Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 112 Come to the aid
"Great governor, there is news from the city that the Jinling sub-helm of the Bailian bandit has been completely wiped out, and the Jinling slave change has been suppressed."

Yanziji.

Jia Hun rode on a horse and stood on the pier, looking at the rocky rocks hanging from the steep river on three sides in the distance by the light of countless fires.

"Understood, tell Tan Ji to screen it a few more times. I don't want to wait for a thief who claims to be the White Lotus Sect to come out and come to me one day when I return to Jinling and say he wants revenge."

"Yes, I will inform Qianhu right now!" Xiuyi who came to convey the news leaned over and said yes, seeing that Jia Hun had no more orders, he turned around and rode to Jinling to deliver the order.

Withdrawing his gaze from looking at the rocks in the distance, Jia Hun turned his head and stared at the bustling pier again.

3 people crowded on the dock waiting to board the ship. Guan Sheng was temporarily appointed by Jia Hui as the commander of the pioneer battalion, responsible for leading the [-] pioneer battalion to support the inland river naval station that was still struggling to support Xijin Crossing.It is best to repel the attack of the white lotus thief and clear out a camp for [-] troops to station.

A large number of merchant ships have been requisitioned temporarily, and Guan Sheng has already led the 5000 cavalry from his headquarters to board the ship first, and the [-] army has already boarded about [-] people.

"Inform Guan Sheng to set off with 5000 troops first, and his deputy to lead the remaining [-]." Jia Hun said to his own soldiers.

"Follow the order!" The soldiers didn't ask why, they bowed their hands to Jia Hun and rushed towards Guan Sheng.

The Inland River Navy does not have a large base in Zhenjiang, and it takes a long time to get off the boat. There is no difference between 1 people and 5000 people.

Or maybe the 5000 people who followed up will arrive before the 5000 people get off the boat.

Not long after, a low-pitched horn sounded from the Inland River Navy warship Guan Sheng was on, and then several large ships also sounded their horns in response.Accompanied by the sound of horns and the sound of war drums, the warship left the port, followed by some large merchant ships of [-] materials, carrying [-] infantry and more than [-] cavalry, and a total of more than [-] Qi troops marched towards Xijin, which was under siege. Cross the Neihe Navy Camp.

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As an important town in Jiangnan Province, Yangzhou, a city in the north and south of the Yangtze River, naturally has a branch of the White Lotus Sect.

The Lin family had just reformed their servant system due to the fact that their son's cook was bribed.The servants of the Lin family who had benefited from the benefits would naturally not follow the White Lotus Sect in such a stupid thing as rebelling. The White Lotus Sect branch in Yangzhou was almost wiped out because of the undercover servants of the Lin family who came in undercover.

Although they managed to escape from the Three Caves of the Rabbit in the end, their years of business operations were severely damaged after the salt merchant incident, and they were almost destroyed.

However, the White Lotus Sect is a cult that plays with people's hearts. There are still many diehards in the homes of other big households in the city. With the generosity and wealth of diehards, the Yangzhou sub-rudder still reluctantly rebuilt the framework and restored the support of the surviving ministries. contact.

In the ruins of the salt merchant Gao's house, Li Qing, the rudder master of the Yangzhou sub-rudder of the White Lotus Sect, sat in a very despondent chair with a missing leg and could only be padded with stones, listening to his subordinates' reports.

He wasn't so depressed at first, mainly because it was already July 29 when Li Qingqian returned to Yangzhou, and he was still looking for a new station for the sub-rudder, and a souvenir letter from the leader came to him.

Seeing that the leader decided to formally start an incident on the first day of August, he was instantly taken aback. He no longer cared about his decency and ran away. He just found an abandoned house and went in. They reconnected from door to door, and finally notified the last family before sunset this afternoon. They returned to the temporarily abandoned house without even caring about whether they were loyal or not.

Because of this, Li Qing didn't even dare to rest. He just leaned on the still swinging chair and closed his eyes. He didn't dare to fall asleep, for fear that someone would inform him again and bring officers and soldiers to kill him again.

Fortunately, there are not many wealthy families in Yangzhou who are humanoid.These days in the south of the Yangtze River, it is the mainstream to not be a talent in treating domestic slaves, while families like the Jia family who treat them kindly or even treat them kindly are the alternative.

Yangzhou is the northernmost branch of the White Lotus Sect, and there is no need to go further north.

Going further north, when there is an incident, everyone will face one of the basics of the Great Qi Dynasty, the blades of the Jianghuai Caogong soldiers.

That's not necessary, and it doesn't match the strategy that was designed early on.

It's best to keep it, and it doesn't matter if you don't. It's just an attempt. Whether it succeeds or not doesn't affect the White Lotus Sect's grand strategy.

But this matter would be fatal to Li Qing, and his future for the next few decades would depend on this Yangzhou!
"Helmsman, it's not good, there are officers and soldiers coming!"

Li Qing, who was still sleepy just now, woke up in an instant, stepped on the top chair and climbed to the roof with a kick of his legs, and looked out.

There was indeed a procession of torches trotting this way.

Li Qing was so frightened that he almost fell off the roof.

Just when I wanted to tell people to run away, I found out that the number of officers and soldiers was not that many, only a small flag, about ten people.

Seeing the team of up to 30 people under the eaves, Li Qing'e repented.
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"Master Lin, the leader of the Yangzhou sub-rudder of the Bailian thief has been captured."

Lin Chong's deputy general rushed into the main hall of the Xunyan Yushi Yamen with an excited expression on his face, and reported excitedly to Lin Ruhai who was sitting behind the desk.

"What, caught it? What's going on?" Lin Ruhai, who was leaning over and writing something, looked up in surprise, a little unbelievable.

It's been less than a quarter of an hour since the house slaves were found to be doing it. How could this den of thieves be taken over by a den?

Lin Ruhai was puzzled.

"Hey, isn't this a team of small flags that you sent under the command to support the Han family at Dadongmen? When passing by the old house of the Gao family, a group of people suddenly rushed out of it, and they raised their knives to fight us. We are Who, we are the direct descendants of the Great Governor, Suzaku Cavalry! On the spot, we fought with about [-] people, and in the end, only six people were killed, and the team of small flags blocked them in a dead end. In the end, the leader shouted that he is the sub-rudder of the Bailian thief, and he was hacked to death by that little flag long ago!"

The deputy commander said arrogantly to Lin Ruhai.

"Oh, that's no wonder. They were unlucky enough to ask that Xiaoqi to send that helmsman to Jinling."

"Yes! But my lord, it's hard to catch this. Don't you take a look?" The deputy general asked Lin Ruhai.

In fact, he shouldn't have said this, but his chief governor is Lord Lin's nephew, and his immediate superior Lin Chong is also Lord Lin's brother, so he speaks boldly because he is a proper person of his own.

Lin Ruhai touched his chin, thought for a while and shook his head.

"No, it's just a lost dog. Maybe there's something wrong with my brain, so I won't look at it."

"Yes."

"Wait, remember to write a letter to Brother Chong in Huai'an, saying that the White Lotus Sect has finally rebelled."

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Xijin Ferry.

Once again repelled the attack of the white-clothed rebels. It has been five full hours since the first wave of offensive.

Wei Xingchao, a thousand households of the Zhenjiang Qianhu Office of the Neihe Navy, sat slumped on a high platform, staring at the white-clothed rebels who were constantly retreating back to Zhenjiang Fucheng.

Five hours ago, he had just completed a routine inspection of the ten warships returning to port. As he was preparing to return to the barracks to rest, he saw the Zhenjiang Fucheng to the east with flames rising into the sky.

I thought it was an ordinary fire. Although Zhenjiang is not as prosperous as Jinling, it is also a prosperous business city due to its superior geographical location. It is almost normal to stay up all night until dawn.With so many lights on, fires became the norm.

Wei Xingchao also thought so at first, but after walking a few steps, he suddenly realized that something was wrong. Even if it was on fire, it would be impossible for the whole city to be on fire, right?

I remembered that I went to Zhenjiang city for business today, and when I returned to camp in the evening, I was suddenly notified that a curfew would be enforced. When Jia Hun, the governor of the left army, sent a military order when he went to inspect the warship, he said that there was a rebel named White Lotus Sect. The gang of thieves might start a riot at someone's garrison, so everyone should be on guard tonight.
Zhenjiang City is now in flames, and the number of places on fire is gradually increasing.

Could it be that I happened to run into it?

Being kind and persuasive, he immediately summoned all the soldiers and horses of Qianhusuo, unloaded the cannons of two ships and pulled them to the camp, and distributed them equally to the three walls of the village.

Sure enough, a group of people in white clothes with swords and guns came out of Zhenjiang City, and rushed towards their camp.

At first, when they arrived at their camp, they didn't start attacking immediately, and even politely sent people over to talk and persuade them to surrender.

But who are you? The 22-year-old Qianhu officer of the Zhenjiang Qianhu Office of the Neihe Navy!

A great future is waiting for me to go, and a lot of happiness is waiting for me to enjoy!What's more, I have done a good job in the Neihe Navy. It would be great to take over my uncle's squad in the future as a commander of the first guard. Why should I put my head on my belt and mess with you group of rebels who have been discovered long ago? ?

On the spot, the envoy of the white lotus thief was hoisted to the flagpole of the camp ground!

The Bailian thief was really furious, and nearly 2 people rushed towards the camp as if they were dying, but they were soon blown up by the cannons they moved.

It's really thanks to the nine big guns that were dismantled from the ship!

Coupled with the two tiger-squatting heavy artillery assigned to the naval battalion, with the strength of the 2 people who just came to attack, Wei Xingchao even had the confidence to defend for a month!

It's just that the artillery has exploded. Isn't there still eight ships, and there are more than ten ships in total.

It is also thanks to the fact that this is Zhenjiang, an important town for Jiangfang.Whether the equipped equipment is good or not is another matter, but it must be given in full.

The number of personnel is sufficient, the weapons are sufficient, the enemy is weak, and there are ships that can resupply in various cities along the river. This will lose the camp again, and Wei Xingchao threw himself into the river immediately!
Full of confidence, he was ready to fight a war of attrition.

Then he regretted it.

After the defeat of the first wave of 2 people, an army carrying the White Lotus Banner came to the camp.There are several tiger crouching cannons that follow.

They took the cannons off the walls.

Damn, aren't they afraid of someone attacking the city!

What was expected to be a defensive battle in the battle of his fame turned into a cannonball in an instant.

The cannons fired off and on for nearly three hours!
The camp wall was repaired and repaired, repaired and repaired, and just before the camp wall was bombed and was about to collapse, the cannon on the opposite side exploded.

The morale was immediately boosted, and the officers and soldiers of the Inland River Navy fought against the danger of bombing their guns, fired continuously, and finally repelled them.

In the next hour, no cannons were brought over from the other side.

"Sir Senhu, a ship is coming!"

Just as he was about to drink some water, Baihu, who was in charge of guarding the boat, ran towards the high platform, shouting as he ran.

"What, the boat? Did you see the flag hanging clearly?" Wei Xingchao didn't even bother to drink water, and quickly poked his head out to look at the hundreds of households below, and asked him nervously.

It's okay if it's reinforcements, but what if it's the White Lotus Bandit's men.
"The jiaolong flag with a blue background is the flag of our navy, but I don't know if it belongs to us." Baihu answered truthfully.

I don't know if it's an enemy or a friend.

"Old Lin, look ahead first, I'll take someone to the pier to have a look."

Wei Xingchao looked at his deputy Qianhu Lao Lin and said.

"No, you are Qianhu, our backbone, and you are the most important here. Let me go!"

Lao Lin quickly refuted.

"No, I'll go. The Bailian thief has just retreated, and he won't be able to organize the next wave of attack for a while. The most dangerous thing now is whether the ship behind is an enemy or a friend. I want to go and see for myself."

Without giving Lao Lin a chance to refute, Wei Xingchao slipped down the ladder, mounted his horse and followed Baihu to the dock.

"Besides the dragon flag, what other conspicuous features do those ships have?"

Wei Xingchao asked about Baihu.

"There is also a red flag with some gold on it, but I can't tell what is embroidered on it."

"Red, gold embroidery?" Wei Xingchao was confused.

Anyway, he hadn't seen many ships with red flags on board. These days, red can't be used indiscriminately.

What puzzled him the most was gold embroidery, which was even more useless. Gold embroidery on a red background, these are some convincing colors
Um, congratulations?

Wei Xingchao suddenly remembered that when General Jia Hun crossed the river two months ago, the red-backed and gold-embroidered Vermilion Bird flag was hung on the boat.
Is it difficult?
Wei Xingchao suddenly whipped his horsewhip and ran towards the pier. Seeing this, Bai Hu kicked the horse's belly and ran to follow.

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Guan Sheng was very excited. Except that when he was still in Xie Liang, he led hundreds of men into the mountains to suppress bandits. This was the first time in his life that he led an army to fight alone, especially this time he was leading an army of ten thousand people. troops!
He, who is usually the most stable, couldn't help laughing excitedly this time.

"Grandpa Guan, Xijin Ferry is just ahead, shall we go in directly or send a centipede boat down to investigate?"

Outside the door, the captain asked Guan Sheng inside through the door.

"Don't go in yet, send the centipede boat you mentioned to go ashore first to explore." Guan Sheng restrained his smile and said to the captain outside the door.At the same time, he also stood up, grabbed the waist knife and walked towards the door.

Who knows if the Bailian bandit has broken through the camp of the Neihe Navy?

　The first!
　　The second watch is either around two o'clock in the morning or around twelve o'clock in the noon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)