yang Laipi, thank you for your reward!" Yang Laipi first knelt down and knocked three times, then stood up and took the silver in a panic, put it in his pocket and hid it carefully.
"Yang Laipi, who gave you this name?"
"My mother asked me to say that the name is cheaper and you can support me."
"But now that you have grown up, you don't care about this anymore. I will give you a big account. From now on, you will change your name to Yang Ponu. I hope you can kill a few more Jiannu on the battlefield in the future."
"Thank you, the villain Yang Ponu, thank you for your name!"
When he walked out of the headquarters, Yang Ponu was so red that he looked proud.
Today, not only did I receive a huge sum of 56 taels of silver, but the marriage of my wife has been settled.
And Long Live also gave him the big name "Yang Ponu", which is a great grace!
Looking up, seeing the old acquaintance who had just made fun of him, Yang Ponu snorted coldly and said, "Old Niu, Master Long Sui just gave me a big number. From now on, I will tell me Yang Ponu, stop barking like a mangy dog."
The soldier nicknamed Lao Niu immediately stood there, Long Live the name? Is it true or false?
However, the payment was stopped halfway because there were no warnings on the nights scattered.
First, three consecutive cannons sounded, and then the swan sounded throughout the military camp. The border troops, who were queuing up to receive their wages, rushed back to the Western gun platform at the outpost without hesitation.
The generals and deputy generals of each town came to Huang Degong's headquarters as soon as possible.
More than a dozen generals and deputy generals entered the center one after another and found that a screen had already been set up in the hall, but the screen was not a landscape painting, but a map of Xia Zhen.
"All have arrived? Jingnan Bo, then let's start."
Chongzhen did not overestimate the leader, but gave up his command position to Huang Degong.
Huang Degong stepped forward and stood in front of the screen and said, "The night of Yi Ding is not collected and just sent a flying cavalry to return. A group of Jiannu, who is about 10,000 people, has crossed the Nanliang River and is approaching quickly along the east bank of the canal. If nothing unexpected happens, Jiannu will arrive in Xia Town after noon today."
"Time is tight, so I won't say much."
"You will return to your respective management areas immediately and be prepared quickly."
"The bottom line I give you is that the first level gun platform must last for more than one hour! The second level gun platform must last for more than two hours, and the third level gun platform is four hours! The fourth level is the bottom line!"
"At most, Jiannu can only break into the fourth round gun platform."
Here, Huang Degong has actually doubled Chongzhen's requirements.
Chongzhen's requirement was to persist in the first defense line for half an hour, and at most let Jiannu advance to the eighth level.
Although he had done a lot of work and had basically achieved enough food and salary, the Ming army's fear of Jiannu was not so easy to overcome, and Jiannu's combat effectiveness was indeed better than that of the Ming army.
So, don’t have any unrealistic expectations for the Ming army.
This is not a small-scale battle, but a large-scale battle of tens of thousands of people.
However, Chongzhen would not have defeated the heroic position in front of so many people.
After slapping the map on the screen, Huang Degong said again: "If anyone can't do it, come and see me! I, Huang Degong, will cut off my head and apologize to the emperor."
The general present, the deputy general, looked stern.
They could naturally hear that Huang Degong was not joking.
Huang Degong asked Chongzhen again: "Master, do you have anything else to say?"
"I just say one sentence." Chongzhen nodded and said, "We must strictly follow the map, and distribute troops and firearms equally. It is stipulated that one gun platform, two tiger squat cannons are 2."
"If you stipulate that 20 bird guns on a gun platform, you must have 20 bird guns."
"It is absolutely not allowed to concentrate bird guns and tiger squat cannons on the peripheral gun platform. Otherwise, even if I keep it, I will never give you merits and will be severely punished!"
The generals of the ten towns and deputy generals showed dismay.
Chongzhen originally wanted to equip each gun platform with 3 tiger squat cannons and 30 bird guns.
But in the end, Liu Zongzhou only brought him more than 8,000 bird guns and more than 600 tiger squat cannons, so Chongzhen could only weaken his firepower.
Fortunately, this wave is just a partial teacher of Jiannu, so there is no big problem.
Huang Degong said: "Have you written down all the words of the emperor? If you write them down, go back quickly."
The generals of the ten towns and deputy generals left one after another, and Huang Degong advised Chongzhen again: "Sir, the battle in Xiazhen is about to be around, you should hurry up and take the navy warship to leave here."
"I won't leave." Chongzhen refused without hesitation.
"In this battle, I have to watch you defeat Jiannu with my own eyes!"
Huang Degong said: "Master, you can't use it in this minister."
"Then you just think I'm not here." Chongzhen said, "I won't interfere with your command."
After saying that, Chongzhen took Zhu Cilang, Zhu Cijiong and his brothers, and the eunuchs walked out. Huang Degong didn't care about the emperor and walked out of the headquarters with his personal side.
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"Bang!"
Accompanied by a dull shaking sound, a three-edged heavy arrow, which was more than three feet long, was already out of the string with a violent tremor, and then turned into a shadow of the lake and shot towards Yidingye fifty steps ahead.
Yi Ding Yebu felt the danger, and instinctively hid his body on the other side of the horse's neck and hid in the stirrups.
Seeing this scene, a grim smile appeared leisurely on the corner of Yabran's mouth, because he predicted this time.
He was talking quickly, and with a puff sound, the three-edged arrow that was enough to penetrate the iron armor had already penetrated the horse's neck, and then he shot Yi Ding Ye who was hiding on the right side of the horse's neck.
The war horse neighed and fell to the ground, and the Yi Ding turned over from the horse's back even if he didn't take it at night.
When Yabran chased after him, the other two cavalry Jiannu came over without taking him in Ye. The fallen Yi Ding was shot through his heart and lay on the ground and twitched slightly, with blood spilling out of his mouth.
"It's really difficult, but I finally killed one."
Yabran turned over and dismounted and cut off the Yi Ding's head and hung it in front of the saddle.
A Jiannu asked Ye Wubiao, "There are two in front, are you still chasing me?"
"No need to chase after me anymore." Yabran waved his hand, "Go back and report to Gushan Ejin."
The three of them turned north and met Jiannu's large group of troops less than five miles away.
Baiyintu brought all his side troops along the way, including the 9 Niulu (original 10), the 8 and a half Niulu (original 10), the more than 3,000 coat slaves and more than 2,400 surrendered troops of Gao Di, all of which were more than 10,600, but they actually did not lose much military strength.
However, the equipment loss was quite serious. There were only 1,500 bird guns left and 15 Flang machine cannons left. In addition, there were also many long wooden signs, spears and waist knives, and there was no loss of baggage.
"I found out that Yi Ding Ye would not accept it?" Bai Yintu said with a grim smile, "It seems that the Ming army is not far ahead."
He paused and said, "Send the order to speed up the whole army. You must catch up with this group of Ming troops before Shenshi today, and you must not let them run away again!"
Baiyintu’s worries are completely redundant.
Because the Ming army had no intention of running away at all.
As Shenchu ​​approached, the Jiannu army finally arrived at the periphery of Xia Town.
Chapter completed!