Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 59 Captured
Lu Xiangsheng blurted out: "Good knife!"

Yang Menglong was proud: "This is made of high-carbon steel. Let alone a human head, even a buffalo's head can be chopped off with one knife!" Yong and the others all stared at his knife, salivating, and he waved his hand again, saying: "In the future, when you have time, ask someone to refine a furnace of good steel, and make you such a good knife!"

Everyone likes such a good knife. Li Yong and Jiang Zheng were overjoyed, and they called out repeatedly: "General Xie Xiaoyang, General Xie Xiaoyang!"

General Xiao Yang said: "You're welcome, follow me, you won't suffer!" He completely regarded these few as his younger brothers.When the boss wants to find a way to give the younger brother some benefits, you can’t let the younger brother suffer, the younger brother will work for you if you have benefits. This is the experience he has summed up in the practice of leading teams to fight in the streets for many years. It is very clever.

The younger brothers were overjoyed and became more active. Those who helped get the armor took the armor, and those who took the head took the head. These are Yang Menglong's trophies, so they must be held carefully.

Lu Xiangsheng let out a hey, his breath sank to his dantian, and he exerted force with his arms. Yang Menglong's crossbow, which could only be pulled away by pedals, was pulled away by him. This arm strength is really terrifying.Yang Menglong praised from the bottom of his heart: "Your Excellency has great strength!"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The bow is so strong that Lu almost couldn't pull it away." When he was inspecting the battlefield, he happened to see a white armored soldier who was bruised and bloody and ran out of the encirclement. After that, there is no way to catch up.Yang Menglong quickly put the crossbow on it, Lu Xiangsheng was not polite, aimed, fired, and the crossbow shot out violently, hitting the back of the white armored soldier's head, piercing through the helmet and skull, and coming out of the white armored soldier's mouth, the white armored soldier The armor soldier snorted and fell to the ground.At this time, apart from the captives, there were no Houjin soldiers who could still stand on the battlefield. Seeing that the fleeing white-armored soldier was shot off his horse with an arrow, the Ming army couldn't help raising their weapons high and cheering loudly: "Lord Lu is mighty!" ! Master Lu is mighty!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled slightly, stroked the crossbow, and said, "Little general, your crossbow is really useful, how about selling it to Lu?"

Yang Menglong quickly snatched the crossbow back and hid it behind his back: "Sell it to you? Are you kidding? It's just this one. What will I use if I sell it to you?"

Lu Xiangsheng didn't take it too seriously, and asked for the next best thing: "Since the little general is unwilling to give up, I won't force it. I wonder if the little general can tell who made this crossbow?" It seems that he really wants to have such a crossbow. Yang Menglong refused to sell the strong crossbow, so he went to order it.

Yang Menglong shook his head: "Master Lu, I may disappoint you. Not everyone can make this kind of crossbow. There is only one such crossbow in the world. It is unique. Even if you invite the gods Come on, I can’t make it.” This is honest, because the bow arm of his powerful crossbow is made of composite materials with the strongest power storage performance. This is something that can only be produced by a modern industrial system. It is imitated by the Ming Dynasty. Isn't that a joke?
Lu Xiangsheng still didn't give up: "Is it really not possible?" The disappointment was beyond words.

Yang Menglong thought for a while and said: "It's impossible to have a crossbow exactly like it, but if there are suitable materials and skilled crossbow craftsmen, it can still be imitated. Compared with this one, it must be worse, but the lethality is not bad." After a pause, he said generously: "When the imitation is produced in the future, I will give you the best one!"

Lu Xiangsheng no longer insisted, and said: "Thank you, little general. Come here, give him a horse, let's go over there and have a look." Immediately, someone brought Yang Menglong a mule and horse, and Yang Menglong was not polite. Get on the horse and gallop side by side with Lu Xiangsheng.The soldiers of the Ming army cheered and saluted them. This kind of cheers made Yang Menglong feel at ease and feel comfortable all over... It turns out that the feeling of being a hero is so cool!

A group of prisoners of war were escorted over. Everyone was wounded all over and looked terrified. Some of their eyes were swollen until there was only a slit left. Obviously, they had suffered a lot of black sticks.In this battle, the two Mongolian Eight Banners Niulu and one Jurchen Niulu suffered a devastating blow. More than 1000 people escaped, and only a hundred escaped. The others either died in the siege battle or died in the In Lu Xiangsheng's hands, there are only about thirty people who are qualified to be prisoners. It can be said that this is a fiasco they have never experienced since they conquered the border, and it was not the powerful border soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who gave them this extremely shameful record. , but a guard officer and a peasant soldier!Of course, those who escaped would not report truthfully. If they reported truthfully, it would be no wonder the banner owner didn't beat them to death.The Ming army was cleaning the battlefield, collecting the weapons, armor and even the arrows scattered on the ground. A group of burly men rummaged through the dead with big axes and found a post-golden soldier. The dead corpses fell with an axe, and the heads were chopped off and piled up together, and the Ming army guarding the city was doing the same thing up and down the city wall. The bloody heads were piled up in piles of one hundred, and there were six piles.Many generals of the Ming army sighed loudly when they looked at the corpses that had been blown to pieces by gunpowder or chopped to pieces by angry soldiers. It is a pity that these heads are all rotten, and it doesn't count if they are cut off. It is really a big loss.This is also one of the reasons why the Ming army's tens of thousands of people went to battle, but their ranks were only a few dozen.Once the battle is unfavorable, Hou Jin immediately retreats. Before withdrawing, he will try his best to take away the corpses of the dead in order not to fall into the hands of the Ming army. Even if the enemy is completely wiped out, some corpses will be scattered on the battlefield Some of the heads could not be found, and some of the heads were smashed and smashed, so it was impossible to distinguish the real from the fake, and it couldn't be counted. Therefore, the heads captured were often only a small part of the actual number of enemies wiped out.In this battle, [-] people were beheaded, [-] out of [-] were captured, and the three kings of Houjin were almost wiped out. It can be called the most brilliant victory of the Ming army since the victory in Ningyuan.

The Hou Jin soldiers who became prisoners were still not convinced, and they were still yelling that if they hadn't consumed too much physical strength, horsepower and arrows in the siege, they would never have lost to Lu Xiangsheng.Lu Xiangsheng was expressionless, but Yang Menglong was amused: "You are still reasonable if you lose, right? Okay, I am the most reasonable person. If you are not convinced, let's convince others with reason!" That deadly dog-leg knife, "Anyone who is not convinced can come up and reason with me!" It seems that he prefers to reason with a knife, and the latter Jin soldier shivered and dared not speak anymore.This guy beheaded Lianda, slaughtered Ertai, and killed Tabrun's only son. In the end, even Tabrun himself was shot to death by him. He was their nemesis. Who would dare to come and follow him? Knife reason?
Lu Xiangsheng said: "Little General, it is ominous to kill prisoners!"

Yang Menglong snorted: "I don't care about his auspiciousness. He dared to be so arrogant after losing. I was very upset. If I was upset, I would kill someone!" Even so, he put away his knife.Qi Hu told him that live captives are more valuable than heads, and the emperor wants to take these captives out to vent his anger, and he can't just kill them casually.Besides, the captives were captured by Lu Xiangsheng's men, and he has no right to execute them, so it's fine to scare them.

Lu Xiangsheng told his subordinates: "Take up the scattered horses as much as possible, and don't let any one go!" He has a special liking for cavalry, and he dreams of having his own cavalry unit, but he can't get good horses. The three ox records of Houjin were almost completely wiped out. Many horses were killed and injured in the melee, but no matter what, there were still seven or eight hundred horses that were intact, but they just ran away. These horses were enough for him to form a large-scale army. A considerable cavalry unit too.In his eyes, the most precious trophies of these horses, he would not let go of any of them, and he personally led people to collect them.Yang Menglong was also very concerned about collecting trophies, and he did it himself. When he saw the corpse of a post-gold soldier who had not been searched, he took out his pocket, and smiled every time he took out an ingot of silver or gold from someone's pocket.The troops brought by Lu Xiangsheng acquiesced to his behavior. After all, if he hadn't led people into exile to hedge against the golden cavalry, it would be difficult for them to surround hundreds of cavalry. He shares some of the spoils, as he should.

While digging out his wallet happily, Qi Hu came over and called, "Little General Yang, we have found a lot of good things from the Tartar camp!"

Yang Menglong stuffed a small pile of bloody gold and silver into his pocket, stood up clapping his hands, and asked, "What good things did you find?"

Qi Hu said: "There are a lot of food, grass, weapons, and..." His eyes flickered, and he gave Yang Menglong a look of "you understand".

Yang Menglong rejoiced: "Okay, okay, you did a good job!" He said in his heart: "As expected of a veteran in the battlefield, the timing was too precise. Taking advantage of Lu Xiangsheng's opportunity to fight to the death with the main force of Jin, he sent troops to seize the base camp of the Tartars, hehe, The Tartars put all the looted things in the big camp, and there is a lot of money!" Turning to Lu Xiangsheng, he said, "My lord, our army has already wiped out the remnants of the Tartar camp, and the capture is quite rich. I don't know if your lord has any Are you not interested in visiting together?"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Let's go and have a look." In this battle, nearly a thousand people were killed and injured in his troops. With such a large number of casualties, there must be some substantial compensation. Quite a few, just to equip their own troops.

Yang Menglong was also polite and asked Qi Hu to lead the way, and the group hurried to Houjin Daying.

Dozens of corpses were lying here and there in the Houjin camp. It was obvious that the camp was captured after a fierce battle. The Houjin soldiers who stayed in the camp had been slaughtered, and all the things they robbed became Ming. Army spoils.The soldiers of the Wuyang Guard were not good at fighting, and they were very good at collecting trophies. They had already cleared out the trophies, including stones of food, bundles of arrows, heavy armor, sharp sabers and heavy weapons. Swords were placed pile after pile by category.Qi Hu made a report like water: "A total of 72 mules and horses, 120 pieces of cowhide, 58 pairs of leather armor, 230 pairs of iron armor, 120 sharp arrows, 5000 sabers, [-] heavy swords, and [-] spears were seized. Pole, [-] stones of grain, [-] taels of silver, iron bones, throwing axes, etc..."

Lu Xiangsheng was overjoyed, he punched his palm, and smiled all over his face: "Great, with this batch of weapons and food, our army's combat power has been greatly enhanced!"

Yang Menglong 120 votes in favor: "Yes, they are all good things. If nothing else, let's just say this cowhide. It can be made into leather armor. It has good protection and is light, but it's a pity that it's missing..." Eyeballs rolled Turn around and point to the cowhide tents: "Ha, I almost forgot, these tents are all made of cowhide! Take them all off and make leather armor!"

Qi Hu said with a smile: "I'm already picking it up. How can I let such a good thing go?"

Lu Xiangsheng's smile grew wider, his eyes glued to those weapons and armor and he couldn't move away.

Yang Menglong squatted down, took out an ingot of silver ingot from the box, and said, "It's such a beautiful snowflake silver, you bastards, they robbed us of all our good things!" Putting the silver back, he asked Lu Xiangsheng: " My lord, how do you divide the money? How about fifty-five?"

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned, and glanced at the white box of silver, as well as the huge piles of copper coins and silverware, with a flat expression and seemed not very interested.That's right, he was born in Jiangnan, which was the wealthiest place in the entire Ming Dynasty. His family background was good, he was not short of money, and he was relatively immune to money.He pondered for a moment, then said: "Little General, I have an unfeeling request, I wonder if the little general can agree?"

Yang Menglong said, "My lord, please tell me."

Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the weapons and armor, and said: "The silver belongs to the little general, and these weapons and armor belong to us, how about it?"

Yang Menglong shouted: "How can this be done!"

Lu Xiangsheng said sincerely: "I also know that this is unfair. Money can't buy such fine weapons and armor, but we still want to enter the Jingqin King, and we will inevitably have to fight the Tartars. Our equipment is poor, even if it is a small A stock ranger will also cause us a lot of damage, so I really need these weapons, armor and strong bows and sharp arrows, so that the little general will suffer a little bit. Please also ask the little general to fulfill Lu's desire to serve the country."

Yang Menglong was stunned again, he originally wanted to say that it is not difficult for you to spend a penny, but it would be too much of a disadvantage to get all these weapons and armor, but Lu Xiangsheng was completely wrong, thinking that he would not agree.He cupped his hands and said: "My lord's loyalty is admirable. These weapons and armors are a waste in my hands. Naturally, I should give them to my lord. It's just my lord. After a battle, you suffered many casualties. Don't you take a little money to pay for it?" ?"

Lu Xiangsheng felt that it made sense, so he said: "Then...then please give me some more money, the little general, as a pension for the disabled soldiers." It's a bit too much to take money.

After the final discussion, it was decided that Lu Xiangsheng would get 5000 taels of silver, and Yang Menglong would get 1 taels; all the weapons and armors belonged to Lu Xiangsheng, and Yang Menglong got enough cowhide to make a hundred pairs of leather armors. Everyone took what they needed, and everyone was happy.

After Lu Xiangsheng left, Yang Menglong called Qi Hu and whispered into his ear, "How much money did you hide?"

Qi Hu said: "Time is tight, there is really no time to hide too much, it's only about seven thousand taels of silver."

That is to say, Yang Menglong has more than 7000 taels of silver in his hands, plus his previous seizures and the ones he snatched from wealthy households in the county town, there are more than 2 taels, which is already quite an astonishing fortune up.

(End of this chapter)