Chapter 44: Ma Jinbao (Part II)
In the dark of night, the artillery bombardment of the Tushan and the cave behind it by the Qing army at the head of the city began again after a pause of an hour, but the meaningless shelling did not know whether it was destroying the Tushan or reinforcing the Tushan with cannonballs.
At that time of stagnation, a messenger was secretly hung down on the wall of Longyou County, close to the camp of the Ming army, and asked to meet Chen Wen, and when the messenger saw Chen Wen, after presenting a valuable gift list to express his admiration, he said that Ma Jinbao was willing to Shuai Jun for Chen Wen to infiltrate Quzhou Mansion as an internal response, and use Chen Jin's head to atone for the Ming army, so he hoped that Chen Wen could give him a way out, that's all.
Ma Jinbao's envoy was so conclusive that even Chen Wen couldn't see any flaws. It's just that the result of this proposal was rejected by Chen Wen without hesitation. Not to mention this kind of empty and insincere promise, even if Ma Jinbao is really willing to serve, for him, who is mainly composed of Jinhua's children in the army, he will never make a fuss about the army in order to accept this bloody butcher. Moreover, he had no intention of sparing the thieves who brutalized the people like Ma Jinbao, just like when he executed all the Fubiao battalions of the Qing army.
After sending off the messengers, the Ming army's excavation continued, and the Qing army quickly resumed artillery bombardment, and everything returned to normal. At the same time, Ma Jinbao's banquet to entertain the generals of the Quzhou Water Camp who assisted in the defense continued.
In the main living room that serves as the hall of the Chinese army on weekdays, Ma Jinbao sits on the main seat, while the generals of the town standard camp and the generals of the water camp under his command sit on the left and right, and even the soldiers brought by the generals of the water camp are eating wine and meat at a table of ten people in the courtyard outside, and look into the hall from time to time.
In the hall, the "invited" girls' school book played the tunes that the illiterate generals of the Qing army seemed to understand with the accompaniment.
These beautiful and bewitching women are all obtained by Ma Jinbao for many years. Many of them turned out to be everyone's ladies, and they were rare to see on weekdays. Besides, Ma Jinbao has always been generous, and today he has the intention of rewarding and winning over the generals, and it is extremely normal to divide one or two after the banquet. On the contrary, a military general from Ma Jinbao Yizi in the Zhenbiao camp was a little absent-minded. I don't know if I'm still worried about the Ming army outside the city.
It's just that between this piece of light singing and dancing, the snow white of one piece after another looms, which really makes these generals dry and dry, and they can't stop raising their glasses to drink it all, but the more they drink this water and wine, the more they feel hot, and they just look forward to the end of the banquet as soon as possible, so that the beauties in front of them can be taken back to vent wantonly****.
It was about two hours, and the night was deep. The banquet was also more than halfway through, Ma Jinbao waved off those who had danced a few dances and were already sweating, and said to the commander of the water camp: "The boss of the army has sent his commander to guard this Longyou county town with his ranks, and we should do our best to repay the emperor's kindness and the expectations of the boss of the army." But now that the thieves are powerful and have become soldiers in the city, do you have a way to solve the worries of this commander? ”
Heard Ma Jinbao's words. The commander of the water camp, who had already begun to estimate Ma Jinbao's intention to invite guests, hurriedly got up and said to Ma Jinbao: "Back to Ma Shuai." The last general was ordered to lead the Quzhou water camp to assist in the defense, and he wanted to help Ma Shuai defend this dragon tour. If something happens, the brothers of Shuiying will definitely protect the marshal and his colleagues to return to the government to help, and please rest assured. ”
"The brothers of the water camp have a heart."
The words of the commander of the water camp really said that the hearts of these guards who were trapped in the lonely city, seeing that Ma Jinbao also expressed his approval, the town standard camp generals applauded the water camp generals one after another. In order to thank them for their righteousness, and Ma Jinbao, as the host, was even more generous to say that everyone present could choose one of the team of housekeepers just now.
Subsequently, at the signal of Ma Jinbao, the team of housekeepers entered again, and the atmosphere of the banquet became warm again. It just didn't take a while. As Ma Jinbao picked up a piece of fish that had never been chopsticks, his righteous son went out for convenience.
A quarter of an hour later, just as everyone was laughing at the fact that Yoshiko had fallen into the pit, a group of ironclad infantry wearing lightning rod helmets entered the banquet hall from the back house, and while one of them pounced on the unarmed soldiers, the other rushed into the hall under the leadership of the Yoshiko amid the screams of the family players, the girls' school scholars, and the musicians, and surrounded the generals of the water camp and the foreign generals in the standard camp of Ma Jinbao Town.
"Ma Jinbao, what do you mean?!"
What else could it mean?
I saw Ma Jinbao holding the jade Ruyi in his hand, sneering and saying to the commander of the water camp: "The boat, it is better to let the commander rest assured that it is better to keep it by our Jinhua Town Standard Battalion, so I won't bother to rank it." ”
Hearing this, before the group of water-camped generals with earth-colored faces were insulting, they saw Ma Jinbao pointing at those foreign generals with jade ruyi and asked: "The Ming army has been digging outside the city for many days, and the city is about to be broken. ”
Seeing this, when the others were still hesitating, the garrison of the Wenzhou Green Battalion, which had the largest army among the foreign generals, immediately knelt on the ground and said to Ma Jinbao: "We are the people of the standard camp in Jinhua Town, and we should act on the orders of the marshal, and dare to give the marshal a weapon to the end, and I will take the name and dedicate it to the marshal's tent!" With that, everyone quickly knelt on the ground. Only a few generals from the Quzhou Green Battalion were still looking at each other, but what they were waiting for was the word "kill" from Ma Jinbao.
A moment later, the soldiers who were drinking and feasting in the courtyard had been completely killed, and even the water camp and the few Zhenbiao battalion generals from the Quzhou Green Battalion had become a broken corpse. Seeing Ma Jinbao get up and walk down, the military general from Wenzhou Green Camp hurriedly threw down the bloody waist knife in his hand and knelt down in front of Ma Jinbao. In the next second, he was immediately helped up by Ma Jinbao.
I only heard Ma Jinbao say to these generals under his command: "You and the others are all people from the standard camp of Jinhua Town, and they are really one with this handsome, so it can be said that they are both prosperous and lossy." Today, Ben Shuai will become brothers with you, and in the future, we will be blessed and enjoy hardships together! ”
After saying a word, I saw several of Ma Jinbao's personal soldiers carrying the incense case that had been prepared to the hall, and everyone had to worship Guan Erye on the incense case in this corpse and blood as brothers according to their official age. And these survivors were all assigned to those family tricks without exception, but from one per person to two per person, but the share of the water camp generals was also divided. It's just that when asked how to deceive the Qing court, Ma Jinbao said that the matter has been calculated, and the cronies of the team of consolation water camps he sent to completely take down the water camp will definitely be able to hide from the sky and the sea.
At this moment, the personal soldiers of a Quzhou water battalion officer were sweating profusely towards the dock outside the city, but the city gate was still under the control of the standard camp in Jinhua Town...... (To be continued.) )