Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1150 The Aggressive Bohai Fleet

Wei Zhongxian was a little bit reluctant to part with the newly captured Mu'an City, which he personally led the fleet to defeat.But Cheng Mingzhen reminded him that an isolated city is difficult to defend.

The advantage of their Bohai Fleet is at sea, but if they are reluctant to part with this Baekje city, they will fall into a passive state.

"Eunuch Wei, the city of Wuben has been breached, and the memorial to the victory has been sent up. Now I have confiscated all the population, money, food, and livestock in the city. There is no need to stay any longer. Let's take the prisoners, population, livestock, Just take the money and food with you.”

"You really can't keep it?" Wei Zhongxian was sitting in the palace of the city lord of Wu'an City, and he had just personally inscribed the name of the city gate for Mu'an City.

"Let's retreat back to Tamna Island to rest for a while, send these trophies back first, rest for a while, and then come again. The coast of Baekje is so vast, we can fight anywhere. Even, we can go to the Wa Kingdom for a while."

Thinking about it, Wei Zhongxian seemed to be right.

"Okay, let's go."

Gritting his teeth, "But we can't hand over this county to the Baekje people in vain. Just like the way the saints did in Goguryeo and Pyongyang, we also let these captives tear down the city and fill in the trenches. All the crops in the field Take it, we even dug this embankment for him, all the villages outside the city were burned, and the wells were buried!"

Eunuchs are ruthless, sometimes even more ruthless than normal people.

Cheng Mingzhen didn't think of this, all he wanted was to leave with one vote, and accept as soon as it was good.But what Wei Zhongxian thought was, I can't get it, and I won't keep it for you Baekje people.

Take everything you can take away, and destroy everything you can't take away.

"Why didn't the subordinates think of it, or the father-in-law thought it through."

Wei Zhongxian said proudly, "Actually, I'm just learning from a saint."

Order it.

The fleet is divided into two parts, one part is responsible for transporting looted money, food, livestock and other trophies from the river to the coastal islands by boat, and the other part is responsible for pumping the prisoners of war and civilians, breaking the embankments, harvesting crops and burning them. Villages destroy roads and bridges.

The Bohai Fleet has been busy for more than half a month. During this period, the scouts from all over the place reported that the nearby Baekje scouts were approaching, but the Baekje army never showed up.

The Baekje military officers and local officials in several nearby counties and towns not only did not immediately lead their troops to fight back, on the contrary, they even fled after hearing that the Qin army had landed here and defeated more than [-] Japanese and Japanese allied forces. .

Within three hundred miles, there was no Baekje army to be found.

This gave the Bohai Fleet plenty of time to do everything they wanted. Cheng Mingzhen even boldly sent light cavalry around. Some nearby small cities either abandoned their cities and fled, or closed their gates and dared not leave.

The fleet plundered happily again.

Half a month later, the Baekje court finally sent a few generals to lead the army, and mobilized soldiers from many places, as well as many young and strong civilians, claiming to be surrounded by tens of thousands of troops.

However, they also had loud thunder and little rain, and kept shouting very loudly, but their marching speed was extremely slow, and they only walked twenty or thirty miles a day.

It was obvious that they wanted to scare away the people of Qin, and they didn't want to fight for real.

Seeing that everything that could be robbed and moved was robbed and moved, and everything that could be destroyed was destroyed, Wei Zhongxian patted his ass, boarded the fleet and went down the river, and evacuated.

The fleet first withdrew to the coastal islands, where the loot was temporarily stored.

As long as they are at sea, Qin Jun is not afraid of Baekje people at all, no matter how many people there are.

In fact, the Baekje people waited for the Qin army to walk for ten days before they finally moved to Muan City. Looking at the ruins of Muan County, the Baekje general still made people play the king and defeated the Qin bandits. , regain lost ground.

Knowing that the Qin army was on the island dozens of miles away, the Baekje people pretended not to know.

Several islands along the coast.

The Bohai Fleet is very happy. The cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens and ducks brought from Muan County, except for the cattle and horses, are slaughtered every day. Sailors and soldiers eat big fish and meat every day.

Happy.

This trip to Muan County really didn't cost much, and the rewards were so great.

The will of the saint has come down.

For Wei Zhongxian, Cheng Yuanzhen and others, they all increased their ranks by one level.

And those sailors and soldiers were also awarded honors according to their merits.

Originally, the people in the fleet were not members of the imperial court, but private individuals of the royal family, but the whole world belonged to the imperial court. If the emperor wanted to award these people some honors, the imperial court had nothing to say, after all, honors were neither officials nor ranks.

Of course, in addition to honor, there are rewards.

The emperor's reward was very generous.

Half of the seizures in this battle went into the emperor's treasury.Then the remaining half goes to the fleet.

Although Wei Zhongxian likes others to flatter him, he can still do things.

He immediately stated that of the half that belongs to the fleet, [-]% will be used for rewards and pensions, [-]% will be reserved for the fleet as a backup, and the remaining [-]% will be used to distribute rewards to people in the fleet, including those who did not come out this time. to one copy.

Even if half of it was handed over to the emperor first, there are still a lot of people who can get it in the end.

There were more than 1 prisoners of war, more than 2 Baekje people captured, and tens of thousands of cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock, not to mention the money and supplies.

Everyone in the fleet can get a slave for the bottom line, and there will be no shortage of other money, silk and livestock.

Of course, it would be inconvenient to directly distribute slaves, livestock, and supplies. Fortunately, Wei Zhongxian, as a trade envoy of the Bohai Fleet, used to specialize in trade, so he had a strong relationship in this regard.

A few letters were sent to the various ports across the sea, and within a few days, many merchant ships came.

Wei Shizhong directly held an auction on the coastal island of Muan City, and the Baekje army was on the ruins of Muan County dozens of miles away.

But the merchants who came and went didn't pay much attention to them. They only knew that whoever came quickly could pick up the spoils that had just been obtained from the battlefield.

The Bohai Fleet needs to cash in quickly so that they can move on to the next operation, so that they can be handed over to the emperor's internal treasury and reward the soldiers. They themselves are unwilling and have no energy to transport these things back to the Central Plains and sell them slowly.

The most popular of all booty was still slaves.

Whether they are prisoners of war or ordinary people, they are just slaves of the fleet at this time, and they are divided into different grades according to men, women, children, and skills, and the prices are clearly marked.

The merchants didn't even think about taking the opportunity to slap on the price of the things of the Bohai Fleet, and everyone still had to rely on Eunuch Wei to take care of them.

Therefore, even though it was an auction, everyone bid tacitly, and the final transaction price was very good.

Most of the merchants came directly with banknotes and banknotes issued by major banks and banks in commercial ports, which were convenient to carry and cash.

Wei Zhongxian thanked these businessmen with a smile, and said that next time he will give priority to those who support him.

Here, Cheng Mingzhen also began to disclose the accounts obtained from the auction to the people of the fleet, and then paid out the accounts, and finally divided the accounts one by one according to the proportion of the proceeds.

As for each sailor and each guard, how to calculate the total number is all clear, and finally they were all converted into copper coins.

However, because he is still overseas, the reward is only recorded on the account, and when he returns to the Central Plains seaport, he can redeem his own reward.

Looking at the bills posted, seeing their respective numbers, and then went to get the white slips, everyone was very careful, and all of them were smiling.

The merchants began to load the slaves, livestock, utensils, etc. they bought on board, and many captains there were already surrounding Wei Zhongxian to ask questions.

"Wei Gong, where shall we fight next? The brothers have been idle for a long time, and we can't sit still."

Wei Zhongxian laughed loudly, "These little bastards!"

(End of this chapter)