serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 178

There was no cloud in the sky, and the moon was shining like daytime.

back yard

The old housekeeper of Yizhong County Prince's Mansion just walked in from the garden gate, when he heard the sound of ding dong ding dong coming from the center of the lake. The intense sound of the piano came out from inside, the sound of the piano was intense, it seemed that thousands of people were shouting, and thousands of horses were neighing.

The old butler stopped in his tracks and took a deep breath. He was startled by the murderous air from the sound of the piano, and listened carefully again.

Suddenly, the string broke with a "pop", and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.

Looking towards the center of the lake, the old butler sighed softly, walked along the stone path, turned a few turns, and a lake appeared in front of him. There was a gazebo in the center of the lake, and a small bridge stretched to On a small island in the middle of the lake.

The old butler walked over, walked to the side of Yizhong County King, and said softly: "My lord."

Yizhong Junwang looked much deeper than usual, sitting there quietly, with a contemplative expression on his face, motionless.

The old butler looked at him: "My lord, Zhen Fu has sent you a letter." Then he took out a letter from his sleeve and placed it on the stone table.

The king of Yizhong County came back to his senses, picked up the letter, tore it open, read it, looked at it, suddenly laughed, then grabbed the letter, and said: "Uncle Zhang."

"The old slave is here."

"Tell me, why doesn't she want to recognize me?"

King Yizhong stood up and handed over the letter: "Look at it. This Zhen Fu is quite responsible. In order to save his sister, he actually wants to exchange important information."

The old housekeeper glanced at the letter, and also smiled: "Is this Zhen Fu really a rebel in the south who can shake the country of Dazhou? Ignorant boy! Just call back a town of elite soldiers from Nine Sides and wipe them out."

The king of Yizhong County smiled lightly: "This is not entirely true. Since the self-generated firecrackers, the mode of warfare has changed. As long as two or three months of training, the rebels can kill the officers and soldiers, even nine The elite on the side. If you want to wipe them out, you still have to pay a big price."

After a pause, "The imperial grandfather is old and still immersed in the old world. If not for this, he would not have come up with such a stupid trick. The Central Plains is destined to become a muddy pit, which will continue to swallow the elite troops of the court and consume Great Zhou's strength."

The old housekeeper: "The emperor has already started to mobilize the army, and the rebels are still mainly refugees."

King Yizhong County: "I know. But you have to know a word, ants kill elephants. If there are tens of millions of people in the provinces of the Central Plains, if they are all refugees, don't talk about suppression, even recruiting can bring down the court. One can scare people to death.”

The old housekeeper choked.

King Yizhong stood up: "But now, the imperial court still has a chance, which is to immediately transfer troops from the border, quickly recapture Xuzhou, separate the rebels, and then wipe out the rebels of the Cao gang in Anhui. As for the water in Shandong, the north is The disaster-stricken area of ​​the Yellow River is hundreds of miles away, facing the sea to the east, and as long as Xuzhou City is taken back, they will be trapped to death in Shandong. What a pity, the Liaodong and the grasslands are at war, and the imperial court has no soldiers to move."

The old butler shook the letter in his hand: "What about Zhen Fu?"

King Yizhong smiled: "You write a letter to Zhen Fu and tell him that the war in the south has nothing to do with me. If you want to save his sister, you have to show some sincerity."

The old housekeeper: "Yes."

King Yizhong stared at him: "Our previous thinking was wrong. No matter how incompetent the emperor is or how chaotic the government is, the grandfather will never hand over the throne to me. If we want to take back everything that belongs to us, we can only Rely on mutiny. Therefore, we must have our own army."

The old butler stared fixedly at Yizhong County King with wide-eyed eyes. After a while, he sighed and said, "What the lord said is very true. It's just that it doesn't matter that we are in the army. The cleaning back then was very serious. Thoroughly, without leaving any old connections behind."

The King of Yizhong County smiled: "No. Let our people go to the south. I have had people buy several military officers from the Henan and Anhui patrol battalions from the Ministry of War."

The old butler was shocked.

The King of Yizhong County coughed lightly, and then raised his voice: "We need to take advantage of this war to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity." After speaking, he turned and walked towards the bridge.

Only then did the old butler come back to his senses, and followed him out.

In July, the prairie is full of pastures, lush greenery, flowers all over the lakeside, breeze blowing, cattle and sheep strolling, it is the most beautiful season on the prairie.

At the foot of Daqing Mountain, the endless prairie is full of cattle and sheep. A group of Mongolian herders drove the horses to the lakeside to drink water and graze. These horses will be handed over to the Han government in September. If they fail to meet the requirements of the Han people, the tribe will be punished. .

Suddenly, there was a cry of eagles in the distant sky, and then several goshawks swooped down from the sky and circled above the horses.

Everyone understood that this was the arrival of the Han army.

Since the Han people defeated the Manchu and Qing coalition forces, they have passed down military orders to all the tribes on the prairie, recruiting all falconers and falcons, and not allowing any tribe to tame falcons, otherwise all the men of the tribe will be killed, and the women will be scattered. to other tribes.

Since then, the falcons that fly in the sky and the horses that run on the ground belong to the Han people, and every tribe has to serve corvee to help the Han people build the city, but the Han people pay wages and promise that after the city is built, the Mongols will be allowed to live in the city .

Soon, there was a thunderous sound of horseshoes in the distance, and then thousands of cavalry appeared on the other side of the grassland. The horseshoes churned up miles of dust, like yellow dragons, and the momentum was astonishing!
After a while, the cavalry rushed to the lakeside. The leader was Jia Hu, Lin San was on the left, and Niu Ben was on the right. Amidst the yelling, the cavalry reined in one after another, and the cavalry stopped one after another.

Lin San: "Commander, five miles ahead is the mountain pass of Yinshan Avenue."

Jia Hu galloped his horse up to a mound, looked into the distance, and saw the undulating Daqing Mountain in front of him, very close at hand.

At this time, Niu Ben pointed to the distance and said, "That piece of highland is suitable for building a city."

Jia Hu turned around and looked around, nodded. He led his troops here for two things. First, he built a garrison at the exit of Yinshan Avenue to control the Yinshan Avenue. As before, it became an important military town controlling the entrance of Yinshan Avenue.

One more thing, Jia Hu wanted to see if he could bring back the corpses of Zhou soldiers buried on the other side of the Yin Mountain.

In addition, Jia Hu also came out to hide from the Mongols in Mobei. Wang Hetang signed the alliance according to his suggestion, and then returned to Beijing with [-] self-generated guns.

King Zhasaktu Khan was not a fool either, so he naturally saw that Da Zhou wanted to play tricks. Although he was angry, he didn't dare to tear his face, so he had to swallow his anger and return to the Mobei Grassland with the Raksha people's weapons and equipment.

I thought this was the end of the matter, but I didn’t expect King Zhasaktu Khan to send someone back again. He first asked when to send troops, and finally asked the Great Zhou Dynasty to give him some compensation. One mouth is five thousand armors, twenty thousand With the saber, Jia Hu was so angry that he wanted to draw the saber to kill people.

Seeing that the other party looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, Jia Hu directly pushed them to Eunuch Zhao, and brought Niu Ben and others to Suiyuan City.

At this time, a few goshawks in the sky uttered a loud and clear cry, and then a loud and clear cry came, and then a huge goshawk flew over. Jia Hu glanced at it. eagle.

A falconer uttered a unique cry, and the goshawk slowly landed on the ground. The falconer stepped forward and took off the bamboo tube tied to the goshawk's leg and handed it to Zhou Jun, and then took out a piece of fresh meat from the bag Throw it to the goshawk.

Lin San took the bamboo tube and took out the military report inside and handed it to Jia Hu.

Jia Hu took Zhan Kan and was startled, Xie Qiong urged him to go back to the camp, saying that Jia Amnesty sent someone to send him an urgent letter, and he had to hand it over to him.

Something happened at home? !

Thinking of this, Jia Hu said to Niu Ben: "I want to return to Helinger immediately, and I will leave this to you."

(End of this chapter)