Time goes back to mid-March of the 49th year of Qianlong's reign.
Emperor Qianlong, who was stationed in Yangzhou, received two memorials from the Military Aircraft Department and Qinggui at the same time.
After reading the two memorials, the seventy-three-year-old Qianlong compared them with each other for a long time, and then called He Shen, who was accompanying him on the southern tour, to inquire carefully.
Subsequently, Qianlong clearly pointed out in the edict sent to the Military Aircraft Department and the Jilin General Mansion: "...banner citizens Yaerha, Serdan and others dared to escape by taking advantage of the opportunity and killed officers and soldiers. The crime was extremely abominable. Two offenders were planned.
After escaping, he will have to hide along the way, even to Bear Island; or sneak into the mountains and forests, it is not certain. I have sent an order to the governor of Qinggui to order the civil and military officers to seize the people who are found, and carry out the law as usual. Don't go far and slip through the net."
At the end of March, as the mountains of ice on the coast near Hunchun gradually melted, the Qing army's water camp in Hunchun finally began to move out.
This time, five large boats (four-plank boats) and three small boats (three-panel boats) were dispatched, carrying a total of 500 armored soldiers. Led by Hunchun Xie Ling Wu Te Shan, they landed on Xiong Island.
Each of these five large boats carried one bronze cannon and two odd cannons; the small boats carried only one odd cannon.
In mid-April, Tuoketonga, who had been camping on the opposite side of the Xiongdao Strait for more than a month, received a letter from Hunchun in advance. According to the agreed time, he took a dozen small fishing boats recruited and carried armored fishing boats.
Two hundred soldiers landed on Bear Island in batches. The landing times of the two teams were only two days apart.
So far, 700 Qing troops have gathered on Bear Island, which covers an area of less than 100 square kilometers.
Putting aside the haunted Wuteshan, Tuoketong'a, who was sent from the Jilin General's Mansion, believed that under such a powerful force, the fugitives on Bear Island would not be able to escape!
Ninggu Pagoda, which is six hundred miles away, and Jilin General's Mansion, which is thousands of miles away, are both anxiously waiting for the Hunchun investigation report.
As soon as these Qing troops landed, regardless of fatigue, under the leadership of the leaders of each team, they began a large-scale search of the entire island from the west and north, eastward, and southward.
First, after crossing the strait, Toctonga's group found two destroyed wooden houses in the woodland south of the beach.
According to the analysis of some traces left in the wooden house, at least ten people once lived here.
Then, in the afternoon of the same day, a group of Qing soldiers under the command of Wu Teshan searched southward and discovered the site left behind by large-scale logging on the southwest side of Bear Island.
The leader who led the search team looked at the vast expanse of tree stumps left behind after logging, and couldn't help but take a breath of air.
How many people do it take to do this!
The leader did not rush to lead the team south to continue the search. Instead, he dismounted and carefully inspected the wooden piles and counted the number of felled trees.
These Qing troops discovered that all the felled tree stumps, except for the marks of axe, were almost all sawed off. Moreover, many tree stumps that could only be hugged by two people had smooth cuts, indicating that these big trees were cut at once.
Sawed! Obviously, these people who cut the wood were not only equipped with axes, but also with very sharp saws.
All findings proved that these people on the island had a large number of high-quality iron tools. The leader of the team speculated that these unknown people must also be equipped with good-quality weapons.
The Qing troops did not dare to go further and continue the search, but immediately went back to report to the co-leader Wu Teshan. After Wu Teshan heard about it, he was secretly frightened. But even so, he did not dare to neglect, and immediately gathered his men and horses together.
Continue the search southwest.
In the evening, we conducted a fan-shaped search of part of Mount Ute, and finally found traces of large-scale camping in the narrow strip of land on the southwest side of Bear Island.
Because the size of the camp previously arranged by Zhao Xin was a square with a side length of 200 meters, and some not-so-deep trenches were dug outside the explosion-proof wall. Therefore, even though they were cleaned up during the evacuation, there were still a lot of things left behind.
Mark of.
Wu Teshan looked at the ruins of the camp in front of him in surprise, his hands going numb. How many people must have lived there?!
The Qing soldiers either used knives or guns to dig around in the grass, trying to find more clues. The search continued until dark, and the Qing soldiers with torches couldn't see clearly, so they gave up.
The cautious Ute Shan did not dare to camp independently. He had already sent out sentries to look for Tuoketong'a. After contacting the other party, Ute Shan decided to camp together.
After the two teams met, they spent the night in fear and continued their search the next day.
After checking back and forth for several days, Wuoteshan and Toktonga finally confirmed that all the people on the island had disappeared.
However, the results of the search still shocked them. Judging from the felled trees and the size of the abandoned camp, at least 300 people once lived here.
But where did those people from Tomohogo go?
After searching on Bear Island for several days, many of the soldiers below had become impatient.
After careful discussion between Wuteshan and Tokton'a, they still felt that they could not give up so easily. After all, Tokton'a had been guarding the opposite side of the strait for more than a month and no one was found to have escaped from Bear Island.
However, when people pass by they leave traces, and when geese pass by they leave a sound. With more than a hundred armored soldiers and more than two hundred war horses, how could there be no traces at all?!
Ute Shan and Tok Tong'a held a military meeting the next day. They told their subordinates and leaders that starting from today, they would search the entire island again, not sparing every cave and valley, and even every valley.
Look for tree holes carefully. If there is still no result this time, then get on the boat and continue searching the remaining thirteen islands in the South China Sea.
Two days later, a group of Qing soldiers finally found clues on a slope to the north of the central part of Bear Island.
Because it was already April, the dry weeds everywhere on the island began to sprout a little green. However, the pair of Qing soldiers discovered that there were four pieces of land on this slope where the weeds were growing very strangely; the weeds elsewhere were still just growing.
It started to sprout, and the weeds here grew much more luxuriantly than other places, and some of the weeds actually bloomed.
The Qing soldiers who noticed the strangeness stabbed the ground with their spears. With one stab, it penetrated more than a foot deep into the ground. Why is the soil here so loose?
"Something's wrong, there's something weird here." A Qing soldier said.
"Pull it out." The leader said.
The Qing soldiers pulled out the spear head, and the leader took the spear, carefully looked at the color of the soil on the spear head, and then brought the spear head to his nose and smelled it.
"There are people buried under here! Dig it up!" the leader suddenly said to his men.
Then he said to a Qing soldier: "Go to the camp quickly to get some tools, and then ask some people to dig together."
More than half an hour later, fifty Qing soldiers arrived, led by Xie Ling Wote Shan.
"See you, Lord Xie Ling!" The leader led his men to kneel down and salute.
"Everyone, please get up. Tell us what's going on." Wu Teshan raised the whip in his hand and asked.
The leader raised his fists and said, "Sir, I have been to the northwest to fight in the past, and I have encountered similar situations. I guess there are people buried under these fields."
"Take my token and go back and call 300 more people to get all the shovels in the camp." Wu Teshan ordered Goshiha beside him.
After Geshiha took the order and took the order, Wu Teshan called to the fifty Qing soldiers who came with him: "Dismount! Dig up everything here."
More than two hours later, with the joint efforts of hundreds of people, all four large pits where Zhao Xin led the refugees to bury the corpses were dug out, and one hundred and eight corpses were carried out from the pits by the Qing soldiers.
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Fortunately, the weather was not too hot at this time, and the faces of these corpses were still well preserved. A dozen Qing soldiers wiped all the faces of these corpses with cloths soaked in water, and then decorated them with yellow flags and received Tomoho fruit.
Finally found!
After hearing the news, Tokton'a covered his nose and looked closer. He saw a hole as thick as a little finger on the forehead of Tomohuoguo's corpse.
After looking at it twice, he asked his men to turn the body over. Sure enough, there was a hole as big as a fist in the back of the head, and all the bones in the back of the head were gone.
"Is this shot with a fire gun?" Tuoketong'a was shocked. The thief actually had a fire gun!
Another hour passed, and after checking one by one, the results came out.
A leader walked up to Ute Shan and Tok Tong'a who were sitting on the horse, knelt down on one knee and said: "Two adults, there are a total of one hundred and eight corpses here. After careful identification, there are all armored soldiers with yellow flags.
Ninety-three, including fifteen civilians. Among them are Tuomo Huoguo, the commander of the riding school..."
"Wait a minute." Wu Teshan suddenly interrupted. He remembered that there were a total of 102 armored soldiers with yellow flags. Why were there twelve missing?
Tokton'a glanced at Ute Mountain and asked, "Master Ute Mountain, what's the matter?"
"Twelve armored soldiers are missing."
"This..." Tokton'a was stunned for a moment, then blurted out: "Being taken away?"
Wu Teshan nodded: "It's almost the same." He then said to the leader: "Keep talking."
The leader then continued: "There is one person from the Riding School, and there are ten leaders. All of them have been identified. Except for six people who were killed by arrows and four who were hacked by sharp weapons, the rest were all hit by fire cannons.
He died. This is a warhead found by a lowly official."
After the leader finished speaking, he lifted up a warhead that had been broken into several pieces. Toctonga ignored the dirt on the warhead and took it with his hands. After rubbing it with his fingers a few times, the original color was revealed.
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Tokton'a frowned and said to Ute Shan: "This is actually not lead. No, this warhead is double-layered, with lead inside and steel outside!" He has been in the army for many years, and he has also used fire guns and lead bullets.
I have seen it all before, but I have never seen a projectile like this.
He turned to Wu Teshan and said: "So many people have been killed by fire blunderbuss. How many fire blunderbuss does this thief have? Where did they come from?"
Wu Teshan pondered for a long time, then slowly said: "According to my guess, these thieves have at least three hundred fire guns, otherwise it would be impossible to kill Tomohuoguo and the others at once. Yes! Not only three hundred, but even five hundred
Only then can we surround them all and not let anyone go."
At this time, Wu Teshan held the riding crop in his hand tightly, the joints of his hands creaked, and his fingers turned white, showing the great strength.
He thought of what the shaman said during the divination before...
Ten days later, both Ningguta and Jilin Wula received urgent reports from Hunchun.
General Qinggui of Jilin was furious! When he was about to write a note to report the situation to the court, he received an order from Qianlong, ordering him to go to Beijing immediately to take over as Minister of the Ministry of Industry and wait for the emperor to summon him after his southern tour. At the same time, the newly appointed General of Jilin
Already on the way here.
This person is the 47-year-old Aixinjueluo Duerjia, who once served as the deputy governor of Miyun.
Speaking of which, Durjia is the fifth-generation grandson of Nurhaci, and his line is the direct descendant of Nurhaci’s sixth son, Tabai. This person has successively served as the deputy commander-in-chief of Mongolia in the Zhenghong Banner, the deputy commander-in-chief of Manchuria in the Xiangbai Banner, and the Minister of the Firearms Camp.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Mongolia, Xianglan Banner, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Aihun City, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Miyun.
Qinggui carefully pondered Qianlong's decree for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out, so he ordered someone to invite his staff. This person had been with Qinggui for many years. Since the 36th year of Qianlong's reign, Qinggui had served as
Since becoming the counselor and minister of Yili, he has been following him.
The aide took the emperor's edict with both hands and read it carefully for a long time, then held it in both hands and handed it back to Qinggui.
"How?" Qinggui asked after putting the edict away.
"Dong Weng, you are worrying too much. The emperor is trying to protect you." The staff member stroked his long beard and said with a smile.
"how do I say this?"
"Dong Weng, you are a gentleman, and your behavior is quite like that of the ancients. I think you are just preoccupied with doing the things in front of you and repaying the emperor for your kindness, so you have ignored the joints."
"Keep talking." Qinggui understood a little bit.
"In this matter, it is obvious that the emperor is protecting you. According to the student's judgment, the matter in Hunchun is not that simple. It is most likely a muddy water. At this juncture, the emperor sent General Feng En (Durjia inherited
The title of General Feng En will take your place..."
When Qinggui heard this, he understood completely. He had always wanted to imitate his father Yin Jishan, who could not only work in the military camp, but also travel on rivers. So even if he was sent to a bitter and cold place, he was happy with it.
Now the emperor doesn't want to get stuck in the quagmire of the Hunchun incident, so he has sent the fierce Duerjia to take over the matter. This is the emperor protecting himself.
Thinking of the emperor's kindness and care for three generations of his family (Qinggui's grandfather is Yin Tai and his father is Yin Jishan), Qinggui couldn't help but his eyes were slightly sour, and tears were about to burst out of his eyes. He knelt down, facing south, respectfully