open sea

Chapter 59
"Brother Mu, I brought the cannon back for you!"

Shao Tingda, who came back from the charge, was full of pride. If he hadn't been blackened by the smoke, his proud expression should have been very mighty.

The momentum of the hundred tigers rushing together is indeed huge. First use landmines to blow up the morale of the enemy's rear, and then use the hundred tigers to kill and injure the front army of the rebels. I don't know if it was Bai Yuanjie or Deng Zilong who beat the charge drum, Chen Mu's banner army rushed the enemy troops down the Xinjiang Bridge, and took advantage of the situation to chase and kill them for two miles.

The rebel general wearing Ming army armor is an idiot. His own army collapsed and tried to stop the defeat by calling signs. Shao Tingda and the others rushed to more than 20 steps before trying to escape on horseback. Shao Tingda, who was ignited by holding the seven-star arrow, shot the horse Died, fell to the ground and was captured.

After chasing after two miles, the Banner Army was stopped by Chen Mu who was accompanying the charge, and Shao Tingda was assigned to take the Banner Army and a dozen Xiangyong to the mountainside to see if the enemy's guns had been crushed, and then led the Banner Army back to return. .

Chen Mu himself didn't expect that Shao Tingda could really bring back the enemy's cannons. He watched the black-faced scumbags surrounding the two bronze cannons in amazement, and said, "Brother Mu, if you say those gangsters come in, just blow them up with this thing." Let us hit rocks!"

One of the two bronze cannons was a [-]-jin Franz machine, and the other was an old-fashioned [-]-jin bowl-mouth mortar. The rebels had no lead bullets, so they could only shoot stone bullets. Chen Mu smacked his tongue secretly.Just when Bai Yuanjie came over to ask about the casualties, Chen Mu asked, "Qianhu, the rebels will also make cannons?"

"The military craftsmen of the guards don't know how to make cannons, and the rebels know nothing about it! These two cannons are probably the son of a bitch Li Yayuan who beat up the guards."

Bai Yuanjie took two steps around the bronze cannon, looked at the inscription on it, pointed to it and said, "This Franji machine with a bent barrel was newly made in the 30th year of Jiajing, and the Wankou Cannon is an old item from the Yongle Year. .Fortunately, the rebels didn't take this to melee you!"

Bai Yuanjie was terrified after speaking, and said to Chen Mu: "Wankou cannon is not for long-distance shooting, you set it up on the riverside, put more gravel on the bottom, bury it with soil and tamp it down, put the gunpowder and put a big stone bomb first , then sprinkle dozens of gravels, wait for the enemy army to get close to two or three hundred paces, let them out, and stab them all!"

A smile appeared on Chen Mu's face when he heard Bai Yuanjie say that the top of the bowl was wide and the bottom was narrow, and the barrel was short, so it was not far and accurate enough to fire the cannon, but it would be different if it fired shotguns. Steps, small flying stones sputter two or three hundred steps, that's really a dozen.

Just afraid of getting hurt by mistake.

"By the way, Qianhu, should the war profits be handed over?"

Chen Mu didn't understand how the spoils of the Ming army were distributed. In the past, they fought under Bai Yuanjie's subordinates, and Bai Yuanjie was the biggest superior officer. Now with Deng Zilong, who knows how the spoils should be divided.

"To hand it over, you first replenish the weapons and armors of your subordinates, pick out [-]% and send someone to Deng to send the boss, and hand over the bronze cannon with the bent barrel and the rest."

After finishing speaking, Bai Yuanjie took two steps closer, and whispered to Chen Mu: "Your people clean the battlefield, you have the final say on how many things, just hand over the useless ones. There are also treasures, silver, and valuables on the rebels , Remember to let the hard-working Banner Army take it back."

Chen Mu was still immersed in the joy of returning the cannon to himself. When he suddenly heard Bai Yuanjie say this, he realized that apart from the armor left on the battlefield, those corpses were also one of the necessary means to clean up the battlefield to obtain spoils of war.

He has nothing to fear about this matter. He is afraid of it once, panics twice, and destroys it three times.

What Master Chen Jun thought was that this matter had to be done by someone he could trust, so he summoned five small banner officials and asked them to do it in person.

Except for Shi Qi, all four went, leaving the dog-headed army division to report the casualties.

"Six people were killed on the gun and spear flag and five were injured, two were killed on the bird gun flag, four people were killed on the longbow flag, four sword players were left, and 26 were killed and injured by the Xiangyong. The general flag, four flag soldiers, 17 Xiangyong, escaped Captured them all...killed them all?"

Chen Mu was touched by the hanging of an old cripple alone on the martial arts arena in front of the Hundred Households of Qingyuan, but on the battlefield, the blood was poured into the nasal cavity along the air, and the unavoidable casualties became numbers.

"Remember them, the bannermen who died in battle, pull a piece of cloth and write it down." Chen Mu just raised his hand to say a word to Shi Qi, and then he paused for a moment before continuing: "Fleeing Xiangyong, bring them here, on the bridge Let's have a meal together, the battle is in a hurry, and we haven't finished the meal yet."

Seeing Bai Yuanjie by his side, Shi Qi didn't dare to say anything, so he nodded and went down to look for the Huotoujun to get food.

Bai Yuanjie said to Chen Mu: "The law is not sympathetic, but sympathy makes it impossible. Do you know this truth?"

"I know." Chen Mu smiled, a little reluctantly, "What I said is military law. If you don't kill them, no one will be afraid and no one will listen. Soldiers won't be able to lead them, right Qianhu?"

Bai Yuanjie nodded heavily, looked towards the river and glanced at the rebel fleet that was still motionless in the distance, let out a breath slowly, patted Chen Mu on the shoulder and walked a few steps towards the Chinese army, then turned his head and said: "After dinner, you take the soldiers to Guard the river beach, and the Xinjiang Bridge will be guarded by Commander Deng, you rest."

"After the battle, Bai will invite you to drink at the best boat in Guangzhou."

After speaking, Bai Yuanjie didn't stay any longer and left Xinjiang Bridge.But even if he returned to the Chinese army, he would still look at the Xinjiang Bridge from a distance—he had been there before, and he knew that this hurdle was not easy.

Chen Mu picked up the rice bowl that he had put down earlier from the bridge railing, and slowly ate mouthfuls that tasted like chewing wax. Shao Tingda sat on the ground beside him and ate his mouth still, telling him something, "Brother Mu should marry a wife and have a son, so he died like this." Don't lose the flesh and blood of your ancestors" or something like that.

Normally, if Shao Tingda said such unlucky words, Chen Muzhun would have kicked his ass twice, but at this moment he was not in the mood, and only asked Shao Tingda, "How much money do you have for cleaning the battlefield?"

"There is not much silver, and there are hundreds of people with more than 20 taels, but Tongbao picked up tens of thousands of them, and I didn't count them." Shao Tingda shook his head with disgust on his face, and said: "Only the 20 taels and the other ten taels came from the rebels. It was snatched from the leader, oh no, it was taken—Brother Mu, these rebels are poorer than me!"

"Isn't that nonsense! You, Shao Xiaoqi, are a person who has seen the big world. You killed mountain bandits and Japanese pirates, and you got soft hands for rewards. Can the rebels compare with you?"

As Chen Mu said, he put down his clean rice bowl, kicked Shao Tingda's buttocks sitting on the floor next to the stone railing, and looked at the 21 fugitives and Xiang Yong who were eating and chatting in two rows, and shook his head and said: "Don't just take money and don't work, lead people to take down all the fugitives, and knelt down facing north."

Only then did Shao Tingda understand what Chen Mu was going to do. The wide-eyed rice was on his lips but he didn't dare to send it in. Chen Mu nodded and turned around with his hands behind his back.

"Bird gunners, assemble, raise the guns to the north!"

"There are 21 people from the Banner Army and Township Warriors. Fleeing in fear of battle, they should be executed for their crimes. If you are a first-time offender, you will be shot and left with a dead body."

"put!"

boom!Boom!

Chen Mu didn't look back, but he heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and then Shi Qi took up his command again and issued an order to the gunner, shooting four rounds until there was no sound behind him.Chen Mucai finally let out a long breath, turned his head away from looking at the fallen corpse, gritted his teeth and said to his subordinates: "This battle has won more than [-] taels of profit, all of you have to fight to the death to survive, the money— — all rewards!"

　Good morning everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)