"Bang" A musket rang out, and the rogue horsemen outside were excited, shouting and running north.

The soldiers who were quietly guarding behind the earthen wall turned their heads in unison, only to see a female soldier standing high on the earthen wall, in front of her with gunsmoke, she was pulling away the hammer with all her might, and then seemed to have forgotten what to do, and was asking the team members behind her, who urged her to come down from the earthen wall.

The judge of the guards battalion finally couldn't stand the propaganda team, and ran over to the captain and scolded the captain to get the group out of the camp wall.

The propaganda team retreated in a mess, still complaining to each other, and the captain of the art scolded again and again to no avail, Song Wenxian shook his head, he still felt that these people were too child's play to call soldiers,

Lu Zhi and Song Wenxian and others looked at the horses running scattered outside with fear, at first they thought it was the sentry ride of the Liukou, and it was not like it for a long time, as soon as they saw the barracks, they did not inquire carefully, and the girl ran in other directions, mostly to the south, and a small number went to the direction of Linxian.

Lu Zhi was confused, it was said that he should always circle around the barracks to see how deep the ditch was, how high the wall was, and how many steps around the city, and after a while, the general who stayed behind came over and said: "My lord, let's go and catch a few rogues and ask what the situation is, it seems that they are fleeing, and the subordinates think that maybe it is Lord Chen that they have defeated the rogues." ”

"Ah, go now." Lu Zhi hurriedly said.

"My lord, all the cavalry in our battalion have gone out, and only the family you have taken in the camp is a cavalry."

Lu Zhiyi clapped his hands and called the general manager of the family, and more than 20 family members quickly rushed out of the camp gate, chasing those lone rogue horsemen, who ran for nearly a hundred miles, but could not outrun these people. When one was finally caught, the family tied the man to the horse and brought him back.

As soon as they entered the camp gate, Lu Zhi rushed to the horse soldier and asked the rogue bandit, "Which group of rogue bandits are you from, and why did you come here?" ”

The rogue wailed: "The official spares his life, the villain was coerced by Gao Yingxiang, and he was broken up last night, and he ran around......"

Song Wenxian hurriedly interrupted him. "How did you break up?"

"The villain didn't know, anyway, there was chaos everywhere, the villain snatched the horse and ran out, followed a group of horsemen, and ran away. I heard that someone went to Linxian County, so the villain came this way. ”

Song Wenxian asked, "When did the chaos start?" ”

"When it was almost dawn, I heard that a detachment of officers and soldiers had arrived, and all the battalion leaders were fleeing for their lives."

Lu Zhi suddenly laughed, "Rushing to break 100,000 rogues in a hundred miles, General Chen is really worthy of my first general of the Ming Dynasty." ”

The rogue was dumbfounded: "How can there be 100,000 ......?"

The head of the family kicked at him, and scolded in his mouth: "Lord Lu said that 100,000 is 100,000." ”

Lu Zhi didn't have the heart to pay attention to the rogue. To Song Wenxian and the general of the guard battalion: "Let's go out of the camp immediately and go to Xiuwu to meet General Chen." ”

"Lord Lu, the villain thinks it's better for us to hold the camp." Song Wenxian leaned into Lu Zhi's ear, "Liukou has always been cunning. Perhaps it was their trickery to send men to lure our army out of the camp, besieging them on all sides along the way. ”

Lu Zhi shuddered, "That's right." Yes, that's what Mr. Song said. He shouted to the head of the house, "Arrest this rogue." Interrogate them well, find out how many ambushes they have on the way, be sure to ask. ”

"Ambush?" The rogue widened his eyes, "My lord, there are no ambushes, the villain is the ...... who escapes for his life."

The head of the family couldn't help but say, and called a few people to pick up the horse soldier and leave, and dragged him into a tent, where there were soon bursts of screams.

Song Wenxian breathed a sigh of relief, he actually believed in his heart that the horse soldier, Chen Xin should have broken through the Liukou, if nothing else, he is now counting the seized silver and two materials, and it is quite inconvenient for Lu Zhi to go early. Dengzhou Town has taken such a big risk this time, and these benefits will not be let people casually.

Having come to this conclusion, Song Wenxian put his worries aside and began to think about the operation after the big victory......

For a whole day, Wei Hui's Ming troops were suspicious, and the family members of various departments were attacking and capturing prisoners, and the news they got was chaotic, some said that it was the infighting of the Liukou, some said that they were attacked, and some said that the camp was roaring. The generals were worried that it was a trick of the rogue, so they each guarded the camp, although Deng Xi was informed by Chen Xin, but he did not move, but sent someone to inform Xuan Mo, and kept reconnoitring the direction of martial arts.

Lu Zhi received Chen Xin's good news on the same day, and the camp was full of joy, this battle killed more than 15,000 Liukou, captured the Zijin Liang King for his own use, destroyed the mountain tiger Yan Zhengfu, and killed thirteen important leaders under Zijin Liang, and Yingshanhong was beheaded in the thirty-six battalions, and the rest of the Liukou in the various battalions of Xiuwu also suffered heavy losses, and all of them fled to other states and counties in Huaiqing Prefecture.

Chen Xin attached a letter to the back of the good news, saying that there were many bandits scattered near Xiuwu, and the situation was still complicated, and asked Lu Zhi to stick to the camp in case the rogues took advantage of the chaos to touch the camp and cause unnecessary losses.

Lu Zhi was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, he sent several batches of sentry horses to repair the martial arts to verify, he stuck to the camp according to Chen Xin's words, and he didn't go back to Xuan Mo to report, he went back to the camp tent to ponder the report to the emperor and the celebrant supervisor, so that the other Ming troops were still confused. Such a big good news was reported to the emperor by the celebrant first, and the effect was very different, so he had decided to send out the good news before Xuan Mo knew the news.

Only Ma Xianglin's Sichuan army decisively left the camp, and Ma Xianglin made a decision entirely based on his trust in Chen Xin. They went all the way to the north of Xiuwu, preparing to meet Dengzhou Town, and encountered more and more scattered rogues on the way, but those rogues fled in despair, and none of them even dared to approach. It is completely different from the fierce provocation of some time ago.

Ma Xianglin was also worried at first that it was the rogue who lured the enemy to go deeper, but the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, if he wanted to lure the enemy deeper, he would at least come up and fight, and then pretend to be invincible to lead the Sichuan army into the urn, how could he flee when he saw the enemy. So the more than 1,000 white-pole soldiers hurried up, they brought a lot of baggage, the speed was not fast, almost dark when they walked sixty miles, but finally connected with the sentry horses in Dengzhou, found the direction.

When Ma Xianglin heard that tens of thousands of rogues had been killed, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, this was in one day's time, and Chen Xin's people were all infantry, unlike Cao Zhao, who could continue to pursue. There are many more heads in pursuit than on the battlefield. The Tang horses of the two sides went back and forth, and the news they got shocked Ma Xianglin even more, and even Zijin Liang was captured alive, and this battle can be said to have dealt a heavy blow to the Liukou.

The Sichuan army camped on the road for one night, continued to advance early the next morning, and arrived at the battlefield of that day in the afternoon, and these strong troops from the southwest were also dumbfounded, and the battlefield within a radius of several miles was in shambles, with thousands of corpses placed. Some of the surrounding Henan peasant households, men, women, and children, were picking up their belongings on the edge of the battlefield, and they saw that there were good clothes to loot, and other iron pots and water jugs were also the targets of their scrambling. At this time, as soon as they saw that some officers and soldiers were approaching, these people immediately dispersed.

Further inside, there are some Dengzhou soldiers. Their military uniforms were very easy to recognize, and the Dengzhou sentry horses leading the way led the Sichuan army forward, and there were many homeless prisoners cleaning up things on the way.

The Dengzhou soldiers who were guarding were a little disgraced, with dirt marks on their faces, and their uniforms were dirty, but they were still in good spirits, and they looked at this Ming army curiously. There was a lot of interest in their hooked spears and heavy swords.

The further you go inside, the more corpses there are, and Ma Xianglin, the Sichuan army, has seen a big scene, but Ma Xianglin himself knows that Chen Xin has a maximum of three or four thousand people. Killing so many people in one night is really tough.

When he arrived at the old camp of Zijinliang, Chen Xin was already waiting at the door, and when he saw Ma Xianglin, he smiled and said, "General Ma is not afraid of the many people who are outnumbered. Leading the troops alone to assist me in Dengzhou Town, this courage and heart. I feel that I will be rewarded in the future. ”

Ma Xianglin saw it with the following official salute, his eyes were full of admiration, and he said to Chen Xin: "Lord Chen's Dengzhou Town is really extraordinary, I heard that he traveled a hundred miles in one night, and he rested for a short time before dawn, so he captured Zijin Liang and killed more than 10,000 rogues, and Grandpa Qi's army was nothing more than that." When Ma Xianglin said this, he thought of the Zhejiang army that fought bloodily together by the Hunhe River, and his expression was a little lonely.

Chen Xin didn't think of his idea for a while, but this authentic white-pole soldier can rush to the battlefield when the situation is unclear, that is, it can be trusted as an ally, and it will definitely not hurt Dengzhou Town to hand over such a force in the southwest region.

Ma Xianglin's men and horses went to Zhang Xianzhong's original camp to camp, and Chen Xin led Ma Xianglin into his own camp, which still had a strong smell of blood, but the ground had been cleaned up, the corpses had been moved out, and the camps were all Dengzhou soldiers.

Ma Xianglin remembered that they were a long-distance attack, and the tent must have been captured, no wonder, he saw a pile of meat-like things on the east side, some soldiers were watching, he took a closer look, and it turned out to be a bunch of ears.

These are human ears, Dengzhou soldiers naturally do not take ears to eat, the head of the Liukou is worthless, according to the Ming Huidian, Zhanbei captive a head to upgrade a level, if you don't want to upgrade, you have to get thirty taels of silver, out of the side to behead a Tartar captive, then both can be obtained, has always been the thickest military merit, after the rise of Jiannu, the reward silver rose to fifty taels of heads, Liukou's is the head of the famous giant thief before the first level is promoted to one level, unwilling to be promoted to thirty taels of silver, the second giant thief is only ten taels. There are two algorithms for other ordinary rogues, one is to count the head, and the other is to count according to the number of pairs of ears, because the ears are easier to preserve and transport.

Chen Xin has Zijin Liang in his hand, and he doesn't want to count too many heads, so as not to promote a bunch of military positions in the imperial court, but instead increase the influence of the imperial court in Dengzhou Town, and the other ears will follow those friendly troops, first come, first served, Ma Xianglin is so righteous here, he can't be stingy.

"Brother Ma just arrived today, and the official should have asked General Ma to get drunk and take a break, but I banned alcohol during the battle in Dengzhou Town, so I had to wait until I returned to Huixian."

Ma Xianglin was surprised: "Lord Chen wants to return to Huixian, why don't you take advantage of the victory to pursue the Liukou?" ”

Chen Xin nodded, "Although this battle is a big victory, but the Zijin Liang dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and my Dengzhou Town was also staggered, with a total of nearly 1,000 casualties, which can be described as a great injury to the vitality, and I am unable to chase and suppress the Liukou." Although the Liukou was defeated, most of those homeless people escaped, and they will gather together again in a few days, and General Ma should not rush in, it is better to return to Hui County with me first. ”

Ma Xianglin didn't expect that Dengzhou Town would lose nearly a thousand, if Chen Xin didn't go to pursue, it would be useless for the Sichuan army to chase after the thousands of infantry, so he had to agree to return to Huixian with Chen Xin.

Chen Xin smiled: "This time I won't let Brother Ma run in vain, if it weren't for General Ma's headquarters, I'm afraid those rogues would make a comeback, and the officials would be able to take care of the reasons in the middle." ”

The two said while walking, Chen Xin was polite, Ma Xianglin had a feeling like a spring breeze, Chen Xin took him to the north wall, pointed to the mountains in the north, and said the route of the raid that night, and heard Ma Xianglin's eyebrows fluttering.

Ma Xianglin took a look at the combat power of Dengzhou Town, the two had dinner in the camp, Ma Xianglin returned to his barracks, he just arrived at the big tent, his officers came over, the officer's skin was black and shiny, and there were two scars on his face, he said to Ma Xianglin: "Master Ma, the turtle son Dengzhou soldiers sent something." ”

Ma Xianglin glared at him and asked, "What is it?" ”

"A pick of ears, a bag of jewelry, and more than three thousand taels of silver, said to be two taels for each brother, and five good horses." The officer licked his tongue.

"Show the jewelry to Lao Tzu." The officer came very expressively, Ma Xianglin casually touched out one, only to see that it was a white jade lion, he knew that it was worth a lot at a glance, and the other few pieces were touched, all of them were gold and silver inlaid with gems, and the workmanship was very exquisite, and finally he also touched a silver ticket of two thousand taels, which was called a four-sea money village, which was to withdraw cash silver in Dongchang Mansion.

Ma Xianglin put the bag away and was silent for a while before saying to the officer: "You are not allowed to call another turtle son in the future, these soldiers are no worse than us, and this General Chen is more worthy of befriending." ”