Chapter 22                                                             �

"Sir. Xu Hai is still dead. But his wife is innocent. She has been working for Lord Hu. You know it too." Xu Hai said: "Where is Luo Longwen? Why haven't you seen him? These things are all done by him."

Xu Hai has never been a naive person. He can't tolerate any innocence when making a living at sea. But he couldn't help but hold his naive ideas and wanted to surrender, but in fact he was Wang Cuiqiao, the child in Wang Cuiqiao's belly.

He fought all his life, but now he only has this little bit of blood. This is probably another reason why he wanted to surrender to the official army.

Zhou Mengchen felt a little moved, and he also had some understanding of Wang Cuiqiao's affairs. Although he had sympathy, there was not much sympathy. Yes, Wang Cuiqiao was very miserable, and his family was in decline. He became a lady from a noble family to a fireworks woman, and was robbed by Japanese pirates. Now, there was finally a man in love, and Zhou Mengchen was about to kill him. However, Zhou Mengchen knew even more that pirates were ruined by women like Wang Cuiqiao. Compared with them, it was good that Zhou Mengchen could have a trace of sympathy. This sympathy made Zhou Mengchen list Wang Cuiqiao as a follower.

But that's all.

However, at this moment, he saw Xu Hai’s thoughts and said in his heart: “This may be a deal.”

Zhou Mengchen said: "There is a public opinion on right and wrong, and there is no share in your opinion here. Let it go. Mr. Xu will be executed on my behalf."

Xu Wei was stunned and looked at Zhou Mengchen with a pair of eyes. He immediately understood and said, "I obey the order."

Xu Wei knew that Zhou Mengchen did not want him to be executed. After all, Xu Wei was a literati, and he had nothing to do with murder. There were countless people around Zhou Mengchen who were killed without blinking. Why did you ask Xu Wei to do this? Then Zhou Mengchen didn't say it, but Xu Wei already knew it.

After all, after years of cooperation, we have already had a deep understanding of each other.

Zhou Mengchen actually wanted to know the information mentioned by Xu Hai. But killing Xu Hai is inevitable. Xu Wei needed to trap Zhou Mengchen's information mentioned by Xu Hai in a very short time.

This is a pretty difficult thing.

Just think about it, why do Xu Hai still cooperate even though he knows that he will die?

There is only one breakthrough point. That is Wang Cuiqiao.

Xu Wei thought so and did the same.

He took Xu Hai out and found a spacious place. He didn't say anything at first. He asked someone to call Wang Cuiqiao over and let their miserable couple meet again. Xu Wei said straight in one fell swoop; "Now you know what you can say."

Xu Hai opened his mouth and couldn't speak for a moment, saying, "I will let my wife go if I say it."

Wang Cuiqiao said, "My husband, I will die with you."

Xu Hai scolded sternly: "Nonsense. It's not in vain to die now. But our children still have to live."

Xu Wei said: "Actually, no matter how you are, your wife can survive. After all, he advised you to surrender on behalf of Hu Zongxian. No matter what his original intention is, my adults are somewhat tolerant of such people. After all, if you are not tolerant, who would be a spy? However, living is alive, how can you live another way. You know how many people you killed in Jiangnan, you know that your wife is pregnant with your child. What will your life be like in the next life? I think you don't know. My adults let your wife go because of business. But your wife is pregnant with your evil seed, and the relationship will end here, unless she can make meritorious contributions to the court. We still take good care of the meritorious ministers."

Xu Hai naturally knew what kind of merit was?

Xu Hai said: "How do I believe you?"

Xu Wei said, "You don't believe it, but my adults still cherish their feathers." Then Xu Wei looked up at the sun and said, "I'll remind you that the meeting is in the big tent. Before this meeting ends, I must send your head in, leaving you with less time."

Xu Hai smiled bitterly, looked at Wang Cuiqiao deeply, and said, "In the future, you have to take care of yourself. Also, if the child is born, the surname Xu if it is a daughter, and if it is a child, the surname Wang." Without waiting for Wang Cuiqiao to answer, he said to Xu Wei: "Take her down. It's not easy for him to see it."

"That's right." Xu Wei nodded, and asked Wang Cuiqiao, who was crying around him to take him down, and let the military doctor see him. No problems happened.

Xu Hai said: "I know it's too big, and I don't know where to start for a while."

Xu Wei said, "Then I ask, you answer."

Xu Hai said: "Okay."

Xu Wei said: "What is the attitude of the Japanese side? What are the great names in the Southern Kyushu playing among the Japanese pirates?"

Xu Hai said: "What role is behind the scenes, the master of the debt-destroying bank."

Just as Xu Wei seized the time to interrogate Xu Hai, Zhou Mengchen was also summarizing various data from this battle in the big tent.

Zhou Mengchen looked at the data collected by the various departments, frowned slightly and said, "A total of more than 5,000 Japanese pirates were killed, of which nearly 1,000 real Japanese pirates have not been counted yet. I can understand, but why are there nearly 2,000 soldiers killed in battle? Did we fight a big battle?"

Especially Zhou Mengchen saw that after the battle of Datong Jingqi, only 100 people died in battle. In addition, only 200 or 300 people were injured.

It was obvious that the Datong cavalry had won the main force, whether it was killing Chen Dong or defeating Ye Ma, it was done by the Datong Jingqi as the main force. As a result, there were so many casualties in the Ming army.

The generals below have to explain one by one.

The two biggest casualties were the battle of attacking Xu Hai’s camp head-on, and hundreds of people were killed by Xu Hai’s side like cutting vegetables and melons. Then during the pursuit and during the period when Xu Hai was trapped in the beasts, both sides suffered great casualties, and in the end, Xu Hai surrendered, which was considered the end.

However, Zhou Mengchen also knew that he estimated that there was another reason for the casualties.

That is the issue of empty salary.

It is very likely that some generals saw that Zhou Mengchen was not easy to mess with, so they sold out some of their empty pay in advance to prevent Zhou Mengchen from causing trouble for them. However, Zhou Mengchen knew that it was not the time to investigate in depth.

This can only let Zhou Mengchen know one thing, that is, the Ming army in Jiangnan was rotten to the core. The problem of Japanese pirates was never how capable the Japanese pirates were, but how bad the Ming army in Jiangnan was.

Zhou Mengchen pressed this matter and dealt with it in the future. What he has to do now is to continue the battle. Yes, the three major bandits will die, and they will be able to escape. But they can run, but the Zhoushan Islands cannot escape.

It can even be said that now is the best opportunity to clear the Zhoushan Islands and re-establish rule on the Zhoushan Islands.

After all, most of the starting places for these Japanese pirates in Zhapu were from Zhoushan. It can be said that this battle took time out of the power of the Japanese pirates in Zhoushan. If there is no decisive treatment, the Japanese pirates in Zhoushan will gradually recover their strength.

It’s not that other Japanese pirates would send people to reinforce, how is this possible?

However, the Zhoushan Islands, on the route to Japan, not far from the richest Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty, occupied an important transportation line from the Ming Dynasty to Japan. Before, Zhu Wan attacked Shuangyu, and Shuangyu Island was one of the Zhoushan Islands. This shows the superiority of the Zhoushan Islands.

Before, they were occupied by other Japanese pirates and dared not come. Now these Japanese pirates have suffered heavy damage. It is the time when they come to fill the void.

Therefore, you must not miss the opportunity and never come again.

But this time, the cavalry can't be beaten.

Because this is a battle between the sea and the local army in Jiangnan must be used. Before using them, the first thing to do is to give a big reward. After all, no matter what, it is a great victory, so naturally the soldiers must be rewarded.

Even if there is no plan for the Battle of Zhoushan, you still need to reward when it is time to reward.

However, Zhou Mengchen has been in the army for many years, and some of the Heshuo Army's constitutions were written by Zhou Mengchen, and he is also very clear about the shortcomings of the army. Many people think that rewards are just to spend money? What else is difficult?
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