Late Tang

Li Jing was very happy, and said loudly: "Okay, you understand things very well. Those who know the current affairs are heroes. Get up, and you will be one of us from now on." He took two 50 taels of silver collars and put them in his hands, "This is your reward."

Holding two silver collars, Zhang Cheng said gratefully, "Thank you, Lord!"

Both Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian smiled and stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder, "Work hard, I won't treat you badly."

Zhang Cheng was flattered and laughed, with a relaxed smile on his face.

It wasn't until this time that the craftsmen in the workshop felt that things were a little strange, and felt that the people brought by Zhang Guanshi did not seem to be from the Wang family.Several craftsmen and stewards wanted to come forward to ask questions, but seeing Li Jing's men in armor, they didn't dare to approach them.

Li Jing waved his hand: "Zhang Cheng, inform everyone immediately that this workshop has to move to Baocheng immediately, and they will be craftsmen in Shamen Town from now on."

Zhang Cheng nodded immediately, and trotted over to gather several stewards and craftsmen to discuss it hastily.Li Jing has been standing there watching all this with cold eyes. Finally, seeing that Zhang Cheng is really uncertain, he nodded to Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong, and the two servants immediately rushed over fiercely with whips and maces. , apart from anything else, he just beat up a few stewards who were loudly opposed, and those who were beaten were lying on the ground with blood all over their faces, and their teeth were gone.

With this precedent, when Zhang Cheng summoned all the craftsmen and announced Li Jing's order, although many people were full of doubts, no one dared to object.Li Jing sent two teams of servants to help move together.After handing over the transfer of the underground workshop to Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian.Li Jing returned to the pier, and the eighteen pirate ships had already changed into the flag of Shamen Town.Li Jing left Qiu Shengong's team at the pier and asked them to station at the Shimen pier with the original crew of more than 200 on the Ning Hai.

Although there were many other merchants at Shimen Wharf, Li Jing ignored them and directly asked Qiu Shengong to station at the wharf, which was considered to have completely taken over the wharf.In the future, no matter who enters or exits the dock, everyone will be inspected by Qiu Shengong and the others.

Li Jing ordered all the rice, cloth, silk, and even some other goods in the Wang family warehouse at Shimen Wharf, as well as some copied money and silk, to be moved to Shamen town immediately.Although there are many things, there are more than 300 pirate captives and more than 700 craftsmen, all of whom are acting as porters for the time being.

Cui Zhiyuan, who came to register, saw so many harvests, and was surprised from ear to ear.After learning that it was the harvest of the Wang family's warehouse shop.Some worried: "I'm afraid it's inappropriate to copy the warehouse and shop of the Wang family like this?"

Li Jing sneered: "What's inappropriate. The Wang family's knives have already been stabbed over, why should we be polite to him. Besides, which of these things are in the name of the Wang family? These things are secretly operated by the Wang family , They are all things that cannot be seen. Now that it has fallen into our hands, there is no need to be polite. If we take it away, the Wang family will only suffer a dumb loss. Anyway, they have already torn their face, so why should they pretend to be kind. "

As soon as this statement came out, everyone agreed with it.The Wang family dared to collude with pirates to attack Shamen Town, and everyone wanted to go to the Dengzhou Water Village immediately. Now they copied the Wang family's warehouse and shop on the island, just to get some interest first.

Li Jing and his party returned to Zhenbao, and Du Zhongwu had already handed in many post-war statistics.

Du Zhongwu stood under the head of Li Jing in the lobby of the town general's mansion, and reported to Li Jing with excitement: "General, in this battle, our army has captured a total of 820 pirate leaders, and captured the pirate leader Cyclops and the The following 670 seven people, in addition, beheaded 210 and five people under Wang Fu, the head of the Wang family. In addition, eighteen pirate ships were seized, including ten ships of 520 stone ships, five ships of 800 stone ships, and three ships of 100 stone ships. Five hundred stone sea boats. In addition, 31 copper coins, [-] taels of silver, and [-] taels of gold were also seized. There were [-] spears, [-] horizontal knives, [-] shields, [-] pairs of armor, and [-] iron pockets. One hundred tops, six hundred pairs of leather armor, three hundred leather helmets. In addition, there are six hundred pairs of longbows, two hundred single soldier crossbows, and twenty Fuyuan crossbows. Thirteen thousand arrows and eight Mo knives , thirty maces, twenty hammers, thirteen steel whips, thirty-one copper maces, and one hundred and seven iron rods. My lord, although some of them are broken, they can still be used after repairing them. , a bountiful harvest."

Lin Wei and the others were all smiling, and Zhang Hong laughed and said, "Your figure is not ready enough, and you have to add [-] shi of rice, [-] bolts of linen, and [-] bolts of silk and [-] catties of iron." , In addition, there are [-] copper coins and [-] pieces of silk. There are also a complete set of various weapon workshops, and [-] weapons and armor craftsmen."

Du Zhongwu asked suspiciously: "I have checked carefully, there are no such seizures?"

Lin Wei smiled and said: "This is what we just found when we inspected the Wang family's shops, warehouses and underground workshops at the Shimen Wharf. ***The Wang family colluded with the pirates and wanted to make money in Shamen Town. Some do interest."

While scolding the Wang family, the generals were also in a happy mood.After a bloody battle, although he paid a lot of money, he finally won the battle and gained so much.With Li Jing's style of handling things, everyone will be rewarded this time.

With more than 2 shimi, the current population of Shamen Town will not have to worry about food in a year or two.And the Wang family's underground workshop just seized, as well as those craftsmen, just made up for the weakness of the island's lack of weapons.In the future, Shamen Town also has the ability to manufacture its own equipment.With food, equipment, and people, who would dare to bully Samana to come to town in the future?

After the generals laughed and scolded and congratulated, Li Jing coughed and asked in a low voice: "How about our damage, have you counted it?"

Du Zhongwu nodded, feeling a little depressed, and said in a low voice: "In this battle, the number of pirate attacks seriously exceeded the information obtained in advance. In this fierce battle, our new army in Shamen Town suffered heavy losses. With the cooperation of the crossbow, after destroying the west city wall and attacking the city, this time the casualties were the most. According to the preliminary statistics, 460 and 110 people were killed in this battle, including 39 and 230 soldiers, 47 auxiliary soldiers, and logistics soldiers. 25 eight people, 130 members of the family team, and 21 crew members of the Ninghai. 17 seven people were seriously injured, 33 soldiers, 68 family members, [-] auxiliary soldiers, and [-] logistics soldiers. More than half of the slightly injured. The four outer barracks have been destroyed by the pirates, and the west wall of the castle has basically been destroyed."

In the First World War, 460 people were killed and 130 people were seriously injured, adding up to [-] people.

This number caused everyone in the hall to take a breath of air, and their faces became extremely ugly.The situation of the seriously wounded is not optimistic. According to Du Zhongwu, 600% of them may survive in the end, but basically they can continue to stay in the army.In this way, after this battle, the Shamen Township directly reduced its staff by 2000 people.For the Shamen Town Army, which has only [-] soldiers, guards, auxiliary soldiers, and logistics soldiers, this battle directly damaged nearly [-]%.

If you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose six hundred.

"Why did so many people die in the battle? Did you calculate correctly?" Lin Wu asked in disbelief. In his opinion, the battle was not bad, so how could so many people die in the battle.In my impression, there were not many casualties among the more than 100 cavalry he brought.

Li Jing rubbed his forehead, sighed and said: "This number should be correct. We played really well at the beginning. We defeated the pirates' attacks twice in a row and killed more than 500 pirates and Wang's guards. Our own casualties were only a few dozen. But later the pirates destroyed the west city wall, and covered most of the attacks with heavy crossbows and strong bows. The soldiers suffered from insufficient equipment, which is why they suffered such casualties. The logistics soldiers who died the most were not because they were not trained enough, but because I didn’t have enough armor to equip them.”

Lin Wei got up and said to Li Jing: "General, I am responsible for the heavy casualties in this battle. If I hadn't returned to the division for a long time, the general would not have suffered such an intense attack from the pirates alone. If I could return to the division earlier, the casualties would not be too high." It will be so dire. I ask for punishment!"

"Deputy Lin will sit you down." Li Jing beckoned to Lin Wei. Although he did look forward to Lin Wei's immediate reinforcements several times on the battlefield, after the war he also expressed his gratitude to Lin Wei at that time. enough understanding of the situation.At that time, Lin Wei attacked Shimen Wharf, facing more than 500 left-behind pirates, and it was really not easy to take down the fleet in its entirety.What's more, at the last critical moment, if Lin Wei hadn't arrived in time, how could they have won.

"We all did what we should do, so this battle was finally our victory. However, due to the error in the prior intelligence, the number of pirates' attacking troops has basically tripled, and this is the biggest reason for our heavy casualties. In the final analysis, our own strength is still not strong enough, our soldiers and horses are not trained well, our equipment is not complete, and our security capabilities are not enough. This incident has taught us a heavy lesson. Living in such a dangerous situation, we must not be careless in the future. Pay attention to the surrounding situation at any time, and strengthen the strength of the town troops at all times."

"I will understand!" All the generals stood up and responded solemnly.

Li Jing nodded: "Now bring the Cyclops up, we have to meet this pirate leader who stabbed us hard."

(To be continued)