Chapter Forty-Nine: Spoils

Deputy General Chen guarded the Juma River for several days, and finally received news from Zhending at the end of September, saying that Ji Neng had led his troops to withdraw from the area around the Beijing Division and retreated to Shanxi.

A few days later, an order came from the military headquarters, ordering him to return to Fangchang Town.

In any case, the whole local war was excellent for Chen Mu, except for a lot of casualties - Jiang Yuelin, who was ordered to hold the small river valley, was wounded in the shoulder by a stray arrow, and also fell from his horse, and his banner army was killed by more than 500 people; Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng were killed in a total of more than 270 people.

and his most precious headquarters banner army, although they could not rush into the final battle of annihilation, they still lost four people.

233 prisoners were captured on the Tethered Horse Bridge, 1,300 were killed, and 433 complete heads were obtained; Most of the corpses of the captives in the valley were taken by the enemy, one hundred and seventy-seven were killed, and one hundred and twenty-three heads were taken.

There is no way to kill more people on the tethered horse bridge and have fewer heads, and the artillery bombarded the bridgehead to tamp the ground, where there is a head, it is all based on the calculation of the number of enemies killed by the left and right hands and left and right feet.

The officers of the military department picked the fat and the thin, saying that this cochlea is not flat, the bridge of the nose is too straight, and the other back molars are too flat to eat coarse grains and do not gnaw bones, in short, every example makes Chen Mu feel that this is insulting his IQ.

"Fucking Lao Tzu watched the bastard come over and Pegasus and release arrows, you said this is not Hu Lu, do you think Chen is already a fool in his twenties?"

Of course, he could only slander this, because this was the normal process of recording the first-level gong in Northern Xinjiang.

The mission of the imperial court officials is to pick and choose, on the one hand, to prevent the generals from killing good and taking credit, and on the other hand, to try their best to save money for the imperial court.

The emperor opened his mouth with a head of one hundred taels, and the roots of the Great Wall in the border area were full of Hulu, and the officials below were most afraid of a good general like General Chen.

Otherwise, the first reward and bereavement of the Mahe victory alone is a small 100,000 taels of silver, plus Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, and Ma Fang, what will the court give? Sell dragon chairs!

But under the watchful eye of Jizhen's soldiers and the right eunuch of Yuma, he reluctantly wrote down three hundred and thirty-nine, no, Chen Mu threw another one into the pile of heads, and made it whole, three hundred and forty first-level merits, two hundred and thirty-three captive merits.

Chen Mu is satisfied!

The meritorious service is in hand, even if the reward is halved, you can still drop 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver, such a reward, regardless of whether it is the follow-up work of Yanqing Sanwei or the battalion under his command, can be returned.

The most important thing is that most of them are still alive.

The most cruel thing when receiving rewards is that some people who have fought hard for this merit can no longer see it.

In fact, General Chen is not a big problem in the eyes of the military officials, even if he opens his mouth, it will not affect the relationship, Chen Mu is the same as Qi Jiguang, he likes to use cannons, and he will break the enemy's head as soon as he gets it.

From the point of view of the officials of the imperial court, the real boss of the eastern three sides is Li Chengliang and Ma Fang, the two masters are accustomed to riding on foot and fighting each other with the northern captives, killing as many people as there are as many heads, and it is very difficult to remember every time.

Where is it like Chen Ye who is so considerate of the officials, and when he comes up, he will smash his head first.

Chen Mu, Wu Dui, and Chen Ju cooperated very tacitly in the battle report, General Chen took the lead in winning the fighter, needless to say, Wu Bingbei strategized and mobilized the rewriting clearly, Chen fired artillery on his right shoulder to cut off the enemy's retreat, and the three contributed to the victory of the Juma River, killing the enemy was useless, and forcing the enemy to retreat.

Of course, Chen Ju also added an explanation to the battle report, saying that Deputy General Chen did not have a horse team in his hands, so he could not continue to expand the results after the defeat of the enemy army - for Chen Mu, this was purely wearing a high hat, even if there was a horse team, he would not dare to chase it.

Without the geographical advantage along the Juma River, even if his banner army was elite in the field, it would be exhausted to death by the steppe cavalry.

His banner army made another windfall, and more than 1,000 enemy weapons, armor, horses, and the utensils he carried with him were all his. As small as a few pieces of gold ornamentation, as large as hundreds of straight knives, scimitars, bones, earthen guns, hundreds of leather armor, cotton armor, chain mail, of course, the most and the best are those hard bows and their subordinates plundered the property that Taiyuan carried.

There are also horses, close to four hundred living war horses, although it is difficult to find horses that are not injured, but there are still hundreds of healthy horses that can still gallop, and the rest of the injured horses from Jiang Yuelin's subordinates found those who are good at horses, and also got an answer that made Chen Mu feel comfortable, and most of them could be cured in a few months.

At least it can make up for the casualties he got from Wang Zhongguo.

In addition to the living war horses, there are also a large number of horse meat and horse skin and horse bones, horse meat is distributed to the people of Fangshan Liangxiang after the soldiers eat, and handed over to the county magistrates to let them destroy the meat as soon as possible, and the skin, bones, animal tendons, etc. are brought back to Changping by the baggage team.

Chen Mu's artillery team was busy on the way back, no way, this is not Nanyangwei, there are so many available people under Chen Mu, and there are only so many people who know how to count together in the family army and the flag army, they are busy calculating the share of merit and counting the rewards that should be shared by the sergeants who participated in the previous battles.

Although the black-hearted General Chen said that Wu Dui and Chen Ju were deeply affectionate, he still would not let any soldier even his own banner army get the full reward, and the three hundred bird guns and artillery with the most combat achievements must be the most rewarded, followed by the recruitment of Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng who directly faced the enemy, and calculated the first-level merit according to the unit of ten people, Chen Mu planned to let them get two-fifths of the reward according to the battle record.

The capture of the banner army of Yanqing Sanwei was fixed, and Chen Mu asked Jiang Yuelin to discuss with Hu Xingyun, and try to let Hu Xingyun's department also get one percent, and Jiang Yuelin's department would be divided into four percent.

That is, General Chen should withhold at least fifty percent of the reward.

"What are you doing these days without silver? Farm tools, ploughing cattle, ordnance and livestock, take this opportunity to use the imperial court rewards where they should be used, and those who really fight bravely in the banner army will be rewarded for what they should be rewarded, and those who should be killed will be killed if they retreat after a cowardly battle. To motivate them with rewards and punishments, do the two commanders know the enthusiasm? It is to find a way to make all the flag troops howl like wolves in the face of war, obeying orders to kill the enemy! ”

On the third day of returning to Changping, Chen Mu issued his first military order to the three guards of Yanqing, ordering the three guards to reorganize the flag army, hook the flag army, and refine the functions of each thousand households, hundreds of households and the small banners under his command and the division of the duties of the flag army.

Each 1,000 households has 10 departments and 100 households, which are divided into military music, artillery, cavalry, car battalions, earthworks and baggage, and specialize in art; In addition, there is a separate command artillery team at the command post, and the post is undecided; Outside the regular army, the surplus army is also divided into five points according to the initial skills of mining, agriculture, animal husbandry, weaving, and craftsmen, and each performs its own duties, and the number of people in each post is counted by special personnel for later use.

Jiang Yuelin and Hu Xingyun, who received the order, looked at each other...... This step is too big.