Emperor Qianlong: the beginning of his glory

Chapter 61 Surprise soldiers rush to Mafang Town to investigate the enemy and temporarily stay in Tianwang Temple (1)
Fu Heng borrowed soldiers from the Governor's Yamen and left Taiyuan City that night.These five hundred elite soldiers were originally trained by Yue Zhongqi in the front line of Xining in the tenth year of Yongzheng.Yue Zhongqi was defeated by He Tonglun, and was removed from the rank of General Ningyuan, and locked up in Beijing for questioning.This reserve army was not used and was abolished on the spot.Over the past few years, the soldiers have been dismissed one after another, leaving only a few thousand junior military officers who cannot be arranged. They were recruited by the former Shanxi governor as personal soldiers and guarded in the middle camp.Given this opportunity to make meritorious service, these Wubians are really gearing up and eager to try.Fu Heng was still afraid that he would not be able to inspire morale, so he distributed all the 5000 taels of silver allocated by the treasury to them. At the second watch, he set off with uniform hussars and cowhide armor, strong bows and crossbows, and ten musketeers as imperial guards. Protecting Fu Heng and Li Shiyao, they quietly left the west gate of Taiyuan and quickly marched towards Mafang.At dawn on the second day, they arrived at Mafang Town in Heicha Mountain Valley.

"Here we are." Liao Qingge, who was guarding Fu Heng's side, saw the dark town getting closer, pointed at the town with a whip, and said, "Zhongtang, Mafang Town is ahead. I've been to this place twice. It's called 'Town', but there are actually less than [-] households, and every autumn horse dealers bring tea from the Central Plains here to exchange horses with the Mongols, and it's only a few days of excitement."

Fu Heng was covered in sweat, and was blown cool and wet by the wind. He looked coldly at the dark Heicha Mountain in the northwest, and then glanced at the Mafang where the lights were shining, and asked, "Is there any place in the town?" Post station? We are not familiar with the situation here, if we break in, there will definitely be informers." "Return to Zhongtang," Liao Qingge said, "There is only one post station, only a dozen rooms, and there is no special post station. Pawn. There is a Temple of Heavenly King in the east of the town. Although it is dilapidated, the courtyard is not small. According to me, 100 people surrounded the town, and they were only allowed to enter and not to leave. The rest of the people lived in the Temple of Heavenly King, waiting for the militiamen from Li Daotai to come. Let’s talk about assault.”

"This is three things that don't care about the ground." Li Shiyao was also looking at Mafang Town, but he couldn't see his face clearly in the dark, "There are no imperial officials in the town, a mayor, God knows what kind of person he is, anyone with a knife will be punished." He supports us—we don’t disclose our identities, and it’s right to live in Tianwangmiao. But we don’t need people to surround the town. This place is originally mixed, with three religions, nine streams, and powerful robbers often haunting here. No one cares about who’s account. Our banner is clearly displayed , It’s tantamount to reporting to others.” Fu Heng thought for a while, and laughed loudly: “We simply pretend to be a strongman, light a torch! Enter the Temple of Heavenly Kings!”

Immediately everyone listened to the order and lit more than a dozen torches without shouting. They were led by Liao Qingge and walked along the post road in the east of the town. They saw a temple next to a large empty field. Looking from the outside, there were quite a lot of houses inside. , desolate and silent all around.

"Rush in!" Fu Heng pointed at the closed door with a whip and ordered loudly, "Search each room next to each other, in case there are people inside!"

Several Goshhas jumped off their horses, shouted, and pushed hard together, but the door was half-closed, and suddenly opened with a "wow", and the soldiers rushed in with their hands on their waists and knives.Fu Heng and his entourage stood in the center of the courtyard and observed calmly.Suddenly a soldier ran out with a torch and shouted hysterically:
"There are three thieves and men in this room!"

Then three black shadows rushed out.I couldn't see their faces clearly in the dark, there were two burly men.There was also a very small man, holding incense in one hand and a knife in the other, standing at the door, seemingly in a daze.After a long while, a big black man asked, "Who are you? Who is the leader, come out and speak!" Liao Qingge strode forward, because he didn't understand the slang of bandits, he asked:

"You guys, who is the master of the heart!"

"Gra chicken bones can't fly away, there are worms in the hair!"?The man replied, "You guys?"

"Gala beef bones can't fly away, there are worms in the wool!"

The three of them were taken aback for a moment, and suddenly burst out laughing.The tall man jumped over quickly, swiped his knife and slashed.Liao Qingge's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, he cut the knife, sparks flew all over the place, and he said angrily, "You grandma! Do you strike before you finish talking?"

"You guys are bastards!"

"You guys are little brats, bratty sons!" Liao Qingge said, "We are from Zijing Mountain. If Piao Gao and old miscellaneous hair treat guests like this, we will go back in the dark!"

Fu Heng was afraid that there would be a lot of bandits hiding in this courtyard, so he was relieved when he saw that there were only three of them. Hearing that Liao Qingge was very vigilant, he couldn't help nodding secretly.The three of them secretly looked at each other, and the big black man turned back to the short man and said, "Master Shan Flea, they don't understand the opening of our door, maybe they came here from Zijing Mountain. Piao Zongfeng said about it, Ehutan There is not enough manpower there—" Before he finished speaking, the nicknamed mountain flea interrupted him with a wave of his hand, his voice was high-pitched and bright: "You are not the boss, tell your boss to come out!" Fu Heng listened to him, He was quite a person in Tuo Tuo Peak. Seeing Liao Qingge looking back at him in secret, he strode over and asked in a muffled voice, "I'm the boss. What's the matter with you?"

"Immeasurable Life Buddha! Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has turned into a little boy. When he sees the card post exposed in the five-color cloud, the Bodhisattva picks it up and unfolds it. Many inanimate words are spoken silently!"

Fu Heng's heart tightened when he heard this. He had seen the confiscated voluminous missionary books of the various sects of the White Lotus Sect in the upper study room, and flipped through them casually, and found that they were all slang words.I don't have any memory of where the phrase "Avalokitesvara turns into a child" comes from, but it must be in the scriptures of the White Lotus Sect.Seeing his questioning, I felt anxious and choked out a sentence: "Eye thief, ear thief, nose thief, tongue thief, body thief, and mind thief are the six thieves. The ancestor of the vacuum passed on my wordless scripture!"

"You are Piao Zongfeng's junior brother!" Shan Flea seemed to be taken aback, slightly stunned and then raised his hand and asked: "Speaking of non-living words, you decide to go west?"

Fu Heng remembers this poem freshly, and immediately matched it with "the flowers bloom and see the Buddha, enlightened to no life, and come back after realizing no life"!The mountain flea was more respectful, lowered his voice, seemed to pause for a moment, and then asked: "After thinking about it, it's hard to kill me. I don't know when Wuji will be born. It doesn't matter if the heavenly palace is messed up. Have the children ever returned home?" Fu Heng felt at a loss when he heard this, searched his memory and replied: "There are watches and slacks, and the gods don't pick them... All the gods return home and swear to have a sign, pass the customs and take the fog to the cloud. See the Buddha and answer the lotus sect." No., 81 years at the same time!" He claimed that the poem was quite appropriate.Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, the mountain flea changed his tone and said viciously:
"There's something wrong with your incision: sometimes it's as big as a Buddha, and sometimes it's as small as a ghost! It's the Zhengyang sect, and the White Lotus sect—who the hell are you, and which sect?"

"I belong to the White Lotus Sect!"

"Fart!" Mountain Flea yelled angrily, "How can there be such an argument? The origin is unknown, how could we Piaozong accept you?——Let's go!"

"Take it!" Fu Heng saw that he had revealed his secrets, and he drew his sword in his hand, and shouted, "Don't let any one go!"

Those three strong men were all veterans, seeing that things were different, they had already been on full alert, and retreated together with a whistle.Unfortunately, there were so many people in Fu Heng, the surroundings were like iron barrels.Everyone yelled and swarmed up, and after a round of fighting, the two big men had already been pushed to the ground, but the mountain fleas could not be found in the chaos.When searching the whole courtyard, they heard a sharp and strange laugh on the roof of the main hall. The chattering sound was like an owl in the middle of the night, making everyone feel terrified.The mountain flea smiled and said: "With your meager skills, you dare to come to Heicha Mountain to break into the ground? We will settle accounts with you after Master Piao catches that bird, Fu Heng! My two brothers stay here, and I want to be a guest. , die one for ten!" As he spoke, he raised his hand and left without a sound.Fu Heng felt a numbness on his shoulder blade, and when he touched it with his hands, it was sticky, but when he looked closer to the torch, it was blood. Liao Qingge beside him exclaimed: "Master Liu, you are injured!"

"It's okay." Fu Heng carefully took off the hidden weapon from his shoulder and looked at it, but it turned out to be a caltrop, squeezed the wound to see the blood, the color was bright red, and there was no abnormality, so he knew that there was no poison on the dart.When he relaxed, Fu Heng felt a sharp pain in his heart.In front of so many people, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and endure the pain.Throwing the barbed wire as if nothing had happened, and the military medical officer bandaged it, and asked the big black man: "What is your position on Tuo Tuo Peak? What's your name? What about him?"

The big black man snorted, and said, "My name is Liu San. His name is Chang Yin. They are all followers of Lord Shan! Who are you guys?" Only then did Fu Heng realize that he had just caught two young men. After a moment of disappointment, he asked again: "Who is the mountain flea?"

"Even Master Shan doesn't know?" Liu San and Yin Chang raised their heads.Liu San looked at Fu Heng in amazement, looked at the people around him for a long time, and suddenly said in surprise: "They are so neatly dressed, they look like fucking officers and soldiers!" Yin Chang said, "Where did the officers and soldiers come from? ? Grandfather Piao made a mistake in his calculations?" Because of the close distance, Fu Heng saw Yin Chang's bald head with a lifeless head and big teeth, making him look silly.Just as he was about to ask again, Li Shiyao who was standing beside him gently pulled Fu Heng's back.Fu Heng understood, and told Liao Qingge: "It's better to ask him, in case he is a spy colluding with court officials." With a secret smile in his heart, he followed Li Shiyao, and stood still in an empty field full of wormwood in the northwest corner.Fu Heng smiled and said, "What's wrong with you tonight? You don't say a word, the gloomy one is just lost in thought!"

"Sixth Master," Li Shiyao said in a trembling voice, as if a little frightened, "We underestimated Piao Gao. It was a fake attack on Lin County. He wanted to lure troops from Yanmen Pass in Daizhou, and set up an ambush to attack the officers and soldiers along the way!" Fu Heng was shivered by the wind, and asked after a long time: "Why did you see it?" Li Shiyao said: "When we met just now, Liu Chang mentioned the evil Hutan. He thought we were gangsters who made a high-profile call for reinforcements. The evil tiger beach is next to Baishigou, the terrain is dangerous, and it is the only way from Yanmenguan to Heicha Mountain..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Fu Heng was shocked.Before setting off, he and Li Shiyao looked at the pictures, and Li Shiyao once said: "Fortunately, Piao Gao is just a small thief. If the army is large, if we set up an ambush halfway, Fan Gaojie and the others will suffer a lot." Yes, but hearing this name is enough to make one's heart palpitate.Fu Heng thought about it, and said: "Lin County is a bait. Piao Gao's men and horses are all in Baishigou Ehutan. The cottage is empty, and our method is still feasible."

"Not only is it feasible, but it's also easier to do." Li Shiyao smiled, "But there is one thing that the sixth master has to think about. We started early. They withdrew their ambush and returned to the cottage. Fan Gaojie and the others watched the fire from the other side, and we suffered. We started too late. Fan Gaojie and the others have lost too much, and the court still has to blame the sixth master. It is not easy to grasp the timing!" Fu Heng secretly glanced at Li Shiyao, he admired this small general judgment and thoughtful consideration.Sui Gege smiled and said: "Okay, you are here. You come to interrogate these two gangsters!" Li Shiyao smiled and agreed "Yes", then changed his face and shouted:
"Drag that Yin Chang here!"

Liao Qingge was anxious, when he heard this sound suddenly, he left Liu San aside, picked up Yin Chang, and dragged him over.Liu San knew that he was loose-mouthed, so he shouted: "Old Yin, there must be someone who knows what to say!——The more I look at this group of people, the less authentic they are!"

"You are real, you have a clue in your mouth." Li Shiyao said coldly, "I'm going to tell you to try my method - throw him into the dry pond over there, fill him with earth and bury him alive!"

A few soldiers agreed, and threw Liu San, who was bound like a rice dumpling, into the dry pond, and dug up the soil to fill it up.Liu San first yelled and cursed a few words, but then he fell silent.Yin Chang was so frightened that he lost his mind, he kowtowed non-stop and said, "Good man... all of us are from our own family,... all belong to the same ancestral line, if you have something to say, it's easy to talk about it, good man..."

"Don't be ashamed of your face, why won't he say it out loud!" Li Shiyao grinned grimly, pressed his hand on the handle of the wide-brimmed knife, and said viciously: "It's so easy for a man to rush to this threshold from Bauhinia Mountain and travel thousands of miles? It's settled." Yes, there is someone here to pick us up and take us to Baishigou. Who the hell named Piao Gao the co-owner of the Green Forest? Say, where is Piao Gao? We want to see him!"

"Piao Zong Peak is at...Evil Tiger Beach..."

"Is there anyone in the village?"

"Yes... there are three hundred brothers left, all of whom are disabled. They cannot fight each other..."

"Who leads the 5000 people in Weilin County?"

Yin Chang seemed taken aback for a moment, and said with a smile: "There are not 5000 people in Heshan Village. They are all temporarily recruited by ordinary people to scare the officers and soldiers, and Xin Wuniang is leading them..."

"Xin Wuniang." Fu Heng interjected and asked, "Is there another one named Juanjuan? - She is very beautiful and can dance swords." Yin Chang shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of the little one." The name Juanjuan'. Wuniang is the reincarnation of the jade girl in front of the lotus seat of the inanimate mother. She is naturally beautiful! Ouch, her body is so light that she can stand on the lotus leaf without sinking. She has an apricot face with peach cheeks and a small cherry mouth. Tiansanye, that, that..." He was drooling lewdly, unable to describe it.

(End of this chapter)