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Chapter 239 Silver
"The captives have withdrawn? How many casualties?"

Wu Dui came here with a letter written by a cabinet official to boost Chen Mu's morale. Of course, many officials in the court did not expect that this northern prisoner division would come so quickly. Wu Dui originally came in an official sedan chair. When we arrived at Fangfang Mountain, we suddenly heard the sound of artillery from the side of the Juma River. Only then did we know that the two sides had already engaged in battle, so we hurriedly asked the defenders for two horses, and galloped all the way with the internal officials.

The eunuch who came with him was also unusual. His name was Chen Ju. He entered the palace at the age of nine, and was transferred to Gao Zhong, the eunuch of Bingbi who was famous at that time, and has been serving as the supervisor of ceremonies.During the Gengxu Rebellion, I saw Gao Zhong lead the eunuchs and eunuchs in full armor to guard the capital. From then on, he made up his mind to dabble in politics and economics, and military affairs were even more unusual.

Although Gao Zhong is dead now, Chen Ju is the imperial horse supervisor and supervisor, in charge of the Shenji camp, and it is easy to run around on horseback.

Chen Mu greeted the supervising army and the internal officials. Seeing that the two of them were wearing helmets and wearing armor, they were dressed like a big Han general. They looked like they were planning to come over to hold the general of the building down. The formation was first blocked by barbed wire, and then stopped by our banner army, and just now they were bombarded by artillery for a while, they suffered pain and retreated three and a half miles."

"Casualties..." Chen Mu scratched his head. He really didn't know what to say about casualties. It seemed too much to say that there were no casualties. Suddenly, he thought that there were scouts sent earlier, and hurriedly said: "There are more than 140 dead and missing. Kill the enemy, kill The enemy has not yet been counted, and the corpses are placed on the bridge and on the opposite bank, and the captive soldiers dare not collect the corpses."

Chen Mu handed the binoculars to Wu Dui, and Wu Dui waved his hand and took out a binoculars from his waist that was slightly more refined than his binoculars to look at; , but seeing that he was so loose in front of the battle, he didn't even dare to say the number of casualties. Wu Dui was much better.

The two masters looked at the battlefield with binoculars, and Chen Mu didn't have anything to do, so he simply squatted on the edge of the artillery position and whispered to the guard on duty: "Hurry up and count the number of cavalry spies who haven't come back. "

"General Chen!"

Master Chen was whispering cautiously, when suddenly he heard Chen Ju yelling loudly behind him, so scared that Chen Mu instinctively turned around and glared, "How?"

"You said there were more than 140 casualties, and the northern captives didn't dare to collect the corpses. Why are there only captive corpses on the bridge, but not the corpse of my Ming soldier!"

Chen Mu stood up, seeing the eunuch for the first time, he already had something in his heart, and this Chen Ju didn't talk to himself well, which made him angry, and simply said: "My soldier is not dead, what kind of corpse do you want? Beilu didn't even touch my human hair!"

Wu Dui saw that the atmosphere between the two was not good, so he hurriedly said: "General Chen, Chen Youjian supervised the army on behalf of His Majesty, and there is no room for any mistakes. If a soldier is killed in battle and reports the truth, the real security will be broken. General Chen can stick to it." It's not easy for a while, even if there are some casualties, no one will be harsh."

"I really had no casualties. The real battle on the Shuanma Bridge was the Five Hundred Banners Army I brought from Nanyangwei. There were no casualties. The 140 or so missing were Wang Zhongguo's family cavalry, who were released by Chen before the war." I went to the other side as scouts, and more than 100 did not come back.”

Chen Mu was also very helpless, why did he even have to explain the fact that no one died, "There are going to be casualties, Xiaohegu is guarded by the Yanqing Youwei Banner Army, and there will be a battle there, there should be casualties. "

"There were really no casualties?" Chen Ju had a stern face, but he laughed when he heard Chen Mu say so helplessly, and said in surprise: "General Chen said that after the three battles, the torn corpses on the river bank that the officer saw were all from the north. prisoner?"

Chen Ju said to Wu Dui, "Wu Bingbei, our officials are used to seeing battle reports, but we haven't seen a field battle against the northern captives without a single casualty. You have seen a lot. This Juma River is a good one." Field battle?"

Chen Mu felt that the preset battlefield that he had been busy for more than half a month called the field battle a bit too much, and he patted the pole of the cannon shed quite suggestively, and saw Wu Dui there with his beard curled up, and said in amazement: "Chen Youjian said it well, this Of course it is an unprecedented field battle!"

Come on, you guys have to report this as a field battle, and of course I have nothing to say.

Good thing!
"Don't blame Chen Zongbing, the subordinate officials blamed you by mistake!" Chen Ju has a big temper, but he is quick to correct his mistakes, he admits his mistakes to Chen Mu without hesitation, and then asks: "I don't know how Chen Zongbing killed the thief?" If three hundred people did not hurt one person, can you tell the lower officials, so that you can repay your majesty."

Chen Mu revealed it with a smile of course, and told the story of the battle, and then asked Wu Dui what he wanted to know for a long time, and said: "Wu Bingbei, how does the imperial court calculate the silver rewards for the leaders of the northern captives?" ?”

Wu Dui looked at Chen Mu with a smile even more in his eyes, which meant that he had made a fortune, and said: "In the first year of Longqing, the head of a thief will be beheaded in Jizhen, and he will be promoted to the second level. Those who do not want to be promoted will be rewarded with silver." One hundred taels; for those who lead an army of thousands of people, twenty of their subordinates will be beheaded, plus one level, and up to three levels; if you are promoted to the commander of the capital, you will stop rewarding silver and not be promoted to an official position."

Dumbfounded by the blow, Chen Mu raised two fingers, and said with confusion on his face: "Chen killed Japanese pirates in Nanyang, and the fake Japanese will only reward two taels of silver!"

"However, it is more difficult to calculate the merits of the leader in the north." Wu Dui said with a smile: "The head of the thief must be complete, and it must be a real captive. If the general sees the battle report and smashes the nest and beheads hundreds of heads, they will kill the thief ten times. The above, just like some heads were bombarded, the imperial court will not reward them."

There is nothing to say, Chen Mu waved his hand and ordered to the family soldiers: "Take a hundred bannermen to carry the captive corpses to the river for me, and tell the bannermen participating in the battle not to grab the head. Per capita reward!"

On the battlefield, the flag army was carrying the corpses, when they saw a Tumet cavalryman carrying a long banner dangling to the bridge, shouting loudly: "Who is the commander of the Ming army? I have ordered the right wing Wanhu to come out for a while." See!"

Master Chen was very happy now. He never thought that Beijiang could make money so easily. He happily asked Wu Dui and Chen Ju, "You two come with me to see what they want to say?"

He didn't dare to see it by himself, in case someone found out, he would sue him for fornicating the North Prisoner.

The two agreed, and when they came to the bridge, the cavalry of Tumote's troops had professional ethics, and they said without squinting: "By order of the right-wing Wanhu, who is the name of the general of the Ming army who killed our warriors? "

Not to mention, this guy speaks Chinese well.

"I'm Chen Mu, the deputy commander of Changzhen. What's the matter with you?"

The Tumed cavalrymen glanced at Chen Mu, beat their chest on the horseback as a salute, and said: "The leader of my department asks the general to tell the emperor to take a thousand gold, and our department will return it to the outside of the Great Wall!"

Chen Mu raised his hand to scrub the short beard on his chin, his heart was full of joy, his face was angry, and he shouted: "Is it something that a courtier should do to let the emperor accept gold in the north?"

"Go back and tell the leader of your family what Chen said. Chen's head is here. Let him come and get it quickly. Don't withdraw. If you withdraw, Chen will look down on you! Come on, fight me again. field!"

This is a bunch of what, huh?
On the other side, there are patches of white silver!

(End of this chapter)