I'm in the Red Mansion

Soon, more than fifty people, driving two carts, drove out of the north gate of the capital and headed straight for the front line.

If the soldiers and horses are not moving, the grain and grass will go first.

However, the fifty-one people led by Jia Cong were just servants and were not registered, so they could not be considered formal soldiers.

Therefore, along the way, except for Jia Cong himself who could use the post station, the more than 50 people he brought with him were unable to use the post station.

Therefore, they had to prepare the food and fodder for the journey by themselves.

That's why they loaded two full trucks of stuff.

In addition to food and fodder, there were also armor and other items.

After leaving the capital, Jia Cong ordered these fifty-one people to form an army and set off on their journey.

At the same time, during the march, Jia Cong continued to survey the terrain and calculate the weather conditions.

This march allowed him to quickly gain experience.

Before the march, Jia Cong simplified the proficiency panel.

He directly merged skills such as eight-legged essay, reading, and painting into other columns.

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While stationed that day, Jia Cong opened the proficiency panel:
Jia Cong is eighteen years old

【Name: Jia Cong】

[Archery (Perfect): 5000/5000]

[Blood-drinking Spear Technique (Great Mastery): 635/1000]

[Riding Skills (Great): 272/1000]

【Handmade (Dacheng) 187/1000】

[Art of War (Great Mastery): 685/1000]

[Commander (skilled): 186/200]

[Insight (Minor Achievement) 106/200]

[Physique: 65]

These items are all related to the subsequent command of the army.

There is only one handicraft that seems to have nothing to do with it.

In fact, the correlation is still huge.

Because next, after he forms his own army, he will need to modify the weapons used in the army.

Modification requires manual skills.

The two skills that Jia Cong needs to work on most now are command and insight.

The commander-in-chief is related to how he leads the troops to fight in the next battle.

And insight is even more of a magical skill.

Jia Cong suspected that if he could reach the perfect experience level, he would be almost like a walking radar scanner.

If you know your own nemesis, you will be able to fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat and will be virtually invincible on the battlefield.

Therefore, he worked very hard to gain this experience.

Although there was no time for training along the way.

However, during the march, they were always training their marching formations.

Therefore, the army formed by the fifty-one Jia family sons and servants gradually developed some military temperament.

Ten days later, Jia Cong led his clan soldiers into Puzhou.

Puzhou is adjacent to Jizhou, one of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.

The Qing Dynasty began its invasion of Daxia from Jizhou.

After entering Puzhou, Jia Cong discovered that a large number of people here began to flee south.

On the official road, they could see people everywhere fleeing south in panic, carrying their elderly and children with them.

It seems that the people are not optimistic about the Qing army's march southward.

Jia Cong did not ask any questions about these people who fled south.

If it weren't for the last resort, who would be willing to abandon their home and career and flee their hometown?
But at this moment, given Jia Cong's identity, he couldn't ask any questions he wanted to ask.

After they win a few battles and drive the Manchus out, I believe these people will come back on their own without being urged.

The further we went, the more people fled.

In many villages, nine out of ten houses are empty.

Only some old, weak, sick and disabled people who are unwilling to leave their homes and would rather die in their hometowns are still holding on.

Although this will inevitably cause unrest on the border.

But for the imperial court, it might not be a bad thing.

Because the people fled, to a certain extent, it could be considered as a form of scorching heat and clearing the countryside.

The Qing Dynasty did not have many regular troops and its national strength was not strong.

Why did they dare to attack Daxia just by relying on their powerful cavalry?
Aren’t they afraid that the logistics supply will not keep up?

In fact, every time they attacked Daxia, they did not carry much food.

Supplies such as food and fodder are almost non-existent.

They were fighting to support the war, constantly burning, killing and looting.

After a thorough scramble, they always return with a full load.

This made them richer and stronger the more they fought.

And this is the real reason why they are keen on invading Daxia.

Because the war did not take place on their home soil.

But if every war took place on their homeland, and every war caused serious damage to their homeland.

Jia Cong believed that they would not be as keen on war as they are now.

And now, most of the people living near the battlefield are fleeing.

In this way, it would not be so easy for the Qing army to support itself through war.

As long as their supplies can't keep up, problems will inevitably arise.

And this is actually the fatal weakness of the Qing army that Jia Cong found.

Their supply capacity is extremely weak, and they rely entirely on plundering and fighting to support themselves!

The closer you get to the battlefield, the more desolate it becomes.

Jia Cong also began to be cautious.

At the same time, he also gained a lot of experience.

【Name: Jia Cong】

[Archery (Perfect): 5000/5000]

[Blood-drinking Spear Technique (Great Mastery): 635/1000]

[Riding Skills (Great): 371/1000]

【Handmade (Dacheng) 187/1000】

[Art of War (Great Mastery): 705/1000]

【Commander (Great): 53/500】

[Insight (Minor Achievement) 182/200]

After this period of hard work, the commander has reached the great success level, and has gained a lot of experience in insight, so he is not far from great success.

Jia Cong was very satisfied with this progress.

From here, it is only a few dozen miles away from Liangcheng where Niu Jizong is stationed.

Next, Jia Cong led 51 clan soldiers and advanced at full speed.

In two hours at most, they will be able to reach Liangcheng.

At this moment, Jia Cong heard many sounds coming from the village ahead, including shrill screams, unbridled laughter, and frightened cries for help.

At the entrance of the village, there was a small team of Qing troops standing guard.

At this point, both sides discovered each other's existence.

This Qing army squad at the entrance of the village consisted of only twelve people, forming a squad.

In the army, the smallest unit is the squad, which consists of five people including the squad leader.

The next larger unit is what.

There are two squads in a squad, and there are two squad leaders, one chief and one deputy, for a total of twelve people.

This group of Qing soldiers are all cavalry.

The armor on each of them was covered in blood, and under the head of each horse were hung several heads of Daxia people, still bleeding.

When they saw the Daxia army of more than 50 people on Jia Cong's side, they were not frightened, nor did they give warning and retreat.

Instead, everyone became excited.

They jumped on their horses, holding scimitars, whistling, and rushed over at high speed.

On the other hand, all the fifty-one clan soldiers led by Jia Cong were frightened to the point of pale faces, trembling with fear, and almost wanting to run away first.

Their arms were shaking and they couldn't even hold their weapons steadily.

Seeing this scene, the twelve Qing soldiers in front burst into laughter and became more excited.

Every time they faced the Xia army, even if their numbers were several times greater than theirs, they were always crushed by them.

A group of pigs cannot defeat a tiger!

Deep down, they didn't take Xia Jun seriously.

And at this moment, only Jia Cong could remain calm.

Jia Cong took the bow in his left hand and took out an arrow in his right hand.

In just a moment, it was stretched into a full moon, and then he let go almost without aiming.

The arrow suddenly became like a meteor streaking across the sky, and the next moment it pierced through the throat of a Qing soldier.

The Qing soldier was blown away by the flying arrow.

Blood spurted out from his neck, and then he fell heavily to the ground, obviously dead.

Jia Cong completely turned a blind eye to this tragic scene.

He took out an arrow at an extremely fast speed, and without aiming, he drew the bow and shot!

Whoosh!
Another Qing soldier lost his life from arrows.

Jia Cong's archery skills have reached the perfect level with full experience.

Now when he shoots arrows, he doesn't need to aim deliberately. As long as he pulls the bowstring, he will almost lock on to the target subconsciously.

At least with these Qing soldiers in front of them, they were completely unable to avoid them.

Whoosh!
In a moment, Jia Cong had shot the third arrow, and each arrow hit the throat of the Qing army soldier.

Each arrow could take the life of a Qing soldier.

After three arrows were fired, the Qing army had not yet covered half the distance they had rushed.

In other words, by the time they get close, at least three more people will die.

And there were only twelve of them in total.

If we want to get close, at least half of us will die.

Whoosh!
And Jia Cong's shooting continued.

The remaining eight Qing soldiers were already frightened out of their wits.

They leaned on the horses' backs, pulled the reins tightly, and retreated quickly.

These Qing troops are not brave enough to not fear death!
Before, they simply didn't take Xia Jun seriously at all.

"kill!"

Jia Cong put away his bow and arrow, raised his spear high, and charged forward first.

Behind Jia Cong, fifty-one clan soldiers followed closely behind him, howling and charging forward with high morale.

Although these people were all new recruits, they were frightened by the charge of just twelve Qing soldiers.

But this time, that time.

Under the general's accurate shooting, the Qing army was killed and fled in panic, leaving their weapons and armors behind.

At this time, the fifty-one tribesmen were like dragons and very brave.

The remaining eight Qing soldiers, who had already rushed to a very close distance, turned around and fled in panic.

How could one run in such a short period of time?

However, the Jia family soldiers who were chasing after them took advantage of the situation and sprinted straight ahead, quickly catching up.

Then five or six people stabbed randomly in the back, and soon they poked seven or eight transparent holes in the remaining eight Qing soldiers, killing them on the spot.

Jia Cong did not even stop and headed straight into the village to kill.

Just now, Jia Cong activated his insight skill and deduced that the Qing army that plundered the village did not exceed a hundred people, although their number was almost twice theirs.

But this Qing army was in the middle of plundering and was unable to form an effective battle formation.

Although my side is also composed of new troops, I have my own commander.

It can serve as a good training exercise for the fifty-one tribesmen he brought with him.

Jia Cong could easily kill the eight Qing soldiers outside just now.

As for the last eight Qing soldiers, he did not take action himself, but let his clan soldiers do it.

Letting them see blood can help them mature quickly.

The noise outside had alarmed the Qing soldiers who were looting in the village.

One by one, Qing soldiers rushed out of the houses of the common people, jumped on their horses and charged forward.

The Qing army had a psychological advantage over the Xia army.

Faced with the Xia army of only forty or fifty people, they naturally did not take it seriously, but instead attacked fiercely.

In their eyes, the Xia army of only forty or fifty people was nothing more than a military achievement that came to their doorstep.

These Qing troops had just finished looting.

Some carried food on their backs, and some carried looted gold, silver and jewelry.

Some of them had their armor in disarray and their pants were not even pulled up.

The ones in front have already rushed over, while the ones behind have just rushed out of the door, and some have not even rushed out yet, resulting in a chaotic situation.

Their armor was covered in blood, and no one knew how many lives they had lost.

They had ferocious faces, waved their scimitars, shouted in barbarian language, and rushed forward on horseback.

Each of them is like a demon from hell, daunting.

Behind Jia Cong, the fifty-one clan soldiers became timid again.

If Jia Cong had not rushed forward, and if they had not killed eight Qing soldiers before.

I'm afraid someone would have already escaped on horseback by now.

Only Jia Cong, who was standing in front of them, was not at all timid. Instead, he became more and more excited.

He held the spear in his right hand, pointing it diagonally forward, and urged the BMW under his crotch to go faster and faster.

Soon, he met the Manchu cavalry in the front.

When we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins!

The Qing cavalry slashed down quickly with their scimitars.

However, the spear in Jia Cong's hand was even faster.

The spear in his hand turned into a flash of lightning. With just one shot, he pierced through the chest of the Qing army on the opposite side, and a part of the spear tip was exposed.

The next moment, Jia Cong used both hands to lift him up, and then shook him.

He then threw the brand new corpse at another Qing soldier who was about to launch a sneak attack.

Pong!
After a dull thud, the sneak attacking Qing army was smashed to the ground, rolling on the ground like a gourd.

He vomited seven or eight mouthfuls of blood containing fragments of internal organs, his whole body twitched, and it was obvious that he was dying.

And Jia Cong's spear did not stop.

brush!brush!brush!
The spear in his hand was like a poisonous snake spitting out its core.

Every shot fired would inevitably hit a Qing soldier's vital point and take a life.

None of the Qing troops who charged forward could match him.

In just a few moments, eight or nine Qing soldiers died.

This scene made the remaining Qing troops terrified.

They just felt that the young general from Da Xia in front of them was a killer god from hell!
They are here specifically to reap their lives!

For a moment, they actually shrank back.

Unconsciously, their sprinting speed began to slow down. They were so frightened that they could not help but run away.

The morale of the fifty-one clan soldiers behind Jia Cong was greatly boosted at this time.

The Third Master is so powerful!
One soldier is raging, and the general is raging in the nest!
Even if a male lion leads a group of sheep, these sheep will become a group of lions.

Besides, these fifty-one tribal soldiers are not sheep, they are just new recruits.

At this time, stimulated by Jia Cong's killing of Qing troops like slaughtering chickens and dogs, they were all filled with passion, waving their weapons and rushing towards the Qing army.

For a moment, the atmosphere was full of vigor and everyone was like a dragon!

"kill!"

Jia Cong took the lead and the speed of the BMW under his crotch accelerated again and continued to charge forward.

This time, it is definitely a rare and good opportunity to train the army.

At this time, the Qing army's formation was in chaos, and more than half of the Qing army had not yet rushed out of the civilians' homes.

They had no time to arrange an effective defensive formation.

Jia Cong would naturally not give them this opportunity.

Next, Jia Cong will start a massacre against them, killing them until they are terrified and collapse!
Then, he could hand over the battlefield to the fifty-one new recruits behind him.

Try to make all of them have blood on their hands.

There is a difference between recruits who have seen blood and recruits who have not seen blood.

After seeing blood, they can quickly grow into veterans.

Therefore, next, Jia Cong completely transformed into a god of war and slaughtered the Qing soldiers at will.

Soon, these Qing soldiers collapsed as expected.

In the era of cold weapons, under normal circumstances, if an army’s casualties exceeded 20%, it could be defeated at any time.

But now, the number of Qing soldiers killed by Jia Cong is far more than twenty.

"Run! He is a devil!"

"Devil! Devil!"

"Don't kill me, I want to go home, woo woo!"

The remaining Qing troops collapsed completely.

Some people turned their horses around and ran away.

Some were running around in a panic.

Some even dropped their weapons, jumped off their horses and surrendered.

The few Qing soldiers who remained did not rush out of the civilians' homes simply did not dare to rush out, but quietly found places to hide.

Jia Cong naturally showed no mercy to those who were running around and killed them with a few shots.

Naturally, he would not let go of those who tried to escape.

He took out his longbow and shot a quick round of arrows, killing all of them.

The rest were Qing soldiers who dropped their weapons and surrendered.

Jia Cong first had all the surrendered people tied up.

Next, Jia Cong ordered his soldiers to search house by house to see if there were any Qing soldiers hiding secretly.

As expected, in the end, more than 20 Qing soldiers were found hiding in civilians' homes.

In the end, a total of forty-three Qing soldiers were captured.

In the entire village, the number of surviving civilians was even smaller than the number of captured Qing soldiers, only thirty-two people.

Among them were twenty-six women!

These women were all defiled by the Qing army. They were covered with scars, and their eyes were cracked and crying blood.

It was the first time that the fifty-one soldiers witnessed the atrocities committed by the Qing Dynasty.

They were all furious and filled with murderous intent!
Jia Cong gathered everyone together and asked, "All those who have killed Qing soldiers, please step out!"

Soon, twenty-one people walked out of the team.

Yes, in the melee just now, twenty-one people actually killed Qing soldiers with their own hands.

Jia Cong nodded, and then ordered: "The remaining thirty people, kill the Qing soldiers and prisoners, each of you must kill at least one person! I will only give you a cup of tea!"

Let everyone bleed!

Jia Cong would naturally not let these beasts go just because the remaining Qing soldiers dropped their weapons and surrendered.

The thirty clan soldiers immediately became excited after hearing Jia Cong's orders.

Someone immediately shouted, "I'm going to kill two of them! Don't let anyone snatch them from me!"

"I want to kill two too! Hehe, I've wanted to kill all these beasts for a long time!"

"If you want me, I'll kill two too!"

The impatient ones are still shouting here, while the smart ones have already picked up their knives and gone to kill people.

Soon, in less than a cup of tea, all forty-three prisoners were slaughtered.

Next, Jia Cong ordered them to clean up the battlefield.

These fifty-one tribesmen were cleaning up the battlefield for the first time and seemed a little flustered.

They first chopped off the heads of all the Qing soldiers and put them aside.

These are all proof of their military achievements.

Then, they threw the bodies of the Qing soldiers outside the village, picked up some branches and dry grass, threw them on top, and started burning them.

Next, they went from house to house and collected the bodies of the villagers together.

These villagers all died in very tragic ways.

Their faces showed fear, anger, despair, etc., but without exception, they all died with their eyes open!

It was only when they were collecting the bodies of the villagers that they realized...

The twenty-six women in the village who were defiled by those beasts chose to hang themselves.

This scene made the fifty-one tribesmen look ferocious again.

Next, they dug a large pit outside the village and buried all the bodies of the villagers.

The armor, weapons and war horses left behind by nearly a hundred Qing troops became their spoils of war.

All the food in the village was also gathered together.

There are only six children left in this village.

Naturally, they had to take these six children away.

If they are left in the village, they will die.

In that case, they naturally have to take away the food in the village as well.

While the fifty-one clan soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield, Jia Cong had already gone out alone and conducted some reconnaissance outside the village.

After completing the detection, Jia Cong speculated that no Qing troops would arrive in the short term.

Therefore, Jia Cong ordered his soldiers to rest in the village for one night so that they could continue their journey the next day.

Because it is almost evening now.

Traveling at night is not an easy thing, so it would be better to rest here for a night.

Jia Cong sent out eight more soldiers to take turns to deploy defenses at night.

When resting at night, Jia Cong discovered that after a battle during the day.

His blood-drinking spear skills actually earned him a hundred experience points.

Now he has reached the level of [Blood-Drinking Spear Technique (Great Mastery): 735/1000].

Sure enough, the battlefield is the fastest place to gain experience.

If he were to gain experience points on his own, it would take him at least half a month or even more than twenty days to gain 100 experience points.

Even the commander ability has gained more than fifty points of experience.

Sure enough, soldiers grow fastest in battle.

Early the next morning, Jia Cong ordered the soldiers to build a stove and cook.

After dinner, he led fifty-one tribal soldiers and the six children who had survived.

The other two carts were filled with food and armor, and the remaining armor was loaded onto the captured war horses.

In addition, there were nearly a hundred heads of Qing soldiers, all strung together and placed on the war horses.

Next, they headed straight for Liangcheng where General Niu Jizong, the General of the Northern Expedition, was stationed.

Two hours later, they arrived at the gate of Liangcheng.

Seeing them, the Liangcheng defenders could not help but shout from the city wall: "Who is under the city? Stop!"

At this time, a soldier from the Jia family rode forward and said, "My general's surname is Jia Cong, and he is a lieutenant general appointed by the emperor and is under the command of General Niu!"

"Why don't you open the city gates immediately and report to General Niu!"

Liangcheng knew about this matter, and the military document had already been delivered to Liangcheng. (End of this chapter)