Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 89
Time goes back to the middle of March in the 49th year of Qianlong.

Emperor Qianlong, who was stationed in Yangzhou, received two memorials from the Military Aircraft Department and Qinggui at the same time.

After reading the two memorials, the 73-year-old Qianlong compared each other for a long time, and then called He Shen, who accompanied him on the southern tour, to inquire carefully.

Later, Qianlong clearly pointed out in the decree sent to the Military Aircraft Office and the Jilin General's Mansion: "...the bannermen Yalha, Seldan and others dare to escape and kill officers and soldiers, and the crime of love is very abhorrent. After escaping, he will hide along the way, and even go to Bear Island; or sneak into the mountains and forests, there is no certainty. It is hereby instructed that the governor of Qinggui will order the civil and military personnel, and the arrest and arrest services will be carried out as usual.

At the end of March, as the mountains of ice on the coast near Hunchun gradually melted, the Qing army water camp in Hunchun finally began to be dispatched.

This time, five large boats (four-board boats) and three small boats (three-board boats) were dispatched, carrying a total of 500 armored soldiers. The Hunchun co-leader Wu Teshan led the team to land on Xiongdao.

Each of the five large boats carried one bronze cannon and two odd cannons; the small boats carried only one odd cannon.

In mid-April, Toketong, who had camped and waited for more than a month on the opposite side of the Xiongdao Strait, received a letter from Hunchun in advance, and according to the agreed time, took a dozen small fishing boats recruited, carrying armored 200 soldiers landed on Bear Island in batches.The landing times of the two teams were only two days apart.

So far, 700 Qing troops have gathered on Bear Island, which covers an area of ​​less than [-] square kilometers.

Leaving aside the ghostly Wate Mountain, Tok Tonga, who was sent from the Jilin General's Mansion, believed that under such a powerful force, the fugitives on the Bear Island would surely be unable to escape!
The Ninggu Tower, which is [-] miles away, and the Jilin General's Mansion, which is thousands of miles away, are anxiously waiting for Hunchun's investigation report.

As soon as these Qing troops landed, regardless of their fatigue, under the leadership of the leaders of each team, they started a large search of the whole island from the west and north, east and south.

First of all, after crossing the strait, the team of Toktonga found two damaged wooden houses in the woodland south of the beach.

Through the analysis of some traces left in the wooden house, at least ten people once lived here.

Immediately afterwards, in the afternoon of the same day, a team of Qing soldiers under the command of Uteshan, who searched south, found the scene left after large-scale logging on the southwest side of Bear Island.

The leader who led the search looked at the stumps left after logging in front of him, and couldn't help but gasped.

How many people can do this!
The leader did not rush to lead the team to continue the search south, but dismounted to inspect the stakes carefully, and counted the number of felled trees.

These Qing troops found that almost all of the felled tree stumps were sawed off, except for the marks of axe.Moreover, on many tree stumps that can only be hugged by two people, the incisions are flat, indicating that these big trees were sawed off at one time!Obviously, these woodcutters are not only equipped with axes, but also with very sharp saws.

All the finds prove that these people on the island carried a large amount of high-quality ironware.The leader of the team speculated that these unknown people must also be equipped with weapons of good quality.

The Qing army did not dare to go forward to continue the search, but immediately went back to report to the co-leader of Wute Mountain.After hearing about it, Uteshan was also secretly shocked.But even so, he didn't dare to neglect, and immediately gathered his men and horses to continue the search in the southwest direction.

In the evening, a part of Ute Mountain, which was searching in a fan-shaped surface, finally found traces of a large-scale camp in the narrow strip on the southwest side of Bear Island.

Because the size of the camp that Zhao Xin arranged before was a square with a side length of 200 meters, and some not-so-deep trenches were dug outside the blast-proof wall.So even though it was cleaned up during the evacuation, there were still a lot of traces left behind.

Uteshan looked at the ruins of the camp in surprise, and his hands went numb.How many people must have lived here? !

The Qing soldiers, either with knives or guns, were scratching in the grass, trying to find more clues.The search continued until it was dark, and the Qing soldiers with torches couldn't see clearly, so they gave up.

The cautious Utsan did not dare to camp independently, and he had already dispatched a sentry to look for Toktong A.After contacting each other, Uteshan decided to cooperate with each other.

After the two teams met, they spent the night in fear, and continued their search the next day.

After checking back and forth for a few days, Uteshan and Toktonga finally confirmed that the people on the island had disappeared.

However, the results of the search still shocked them.Based on the cut down trees and the size of the abandoned camp, at least 300 people lived here.

But where did those people from Tomohogo go?
After searching on Bear Island for several days, many of the armored soldiers below had grown impatient.

However, after careful discussion between Uteshan and Toktonga, they still felt that they could not give up so easily.After all, Toktonga stood across the strait for more than a month, and no one escaped from Bear Island at all.

However, the passing of people leaves traces, and the passing of geese leaves a sound. There are more than 100 armored soldiers and more than 200 horses. How could there be no traces at all? !

Utsan and Toktonga held a military meeting the next day, and they made it clear to the leaders and leaders below that they would re-search the whole island from today onwards, not to spare every cave and valley, and even every one of them. Look carefully for tree holes.If there is still no result this time, then board the ship and continue to search the remaining thirteen islands in the South China Sea.

Two days later, a team of Qing soldiers finally found the clue on a slope north of the central part of Bear Island.

Because it was already April, the dry weeds all over the island began to appear green.However, the pair of Qing soldiers found that there were four pieces of land on this slope where the weeds were growing very strangely; other places had just begun to emerge, and the weeds here were actually more lush than other places, and some of the weeds were even Flowering.

Sensing the strange Qing soldiers, they stabbed the ground fiercely with the spear in their hands.With one stab, it stabbed into the ground more than a foot deep.Why is the soil so loose here?
"It's not right, there's something weird here." A Qing soldier said.

"Pull it out." The leader said.

The Qing soldiers pulled out the tip of the gun, and the leader took the spear, carefully looked at the color of the soil on the tip of the gun, and put the tip of the gun close to his nose to smell it.

"There are people buried here! Dig it up!" The leader suddenly said to his subordinates.

Immediately, he said to a Qing soldier: "Go to the camp to get some tools, and then ask some people to come and dig together."

After more than half an hour, fifty Qing soldiers came, and the leader was actually the leader of the Japanese mountain.

"See Lord Xie Ling!" The leader led his Qing soldiers to kneel and salute.

"Let's all get up. Tell me what's going on." Uteshan raised the whip in his hand and asked.

The leader clenched his fists and said, "My lord, I have been to the northwest to fight before, and I have encountered a similar situation. I estimate that there are people buried under these fields."

"You take my token and go back and call 300 more people, and take all the shovels in the camp." Wutshan ordered Goshha beside him.

After Goshha took the token and took the command, Uteshan greeted the fifty Qing soldiers who came with him: "Dismount! Dig up here."

After more than two hours, with the joint efforts of hundreds of people, the four large pits where Zhao Xin led the refugees to bury the bodies were all dug up, and [-] bodies were carried out from the pits by the Qing soldiers. .

Fortunately, the weather was not too hot at this time, and the faces of these corpses were still well preserved.After more than a dozen Qing soldiers wiped the faces of the corpses with water-soaked cloths, Tomo Huoguo, the leader of the inlaid yellow flag, was finally found!

Hearing the news, Tok Tonga covered his nose and looked closer, and saw a hole the size of a little finger on the forehead of Tomohoguo's corpse.

After taking two glances, he asked his subordinates to turn the corpse over again.Sure enough, the back of the head was a hole the size of a fist, and the bones in the back of the head were gone.

"This was shot by the fire gun?" Toktong'a was shocked, the thief actually had a fire gun!
After another hour, after checking one by one, the result came out.

A leader walked up to Wuteshan and Tuoketonga who were sitting on the maza, knelt down on one knee and said, "My lords, there are a total of 93 corpses here. After careful identification, there are all [-] of them, [-] of them are civilian husbands. Among them are Zuoling Tomohoguo, Xiaoqi School..."

"Wait." Wu Teshan interrupted suddenly.He remembered that there were a total of one hundred and two armored soldiers in the Xianghuang Banner. Why were there 12 people missing?
Toktong A glanced at Woteshan and asked, "Lord Woteshan, what's the matter?"

"Twelve armored soldiers are missing."

"This..." Toktong A was stunned for a moment, and then blurted out: "Abducted?"

Uteshan nodded: "Almost." He said to the leader again: "You continue to speak."

The leader continued: "There is one person in the Xiaoqi School, and ten people in the leader. It has been found out that the cause of death of six people was arrows, and four people were hacked by sharp weapons, and the rest were hit by fire cannons. And die. It's a warhead found by the underlings."

After the leader finished speaking, he lifted a warhead that had been broken into several petals.Ignoring the filth on the bullet, Toktonga took it with his hands, and after rubbing it with his fingers a few times, the original color was revealed.

Toktonga frowned, and said to Uteshan: "This is not lead. No, this warhead is double-layered, with lead inside and steel outside!" I have seen it, but I have never seen such a projectile.

He turned his head to Utershan and said, "So many people died of fire, how many fires did this thief have? Where did they come from?"

Uteshan pondered for a long time before slowly saying: "According to my guess, these thieves have at least [-] fire guns, otherwise it is impossible to wipe out Tomo Huoguo and the others at one time. Yes! Not only [-], but even [-]. Only then can we surround them all and not let one go.”

At this time, Uteshan tightly held the whip in his hand, and the sound of the knuckles creaking sounded, and the fingers were all white, showing that the force was great.

He thought of the words the shaman said during the divination before...

Ten days later, both Ning Guta and Jilin Ulla received an urgent report from Hunchun.

Jilin general Qinggui was furious!When he was about to write an excerpt to report the situation to the imperial court, he received an edict from Qianlong, ordering him to immediately go to Beijing to take over as minister of the Ministry of Industry and wait for the emperor to summon him after his southern tour.Meanwhile, the new Jilin General is already on his way.

This person is the 47-year-old Aixinjueluo Du Erjia, who was once the deputy governor of Miyun.

Speaking of which, Durga is the fifth grandson of Nurhaci, and he is a direct descendant of Tabai, the sixth son of Nurhaci.This person served as the deputy capital of Zhenghong Banner, the deputy capital of Manchuria, the minister of Firearms Camp, the deputy capital of Mongolia, the deputy capital of Aihui City, and the deputy capital of Miyun.

Qing Gui pondered over Qianlong's will for a long time, but couldn't figure it out, so he ordered someone to invite his staff.This person has followed Qinggui for many years, since Qinggui served as Ili Counselor in the 36th year of Qianlong, he has been following him.

The staff took the emperor's decree with both hands and read it carefully for a long time, and then handed it back to Qinggui with both hands.

"How?" Qinggui asked after placing the edict.

"Dongweng, you've been worrying too much. Your Majesty is protecting you." The staff said with a smile, straightening his beard.

"how do I say this?"

"Dongweng, you are an upright gentleman, and your behavior is quite the style of the ancients. I think you are patronizing to do the things in front of you, and you are only thinking of repaying the emperor's kindness, so you ignored the joints."

"Go ahead." Qing Gui understood a little.

"In this matter, it is obvious that the emperor is protecting you. According to the students' judgment, the matter over Hunchun is not so simple, and it is very likely to be a trip to muddy waters. At this point, the emperor sent General Fengen (Durjia inherited it) Bong-eun's title) take your seat..."

When Qing Gui heard this, he completely understood.He himself always wanted to imitate his father Yin Jishan, who could not only work in the military camp, but also run around in the river.So even if he was sent to a place of bitter cold, he was happy.

Now the emperor didn't want himself to be caught in the quagmire of Hunchun, and sent the fierce Duerjia to take over for him.This is the emperor protecting himself.

Thinking of the emperor's kindness and care for his family's three generations (Qinggui's grandfather is Yin Tai and his father is Yin Jishan), Qinggui couldn't help but his eyes were slightly sour, and tears were coming out of his eyes.He knelt down facing south and bowed his head respectfully three times.

(End of this chapter)