After the capture of Dahaopu, Zheng Chenggong appointed Hong Xishan, the chief military officer of Youchong Town, to manage the local affairs of Dahao, and Gan Hui, the deputy general of Youchong Town, to manage Youchong Town. After the Dahao incident, the army immediately crossed the Hao River and rushed straight to the county seat of Chaoyang.

Li Chengdong Anyway, Chaoyang County changed banners, but in the face of Zheng Chenggong's menacing army, Chang Yifeng, the county governor of Chaoyang, did not dare to support it, and led his father to meet him. Chaoyang was about to fall, Zheng Chenggong appointed Zhongzhen Bo Hongxu to temporarily take charge of Chaoyang local affairs, and then the army began to sweep away those local tyrants and cottages who refused to belong in Chaoyang County.

Zheng Chenggong went down to Haopu and Chaoyang County, but there were still a large number of bandits in Chaoyang County who were unwilling to join, and the first one was Heping Village.

Heping Village is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the west side is connected to the land route, so as to take risks and defend itself. Zheng Chenggong attacked for a few days, and simply stepped forward to supervise the battle, but unexpectedly, on the wall, a firearm had already been aimed at his people, and it happened that Zheng Chenggong turned around and talked to Pan Gengzhong, who joined the army, and the projectile passed by, injuring Pan Gengzhong's right finger.

After a long attack, the casualties increased, Zheng Chenggong had the idea of retreating, but Yang Cai, the chief officer of the right pioneer town, said: "It seems to be this stalk, how can you lose if you don't attack?" I am willing to supervise the troops to enter the country, limited to tomorrow morning, if the city is not broken, I am willing to retreat the seal of the vanguard! ”

Yang Cai took the military order and left, and the next morning, Yang Cai took the lead in risking the arrow stone to climb the mountain, cut down several thieves, and the others forged ahead, broke through the peace village, and the resisters were killed.

To break through the Heping Village, Zheng Chenggong sent Shi Lang of Zuo Pioneer Town to lead his troops to attack Xitou Village, and Chen Bin of Houjin Town attacked Lion's Head Village. Huang Liangcai, the head of the thieves in the lion's head village, heard that the army was coming, and the leader of the troops was Chen Bin, who was so frightened that he asked Chen Bin to surrender. Zheng Chenggong agreed to his request to surrender and ordered him to recruit troops on his own and grant him the town's affairs.

At the same time that Chen Bin went down to the lion's head village without a fight, Shi Lang also led his troops to capture Xitou village. is not as good as the former, but here is a large army rushing up the city, Shi Lang's command is full of veterans of the Zheng Group, just a village, naturally it is not a problem. Captured, captured, beheaded, everything is counted.

Su Mao had already entered the village, Shi Lang and Shi Xian looked at the captives who came out of the village, one by one they hung their heads, and their necks were wrapped around their necks by a long hemp rope in turn, as long as one person was a little slower, it would be difficult for others to breathe. At first glance, it is also very ridiculous.

"This time, the attack on Dahao Village and Heping Village is the first achievement of the Right Pioneer Town......"

"Yang Cai is a reckless man, nothing is a big deal. In the army, Ke Chenshu still has a bit of weather, but if it is said that the entire country is under the command, Chen Kai's family is the most hateful. ”

"Brother, I heard that Chen Kai and Ke Chenshu have a fateful friendship."

"So these two people must be strictly guarded against."

Saying that, the two Ming soldiers were carrying a stretcher, and the body of the fallen soldier on it, Shi Lang felt familiar at first glance, and when he ordered the two Ming soldiers to stop and take a closer look, Shi Lang quickly recognized the Ming army.

"I remember that his family lived in a neighboring village, and there was a blind old lady and a younger brother in the family."

This is an officer, who had been a personal soldier for Shi Lang for a few days earlier, and when the army was cleared and followed Li Chengdong into Guangdong, he was sent down to be a junior officer, but now he died here.

"Pass the order down and bury it."

With a wave of his hand, Shi Lang planned to continue walking, but before he could take two steps out, he immediately stopped the two Ming soldiers again, and ran back in three steps and two steps, with a happy face.

"I'm worried that I haven't recruited you to rectify this."

………………

The three villages of peace, Xitou, and lion's head are broken, and since the birds that have come out have been swept away by the wind, the rest will naturally enter the cage in an orderly manner and become canaries.

Chaoyang County was quickly leveled, and it was different from last year's capture of Chenghai and Raoping, and it was more due to the overwhelming strength of Zheng Chenggong's troops against the local tyrants in these places. This strength does not only come from quantity, the return of Shi Lang and others has brought a large number of Zheng veterans, which has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the army, and some of Shi Lang's training methods are more effective than those used by Zheng Chenggong earlier, and the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness has become inevitable.

The army temporarily returned to Chaoyang County, rested for a while, and waited for the follow-up combat mission - if there was a recurrence in Chaoyang locally, it could be pacified nearby; If the place is blocked and the people return to their hearts, then starting from Chaoyang, the two counties of Huilai and Puning, Haimen, Jinghai and other health posts in the southwest of Chaozhou Prefecture are also within the scope of its attack.

The heaviest rewards and punishments in the army are clear, and even in the interior of Dahao and even in Chaoyang, rewards for meritorious deeds are indispensable. is a mistake, there are not many, and in the context of successive battles, it seems to be very small. But some things always seem to be easy to be singled out by some well-intentioned people and put them in the open.

"Country name, this rattan helmet is really useless, not to mention the obstruction, it has no defensive effect at all. Anyone in our army who is attacked on the head will not be able to block even a single attack of a stray arrow. ”

Inside the big tent, amid the praise, Shi Lang took a broken rattan helmet from his brother's hand, pointed to the blood-stained hole on it and said loudly to Zheng Chenggong, as if he was afraid that he would not notice this obvious and extreme defect.

"There are still a lot of such rags in the army. In the humble opinion of the last general, this kind of thing is actually wasting military salaries, rather than continuing to produce and equip the troops, it is better to simply let the soldiers wrap their heads in fast cloth, at least the arrows are fired, and the quick ones have a chance to dodge. ”

Shi Lang seemed to be indignant and said these words, but his actual intentions and meanings, the generals did not understand. At this moment, Zheng Chenggong sat at the top and did not speak, just silently looked at the expressions of the generals. But at this moment, Chen Bin, the chief military officer of Houjin Town, snorted coldly, and then said angrily: "Why are there few soldiers in other departments who have been injured in the head, and the thieves in Xitou Village like to hit their heads?" ”

Chen Bin said this with a big grin, Shi Lang immediately looked at each other angrily, and then Shi Xian, who was sitting behind Shi Lang, sneered without any scruples: "We can't compare with Chen Shuai, we are lucky to catch up with a coward, and we can't even hurt the slightest fur, and we have this opportunity to say cool things." ”

"Hmph, don't think that your brother is holding back some bad water, Lao Tzu doesn't know!"

Chen Bin is a straight person, and he doesn't actually have a deep friendship with Chen Kai, but it's just that Shi Lang is not happy to calculate behind him. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Shi Lang is making a fuss about the manufacture of weapons by means of casualties, and his purpose is nothing more than to squeeze out Chen Kai and establish his status as the No. 2 person under Zheng Chenggong.

The quarrel intensified, and Zheng Chenggong couldn't help frowning, and simply made a fuss. However, the rattan helmet in front of him, Zheng Chenggong defended Chen Kai with a few words, and it was already overstretched to use it in weapons, let alone the reality of creating helmets, so he temporarily revealed it. However, the generals and soldiers in the army mentioned by Shi Lang did not trust such things, but they still proposed a way to consult with Chen Kai to appease them a little, and there was nothing else.

When the military discussion was over, he just turned his head, and with a slight look, his younger brother understood the meaning, and when he returned to the camp, he secretly sent a cronie to Nanao Island to explain Shi Lang's situation to Chen Kai to prepare as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the cronies went out with their front feet, and after a while, they turned back again, and directly told Ke Chenmei that he saw Chen Kai on the other side of the dock, and was walking towards the camp in Rongqi Town outside the city.

Seeing this, Ke Chenmei hurriedly rushed to inform his brother, but when they arrived at the camp in Rongqi Town, Chen Kai had already confronted Shi Lang in Zheng Chenggong's Chinese army tent, but he was still one step too late.

"This kind of rag, used to equip the army, is to joke with the lives of the soldiers."

"Then according to General Shi's meaning, is it the kind of eight-petal iron helmet that is built for the official army?"

"Hmph, that's just the bare minimum."

In the face of criticism, Chen Kai did not refute it, but it seemed that Shi Lang was even more arrogant. However, hearing Shi Lang's words, Chen Kai shook his head, and then said to him: "Fujian is in chaos, Fujian iron production has plummeted, and iron is insufficient, this is something that cannot be helped. As for this eight-petal helmet, in the opinion of the official, it is just a few pieces of iron, and there is not much difference between doing it and not doing it. It was rattan helmets, but the official suddenly came up with a way to make them better protect the heads of the soldiers than the eight-petal helmets. ”