"The captives withdrew? What are the casualties? ”

Wu Dui came with a letter from the cabinet ministers, to boost Chen Mu's morale, of course, many cadres in the court did not expect that this northern division would come so quickly, originally Wu Dui came in an official sedan chair, and when he walked to the upper mountain, he suddenly heard the sound of artillery on this side of the Juma River, and then he knew that the two sides had engaged in battle, and hurriedly asked the defenders for two horses, and galloped all the way with the internal officials.

The internal official who came with him was not ordinary, named Chen Ju, who entered the palace at the age of nine, and was transferred to the name of Gao Zhong, a famous eunuch of Bingbi at that time, and has been the master of ceremonies. During the Gengxu Rebellion, he saw Gao Zhong and the eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuchs fully armed to garrison the Beijing Division, and since then he has been determined to be involved in politics and economy, and the military affairs are even more extraordinary.

Although Gao Zhong is now deceased, Chen Ju is the supervisor of the imperial horse, in charge of the camp affairs of the Shenji Battalion, and it is not a problem to ride and run.

Chen Mu greeted the prison army and the internal officials, seeing that the two of them were wearing helmets and armor, dressed like the generals of the Han Dynasty, and looked like they were planning to come over to save the building, they gave their hands and admired, and said: "The northern captives came to fight three battles, first blocked by the thistle, and then stopped by our banner army, and just now they were bombarded by artillery for a while, they suffered pain, and retreated three and a half miles. ”

"Casualty ......" Chen Mu scratched his ears and cheeks, he really didn't know what to say about casualties, it seemed too big to say that there were no casualties, and suddenly thought of the scout horse sent before, and hurriedly said: "More than one hundred and forty people are killed and missing, the enemy has not been killed, the enemy has not been killed, the corpse capital is placed on the bridge and on the opposite bank, and the captives dare not collect the corpse." ”

Chen Mu handed the telescope to Wu Dui, who waved his hand and took out a telescope from his waist that was a little more elaborate than his telescope to look at the battlefield; Chen Mu handed it to the internal official Chen Ju again, although Chen Ju and Chen Mu are from their own family, but seeing that he is not very loose in the array, he doesn't even dare to say how many casualties he has, obviously thinking about him crookedly, snorted, and took out a telescope from his waist that was exquisitely made, which looked much better than Wu Dui.

The two masters looked at the battlefield with binoculars, and Chen Mu didn't have anything to do, he simply squatted on the edge of the artillery position and whispered to the family on duty: "Hurry up and count carefully, how many cavalry spies have not returned." ”

"General Chen!"

Chen Ye was cautiously whispering, and suddenly heard Chen Ju shouting behind him, which frightened Chen Mu to instinctively turn his head and glare, "How?" ”

"You said that there were more than 140 casualties, and the northern captives didn't dare to collect the corpses, why were there only corpses on the bridge, and I didn't see the corpses of my Ming sergeants!"

Chen Mu stood up, the first time he saw the eunuch, he was already thinking in his heart, this Chen Ju didn't talk to himself well, which made him angry, so he simply said: "My soldier is not dead, what corpse do you want, Beiyu didn't even touch my human hair!" ”

Wu Dui saw that the atmosphere of the two was not good, and hurriedly said: "General Chen, Chen Youjian is supervising the army on behalf of His Majesty, but there is no room for a little difference, if a sergeant is killed and reported truthfully, it is really determined that Baoding is broken, and it is not easy for General Chen to hold on for a while, even if there are some casualties, no one will be harsh." ”

"I really didn't have any casualties, the real battle on the tethered horse bridge was the 500 banner army of the headquarters I brought from Nanyangwei, there were no casualties, and the more than 140 missing were Wang Zhongguo's family cavalry, and they were put on the other side as a scout by Chen before the war, and more than 100 did not run back."

Chen Mu was also very helpless, why did he even have to explain that there were no dead people, "If you really want to suffer casualties, Xiaohe Valley is guarded by the Yanqing Right Guard Banner Army, and there will be casualties over there for a while." ”

"There are really no casualties?" Chen Ju originally had a straight face, but when he heard Chen Mu say so helplessly, he laughed, and said in surprise: "General Chen is saying that the troops were exchanged in three formations, and the corpses on the river bank that the lower officials saw were all northern captives?" ”

Chen Ju said to Wu Dui: "Wu Bingbei, our internal officials are used to seeing war reports, but they have not seen a field battle against the northern captives without a single death, you are well-informed, this Zhuma River, is a field battle, right?" ”

Chen Mu felt that his preset battlefield for more than half a month was a bit too much, and he patted the pole of the cannon shed quite suggestively, and saw Wu Dui holding his beard there and said in amazement: "What Chen Youjian said is right, of course this is an unprecedented field battle!" ”

Come on, you have to report this as a field battle, and I certainly don't have anything to say.

Good thing!

"Don't blame Mr. Chen, the lower official is wrong to blame you!" Chen Ju has a big temper, but he knows his mistakes and corrects them quickly, and he admits his mistakes to Chen Mu without hesitation, and then asks: "I don't know how General Chen killed three hundred thieves without hurting a single person, can you inform the lower officials, and you can report to Your Majesty." ”

Chen Mu naturally smiled and told him about the battle, and then asked Wu Dui what he wanted to know for a long time, and said: "Wu Bingbei, how did the imperial court calculate the reward for the first level of silver for the northern captives?" ”

Wu Dui looked at Chen Mu's eyes with a smile overflowing, which meant that he had made a fortune, and said: "In the first year of Longqing, Jizhen will kill the head of the thief in the battle, and he will be promoted to the second level, and those who are unwilling to be promoted will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver; Those who lead a thousand people shall be beheaded by twenty of their subordinates, plus one level, and three more until they are added; If you are promoted to the commander of the capital, you will not be promoted to an official position. ”

Chen Mu was smashed, raised two fingers, and said with an incomprehensible intention on his face: "Chen killed the Japanese in Nanyang, and the fake Japanese will be rewarded with two taels of silver!" ”

"But the first-level merit in the north is even more difficult to calculate." Wu Dui said with a smile: "The head of the thief needs to be complete, and it needs to be the head of the real captive, where the general sees the battle report and smashes the nest and beheads hundreds of thieves, they all kill more than ten times the thief, just like some heads are cracked by shelling, the court will not give a reward." ”

There was nothing more to say, Chen Mu waved his hand and ordered the soldiers: "Take a hundred banner troops to carry the corpses of the thieves to the side of the river, and tell the flag army participating in the war, don't grab the head, everyone who participates in the war will be rewarded after the war!" ”

On the battlefield, the flag army was carrying the corpses, and saw a Tumut cavalryman carrying a long flag to the bridge, and shouted loudly: "Who is the commander of the Ming army, on the order of the right wing Wanhu, please come out to see the general!" ”

Chen Ye is happy now, he never thought that Northern Xinjiang would be so easy to make money, and happily asked Wu Dui and Chen Ju: "The two of you come with me to meet and see what they want to say?" ”

He didn't dare to see it himself, in case someone found out about it, he would sue him for fornication.

The two of them agreed, and when they came to the bridgehead, the cavalry of the Tumut Department had a lot of professional ethics, and they did not squint and said: "On the order of the right wing of Wanhu, dare to ask the name of the general of the Ming army who killed and injured the warriors of our department?" ”

Not to mention, this guy's Chinese is good.

"I'm Chen Mu, the deputy chief soldier of Changzhen, what's the matter with you coming here?"

The Tumut cavalry glanced at Chen Mu, thumped his chest on horseback, and saluted, "The leader of my department asks the general to tell the emperor to take a thousand gold, and my department will return to the outside of the Saiwai!" ”

Chen Mu raised his hand to scrub his chin and short beard, his heart was full of joy, his face was angry, and he shouted: "Let the emperor pay gold in the north, is it what a courtier should do!" ”

"You go back, tell the head of your family what Chen said, Chen's head is here, let him come and get it quickly, don't withdraw, remove Chen and look down on you! Come on, fight me again! ”

It's a bunch of what, huh?

On the other side, that's a patch of white silver!