"The place where we went ashore is Yuyao, which is very close to Cixi. Within a half day of the day we got ashore, we met the retreating Guanhaiwei soldiers. It is said that Dinghaiwei had retreated to Ningbo Prefecture, and then we fought with the Japanese pirates who followed us."

As the personal soldiers continued to tell the battlefield experience, the process of the first battle after the Jiujiang Guard was dispatched only entered the ears of the three listeners.

Because they were defeated soldiers, no one paid attention to the situation behind them. Even when they encountered this army that came from afar, the Guanhai Guard continued to let go and retreat, which directly led to the collapse of the morale of several other guards.

When I was in Zhenjiang before, I only heard that some people were very rumored that the Japanese pirates were very good. Now I saw that the defeated soldiers of Guanhaiwei ran to the back with no life.

By this time, the soldiers who had been training for more than a year in Jiujiang Guard actually had their morale fluctuations and wanted to follow them back.

There was not enough commander of the garrison, and there were commanders and commanders, and no one dared to follow the defeated soldiers directly and ran back. He did not see Qianhu, commander and other officers' personal soldiers and servants standing outside the army, sharpening their knives.

Several commanders from the ward have also gotten together now and studied what to do later.

They are all grasshoppers on the same rope. Trek has disobeyed the military orders when he has arrived here. If he continues to get lost...

I dare not think about it.

The army set up a temporary camp on the road leading to Yuyao, while sending messengers to the above for subsequent tasks, and also sent a horse to explore the enemy situation near Cixi.

As soon as the camp was planted, the food was not ready, and the horse was rewarded. Japanese pirates were found more than 20 miles away and were robbing a village.

Several senior military generals from the garrison gathered together again and discussed whether to send troops to eliminate the Japanese pirates.

"You will send troops to encircle and suppress these Japanese pirates?"

When Wu Dong heard this, he suddenly interrupted and asked.

"No, the master was waiting outside the tent at that time. After discussing, the master inside just sent an extra horse to investigate the enemy situation."

The personal soldier hurriedly said, "But the next day we will fight with this Japanese pirates."

As the personal soldiers continued to tell the story, Wei Guangde and the others learned what happened later.

Although the Japanese pirates were sent to monitor the Japanese pirates, most of the guards wanted to lead their troops to retreat to Yuyao during the military discussion that day. After all, there were county walls there to rely on to resist the Japanese pirates' attack.

That night, all the officers of more than a hundred households in Jiujiang Guard were called to the command tent to discuss. At this time, Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng knew what the dispute had occurred on the military tent and the final result in the afternoon.

All officers of Jiujiang Guard had to make a choice whether to retreat to Yuyao or take the initiative to attack and eliminate the Japanese pirates.

Soon the officers in the tent were divided into two factions, and the vast majority of officers naturally did not want to go to Zhejiang to fight. It was not that they did not want military merit, but that military merit was a bit hot.

They knew very well that their subordinates were really not confident in extermination of the Japanese pirates. They didn't see that the Guanhaiwei's troops were defeated. This was a full-scale garrison, and now the Jiujiangwei has more than a thousand troops.

A few low-level officers who wanted to make achievements were quickly criticized by their colleagues for being useless and had nothing to say.

It’s not that they have bad opinions, they will serve the court. Unfortunately, they only occupy the moral commanding heights. They are speechless about the actual combat power proposed by their colleagues.

The commander and senior generals such as the commander Tongzhi naturally would not speak at this time, that is, the hundreds and thousands of households below were talking about it.

The subordinates did not want to fight. As the commander and commander of the superiors, the commander-in-chief did not know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and their faces looked helpless.

Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng naturally belonged to the fence faction, and there was no problem in advancing and retreating, so they simply didn't say anything.

With the silence of the pro-war faction, the group of people in the military tent advocated retreating had the upper hand. However, after the other party stopped talking, the scene gradually became quiet and everyone was waiting for the decision of the commander.

The scene was very clear just now. Most people actually didn't want to fight. At this time, it was time for him, the guard commander, to make the final decision.

"What do you say?"

As the highest-ranking general in the military tent, he did not express his thoughts immediately, but instead asked the opinions of other guard chiefs who came with the army.

Just now, the hundreds of households, thousands of households and the guards in the garrison have expressed their opinions, and only a few guards are still silent. It seems that it is time to express their opinions by this time.

It was at this time that the officers who were still very active in opposing the pro-war faction suddenly felt something and looked at the masters of the garrison sitting above the tent with disbelief.

Just now, their opinions were expressed very clearly. According to the previous routine, after their opinions were basically unified, the commander would make a choice directly. After all, in their opinion, this was the best decision for them.

However, there seemed to be something wrong with Commander Guard today.

"When will it be the turn of the Japanese pirates to plunder in the glorious Ming Dynasty, the country of the Celestial Empire?"

Speaking of this, the speaker stood up and bowed to the commander of the guard and said, "Sir, I believe that you should enter Ningbo Prefecture as soon as possible to eliminate the Japanese pirates."

The person who spoke was a commander. As soon as he finished speaking, another commander stood up and saluted: "Sir, the Ministry of War has ordered us to directly rescue Taizhou. We have already delayed major events because of our departing to Shaoxing. It is a serious crime.

Since the Japanese pirates were found in front of us, we should do our best to encircle and suppress them, so as to redeem them.”

This time, the person who spoke was Li Qiguang, the commander-in-chief, and his voice was very powerful, but it was slightly different from the past.

Something is wrong, absolutely something is wrong.

At this time, all the officers in the tent had noticed it. It seemed that before they came in, the guard commanders seemed to have already unified their opinions, and they were completely opposite to their ideas.

At this time, the commander-in-chief Zhang Qing also stood up and bowed to the commander-in-chief and said, "Sir, the army orders us to suppress the Japanese. This time, the enemy is found twenty miles away. This battle must be fought no matter what."

The intention is too obvious. If the generals in the tent can't see it at this time, it would be really stupid.

Although I don’t know why, the commanders of the guards made the decision to fight, which seemed to be inconsistent with the news I heard before, no one dared to stand up and objected at this time. They all bowed their bodies and did not dare to look up.

The two hundred households who were in charge of fighting were now like ostrichs, and they did not dare to be complacent because their opinions were supported by the garrison boss.

"I forgot to tell you that when Guanhaiwei's thieves retreated, the main force of the Japanese pirates went with Dinghaiwei. I'm afraid that he had already arrived at Ningbo Prefecture."

As Commander-in-Chief said this, everyone in the room knew why the commander-in-chief would say that before, Zhang Qing, a good man in the ward station, would also stand up and advocate the battle with all his might. It was because Jiujiang Guard had been forced into a desperate situation.
Chapter completed!