The officers and men of the four hundred households took one step at a time, and finally advanced to a place thirty or forty steps away from the cottage, when a strong wind blew and the smoke showed signs of dissipating. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The officers and men in charge of operating the cannon placed the "unscrupulous cannon" into a "bag of explosives" and prepared to project it into the stockade, first causing chaos among the thieves and then blasting open the gate of the village.

"Boom-"

As the explosive packets exploded in the cottage one after another, there was a loud bang, gunpowder smoke filled the air, and rocks were splashed, but strangely not many screams were heard.

The officers and soldiers originally thought that when they got so close to the thieves' cottage, they would inevitably provoke fierce resistance from the thieves, and there would be a steady stream of arrows, falling rocks, and rolling logs, but when they finished throwing several rounds of explosives in a row, they found that it seemed that the thieves had no intention of guarding at all, and there was not even a single person who rushed to the city wall to shoot arrows.

The officers and soldiers of the four hundred households looked at each other, not knowing how to deal with this strange scene.

The follow-up soldiers and horses halfway up the mountain were waiting anxiously, but when they saw that the soldiers and horses in front of them had not been attacked, and even the second batch of officers and soldiers of the two hundred households had successfully reached the top, their fear quickly subsided.

The soldiers were muttering in their hearts: "Could it be that this smoke has fainted the thief cub?" In this way, just wait to go in and cut off your head and rob goods, people and animals? ”

Before, they were afraid of being arranged as front-line daredevils, but when the follow-up people went up in batches, the officers and soldiers behind couldn't sit still, they realized a problem, maybe the thieves on the mountain really had a problem, and now is a good opportunity to grab merit.

So, hundreds of households went to ask for war with thousands of households, and thousands of households could only go to Shen Xi to talk about it.

Shen Xi used his simple telescope to check the situation on the mountain, the camp gate had not yet been breached, and the mountain road was narrow, so there was no need for too many people at all.

Shen Xi immediately ordered: "Pass my military order, and the follow-up soldiers and horses will be on standby, and they must not take a step forward!" ”

The sea breeze became stronger and stronger, the smoke on the mountain began to dissipate, and Shen Xi's vision became much clearer.

The officers and soldiers on the mountain marched step by step, blew open the gate of the village with explosives bags, and then rushed in one by one, and the smoothness was far beyond Shen Xi's imagination.

Originally, Shen Xi seemed that even if the thieves in the cottage took laxatives, they would not be poisoned, and at least some of the people would drink the clean water they used to have.

To think about it another way, there is always a difference between high and low immunity of thieves, and they will not all be hit, right?

Even if they are hit, they will not even defend the village, and the officers and troops have been making trouble at the foot of the mountain all night, making it clear that they will attack the cottage the next day.

Shen Xi wanted to take advantage of this war to train his troops, but in the end he found that it was in vain, in fact, after the first few hundred households rushed into the thief cottage, this war was declared over, and the follow-up soldiers and horses were not willing to lag behind, and they all killed on the mountain, but except for the thousands of people who went up at the beginning, the follow-up soldiers and horses could not squeeze into the village at all.

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At noon, the battle came to an end, and the soldiers swept away the cottage and captured the remaining thieves, men and women, young and old.

Judging from the news obtained, the physical condition of the thieves on the mountain is very poor, because they have been out of water for almost five days, yesterday while the officers and soldiers divided their troops to find the water veins, the frontal defense weakened, the thieves desperately came out to carry water back, but after drinking the water, everyone in the cottage pulled up their stomachs.

However, water is a necessity of life, and when you have diarrhea and are about to collapse, you need to replenish water, but who wants to replenish it is water mixed with a lot of laxatives, so you drink it and then pull it, and then ...... The thieves in the cottage are completely tragic.

"My lord, there are not many water tanks on the mountain, because we came suddenly, the water in the tank was not satisfied, and it was drunk in a few days, because it is the dry season, only one of several springs is coming out, but the amount of water is very small, it is useless at all. They didn't dare to go out of the camp, so they could only carry it, and now they were prisoners, and they were all shouting to ask us for water to drink, haha! ”

Jing Yue's face was full of pride, he was the third batch to go up, Shen Xi didn't let him be a pioneer He had a big opinion, but at this time he had put his complaints behind him and came over to ask Shen Xi for a reward.

But Shen Xi didn't want to talk to Jing Yue about rewarding military merits, just a camp, even if the terrain was dangerous, it wouldn't be a big achievement. Judging from the number of thieves who were finally killed and captured, the total number of thieves in this solid fortress was only about 1,000, of which less than 200 were young and strong, and most of them were old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant.

"Count the loot, hand it over to Lao Jing and Lao Jiu, and the official will go back to rest first. After that, arrange for the soldiers to rest in batches, fight hard today, and leave Nanao Island tomorrow. ”

After Shen Xi finished speaking, he went back to the camp tent to rest.

Jing Yue looked at Ma Jiu beside him, Jing Yue was very unhappy with Shen Xi's arrangement for him to count the spoils with Ma Jiu, not because he had any opinions about Ma Jiu, but because he felt that Shen Xi didn't treat him as his "own person...... Two people need to be in charge of counting the spoils of war?

It was clear that Shen Xi asked the two to supervise each other, or simply let Ma Jiu supervise him.

Who called Ma Jiu Shen Xi's "retainer"?

At this time, the officers and soldiers in the camp were divided into two camps, and the part that rushed up the mountain had not calmed down from the previous excitement at this time, and for the first time felt the feeling of "nine deaths and one life" in the rain of flying stones and arrows, and finally "attacked", knocked on the door of the thief village, rushed in and slashed indiscriminately, this kind of experience they had never had.

Nervous, exciting, blood boiling all over the body, and the blood surging in the body could not calm down for a long time after the war ended.

After robbing a large number of goods, according to the previous proportion, each hundred households can take half of the goods they have grabbed as their own, including the heads of thieves and the officers and soldiers who are captive, and there are additional rewards.

Earn a fortune!

The soldiers went out to fight, saying that they were serving the country, but the focus was to get promoted and make a fortune.

And those who didn't go up the mountain or couldn't squeeze into the village too late to go up the mountain, they all regretted that they didn't take the initiative to ask for help at the beginning, and they were thinking about how to save their lives at that time, but when they found that there was no risk from beginning to end, Shen Xi had ordered that no more people should be sent, so that a great opportunity to make contributions was handed over.

The soldiers were either excited or annoyed, but they did not dare to leave the work at hand, and the tents that had been put away last night had to be rebuilt, and the pots and stoves that had been put away in the morning had to be buried again.

Regardless of whether the military exploits and rewards are in hand or not, they are sleepy, and now they want their bosses not to arrange their own patrols, and it is best to eat and drink enough, and get into the tent to sleep beautifully.

On April 25, the sun was setting.

The inventory of the results of the battle was basically completed, and 117 bandits were eliminated in this battle, 1,000 and 30 prisoners were captured, and 23,497 taels of silver and 1,438 taels of gold were seized.

After Shen Xi woke up, he summoned the generals of the army for a short meeting to explain in detail the arrangements for the next few days.

In the next few days, the soldiers and horses will go to Huanggang in two groups without stopping, and after rectifying the local military and political affairs and settling the prisoners, the soldiers and horses will continue to move north.

Shen Xi planned that he would still follow the land route of soldiers and horses, from the junction of Fujian and Guangdong to Fuzhou in the north, this section of the road, relatively calm, along the way Chuanling Mountain, Kinmen Island, Haitan Mountain, etc., there are guards and soldiers stationed, bandits can not gain a foothold, northern Fujian, southern Zhejiang generation of coastal areas, is the serious bandit area.

Shen Xi in the first year of the way to the south, has a certain understanding of the scale of the area of the bandits, since the fight to the present, the command has not met the real bandits, even if there are bandits on Nanao Island under the banner of the bandits, but in the end found that there is no shadow of the bandits, but the people of the country in the spirit of "foreign monks chanting scriptures", thinking that the identity of the barbarians in Fanbang will form a sufficient deterrent to the people and other pirates, so they put on the banner of the bandits.

In the last years of Hongzhi, the Japanese were mainly active in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and did not extend their tentacles to the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong.

"My lord, the whole army is waiting for a reward right now, when are you going to get what you have earned before...... Issued? Jing Yue's meritorious service in this war is not small, and his own reward is not a small amount, so he pushed the boat down the river and became a lobbyist for the soldiers of the three armies, and came to talk to Shen Xi about the reward.

Shen Xi glanced at Jing Yue and asked, "Are you in a hurry to get the money home?" ”

Jing Yue was stunned and replied: "There is no such intention in the humble position, but the war is over, and the reward has not been distributed to those rabbit cubs, so maybe they will have some nostalgia for adults...... If the reward is distributed earlier, the rabbit cubs will have a stronger fighting spirit, and they are willing to follow the adults before and after the saddle! ”

Shen Xi said: "Listen to you, if I don't reward you today, tomorrow the officers and soldiers will retreat as deserters, and no one will follow me to fight in the future?" ”

Jing Yue knew that he couldn't speak of Shen Xi in words, and this time he came to beg Shen Xi to give out the reward in advance, and when he heard his words with a gun and a stick, he could only remain silent.

Shen Xi picked up the pen and continued to make a record of the battle, saying: "Wait, the day after tomorrow, all the soldiers and horses will withdraw to the land, and the reward will be issued immediately." The officer does not want to delay the goods due to the officers and soldiers, otherwise, as you said, who would want to serve the officer after the saddle of the horse? ”

Although it was not issued immediately, Shen Xi had already made a promise, and it would only take a day or two to calculate the time, Jing Yue immediately smiled and said, "My lord, do you want to convey this news to the army?" ”

"Go ahead."

Shen Xi knew that Jing Yue wanted to use this method to confirm the fact that he was going to issue a reward. Jing Yue's move was purely clever, and Shen Xi, as the commander of the three armies, never thought of making empty promises at all.

Shen Xi knew very well that the terrible failure to fulfill his promise would not only affect the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers, but also likely to set himself on fire and cause a mutiny to put his own life into it.

Originally, Shen Xi had high hopes for Jing Yue, but now it seems that Jing Yue belongs to the kind of general who is rich and peaceful, although no one is perfect, but it has always made Shen Xi a little disappointed.

You privately withheld the spoils of war in front of the army, it can be said that you are following the crowd, but how to explain that you come to lobby and play clever for a little reward?

A general who does not want to make progress and seeks profit may not be able to grow into a good general.

Even if you want to make profits, you should also seek promotion in official positions, what can a deputy thousand households do? Only by doing a thousand households can you really get ahead, and only by going to the nine sides can you make contributions and go down in history......

Thinking of this, Shen Xi felt that he was too harsh on Jing Yue.

It is a bit unrealistic to let a person born in the mud of the times be a white lotus, but it is better to guide it well, maybe Jing Yue can make a difference in the future. (To be continued.) )