As the sun turned west, the gunfire on Osumi Island had gradually subsided, and the nearby sea was full of rotten wooden ships that had drifted with the current, corpses slightly swollen by the sea, and a flock of seabirds hovering over the sky for a long time.

In the harbor, the broken ship is still burning, and the smell of gunpowder and blood in the air has not yet been blown away by the sea breeze. When Xu Jin boarded the harbor dock south of Osumi Island, he took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, no more, no less, it was exactly two hours.

Looking at the fortifications that were blown into ruins in front of him, as well as the remains of corpses that had not been collected all over the ground, Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, sighed with a pale face: "If you don't ask about the marquis, you will succeed in ten thousand bones." The ancients didn't deceive me, Lord Xu. ”

As the so-called Ci is not in charge of the army, Xu Jin has seen a lot of this kind of scene in the past few years, so there is no fluctuation in his heart at this moment, and he goes straight to the island. Xu Pengju hurriedly quickened his pace to keep up, although he was a prisoner, but this time he was purely playing soy sauce to get credit, and he just wanted to go out happily and return home safely. In Xu Pengju's opinion, following behind Xu Jin is undoubtedly the safest, so Grandpa Wei is almost inseparable from Xu Jin along the way, and those who don't know think that the two of them are broken sleeves.

As everyone knows, although Xu Jin is the commander of the three armies, he often likes to take risks, such as burning Tongzhou City, and inviting Jun into the urn to lure me into the inner city, and then in Jiaxing Mansion, he only led dozens of villagers to kill Chongde County to drive away pirates. If Xu Pengju carefully studied these battle examples, it is estimated that he would not follow Xu Jin's ass as much as possible, on the contrary, I am afraid that he would hide as far away as possible.

"See the marshal, see the prison army!" The soldiers he met along the way stood up one after another, saluting respectfully to Xu Jin, and their eyes showed sincere worship.

Although Xu Pengju understood that the worship in the eyes of these soldiers was for Xu Jin, he was still very comfortable and comfortable, after all, they also said that they had seen the prison army, and there was honor, and there was honor!

When Xu Jin and Wei Guogong came to the front of King Hui's mansion under the protection of the personal guards and the Jinyi guards, Wang Lin'er, the commander of the Shenji Battalion, personally escorted one person over.

Although this person was covered in blood and dust, he still recognized that it was Wang Zhi.

It is said that Wang Zhi didn't know whether he was unlucky or lucky, the roof of the main hall was collapsed by a heavy cannon, and Wang Zhi was crushed under the rubble and only suffered a slight injury, and nearly 100 brothers of the Shenji Battalion dug him out for nearly half an hour.

"Report to the marshal, the anti-thief king has been captured, but let Mao Haifeng's thief escape, and the last general will ask the marshal for his guilt." Wang Lin'er saluted on one knee.

Xu Jin waved his hand and said: "General Wang, please get up, the Shenji Battalion is the first to land on the island, and capture the head of the anti-thief, Wang Zhi, a miracle feat, what a crime!" ”

"Xie Dashuai!" Wang Lin'er stood up and said loudly, the generals around him showed envy, the marshal set the tone, a miracle work, after returning to Beijing this time, the reward of the Shenji Battalion will not be low, as the supreme commander Wang Lin'er is estimated to accumulate merit and seal the marquis.

Of course, the Shenji Battalion is brave in battle, which is obvious to everyone, and the credit is naturally deserved, so although everyone is envious, there is no dissatisfaction, and the only jealousy is probably the equipment of the Shenji Battalion.

Xu Jin's gaze fell on Wang Zhi's face, the latter seemed to lose his soul, his eyes touched Xu Jin, and he immediately returned his soul, knelt on the ground tremblingly, and said in a hoarse voice: "The criminal official Wang Zhi sees Lord Xu, and he sees Grandpa Wei!" ”

Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, sneered: "Wang Zhi, don't put gold on your face, from the moment you kill the official and rebel, you are no longer my Ming official, you are just an anti-thief, an out-and-out anti-thief!" ”

Wang Zhi smiled miserably and said: "What Grandpa Guo said is extremely true, the anti-thief king directly sees Lord Xu and Wei Guogong!" ”

Xu Jin glanced at Wang Zhi, who was covered in blood, and said lightly: "Military advisor! ”

A young man with a medicine box on his back immediately rushed over, and quickly examined Wang Zhi's wound with his hands and feet, and saluted Xu Jin after the examination: "My lord, the prisoner is only slightly injured, and it will be fine after bandaging and treatment." ”

Xu Jin nodded and said, "Bandage him." ”

"Okay!" The young military doctor immediately opened the medicine box and skillfully treated and bandaged Wang Zhi's wounds.

This young military doctor is none other than Li Shizhen, who was famous in later generations, the compiler of the pharmaceutical masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica".

It is said that Xu Jin met Li Shizhen and his son when he was in Shandong for disaster relief, and later after his recommendation, Li Yanwen entered the Taiyi Hall as a doctor, and Li Shizhen naturally followed him to the capital.

Li Yanwen's original intention was to want his son to enter the country to study and participate in the imperial examination, but Li Shizhen, a kid, was only interested in medicine, and he couldn't participate in the county examination for several years in a row, so he was even more unwilling to study, and often skipped class to go around collecting medicine.

Li Yanwen had no choice, and in the end he could only accept the fact that his son was not a reading material, and began to carefully teach his son to study medicine.

Li Shizhen was particularly interested in medicine, and when he heard that Xu Jin was going to send troops to quell the rebellion, this kid begged Xu Jin to bring him, because he saw several medicines in an ancient book, which seemed to be abundant in the Japanese country, so he wanted to pick some back in the Japanese country to see if he could plant them in the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Jin also wanted to witness the birth of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", so he agreed to Li Shizhen's request without thinking about it, and personally came forward to persuade Li Yanwen to let Li Shizhen follow the army as a military doctor.

Although Li Shizhen is only fifteen or sixteen years old now, he has won the true legend of Li Yan, and his medical skills are already quite good, but he lacks some heat, and it is natural to treat those small injuries on Wang Zhi's body.

Soon, Li Shizhen treated Wang Zhi's wounds, closed the medicine box and said confidently: "Lord Xu, the injuries on the patient's body have been treated, and I guarantee that I will be able to jump around in a few days, otherwise you will find me!" ”

Wei Guogong grinned and said secretly, look at what you kid can get, Wang Zhi, a thief, will die sooner or later, and it is a waste of medicine to be cured!

"By the way, Lord Xu, the kid wants to walk around Osumi Island." Li Shizhen said.

Xu Jin knew that this kid was definitely looking for medicine on the island again, so he waved his hand and said, "Go, Sima Qianhu, send a few brothers to protect Shi Zhen." ”

Sima Yuan didn't dare to slack off, and sent six Jinyi guards to follow Li Shizhen, who shrugged his shoulders helplessly and drove away with the medicine box on his back.

Wei Guogong really didn't understand why Xu Jin attached so much importance to Li Shizhen, a little military doctor, and sent Jinyi guards to protect him, saying that he didn't have this kind of treatment.

After sending Li Shizhen away, Xu Jin's eyes fell on Wang Zhi again, his gentle expression became cold in vain, and he said lightly: "Wang Zhi, are you guilty?" ”

Wang Zhi shivered smartly, and said tremblingly: "Wang Zhi knows the crime! ”