Chapter 43: The Beginning of the War
"Mr. Chen, please speak!" If it weren't for Chen Jialuo sending someone to send Zhaohui's march plan in advance, so that he had time to fortify the wall and clear the wilderness, his tribe would have been defeated by Zhaohui a long time ago, and listening to Chen Jialuo speak like this at this time, he must have a plan in his heart. ↖
Chen Jialuo didn't say what he wanted, but asked, "I wonder how many people in your department can fight?" How is the combat power? ”
"All the men in our department can go into battle, and there are more than 15,000 people, but they lack armor and weapons, and they still suffer a little when they fight with the Qing army." , Mu Zhuolun replied.
There are 15,000 people here, and the Ma Bu army on Zhaohui's side adds up to only 4,000 people, and the military strength close to four to one is not much confidence in Mu Zhuolun, which shows that the Qing army in this era still has some combat effectiveness; However, we can't look too high at the combat power of the Qing army, Zhaohui should be the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion that the Manchu Qing Dynasty can fight the most; Due to the continuous war in the northwest, the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion has been increasing in number since it was set up in the second year of Shunzhi, from more than 85,000 people in the 25th year of Kangxi to more than 97,000 now, and the number of soldiers alone ranks third in the country, second only to Liangguang and Fujian and Zhejiang; However, in terms of combat effectiveness, the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion can undoubtedly be called the first. If all of Zhaohui's 4,000 troops can be wiped out here, it will be a big loss for the Manchus, but don't look at these 4,000 people who are not even one-twentieth of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu Green Battalion, but they are the essence of the nearly 100,000-Shaanxi-Gansu-Gansu Green Battalion. Nearly 100,000 people were already stretched thin to control Shaanxi, Gansu, and the Western Regions, and if they lost these 4,000 people, the entire northwest would fall into continuous chaos, which would greatly help Chen Jialuo's plan.
"In my opinion, you don't have to fight with the Tartars; Zhaohui came from afar to bring insufficient grain and grass, and it is difficult to transport grain and grass from Laining City to here, if we rob the grain route of the Tartars, then we can win without a fight! Chen Jialuo said his thoughts, these troops can't attack the other party's grain route head-on, it's no problem.
"The grain roads of the Qing army are heavily guarded, and we don't know when they will bring the grain; If there are fewer people to go, it will not work, and if there are more people who go, I am afraid that Yarkand City will be taken away by Zhaohui. It seems that Mu Zhuolun has not thought about this problem before.
"My Red Flower Society has a number of people left in Lai Ning City, speaking of war, these brothers of mine may not be as good as the troops of Old Hero Mu, but if you listen to the news, they are used to it! As long as the Tartars began to transport grain out, they would definitely be able to find out the route and strength of the Qing army. Chen Jialuo said with a smile.
"That's great!" Mu Zhuolun slapped the table and stood up, and walked around the tent a few times, "Don't fight with Zhaohui in the future battle, try to drag him here, and see what he will do when he runs out of food and grass!" ”
Finally seeing hope, Mu Zhuolun laughed and said, "Since these are all said, you should also go and accompany Qingtong, everyone else is dancing, it's not good if you don't go!" ”
Chen Jialuo fell into embarrassment again, turned his head to look at Huo Qingtong, only to see that she was looking at herself with expectant eyes, her heart softened, she got up and walked to her, and pulled her to the bonfire to dance; The young men and women around saw that Cuiyu Yellow Shirt had also come to them, so they surrounded the two of them in the middle, making it inconvenient for Chen Jialuo to talk to Huo Qingtong. It's just that when he dances, he always feels that someone is staring at him, and he sees through the gap that Li Yuanzhi has disappeared, and Kasli is holding her chin in her hands and looking here.
Huo Qingtong in front of him was full of joy, he really didn't notice Chen Jialuo's strange appearance, and after the song, the two of them returned hand in hand like other young men and women to the table full of roast meat, fresh fruit and mare's milk wine, and the people who were originally sitting next to them smiled and moved to the distance, leaving room for them to talk. Chen Jialuo didn't know what to say for a while, should he tell her about Li Yuanzhi? Or do you want to talk about the war the day after tomorrow?
"Chen Gongzi, try cantaloupe! I'm afraid it's not easy for you to eat these in the Central Plains. Without waiting for him to speak, Huo Qingtong handed over a piece of cantaloupe.
"I studied martial arts with my master in the Tianshan Mountains for ten years, and in recent years I have stayed in the northwest, but I have gone to the Central Plains less." , How do these two sisters love to invite people to eat cantaloupe, they took the cantaloupe and put it in their mouths but couldn't taste what it tasted, looking at Huo Qingtong's slightly dodging gaze, Chen Jialuo said, "Since the Yuxu Daoist Academy said goodbye, I have often missed you, but today I saw you stand up but I was afraid that you would find someone else, so I stood up first and asked the old hero Mu to kiss; Now that I think about it, I was abrupt. ”
Huo Qingtong boldly raised his head to meet his eyes, "No, in fact, the person I was planning to find was also you; It's just that when you stand up, you don't dare to take a step, but fortunately you took the initiative, otherwise I probably wouldn't know what to do. ”
Hey, Chen Jialuo sighed in his heart, buried what he was going to say to her in his heart, and turned to talk about the war with Zhaohui the day after tomorrow; The bonfire gradually went out, the meeting came to an end, everyone slowly dispersed, and when Chen Jialuo sent Huo Qingtong back to the camp, he happened to find that Li Yuanzhi lived next door to her; When everyone fell asleep, Chen Jialuo secretly ran outside Li Yuanzhi's tent and called her out.
When the bright moon was in the sky, behind the small hill outside the camp, Li Yuanzhi stood silently behind Chen Jialuo, and saw that there was no one everywhere Chen Jialuo turned around, "Sister Yuanzhi, I can't stop you today!" ”
"Where is Mr. Chen, I haven't congratulated you on meeting a good couple!" , Li Yuanzhi said with a smile to herself, her heart was full of grievances, and the scene on the way from Hangzhou to the northwest resurfaced in her mind again; In his heart, am I Zhou Zhiruo or Zhao Min?
"Sister Yuan Zhi!" , Chen Jialuo took two steps forward and grabbed her shoulders tightly, his eyes staring at her eyes, "I said before that I will live up to you in this life!" Then you will definitely not be disappointed! Today, I, Chen Jialuo, swear to the sky that I will definitely marry Li Yuanzhi as my Chen family's wife in this life. ”
"Who said he was going to be the wife of your Chen family!" , Li Yuanzhi's tears couldn't help but roll in her eyes when she heard him swear, but she said stiffly.
"If you don't agree, I'll go to the door to rob it, I'm the leader of the anti-thieves!" , Chen Jialuo made a joke, and then said softly, "Evil, I want to know you, longevity, mountains without edges, rivers are exhausted, winter thunder shakes summer rain and snow, heaven and earth are together and dare to be with you." ”
As soon as this first love poem in China came out, Li Yuanzhi couldn't control her emotions anymore, and threw herself into Chen Jialuo's arms and cried; Gently stroking her hair, Chen Jialuo said secretly, I finally got another one.
On the second day, Chen Jialuo helped Mu Zhuolun prepare for war in the camp; Early in the morning of the third day, the two armies lined up in the east of the city, and a big battle was about to break out.
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