Chapter 374: Killing Contest
In order to cut off the possibility of Shang Kexi and Mao Chenglu surrendering to Jiannu, Huang Han deliberately created an opportunity to arrange them to kill the prisoners, and also coaxed a group of Dongjiang Town generals to see who was the hundred beheaded.
This is Huang Han's bad idea, let Shang Kexi and Mao Chenglu have a prisoner killing competition, in order to cut the prisoner into two to effectively kill one, the first to kill a hundred won the title of "100 people beheaded", and the prize was Huang Han's stainless steel pulley bow.
Shang Kexi lost badly in the last archery competition with Huang Han, and the reason was because Huang Han had a divine bow, and now he learned that he would get this treasure if he won the title of "Hundred People Slash", Shang Kexi showed wolf-like eyes.
Huang Han's original intention was to let Shang Kexi and Mao Chenglu do more injustice, and spread their notoriety for wantonly slaughtering Jiannu captives, so that they were hated by the Later Jin army and could no longer have the intention of surrendering Jiannu.
Who knew that many generals in Dongjiang Town wanted to win the stainless steel pulley bow, and those who thought that their force value was no less than Mao Chenglu and Shang Kexi all asked to participate in the killing competition, and the number of applicants reached more than a dozen.
Mao Chenglu learned that the prize was actually a divine weapon, and his enthusiasm was unprecedented, and he shouted on the spot that "100 people were killed", and he was not convinced.
The news of the killing match spread in an instant, and Liu Zhilun and Jin Sheng, Zheng Xiaowen, Gao Youmou and other civil officials all hid, because they were scholars and doctors and could not be at the scene of the atrocity, so they chose to avoid it.
Fang Yihua immediately rushed to see the excitement, and he was bloodthirsty and had the heart to participate in the game! Li Ruolian took Jinyi Wei as a referee, and the number of prisoners was not enough to meet the needs of more than a dozen generals.
In the first round, a knockout round will be held to see who can cut the ten Jiannu in half as quickly as possible, and the two winners will be selected for the final showdown.
Even though Jiannu is an executioner who kills people without blinking, they are faced with being slaughtered, and the killing in a variety of ways also makes many people cry for their fathers and mothers.
Seeing the wolf-like Ming general wielding a snowy knife and axe, counting "one, two, three...... in his mouth, his companions responded to the sound of two, and the Jiannu, who had reached the extreme of fear, howled like a ghost, almost the same as the camp and the prison.
At this time, Jiannu's expression was in a trance, as if he had temporarily forgotten his fear and pain, and he just stared at the front with wide empty eyes, and made a strange sound like a beast in his mouth.
Mao Chenglu and Shang Kexi were really fierce, and they really eliminated many opponents to enter the finals with a little care from the referee, and in the shouts of thousands of soldiers and civilians, Mao Chenglu in the finals took the lead in killing 100 people and won Shang Kexi with a slight advantage of two heads.
This kind of bloody competition is pleasing to the eye, full of blood and excitement, and thousands of soldiers and civilians who are fortunate enough to watch it at the scene have talked about it for a lifetime.
Since then, the murderous reputation of Mao Chenglu and Shang Kexi has spread all over Liaodong and Jiubian, and the good man who killed one hundred and ten slaves in one day made many Han people give a thumbs up, and later Mao Chenglu's nickname was "one hundred people beheaded", and Shang Kexi was called "one hundred single eight" by many soldiers behind his back.
When the news reached the ears of the Red Gangster at the end of the year, the slave chief was furious and swore to the sky on the spot that one day he would capture Mao Chenglu and Shang Kexi alive and then break his bones and scatter ashes to comfort the hundreds of compatriots who had been maliciously slaughtered.
The total annihilation of the enemy in Jinzhou meant the end of the war in southern Liaoning, which lasted for more than three months, with more than 10,000 casualties among soldiers and civilians.
Fortunately, there are medical soldiers who spare no effort to treat them, but fortunately, Huang Han has been mentally prepared to reserve a large amount of alcohol, gauze, and medicines, and the mortality rate is not high.
At present, three to four thousand soldiers and civilians have been confirmed to have died in battle, several hundred wounded and sick may die, accounting for 30 percent of the total, and more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians have been disabled due to their injuries.
The Shenshu Battalion and the Jinyi Guard lost more than 30 percent of their horses, more than half of them were killed, and the number was close to 100.
The actual losses of the "Red Banner Army" were more than 2,800 soldiers and civilians, of whom a small half were martyrs and nearly 1,200 were martyred, and more than 400 regular soldiers were killed in battle, including more than 100 cavalrymen.
Huang Han did not falsely report the losses, but adopted the Spring and Autumn penmanship, counting all the soldiers who died in the chaotic battle, and reporting the number of casualties of 3,000 men and horses, half of the deaths.
The losses in Dongjiang Town were more than double that of the "Red Banner Army", reaching six or seven thousand casualties, with two thousand regular soldiers killed and one thousand servants.
When the results were counted, the generals of Dongjiang Town felt that it was easy to win, and the casualty rate compared with the number of beheadings was the least since the Ming Dynasty fought against the Houjin army in Liaodong.
All the gold and silver treasures in Jinzhou City were confiscated, and the supervisor Liu Zhilun knew that the meritorious soldiers were looking forward to it, and he didn't want to dream too much at night, so after discussing with Fang Zhenghua, Li Ruolian, Huang Long, and Huang Han, he gave the soldiers a head reward.
Due to the large number of head rewards, the final balance of silver was limited, and the general reward of the soldiers was only three taels of silver.
This time, none of the generals of Dongjiang Town had any objections, and they all knew that it was time to get the lion's head when the court's reward arrived.
Killed six or seven thousand real slave men, including more than three thousand young and middle-aged people, the performance of the great victory in Jinzhou will definitely cause a sensation in the government and the opposition when it arrives in Beijing, Liu Zhilun did not rush to write a good report this time, he wanted to negotiate with the generals about post-war matters.
Because Huang Han has talked with Liu Zhilun many times in the past few days, and the two sometimes simply live in the same yurt with the guards, Huang Han told him how to manage the land from the southern foot of Jinzhou Daheishan to Lushunkou, and Liu Zhilun looked yearning.
Liu Zhilun is ready to coordinate with Dongjiang Town, it is best to hand over Jinzhou and Lushunkou to the "Red Flag Army" to operate, with Huang Han's strong army stationed on the Jinzhou front, the Jiannu Society will not be able to sleep and eat, Dongjiang Town can take this opportunity to restore Yizhou Tuntian again.
After all, Phi Island is close to Yiju and it is convenient to land, so you can go back and forth a few times on the same day, and it is still far away from Jinju.
If the "Red Flag Army" had not provided a landing at the port of Wolf's Den on the east coast, warships and transport ships would have to bypass the Port of Arthur and come to the west coast before they could land in Jinzhou.
In the eyes of the civil officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty, such a small place and two towns are guarded, there will be many troubles in the future, and in the end, it is easy to become a prevarication and floating.
Therefore, Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian also fully supported Huang Han's independent management of Jinzhou and Lushunkou, and they believed that only the "Red Banner Army" could play a role in containing Jiannu and could hold Jinzhou and prevent the city from being lost.
Looking at the civil officials and military generals of the Ming Dynasty, only Huang Han has the financial resources, ability, and force to manage this area well, and only the management model of the "Red Banner Army" can allow the garrison soldiers and civilians to support themselves.
It is basically impossible to rely on the poor Dongjiang Town to come here and keep working hard, and in the end it is the result of a turtle cowering in Lushun.