In the evening, the fiery clouds of the twilight reflected the blood-red river, and the blood and water on the south bank of the river were not wrists.

The rebels were caught off guard by the reinforcements, and their combat power was far from being reached, and they were rushed back to the river by the Ming army, and hundreds of people drowned in the river in order to escape for their lives. Morale had long since collapsed, and the Ming army continued to kill, until finally more than 400 people were left on their knees to say mercy, and the war really ended.

The corpses were everywhere, and the Ming army had no ropes, so they stripped the corpses of their clothes and tied the captives to kneel in several rows by the river.

Chen Mu's corpses were stacked under his buttocks, and he seemed to be quickly accustomed to the terrible killing on the ancient battlefield, holding his sheath saber and lowering his head to watch the bright red blood water bypass his feet, merging into a small river in the pebble crevices and flowing towards the riverside.

Deng Zilong sat next to him, removed his upper body armor and let his subordinates bandage their wounds, and asked, "Why did you rush in to save me?" ”

"Deng has traveled all over Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong over the years, and the guards he has seen are all cowards." After that, Deng Zilong sneered self-deprecatingly, "You Chen Zongqi is different from them, and Bai Qianhu is also different from them!" ”

I'm not timid?

On the ancient battlefield strewn with corpses, Wei Balang hung three bloody heads from his waist and danced spears not far away.

Chen Mu laughed at this, turned his head to Deng Zilong and said: "I saved you because I was afraid of death, being a deserter is to be killed, Chen just killed more than 20 deserters." If I run away and you survive, you're going to kill me. I didn't want to lead the troops into battle - I just wanted to get you out and escape! ”

Chen Mu really thought so.

He can work hard but will not be sent to death, saving Deng Zilong is desperate, rushing to the invincible array is sending him to death, Chen Zongqi calculated this very clearly in his heart.

But in Deng Zilong's opinion, the general flag of this artillery truck calling into the battle is terrifying, and at this time, there is still idle laughter, which makes him laugh, the wound breaks open, and the pain stops abruptly, and his face is extremely exciting.

Compared with Deng Zilong, Chen Mu can be said to be unscathed.

Except for the scratches that were splashed on the face by rubble when guarding the Shinjiang Bridge before, it won't take long to heal. This time, there are not many opportunities to engage in close combat at all, not to mention that even if he engages, as long as his mind is not confused, the foundation of fighting is still there, and ordinary thieves are not his opponents.

It was just that he was hit with a pebble a few times, and his body was covered with some black green.

The battle at Xinjiang Bridge in the distance also subsided after the reinforcements joined the battlefield, Xinjiang Town returned to its previous calm, Chen Mu heard the rest of the battalion crying after the robbery, and he asked Deng Zilong: "Mr. Deng, who are those reinforcements?" ”

In the past, if military issues were asked, quality and quantity, Chen Mu would be biased towards quantity most of the time, just like in this battle, more than 3,000 rebels stormed the shore, without guns or artillery, and killed and wounded most of Deng Zilong's more than 400 battalions, if it weren't for the reinforcements, they would be wiped out.

This support army changed Chen Mu's mind.

The number of reinforcements was less than 2,000, but the queue was combined, the orders were strict, and the artillery bombardment roared horribly, and they were suddenly killed. Although a team of ten people is better than dozens of rebels, the lives of the soldiers are saved by each other, and a hundred people can kill without losing one.

Chen Mu had some guesses about the origin of this army, but he hadn't seen Qi Jiguang's unique weapon in this army for a long time, so he asked Deng Zilong.

"Guangdong General Wang Rulong, this chief has a very bad temper and no one is convinced, and he doesn't pay attention to the Guangzhou Mansion and Taiwan." Deng Zilong glanced at the brightly armored army in the distance, with a complicated meaning in his eyes, and whispered to Chen Mu: "It's very domineering, you be careful not to mess with him." ”

The feudal platform is talking about the political envoys and envoys of the Guangzhou Prefecture, who are both provincial administrators, slightly inferior to the governor and governor, and are in a high position.

According to Deng Zilong, the temperament of this general is really unruly.

"Wang Rulong?" Chen Mu secretly said this name, but he really hadn't heard of it when he thought about it, so he said: "I thought it was General Qi coming, but I didn't expect that there were such male soldiers in Guangdong!" ”

Deng Zilong smiled, bandaged his injuries and slowly put on his armor, and said: "General Wang is the Qi family army, these soldiers were newly recruited by him in Guangdong, and they are of the same origin and species as the Qi family army, but General Qi's Qi family army is more powerful than them." ”

"The battlefield is a good place for my generation of warriors to find officials, seven or eight years ago, General Wang Shen was still in Yiwu Tian Xin led the disciples to mine, and later joined General Qi to make great contributions, people said that he was the first fierce general of the Qi army." Deng Zilong put on his armor and shook his head slowly, "Even if it is a big dragon in General Qi's hand, no matter how brave he is on the battlefield, he can't defeat the cold arrows flying in the officialdom." ”

Wow! In seven or eight years, he was promoted from the white body to a general, and there are still cold arrows, so what is it without cold arrows, and he was promoted to the general army in seven or eight years?

Chen Mu turned his head to look at the Qi family army in the distance, and the figure of this general Wang in his heart was a little more majestic, but he was immediately beaten back to reality by Deng Zilong's words.

"When I sent troops from Guangzhou Mansion, General Wang was still in prison." Deng Zilong's tone was extremely flat when he said this, as if this matter should be like this, and said: "After the battle, you go back to Qingyuanwei, I will go back to Guangzhou Mansion, and General Wang will go back to Guangzhou Mansion Prison." ”

This, and this operation?

Chen Mu also thought that the treatment of killing thieves in prison during wartime was only Sun Chuanting when he was in Chongzhen, so there was already a precedent at this time?

"This, Mr. Deng, what's going on?"

Deng Zilong looked at Chen Mu's curious appearance, frowned for a moment, and smiled when he saw that there was no one near him, and then said: "This matter has already spread, so it doesn't hurt to tell you." ”

"A few years ago, when the Japanese were in trouble in the southeast, General Qi asked 300,000 taels to buy warships, and sent them to the imperial court to become 3 million taels and was approved, but the silver was not allocated for two years."

Deng Zilong snorted, looked at the Qi family army in the distance and said: "General Qi is silent, but General Wang can't stand it, and asks the court to scold the officials for corruption, angering the first assistant and Yanlu, so he ends up like this." ”

"This shipbuilding salary has been embezzled, and it has been expanded tenfold to corruption?"

Chen Mu couldn't imagine how bold he was to do such a thing, and then he saw Deng Zilong shaking his head and said: "I don't know about this Deng, but it is definitely not corruption, no one will risk the courage to kill the head to be greedy for some silver, and expand the military salary by ten times, if it is corrupt, it is good to be greedy for 300,000 taels, why should it be expanded by ten times?" ”

"These dog dick things, Deng doesn't understand, hey......" Deng Zilong smiled unhesitantly, and suddenly looked into the distance and reminded Chen Mu: "Hey, Mr. Chen, your thousands of households have called you!" ”

Chen Mu turned his head and saw Bai Yuanjie waving to him in the distance, and a barbarian battalion sergeant was running over to call him. Looking back, Deng Zilong didn't see the previous gossip and was reserved, and said to him solemnly: "Thank you Chen Zongqi for saving him on the battlefield, Deng will remember the five, and when this battle is over, Deng will go to Qingyuan Wei to disturb him, and I hope that Zongqi will not be surprised!" ”

"Deng said that he was serious, and thousands of households were called, and he passed over first."

It's just that Bai Yuanjie's military order is not as beautiful as Wang Rulong's story, and just one sentence made Chen Muru look embarrassed when he was struck by lightning......

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Note: Wang Rulong's matter comes from the article "Sacrifice to the King and the General" in Qi Jiguang's "Zhizhitang Collection".