Battle Stats:

Results: 102 people were killed on the spot, 70 of the enemy were seriously wounded, 213 were captured, of which 35 were slightly wounded. More than 400 cold weapons, 7 three-eyed guns, and 7 war horses were seized. Ate the 8th horse tonight and it hurt the leg.

Eleven of us suffered minor injuries, and 10 of them sprained or fell while in pursuit - running in a paddy field shortly after the harvest was indeed a dangerous maneuver. One man smashed his foot while carrying a shell.

By the afternoon, the captives were almost complete. On the instructions of Ma Qianzhu, food was arranged for the prisoners. The canteen gave the captives the same food for a long time, porridge. The captives were visibly terrified and terrified of the food of the traversers. Zuihou finally had the courage to endure his hunger and began to gulp down the porridge. With the leader, the rest swarmed up and surrounded the rice bucket. You pushed me and squeezed, but there was no fight under the scolding of the guards. Now it's finally time to get a closer look at the legendary Ming Dynasty pirates. I saw a group of messy croppers squatting in a heap. There are not even neat clothes, shirtless and wearing single coats. The clothes and trousers were dirty, smelly, and tattered. It seems like it's going to be broken to pieces at any moment. Through the gaps in the clothes, you can see the bamboo-like ribs and the bulging belly. Xiong Buyou and a few translators and members of the security team were working in front of them.

There are also a dozen or so people who seem to be much more alert, and they don't fight for meals, and these people have no expression on their faces. Looks stupid and depressed. But occasionally a few eyes look around, revealing that these people have evil intentions.

"These people should be the backbone." Ran Yao looked at it for a while and said, "Let's start with them first." ”

According to the preliminary interrogation, the pirates confessed that they were the old men of Zhucai. Among the people who came, 50 were old pirates, and the others had just been recruited in the last half month.

The most ridiculous thing is that dozens of them are still military households in the back of Lingao. It turned out that in order to make a few more money, Liu Qianhu often leased the weapons, ships and military households of the guards to pirates to fight. It is not uncommon for Liu Qianhu to be a pirate, and the coastal officials and soldiers in this area have some relationship with the heroes of the sea.

But none of the captives can be regarded as a leader-level figure, and last time he caught a captain-level Shi Shixi, and this time there is no slightly decent leader in it. They were transported to Shipai by five large ships in the early hours of this morning, and after landing, they advanced here under the command of a "shopkeeper." As for the shopkeeper, I don't know if he died or ran away, anyway, he was not in the captive ranks, and he couldn't be found in the bloody corpse that had been beaten by the shells.

Most of the people knew that they were here to fight the "bandits", and the people who recruited them said that the "bandits" had robbed the bosses of a lot of treasures, and that the other side of Bairentan was full of goods, and the bosses went to attack them in order to get angry, and they also said that they had won the battle, and all the things belonged to them.

Among the things seized, many weapons had the marks and font numbers of Zhucai Lao, and some of the corpses also found documents and orders from Zhucai's gang. Looking at the captive's confession and a lot of evidence, Ran Yao frowned.

Twilight is gradually falling, and there are laughter and laughter in the various camps of the group, Zhu Cai Lao is no more than Erer, Zhang Bolin's mouth is almost laughing to the root of his ears, today's battle, a total of 80 shells, more than 400 pirates were defeated, and it was too much for the artillerymen to have a long face.

The cafeteria disemboweled the horses that had been killed, and a full meal of horse meat and water was brought to the training camp. Although it is horse meat, there is fish sauce and spices in the canteen, and salt is abundant, and the stewed dead horse meat in the water that is generally eaten is one in the sky and one in the ground. Wu Nanhai also boiled some horse oil, this thing smells disgusting, but it is fragrant when used to fry things, and Beijing's famous snack fried guan intestine is used with this thing. Wu Nanhai didn't have guan intestines, so he directly fried the most common dried pumpkin slices here, and then poured minced garlic. It was warmly welcomed by the soldiers, and this open supply of oil was more satisfying to the needs of the masses than a small portion of horse meat and water per person.

Huang Xiong received a small bowl of horse meat and water of his own, he took his chopsticks and flicked it, a few pieces of meat, a few pieces of intestines and lungs and the like, it smelled a strong aroma of spices mixed with meat, although the meat was old, but it was very fragrant. As a former Ming officer, he had eaten dead mule and horse meat, but it was the first time that he could make this thing taste so delicious. Looking around, the soldiers of the whole company were eating and drinking by themselves, and their mouths were still making satisfied sounds from time to time. After winning the second battle, this group of leaders was really stingy, so they gave a ton of horse meat to eat! Huang Xiong thought he would give out some silver or something. But when I thought about these two battles, I really didn't do anything except line up with a rifle, and they were all won with artillery.

Looking around, the company commander You Lao Hu and the platoon commanders were also eating horse meat, fried pumpkin slices, and brown rice in the bowl. Aside from going to Bairen City for a "weekend" every week, there was really no enjoyment - not even a person to make the bed and fold the quilt.

While eating, I heard the soldiers of this company talking about the second battle

“…… If we all fight like this, it will be easy to be a soldier......"

"The cannons of the chiefs are so powerful, who in the world can stop it."

"You say, will the chiefs want that?"

"You kid, don't pretend to be garlic, isn't it just a rebellion? I think it is possible. ”

"Rebellion will be beheaded all over the house—"

"Whatever you do, just like the bears of the official army, you are not afraid of rebellion." This man dreamed beautifully, "If the rebellion is really completed, we will all become the founding fathers, and each of us will have thousands of acres of land." ”

"I want to ask for a wife, I'm in my twenties, and I haven't touched a woman's hand."

"What is a wife, I want to ask for a dozen, just like the big fortune in the city!"

"You kid is already lean, I'm not afraid that a dozen wives will toss you into scum!"

……

Huang Xiong listened and his heart moved. Coming to join the army by himself is just a place to find refuge for the sinful body. At present, it seems that this group of "thieves" has no small ambitions, and even if they do not want to rebel, most of them also have the idea of separating one side. Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a soldier ask:

"Squad Leader Huang, do you mean that by the leaders?"

Huang Xiong put down the bowl: "I don't know this, but the opponent is too indiscriminate these two times, and it will not be so easy to fight if it is replaced by the official army." ”

"Our cannons—"

"There are also officials and soldiers, isn't it the Hongyi cannon?" Huang Xiong has seen the gunners in this town, this cannon is similar to the operation of the Hongyi cannon, but it seems to be lighter than the Hongyi cannon, and it is much easier to carry.

"Besides, what if there are Hongyi cannons in Liaozhen, they have made a fuss to the Dongyu outside the Guan. Can you put the cannon in a row? Donglu relied on fast horse arrows, and killed a dozen people at most with one cannon, and hundreds of cavalry rushed through dozens of zhang away at once, and if you couldn't put a few cannons, the cavalry would rush into the ranks, and you had to rely on infantry hand-to-hand combat. ”

The soldiers who said this were a little frightened, and the lively atmosphere was much less. Huang Xiong suddenly became alert, what was wrong with him? If you want to be in the town army, you can deduct the charge of "shaking the morale of the army", pull it out and cut off your head directly. I'm full and have nothing to do, what to do with this!

He hurriedly put his words aside: "This is Qiongzhou, Jianzhou is still 108,000 miles away, what are you all panicking, brothers don't go to Liaodong to fight." ”

As he spoke, he hurried around to see if there were any outsiders present, and casually pulled up some messy observations and the like, diverting the attention of the soldiers.

As the sun slowly descended on the high corners of Bopu, the newly renovated beacon tower, the gun emplacements on which had just been completed, and the muzzle of a 12-pounder cannon pointed to the sea. There was a searchlight on the fort, and Li Di, who was equipped with walkie-talkies and night vision equipment around his neck, led two naval sentries on duty. Looking at Bairen City from afar, the hustle and bustle of a busy day gradually calmed down, and the people on duty outside the city lit piles of bonfires. Many departments in the city are still lit up, and these places are still working. The charcoal stove here in Bopu is blazing. The smell of fish comes with the wind, which is the smell of a seafood processing plant. At the mouth of the river, there are some lights on the Fengcheng wheel, which are almost integrated under the starry sky.

Every few minutes, he will use night vision binoculars to inspect the camp around, now Bopu is no better than when he first landed, a ring camp can be guarded, the workplace has expanded a lot, although important places have been made circular fortification, but it is difficult to do the lighting defense that is illuminated on all sides as in the past, in addition to placing lighting equipment at key intersections and arteries, it is more dependent on night vision equipment and lurking posts. At the moment, they are not completely at ease with the indigenous soldiers, so the task of keeping watch at night is carried out by the traverser or at least led by the team.

He saw several figures in his telescope slowly approaching the seaside camp. Judging by the outline, this should be his own person, but according to the rules, he had to notify the lurking post immediately.

"Tan Ming, Tan Ming, someone is approaching your sentry post."

"Understood." Tan Ming, who was on duty at the mouth of the river, belonged to the construction engineering team, and because he was in particularly good physical condition and belonged to the hard-working type, he was arrested into the basic militia. The advantage is that you can enjoy some additional things that are particularly in demand now: cigarettes, canned food, and cola, and the basic militia often organizes movies: the first is a military education film, the second is a variety of commercial films, and the third is a late-night show, which is not suitable for good children.

"Password!" Tan Ming shouted.

"Fridge! Requirement? ”

"Haier! What are you from? Tan Ming clenched the SKS rifle in his hand.

"I'm Wu De of Bairen Commune!" The person who came had a black face, followed by a few big men in training uniforms.

It's Wu De, obedient, big official. Tan Ming immediately stood upright, and his speech was a little unclear:

"Mr. Wu, no, President Wu-"

"You call me Ade, you're not an indigenous." It was the first time he had seen someone who had been so respectful to him.

"I'm Tan Ming of the construction engineering team-" Tan Ming was a little embarrassed, no way, he often did this after being at the bottom of the society for a long time, and his heart was a little desolate.

Wu De still has a little impression of this person, because he had more dealings with the construction team in the early construction days.

"You're -- 'Fat Ming'." He matched the man's nickname with his face in the depths of his memory, and to be honest, the nickname was now unworthy of the name, and the long-term labor and high-protein, low-fat intake made him not "fat" at all, but looked strong enough.

"Yes, yes, I'm 'Fat Ming', you still remember me."

"Don't we meet on the construction site very often?" Wu De saw that he was a little excited and wanted to catch up, thinking that this place was a latent sentry post, so it was not a matter to talk like this, and he still had something to do, so he hurriedly said: "I want to go to Fengcheng ship, where to get on the ship?" ”

"Go to the Naval Harbor Office under the Lingao Fort, they're all in charge of it."

Wude shook his head, it didn't bode well that the navy was so ambitious. Although he himself is also from the navy, because he has worked in the executive committee for a long time, he has a relatively comprehensive view of things, and he does not look at the current momentum of the army and navy. He also wanted to talk to the old soldiers such as He Ming and Mingqiu when he came this time.