serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 30

"Ugh-"

The sound of the horn resounded throughout the world, and spread throughout the entire city of Yangzhou.

The people inside the city have long been used to it, knowing that the army outside the city has started a new day of drills.

Fireworks go down in Yangzhou in March. When spring comes, Yangzhou ushers in the most beautiful season.

However, the brave guard battalion was full of chills, and the cavalry battalion and the firearms battalion were divided into three square teams and stood upright on the teaching ground.

On the high platform, Jia Hu in military uniform and saber sat on the handsome chair in the middle.

The eight soldiers on both sides held the handle of the knife and remained motionless.

Xie Qiong, Yang Dayong and other battalion officers lined up like wild goose wings, waiting for the military order.

Yang Dayong: "General, shall we begin?"

Jia Hu nodded, "Let's start with the Firearms Camp."

"Promise!" Yang Dayong bowed and shouted: "The general's military order, the army drills, start from the firearms battalion!"

In front of the high platform, a herald waved the red flag in his hand.

The [-] cavalrymen of the cavalry battalion retreated to the side of the teaching field, and at the same time, [-] soldiers rushed out from the two square formations of the firearms battalion, and quickly formed four rows under the command of the officer.

Yang Dayong raised his hand.

The low horn sounded again.

"Gun on the shoulder!"

With a sound of "wow", amidst the officers shouting orders, the musketeer held the bayonet-loaded musket against his shoulder, and held the butt of the gun tightly with both hands. Looking from the high platform, a forest of guns appeared immediately.

"go ahead!"

There was a sound of orderly footsteps, and the firearms battalion formed a neat square formation, marching forward, walked around the teaching field twice, and finally stopped at a distance of [-] steps from the target, the formation was still extremely neat.

"Check flint, reload."

With an order, the firecrackers quickly checked the flint, took out the paper shell from the ammunition box at their waist, bit open the end of the shell, put the bullet in their mouth, raised the hammer, poured a little gunpowder into the medicine pool, and Put the gunpowder in the paper shell into the gun chamber, spit the bullets into the gun chamber, and beat the butt of the gun on the ground twice.

Jia Hu didn't listen to the Xiyi people's suggestion, and directly saved the step of pushing the ammunition to the end with the push rod. The distance of 250 steps did not weaken the shooting effect too much, and it could save time.

As for the damage to the firecrackers, people died, defeated, and kept the guns as enemies?
"put!"

The deafening volley of gunfire rang out, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose.

"put!"

"put!"

"put!"

After four rounds of salvo, the choking smell of gunpowder smoke permeated everywhere. Through the clairvoyance, the erected target in front had been smashed into pieces. Jia Hu nodded in satisfaction. During several simulated confrontations with the cavalry, Jia Hu found that The first row of firecrackers suffered a lot of casualties, so it was changed to four rows. Whether it was against cavalry or platoons of guns, the fight was all about courage and blood.

"Xiyi firearms are really sharp!"

After coming to Yangzhou for so long, Xie Qiong was the first time to watch the drill of the firecrackers, which was very shocking.

Jia Hu nodded and smiled and shouted: "Reward!"

Yang Dayong shouted loudly: "General's military order, reward!"

"Serve the general!" A thousand gunfire soldiers roared in unison.

Jia Hu nodded with a satisfied smile, and then said to Xie Qiong who turned his head: "You give the order."

"The drill continues!" Xie Qiong shouted.

Jia Hu's eyes sparkled as he watched the firecrackers performing a fighting drill. After more than four months of training, the Yongwei Battalion had finally formed an army. As long as they were pulled out to fight a few battles and saw blood, they would definitely wait and see. strong army.

This is the basis for standing in this world.

Time flies, it is already March of the second year of Jianwu, and several major events have occurred during this period.

Among them, Song Chengliang, the chief assistant, helped thread the needle. The royal family and the Jiangnan gentry reached an agreement. I am very happy, and specially granted the six families to send one son to study in the Imperial College. Yesterday, Mr. Wang led a few playboys to Beijing with the silver boat.

All the bad news came from the capital. First, the negotiations with the Manchus had come to an impasse. O Bi insisted that the missing courier had something to do with the Beijing camp. The Beijing Wang Shuirong, who was in charge of the case, was uncharacteristically silent, which made the civil servants more and more believe that it was the noble military who killed the Manchu messenger in order to prevent the peace talks, and they wrote letters of impeachment.

In mid-February, Jia Amnesty sent a letter stating that Prince Teng had been promoted to an official position and was in charge of the nine provinces.

The new envoy of the Beijing Camp was Zhongjinghou Shi Ding, who was strongly recommended by King Zhongshun and secretly pushed by King Beijing Jing.

This is not a good thing for the Jia family.

During this period, the Jia family clashed again with the Cao Gang, or more precisely, the Salt Gang. Jia Rong supported Jia Zhen's coffin and went south with the boat. They were attacked in Huai'an, the boat was scuttled, and Jia Zhen's body was buried in the canal. After soaking for two days and three nights, he was salvaged by people from the Water Transport Yamen. Jia Rong was fine.

Although Jia Zhen died at his own hands, it was also a slap in the face, perhaps because he and Lin Ruhai had bloodbathed the Yangzhou sub-rudder twice. Before the cavalry set off, the Cao Gang sent news that all this was The remnants of the salt gang did what they did and provided them with a hiding place. Xie Qiong led a thousand cavalry straight to Huai'an Mansion to wipe out the remnants of the salt gang.

There is also Lin Daiyu, this girl originally agreed to go to Beijing after the Shangyuan Festival, but who knew that she played a rogue, and she either had a headache or dizziness every day. I went to Beijing together by myself, and it was like this until February, so I agreed to go to Beijing after my 12th birthday.

Who said that Lin Daiyu can only cry, she always smiles in front of me, and she is a little shy. When she is troubled by the military camp, she can make herself laugh with a few simple words. She is a sensible, laughing, playful and humorous person. little girl.

He subconsciously touched the rosary on his wrist, but found nothing. Then he remembered that he had given the Qibao bracelet to Daiyu. Counting the time, the official ship should have entered Shandong.

At this moment, a soldier hurried over and said in a low voice, "General, there is an urgent message from the capital."

Jia Hu took the letter and tore it open to read. It was a private letter from Niu Jizong, Shangshu of the Ministry of War. The Mongols increased their troops in Shanxi and Xuanfu at the same time. Niu Jizong made himself ready to go north.

Shandong, Jining.

Since the water boats have to be pulled by the trackers in the section of the canal from Huai'an to Xuzhou, this section of the river is full of boats, causing congestion. Xue Pan took his mother and sister to the north by boat from Jinling, stop and go all the way, and arrived the day before yesterday. In Jining, unfortunately, two tank boats collided and blocked the river, so they stopped the boat and docked, and the family got off the boat together for a tour.

In the cabin, Baochai was sitting beside the bed embroidering, while Aunt Xue was standing by the window looking at the scenery outside.

The curtain was lifted, and a girl with a maid's hair in a bun came in. She was only twelve or thirteen years old, and she was pretty and cute. The most attractive thing was the rouge mark on her eyebrows the size of a grain of rice. She was abducted Zhen Shiyin's daughter, Zhen Yinglian, was named Xiangling by Baochai.

Xiangling walked to Aunt Xue and said, "Grandma, the old housekeeper said that the river will be dredged soon, and the boat can sail tonight."

"it is good."

Aunt Xue nodded and asked again, "Where's Pan'er?"

Xiangling: "The young master got off the boat and went to play."

Aunt Xue sighed, "Someone find him!"

Xiangling: "Yes."

As soon as the words were finished, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and suddenly the old housekeeper burst in with sweat on his face, and said to Aunt Xue, "Something happened, the young master got drunk and injured someone, so he was taken away by the officers and soldiers."

"What did you say?!" Aunt Xue's face turned pale with shock.

"Mother, don't worry." Baochai quickly put down her needle and thread, stood up, and said to the old housekeeper, "First take the money to inquire about things, and come back as soon as you find out."

"Yes." The old butler agreed and went.

"I don't have a single day that I don't worry about this damned evil." As she spoke, Aunt Xue burst into tears again.

Baochai didn't cry at all, but it hurt her heart to hear Aunt Xue cry.

Times are tough.

Aunt Xue couldn't bear it anymore, and said to the woman who was waiting on the side: "Go and see, why haven't you come back after so long."

Without saying a word, the old butler rushed in like a gust of wind, and said: "I found out clearly, the other party is the son of the prefect of Jining, and he also let out a message, if you don't want money, you will send the young master to prison for punishment."

Aunt Xue panicked completely, this is not Jinling, where can a businessman from the Xue family go to find a relationship.

Suddenly there was a loud gunshot on the river, and then a big gong!
In the distance, a large official ship was sailing towards the pier, with several large flags hanging on the mast. "Ningguo Mansion" was embroidered on one of the big flags on the mast, and only a big "Jia" was embroidered on the big flag in the middle of the mast!

This is a military ship, and the officers and soldiers of the River Defense Battalion began to drive away the civilian ships and merchant ships on the pier, leaving the best part of the pier vacant.

(End of this chapter)