Xie Ming

Chapter 187 Captured Materials and Battle Damage

Xiao Jingchuan intends to recruit Li Hongsheng to serve in the army to facilitate the arrangement of surrender.

But after Li Qianzong was escorted here, he wanted to die.

Xiao Lang felt very embarrassed about this and would laugh and make fun of it whenever he got the chance.

Hearing this, Li Hongsheng was puzzled and didn't understand what it meant, so he frowned, slowly opened his eyes, and pretended to listen.

"Haha, General Li Qian!"

"You don't have to keep on living and dying!"

"As the saying goes, rules are dead, but people are alive!"

"To tell you the truth, I am leaving Beijing this time to go south!"

"However, the Nanfu team includes more than just soldiers!"

"Our team is here to escort the Crown Prince to Nanjing to take charge of the situation!"

"Please protect half of the Ming Dynasty. Do you understand?!"

"When we get to Nanjing, the whole army will serve the king and protect him!"

"What do your little past deeds mean to you?" Xiao Lang intentionally brought up the title of the crown prince to persuade him.

I heard it and it really works!
When Li Hongsheng heard the word "Crown Prince", his eyes suddenly widened.

"What?!"

"Tai, the prince is also in your army?!"

"General Xiao, you are not trying to deceive me on purpose, are you?!" Li Hongsheng was quite incredulous!

"Ouch!"

"Li Hongsheng, it's already this late, do you think I really need to fool you anymore?!" Xiao Lang looked disdainful.

"At the latest the day after tomorrow, the Crown Prince will follow the follow-up team into Baoding Prefecture!"

"General Li Qian, Brother Li!"

"Don't worry, once you join my army, I will still keep you as a captain!"

"From now on, we men will share the same pot and use the ladle!"

"I'll go to the prince's place and mediate. I'll make sure you're safe!"

"What do you think?!"

"Are you willing to acknowledge me as your brother?!" Xiao Lang spoke fluently and with great heroic spirit.

After hearing this, Li Hongsheng suddenly understood and felt extremely grateful and convinced!
"Oh, oh!"

"General Xiao is willing to treat a surrendered general like me like this!"

"Ugh!"

"It was me, Li Hongsheng, who was confused before!"

"No more!"

"General Xiao treats me so sincerely!"

"A new life!"

"My Li Hongsheng is not the kind of person who doesn't know how to appreciate a favor!"

"From now on, I will follow your lead to thank you for your kindness!"

When he got excited, Li Hongsheng's face turned red and he knelt on one knee in front of Xiao Lang!
Seeing this, Xiao Jingchuan took a step forward and also knelt down to express his true feelings.

"Hahaha"

"We have gained another powerful general in our army!"

"Hahaha"

"Quick! General Li Qian, please stand up quickly!"

Taking advantage of the situation, Xiao Lang grabbed the man and picked him up.

"Changting, untie them quickly!" Xiao Lang ordered again.

"Yes!" Chang Ting replied and got to work quickly.

"Oh! Li Hongsheng!"

"Well, you and Chang Ting go to the classroom first and remove the ropes that bind the two men!"

"I have some other things to take care of here!"

"Please wait in the classroom for a while, General!"

"Wait till everything is settled!"

"I'll give you another errand!"

"Don't worry, you are still the leader of your previous team!"

"How?!" Xiao Lang instructed.

"Yes!"

"All is up to the general's orders!"

"I will go back to the classroom with this young general in front of me and wait for the general to summon me at any time!"

Li Hongsheng loosened his hands, listened to Xiao Lang's instructions, bowed his hands, and hurriedly took the order.

Seeing this, Xiao Lang patted his shoulder heavily.

"Okay! Brother Li, go first!"

"Call you later!"

After saying this, Li Hongsheng said no more and let Changting lead him back to the classroom!

Following him back to the front yard, Xiao Lang followed him and looked into the distance. In a moment of distraction, he saw Ma Minglu standing and waiting at the gate of the yard!
Seeing this, Xiao Lang hurriedly waved at him and called him over.

Minglu was always very observant, and no one knew how long he had been waiting at the door. Li Hongsheng had just arrived, so he thought he would not be so rash as to come over to discuss military supplies.

At this moment, Li Hongsheng's business had been completed, so he must be summoned to report quickly.

Deng Deng Deng!
After a few steps, Minglu rushed to the front hall of the Governor's Office, clasped his hands and spoke.

"General, you're awake!"

"Haha, wake up, I just got here not long ago!"

"how?"

"But have the seized materials been cleaned and inspected?!" Xiao Lang asked anxiously.

"Yes, General!"

"I've checked it!"

"In various places in Baoding City, more than 10,000 taels of silver have been seized!"

"More than a thousand swords and other weapons, and about two thousand stones of food!"

"The rest are shells from the city defense artillery!"

"Oh, right!"

"There are still more than a thousand war horses in the city!" Minglu reported truthfully.

"Oh, it seems that the wealth of Baoding Prefecture was either robbed by us last time, or it was all taken away by the Dashun bandits!"

"This amount of money and food is too meager!"

Xiao Lang teased, and everyone laughed along.

"By the way, what was the casualty situation in this battle?!" Xiao Jingchuan asked again.

"Well, back to the general!"

"I have just come out of the loss of personnel in various departments."

"In this night attack, Sun Peizhong's troops lost 85 men!"

"Li Huchen's troops lost twenty men!"

"Liu Wenbing and Gong Yonggu's troops lost 46 men!"

"Six people from Xu Jizu's group!"

"Wang Chuanwu's army lost 69 people!"

"The total number of soldiers is 226!"

"Most of them died in the East City Infantry Camp when they engaged the Baoding Prefecture defenders in close combat!"

"As for the capture!"

"We attacked and killed the enemy soldiers at night. The number of bodies we found was 468!"

"We captured 5,512 surrendered soldiers from the former garrison!" Zhizhong reported again in detail.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Lang hesitated for a moment.

"kindness"

"Nearly six thousand!"

“It’s both a happy and sad thing!”

"Oh, Minglu, go to the east of the city again later."

"Give orders to ensure these surrendered soldiers have a good meal this morning!"

"Not only do we have to serve the meal on time as usual, but we also have to make sure it's better than what they usually eat!"

"Do you understand my intention?!" Xiao Lang warned earnestly.

Hearing this, Minglu was busy thinking in his heart, and after a moment, he understood and calmed down.

"Yes! I understand!" Minglu said with a bow.

"Haha, on my side, Li Hongsheng has already surrendered. After this matter is over, I will ask him to return to the East City Infantry Camp with you."

"With him here, I'm sure the emotions of those surrendered soldiers and generals will be better appeased!"

"Of course, when you go to the east of the city, you have another mission, which is to screen and examine as quickly as possible, select the talents that can be used, and report back to me. Similarly, those who have committed too many bad deeds will also be listed with evidence of their crimes, and they will be executed today and tomorrow!"

"Use both kindness and severity!"

"Use one group, kill another group, kill the chicken to scare the monkey, to serve as a warning to others!"

[Status of soldiers killed in battle/total amount of materials collected! ]

[Statistics of casualties in each unit! ]

[Sun Peizhong's unit: 898 - 85 = 813 people]

[Li Huchen's troops: 798 - 20 = 778 people]

[Liu Wenbing + Gong Yonggu combined: 500 - 46 = 454 people]

[Xu Jizu's troops: 254 - 6 = 248 people]

[Wang Chuanwu's troops: 500 - 69 = 431 people]

[Total number of soldiers remaining: 2950 - 226 = 2724]

[Statistics of captured/killed enemies! ]

[Captured surrendered soldiers: 5512 people; killed resisting surrendered soldiers: 468 people]

[Material reserves/newly seized statistics! ]

[Silver: 20 taels (transported with the army) + 2 taels (silver cleared by Baoding Prefecture) = 22 taels]

[Food: 0.2 dan (transported with the army) + 0.2 dan (surplus food from Baoding Prefecture) = 0.4 dan]

[Weapons, equipment and military equipment, etc.: 9 tiger squat cannons (transported with the army); 1200 sets of Dashun military uniforms (transported with the army); more than a thousand swords and other weapons + a number of city defense shells (newly seized in Baoding Prefecture); more than a thousand war horses (newly seized in Baoding Prefecture)]

(End of this chapter)