Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 75 Rewarding the Three Armies (Please reward!)

Outside Shanhaiguan, the faces of the soldiers were red from the torches, and the night wind blew, and the armor fluttered.

In front of them were dozens of huge pits, and rows of dead frontier soldiers were placed side by side in the pits.

After fighting for a whole day, a total of 860 soldiers were killed in the Shanhaiguan bloody battle against the Ming Frontier Army.

Among them, there were 650 infantrymen, 660 cavalrymen and [-] cavalrymen, more than [-] wounded, and [-] of them would have to leave the battlefield.

"Salute!" With tears in his eyes, Liu Hongjian slammed his left chest with his right hand, his voice low and whimpering.

Liu Hongjian folded his hands and bent down to salute the dead soldiers.

A day ago, these 8000 people were still alive. A day ago, they were still talking and laughing. Maybe they had pain and troubles, but now, everything is gone with the wind, leaving only a handful of loess .

In front of the pit is a simple stele made of huge wood. The inscription says: 'Tomb of the soldiers who died in the Battle of Shanhaiguan'.

No one knows their names or what they have done for this country, but they have paid with their lives.

Many soldiers behind him followed their commanders and saluted the dead Pao Ze. Several groups of soldiers started to bury him with shovels. In the night, apart from the sound of shoveling and shoveling the soil, there was the low sobbing of soldiers.

The sky is still cloudy and there are still pigeons flying. Who will prove the love and life without tombstones... Liu Hongjian suddenly remembered a ballad from his previous life.

War always kills people, and this is the reason why one will die forever.

"Soldiers! You have to remember that the victory in this war was bought with their lives. They should not be forgotten. The roster of the dead soldiers has been sorted out by the official.

I will give a memorial to the emperor. I will build a monument in the capital. All the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to resist foreign humiliation will be worshiped by thousands of people. The Ming Dynasty will never be extinguished, and the incense will last forever! "

Liu Hongjian's voice was tragic, and the bravery of these soldiers deserves to be commemorated by future generations.

After entering the city, Liu Hongjian ordered the three armies to be rewarded. The corpses of more than a thousand horses were collected from the battlefield. It is summer now and cannot be kept for a long time, just to reward the soldiers.

Horse meat and fine wine were brought out of the full-time Huotou battalion in the barracks, except for the necessary defenders, the soldiers who had fought all day could finally drink to their heart's content.

Holding the saber handle in his right hand, Liu Hongjian walked among the sergeants who gathered to drink in groups of three or four, Niu Zhuang and Li Baida followed behind.

"My lord, let me toast you!" A soldier stood up, holding up a bowl of wine cautiously but firmly.

Behind him, another soldier brought two bowls to Niu Zhuang and Li Baida.

"Okay, my officer has worked hard to drink this wine, the soldiers!" Liu Hongjian took the bowl, drew half a circle to the soldiers around him to show respect, and then drank it all in one gulp.

The barracks was in a mess, and some soldiers were talking about how they killed a few Tartars so bravely today.

There were also soldiers who drank too much and hugged their robes and cried bitterly. More or less of their comrades died in this war. This night will be a sleepless night for many soldiers.

Liu Hongjian sighed, got up and climbed onto the city wall of Shanhaiguan. The moonlight was shining brightly. Liu Hongjian was walking aimlessly on the Great Wall. Niu Dabangchui and Li Baida didn't know what the commander-in-chief was thinking, but followed silently. behind.

The stretch of the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan could not be seen at a glance, and the soldiers guarding the city stood motionless beside the battlements with their spears held high.

Mass burial mounds thousands of miles away,
In troubled times, no one visits the lonely soul.

The sky is silent and the pen and ink are cold,
The spring and autumn of the pen and knife are paid in blood.

After drinking, Liu Hongjian looked at the majestic city gate under the moonlight, and thought of those dead soldiers, and felt emotional.

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the pass, leaving only the big boss and Li Baida looking at each other in dismay, "My lord, how can your lord know how to recite poems?"
On the second day, the whole army gathered in the school grounds to reward meritorious deeds.

"According to the statistics of the head of the official department, in the battle of Shanhaiguan, more than 430 Jiannu soldiers were beheaded, including more than [-] Han soldiers, more than [-] Jiannu and Mongolian soldiers, and prisoners. Three thousand four hundred and thirty-six people."

This is a big victory, the entire Jiannu clan plus the traitor troops are only [-] to [-] soldiers, one sixth of them have been wiped out in this battle, which is enough to shake Jiannu's muscles and bones.

Wang Yuanba, deputy commander in chief, took the battle report from the head of the staff, and announced it loudly in front of the soldiers.

"I will write a memorial later and submit it to the imperial court. The emperor is sympathetic to the soldiers and will certainly not treat the soldiers who guard the border for my Ming Dynasty badly.

Before the war, I promised rewards to the soldiers, now I will fulfill my promise, come!Take reward silver! "

With an order, the sergeant who had been waiting in the warehouse for a long time came with carts of snow-white silver.

The head of the staff side distributed the silver according to the number of heads the soldiers turned in yesterday. The soldiers who got the silver laughed happily. One tartar can be exchanged for 50 taels, which is no different from a huge sum of money to the soldiers who are suffering at the border. .

One must know that their monthly salary was only one or two taels. Although Liu Hongjian raised them to two taels, how could they kill the enemy so quickly?

This is enough to keep their family happy for several years.

A total of 1405 million taels of silver were distributed in this Shanhaiguan battle.

Since most of the thousands of households in Wansui Mountain were beheaded and killed, Liu Hongjian calculated the collective merit and distributed 100 taels of silver to each of them. Zu Qiuqing, Xing Shan and Niu Zhuang who killed the most were undoubtedly the three. There is a reward of 500 taels of silver.

The happiest people in the Qianhu Institute are the newly joined Guan Ning Cavalry. They have been excluded by the chief officer before, but now they are all holding white money in their hands, smiling from ear to ear.

Most of the soldiers have a desire for war in their eyes...

This is exactly what Liu Hongjian wanted. The Ming Dynasty had suffered from internal and external troubles for decades, and these bloodthirsty soldiers would eradicate all disobedient ministers for the Ming Dynasty. If they wanted money, they would give them money.

Liu Hongjian didn't feel sorry for the truckloads of silver that were sent out. These are what the soldiers deserve, and they are many times purer than those stupid officials who only know about corruption and accepting bribes.

After distributing the rewards, Liu Hongjian announced the military reform he had been considering for a long time, announcing that all the guards in Shanhaiguan Town would be merged into the battalion, and those who were older would be given a settling allowance of 30 taels and returned home, or they could find a strong man in the family. to replace.

Half of the more than 9000 guard soldiers went away, and only 5000 were merged into the battalion. The rest of the old and weak happily received the settlement allowance and went home to farm. They said goodbye to their status as military households.

This was Liu Hongjian's deliberate consideration. The guards had been wasted, so what was left for them to do? Even if the court and the central government objected, the ancestral system was more important than the country. I believe Chongzhen would make a choice.

Liu Hongjian also issued a conscription order to recruit [-] troops in the vicinity of Xuanfu, Jizhou, and Denglai, all in the battalion system, including [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.

After the war, the guards were reduced, and there were only more than 5 soldiers left in the entire Shanhaiguan defense line, which is enough now, and the Ningjin defense line will be taken away later.

Half of the more than 300 million taels of silver obtained from the house raid before was lost in an instant, and the next step is to recruit soldiers, so the money is not enough!

While Liu Hongjian was in distress, a soldier trotted over.

"My lord, the supervising army has risen and dived!"

(End of this chapter)