Chapter 192: Two Prosperous Armies

Nie Shicheng led Qin Chuan and his party across the river along the pontoon bridge and entered Pyongyang City through Datong Gate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Pyongyang is one of the most important towns in northern Korea that has been the capital, and its streets are not only wide, but also the houses are quite neat. It's just that most of the people coming and going on the street are unruly Qing soldiers wearing various color uniforms, which is somewhat unsightly.

Ye Zhichao and Nie Shicheng's stations are both in the west of the city, and the further they go to the west of the city, the more people on the streets are wearing Sheng Jun's uniforms. After asking, I learned that Wei Rugui's Sheng army had the largest number of troops, with more than 6,000 people, all stationed in the south and west of the city.

Moreover, Qin Chuan also knew from Nie Shicheng that in Pyongyang, there was another Sheng army, that is, the Fengtian Shengzi Battalion Horse Foot Training Army of Fengsheng'a, the commander of the White Flag Protector Army.

Nie Shicheng directly brought Qin Chuan to the gate of his station, which was a slightly larger courtyard and not very glamorous. On the opposite side of Ye Zhichao's official residence, it is a magnificent brick compound, with Ye Zhichao's military flag floating on a high pole in front of the door, and more than a dozen soldiers with waist knives standing in front of the gate, which looks quite majestic.

Here, Jiang Zikang, Gao Jishan and Qin Chuan said hello and went to Ye Zhichao's official residence, and they also had to go in to attend the military meeting presided over by Ye Zhichao. Before entering, Gao Jishan told Lo Peide to think about sending some food and horse material to the dozens of people in Qin Chuan, and Lo Peide and Wu Bingwen agreed again and again and hurriedly returned to the station of the Renzi camp in the north of the city.

Entering the courtyard, Nie Shicheng directly led Qin Chuan to the upper room.

Feng Guozhang, Li Chun, Yu Guangxi, and Xin Delin were busy arranging accommodation and meals for Xu Tong's row. In addition, someone went to Zhang Luo's room to boil hot water and wash Qin Chuan and his party.

Don't say that I didn't see a few people in the courtyard, even in the upper room, it was empty, except for the regular furniture, not even a piece of paper was missing, and I couldn't see that there was a general who commanded a thousand people living here, Qin Chuan couldn't help but be a little strange.

Nie Shicheng called a personal soldier, took some paper, and urged Qin Chuan to quickly write out some essential skills about trench defense. Qin Chuan didn't need to study ink, took out a pen from his jacket pocket, and wrote and drew on the table.

Although there are many details of the key points of arranging the trenches, these things are all in Qin Chuan's mind, and he doesn't need to think about it, it only took half an hour to write. Nie Shicheng didn't seem to have something urgent, and he didn't talk too much with Qin Chuan, as soon as he saw Qin Chuan write, he picked up Qin Chuan's manuscript, and shouted that Feng Guozhang arranged for someone to pour bath water for Qin Chuan, and then hurried to see Ye Zhichao.

Feng Guozhang commanded two personal soldiers to bring two large wooden barrels with a diameter of more than two feet and a height of more than half a person and put them in the inner room, there were beds and a big dressing table in the room, but there were no living utensils here, and even the bedding was not even seen on the bed.

After the two soldiers put the wooden barrels, they brought more than a dozen large buckets of hot water and poured them into the two large wooden barrels, and Feng Guozhang brought two towels and a piece of soap and handed them to Qin Chuan, who saw that the soap was the product of Aurora Company.

Feng Guozhang originally asked Zhang Luo and two personal soldiers to help Qin Chuan take a bath, but Qin Chuan kicked them out of the house.

In the past month, Qin Chuan has been unsaddled day and night, the gun has not left his body, he has slept in his clothes, and his body is so itchy that he can't do it, at this time, he can take a bath with peace of mind, and he has long been overjoyed, although the facilities are simple, it is not like he has a shower of his own design in his home, but now he can take a hot bath, where is there anything to pay attention to.

Qin Chuan hurriedly called his two guards, took a change of clothes, then closed the door, and stripped himself naked in three times and five by two. Then, Qin Chuan moved another chair, stepped on the chair and slowly squatted down into a large wooden barrel until the warm hot water reached his neck.

Although Qin Chuan enjoyed the taste of hot water soaking very much, he didn't know when Nie Shicheng would come back, and he didn't dare to stay in the wooden barrel for a long time, so he rubbed his body again, put on the soap again, washed it again, and then changed it to another wooden barrel, and then washed it with soap, and then jumped out of the wooden barrel, wiped the water stains on his body with a dry towel, and then changed into dry and clean clothes from the inside out, and pushed the door out of the dresser.

Nie Shicheng hasn't come back yet, only Feng Guozhang is waiting outside.

Qin Chuan called his guards to take away his changed clothes, and Feng Guozhang also called a few personal soldiers to work together to look at the two large buckets and let Qin Chuan's blushing dirty water take away.

Qin Chuan sat on the hardwood chair according to the Eight Immortals table, and just thought about taking out a cigarette and smoking one, when a soldier had already come in with a tray holding two large bowls of white rice, a bowl of braised pork, a bowl of steaming egg drop soup, and a plate of Korean kimchi, and also put a small jar of wine and a wine bowl on the table.

Qin Chuan looked at his watch and realized that the time had reached twelve o'clock at noon.

In the past few days, because I was in a hurry to rush to Pyongyang, I was sleeping in the wilderness, and I had already eaten all the canned food I brought, just nibbling on some dry food.

Qin Chuan was not polite, he picked up the bowl and devoured it, and after a while, he ate two large bowls of rice and a large bowl of braised pork like a storm, and even the dish of kimchi was eaten by him until only a few small pieces were left. As for the bowl of egg drop soup, Qin Chuan didn't even use a spoon, so he directly picked up the bowl and drank it in a few gulps with his neck straight.

Putting down the soup bowl, Qin Chuan, who was still unsatisfied, opened the small jar of wine again, sniffed it with his nose, smelled the sour taste of the wine, and knew that it was Korean rice wine, so he closed the lid and pushed it aside.

Qin Chuan really can't enjoy the taste of rice wine, he still likes to drink beer, not only the golden color of beer, but also the faint bitter taste in beer that seems to contain the principle of the shortness of life.

The soldiers took away the dishes and chopsticks, and Feng Guozhang had already come in with a pot of tea and two tea cups.

For Feng Guozhang, Qin Chuan has always been eager to seek talents, and he has long wanted to take Feng Guozhang into his arms and take it for his own use, but he can slowly feel that although this Feng Guozhang is very smart, and he can learn new things and new knowledge almost a little, but he is extremely utilitarian, and he is still only an alternate officer, far less noble than Nie Shicheng's status as a general soldier, and I am afraid that he will not be able to accept this person for a while.

It's just that Qin Chuan still didn't give up, and as soon as he saw Feng Guozhang, he immediately greeted him warmly and sat down.

Feng Guozhang admired Qin Chuan's military talent very much, plus Qin Chuan had no tube, he had long been used to it in front of Qin Chuan, seeing that Nie Shicheng was not there, he was not polite to Qin Chuan, let alone any distinction between dignity and inferiority, poured tea for Qin Chuan, and sat opposite Qin Chuan.

For some reason, Qin Chuan suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Zhou Xianzhang and Li Guohua today, Zhou Xianzhang and Li Guohua were his loyal fans, and there was no reason why he didn't go out of the city with Nie Shicheng to greet him?

Could it be 。。。。。。

Qin Chuan suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, hesitated for a long time, and asked Feng Guozhang tentatively.

"Huafu, why haven't you seen Xiancheng and Bizhou in the past half a day?"