Chapter 539: Battle (4)

Wang Ju immediately called the guards and conveyed an order to the below, which was not an order, but just a password to help morale.

"The Ming Dynasty has an order, after this war, in addition to the imperial court rewards, there will also be two million yuan from the sugar workshop, the shochu workshop, and the bamboo paper workshop, which will be divided into six years as additional rewards or pensions."

This reward only made Gao Min say once in the three forks of the Meng Gate, that day must be motivated before the tragic battle, otherwise the day will not be able to persevere.

These three things are too famous, and Wang Ju has done similar things in Huachi County, making money through various means, and then using the name of merchants' donations to buy war horses, buy armor, improve food, and reward and pension.

Everyone didn't know how to settle the account, they only knew that it was two million, and they couldn't help but burst into cheers.

Then the herald issued a second order one after another: "Ladies and gentlemen, as long as you defeat the enemy and occupy Yanzhou while you win, then the Ming Guild will transport back a large amount of green salt from Yanzhou, and the income from these green salts will be at least one and a half million guan, and the most can reach three or four million guan, and all of them will also be used as additional rewards and pensions for you." ”

"Oh-oh-oh," the three armies shouted louder cheers.

"Ming Gong also has an order, in addition to the war horse, half of the rest of the income is also used as a reward and pension."

This is too much, including the trophies in the army, in fact, horses only refer to good horses, and some injured horses are sold for civilian use, and they will also be drawn out and rewarded to soldiers. As for the armor, some armor has to be retained, such as the best Xia State sword, Western Xia crossbow, and Western Xia cold forging armor, but this is not much. Most of them had to be rebuilt, and ordinary mulberry bows would be issued to the strongmen and horses of the Tibetan tribe, as well as the volunteers in the rear, to reduce the burden of these volunteers.

However, there are many that can be distributed to various soldiers, such as leather armor, which is actually leather jackets, as well as clothes, tents, and so on.

Grain and grass were used as food for soldiers, but many livestock vehicles, which were sold one after another after the war, could be used as rewards and pensions.

If you break through Yanzhou, you will get a lot of wealth, and besides, some forts along the way also have some rich people, so you are not welcome to them.

There is also a huge income, and that is prisoners of war.

However, not all income is rewarded and pensioned, and it will cost a lot of money to rebuild the homeland after the war. However, if there are successive victories this time, the loot will also be huge, even if half of it is drawn, this amount will not be less.

It's just that this wealth is not easy to calculate, but everyone knows it, not to mention anything else, it is how much these prisoners of war have to sell.

Now that Wang Ju has publicly stated his position, at least the money for prisoners of war cannot escape.

In this way, the three armies shouted even more happily. That's why Zhang Qi negotiated with these private businessmen in the morning. After all, there are a few people who are added to the official ranks, and it is true that they are rich.

And Wang Ju's reputation has always been good, and he has done similar feats before, and everyone believes it.

When the three reward orders were delivered, tens of thousands of troops were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

In fact, some people are also a little tired, but at this moment, almost the fatigue disappeared in the blink of an eye, and someone shouted: "Yanzhou, Yanzhou!" ”

Wang Junwan rode on his horse and asked, "Ming Gong, do you really give so much money?" ”

Wang Ju nodded, in fact, in the next few years, Wang Ju himself will also need to use a lot of money, but in six years, it should not be too difficult to draw two million yuan from the three major workshops. Anyway, I don't want this money, and with the promotion of my official position, it is more than enough to ensure that the salary is used by myself, and moving to the east is also moving, and moving to the west is also moving. This is not the country's money, you can use it however you want. Of course, it is inevitable that someone will make a fuss about it in the future. But for fear of being envied, can you still get ahead?

In fact, this is also a step plan discussed by Wang Ju and Zhang Qi.

Wang Zhang and Cao Wei are different, they are military generals, rectify military discipline, and take charge of the three armies, which is quite normal. To be precise, Zhang Wang and Zhang Kang, like Zhang Kang, are in charge of the troops with Wenchen, and they often lead troops or fight on a temporary basis.

And they came to Gyeongju for such a short time.

Therefore, Zhang Kang's practice in Fuzhou can be used as a reference.

What did Zhang Kang do in Fuzhou, he saw that the discipline of the forbidden army was lax, he was misbehaving, and the battle was not high, so he opened the treasury and took out money and silk to reward it, and used it to stimulate the soldiers of the forbidden army. This trick worked immediately, and later won a series of victories, forcing Li Yuanhao's 100,000 soldiers and horses to retreat.

But Zhang Kang was sad because of this.

When Zhang Kang went to Fuzhou, he was the head of the Ma Bu Army on Fulin Road, so he was impeached under an excuse. Wang Ju is different, when he came, he was the pacification envoy of Shaanxi Road and the pacification envoy of Huanqing Road, at least in the area of Huanqing Road, military, civil government affairs and finance, all have the right to deal with it.

So you can let go of your hands and feet and play a little bit of edge ball.

However, at that time, Zhang Wang and the others also underestimated the wealth of private businessmen, so Gao Min said in Mengmen Sancha that there may be more than one million other money and silks to be used for rewards and pensions. At the time, the two underestimated.

In addition, it is this time, which cannot be said early, at least it must not be leaked before the battle starts, otherwise it will reach the ears of the enemy, and the entire strategic plan will be exposed. But it can't be said late, it's too late to say that the merchants of the states are gathered, and the price is not good. Especially not a businessman on Huanqing Road, people die for money, who is afraid of whom. In addition, the desire for morale was not so great at that time.

There's never been a better time.

That is, Wang Ju can almost do it to the extreme, if this will fail, then there is really no way.

The heralds continued to loudly spread these three commendation orders, and Wang Ju was in the army, and no one suspected that these three orders were false.

As it got closer and closer to Rouyuan Village, the cheers became louder and louder, and it immediately had an immediate effect.

As the morale was further boosted, the Song army in front of it quickly tore apart the enemy's rear fleeing army, and the middle deserted army and inserted it into the front. Even many of the fast Western Xia cavalry were caught up, some were killed, and others were forced to dismount and crouch on the side of the road with their heads in surrender.

It's time for the most critical moment.

Liang Yongneng finally escaped to Rouyuan Village, and then panted and said: "Uncle, maybe we have miscalculated, the main force of the Song army is not in Huanzhou, but here. ”

Just kidding, Yanzhou supports, does Yanzhou have so many soldiers and horses to support?

"How many soldiers and horses are there?"

"More than thirty thousand, more than forty thousand." Liang Yongneng was killed, and he was also chased, and said stumblingly.

God knows how many Song troops came, anyway, there must be a lot more troops than his account.

"Stand in formation, continue to release people, and the cavalry will prepare, and kill from both wings." Liang Yibury didn't care if it was the main force of the Song army, and shouted an order.

The Song army bit the Western Xia people and rushed up.

Liang Yibury also underestimated this situation of defeat, although he let the army deliberately leave three openings, but the number of defeated soldiers was too large, and the number of pursuing Song troops was even greater. The terrain here can only be said to be slightly open, and it is also the most open area deliberately selected by Liang Yiburi.

But it is a ravine after all, even if it is open, where can it be opened?

Tens of thousands of defeated soldiers scattered and fled, and immediately attacked the entire Xia army, even if the prepared two wings of 5,000 cavalry could not advance.

"Rush." Yao Xiong shouted loudly, and he also saw the cavalry on both wings while riding on his horse. Once they succeed, it is still very dangerous, at least after entering a stalemate, the Song army will not be able to use the defeated army to disperse the Xia army.

At that time, the Song army was at most flat, and there was even danger if it didn't think about a big victory.

While shouting, he gave an order to divide several battalions of cavalry under his command into three divisions and attack on the left, center and right.

The two armies quickly collided together, and the battlefield was immediately chaotic, Yao Xiong led the cavalry to charge in front, and behind them there were a large number of Xia troops who continued to flee for their lives. Wang Junwan also shouted: "Rush." ”

Ignoring the Western Xia deserters around him, he rode a horse with a spear, took the lead, rushed to the front, tore a hole in the countless Western Xia deserters, and killed the Baojie army with him.

Wang Ju was standing on the top of a ridge on the front line to command, and when he saw the chaos of the battlefield, he immediately asked the herald to wave the flag and urge the Song army behind him to follow. First of all, Yao Yu's army rushed over, his part is the same as Qu Zhen and Yang Wenguang, it is a collection of horse infantry troops, there are cavalry and infantry, but the three cavalry are different from the previous cavalry, at least they all have horses.

The first to follow was the cavalry under Yao Ji's tent, and then under the command of the deputy general Su Ping, the infantry made way of a passage, and let go of the two cavalry of Qu Zhen and Yang Guangwen to rush over first. Then the three infantry units merged and followed and killed.

The battlefield is still deadlocked, but Wang Ju sees it very clearly, mainly because the two wings of Xia cavalry are playing a role, they are not only cavalry, but also a small number of iron harriers. It was not good for this situation to continue, and he immediately ordered Yang Pei and Gu Yongping to rush towards the two cavalry.

There may be a bit of a big difference in the combat effectiveness of the two, but in this battlefield, in fact, the two battalions of cavalry cannot play a good role. It's so wide, less than two miles wide, and if it is placed in a normal ravine, it would be a very wide ravine, but how many soldiers are fighting now? Therefore, Wang Ju let the two troops rush up, entangle the two cavalry, and then Liu Changzuo's army will attack again, so that there will be a chance to win.

Then he turned his head to look at the other side.

The battle on the other side also began.

Liang Yi buried Ye Wu to guard the narrow pass.

This terrain is a bit sinister, of course, this is also the most basic military common sense, whether it is a straw bag Ge Huaimin, or Liang Yibury also understands.

However, at this time, it was very critical, and Liu Shaoneng said: "General Dou, General Gao, and the last general are willing to lead the troops there." ”

"Okay." Dou Shunqing said.

He drew out two thousand infantry and let Liu Shao kill him.

Ye Wu Neng was condescending and kept putting arrows. Although Liu Shaoneng's subordinates were holding rattan shields, there were still soldiers who were shot and fell.

"Victory is now, rush forward," Liu Shaoneng shouted loudly, and was the first to rush forward, and then turned the rattan shield into a weapon, while blocking the enemy's weapons with the rattan shield, while slashing and killing the enemy with a knife, like a fierce tiger, galloping across the thousands of Xia troops.

"Duke Dou, General Gao, the last general is willing to lead two thousand cavalry." Lin Guang looked enthusiastic and said on the side.

Dou Shunqing also agreed, and Lin Guang led two thousand cavalry to kill him.

Two thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry all paid heavy sacrifices, and at least more than 1,000 people fell, and finally two of them rushed up the mountain pass and fought together with the three armies of Yewu Nengdi.

"Kill." Gao Yongneng said.

The three armies all rushed over with his command.

Ye Wu Nengdi held out for half an hour, and finally retreated.

This is not easy, after all, in this regional battle, he does not have many troops, and his morale is low. Because of his persistence, he almost relieved the entire Xia army, and even when the Song army in Dashun City rushed over, Western Xia was almost about to stabilize the formation.

The battlefield continued to be melee, including Liu Changzuo who also took part of the Baojie into the battle.

Therefore, Wang Ju said that it is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. Despite all these arrangements, he succeeded in bringing the morale of the Xia army to the bottom, but the Xia army was still very strong, at least now the number of troops was not less than that of the Song army, and the number of cavalry far exceeded the number of cavalry of the Song army. If it weren't for the terrain of this ravine, it would even allow Liang Yi to reverse the form.

But in general, Song Jun has to be brave enough, and the huge amount of reward just now has become the most effective booster, don't worry about your family when you die, so much money and silk rewards and pensions, your family should have no worries. Alive, the reward for this battle may be their income for several years.

A product of the pseudo-economic era, if you want a soldier to work hard, you have to have money, and if you don't have money, that Song soldier is willing to work hard.

But Wang Ju stood on the top of the mountain, commanding the various armies to charge and kill, and at the same time secretly anxious.

At this moment, he saw Dou Shunqing, Gao Yongneng, Liu Yan, Lin Guang, Liu Shaoneng, Zhao Yuqing, and his old acquaintances buried in Nianglang, each with his own men, rushing to the battlefield.

The die is cast!

Wang Juchang let out a long breath and thought in his heart.

Only then did he seriously look at the battlefield, and the number of people participating in the battle was so large that the area several miles long in this ravine was full of two armies fighting each other. Some people even fought and hit the small ravine next to it, on the low ridge.

The sound of killing, screaming, and neighing of horses is like the largest symphony in the world, but Wang Ju is also secretly happy in his heart. I have grown up step by step, starting from the battle of Wangjiazhai, to the three medium-sized battles in Huachi County, to the last battle of Dashuncheng, and then to the current tragic battle of Rouyuanzhai, the scale of the first battle is larger than the first battle.

If it weren't for this kind of growth, even if he had a golden finger, when he first came to this battlefield, he would have seen so many soldiers and horses moving, and he wouldn't have to command, even if he looked at it, he would have been dizzy.

Wang Ju is not bad, and he can roughly command the various armies to fight. As for Liang Yiburi, now he is really dizzy, he has no way to command at all, and he is completely resigned to fate.

"It's almost time." Wang Ju watched several Song troops in Dashun City rush into the battlefield and thought to himself.

So he immediately ordered.

As a big red flag appeared beside him, Li Sangou shouted, "Open the city gate, open the city gate." ”

He had been waiting anxiously, but under Wang Ju's order, he did not dare to disobey, so he had to let the three armies move the mud bags in advance, assemble behind the city gate, and wait anxiously.

However, he can also understand Wang Ju's arrangement, Rouyuanzhai is now located in the rear of the battlefield, and he has fought bloodily for so many days, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties. If it appears early, it will not work because of the small number of troops. But when it appears, it is a fatal knife.

The city gate opened, and thousands of officers and soldiers excitedly went out one by one.

This is a more ferocious knife than the arrival of the army of Dashun City...... R1152