Late Tang

In addition to capturing half of the fleet in this battle, other aspects of the capture are also quite amazing.Breaking through the one-eyed dragon's lair captured more than 4 stones of grain, as well as tens of thousands of bolts of silk, silk and silk with a total value of more than 20 guan.And after Li Jing captured Wuhu Island, he gained a lot. The money and food in Wuhu Fort and the property of officers and soldiers were searched for about [-] guan. Zhen Dasheng, those merchants not only paid [-]% of the money, but also paid a little more on their own initiative, which also added up to nearly [-] guan.Do the math, all of them are worth more than [-] taels of harvest.

For these money and food, Huang Huzi also very generously put forward his proposal for dividing up the spoils.In his words, this time they lost a little, but the gains are already very great.When he captured the one-eyed jellyfish's lair, he had confiscated the 40 guan on his own initiative and received 20 [-] guan as a death and disability pension subsidy. The towns each have two and a half hundred thousand guan.The brothers under Zhendonghai had already distributed [-] yuan, and they took another [-] yuan, so they no longer wanted the military expenses captured from Wuhu Island and the merchants.

In this way, Shamen Town got [-] yuan from the one-eyed dragon's confiscated batch, and then added more than [-] yuan from Wuhu Island, and they got more than [-] yuan in money, food and goods.

Of course, that's not all.

Duan Shan stepped forward with a guilty conscience, and smiled at Li Jing: "General, when I took down the Tieshan thief's lair, I made my own decision and didn't receive any rewards from my brothers. I replaced him with thirty war horses." And fifty big green mules. I make my own decision, and ask the general to punish me."

Li Jing is in a good mood now, so she doesn't really care about such a small matter.But he still glared at Duan Shan, and the hulking man of the Special Forces was a little flustered. "This is also your own military achievement. How you arrange it is your own business. However, war horses are in short supply for military use. In this way, after you go back, you will leave [-] mules and [-] horses, and the remaining [-] mules and [-] horses. Ten horses are considered to be requisitioned by the town general’s mansion. But you are not in vain, fifty guan for each mule, and [-] guan for each horse will be paid to you as compensation.”

When Duan Shan heard that he was going to requisition half of the horses, his face was full of pain: "General, we don't want any money, or how about giving us all thirty horses, and then turning over thirty mules?"

Li Jing looked at Duan Shan and smiled lightly, "Well, if you hand it over as I said, I'll upgrade your special forces team to a special warfare capital after you go back, what do you think?"

"Yes, yes." When Duan Shan heard that Li Jing actually proposed to upgrade their team to the capital, he immediately smiled, and he didn't even care about those precious war horses.The team was promoted to the capital, but it was promoted by two full levels at once.In the future, he will be a captain, where can such a good thing be found.

Li Jing couldn't help but feel a little happy that he had successfully obtained ten horses and thirty mules with a uniform.The Special Forces performed well in this battle, and he originally intended to expand them.

"Money and food are fundamental to raising troops. Of course they are important, but even more important is ordnance and equipment. Although we have an ordnance workshop, the daily output is not high. Right now we have to rely on the income from the battlefield to supplement it. Li Zuoshi, about the weapons and armor of this battle, etc. Has the situation of the ordnance seized been counted?"

"The seized inventory has come out. It is a total of the ordnance seized in the battle to wipe out Tieshan's lair, the ordnance seized in the battle of Tieshan Port, the ordnance captured in Wuhu Island, and the ordnance captured by Feng Ming's remnant fleet."

Like Li Wei, Li Zuoshi is also of Li Jing's clan, but his seniority is a generation higher than Li Jing's. He is Li Jing's uncle. He is nearly fifty years old and a little tall and thin. He originally belonged to the Li clan in Qingning Township. As a teacher in Sino-Mongolian Studies, he had a good relationship with Li Jing's father. They studied together and took the imperial examination together, but they were fellow tributes who didn't get in.After Li Jing expanded his army, he felt that there was not enough bureaucracy, so he was specially invited to be Zuoshi.

Li Zuoshi was very methodical in doing things, and gradually took on a lot of responsibilities. This time he joined the army and was in charge of the military's Chinese paperwork.He flipped through the ledger in his hand, and read seriously: "The iron mountain bandits have seized more than 700 horizontal knives, more than 800 spears, 200 bows and arrows, and more than 300 shields. There are more than 100 helmets, more than [-] leather armors, more than [-] arm crossbows and horn bows, [-] bamboo pole crossbows, six cannons, and more than [-] arrows."

"In the Battle of Iron Mountain Port, in addition to the captured enemy ships, more than 38 horizontal knives, [-] spears, [-] longbows, [-] crossbows, and [-] iron helmets were seized. Thousands, three hundred pieces, more than [-] sets of leather armor, [-] sets of iron armor, more than [-] leather shields, [-] square iron shields, [-] heavy crossbows, [-] catapults, and [-] arrows."

"Wuhu Island seized 48 horizontal knives, 36 spears, 20 longbows, [-] crossbows, [-] helmets, [-] iron armors, [-] leather armors, [-] leather shields, and [-] iron shields. One hundred. There are [-] heavy crossbows, [-] cannons, and [-] arrows."

"The equipment handed in by Feng Ming's Disabled Fleet and Zhang Lie Guishun included [-] pairs of horizontal knives, lances, and bows, [-] crossbows, [-] helmets, [-] iron armors, [-] leather armors, and [-] leather shields. Three hundred iron shields, eighteen heavy crossbows, six cannons and fifty thousand arrows."

"Total, there are 120 horizontal knives, 38 spears, [-] bows, [-] light crossbows, [-] iron helmets, [-] iron armors, and [-] leather armors. One hundred sets, [-] leather shields, and [-] large iron shields. There are also [-] heavy crossbows, [-] cannons, and [-] bows and arrows. In addition to these, there are also some sticks, sticks, A small amount of other weapons such as guns and maces are too small to be considered.”

Li Zuoshi finished reading in one breath and closed the ledger.

Although he had expected it in his heart, when he finally heard that such a large amount of ordnance was seized, Li Jing was still very surprised.Feng Ming and the Pirate Fleet had almost 5000 people's equipment, plus they were stored in the one-eyed dragon's lair and the armory on Wuhu Island, and they all came together at once.

There are not many weapons seized from the pirates, but Feng Ming's side is quite rich.It was still in the late Tang Dynasty at this time, and Ziqing Town was a relatively wealthy town among the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty, and the military equipment under it was also top-notch.At this time, it is not as good as the end of the Tang Dynasty after the Huangchao Rebellion. At that time, there were years of melee, the feudal towns were separated, and they attacked each other. There were countless large and small feudal towns. Difficult, heavy casualties among the soldiers, all of them are forced conscripts from peasants and traffickers, and their weapons will be the simplest and cheapest.The equipment in the army at this time is still excellent, especially a soldier is equipped with not only a melee horizontal knife but also a long spear, as well as long-range bows and arrows, and even a high rate of equipment with crossbows.

Feng Zhang has been guarding the prosperous Dengzhou sea trade route for ten years, he is not short of money, and he has not had any wars for many years. His military equipment is also quite luxurious, much richer than Li Jing, a mud-legged town general.This time, all these weapons fell into Li Jing's hands.

"These weapons are enough to arm 3000 men and horses. Although some of them are damaged, they can still be used after repairing them." Li Zuoshi said with a smile.

Li Jing nodded. Indeed, after so many weapons were seized, not only could all the soldiers in Shamen Town be equipped with weapons, but they could also have a large stockpile.The horizontal knives and spears are now in stock in Shamen Town, and now that so many have been seized, the armory will not have to produce such weapons for a long time. More than 4000 pairs of bows and more than 2000 crossbows made Li Jing very happy. The production cycle of bows and crossbows is too long, and it takes almost three years to complete a complete bow.With so many captured at once, except for the auxiliary battalion that was not equipped with bows, the other battalions and logistics were waiting for all the troops to have a bow and even equipped with a large number of crossbows.

With 120 sets of iron armor and 40 sets of leather armor, with so many armors, Li Jing couldn't help wondering whether the auxiliary barracks should also be equipped with leather armor to improve their protection.And [-] two heavy crossbows and sixty cannons, which almost gave Li Jing a long-range heavy strike force at once.With a reserve of nearly [-] arrows, the soldiers in Shamen Town have an average of [-] arrows.

"If this is built by the Armory Workshop, it will be built in the year of the monkey." Li Jing sighed, there are really no guns or cannons, and the enemy will make them for us.

This huge batch of seized ordnance, Yellow Beard also generously said that it was all given to Li Jing. They had already replenished a large number of weapons in the last battle on Cat Island.They just put these equipment in the warehouse of the lair after they took them away, so they might as well give them to Li Jing as a favor.Anyway, the two have now formed close allies, and there is no need to make a clear distinction.Based on the current relationship between the two, Li Jing felt that if it wasn't that his current strength was not strong enough, he didn't want to rashly bring Zhen Donghai in. A chance to go ashore for nothing, they will definitely be willing.Wait a little longer, before Shamen Town has a force that can fully accommodate and control Zhendonghai, he will not be so eager to annex them.

After a while, Li Jing made arrangements: "Immediately load all the seized ordnance, money, food and materials into the ship, and distribute the captured bows and crossbows. Everyone carries bows and crossbows, and two pots of sixty arrows. Those heavy crossbows and cannons were installed on the battleships and sea falcon ships. In addition, the non-armored sergeants were all distributed from the capture. We have to arm everyone, even the cook in the logistics capital. Wearing leather armor and iron helmets, before returning to Shamen Town, everyone must cheer up and not slack off."

"General, shall we go back to Shamen Town now?" Wang Zhong asked.

"No, I'm not leaving yet, but let Meghan take some brothers and lead a few warships to escort the fleet loaded with money, food, materials, ordnance back to Shamen Town quietly. We still have to stay here for a while, and there are a few important things Things to do." Li Jing replied.

(To be continued)