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Chapter 719 Compensation

This Naiman and his companions had different costumes and weapons, and many of them had armor made up of scraps of armor.Because they dislike the hot weather, most of them are shirtless and wear sheepskin jackets around their waists.Compared with the ordinary Han soldiers wearing white or khaki military uniforms and walking silently, they are obviously looser, but they also have a ferocious air.

This group of people have all escaped from the grasslands to the Central Plains for various reasons in recent years, or they were horse thieves, or they offended a certain Nayan on the grasslands, there were Mubo warriors who were captured by the Mongols from the Xia Kingdom in the early years, and there were people from the plateau. The "Buli Yati" in the north is also the people in the forest.

The Dajin Kingdom and the Mongols have fought for so many years, and the defeated tribes on the grassland have always been used to going south to join the Dajin, and then they were organized into the so-called "糺 Army".The Yi army suffered huge losses in the previous incidents in the central capital, but until the two points of Dajin, there were still remnants in the army.

After Kaifeng rectified the military system, these Ji troops were split into the headquarters of Thirteen Captains, and at the same time, they were brought into the Hu tribe who had taken refuge in the northwest border over the years.Monk Wanyan Chen is in charge of commanding these fierce savages under his elder brother's command.

These people have tribal backgrounds, and most of them bring their own weapons and horses with the army.Among the thirteen captains in Kaifeng Mansion, only these people can organize large-scale cavalry now.

It was already early summer, and their horses ate the grass all spring, and they made up a lot of fat lost in winter.But the war horses that everyone is leading are still a little thin, and there are obviously some old horses or ponies with insufficient teeth.

Horses are very delicate animals. Old or immature horses can easily die from exhaustion after running around with people.

So each of them led their horses, and they never got on their horses unless Monk Wanyanchen gave special orders to go on the road or meet the enemy.Many people deliberately chose the lightest saddle, and they were not even willing to put their luggage on the horse's back, but specially detained the prisoners to walk beside them, and let the prisoners carry the weight.This is also one of the reasons why Wanyan Xielie's troops engulfed young men along the way.

Monk Wanyan Chen walked in the queue of these Hu tribes, also got off his horse and walked on foot. From time to time, he went to the side of the road to grab a handful of young grass, carefully shook off the dust, and fed it to his war horses.

When he joined the army in Fengzhou in his early years, there were a lot of war horses in the army.Many town defense soldiers kept several horses in their homes, and when the court defaulted on military pay and rations, they resold one horse, and then stole one or two horses from the pastures under the jurisdiction of the herdsmen to make up for the shortfall.

Sometimes the ranch also buys horses from the soldiers, and most of them are used to make up the number when the imperial court sends people to check, so old horses and lame horses are fine.

But after Monan Mountain changed hands, the source of the horses was gone.The current horses in Kaifeng Mansion are mainly purchased from the Qiang tribe, and the price is very high.

After the more than 2 war horses purchased last year were distributed to the headquarters of the captains, more than 3000 horses died of illness in one year because the war horses were not tamed, and there was no time for them to be raised intensively and familiarized with the water and soil.The emperor was furious about this, and set up a department of dianmu, with the clan Wanyan and Zhou Qin in charge of the affairs, responsible for checking the management of horses by various ministries.

Wanyan Hezhou himself was not active, he just watched the subordinates issue instructions.

This patriarchal aristocrat once served as the Marshal Zuo Jianjun, and he knows that it is not easy for generals and schools at the grassroots level.The generals and schools of the various ministries had to call out for the lack of horses, and couldn't afford to keep them if they had too many. Some things were too clear, which led to unnecessary troubles.

Only Wanyan Xilie couldn't protect him because he was a close friend of the late emperor, and his family has always been worried about him, so he is strict in running the army and extremely strict in management.The horses belonging to their army surpassed those of the other captains in both quantity and quality.

However, the army cannot be maintained solely by military law.Although Wanyan Xilie was strict in running the army, the rewards were also unambiguous... Those rewards were not given by the court, but the money bestowed by the emperor after he arrived in Zhongdu last year.The total amount was not much at all, and it took two months to finish.

Last month, he was really helpless and asked Monk Wanyan Chen for some money.So Monk Wanyan Chen also took out the emperor's rewards, a total of 500 taels of silver, [-] bolts of silk, a jade spit falcon, and a gold cup.

The silver and silk were thrown into the army of more than 1 people, and they couldn't even stir up a splash. The jade belt and the gold cup were not of any practical benefit, but the commander and the minister of the army both prosecuted two of them, and they were already poor.

Raising and training soldiers has been extremely expensive since ancient times.If the sergeants want to live and support their families, the imperial court has to give money and rewards continuously; the higher the requirements for the training and combat effectiveness of the army, the more benefits they have to give to satisfy the soldiers.

At the end of last year, King Sui was the emperor of Kaifeng. At first, he rewarded the whole army several times in a row, and then reorganized the elite soldiers and generals of various ministries, realizing the powerful military force gathered by the thirteen captains.However, most of the territory of the Kaifeng imperial court is relatively barren, and the center is actually a mere Kaifeng mansion, and at most half of the east of the river is added to help half of the country.

Now that the center was established, the system was suddenly complete, and the civil and military officials who needed to receive their salaries suffered several somersaults.In order to win over local officials, the imperial court promised high-ranking officials generous salaries.So inevitably, money and food became more and more tense. I heard that last month, people were sent to search the old palace of Kaifeng Mansion, and the gold leaf of the decorations in the palace was stripped to make up daily expenses.

The imperial court was about to run out of money. If they couldn't afford it and wanted to keep the army available, they had to allow the generals to raise wages and food on the spot.But in this way, a feudal town is bound to be formed, and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion, especially the Han officials, are very taboo about this.

At the beginning of the year, the imperial court had an additional hope, which was the old coins of the Song people.

But the people of Song Dynasty were very cunning, they repeatedly evaded this, and they used the material arguments in the court to prevaricate, pouring bitter water out of their mouths, but they didn't actually take the money.According to the reports from the spies, they are fighting fiercely with Zhongdu overtly and secretly, conniving at countless sea merchants to do business!

What does Kaifeng think about this situation?Could it be that he has been waiting for alms from the people of Song Dynasty?
Can the imperial court wait, can the poor generals wait? Can the army of 10,000+ wait?
Even if you can wait a few months or longer, what's the point?

Guo Ning, Duke of the State of Zhou in Zhongdu, has exhausted all his foundations at the moment, so he can't send troops to fight.But he has always been profitable by relying on his sea business, and Zhongdu and Hebei have been rich places since ancient times. As long as he does a solid business for a year or two, he may be able to restore the old view, and then defeat the Mongolian army. One by one, the powerful soldiers rushed to the battlefield.

At that time, what will the Xijin court in Kaifeng do to resist?

So in the end, there was only one way to go south to plunder.

It's ridiculous to say that Guo Ning in Zhongdu is obviously a thief, but now he puts on the appearance of governing the country; Dajin in Kaifeng is obviously orthodox, but he can only think of burning, killing and looting.

Monk Wanyan Chen could only comfort himself by saying that the ancestors of the Jurchens raised their troops from the banks of the Huntong River back then, and supported their wars by fighting.Today's Daikin is of course weakened, and even the main force of the army is no longer the Jurchens.But being able to maintain the plundering atmosphere shows that the blood is still there, and it cannot be said to be a bad thing.

Look at it again, how is Song Guo compared to Daliao?
It is recognized that the Song people are weak!I, Da Jin, are just throwing wild things at you!

The Naiman who was walking beside Monk Wanyan Chen suddenly cried out.

Monk Wanyan Chen was startled from his contemplation, and heard the sound of the horn ahead, which was the front guard and the enemy had collided.Judging from the length of the sound of the horn, it seems that the number of the enemy is still quite large. It is not the soldiers or crossbowmen on the enemy, but some regular army that they have collided with.

(End of this chapter)