Chapter 1470 Before the water battle
The medical officers accompanying the army cleaned the soldiers who died in battle and put on brand new Daning war uniforms. Each body was guaranteed to be left out. There was no way to bury the land on this sea. The final dignity was clean and there was a white cloth.
The soldiers sorted out the bodies of their comrades, took off their military cards, and sent them back to their homes with letters from the Military Affairs Office of the Ministry of War. The soldiers wrapped the bodies in white cloth and threw them into the sea one by one.
The corpses of the naval battle can only be dealt with in this way.
Chen Leng stood in front of the queue with all the generals. When the warriors' bodies were tied with ropes and slowly sent into the water, everyone lifted their right fists up and placed them across their chests.
"General."
Wang Gendong walked to Chen Leng and said, "This battle destroyed 32 warships in Sang Kingdom, and captured more than 2,200 people from Sang Kingdom. What should I do?"
"Kill it."
Chen said three words coldly.
"Where is the warship of the San people?"
"Return to his body with his own way."
Chen Leng looked at the sea in the distance and replied.
It is a burden to follow the army to take prisoners. It is normal to execute all prisoners in this era. It cannot be said to be cruel or cruel. Moreover, these prisoners are time bombs, and they may explode at any time.
This is not on land, they are locked up in prison cells. If they want to keep the prisoners, they have to eat and live with the soldiers of Daning on the ship, consuming food and grass from the soldiers of Daning.
After hearing the military order, Wang Gendong stood attentively and saluted: "Yes!"
He turned around and ordered someone to do things. When Chen Leng looked at Wang Gendong, a strand of white hair appeared from under the iron helmet and was blown by the sea breeze.
In a flash, so many years have passed. When he first joined the Navy, Wang Gendong was a regiment leader. Chen Leng was only sixteen or seventeen years old at that time, and Wang Gendong was almost middle-aged. Now he is old and is still fighting for Daning.
Last time I heard Wang Gendong say that his son was already fifteen years old. Everyone thought it was incredible. Think about it, why did more than ten years pass so soon? Wang Gendong said that his son wanted to join the army, but he stopped him but couldn't stop him. He led his troops outside. His wife wrote to him that his son had been admitted to the Dongjiang Arsenal and should have entered the Arsenal to start studying now.
"Brother Wang."
Chen Leng saw Wang Gendong's subordinates come back and handed over a pot of wine: "Let's go back and wait until you have time, write a letter to your family and ask your son to study in Chang'an City Martial Arts Academy, and take his sister-in-law to Chang'an."
Wang Gendong said: "He insisted on going to the Eastern Palace Armory, saying that he might be able to see General Meng Chang'an, or General Chen Leng. He also asked me if I could see you often. I said no, but he didn't believe it."
Chen Leng couldn't help but smile: "Does he like Meng Changan more or me more?"
Wang Gendong chuckled.
Chen Leng sighed: "When I didn't ask."
But he didn't give up and asked again: "What you said just now, your son said that you might be able to see Meng Chang'an when you enter the Dongjiang Armory, and there is another sentence behind you that might be able to see me. Did you add it?"
Wang Gendong chuckled.
Wang Gendong is really an honest man. His son likes Meng Chang'an more and admires him very much. For this reason, Wang Gendong also reasoned with him, saying that Chen Leng is better than Meng Chang'an, so his son doesn't believe it. His son insists that Meng Chang'an is the unsolvable general, and there is no solution in all aspects.
"Wait until you finish the battle of Sangguo."
Wang Gendong leaned on the side of the boat, took a sip of wine and asked Chen Leng: "General, do you have any longer-term plans? Do you just keep leading troops? In fact, my subordinates can see that the General is a person who doesn't like being an official. If you ask you to choose, give you a vegetable field, a fish pond, or a
Official hat, you will definitely choose the former.”
Chen Leng said: "I want to talk nonsense, I want to wear an official hat and eat my salary to raise fish, and then try to sell the food and fish to the court."
Wang Gendong was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "It turns out that general is still the one."
Chen Leng also leaned on the side of the ship, watching the sun in the east gradually sinking, the army was gathering its fleet to form a water camp, and he planned that the decisive battle with the Sang Kingdom Navy would actually come soon. If there was no resistance, he would be able to reach the coastline of Sang Kingdom in another day.
Sang Kingdom had been preparing for this battle for so long, and it was impossible for them to easily put Daning's fleet on the shore. In that way, what's the use of the navy that Sang Kingdom devotes all its strength to build?
So the decisive battle is not tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. The Sang people may choose the sea area they are more familiar with. It seems that there is no difference between the vast sea, but the ocean currents are different. When the decisive battle is determined on the sea, it is not only the combat power of the warships and soldiers of both sides, but also nature.
The failure to see the main fleet of the Sang people means that they are waiting for battle somewhere.
"General, brothers of the Navy"
Wang Gendong looked at Chen Leng, not wanting to say it at first, but in the end he couldn't help it: "The brothers of the navy are different from the brothers of the army soldiers, I'm not referring to the danger differently."
"I know."
Chen Leng nodded: "If the brothers of the army soldiers die in battle, they can still be buried in the soil, but if the brothers of the navy die in battle, they can only throw their bodies into the sea."
Chen Leng let out a long sigh: "I will give the families of the dead soldiers more pensions."
Wang Gendong nodded: "Although everyone has gone, no matter how much money it costs, it is just a comfort."
Chen Leng patted Wang Gengdong on the shoulder: "When I was handling the case in Gyeonggi Province, I bought you a piece of land. I was already building a yard. It was not small but it would not violate the rules. The place I chose was pretty good. After this battle, you can take over the whole family. I also bought a house for you in Chang'an City. In the future, if you want to live in Chang'an, you can live in Chang'an. If you want to live in Gyeonggi Province, you can go to Gyeonggi Province. It is not very far anyway. The house on the other side of Gyeonggi Province is surrounded by mountains and rivers."
Wang Gendong's face immediately changed: "General, I"
Chen sneered and shook his head: "No need to say some messy words, there is no end to the battle. By the way, I told you that I said that I am beside the mountains and waters. The water is mine. I bought it, and the mountains are mine. I bought it. You want to cruise a boat and spend money. You want to climb a mountain and buy tickets."
Wang Gendong laughed out loud: "Will you be neighbors with the general in the future?"
Chen sneered: "Do you know? Actually, you are right. What I want to do the most is a rich man. He doesn't have to do anything, he just eats, drinks, and has a lot of money. Do you think this idea is annoying?"
Wang Gendong: "What's so annoying about that? Everyone thinks so anyway."
Chen Leng said: "Yes, just because everyone thinks so, but I did it. Do you think you are angry?"
Wang Gendong: "That's going to be angry."
"Ha ha ha ha"
Chen Leng laughed loudly.
But sometimes, the smile covers the sadness, and Wang Gendong also smiles. The sadness behind his smile is also the sadness, but if the people in the army are always immersed in this sadness and cannot be pulled out, people will be crazy, because the life and death they face are far more than ordinary people.
An ordinary person does not face much life and death in his life. How many people can he contact after all? There are only a handful of life and death that truly makes people feel sad.
But the soldiers are different. In every war, they may lose their companions who spend time together day and night. They spend more time together than with their family, and relatives and friends will not do it at critical moments.
They blocked a knife, but the comrades-in-arms will.
So this kind of sadness is everywhere and always.
After every fight, the soldiers would sit together and look for some ridiculous jokes. Maybe this joke has been told dozens of times, but everyone would still laugh out loud, or even exaggerately.
It doesn't have to be really happy, it just needs to smile.
This kind of smile is not false or perfunctory, but really needs it very much. The soldiers who were sitting together to rest were joking loudly, with a loud laugh and spreading far away.
But Chen Leng could hear it, and the laughter was also sad. Just now, if a brother died in battle, they could laugh happily? How could there be so many heartless people in this world?
"General."
Wang Gendong shouted Chen Leng.
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
Shen Leng asked.
Wang Gendong shook his head: "It's nothing, I just want to find something to talk about."
The night gradually descends on the sea. The night in the deep sea is not so quiet, and the waves are loud, which makes people feel even more panicked. Even a person like Wang Gendong who has been through the battlefield for a long time will be panicked in such an environment. If you don’t say anything, you may become more and more panicked.
"Say something?"
Chen Leng thought for a while: "I heard that all the women in Sang Kingdom are good."
Wang Gendong sighed: "General, can't you find some topics you are good at?"
Chen Leng: "Who do you look down on me!"
Wang Gendong said: "You."
Cold: ""
Wang Gendong said: "Don't talk about General, can any of your brothers do something that can harm women? Even if we hate the people of Bohai to that extent, our people have never harmed women."
Chen sneered and looked up at the rising moon on the sea.
“It’s so big.”
Wang Gendong nodded: "There are indeed big ones. Bohai Niuer is really big, but it is not as big as Heiwu Niuer, so it looks big. And, General, I tell you, Heiwu Niuer looks good when he was young, and he can't watch it when he is middle-aged."
Chen Leng: "I'm talking about the moon"
Wang Gendong: "Ah? Cough cough I'm talking about two moons."
Chen Leng: "Then you are indeed older than me."
At this moment, Mr. Cha came over with supper: "What are you talking about?
Ask Chen Leng and Wang Gendong in unison and answered in unison: "Moon!"
Cha Ye asked curiously: "What did I hear of one or two, and there are two moons?"
Chen Leng said: "Well, one moon is single, two moons are touching, and three moons can compete, right General Wang"
Wang Gendong took the food box from Cha Ye and nodded hard: "Yes, yes, yes, yes, three moons can be used, maybe you can be used, you have to be able to be used as much as you can, I have two moons, and the general will have one moon, and I can break the moon!"
Mr. Cha was stunned: "Are you crazy?"
The moon on the sea really looks very big. The moonlight sprinkles on the sea surface, the waves rise and fall, and the sea water becomes black or even darker. Fishermen often say that they cannot stare at the sea water at night and look carefully. If they look carefully, they are said to be able to see death.
The next day, when the sun just rose, several warships of the San people came from a distance. Judging from the scale, it was not for war, and they were not big ships.
Chapter completed!