Chapter 0234 Rebirth of Fire
In fact, if there are a large number of prisoners after a large-scale battle, few people will really destroy the slaughter. Because manpower is the best resource, especially for the army, and the best weapon to kill people is human beings.
Not only did this battle leave an indelible mark in the hearts of Zhuo Fan and established an almost magical image. Moreover, Zhuo Fan's treatment of prisoners this time is also eye-opening. A large number of gold and silver treasures were found in the eight palaces in the city, with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver alone. Zhuo Fan was not polite at this time. Jewelry and other things were used as military income, all of which were taken back to Shenlong Mountain and directly let San operate back. And the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were actually divided by him.
It was not given to Liu Liangzuo, but to the prisoners.
The score is not divided evenly, but gathers the prisoners. Those who are willing to join the army can be collected at the discretion of Liu Liang and Hong Chengchou. If you don't want to go home, five taels of silver per person will be used as travel expenses. At this time, Liu Liangzuo and others were surprised, but they followed their words, and Huang Degong finally couldn't bear to jump up.
"Zhuo Fan, you, you actually released the anti-thief privately, and also dealt with the capture without permission! I, I want to report it to the court!", not to mention the private release of prisoners, it is a violation of the criminal law to deal with the capture of the war profit alone. The booty must be issued by the court, that is, the emperor, what to do for you. Huang Degong thought that he had grasped Zhuo's handle, but he didn't get any benefits, and finally got into trouble.
Zhuo Bofan smiled contemptuously. Zhou Tong saw that someone was murdering his brother and was about to slap him. The big hairless head and big man were really scary. Zhuo Fan didn't kick Huang Degong as a ball.
Zhuo Fan suddenly smiled and hugged Huang Degong, who was a little afraid, and said to his ear, "Say it, how much do you want?"
Huang Degong tried his best to resist Zhuo's extraordinary and said awe-inspiringly, "As an official of the imperial court, I won't deceive myself from the top to enrich my own pockets." Suddenly, he changed his face and whispered, "General Zhuo is really a clear man, and I don't talk nonsense. 20th is enough." For Huang Degong, this is already a great concession for himself. If he hadn't seen that he was going to be excluded and angry and had no capital, how could he suffer this big loss?
Zhuo Fan nodded and turned around and said loudly, "Do you hear me, little boy, Lord Huang wants 20%, and he has been prepared for him!"
Huang Degong waved his hand in a hurry, but when he saw Zhou Tong, who was suddenly overjoyed, he suddenly had a very bad feeling.
In the contemptuous eyes of everyone, the guard suddenly flashed and formed a circle, surrounding Huang Degong and Zhou Tong in the middle. Huang Degong's cronies on the periphery looked wrong, but they wanted to come forward but shrank their necks. The guards outside the face pulled out half of the saber at their waist and stared angrily.
"Ouch~~Ouch~~Help~~~~"
Zhou Tong's cheerful laughter and Huang Degong's pig-killing scream echoed in mid-air. Those Huang Degong's cronies shrank their necks, as if they suddenly became deaf collectively.
The distribution of silver is in an orderly manner. About 10,000 or 20,000 people voluntarily gave up their travel expenses to join the Dahua army. They are mostly one person who is not hungry, or people who can't do anything else in war. Being a soldier is a living for them. Originally, they wanted to join the team of the mighty general, but Zhuo Bufan didn't want anyone, so they had to give up. Most of the rest are worried about their families, and many of them have been forcibly recruited. Now there is no compulsion, and it is enough to pay the travel expenses and five taels of silver in vain. It is enough to save some money and go back to Sichuan.
Zhuo Fan doesn't care when Huang Degong will leave at all, and it doesn't matter how he arranges himself after he goes back. Today is the day when the Dragon Army is powerful, and it is also the day when he breaks through his heart and realizes the importance of his country. In the past, his will was only a teenager's mentality. Today, he really understood the reason why Li Zi had been unwilling to agree to assist him. After all, a person is not a person who lives. From his death to the time he grows up, he has the inheritance of his family's life and the care of his lover. With home, life becomes complete. With love, life is no longer lonely. And regard the family as an individual and the country as everyone. The foundation of the country is for the family, and the rise and fall of the country is related to the survival of the family. In other words, the road of Shenlong Mountain should follow this. Powerful individuals formed the invincible Dragon Army and established a powerful Shenlong Mountain. It is not enough to have strong strength. It is the right way to unite the knowledgeable people in the world and use the power of the people to build a strong Chinese divine state from a mountain to a county, from a county to a province.
Liu Liangzuo and others paid the travel expenses according to Zhuo Bufan's intention, but arranged for the soldiers to make it clear to everyone who received the silver that it was the gift of the mighty general Zhuo Bufan. You have to save your life and get the silver back home. You all have to remember the kindness of the powerful general.
In Liu Liangzuo's words, "We really accumulate virtue and do good deeds, but we can't give up money in vain and people don't know how good we are." Zhuo Fan can't laugh or cry, but he understands that this practice is very useful.
Zhang Xianzhong's body was finally found. The guards responsible for searching were all gray. The bluestone bricks bombarded by the city wall bombarded by the dragon cannon were all powder, and the movement was full of dust. It was said that it was a corpse, but it only found a head. A piece of shrapnel was cutting the neck, but the fracture was extremely neat, which was not inferior to the ghost knife. Zhuo Bofan looked at Zhang Xianzhong's head, who had a fate, but he was quite touched. Even if you were a hero for a lifetime, you were as miserable and sad as after death, and you didn't even have a body collection. Zhuo Bufan was supposed to bury Zhang Xianzhong, but he had already accepted the rebels and dealt with the capture, but it was not easy for the thief to be gone. Sprinkled with lime and put it in a wooden box, this loyal head was handed over to Liu Liangzuo and Hong Chengchou to report to the court together. Naturally, it is a great achievement with many benefits.
It took three or four to finish this kind of treatment. On this morning, Zhuo Fan got up early and walked out of the hall to see the old locust at a glance.
This is the city of Chao County, which is the residence of Li Weisheng in the past. It was actually intact in the fire. Zhuobufan simply regarded this place as his temporary residence. Walk around the yard and move your muscles and bones. Hearing the noise from outside the hospital, I had the interest of going out for a walk. Walking to the gate, I saw dozens of holes that were still eye-catching on the door, some of which still had arrows, which were the marks left when Li Weisheng broke through that day.
Seeing the arrow marks, Zhuobufan remembered Zhang Sheng, what a young and handsome person, and disappeared in this vast world in a blink of an eye. And these days, how many lives have turned into a section of loess outside the city. In the future, there will inevitably be countless lives withering. Although I understand some of the truth of life and death, it still makes people feel sad.
Outside the courtyard, a large number of Dahua soldiers and a large number of people are busy cleaning up the ruins and burying their bodies. Except for the street of the Eight Great Palace and a few houses here, almost all other places in the city have been turned into ruins. Fortunately, in winter, the body will not decay quickly, otherwise there will be no way to live in this city. Since Dahua won and extinguished the rebels, the original people of Dahua naturally returned one after another. Although their homes are no longer there, as long as they live, they can always be rebuilt. Those Dahua soldiers are all Liu Liangzuo's subordinates. Hong Chengchou's army has won the victory and went north. After the court deals with it, they will naturally return to the customs as soon as possible. The situation outside the customs is still not very optimistic.
There was a ruin in the city. Zhuo Bufan walked to the shore of the West City. All the bodies in the water had been salvaged and transported out of the city for burial. Now these large wooden boats are moored on the broken dock.
Taking a deep breath of cold water that seemed to smell of gunpowder smoke, Zhuo Bufan walked to a wooden boat. In the front of the wooden boat, there were two dragon cannons. At this time, several dragon soldiers were carefully wiping the gun body and cleaning the inner part of the gun barrel with a log wrapped in a soft cloth.
"General!" A man came out of the cabin and was seeing Zhuo Bufan coming. He shouted in surprise and greeted him. It was Xing Tianhu, who had disappeared for a long time.
Zhuo Fan came forward and hammered Xing Tianhu's broad chest and said with a smile, "Well done. I've been busy with General Bai and the prisoners these days, but I haven't come to see you. When I return to Shenlong Mountain, I will celebrate your achievements."
Xing Tianhu rubbed his chest and smiled, "It's not the general's good plan. I don't have any credit."
"Oh, you are an honest person who has also learned to flatter. Well, you have a future and a future."
At this time, the dragon soldiers on the ship had surrounded with excitement. They were really suffocated. They stayed in the lake for a day or two, but to practice water shelling, and finally blocked the waterway wharf in the decisive battle, annihilated the enemy's sailors and cut off the enemy's road. Among them, there were more than a dozen good water masters in the hidden camp. It was they who unknowingly sneaked into the dock and placed dragon thunder on each ship to ensure the complete annihilation of the enemy.
Zhuobufan boarded the wooden boat with great interest, looked at the remaining hull mast in the water, and sped his lips. The battle at the dock was so beautiful that none of the ship ran away.
In the bow of the wooden boat, two dragon cannons were embedded there. The boat plate was cut open several gaps, and the tall wheels of the Shenlong gun were just firmly embedded. With the help of a device on the gun rack that can move at small angles to facilitate aiming, it became a fixed turret. It is this design that ensures the stability of water shooting.
Zhuo Fan nodded repeatedly, and it could be seen that Xing Tianhu did not work hard. The most powerful thing about the current Dragon Army is not advanced weapons and outstanding personal quality, but this ability to adapt to changes and the habit of being diligent in thinking and summarizing, which is an advantage that no one can compare with in the future.
Standing in the bow of the boat and looking at the county seat of Chao County from the lake, it was devastated and dark everywhere. However, on top of this devastation, more and more people have joined the ranks of reorganization of their homes. The gray of coarse Chinese clothes, the colorful of the big girl and little daughter-in-law, and the red tares of the Dahua soldiers are all over the ruins.
Chao County is reborn in the fire.