General Qin

Zhao Tuo would cover his nose when he left the camp these days.

It stinks.

In an open space outside the barracks, there were chubby, bloody, and terribly smelly things.

If you look at it from a distance, these terrifying things seem to grow out of the soil, and that place seems to have become a melon field full of fruits.

It's just that the melons growing in this field are hideous-looking heads of Yan soldiers wrapped in blood.

Fortunately, the barracks is forbidden to enter and exit after nightfall. If anyone passes through this melon field at night, their legs will be weak from fright.

They are neat and tidy, and have been placed outside the gate for three days.

Shang Jun said: Because of the war, the first three days of violence were the three days of school, and the general sent the scholar-bureaucrat Lao Jue without doubt.

Every time the Qin army finished a battle and counted the heads of the enemy, they had to display these heads outside the gate for three days, and they had to carry out counting during the three days. After three days of inspection, the chief general confirmed that there was no problem. The titles of everyone will be judged according to their merits. This process is called "discussion".

The so-called "joining the army should be discussed and rewarded by labor", there are a total of three procedures for the award of military meritorious titles in the Qin State, namely labor, theory, and reward.

Labor refers to the meritorious service established after joining the army, and it is the premise and basis for awarding military merit.

Whether it is to check whether the credit is true, and to comment on the size of the credit, what kind of title should be awarded.

After the first two procedures are completed, it is time to make people like the most.

give.

On this day, the general's office had confirmed that all the titles obtained by the soldiers in this battle were correct, and they were issued by military officials at all levels.

Zhao Tuo finally got his reward.

He single-killed one person on the city wall, and by virtue of this, he could be upgraded from a first-level official to a second-level superior.

As for that Qin Wuji head, it was indeed a fake.

According to the captured soldiers of the Liaodong Army, the person killed by Zhao Tuo was not Qin Wuji, the leader of the Yan Army, but one of his personal soldiers. And recently there was news that Qin Wuji had fled to Wuyang City, erected the general flag again, and gathered the remnant soldiers.

As a result, the value of that head is greatly reduced.

We must know that the promotion of Qin's military merit is more and more difficult as it goes to the later, it is not purely a one-level promotion.

If this is the case, wouldn't it be possible to directly cap off and become a Marquis by killing twenty of them.

Lord Shang, who formulated the military merit system, would not allow people to be easily promoted to high-level titles. Every time a level is upgraded, the difficulty required to advance to the next level will continue to increase.

In the words of later generations, the experience bar has become longer.

Sergeant Wu is promoted to public official, public official is promoted to high school, and only one head is needed for the first level.

But when making a rising hairpin, two are needed.

If he was the head of the village at that time, the two heads are useless, and Yinglun must be beheaded to be promoted.

What Zhao Tuo killed was only a personal soldier, and it stands to reason that he has not been promoted to the third level. But fortunately, the personal soldier was wearing Qin Wuji's armor and sword, along with the general's talisman, these things can also be considered meritorious service after being appraised.

Therefore, this time, Zhao Tuo was promoted two ranks in a row from the public servant, and has the third-class title, Zan Niao.

The headband on his head can also be replaced with green and black, that is, the right bun is green, so that people can see his title at a glance.

If he is promoted to another level, he can wear a crown on his head without changing the title of the fourth class, and his status will be even more noble.

"It's a pity that if you want to upgrade to another level, a simple head is no longer enough."

Zhao Tuo shook his head. With the title of Hairpin Niao, he can at least be the head of the village when the establishment is reorganized.

If there are new soldiers joining the army and there is a shortage of military officials, they might be able to become a hundred generals like Lu Wu.

"Upgraded to two levels, Xianyang will reward 200 acres of land, and the house can also be expanded, but the current house is enough to live in, so there is no need to worry about it, but I don't know what expression it will be if it receives good news, will it be I think it’s too fast to grow here.”

Because Zhao Tuo had no family members in Qin State, before he left, he went to Lizhong, let Li Dian and Tian Dian witness, signed a contract, and entrusted his field to Heng Daizhong. It will be sent to Heng.

Of course, this situation is not a land transaction. If Zhao Tuo died on the battlefield and he had no son to inherit the title, the Qin government would take back the land granted to him and would not leave it to Heng.

After all, today's Qin State speaks in terms of titles, and without corresponding titles, it is impossible to occupy so much land.

In this battle, apart from Zhao Tuo, everyone in Gengshi also received corresponding rewards.

In Shejian, Heiyu and Xiaobai both became first-class officials with their heads, and Zhu, who was originally an official, became a second-class superior.

Xiqigu, who was able to show off in front of Heihip and Xiaobai with his title of Duke before, has completely lost his arrogance.

In a blink of an eye, all the mud legs he looked down on before became the same title as him, and even the title of that stupid big column surpassed him.

This frustrates Xiqigu a lot, and he has become a lot gentler when talking to people, and he is no longer as harsh as before.

As for Ah Niu, the only one without a title in Gengshi, now he sees people talking in a humble voice with a flattering smile on his face, which makes everyone despise him even more.

The state of Qin is like this, those who have a title are respected, and with a title, you will have status.

After the rewards are distributed, the next step is a new military operation.

Wang Jian defeated the allied forces of the Yan Dynasty in the west of Yishui. Half of the main force of the Yan army was wiped out and half became prisoners. However, tens of thousands of remnants still fled into Wuyang City, and continued to fight against Qin Wuji's re-established banner.

Wang Jian is a veteran in the battlefield, so he naturally would not let go of the opportunity to take advantage of the victory and pursue it. He immediately dispatched troops to the north and surrounded the entire Wuyang City, cutting off its connection with the hinterland of the Yan Kingdom.

All the generals of the Qin army thought that Wuyang City could win a battle. After all, except for some of the original defenders, the Yan army in the city was defeated in Yishui and their morale was unstable. This kind of defeated army was easy to defeat.

But what I didn't expect was that the strength of Wuyang City was beyond everyone's imagination.

The lower capital, Wuyang, started to be built in the time of King Yan Cheng, and was completed in the time of King Yan Zhao. It has been built for more than a hundred years.

It is not only the hub of Yan State's southern defense line, but also the bridgehead for Yan's army to actively go south, and it is also the accompanying capital of Yan State. Its importance can be seen. It can be said that this city was built by the Yan people like a copper wall and an iron wall, which is difficult to break through.

Wuyang is divided into two cities, east and west.

Dongcheng is the main body, forming a complete castle by itself. It is 4.5 kilometers long from east to west, 4 kilometers wide from north to south, with Zhongyi River in the south, Beiyi River in the north, artificially dug ditches in the east, Yunliang River in the west, and well-repaired city walls and moats all around. , it can be said that the protection is quite strict.

As for the west city, it was built purely for war. Its area is smaller than that of the east city, but the city walls are taller and stronger. In addition, the west city is connected to the east city by the Yunliang River. pole.

Qin Wuji, the leader of the Yan army in the city, was even more determined to fight. He not only divided the soldiers of the Yan army into two cities, but also forcibly confiscated all the residents in Wuyang city.

Strong men hold weapons and guard the city wall.

Strong women transport equipment and transport food.

The old and the weak collect all available materials for defending the city.

Qin Wuji stood at the top of the city, looked at the endless Qin army tents outside the city, and said with a ferocious expression:

"The city is alive and the people are alive, but the city is dead and the people are dead!"

Refer to "Research on the Military Merit System, the Awarding Procedure and Management Organization of the Military Merit System"

Wuyang, the lower capital, refers to "Eight Hundred Years of the Yan Kingdom: Cities", citing the archaeologically discovered city site data