open sea

Chapter 494 The Heart
"If the rain continues, there will be mountain torrents on Nanshan Road."

Hearing Deng Zilong's emotion in the handsome camp, Chen Mu was carefully wiping his two pistols, and the barracks was filled with damp air.

They changed camps, and the oil tents couldn't stop the torrential rain for days.

He is very sure that the military strategists in the world will choose to withdraw their troops in all likelihood when encountering such a situation, because this is not rain at all, but a heavy rain brought by a southeast typhoon.

It didn't mean to stop when it started, it just intensified.

Four days ago, Deng Zilong persuaded him to give up his plan to stick to the camp, and cross the three rivers to the southeast to join Liu Xian and Yu Dayou's reinforcements, and wait for the rain to stop before looking for fighter opportunities.

At that time, Chen Mu wanted to retreat. He gathered his troops and abandoned the camp. When the rain stopped, he walked eastward to the river bank. The river swelled and they couldn't let them cross, so they had to go back to the camp. The rain that night was heavier than before, and they drenched into a nest. Drenched chicken.

That night, all the generals thought that the camp at the foot of the Nanshan Mountain was no longer safe, so they dared neither to stay on the mountain nor at the foot of the mountain, so they chose a high ground, moved it back seven miles, and worked in the rain for two days before setting up the camp again. The battalion only left more than a thousand troops stationed.

"In retrospect, if we left by boat..."

As Chen Mu said, he put his guns into the pouches of the outer breastplate belt, left and right, and then untied the outer belt of the breastplate and the belt of the gun barrel around his waist, and put them into the gun case, chuckled, and said, "Let's go." Come on, not now."

Deng Zilong sat on the side, took a deep breath and said, "Now we can go. It only takes a day and night boat to sail into Qinzhou Bay, Guangdong."

"Rain is victory, no rain is even better. The soldiers of the Northern Dynasty attacked our defense line seven times without success. The general retreated for the time being. When the weather calms down, our ship will come again. The situation is still the same. Mo Jingdian can't beat us."

Chen Mu buckled the gun box and gave Jun Song a wink. Du Heizi picked up the gun box and walked out. Half an hour ago, Chen Mu had just ordered the ministries to leave two months of food and grass, keep half of the firearms and seal them up, and send all the rest of the luggage. to the boat.

All the baggage ships and warships will set sail today and stop at Qinzhou Bay to avoid the typhoon.

"First, it is not safe for the ship to sail at sea at this time. All 32 ships of military equipment have sunk into the sea. I, Chen Mu, can not only afford to pay for it, but also directly build newer outfits, but I can't afford to pay for the banner army, not even a single ship."

"Secondly, Wu Qiao, you think that I am eager to win because I regard Mo Jingpian as a serious confidant. He was indeed regarded as a famous general by the enemies of the Southern Dynasty, and was regarded as a confidant by the Annan Li Dynasty, but I did not."

"Let's not talk about whether he can be ranked among the famous generals through the ages. Even if he is ranked, he may be able to fight against Liu Shuai and Yu Shuai for a few moments, but against the Nanyang Army, another ten years will be nothing."

"Qi Shuai doesn't have my financial resources and power. The Nanyang Army has me, Chen, and you, Deng Wuqiao, and there are five hundred students in the martial arts hall. They have a great collection of military skills. This is the real No. [-] in the world."

Deng Zilong held his breath and let it out slowly, with a surprised expression on his face. He always thought he was a yin and yang soldier, not only a yin and yang soldier, but a real yin and yang family... Dashuai Chen always regarded him as a Feng Shui master and a weather forecaster.

"Who are you worse than others? In terms of organizational form, the quality of soldiers, the strength of armor, military technology, logistics, and military expenditures, who is better than me?"

Now, Deng Zilong felt relieved.

"I don't have any serious worries in Annan, but this is a golden opportunity, and I can't retreat."

"I don't understand, since Mo Jingdian is not the serious problem of Chen Shuai's confidant, and let him live a few more days, what's the point?"

Deng Zilong and Chen Mu have been partners for several years, and you can tell what he wants to do by watching his movements. The bird guns of the Banner Army were put away, and the bird guns that Chen Mu never left when he slept were also put away. Ready to come out.

He had to persuade Chen Mu.

Chen Mu raised his hand to go to the desk to get the map, but when his hand felt empty, he remembered that everything had been put away, and there were only a few detailed maps of Tsinghua in his backpack, so he squatted down and drew on the muddy ground with a short knife Said: "I'm not worried about Mo Jingdian, his army has run out of food and grass, his army's morale has been lost, even if he uses soldiers like a god, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"But Mo Jingdian is not the only one in Annan, there is also Pan Gongji and Zheng Song. If I leave now, Mo Jingdian, Zheng Song, Pan Gongji, Ruan Huang, Wu Gongji, they are all still alive and well. This is impossible."

"Annan should not score five points, nor four points. The best situation should be three points."

In a blink of an eye, Chen Mu drew out the sketch map of Annan. The thirteen prefectures were not divided into one, but were divided into three by two straight lines. He pointed to the Red River Basin in Shenglong and said, "There are more than a million people in the Shenglong area. In the hands of one person, otherwise no matter who this person is, he will have ambitions for hegemony."

The first line is Honghe, Shenglong City and Xuanguang area are all in the northwest of Honghe.

Chen Mu squeezed a clay ball and pressed it to the ground.

"The Mo family is eliminated, the Shenglong without Shenglong city, and the east of the Xuanguang area are all owned by Wu Gongji. He is the mortal enemy of the Mo family. In this way, even if he recuperates in a few years and sits on 80 million people, the people there If you don’t obey him, endless rebellions will make him burn out.”

Chen Mu pointed at the Niqiu in the river with a knife and said, "This is Wu Gongji."

Then he squeezed a clay ball, raised his hand and drew a second line, which is Tsing Hoa in the south of Thang Long, and said: "To the south of Tsing Hoa, the terrain is long and narrow, with many mountains and forests, and there are also 80 million people, but they are scattered all over the place. , Hue and Guangnan under Ruan Huang's control are all located here."

"His soldiers are the weakest and his people are the poorest. He has the subjective initiative to be slaughtered. He urgently needs to develop. To develop, he needs to trade with me. Annan also doesn't have the ability to dig out the palm of the Central Plains. He eats what I feed him. So he will grow into what I want, and the south of Qinghua is all his."

"In order to guard against Ruan Huang, after this battle is over, let the Foreign Affairs Department of the military government send someone to occupy the city, and feed them there.

The second mud ball was named Ruan Huang. It looked like a coir raincoat was cut out by a dagger on the ball. Chen Mu also added mud strips to make a bamboo hat.

After all, Chen Mu touched the last unclaimed land, between Thang Long and Tsing Hua, he shook his head and said: "Only here, the land is the least but fertile, and the people are neither too many nor too few, sandwiched between the two. I haven't made up my mind yet about the person between the two."

To be honest, listening to Chen Mu's words and drawing a picture crookedly, Deng Zilong felt that ten years of reading sage books was wasted.

His commander-in-chief's appetite is getting bigger and bigger. In the past, he used to beat people to the bone, but now he is doing harm to the country and the people.

They are all human, how can their hearts be so dirty!
What else can Deng Zilong say, he has learned loyalty, benevolence and filial piety all his life, and if he aspires not to be the best Mr. Yin and Yang, he should be the best general. He said, "Pan Gongji? The commander-in-chief promised to give him Thanh Hoa in Nghe An."

"Pan Gongji?"

What did Deng Zilong see?He saw Dashuai Chen who was squatting on the ground playing with mud, with a bit of reluctance on his face, he raised his head while pondering Pan Gongji's name, and said, "He is gold, he must shine."

Before Deng Zilong was surprised, Chen Mu said the second half of the sentence.

"But he played the trick of keeping his troops indifferent and advancing after the news. This is one. The second is that he has no enmity with Wu Gongji, and he belongs to the same Southern Dynasty as Ruan Huang. I don't worry. I have been thinking all day, why? Can kill him and Zheng Song."

"It's not good in this life, let's shine in the next life."

"This..." Deng Zilong sighed deeply, closed his eyes and pondered in his heart for a moment before making up his mind, and persuaded him: "Commander, it's okay for you to use power and schemes, but this teacher comes from an unknown person, and he fears losing the trust of the court. If he attacks Pan Gongji, I forgive my subordinates for disagreeing. "

"Attack Pan Gongji?" Chen Mu frowned at Deng Zilong in surprise, and said with a smile, "It's nonsense, who told you that I was going to attack Pan Gongji?"

"Then you said that you want to kill Pan Gongji and Zheng Song, I really heard it!"

Chen Mu waved his short knife between Qinghua Shenglong, got up and sat back on the chair rubbing his muddy hands, and said to Deng Zilong persuasively: "Think about it, Mo Jingdian is [-], now it is less than [-], seven or eight Come on, the [-] to [-] troops have run out of food, and the news of the emperor's abdication of Shenglong City has also spread, what does he want to do most now?"

Before Deng Zilong could answer, Chen Mu said: "You want to withdraw the army, I want to withdraw the army, Mo Jingdian also thinks, he hasn't attacked me since the rain started to rain heavily, but sent scouts to investigate every day, why? Because he was afraid I and Pan Gongji and Zheng Song attacked him at the same time, and he was shrinking his defense."

"He wants to wait for me to go to the Nanshan side, and only use a small number of soldiers to take advantage of the location to block the Southern Dynasty soldiers and horses, and then wait for an opportunity to fight me, because he wants to retreat, but there is no place for him to retreat. The north is full of mountains. At this juncture, he Dare to go up the mountain?"

"What's more, there is no food on the mountain."

"Pan Gongji and Zheng Song are not like tigers who smell meat. I don't know what to do. I'll know when they come." Chen Mu laughed, but there was no smile on his face, and said: "After the guns are sealed, order the various ministries to prepare for battle and send people to discuss peace with Mo Jingdian."

"Let's just say that I, Chen, have always admired the ancient gentleman. A gentleman does not take advantage of others. Although I have a grudge against Mo, I admire General Mo's loyalty and disdain to join forces with the Southern Dynasty. Emperor Mo has gone to Guangxi to apologize. , My enmity with the Mo family has been wiped out!"

"Negotiating and reconciling, I will block him here and not let him pass. You said that he wants the last tens of thousands of troops in the Northern Dynasty to survive, so he has to go to fight Tsinghua, does he have to deal with Pan Gongji and Zheng Song first? "

"When the rain stops, he can go north, so it's now." Chen Mu raised his hand and said, "I know you want to ask, why the peace is negotiated and the army is ready for war."

"When there is a natural disaster, when I negotiate with Mo Jingdian, I will definitely think that my soldiers are frustrated because I am afraid of him. Maybe I will send troops to attack. It may not be true, but if he comes, I will hold him back for a while. He will definitely be willing to negotiate peace with me."

"Because there is no time for him to think about it. Seeing his predicament, Pan Gongji and Zheng Song may be more anxious than him. They will send troops to beat him as soon as the rain stops. I can't let Mo Jingdian run away. I will negotiate peace with him before the rain stops. Help him rebuild his confidence and make him believe that he can definitely defeat Pan Gongji and Zheng Song!"

"That knife." Chen Mu pointed to the short saber on the clay map on the ground inserted horizontally between Qinghua Shenglong, and said firmly, "It's Mo Jingdian!"

　Good morning!

　　Recommend a book to a friend, called "Misunderstanding in the New Ming Dynasty"

　　An unserious official essay on the imperial examination, the protagonist is a big troll.

　　


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