Chastity Layman

In Songzhou City, thunderous cheers were heard.

Each soldier had Tuoba Qianghu's head tied around his waist, leading captives in his hands, and even a few captured cattle and horses were tied to the saddles.

The military personnel in the recording room and all the military personnel, with many scribes, are writing vigorously, registering the military merits of the soldiers, counting the heads, prisoners, and seizures.

Qin Qiong was strict in governing the army, and everything captured would be returned to the public, and horses and livestock would be rewarded with money and silk at one-fifth. Qin Qiong also advocates collective military merits, the lowest level, captives, and captures are also recorded in units of teams, all of which are owned by the team, and each team will select two or three best performers.

There were too many beheadings, and the clerks covered their mouths and noses with their left hands from time to time while writing quickly.

Qin Qiong is the Governor of Songzhou, so he is also the main general of this battle, and Qin Lang, as a reinforcement, came to aid under the order of the Crown Prince Supervisor, and is also the prime minister of the court, so Qin Qiong entrusted him with the important task of counting military achievements.

Xi Junmai came back covered in blood.

"Are you injured?" Qin Lang admired this slightly fatter general these days. This kid said he had gained thirty pounds, but on the battlefield, he followed the wind and was invincible. With his six-stone strong bow, Qin Lang saw with his own eyes that he shot and killed more than a dozen Qiang people.

His 200 light cavalry vanguard Sentinel was so ferocious for all to see, he killed the Qiang sentry cavalry twice.

"It's all Qianghu's blood." Xi Junmai sat down next to Qin Lang with his helmet on his buttocks, "It's been a long time since I went into battle, this skeleton is going to fall apart."

"Did you catch Tuoba Sitou or Tuoba Xigan?" Qin Lang handed him the water bottle.

"Situ ordered to withdraw troops, and he didn't dare to disobey, but let the two bandit chieftains run away." Xi Junmai was embarrassed.

Qin Lang patted him on the shoulder, "Run away, anyway, monks can't run away from the temple anyway, let him run first today, next time we will go to the door and catch them back."

The battlefield was cleaned all day, and the results of the battle were counted for three days.

Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep were seized.

More than 1,300 people were killed in the First World War, and more than 15,000 people were captured. About 5,000 people ran away, and those who ran away were basically young and strong. These guys abandoned their parents and wives This made Qin Lang despise them very much.

But after this battle, Qin Qiong and the others really had no spare energy to continue chasing after them.

In the past three days, Tang Jun, who had won a big battle, was full of joy, and it was even more a celebration of slaughtering cattle and sheep. There is no reason for everyone to be unhappy, this battle is a win.

There are more than 20,000 Qiang thieves, so Qin Lang, the prime minister's envoy, is also generous and bold. He directly issued 25 jumping skills, 50 pioneer first skills, 100 second-class skills, and 300 Third class merit.

For the 6,000 officers and soldiers of the Tang Army who participated in the battle, this means that more than 400 lucky guys can get honorary officers or even military positions.

And those officers were also very excited. After the First World War, they had another chance to be promoted.

Of course, except for a few lucky people who can achieve great achievements, more people are happy to get rich.

Beheadings, captures, and captured trophies are all rewards with clearly marked prices. How much can a head be exchanged for, how much can be exchanged for a captive, how much can be exchanged for a war horse, a mule, and a donkey? Armor, a weapon, etc., all have corresponding rewards.

Desperate to go to the battlefield, but also bring their own weapons and dry food, for what? Isn't it just for the opportunity to be awarded honors and officials, and rewards to make a fortune.

We are all ordinary people, so don't talk about ideals, let's be realistic.

Qin Lang himself is also a layman, so he never talks empty words.

The announcements are posted in the barracks, sent to the army to read to the soldiers, and the rewards are made public immediately and registered in the account for each person. When they return to the military mansion, they can receive the money and go home.

As for the military merits, Qin Lang had already asked the imperial court for his merits, and the names of every meritorious soldier were on it.

On the contrary, the more than 15,000 captives are a bit embarrassing. With so many captives, a lot of food is wasted every day, and they have to be guarded.

These people were rescued by Qin Lang, otherwise the Tang army would never have left so many on the battlefield, maybe it would be nice to have five or six thousand prisoners when cleaning the battlefield.

Now these captives, Songzhou has given each of them a reward of ten bolts of silk, which is recorded in the account. Qin Lang patted his chest to Qin Qiong and the others, expressing that he would deal with these prisoners.

He dispatched 500 soldiers of his own, and asked Baliburi to send his son with 1,000 men to accompany him. He sent hundreds of wounded soldiers from this battle back to Chengdu, Yizhou. About 3,000 Dangchang Qiang prisoners were escorted back together.

Qin Lang's disposal method for the 18,000 Qiang prisoners was also simple. They were taken to Yizhou and immediately organized an auction to auction them off.

He has even pre-ordered 1,000 captives, ready to buy them and send them to various manors, workshops, and fiefdoms in Wu'an Prefecture.

If it weren't for the large number of captives and the high cost, Qin Lang would have wanted to buy all of these captives.

The rewards given to the soldiers in the Songzhou Camp are ten pieces of silk for each production, but in addition to these ten pieces of silk, the camp has to share other battle rewards and consumption expenses, so the cost of sending these captives to Chengdu for auction is not low. .

Of course, Qin Lang's plan is that the starting price for young and strong captives is 100 pieces of silk for 20 guan, while the starting price for old and weak is 10 guan, and young women start at 15 guan. The remnants will be used for military supplies, and the rest will be turned over to the imperial court, and a part will be reserved for the construction of Songzhou.

Compared to killing them directly on the battlefield, Qin Lang felt that it was too wasteful. Although cutting them with one knife saved a lot of follow-up troubles, it also caused great losses to the soldiers.

So Qin Lang just explained briefly, the soldiers in the camp were very satisfied with Qin Lang's disposal plan, and even when the enemy army suppressed the soldiers, Qin Lang had to transfer 1,500 soldiers to escort the prisoners Going back, they all agreed.

Those captives are everyone's money, the better the price, the more everyone can share when they turn back.

The wounded soldiers were sent away, and the captives were taken away. There were only more than 5,000 people left in Songzhou.

Among them, Qin Lang and Qin Qiong had more than 3,000 troops, and the Li Qiang and Dangchang Qiang surrendered 5,000 troops.

With Dangchang Qiang and Tuoba Qiang traveling thousands of miles to deliver cattle, horses, food, grass and even weapons, Songzhou now has no shortage of food and no worries about arrows.

Especially after obtaining tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, it is now very sufficient.

Every day in Songzhou, cattle and sheep are slaughtered, processed roughly, or salted, or air-dried, or smoked, and stored as much as possible for a protracted war.

Xi Junmai was awarded a jumping skill by Qin Lang, and he set off to investigate the enemy's situation with full of joy.

Three days later, when Songzhou camp was still immersed in joy, Mr. Xi bought it back.

"Bad news, Fuzhou and Wenzhou were besieged."

Xi Junmai told Qin Lang that Xifeng Bulai did not follow the route of Tuoba Sitou. Instead, he crossed Min Mountain further north, followed the criss-crossing valley trails in the mountains, and went straight to Fuzhou.

"Xifeng Bulai led the army to raid the Jiachuan in the northwest of Fuzhou. After taking down the gate of Jiachuan, they rushed to Tongchang, the city of Fuzhou. The governor Jiang Shanhe was besieged in Tongchang City. The horses bypassed Tongchang and rushed to Wenzhou along the Baishui River Valley."

"The governor of Lizhou and Lord Ying were in Wenzhou, and they retreated into Wenzhou city to help defend the city, so they kept Wenzhou intact, but it was also very critical."

Both Fuzhou and Wenzhou are at the northernmost end of Jiannan Road. When the road was first drawn here, it was included in Longyou Road, but in the end it was bounded by Suling Mountain in the south of Qiangshui River, and the south side was included in Jiannan Road. A Baishui River originates from Minshan Mountain in the west, flows through the two states, enters Lizhou in the east, and flows into the Bailong River.

The topography of these two prefectures is not much better than that of Songzhou, with mountains on all sides, high mountains and deep valleys.

Qin Lang didn't expect that Xifeng Bulai would go there directly.

Is this besieging Wei and saving Zhao, or is it that you beat yours and I beat mine, or is it that Xifeng Bulai deliberately went the opposite way, anticipating that the Tuoba tribe would be defeated in Songzhou?

"How many Qiang thieves?"

"We caught a Qiang messenger on the way. After interrogation, we learned that there were about 50,000 horsemen, Xifeng Bulai's rate was 30,000, Fei Ting Changsheng's rate and Qu Liren's rate was 20,000."

Qin Lang took the map and studied it carefully for a long time, but he didn't understand why Xifeng Bulai didn't come to Songzhou with an army, but ran to the north instead.

"Could it be that they heard that the warrior Xun was coming from there with reinforcements, so they went to fight for reinforcements first?"

Xi Junmai was very supportive of Qin Lang's opinion, "Perhaps it is really possible. After all, Mr. Ying has set off from Lizhou for a long time, but the road is difficult and he was delayed on the way."

Starting from Lizhou, take the northern line, through Wenzhou and Fuzhou, you can reach the north of Songzhou, and then go down along the Minjiang River valley.

Of course, this is just a guess. After all, when they were in Wude, the party members had already invaded Fu, Song, and Wenzhou from the direction of Jiachuan several times. For them who are familiar with the local terrain and have less requirements for logistics roads, it is difficult for the Tang people to go. The road is not difficult for them to walk.

"Fuzhou is in critical condition now."

Fuzhou has been affected by successive invasions by the Qiang people and Tuyuhun in the past few years. Now the population loss is serious, and there is no frontier defense force. Now the Qiang people are suddenly killed, which makes Jiang Shanhe even have no chance to mobilize urgently. Now he is trapped in the state The city, but there are only so many soldiers and civilians in the city.

"Does anyone know about Jiang Shanhe's color injection experience?" Qin Lang asked.

"I know."

Qin Qiong strode in from the outside, "Jiang Shanhe's real name is Jiang He, his style name is Xuanfu, and he is from Luoyang. In the eighth year of his great cause, he was awarded Jianjiewei for his meritorious service when he conquered Liaodong. At the end of the later Sui Dynasty, he followed Meng Haigong and occupied Yunzhou. In the fourth year of Germany, Meng Haigong was defeated by Dou Jiande. After his army was incorporated by Dou Jiande, he and Xu Yuanlang's army were sent to Luoyang to rescue Wang Shichong.

After the end of the Great War in the Central Plains, Dou Jiande and Meng Haigong were taken to Chang'an to be executed. Jiang He surrendered the land of Yunzhou to the Tang Dynasty and was appointed the county magistrate of Yucheng in Daizhou. Later, Meng Haigong's younger brother Meng Yigui, the governor of Daizhou, led by Meng Haigong's son Meng Yi, raised troops against the Tang Dynasty in Caodai two states, and planned to contact Jiang He to launch an attack together. He asked the imperial court for his merits, so he was awarded the title of general and the founding father of Yuncheng County. He changed his name to Jiang Shanhe, and soon he was awarded the governor and governor of Yunzhou and the governor of Fuzhou. "

Qin Qiong's experience with Jiang Shanhe is very precious. Generally speaking, this is another character in troubled times. In his early years, he was also a soldier of the Sui Dynasty like Qin Qiong, and eventually became a Tang general.

But in the past, he didn't have much fame, so although he relied on his backing to kill him and appointed a county magistrate and governor, the court didn't like such a person very much, so he was quickly transferred from the Central Plains to the Central Plains. The southwest frontier was actually demoted.

It has been six years since Jiang Shanhe came to Fuzhou, but he has not moved his nest. When he first came, he had repelled the Qiang invasion, even the Qiang people who were defeated in Jiachuan. But after six years, the governor of Jiang was also disheartened. Feeling cold, no longer caring about government affairs and border defense.

Qin Qiong in Songzhou was besieged, and Jiang Shanhe didn't send troops to help for a long time, and he didn't even strengthen the defense of the Jiachuan portal. As a result, he was attacked and besieged by the Qiang people.

After listening to it, Qin Lang really wanted to say that people like Jiang Shanhe didn't deserve the word "good" he added, and they deserved it.

"We have to send troops to rescue!" Qin Qiong didn't seem to care at all about Jiang Shanhe's reluctance to save him.