"The old man heard a few months ago that the new will avenge his parents, wife and children, and the Yong Xiucai of the Qing Soldier will be the commander of the Qing Soldier by Yunlong, and when I saw it today, the Yong Xiucai really deserves its reputation, and the soldiers brought by him are even more amazing, it is really a hero out of a teenager, a hero out of a teenager, hehe"

Chen Qice, a white-haired veteran general who was in a good mood because of the victory, grabbed Zhou Shixiang's hand, looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more happy he became, and he couldn't help nodding. The generals of the Chen Department on the side also looked at Zhou Shixiang with a smile on their faces, and they did not have the pride of the guest soldiers that Zhou Shixiang thought before, which made Zhou Shixiang secretly ashamed, but he had the heart of a villain before.

Chen Qice is so enthusiastic, and he is a figure of his grandfather's generation, and he can't help but praise himself, Zhou Shixiang will not have any disgust with the white-haired old general's scrutiny, and he is humble as a junior there. After looking at it enough, Chen Qice stroked his beard and introduced several generals under his account, Zhou Shixiang, one by one. Zhou Shixiang and everyone also saluted one by one, not lacking half a cent of courtesy, but he did not put himself too low, as if it was a normal courtesy between friendly troops. Chen Qice was not surprised that he did this, and nodded secretly.

"If it weren't for the general who led his troops to help, Xinhui City would have been taken by the Qing army long ago, and where would there be juniors here. The younger generations could see clearly that the Qing army fled as soon as they saw the general's banner, and General Linghai's prestige shocked Guangdong Province. ”

Zhou Shixiang held Chen Qice in disguise, but he didn't say anything about the official name, only called one junior at a time, and Song Xianggong on the side heard the strings, his heart moved slightly, and he also secretly thought about it.

"Hey, it's not that your Taiping army has been in this city for several months, and it has burned down the camp of the Qing army's sailors, where can the old man swagger into the river, and have the courage to go ashore and beat the water dogs. Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, in this battle, your Taiping Army has made great contributions, and your brother Zhou has made great achievements! When the old man got off the ship, he had already decided to report the war to the court truthfully, and wanted the court to know that the new meeting would rejoin the hands of my Ming Dynasty. The door of Guangzhou is wide open, and I don't know what the emperor and the princes of the court are happy about. You can rest assured, with this credit, the court will never treat you badly! ”

Chen Qice's veteran demeanor, a picture of a big package, it seems that as long as he is on the book, the court will immediately reward a general soldier. He is also old and refined, Zhou Shixiang refused to surrender his identity and respected him, General Linghai, so he also called "Brother Zhou", and he didn't care about the huge age difference between the two.

Of course, Zhou Shixiang also wanted the official status of the Yongli Imperial Court. As for the level of the reward, he didn't care, he smiled and thanked Chen Qice for his kindness, but found that the faces of several generals behind Chen Qice were not very good-looking, and he knew the key to the problem after a little thought, according to the old general's statement, the Taiping Army must be the biggest contributor to seizing Xinhui and holding Xinhui, on the contrary, the merit of Chen Bu who came to help would be reduced by one level. There is a big difference between the primary and secondary points, and the reward can be very different. And don't think about the thoughts of the generals of the Chen Department, people are utilitarian, if it weren't for the sailors going ashore in time, it would be a question of whether the Taiping Army could hold on. In this detailed comparison, it is really difficult to tell who this first gong belongs to.

Since Zhou Shixiang came, Qi Hao took the initiative to join the Taiping Army, and he interjected. Said: "The king of Xining must be very happy there. ”

As soon as these words came out, Chen Qice and Zhou Shixiang were stunned, and Chen Qice's staff Hu Deyu frowned slightly. But I don't know what to think.

The atmosphere in the field was awkward, but fortunately, Chen Qice smiled heartily and said: "The king of Xining led a large army to surround this Xinhui for several months last year, but the result was that he fell short and had no choice but to retreat, but today Xinhui called Brother Zhou to take it, and defeated the Qing army that came to attack. ”

"I'm afraid the prince of Xining won't be able to pull away," Hu Deyu muttered, but no one heard.

"Since the Qing army has been defeated, Xinhui is no longer in danger of being besieged, then please invite the general to enter the city for a while, and the younger generation has some ideas to talk to the general."

Chen Qice is a guest army to come to help, and Zhou Shixiang, as the actual owner of Xinhui City, naturally has to treat each other warmly, and there is no reason in the world for guests to come to the host but not greet them.

Chen Qice said with a smile: "It's okay, the old man has not stepped into a city and a pond inland for several years since he entered the sea in the second year of Yongli. He said and greeted his subordinates, "Come, you all follow the old man into the city to take a good look at our Ming city." ”

The generals also responded with a smile, but Hu Deyu reminded Chen Qice in a low voice, and after hearing this, Chen Qice hurriedly said to Zhou Shixiang: "By the way, Brother Zhou, there is extra grain and grass to supply the old man's sailor." ”

"Grain and grass?"

Zhou Shixiang was stunned, and immediately understood that Chen Qice's sailors were poor ghosts like his own Taiping army. He smiled bitterly and said, "The old general was invited into the city to discuss the matter of grain and grass. ”

"Oh?" Chen Qice saw the embarrassment on Zhou Shixiang's face, his heart tightened, knowing that the other party's grain and grass were also difficult, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious when he thought that he had only brought a few days of grain and grass in the army when he came. But he didn't move, smiled and nodded, motioned to Zhou Shixiang to lead the way, and instructed Hu Deyu: "Zixuan, you go and arrange it, you are in charge of the aftermath, you don't have to ask." ”

"Yes, General." Hu Deyu hurriedly responded.

"Old General, please!"

"Brother Zhou, please!"

When Zhou Shixiang invited Chen Qice and his entourage into Xinhui City, there were corpses and burning camps everywhere along the way, and from time to time there were teams of Taiping army and sailors escorting prisoners past. Every time a team passes by, Chen Qice has to stop, if he sees a wounded soldier, he has to be concerned about a few words, this kind of behavior naturally makes Zhou Shixiang feel more good, and he feels that this white-haired old general is not like other generals of the Ming army, he is very down-to-earth. However, the more Chen Qice is like this, the more Zhou Shixiang doesn't know how to talk about the rest of the matter.

When he arrived at the gate of the city, there happened to be the old people and children organized by the Taiping Army to go to the battle city to pick up things, and seeing these old people and children who were so hungry that they were a little malnourished, Chen Qice's face was shocking, and he was very sad.

On the battlefield, the Taiping Army and the Navy Division were cleaning up separately, and the two sides tacitly did their own things, and there was no such thing as fighting for the spoils of war.

Song Xianggong sent people into the city early to clean up the county government, and scavenged some dried meat and vegetables, and barely bought a table that was still eye-catching, but there was no wine in the army, but fortunately, Chen Qice didn't mind, so he used tea instead of wine to sit at the table.

After three rounds of tea, Zhou Shixiang first opened his mouth to tell the Taiping army that it was close to running out of food, and then proposed that the grain and grass captured by the Qing army in this battle should be divided equally between the two sides, and the rest of the materials should also be divided equally. (To be continued.) )