This is the only thing that makes He Bin feel gratified, with Popov, a despicable villain, to accompany him on the Huangquan Road, at least he will not be lonely. Although he was ostensibly baptized and converted to Catholicism, in his bones he still believed in the way he was born and raised in China. It suddenly occurred to him that this Rakshasa ghost believed in Orthodox Christianity, and he was afraid that he would not be on his way after death.

Thinking of this made He Bin a little dumbfounded. But this small fluctuation was soon replaced by great fear, for he found that rows of soldiers had begun to clean the barrels of muskets with strips, and then to charge and reload. Didn't you say decapitation, how did you change it to shooting?

This made He Bin feel a huge fear, he had seen the scene of the execution of the platoon gun, the lethality of the projectile is not enough to kill with one shot, often the tortured person was hit by dozens of bullets, all of them died tragically in the struggle and pain. It's better to decapitate and cut it off.

But now it's too late to say anything, Hengzhu can only appoint, but he is not reconciled, unwilling to be killed with a bastard like Popov.

Wallace had long since lost the style of a fleet commander, and sat on the side with a pale face as if he was sitting on pins and needles, he didn't know that the Ming general's intention to let him watch the execution of his former subordinates was to warn himself? He already had the intention of dying, but in the end, he was involved by these two despicable and shameless people to end up in the current situation. Therefore, he was very happy to see the Ming Dynasty general execute these two people, which was also regarded as a faint evil spirit in his chest.

Soon, the password sounded, and some soldiers tied He Bin and Popov's hands behind their backs, and then covered their heads with black cloth bags. Twenty soldiers in neat uniforms and shiny riding boots lit the arquebus coiled around their shoulders and pressed it against the arquebus.

Wallace's hand trembled slightly, he knew that this was the final preparations of the Ming Dynasty soldiers, and the execution was about to begin. It stands to reason that he should be glad that these two shameless men who had caused him were about to be executed, but in any way he could not be interested.

If Wallace is proficient in Oriental Chinese, he will find an idiom that is very suitable for the mood at the moment, "the rabbit dies and the fox is sad"!

The first whistle of the assembly was blown, and the twenty musketeers brushed their muskets together, and with the arrival of the second whistle, the trigger pulled the fire rope and pressed it into the medicine pot, and the primer was ignited in an instant, and with a bang, a white smoke rose from the tail of the musket.

At the moment of the musket salvo, Popov and urine flowed sideways. He Bin only felt a stench rushing to his nose, and at the same time he shouted sadly in his heart, I don't want to die! And then, and then there was no then.

The imaginary pain did not arise physically, and I waited for a long time without it.

In the end, He Bin only felt a pair of powerful arms twist his arms, dragging him to one place and then stopping on the ground, and the hood on his head was also taken off. The strong sunlight pierced him and he couldn't open his eyes. In a trance, he saw a person standing in front of him.

At this time, he heard someone shouting in his ear: "The Marquis of Zhenjun has pardoned your capital crime, why don't you hurry up and thank you?" ”

Pardoned for capital crimes? Don't have to die? Happiness came too suddenly, but it was unbelievable? It wasn't until someone shouted again that he was convinced that he didn't have to die. Suddenly, I couldn't help but cry with joy.

At the same time, the image in front of him gradually became clearer, and He Bin finally saw clearly that the person standing in front of him was Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenju, whom he had seen before, and was looking at him with a smile at the moment.

He Bin asked tremblingly: "I don't have to die?" ”

Li Xin nodded slowly.

During the campaign, the Three Guards captured three three-masted galleons with a displacement of more than 300 tons, nine galleons of less than 300 tons and more than 100 tons, and more than a dozen sailing ships of less than 100 tons. Originally, the Red Hair Fan fleet had five galleons with a displacement of more than 300 tons, but the sailors on one of the sailing ships set fire to one of them. The other one was closer to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and at the last moment, with the help of the wind, it forcibly rushed into the Yangtze River waterway. As for the small sailing ships that sank in the chaos, there were dozens more. The entire fleet escaped from the Qinhuai River.

Colonel Wallace, the commander of the fleet, was the first unlucky, because his ship was deep in the Qinhuai River, and he was betrayed by his subordinates and captured alive.

After this battle, the upper and lower factions in Nanjing were optimistic and jubilant, and they only felt that it was not necessarily difficult to have the Three Guards in pacifying the rebellion in Raozhou, Jiangxi. Compared with the optimism in the market, the ministers of the Nanjing Political Hall are relatively sober-minded.

As a result of this battle, the prestige of Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenju, will reach a new height in the city of Nanjing, and if he wants to restrict this person in the future, I am afraid that it will become more and more difficult. In addition, Sun Jie, the governor of Nanzhili, fully supported Li Xin's battle plan in this war, and his prestige also reached its peak.

Hearing that the Three Guards had captured the leader of the Haikou red-haired ghost, the old man in the political hall felt that this strange thing should be handed over to the Criminal Department for custody, and when the situation was too peaceful and the Grand Canal was unblocked, he would be sent to Beijing to sacrifice prisoners. However, the soap li they sent didn't even get in at the gate of the barracks outside the Nanjing Jubao Gate, and was blocked back.

only dropped a sentence hard, if you want to mention someone, you must have a warrant from Sun Butang, and at the same time, you also need a warrant from the Marquis of Zhen, otherwise there is no door.

The old men got together and discussed for a long time, but they didn't come up with a real idea. In the end, they suddenly found that it was almost difficult for the order of the political hall to get out of the political hall. In the past, the power of government was basically transferred to the governor's yamen.

In addition, Ying Tianfu was the direct beneficiary of this war, because before the war, Sun Ji proposed that in order to concentrate all his efforts to deal with foreign enemies, he set up a preparatory committee for the war in the city of Nanjing, and coordinated the transfer of military and civilian materials. This errand naturally fell on Ying Tianfu's head. Now that the war is over, the siege of Nanjing has been lifted, but the right to coordinate the transfer of military and civilian materials cannot be recovered.

The warrants of several Shangshu were issued, and Ying Tianfu took a rare tough attitude back, on the pretext that although the siege of Nanjing was temporarily lifted, the chaos was still there, and in order to prepare for emergencies, the Preparatory Committee for the War should maintain normalcy. As a result, the Nanjing Sixth Department has almost become an empty shelf, and the local officials and functional yamen who were originally responsible for the Nanjing Sixth Department are now directly responsible for only one yamen, that is, the Preparatory Committee for the Battle. As a result, one of the benefits is that the process that originally required the six ministries to fight each other is gone, and all errands are under the supervision of the Preparatory Committee for the Battle, and they have begun to become more efficient.

These statements of Ying Tianfu were naturally supported by Sun Jiao, the governor of Nanzhili, and Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenyu. In desperation, several old men in the political hall realized that the reason why their words were difficult to get out of the political hall was because they did not have military power in their hands.

Discuss and go, Xiong Mingyu felt that only Shao Hualong, the chief soldier in Nanjing, was the object to be fought for. Surprisingly, however, the messenger sent to deliver the letter failed to obtain even a receipt. This made Xiong Mingyu furious.

"Shao Mouzi, it turned out that he was also a rudder who saw the wind, and when he saw that the wind was not in the right direction, he turned his face and didn't recognize people!"

"Brother Liangru is silent, if your words are spread, how will you meet Shao Hualong in the future?"

Gao Hongtu felt that this was not the time to deal with Li Xin, after this big victory, the whole of Nanjing was in the hands of Sun and Li, whether they wanted to admit it or not, they old men had become deaf ears.

"Alas! Why is this the case? ”

Just when the political affairs hall was in the middle of the dog's camp, Li Xin had already pounced on the Yangtze River wharf for several days and nights without closing his eyes. After the Qinhuai River was restored, dozens of galleons were driven to these riverside docks. The prototype of the navy has been basically erected, and the next step is to train sailors.

Training sailors is easy to say, but once you do it, it's a lot of work. A qualified sailor is not a master of a few operations, a qualified sailor is a necessary condition, including the experience accumulated from countless voyages, but also the tacit cooperation and trust between sailors. Compared to training musketeers, training sailors is not a little more difficult.

As the head of the Navy's Preparatory Office, Mi Yan directly proposed that with the original sailors of the big ship as the basic force, only the officers of the Three Guards Army could be placed on the big ship to calmly control the entire galleon.

Li Xin rejected this proposal, but he was also inspired by it. Why not take the approach of bringing the old with the new? The original old water was still arranged to perform their duties on the ship, and then the sailors of the Three Guards were selected to join them, and they could also play the role of nearby monitoring while learning.

At this time, the general He Bin had already transformed into a naval adviser to the Three Guards, ready to be consulted at any time. Compared with He Bin, Colonel Wallace's situation is somewhat delicate, although Li Xin has always treated him with courtesy, but his movement is not free. The only allowed range of activities is a small courtyard enclosed in the barracks, and at most it is often recruited to the Chinese military tent of the town captive marquis, even if it is out to let off steam.

This is also what He Bin is happy to see, he knows very well that in terms of sailing experience and naval combat experience, he and Wallace cannot be compared. This man comes from a naval family, and he is only a pirate, and he has lived on land for a long time all these years, and he has obviously become unsuitable for the operation and performance of these large Western ships.

In the end, what He Bin feared still happened, and after talking with Wallace several times, Li Xin summoned almost all the heads of the Three Guards and officially issued an order appointing Wallace as the first president of the Naval Academy.