Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 423

The firehead soldiers of the auxiliary barracks were originally in charge of cooking, and they were usually very skilled at killing pigs and sheep, but at this time they shuttled around the battlefield with the first knife, and began to cut off the heads of the thieves on the ground.

These auxiliary barracks are also Sichuan soldiers. Because of their poor skills, they were not selected for the battle barracks. They became auxiliary soldiers, and their salary was only one dollar a day. They could only watch the battle just now, but they also watched with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the fighting time was too short , The addiction is over before I watch it.

At this time, the Huo soldiers were holding the Jieshou Dao, and they had passed their addiction.

The heads of the thieves were cut off one by one, and there were special soldiers who packed them in backpacks, and sent a full basket back to queue for registration.

After the head of the bandit was cut off, other auxiliary soldiers came to clean it up. Someone was responsible for stripping off the armor, clothes, shoes, money and other things from the headless corpse. Finally, a headless corpse was left for the The next group of auxiliary soldiers came and pulled them together, dug a big hole, and buried them collectively.

Everything has a division of labor and a pre-plan.

The clerks were busy recording, killing the enemy military exploits, injuries, and battlefield seizures, as well as battlefield damage, each of which must be recorded in time.

Zhang Shipeng and others also rushed to the village.

"Good fight!" Zhang Shipeng praised.

Ji Cong said filially, "The admiral's words sound like a curse, but we are the Imperial Battalion, and the name of the Battalion is Charge. To deal with such a group of thieves, we should fight well."

Chang Tai, the battalion officer of the Xiaorui Battalion, said unhappily, "You guys are really quick. If you eat meat, you should give us a drink of soup anyway. Let's run around, but in the end we didn't catch a single hair!"

Ji Congxiao chuckled, "Old Chang, we are fellow villagers who came out of Jiangyin together. You have worked hard to support me this time. Next time, we will assist you in the Xiaorui camp from the assault camp."

"Have you caught the Black Dragon King?"

"I was shot like a hedgehog. This guy saw that the situation was not good and wanted to run from the back mountain, but was blocked by the rear post. The archers saw that this guy was riding a big horse, so they knew it must be the leader, so they all shot at this guy, damn it , I saw that horse, the Northland big horse, worth a lot of money, so blind, I must let these guys pay attention next time, such a good horse is rare, but now it can only be divided and stewed The meat was eaten."

Ji Shimei reminded her cousin, "There are a lot of people who were coerced into this village, you didn't kill them indiscriminately, did you?"

"Don't worry, we are Master Wang, not bullies."

"Well, as for the money, food and property looted by the thieves, they were all sealed up and registered in time, so they didn't keep their share?"

"We are brothers, with the same grandfather. We grew up peeing and muddy together. You still can't believe me? In my assault camp, whoever dares to mess around, I will cut off his hands."

He just finished speaking.

As a result, the battalion supervisor came over and said that the gendarme found that some people had hidden spoils, and there were quite a few of them.

Like a cat stepping on its tail, Ji Congxiao became angry from embarrassment. Everyone jumped up and growled, "Who, who the hell dares to ignore Lao Tzu's order, who dares to ignore the imperial camp rules appointed by the saint, who the **** dares to stretch out his hand indiscriminately!" , Said, I will kill him now!"

The battalion supervisor just said calmly, "Calm commander, calm down, they violated the military regulations, and they have been arrested by the gendarmerie. From now on, they have been controlled by the gendarmerie. We will try and deal with it as soon as possible." , The battalion commander doesn't need to worry about this matter."

Ji Congxiao jumped into a rage, holding a knife to kill people directly.

Ji Shimei scolded, "The state owns the laws of the country, and the army has military regulations. In the imperial camp, there are supervisors and gendarmerie responsible for enforcing military laws. Although you are a battalion officer, you have no right to interfere, let alone hacking people. It's not fast." Back off, shame on you."

Ji Cong's face was flushed with filial piety, but he could only grit his teeth and back down.

"You must check the prison camp thoroughly for me. You can deal with it as you like. You must not let it go lightly. I have said it over and over again, and there are still people who dare to ignore it. Damn it."

In contrast, Zhang Shipeng, Ji Shimei and the others were much calmer. They had already expected that various problems would definitely arise when they were actually on the battlefield, so they didn't panic at all.

Everything is according to the rules.

How to deal with it.

The military regulations of the imperial camp are not empty words, each military regulation has corresponding detailed handling conditions.

Take the matter of hiding spoils as an example, different amounts of possession will have different levels of punishment, ranging from leather whips, to batons, to dismissal from the army, and even imprisonment, to beheading. See how much you have hidden.

"Let the battalion director lead the joint standard supervision army, the military justice department's town governor, and the gendarmerie to conduct a joint investigation and trial. We must investigate and try it as soon as possible, and come up with a result. I think it will be before dark. At that time, a meeting will be held. Reward and punishment, together!" Zhu Shipeng said.

During the battle, the thieves killed some horses and mules, and after the war, they took a lot of pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc. from the village.

The battalion registers all the money, food and materials seized together. These are the military achievements of the assault battalion. For example, if a war horse is captured, the sergeant can keep it for his own use or turn it in. Or mules, etc. have corresponding rewards.

All other materials seized must be returned to the public, but whoever captures them will naturally be rewarded accordingly. There are corresponding detailed standards for valuable items ranging from armor to war horses.

However, Ji Congxiao, as the battalion officer, has long declared that the assault battalion is a collective. Whether it is beheading or capture, it is directly distributed as a collective reward. During the battle, beheading is not allowed, and credit is not allowed, but everyone has a share. Yes, those who kill the enemy can still have extra rewards.

Even if he didn't cut off his head to ask for credit on the battlefield, he can repay the credit by himself in the end, and not only the individual soldiers, but also the military merits of all levels. Everyone's credit, such as beheading, vanguard, etc., must be paid for. The sergeants and officers of the same team must testify.

Smoke rose from the village.

The stewed meat is cooked with rice, and the aroma is striking.

Thousands of people gathered in the stockade. In fact, the few things that were seized were not much, but they could always be beaten for tooth sacrifice.

"What about those people?"

"It depends on them personally. They can leave on their own, or they can choose to stay here, repair the stockade, cultivate wasteland here, and we can also give them some captured knives and guns, and let them pull a militia to defend themselves." Zhu Wanhua proposed.

"If they are willing to stay, we can distribute some of the captured grain to them," Zhang Shipeng said.

afternoon.

The battlefield was basically cleaned up, and Zhang Shipeng and the others also talked with the representatives of the people who were rescued. Most of them expressed their willingness to stay. Now in troubled times, where can they go?

Anyway, there is still a place to stand here, and the imperial camp promised to give them some food and weapons to help them repair the stockade. I heard that the imperial camp is now camping in the Phoenix Mountain area, and everyone thinks it might be a good choice to stay.

As for the captured thieves, they were quickly interrogated and screened to distinguish who was an old thief, who was a newcomer, who was coerced, who had blood on their hands, who had eaten people, and so on.

"Have you found out about the violation of military regulations over there?"

"It's all figured out,"

"Then have you sorted out the military achievements and captures of this battle?"

"It's all done."

Zhang Shipeng nodded, "Very well, let's blow the trumpet and gather together, hold a meeting of rewards and punishments, and make a summary. This is a fine tradition of the imperial camp, and we have to make good use of it."

Rewards are timely and cannot be delayed, and the same is true for punishments, otherwise the effect will be weakened.

Beat the drum and blow the horn.

Thousands of men and horses gathered in formation, each divided into battalions and posts.

The rescued people in the village watched gratefully and curiously. The captured bandits were all tied up, full of despair and fear.

Raise the flag.

Zhang Shipeng asked Shen Yuantai, the director of the army, to read out the crimes of the thieves, and after counting their evidence, he announced their punishment.The Black Dragon King was dead, so his head was beheaded and hung to show the public, and then sent to the Phoenix Mountain camp.

The rest of the more than a hundred old thieves, including more than a dozen leaders, were all beheaded in public. The rest of the old thieves were also bloody and debt-ridden, but the saint has always been kind, so he was spared from death.

Most of the remaining thousands of captives were only starving refugees who had been coerced, so they were all released.

This decision is actually controversial.

Zhang Shipeng thought it would be too cheap to let them go. Ji Shimei thought they should cut off two toes before releasing them. However, Shen Yuantai, as the capital supervisor, thought that the current turmoil in Sichuan, the people were in dire straits, and the yellow thieves looted everywhere and even hunted people for food. Western thieves massacred the city and killed people everywhere, and the Ming army in Yuanchuan even often plundered the people. If the imperial camp is like this, it is not a good thing.

In the current situation in Sichuan, if you are a thief, you will be killed, and you will not be able to kill them. After all, many thieves are actually just hungry people who gather together to steal, or are coerced by thieves. Slowly recovering the vitality of Shuzhong is also to promote the benevolence of the emperor to the Shu people.

Shen Yuantai is also from Jiangnan. He is the son of Shen Tingyang, the servant of the household department. He opposes mass killings.
He thought that only the chief culprit should be punished, and the rest should be appeased as much as possible, and finally persuaded Zhang Shipeng and the others.

They were released on the spot without even whipping the whip. Most of them were willing to stay in Tangjiagou and build a village together to reclaim wasteland. They were also accepted by the people in the Tangjiazhai. Multiple copies of self-preservation power.

"cut!"

A red-headed lottery was dropped.

More than a dozen backbone old thieves were kidnapped by Wuhuada.

It was not the soldiers of the imperial camp who acted as the executioners, but the newly-built militia members of Tangjiagou Village. They received the flags, swords, guns, bows and arrows from the imperial camp.

Now the first mission of their militia team is to behead the dozen or so thieves who captured their stockade and committed serious crimes before.

With hatred, these militiamen came to the stage with their knives in hand, roared and swung their knives down, ending the dozen or so criminals.

Then, the remaining hundreds of old thieves with blood on their hands were pulled up. Their final disposal result was to spare their lives, but with twenty rods, their buttocks would bloom, and then they would be locked up and sent back to Phoenix Mountain. When I go back to Chongqing, there will be military camps there, and these people will work as slaves in the military camps there, farm land for the imperial camp, and atone for their sins as slaves for the rest of their lives.

When it was finally announced that the rest of the thieves were released on the spot, those people were full of surprises and endless gratitude, and they knelt down and kowtowed in gratitude.

Zhang Shipeng said, "It's not us that you want to thank, but His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. It is His Majesty who is merciful. He doesn't want to commit more crimes, so he especially forgives you. Otherwise, you will be punished if you follow the traitors."

"Bring offenders!"

More than a dozen people who were secretly seized in the assault camp, even molested women, and killed prisoners were brought up.

A judge-martial reads their crimes, and what to do about them.

One of the local soldiers who raped the Japanese should be executed for his crime. However, if he was successful in killing a thief today, he will be sentenced to twenty rods and expelled from the army after making atonement.

Ji Congxiao hated the iron and slapped this guy twice, "Get out, I won't accept you as a beast in the assault camp."

Although he really wanted to save this person, he finally gritted his teeth and didn't want to make such a bad start.

Originally, Shen Yuantai insisted on killing them, but Zhang Shipeng and the others thought that this guy killed two thieves today and was injured again, so they spared his life.

But you can't stay.

All military rewards were also taken away, and the soldiers in armor and swords were taken away, expelled from the army, and let him go home.

After hitting twenty sticks, the man was limping, very lonely, regretful in his heart, but there was no way to change it.

"Wait a moment."

Ji Congxiao finally gave him two pieces of dragon silver, "Take care of yourself all the way!"

The rest of the dozen or so violators of military regulations were also dealt with in public, and the amount of loot hidden in private was not large, so it was mainly military sticks, and then they were demerited.

After dealing with violations of military regulations, rewards will begin.

The soldiers of the assault battalion were excited to receive the silver reward in public, because it was the first time, so in order to play a better incentive role, the silver was distributed directly, and the silver silver was handed out.

There was a guy who rushed into the village first, and in the end even shot and killed the Black Dragon King, etc., and captured horses and armors. In the end, he got 120 taels of silver alone. Killed countless soldiers.

Of course, this is the only lucky one.

The rest of the rewards were more than three or forty taels, and most people only got one or two taels of silver.

Even the auxiliary soldiers who contributed the least, most of them only got two coins as a reward.

The other battalions only drank a meal of horse broth, which was enough to satisfy their eyesight.

In total, there are not many rewards for silver hair, and it is not as good as the captured income.

But the more than 5000 battalion soldiers, all of them had red eyes after being irritated. These people used to be soldiers. There were white soldiers, Sichuan soldiers, local soldiers, and local soldiers from powerful landlords. They won battles There is a reward, but when was it so straightforward, so unambiguous, and immediately cashed in?

What's more, for beating such a group of small thieves, they were rewarded so much?

That lucky bearded man got 120 taels per person. Damn it, this is enough to marry several wives and even buy a yard and [-] acres of land.

Zhang Shipeng stood up at the right time and said that the imperial camp has always been rewarded for meritorious service and will never be deducted, so as long as everyone dares to fight and can fight, the court and the saint will definitely live up to them!

Of course, there must be punishment.

Whoever dares to break the military regulations will not be forgiven lightly, and those who dare to escape from the battlefield will be killed without mercy!

The other battalion soldiers who were yelling were stimulated, and they even couldn't wait to ask who they would fight next, and the battalion officers began to directly compete for the main task of the next battle.

Ji Congxiao, who was credited with a higher rank, kept a low-key joke on the side, and didn't dare to fight any more.

Several officers even directly proposed to divide the troops to attack and attack. A battalion of 800 people went together. They looked down on these thieves too much. One battalion was enough to sweep the surrounding area all the way.

Who wouldn't be jealous to see this assault battalion eating delicious food and receiving so many rewards?

Why did the assault battalion get so many benefits, the battle was fought so easily, and whoever was replaced was the same result, who was worse than whom?

Seeing that everyone is so active, especially the soldiers below are eager to fight, Zhang Shipeng and others are also very satisfied, the fighting spirit of this soldier has been successfully ignited!

(End of this chapter)