Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 566 A Family and a Life ([-])

"She agrees?"

Hearing this, the quiet needle drop could be heard in the tent of the headquarters, and Fan Tong's inquiry made everyone focus on Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin didn't speak, he lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, then nodded slowly
"Sorry, I can't save you. But I might be able to save the baby in your womb. How many months have you been pregnant?"

Hearing Zhao Xin's words, the Mongolian guide was taken aback for a moment, and then told the woman.The old lama, who closed his eyes and chanted scriptures in a low voice, suddenly opened his eyes wide, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"Nine months." After listening to the guide's words, the woman's face lighted up, and her originally dull eyes also had a gleam of light.

Zhao Xin knew that the ginseng soup had worked, so he had no time to waste, so he looked into the woman's eyes and continued: "That's it, we have to cut open your stomach with a knife and take out the baby. If you agree, We'll do that in a minute. Don't worry, I have a medicine that won't hurt after the shot."

After listening to the guide's translation, the woman stared into Zhao Xin's eyes for a while, then nodded in agreement.And the old lama on the side "Teng" stood up, stared at Zhao Xin and said loudly about blah blah.Zhao Xin knew that he must have nothing good to say, so he had the old lama kicked out.

The yurt was quiet again, Zhao Xin said softly: "After the child is born, what name do you want to name the child?"

The woman pondered for a moment and said, "If it's a man, it's Sirchen. If it's a woman, it's Su Lun."

Zhao Xin nodded, indicating that he remembered it.He asked the guide to bring the three children in to see their mother one last time.Saihan and Deling, who were carrying Batu, walked into the yurt timidly. Seeing their mother waking up, they both burst into tears.The woman showed a look of reluctance, and asked Saihan to hold her son Batu closer, and kissed the child affectionately, and then spoke to Zhao Xin, while the guide listened and translated to Zhao Xin in a low voice.

"Dear lord, can you adopt my children? I am a miserable woman with no luck. My husband doesn't want me and the children. They follow me to starve every day. They are desperate. You give them a little bit of cruelty every day. Soup leftovers are fine, they are very obedient and don’t eat much, Buddha will bless you.”

"Don't worry, I will treat them as my own children, and they will never go hungry or cold again! I swear to God." Zhao Xin interrupted the woman's chatter, stretched out his hand to hold the other's bony hand, and said in a deep voice Said: "Tell me your name and age. When the child grows up, he will ask who the mother is. I have to let them know."

"My name is Udabala. I'm 27 this year. I can't remember when I was born." After the woman finished speaking, don't tell her two daughters: "I can't do it anymore. From now on, you will take your younger brother and follow this girl." Your lord. Treat him like an ox or a horse, and repay his life-saving grace."

After hearing this, Saihan and Deling obediently hugged their younger brother and kowtowed to Zhao Xin, while Zhao Xin hurriedly helped the two children up.

After waking up, the woman talked too much and expended too much energy. At this time, her breath gradually weakened again.When Zhao Xin saw it, he quickly asked the guide to take out the crying children, and fed the woman a few mouthfuls of ginseng soup. When the woman's breathing became stable, he and the hygienist also got busy.

A few bright LED lights were lit in some dim yurts, and the hygienists used ropes to hang all the lights with bulbs facing down on the support poles on the top of the yurts.Zhao Xin took out the surgical equipment and lidocaine for anesthesia, as well as povidone iodine for disinfection, hemostatic gauze, disposable gloves, surgical gowns, masks, etc.

Seeing Zhao Xin conjure up a lot of things in a blink of an eye, the hygienists stared wide-eyed, and their jaws were on the floor.Zhao Xin told him that he should not tell anyone about this matter, and it would rot in his stomach.The hygienist nodded in agreement hastily.

Zhao Xin asked the soldiers outside to guard the door of the yurt, saying that no one was allowed to enter unless they were called, and asked the Mongolian guide to take the three children away.The old lama who was kicked out did not leave, but sat on the ground not far away, muttering words.

Zhao Xin didn't have time to pay attention to him. He and the hygienist helped each other to sterilize hands and arms with iodine, put on clothes and gloves, and then began to sterilize the woman.For the sake of safety, the two wiped the woman's withered chest to her knees with iodophor.

It is said that for this kind of operation, under normal circumstances, lumbar epidural anesthesia is used, that is, spinal anesthesia.But now it's an emergency, and this woman named "Udabala" is definitely not going to survive, so Zhao Xin decided to directly inject anesthesia on her belly.

While the hygienist administered anesthesia, Zhao Xin, wearing a stethoscope, kept paying attention to the movement of the child in the woman's belly.Fortunately, the child's heart is still beating.

Ten minutes after the anesthesia was administered, it was time for surgery. Both he and the hygienist sweated nervously on their foreheads. No one had ever done this before!In the end, Zhao Xin still asked the hygienist to perform the operation, but the other party was trembling while holding the scalpel.

"How?"

Zhao Xin recalled a certain documentary he had watched before, and then reached out and gestured at the lower part of his belly, cutting across!

The hygienist had never opened a knife before, but he had stitched up the wound.He was afraid of hurting the child with the tip of the knife, so he made a finger-long incision, and the incision was very shallow.Zhao Xin saw that this was not good, so he asked the other party to give him the knife, took a few deep breaths, and then slashed down with the knife.

The hygienist saw that Zhao Xin made a 20 cm long cut with one knife, and immediately took a breath, thinking that the adult is really not an ordinary person.While thinking wildly, I heard Zhao Xin say in a deep voice: "Hemostat! Gauze!"

There are five layers of human skin, plus the layer of the uterus, this is six layers.Zhao Xin was brave enough to cut the rectus abdominis directly. When he cut open the peritoneum with surgical scissors, the uterus was exposed.

Although the anesthetic was administered before, the woman still groaned in pain because the incision was too deep.Zhao Xin didn't care too much anymore. He asked the hygienist to support the spreader, then quickly cut open the uterus, and tore it open with his hands, and found that there was still a membrane inside, and the child was inside the membrane.

The two of them were already sweating profusely at this moment, and no one noticed that the woman's breath was getting weaker and weaker, and the hands that were tightly holding the blanket under their bodies were gradually loosening.

When Zhao Xin pierced the amniotic sac with the tip of the scissors, before even cleaning the amniotic fluid, he groped inside.After finally taking the baby out, he and the hygienist finally breathed a sigh of relief. The hygienist hurriedly cut the umbilical cord with scissors and tied it clumsily.At this time, Zhao Xin saw that the child's face had turned blue and he was not crying, so he panicked. He didn't know what to do with this little guy who was only as long as his forearm.

In the blink of an eye, he suddenly remembered something that Hong Tao had said when chatting with him before.So he quickly laid the child flat on a pile of cotton wool, washed off the blood stains on his right hand with iodophor, then put the little finger of his right hand into the child's mouth and picked it twice, and then took out a ball of dirty, sticky blood. Then he grabbed the child's feet and lifted it upside down, slapping the little butt lightly twice.

"Wow~~!!"

Hearing the cry of a baby coming from the yurt, the faces of the more than 100 Bei Haijun who were waiting anxiously outside all showed joy.The garrison platoon leader laughed and said loudly: "That's it! I'll just say it! If our adults take action, mother and child will be safe!"

The Mongolian guide also smiled and said to sisters Saihan and Deling: "God bless you, you have another younger brother! You will be blessed in the future!"

The old lama who didn't want to leave still sat on the ground muttering scriptures, but bowed towards the yurt with his hands clasped together.

"Udabala! It's a son!" Zhao Xin hugged the child excitedly, and turned to show the woman, but he saw Udabala staring blankly at the roof of the yurt without moving.

"Just like that, we stopped at Morton Station for one night, buried the child's mother on the hill where they were found, put up a sign, and then set off with the child." After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he put the cigarette butt Crush it with your feet.At his feet, there are already seven or eight cigarette butts.

Liu Sheng was surprised and said, "You are riding a horse with a newborn child?"

"Who can take care of me at the Modun station? A group of old men, forget it, even though Saihan is still young, he has taken care of his younger brother before. Mongolians are really good at riding horses. Every time the little one is full, he stays in the basket. Li didn't cry or make a fuss."

Fan Tong asked curiously: "Boss Zhao, why didn't you burn down those two lama temples? They are too irritating!"

Zhao Xin shook his head slightly, but did not speak.In fact, the reason why the old lama stayed was because he wanted to adopt a child.He asked the Mongolian guide to tell Zhao Xin that the child came to the world with sins and must leave home to atone for his mother.Zhao Xin ignored him and was taken back to the Lama Temple under escort.

Fan Tong shook his head and said, "I never imagined that the life of the Mongolian herdsmen would be so hard. I read the information before, and only said that the Manchu poll tax and the apportionment of errands made the herdsmen unable to hold their heads up. I really don't have a feeling for the specifics."

At this moment, he thought of the Mongolian Burgud he met at the Kutnaersu station. Maybe one day Burgud died, and his wife and children would suffer similarly.

Liu Sheng sighed, and said with a calm face: "We have been busy fighting south this time. Except for the post station and Kulun City, we hardly saw many herdsmen. After cleaning up the Manchus in the south, we must take care of those princes and lamas! "

"Originally, I wanted to unite the majority and attack a small group. Now it seems that no matter whether it is the upper lama or the prince Taiji, there is no good thing!" Zhao Xin sneered, and said to Liu Sheng and Fan Tong: "I am here On the way, I heard a Mongolian guide say a proverb circulated among herdsmen, which is very illustrative."

"what?"

"Call the earth, the earth should not answer; call the sky, the sky is too far away!"

The three of them sat and talked for a long while, but they all felt a little tired, so they got up and opened the curtain and took two steps at the tent door.At this time, although the sky was already full of stars, the valley was dimly illuminated by flares, and sporadic gunshots and grenade explosions could be heard from far away. The Qing army that attacked at night exchanged fire.

Zhao Xin stood with his arms folded for a while, without turning his head, he said, "Da Liu, how are the casualties in the army these days?"

"Fortunately, two people were sacrificed and one was seriously injured. They were all caused by sneak attacks at night."

The Qing army is now also learning from thieves. They have learned the experience and lessons of the Battle of Xiaobai Mountain, and relying on their familiarity with the terrain, they hide in the mountain depressions during the day and move out quietly at night.Every time there were not many people, just three or five, they either shot cold arrows, or condescendingly threw a few flying gourds filled with gunpowder and iron sand to make all kinds of noises, intending to disturb the Beihai Navy who could not rest.

But now that Zhao Xin is here, Ah Gui's plan is about to go bankrupt.

On September 9, in the early morning of the second day after Zhao Xin arrived, the Beihai Navy, which had been standing still and only doing passive defense, suddenly moved.Under the cover of dozens of 29mm guns, the assault force composed of two battalions quickly broke through the pass of Zamen Chaher Mountain and entered the gravel wasteland. Then, with the assistance of a dozen small excavators, Next, began to build a temporary camp composed of blast-proof walls.

Agui was puzzled by the sudden action of the Beihai Navy, but when the sentry reported that the Beihai Navy was digging a hole with a strange machine with a long arm and a big bucket in front, he immediately thought of Liu Yong who had given Qianlong A memorial of .

Before Liu Yong negotiated with Zhao Xin at Tuijiao Station, he had seen the North Navy use this kind of machinery to build a solid camp overnight.Agui immediately judged that the opponent might be due to the lack of water in the valley, so he rushed out to find the water source.

So he dispatched another [-] cavalry to try to launch a sneak attack on the North Navy that came out of the mountain after dark.But who would have imagined that the camp of the Beihai Navy would be brightly lit at night, and several bucket-thick beams of light shot out from behind the opposing camp wall, illuminating the surrounding two or three miles away.As long as the Qing army showed its head, it would be a hail of bullets, and no one dared to approach it.

Agui didn't know if the Beihai Navy could dig out the water, but he knew that once the opponent was allowed to stand outside the mountain pass, the threat to his side would be even greater.He decided that regardless of the casualties, he must take down the camp of the Northern Navy before noon tomorrow and make it return to the valley.

After he held a military meeting with his subordinates, tens of thousands of Qing troops began to prepare nervously.In the middle of the night, the Qing army divided into three groups and dispatched from Taradorantai, planning to launch an attack in the early morning when people were most tired.However, it took only a short time for the three groups of Qing troops to enter the scheduled assembly place for a meal, and the artillery shells bombarded them.

Countless ghosts of the Qing army who were bombed cried and howled, clusters of flames rising and falling from the explosions undulated on the pitch-black wasteland.The Qing troops who came from Suiyuan had never seen this kind of formation at all. They either huddled in place and were killed by shells, or they fled.

In just one night, the Qing army was killed and injured thousands of people. Many wounded cried and cried until dawn, and none of their companions dared to come back to rescue them.

It is said that since Zhao Xin is here, he will never delay any longer.For the procrastinating Manchu Qing troops, he just wanted to fight with speed, so fast that the opponent had no time to react.In addition, the letter he wrote to Liu Quan at the beginning should have arrived in Rehe, and it should have been fermented according to the time.

On September 1791, 9, Fukang'an, who led more than 30 Qing troops from Hulunbuyuer, entered the territory of the Chechen Khan with trepidation all the way, and arrived at the right-wing Zhongzuo Banner not far from Kulun .When Fukang'an was planning to leave Zhaomodo to attack Kulun, he suddenly received an edict from Qianlong, ordering him to immediately lead his troops back to the Chechen Khan Banner in the east.

Although Fukang'an was puzzled, he still didn't dare to disobey, so he had to lead his army back sadly.Unexpectedly, after only two days of walking, the second edict arrived again. This time, he finally knew what had happened.

The Gurkha soldiers entered Tibet from the south of Mimi Mountain. By the end of August, the Gurkha troops had captured Tingri, Jilong and Sakya, and the Tashilhunpo Monastery fell and was looted.At the beginning of September, the Kuo army attacked the Zongcheng of Shigatse. After eight days and nights of siege, they still could not break through the city, so they retreated to the border with the looted treasures.

In this edict, Qianlong ordered Fukang'an to immediately transfer the military power to his deputy, Heilongjiang General Hengxiu, and let him lead the army back to Hulunbuyur; Go to Rehe for an audience.

(End of this chapter)