The Red Mansions

Chapter 964 Jia Heng: Raising Bandits to Respect Himself?When did he have this idea?
Datong Fucheng, the hall of the back house

The morning sun is slightly dewed, it is the season of spring in March, when the rose flowers in the courtyard are in full bloom, and the petals are floating with a dark fragrance, bright and vivid, and the rich fragrance slowly floats into the house.

In the wing room, next to a bookcase standing, Jia Heng looked at a map laid out on the desk, his eyes lingering on Juyongguan, thinking about the information delivered by the guards of the Jinyi Mansion earlier.

Xie Jing and Jiang Zining have been attacking and defending Juyongguan for ten days, but they have made no progress.

This is not surprising, because from Xuanhua, Huai to Juyongguan, this line of defense was originally for the Hulu cavalry, but now the city's fortifications have been used by Jurchen to attack them.

Except for the small number of elite guards left by Jurchen, there are also the remnants of the two banners of the Han army who were defeated by Xie Zaiyi, about 8000 people, relying on the city to hold on, is enough to stop tens of thousands of troops.

Chen Xiao walked over lightly from the side. The girl was wearing a beautifully embroidered flying fish suit, holding a plate of big pears in her hand, which had been peeled off and placed on the desk beside her. She couldn't help but sneered and said: "Your favorite Sydney."

This is when he was sleeping with Jia Heng in the past few days, and Jia Heng was holding Sydney and gnawing on it.

Jia Heng took a pear and said, "This pear is a bit small."

Chen Xiao: "???"

Seeing that the young man had already taken a bite and gorged himself, he didn't bother to fight with Jia Heng for a moment.

"The soldiers and horses are ready, when will we leave?" Chen Xiao asked.

Jia Heng said: "Let's go there later, have the Jurchen soldiers and horses outside the city retreated?"

Sitting on the chair next to Jia Heng, Chen Xiao also picked up a pear and ate it, and said in a low voice, "I've already retreated, just now E Zhe said that he would pursue."

Jia Heng pondered for a moment, then said: "Before the Jurchen left, they must have hidden several ambush soldiers. With the strength of our cavalry, even with E Zhe's soldiers and horses, it is not appropriate to pursue them."

Xie Zaiyi, Pang Shili, and Xie Jing took away many cavalry troops one after another. At this moment, there are only about [-] to [-] cavalry troops in the city.

Chen Xiao said softly: "The Jurchens in Beiping will definitely withdraw their troops at full speed after hearing that Huang Taiji died under the city of Ping'an Prefecture, and they may be too late to catch up now."

Because the entire city of Beiping is relatively close to the outside of the pass, it can be reached by fast horses in almost a day, but there is a time difference between Datong and Beiping.

When Jia Heng arrived at the place, all the Jurchen elites in Beiping had escaped.

Jia Heng nodded, and said: "The town army in Beiping did not dare to pursue, Xie Zaiyi has already led the troops to block the pass, let's just collect some results of the battle, and didn't place any hope at all."

This is also the embarrassment of the big man facing the Jurchen, who is not as powerful as the Jurchen. Since Jia Heng led the army to the north, every victory is due to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

For example, the more wins the less, such as the Hongyi Cannon, there are very few victories with almost the same strength.

"Actually, the Jurchen soldiers outside Datong City can pursue them, but it's fine not to pursue them." Chen Xiao nodded and said.

Jia Heng said: "There are not many soldiers and horses in the city..."

As he said that, he looked at the girl with a pure and beautiful appearance, and looked at himself with a faint expression, and his heart couldn't help but move slightly.

Chen Xiao's clear eyes under the willow-leaf eyebrows flickered, and Jia Heng looked at him uncomfortably. He leaned closer and whispered in the young man's ear, "Respect yourself."

Jia Heng: "..."

Raising the bandits' self-respect?When did he have this idea?Xiaoxiao, this is slander...

The elite of the Jurchen Two White Banners, the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian servants add up to 4 people, which is another mourning army. The cavalry in Datong City is really not sure, so they simply don't pursue it.

Moreover, Jurchen is extremely good at counter-killing with traces of blood. It is the Jurchen elite of the mourning army, who have the buff bonuses of "Seven Great Hatreds", "Invincible", and "Return to the teacher".

In case of a big defeat, the beautiful battle that was originally won will be stained.

As Jia Heng said, he stretched out his hand and pulled the slim and slender girl into his arms, with a youthful and beautiful breath accompanied by a faint fragrance, and said in a low voice: "I have some outrageous thoughts all day long."

Well, since the day they pleased each other, Xiaoxiao has no doubts about Xiaojiao's wife in his eyes.

Chen Xiao was held in Jia Heng's arms, a blush suddenly appeared on her clear and white cheeks, she lightly pressed her pink lips, and said softly: "Sooner or later, you will have a day when the monarch and his ministers will trust you, eh~"

Before she finished speaking, the girl felt that her lips softened, the shadows approached, and strands of warm breath came, making people flustered and unable to hold back.

After a while, Jia Heng gently caressed Chen Ling's cheek, sniffed the fragrance of the young girl's body, felt refreshed, and said in a gentle voice: "Let's take one step at a time, it's too early to say these things now."

Chen Xiao was silent for a moment, her crystal clear eyes were as bright as water, and she asked, "You went to Beiping Fucheng, do you want to rebuild the defense line of Jizhou and Beiping in Beiping Fu?"

Jia Heng picked the pear lightly, with a soft touch between his fingers, and said softly: "Although Mr. Li Ge is vigorous and resolute, but after all, he is a civil servant leading the army, and his understanding of pass and city defense is still a little off."

This is the natural limitation of civil servants, and it cannot be compensated for by being heavy and capable.

Chen Xiaoyu looked annoyed, knocked Jia Heng's hand off, her originally steady voice trembled a little, and said softly: "The soldiers and generals at the passes like Beiping and Jizhen need to be replaced again, otherwise the Jurchens will still invade and plunder the territory .”

Jia Heng looked solemn, and said in a low voice: "After this battle, the breach of Juyongguan can no longer be allowed to happen."

Previously, the breach of Juyongguan had caused an uproar in the public opinion in Beijing. If it hadn't been for the previous battle against the Xianglan Banner led by Jierhalang, the discussion in Beijing and China would have been boiling.

Now, in addition to raising the expectations of the great Han monarch and ministers, and starting from the national policy strategy, after the customs defenses were broken, the great Han continued to bleed, and the people in Hebei and other places would also move inward one after another.

Chen Xiao turned her gaze to the map, frowned, thought for a moment, and said softly: "That requires a reorganization of the defense forces in Jizhen, Xuanhua, Shandong, and Baoding."

Chen Han’s positioning of Beiping Fucheng has undergone several major changes. In the early days of the founding of the country, it was also an important northern town where Chen Han Taizu and Taizong visited the north. After the fall of Liaodong during the Longzhi period, King Zhao was in Beiping Mansion, and then Jizhen and Beiping Capital Division , Hebei admirals defend each other.

The admiral's full name is the admiral's military affairs chief officer, but it is only called the chief soldier in the border town. It can be said that there are a large number of soldiers and horses stationed in Beiping.

Jia Heng said: "So I need to go there in person. After this battle, Mr. Li Ge will probably return to Beijing for a while."

It is impossible for a cabinet assistant to sit outside for a long time. After this war, the emperor will definitely call him back to Beijing to balance the already somewhat unbalanced court situation.

Chen Xiao said: "Then what about Beiping?"

Jia Heng said softly: "We can only choose good generals, so we have to re-arrange the defense line. After Chahar and Mongolia are attached, Xuanda and Dacheng can be said to be as safe as rocks, and the rest is the northwest and Ji Town."

"Northwest?" Chen Xiao's eyes flickered.

Jia Heng said: "There are a lot of people living there, and it was originally guarded by the King Jin's family of Xining County. If Jurchen wants to contain my big man, it is the most suitable place to cause trouble."

It can be said that the whole side matter is a game of chess, and the whole body is affected by one move.

After Jurchen experienced this defeat, the high-level officials of the Qing Dynasty must have learned from it.

Fortunately, Duoduo was dead and Shuotuo was detained in Shenjing. Apart from the sons and grandsons of Yuetuo, Azige, Dorgon, and Daishan, there were not many famous Jurchen generals.

Jia Heng got tired of holding Chen Xiao for a while, looked down at the girl whose long and narrow eyes were filled with mist, smiled, and said softly: "Okay, it's getting late, we should set off."

Chen Xiao let out a "hmm", straightened her clothes, then got up, and couldn't help but said, "It's all saliva."

Jia Heng: "..."

After the two tidied up their skirts, they left the hall.

At this time, Li Shu, the guard of the Jinyi Mansion outside, reported: "Captain, the army and horses are ready."

Jia Heng's face was calm, and he ordered: "The army is leaving."

Jia Heng and Chen Xiao led Wan Qi towards Beiping Mansion.

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Juyongguan

Before the pass, the morning sun shone on the ditches and the broken weapons. Corpses were lying in disorder on the black soil. The black smoke of the burning city and the banner of the big hole were messily wrapped around a group of soldiers.

In the military tent, Xie Jing took the water brought by the soldiers, washed his face, then wiped his face with a towel, sat at a small lacquered wooden table, and began to have breakfast.

In the hands of the Han army, Juyongguan was like paper, but in the hands of the Qing army, it gave full play to the advantages of being difficult to overcome and condescending.

In the past ten days, the Han army has repeatedly attacked, trying to regain Juyongguan, but no progress has been made. Later, the casualties were too great, and the Han army had to temporarily suspend their flags and drums, and confront the Qing army in the city.

At this time, Jiang Zining proposed to go around the Yanshan Mountains from Juyongguan, attack the rear of Juyongguan, and immediately led [-] cavalry to go.

Jiang Zining had just left, Xie Jing was not in a hurry to attack, but surrounded Juyongguan City to inquire about other passes.

The day before yesterday, Wei Feige of the Jinyi Mansion who accompanied him mentioned in a letter that Jia Heng had won a great victory in Ping'an Prefecture, and told Xie Jing to attack Juyongguan.

Today, Xie Jing is about to attack Juyongguan with his whole army, so as to block the escape route of the invaders Jurchen.

"General, the Guancheng seems to be empty." At this time, a small school in the Beijing camp entered the military tent, and said to Xie Jing who was having breakfast, cupping his hands.

Xie Jing was stunned when he heard this, put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and asked, "The Jurchens are gone?"

Not long after, the lieutenant general Du Zhi who came with Xie Jing and a few soldiers entered the army tent and reported: "General Xie, it seems that all the soldiers and horses in the pass city have withdrawn last night."

Xie Jing frowned, his complexion changed suddenly, he had a bad premonition, and said, "Go and see."

Before arriving at Guancheng, he saw that the dragon flag that had been flying above Guancheng was empty, and the guarding soldiers were nowhere to be seen.

"Send someone into the pass city to have a look." Xie Jing ordered with a gloomy face.

Not long after, the sentinel who entered the city came out, cupped his hands towards Xie Jing and said, "General Xie, the Jurchen evacuated overnight and left behind a lot of things."

After Tong Tulai, Ming An and Xiang Hongqi's vice-dutong received the news that Daishan had withdrawn, they abandoned Guancheng and headed straight for Beiping Fucheng, then turned north.

Xie Jing's face was gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "The Jurchens have not gone far at this moment, come, take over Guancheng, and quickly pursue!"

The general had won a great victory in Ping'an Prefecture, and the Jurchen army was shaken. It was the time to make contributions. Now that these Jurchen received the news, they had already started to evacuate, and the cooked ducks flew away!

When Xie Jing led the troops to enter Juyongguan City, it could be seen that some luggage and flags were discarded everywhere, but the Jurchen soldiers and horses were nowhere to be seen.

Xie Jing didn't have time to stop, and sent a sentry cavalry to chase the movement of the Jurchen soldiers and horses, and then led the army to chase the Jurchen cavalry.

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But time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another five or six days passed. Jia Heng set off from the Datong Cavalry Army to Xuanhua. After passing through Xuanhua City, he successively received military intelligence reports from the Eastern Front battlefield.

First of all, Xie Jing from Juyongguan made an apology to the military newspaper, mentioning that the Jurchen soldiers and horses had evacuated from the pass, and they were not aware of it in time, so they asked the general to punish them.

Then Xie Zaiyi, barely catching up with the Qing troops who withdrew from the pass to clear the two Red Banners and Zhenglan Banners, fought against the elite Qing troops left behind by Dai Shan outside the Qinglong Pass. escape.

After that, Cao Bianjiao's military report led his troops to chase the two red flags to Miyun, and fought against Adali, the king of Duoluo County in the Qing Dynasty. Bai, after suffering this delay, it was one step too late.

The result of the entire Western Front is roughly like this.

It was basically the same as Jia Heng expected, neither too big nor too small.

And this time because of Jurchen's conquest of Chahar Mongolia's invasion of Han territory, it was also at the end of March and early April, and the battlefields on the east and west fronts gradually came to an end.

Because of Huang Taiji's sudden death, the war that might have been delayed for half a year ended without a problem in just over two months.

On this day, the sky is clear and the spring is bright.

The [-] cavalry army led by Jia Heng also approached Beiping Fucheng. In the direction of vision, the tall and majestic city wall was far away, and the scouts were approaching the city. matter.

Chen Xiao was riding a horse beside her. It seemed that the beautiful scenery along the way put the girl in a good mood. Under the crown of the mountain character Wingless, the bright and beautiful face was white and rosy, with fragrant skin and jade skin. She said in a brisk tone: "This battle, Jurchen Although Chahar Mongolia was regained and its strength increased greatly, it also lost troops and generals. The Xianglan Banner and Mongolian soldiers lost a total of [-] soldiers. Six thousand soldiers and horses, two thousand soldiers and horses with two red flags, front and rear, Jurchen combined Mongolian and Han armies, the total casualties were nearly [-] soldiers and horses."

Jia Heng looked at Chen Xiao who was at the side, and it was rare to see the happy smile on Chen Xiao's beautiful and beautiful face, and he was also infected by it, and said softly: "You are very clear about this account."

In fact, although there were a few big victories, Jurchen's losses seemed to be not many.

Because whether it is the Battle of Jierhalang on the Grassland or Huang Taiji's Battle of Pingan Prefecture, once scattered and fled in the vast grassland, it is often difficult to gather and annihilate them.

However, after the Jurchen cavalry fled to the grasslands in all directions, the Han army did not know the route, so they did not dare to pursue rashly. In other words, they still went deep into the desert, and the conditions for chasing death and chasing north were not mature.

On the contrary, they are not as good as Ezhe, who are used to the Mongolians on the grasslands. This is probably because Ezhe was eager to pursue the elite of Huang Taiji's headquarters.

However, it is actually difficult to shake the elite of the Jurchen headquarters based on the Ezhe Division and the Jingying Cavalry in Datong City.

Chen Xiao said, and said in a clear voice: "The people from Beiping Fucheng are here."

Jia Heng picked up the binoculars and looked up, and saw the tall and majestic Beiping Fucheng, the Wuding Gate suddenly opened, and Li Zan and the officials of the Beiping Metropolis had already left the city to welcome them.

At this moment, Li Zan looked at the boy in the python suit on the horse, with excitement in his eyes.

Approaching the city of Beiping, Jia Heng dismounted from his horse, threw the reins to the guards at the side, and looked at the cabinet secretary in python and jade belt, with a smile of reunion.

Such humility is naturally to guard against being domineering when others criticize him for his military exploits.

In fact, he was able to lead the Beijing camp with a weak crown. In addition to his achievements in quelling chaos and training troops, he could not do without the strong recommendation of Li Zan, a cabinet minister and minister of the Ministry of War.

"Zi Yu." Li Zan looked excitedly at the boy in the python suit, and his voice was familiar.

"Ge Lao." Jia Heng also took a few quick steps and saluted the black-bearded and white-faced official.

If you want to match a BGM for the occasion, it should be played at this moment: "Every time I see you, there is a strong wind, and every time I see you, there is always a thunder~"

Strictly speaking, he is really Di Renjie Benjie, from the Central Plains to Jiangnan, and then to Datong...

Jia Heng suppressed some messy thoughts in his heart, walked a few steps quickly, and said in a gentle voice: "I haven't seen you in two months since the farewell in Beijing, Lao Ge has lost a lot."

At this moment, behind Li Zan, Kang Hong, Admiral of Hebei, Lu Qi, Admiral of Shandong, and the other generals of the capital of Peking all looked at the boy in python with complicated eyes.

Since the founding of the country for a hundred years, there is no one who can stand shoulder to shoulder with young Wu Xun.

It can be said that a series of battles have proved Jia Heng's outstanding military talent, the minister of Zhu Guo, the hero of the general, the posture of Wei Huo...

There is no doubt that in the next ten or 20 years, the war against captives will be handled by the Marquis of Yongning. No, maybe after returning to Beijing, he will be proclaimed a prince.

The young prince under 20 years old, not relying on the shadow of his ancestors, what a hero this is.

Cao Bianjiao, on the other hand, looked fixedly at the young man, his eyes fixed for a moment, and his heart was filled with reverence.

Standing beside the generals, the Commander of the Jinyi Mansion, Qiu Liang, stared closely at the boy in the python suit, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Back then, when I was dispatched from Shenjing to Beiping, it must be the handwriting of the Marquis of Yongning behind it.

After exchanging pleasantries with Jia Heng, Li Zan looked at the Hebei generals aside and introduced, "This is Zou Jing, deputy envoy of economic strategy, Kang Hong, governor of Hebei, and Lu Qi, governor of Shandong..."

After introducing them one by one, everyone came up to salute with their fists clasped together. Jia Heng greeted them one by one, and marched into the Beiping City behind him.

All the soldiers in Fucheng looked at the Jingying cavalry with a well-groomed military appearance and clear banners with admiration.

Meanwhile, the local officials and gentry in the Beiping prefecture city stared intently at Jia Heng who rode on the maroon horse and walked side by side with Li Zan.

Marquis Yongning is so young...

This was the first impression of the local capital commander of Beiping Mansion when he saw Jia Heng.

Peking Metropolitan Government Office
Jia Heng sat down with Li Zan, but did not take the main seat.

Li Zan smiled and said, "Ziyu, did you bring the head of Huang Taiji with you? Can you let me wait and see the head of the slave chief?"

As soon as these words came out, all the generals in the hall looked at the boy with burning eyes, their faces full of anticipation.

As a group of Hebei generals who were harassed by Huang Taiji, they were no strangers to high-ranking Jurchen figures.

Jia Heng said: "Jia Fang."

In fact, I can also detect Li Zan's thoughts and rebuild the confidence of the generals in Hebei. So what if the Jurchen is brave?All the heads of the slave chieftain Huang Taiji remained in the big man.

"The last general is here." A young general came from the outside and accepted his orders.

Jia Heng said: "Go and fetch Huang Taiji's head."

When Jia Fang heard the words, she clasped her fists and obeyed, then turned around and took the head.

(End of this chapter)