Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 108 Military Merit
One hundred and eighth military exploits
Yang Chao's performance in this sudden encounter with Jiang bandits was indeed not good, but considering that it was his first life-and-death fight with the enemy, at least he had completed commanding, so he was considered quite satisfactory and qualified.

Wang Pu's performance was acceptable. Although it was bad at the beginning, it got better and better, especially after killing a few enemies who boarded the ship, he immediately turned around to support Yang Chao. This was even beyond Yang Chao's expectations. up.

The performance of the archers can only be described as terribly bad. From the beginning to the end, no arrow hit the target. Facing the slow-climbing enemy, they didn't have even the slightest impact on the opponent.

Of course, the most calm ones are actually the four veterans including Zhang Dawei, especially Zhang Dawei who is very calm. Although he usually behaves cowardly in the fight, when he actually encounters a battle, he is very calm from the beginning to the end.

Of course, these veterans did not participate in the battle, but during the battle, they were always sailing and steering. They were in their positions and held their positions firmly.

"Are you all right, sir?"

As soon as the battle was over, Zhang Dawei freed his hand and immediately rushed to Yang Chao's side, asking with concern.

Yang Chao fell to the ground at this time, a small-scale battle, and he didn't take too much part in it, which actually made him lose his strength.

"I'm fine! Let's see if Li Wuliu and the others are alright?"

Li Wuliu and the others were cut down by the Jiang bandits who boarded the boat ahead, and Yang Chao was a little worried that they would suffer casualties.

Zhang Dawei immediately took people to check.

Come back soon: "My lord, five were injured, but none of them were serious. Only one was injured in the face."

Yang Chao took a few more breaths, stood up reluctantly, and walked over to check.

At this time, the archers began to struggle to stand up. In fact, they were mainly out of strength, so they were unable to stand up after being knocked down by the opponent. In the battle, although they performed poorly, they worked very hard and kept firing their bows. archery.

A good archer usually can't support the bow after more than a dozen times, but these rookie archers, at least no one has drawn it more than ten or twenty times. I'm afraid it's not just a loss of strength, maybe several of them have strained their arms.

"grown ups!"

When several archers saw Yang Chao approaching, they looked depressed, including the injured archer, who stood up.

"Sit down and rest."

Yang Chao comforted him.

But none of the archers were willing to sit down, bowed their heads in shame and remained silent.

"stand at attention!"

Yang Chao yelled, the worst thing he could see was that his soldiers bowed their heads at every turn, looking cowardly.

Several people straightened up immediately, but all of them had red eyes.

On the other side, a few gunmen were talking and laughing, smiling, and talking about their performance from time to time.

"Haha, I stabbed at least three Jiang bandits to death just now, but I don't know their names. It's his luck to die in my hands."

A soldier boasted.

"I killed four!"

"Three of you, four of you, you killed them all, what did the others kill?"

"Hahahaha!"

In fact, it may not be that the soldiers were lying or bragging. In the chaotic battle just now, several long spears stabbed a person at the same time, and pierced a person. on his own head.

At this time, Zhang Dawei led four veterans to do a kind of creepy job-beheading!

Without any hesitation, they hacked everyone's heads, picked up the waist knife discarded on the ship, and chopped it continuously, or twice, making a piercing sound of metal and bone rubbing against each other.

Soon Zhang Dawei came back, cupped his hands to Yang Chao and said, "Congratulations, my lord! Nine heads have been beheaded!"

Yang Chao nodded, silently calculating in his heart, and suddenly felt a little regretful.

In the military merit system of the Ming Dynasty, there were various calculation methods in the early days, such as how to award merit for beheading a general, how to award merit for capturing a flag, how to award merit for capturing alive, and how to award merit for attacking a city.

But in the middle and late stages, all military merit calculations are based on the enemy's head count. This is similar to Qin during the Warring States period. The advantage is that one head is one head. Many vicious armies will kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, and slaughter the entire village where they pass, just for the heads of the common people.

During the Yongle period, there was a saying that "the sentinel horse who captures a captive alive will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver; the one who beheaded a captive head will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver." But there may not be so many in it, all kinds of nominal deduction, as well as the exploitation of officers, it is already a surprise that a soldier can get three or five taels of silver for beheading a person.

But what made the soldiers even more envious was that according to the military merit system of the Ming Dynasty, if a sergeant beheaded a single head, he could be promoted to the first rank. Therefore, with nine heads here, nine small soldiers can be promoted to team leaders.

But for Yang Chao, if he leads five hundred soldiers, the total number of soldiers he leads must be beheaded ten levels before he can be promoted to one level.

This time, we met ten bright and three dark, a total of thirteen gangsters, ten of them confronted Yang Chao's soldiers in the front, and three secretly boarded the boat from behind, and the result was The three Jiang bandits in the dark were beheaded first, and six of the ten Jiang bandits in the bright area successfully boarded the boat by force and were all killed.

There were only three who did not board the boat, and one who fell into the water and escaped.

Just one head is missing, and Yang Chao can be promoted to a higher level.

According to the establishment system of the Xinjiangkou Water Camp, the top of the general manager is the thousand general manager. If there is one more head, Yang Chao can be promoted to the thousand general manager.

Seeing Yang Chao's expression, Zhang Dawei immediately asked: "My lord, are you worried that the first level is not enough?"

Yang Chao nodded.

Zhang Dawei said: "Actually, rewards for the head can be accommodated. Right now, Jiang bandits are rampant. I heard that the military department is in dire straits. At this time, if you make such a great contribution, you may be able to get a great contribution."

Although the Ming army mainly calculates credit based on head rewards, under special circumstances, credits such as extraordinary meritorious service and first merit will be awarded, and additional rewards can be obtained.

Yang Chao ran rampant in the waters of Nanjing, but the Ministry of War suffered from the fact that the army was guarding against the peasant army in Jiujiang and Fengyang, and could not mobilize troops to wipe it out. Yang Chao stood up at this time, and it might really be rated as a miracle.

"However, adults need to take care of it carefully, and I'm afraid it will cost money."

Zhang Dawei continued.

Yang Chao nodded: "Money is not a problem, these credits are even more rare."

Zhang Dawei said: "Your Excellency's words are absolutely true!"

But Zhang Dawei immediately asked again: "My lord, I don't know if we are going to buy goods in Pu, or go back to the barracks."

Yang Chao said without hesitation: "Go back first. A few brothers are injured, so send them back to recuperate first. If the goods are not delivered, go back and discuss with the owner of the goods, at worst, pay them some money."

Zhang Dawei praised: "Your Excellency is righteous."

As he spoke, a sense of relief appeared on his face.

Yang Chao waved his hand: "Turn around!"

Zhang Damiao cupped his hands: "Yes!"

Then greet those who can move, lower the sails, turn the rudder and turn around.

(End of this chapter)