As soon as the wealth is gone, Jinghua's good days will come to an end.

Han Xiufeng asked Su Jueming to go to the library to get a cloth iron armor embroidered with copper ding, and asked him to change into iron armor, put on an iron helmet, carry a waist knife, and run around the threshing floor for twenty laps. This outfit weighs fifty or sixty pounds, and Jinghua, who has never worked hard but has never worked hard, is very difficult to wear just on his body, where can he run.

After running half a lap, he sat on the ground panting and begging: "Fourth master, please spare me, I really can't run, I can't even stand up, I ......"

"I can't stand up and help you up, and I can't run slowly if I can't run."

As soon as Han Xiufeng's words fell, Su Jueming leaned over and said, "Master Jing, I'll give you a hand." ”

"You don't need to pull it," Jinghua had suffered this crime, and said with a bitter face: "Fourth master, I really can't go into battle and fight." If you really let me lead the troops into battle, my death will be small, and the loss of the battle will be a big matter of delaying the military aircraft! I can't trouble you, nor can I affect the brothers who went into battle with me, so don't let me run, I'm really not a piece of material to lead troops into battle. ”

"Do you think I let you run because I planned to let him lead the troops into battle?"

"Isn't it?"

"Yes and no."

"Is that or isn't?" Jinghua asked pitifully.

Han Xiufeng looked back at the camp flag erected in front of the stage, looked at him with a smile and said, "Jinghua, you are a clan, you should know that you either don't want to be an official, and you have to be an official who can only be a four-grade official." You should also know that you must not be able to be a civil official, so you can only get a military attache of the fourth grade. But this is Yangzhou Mansion, not the capital, as long as it is a military attaché, it may be transferred to attack and suppress the Cantonese bandits at any time, and the military order is like a mountain, and when the time comes, you don't want to lead the troops into battle. ”

Fighting a war kills people!

Thinking of the death of so many civil and military officials since the Cantonese bandits, Jinghua's scalp was numb, and he said with a bitter face: "Fourth master, since being a military attache is so dangerous, then I ...... Then I won't do it! You don't have to bother to help me find an errand, I'll go and go to Taizhou to find my brother-in-law. ”

Han Xiufeng asked with a smile: "I don't want to be an official anymore, I'm leaving?" ”

Jinghua took off his iron helmet and said, "Don't do it, I really don't want to do it." ”

"What are you kidding me, manly man, what you say is like water spilled out, how can you say take it back, take it back." Han Xiufeng's face changed, and he said in an unquestionable tone: "Let's put it this way, I have already helped you with your affairs, don't think about retreating now." As for letting you run in this body, I don't expect you to win the battle, but I think that if you lose the battle, you can't even run. ”

"Fourth master, you mean ......"

"Your brother-in-law entrusted you to me, I naturally want to protect you, if you die at the hands of bandits, how can I explain to your brother-in-law?"

"But ......"

"It's nothing, I can't run slowly, and I have to finish these twenty laps even if it gets dark." Han Xiufeng turned around and explained without looking back as he walked towards the small courtyard: "Su Jueming, serve Hao Jingye, if he runs one less lap, be careful that I ask you!" ”

"Yes."

Jing Hua couldn't regret it, looking at Han Xiufeng's back and wanting to cry without tears.

Su Jueming couldn't help but laugh and helped him up, and persuaded him pretendedly: "Master Jing, the fourth master is also for your good, isn't it just twenty laps, I'll accompany you, let's run slowly." ”

Jing Hua thought to himself that his kid was not wearing armor, and he didn't have to carry the oxtail knife that was not only in the way, but also heavy, and he didn't have to work hard to run a few laps, and he didn't know what to say, Han Xiufeng, who had already walked away, suddenly turned around and said: "Run twenty laps today, start with Ming'er, and add five laps a day." ”

"Ahh

"Don't, run quickly, don't want to eat until you finish running."

……

As long as there are people practicing on the threshing floor, the children in the town will rush to see the excitement, and see a group of bear children laughing and playing around Jinghua and Su Jueming, and even running together, Cuihua, who was sitting at the gate of the courtyard picking vegetables, smiled and smiled.

Ren Yu'er, who was busy drying books these days, couldn't help but walk to the door, and saw as if Han Bo, who had been out on an errand for many days, was carrying his bags and came back with two brothers in the camp.

He had seen Ren Yu'er before, but when he left, Ren Yu'er was still a small jasper living in a simple house, and he was surprised to see Ren Yu'er here, and subconsciously asked: "Miss Ren, why are you here, Fourth Master?" ”

Why is it here, I really can't explain it clearly, Ren Yu'er blushed, and hurriedly said a blessing: "The fourth master is reading a book inside, I'll help you report." ”

"I'm tired of Miss Ren," Han Bo was confused, took off his luggage and looked back at the threshing floor, and asked curiously, "Cuihua, who is that one wearing armor?" ”

"Jing Ye who came from the capital a few days ago, Mr. Han, you will not believe it, Jing Ye is a relative of the emperor, and he has the same surname as the current emperor, and the current emperor has to call him uncle in terms of generation!"

"He's a clan!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's the clan, and the fourth master said the same."

Han Bo didn't expect that it had only been out for more than 20 days, and there had been such a big change in the camp, and he was wondering if that clan was the head of the salt fishing camp sent by the imperial court, when he heard Han Xiufeng shouting inside: "Han Bo, come in, what are you doing outside!" ”

"Oh, here we are."

Han Bo hurriedly crossed the threshold and walked into the courtyard, glanced at the books in the courtyard without curiosity, and immediately arched his hand: "Fourth master, we were able to get home yesterday, but the day before yesterday, we passed by the Fairy Temple, and heard that the army was attacking the city, so I waited for a day in the Fairy Temple, and we delayed for a day. ”

Han Xiufeng has been waiting for news from Yangzhou for the past two days, and subconsciously asked, "Have you captured it?" ”

"Almost, just a little!"

"To capture is to capture, not to capture is not to capture, what do you mean to be a little bit?"

"Fourth master, listen to me, they have already been captured, but didn't Minglun take the initiative to ask Ying to hire Qingzhuang to transport a 10,000-pound cannon from Jiangyin out of his own pocket, Lord Lei's gunner and Qingzhuang set up the cannon at the foot of Wutai Mountain, aiming at the Benyi Gate and blasting it, and the second shot blasted the city gate open."

"And then?" Han Xiufeng asked eagerly.

Han Bo smiled bitterly: "As soon as the city gate was opened, Zhang Yiguo led two hundred villagers to kill them, and the thieves on the city tower desperately fired guns and cannons at them, Zhang Yiguo was worried that the army blocking the city gate would not be able to enter, so he didn't care that the thieves on the city tower braved the rain of bullets and desperately rushed to the city, and fought until the God of Wealth Temple!" ”

"The army didn't keep up?"

"I kept up, but I only followed up with less than two thousand, and Shuanglai led Qishan to transfer two thousand Sichuan soldiers from Xiang Shuai, followed by reinforcements from the bandits who had just rushed to the city tower, and they killed in the city in the dark."

"And later?" Han Xiufeng asked.

It is said that Lord Lei knew that those young men were useless, and he had already agreed with Qi Shan in the north of the city and Chen Jinshou in the west of the city that as soon as the city gate was opened, the army in the north of the city and the west of the city would fight together, but the south of the city was already fighting, but Qi Shan and Chen Jinshou did not move. The bandits guarding the west gate and the north gate all rushed to the aid of Benyimen, Zhang Yiguo could not stop it, and more than half of the more than 200 villagers around him were killed and wounded, so they could only withdraw from the city. ”

"Falling short?"

"yes, just a little bit!"

"Is Zhang Yiguo okay?" Han Xiufeng thought about it and asked.

"How can he be okay if he takes the lead in killing the God of Wealth Temple, it is said that he has been injured in more than a dozen places, but it should be fine. By the way, the general soldier of Shuanglai was also injured, and two of his front teeth were missing. ”

Han Xiufeng never thought that this would be the result, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said: "I didn't capture this, and I also injured two strong generals, I really don't know what Qi Shan and Chen Jinshou thought, I really don't know how they will explain to the saint when the battle is like this!" ”

"I don't know, I heard the brother who was on an errand at Lei Yicheng's place say that Lei Yicheng and the new Caoyun Governor Fuji were so angry that they wanted to expedite 600 miles to fold the bullet and impeach Qishan."

"Is impeachment useful, at most, it is dismissal and retention." Han Xiufeng shook his head nonchalantly, thought about it and asked, "This trip to Jiangnan Daying didn't go well, did you see Xiang Shuai?" ”

Speaking of business, Han Bo hurriedly took out three letters from his luggage: "This journey is quite smooth, not only did I see Xiang Shuai, but also saw many fellow villagers. This is a letter from Xiang Shuai asking Master Xue to write to you, this is from Master Xue and Master Liu. ”

"What's going on over there?" Han Xiufeng asked while opening the letter.

"The generals of the Jiangbei battalion are not in harmony, and Xiang Shuai is not much better, the managers and the soldiers are divided into several factions, we are counted as one faction in Sichuan, Xiang Shuai is the largest, and there are Zhou Tianpei, Zhou Tianfu, Zhou Tianshou, Zhang Yuliang, Hu Kunyuan, Hu Songlin and other fellow villagers, all of whom are fellow villagers; I heard that he used to be a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, and was later recruited by the imperial court to be an official, with generals such as Dai Wenying, Liang Kexun, Feng Zicai and Zhang Weibang. ”

"What about the other two factions?"

"One faction is full of generals, including the right-wing Chang Hechun, as well as Subutonga, those uncles from Fuxing who were born in the Eight Banners. Then there are the civil officials sent by the imperial court, including Xu Naizhao, a cabinet scholar who assists in military affairs, and Peng Yuwen, an envoy who is also the chief grain station. He Chun has always had a dislike for Xiang Shuai, and he disobeyed Xiang Shuai, and even secretly dismantled Xiang Shuai's platform. ”

Han Bo took the freshly brewed tea from Ren Yu'er's hand, and continued: "It's just that the generals are not in harmony, even the soldiers and horses are temporarily drawn from all over the country, and the soldiers in the economic system include the green battalions transferred from Liangguang, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan and Shaanxi and Gansu, the Eight Banners Horse Team transferred from Jilin and Heilongjiang, and the garrison flag soldiers from Jiangning and Zhenjiang that were later collected.

Yongzhuang is even more numerous, there are more than a dozen names of bravery in the headquarters of the Guangda camp, plus no less than forty or fifty kinds of recruits in Zhenjiang and southern Anhui, and they are born in the south of Liangguang, west and Sichuan, east to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and north to Shandong. There is everyone in the world. Qi Shan asked the saint to transfer away two thousand Sichuan soldiers, Xiang Shuai's men were almost out of soldiers, and I just asked Xue Huan and Liu Cunhou to lead a battalion of brave men before I came back. ”