Teams of prisoners were taken by officers and soldiers, and they were dejected and marched along the Ruxu River.

The chaotic refugees snatched grain, rice, livestock, and cloth in Ruxukoushui Village, and then dispersed.

Only some of the most core positions in the Water Village are guarded by elite officers and soldiers, and refugees are not allowed to enter at all.

Looking at the bright knife of the regular army and the unlucky precedent of being beheaded on the spot without eyes, the refugees knew how to choose and did not take risks with their lives again.

After completely looting Ruxukoushui Village, the official army set a fire and completely burned the thief's nest.

To be honest, the battle ended faster than Li Su expected.

Although the home stealing effect is very good, Li Su expected that even if the home stealing was successful, he would have to fight for another quarter of an hour. Unexpectedly, the battle would end in a few minutes.

Later, as Liu Ye took Zheng Bao's head and followed by a group of people in panic and headless flies to surrender to the official army, Li Su first realized what was going on.

Wu Qiuyi was very excited to see this and praised Liu Ye in public for being trapped in the thief's nest but did not forget to find an opportunity to serve the court. He also asked him if he was interested in becoming an official and serving Liu Yu, the current governor of Youzhou and his former chief clerk.

Liu Ye is a native of Hefei. It was because Zheng Bao was powerful in the local area that he was forced to be a contact between the mercenary leader and the government. Seeing this, he hesitated for a moment and agreed to the inducement.

Li Su was next to him and couldn't stop him, so he stopped moving.

But if you calm down and think about it, this is normal. Liu Ye was the descendant of Liu Yan, the King of Buling, and a relative of the Han Dynasty who was divided after the revival of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so his bloodline was much closer than Liu Bei, who was divided during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty.

If you just want to find other powerful Han clan relatives to surrender, Liu Ye would never choose a county magistrate like Liu Bei who is farther from his blood relationship with him when the opportunity is equal.

Liu Yu was not only the chief clan before, but also the leader of the Han family, but also the descendant of the Donghai King Liu Jiang - Liu Jiang, the ancestor of Liu Yu and Liu Yan, the ancestor of Liu Ye, were the eldest and fourth sons of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, respectively. They were also born to Liu Xiu's deposed queen Guo Shengtong.

Liu Jiang was the crown prince for seventeen years before Empress Guo was deposed. Later, Liu Xiu settled down in the world and no longer needed to rely on the Hebei clan that sponsored him to raise an army, so he abolished Empress Guo, who was born in Hebei clans and re-established his original wife Yin Lihua as the queen.

Then Liu Jiang gave up the position of crown prince with the change of the queen's legitimate and illegitimate wife, and let his younger brother Liu Zhuang be the crown prince, which was later Emperor Ming of Han. (Liu Xiu married Yin Lihua first, but when he was the emperor, he did not establish Yin Lihua because he needed to marry into a marriage to find foreign aid. Yin Lihua's family had no power, so he tolerated it and waited for Liu Xiu to unify the world before deposing the queen of the foreign aid family)

Therefore, Liu Yu's lineage is not just as simple as "the kings of Emperor Guangwu", but also the lineage that "has been the crown prince for seventeen years", which is half nobler than other descendants of Guangwu except the Ming Emperor.

Liu Ye made a very good decision to report to Liu Yu’s first, his rank, and his relatives.

No matter what, let’s take this person to Youzhou first. I’m probably Liu Bei’s colleague for the time being.

Whether you have the ability to win over the future depends on Liu Bei’s own ability, and it has nothing to do with Li Su.

...

After cleaning the battlefield and winning over newly conquered talents, the losses and seizures of the battle were almost counted.

The 4,000 refugee troops brought by Li Su had more than one thousand casualties.

The most painful death and injury was that the 1,000 suicide squads that Lu Su personally led the team, and the number of people who died in battle and seriously injured actually reached 500. If it were normal combat, with the quality of the refugee army, even if it was an elite, 1,000 people would have died 200 times.

However, Lu Su's troops were under the attack of the enemy, and were responsible for blocking Zheng Bao's main force's way back to the water camp. In addition, reinforcements had arrived at that time, and everyone knew that their side was the victorious side. At this time, surrenders could not have a good ending. Under the influence of multiple factors, an unprecedented courage to fight—

This is also the reason why in ancient wars, siege should have surrounded three and one missing. Only when a gap is left will the enemy's morale collapse and siege to death without leaking water, which will only force the enemy to fight you.

In contrast, although Zhou Tai seemed to lose a lot, he actually did not die to 300 people in total. Most of them fled, and some even didn't escape and waited far away. Seeing that friendly troops finally won, they returned to the water village to pick up garbage. However, given that they were at least trying to lure the enemy, Li Su didn't care about them having some heavy spoils.

The chaos gradually subsided, and the Warring States Period also showed preliminary statistics.

"The Lu Su army lost 500 people. Zhou Taijun estimated that 300 people died in the body, but the rest robbed some things and fled them all. Guan Yu army suffered 400 people in 2,000 people died and injured, and hundreds of people were plundered and fled after the war."

"The 1,500 troops from the friendly army, with a total of 1,500 troops killed in battle, and more than 500 people were not cured. The Jinghu chief Zhang Duo sent 2,000 troops, 400 casualties, and the Shanyang chief Xu Qian sent 1,000 casualties and 300 injured."

"Zheng Bao's troops have nearly 10,000 people killed and died, more than 2,000 people fled and 8,000 were captured."

Seeing the reckless settlement of the followers' officers, Li Su was also secretly shocked and had to sigh that the Danyang soldiers were elite soldiers in the world after all.

With more than 4,000 Danyang soldiers on one side of the friendly army, although the official army won this battle, there were about 2,500 deaths and deaths in battle, which was not considered to have escaped. Zheng Bao's subordinates had only lost more than 2,000 in total.

It can be seen that the official army is still at a disadvantage in terms of the number of head exchanges. The reason for the final victory was mainly because Zheng Bao's water camp was confiscated and the morale of the army collapsed.

Four words summarized: The stealing wins.

Of course, there is no surprise or luck. Because attacks and stealing the house are originally the general policy agreed upon before the war, and all tactical arrangements revolve around this policy.

After counting the losses and captures, it was the turn of the trophy and the distribution of prisoners of war. However, Li Su couldn't interfere in this matter for the time being, so he took his colleagues on the side to obey the mediation of the Duwei Wuqiuyi first.

After some bargaining, Wu Qiuyi left behind about 6,000 Danyang soldiers and 2,000 people were divided to Zhang Duo and Xu Qian.

The 2,000 people were not all soldiers who could fight. Some of them were originally affiliated with Zhang Duo and Xu Qian's confidant. They were previously captured by Zheng Bao, but now they have to go back.

There are also some who are more stubborn and hard-working under Zheng Bao. They have had a lot of grudges with the officials and soldiers during the battle, and they are disabled and cannot fight again, or have families in the local area who are unwilling to travel north, so it is useless for Wu Qiuyi to keep them. They will also flee if they take them away, so they will be left to the local rich chiefs.

To be honest, Zhang Duo and Xu Yi's gains in this battle cannot completely make up for the losses they helped Wu Qiu Yi take the lead. What they value more is the future development space "After Zheng Bao is killed, they can take advantage of the opportunity to grow bigger", so even if they lose money temporarily, they have to follow suit.

Otherwise, just to grab money and people, Zhang and Xu would not accept such harsh distribution conditions.

The remaining carefully selected Danyang soldiers and prisoners of war, plus those who had been hired before, Wu Qiuyi gathered 5,000 troops, and was quite satisfied with his heart.

Finally, the recruitment task assigned by Liu Yu was exceeded! When you go back this time, you can get the "priority promotion right of the lieutenant"!

In Zheng Bao's water camp, the government army also seized about 20 million yuan of money. Wuqiu Yi distributed this money to these soldiers, each with 5,000 yuan. The small leaders at all levels added additional money. Danyang soldiers recognized the money very much. Even if you caught them in the battle, if you want them to convince them and continue to fight for you, you have to win the money.

However, under normal circumstances, a person gave at least 10,000 yuan to settle down. He was defeated and became a prisoner of war, and he was forced to give only 5,000 yuan.

As for the part that usually exceeds 10,000 yuan, it is mostly divided by the heroes and chiefs at all levels as intermediaries. Now that Zheng Bao, the intermediary, has been uprooted, the "marketing and operational expenses" no longer exist.

After completing the task, Wu Qiuyi patted Li Su on the shoulder: "Li Biejia, there are 2,000 soldiers left to hire. I know you are also entrusted by Liu Liangxiang to recruit some private soldiers. If the money is enough, you can do it yourself, I have enough."

"Thank you, Duwei." Li Su was pleased to accept it, while calculating the money he brought to this trip.

He left Luoyang with 10 million, and later Mi Zhu got 20 million, a total of 30 million. It was not a big problem to eat these 20,000 Danyang soldiers who were sold for a big sale.

Li Su then ordered Lu Su to help him do it: "We will also send 5,000 yuan each to settle the house according to the price of the lieutenant. We will have to increase the money in the future. After we get on the ship, we will make up for it in the name of the official employer to win over the morale of the army. We will not give it too much now and the people hired by the lieutenant will feel unpleasant."

Lu Su took the order and went to handle it immediately. He quickly spent 10 million, and then set aside another six million.

Li Su's plan was that each person would eventually give 8,000 yuan, which was 3,000 yuan more than the 3,000 yuan raised by the imperial court. Of course, after arriving in Youzhou, he would also ask Liu Bei for reimbursement. This would ensure that Liu Bei's control and loyalty to the troops exceeded that of the ordinary imperial army.

Wu Qiuyi could ignore the morale of the troops, because he was just dealing with Liu Yu's responsibilities and did not regard these soldiers as his own private property.

I believe that Liu Bei will definitely have enough money to pay this account by selling Wuhuan horses.

Li Su still has 14 million yuan on hand. He felt that the five hundred Jiujiang soldiers under Lu Su who fought for the rest of his life were of good quality. Anyway, he had a lot of money, so he stayed there.

The key is that these people have seen strong storms and waves, fought hard battles surrounded by enemies, and those who can survive are those with strong nerves.

There were more people on Guan Yu's side, but because they had not been screened, Li Su ordered all the local family members to be eliminated, and each person would give him a little 2,000 yuan of severance payment, which was a reward for their participation in the war just now. Then he respected his personal choice and screened it layer by layer.

In the end, about 500 people were selected from Guan Yu's waterway.

Together with Lu Su's troops, a total of 1,000 Jiujiang soldiers were recruited.

Because the battle on Lu Su's side was even more difficult, each of them gave him a reward of 10,000 yuan. Guan Yu's soldiers were more relaxed in stealing the family, so they could only get 5,000 yuan each.

But everyone felt that rewards and punishments were clear, and no one was dissatisfied - who had the combat mission just now was more difficult, which was obvious to all.

"Brother Boya, there are only five or six million yuan left, which should be enough, right?" Lu Su handled these matters clearly. Seeing Li Su's money on the books drop rapidly, he was also a little moved.

I have been doing the preparations for so long, and it’s time to burn money. The speed is really outrageous.

However, Li Su advised Lu Su: "Zijing, you must have a business mind. After the work is done, we will take a boat north. The products are different from the north and the south. Even military supplies are expensive, and there are cheaper in the north and the south, and cheaper in the south and cheaper in the north.

Keeping the copper coins back is wasted a waste of the price difference. I think the subway industry in Wu and Yue is prosperous. Since ancient times, it has been a hometown of sword making, and the iron price is relatively cheap. Give these Danyang soldiers some weapons to supplement them."

Lu Su thought for a while: "Danyang soldiers all have their own weapons, mainly swords and shields, no need, right?"
Chapter completed!