Chapter 221 Weird and Bizarre Things Confuse People [Subscribe Please]
"Charge! Those who want to get promoted and make money, follow me!" Fei Gu raised his saber and shouted. The superiors had issued a military order that they could "act according to their convenience" after entering the thieves' den, "act according to their convenience"!
This was a rare opportunity. Since the court pacified the Three Feudatories, such military orders have not been issued for a long, long time. The meaning of this word is clear to everyone except fools.
As the war horses flew, Fei Gu saw not the wooden fences of the bandits' barricades, not the guns of the bandits, but silver, countless silver; but women, young girls and wives who let themselves enjoy women.
He rushed to the front of the team. Behind him were all the people of the Heilongjiang cavalry, and the Beijing Banner horse armor soldiers who had put together a team with them, dragging behind one by one, which made Fei Gu look down on them very much.
Heilongjiang was definitely a cold place in this era, and it was completely incomparable to the colorful world of Beijing. Therefore, the military order of "acting according to one's convenience" was more attractive to Fei Gu and his men. The Heilongjiang cavalry and the Jilin cavalry, which were of the same strength, showed enthusiasm and fighting spirit in the war, which was far better than the horse armor soldiers from the Beijing Banner. These Eight Banners uncles in Beijing had long been worn out by wealth and glory.
On the battlefield filled with smoke, the sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder.
In front of them was a towering small town. In front of the town was a position composed of trenches, breastworks, chevaux de frise and fences. Sixty or seventy Fu Han soldiers hid behind breastworks, chevaux de frise and fences, holding muskets and short bows, aiming at the galloping Qing soldiers.
Although most of the Fu Han soldiers were uninformed mud-legged people, they were still very clear about the difference between the Green Camp and the Eight Banners.
The cavalry on the opposite side had a small number of soldiers, but each of them had a big broom on his head and wore colorful armor. Of course, this was the Eight Banners.
The distance was getting closer and closer, and the Heilongjiang cavalry soon broke into the defense line within 30 feet, and gunshots were heard.
The defenders of this stronghold only had one platoon of musketeers, who fired volleys according to the standard volleys trained in the training camp. After the gunshots, several people in the Heilongjiang cavalry on the opposite side immediately fell down like a lost horse.
Fei Gu was unlucky to be one of them. He groaned and crawled towards the warhorse. The horse's chest was shot with a big hole. It was not completely dead yet, and the wailing warhorse fell beside him. Fei Gu was not reluctant to part with the horse. He had to stay with the horse at this time, but if he did so, his target would become larger and it would not be easy to be stepped on by the horsemen following behind. One of his legs was very painful, it should be broken. But compared with the other Heilongjiang horsemen who had no breath, Fei Gu's luck value was already explosive. Of course, he felt that he was very unlucky.
"Boom boom boom..."
When the cavalry rushed to the front of the defense line, the sound of the tiger squat cannon exploded in the formation, followed by a rain of grenades. The thirty or forty cavalrymen who led the charge were completely covered by the smoke and dust. Fei Gu, who was lying on the ground, never saw them running back from the smoke. There was only the miserable sound of horses and the shrill screams.
It is said that for horses that have not experienced the sound of firearms, the biggest harm to them from the sound of guns and cannons is not the direct killing of guns and cannons, but the loud sound.
It is not much more troublesome for the Fu Han Army to make a cannon than to make a gun. No matter how many harms the iron mold cast cannon has, its fast manufacturing speed is its biggest advantage. Although this fortress of the Fu Han Army is guarded by only one team of soldiers, it has two three-jin cannons, five tiger squat cannons, and a platoon of musketeers, and each person has a lot of grenades. Its firearms are higher than those of the large troops on the front battlefield.
Zheng Zhilun of Yuzhou has been dealing in sulfur, saltpeter and medicinal materials these days, and he has been moving boxes of silver home. Don't live a comfortable life.
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Such a scene will happen in many different places on the battlefield in Henan. This caused the consumption of ammunition reserves of the General's Mansion to increase sharply at the end of March, but it corresponds to the sudden decline of the arrogance of the Qing army and its cavalry.
It is difficult for a small group of Qing cavalry to run out completely after breaking into the defense network. When they are in large groups, the various units of the Fu Han Army will only stay firmly in the castle. With the defensive strength of the castle, not to mention the cavalry that is not good at attacking the city, even the Qing army infantry can only fill it with human lives.
One by one, the castles and fortresses located in important transportation locations and with geographical advantages can slow down the speed of the Qing army cavalry. If they really continue to attack "unswervingly", they may not have walked out of the defense network, and the large forces assembled by the Fu Han Army have already killed them.
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Jieshou, also known as Jiegou, was named after the famous Southern Song general Liu Qi defeated the Jin soldiers and drew a boundary here. It is located at the junction of Henan and Anhui, where the official roads of Chenzhou Prefecture in Henan and Yingzhou Prefecture in Anhui pass. It can be said that the superior transportation conditions inherently determine the prosperity of this place.
On this day, two monks came here by boat. When the battle in Henan was fierce and Jiangning was exciting, two monks appeared in Jieshou. They were Yuantong monk and his disciple Baohe from Jingyun Temple outside Xiangcheng County of Chenzhou Prefecture. The master's generation is Yuan and the disciple's generation is Bao. Is this Jingyun Temple really a monk temple? Let's not talk about this.
Yuantong and Baohe monks did not go to Jieshou Town specifically, they were going to Taihe County of Yingzhou Prefecture.
That afternoon, their boat was moored at the dock of Jieshou Town. When Yuantong monk and the boatman went ashore to buy food, they stopped outside the land temple to rest. A man from Jieshou Town started to wrestle with him.
Because before Monk Yuantong came to Jieshou Town, a rumor had already spread in the local area. Because it came from many people, it had made the locals believe that there were indeed monks cutting people's braids in the local area and doing harm to people. No one knew how the Jieshou town man quarreled with Yuantong and then started fighting. Then Yuantong and the boatman were scared and ran to the dock quickly, and the Jieshou town man followed them shouting and chasing after them.
The people in the town quickly surrounded the two of them and began to punch and kick them, causing the boatman to break an arm and two ribs and suffer serious injuries.
A police officer who hurried to investigate the matter stopped the Jieshou town people from beating Yuantong and searched him and the boatman's luggage on the boat, but did not find any suspicious objects (such as scissors and other tools for cutting people's braids, or ecstasy powder used to harm people, etc.). However, the crowd around was so angry that he really did not dare to let Yuantong and Monk Baohe go without authorization. So he took Yuantong, Baohe, the boatman, the plaintiff [the man from Jieshou Town] and several other hangers-on [who followed the beating] on board the boat and set off for Taihe County.
The Taihe County Magistrate personally tried the case. Because there was no definite evidence of cutting people's braids, and Yuantong and Baohe were genuine monks with certificates of ordination, and they also had another piece of evidence - the Taihe County man who invited them to Taihe County. The County Magistrate ruled that Yuantong and Baohe were monks who followed the rules. He further ruled that the plaintiff and several others, as the initiators of this matter, should be held responsible for the entire incident. Monk Yuantong was not satisfied with just being released, as their gifts and money were taken away, and they were also beaten. They bypassed the County Magistrate and went directly to the Yingzhou Prefecture Office to file a complaint. They demanded compensation for their lost money and clothes and the beatings they suffered. Although there was no evidence that the monks' clothes and money were taken by the plaintiffs, the prefect still ordered the Taihe County Magistrate to detain them and force him to return the monks' money and property.
If the matter was resolved like this, it would be plain and unsurprising. But the strange thing is that after the plaintiffs paid the two monks and the boatman with money, they returned to Jieshou Town for less than two days, and the braids of several people were cut off. When they were found, they were lying unconscious in the alleys or in the bushes. Then, several people fell ill and talked nonsense.
The people of Jieshou Town, of course, thought of Yuantong and Baohe monks. They gathered hundreds of people and ran to Xiangcheng County to look for Jingyun Temple. As a result, Yuantong monk, who had settled in Jingyun Temple for ten years, disappeared, and his disciple Baohe monk naturally disappeared.
Such a strange thing immediately swept across eastern Henan and northern Anhui like a whirlwind. Countless mouths discussed this matter, and word of mouth spread, becoming more and more bizarre. The name of the braid-cutting case made every citizen tremble with fear. However, the Hunyuan Sect took this opportunity to usher in another major expansion.
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Lushan, Cadre School. This is a school dedicated to training officials at all levels for the Fu Han Military Government. The teachers in it are all Qing Dynasty officials and some old officials. The latter is synonymous with being slippery and difficult to deal with. In the Qing Dynasty officialdom, when an official takes up a new position, among the biggest enemies and the most important helpers, let the officials list themselves, and the old officials will not escape the top three.
Chen Hui is one of the representatives.
Although he fell into the hands of the more shameless Chang Rui, it can only be said that Chang Rui's acting skills are too high.
The General's Mansion has been promoting the Baojia system. The lowest level of Jiazhang is fine. If the Baozhang performs well, he will definitely go to the next level after attending a training class at the Cadre School. The new term "cadre school" is a bit difficult to pronounce, but now it is spoken naturally and fluently by officials under the rule of the General's Mansion.
Because time has proved its power, for countless people who are striving for progress, the cadre school is a ladder to heaven.
This place is also an important place for the three major newspapers to focus on publicity. Not only students, but also some reluctant teachers have become accustomed to the quiet moment of a cup of tea and a newspaper under the subtle influence of time.
Peng Zhongrui slapped the newspaper on the table in anger. Today, the front page of "Zhongyuan Daily" published the braid cutting case that occurred in Yingzhou Prefecture. This incident has been going on for half a month, and Henan and Anhui are all buzzing. There are also rumors here in the General's Mansion.
But in the eyes of Peng Zhongrui, a Qing official who failed to die, his family also fell into the hands of the Fu Han Army, but he insisted on not surrendering, and was finally stuffed into the cadre school, it was an obvious trick.
Liu Zhixie has been wandering around the county for a while. The General's Mansion does not restrict him, and his identity is not deliberately concealed. Peng Zhongrui already knows the existence of Hunyuan Sect. Now when he sees the place where the incident happened in the report, he immediately tastes something wrong. There is a premise reason why he can see through the matter, otherwise he is likely to be kept in the dark.
Now Peng Zhongrui can't think of this, and his mind is full of anger.
The braid-cutting case, the braid-cutting case, can this matter cause a commotion? The more publicity, the more panic people will feel when they know about it. The people are uneasy. Can they still be loyal to the Qing Dynasty?
This case is a trap set by Hunyuan Sect. Taihe County Magistrate is incompetent. After this incident, not only did he not realize that it was wrong, but he went to the City God Temple with great fanfare to burn incense. He is really a fool. And the officials of Chenzhou Prefecture are also stupid as pigs.
The prefect of Chenzhou went to Taihao Mausoleum, the burial place of Fuxi, the ancestor of mankind, to pay homage, and the magistrate of Luyi County went to Shangqing Palace to pay homage, the latter being the hometown of Laozi. Other prefecture and county officials in eastern Henan and northern Anhui, who did not have any major historical sites in their territories, went to Chenghuang Temple to pay homage.
Peng Zhongrui was so angry that his chest hurt. His chest hurt!