prosperous age

Chapter 81
"The place where we went ashore was Yuyao, which is very close to Cixi. Within half a day after we went ashore, we met the soldiers of Guanhaiwei who had retreated. It is said that Dinghaiwei had already retreated to Ningbo Mansion, and then we fought with the Japanese pirates who followed."

As the soldiers continued to tell about that period of battlefield experience, the process of the first battle after Jiujiang Wei was dispatched entered the ears of the three listeners.

Because it was a defeated soldier, no one paid attention to the situation behind them, even when they encountered this large army that came from afar for reinforcements. The soldiers of Guanhaiwei continued to retreat, which directly caused the morale of several other guards to collapse.

When I was still in Zhenjiang before, I only heard rumors that the Japanese pirates were amazing, but now I saw the truth. I didn’t see Guanhaiwei’s defeated soldiers running back desperately.

By this time, the soldiers of Jiujiang Guard who had been training for more than a year actually had their morale floating, and they all wanted to follow them back.

There is not enough guards to command, and there are commanders and acquaintances. The commander is in charge, so no one dares to follow those rout soldiers and run back. I didn't see Qianhu, the commander and other officers' personal soldiers standing at the moment. Sharpen the knife on the periphery of the army.

Several guard commanders also got together at this moment to study what to do next.

They are all grasshoppers on the same rope. Trek has already disobeyed the military order when he got here. If he continues to get lost.
OK.

The army directly camped temporarily on the road leading to Yuyao, while sending messengers to ask for follow-up tasks, and also sent out horses to investigate the enemy's situation near Cixi.

As soon as the camp was set up, and the food was not ready, they were rewarded by scouting horses. Japanese pirates were found more than 20 miles away, and they were robbing a village.

The senior military generals of several guards gathered together again to discuss whether to send troops to wipe out the Japanese bandits.

"You sent troops to encircle and suppress these Japanese pirates?"

Hearing this, Wu Dong suddenly interjected and asked.

"No, the master was waiting outside the tent at that time. After discussing with the master inside, he just sent more scouts to investigate the enemy's situation."

The soldier hurriedly said, "But the next day we got into a fight with these Japanese pirates."

As the soldiers continued to tell, Wei Guangde and the others knew what happened afterwards.

Although scouts were sent to monitor the Japanese pirates, at the military meeting that day, most of the guard commanders wanted to lead their troops back to Yuyao. After all, there was a county wall to rely on to resist the Japanese pirates' attack.

That night, all the officers from more than one hundred households of Jiujiangwei were called to the command tent for discussion. Only at this time did Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng know what was the reason for the dispute at the army tent in the afternoon and the final result.

All Jiujiang Guard officers with more than a hundred households have to make a choice, whether to retreat to Yuyao or take the initiative to attack and wipe out this group of Japanese pirates.

Soon the officers in the big tent were divided into two factions, and most of the officers were naturally unwilling to go to Zhejiang to fight, not because they didn't want military merit, but because military merit was a bit hot.

They are very clear about the quality of their subordinates, and they really have no confidence to wipe out the Japanese pirates. They didn't see that the troops of Guanhaiwei were defeated. This is a full guard, and the current Jiujiangwei has more than a thousand troops.

The few low-level military officers who wanted to make contributions were quickly criticized by their colleagues as useless and had nothing to say.

It's not that their opinions are bad, but that they are serving the court. Unfortunately, they only occupy the moral high ground. They are also speechless about the actual combat power proposed by their colleagues.

Naturally, senior generals such as commanders and commanders will not speak at this time, that is, the following hundred and thousand households are talking there.

The subordinates didn't want to fight, and as the commander and acquaintance of the commander, the commander didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and there was a look of helplessness on their faces.

Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng naturally belonged to the faction of riding the fence, and they had no problem advancing and retreating, so they simply didn't make a sound.

Following the silence of the main combat faction, the group of people in the military tent who advocated retreating gained the upper hand, but after the other party stopped speaking, the scene gradually quieted down, and everyone was waiting for the commander's decision.

The situation was very clear just now, and most people actually didn't want to fight. At this moment, it was up to him, the commander of the guard, to make the final decision.

"What do you say?"

As the highest-ranking general in the army tent, he still didn't express his thoughts immediately, but asked the opinions of other chief guards who came with the army.

Baihu, Qianhu, and Wei Zhenfu in the Shicai guard have all expressed their opinions, that is, several guard commanders have remained silent, and it seems that it is time to express their opinions at this time.

It was at this time that the officers who were very active against the main combat faction just now suddenly felt something, and they all looked in disbelief at the several big guards sitting above the big tent.

Just now, their intentions and opinions were expressed very clearly. According to the previous routine, after their opinions are basically unified, the commander will directly make a choice. After all, in their opinion, this is the best decision for them. .

However, Commander of the Guards seems to be a little bit wrong today.

"Brilliant Ming Dynasty, the heavens rule the country, when will it be the Japanese pirates' turn to plunder?"

Speaking of this, the person who spoke stood up and bowed to the commander of the guards: "My lord, I believe that we should enter Ningbo Mansion as soon as possible to destroy the Japanese pirates."

It was a commander who was speaking, and as soon as he finished speaking, another commander got up and saluted: "My lord, the Ministry of War has ordered us to rescue Taizhou directly, we have already arrived in Shaoxing because of our voyage, and it is a serious crime to delay a major event.

Now that Japanese pirates have been found ahead, it is time to encircle and suppress them with all our strength, so as to atone for their crimes. "

This time it was the conductor Li Qiguang who spoke, his voice was very sonorous and powerful, but it was slightly different from before.

Not right, absolutely not right.

At this time, all the officers in the camp had already noticed it. It seemed that before they came in, the commanders of the guards seemed to have unified their opinions, and it was completely opposite to their thoughts.

At this time, the commander Zhang Qing also got up and bowed to the commander Wei: "My lord, the military order ordered us to suppress the Japanese. This time we found the enemy twenty miles away, so we must fight this battle no matter what."

The intention was too obvious. If the generals in the camp still couldn't see it at this time, they would be really stupid.

Although I don't know why, the decision of the guard commanders to fight seems to be inconsistent with the news they heard before, but at this time no one dares to stand up and object, all of them bow their bodies and dare not raise their heads .

The two hundreds of households who had been fighting before were also like ostriches at the moment, not daring to get carried away just because their opinions were supported by the boss of the guard.

"I forgot to tell you that when Guanhaiwei's bandits retreated, they left a message that the main force of the Japanese pirates followed Dinghaiwei. I'm afraid they have already arrived at the city of Ningbo."

After the Commander of the Guard said this, everyone in the room understood why the Commander said that, and Zhang Qing, the always good man in the Guard, would stand up and fight with all his strength. Jiujiangwei has been cornered.

(End of this chapter)