Chapter 214: Even the cook was issued a set of armor weapons by himself
(Ninety-nine monthly passes, who will break the hundred!) )
In addition to the capture of half of the fleet, the capture of other aspects of this battle was also quite amazing. Breaking through the one-eyed Jiao's nest, more than 40,000 stones of grain were seized, as well as tens of thousands of horses, cloth, silk and satin, with a total value of more than 400,000 yuan. After Li Jing attacked Wuhu Island, he gained a lot, looting about 100,000 yuan of money and grain in Wuhu Fort and the property of officers and soldiers, plus the 'labor and military expenses' that those merchants were forced to take out were also because of the great victory in Shamen Town, those merchants not only paid 10%, but also took the initiative to pay some more, adding up to nearly 200,000 yuan. Do the math, all of them are worth more than 700,000 yuan.
For these money and food, Yellowbeard was also very generous and put forward his suggestion of dividing the spoils. In his words, this time they lost little, but the gains were already remarkable. When he captured the lair of the one-eyed Jiao, he had already taken it upon himself to seize the 400,000 guan according to the battle death and disability pension subsidy of 20 and a half 100,000 guan, reward the brave performers in the battle 2 into 100,000 guan, and then Zhendonghai and Shamen Town each 2 and a half hundred thousand guan. The brothers below Zhendonghai had already divided 200,000 yuan, and they had taken another 100,000 yuan, so they no longer wanted the labor and military expenses seized from Wuhu Island and obtained from the merchants.
In this way, Shamen Town received 100,000 yuan from the one-eyed Jiao's seizure, and then added more than 300,000 yuan from Wuhu Island, and they got more than 400,000 yuan of money, grain, and goods.
Of course, that's not all.
Duan Shan stepped forward with a little bit of a thief's heart, and smiled at Li Jing: "General, when I laid down the Tieshan Thief's Den, I made my own decisions and didn't receive the rewards for my brothers' military exploits. I exchanged them all for thirty horses and fifty big green mules. I'm making my own decisions. Please also ask the general to punish him. ”
Li Jing is in a good mood now. I don't care too much about such a trivial matter. However, he still glared at Duan Shan, and the giant man of the special combat team was a little flustered. "This is also your own victory, and how you arrange it is your own business. However, war horses are a scarce military thing, so when you return, you will leave twenty mules and twenty horses, and the remaining thirty mules and ten horses will be requisitioned by the town general's government. But it is not in vain that I ask you for fifty taias for each mule, and a hundred taiper for a horse. ”
Duan Shan heard that half of it was going to be transferred. Immediately, his face was full of pain: "General, we don't want money, or else, all thirty horses will be given to us, and how about we hand over another thirty mules?" ”
Li Jing looked at Duan Shan and chuckled, "In this way, if you turn it in as I said, I will upgrade your special combat team to a special operations capital after you go back, what do you think?" ”
"Yes, yes." When Duan Shan heard that Li Jing actually proposed to upgrade their team to the capital. immediately smiled, and even those precious war horses couldn't care about it. Team promotion capital. All of a sudden, it was a whole two levels higher. In the future, he will be a school captain, how can I find such a good thing.
Ten horses and thirty mules were successfully brought in with a capital formation, and Li Jing couldn't help but be a little happy. The special combat team performed well in this battle, and he originally had the intention of expanding them.
"Money and food are the foundation of raising soldiers, although it is important, but what is more important is ordnance and equipment. Although we have an armory, our daily output is not high. At present, it must be supplemented by the proceeds of battlefield capture. Li Zuoshi, have you counted the results of the seizure of weapons and armor in this battle? ”
"The seizures have been counted, and the total is the ordnance captured in the first battle to exterminate the Iron Mountain Lair, as well as the ordnance captured in the first battle of Tieshan Port, as well as the ordnance captured in Wuhu Island, and the ordnance captured by the remnants of the Fengming fleet."
Li Zuoshi, like Li Wei, is also Li Jing's same clan, but his generation is a generation higher than Li Jing, he is Li Jing's uncle, nearly fifty years old, a little tall and thin, originally served as a gentleman in the Mongolian school of the Li clan in Qingning Township, and Li Jing's father used to have a good relationship, studying together and participating in the imperial examination, but he was a fellow countryman. After Li Jing expanded the army, he felt that there was a shortage of civil servants, so he specially invited him to be a historian.
Li Zuoshi started his work very methodically, and gradually took on a lot of responsibilities, and this time he joined the army and was responsible for the work of military Chinese. He flipped through the account book in his hand and read it seriously: "A total of more than 1,700 horizontal knives, more than 800 spears, 500 bows and arrows, more than 500 shields, more than 200 iron helmets, more than 300 leather armor, more than 100 crossbows with open arms, more than 100 pairs of horn bows and crossbows, 18 bamboo poles and crossbows, 6 throwing cannons, and more than 20,000 arrows. ”
"In the first battle of Tieshan Harbor, in addition to the captured enemy ships, more than 2,600 horizontal swords, 3,000 spears, 2,000 longbows, 1,300 crossbows, 2,300 iron helmets, more than 1,600 sets of leather armor, 300 sets of iron armor, more than 1,000 leather shields, 300 square iron shields, 38 heavy crossbows, and 12 catapults. 100,000 arrows. ”
"Eight hundred swords, 1,200 spears, six hundred longbows, three hundred crossbows, eight hundred helmets, one hundred iron armor, and five hundred leather armor were seized from Wuhu Island. Five hundred leather shields, one hundred iron shields. There were forty-eight heavy crossbows, thirty-six cannons, and 200,000 arrows. ”
"The equipment handed over by the disabled fleet of Feng Ming and Zhang Lie Guishun includes 1,200 pairs of horizontal swords, spears, and bows, as well as 500 crossbows, 1,002 helmets, 200 iron armor, and 1,000 leather armor. Eight hundred leather shields, three hundred iron shields, eighteen heavy crossbows, six cannons, and fifty thousand arrows. ”
"In total, six thousand five hundred swords, six thousand two hundred spears, four thousand three hundred bows, and two thousand three light crossbows. There were 4,500 iron helmets, 600 sets of iron armor, 3,400 sets of leather armor, 2,300 leather shields, and 700 large iron shields. There were also one hundred and twenty-two heavy crossbows, sixty cannons, and three hundred and eighty-thousand bows and arrows. In addition to these, there are a few other weapons such as sticks, clubs, guns, whips, etc., which are too small to be counted. ”
Li Zuoshi finished reading it in one breath and closed the account book.
Although he had expected it in his heart, Li Jing was still surprised when he heard about such a large amount of ordnance seizures later. Feng Ming and the pirate fleet's equipment of almost 5,000 people, plus the one-eyed Jiao's lair and the armory on Wuhu Island, made them all hug at once.
There are not many weapons seized from the pirates, but Feng Ming's side is quite rich. At this time, it was still the late Tang Dynasty, and Ziqing Town, as the wealthier feudal town among the Tang Dynasty feudal towns, had top-notch military equipment below. At this time, it was not as good as the end of the Tang Dynasty after the Huangchao Rebellion, at that time, there were years of scuffle, the feudal towns were divided, each other attacked, there were countless large and small feudal towns, the situation was turbulent, natural disasters continued, the war was not stopped, and the people were not able to make a living, so at that time, the financial resources of the feudal towns were difficult, the casualties of the soldiers were large, and the soldiers were all farmers and peddlers who were forcibly conscripted, and their weapons would also be the simplest and cheapest. At this time, the army was still well-equipped, especially a soldier with not only a melee horizontal sword, but also a long spear, as well as a long-range bow and arrow, and even a crossbow was equipped at a high rate.
Feng Zhang has been guarding the prosperous Dengzhou maritime trade route for ten years, he is not short of money, and he has not fought for many years, and his army equipment is also quite luxurious, which is much richer than Li Jing, a mud-legged town general. This time, all these ordnance fell into Li Jing's hands.
"These ordnance are enough to arm 3,000 men and horses, and although some ordnance is a little damaged, it can still be used if it is repaired." Li Zuoshi said with a smile.
Li Jing nodded, indeed, after so many ordnance captured, not only can all the soldiers in Shamen Town be well armed, but also have a large amount of inventory reserves. Horizontal knives and spears are now in stock in Shamen Town, and now that they have been seized, the armory has not needed to produce such weapons for a long time. More than 4,000 pairs of bows and more than 2,000 crossbows, which made Li Jing very happy, the production cycle of bows and crossbows is too long, and a complete bow almost takes about three years to be completed. So many were captured at once, except for the auxiliary battalions that were not equipped with bows, all the other combat battalions and logistics units could have a bow in their hands, and even a large number of crossbows.
Six hundred sets of iron armor, three thousand four hundred sets of leather armor, so many armors, Li Jing couldn't help but wonder if the auxiliary battalion should also be equipped with leather armor to improve their protection. And one hundred and twenty-two heavy crossbows and sixty throwing guns, this almost gave Li Jing a long-range heavy strike force all at once. With a reserve of nearly 400,000 arrows, the soldiers of Shamen Town have an average of 100 arrows.
"If this is built by the armory, it can only be built in the Year of the Monkey." Li Jing sighed, there are really no guns and no cannons, and the enemy will make them for us.
This huge number of captured ordnance, Yellowbeard also generously said that all of them were given to Li Jing, and they had replenished a large number of equipment in the last battle of Cat Island. They only put these instruments in the warehouse of the nest, so it is better to give them to Li Jing as a favor. Anyway, the two families have now become close allies, and there is no need to distinguish them clearly. With the current relationship between the two families, Li Jing felt that if his current strength was not strong enough, he didn't want to take the liberty of pulling Zhen Donghai in, otherwise, he felt that if he opened his mouth to recruit Zhen Donghai into Shamen Town and give them a chance to go ashore, they would definitely be willing. Wait, he wouldn't be so eager to annex them until Shamen Town had the power to fully contain and control the town's Donghai force.
After a while, Li Jing arranged: "Immediately load all the captured ordnance, money, food and materials into the ship, distribute all the captured bows and crossbows, and everyone carry bows and crossbows, and bring two pots of sixty arrows." Attach the heavy crossbows and throwing cannons to the batters and sea falcons. The other sergeants who were not equipped with armor were all issued from the capture. We have to arm everyone, even the cooks in logistics, and we have to issue a leather armor and iron helmet to each person, and everyone must be in good spirits and not slack off before returning to Shamen Town. ”
"General, will we go back to Shamen Town now?" Wang asked again.
"No, I won't leave for the time being, but let Megan take some brothers and lead a few warships to escort the fleet loaded with money, food, supplies and ordnance back to Shamen Town quietly. We still have some time to stay here, and we still have a few important things to do. Li Jing replied. (To be continued.) )