Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 412, the eyes are red
Taiyuan Shanxi.

At this time, the entire Taiyuan became a huge barracks. The [-] troops on the East Road were gathered near Taiyuan. They were making up supplies and preparing to set off for Shaanxi. Tartars from Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia.

The frontier troops from the Nine Sides, as well as the guards from various guards are gathered around Taiyuan at this time, and there are huge barracks everywhere. In each barracks, the soldiers who are about to go to the battlefield are very disturbed , very frightened, some people want to find an opportunity to escape secretly, some people plan to surrender immediately after meeting the Tartars, and some people plan to form a gang with people they know and become deserters when the night is dark and the wind is high. Find a place where weeds become bandits.

Not only the soldiers were very scared and retreated, but the generals, Qianhu, Baihu, etc. who commanded these soldiers were also very scared.

This battlefield is private, not to mention facing the extremely ferocious prairie people. Naturally, they are even more afraid. It has not yet started, and many people want to escape.

Some people recruited people to take over the bag and let them go to the battlefield for themselves, some people planned to take their own people to the corner and sneak away after going to the battlefield, and some people even thought that when the time came Take your own men to kill a few common people, kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, it can be regarded as a battle, and there is an explanation.

In short, from top to bottom, there are not many people who really want to win this battle and dare to fight this battle. Everyone is afraid of death and war with the prairie people.

Of course, this is not their fault. Except for the frontier army who fought against the prairie people, these guards are all recruits. They used to be farmers who were farming, and they were immediately pulled over to join the war. Such an army is even worse. It's not as good as a plate of loose sand.

In addition, their weapons and equipment are also very bad. The armor and weapons dispatched by the household department are rotten. The firecrackers and cannons will explode. No one dares to use them. Fighting is not willing to use such artillery and firecrackers.

If the weapons, armor, etc. are okay, there are still people who dare to fight the prairie people to death, and they all carry one head on two shoulders, who is afraid of whom!
But it just doesn't work. The money allocated by the Ministry of Households is small, and corruption is very serious. The weapons and armors made by this are really not good, and they are not as good as the kitchen knives that everyone brings from home.

In a barracks of the Guards Army, dozens of soldiers gathered together and said they were soldiers, but there was no sign of soldiers at all on these people, all of them were dressed in tatters and were too thin. All of them are honest and honest, and they look like farmers at first glance.

"What do you guys say?"

Wang Daniu looked at the dozens of people from the same village around him and asked.

These dozens of them are all from a guard in Shanxi. Their ancestors were all military households.

Originally, I thought that this kind of farming, although the life was a little bit bitter, but at least I was still alive. Who knew that the emperor ordered that everyone would go to the battlefield with hoes.

"What else can I say, put oil on the soles of your feet, and look for opportunities to slip."

Beside Wang Daniu, Chen Mazi said.

"That's right, are you really fighting the Tartars? What should we use to fight them?"

"Look at the weapons issued by the court, they are not as good as my kitchen knife."

Li Fugui next to him also followed suit, and after he finished speaking, he also took out a weapon issued by the court, a knife, a knife as thin as a cicada's wing, it is not so much a knife as a piece of iron, it is really hard to break As a master of sword fighting, it is said that it is effortless to fight the sword like this on the battlefield, but can such a knife cut people to death?

Moreover, Li Fugui took out the kitchen knife he brought out, and slashed at it, cutting the iron sheet into two ends in an instant, but his own kitchen knife didn't even curl the blade at all.

"Get away~"

"That's right, wars are not like this. This is not a war. This is to send us to our deaths. At least give us a decent weapon. I have nothing to say when I die on the battlefield."

"That's right, it's fine if you don't have this armor, and this weapon is so perfunctory, it's almost like sending you to death."

"Prairie people are all cavalry, and they come and go like the wind. We are all infantry, no different from unarmed. Why don't you send out such broken iron sheets? It's better to give each of us a wooden gun."

The others also said one by one.

Everyone has a bad life, and there is nothing wrong with dying, but they all feel that it is not worth it to die like this, and they don't want to die like this, and even thinking about it makes them feel irritated.

They worked their lives to the death, but they couldn't even get enough to eat. Hundreds and thousands of households occupied the fields of the guards. They became serfs of hundreds and thousands of households, and they were so perfunctory in the war. , No one is willing to risk their lives at all, and they all want to escape.

"Okay, since everyone says they want to sneak out, then we will sneak out together when the time comes, so that we can have someone to take care of us. We have already found someone to ask about the way, and when the time comes when it is chaotic or dark, we will just sneak away .”

Seeing that everyone didn't want to die, Wang Daniu nodded and said to everyone.

As soon as he finished speaking, a person hurried over, holding a newspaper in his hand, and said with red eyes: "Something happened, something happened, it's terrible, it's terrible."

"Dead monkey, you are going to die, what happened?"

Wang Daniu looked at this person, knocked on him and asked quickly.

Everyone was discussing how to get away, and he was so bluffing at this time, it was also shocking.

"Someone came from the capital just now, saying that His Royal Highness raised [-] million taels of silver from the whole Daming to fight a war. The most important thing is that they said that killing a Tartar will reward one hundred taels of silver. If you die in battle, you will receive two hundred taels of silver as compensation."

The person called Monkey, who was very thin, was not angry when he was knocked on the head by Wang Daniu, but told what he knew.

"what?"

"Fifteen million taels of silver?"

"A reward of one hundred taels of silver for killing a Tartar?"

"Dead pension two hundred taels of silver?"

Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard it, and some people scratched their ears in disbelief, wondering if they heard it wrong.

"Monkey, why don't you talk about it?"

Wang Daniu pulled the monkey over, stared at him and said.

"His Royal Highness has already issued an official document, saying that if we kill a Tartar, the head count will be counted. Killing a Tartar will reward one hundred taels of silver. If he is killed in battle, he will be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver."

The monkey said it again.

"One hundred taels of silver will be rewarded for killing a Tartar, and two hundred taels of silver will be rewarded for death?"

This time, everyone heard clearly, but still couldn't believe it.

"My dear, my rotten life is worth two hundred taels of silver?"

Chen Mazi pinched himself hard, and was a little dumbfounded. He was a dilapidated military household, and his life was worth two hundred taels of silver.

"A reward of one hundred taels of silver for killing a Tartar?"

Li Fugui instantly became jealous. For a hundred taels of silver, you can buy dozens of acres of land, build a house, have a wife, and do many, many things in short. You can use a hundred taels of silver to do all the important things in your life. There is still a lot of silver left after finishing.

"Is this true or false?"

Wang Daniu's eyes were also red, all of a sudden blood red, blood red, so red that he stared at the monkey and asked.

"Of course it's true. The Crown Prince's Mansion of the East Palace has already sent people to various barracks to publicize it, and it has also been sent to the whole Daming in the form of newspapers, and it was even published in the Daming Morning Post."

"And this time, His Royal Highness not only raised [-] million taels of silver, but also raised a lot of things. The Miyun Iron Works alone donated [-] sets of armor, [-] pieces of weapons and [-] cannons. , It is said that many people's guards have already started to receive new armor weapons."

"The weapons and armor of Miyun Iron Works are really good. I have already seen them, and I don't know if we have them here."

The monkey raised the Ming Morning Post in his hand, and told what he saw and heard.

Wang Daniu snatched the newspaper, looked at it, but couldn't read, so he immediately pulled out a thin man and said: "Scholar, hurry up and see if it's true, this tartar is one hundred taels of silver." , two hundred taels of silver as a pension for those who died in battle."

The person called the scholar is actually a military household. He used to go to private schools secretly to study, and he knew a lot of words. Everyone used to want to make fun of him, saying that he was a shabby military household. Because you are a military household, you don't even want to rely on the imperial examination.

The scholar picked up the newspaper and read it carefully. He was only half-level and didn't know many characters, but he could still recognize some common characters, and he could basically read them even if he guessed. up.

After carefully reading the Ming Morning Post, his eyes were also red, and he said to the crowd: "It's right, it's the same as the monkey said, killing a Tartar rewards a hundred taels of silver, and giving a compensation of two hundred taels of silver to those killed in battle. , and not only those of us are rewarded."

"If we win the battle, the more enemies we kill, the hundreds of families and thousands of families above us will also be rewarded, and the rewards will be much richer than ours."

"Madan, I will reward one hundred taels of silver for killing a tartar. If I can kill a tartar before I die, wouldn't I be able to get three hundred taels of silver?"

The scholar's eyes were red, and he wished he could go to the battlefield and fight fiercely with the Tartars right now.

"Really~"

Wang Daniu couldn't help roaring in a low voice. He was as strong as a bull, as his name suggests, with great strength. When he thought of killing a tartar and rewarding him with a hundred taels of silver, he couldn't help but clenched his fists, his eyes were scarlet. It's terrifying, everyone looks like a tartar, like a tiger that chooses and devours people.

　Silver is the strongest motivation~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)