Nanming Engineer

Chapter 146
Before Qin Gongming could speak, Wang Huan spoke again, with a charming smile on his face, rubbed his hands together and said to Qin Gongming: "Master Deputy Commander-in-Chief, look, all the captures in this battle have been counted, how about going to have a look? "

While the two were talking, the townspeople of Longevity City did not rest. They separated hundreds of people to continue guarding the black pine forest that was full of flames. Spoils of war, such as weapons, armor, undead horses, etc., are the honorable habits taught by Wang Huan. Don't waste a single thread, work hard and plainly, collect everything for my use.

Even dead war horses are useful. Horse meat is an excellent meat food. A hundred catties of meat from a horse can be sacrificed to several households.

A Minzhuang came up to report that they had obtained more than 200 long spears, 400 long knives, and nearly 200 sets of bust armor. There were more than [-] waist knives, more than [-] round leather shields, more than [-] sets of bows and arrows, and countless dead horses.

Minzhuang of Wanshou City sacrificed 46 people in the battle, and wounded hundreds of people. These were the losses caused by Tan Wen's soldiers charging into the battle at the end. As for Qin Gongming's men, they stood so far away that they didn't even spatter a drop of blood.

The wounded were helped to leave, and those who could not move were carried away on a simple stretcher made of branches. The dead body was also sent to the ox cart and carriage, and was taken back to the Longevity Valley to return to the family.

The two came to the side of the trophies piled up into a hill, and the surrounding people cheered when they saw the two coming. This battle was so enjoyable. In a head-to-head contest, an army composed of a group of farmers really defeated the Ming army. , The folks were full of confidence, and looked at Wang Huan with even more eagerness and admiration. They knew that without this young man who hadn't grown much beard, he couldn't imagine victory.

Wang Huan smiled and clasped his fists to greet the minzhuang, which aroused even louder cheers, while Qin Gongming watched the wounded soldiers and corpses pass by silently from a distance, his bushy eyebrows frowned, and he looked at the pile of corpses on the ground. Captured, with a thoughtful look on his face.

He didn't think about it for long, and said directly, "Wang Huan, you contributed the most in this battle. From the plan to the battle, you also contributed the most in the Longevity Valley. I basically didn't contribute. The big brother probably did the same. If you come to rob things when you share them again, wouldn’t you be a bandit? No, my brother and I don’t want anything here, I’ll give it to you, and I’ll report it to my aunt when I get back, and let her make the decision.”

He said these words naturally, without any pretentious hypocrisy. As a rough man, it is very difficult for him to tell lies.

Wang Huan was moved in his heart. In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there has always been no one who gnaws hard bones, and everyone is eager to pick peaches from the ground. If it were other Nanming generals, they would definitely collect all these weapons and other things, and leave some dross for them. Wang Huan sent it away. You know, with weapons and armor, you can arrest people and arm an army.

It is not easy for Qin Gongming to maintain his true colors after years of immersion. This is probably one of the reasons why he could no longer be promoted.

Wang Huan cupped his hands and bowed and said loudly: "Thank you, Vice President, but these things, as your lord said, it's better to transport them back to Shizhu and wait for the mother-in-law to get them."

The two stood side by side outside the blazing pine forest, watching the soaring flames burn almost everything in their field of vision. The heat was unbearable even dozens of steps away, and no Tan family soldier ran out of the pine forest. , except for the more than 500 people led by Tan Wen, the others have been reduced to fly ash.

The fire in the pine forest wanted to prevent it from spreading to other forests, so the two men changed from arresting the remaining Tan Jiabing to cutting down the isolation zone, trying to control the fire within the range of the pine forest, so as not to burn more and more.

Wang Huan and Qin Gongming watched the fire outside the pine forest for a while, feeling bored. After all the trophies were loaded into the cart, they and Zu Bian took the guards along with the cart to a small road and turned over a Mountain, bypassing the scene of the fire and went to Tusi City.

The small road was difficult to navigate, and the cart almost had to be pushed and pulled by manpower to get through. After struggling for a long time, until the moon rose at night, the two of them took the convoy around to the opposite side of the fire scene, where Qin Yiming and Ma Xintian were still waiting, and they were relaxed , that fire trench cut off any hope of escaping from here. All Qin Yiming and Ma Xintian had to do was to keep adding firewood to the trench.

Qin Yiming and Ma Xintian were delighted to see Wang Huan, but both of them had calm personalities and kept quiet. Qin Yiming praised a few words with a smile and stayed silent, and Ma Xintian didn't even say a word, but his eyes The color of admiration became stronger and stronger.

The four of them joined forces and headed all the way to Tusi City with the prisoners and captures. On the way, Qin Gongming told Qin Yiming and Ma Xintian the general situation of the battle at the entrance of Black Pine Forest. When he heard that Tan Wen's personal cavalry was Wang Huan After leading the Minzhuang of Wanshou City to attack and kill Tan Wen himself alive, Ma Xintian was okay. He had trained those Minzhuang and he knew the details. Qin Yiming became even more uneasy and looked at Wang Huan in surprise. I can't speak, but anyone who leads the army as a general knows the level of the guard cavalry and the level of the people. To put it more vividly, it is like an adult holding a big knife to bully someone with a wooden knife Children, no matter how many children there are, it is not easy for an adult holding a knife to lose.

But Tan Wen lost like this, how could Qin Yiming not be surprised?

He looked Wang Huan up and down, and re-examined him inside and out as if he was seeing him for the first time. Cheng Fu's deep eyes were full of indescribable surprise and confusion, as if he wanted to compare his body with this figure. On the smiling face of the young man who had become much stronger when he first came, he could see some clues.

Wang Huan had already taken off his cotton and rattan armor. It was very uncomfortable to wear such a suit on a hot day. Now he was wearing a sackcloth, riding on a horse, laughing and joking with his ancestors like an ordinary villager.

Qin Yiming sighed secretly, thinking that heroes come out of youth, and there are many heroes in troubled times. The way of heaven is like this, and it cannot be judged by common sense. This Wang Huan, let's regard him as a star in the world.

A group of people walking on the official road can see the road clearly without lighting a torch. This is because the black pine forest is like a huge torch, illuminating a range of dozens of miles. The blazing flames can be seen even in Tusi City , so everyone walked very quickly, and within half an hour, they saw the tall gate tower in Tusi City.

However, on the uphill road from Guandao to Tusi City, many people in Shizhu County spontaneously crowded on both sides, holding food and drinks in their hands, and kept holding back the passing soldiers and civilians, and enthusiastically offered their meager hearts.

"Son, eat some. You've been fighting for the stone pillar all day, are you exhausted? Come on, this is the rice cooked by aunt, pickled pickles, just take a bite."

"Come on, little brother, the old man has nothing else, this is self-brewed rice wine, drink it to relieve fatigue, try it."

"Big brother, this is the fruit my mother asked me to go up the mountain to pick. It's very sweet. I'll eat it for you. You won't feel thirsty after eating it."

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A sentence of plain and warm words, uttered affectionately from the mouths of ordinary people, warmed the hearts of soldiers and civilians.It is nearly ten miles from Shizhu County to Tusi City by night road. These people just walked here. They don't have any extravagant language, and they don't have delicious and rare treasures. The rice is brown rice produced on the mountain, and the food is their own The pickled spicy radish and the wine are also bitter and astringent, but they are precious things that contain sincerity. Maybe if they are given to the villagers today, they will have to skip a meal tomorrow.

But they gave it anyway.

I gave it willingly. The people who walked by were soldiers who fought for their safety. Unlike those soldiers who eat people's ointment and drink people's blood, it doesn't matter to let these people starve for soldiers.

Wang Huan and others smiled and declined with the people all the way, and it took a long time to get to the gate of Tusi City.

Qin Liangyu was dressed in ordinary clothes, supported by Ma Wannian, and stood at the bottom of the gate, welcoming everyone's return.

Today is the last day of 2016. I wish all book friends a happy new year and prosperity in the new year.

At the same time, I would like to apologize to everyone. I am too busy today, so I can only update once. I hope you can understand, thank you.

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