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Chapter 68 Muroyama
Seeing the Qingyuan Guards Army again, Chen Mu felt like a lifetime away, and he believed that this was the feeling in Bai Yuanjie's heart.

Muroshan North Road, where the Qingyuan Guards are stationed.

Shishan is in the north of Wengyuan, backed by Qujiang, the capital of Shaozhou. In this battle to pacify Li Yayuan, it is not considered an important military site.There is no need to worry about the transportation of luggage. The narrow mountain road occupies a favorable location. It only needs to seal off a few crossings and erect a few watchtowers on the mountain to ensure that everything is safe.

Chen Mu and his entourage led troops from Xinjiang Town for a few days, and when they entered the foot of the mountain, they saw several military villages surrounding the mountain road, east, west, north, and approached.

Banner soldiers swimming by the stream, weapons and armor are scattered on the bank; under the shade of trees, little banner officers take a bath in a wooden bucket with bare buttocks; Those who hung horses; those who squatted together to gamble and drink;

Seven or eight hundred guards and flag troops insisted on making the army camp look like they were going to a temple fair, yelling and shouting endlessly.

It made Bai Yuanjie, who was leading the troops approaching, extremely embarrassed. Chen Mu, who was walking beside him, could clearly feel the anger in Bai Qianhu's heart soaring rapidly, frowning as if he wanted to draw his sword to kill someone.

After staying on the tragic battlefield for a long time, the awe of life in the heart will become less and less, but Chen Mu feels normal, not as full of hostility as the banner soldiers who also retreated from the battlefield behind him.

Seeing the familiar yet unfamiliar Qingyuan Guards, Chen Mu had only one thought... Damn, this is the soldier of this era!
Facing the Qi family army under Wang Rulong's subordinates all day, it puts too much pressure on people.

"Hey, which hundred households are here again, there are so many people!"

The cockfighting flag army saw Chen Mu and his party from a distance, and whispered to each other, "It doesn't look like a guard, but this flag should belong to our Qingyuan guard."

The same armored soldier, neatly dressed and walking vigorously, is the same as lying on the edge of the bathtub with his head bare, can it be the same?
"Blind you, it's Bai Qianhu and Chen Zongqi who fought in the bloody Xinjiang Town, assemble, Zhang Baihu ordered the assembly!"

Without giving Bai Yuanjie a chance to get angry, a few flag soldiers ran out from the gate of the west camp and yelled at the idle soldiers around. Chen Mu felt that the leader looked familiar, so he looked at Bai Yuanjie and heard Qianhu say: "It's Zhang Yongshou The old man under him looks like he is now the general flag."

Hearing the familiar name, Chen Mu burst into a smile, "Zhang Baihu is still alive, good thing!"

He didn't have any bad intentions when he said this, it was simply because there were only a few acquaintances, and so many soldiers under his command who had practiced for half a year would die if they said they were dead, and suddenly heard a familiar name, and had a little grievance relationship, so they could survive. It's all good.

"What kind of trick is this?" Bai Yuanjie was a little puzzled by the way Zhang Yongshou's general banner called the banner troops of hundreds of households around to gather. It was not Zhang Yongshou's turn to do these things.

Bai Yuanjie glanced at Chen Mu, and said: "It seems that Yongshou has been waiting for us here for a long time. I grew up with him. He is a person who likes to laugh and has a lot of eyes. He does things unscrupulously. Although he is not a bad person, you should be careful .”

Chen Mu nodded clearly. He knew Zhang Yongshou's character traits as early as during the Black Ridge Night Battle. Even at that time, because of Zhang Yongshou's use of unscrupulous means to achieve his goals, he was terrified for a few days.

But now?

Chen Mu smiled, seeing Zhang Yongshou leading a few flag soldiers out of the camp, saying hello to the surrounding hundred households who came out to welcome Bai Yuanjie after hearing the sound, and then walking in front of the hundreds of households to talk to Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mugong He clasped his hands and said with a smile: "Bai Qianhu and Chen Zongqi, I wish the two of you a great victory in the battle of Xinjiang! Haha!"

"Jingchen, Chen Erlang, several hundred households originally wanted to celebrate with you at the foot of Shishan Mountain, but they were stopped by Zhang. I said that you are serious about doing big things. Jingchen, you have to prepare the garrison when you come here. If you drink too much, you can't strictly enforce the military law."

Zhang Yongshou smiled, and what he said was very insightful, he stepped forward and said: "So Zhang has overstepped the rules, not letting them serve wine, and giving the Banner Army a rest for a few days before you come, Jingchen, don't be offended."

Zhang Yongshou's words were echoed by several hundreds of households, Bai Yuanjie didn't say anything, nodded and said: "In this case, Bai will set up camp first, and discuss matters in the evening and separate defense."

Several hundreds of households greeted each other, and then dispersed to gather up the flag army. Bai Yuanjie ordered the Man Liao Battalion to set up military tents first, and set them up in front of the mountain road.Zhang Yongshou also went back to the camp, but before he left, he smiled at Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu: "I'll find you guys at night when I'm done with the military affairs, and we can discuss things."

In the afternoon, the two of them took a few flag troops to climb the mountain and waded, surveyed the terrain around Shishan Mountain, and when they returned to the camp, Bai Yuanjie had already prepared the defense arrangements, so they called all the hundreds of households to make the arrangements.

Seven hundred households, including Zhang Yongshou, under Bai Yuanjie's control, were reorganized after the war, with more than 500 staff under their jurisdiction, and Bai Yuanjie's headquarters only had about [-] people.

There are three mountain passes in the north of Shishan Mountain, and four hundred households are distributed. One is in the middle of the main mountain path, and the remaining three hundred households are guarding the mountain pass;

Bai Yuanjie's headquarters and Chen Mu's Banner Army were also on guard in the camp. Bai Yuanjie didn't care what the other Hundred Household Banner Army thought, but both he and Chen Mu knew the fact that in the event of a war, the Banner Army of each Hundred Household Office could not be relied upon.

The real effective combat power is only the more than 70 barbarian battalions and the more than [-] banner troops under Chen Mu's command.

Others are nothing more than a strong momentum, waving the flag and shouting.

After several hundreds of households had dispersed, Zhang Yongshou left the tent of the Chinese army, walked around and came back with a smile on his face. He said to the two people in the tent with a smile, "Jing Chen and Chen Erlang, please retreat from others. Only the three of us know about this matter." ah."

He smiled and made people wonder what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd. Bai Yuanjie stepped down from the account according to his words, and then he smiled and said, "I want to tell you a funeral news, Qingcheng Qianhu He was killed in Huizhou half a month ago!"

When it was said that it was the news of the funeral, Zhang Yongshou didn't have the slightest sadness on his face, on the contrary, he was filled with uncontrollable joy, and he almost snapped his crown to celebrate, "Jingchen, how about thousands of households in Qingcheng?"

Bai Yuanjie's face was neither sad nor happy, and he didn't answer, but asked instead: "What do you think?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhang knows that you definitely want Chen Erlang to be the Deputy Qianhu. Mr. Zhang doesn't want to steal people's favors, and he will take care of you from Qingcheng Town, the sixth grade." After Zhang Yongshou finished speaking, he restrained his smile, and said emphatically, " Qingcheng Fu."

Deputy thousand households in Qingcheng?
Chen Mu turned his head and glanced at Bai Yuanjie, but Bai Yuanjie didn't want to answer this doubt at all. He frowned and said to Zhang Yongshou, "This time Zongbing Yu is on top, and he has no military achievements. It's very difficult."

"It's not difficult. Zhang, thanks to Chen Erlang, fed the banner army like wolves. In the battle of Huizhou, the camp was not chaotic. After the generals defeated the enemy, Zhang led his troops to kill the enemy 67 times."

"I still need two hundred households." Zhang Yongshou was still smiling, watching Chen Mu patted his legs and said with a satisfied smile: "Not only you Jing Chen has Chen Erlang to help you, Zhang also has capable subordinates beside him!"

"Let's make a team. If you can fight, Zhang will also make meritorious service."

Bai Yuanjie's face was clear, and he raised his hand to smooth his short beard under his chin for a while, and said something that surprised Chen Mu, "Qingyuan can't do without guns, [-]% of the copper dug by your family goes into the warehouse."
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Note: The literature of the Ming Dynasty mentioned the piracy of mines, and the words general and civilian were usually used together, because the people who opened mines in the wild mountains in various places were refugees, and in the unowned mountains around the guard station, the guard officials often sent their families to open furnaces and smelt mines privately.

(End of this chapter)