Chapter 1068 Wholesale Official Position
Before dawn, the military camp started to stir.
The hard-working auxiliary soldiers brought out the prepared breakfast, and the soldiers sat on the ground while feeling the wet and cold air in the morning.
The weather has not been very good recently, and the wind has been roaring for several days.
It’s almost the twelfth lunar month, and it’s not snowing in Jiangling, which is a bit surprising.
There were drums sounding outside the camp again, one after another, becoming more and more excited.
The soldiers turned a blind eye and just ate.
What I cooked today was wheat rice, and everyone complained and almost cursed.
But there is no way. So much wheat is transported from the north, and it has to be consumed slowly.
There are not many stone mills found here in Jiangling. Unlike the north, which has been promoted for twenty years, stone mills have become a fixed and long-term transaction.
So, just make do with it.
Just fill your stomach with corn rice for a few days, plus wheat rice for a day.
The sound of killing in the distance suddenly became fierce and spread throughout the wilderness along the morning breeze.
With a "boom", mud and water splashed everywhere.
In the huge camp, a suspension bridge suddenly dropped outside the gate and dozens of riders rode out.
The sergeant lined up followed.
They were fully armed and had a variety of weapons. Each of them was surrounded by an armor-free group, carrying a weapon.
The queue was endless. The back team had just passed the suspension bridge, and the front team had entered the long moat that besieged Ji Nancheng.
The camp was full of mud, and it was clattering when stepped on. From time to time, someone fell to the ground and was quickly helped up.
The crisp sound of equipment collisions can be heard everywhere, and at the beginning, a certain long trench gradually filled the entire east of the city.
The first ray of sunshine in the morning rose in the east sky.
Under the golden light, the camp and the earthen walls were filled with people's heads, densely packed and moving quickly.
The sergeant who was originally stationed near the trench wall showed a gratified smile on his face.
They were covered in half dry and half hard mud, dirty, and like beggars. Fortunately, I finally waited until the defense was changed and I could go back to the camp to rest for a few days.
The entire handover and switching prevention process is smooth and fast.
Under the leadership of the clan leader, the defenders lined up to leave one after another. After fighting side by side with the Liang army for so long, their military level has improved rapidly. After all, people can watch, listen, and ask. Even if they just learn mechanically, there will always be progress.
Before leaving, they took away all their belongings.
Some people limped and listened to the squeaking sounds in their leather boots. Don’t think about it, their feet were rotten. This was not a day or two.
There are also people with injuries on their bodies, wrapped in a hurry, emitting an unpleasant odor. If you don’t have to look at them, you will definitely get pus.
There are also people who are not injured or sick, but they are pale and slow to react. No matter how they look, what is wrong.
More people are numb.
Marching, fighting, siege the city, and walking along the way, I did all kinds of things, as if nothing in the world could make them interested. What they are doing now is a chore for them. They just want to finish the job early and go home early unless-
The generals promised them that they could rape and plunder, so they still had some hope and their morale would rise significantly immediately, which was more effective than paying money.
The same money is obtained through murder, rape, and robbery, and the other is caused by hair. The latter is obviously not exciting enough. The former can vent the evil in human nature more happily and is more attractive to soldiers.
Money is a reward, but venting it freely is actually a reward.
The sun gradually rises, shining on people warmly.
The General of the Left Jinwu Guard, Chang Can, was patrolling everywhere under the escort of his personal soldiers.
Occasionally, a corpse was stepped on the soles of my feet, and it had become unrecognizable in the mud and water, so I immediately sent someone to clean it up.
From time to time, you can see a pool of feces, which is stinking.
To discharge in the army, you must go to a designated location, and you must also be buried and covered after the discharge. There is only one possibility that someone has diarrhea and can’t wait—a lot of these things have happened recently.
A strong and skilled man with a strong and skilled bow and horsemanship became a completely different person after vomiting and diarrhea for many times. Even a woman could easily kill him.
After a round of inspections, Chang Can looked up at the sky, and finally the dark clouds dissipated and the sun emerged.
To be honest, he would rather have heavy snow than see frozen rain or sleet.
The drums in the north city gradually stopped, and soon there was a continuous sound of snatching sound, which was a signal of withdrawing troops.
The northwest wind blew, and it seemed that there was a wave of dry and scorched smell, but I didn’t know whether it was the people, the city gates or the siege equipment that were burning.
At the end of the inspection, Chang Can climbed up a section of the moat wall and looked ahead.
The Jin army flag at the top of Ji Nan city was hung weakly, just like their hearts.
The city has not been maintained for long, but it is nothing more than a price to pay.
Chang Can's heart is already very hard.
He turned his head and looked at the south of the city. If nothing unexpected happened, the soldiers and soldiers from Luonan from the government will launch a night attack tonight.
The tactics are indeed mainly about siege, but it does not mean that nothing is done. The necessary offensive will still be launched, otherwise they will surrender only in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?
When Chang Can returned to the camp, a new force came outside Ji Nan City...******
A small boat was walking through the narrow river.
A rumbling sound came from above his head. Huang He looked up and saw that it was a ox cart that was trying to transport food and grass through the bridge.
The weather is pretty good today and it's warmer.
The golden sunlight shines on the river surface, a little sparkling.
On both sides of the river, tents and wooden houses are connected by one, filled with soldiers from all over the world.
Huang He subconsciously avoided their gaze. However, after seeing the brand new official uniform on his body and the hard official seal in his arms, he straightened his back.
What are you afraid of? I am now a Daliang official.
The ship turned around and quickly left Ji Nan and arrived at a sandbank in the lake near Jiangling.
Huang He quickly jumped onto the shore and stayed for half a day.
In the afternoon, he left on a small boat and headed to another hidden place.
And every place he visited had been constantly moving in the next few days.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
One or two heroes came to the city of Jinan, each with hundreds or thousands of people.
Those who arrived in advance had already received the official uniform and seal.
It is certainly impossible to examine their respective abilities for a while, so they can only divide them simply and roughly.
Often traveling around the Yangtze River—
He brought more than 3,000 people to join and was appointed as the chief 7th-rank navy commander;
He brought less than 3,000 people and more than 1,000 people to join the army and was appointed as the general of the eighth-rank navy commander;
He brought less than one thousand people and more than five hundred people to join and was awarded the title of the Master of the Ninth-rank Water Master;
Those who are under 500 soldiers and horses who are indeed brave, skilled and have guaranteed them can be awarded the ninth-rank governor.
How did these people get an official position in the past?
I can't remember you when I don't fight. When I fight, I have to bring "Royal Soldiers" to the battlefield. Only a very small number of amazing people can become officials, but how can this be compared with the mass awards of officials in the Daliang Dynasty? It's not the same thing at all.
So, this order, with the help of those who are interested, spread far and near.
By the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, more than 4,000 people gathered here one after another to make a living on the water.
Jiang Ke, the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army, patrolled the camp several times, which caused a great headache.
He had a vague feeling: Among these 4,000 people, most likely more than 90% of them are not good people!
Maybe they have a regular business life when they farm and fish, or go on a boat, but as long as they have the chance, they will never mind doing it.
To put it bluntly, this is a farmer and a thief, and there are even pure river thieves and water bandits.
But then again, if they were the servants of the Jiangdong wealthy family or the serious navy officers and soldiers, would they come to join you? It is precisely because they have low background and low status that they are eager to change their destiny, gain wealth, win over their wives and children, and bring honor to their ancestors that they can be effective.
So Jiang Ke also calmed down his mind and submitted a memorial to send a navy general to train these people, and distributed equipment.
In water battles, very few people wear iron armor, because once they fall into the water and cannot float, it is just a word of death. At most, they wear leather armor, and they have some protective ability in close combat.
Even most people don’t wear armor at all because leather armor is inconvenient and it is still very hot in summer and autumn.
No matter what they thought, Jiang Ke distributed three hundred bows, five hundred sets of leather armor, one thousand face shields, one thousand ring-headed knives, two thousand spears to these 4,000 people, plus other messy equipment-if If it is insufficient, then use their own supplements.
While training, the new officials were also sent to the outside of Jinan City to carry out an offensive to surrender, such as today—
The soldiers of the Silver Gun Zuoying, the Zuo Jinwu Guard, and the Helong Zahu launched a massive attack from the south, east and north. Although they did not break through the city, they greatly injured people.
After the battle, a group of people led by Huang He immediately stepped forward to persuade them to surrender.
"Why do the county soldiers still work hard for the people of Wu? Most of the Wu Bing family members are in Wuchang, so you wait for your family to be outside the city."
"Subsidize and reunite with your family as soon as possible."
"The emperor of Daliang is kind and kind. After you surrender, you can get rid of your army and return to your fields, so you don't care about anything."
"If a hero can take the head of the Wu army and surrender, he will reward two pieces of silk."
"He led the head of the leader and gave him five pieces of silk."
"The head of the team leader comes to surrender and reward ten pieces of silk."
"The heads of the governor and the head of the pavilion came to surrender and rewarded thirty pieces of silk."
"The generals and supervisors of the camp came to surrender, rewarded fifty pieces of silk, and were appointed as the ninth rank official."
"If you can capture and kill the fake prefect Tao Zhen, you can enter the emperor to pay homage to the emperor, and your wealth is beyond words."
Every time Huang He shouted, dozens of loud voices around him would repeat in unison to make sure that the defenders could hear clearly.
Perhaps he was furious, and a wave of crossbow arrows suddenly shot from the top of the city. One of them flew over Huang He's head, strung the two people not far behind him together and nailed to the ground.
Your mother! Huang He turned around and ran away, slipping fast.
However, they did not stop, but changed to another place, from the east of the city to the north of the city, and continued to act as human horns to persuade the surrender.
For several days, no one went out of the city to surrender. But they were not discouraged, because it is very likely that the defenders did not want to surrender, but were seen too tightly and did not find any opportunity.
On the evening of the 11th day of the 11th day of the 12th lunar month, Helong Zahu launched an attack from the south and north of the city at the same time.
The feint attacked in the south of the city and the main attack in the north of the city, while Huang He and others persuaded surrender in the east of the city.
The effect finally appeared: two local soldiers from Jiangling came down from the city and fled to the Liang army camp in a hurry.
(This chapter ends)