Lord of Ming Dynasty

After another hour, Zhang Qiang, who hastily cleaned the battlefield, led more than 400 troops and [-] prisoners, and hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield with the captured soldiers.

Less than half an hour after they left the battlefield, Liu Guangbi ran back with more than 1000 Han army flags and more than 300 Mongolian cavalry, leaving them only deserters all over the mountains and plains. While gathering the deserters, the two led people to chase Zhang Qiang's troops.

Can catch up there.

Zhang Qiang entered Wuyi County early.

"Haha, I've made a lot of money," Zhang Qiang said excitedly after drinking a few sips of water, patting the Huanghuali official hat chair.

But Yu Haibo looked worried down there.

Wei Wuji laughed and said, "Your Excellency, look, I captured Liu Liangzuo, what should I reward?"

Zhang Qiang pointed at him and said, "Okay, reward, reward."

Zhou Congee said angrily, "My lord, I saved you. If you want to reward me, you should reward me first."

Zhang Qiang said with a smile: "Reward,"

Xuanyuan Longfei stood there depressed, and muttered: "I want to save my lord too, but it's too far away. When I turned my horse's head, Liu Liangzuo had already rushed in front of you. Although I threw the spear in my hand, I couldn't It’s to kill an enemy cavalry, alas——”

Du Ge looked up at the roof of the county government office, let alone him. Although he also discovered Zhang Qiang's crisis, it was too far away. He was at least one mile away from Zhang Qiang, and it was too late to rescue him.

Hu Kui stood at the bottom of the hall with his head down, with annoyance and shame on his face. Not only did he fail to kill Liu Liangzuo, he was also escaped by Liu Liangzuo. It was terrible, 35 died at once, and the rest were injured.

Zhang Qiang looked around at his subordinates, "Today's people are all meritorious and rewarded. As for the responsibility, it is also my responsibility. I underestimated the enemy and sent Hu Kui out, but our cavalry team is too small and the training is not enough. And Except for a few cavalry who have cavalry experience, the rest are horse infantry. It is okay to be a sentry at ordinary times, but it is not enough to fight the enemy. This is my negligence. It was my fault that I led you to break through, I shouldn’t have wanted to touch the enemy.”

You Haibo said: "My lord, you can't risk your life in the future. There are more than 1000 rebels, and there is still a big gap between them and the enemy. I originally wanted to lead people to rescue you, but I remembered that there are too many refugees around. Surrounded by the enemy, they dare not attack lightly, and the 250 people left behind are not enough to defend the city, and they are unable to fight in the field, especially when facing the Qing army, but they ignore your safety, my lord, and you deserve to die."

After speaking, he knelt down.

Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "Forget it, I underestimated the enemy. Next, settle down the soldiers. Those who should be given pensions will be given pensions. Every soldier who dies will be given ten taels of silver, those who are seriously injured eight taels of silver, and those who are slightly injured will be treated well." , five taels of silver, and the rest of the soldiers, three taels of silver each, and the rest of the rice, flour, grain and oil, Mr. You, look at the distribution, you must not treat the soldiers badly."

He glanced at his subordinates, "As for you, Du Ge will give you 15 taels of silver, Mr. You, choose the servants who have been brushed off from your yamen servants to supplement the sword player team."

"Xuanyuan Longfei, also send 15 taels, you go to the previous four hundred young men to pick people to supplement the team."

"Zhou Congee, you have the merit of saving him, and you will be given 50 taels of silver. You can give priority to selecting those archers and other arms from other teams to supplement the team."

"Wei Wuji, you have the credit for capturing the enemy's chief general. You will also be paid 50 taels. My fifty pro-army infantry will be supplemented for you first, and the rest will be supplemented from the four hundred young and strong. I think that I will have to have one in the future." The main general will defend the city, so you can defend the city in the future. Your army can be expanded to 400 people, which can be divided into four teams: infantry, archers, pikemen, and musketeers.

But these squads will not be fixed in the future, that is to say, they may not always be in your team. Your duty is to train some ordinary soldiers and supplement other people's teams at any time.By the way, help Lord You guard the city. "

Then Zhang Qiang turned his head to You Haibo and said, "Your twenty household cavalry will be added to Hu Kui's cavalry, and 25 order cavalry will be re-selected from the yamen servants' training."

Zhou Congee said: "My lord, what should we do with the bandit squad we brought back?"

Zhang Qiang said: "Break them up and organize them into their respective teams. As for those two people?" Zhang Qiang thought for a while, then turned to Wei Wuji and said, "Take them with you and see what specialties they have. Train them a bit. Then he said melancholy: "Not only do we have fewer soldiers, but also fewer generals, and even fewer generals who can stand on their own."

Zhang Qiang let out a long sigh, and looked up at the top of the county government office, "A bright mirror hangs high, serving the public with integrity." He couldn't help shaking his head.

You Haibo said: "My lord, there are so many Qing soldiers and bandits in our county, the people can't be peaceful. On this day, three thousand people have fled to the county. We will not be able to harvest much food this year, let alone Other commodities are being traded, and we only have the food and supplies we brought with us, which may not be able to feed the seven or eight thousand people and our army of nearly a thousand. There are also [-] enemy prisoners.”

Zhang Qiang rubbed his head, this is a trouble.

Zhou Congee said: "My lord, we have seized a lot of supplies from the Qing army, but we haven't counted them yet."

Zhang Qiang turned to You Haibo and said, "Recruit people immediately and report them as soon as possible."

The generals dispersed, and Zhang Qiang began to feel melancholy. Although the enemy was barely defeated in this battle, the enemy was still strong. There were at least 5000 enemies, and there were five or six thousand refugees outside, at least one thousand bandits.

He doesn't know where He Jin and Lin Yangcheng fled to. He doesn't believe that the Mongolian cavalry can wipe out all these rogues, maybe they can catch one or two, but He Jin and Lin Yangcheng are mature people, and they will definitely separate To escape, they ran into the mountains of Wuyi County, and it was the people of Wuyi County who would cause disaster in the future, their own ruling territory.

These people are not their own people, and they will not show mercy to the people of Wuyi County. Now they don't know what the outside world is like.

But I couldn't attack easily anymore, and suffered heavy damage. Although I defeated the enemy and captured 200 enemies, and captured countless, but the entire team of 1000 people finally brought back more than 400 people. If it wasn't for a month In the training time, I am afraid that he would have collapsed a long time ago, and he himself was killed or captured by the enemy.

This road to hegemony is really not easy to walk.

There are more than 400 people, plus 250 soldiers defending the city, plus the original 1000 young men who have been trained for a week, and their own troops have just reached [-]. It is still difficult to guard the county seat, and it is not good to attack.

What I have to worry about is whether the bandits will come to attack the city, and whether the Qing army will come to encircle and suppress me.

It’s not impossible to ask Zhu Dadian for help, but think about it, this Zhu Dadian in history will not bring people to rescue him, he still has Jinhua County and three other counties to guard, the Qing army will come back at any time, what should I do manage?

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When it was dusk, Yu Haibo finally counted it out.

He walked in with the clerks of the county government. At this time, Zhang Qiang was still full of worries facing the full table of food, frowning and thinking about how he should deal with it next.

In the lobby of the county government office, more than a dozen sesame oil lamps were lit all around, shining brightly.

The scribes chattered endlessly, and they also talked about today's seizures, army casualties, army pensions, county food, and supplies.

"120 jin of grain was seized." Zhang Qiang knew that one shi of the Ming Dynasty was about 14 catties of later generations, and [-] shi of grain was considered a lot. About [-] jin of grain was a lot in his opinion. .

You Haibo seemed to have seen Zhang Qiang's thoughts, and said carefully to Zhang Qiang: "Master Garrison, we have 1 people, [-] captives, [-] troops, almost [-] people, and each person weighs two catties a day. Calculated, it can only be eaten for seven days."

Zhang Qiang jumped up, "Animals."

You Haibo said: "My lord, the people have not had much food in their homes this month. From today onwards, we still have to distribute some to them. I originally wanted to report this matter to you, but you brought I didn't have time to report to you with the army going out on patrol.

Your Excellency, you know that the Qing army is attacking, and there are many wars and disasters around here. The people can't farm and produce at ease. Besides, our Wuyi County is mountainous, and the cultivated land is insufficient, only one and a half out of ten. In normal times, many people have to find work and go to Jinhua Mansion to buy food. Most of the time they have to eat wild vegetables to survive. Now that the population has dropped sharply, although the burden has been reduced, they all come to the county, and we can't afford to supply them. "

If we don’t supply the people with food, the people are likely to go to the mountains to become bandits, or be kidnapped by bandits, or go to other places. Thousands of people, even if we leave out the infants and children who have little food, we need more than 1000 catties of grain to feed the people of 2000 people, which is just a day's consumption. "

Zhang Qiang knocked on the table with his hands and stared at him. You Haibo paused, organized his sentence and said: "We give one catty of grain per day to the soldiers defending the city, and three catties per day to the soldiers. In this way Calculated, the consumption of a thousand soldiers is [-] to [-] catties a day."

Zhang Qiang asked, "So, 14 jin of grain is just for us for a month?"

You Haibo said: "My lord, you brought back another [-] captives, how should you deal with them? They also need to eat, at least not a thousand catties a day?"

Zhang Qiang said in a loud voice: "No, one hundred catties of grain every day, ninety catties can be made into flatbread or thick porridge, and the rest can be boiled into batter or clear soup-like gruel. First starve them for three days and arrange them Go to work, let me build the enemy's cannons built in the city to the point where they can't collapse, and then according to our arrangement in Jinhua, build more solid fortifications in the county town, high ground, blockhouses, towers, and watchtowers. Build a fortress, if the enemy comes to attack, ten thousand people will not die, and they don't want to take Wuyi County."

You Haibo was taken aback, he still didn't know much about this person, sometimes he was wise and decisive, the trained army was very elite, and he was decisive in killing; Seemingly incomprehensible thoughts; sometimes he is as shrewd as an emperor and knows how to weaken his power. Seeing him doing this now, he feels that Zhang Qiang doesn't know what's wrong.

After thinking about it, You Haibo knew that under the current situation, Zhu Dadian would definitely not send troops to help. The county's troops were limited and could not go out to wipe out the enemies. The enemies, even rogues, could rampage in the county. It is insulting and will not be tolerated.

"My lord, will this cause the captives to mutiny and resist? It would be better to kill them all, so as to reduce some ties?" You Haibo asked cautiously.

Zhang Qiang sneered, "These people are still useful. Slowly transform them into my soldiers. If these cold-blooded killers who have experienced war can't be used by me, isn't my battle in vain?"

You Haibo didn't know what Zhang Qiang wanted to do, so he could only respond cautiously: "Yes, my lord is wise."