open sea

Chapter 74
"The rebels carry heavy vehicles, and they can't walk faster than us. Follow the ruts and catch up with them!"

Four or fifty people pushed the dozen or so cars that Li Tao said were loaded with a lot of property, and the horseshoe ruts and messy footprints were too obvious on the mountain road.

This group of rebels without a backbone is not as good as the bandits in Hei Ling. At least the experienced bandits know how to cover their whereabouts, but they don't.

After chasing after the ruts and footprints for more than half an hour, what really made Chen Mujun discover their tracks was the shouts of killing from the forest—this group of rebels who carried a lot of property and lost their leader had internal strife, and more than fifty people were divided into four groups. If they were killed, seven or eight people would sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Seeing this scene, Chen Mu, who had come looking for the sound from a long distance, said nothing, greeted the bird gun and long archer, and rushed over first, approaching thirty or fifty steps away, caught the fighting rebels by surprise, and everyone was stunned, "Raise the gun! put!"

The matchlock had already been plugged in, and the lead pellets had been placed in place long ago. This was probably the most refreshing time for Chen Mu's blunderbuss players to release the blunderbuss so far. The archers also stretched their bows and shot a salvo at this distance.

The lead ball feather arrow blinked and landed on the ground, screaming miserably.

This kind of distance, this kind of enemy, and this kind of number, there is no need for the blunderbuss team to shoot in three rounds, and the longbowmen take turns to shoot. It is Chen Mu's only idea to take the lead in killing the enemy's vital forces to the greatest extent.

boom!Boom!

The volley of more than a dozen birdcracks is very powerful in this kind of battle with only half a hundred soldiers on both sides. A handful of gunpowder arrows shoot out from the smoke, knocking down a few rebels first, followed by a few more rebels He cried out in agony after being shot by Liu Ya.

"What's going on, where are the officers and soldiers!"

Not including the rebels who were injured in the civil strife, there were only more than 30 people injured. Before they realized when the official army came up to them, [-]% of them were killed and wounded. The army shouted loudly, and the strong and powerful sword players and the light and strong spear players rushed forward.

Of course, those two general banner guards who wield long knives and are invincible are also indispensable.

Just as Chen Mu took two steps forward with his saber in hand, he heard Shao Tingda yell out in a familiar voice, "The survivors will not be killed". The footsteps that stopped abruptly stumbled.

He simply grabbed Wei Balang by the back of his neck and pulled him to his side, leaning on his knife and standing in the lead, watching the one-sided battle not far away, turning his face sideways to enjoy the reverence from Juren.

Li Juren was rushing upwards with his sword and spear, and just about ten steps away from Mr. Chen, there was a sound of "ping, ping, bang, bang" in the woods-there were only seven survivors left in the rebel army. Kneel down and beg for mercy.

No, it was eight. A rebel was fleeing deep into the dense forest, and then there was a sound of a gun behind him.

boom!
The figure who fled in a panic froze and fell slowly to the ground, and now seven of them were alive.

Shi Qi took advantage of the recoil to put the blunderbuss back on the ground, turned his head and said loudly to Chen Mu: "General Banner, we won, there were no casualties!"

The battle lasted thirty breaths from the time he released the first shot of the gun to the time he filled the gunpowder and stuffed it into the projectile, killing the last standing rebel.

Li Tao was surrounded by the rebels and walked a hundred miles away. In half a month, he saw the rebels killing all directions, attacking and destroying the defense. Situation, a pair of eyes can see straight.

Don't say that Xiangyong was stunned, Chen Mu himself felt a little flustered with the banner army's record.

Occupying the right time, place and people, Chen Junye, who has been fighting hard and bloody battles everywhere since he devoted himself to this era, finally led his troops to fight a devastating battle and cheer up!

The flag army led by Shao Tingda swiftly tied up the seven surrendered rebels, and then Chen Mu put his sword back into its sheath, took a step and glanced around, and said with a smile: "Digging pits to bury wealth, internal strife and war, what are you doing?" The spoils are not evenly distributed!"

More than a dozen oxen and horse carts unloaded wooden boxes nearby, and most of the deep pit was dug out. Several boxes were half buried in the pit, scrolls, silks, and copper coins were scattered all over the floor, and corpses were scattered all over the place—no need to ask, Chen Mu Already know what happened to them.

Several rebels were bound and kowtowed and begged for mercy, but Chen Mu ignored it and assigned each banner to count the property, and smiled at Li Tao: "Li Juren, don't hold up the knife, are you tired? Take the people to see Is there any shortage of goods, if there is no problem, we will drive back to the army village."

"The sun is going down, and it's time to go back for dinner."

Li Tao was still a little astonished when he answered the words, but it didn't last long, so he picked up Hou Xiangyong and went through the wooden box with him, and found a few important things, and just looked at the others casually, so he and Chen Mu and the others drove the ox cart back together.

For Li Tao, what is important is the proof of his identity as a candidate, and the 20 taels of water and land archway silver given by his teacher when he passed the examination. Without these things, he would not be able to go to Beijing to rush for the examination.

As far as the common people are concerned, what they value is the money they had with them when they fled the city, and more importantly, the house deed and land deed in their bags. Heyuan County was destroyed a long time ago, and it will take half a year to rebuild it. If they don’t have these things, they will be homeless back.

After packing up his things, he drove the cattle and horses all the way back to the army stronghold, and was intercepted by Bai Yuanjie's soldiers on the way, "Chen Zongqi, hurry back, Yu Zongbing sent an order, saying that the war has been decided, and they want to transfer us to Escort the people and take prisoners, Qianhu is waiting for you."

When Chen Mu went back, Bai Yuanjie had a good chat with the meritorious official sent by Yu Dayou, and they happened to meet at the gate of the military village, and the meritorious official cupped his hands at Chen Mu, and said with a smile, "This is President Chen, right?" , I heard Yu Zongbing said that the telescope was made in your hands, and you have made many achievements in this battle, I am polite!"

After sending off the meritorious officials, Chen Mu smiled and whispered to Bai Yuanjie: "Qianhu, we have won a complete victory against the rogues, and none of our subordinates were killed or injured. Those rogues indeed brought a lot of property with Li Juren and the common people. "

"Don't worry about that, money is nothing more than a possession."

Bai Yuanjie waved his hand casually, pulled Chen Mu aside and said, "Tomorrow morning, we will march towards Heyuan, escort the people on the way, don't cause any trouble, you should also recruit some servants, and choose among the refugees. "

"The people sent by Zongbing Yu said that the battle is over, and we can go back to Qingyuan after this is done."

When he said this, Bai Yuanjie didn't see how happy he was. He just shook his head and said, "Half a year of military training, and there will be no battle at all...Leaving this aside, if Li Juren can go to high school next year, it will be of great benefit to you in the future. It won't do you any harm to talk to him."

"When the matter of going back to the meritorious service is settled, Bai will invite you to go to Guangcheng Yanguifang to have a drink together, and wash away the dust!"

(End of this chapter)