I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 526 I wish to be the Wei Qing of the Ming Dynasty
Pharmacist Song was lying in the tent and dreaming.

He dreamed that he himself was leading the cavalry and infantry of the Ming Dynasty, sealing the Wolf's Lair and engraving the stone at Yanran, and then leading his troops westward, crossing the Jinshan Mountain, recovering the Western Regions, and making the Ming Dynasty as prosperous as the Han and Tang Dynasties.

After the victory, he returned to the court in triumph, wearing bright armor and entering the city through Desheng Gate. Flags were flying, gongs and drums were beating. Both sides of the street were full of people, and girls took flower petals from the second-floor balcony and window and sprinkled them on themselves.

Flowers were flying all over the sky. He walked through Chang'an Street under the watchful eyes of the crowd, presented the prisoners at Chengtian Gate, and was then led by ministers into Wumen and Huangji Gate.

The emperor, his brother-in-law, personally awarded him the rank of General of Cavalry in the Huangji Palace, and pressed his shoulder to encourage him.

"You are my guard, Huo Piaoyao!"

He felt that Huo Qubing's early death was unlucky, so he took the initiative to say to his brother-in-law: "I wish to be the Wei Qing of the Ming Dynasty!"

My brother-in-law was very happy and even made himself a marquis. I’m not quite sure what he meant by marquis, but he was so happy that he was bursting with pride.

I returned home and told my father about my smart move.

When my father heard this, his face turned pale. He took off Lao Longsheng's cloth shoes and swung the soles of the shoes hard on his face, cursing as he beat him: "Evil son! Have you forgotten what happened to Wei Qing?"

Yes, Wei Qing and his entire family were executed by Emperor Wu of Han in the end. How could I have forgotten it?

But when I think about it carefully, that’s not right. I can never become Wei Qing of the Ming Dynasty.

My dear father, my sister is only a concubine, not a queen. I can't become Wei Qing of the Ming Dynasty. If I want to become Wei Qing of the Ming Dynasty, it must be Xue Yi. His sister is the queen.

After hearing this, his father was overjoyed and even praised himself for being smart. He then readily agreed to his marriage with Yu Yuner.

He could finally marry Yu Yuner.

She stood there pretty, with her head lowered shyly.

I was very excited, Yun'er was also very excited, and our chests kept rising and falling. Then I loosened my belt, Yun'er took off her red headscarf, and we each lowered the curtains, and then the bed shook, shaking the ground and the mountains.
"Commander, wake up!"

Pharmacist Song was shaken awake, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the person facing his eyes was not Yun'er's shy face, but his adjutant with a full beard.

Too scary!

Pharmacist Song was so frightened that he woke up immediately.

Pharmacist Song suppressed his urge to vomit and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Commander, Ye Bushou has discovered something unusual!"

Pharmacist Song immediately lifted the blanket and jumped up.

During wartime, people always slept in their clothes. He put on his boots, stood up, straightened his military uniform, grabbed his belt and fastened it, then hung his pistol, ammunition box and sword, and finally grabbed his military cap and put it on his head.

"Has the duty officer informed the division headquarters?"

“Notified.”

"Has the division headquarters replied?"

"The communications officer who went to the division headquarters hasn't returned yet."

"In which direction was the abnormality found?"

Pharmacist Song lifted the tent cloth and walked out, followed closely by his adjutant.

"Twenty-five miles northwest."

It was still dark, but the sky was clear, with no clouds in sight, and the moon had long since set. The sky was full of stars, shining brightly, as if I were in a crystal world.

A broad river of stars runs through the starry sky, and the densely packed starlight in it looks like the sparkling waves on the surface of the river.

Pharmacist Song turned his attention to the grassland.

The boundless grassland is as vast as the starry sky.

The grassland on the ground was pitch black, with only a few lights flickering. Compared with the gorgeous starry sky, it seemed particularly quiet and dark.

I really didn't know where the sky was and where the earth was, which made Pharmacist Song feel as if he was in another world and couldn't tell the difference between heaven and earth.

"This grassland is too vast." Pharmacist Song muttered and walked towards the northwest.

"Yes, Commander, this grassland is too vast." The adjutant followed behind him and echoed, "Our tens of thousands of cavalry and infantry soldiers are scattered there, just like a can of pepper powder scattered in a pond.

The gaps between the units were too large, and it was easy for the right-wing Allied forces, who were familiar with the terrain, to find loopholes. "

"It's their ability to take advantage of loopholes, but it's our fault." Pharmacist Song replied bluntly, "If their scouts sneak up on us and attack our camp, the commander won't care about all these excuses."

The adjutant said nothing, and the two continued on their way in silence.

Pharmacist Song couldn't help but recall the dream he had just had.

The spring dream leaves no trace!

Pharmacist Song had also been engaged before, but he did not like the daughter of his father's old friend, although he had seen the girl before and she was gentle, pretty, petite and quiet.

But Pharmacist Song just doesn't like it.

Song Yaoshi was a southerner with northern appearance. He was much taller than his peers since childhood. He was also good at wielding spears and sticks, so when he was fourteen or fifteen, he was as strong and sturdy as an adult.

Moreover, he doesn't like petite and delicate women, but likes heroic and brave women.

Novel flavor!

He enlisted in the army at the age of sixteen from Longhua Academy, and also intended to escape from marriage.

Unexpectedly, he was injured while fighting pirates in Guangdong that year, and a military clerk mistakenly reported him as dead. When the news reached his hometown in Wu County, his family cried bitterly, and his fiancée's family also took the opportunity to ask for the cancellation of the engagement.

Although Song Yingqing had become rich by following Yang Jinshui at that time, he was still a businessman after all, and was involved with eunuchs.

Although the fiancée's father was an old friend of Song Yingqing and had received a lot of help from the Song family, he was proud of his scholarly family and believed that good and evil could not coexist. He took the opportunity of Song Yaoshi's "death in battle" to cancel the engagement.

Song Yingqing also knew his old friend's intentions, and swallowed his anger and agreed to cancel the engagement. Soon, the news that Song Yaoshi had "resurrected from the dead" was reported back to Wu County, but it was of no avail.

The fiancée's father had already found a husband, and happily married his daughter to a newly-minted scholar. He also spread rumors that his family had finally escaped from the quagmire of filth and married into a Tsinghua family, which made Song Yingqing so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Who would have thought that things would change so quickly? In just a few years, something unexpected happened.

During the Longqing period, the imperial court rectified the salt administration.

The son-in-law of the Jinshi who had been so well-connected by the family had a low official position because he colluded with the salt merchants, but he was very bold. In just two or three years, he embezzled a lot of money, and was stabbed in the autumn at the entrance of Xishi.

The young lady who was lucky enough not to marry a merchant and became the wife of a Jinshi scholar was confiscated according to the law and is now still pretending to smile in the 14th floor of Nanjing. The extremely clever father-in-law was ordered to return all the principal and interest because his son-in-law gave him dozens of salt permits as a filial gift and enjoyed a lot of benefits. He had to sell all his property to fill the hole.

The family, which had just enjoyed a few years of good life, suddenly fell into complete ruin.

On the other hand, the eldest son of the Song family passed the imperial examination and became an official under Wang Yi'e.

The second son passed the imperial examination and became a scholar. He was taken by Song Yingqing to do business and is now a well-known figure in Shanghai's business community.

The most amazing thing is that his daughter was sent to the palace and was canonized as a noble concubine, Song Yingqing became the father-in-law of the emperor, and the salted fish Song Yaoshi, who he looked down upon, became the emperor's uncle.

This story was widely circulated in the Three Wus, and people all marveled at it. No one knew whether it would be included in the books of Lu Renlong and Feng Menglong in the future.

One time, Pharmacist Song went to visit Hai Rui with his friends and accidentally met Yu Yuner in the small courtyard of Hai's mansion.

Yu Xiucai entered the Imperial College and passed the civil service examination, becoming a glorious civil servant of the Ming Dynasty.

With Xu Wei's recommendation, Yu Suiliang entered Chongwen Public School.

Yu Yuner often came to the Hai residence when she was little, and treated Hai Rui and his wife like her parents, and Hai's mother like her grandmother. The Hai family also liked this well-behaved girl very much.

Yu Yun'er was actually sixteen years old, but she had not grown up because of poor nutrition. In the past two years, her life has improved, and her figure has grown up quickly. She has the beauty of a girl from the south of the Yangtze River and the cheerfulness of a girl from Shandong.

This was exactly the type of girl that Pharmacist Song liked, and he fell in love with Yu Yun'er at first sight.

Song Yaoshi was a new-school figure, and he certainly did things differently from those pedantic old-school people. He secretly found his future brother-in-law Yu Suiliang and bribed him.

After Yu Suiliang accepted this brother-in-law, he asked him to help deliver letters several times to test Yu Yuner's feelings.

As luck would have it, Yu Yun'er also loves Pharmacist Song. Now she is just waiting for Pharmacist Song to finish this battle and then seek Song Yingqing's consent.

My father should agree to this, as the dream has already indicated.

Song Yaoshi was lost in thought when he arrived at the northwest of his regiment camp. The duty officer, the deputy commander, the regiment chief of staff, and several battalions were waiting for him.

"What's the situation? Tell me in detail."

"Yes."

The officer on duty immediately reported: "Our night squadron found something unusual in the northwest around 1 a.m. We tried to make contact, but they ran away.

At three o'clock in the morning, the left team of Yebushou encountered a group of people at the same place again. They asked for the password first, but they couldn't answer and retreated quickly. "

"where is it?"

A staff officer took out a simple map, which was a topographic map of the camp with a radius of 50 miles drawn up urgently by the regiment staff office when they were stationed in the camp last night.

The other two guards stepped forward with lanterns to illuminate the map.

The officer on duty pointed to an officer, who was the leader of the left team of Yebushou. He stepped forward, looked at the map for a while, pointed to a point and said, "Here."

The chief of staff frowned and said, "This place is ten miles away from our camp. There is a long ditch, and it is right at the junction of our two regiments and the Taining Division. It seems that the enemy is very familiar with the terrain here. They explored it for half the night and found this loophole."

Pharmacist Song asked, "Does this long ditch lead directly to our camp?"

"It leads directly to the outside of our camp, less than two miles away."

Pharmacist Song nodded, "The enemy should be following this long ditch by now."

"The commander is right. We have four secret sentries stationed at the edge of the long ditch, and two of them have sent us news."

It was very common for the enemy to raid our camp at night while we were marching or fighting.

It has been seven days since they left the old city of Kaiping, and the westward-moving army of the Yanbei Regional Military Commission has already penetrated deep into the heartland of the Yongshebu and Tumed tribes.

The cavalry and infantry had scouts patrolling day and night, as well as visible and covert sentries.

But this place is vast and boundless, with complex terrain. The patrol team can only patrol in different places in turn according to the route, and it is impossible to keep an eye on every place all the time.

The enemy was familiar with the area and used the terrain to quietly find loopholes and infiltrate between the visible and hidden sentries.

What the Ming army had to do was to prevent the enemy from getting under their noses without their knowledge.

This time the Ming army discovered it early. Not only did the Song Yao Shi Corps prepare for the response, it also informed the Dusi, which also alerted other units.

The infantry's camp on the grassland was surrounded by boxes to form circles, and three layers of barbed wire were used to form a large circle on the outside.

This thing is so vicious, especially at night when it’s pitch black and you can’t see clearly. Once you dive in, it’s very difficult to get out.

But the Ming army particularly liked to use it, especially the infantry.

First, it has a strong defense and enemy blocking function, but it does not affect the shooting range of muskets and artillery. Second, it is very convenient to store and place. At dawn, you can roll it up and fold it up with tools.

When setting up camp at dusk, we first drive wooden stakes, then walk around with tools, and then manually hang the barbed wire on the stakes. It is very quick and doesn't even delay dinner.

The Taipu Temple continued to produce new weapons in Taiyuan and Luanzhou, and the Ming army continued to improve its tactics.

Pharmacist Song climbed onto a boxcar and looked northwest with a telescope for a while, but saw nothing. However, the sentry sent flash signals from time to time, indicating that the enemy was getting closer and closer along the long ditch.

"Are all the battalions ready for battle?"

"Report to the commander, get ready. If the northern barbarians dare to come, we will have guns and cannons ready."

At this time, a communications officer ran over and said, "Commander, I'm back."

"Have you informed the commander?"

"I have reported it, and I have also received the latest report from the Dusi staff office. The left guard regiment of the Luanhe right division and the vanguard regiment of the Xiliaohe left division have both spotted the enemy.

The Taining Division, Duoyan Division, and Kaiping Division also reported the enemy's whereabouts to the commander-in-chief."

"Hey, the Northern Tartars are going to launch a massive counterattack today! How courageous!"

Pharmacist Song exclaimed, "What are the instructions from the commander?"

"Tell everyone to sweep the snow in front of their own door."

Upon hearing this, the deputy commander and the chief of staff became anxious, "Commander, we have to act quickly, otherwise the head will be snatched away by friendly forces."

Pharmacist Song immediately gave the order: "All camps prepare to fight, the artillery team prepare to fire flares, and we prepare to receive our distinguished guests!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)