Although the order to mobilize troops has been issued, Qinggui still felt that the troops on the side of Daxiu La were not enough. He wrote an urgent memorial yesterday afternoon. At the same time, he used the seal of the Grand Master of Economics and the imperial envoy's customs to mobilize troops from the Zhelim League.
Three thousand Khalkha cavalry supported the hunt for Ula.
"Commander, it's getting late, why don't you take a rest first?" The eyes of the staff on the side were also bloodshot. He looked at Qinggui with concern and advised him to rest.
The wrinkles on Qinggui's forehead gathered together in one place, and he shook his head slightly.
The staff member said: "Commander, are you worried about the Lafa River?"
Qinggui put the lantern on the table beside him and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "If we only talk about bravery and bravery, those Beihai soldiers are not the enemies of our Eight Banners soldiers. But Zhao Xin is full of tricks and sharp cannons in his hands.
, it succeeds many times. It’s so difficult!”
During the battle at Ningguta last year, Qinggui had no time to react and the battle was over. Although he knew that the Beihai Navy had strong firepower, he still couldn't help but slander Mingliang.
However, today, he finally realized how Mingming felt after his defeat. Qinggui suddenly remembered what Mingming had said to him in tears when he visited him in prison a few months ago:
"Shu Zhai Gong! It's not that I, Ming Yin Zhai, have the ambition to defeat the enemy. I risked beheading today to tell you something from the bottom of my heart. If the imperial court does not use the power of the whole country to suppress Zhao Ni, if he, Zhao Xin, does not
Due to this act of self-destruction, our Qing Dynasty may be in danger within ten years!"
Who is Fucha Mingliang? Although he has had several ups and downs in his official career, he has fought countless battles, large and small, since his invasion of Burma in the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign. Every battle involved taking risks, and no one doubted his military ability.
, even Qianlong favored him.
But what is the power of revitalizing the country? Others don't know it, but Qinggui, who has served as the Minister of the Ministry of War, is very clear-minded. Today's world is different from that of forty years ago during Qianlong's reign. Not to mention Beihai Town, there is turmoil in other places, all of which are caused by the collapse of the Qianlong Emperor.
Only then could the power of the dynasty be calmed down.
To this day, the only Eight Banners troops that dare to fight to the death are the Tianshan Banner Camp and the Jingying Camp, and one of them is dead. Since Qianlong was always wary of the Han people, and the land outside the pass was also the land of Longxing, so
He would rather allow the Han troops who had left the banner to return to the Eight Banners, which would increase the financial burden on the court, but would never send the green troops out of the border.
According to statistics from the Ministry of War of the Qing Dynasty in the 50th year of Qianlong's reign, there are currently 59,530 Manchu soldiers under the Eight Banners, 16,843 Mongolian soldiers under the Eight Banners, and 24,052 Han soldiers under the Eight Banners, with a total strength of 100,000. In contrast, within the pass,
The total strength of the Green Camp is 589,000.
Although Qianlong had raised more than 30,000 troops in the past two years from the returning Han bannermen and the Inner Mongols, the problem was that there were still thousands of people imprisoned in Beihai Town.
(Nursing soldiers, reserve forces in the Qing Dynasty, were established in the second year of Yongzheng's reign and were selected from poor households in the Eight Banners. During the Qianlong period, the total number was between 25,000 and 26,000, with a salary of one to two and five cents. Manchuria and Mongolia had rice, but the Han army had no rice.)
In other words, even though the Qing government had an unknown plan, it exhausted all the strength of the country and launched an expedition against Beihai Zhenlao Division, with an overwhelming number of 300,000 soldiers.
Isn’t it a lot? It’s not a lot at all! Three hundred thousand is just a fighting force, and a corresponding army of thirty to four hundred thousand civilians is needed. During the Battle of Saarhu in the former Ming Dynasty, the Ming court sent only two hundred thousand troops, which was called forty thousand.
70,000 people; however, they actually lost more than 45,000 people and were completely defeated.
"Alas~" Qinggui felt that he had done everything he could and should do. All that was left was to wait for changes on the battlefield and then look for opportunities.
While I was meditating, I heard Gesheha say outside the door: "Commander! The patrolling soldiers outside the general's mansion captured a man, holding a token and saying he was your old friend."
Qinggui frowned, wondering where an old friend showed up in the middle of the night? Besides, there is now a night curfew in Wula City, Jilin. Except for soldiers, ordinary people are not allowed to walk on the streets. Even if there is an emergency military situation outside the city, they can only do so after checking the fire sign.
Put the rattan basket and hang it up.
Thinking of this, he said in a deep voice: "What token?"
Geshiha walked into the house and offered an object with both hands. Qinggui took it and saw it was an ivory plaque half the size of a palm. It was round and smooth, but the surface had turned brown due to too long time.
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However, after he saw clearly the Manchu text engraved on it through the light, he was suddenly shocked and asked urgently: "Where is the person? Bring him quickly!"
This Goshiha had been following Qinggui for many years, and it was rare to see Qinggui lose his temper like this. He replied: "It was already being looked at outside the gate."
"Bring that person over quickly!"
Geshiha worriedly said: "Commander, this person in the middle of the night, don't be a bad person..."
"Nothing! Go quickly!"
After Geshiha took the order, a short while later, the sound of clattering footsteps came from outside the door. Qinggui had already dismissed his staff and subordinates, and was sitting alone on the imperial chair in the room, motionless.
When Goshiha led someone into the house, Qinggui noticed that the guy who claimed to be his "old friend" was walking with a limp, wearing a somewhat tattered cotton coat and a badger skin hat on his head.
There were a few bloodstains on his face, and his right hand seemed to be injured and wrapped in a piece of cloth.
When he saw the man's face clearly and recalled it, he couldn't help but be startled and blurted out: "It's you?!"
When the man opposite saw Qinggui, he smiled slightly, said nothing, and winked at Qinggui. Qinggui understood, and asked Geshha to step back, and told him to hold the second door and not allow anyone to come in.
When Goshiha walked far away and could no longer hear the sound of footsteps, the man called Qian, bowed and said: "I pay homage to Tang Ajunise and see the commander-in-chief!"
"I haven't seen you for many years. Your Excellency, you actually work for the Emperor. Please get up quickly! Please keep this ivory plaque away." Qinggui looked at the ivory plaque on the table, but never wanted to touch it again.
The reason for this is that on the tooth plate, from top to bottom and from left to right, "Shang Yu's Reserved Place" is clearly engraved in Manchu.
Speaking of this institution, another name is the "Sticking Place", which was also called "Blood Droplet" in later interpretation novels.
In fact, the Shangyu Reserve has existed since the Kangxi period. The original purpose was to select agile and flexible people from the Eight Banners nobles to be responsible for supporting the emperor when he was on a hunting tour, holding the lid and catching fish.
Such things. After these young people have experienced these daily chores, they can then become the emperor's bodyguards.
As the emperor's personal staff, Shang Yu's backup department naturally became one of the emperor's eyes and ears for understanding external information. However, during the Kangxi era, their role was not great. They mainly reported some rumors from the streets and streets.
Since the Shunzhi era, the secret agencies in charge of the emperor were actually the General Affairs Department and Luan Yiwei; for example, the famous Jiangnan Sanwei was Kangxi's eyes and ears stationed in Jiangnan.
The Shangyu Standby Office was really known to later generations after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, and its function as a secret agency was not abolished until the Jiaqing period. The biggest reason is that He Shen came from this agency in the early days and gradually took charge of it.
This was something Jiaqing, the emperor, would never tolerate.
Let's make a digression. In another time and space where Zhao Xin is, some Qing fans, or whatever, actually concocted the story that Qianlong sent the guards of Sticking Branch to Europe. They talked about the British Industrial Revolution and so on.
The Qing court was all of Qing Dynasty, which proves that when Margani visited China, Fukang'an was dismissive of European military technology.
However, in this view, what year and month are the so-called "Manchu archives" from? Who is the translator? Why is such important historical information not published in a research paper?
Even if you don’t want to give up on the information that the National Archives doesn’t have, you can’t just lie about it!
In fact, the main channel for Qianlong to learn about Europe was the same as that for Kangxi, which was through Jesuit missionaries. Listening to their stories was one thing, and reading the letters exchanged between the missionaries and their hometowns in Europe was the biggest source of information about Europe.
Do you still remember Wang Dahong and Bamaozhen who were sent by Qianlong to imitate Beihai Town rifles? Once these missionaries enter the manufacturing office and work, they will never go back in this life. The only way for them to contact Europe to get the latest news is
It can only be letters.
Wang Dahong, who worked in the Qing Palace Construction Office, once mentioned in a letter to his European friends that the Lifan Yuan had to open and check the letters he sent every time to confirm that no palace secrets had been leaked before they were allowed to be sent to Guangzhou.
Thirteen lines were handed over to French merchants or the Jesuits in Macau.
Those sent out must be opened and checked, and those sent in must also be checked. Don’t forget that in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, Catholics were prohibited from entering the inland to preach. If the missionaries in the construction office had any connections with Macau, there would be a problem
That's troublesome.
In the twelfth year of Qianlong's reign, Dominican monk Bai Duolu was beheaded outside the west gate of Fuzhou on the order of Qianlong because he disguised himself as a missionary from Macau and secretly entered Fujian. In the thirteenth year of Qianlong's reign, four other Spanish monks, Shi Francis, were arrested one after another.
Hua Yajing, De Francis, and Fei Ruowang were also executed.
It is said that the reason why Fukang'an looked down on the British weapons mentioned by Macartney was because the Qing army had defeated the Burmese army and Gurkha soldiers armed with British and French guns, whether in Burma or southern Tibet. Even in the first battle
In the four Qing-Burmese wars, the Eight Banners troops also defeated tens of thousands of Burmese troops, including 1,500 French mercenaries.
A farming civilization with a culture of "restoring the land and relocating it" is faced with a group of bandits who are cloaked in the guise of "civilization" and whose hands are stained with blood. They use the form of a state to plunder and expand, and even massacre and colonize, and have a national criminal tradition.
The sentence "not thinking about progress" can explain it clearly!
Too far away...
His eyes returned to the signing room in the General's Mansion. When Adjuni, the worshiper in Shang Yu's spare room, calmly put the ivory card into his arms, Qinggui asked in a low voice: "I wonder if you have any advice for your late night visit?"
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The reason why Qinggui knew Zhunise was that he was once a Bi Tie Shi under him when he was the general of Jilin, and he was later transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
With his current status, even as a bachelor of economics and the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, he would not dare to have anything to do with Shang Yu's reserve office, let alone a private meeting in a secret room. However, the Beihai Navy is now aggressively suppressing the situation, and since the other party
If you dare to come here as an "old friend", then there must be something big going on.
Zhu Nise cupped his hands and said: "Commander, Zhao Ni himself appeared at Xiaobai Mountain at Shenzheng time yesterday, and has now arrived at the rebel camp at Laoye Ridge."
"What! Are you serious about this?!" Qinggui's complexion changed drastically, and the muscles on his face trembled with the complicated emotions.
Zhuni replied calmly: "I saw it with my own eyes and I am absolutely not deceiving you! So I risked my life to come here and asked the commander to mobilize his troops overnight to kill this beast!"
Qinggui looked at the injuries on the opponent's body, knowing that the opponent must have experienced a near-death experience before crossing the North Navy's defense line. But how did he cross the defense line on the Lafa River? Could it be... Qinggui was in a hurry
He stopped thinking and didn't dare to think about it anymore. He thought for a moment and said: "Deploying troops is not a problem, but can you lead the way?"
Zhu Nise cupped her fists and said, "To be honest, I still have a few colleagues on Laoye Ridge. When the time comes, we can coordinate internally and externally and act according to the opportunity."
"Okay!" Qinggui's face was filled with joy. He patted the armrest of the Grand Master's chair, stood up and said with his hands in his hands: "Your merits will be felt in the Qing Dynasty for thousands of years! Please accept my respects!"
It was already past three o'clock in the night. In the Beihai navy camp on the west side of Laoye Ridge, Zhao Xin was still awake and drank cup after cup of tea. Guisheng, who was guarding outside the tent, kept yawning for more than ten years.
The guard was fully attentive, paying attention to the movements around him from time to time.
News came back from the eastern front in the evening that Jiuzang's troops encountered stubborn resistance from the Qing army when they attacked the Yingchengzi fortress. Although the leading company repelled several attacks by the Qing army, they were unable to attack due to lack of heavy weapons.
It was conquered until the main force of the three regiments who had defeated the Tongken Mountain Fortress came to support. After firing dozens of cannons, the Qing troops on the fortress saw that they were defeated and set fire to all parts of the castle before fleeing in a hurry.
Based on the interrogation of the prisoners, the Northern Navy learned that the Qing general in charge was none other than Zhao Xin's old acquaintance, Na Qitai.
Fortunately, after the Yingchengzi fortress was captured, there were no Qing army fortresses as far west as Erduoli. Jiuzang said in the telegram that the leading company had set off overnight and was expected to arrive at the Burhatu River in the evening the day after tomorrow.
Three days of walking more than 500 miles may not seem like much, but it is actually life-threatening. Zhao Xin estimates that it will take at least five days for Jiuzang and his main force to reach the Burhatu River. The area is densely forested and wild animals are infested, not only
There are tigers, black bears, and wild boars. These beasts are also nocturnal foragers, and they will definitely cause obstacles to the march of the troops.
"Whether it's a golden layer or a big bear, I can't stand it."
Hearing Zhao Xin muttering to himself, Hu Ji, who was also looking at the map, said, "Sir? What did you say?"
"Oh." Zhao Xin chuckled and said in a hoarse voice: "I estimate that after this battle is over, there will be a lot of tiger and bear skins."
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "This battle is not easy to fight. If you want to contain the Qing army in the Hunchun camp from withdrawing westward to support Jilin City, in addition to the marching speed of Jiuzang, it also depends on the progress of Deng Fei. As long as the Marine Battalion
If we can control the Hunchun River waterway, the government security can only mobilize troops by land."
Hu Ji rubbed his swollen forehead and asked: "Sir, what if the Qing army in Hunchun crosses the Tumen River and enters the Li Dynasty?"
"Yeah, no matter how powerful the Thunder God is, it can't go up the Tumen River. But..."
Zhao Xin did not say anything further, but smiled. In his heart, he wished that the Qing army could escape across the Tumen River and enter the Li Dynasty. This would give the Northern Navy the best excuse to go down the Tumen River and take Maoshan directly.
City. As for whether Li Chao's monarchs and ministers had a headache, and whether they would send someone to negotiate again, he decided not to see him until then, and we would talk about it after the fight was over.
When Hu Ji saw Zhao Xin showing that deceptive expression again, he thought to himself, don't worry too much, the lord must have arrangements.
In fact, Zhao Xin also made arrangements for the people of the Li Dynasty at the southern foot of Jiangyuan. When the time comes, all these people will be sent by the Northern Navy to Nerchinsk and Chita to farm, while the southern foot of Jiangyuan will be left to those poor families who were transported from central Sichuan.
If the guarantee is not complete, there will be a "Nerchinsk Autonomous Prefecture" in the future, hahahaha!