Chapter 187: Temptation
Jia Lian used the means of fund-raising in later generations to skillfully raise nearly two million taels of silver for the military expenses of the southern expedition, and at the same time tied the Manchu civil and military forces to the big ship of the southern expedition. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
If the southern expedition is victorious, hundreds of officials will profit; If the southern expedition fails, the hundred officials will also lose a lot of silver.
In this way, the active and enthusiastic collective efforts of the hundreds of officials, the source of troops, generals, and logistical supportγ»γ»γ»γ»γ»γ» there is no longer the slightest obstacle.
Then he made a pretense on the spot to agree to Nanban's request to marry the princess, ostensibly preparing for the princess's marriage, but secretly all the county governments were drawing troops, secretly gathering near Huichuan Mansion, and the old general Wang Wei was temporarily in charge.
Two months later, the day of the princess's marriage to the prince of the Southern Barbarians was approaching, and preparations for the southern expedition were all ready.
At this time, the emperor made Jia Lian an ambassador for peace and sent the princess south to make peace; Secretly, he gave Jia Lianhu an arrow, as the general of the southern expedition, he was fully responsible for the southern expedition, and the old general Wang Wei was the deputy general, supplemented by him.
The princess and her relatives are naturally indispensable for the military escort, so Jia Lian justifiably transferred his newly built Shenji battalion as an escort team.
This Shenji Battalion was transferred by Jia Lian to the Jinyi Army and Long Xiangwei, who had gone through the Southern Barbarian War and used explosives packs, as the backbone officers, and now it has expanded to 5,000 people.
And the big and small boxes of dowries of the princess in the team are filled with large and small explosive bags!
For the final political purpose, the emperor named the daughter of the prince of the clan as the princess to come and kiss, and the royal majesty was huge.
In this way, there are naturally countless palace maids and eunuchs to follow, so it took more than a month to walk slowly all the way, and the team of relatives was able to enter the Huichuan Mansion.
At this time, the Huichuan Mansion had already gathered 100,000 soldiers, and as long as Jia Lian gave an order, he could go out of the city and fight with the Nanban.
However, Jia Lian was not busy for a while, first handed over the military power with Wang Wei, and then personally familiarized himself with the sergeants who visited each battalion, and finally sent an envoy to ask Nanban to marry the princess of the Celestial Empire with the most solemn etiquette.
During this time, Nanban won a few small victories, and he was even more arrogant, and he didn't know what to do at the moment, and he intended to show the Nanban force in front of the ambassador of the Celestial Empire.
So on the appointed day, the king of the Southern Barbarians gathered warriors from all tribes and tribes, and all of them showed off their might thirty miles outside the city of Huichuan Prefecture.
At this time, I saw the gate of Huichuan Mansion slowly open, and after a while, first the honor guard, and then the princess's sixteen-carrying sedan chair slowly came out.
And Jia Lian rode a horse to follow left and right, and behind him were the gradually increasing number of Celestial Empire soldiers.
After the armies of the two sides were arranged, I saw that the prince of the Nanban was alone with only one interpreter, and the two horses came between the two armies, and the right hand holding the weapon was raised, and the Nanban warriors in the rear immediately slapped the weapon and howled, and the morale of the Nanban side was greatly boosted.
At this time, I saw that Jia Lian was not to be outdone, first nodded to Wang Wei, and then also took Zhang Chang to the two armies, and the soldiers of the Celestial Empire also shouted.
The four of them stared at each other for a while, and then only listened to the Nanban prince first chatter, and then only listened to the interpreter say: "Our prince said, is it a real princess you brought this time, if you dare to tease our prince like last time, our prince will go on a killing spree and personally kill your Kyoto to rob a princess!" β
Hearing the wild words of the Nanban prince, Jia Lian was not angry, but said coldly: "As long as our emperor personally seals it, even a commoner will be as noble as a princess, and you will be a barbarian king, if you want to marry a princess, you can only get this grace if you kneel down and bow your head to be a minister." β
The interpreter immediately translated this to the Nanban prince, who was immediately furious, and roared again, and the interpreter immediately translated and said: "Our prince said, you are a small subordinate of a defeated general, can you speak on behalf of your emperor?" Dare to be so rude, aren't you afraid of provoking another war? Apologize obediently, and then offer the princess and the compensation from the last war, and our prince can spare your life! β
I only heard Jia Lian laugh and said: "Ben Hou is the ambassador of peace this time, so he can naturally be in charge of everything, if you Nanban clan are willing to bow down to my Heavenly Dynasty and be a vassal to my Heavenly Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor of my Heavenly Dynasty will not be stingy to marry a princess and your prince; If you still dare to threaten with force, then Ben Hou is still the general of the southern expedition personally appointed by the emperor of our Celestial Dynasty, and he is also fully responsible for the war against your little Nanban! On the day of the pacification of the Nanban, your little Nanban prince is just a slave who leads the horse to Benhou! β
As soon as the interpreter finished translating Jia Lian's words, the Nanban prince suddenly became even more angry, and he suddenly pulled out his weapon and shouted something.
However, at this moment, Jia Lian noticed a crisp signal sound in the military formation behind him, only to see Jia Lian and Zhang Chang looking at each other and smiling, and no longer caring what the Nanban prince was shouting, as soon as the reins were raised, the two turned their horses and ran towards their own formation.
Seeing Jia Lian and Zhang Chang fleeing in embarrassment for unknown reasons, the Nanban prince and the interpreter beside him immediately pointed at the backs of the two and laughed wildly, and even the Nanban phalanx in the distance also let out a thunderous mockery.
Just when the Nanban side was laughing wildly, he suddenly saw the princess of the Celestial Empire slowly retreating, and the 50,000 soldiers of the Celestial Empire outside the city of Huichuan Mansion shouted the trumpet and moved forward steadily.
With such a posture, even a three-year-old boy can see that this is going to war.
However, the Southern Barbarian King saw that the soldiers of the Celestial Empire were only tens of thousands, and he dared to fight with his more than 100,000 Southern Barbarian warriors, didn't it make it clear that he was going to die?
At this time, the Nanban prince also returned to the side of the Nanban King, repeated the negotiation with Jia Lian just now, and then said angrily: "Father, the emperor of this Heavenly Dynasty actually didn't shed tears when he saw the coffin, and this new general who conquered the South looked young and obviously didn't know how to fight, and dared to send tens of thousands of soldiers to fight with more than 100,000 warriors of my Nanban head-on, please let the child go to war, and robbed the princess to be your daughter-in-law." β
When the Southern Barbarian King heard this, he immediately laughed and said: "The people of the Central Plains are weak, and they have always only relied on high walls and large numbers to win, but now this general dares to let his subordinates come to die, my son just go to war and personally win back your own glory!" β
The Nanban prince got permission, only to see him give a few orders left and right, and then with a wave of his weapon, he took nearly half of the Nanban soldiers and took the lead in killing in the direction of Huichuan Mansion.
However, at this moment, the Celestial Empire army stopped under Jia Lian's order.
"Shenji Battalion, Flying Feather Bomb Preparation~!"
Then I saw 3,000 Shenji battalion soldiers holding archers, and stepped forward with their auxiliaries, only to see the auxiliaries lighting torches at the same time, and then the Shenji battalion soldiers bent their bows to the full moon.
"Put~!"
The auxiliaries immediately lit the fuse of the explosive bag tied to the front of the bow with torches, and as soon as the bowstring was loosened, the rain of three thousand arrows flew towards the Nanban soldiers who were rushing in front of them.