Chapter 166: Saving People in the Mountains
Friendly reminder: Forget who Miss Yao is, look back at Chapter 75 of this volume - send Mei Ji at night
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A certain day: It's raining too much, what do you say? I can't hear clearly......
Horse: Feed the horse with bloody grass, what about human nature?
Carriage: It's all miserable, and you have to be pulled out to load the ticket! What about human nature?
The corpse hasn't come out yet, so let's pull the broken carriage to sell it first~ Don't worry, the carriage is intact, and the monthly pass will not be missed!
------Off topic------
Blood!
The heavy rain washed over the wheels of the car, the smell of mud and grass in the mountains, and a white lightning burst through the air, illuminating the broken carriage and the weedy ravine, and the rain flowed down the ravine, and the rain was bright red, and the rain was beating and throwing out the fishy smell.
Next to the horses was a broken carriage, three wheels, and one behind it was turning slowly, and the rain creaked, slow as the old tune, ghostly.
In a ravine halfway up the mountain, a horse grazes with its head down.
The night in the mountains is cool, the rain is empty and the mountains are empty, the crescent moon has no light, on the cliff on the other side of Daze Lake, the forest is deep and dark, and the mountain road is not distinguished.
When they reach the edge of the cliff at the top of the mountain, the group re-ties the ropes, and Twilight demonstrates how to descend and leads the people down the cliff. The matter of saving people was like a small episode, Twilight didn't take it to heart, and the training in the barracks was as usual, but it rained that day and night.
Yao Huiqing's maid commanded things, and Twilight Qing had already led people away.
"Then don't worry about the carriage for now, Miss's leg is injured, send Miss to Zhuangzi first, and then talk about it, and then look for the horse."
"You two go back to the Zhuangzi and carry the sedan chair!"
The Yao family's carriage was destroyed, the horse also ran away, Yao Huiqing injured her leg, and obviously couldn't go to Zhuangzi, but this obviously didn't have to worry about Duqing, the Yao family's descendants would find a way.
"You don't have to." Twilight still said this, and then took Zhang and the others to the mountain.
"Thank you to the governor for saving me today, the little girl will go back to her house to explain this matter to her father, and come to thank the governor."
Since there was no fatality, and the victim did not pursue it, Twilight did not want to meddle in the matter, "In that case, then I will go back to the camp." β
Twilight knew in her heart when she heard this, since she said that she accidentally injured her leg, she didn't plan to pursue it.
Yao Huiqing smiled faintly when she heard this, there was a look in her eyes, she didn't make a fuss, she seemed to be used to it, and she looked down on it, she blessed her body again, and said with a smile: "The little girl is not in good health, she came to the village to recuperate, and now she accidentally injured her leg, but she is just raising it together." β
As soon as Twilight Qing saw the girl's expression, she knew that this disaster was caused by the grievances of the inner house, and she said: "This sawtooth shape is round, it should be a circular saw, the murder weapon is easy to find, no matter how good the blacksmith is, he can't make two identical saws, if the young lady wants to find out who did it, just bring all the saws in the house, and the sawtooth shape on this wheel is the murder weapon." β
Zhang Tong looked back at Yao Huiqing, Yao Huiqing had been helped by the maid and walked over, and the maids and servants who were traveling with her were shocked when they heard Dusk Qing's words, and the maid looked angry, as if she knew who did it.
Zhang Tong frowned, he originally thought that the coachman accidentally overturned into the ravine while driving his horse, but he didn't expect that someone was planning to kill someone?
She put the wheels of the cart on the mountain road, and said to Zhang Tongtong, who came over: "This wheel was sawn off, and there are obvious jagged traces at the axle connection, and the surrounding is sawed into half an inch, and the carriage is not in the way when driving in the city, but after leaving the city, the official road is bumpy, and the mountain road is steep, once you go up the mountain, the rear wheel of the carriage is stressed, and the wheel is easy to break under the bump, and this matter is obviously premeditated." β
At first glance, Twilight's eyes sank, and she pulled the wheel and went up the mountain road.
Twilight went down the ravine again with doubts, she remembered that when she had just rescued people, she found that the carriage only had three wheels, because it was important to save people, she didn't have the heart to look closely, and went down the ravine again, she looked five or six feet away along the grass marks that had been crushed by the wheels, and found the fallen wheel under the grass slope.
There are many granges on this mountain, often walking carts and horses, there is no rain in the mountains recently, there are no potholes and muddy places on this mountain road, and there are no big stones, how did the carriage turn into the ravine?
"It's a gesture." Twilight was more interested in the carriage tumbling into a ravine than a human.
Twilight Qing bowed her head lightly, she was not prejudiced against the identity of the concubine, but she felt that this girl seemed to be a person who had experienced great joys, sorrows, winds and waves, and this calm bearing was said to be a concubine, and she deserved it.
Concubine?
"Yao Huiqing, the daughter of Yao Shijiang, the leader of the little girl Xiao Cavalry Battalion, thank you for saving your life."
The girl was helped up by the maid, her legs were just crushed by the carriage, and her bones were not broken, but it was inconvenient to walk at this time, but she insisted on getting up and saluting Duqing and the others.
The girl's face was a little dirty, but her eyes were very clean, as clean as a stream, like a mirror lake after the rain, and a quiet valley. She had just escaped death, and there was no fear or luck in her eyes, but she was in her prime, but she had the calm and steady ability to see through the life and death of the world.
As soon as those eyes opened, the young men of the sailor were stunned.
When the boys carried the girl up the mountain road, the girl woke up.
The girl was still angry, but her face was slightly dirty and bruised, and her dress was torn, and she looked very wolfish.
Twilight commanded, and the group lifted the wheels, and as soon as the wheels were lifted, the horse struggled to its feet, and ran into the mountains in fright. Everyone had no time to take care of the horses, so they lifted the carriage together and pulled out a young girl from under the carriage.
One of the horse's hind legs is crushed under the overturned wheel, and Twilight jumps into the ravine to unrein the horse, directing the group to lift the wheel first to rescue the horse. The horse fell to the ground, and kept trying to get up, and the little men were in a hurry to save the people, and desperately tried to carry the carriage, and the horse's strength was twisted with them, no wonder they could not lift it. And the overturned carriage is kicked by the horse, and the people below must be uncomfortable, and if they don't save the horse first, they don't want to save it.
The Xiao cavalry camp had a holiday with the sailor, but there were people under the overturned carriage, and the life was imminent, so Twilight Qing ordered the cart to be lifted, and Zhang Tong jumped into the ravine with the people, and worked with the little guys to lift the carriage.
Twilight guessed correctly, but when she got to the carriage and asked, these people were actually from the Commander's Mansion of the Cavalry Battalion.
This mountain has a precipice with a line of sky, under the precipice is Daze Lake, the lake and mountains are beautiful, the scenery is very beautiful, so there are many granges built under the mountain and on the mountainside, most of them are purchased by the official eunuchs in Shengjing City, and most of the carriages that turn over in the middle of the mountain are on which courtier's house.
"Let's go!" After Zhang Tong finished speaking, Twilight Qing had already untied the rope and led the people to the halfway up the mountain.
Zhang Tong untied the rope tied around his waist and went out of the forest, and it took a long time to come back, and said: "Halfway up the mountain, I don't know which carriage overturned in the ravine, there seem to be people inside, and a few small guys are carrying the carriage, and it seems that it can't be lifted." β
The horse neighed, and the voice was a little far away, and Twilight Qing heard that something was not quite right with the horse's voice, so she said to Zhang Tong: "Go and see." β
As he spoke, a few more people came up, and after Zhang and the others came up, Twilight was about to demonstrate the method of rope descent, and was about to descend the cliff when she suddenly heard the neighing of horses in the distance.
Tang Liang was a little embarrassed and said with a smile: "My father teaches in the village, and the children in the school sometimes get sick. The cable that the governor asked people to play is really useful, if you have these in the morning, you don't have to worry about falling off the cliff and dying when you climb the mountain to collect medicine, this kind of thing happens every year in our village. β
Tang Liang was the first to come up, and when Du Qing saw it, although his face was pale, he praised it: "Not bad." β
Twilight went up to the top of the cliff, and looked down, there were a few teenagers who climbed faster than Zhang Tong!
Ten feet high, twilight tied the rope and hung up, Zhang Tong picked a few soldiers who lived in the mountains in his camp to climb up together, this mountaineering rope is not difficult to use, as long as the strength and endurance are enough, master the method of using hands and feet, it is not difficult to master its use.
When Twilight sent Blood Shadow to the city to make the first batch of training equipment, she made some ropes, which hung on the cliffs on the other side of the lake. On this day, Twilight climbed the boat and came to the rope to demonstrate the method of climbing and rappelling, she used to love mountaineering, but now the training remembered that this method can be used to board enemy ships in wartime, and the river bank is lined with rocky mountains, and she may use this rope to do a surprise tactic in the future, so she felt the need to include it in the training subject.
Twilight didn't even hear the gossip, and as long as the whole army could complete their daily training, she didn't mind them making fun of her.
After this day, the training program of the sailor increased the training on the boat, in March and April, the lake is still cold, the army has to go into the water every day, train the ability to resist the cold, but also get on the boat to practice stepping on the oars, when they are tired, the 100 soldiers in the special training camp who followed Duqing to Shengjing City told others what they saw in Beijing, what the imperial city was like, what was eaten in Xingchun Building, how beautiful the play was, how the drama sounded, how the governor examined the corpse, how to try the case, in the end, there was nothing to say, even the governor drilled the skirt of the female corpse, I touched the buttocks of the female corpse, and all these meat words were said.
However, it is not bad to treat these old Northwest Army units in this way. They didn't want to stay in the Jiangbei Water Division, but now they have nowhere to go, the so-called one minister does not serve the two masters, and the generals who have followed the two commanders are difficult to return to their hearts after all, and there is still an estrangement between them and the governor, so they are fighting and making trouble, and after a long time, they have a friendship, so it is possible to slowly open their hearts, get close to the governor, and really regard her as the boss.
Han Qichu smiled helplessly, and the occasional childlike nature of the governor was ......
Seeing that Hou Tian understood, Twilight Qing got off the boat with a cold face and walked away.
Seeing that this kid can take out the silver and reward silver to hire darts for the soldiers in the army to send home books and silver, I thought she was a cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and a kind-hearted master. After making trouble for a long time, she is a master who is more ruthless than a general when she trains soldiers, her heart is black and bad!
He understoodβhe couldn't! Not negotiable!
"Gross!" Hou Tian's stomach turned over the river and the sea, and he threw up on the edge of the boat, waving his hands and begging for mercy while spitting, and he lost his temper.
Step on!
"Let's ......"
Step on!
"We can ......"
Step on!
"Can we ......?"
Twilight step on it again!
Hou Tian slammed into the edge of the boat, "I said ......"
Twilight stepped on it again!
Before he finished speaking, Twilight stepped on the oars with a cold face, the hull of the boat shook, Hou Tian's face turned pale, and he grabbed the edge of the boat, feeling angry, "I said, we can ......"
scolded in his heart, but Hou Tian had a smile on his face, and he was a gangster, "Dudu, isn't the last general talking to you, can we ......?"
Hou Tian's face suddenly turned black as the bottom of a pot, he likes a fart! Is there such a burying of people? This kid's mouth is also poisonous!
"Poof!" One of the lieutenants couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.
Twilight Qing looked at this farce coldly, and said to Hou Tian: "You have killed countless enemies outside the pass, and you did not die under the scimitar of the Hu people, but drowned in the inland rivers of your own country, if you can accept this kind of ending, I have no problem if you don't board the boat." I've already thought of your inscription for you - the first general of the Daxing Kingdom to drown in the river, do you like it? β
Han Qichu had no choice but to stop with a smile, "Okay! All right! β
Hou Tian begged for a while and saw that no one helped him, so he had to beg Han Qichu, "Military Division!" Strategist save me! β
Zhang Tong and the others looked at it, only laughing and ignoring it, the training was boring and hard, and the occasional fights were not bad.
Lu Jingshan and others grabbed the edge of the boat, kicked Hou Tian angrily, and the old bear was ruthless, wanting to kick Hou Tian into the lake, causing Hou Tian to beg for mercy again and again.
"You bastard boy!"
"Hey!"
Twilight looked at him coldly, and he immediately changed his smiling face and discussed in a good voice: "What's that...... Didn't the Governor just say that he wanted a battalion of marines? Then just let the last general go! It's not that the last general boasts, and when it comes to horse warfare, the last general is braver than all of them! β
Hou Tian grabbed the boat and shouted: "I said...... Governor, if you want to drown the four of us, just say it! β
The soldiers of the Jiangbei Naval Division are all from the south of the Yangtze River, there are few landlubbers, and there are not many seasickness, and the main thing that Dusk Qing wants to train is the few northwest men behind him. As soon as she stepped on the oars, she followed the old bear and others who came on the boat, and almost fell into the lake!
That is to say, the first goal of her current military training is next year's military parade, and the second goal is the He family. Training on ships now is just the most basic preparation for possible water battles in the future.
Jiangbei Water Division, she didn't practice for the Yuan family, who said she was going to fight Jiangnan Water Division? Whether or not to fight the Jiangnan Navy Division depends on whether the He family returns to the imperial court after Bu Xihuan is in power.
It wasn't a water war!
Before the advent of steamboats, ships relied mainly on wind power and manpower, the former with sails and the latter with oars. The oars use hand power, but the warship uses the foot force, and the force on both sides is equal, so that the boat is stable, otherwise the boat will shake, although this kind of shaking is different from the wind and waves on the river, but it can exercise balance and improve the situation of seasickness. In fact, Mo Hai is right, no matter how it is improved, the lake is not as good as the river after all, but the training time given by the imperial court is only one year, and the speed is not enough, this year can practice the basic physical fitness and fighting skills of the water division is very good, the first battle of this army will not be on the river, but a year later, when the parade is held!
"Third, the training in the lake is not as good as that on the river, but you can think of some way." Twilight was the first to board the boats, and when they got there, they took a closer look, and as expected, the boats were driven by the earliest propeller drive principle.
The four of them didn't expect this, Hou Tian's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to introduce himself, Twilight turned around and got off the boat.
"Second, not being good at water warfare is your weakness, but it is also your advantage. Jiangnan Sailor is not good at horse warfare, but you are good at it, who said that Sailor can only fight water warfare? If we have a battalion of marines, it will be of great use to respond to the situation on the banks of the river in a water battle! β
That's right!
The four of them looked at each other when they heard this, and Han Qichu smiled and bowed his head.
"It makes sense, but it's too conservative. First, the gap between the Jiangbei Navy Division and the He Jiajun in the south of the Yangtze River, you can think of it, and the imperial court can also think of it, and there must be other plans for rushing to war. The He family has been a general for generations, after the saint ascended the throne, Yuanguang was regent, and the He family did not listen to the orders of the imperial court on the river, and it has been nearly 20 years now. The He family has long been self-respecting, and in Jiangnan is like a prince and a king, and the Jiangnan Navy Division is almost a private army. Therefore, if we start a war with the Jiangnan Naval Division, we don't need to win, we only need to capture the Jiangnan Naval Division's Governor He Shanqi! Capture the thief and capture the king first, and if he is captured, the Jiangnan sailors will be in chaos. The He family and the Yuan family have a vendetta, and it is only the He family that the imperial court wants to defeat, and then take back the command of the 200,000 sailors, rather than the annihilation of the Jiangnan sailors. β
He originally wanted to be called "you kid", but when the words came to his lips, he remembered that the kid in front of him was already the governor of the water master, and since he promised to respect him as the governor, he could no longer be called like before.
Old Bear asked Twilight, "...... you What does the governor think? β
Hou Tian was more optimistic than the two of them, "I said that the two of you can't become fat in one bite, and you can't step into the sky in one step!" Anyway, I think it's good to be stable, and the master has never fucking been in the water in this life! If nothing else, let's just say that now, looking at the lake on this big boat, I still feel dizzy! If you go to the river now, you won't vomit and die on the boat? β
Mo Haidao: "Daze Lake is bordered by cliffs in the west, gentle slopes in the east, and runs north-south, so the lake is windy in winter, but the lake is frozen in winter, and the boat can't sail, and the wind is small in summer and autumn, and the boats are all flat and stable when they stop on the lake. β
Lu Jingshan, Mo Hai, Hou Tian and Lao Xiong have been demoted from military marquis to captains, and the rest of the captains have been reduced to soldiers, and they have practiced with the whole army. Except for Hou Tianzheng, who was a young man, the other three were all in their prime, and their physical energy was no longer comparable to those teenagers, but they had galloped on the battlefield for many years, experienced countless battles and hardships, and their endurance and willpower in the face of desperate situations were not comparable to those teenagers. The four of them have their own strengths, Lu Jingshan is good at guns, Mo Hai is good at bows, Hou Tian is good at knives, Lao Xiong is good at axes, all have kung fu foundations, half a month of practice, they can not only persevere, but also learn martial arts very quickly.
Lu Jingshan said: "The more this is the case, the more it shows that the imperial court is eager to train the sailors." However, the He family is on the river, and there are 200,000 sailors on the river, who practice all year round and refine the veterans. We only have 50,000 troops, and we have few governors who have experienced war, and a few of us are not good at water warfare. The imperial court wants to use us to start a war with Jiangnan, and it is really a little anxious. β
Han Qichu said with a smile: "Naturally, this is also a means for the imperial court to motivate the military. β
The warship was launched from the shipyard in Daze Hubei, and the shipwrights drove the warship to the day when the whole army was boiling, and the generals of the navy division took the generals of the navy division to inspect the warship, and Zhang Tongdao: "There are 200,000 sailors on the Bianjiang River, but there are only 100 big ships and more than 1,000 small boats, and our Jiangbei Sailor Division is newly built, but 50,000 troops, and the imperial court has given so many warships, but it attaches importance to us." β
There are more than 500 small boats, most of them are thousand-mile boats, using the pedal principle, driving the pedal boat with manpower, the speed is very fast, and it is used as an assault boat in wartime, and it is the main warship of the inland river.
There are 50 large ships transported by the imperial court, with 10 masts and 10 sails, which can carry 500 soldiers and carry 300,000 catties.