Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 147 The world is shocked
"How much food do you want?"

"Not much. Three days' worth of food is enough for four thousand soldiers and horses. Of course, our soldiers eat a lot, so we need 40,000 kilograms of rice and 60,000 kilograms of soybeans!" Yang Huiyuan said.

A pound of rice was worth at most fifteen cents, and a pound of soybeans was only eight cents, totaling no more than one million cents, or one thousand and two taels of silver. This amount of money was nothing for Hejiang County, which occupied the exit of the Chishui River.

This year's harvest is good, so food prices will be even lower.

Money is nothing, but this matter is hard to explain!
But I have to give it to you!

If only a few big families in Jiangjin County knew the truth about the assassination of Addis, then the fact that Chen Gu entered the city and wiped out the Five Hundred Elite Battalion was known to everyone in the world. Originally, the news was kept secret at the beginning, and only a few people in Jiangjin County and the court knew about it.

But once the matter was brought to the court, it would spread very quickly. Afterwards, Le Bao gathered all the troops in Sichuan to attack the Buddhist treasures in a big way, and everything became known to the world.

Of course, ordinary people may not know, but those who are interested know what they should know, and those who don’t know will quickly find out.

Nine thousand soldiers were already a large force, not to mention that Le Bao later dispatched another two thousand Green Camp soldiers to deal with the big clans in Jiangjin County, so the total number of troops dispatched reached 11,000.

You have to know that there are only 20,000 troops in the whole Sichuan. Everyone knows their own business. Corruption is rampant in the court and the army as well. Eleven thousand can be said to be all the combat-ready soldiers in the whole Sichuan.

The rest are either empty-salary people, the elderly and the weak, or people with connections who are only there to collect money but do not work.

Such a large-scale military operation attracted the attention of not only the whole Sichuan but also the whole world to this small county of Jiangjin County. People all over the world also learned that there was a place called Fobao and a man called Chen Gu in Jiangjin County.

The court's original intention of taking such a high-profile action was to wipe out Chen Gu with lightning speed and shock the world. After all, the loss of 500 elite battalions was too great.

They were the elite of the elite formed during the Qianlong period. Although there were only a thousand people, they made great contributions in the attack on Jinchuan and represented the top combat power of the imperial court. However, under the leadership of the veteran general Delentang, they were annihilated by Chen Gu with an advantage of 500 to 200 troops.

It was not as simple as losing. Except for a few people who followed Rong Zhao and ran away, all of them were wiped out.

Such a big thing cannot be concealed at all. Even if Jiaqing ordered a ban on the news, it would only slow down the spread of the news at most.

Jiaqing did not want to block the news, but chose to wipe out Chen Gu's rebel army with lightning speed in order to shock the world.

The fact that Le Bao, the Governor of Sichuan, gathered all the military forces in Sichuan and attacked the market town of Jiangjin County with a crushing force instantly attracted the attention of all interested people in the world.

Spies from all over gathered in Jiangjin County. At first, no one thought that Chen Gu would win. They just wanted to see how long Chen Gu could hold out and how many troops of Le Bao he could kill. The entire Sichuan prefecture had lost a lot of troops, so they wondered if Chen Gu could escape in the end.

All this information is related to the interests of all parties. For example, if the war becomes a protracted one, Le Bao, the governor of Sichuan, will lose his position. The position of the governor of Sichuan is very attractive, not to mention that the replacement of a chief officer often affects a series of job changes. Of course, this is the concern of the top dignitaries. As for the lower-level people, such as the big families in the major prefectures of Sichuan, the various bandits and rebels, they are concerned about which prefecture has lost the most troops, which allows them to prepare for defense or choose the location of attack earlier.

As for whether Chen Gu can escape later, it is also a matter of interest to everyone. After all, this is a man who can annihilate the 500-strong Jianrui Battalion with only 200 soldiers. No matter what method Chen Gu uses, it proves that Chen Gu is a character. It is exciting to think about such a character if he can be recruited under his command.

But the development of things is always so unexpected. The final result was that Le Bao, who represented the court, lost again, and it was another annihilation battle.

In a big fire, the imperial court's 9,000 troops were wiped out in one battle, 1,000 Eight Banners soldiers were killed or wounded, half of the Green Camp soldiers surrendered, and ten thousand-jin red cannons were seized by Chen Gu, while Chen Gu's army suffered minimal losses.

This was such an unexpected thing that after it happened, carrier pigeons were flying all over the sky in Jiangjin County, and the whole world was shocked.

After Chen Gu's easy victory, he did not continue to stay in a corner, but led his army out of Fobao and approached Jiangjin County. After that, the two thousand Green Camp troops defending Jiangjin County surrendered.

On that day, a wave of carrier pigeons flew all over the sky in Jiangjin County.

Among all the forces, Han Yuanxiao was one of the first to receive the news. When he heard the news that Le Bao's army was wiped out, Han Yuanxiao danced with joy. When he heard the news that Chen Gu came out of seclusion, Han Yuanxiao got drunk.

Upon receiving the news that Chen Gu had sent troops upstream, Han Yuanxiao walked into the Han family ancestral hall, and the Han family then increased its support for the White Lotus rebels.

The Han family not only stepped up efforts to encourage the boatmen stranded in Chongqing to go north to join the White Lotus Sect, but also gave the White Lotus Sect a batch of weapons for free, including a large number of muskets, lead bullets and gunpowder, as well as detonators and bombs. These weapons were made according to the secret recipe given by Chen the Executor.

Han Yuanxiao needed to use this to tie down the imperial army in Sichuan and Shaanxi to support Sichuan, so as to relieve the pressure on Chen Gu and buy more time to attack Sichuan.

Various mountain bandits and gangsters throughout Sichuan also became active. The frequency of their business was increasing. While they were making money for themselves, they also invisibly reduced the pressure on Chen Gu, making the states, prefectures and counties dare not act rashly and could only stay in one place.

Even the herdsmen from Jinchuan and Xiaojinchuan were gathering. Although they no longer had the strength to attack Dajianlu, they could create momentum so that Dajianlu's troops would not dare to return to Chengdu for support easily.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was not popular, and the aftereffects of their brutal suppression of the world were fully exposed. In the past, everyone was too scared to act rashly, but now Chen the Executor has given everyone hope. Although everyone still dares not openly stand up to support him, they are willing to make some small moves to relieve some of Chen the Executor's pressure.

In the whole world, Emperor Jiaqing should be the last person to get the news. It took two or three days for the intelligence to travel down the Yangtze River to Jiangning Prefecture, which is Nanjing, and then another four or five days to be sent to the capital by express delivery of 800 miles.

So when Jiaqing received the news that Le Bao's army had been wiped out, Chen Gu had already arrived in Hejiang County with his army.

When Jiaqing received the news, he couldn't believe it at first.

(End of this chapter)