The Hidden Pearl Temple on the top of Yinzhu Mountain is like a huge torch, burning from midnight until the next morning.

A regiment led by Jiang Boqing and Chen Qian buried more than 400 corpses left behind after shooting the bandits at the foot of the mountain more than 700 meters south of the village overnight, and after the registration was completed, they cut off the heads of Lu Chengrong and other eight bandit leaders, who were already too tired to move, and as soon as the sky was dark, they saw Wu Ming leading two companies to camp in Shangzhen, which was nine kilometers to the south, and Jiang Boqing and the others were not even in the mood to go up and say hello.

Among the more than 1,000 border guards, only Jiang Boqing knew the inside story of the entire incident, and he was the only one who knew that Wu Ming not only forcibly occupied all the seizures in the bandit cave, but also may have obtained evidence of the secret collusion between the Liao family and Lu Chengrong in Quzhou, but Jiang Boqing, who was weak-hearted, did not dare to go to Wu Ming, who was extremely greedy and moody, and did not dare to ask Wu Ming to lead his troops to the hinterland of the northwest mountains to continue to clear out the other two bandits that had long been entrenched at the junction of Quxian and Chun'an, so he could only bury his worries in his heart.

After nine o'clock in the morning, the fire in the Yinzhu Temple on the top of the mountain was gradually extinguished, and Jiang Boqing, under Chen Qian's reminder, suddenly discovered that Wu Ming had only taken away two companies of officers and soldiers, and the other battalions, especially the well-equipped machine gun company, had not seen a shadow, and immediately ordered a company of brothers to rush to the foot of Yinzhu Mountain to check.

It turned out that there was no longer half a figure on the top and bottom of Yinzhu Mountain and in the surrounding valleys, and nearly a thousand officers and soldiers under Wu Ming's command, along with all the families in the village, had disappeared out of thin air.

Jiang Boqing and Chen Qian were shocked by this discovery, and secretly speculated that there must be an undiscovered mountain road leading to Maoliangwu, which is about 30 kilometers to the west, at the foot of the mountain covered by the manglin in the west or under the mountain beam, otherwise it would be impossible for more than 1,000 people to disappear.

But speculation is easy to make, and it is difficult to verify

Jiang Boqing and Chen Qian, who had already completed the task, would not really explore whether there was really such a mountain path, even if they found this mountain road, it would be useless for them, and they did not dare to annoy Wu Ming because of this, so they could only tell the brothers to use some dry food, and then go to Shangshang Town to join Wu Ming's department, and then slowly ask him about his next plan after seeing Wu Ming, and then make a response.

Where did I know that when I arrived at the upper town, Wu Mingzheng, who was stationed at the foot of Beacon Mountain in the east of the town, went down to the river to take a bath with his brothers, and Jiang Boqing and Chen Qian met Wu Ming's officers and soldiers along the way, all of them were red and full of wine, obviously they had just been full of wine and food for a long time, where did they have the slightest intention of going out to suppress bandits?

Wu Ming's swimming section of the river is very comfortable, there is a big tree on the south bank that looks like a canopy, blocking all the blazing sunlight, only more than six meters wide and less than one meter and five deep on both sides of the small river are large stone slabs, the clear river water is a dense pebble covered riverbed, and several generals of the Eighteenth Army who followed Wu Ming to observe the battle against bandits are also soaking in the water and resting in the coolness.

Seeing Jiang Boqing and Chen Qian coming, Wu Mingle Ha Luha climbed ashore, lowered his head and pulled his little loose trousers, walked to the raised big stone slab above and picked up the teapot, filled the two empty cups, and greeted: "The two brothers have worked hard, come and come, first drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat, let's talk slowly." ”

Jiang Boqing and Chen Qian glanced at each other, so they had to suppress the doubts in their stomachs and squat down by the stone slab.

Chen Qian picked up a teacup, raised his head and drank it, Jiang Boqing's leg injury was not all healed, he felt very uncomfortable, grinned and asked politely:

"Commander Wu, there are still two bandits waiting to be cleared by the army in the north, and there is also a bandit in the Fenglin area at the junction of Quxian, Chun'an, and Kaihua counties in the northwest, and they all need to be eliminated as soon as possible...... We can't just give up halfway."

Wu Ming filled the teacup in front of him, and nodded unhurriedly after drinking it: "It's not a secret, the battle plan I submitted to Commissioner Lu at the beginning had 'suppression and appeasement, this one, now the largest bandit leader Lu Chengrong within a radius of 100 miles has been subdued, and the news will spread to the surrounding cottages in less than a day, where to go, and the heroes from all walks of life naturally know how to choose, and I only gave them three days."

"From today onwards, if those bandits don't come down the mountain and surrender within three days, I will lead the troops to exterminate them, if they go down the mountain and surrender, I will not blame the two of them in the past, and I can't kill them again, if I kill them again, the bandits who have no way out will definitely come to a dead end, adding unnecessary casualties to us."

Jiang Boqing was taken aback: "So, you plan to sit here and wait for the bandits from all walks of life to come and surrender?" ”

Wu Ming smiled and said, "Where is it so comfortable? It was only after many days of marching in the mountains and a long period of lurking that my brothers were exhausted and needed to rest for three days to recover...... Three days later, even if the bandits in the Qianligang area surrendered, I had to lead my troops to Suichang in the south to suppress the bandits, where could I be idle? By the way, isn't that exactly what you gave me about the bandit briefing and mission requirements? Is there a change? ”

Jiang Boqing and Chen Qian glanced at each other, knowing that it was no longer possible to urge Wu Ming to fight, the two immediately stood up, and Jiang Boqing said goodbye to Wu Ming: "In this case, I need to rush back to report to Commissioner Lu." ”

"Yes, when Deputy Commander Jiang comes again, remember to bring the military funds allocated to us, the brothers are very hard, they are all waiting to be fed, besides, after exterminating the largest bandit armed Lu Chengrong Department in the hinterland of Qianligang, how about Commissioner Lu should also cash in the bonus, this is definitely the best way to motivate and improve the morale of the bandit troops, am I right?"

Wu Ming's smile was very bright, and his words were also high-sounding.

Jiang Bo has seen Wu Ming's shamelessness, where is there any hard work in the previous operation, at best, it is a march and offensive and defensive training, and there is no bloodshed and sacrifice, but he also has no temper towards Wu Ming, he didn't even turn around and leave, Chief of Staff Chen Qian smiled at Wu Ming helplessly and chased after him.

Luo Zhuoying climbed out of the water, came to Wu Ming in a few steps and sat down, took the tea offered by Wu Ming, and was so happy: "You guy can really talk nonsense, I find that there seems to be nothing that can make you feel embarrassed." ”

"What do you say?"

Wu Ming glanced at him: "If you have to pay, you must have a gain, Lu Chengrong's department was won by us independently, if it was really that simple, why couldn't they do it before, and they always lost the battle?" Now that I have given them the credit for nothing, they should have fulfilled their promises...... My brothers still have to settle accounts, not to mention that they are not my brothers, and I have to settle accounts with them clearly. ”

Luo Zhuoying listened to Ha Lu's laughter, and after laughing, he asked in a low voice, "Say, how much are you going to share with me?" ”

Wu Ming thought for a while: "200,000, I can only give you so much, I still have to save money to do something big." ”

Luo Zhuoying was so frightened that the cup in his hand almost fell: "Two hundred thousand? Oh my God, I don't need so much, it's useless, you can keep the flowers for yourself. ”

"How can you take back the words you say, the water you spill? I'll send it to you when I go back, cash and checks are no problem, two brothers in the world, what are you polite to me? You can rest assured that it is not easy for the brothers of the Eighteenth Army, the military funds allocated to you this month are very small, and you can't let the brothers under your command live a tight life, right? Wu Ming persuaded in a low voice.

Luo Zhuoying was moved: "That's it, 100,000 is enough, don't use cash, doesn't Quzhou Metal Products Factory produce many military items?" You can give us a steel helmet, a sapper shovel, and a marching tent worth 100,000 yuan, and if you can, a hundred special daggers from each of your spy brothers. ”

Wu Ming nodded: "Don't say it, the quality of the steel helmets we produce is really good, the use of high-carbon steel plates imported from Germany, the level of technology and protection is by no means worse than the imported German Nl8 steel helmets, the sapper shovel is also good, but the output is not up, but there is no problem in supplying a division of the 18th Army, and the special dagger is estimated to give you 300, and if you have more, you will have to wait until the end of the year." ”

"I won't say thank you," Luo Zhuoying smiled from ear to ear.

Wu Ming didn't care: "The three regiments from Hangzhou are about to arrive, our deputy head Long is recruiting troops in Changshan, it is estimated that two thousand recruits can be recruited, and then I am afraid there is not much time, these recruits need to go to the Phoenix Mountain base in the north of Changshan to carry out training, and then the younger brother will spend most of his time watching in the mountains, if it goes well in the next few days, it is estimated that a few hundred more people can be recruited from the bandits who surrendered, and the Changshan military camp will be left to you." ”

Luo Zhuoying hurriedly asked: "I heard that your Phoenix Mountain base is very good, and all training subjects can be launched, can we also drive in for training?" ”

"Welcome, do you really want to go?" Wu Ming asked.

Luo Zhuoying nodded: "I really want to quit Brother Xiu before parting, the commission will soon allocate seven to ten regiments of recruits to us, and the first batch will arrive at the end of the month soon, you are good at training, especially in the combat training of complex terrain such as mountains and hills, I am afraid that no one in the whole army can compare with you, and you will have to help us at that time, maybe in three or two months, we will go to Jiangxi to fight again." ”

Wu Mingzhi couldn't refuse, so he thought about it for a moment and agreed: "Okay, then let's have a joint large-scale military training, compete with each other, promote each other, and I'm afraid the effect will be better."

"Pei I'm not convinced, and I have proposed several times that if I have the opportunity, I want to have a regiment-level confrontation exercise with you, so as to test whether the gap between them is the same as we speculated, how about it? Should you not fight? Luo Zhuoying asked with a smile.

Wu Ming deliberately made a look of surprise: "At his level? Not afraid of losing face? ”

Luo Zhuoying smiled: "Be careful I tell him." ”

Huang Wei in the water seemed to hear Wu Ming say strange things about him, stopped paddling, stood in the middle of the river, shook his head and looked over, and asked loudly what Wu Ming and Luo Zhuoying said? made Wu Ming and Luo Zhuoying laugh.