lady, please calm down

Chapter 344
At the beginning of Chenshi, Fuyuan Palace's bedroom.

The morning light shines through the complicated double-crossed four-bowl pattern of rhombuses on the window lattice, reflecting the falling flowers diagonally on the ground.

Jiarou, who had just woken up, looked at the yellow curtain directly above, feeling a little confused.
She felt as if she had experienced something big, but her memory was confused and incoherent because of her hangover-addled brain.

In the fragmented dreams, there is pain like tearing, there is also the bumping of a small boat in the huge waves, and there is the sleep of a warm embrace.

Looking sideways at the sky, Jiarou pushed her tired body up to get up. The quilt slipped off, and she realized that she was naked. Then she felt a slight discomfort under her body, which made her subconsciously lift the quilt.

But he saw that the bed sheets were messy and dotted with peach spots, which was shocking.

Jiarou was startled, and the memories of last night suddenly flooded into her mind.
After sitting on the bed for dozens of breaths, Jiarou was like a soulless rag doll, finding her bellyband, tube top, underwear, outer clothes, and skirt one by one. No matter how slowly, Put them on one by one.

His face was originally quite calm, but after discovering that his beautiful goose-yellow coat had a hole in it, Jiarou suddenly felt a sore nose, and the tears in Danfeng's eyes rolled down like floods from a dam.

Needless to say, these clothes must have been torn last night by that disgusting traitor!
At first, Jiarou bit her lip to hold back her tears, but soon she began to cry.

Then, the suppressed cries turned into choked sobs, then into whimpering, and finally into howling.

Huang Doudou went to the front hall to provide support. The two maids on duty who had just been called this morning knew nothing about what happened last night.

Hearing the cry of the princess in the palace, he hurriedly walked in, only to see His Highness, half-dressed, sitting on the bed holding his knees and crying out of breath.

A palace maid boldly stepped forward and asked anxiously: "Your Highness, what's going on? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Do you want to call the imperial doctor to come for a consultation?"

Upon hearing this, Jiarou immediately shook her head like a rattle.

All she knew about men and women was that she had lost her virginity.

She was worried that if she called the imperial doctor, she would be diagnosed with this fact by taking her pulse.

But when the palace maid saw this, she was even more surprised and couldn't help but said: "What's wrong with your highness?"

Yes, it’s so early in the morning, who’s sitting in bed crying!

Jia Rou neither dared to tell anyone about what happened last night, nor did she dare to talk nonsense about the fact that the female wrestler arranged last night did not move at all. Now that she thought about it, the plan must have been seen through.

Those female wrestlers were Jia Rou's only team in the palace. She didn't dare to trust the two palace maids in front of her at this moment.

Thinking of this, Jiarou sobbed and picked up the goose-yellow coat, pointed at the holes in it and cried: "My clothes are torn, and I like this one the most."

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The two little palace maids looked at each other silently, and couldn't help but slandered Jiarou in their hearts: God, what's the matter?Your Highness is sitting in the world with just one piece of clothing, but he cries like this when one piece of clothing is ruined. How can the royal daughter be so delicate!
Outside, the morning sun was rising, and the cloudless sky was as blue as water.

It looks like it’s another beautiful autumn day.

In the front hall of the Daqing Hall, His Highness, who had been waiting for a long time, had not arrived. All the officials had already exited the imperial city amidst Huang Doudou's shouts of "Your Highness is slightly ill, and the court will be suspended today."

Chen Chu, who stayed out all night, returned to the Prince of Chu's Mansion. Under Cai Hua's suspicious eyes, he didn't stay at home for long, so he found an excuse to go to the Moutuogang Horse Camp outside the city.

Moutuogang is the place where the Forbidden Army's horse army raises horses, and its area is extremely large.

A few days ago, after a rather secretive team entered the horse camp, the place would often hear rumbling thunder under clear skies, which was very strange.

When Chen Chu arrived, Tianlei Battalion Chief Wu Tong and Deputy Battalion Chief Lin Chengfu were directing the entire battalion to pack up ordnance in preparation for tomorrow's expedition.

The official designation of Tianlei Battalion in the Huaibei Army is the Artillery Battalion directly under the Huaibei Jieshuai Mansion. However, the brothers in the battalion felt that the term "Artillery Battalion" did not sound powerful enough, so they privately called themselves Tianlei Battalion. As time went by, Huaibei senior officials Then he also called Tianlei Camp.

Battalion Chief Wu Tong, Chen Chu, was born in the army; Deputy Battalion Chief Lin Chengfu had just turned nineteen. His father, Lin Feng, spilled blood on Xiaoshiling during the Tongshan Rebellion, and Lin Chengfu was among the first batch of graduates of Lanxiang Academy.

After graduation, he studied with Huang Huihong of the Fireworks Bureau for one year, and then he and Wu Tong built Tianlei Camp.

Lin Chengfu can be regarded as the most direct descendant of the Huaibei line.

It is not difficult to see from his and Wu Tong's background that Chen Chu attaches great importance to Tianlei Camp.

The Tianlei camp has two main weapons. One is a three-inch cannon that fires nine-pound bullets. The copper-cast cannon weighs 26 kilograms. The entire battalion is equipped with [-] guns.

The other type is a five-inch cannon, which weighs more than [-] kilograms. The entire battalion is equipped with sixteen guns.

Due to baggage transportation requirements, the standard establishment of a battalion of 500 people was reduced to [-] people in Tianlei Camp, half of whom were responsible for horse feeding, driving, shipping and other logistical work.

Ever since Huang Huihong developed gunpowder that was far more powerful than ever before with an unlimited budget a few years ago, cannon casting has been on the agenda.

After the establishment of the Iron Smelting Institute, the process was accelerated.

Originally, Chen Chu hoped that iron cannons could be made by smelting iron, but so far the iron cannons have been unable to withstand the chamber pressure of a range of more than a thousand meters due to material problems. Several chamber explosions occurred during the test, and some researchers were killed or injured.

In order to quickly form combat effectiveness, they had no choice but to return to copper, a more expensive, heavier, but more malleable material.

After all, this metal has monetary properties, and copper cannons are piles of money.
If the people in Huaibei had not adapted to the cargo invoice transaction, I am afraid that the Huaibei army's massive purchase of copper wares would have caused a currency crunch in the local area.

Tomorrow's expedition will be the first appearance of Tianlei Camp. Wu Tong and Lin Chengfu naturally know how much money Chen Chu spent on Tianlei Camp, and they are holding back their energy to put on a blockbuster performance.

Therefore, when Chen Chu asked them to practice on the spot, Lin Chengfu, the deputy battalion commander and technical backbone, immediately volunteered and took the sergeant to demonstrate the full set of operations from marching state to combat state for Chen Chu.

The bronze cannon in the marching state is placed on a specially reinforced cart. There is a wooden mold that fits the bronze cannon on the cart. During the textile transportation, the cannon body was bumpy.

Two sergeants jumped on the cart and quickly disassembled the artillery jacket made of oilcloth.

Another group of sergeants quickly dug three vertical pits more than two feet deep in the ground, and then lifted three thigh-thick logs. One end was buried in the vertical pit and pressed tightly, and the other end was intersected and fixed in the air.

Then hang the sliding group to form a simple crane.
Lifting the gun body, placing the gun body on the gun mount, filling powder, and loading ammunition. Finally, Lin Chengfu straightened his right arm, raised his thumb, and took aim using the jump-eye ranging method.

The last shot was fired.
Chen Chu, who had been counting silently, roughly calculated that it would take at least a quarter of an hour from encountering the enemy to firing.

If it is a field battle, the very slow-moving Tianlei Battalion will basically not play much role. This way, it is possible for the Tianlei Battalion to calmly complete the position layout when the enemy does not know what this thing is and is not prepared. .

However, for city defense, it is more useful to fix the gun positions in one place in advance.

Here, after a deafening roar, as the black smoke dissipated, an obvious gap appeared on a boulder more than two miles away.

Lin Chengfu looked excited, walked up to Chen Chu, clasped his fists and said: "Principal, fortunately you have fulfilled your duty and hit with one shot!"

Even though Chen Chu was not too satisfied, he did not throw cold water on him and said with a smile: "That's right! Don't panic when you go to the battlefield in the future! Don't embarrass our Huaibei Army, don't disgrace your father's reputation!"

Lin Feng's spiritual tablet is still enshrined in a conspicuous position in the Hall of Heroes in the west of Caizhou, where it receives honor and incense from the people every day.

In the afternoon, Chen Chu left Moutuogang and met Kuang Siliang and Feng Guobang in the city.

The two had just left Beijing in August, and this time they came to Kyoto with dozens to hundreds of cavalry troops. In their words, they were here to help Brother Chen fight.However, Chen Chu knew that the purpose of the two of them was probably the same as Jing Peng and Tong Qi who shamelessly wanted to follow them to the front line. They wanted to see with their own eyes the combat power of the Huaibei Army.

This can provide first-hand information for future family decisions.

If it weren't for the fact that Linfu Road, where Zhe's family was located, was too far away, people from his family would have come as well.

To put it bluntly, it’s just a battlefield observation group.

Anyway, I have already agreed to Jing Peng and Tong Qi, and it will be worth it to bring two more families.

After meeting Kuang Siriang, it was already dark, but Chen Chu still did not return home, and met with businessmen from Huaibei.
Since the Huaibei Clan started, the wealth of the merchants who followed closely at the beginning has increased at least several times.

For example, Chang Dechang, a businessman from Yingzhou and an old friend of the King of Chu, who was preparing to join the army this time, jointly organized a consortium with Miao Kui of Lin'an and the Zhu family of Caizhou to help the army dispose of the loot that was inconvenient to carry after the Huaibei army captured the city.
For example, the houses of criminals and rebels, the cattle and horses at home, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc.

These seizures are either immovable property, living animals, or cannot be liquidated at the moment.

Huaibei Army naturally has no time to spend a lot of time selling items one by one. Most of them will be dealt with on the spot at a package price. Merchants bid, and the house of the highest bidder can be sold slowly after the local area calms down. Others can be transferred to other places for sale.

Especially in Huaibei, with Caizhou as the core, after becoming rich in recent years, folk collection of porcelain, jade, calligraphy and paintings has become popular.

In addition to the consortium, some merchants with small assets also have the opportunity to follow suit.

For example, some merchants in Caizhou's construction materials market are good at construction. After every war, damaged walls and houses in war zones must be repaired.

Some people focused on this area of ​​interest that wealthy merchants looked down upon, and organized a construction team in advance to follow the army. After the Huaibei Army captured the city, they contracted the repair work from the military, and they could always earn a fortune. A generous sum of hard-earned money.

In short, once the Huaibei army takes action, the businessmen near Huaibei will be happier than during the New Year. Even in recent years, more and more Zhou businessmen have joined the army through Miao Kui's guarantee.

But the premise of all this is their superstitious belief in the Huaibei Army's invincibility and the military's good reputation.

On this day, Chen Chu was busy until midnight before returning home.

After returning home, Chen Chu went to the study to rest.

But not long after he lay down, Cai Hua, wrapped in a quilt, chased after him.

"Quickly, warm my hands and feet." Cai Hua couldn't help but squeeze into the bed, skillfully stuffing her hands into Chen Chu's creaking nest, and pushing her feet on the two warmest places under Chen Chu's lower abdomen.

Before Chen Chu could say anything, Cai Hua rolled her eyes at Chen Chu charmingly and said softly: "My lord, in your mind, do you think the slave family is a shrew?"

"Haha, what can I say?" Chen Chu reached into the quilt and lifted up Cai Hua's feet that were gradually moving down.

Cai Hua curled her lips and said, "You came back so late and refused to go back to your room to sleep. You hid outside for a whole day because you were afraid that I would ask you where you were last night."

Sure enough, nothing could escape Cai Hua's thoughts. Chen Chu, who was exposed, pretended to be stupid and said: "Haha, it's not hiding, it's just that there are a lot of things."

"Hehe, that's what Ailang says."

If Cai Hua wants to know something, there is always a way to find out. Seeing this, she no longer pursues the root cause, but asks: "Will Miss Chen go with you to Hebei Road tomorrow?"

"She didn't follow me, she went with the rear caravan." Chen Chu corrected.

As if unintentionally, Cai Hua moved her feet down a few inches, pretending to be sad and said: "Hey, the new person is better than the old one. The slave family didn't take her with them in Tokyo, but they wanted to take her with them. Ai Lang is so cruel. "

"What are you talking about?" Chen Chu was distracted by Cai Hua's restless feet, but he did not forget to explain: "Ayu is bringing people from the newspaper office and Liu Lingtong's troupe with him on this trip. Hiss, Be honest and tell the truth."

Cai Hua, who was teasing little Chen Chu with her toes, raised the corner of her mouth and smiled, then stopped temporarily.

Chen Chu then continued: "Information from the front, Liu E gathered more than a hundred gentry around Fucheng, and the gentry spread rumors everywhere, saying that wherever our Huaibei army went, no chickens or dogs were left, and male slaves and female slaves were raped. The people were deceived and panicked. More than 4 people gathered under Liu E's command. Most of these people were tenant farmers from gentry families. After the war, getting them back home was the top priority."

"Again, you want to use the method of singing a big show?"

"Ah."

"Still singing about the white-haired girl?"

"Ah."

"That white-haired girl has something nice to listen to. She's so bitter and moaning miserably. By the way, I just learned a little song a few days ago and sing it for you to listen to?"

Cai Hua put her warm hands under her head and turned her face towards Chen Chu's smiling face.

The monster wants to eat the child!

"Sister Hua, what other unorthodox ditty did you learn?" Based on Chen Chu's understanding of her, the song that would interest this crazy beauty was definitely not a serious song.

"Go!" Cai Hua spat softly, rolled her eyes and said, "The music this time is very serious, Nuo, listen to it."

After saying that, Cai Hua coughed lightly, cleared her throat, and hummed softly: "Red silk quilt, ivory bed, hugging Keyilang's clothes in my arms, spitting out the sugar on the tip of my tongue
On the side of the bed, the pillow was tilted. I felt faint and sore for a while.

Waiting for the slave to pass the test.For a while, half a time, my soul flew into the sky."

This song is truly a classic!

After singing the song, Cai Hua got on her horse.

September eleventh.

Jiarou left the court again. According to etiquette, Chen Chu had to say goodbye even when he was going on an expedition. However, Jiarou did not receive him due to physical discomfort.

At the end of the day, Chen Chu led more than [-] soldiers of the three armies to attack Hebei Road.

Two days later, Chen Chu and Wang Yan, the commander of Han'an Army on Hebei Road, joined forces to share the city.

The next day, the two armies merged into one and marched towards Fucheng on Hebei Road.

Fucheng is located in the northernmost part of Hebei Road, across the river from Jinguo Hejian Mansion.

On September [-]th, the army had just arrived in Gucheng County, which was more than [-] miles away from Fucheng, when they received a letter from Wang Wenbao, the guard of Hejian Prefecture of the Jin Kingdom, questioning the King of Chu of Qi State about his intention to use troops on the border of Jin and Qi.

The tone of the letter is condescending and unkind to the above countries.

Chen Chu couldn't read it back.

In the afternoon of September [-]th, Pang Shengyi, the vanguard of the Huaibei Army, arrived at Guanjin Town, Sanshili South, Fuchang.

Xie Zaidao, the former commander of the Yongjing Army of the State of Qi who had pledged allegiance to Liu E, led [-] horse infantry, [-] gentry militia, and [-] minzhuang to occupy the enemy here, and the company camped for dozens of miles.

On September [-], Chen Chu led most of the Chinese army to meet the enemy.
　There will be more updates on Saturday or Sunday.
　　
　　
　
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