Xian Sun of the Ning Mansion of the Red Chamber

Chapter 123 The old man's letter
May [-]th is the day when the Hunan army camp went north to march.

It was just that early in the morning, rumors about the appearance of Yinghuo Shouxin appeared in the sky last night spread in the barracks. As Jia Ying expected, after nearly 20 days of training, the morale of the army that was finally gathered was hit by an unprecedented blow.Fortunately, one-third of the soldiers in this battalion were old soldiers drawn from the guards, so that the morale of the army would not be instantly slackened.

Jia Ying had expected these things for a long time. The soldiers watching the night watched the sky last night. Even if Jia Ying ordered it to be sealed, it couldn't be sealed.He can't kill all the soldiers who are on duty at night!It's better to keep this kind of thing out of the way. Instead of letting them discuss it in private, it's better to put it on the surface. If you talk about it a lot and see it a lot, you will get used to it!Of course, the premise is that someone needs to stand up and break their fear of superstition!At this time, the importance of the commander-in-chief of a battalion is reflected.

Thus, Jia Ying began the first lecture since the establishment of the Hunan Army Camp!
"Brothers! Today is the day for our Hunan army camp to go to war! Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a short time. Tell me, why did you join the army?"

Jia Ying stood on the high platform of the school field, dressed in military uniform, with scales shining brightly under the sunlight, tall and straight, with a heroic appearance!

It's just that as his voice fell, no one was born to echo.Jia Ying stared at the soldiers under the high platform with scorching eyes, and said with a sneer, "Why, all of them have become women? Don't you even dare to say what's in your heart? Don't say it, Well, then I will speak for you!"

He pointed to Babli, who stood under the high platform, standing tall and majestic like a chicken, and said: "This big man, you have all seen it! The purpose of his joining the army is to have a full meal! Three pots of rice for one meal." , You heard me right, you use bowls, and he counts by basins!"

There was a burst of laughter from the audience, and Babli, who was shaped like an iron tower, showed a simple and honest smile that was uglier than crying, and there were two blushes on his cheeks. This guy was actually shy, which attracted people around him even more Laughed a lot.

"Why, you all laugh at him, don't most of you have the same purpose as him? You can only have food when you are a soldier, and you can keep your fill!"

Jia Ying looked at Babli again, and asked loudly, "Babli, come and tell everyone, will you be full after you come to the barracks?"

Baburi blushed, lowered his head, and said in a voice the size of a mosquito: "I can eat enough."

When Jia Ying heard this, she cursed with a smile, "Why the fuck are you talking like a woman when you're full? Speak louder so that everyone can hear. Can you be full?"

"Yes!" A roar like a beast's roar came from above the school field.

"Okay! If you want to fill your stomachs, I, Jia Ying, will not be stingy with the food. You can eat as much as you want! You guys also tell me that the quartermaster of our Hunan Army Battalion has deducted a lot from you." Two grains? If there is, I will kill him now! Tell me, is there any!" Jia Ying shouted loudly.

"No no!"

At this moment, the emotions of the soldiers on the school field were finally aroused by Jia Ying, and they shouted loudly, resounding through the sky, and the quartermaster standing on the side of the team raised his head and straightened his chest!

"Okay! You have eaten the food, then let me ask everyone, do you know where the food comes from?" Jia Ying asked here.

"Food is of course grown in the ground, so it's possible that it can grow from the belly of the little lady!" A soldier joked.

"That's right! If it can grow from the belly of a young lady, our men won't come to serve as soldiers, marry a lady and go home, wouldn't it be enough to open up wasteland and cultivate land every day! Haha!"

"With your small body, can you bear it?"

"I'll fuck your mother's eyes, which eye can't see me!"

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Jia Ying raised her hand to stop the booing of the girls, and said loudly: "That's right! Only when food is grown in the ground can everyone have food. But now, the rebels of the White Lotus Sect have wreaked havoc in Huguang for several years, making people Those who had fields were unable to cultivate the land, and those who had grain were robbed by them, and the young and strong who could cultivate the land were forcibly taken away by them. If no one was planting the fields, could the people still collect grain? The people had no grain, The imperial court can’t collect taxes! Without the imperial court’s taxes and rations, all of you soldiers will have to drink the northwest wind and go hungry! Tell me, do you want to go hungry?”

"No! We want to have a full meal!"

"That's right! I joined the army just to get enough to eat, so why make us hungry!"

"that is."

At first, it was still in twos and threes, but in the end, the soldiers of the whole battalion were making a fuss!
Jia Ying nodded in satisfaction and said, "That's right! No one wants to go hungry. Whoever steals our food is our enemy! But now, it's the rebels from the White Lotus Sect who have snatched your food from the common people. Army rations, now, I will take you from their hands, take back the rations they robbed you of, and then take them back! But now, look at your appearance, before the army goes out, you are discouraged! Just you guys You are a coward, you deserve to die from starvation!"

Jia Ying pointed to the gate and shouted to everyone: "Did you see that? The gate of the camp is open there. If anyone is afraid, get out of the Xiang army camp as soon as possible! I, Jia Ying, was born in a public residence, and my ancestor Ning Rong Second Duke, he was conferred with military merits, I don't want my ancestors to know that his descendants have brought out a bunch of cowards, I, Jia Ying, can't afford to lose that man!"

Everyone lowered their heads!
"Oh? It seems that you still know the word shame! I also know that many of you are here for meritorious service and military merits. No one wants to be a mud leg for the rest of their lives! Now it's time to make meritorious deeds, but what about you! Are all of you afraid? Has a small vision blocked your ambition to become a marquis? A man, a real man, all achievements are achieved immediately, relying on the swords and spears in our hands, not the old man God! Tell me, are you willing to be mud legs for the rest of your life?"

"Not reconciled!"

"That's right! I can do a prince or general or anything like that!"

"It's the prince and general Xiangning who has a kindness!" Someone reminded him next to him.

"Fuck the 'kind', I have a kind too!"

Jia Ying raised her hand again to silence, with a solemn face, she said loudly: "Okay! This is a man! I'm here to tell you that I, Jia Ying, was appointed by His Majesty to visit the Imperial Academy, and to supervise him. Yushi, my family has hairpin tassels for generations, and the Jia family is even a family with two princes. I also assure you here that our Hunan military camp will reward those who have made meritorious deeds. I will personally recommend those who have made outstanding achievements to His Majesty. No one in Huguang would dare I am greedy for your achievements! You are willing to make contributions with me, and you will be crowned princes with a strong horse!"

"I'm waiting for it!"

"I will follow you to the death!"

Small people, also have the shrewdness of small people.The general is choosing brave soldiers, so why don't the soldiers know how to choose the leader!When going out to war, only with the right master can you have the possibility of making meritorious deeds, and your meritorious deeds will not be corrupted.And Jia Ying, who came from a noble family like this, and can go straight to the sky, isn't he the leader they want?

Can following a general who has no background and no background enjoy the same treatment as following a general who was born in a princely mansion and a family of hairpin tassels for generations?

Don't look at them all with mud legs, but the calculation in their hearts is clear!Jia Ying's guarantee is to relieve their worries!

"All officers and soldiers listen to the order! The sun, the moon, the mountains and the rivers will be forever, and the great rivers and mountains will be forever! The Hunan Army Camp will surely win!" Jia Ying shouted with arms open.

"Victory! Victory! Victory!"

Jia Ying strode down from the high platform, got on her horse, and galloped around the school grounds. Mu Enci, Zhou Xier, Ba Bushou and the rest of the guards were also in armor, holding up the banner of the Hunan Army Camp, hunting against the wind to the sound of drums!
Jia Ying, who returned to the front of the high platform of the school field, unsheathed her long knife and directed it to the north, saying loudly: "Dajun, move!"

"Master Wei, our Xiang army camp is one step ahead, and you lead the soldiers of the guards to follow closely behind. After three days, we must reach the foot of Wuchang city. Do you understand?" Watching the team winding like a long dragon slowly heading north, it landed on the ground. Afterwards, Jia Ying invited Wei Datong to warn him.

"Your Imperial Envoy, don't worry, the general will live up to his fate!" Wei Datong, also in armor, said solemnly with his fists clasped.

Wei Datong, who is nearly [-] years old, looks radiant at the moment. How can he not understand that Huguang is about to change, so many people with official ranks above him are taken into prison by Jia Ying, and the vacant How can no one fill those positions?Although he is more tactful in dealing with the world, it does not mean that he does not have the desire to take a step forward. Now he has jumped from a fifth-rank envoy to a third-rank commander of the guard, and the position of commander of the capital has been overthrown. Cen Pingnan occupied it, but he could still think about the position of commanding the acquaintance.

Jia Ying nodded when she heard the words, and then asked Mu Enci, "When will King Nan'an's army arrive?"

Mu Enci stood up and replied, "The first battalion of two thousand cavalrymen in the vanguard has probably arrived at Hengzhou Mansion at this moment. As for the main force of the army, it may take five or six days later than ours to arrive."

After Jia Ying heard this, a relaxed expression appeared on his face. He knew that there was a strong cavalry force in the Zhen'an army, which was the elite of Nan'an King. There were only more than [-] people in the entire Zhennan camp. They dispatched two thousand at once, and with this cavalry in hand, their chances of winning have increased by a few points.

It takes three years to train an archer to be qualified. It is not a matter of time to train a cavalryman, but a matter of financial resources. The fodder money for raising a war horse is enough to raise ten soldiers. The reason why there are only more than [-] people in the entire Zhennan camp, if there are more, the King of Nan'an will not be able to support them.

As for Jia Ying's Xiang army camp, more than half of them were hastily armed villagers, and only one-third of the soldiers were veterans selected from the guards, and archers accounted for nearly half of them. The cavalry and the firearms battalion were empty, but this time, one or two hundred horses, as well as some mules and donkeys were mobilized from nearby counties and counties to speed up the march.

After explaining some follow-up matters, Jia Ying was the first to hit the horse and go out: "Let's go!"

With a group of personal guards behind him carrying the banner, he chased after the army.

The army marched halfway, but saw a messenger rushing from the direction of Changsha Mansion, but brought a letter from the capital for Jia Ying.

Calculating the time, it has been almost a month since I left Beijing, and I don't know how everything is going well in the mansion?The younger sisters probably have grown up a lot, will Daiyu miss her brother Yinger?The future father-in-law, Lin Ruhai, should be in Beijing now, how is his health?

After only half a year in Beijing, I turned around and realized that I had already left so many worries in the capital.

The letter was written by Lin Ruhai, the future father-in-law, but after reading the letter, Jia Ying's eyebrows were full of clouds.

The whole letter of the old man can be summed up as follows: "Ying'er, my illness is difficult to cure, and I am afraid that fate is true, so Daiyu entrusts it to you. You are in Huguang, don't be impulsive in everything, and you must protect yourself. Stop worrying me and Yu'er, let me entrust you with inhumanity!"

Jia Ying recalled the appearance of Lin Ruhai she saw in Yangzhou back then, and naturally she believed it in her heart, and worried about Daiyu for a while, this girl might cry again all day long!
At the same time, he also kept Lin Ruhai's advice in mind, patted the armor on his body, and thought: "This meeting should be all right!"

After thinking about it, I still called the scribes, got a pen and paper, and prepared to reply a letter.

Wuchang City, Chu Palace.

"Jia Ying and the others moved? How many soldiers and horses are there? How far is it from Wuchang Mansion?" Chu Wang Yang Huang asked one of his subordinates.

"Back to the lord, Jia Ying led 3000 people first, and now it is probably near Yueyang, and it is about a day and a half away from Wuchang City. There is also the guard army in southern Hunan, led by Wei Datong, the former governor of Changsha Wei Town, Follow behind Jia Ying's army."

"Is it just the 3000 men he put together impromptu? Heh, just because of those mud legs holding fire sticks, they want to fight me? As for the Xiangnan Weisuo, those people who only know how to drink and gamble, hum." Yang Huang sneered, and asked again, "Where's Feng Hengshi?"

"Back to the lord, Feng Hengshi, escorted by Yue Zixing, left the city for Jiangxia County!"

But I heard the official of the Wangfu who was at the side say: "Your Majesty, the auspicious day we originally set is May [-]th, so we may have to advance it. Moreover, we couldn't block Feng Hengshi in Wuchang City."

Yang Huang sneered and said, "Since they want to die early, this king will grant them! Has the army crossed the river?"

The official of the palace replied: "Go back to the lord, more than [-] people have been transported in batches, and they are hiding outside the city now, waiting for the order of the lord. In addition, the Tsingyi Army of the Sanyang Sect has also assembled in Jiangbei, and they can cross the river at any time." At this moment, Jingzhou City in the south of Cen Ping has been surrounded by the four vajra leaders of the White Lotus Sect."

Yang Huang stood up and said confidently: "Order the army to enter the city, recruit all the soldiers in the government, after occupying Wuchang, break through Jiangxia County, capture Feng Hengshi alive, this king will sacrifice his head to my banner!"

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