Chapter 12: The Raid
"Young marshal, congratulations! You are now the envoy of Jiliao, this is a big man!" Before Wang Feng left the palace, Bai Wenxuan had already received the news of his promotion!
"Hehe, Wen Xuan didn't see it, now you have developed Eagle Eye into the palace!" Wang Feng said to Bai Wenxuan with a smile!
"Young marshal, isn't this all forced out!" Since Wang Feng entered the prison, Bai Wenxuan has been busy. In order to find out Chongzhen's movements as soon as possible, he almost spent a lot of money to buy off a few eunuchs in the palace and arrange for the Hawkeye personnel to enter the palace!
"Quick, hurry up and change the young marshal's clothes!" Bai Wenxuan noticed that Wang Feng was still wearing a prison uniform, and hurriedly supported the two maids to change Wang Feng's clothes!
"Don't, don't, I'll do it myself!" Wang Feng took a sip of water, walked to the screen and changed it by himself! Wang Feng, who has been here for several years, is still a little unaccustomed to being served and changing!
"By the way, is there any news of Ru Ya these days!" Wang Feng reached out and picked up a piece of clothing from the screen and put it on, since the last time he separated from Ru Ya from the prison, Wang Feng had not seen Ru Ya! Although Wang Feng didn't say it, he was still very worried about it in his heart! After all, she was also his own woman!
"According to the Eagle Eye report hidden in Wang Chengen's mansion, Miss Ru Ya has been locked in her room by Wang Chengen since she returned to the house, and she is not allowed to go out a step!" Bai Wenxuan is a careful person, of course he knows the relationship between Wang Feng and Ru Ya, so Wang Feng did not order, he also took the initiative to send someone to find out Ru Ya's every move!
"Thank you! You've worked hard these days, Wen Xuan!" Wang Feng's tone was a little low! To be honest, he still likes Ru Ya very much! Otherwise, he wouldn't be with her! Now that he can't see her, he is a little lost!
"The young marshal is polite!" Bai Wenxuan felt that he should do all these things, so he naturally couldn't say that he was meritorious!"The young marshal wants us to lurk in Wang Chengen's mansion to rescue Miss Ru Ya!" Seeing Wang Feng's gloomy appearance, Bai Wenxuan simply proposed to use Eagle Eye to rescue Ru Ya!
"No, you must not use Eagle Eye unless you have to!" Wang Feng refused, although he missed Ru Ya very much, but he still knew which was more important! He must not spend this long-term effort because of himself!"Now that the outside is not peaceful, I have been fighting outside for a long time! She may be safer in Wang Chengen's mansion!" Wang Feng comforted himself!
"Young marshal!" Bai Wenxuan still wants to persuade again!
"Wenxuan, needless to say!" Wang Feng simply interrupted Bai Wenxuan!, "Now we have more important things to do!"
"Yes, young marshal!" Seeing that Wang Feng was able to take care of the overall situation like this, Bai Wenxuan's heart was still very happy! "Young marshal, I have already arranged a few things you ordered last time! Now our merchants are buying grain and grass from all over the south! As for the muskets, we have also contacted the red-haired people in Guangdong, but their bid is too high!"
"How much did they bid?"
"A thousand taels of silver for a red-clothed artillery!" "What?1,000 taels of silver?" Although Wang Feng expected that these foreigners would open their mouths, he didn't expect their appetite to be so big!
"Promise them, tell them that we want to order thirty red-coated cannons, remember not to care how much silver it costs, I just want the quality, and there are enough shells!" Although the price of the foreigners' artillery is indeed a little expensive, but their artillery is indeed well-made, and in the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the quality of the artillery is sometimes related to the success or failure of the entire campaign!
"Young marshal, it's just!" Bai Wenxuan's face showed a look of embarrassment, "These foreign hairmen said that they only sold us ten artillery pieces at most!"
"Ten guns are ten! Remember, if you can, you must buy a few more, even if they increase the price!" Wang Feng was still very disappointed when he heard the news that foreigners were only willing to sell 10 guns! It seems that foreigners still have reservations about themselves! It is better to ask for oneself than to ask for others! It seems that it is imminent to develop one's own weapons!
"Okay!
"Also! Tell Wen Xiao to let him recruit another 15,000 men and horses in the name of Jiliao's envoy! Order Li Chengdong to take a boat from Nanjing to the north along the Grand Canal and rush to Xifengkou!" Wang Feng stopped Bai Wenxuan, who was about to leave, and ordered!
"Isn't the young marshal going to Liaodong?" Bai Wenxuan didn't understand Wang Feng's order a little! Why did he pull the troops to Xifeng Pass!
"Liaodong is going to go! But it's just me going! As for Chengdong, they are going to greet the Tartars at Xifengkou! People are coming, you say that we, the hosts, have to prepare for it!" For Wenxuan, Wang Feng has no need to hide it!
"Are you saying that the Tartars will enter the customs from Xifengkou?" As a strategist, Bai Wenxuan is thorough!
"Yes, it won't be, it will!" Wang Feng nodded affirmatively!
"Okay, young marshal, I'll go and inform Cheng Dong now!" As soon as he heard that he was going to snipe at the Tartars, Bai Wenxuan was very energetic!
"Dolgon, we're happy to see you!" Wang Feng said as he slapped the table and looked north!
In December, the grasslands were already yellow! Several heavy snowfalls had caused the nomadic tribes on the grasslands to move away long ago! The vast grasslands were now empty! Only the lonely northwest wind blew alone. A big flag slowly emerged from the sky, and a unit wrapped in thick armor and covered with snowflakes gradually revealed its true colors! The little soldier holding the flag held the big flag with difficulty in the wind, and the big Qing characters on the big flag fluttering in the wind were particularly eye-catching!
This force was none other than the two white and two blue banners led by Dolgon and Duoduo from Shengjing! plus the Eight Banners of the Han Army formed by some Han Chinese who had surrendered. This force of 50,000 or 60,000 troops marched rapidly for five days under the leadership of Dolgon and finally arrived from Shengjing to the steppe, and originally planned to reach Xifengkou in ten days, but the sudden heavy snow slowed down the speed of the march. At the same time, it also made the troops led by Dorgon suffer a lot!
"Fourteenth brother, you see that the snow is too heavy, and the brothers are hungry and sleepy, I wonder if you can find a place to rest and recuperate first!" Azig, who had been behind, rode up from behind and said to Dolgon, who had been hurrying! Although Azig was the eldest of the three of them, it was Dolgon who had always made the decision!
Instead of speaking, Dorgon glanced sideways at Azig!
"What do you mean?" Azig has long been furious with the heavy snow for days! Now Dolgon has this attitude towards himself, and he is also an older brother anyway!
"Twelfth brother, twelfth brother!" As soon as he saw that Azig was about to get angry, Duoduo, who was following behind him, quickly squeezed into the middle of the two and hugged Azig, who was about to get angry!