Chapter 380: Return to the capital
Ye Shaolong learned that the Seventh Prince actually had the face to return to Baoding City, and immediately sneered: "Brother Li, please tell the envoys from Tianjin City and tell them that Baoding City will be owned by my Yejiabao in the future, and no one wants to get involved!" ”
Li Chengke was naturally not stupid enough to speak for the Seventh Prince, so he nodded and agreed. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info then retired to do business!
It was getting dark, and it was already evening, and Baoding City had been completely taken over by the Yejiabao army in just one afternoon. More than 1,000 Qing troops were also successfully absorbed, and at this point, everything came to an end for the time being.
After a busy day, everyone was able to rest, and at dinner, Su Can came to Ye Shaolong with a wine jar, saying that he was going to get drunk with Ye Shaolong to celebrate.
There are regulations in the army that you must quit drinking, and Su Can will still drink secretly from time to time, but it is the first time that he has blatantly asked Ye Shaolong, the coach, to drink like now.
Ye Shaolong looked at the smiling Su Can suspiciously for a long time, and he really couldn't see what this old man was happy about!
"Brother Su has a happy event?"
"Hey......."
Su Can directly replied with two smirks, and then listened to him: "Daxi, Daxi, my marriage with your sister has finally been decided, and the date of the marriage is set in five days." ”
"Oh, there's news from Yejiabao?" When Ye Shaolong heard this, he immediately became interested.
Su Can nodded and said, "Just now, your father sent someone to report quickly, saying that I should prepare more as soon as possible." ”
Ye Shaolong pondered for a moment and said, "Do you need me to let you go on vacation, or you can go back to Yejiabao to prepare for the marriage now." The musket camp will be watched by Brother Li for the time being. ”
Su Can shook his head: "A manly man, how can he delay the affairs of the family and the country for the sake of his children's private affairs." There's no need, when it's safe here, it's not too late for me to go back, isn't there still your Uncle Li at home arranged? It's enough to have him! ”
While speaking, Su Can had already opened the wine jar, put two large bowls on the table, and then filled them. The aroma of wine suddenly filled the whole room, and it was mouth-watering.
Seeing that Su Can's mind had been decided, Ye Shaolong did not persuade him more, and there was really nothing to do tonight, so he drank with him.
Not long after, Tie Ta and Li Chengke also arrived one after another, there was nothing to say, Ye Shaolong simply beckoned them to have a few drinks together, and by the way, let people get a few side dishes to drink.
The four of them were all heroic men, and as soon as they drank the wine, they couldn't stop, one jar after another, until everyone was drunk.
At dawn, Ye Shaolong woke up late, and the result of his hangover was that he had a terrible headache when he got up in the morning. I secretly swore in my heart that I would never drink again in the future, so I went to wash up.
After taking a cold bath, Ye Shaolong was refreshed and ready to take a walk around the city, and by the way, take a look at what the scene of Baoding City is like today.
He remembered that after the last time Baoding City was occupied, he encouraged one-third of the people in the city to settle in Yejiabao. There should not be many people in the city.
But as soon as Ye Shaolong went to the street, he found that there seemed to be a lot of people in the city, and the people were not afraid of the arrival of the Yejiabao army.
On the contrary, the people seemed to welcome the Yejiabao army, and the people on the street did what they should do, and their lives were not affected because of the arrival of the Yejiabao army.
The people who sold and bought things, everyone talked and laughed, which made Ye Shaolong very curious, and later called the guards with him to ask.
After the Taiyuan city army occupied Baoding City, they attacked the people, especially those rich merchants, who were oppressed very badly. Unlike the Yejiabao army in the most advanced city, it didn't attack the people at that time, but only targeted those Japanese robbers.
Baoding City was so stable, Ye Shaolong also felt a lot more relieved, he didn't continue to waste time on the street, turned around and went back to the mansion that had been burned down and rebuilt.
Since Baoding City has nothing to worry about, it is natural to set off for the capital. It's just that the capital is not as big as Baoding City, it is twice as big as Baoding City, and to ensure that there is the ability to protect itself in the capital, the garrison must not be less than 20,000.
At present, the whole army of Yejiabao is about 30,000 people, and this Baoding City must leave 5,000 soldiers, and Yejiabao must stay 10,000. In this way, there are only 10,000 garrisons in the capital at most.
Ye Shaolong felt that this was still too dangerous, if there were only 10,000 garrisons in the capital of Nuoda, it would be easy to be captured.
After thinking about it again and again, Ye Shaolong couldn't think of any other good way at the moment, so he decided to occupy the capital first, and then arrange the defense later.
After lunch, Li Chengke stayed in Baoding City for the time being, and Ye Shaolong left him with 1,000 musket battalion soldiers and 4,000 infantry. The rest of them all advanced to the capital, arrived in the capital before the evening and took over the capital.
Ye Shaolong sent someone to pick up the little emperor first, and he himself went to the palace first. The old eunuchs who stayed in the palace before were still there, and when they heard that the little emperor was coming back, they cried one by one.
In this regard, Ye Shaolong was quite helpless, so he simply didn't care about them and let them cry enough. Let Su Can take over the imperial city with two thousand musket battalion soldiers first, and then he walked towards the imperial study.
At night, the imperial study, which used to be unusually bright, was lit by only a dim oil lamp. The old eunuch who led the way for Ye Shaolong trembled and pushed open the door of the imperial study.
Ye Shaolong then walked through the door, and the decorations in the house were the same as before, and there was no change. The whole room was spotlessly clean and there were no strange smells.
It seems that these old eunuchs who stayed behind are very attentive, and they should come over to clean every day. The old eunuch did not follow Ye Shaolong into the imperial study, but after staying at the door for a while, he turned around and left, and soon saw him coming back with a teapot.
Pouring a cup of tea for Ye Shaolong in a big bowl, the old eunuch had a little embarrassment on his face: "General, there is no good tea in the palace now, only these vulgar things are left, you will drink it, and I hope it is not strange." ”
Ye Shaolong smiled and said softly: "I don't blame you, but I let you stay in this empty imperial city, it's hard for you!" ”
The old eunuch was a little frightened, and said tremblingly: "Is there anything wrong with the minions, I hope the general will say it clearly." ”
Obviously, this old eunuch misunderstood Ye Shaolong, looking at the trembling old eunuch, Ye Shaolong suddenly felt that these old eunuchs were indeed very pitiful.
Servility has gone deep into the bone marrow, and it is impossible to want them to change, shook his head and sighed softly, and waved his hand to let the old eunuch retreat.
The little emperor didn't let Ye Shaolong wait for a long time, and he rushed over from Yejiabao in three hours at most. The two met in the imperial study, and the little emperor obviously didn't expect that Ye Shaolong would suddenly decide to return to the capital.
So as soon as he saw Ye Shaolong open his mouth, he asked, "Didn't you say that you can't go back to the capital, and you can't go back?" Why did this come back quietly? ”