Lord of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 67 The Harvest

After a slap in the face, Zhang Qiang sat back in the chair, took a sip of the tea from the guard, and took a sip. The tea moistened Zhang Qiang's throat, and the heat made Zhang Qiang feel comfortable all over. Zhang Qiang closed his eyes and felt the fragrance of the tea. .

He Jin knelt on the ground tremblingly, not daring to show his breath.

After a long time, Zhang Qiang said: "We still have to be punished." He Jin's heart skipped a beat, and Zhang Qiang said leisurely, "But you can make meritorious deeds." He Jin felt relieved, as long as he didn't die.

Zhang Qiang sat up and leaned over to look at He Jin, who was kneeling on the ground, "At present, the seven counties of Jinhua Prefecture have been recovered, and I have even occupied Longyou County in Quzhou, but Yongkang County is still in the hands of the Qing army. Where is it?" There are [-] Qing troops, and you are given ten days to take down Yongkang County and recover the entire Yongkang County, can you do it?"

"This," He Jin was in a dilemma, five thousand Qing troops, even though those were all Han army flags and local guards, but the enemy relied on the city to hold on, and he had only more than 300 old bandits under his command. Die, but if you don't agree now, Zhang Qiang will be pushed out to be beheaded if Zhang Qiang gives an order, which makes him feel embarrassed.

"You are allowed to choose a thousand Qing soldiers among the captives, but you must take Yongkang County for me, otherwise, even if I chase you to the ends of the earth, I will kill you." Zhang Qiang said coldly.

When He Jin heard that there could be a thousand Qing soldiers captured, he immediately said: "The general obeys orders and will definitely take down Yongkang County." Although he didn't know if he could do it, he knew that if he hesitated, this guy would not treat him You're being polite, he suffered a lot in the prisoner camp, and based on Zhang Qiang's clause, "toil to death for the most heinous crimes," he shuddered.

He inquired from Lin Chengcheng that Ruan Dacheng was beheaded by Zhang Qiang, Chen Jia was beheaded, Chadaier was imprisoned, Sunit escaped, Qiuquan was beheaded, Ma Bao and others were tortured in the prison camp, and they could not seek death if they wanted to survive. No, most of the Qing soldiers captured in this battle, 7000 were beheaded, and the remaining [-] were screened and added to the rebel forces. The rest, including the [-] captives captured before, were sent to Working, clearing the city, digging roads, farming, and mining, at least fifty people died of exhaustion, crushed to death, or executed by the rebel soldiers who oversaw the work every day.

This made him unable to give birth to a trace of resistance.

"Go down." Zhang Qiang picked up the teacup again, and Zhu Dayou came over, "Master He, congratulations, please."

He Jin stood up, laughed with him, and backed out of the lobby.

After returning, Zhu Dayou took an account book and said to Zhang Qiang: "My lord, the seizure statistics are out."

"Nian" Zhang Qiang waved his hand and whispered.

"In this battle, our army captured a total of 15 carts of grain and grass from the enemy, a total of 350 shi, 27 taels of silver, 35 armor, [-] weapons, and [-] horses. Gunpowder, [-] barrels, [-] cannons, [-] bolts of cloth, [-] catties of iron ingots, [-] catties of copper ingots, [-] guns, [-] muskets, and [-] blunderbusses.

"In addition, there were 25 siege vehicles, 350 ladders, 200 horses, 25 furs, 30 carts of various materials, 320 enemy soldiers and 150 artisans were captured, [-] blacksmiths, [-] rescued captured merchants, [-] Ming commoners, [-] young women."

Speaking of this, he stopped, smiled at Zhang Qiang and said, "My lord, you see, there are no maids in the mansion, so why don't you choose some to come in to serve you?"

Although Zhang Qiang is a man, he is still an otaku, and he dreamed that one day he would be surrounded by a group of beautiful women, but he thought that those women were captured by the Qing army and ravaged. If he recruited them into the mansion again, he would seem a bit too It's dirty, his morality doesn't allow him to do this, he waved his hand, "They are also quite pitiful, just give them some silver and let them go home. If there is no place to go, send someone to resettle them and let them serve as soldiers." Mend clothes, do what you can, don't embarrass them."

Zhu Dayou immediately smiled and said, "My lord is benevolent."

Zhang Qiang smiled, "Is there any more?"

Just as Zhu Dayou was about to report again, he heard a voice, "Report, Master Zhou Porridge urgently reports."

Zhang Qiang frowned, feeling uneasy, did the Qing army come from Taizhou or Lishui?

Seeing Zhang Qiang's face change, Zhu Dayou was full of worry and anxious, and shouted, "Come in."

A messenger of the world rushed in and knelt down in the hall, "Report to you, Master Zhou Congee will report to you. Master Du Ge led his troops back to Wuyi County. Master Zhou Congee sent a villain to report, how to arrange for Master Du Ge?" .”

Zhang Qiang stood up and clapped his hands, "Okay, okay." He was just in the middle of employing people. He didn't expect Du Ge to come back. Now he has another general, at least a confidant general. He Jin, Lin Cultivating the loyalty of these two people cannot be compared with Du Ge at all.

"Send someone to bring Mr. Du Ge over, and I will summon him here." Zhang Qiang said.

"Yes, as ordered." Zhu Dayou shouted, waved his hands, and led the messenger out.

Du Ge's return only brought Zhang Qiang joy for a while, but he had to consider many things. Jinhua Mansion was surrounded by people, and the captives could be used to work, mine, farm, build roads, and clean up various counties. Garbage, repairing city walls, building houses, there is no shortage of people. Although nearly 1 captives have been screened and added to his troops, there are still more than [-] captives who can be used to do these things. The key is that there are not so many administrative civil affairs , coordinate and arrange the talents of these people.

Zhou Porridge counts as half, but his main job is to be a military commander, leading troops in battle. The generals in Zhang Qiang's hands are all promoted by ordinary soldiers. They have little combat experience and knowledge. Except for Zhou Porridge, Most people are illiterate, or reckless people who can read a few words. Du Ge is back, and he is better than others. You Haibo's confidant servant is well trained, but he is still an ordinary general. Not a civil affairs talent.

It would be great if Yu Haibo came back too.

This expansion of the army has directly expanded Zhang Qiang's troops from more than 3000 troops to more than [-] troops. The team has grown stronger, but its combat effectiveness has declined. Combat strength, but there is no one who systematically trains these soldiers. It is okay to fight against the wind. Once the enemy is several times larger than yourself, then no matter whether it is the soldiers of these ordinary generals or the soldiers you have just expanded, they will not last long. Collapsed, so he is very anxious now, he wants to settle down, conduct a series of training, stabilize the morale of the army, and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

And the best way is the riding and slashing coaching skills you have. These soldiers after training have shown good discipline and persistence. They will not collapse so easily when facing the enemy and can fight the enemy for a long time.

Chapter 68 Harvest 2

Thinking of the riding and cutting system, Zhang Qiang immediately read it silently a few times, and then heard the cold voice of the riding and cutting system ringing continuously.

"Congratulations, your command skill has been raised to level five, and you will be able to command 400 soldiers."

"Congratulations, your command skill has been upgraded to level six, and you will be able to command 500 soldiers."

"Congratulations, your coaching skills have been upgraded to level [-]. You will be able to train elite soldiers of the rebel army. The elite soldiers of the rebel army will double their combat power and morale for a long time. One civilian in a team can master the skills of using weapons and become a young and strong rebel with combat effectiveness. If there are two elite soldiers in a team, all the civilians in the same team can become a combat-capable soldier within a week The rebel army is young and strong."

Zhang Qiang's eyes suddenly lit up. In this way, I don't have to work so hard to train every soldier in person. I mainly train a group of soldiers. Then I will send these soldiers to my team. In a week, even if one is unarmed, People who have never killed anyone before, and who have experienced wars, can quickly become young volunteers.

This is good.

"Yes, the elite soldiers of the rebel army are equivalent to the low-level non-commissioned officers and corporals in your mind. They can lead soldiers to fight and train recruits. They have weakened coaching skills, and they can teach recruits what they have learned. In two weeks, two elite soldiers of the volunteer army can lead the three civilian husbands in the same army to become a recruit of the volunteer army."

Zhang Qiang had no choice but to clap his hands and applauded again.

However, he wondered why he could command 400 soldiers when his command skill was raised to level five?In the past, it was fifty, an improvement of fifty.

And why did he fall down again at the sixth level, can he command five hundred soldiers?

"This is because the command skill is a step of five levels. When you reach the fifth level, your skill effect will be doubled. Before the fourth level, you can add 200 soldiers for each level. You can command 400 soldiers. Level five, doubled, can command 50 soldiers, but level five is a step, level six is ​​an ordinary level, and the effect of each level after level five is to double the number of 100 soldiers who can lead soldiers. Level, if you increase the number of commanders at each level, you will have [-] soldiers per level, from level [-] to level [-], and level [-] is another step, what will happen then, we will wait and see."

Listening to the system's explanation, Zhang Qiang calculated in his mind. From this point of view, at level five, he can command 400 soldiers, at level six, 500 soldiers, at level seven, 600 soldiers, at level eight, 700 soldiers, at level nine, 800 soldiers , the tenth level may be doubled, or tripled, or maybe more, that is to say, every time a level is reached, the system will reward the corresponding quota. For example, if the fifth level is doubled, it should be 300 However, the system rewarded 100 commanding soldiers, and then it became in accordance with the rules.

Zhang Qiang is still thinking, at the first level, it takes one week to train the soldiers under his command, at the second level, two weeks, at the third level, three weeks, and at the fourth level, it takes one month. This is level [-] coaching skills, right? Said, apart from being able to train more advanced soldiers, what other rewards do you have?

Sure enough, the system answered him:

"It takes seven weeks to train an elite soldier with a five-level trainer skill."

"Senior, skilled soldiers continue to train, and it will take one day, two days, three days, four days, five days less than starting with the militia."

"If there are elite soldiers in the team, one for each Wu, you can speed up the training speed of the soldiers. The elite soldiers can increase the speed of training for civilians to one day, the speed for militia soldiers can be increased to two days, and the speed for recruits can be improved. For three days, the promotion speed for skilled soldiers is four days, and the promotion speed for senior soldiers is slower, because there is not much to teach them, generally half a day."

Zhang Qiang also thought of a problem, that is the training effect of those captured soldiers. When he trained these people before, it was because they had combat ability and combat experience. Therefore, apart from discipline and obedience, these soldiers only improved a little. Loyalty, acceptance, and immediately changed from a group of stragglers to skilled soldiers, so will elite soldiers have a training effect on these soldiers and have a bonus?

"These soldiers, put an elite soldier in each team, will quickly integrate them into your army, and learn to obey and execute orders, strict discipline, the longer the time, the greater the influence, but the elite soldiers can't change Their own fighting methods can only improve their combat experience, you need to train them yourself, you can't go beyond the trainer's skill regulation, that is, you have to train them at every level, starting from the militia, all the way to the elite soldiers."

"However, they will be accepted faster than ordinary people, which can speed up your training. For example, it only takes two days to complete the training course of the militia stage and become a skilled soldier. Because you now have five levels of coaching skills, so they improve It’s also fast. The five-level coaching skill is different from the previous four-level coaching skill, and the effect is very good.”

Zhang Qiang summed it up. Compared with the previous coaching skills, the five-level coaching skill has the effect of being able to train more advanced soldiers, and speed up the training time of soldiers who are already very good and have combat experience, and improve their integration. Increase the speed of your own team and increase their loyalty.

That being said, it's pretty good.

"Congratulations, because when you rescued the people of Jinhua Mansion from danger for the second time, your popularity in Jinhua Mansion reached 20. The people of Jinhua Mansion are very friendly to you, but they still have to live. Friendly, most of the time, they are still busy with their own, fighting for their own survival.

They agree with the existence of your army, and many people want to join the rebel army. The problem is that there are no young and strong young men among the people in Jinhua Mansion today. They are either dead or injured, or I just have to take care of my family, and I can’t come to join your rebel army. I can only support you spiritually and thank you in my heart.

I strangled it, but it still didn't do any good.

However, Zhang Qiang still understands these people very well. After all, they are all old and weak, women, and many of them are rescued disabled and semi-disabled people. It is not known whether there are [-] people in Jinhua Mansion. It can be said that Jinhua Mansion has nothing but his army.

The next step is stable development. On the one hand, it will defend against another heavy attack by the Qing army. On the other hand, it will develop the people's livelihood, store food, weapons, and train soldiers. In the area, trapped to death, starved to death.