Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 95 Rewards
Before setting off, Li Yuchun specially asked Yan Wogong to write several reports for him, a good report prepared in advance, claiming that Zhu Wu, the younger brother of the puppet Lu Jianguo and the puppet Jiangnan admiral Zhu Wu, was captured and killed, and more than [-] puppet Ming thieves were defeated. There are more than [-] rebellious people.

There is also a document asking for credit for Balazhangjing Jishiha and himself, and finally a letter of recommendation for Yan Wogong, saying that he is loyal, righteous and brave, and recommended him as the magistrate of Jiaxing.

The moment he got on his horse, Li Yuchun carried the written documents in his arms, and felt that he was sure of victory. At dawn, he would first break through the bandit camp and capture Zhu Wu alive. Destroy all the camps of the thieves.

Li Yuchun couldn't help feeling extremely heroic at the thought of defeating these tens of thousands of rebellious troops.

To be honest, after leading the army alone, he has never won such a big victory, whether it was when he was under the command of Huang Degong in the Yongwei Battalion, or when he was sent to the Qing Dynasty under the tents of Duoduo and Boluo.

He had even begun to think that after making such a great contribution, he would have to be promoted to the commander-in-chief of a town, and maybe even an admiral of a province.The admiral of Su Song is Wu Zhaosheng, the admiral of Zhejiang is Tian Xiong, and there are no positions, so maybe we can find an admiral of Fujian?
No matter how bad it is, it is always possible to find a Ningbo general.

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Under the night, Zhang Mingzhen was personally deploying the battle plan by the Mayao Lake.

"In this battle, only victory is allowed and no defeat is allowed!"

Ruan Jin, Wang Chaoxian, Zhang Mingbin, Zhang Mingjia, Jin Yunyan, Fang Jian, Zhang Jinjue, Zhu Dingguo and other generals under Zhang Mingzhen's command all nodded earnestly, and Jian Guo personally used his body as bait. If you can't win, the sky will collapse.

"When I was in the Beijing camp, I went out of the customs and fought several times with the tartars. The tartars are just mortal bodies with two eyes, one mouth, and two shoulders carrying a head, but they were born outside the pass in Liaodong. The bitter cold land of Baishan and Heishui, so the skin is rougher and thicker."

"But when they come to this water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the Tatars are not acclimatized. They are not afraid of the cold but the heat the most. Now in June, the Tartars are afraid to go out during the day."

"Although the tartars are better equipped with cotton armor and iron cloth armor, in this Jiangnan water town, this heavy armor is not all good. Once they fall into the water, they can't even bubble up, so they have to sink to the bottom to feed the fish."

"Of course, don't look at the five hundred horsemen of the Tartars, but this town has already found out that those are just horse-riding infantry. They have the ability to shoot arrows, but their riding and archery skills are not better than ours. Although they dare to fight and charge when fighting on foot In the past, I mainly relied on shield chariots and long spears to deal with my Ming battle formation, but tonight, the right time and place are all on my side, and these Tartars will definitely die!"

In terms of fighting skills, Zhang Mingzhen's military experience is no worse than Li Yuchun's. Li Yuchun was born in the Yongwei Battalion, while Zhang Mingzhen was born in the Beijing Battalion.

"Today, His Highness has decided that after the battle of the Northern Expedition, the battalions will be divided into two. Each battalion will be changed to 180 soldiers and 50 long husbands. The monthly silver of the battalion officers has also been greatly increased. The monthly silver of the battalion officers is 150 taels. Plus 50 taels of public money, plus [-] taels of family name food and husband's silver."

"Everyone, Your Highness is supporting the army with blood and generous salaries. The treatment of just five hundred soldiers and one battalion officer is better than the normal salary of the general army before the imperial court."

"After the war, the eleventh battalion was expanded to the 22nd battalion, eleven new battalion officer positions, and 22 new battalion deputy positions will be selected from among the sentry officers who performed best in this battle. Promotion, everyone, although we are loyal to the king, patriotic, fighting for the country, fighting for the king, and fighting for loyalty, but with such a good treatment, of course we can't miss it."

With such a good salary, when you become a battalion officer, you can get 250 taels of silver in these items in a month. Even if calculated according to the current half-pay rate, you can get 120 taels a month. , the remaining half is not not issued, it is just owed temporarily.

After this year, the real hair will be 500 taels directly, and if all the hair is issued, it will be 3000 taels.

This treatment is already very generous.

The reason why Zhu Yihai insisted on generous salaries for the army is also very simple. Now that the country is in decline, the soldiers are really fighting with their heads up, and it is even precarious. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to just talk about loyalty with the soldiers. If others work hard, at least they have to pay.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man. In the current situation, high salary is also a way to stimulate combat effectiveness, and at the same time, it can prevent military discipline from being corrupted and combat effectiveness decline.

As for how the money will come after the heavy payment, Zhu Yihai has already started to implement the lijin system, to replace the old tax with lijin, collect the money, and even seize supplements by suppressing traitors, local tyrants, evil gentry, bandits, etc.

In short, the soldiers just need to fight. The money and food have their own grain desks, and the household department and the local prefecture and county yamen are responsible.

The monthly silver for a soldier of the upper class is also increased to four taels of five, for the second class soldiers four taels of two, and for the third class soldiers three taels of nine. Even if they are paid half the salary, the third class soldiers can still get nearly two taels of money, which is more than the full salary of the officers and soldiers of the imperial court before.

"In this battle, kill and capture a real Tartar, and reward ten taels of silver; kill and capture a false Tartar, and reward five taels of silver!"

"And there is a collective military reward."

When Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, the king of Zhou took out 140 million taels of silver and placed them on the head of Kaifeng City, which blocked Li Zicheng from opening the Fengfu three times. The power of silver is extremely strong.

Zhu Yihai is also desperately trying now, as long as he can win, he will not lose any amount of money he pays now, and if he loses, don't mention anything.

In the past half a month, the Northern Expeditionary Army has made a huge windfall, and brought a lot of money from Shaoxing, Ningbo. When Chen Qianfu came this time, Zhang Guowei and Yu Ying tried their best to send him a lot of money. silver.

Zhu Yihai is very rich now, it is impossible for him to dig the money and bury it in the ground, let alone wait for cubs.

All the military officers were very excited when they heard Zhang Mingzhen's words. Although everyone was full of loyalty and patriotism, who doesn't love money? Now that they can be loyal and patriotic and take money in a legitimate way, everyone is happy.

Battalion officers and below are paid on a daily basis. Sentinel officers are paid three qian a day, nine taels a month, captains two qian a day, six taels a month.A first-class soldier pays five cents a day, a second-class soldier pays four cents a day, a third-class soldier pays three cents a day, and a senior husband receives one cent a day.

"Above the battalion, there will be additional commanders and sub-commands. The sub-commands command the two battalions, and the commanders command the fourth battalion. The battalion officer is awarded the garrison, the sentry officer is awarded the thousand commander, and the captain is awarded the commander. Officers at all levels above all give their relatives the famous food according to their ranks, and a corresponding increase in public money."

After the Battle of Meishan, Zhenbiao, Shenji, Yongwei, Banner Bearer, and Shizhong were expanded into Left and Right Battalions, and now they will be further divided into Front, Front, Left, and Left Battalions. Each large battalion has four battalions, with two thousand soldiers and seven Changfu One hundred and two, with a guerrilla as the commander, and two sub-commanders below each commanding two battalions.

The number of battalions has increased, and the positions of officers have also increased. For all the officers, not only the monthly salary has increased, but they even have to be promoted.

Before the war, this was a shot in the arm, and all the military officers involved were very excited.

"Except for the battalions in Habayashi, the remaining twenty battalions have twenty battalion officers, twenty battalion deputies, ten division commanders, and five guerrilla commanders. Whoever goes up and who goes down depends entirely on the performance of this battle. "

Ruan Jin patted his chest, "Please rest assured, the soldiers from Shipu will never embarrass you."

Zhang Mingzhen nodded to him, "You will be in charge of all the ships on the water in this battle. Your Highness has long intended to build a dedicated navy. I have recommended you to His Highness. You should perform well."

"Do not worry."

Ruan Jin was born as a boatman, and later went to sea as a pirate. He once sailed a boat with the Ruan brothers and wiped out a pirate force on the sea, destroying more than [-] pirate ships on the sea. People came to recruit, but he was at odds with Zheng's family, so he sailed northward, and finally lost to Zhang Mingzhen's men to recruit for him.

In terms of water warfare, there is no one here who is his opponent.

Even if the captain of the Zheng family came, Ruan Jin would not be outdone.

"How do you divide the spoils?" Zhang Mingbin asked. He is Zhang Mingzhen's fourth younger brother. Compared with the third brother Mingyang's calmness, the second brother Mingzhen's stability, and the eldest brother Mingjia's shrewdness, he acts more unruly, but his martial arts skills are excellent.

"In principle, all seized items shall be returned to the public and shall not be kept privately."

"I'm talking about armor, weapons, knives and guns, especially armor and horses. Our battalions are expanding rapidly now. This time, one battalion is divided into two battalions. Originally, one battalion had [-] soldiers, but now it has expanded into two battalions with thousands of soldiers. They still have to recruit a hundred new soldiers, or change from the original elders to soldiers, and there will be a shortage of weapons and armor."

Some have just been sent from Shaoxing, but armor is also scarce, as well as guns and guns, let alone war horses. There is a shortage of horses in the south of the Yangtze River.

Everyone hopes that their soldiers are strong and strong, and this weaponry is the key.

"In this way, each battalion can keep half of the income captured on the battlefield, and the other half will be handed over to be distributed uniformly, how about it?"

"Is it only half?" Zhang Mingbin pouted.

Zhang Mingzhen glared at the brother, "Don't be dissatisfied."

"Half is half. As long as I capture enough, it will be enough for me to fully arm my brothers. If there are more at that time, I will exchange what I need with other camps."

"Don't talk too much, first use your skills to kill more and capture more."

"Don't worry, I have Ying Erlang under my command. They are all very good men. This time, I have to rely on my merits to grab a commanding guerrilla."

Zhang Mingzhen ignored him and continued to make arrangements.

"Everyone will act like this, do you have any objections?"

"The general town plan is very good, I have no objection." Ruan Jin and others agreed.

"Okay, let's go get ready. Have you seen the boat, the lamp, and the flag in the lake? That's where the prison country is, and that's also the Ming Dynasty. Unless we die, the Tartars and traitors will never be allowed to get close to that step!"

Zhang Mingzhen and others actively prepared for the battle, and quietly transferred the main battalions to the front line of Mayaohu, while on the outskirts of Zhujiazhuang, they left behind Shen Wenzhong's liaison and coordination.

Just past midnight.

Ji Shiha and Li Yuchun each led [-] Manchu and Han riders to leave Zhujiazhuang quietly. They wrapped their hooves with horses and did not hold up the lights. They ran towards the Mayao Lake more than ten miles away in the dark under the light of the stars, and vowed to capture them in one fell swoop. Kill the false admiral Zhu Wu.

Yan Wogongxian was regarded by Li Yuchun as his own Wolong, and he deliberately took it with the army.

Li Yuchun was full of confidence, and always wanted to recite a poem, but suffered from lack of ink in his stomach, so he had to ask Yan Wogong who was standing next to him, "Sir, do you have any poems that fit the current atmosphere, please recite one to cheer you up!"

"The former army has captured Tuyuhun alive in the night battle at Taobei."

"Good poem, come again."

"Ming Dynasty Xingchi seals the sword, resigns from the king and takes Loulan overnight!"

"Good poems, good poems! Mister is a great talent!"

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　Forgot to update, sorry, I thought I was overdue!

　　Plus, it's coming up soon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)