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Two hours later, outside the north gate of Xinhe City, the dejected Japanese captives had almost cleaned up the big dung pit at the north gate, and the headless body of Nobuo Kamiizumi was also found from the dung pit corpse pile, and the gorgeous armor was peeled off, although the piece on the back had been smashed by Li Cangxing's kick, but the other parts of the armor were still intact, and even the helmet that was thrown to the ground for him, several female soldiers were carrying several buckets of water and scrubbing it repeatedly, Get ready to collect it as a rare trophy from this battle.

In addition, thousands of good Japanese knives have also been piled together, these Japanese robbers almost have nothing of value on their bodies, except for this sharp and difficult Japanese knife, in today's battle, even the weapons of the masters under Li Cangxing have been cut off by the Japanese knife, and many of the masters of the knife do not need anything else, that is, in these captured knives to find a worthy one, and at this time they keep holding it in their hands to enjoy it, and those who have lost their knives are like tigers who have pulled out their claws, and they have completely lost their usual spirit.

Li Cangxing stood at the head of the city at the north gate, standing side by side with Wang Lianying, watching these Japanese prisoners work hard, only two hours of hard work, the dung pit and the battlefield that had thousands of corpses just now had been almost cleaned, and there were few corpses in the dung pit that exuded a pungent smell of blood and stench, most of the pit had already been filled, and hundreds of Japanese robbers were cutting wood in the woods west of the city, using local materials. I'm going to build a new gate.

Wang Lianying let out a long sigh of relief: "General Heavenly Wolf, it is really thanks to you that I can defend Xinhe City today." Otherwise, the consequences are really unimaginable. ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "This time it is indeed a little dangerous, we didn't expect the Japanese to move so fast, but General Wang is really a heroine among women, if it weren't for your proper command at night and steady dìng people's hearts, I'm afraid that I would be half a beat short of rushing over." By the way, are the results of the battle finished now? ”

Wang Lianying nodded: "General Li in the city just came to report that he was beheaded two thousand one hundred and twenty-three in this battle. Three thousand four hundred and sixty-seven men were captured, sixty-seven ships were burned, one hundred and forty-six were captured, and not a single enemy escaped. It's a complete victory. As for our losses. The soldiers in the city were killed two hundred and forty-seven and three hundred and sixty-two, while General Celestial Wolf, your men were killed twenty-seven and wounded sixty-eight. ”

Li Cangxing sighed: "The combat effectiveness of the Japanese is still strong, even if we make such an arrangement, there are still six or seven hundred casualties, no wonder these thieves have been rampant in the southeast over the years, invincible." At present, the two suspicious armies of the Japanese have been completely wiped out. And their main force should be attacking Taizhou at this time, General Wang. I'm going to lead my subordinates to Taizhou now, and that's the real main battlefield. It also determined the outcome of the Taizhou battle this time. ”

Wang Lianying glanced at the thousands of half-bald heads of the Japanese outside the city, and frowned slightly: "What about these Japanese prisoners, I'm afraid that there is not enough space in the city to accommodate so many people." ”

Li Cangxing pondered for a while, and said: "When I came from Haiyan, the county commander Hai Rui there had already made preparations and vacated the entire county seat, which was specially used to accommodate the Japanese prisoners, this Xinhe City is a logistics center after all, and General Qi's military resources are located, and it is indeed a hidden danger to put so many Japanese prisoners, it is better for General Wang to make a hard trip, and bring hundreds of soldiers to escort these Japanese prisoners to Haiyan, and now it is just noon, send a fast horse to Haiyan, and let Haizhi County send troops to respond, and it should be able to arrive at night. ”

Wang Lianying nodded: "What General Tianwolf said is extremely true, this is a logistics point, and there is no difference between it, and now that the city defense is damaged, these more than 3,000 captives are placed outside the city, it is indeed difficult to control, I promised not to kill people, it seems that there is only one way to escort these people to Haiyan." It's just that General Sky Wolf, your subordinates have just experienced a fierce battle, and yesterday they rushed to the road all night, and now the water and rice have not entered, and the fathers and elders in the city intend to pick up the wind and wash the dust for you, I think it is better to eat something before hurrying. ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "My subordinates are all men in the rivers and lakes, they are used to sleeping in the open air, and they all carry dry food with them, the current military situation is urgent, and we have won two battles in a row, and our morale is high, at this time it is not appropriate to stay longer, and it is the right way to turn to Taizhou immediately." ”

Wang Lianying glanced at the more than 1,000 yellow-clothed masters who were already lining up in the west of the city, and were resting in place at this moment, and smiled slightly: "General Tianluo, you are really a good skill, and I don't know where you can find so many people with strong martial arts to serve the imperial court. It's just that everyone ran overnight yesterday, and today there is another big fight, is there really no problem on the body? ”

Li Cangxing smiled: "General Wang, you are also a person with kung fu, you should know that as long as you meditate and breathe for a while, you can basically recover for a martial artist, and the brothers have been resting for two hours just now, and today they rested on that hill for a while before going out to fight, and there is no problem with the body." ”

Wang Lianying nodded: "This is very good, then it will trouble General Heavenly Wolf." Is there anything else I need to do here? ”

Li Cangxing pondered for a while, and said: "And General Lao Wang will guard these thousands of captives well, and not let a single person escape, the movement of our army is now the biggest secret, if the Japanese Kou know that General Qi's headquarters has been ambushed in Taizhou and ready to meet them, the whole campaign may fall short, if any of these people want to take advantage of the chaos to escape, General Wang must not show mercy to his subordinates." ”

Wang Lianying said: "Don't worry, I will escort you personally, if anyone wants to escape, they will be killed under the arrow!" ”

Li Cangxing ran down the city and returned to his team, Pei Wenyuan and Qian Guanglai, the monk and others were talking and laughing together, and they won two battles in a row, so that these high-rollers who had not been on the battlefield before were also high-spirited, and they were tired of traveling hundreds of miles a day and night, which was completely out of the question.

When everyone saw Li Cangxing coming back, they greeted him one after another. Qian Guanglai's fat hand patted Li Cangxing's shoulder and said with a smile: "Cangxing, I didn't expect you to know the art of war so well." These two battles were fought really beautifully, a total of seven or eight thousand Japanese robbers, and they didn't run away from a single one, the ancient famous generals, it's just that. ”

Li Cangxing's expression was stern, and he shook his head: "Everyone should not be too optimistic, the real vicious war has not yet come." To be honest, we had a geographical advantage in these two battles and took the enemy by surprise. But the real main force of the enemy army is still heading towards Taizhou, and General Qi's headquarters is only 3,000 people, but the Japanese are divided into three routes. We still have to quickly move closer to the Qi family's army. Fight the enemy head-on. ”

Everyone looked at each other, put away their smiles, and Pei Wenyuan said: "Cangxing, are you saying that the main force of the Japanese Kou has not been hit yet?" But after two battles, we have already eliminated seven or eight thousand Japanese pirates, and this is not their main force? ”

Li Cangxing said with a straight face: "Although there are many Japanese swordsmen and ronins among these people, as well as Koga ninjas, they are not the real main force of the Japanese army. Second, there are a large number of Demon Cult members in the Wakou to help out, but we haven't seen a single Demon Sect member after these two battles. It can be seen that although the number of their two troops is not small, they are still a rabble, not the main force, and the number of thieves who attacked Taizhou this time is not less than 10,000, and there are people from the Demon Sect to help, those are the real enemies. ”

Tie Zhentian stomped his feet with hatred: "These martial arts scum, Lao Tzu must slap them to death when he sees them." ”

Li Cangxing smiled and shook his head: "So we still have to meet General Qi as much as possible, Taizhou is a big city, in case of a little mistake, then the results of our first two battles will be in vain." ”

Pei Wenyuan glanced at Wang Lianying, who was escorting the Japanese prisoners in the distance, sighed for a while, and said: "Those female soldiers under Mrs. Qi's department are not weak in combat effectiveness, and it is a pity to be placed in this Xinhe City, if the enemy army is really powerful, why don't we bring them with us to help in the war?" ”

Ouyang Ke said with a smile: "Brother Pei, these people are going to escort those Japanese prisoners to Haiyan, if they go with us, I am afraid that the old, weak, sick and disabled people under General Li will not be able to look at these Japanese prisoners." ”

Pei Wenyuan's eyes flashed with murder: "Then kill all these widows, anyway, these people are bloody, fierce and cruel, killing them is also to avenge the coastal people who died under their hands." ”

Li Cangxing shook his head: "No, Wen Yuan, your method is indeed the most effective, but killing is ominous, I also said that as long as they lay down their weapons, they will spare their lives, if I don't believe in my words and slaughter the people who put down their weapons, what is the difference between it and Lu Bing and Hu Zongxian?" ”

Pei Wenyuan smiled slightly: "Cangxing, you are kind-hearted, and we all appreciate you, just to do this to the enemy on the battlefield, it is inevitable that the kindness of a woman is unavoidable, and since you have made up your mind, let's hurry up and rush to Taizhou." ”

Li Cangxing nodded: "Then it's hard for everyone, grit your teeth again, after this battle, let's go to Taizhou City to celebrate the success!" ”

After Li Cangxing finished speaking, he ran to the front of the team, and Qian Guanglai's chubby body flashed, and he kept keeping pace with him, Li Cangxing was a little surprised, and said while running: "Fatty, why didn't you take your brother with you, but ran to the front?" ”

Qian Guanglai pulled down the face towel, revealing that fleshy face, he shook his head and said in a low voice: "Cangxing, you shouldn't have said bad things about Hu Zongxian in front of everyone just now." ”

Li Cangxing's footsteps did not stop at all, sneered, and said, "Why, you still have to give our Governor the Governor merit and meritorious deeds?" ”

Qian Guanglai sighed: "Not really, it's just that he is now the highest governor in the southeast after all, and you, as a general, openly said that your boss is not, and when it reaches his ears, I'm afraid it may not be good." ”

Li Cangxing's eyes flashed with coldness: "Fatty, do you mean that there will be Hu Zongxian's eyes and ears in our team?" ”

Qian Guanglai said: "Cangxing, don't forget, Lu Bing's forces are everywhere, even the various factions of the Demon Alliance, and there are many of his eyes, among our people, there may not be no eyes and ears for him, of course there is no problem with the seven of us, but even the subordinates I brought with me dare not guarantee that there are no spies from Lu Bing, so you should be cautious in your words and deeds." ”

Li Cangxing laughed: "Fatty, thank you for the reminder, but it doesn't matter if Hu Zongxian hears this, anyway, I'm not fighting for him, after these two battles, we can be regarded as befriending Hai Rui and Wang Lianying, after the war in Taizhou." I hope to form a friendship with Qi Jiguang, and when I start a gang in the future, I can also get a strong reinforcement. ”

Qian Guang glanced at the large army in the rear, which was more than 20 zhang away from him. lowered his voice and said, "Cangxing, don't you know that in the past few years, General Qi has begun to secretly form a good relationship with the Qing faction forces in the court?" ”

Li Cangxing's heart sank suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Qian Guanglai sighed: "General Qi probably also saw that Hu Zongxian was not enough to be attached for a lifetime, especially the last time Hu Zongxian killed and surrendered, it was a big disappointment. Not only Qi Jiguang, but even Yu Dayou and Lu Bo also began to find another backer in the court, so Hu Zongxian was forced to have no choice. Buying talents again in the form of open recruitment of generals is said to be aimed at you, but if General Qi and the others were still as loyal to him as before, he would not have made such a decision. ”

Li Cangxing gritted his teeth. The changes in the court were unclear to him. And Qian Guanglai is in Beijing, and he is well-informed in order to do business, although he can't talk about influencing the decision-making of the government, but some news in the officialdom is still clearer than others, since he said that Qi Jiguang is looking for another backer, then there will be no mistake.

Li Cangxing asked: "Fatty, who is Qi Jiguang's new backer you are talking about?" If he turned to Yan Shifan. I will never be able to work with this person again. ”

Qian Guanglai smiled slightly: "Cangxing, don't worry." If he was looking for Yan Shifan, then I wouldn't have agreed to you coming to Zhejiang to cooperate with Qi Jiguang from the beginning, General Qi has his own character and bottom line after all, and he will not be in the same stream with a traitor like Yan Shifan, the backer he is looking for now is the rising star of the Qing School, the current right Zhongyun, Zhang Juzheng of the right squire of the Ministry of War. ”

Li Cangxing muttered the name twice, and his eyes lit up: "But that Zhang Juzheng, who is known as a prodigy? ”

Qian Guanglai nodded: "It's this person, this Zhang Juzheng has been smart since childhood." Twelve-year-old candidate, Jingzhou prefect Li Shiao appreciated him very much. At the age of thirteen, when he was examined, he was quite appreciated by Gu Lan, the chief examiner of the township examination, and the two became New Year's friends, Gu called him "Little Friend", praised it as a national weapon and gave it away; However, Gu was afraid that he would get carried away too much and end up doing nothing, so he deliberately sharpened it and forced it to fall off the list. Sixteen-year-old middle lift. In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, he was compiled by Shu Jishi to Hanlin Academy. ”

"When he was a Jinshi, he was a student of Xu Jie, but this person was extremely sleek, and his talent was well known to the world, so Yan Song also tried his best to win him over, and Zhang Juzheng himself did not refuse, while continuing to read in front of the Yuwang Mansion, and the prince who was actually the prince's teacher intersected with the wine arch, and on the other hand, he also had dealings with Yan Song, and he could speak, at least he could get by on face, but there was one point, the relationship between this person and Yan Shifan was very bad, it is said that Yan Shifan wanted to abolish him several times, but Yan Song was suppressed."

Li Cangxing let out a sigh of relief: "This person is really powerful, Yan Song probably also knows that he has too deep a grudge with Xu Jie and Gao Gong, the older generation of Qing School heavyweights, and it is impossible to resolve the grudge, but this Zhang Juzheng is like a new rising sun, wooing him can leave a way back for himself in the future, even if it doesn't work, he can also divide and disintegrate the relationship between Xu, Gao, and Zhang, which can be described as a deep plan." ”

Qian Guanglai smiled slightly: "Exactly, and I heard that this person was born in Huguang, and he also has his own power in the rivers and lakes around Huguang, and now Xu Jietong's son Xu Linzong controls the Wudang faction, and Zhang Juzheng is not good at working the Wudang faction, so his friend is the newly rising Dongting Gang." ”

Li Cangxing's heart sank suddenly, he knew Chu Tianshu's details, and hurriedly asked, "How is it possible, how can Chu Tianshu cooperate with Zhang Juzheng?" ”

Qian Guanglai shook his head: "Cangxing, have you dealt with Chu Tianshu and know his origin?" ”

Li Cangxing nodded: "Yes, but I swore that I would keep this secret for Chu Tianshu, fat man, I'm sorry, I can't reveal this to you." ”

Qian Guanglai said with a smile: "Actually, you know very well that Chu Tianshu is from the palace, that's why he is so surprised, right?" ”

Li Cangxing was shocked, but he remained silent and asked, "Why do you say this, is it the news that the Gongsun Gang leader heard?" ”

Qian Guanglai said: "Yes, when the Dongting Gang was newly rising, my master sent someone to secretly investigate their origins, because the Dongting Gang, a powerful and mysterious new organization, does not know whether it is an enemy or a friend, and it will also affect the future development of the entire southern force of our Beggar Gang. In addition to begging, our beggar gang often operated a business of some dart guards, and there was no conflict with them, and he promised that our beggar caravan would be exempt from tolls when passing through his territory, so my master and he agreed not to interfere with each other and maintained friendly relations. ”

Li Cangxing knew that he was only afraid that Chu Tianshu would reveal to Gongsun Hao that he was the Yue Party, and that people like Gongsun Hao would not be bought by Xiaoli, and only in the face of the old man could he make such a concession, thinking of Chu Tianshu's obsession and madness of revenge, a chill rose in his heart, and he didn't know how the relationship between Qu Caifeng and this senior he respected would end in the future. (To be continued......)