Chapter 25 The situation is grim and unexpected

Lu Huan instructed the soldiers to take Yao Sanjiang's broadsword back, and the group left the granary in the west of the city and headed towards the naval garrison in the night. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The breeze blew across the water, the light in the reflection disappeared in the moonlight, and the white moon reflected in the water was smeared with a trace of gray, and I don't know whether it was the smoke after the hustle and bustle, or the unique mist on the water surface, the shallow layer made the whole Chu Shui become as if in a dream.

The black night shrouded people's black faces, and the people on both sides of the strait didn't know when they would disperse, and the slight wave wind blew by, and the summer night in Chushui actually seemed a little chilly.

The empty land, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, far away from the shroud of black smoke, in the dark night, it seems so bright, the burning branches on the fire rack, crackling, the soldiers stand at the camp entrance, looking a little tired, summer, this is the case.

The Great Tent of the Chinese Army

"Han Li, let me ask you, why was the granary in the west of the city attacked by water bandits at night, but you didn't know it?" Chen Zichen sat on the main seat, two of the eight guards stood outside the camp, six stood in the camp on both sides, Lu Huan stood on the lower side of Chen Zichen, and Han Li, the Jiangmen Navy Army, stood under the case, being interrogated by Chen Zichen.

Han Li's face was bitter, he hurried to the west of the city today, and he ran into the bandit general sent by the Great King, according to the people in the capital, this guy is not easy to fool and deal with, but for Han Li, this is nothing, the main thing is that he almost caught him by mistake, but he also has a reason.

"Back to the general's words, just now, the general, you came to this naval camp from the west of the city, have you ever seen the fire in the west of the city when you enter the camp? Our battalion was originally in the east of Chushui, and Jiangmen was the only place where the army could be stationed, so we couldn't know that the granary in the west of the city was burned. We also rushed over after receiving the report, but did we run into you who had just come off that boat, and the wrong person, my lordship? Han Li defended himself unhurriedly. He is not much respected as a general of the navy, and he has never been valued in the Daqi navy, and the biggest official of the navy is also the general Lang, so he has been in Jiangmen for many years, which has led to the failure of the entire navy military discipline.

"Huh, do you have a reason? I know that the navy is relatively weak, and the imperial court does not pay enough attention to it, and even you, the navy general, do not have much confidence in front of the infantry general, after all, the navy is not a little less than the infantry, but, as a soldier, can you tolerate yourself like this? Could it be that the water army is a place for you to retire? Chen Zichen could only criticize helplessly. No one can blame the affairs of the water army, but if he has to find someone to atone for his crimes, he can only find him Chen Zichen, because the conditions of his alliance with the Qin State have stimulated the water bandits, otherwise how could the water bandits jump over the wall in a hurry?

"General, I think I was also a miscellaneous soldier to an elite soldier back then, and I was promoted to a naval general step by step, but when I became this general, I knew how useless this naval general was, I don't know how useless this naval army general is, I don't know that the army is less than half of the infantry, and the annual salary is also pitiful. Han Li didn't care about anything, he dared to jump out of anything, it was also considered his luck, he met Chen Zichen coming, but this bandit general, if it was a different person, Han Li would definitely not be able to eat and walk around today.

"Okay, you shouldn't be in charge of these things, and you don't have to say much, but as a soldier, you should protect your family and defend the country, and now that the bandits are all killed outside the door, you will turn a blind eye?" Chen Zichen wanted to ask Han Li what was going on.

"Alas, the general doesn't know, originally a few years ago, the granary in the west of the city was still guarded by our navy, but since the new city lord came, our navy was not allowed to manage our own granary, and all of them were taken back by the new city lord. Han Li cried helplessly.

Chen Zichen stood up, helped Han Li up, looked at this forty-year-old, somewhat old general, suddenly he could understand his hardship, his own territory was occupied, and now something happened to them to save the scene, even if Han Li was willing, but those little soldiers were willing? Needless to say, no one was willing, but Han Li still took someone with him, which showed that he was still a man who could be created in his bones. The difference between the infantry and the navy that Han Li said just now, of course he knew that this not only involved huge interests, but also involved huge investment, if there was no alliance covenant, the navy could only do this for the rest of its life, and it would be like this to retire in Jiangmen. Chen Zichen found that the higher his position now, the more things he came into contact with, and the whirlpool he fell into became bigger and bigger. He can't figure out the context of things.

Although Lu Huan didn't know so much, but from Han Li's words, he could still know that this was a big deal, so big that more than one department of the Ministry of War was involved in it, Lu Huan glanced at Chen Zichen, and knew that he was afraid that he was going to make another move, since the king sent him to suppress the bandits, if he couldn't suppress the water bandits, how could he face the king, he had made a military order before leaving.

"General Han Lang, let me ask you who is the city lord of Jiangmen City?" Chen Zichen asked with a frown.

Han Li knew that his words might have stimulated the young general in front of him, a child like him who 'didn't hurt his father and didn't love his mother' could only rely on Chen Zichen to realize his own value. Once he gets involved in this matter, he can't get rid of being a person on Chen Zichen's line.

"General Hui, the city lord is Yu Yunzhi. He is the son of Yu Qingxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. Han Li said who the city lord was, and reminded Chen Zichen that he was the son of Yu Qingxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Works.

Chen Zichen glanced at Han Li and snorted coldly, "I wouldn't have seen such a thing happen, I also did something for the sake of Daqi, if someone doesn't take me seriously and uses me as a gunman, then don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

How could Han Li not understand Chen Zichen's voice, so he immediately said: "General rest assured, I, Han Li, am not ignorant of promotion, but in the future, with the general's control, I Han Li will have nothing to say." Han Li said firmly.

"Alright, you go down and rest first." Chen Zichen nodded at Han Li and said that he accepted Han Li's statement.

Han Li was a little excited to return to his resting place.

"Big brother, how is it, what does the new general say?" Immediately, two soldiers asked, these two were none other than Han Li's lieutenant general.

"The day of our emergence is coming, and when Lord Chen wants to fight, don't give Lao Tzu any encouragement." Han Li scolded at the two of them.

"Big brother, don't worry, on top of Chu Shui, we are alone with Du Bantian, Yao Sanjiang, those water bandits, you haven't done it, who is afraid of whom? If it weren't for the guy surnamed Yu who forced us so hard, wouldn't our brothers go and rob them for money? Now the brothers are reluctant to fight. One of them complained.

"Don't worry, this time I asked someone to inquire in the capital, this is a celebrity around the king, no one is scared, and he is still the son of the earl, and he did the matter of our alliance between Qi and Qin." Han Li told the two brothers the news he had gotten.

"It's good, it's time for our mother's son to gallop through Chushui." One of them said with some expectation.

But the other one was a little worried: "Big brother, you said that they are generally the sons and daughters of the capital, and they are all the sons of ministers, will they cover each other and end up giving our brothers a shadow?" ”

Han Li was very confident in Chen Zichen, and with his gaze in the past few decades, he would never be wrong. So he said: "I went from a small miscellaneous soldier step by step to the current Lang general, when did I miss your eldest brother?" Do we have excessive requirements, just let our brothers have enough to eat and be able to support their families, our navy has 5,000 brothers, and we still have families to support. ”

"Okay, since the eldest brother said so, then let's believe the eldest brother." The two of them got up and said goodbye.

Jiangmen is one of the two cities of Qi by water, but Qi has always paid no attention to the navy, so the navy of Qi is recruited among the fishermen and people who understand water near the two cities, so that neither training nor other expenses, just right, it is generally believed that the navy has not been trained, and it is not a regular army, so the combat ability is not strong. But just now those two people said that the combat ability of the navy army is okay, referring to only a small part, not all, and this small part specifically refers to people who used to make a living on the water and had a particularly good water nature.

Now there are very few such people, and most of them have been miscellaneous soldiers for two years and go home to rely on their skills to eat.

Chen Zichen kept pacing in the big tent.