In Gong Jichang's battle in the Crowpo area, Zhang Xiumei's Miao army besieged Zhang Xiumei's army for 70 days, and the plan to strive for a "semi-peaceful settlement" was aborted. Then a general offensive was launched on the verge of running out of ammunition and food for the Miao army, and after 17 days of fierce fighting, 80,000 people equipped with foreign guns and foreign artillery defeated 250,000 Miao troops (refugees are not counted), and the total amount of ammunition invested by the two sides in the Liangpo campaign was at least 1.4 million catties, amounting to more than 700 tons, and the total decisive battle was no less than 600 tons.

The Miao army died 60,000 people, including more than 100,000 starvations, including more than 10 senior generals, and Li Yuncai, the last general of the Blue Wolf Army, was missing. In the past, the Miao leader Bao Datu, who was strategizing and resourceful in the victory of Huangpiao, was surrounded by the Jingnan army in the fierce battle between Niujiaopo and Zhong Kailan, the deputy commander of the Guizhou army...... The Qinghe Army lost more than 8,000 people in the battle, and lost six generals of more than four grades.

The scale and number of dead animals in this earth-shattering battle were the largest in the history of Guimao County. This battle also became the end of the "uprising" of the Blue Wolf Country because of the participation of thousands of troops of Li Wencai's department, the last unit of the Blue Wolf Country. Because of this, the two slopes of crows and horns have become the end of the blue wolf country.

After the fierce battle, the water of the streams everywhere turned dark red, and the bones of the narrow Crow Slope area were piled up, and the stench was stinking.

The remains of the Qing and Army who died in the battle, Gong Jichang ordered to bury them on the spot, and those Miao soldiers who were disabled and could not walk remained in place, and the dead were all thrown into the valley. Ten years later, the bones of the Miao people were swept up and buried.

For a time, the Crow Slope area was full of bones, eerie and terrifying, and the smell of corpses was everywhere, and the more than 100,000 Miao people who surrendered had to move to a gentle area away from Crow Slope under the order of Gong Jichang.

In the camp, eight large vats take turns boiling porridge for 24 hours. Drinking porridge to survive, Miao people can only maintain their lives, and people are panicked.

Half a month has passed, Xi Qitian, who was on leave, finally returned to the team and took over the work of pacifying the Miao people, he said to Gong Jichang worriedly: "It's not a way to go on like this, how can there be so much food, it is fundamental for them to produce to save themselves." ”

Gong Jichang sighed: "Why not? If Xi Gong comes back a few days late, I won't be able to hold it anymore. After the war, the Miao people were destitute, with no food or shelter, for fear that they would gather again to make trouble. ”

Xi Qitian smiled: "Didn't you do a good job? ”

Gong Jichang replied: "This is not your credit. My silver was snatched from their hands, it's time to spit it out, I will pay 10,000 taels to buy rice seeds and farm tools for these poor people. ”

Xi Qitian moved his semi-paralyzed hand joints and said, "Old learner, you still have a high consciousness." In this case, I will also give 10,000 taels to buy cattle and build houses for them, but if there is not enough manpower, we can also mobilize sergeants to help. ”

The rest of the generals saw that the commander and deputy marshal took the initiative to spit out the meat, and they also contributed one after another. You have 200 taels, I have 100 taels, and I quickly made up 30,000 taels.

The 50,000 taels of silver were directly managed by the quartermaster Zhu Rongchu, and five days later, batches of rice seeds, vegetable seeds, ploughing cattle, and farm tools arrived in the Crowpo area.

Gong Jichang also suffered a lot when he was a child, and he hated the rich and unkind the most, and the two slaps at the age of 12 were unforgettable.

Now that he has made war money, in the process of plowing the court and sweeping the holes, he saw the helpless eyes of the Miao people and the painful state of being hacked to death with a knife and burned by fire, and endured the torment again and again in his heart: Aren't the Miao people the people of the Qinghe Kingdom? The imperial court ordered to rob, kill, and burn all the light, does Tongzhi Zhongxing have to do this? I don't want to be a robber, others will do it, I'll grab a little more, keep it here for the time being, and then slowly use it for the people in the future......

"Rice seeds—"

"Cultivating the Ox-"

"Vegetable seeds—" ......

In the continuous shouting, Gong Jichang touched the scene and suddenly returned to two years ago......

Shidong refugee camp.

Everyone was lining up, leading the means of production to gradually disperse, only a woman in her 20s was still sobbing nearby. Her clothes were ragged, black and thin, and her hair was scattered, and through her dirty face, she could still see a bit of beauty.

The intermittent crying attracted Gong Jichang's attention, and he immediately took off his armor and stepped forward to ask, "Girl, why don't you go home and cry here?" ”

The girl did not answer, and cried even more. Gong Jichang had to ask again in Miao, and the girl relaxed her vigilance: "General, my family has been killed by your people, where do I still have a home?" ”

When Gong Jichang heard this, he was speechless for a while, yes, if the girl has a family, will she still use it to pretend to be pitiful here? Isn't it nonsense to ask yourself?

The little girl saw that Gong Jichang, who was wearing a short coat, was very strong, muscular, and could speak Miao language, and had no official frame, so she was very happy: Could he be my Ruyi Langjun? My parents and brothers died under his butcher's knife, and I couldn't show my love so quickly.

The little girl continued to cry: "Abba and Grandma, you died so miserably, Brother, where are you-"

After saying that, he staggered to the edge of the cliff, and when he was almost at the edge of the cliff, he made a feint to jump down. When I looked closely, the steep cliff below was two or three hundred meters deep, and I couldn't help but close my eyes in fright.

The moment she fell, she grabbed the branch of a small tree on the edge of the cliff and shouted desperately: "General, help me-"

He noticed that something was wrong with the little girl, so he kept following her, but he didn't expect her to really fall off the cliff. If I hadn't heard the voice shouting for help, I would have thought that I had killed someone alive today.

The sound came from the edge of the cliff, Gong Jichang rose into the air, flew to the edge of the cliff, and saw the little girl grabbing the branch with both hands, but she couldn't reach the little girl. I tried several times in a row, but it didn't work: "Quick, give me your hand-"

What should I do? Time passed second by second, the tree was too small, if Gong Jichang stepped on it to save her, he would definitely not be able to bear it, and if he didn't make it, both of them would fall into the abyss.

The sweat on the little girl's face became denser and denser, and her breathing became more and more rapid. "I can't hesitate any longer, by the way, don't I have a belt?" Gong Jichang scolded himself for being stupid, "Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter." ”

He quickly stood up, quickly untied his belt, which was more than a foot long, and threw it at the girl, which was wrapped around her waist. Gong Jichang stabilized her as soon as possible: "Little girl, tie the belt in a dead knot-" "I don't dare-"

"Don't be afraid—" The little girl shook her free hand and slowly tied a knot around her waist, and with a "click" the branch began to crack briefly.

"Okay, no?"

"Uh-"

The stone loosened with it.

Gong Jichang made a move to "turn back", kicking, dragging and flicking, the girl followed the belt and flew up the cliff, just landed, the roots of the small tree were completely out of the cliff, and fell heavily to the bottom of the valley, and then only heard the roar of the loose stone rolling down to the bottom of the valley.

After the girl came up, Gong Jichang scolded: "There is no interest, I didn't kill you in the war, and I still directed and acted in front of General Ben to jump off the cliff." ”

"Could it be that the general has already seen it?" The girl was a little embarrassed.

"If General Ben hadn't been careful, you would be lying at the bottom of the valley now!"

"The general rescued me, but I still have nowhere to go, so it's better to die." After saying that, he struggled and turned around and walked towards the edge of the cliff.

"If you really want to die, please do it yourself-" Gong Jichang was a little angry. After speaking, he didn't look back and wanted to leave, but he forgot that his belt had just been unfastened, and his pants fell off.

"Poof—" the little girl finally burst into tears and laughed, "General, where is your belt with me—"

The soldiers also came up at this time, and a bearded man shouted: "General, your pants have been taken off by your sister-in-law, and you still don't take him back." ”

"Where's my sister-in-law? Didn't see it. Pants it fell off on its own. Gong Jichang hurriedly lifted his pants to his waist, grabbed them tightly with one hand, and opened the other: "The belt is for me-"

"I don't give it, I want to get it myself!"

Saying that, the little girl ran up, Gong Jichang had no choice but to run to the already safe woman, the little girl was like a little rabbit, always unable to catch it.

After a while, Gong Jichang consumed too much physical strength to save the girl, and he was about to catch up, but he stepped on the belt, and the whole person fell on the little girl.

The little girl was pressed under her and couldn't move: "General, if you don't get up yet, I'm all crushed by you." "Look if you're still running—" Gong Jichang said.

"I'm not your wife, of course I have to run-" She reached out to tickle Gong Jichang and remembered.

Gong Jichang said with a smile: "A man who is afraid of itching is afraid of his wife, so I am not afraid of itching!" ”

"Is the general going to marry me?"

"Stinky beauty, you. You serve General Ben first. You have to give me a son! With that, the two rolled on the grass.

The sergeants were all happy and turned around: "General, sister-in-law, we didn't see anything-"

…… So, Gong Jichang married a wife Ran in Guimao County, and two years later (the ninth year of Tongqing), he gave birth to an only son - Gong Shengjie, which is often called the four retributions later.

Gong Jichang loves Ran's most much, not because she gave birth to a baby son, but because Ran's intelligence and tolerance, righteousness and wealth, which is in line with Gong Jichang's psychology of "killing people in the first half of his life and saving people in the second half of his life".

After soliciting Xi Qitian's opinion, Gong Jichang took the place of Xi Qitian, who was unwell, to carry out military affairs, and ordered the guerrillas Wen Guoxing, Tusi Liaoying, Songying and other Miao Lian, as well as Miao Shouma Dawu and Ou Yan Gang, etc., to place the corpses of the Qinghe Army below the mountainside of Niujiaopo and in the entire Crow Slope on the slope of the southern section of the Crow Slope, and each corpse was taken as a certificate, listed for registration, and then slaughtered cattle and horses, and the tribute sacrifice lasted for half a month.

Commander Su Yuanzhang was ordered to set up three camps in Crowpo, in order to supervise post-war affairs, and the lives and repatriation of more than 200,000 prisoners of war (including hungry and sleeping, refugees, and the disabled) were handled and disposed of by Zeng Biguang, governor of Guimao County, and Zhou Dawu, governor of Guimao County.

Not long after dealing with the post-war affairs of Crow Slope, Gong Jichang had to go to guard other places.