Chapter 45: Encountering the Officers and Soldiers

Those who knew Fan Chengkun said: "Yes, this person is good." ”

The most unexpected thing was Fan Chengkun himself, he didn't expect that among so many people in Yaogang, Zhang Zhimu would choose himself and give him such an important position. It seems that Zhang Zhimu has seen how he is doing in his heart, weighing himself, and feeling that he can still be qualified for this job, he has studied literature and martial arts since he was a child, but he didn't expect to be mixed into the dock as a coolie, and today he is finally appreciated, and finally has a bright future. Fan Chengkun saw that everyone had no objection, so he stood up, bowed his hand to Zhang Zhimu, and then to everyone, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Zhang's appreciation, thank you for your uplift." I will definitely do my best to treat this commander well and live up to Mr. Zhang's trust. That demeanor is not at all like the previous Fan Chengkun, who is often on the edge of the crowd and is silent. Zhang Zhimu saw it, and his heart was also overjoyed, this is a general, my future naval commander. In fact, Zhang Zhimu has long been concerned about this person, and he feels that this is also a useful person. Letting him hold this position is to give him a chance, and he can also be properly examined.

Zhang Zhimu was about to take over and say a few words, but a person ran in outside and said, "Li Jing is waving very anxiously on the shore, it seems that there must be something urgent!" Zhang Zhimu said: "Hurry up and take them all." Li Jing didn't wait for everyone else to come up, she ran over and said: "The officers and soldiers are here, I finished shopping, and I rushed down the river, not far ahead, and found a team of officers and soldiers rushing in this direction, we are beating horses to bypass, and it is estimated that we are about to arrive." Zhang Zhimu said: "Go now and raise anchor." Ah, by the way, send someone ashore to release the news that we have sunk two of Li Zicheng's warships and captured three, and plant the dart flag on the ship. Li Jing said that I had to go for this, and as she spoke, she took a big banner and the helmet of an army officer of Li Zicheng, and got off the boat and went ashore. When he went to the shore and said something to a servant, he gave him what he had in his hand, and turned and returned. The whole fleet, some mighty, went downstream. The meeting then resumed. As soon as Li Jing heard the meeting, she was ready to let Fan Chengkun be in charge of the work of the fleet, and raised her hands in favor.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Commander Fan's official appointment letter will be supplemented later, now I will assign you a staff officer who is literate and hyphenated, and for the rest, I can only give you fifteen people we brought out of the kiln gang, and you can choose the personnel yourself, and the five captains will be selected by yourself, and then appointed by the company." For the rest, you'll have to use these newcomers. I can only give five muskets, and the rest, what muskets bow thunder, you have to go back to Li Yunhe to ask for them. There are fifteen people, and we can only choose from the newcomers. "Zhang Zhimu's staff officer is the person Zhang Zhimu asked Li Zhi for, and asked Li Zhi to tell this person that he can normally open a salary from the fleet, and the intelligence department will pay the same salary, you know how to do it, right? Li Zhina is an extremely smart person, he admires this leader very much, he can see far, and now he will start to play chess.

"Fan Chengkun's salary, etc., now enjoys the treatment of middle-level cadres, the captain is one level lower than you, and other fleet cadres can be boldly appointed as needed. There is another question, I want these three big boats to send us all the way to the front of Sanmenxia and then go back, to see if everyone has any opinions. ”

Everyone didn't have any opinions, Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, after Fan Chengkun chooses a good person, he will be assigned to each ship now and familiarize himself with the situation as soon as possible. ”

Fan Chengkun discussed with Liu Yun, Li Jing, and Li Wei and decided on the personnel. Chen Yufeng said: "The uniforms of Li Zicheng's army that have been replaced are burned, and the flags are rolled up and wrapped. The red-clad cannon pushes down the cabin. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Li Zhi helped Lu Chengxiang and others count the seized goods and money. Let's see which ones we can take south, and those that need to be transported back to the kiln. ”

In the end, Lu Chengxiang and their statistics came up, and the numbers made Zhang Zhimu startled. Lu Chengxiang tried to calm down, and reported: "Now it is ascertained that a total of 23,865 taels of gold, 64,676 taels of silver, 1,130 taels of copper coins, and 589 pieces of copper coins have been obtained. Zhang Zhimu glanced at Chen Yufeng, and Chen Yufeng was also so shocked that he forgot to drink the water cup.

The number of goods reported below is even more staggering to Zhang Zhimu. There are both goods from the south and goods from the north, accounting for about half of each. It seems that the merchants they plundered came and went.

Lu Chengxiang said: "Those goods that can be transported to the south, add up to more than our original, I think we will get off the ship at Tongguan, where we can sell some first, and I will take the rest together." In Tongguan, you can also buy some goods that can be transported north, plus the seized goods that can be transported north, and use large ships to directly transport them back to Lingshui Wharf. ”

Li Zhi continued: "There are too many captured bows and arrows, and they are still counting. There are three red-coat cannons, **, solid shells, and flowering shells, all of which are too many. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It seems that it is still faster to be a robber than to do business." They came out for more than half a year. So much money was robbed. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "I don't know how many people have suffered. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Mr. Lu, you have to take the trouble to classify the goods first, which ones to get off the ship and which ones to bring back, so as not to panic when you get off the ship." ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "The accounts are being sorted out, you can rest assured, these things have been arranged." When Zhang Zhimu heard this, he was very happy, these people are very competent. said, "You have to worry about these things, Mr. Lu." "What should be, what should be." Lu Chengxiang said and withdrew.

It was fine for two days. Zhang Zhimu took some time to chat with those new employees, and the ideological work in his previous life was still very effective. So these people sometimes cry, sometimes laugh, and finally return to their hearts. All of them are full of confidence in the future. Fan Chengkun seems to have slowly entered the role, and Zhang Zhimu does not interfere with his command.

At noon that day, after lunch, Zhang Zhimu was drinking tea and chatting with Chen Yufeng and Li Mao. A report came from outside, saying that two official ships had been found in front. Zhang Zhimu felt strange, he had never seen an official ship along the way, and it might have been beaten away by Li Zicheng's navy, so how could there be a ship of the official army again.

Zhang Zhimu and others came to the ship together, and sure enough, two official and military ships rushed over. Zhang Zhimu ordered, to the rear fleet, send a signal to slow down, and three big ships to catch up. Quietly said to Li Jing: "You lead a few people, stay away from us, and plan for the worst." Li Jing nodded and left.

After a while, the ship of the officers and soldiers arrived, and a man who looked like an officer stood at the bow of the ship and shouted loudly: "Dare to rebel against the thief, and when you see the officers and soldiers here, you will not lower the anchor and stop the ship." Zhang Zhimu felt funny when he heard it, when he met a thief, do you dare to talk like this? Obviously, they knew that these ships were no longer anti-thief ships, and they were here to pick up bargains. But there is no way, now try not to offend the officials and soldiers, now that you have offended Li Zicheng, if you offend the officials and the army again, you can't live a good life? I had to give the order to stop the ship.

The two ships of the officers and soldiers were much smaller than the war ships, and each had twenty or thirty men on board. Seeing that the warship stopped, the two ships each ran to one warship. Leaning on Zhang Zhimu's boat, the officers and soldiers threw a rope, and Zhang Zhimu asked people to bolt to the boat and lower the rope ladder. Zhang Zhimu thought to himself, I don't know if they have seen such a thief. More than 20 officers and soldiers came up along the rope ladder, and the last one came up, presumably as an official. As soon as he came up, he pointed the tip of his sword at the people and asked, "Who is the leader of you thieves?" Zhang Zhimu hurriedly stepped forward and said: "This military master, we are not thieves, we are businessmen of Xiurong, you see that the dart flag of the Huwei Dart Bureau is still planted on the ship." If we are really anti-thieves, do we dare to help the military masters get on the ship? The officer was speechless at once, and burst into anger: "Be bold and rebel." "I swung the knife at Zhang Zhimu, this knife is powerful, if it is to cut off the head, I have to cut Zhang Zhimu's head in half. Before anyone else could react, the knife had just fallen, when a frightened sound was heard, and the knife flew away. It turned out that Yang Yulin, the "Fire Phoenix" standing beside Zhang Zhimu, saw that the situation was not good, and made a decisive move. The long whip was being whipped into the officer's hand, knocking the knife away and knocking it out of his hand. The officer let out an "ahhh But then I couldn't call it anymore. Yang Yulin shot a flying knife directly into his open mouth. The officers and soldiers are all people who can't suppress the fire when they see honest people, and when they see someone really doing it, they are not prepared, that is, they are stunned. Zhang Zhimu couldn't do it without seeing it. He waved his hand behind him, and then there was a volley of guns, most of the officers and soldiers on the boat fell, and everyone rushed up, Zhang Zhimu shouted: "Leave a living mouth." "The rest of the officers and soldiers are the opponents of these people, and they really leave Zhang Zhimu a living mouth. After shooting the officers and soldiers on the boat, Li Jing led people to shoot at the officers and soldiers on the boat, and only one of the officers and soldiers on the boat jumped into the water and escaped. Zhang Zhimu shouted don't let him go, then Li Jing smiled and said: "Can't run" In the diving guy, when he just showed his head, Li Jingtong's shot directly exploded his head, only to see a small piece of blood mist on his head, and his body slowly sank. Zhang Zhimu shouted: "Musket bow thunder, shoot that ship." ”

Zhang Zhimu: They quickly eliminated the officers and troops without casualties. Fan Chengkun's side didn't go so smoothly and suffered a loss. As soon as the officers and soldiers on his side came up, they ordered all the people to kneel, because there was no order from Zhang Zhimu, and it was the officers and soldiers who came up. Fan Chengkun asked everyone to kneel. Without saying a word, the officers and soldiers also slashed with their swords, and two brothers who could not dodge were hacked to death on the spot, and several were slashed. At this time, Fan Chengkun heard a gunshot from Zhang Zhimu's side, and Fan Chengkun knew that he could do it. Just when the officers and soldiers were stunned, they jumped up and quickly killed all the officers and soldiers on the ship, but at the same time as killing the officers and soldiers, two brothers were hacked to death, and several were also injured. At this time, Zhang Zhimu and the others also shot all the officers and soldiers on this boat.

Zhang Zhimu asked to bring the living officer and soldier over. The officer and soldier were so frightened that they trembled like chaff, and they explained everything. It turned out that the officers and soldiers that Li Jing met that time really came to the dock where Zhang Zhimu and they stopped their ships, and the officers and soldiers thought that the three warships were parked there and there was an attempt to land, so they sent a commander with a team of officers and soldiers. When they arrived at the dock, the official handed over the things to the officials and soldiers, and learned the words taught by Li Jing to the officials and soldiers. When the officer and army heard this, they eliminated Li Zicheng's navy, and they blew up and sank two warships and captured three, which is a great thing for me. During this period of time, the officers and soldiers did not dare to show their faces when they were beaten by these warships. As soon as I went back to report, the officers and soldiers were 800 miles to report the victory to Beijing, and quickly reported to the defenders along the way, and now the defenders of Tongguan already know this good news. The Tongguan Navy sent three small warships out to patrol this time, and it was because they got this news that they dared to come out. After the three ships came out, the leading officer had evil thoughts. He knew that there would be a lot of money on the remaining warships, so he called a few leaders and told him what he meant. A few guys were interested in profits, so they said that they were still patrolling, intercepting the three ships, killing all the thieves on the boats, and even the boats and belongings were ours. It was agreed that the leaders would bring two ships to intercept the three ships, and the leader would wait downstream, and if something happened, he would not be present to maneuver. When Zhang Zhimu heard that there was an official ship downstream, he knew that something was wrong.