Detective in the Red Chamber

Originally, Man Muha didn't care much about his father's cautiousness, and felt that the strong location and natural danger of the cottage were enough for the weak Han officers and soldiers to go and never return.

However, the recent fall of Wu'erzhai, Walenzhai, and especially the holy land of Nahlan undoubtedly confirmed what Abba said at the beginning.

perhaps……

Tong Ximan really shouldn't have mixed in at the beginning!

The father and son were looking at each other silently, but there was a sudden commotion outside, Manmuha raised the felt curtain in dissatisfaction, and was about to vent a few words, but his eyes suddenly froze, and then blurted out in surprise, "Mutu, why are you here?" here?!"

wooden figure? !

Hearing his exclamation, Sharif couldn't help jumping up, striding out to meet him.

When he got to the door, he saw a sturdy young man who was still immature, striding over, but it wasn't the second son Mu Tu who stayed behind in the village, who else could it be?

"Abba, Manmoha!"

Seeing that his father and brother came out to welcome him, Mu Tu immediately scratched his head and said with a foolish smile, "I was really bored staying in the village, so I secretly searched for it without telling my mother."

Hearing this, Manmuha couldn't help scolding him, complaining that he shouldn't be acting recklessly and making grandma worry.

But Sharif knew that his second son looked simple and honest, but inside he was more thoughtful than others, and he would never sneak out of the mountains just because he was bored.

So he hurriedly brought the wooden figure into the big tent and asked about it carefully.

After this question, Mu Tu finally revealed the truth.

"Dad!"

Seeing him kneeling on the ground, he said anxiously, "Our village has already been broken by the three-eyed demon!"

"what?!"

Although he had already guessed that probably nothing good would happen, Sharif still felt a little hard to accept when he suddenly heard that the old nest had been raided by the officers and soldiers.

He took half a step back dejectedly, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on? Zhaizi... Could it be that Zhaizi has been given to... to..."

Speaking of the latter, his complexion was purple and black, and he was a little out of breath.

"Father, don't worry!"

Seeing this, Mu Tu hurriedly comforted him and said, "Although the stockade was broken by the army, there is not much loss..."

"What kind of nonsense is this?!"

Man Muha said angrily, "Who doesn't know that the three-eyed demon loves to swallow people's souls the most, how can he give up if he doesn't kill hundreds of people?!"

However, Sharif vaguely heard that things seemed to be turning around. After a moment of hesitation, he tentatively asked, "Could it be that the officers and soldiers want us to do... help us do something?"

"It's not clear what we want us to do."

Mu Tu shook his head, and said, "The three-eyed demon only said that our village has good feng shui, and he will come and go frequently in the future. As for whether to clean the inside, it depends on whether you are a good one..."

After a pause, he hastily changed his words, "It depends on whether you know current affairs, Dad."

Although he changed his words in time, how could Sharif fail to guess that what the Han general said was 'a good dog'?

But he couldn't care less about it right now.

The officers and soldiers clearly wanted to use the future safety of the village to force the barbarians in Duosi village, and even the entire Tongxi barbarians to stand in line again.

According to the strength shown by the officers and soldiers before, the Duosi village may not be able to resist the attacks of the officers and soldiers no matter how they defend it.

however……

If he betrayed the coalition forces at this time, wouldn't Duosi Village be a dead end?

Instead of this, it would be better to take the initiative to ask Kangxi Man for help, lead some soldiers and horses back to help Duosi Village, and then simply move the whole family to the vicinity of Kangcheng.

In this way, the fact that the three-eyed demon is not in the city can be exposed, and the coalition forces will be less concerned!

Just as he was thinking like this, Mu Tu suddenly said, "By the way, the three-eyed demon also said to ask Dad to think about it, and don't rush to make up your mind."

think about it

Could it be that the officers and soldiers have prepared something else?

Sharif hesitated for a while, but in the end he didn't dare to act rashly, and only quietly sent out his eyes and ears to detect the troubles around him.

That night.

There are more than a dozen people from Huaxi Man who fled to the camp in the east in embarrassment, claiming that the officers and soldiers broke down two villages of Huaxi Man in one day and slaughtered nearly a thousand people.

The next day, another news came that another Huaxi man village had been broken into.

The people in Huaxi panicked.

On the same day, the coalition forces launched a tentative attack on Wuxi City, but were forced to retreat by the officers and soldiers with firearms.

The 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

The coalition forces bluffed on the north, south, and east sides, but launched a fierce attack from the west. They once occupied the southern section of the city wall, but were finally repelled by Lu Jianxing's team.

The 29th of the twelfth lunar month.

The coalition forces set up a majestic formation and began to launch a four-sided attack. The casualties of the officers and soldiers increased sharply, and the hearts of the people in the city were unstable.

On the same day, the news that the two strongholds of Daiximan had been breached by the official army spread to the coalition forces.

At the same time, the news that there are Tongxi barbarians serving in the Han army gradually spread among the coalition forces, and the spearhead was directed at Duosi Village.

It wasn't until this moment that Sharif finally realized that the so-called overthinking by the officers and soldiers was actually a deliberate trap.

However, it was too late to regret.

The thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Han Chinese New Year's Day.

The news that the Xunxi Man village was breached arrived as scheduled.

Among the coalition forces that have not been harassed by the official army, only the Tongximan and Kangximan tribes remain.

On the same day, the officers and soldiers had been to Duosi Village, but there were rumors that Qiu had committed no crime.

That night.

Kui Lun, the leader of the Kangxi Man, convened the leaders of the five clans to discuss matters, and seemed to have the intention of questioning Tong Ximan.

Sharif was afraid to go, so he secretly asked his son to spread rumors in the camp, claiming that Kangxi Man was bullying Tong Ximan and was not strong enough, intending to annex Tong Ximan and drive him into a siege coolie.

In the past few days, Tongxi Man has suffered from being excluded, and the barbarians in each village have already harbored resentment, so they believed the rumors, so the whole family abandoned the camp overnight.

Sharif even sent people to pile up and burn the siege equipment supervised in the camp along the road to prevent the four tribes from pursuing.

As a result, the morale of the coalition forces plummeted.

The first day of the first month of the 12th year of Guangde.

The coalition forces set off a dispute between fighting inside and keeping outside. In the end, Kui Lun, the leader of the barbarians in Kangxi, overcame all opinions and led the coalition forces to continue to attack the city.

On the same day, Xunxi was attacked by the government army and two other fortifications were taken.

The third day of the first month.

There were rumors among the allied forces again, and there were many rumors that Sharif, under the pretense of being ordered to return to the army to pursue the army, deceived many villages in Huaximan and looted all the women's belongings.

On that day, there were many people who fled privately among the Huaxi barbarians.

The coalition forces are in chaos, and they no longer have the will to fight.

The fifth day of the first lunar month.

The coalition forces retreated in panic. Because the troops were still numerous, the officers and soldiers in the city did not dare to pursue them. However, they clashed with Tong Ximan many times on the way, causing countless casualties on both sides.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Qi Mutuo, the leader of Huaxi Man, encountered an ambush by the army near his cottage. Mountains, rocks and trees fell, and more than half of the 1000 or [-] people in his troops were lost.

Qi Mutuo fled into the stronghold with his defeated soldiers, and was followed by the officers and soldiers to attack him. At that time, all the families were killed, and more than a thousand corpses floated in the upper reaches of the Huaxi River, forming a lake with barriers.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Sharif led the remaining [-] villages of Tongximan to surrender to the imperial court.

At the end of the first month, Huaxi barbarian villages successively surrendered to the army.

At the beginning of February, Sun Shaozong formally wrote to the imperial court, saying that there was no need for a large army to conquer, and that only a thousand or so men from his troops, joined with the original defenders of Wuxi Prefecture, would be enough to wipe out the barbarians.

In March of the 12th year of Guangde, the imperial court changed its subordinate Sun Shaozong to be the envoy of Zhengsipin, who was in charge of all matters related to the suppression of chaos in Wuxi.

After Sun Shaozong took office, he immediately recruited Tongximan and Huaximan, young and strong, as the vanguard of the army, and gradually invaded the hinterland of the mountain.

The barbarians were forced to go completely on the defensive, concentrating their forces and relying on the dangers of the mountains to resist stubbornly.

Since then, when Sun Shaozong was stationed in Wuxi City, the officers and soldiers mostly used barbarian spies to open the gate of the village, which made the barbarians suspicious of each other, and even the strategy of self-protection of the village did not need to be broken.

And more isolated barbarians had to surrender to the officers and soldiers and beg for work.

So until the autumn of the 12th year of Guangde, the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides gradually reversed.

In the 12th year of Guangde, the ninety-ninth Chongyang Festival.

Recruiting envoy Sun Shaozong to join the alliance with Nahlan, gathered [-] barbarian servants, and supervised them with [-] officers, besieging the last fortress of the Wuxi barbarians-Kangcheng.

From the end of September, the bitter battle to October 26, Cannes was captured.

In the battle, the barbarians on both sides lost more than ten thousand, and the vitality of the Wuxi barbarians was almost exhausted.

The great commander Kuilun committed suicide by taking poison while wearing a crown on his head, and his wife and daughter were lost in the chaos.

Afterwards, Sun Shaozong ordered the city of Kangcheng to be burned down, and the fire ignited for two days before it was extinguished.

Since then, the Wuxi barbarians have been largely extinguished, and only a few barbarians are left, huddled in the poor mountains and ridges to resist stubbornly.

In mid-November, Sun Shaozong asked for an order to move the barbarians out of the mountainous areas, select their elites to reorganize on the spot, and send them to the Yunnan-Guizhou frontier army to serve.

The rest have changed their customs, banned barbaric language, taught Chinese characters, and changed their names to Han people.

And because the barbarians were young and strong, they were killed and injured too much, and most of them who survived were sent to Yunnan and Guizhou. Therefore, most women in the clan cling to the Han people as wives and concubines, and live together by this.

By the summer of the 13th year of Guangde, although Wuxi did not dare to speak of great governance, it basically deserved the word "stability".

At the end of July in the 13th year of Guangde, Sun Shaozong was called to resign and return to Beijing. Tens of thousands of people lined the road to see him off, including many barbarians.

Go out of Wuxi City, travel six or seven miles, collect eight umbrellas from Wanmin, and leave behind nine pairs of favorite boots, and only then can you go barefoot.

In the next few years, there were many sanmu shrines in Wuxi prefecture, especially the barbarians. At first, they were only for the Anhan people, but they gradually forgot their original intentions. .

Chapter 601 Nan Lin Walks North and Gathers Gold Hairpins【Part [-]】

West of Jinling City, Gaoxi Street, Xue Mansion.

"Last night Zhu Loumeng, tonight Shuiguoyin. Dark clouds... island clouds steam the sea, sea... sea... sea..."

A plowing ox was lying on its side in front of the rock, and a girl in palace attire was sitting on a low table, chanting 'sea' a few times, but her eyebrows and eyes, which were as beautiful as jade, became more and more wrinkled.

Suddenly, she threw herself forward, slumped on the low table, and kept yelling, "No, no! I've been bored at home all day, but how could there be any poetic charm? Go on, if I marry my husband-in-law in the future, I will definitely be disliked."

Complaining in his mouth, those big watery eyes sneaked over his sallow wrists and glanced at the opposite pavilion, looking forward to the starry eyes, but how can there be any sense of depression and trouble?

The two little maids next to her who were doing pen and ink, heard that she would not hesitate to use her future husband-in-law as a raft in order to go out for a trip, they couldn't help covering their mouths and laughing.

Even the servants in the gazebo couldn't help laughing at each other.

Only in the leisure chair in the middle, a certain graceful woman, lowered her eyebrows and looked down without any response, as if she had already fallen into a deep sleep.

"Mother really fell asleep?"

After waiting for a long while and still not receiving any response, the girl pursed her lips, and helplessly sat up again, picked up a large brush, stirred it into the inkstone, and swiped ink on the white paper with her wrist hanging. In an instant, he wrote a five-character quatrain.

Carefully turned the brush upside down and handed it to the maid who was holding the brush washer, the girl raised the poem "heroically", blew a few breaths, then shook her head and recited "Zhu Loumeng last night, tonight Shui Guoyin.

The island cloud steams the sea, and the haze meets the forest.

There is no such thing as the present and the past, and the love is shallow and deep.

How can you not care about the spring calendar in the South of Han Dynasty? "

After reading, the girl put the paper back on the table, stroked the non-existent beard on her chin, and sighed with a muffled old-fashioned voice, "Oh, this poem is very atmospheric and well-conceived, but it's a pity that it was lost in Roughness, after all, it can’t be called having both form and spirit—according to the old man, the poet must still lack some experience, if he can let him enjoy the scenery of lakes and mountains, the sea and the sky, he will surely achieve something in the future!”

Before she could finish her words, the two little maids beside her couldn't straighten their backs from laughing.

While the girl was pretending to comment, she peeked into the pavilion, but saw her mother still lying high on the leisure chair, and she didn't give any feedback that she should have given.

"Could it be true that you have fallen asleep?"

The girl's face collapsed, she pursed her mouth playfully, got up and left the short table, and went to the Qushuiliu stream beside her in a sullen mood.

Wrap the shark handkerchief on the big rock, sit sideways and take off the shoes and socks, and immerse two bare feet like fresh water chestnuts and tender lotus root in the stream.

It was approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, and although the sweltering heat had not subsided, it could not compare to the midsummer season. .