serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 169 What happened after the victory

The sun is already westward.

The battlefield has been cleaned up. Groups of Mongols and Han camp prisoners are driven by the Zhou cavalry to walk slowly past the camp. On a mound, Xie Qiong watched quietly, and Yang Dayong was reporting to him about the firearms camp. of casualties.

At this time, Zhao Yi, Liu Kun and others came back with a look of great interest. Xie Qiong knew that this pursuit battle had won a complete victory.

"Congratulations!" Xie Qiong led Yang Dayong to meet him.

"Congratulations! Congratulations!" From a distance, Liu Kun and others arched their hands.

"Uncle Zhongqin!"

Xie Qiong bowed his hands and asked Liu Kun, "How is it?"

Liu Kun was full of joy: "The commander-in-chief was entrusted with good planning, and the soldiers were entrusted with their lives. This battle has won a complete victory! The Prince of Tartars led the remnants and fled into the Chahar Grassland. The Manchus had no time to burn down the camp. materials. By the way, this is the guard of Suiyuan City."

Xie Qiong smiled and nodded: "The commander-in-chief is waiting, please come with me." Saying this, he gave up his hands and walked to the camp with Zhao Yi, Liu Kun and others.

In the northwest corner of the camp, there were hundreds of tents, more than a dozen porridge sheds were set up on the open space, and more than a dozen large pots were cooking porridge over the fire.

Not far away, Xue Pan, who was covered in dust and covered in mud, and the Han people who survived were sitting scattered or lying on the grass, talking in low voices while looking at the soldiers of the Zhou army in the distance.

Xue Pan was sitting silently at the side at this time, looking into the distance in a daze.

The man next to him spoke: "What are you thinking?"

Another man: "What are you thinking? I must be homesick!"

Another man: "He misses his mother-in-law, no, the south is called daughter-in-law." Everyone who said that laughed.

Xue Pan woke up from his contemplation. He was indeed homesick. He missed his mother, Aunt Xue, and sister Xue Baochai, and he didn't know what was going on with them.He sighed deeply, and looked at the camp in the distance again. He knew that Jia Hu would definitely send his own soldiers to look for him.

At this time, an old man came over, sat down beside Xue Pan, looked him up and down for a while, and then said, "Your name is not Xue Da."

Xue Pan was slightly taken aback, then asked with a smile, "How do you always know?"

The old man smiled: "You are the son of an aristocratic family who is in charge of building the city outside the pass."

Everyone gathered around, or looked at Xue Pan with their ears pricked up.

After the bombing of the ammunition in the Han army camp, everyone stopped calling Xue Pan a "dog traitor". Instead, they had a little admiration for Xue Pan, and everyone's relationship became much closer.

"Children of the family?"

A sneer appeared on the corner of Xue Pan's mouth, "They are not worthy of carrying my shoes for Uncle Xue!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and looked at each other.

The old man took a deep breath: "You, you are you?"

With a proud smile on his face, Xue Pan pointed to the camp in the distance and asked, "Do you know the name of the commander of this camp?"

A man immediately replied: "The surname is Jia!"

Xue Pan said seriously, "That's my brother!"

"Oh?!" Everyone let out a suspicious exclamation at the same time.

"Do not believe?"

Xue Pan became anxious, his eyes opened like copper bells, and he shouted: "In less than one hour, my brother will send someone to look for me!"

"What?"

Suddenly, there was a shout, and an officer came over with a team of cooks carrying baskets.

The officer walked over, glanced at everyone, and finally fell on Xue Pan, and said coldly: "No trouble." After saying this, he ignored him and said to the other people: "Everyone is lined up." No jumping in line, no looting, offenders will be dealt with according to the military law! Two meatloaf per person, porridge is enough. From tomorrow, two meals will be served in the morning and evening, porridge in the morning and rice in the evening, and there will be vegetables. Serve the meal!"

Everyone was excited. They ate bran swallowed vegetables at the Manchu people's place for more than two months. They didn't see any oil or water. They lined up and stretched their necks to look forward.

"Let's go."

Seeing that Xue Pan was still sitting there, the old man smiled and said, "Eat first, and then you will have the strength to blow after eating."

"you"

Xue Pan snorted and turned his head to the side.

The old man shook his head, ignored him, and stepped forward to line up.

"Yo, are you angry?"

Several men came back, carrying porridge and eating meatloaf, and said to Xue Pan who was sitting there.

A man swallowed the meatloaf in his mouth, "It's not that we don't believe you, it's just that you're making too much sense."

Everyone booed:

"That's right, you can even say that you are a down-and-out clan."

"That's the coach of the 10,000+ army, how did he know you?"

"It's too outrageous!"

"Okay, stop talking."

The old man came over, holding two bowls of porridge in his hands, with meatloaf covering the bowls, "Come, let's eat."

Xue Pan hesitated for a moment, but reached out to take it, but put it on the ground.

A man laughed and said, "Why, are you still waiting for your brother to send someone to look for you?"

A burst of laughter.

Another man looked around for a while, and said in a low voice: "I think the attitude of this group of officers and soldiers is very good, it doesn't seem like they will kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, if you don't tell the matter about the bombs, maybe everyone Get a few taels of silver reward."

The old man became anxious and scolded in a low voice: "Shut up if you don't want to die. This is a great credit, we can snatch this group of officials?!"

Everyone was silent.

At this moment, Lin San came here with a few soldiers, looked around, and finally fell on Xue Pan. Although he was in a mess, his big face was too conspicuous in the crowd.

Under the surprised eyes of everyone, Lin San walked up to Xue Pan.

People around stood up in disorder.

Seeing that Xue Pan was in a trance again, the old man hurriedly touched him, "Xue Da, someone is here."

Xue Pan was startled, and quickly raised his head.

Lin San was looking at him with a smile.

Xue Pan looked excited, "You, you are here"

"Thin."

Lin San looked him around and said with a smile, "Let's go. The commander is still waiting." After speaking, he turned and walked towards the camp.

"Hey!"

Xue Pan hurriedly stood up and followed closely behind.

A man swallowed: "He, he didn't brag."

With a sound of "wow", the crowd roared loudly.

Inside the big tent of the Chinese army

Jia Hu was sitting in front of the short table, looking through the battle reports sent by the battalions.

After reading the last page, Jia Hu sighed slightly, the casualties in this battle were quite heavy, more than half of the cavalry of the Xuan Mansion were lost, and the casualties of the Firearms Battalion were not small, especially the old battalion, which had more than [-] casualties, all of them were elite veterans .

But it also achieved very gratifying results. It almost wiped out the Luocha people, captured more than 1 Mongolian heads, more than [-] Han army camps, captured more than [-] Mongolian Tartars, and more than [-] Han soldiers. The second Tartars in the barracks, and almost all the [-] Han barracks that accompanied Yongqi to the expedition are here.

The Eight Banners soldiers of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties almost retreated completely, and the main force of the Mongolian coalition forces also escaped. Yongqi still had 6 or [-] horses by his side.

At this time, Lin San's voice came from outside the tent: "Commander, Uncle Xue is here."

Jia Hu raised his head: "Come in."

As soon as the words fell, Lin San led Xue Pan in.

Looking at the embarrassed Xue Pan, Jia Hu nodded, "It's fine."

"Master Hou!"

Xue Pan took a step forward, bowed to Jia Hu, and asked, "Is your family okay?"

Jia Hu was startled for a moment, then looked at him with a smile on his lips, "My aunt has been ill, but she's been fine for a long time, Miss Bao is also fine."

Only then did Xue Pan breathe a sigh of relief, and looked at Lin San gratefully.

Jia Hu went on to say: "Go down and take a shower first, change into clean clothes, and let's have dinner together later."

"Yes."

Xue Pan cupped his hands and said, "There is one more thing I ask Lord Hou to decide."

"what's up?"

"We blew up the ammunition of the Ertars."

"What? You blew up the ammunition in the Han barracks?!"

"Yes. I led them to blow up the ammunition of the Ertars."

Jia Hu sat there, watching him closely, and after a while, he asked, "Did you pretend to be a military leader?"

Xue Pan looked at Jia Hu, and slowly replied, "Master Hou can investigate."

Jia Hu nodded. The Dutong and Deputy Dutong of the Han army camp were all in the prisoner-of-war camp. common people.

Thinking of this, he said to Xue Pan: "Don't worry, I will ask for credit for you after I have found out."

Xue Pan was overjoyed: "Thank you, Lord Hou."

Jia Hu nodded, "Go down."

Xue Pan: "Yes."

At this moment, eunuch Zhao's voice came from outside the door: "Marshal, please see me if you have anything to do."

Jia Hu's eyes flashed: "Come in."

The curtain was raised, looking at Lin San and Xue Pan who came out, Eunuch Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then walked in and asked, "I heard that the commander-in-chief disagrees with Uncle Zhongqin's plan to pursue the remnants of the Qing army?"

Jia Hu sat up straight: "That's right. It's an order from my commander."

Eunuch Zhao: "Why?"

Jia Hu said calmly, "This is a military order."

Eunuch Zhao was startled, and after a while, he said: "This matter will be reported to His Majesty."

Jia Hu replied, "It's up to you to listen."

Eunuch Zhao blushed, turned and walked out.

(End of this chapter)