The wooden door of the cottage sounded, the wood was blasted open, the bird gun fired three rounds of salvos, and the barbarian battalion knife players on both sides rushed up to attack the cottage and killed the blood all over the ground, and the north mountain of Xinjiang Town was pacified.

Attacking the mountain can be called a tragic battle, whether it is Chen Mu's general banner or Bai Yuanjie's barbarian camp, the casualties have reached two percent, and the final attack on the village only relies on the strong support of the army, but if the attack on the village is frustrated, they will no longer have the possibility of laying the cottage. However, fortunately, due to several engagements on the mountain road, the morale of the enemy troops hiding in the cottage was not high.

There were originally hundreds of rebels left on the north mountain, and those who died fled to escape, and when Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu led the crowd to attack the top of the mountain, the morale of the nearly 200 rebels who stayed in the cottage had already fallen to the extreme, and there were not many stubborn resistance, and more than 80 people were dropped.

There were some old and weak women and children hidden in the cottage, who were also rescued by Bai Yuanjie and temporarily sent to the bottom of the mountain, where someone would arrange their place after the war. Chen Mu selected more than ten strong young and strong people among the rescued people and prisoners, and made up for the gap in the general flag in terms of numbers, so as to prepare for the next battle in the future.

The flag army was killed and wounded, and it was impossible for Chen Mu not to feel distressed, they were all subordinates who had been with him for several months. The combat effectiveness of the flag army also decreased again due to attrition and replenishment, but fortunately, there were no casualties among the high-powered bird gunners and the five small banners, and the replenishment was all some sword and spearmen.

Those banner troops and these newly recruited prisoners are not much different in combat power, but now these people are more likely to escape in battle.

Chen Mu made up for the banner army, but Bai Yuanjie looked down on these chaotic soldiers, after this battle, the barbarian battalion under his command counted the battles and seen blood, and won Bai Yuanjie's heart with his strong physical advantage and fearless morale. Although there were dozens of casualties, Bai Yuanjie did not plan to replenish supplies on the spot here, and he would wait until he returned from the battle to recruit Tan people on the Beijiang River to replenish the banner army.

"Erlang, let your men recruit some more people, and recruit villagers from the rescued people." Bai Yuanjie climbed the watchtower of the cottage, and just happened to see Xinjiang Town, which was still in the midst of a tug-of-war below, and he said: "Xinjiang Town is easy to defend and difficult to attack, although Wu Duan's soldiers are brave, the casualties will not be light, and Xinjiang will be garrisoned later, and the troops are insufficient." ”

"Recruit them to be village warriors, and when the battle is over, you should also collect a few family soldiers." After that, Bai Yuanjie said softly and meaningfully: "Wokou, it's unreliable." ”

Bai Yuanjie still saw the origin of the two short-haired bald men beside him, Chen Mu nodded in response, and then asked, "Qianhu, how many townsmen should I recruit?" ”

"Recruit more, if you can raise fifty, you will raise another fifty, after this battle, you will be able to test a hundred households according to this merit, and then I want you to lead two hundred banner troops." Bai Yuanjie turned his head and smiled a little slyly, then reined in, and said, "Eat empty salary." ”

Empty salary?

Chen Mu looked at the chaotic army and Wu Duanbu who fought bravely in the town under the mountain, and thought for a long time without understanding the meaning of Bai Yuanjie's empty salary, so he asked stubbornly: "This, how do thousands of households eat empty salary?" ”

"It is customary in Qingyuan that a hundred households should be divided into 500 acres of private land, and 1,000 households in Qingcheng should be divided into 50 hectares of land for nothing.

"Bai wants to train soldiers to be meritorious, the flag army's land must not be greedy for ink, and the military armor court will find its own way if Bai is not allocated, and they all want silver." Bai Yuanjie took a deep breath and said, "If this thing is successful, it will be enough for three or four hundred households in Qingcheng to use a thousand households." ”

And this operation?

I've seen those who oppress military households, and I've seen all the military fields treated as private fields, but he hasn't seen all the officers kicked out by eating empty salaries, "This, a thousand households should still think about it in the long run, without a hundred households, how can a thousand households lead troops?" ”

Bai Yuanjie turned his head as if he was even more surprised than Chen Mu, and asked, "You have brought the general flag well, but it is difficult to bring two general flags?" Bai thinks you can bring four. ”

"If you have two full posts and 100 households, you can let one general flag cultivate the fields of 100 households, and then two full 100 households can cultivate the fields of 400 households, presumably it is not a problem, right?" Bai Yuanjie thought that the problem was not as complicated as Chen Mu, in fact, in his eyes, Chen Mu was an internal affairs talent, and it was too difficult for the officers of the guard to find someone who cultivated the fields in an orderly manner.

Bai Deputy Qianhu happily looked forward to the prospect and said: "The barbarian camp has been expanded to eight hundred, Yu Ding uses your farm tools to buy some cattle and donkeys, and it is not difficult to cultivate the fields of six hundred households. ”

Chen Mu thought about it, there was no problem for Bai Yuanjie to operate like this, but ...... He said, "O thousand households! You have made a mistake in letting 800 barbarians cultivate the fields of 600 households, and giving me 200 people to cultivate the fields of 400 households? ”

This is to take Yu Ding of 800 people as 600 Yu Ding envoys, and take his 200 Yu Ding as 400 envoys, isn't this taking Chen Junye as cattle and letting the cattle rest!

"Hehehe, what's wrong with this, that's right!"

"Chen Erlang, you are digging a mine privately in the guard, and you are hiding the widows, has Bai not asked?"

"You have a hard time, you went to borrow food from hundreds of households to survive, and you were promoted to the general flag after sleeping in Anyuan Post Station all winter with meritorious service, is Bai running for you?"

After winning the battle, Bai Yuanjie was obviously in a very good mood, the smile on her serious face was thicker than usual, she turned around and walked down the arrow tower, and turned around and said, "What you said to Zhang Yongshou, he told me, it is very insightful." ”

"Bai didn't let you eat grass, did he? You've eaten all the meat, so after the battle, shouldn't you go back to Qingyuan and farm like a wolf, that's right! ”

Chen Mu was speechless, the most uncomfortable feeling in this world when arguing was about being gagged by others with what they had said, and at this time, even he felt that what Bai Yuanjie said made sense.

But arable land is not counted like this, 5,000 acres of land is not far away, it is not difficult to let him plough, but 20,000 acres of land, you let him plough, from this end to that end to break his leg, and then implement the kind of living method of the general banner yamen next to Anyuanyi, it will not work, if you want to cultivate the field, you have to separate the rest of the ding, do you have to plough to the household?

Chen Mu shook his head and followed down the arrow tower, now the battle is not over, Bai Yuanjie obviously thinks that Qingcheng is a thousand households and he is bound to win, but in the end, whether he can become a thousand households still has to say, it is useless to think about these now.

As soon as I came down, I saw more than a dozen sergeants from the barbarian camp and Deng Zilong's artillery under the mountain carrying up hundreds of catties of Franc machine guns and placing them at an angle with a wide field of vision.

He said that Bai Yuanjie wanted to come down from the arrow tower, and he was going to use artillery to help Wu Duan strengthen his momentum for a long time.

When he got closer, he saw Bai Yuanjie fiddling with the set up Franc cannon and looked at it, and asked him: "You come to learn how to operate the cannon from the general gunner Deng, this should be able to hit the town!" ”

Note: In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, it was stipulated that a military household cultivated 50 acres of military land, and 20,000 acres of military land was the field that 400 households needed to cultivate.