In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 139 Conquest and Return
As the news spread that they were going to conquer the crotch and snatch the women's food, all the Mongolian teenagers screamed with excitement and immediately stopped.

It was not until half a month later, in January of the [-]th year of Chongzhen, that the temperature warmed up slightly, and the conquest army was ready to set off.

This time Lin Rui did not plan to go in person, but planned to let Na Muzhong lead the team to engage in this kind of worthless war purely for robbery.

At the same time, I also want to train her and see if Mongolians and Han people can fight together without me.
Therefore, he planned to remove [-] veteran infantry soldiers and [-] border troops trapped in the camp, leaving a total of [-] Han soldiers under the command of Huang Ben.

The other two Mongolian male cavalry battalions were all dispatched, and a thousand female cavalry auxiliaries were removed, leaving a total of eight thousand cavalry. Plus two thousand logistics personnel, the total strength of this expedition was more than 18000.

Thirty thousand war horses, five thousand sleighs, and a month's worth of food and grass.

Ningxia is only four to five hundred miles away from here. Even if there is three feet of snow on the ground, the sleigh ride will only last for half a month at most. If you surround the horse with a sled at night, you will not freeze to death. As long as you bring more charcoal for heating, you will be safe on the road. Still no problem.

After all, after crossing the Yellow River, there is no need to worry about the cold and supply problems when arriving in Ningxia.

Although the situation of Han and Hui living together in Ningxia is very complicated, there are more than 10,000 Hui, but they are scattered in several places. Mutual support does not change in winter, which is a good time for conquest.

"Madam, remember that kindness does not control soldiers, and righteousness does not control wealth. This time we must not rob the Han people, and we must not conflict with the Ming army. We only rob women of food, salt, horses, and cloth. We don't want anything else. Women are over ten years old and under 30 years old. , I don’t want it either too big or too small.”

"Well, Rui Lang, don't worry, I've remembered it all, and I will strictly enforce it. Anyone who dares to violate it will be killed without mercy!"

Na Muzhong replied firmly, feeling a little excited in her heart. After all, it had been a long time since she had commanded so many soldiers and horses to fight alone.

"Well, if the Ming army takes the initiative to cause trouble for you, they can fight back and fight back hard."

Although he felt that the Ming army would not intervene, he still gave instructions.

After all, Ningxia not only has a border army, but also a large number of guard posts.

Due to the long-term conflicts with Huihui from time to time, and the need to resist the harassment of the Mongols, the combat effectiveness is still somewhat good.

"Rui Lang, do you want to take the opportunity to recruit some more military boys?"

"The [-] new recruits haven't been trained yet, so we won't recruit them for the time being. We'll recruit them again in the summer or autumn!"

Lin Rui thought about it and waved his hand, not planning to recruit Han teenagers.

Although they have enough food, more than 7 people sit and eat every day, and their daily consumption is still very huge.

Therefore, in order to save food, he planned to postpone the recruitment of troops, otherwise the pace would be too big and it would be easy to lose the eggs.

Lin Rui gave some more instructions, and Na Muzhong got on his horse.

At this time, Hubbell finally couldn't help but begged again: "Husband, just let me follow you! I beg you."

"All right!"

Originally, Lin Rui didn't plan to let her go. After all, the two women had left. How could he sleep alone at night in this cold weather?It can be seen that she looked pitiful, but she finally softened and nodded.

"That's great, thank you husband..."

Hubbell suddenly started talking incoherently with joy, turned over, jumped on his horse, and drove away, as if he was afraid that Lin Rui would regret it.

Looking at her eager look, Lin Rui could only smile bitterly.

She secretly thought that this little Mongolian girl was really immature. Whenever there was a war, she would forget all about her husband.

Namuzhong seemed to have seen what he was thinking, and smiled charmingly at him: "Rui Lang, it's cold, sister Bei'er and I have left. If you can't sleep at night, please find a maid to warm the bed." ”

Now that Lin Rui has given her enough power, trust and favor, and she also understands that Lin Rui is not the kind of ruthless and uncivilized person, she is not worried at all that when there are more women, she will be left out in the cold.

"Well, I will look at the situation. Take care, madam!"

Lin Rui nodded, then waved and watched her leave.

It wasn't until the army left that Lin Rui took the farewell people back home.

Nearly 2 people walked in at once, and the huge camp became a little empty, but no one was idle.

The women sewed spring military uniforms and made riding boots in the tents, the old people and the middle-aged men of the logistics camp made leather armors and leather goods, and the craftsmen continued to make weapons and arrows.

Zhou Meng and the remaining [-] veterans were also responsible for the training of the [-] young men and the Longbow Battalion, but Lin Rui took it easy all day.

In the entire camp, the busiest ones were the three hundred young ladies and maids. A while ago, in order to count the rosters, they could no longer lift their arms to write, but Lin Rui had no intention of letting them rest.

"I heard that you were sick a while ago? How are you doing now?"

In the warm handsome tent, looking at the rather haggard Mrs. Lu, Lin Rui expressed concern in a hypocritical manner.

"Go back to me, sir, I'm fine."

Mrs. Lu's tone was as calm as ever, with no emotion at all.

On the contrary, the ladies behind her were hesitant to speak.

"As long as everything is alright, please keep these rosters and don't lose or damage them. Do you understand?"

Lin Rui pointed to the roster of more than a dozen large boxes next to him and said in a stern tone.

Since the military ranks at all levels lack identification marks, each person's military rank is only marked on the roster, and each person has a full page of paper.

In addition to the name, age and approximate place of origin, as well as the time of joining, the wars participated in, achievements made, and punishments received are also recorded one by one.

In the future, real-time modifications and additions will be made, and the promotion of soldiers must be based on the records on the roster, so it is very important.

In order to facilitate future record management, 50 people per post compiled a copy, which is a large box for one battalion. "It's young master."

Mrs. Lu and all the ladies quickly replied.

Although they are not familiar with military affairs, they also know the importance of these rosters.

If they were damaged, the rebel leader would definitely not be able to spare them. Killing them directly would be too light.

"Well, then the next step is to count the supplies in the camp. Everything must be classified and recorded. How much is used every day must be recorded and modified in real time. Anyway, I will ask you how much food and salt you have in the future. Do you want it? If you can answer it, you have to calculate it accurately for how long the remaining food can last."

Lin Rui nodded, and then slowly said to them, he really couldn't stand this situation where he didn't know how much supplies he still had and how long they could last based on the current consumption.

This time, the faces of all the women changed, and they all obviously realized how arduous and troublesome the next task would be.

Mrs. Lu even bolder said: "Mr. Lin, it's just a matter of statistics and registering, but if you go by what you said, I'm afraid we will have to count and manage all supplies in the future. This should be the job of the Sima in the army. It’s not our bunch of slaves’ responsibility.”

"It's up to you to decide who's responsible. I have the final say. Besides, who said you were slaves? You just served as soldiers to atone for your sins."

Lin Rui said with a straight face. He also knew that it would be a bit embarrassing to let these captured women be responsible for the logistics management of the army in the future, but there was nothing that could be done about it. Otherwise, he would have to choose extensive management and end up being reduced to The same tribe as the Mongols.

Mrs. Lu didn't dare to tell the difference and lowered her head. The ladies also lowered their heads, obviously very dissatisfied with Lin Rui's atonement.

Snapped!
Seeing that they dared to play silent protest, Lin Rui was very angry and said: "What, is this handsome man treating you too well these days?
Since you don't want to do it, then your only value is your appearance and body, and you can only be a military prostitute. "

"Young master, you don't want it, we are willing to..."

"Sir, we must be honest and obedient from now on. We will write whatever you tell us to write."

"Please, sir..."

Mrs. Lu knew that Lin Rui was trying to scare them, so she remained unmoved. However, the ladies behind her turned pale with fright, their pretty faces turned pale, their legs weakened, and they fell to their knees.

Mrs. Lu's daughter even tried her best to pull on her trouser legs.

Mrs. Lu finally had no choice but to kneel down.

She originally wanted to use this to negotiate conditions with Lin Rui, to gain an identity for everyone, and guarantees for the future. Who would have thought that they would be so unlucky, and they would become like this after just a little scare.

"That's right. Come on, everyone. As long as you are obedient, I will not only make sure that you have enough food and clothing, but also ensure that you are not bullied. If you behave well, I can find you a suitable husband to marry in the future. Yes, haha."

Lin Rui then smiled with satisfaction and softened his tone, not forgetting to comfort him with a sweet date.

He was naturally aware of Mrs. Lu's little thoughts, but he had to see what the situation was, but he had no intention of punishing her.

After all, with Mrs. Lu as the leader, the ladies and maids may not be so honest and obedient, but it also saves me a lot of worry.

Just leave everything to her and let her arrange for the ladies and maids to do it.

The girls then wiped the corners of their eyes and got up from the ground.

Lin Rui waved to them again, asking them to come forward, and then he picked up a pen and wrote ten Arabic numerals on a piece of paper.

"Do you recognize it?"

Looking at the ten ghostly symbols on the paper, Mrs. Lu and the other ladies all shook their heads in confusion.

"I just guessed that you didn't recognize it."

Lin Rui said that he wrote ten corresponding Chinese character numbers below the ten numbers, and then looked at them: "What now?"

"Sir, could the symbols on this be the ten numbers from zero to nine?" Miss Lu blurted out.

Everyone else also looked at Lin Rui, even Mrs. Lu, who was obviously not a fool.

"Not bad, aren't these symbols much simpler than the numbers below?"

As he spoke, Lin Rui wrote a series of Arabic numbers such as 10 and 123 on the paper, and then also marked them with Chinese characters below.

Finally, simply write down the four symbols of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and explain them one by one in Chinese characters below.

"Do you understand everything? If you don't understand, you can ask questions now. From now on, all the figures in the accounts must be replaced by these simple figures, and they must be written horizontally from left to right. Do you remember them all? Hum, what if again? If you dare to write vertical layout for me, you can guess the consequences for yourself..."

At the end of the sentence, he glared at Mrs. Lu fiercely.

"Mr. Lin, you should be a scholar. Since ancient times, articles have been written from top to bottom. I have never heard of writing horizontally from left to right. These symbols are not my Chinese characters. We As long as we can accomplish what the young master said, why should the young master force others to make things difficult?"

It must be said that Mrs. Lu still has a hint of scholar's arrogance and wants to write records in the traditional way.

"Don't bargain, take it back and figure it out for yourself. After half a month, I will only look at the results."

Lin Rui didn't bother to explain to her at all, he just grabbed the paper on the table, stuffed it into her hand, and waved.

"Mom, let's go quickly..."

"Madam, stop talking..."

Mrs. Lu did not give up and wanted to try again. After all, it was difficult to change her writing habit and it would definitely delay her time. However, her daughter and a group of ladies dragged her out.

This rebel leader has a heart of stone and doesn't know how to show mercy at all. He can write whatever he wants. Madam is also sincere, so why do you have to be serious with him?

(End of this chapter)