Chapter 64: Tenfold
The burning clouds at dusk in the evening reflect the blood-red river surface, and the blood on the south bank of the river is gone.
The rebels were caught off guard by reinforcements, and their combat power was far from reaching. The Ming army rushed back to the riverside and rushed into the river to escape for life. The morale had long collapsed. The Ming army continued to kill until the last 400 people left knelt on the ground and begged for forgiveness. The war was truly over.
There were naked corpses everywhere. Without ropes, the Ming army stripped off the corpses' clothes and tied the prisoners to the riverside to kneel in several rows.
Chen Mu had piled up his body under his butt. He seemed to be accustomed to the terrible killing on the ancient battlefield. He held his sheathed sword and drooped his head and watched the bright red blood flow around his feet, forming a small river in the cracks of the pebbles and flowing towards the riverside.
Deng Zilong sat opposite each other, removed his upper armor and allowed his subordinates to bandage the wounds, and asked, "How do you rush in to save me?"
"Deng has traveled all over Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong over the years, and the guards are all cowards." After saying that, Deng Zilong sneered himself, "You, Mr. Chen, are different from them, and Bai Qianhu is also different from them!"
Am I not timid?
On the ancient battlefield where corpses were everywhere, Wei Balang had three blood-drowning heads hanging from his waist and danced a spear not far away and cheered.
Chen Mu laughed at this and turned his head to Deng Zilong and said, "I saved you because I am afraid of death. Being a deserter is going to be killed. Chen just killed more than 20 deserters. If I run away, you will definitely kill me. I didn't want to lead the troops to rush forward - I just want to rescue you and escape together!"
Chen Mu really thinks so.
He can fight to the death but will not die. He saves Deng Zilong for the desperate attempt, and rushes to the invincible formation to die. Mr. Chen calculated this clearly in his heart.
But in Deng Zilong's opinion, the general flag that drove the cannon chariot and entered the formation was so courageous that he was still idle to joke at this time, which made him laugh and broke away from his wound and ended with a sudden pain, with an extremely wonderful face.
Compared with Deng Zilong, Chen Mu can be said to be unscathed.
Apart from the scratches on his face when he was guarding Xinjiang Bridge, his face would be splashed with gravel in the future. This time, he did not have much chance of getting close to the battle. Moreover, even if he was not confused, his fighting foundation was still there, and ordinary thieves were not his opponents.
I was hit with pebbles a few times, and I was covered with some black green on my body.
The war at Xinjiang Bridge in the distance also subsided after reinforcements joined the battlefield. Xinjiang Town returned to its previous peace. Chen Mu heard the camp of soldiers crying loudly after the disaster. He asked Deng Zilong: "General Deng, who are those reinforcements?"
In the past, if we asked about military issues, quality and quantity, Chen Mu would tend to be quantity most of the time. It was like this war, more than 3,000 rebels attacked the shore without guns or cannons, and most of Deng Zilong's more than 400 battalions of soldiers were killed and injured. If it weren't for reinforcements, they would have wiped out the entire army.
This reinforcement army changed Chen Mu's mind.
The number of reinforcements was less than two thousand, but the lineup was in harmony and the orders were strict. The roar of artillery bombardment was terrifying and the killing came down. Although a team of ten people was better than dozens of rebels. The lives of soldiers were rescued by good or bad luck. Killing a hundred people would not harm one person.
Chen Mu had some guesses about the origin of this army, but he had been searching for a long time but had not seen Qi Jiguang's unique weapon wolf silhouette in this army, so he asked Deng Zilong.
"Guangdong Governor Wang Rulong, this chief has a very bad temper and no one accepts it. He doesn't care about the Guangzhou Prefecture's vassal and priests." Deng Zilong glanced at the army with distinctive armor in the distance, with a complicated look in his eyes, and whispered to Chen Mu: "It's very domineering, be careful not to mess with him."
The vassal state is the governor and the censor of Guangzhou Prefecture, both of which are the chief executives of a province, slightly behind the governor and governor, and have a high position and a high position and a powerful position.
According to Deng Zilong, the temperament of this general is truly unruly.
"Wang Rulong?" Chen Mu said this name secretly. When he thought about it carefully, he had never heard of it. Then he said, "I thought it was General Qi who came, but I didn't expect that there were such a powerful soldier in Guangdong!"
Deng Zilong smiled, bandaged his injuries and slowly put on his armor, saying, "General Wang Shen is the Qi family army. These soldiers are recruited by him in Guangdong, and they are of the same origin and species as the Qi family army. However, General Qi's Qi family army is stronger than them."
"The battlefield is a good place for our martial artists to find official titles. Seven or eight years ago, General Wang Gan led his disciples to mine in Yiwu Tianxin. Later, he made great contributions to General Qi. People say that he is the number one general of the Qi family army." Deng Zilong put on his armor and shook his head slowly, "Even if General Qi has a big dragon in his hand, no matter how brave he is on the battlefield, he cannot defeat the cold arrows flying from the officialdom."
Wow! I was promoted from white to general in seven or eight years. There are still cold arrows. So what is it that there is no cold arrow? Is it promoted to general in seven or eight years?
Chen Mu turned his head and looked at the Qi family army in the distance. In his heart, the figure of the Wang Shen General was a little taller, but immediately he was beaten back to reality by Deng Zilong's words.
"When I sent troops from Guangzhou Prefecture, General Wang Shen was still in prison." Deng Zilong said this and said in a very plain tone, as if this matter should be like this, saying: "When the war is over, you go back to Qingyuanwei, I go back to Guangzhou Prefecture, General Wang Shen-he, then go back to Guangzhou Prefecture prison."
This, and this operation?
Chen Mu thought that the treatment of killing thieves during wartime was only Sun Chuanting in Chongzhen's time. It turned out that there was a precedent now?
"This, Mr. Deng, what's going on?"
Deng Zilong saw Chen Mu's curious appearance and frowned for a moment. Seeing that there was no one around, he smiled and then said, "This matter has spread a long time ago, so it's okay to tell you."
"A few years ago, the Japanese pirates caused trouble to the Southeast. General Qi submitted a petition to buy a warship of 300,000 taels. The ship was sent to the court and turned into 3 million taels and was approved, but the money was not distributed for two years."
Deng Zilong snorted and looked at the Qi family army in the distance and said, "General Qi did not speak, but General Wang Shen couldn't stand it. He asked the court to complain to the court to curse officials for corruption, angering the Chief Minister and Yan Lu, and ended up like this."
"Is this shipbuilding salary being embezzled, and it has been expanded by ten times more corruption?"
Chen Mu couldn't imagine how brave he had to do such a thing, and then he saw Deng Zilong shook his head and said, "Deng didn't know, but he was definitely not corruption. No one would dare to greed for some money and expand military pay ten times. If he embezzled, he would be greedy for 300,000 taels. Why do he have to expand ten times?"
"Deng doesn't understand these dicks, hey..." Deng Zilong smiled generously, suddenly looked into the distance and reminded Chen Mu, "Hey, Mr. Chen, your thousand households have called you!"
Chen Mu turned his head and saw Bai Yuanjie waving to him in the distance. A soldier from the Manliang Camp was running over to call him. Looking back, Deng Zilong did not see his previous gossip and was reserved. He bowed to him seriously: "Thank you, General Banner, for helping him on the battlefield. Deng remembers it in the fifth place. When this battle is over, Deng will go to Qingyuanwei to bother him. I hope General Banner will not be surprised!"
"Deng has made the general statement heavy, and thousands of households are summoned, so I will go first."
However, Bai Yuanjie's military order was not as beautiful as Wang Rulong's story. Just one sentence made Chen Muru look embarrassed when struck by lightning...
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Chapter completed!