Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Imperial Forest Army resumed training.

This time, the attitude of the Krupp army towards the Imperial Forest Army changed greatly. The Krupp Army automatically shrank and gave up a hill for the Imperial Forest Army to station.

Since then, the Yulin Army has become a whole by itself.

Jia Lian held a thousand horses in his hand, and the Imperial Forest Army began to focus on practicing horseback kung fu.The soldiers had a certain foundation before, and this time with the guidance of the Kruppian cavalry, their horsemanship has improved greatly.

While Jia Lian was busy improving pommel horse kungfu, Wei Kun's Miza came to Beijing.In addition to reporting on Jia Lian's actions after he arrived in the frontier, Wei Kun wrote two other chapters, one public and one private.

The second thing is to ask Emperor Qianyuan to give Wei Ruolan a marriage. The woman is Shi Xiangyun, the daughter of the historian.

Emperor Qianyuan quickly approved and promised to give the marriage, and the shotgun can only be equipped with a reinforced battalion at most.Even so, Wei Kun still has to wait for half a year. The demand for shotguns is too high, and the manufacturing office has no stock.

Wei Kun originally wanted [-] shotguns, but Jia Lian reminded him that it is best to ask for more in the memorial, so that there is room for bargaining.Sure enough, Emperor Qianyuan chopped off his waist.

Wei Kun is very contented, although four hundred are few, it is better than having nothing.

Jia Lian laughed when he heard the news: "The king of Xijun has become the king of debt collectors again this time."

Although Wei Kun is in northern Xinjiang, because his son is serving as a hostage in Kyoto, he knows everything about the court in Kyoto.He sighed: "They were all burned by the vanity of glory and wealth. Who has ever seen those who can't eat three meals in debt?"

Jia Lian thought it was true, the Rong Mansion wasn't so heavily in debt and a short rich family!

It's a pity that most people at that time were deeply trapped in the situation and couldn't see it.

At the beginning of February, Jia Lian led the Imperial Forest Army to train troops on the grassland, and suddenly saw a group of people galloping from the depths of the grassland.

Jia Lian didn't know what was going on, so he ordered the team to line up to be on guard. Who knows if there is a large group of people behind who suddenly rushed out.

Suddenly, the leading horse stopped three feet away from Jia Lian, and the man on the horseback dismounted and bowed to Jia Lian to salute: "I pay homage to my benefactor, it's polite to Lu."

Jia Lian waved his hand to let the troops continue to practice, and walked forward to raise his hand to help: "Why are you? You don't change lands every spring to graze, why are you still here?"

Chao Lu smiled and said: "My father has already set off with the tribe. I found out that the benefactor is training here, and Tete came to help."

Jia Lian asked with a smile, "How do you know my identity?"

Chaolu Hanhan smiled: "I can't say this, but I have no malice towards my benefactor. In fact, I didn't tell the truth that day. My father is a rancher."

Jia Lian finally realized later: "You are the one who is willing to..."

Chao Lu smiled embarrassedly: "It's me. I was drunk at the time, so I came to watch the excitement. When I went back, my mother beat me up and broke a few whips. Because I didn't grab anything, and I didn't move. Woman, my mother just spared me, otherwise at least ten whips will be broken."

Jia Lian suddenly became interested: "Does the wild horse valley you mentioned really exist? Can I visit it?"

Chaolu said: "There is a valley of wild horses, but wild horses are not always in the valley of wild horses. Every winter, they will migrate. In one or two months, a large number of wild horses will enter the grassland from the Tianshan Mountains. In May and June, the grassland water plants They are fat and fat, and you can see wild horses galloping everywhere, and every tribe will take the opportunity to hunt down wild horses. Half of our tribe’s horses come from domesticated wild horses. Benefactor, you won’t suffer a loss if you buy my horses.”

Jia Lian was immediately disappointed: "We have to wait three or four months..."

Chao Lu said, "Although I can't lead my benefactor to see wild horses now, I can help my benefactor train knights so that they can run as fast as wild horses."

Jia Lian was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Are you willing to help us train riding skills? Can you let go of your hands and only rely on your legs to steer a horse?"

Chaolu laughed loudly: "Of course. The men in our grasslands can stand on horseback and draw a bow and shoot arrows."

Jia Lian was overjoyed: "Look at the show!"

Recently, Jia Lian can only gallop on horseback because of the soldiers. Once he wants to shoot a gun, he will be knocked down by the horse. He has to free up one hand to pull the horse, otherwise he will fall from the horse's back and has already been injured. hundreds of people.

If Chaolu had a way to solve the defect of pawns, it would be perfect.

With a wave to Lu, the five young men behind him flew onto the horse’s back. They were skilled in riding, and they hid under the horse’s neck to shoot arrows. They sat on the horse’s back and bent their bows with both hands. archery.And one shot is accurate, and the arrow hits the bull's-eye.

Jia Lian was startled, thanks to the lack of herdsmen in the grassland, otherwise, with such efforts, the consequences would be worrisome...

Seeing Jia Lian's embarrassment, Chaolu thought Jia Lian was dissatisfied, and hurriedly said, "Benefactor, we can still shoot living things."

After saying that, he lay on his back on the horse, bent his bow and shot towards the sky, a black shadow in the sky gradually enlarged, but it was still flying eagles.

Jia Lian was immediately moved: "Chaolu, I am willing to pay a lot of money to hire you as the instructor of my Imperial Forest Army!"

Chaolu waved his hand: "I don't want money. I can assist my benefactor for three months. The deadline my grandfather gave me is that I must go to the grassland to take [-] wild horses in June, otherwise my dog ​​legs will be broken."

Jia Lian knew that he couldn't force it, so he patted Chaolu on the shoulder: "Three months is three months, thank you for your hard work."

This Chaolu is really a surprise, this trip to the grassland is really the right time.

From then on, Chaolu became the non-staff coach of the Yulin Army.

However, Chaolu did more than talk.

Jia Lian had no choice but to break down and explain Chaolu's actions.

In the next month, the riding skills of the Royal Forest Army improved a lot, but it was the child soldiers of the Pingzi Battalion and those 13-year-old children who improved the most.

At the beginning, Shuiwen was unconvinced and thought that there was no need for a 20-year-old difference. Now it seems that the difference lies in the softness and flexibility of the body.

Jia Lian was overjoyed, and personally defended the Pingzi camp, emphasizing on training the Pingzi camp's kung fu of riding, standing and hiding on horseback. As long as the Pingzi camp learns the unique skills of Chaolu and others, the Imperial Forest Army may not be able to learn them.He still has more than a year to go, and the mud master can also help him onto the horse.

In mid-March, after three months of arduous training, the Imperial Forest Army was already very proficient.They can already control the horse with both legs, and it is no problem to draw a bow and shoot an arrow.It's just that the accuracy is not enough.This is something that practice makes perfect.

However, Jia Lian's experiment to let the Musketeer Battalion fire shotguns on horseback ended in failure.It will startle the horse as soon as the snatch is fired. If the horse does not blow up the camp, it will take a long time to train.

In addition, the length of the shotgun is also a problem. It is a full five feet long, and it needs to burn gunpowder, so it is impossible for one person to operate it.If only Jia Lian had a one and a half foot short gun in his hand.

Jia Lian knew that this was impossible, and the cost was too high for the court to afford.

Emperor Qianyuan soon found out that Jia Lian used Chaolu to train the Imperial Forest Army.

Emperor Qianyuan smiled when he heard the words: "This Jia Lian is really plucking the wild goose's hair. I look at him, and the wind can't wait to catch it."

Uncle Zhang's family was a little worried about Jia Lian. If he contacted foreigners like this and didn't report to the emperor, he was afraid that he would be feared by the emperor.

But he didn't dare to act rashly. Finally, one day, he found a gap for him. When he went to Ningshou Palace with Emperor Qianyuan, he had a chance with Jia Yun. Uncle Zhang murmured: "Chaolu."

Jia Yun was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask, but saw Uncle Zhang walked by without looking sideways.

Jia Yun quickly cleared up her mood, went home to ponder, and found that the name Chaolu was not like the name of a Han Chinese. Now Jia Lian is the only one who has contact with foreigners.

At noon the next day, Jia Lian received Jia Yun's news, and immediately raised his forehead. He was only happy, but forgot about Emperor Qianyuan's narrow-mindedness.He hastily gave Emperor Qianyuan Mizha a detailed description of how he met Chaolu, and then told him about hiring Chaolu as a coach.

As for Chaolu, Jia Lian also gave a detailed introduction, saying that Chaolu was proficient in Chinese and his appearance was the same as that of a Han. He suspected that he was originally a Han and migrated to the grassland.

One day later, Emperor Qianyuan received Jia Lian's urgent Mizha at eight hundred miles, and smiled after seeing it: "This Jia Lian is just cowardly. He is worthy of praise for serving the country and the people so well and benefiting the community."

The uncle of the Zhang family was screening the memorials for Emperor Qianyuan in the Qianqing Palace. He heard the words and said, "If you want to talk about praise, there is no better way than the holy one helping Jia Lian to collect debts. , It was decided to settle in March, and I asked several times, but the Ministry of War just shirked, saying that it was too young to pick up, and hard liquor was hard to find. Now that Jia Lian hired someone to be a coach, he had to give him a salary. Mongolians are good wine, and this batch of wine Send it, it's just right."

Emperor Qianyuan laughed loudly when he heard the words, and told the little eunuch Qin Quan: "Go and urge Jia Lian to go, just say that Jia Lian has come to complain to me, let him figure it out."

The Minister of the Ministry of War received the emperor's oral order, and he only scolded his mother in his heart. He didn't know who broke his promise and became fat. The repair project that had been stopped was started again, and the agreed money was also delayed.He didn't dare to say this, so he had to order people to quickly check the inventory, because in the past few years the imperial court was preparing for war, and in order to collect more war preparations, many wine cellars had been seized.Jin Shangshu went to great lengths to make wine for Jia Lian, and finally added another [-] silver, and finally settled Jia Lian's debts.

Ten days later, Jia Lian received [-] jin of spirits and [-] silver.

Jia Lian gave Wei Kun 1 catties of spirits, and the remaining [-] yuan was used as the salary of Chaolu's coach for a few four months. He promised that in the future, as long as Chaolu had horses, he would have plenty of fine wine.

Chaolu thought it was too precious, so he sent Jia Lian a thousand lambs as compensation the next day.The soldiers of the Krupp Army of the Royal Forest Army immediately cheered. The taste of roasted whole lamb is really delicious. Although eight people can only share one piece, the more hungry they are, the more they miss the taste. fragrant.

Time soon entered May, and after three months of arduous training, 400 members of the Royal Forest Army had already ridden on horseback. More than 600 people have the ability to fight immediately, and the remaining 200 people are mostly overage soldiers who were recruited by Emperor Qianyuan. They are older and not as flexible as those younger boys.However, their riding skills have also improved a lot. It is no problem to ride a horse and travel thousands of miles a day.

In June, the wild horses became active, and Chaolu was about to return to the tribe.Wei Kun and Jia Lian each led ten guards and followed Chaolu to the grassland to see.

The grassland at this moment is responding to a sentence: When the wind blows the grass, the cattle and sheep are low!

There are many small animals foraging on the grasslands. Birds are not among the prey, they are very courageous and can fly to your horse to peck.

After two days of searching, Chaolu and his party finally reunited with their tribe. Jia Lian saw the grandmother and mother Chaolu was talking about. However, after ten years of prairie influence, their appearance has become a typical prairie mother. Chinese, there is no trace of any Han Chinese anymore.

Jia Lian tried to have a heart-to-heart talk with them, to see if he could help them find their relatives, but they both refused.However, the two spoke on the condition of anonymity about what happened to them.

Grandma Chaolu didn't have a big name, she called herself the second girl, she was really wronged, because the master committed a crime, her mother loved the eldest girl, and forced her to replace the young lady to be assigned to the Jiaofang Secretary.

She didn't want to go back, because she didn't want to see the mother who pushed her into the fire pit with her own hands, and she didn't want to see the neighbor's strange face.

Chaolu's mother is a real lady, she doesn't have the grievances of her mother-in-law, she thinks she is very lucky.She didn't want to go back, because her relatives and neighbors knew that she had entered the station.

However, they all expressed their gratitude to Jia Lian, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law bowed together to express their blessings, saying that Jia Lian's daughter Hong was the best gift they had received in their entire lives.

Jia Lian hurriedly replied: "It's serious, Chaolu is the best repayment you can give me."

Chao Lu's mother looked at Jia Lian with a smile: "Nowadays, such a good person as your lord is really rare."

Chaolu's mother entertained Jia Lian and his party with mutton from horse milk. In the evening, people danced boldly around the fire. The girls on the grassland were very enthusiastic and invited Jia Lian and his party to dance.

The next day, Jia Lian personally witnessed the scene of the galloping wild horses, which was just like a big river rushing past.

Chaolu led dozens of horse trappers to hunt down the horses. On this day, the whole tribe followed the wild horses slowly. From time to time, a young man with wild horses retreated, conquered the wild horses, and replaced them with new men.

Jia Lian was envious, and after simply learning the tricks of harnessing horses, he also joined the horse harnessing team.When Jia Lian used lightness skills to bless the horse, it was easy to trap.However, Jia Lian's ability to train horses was insufficient, and he let the wild horses he got escape several times.

In the evening, after Jia Lian was exhausted, he finally tamed a rouge filly.Chaolu's partners all laughed. They generally disdain to take mares, and are more willing to conquer males in their prime.

Jia Lian smiled and said, "I have a daughter who is five years old this year. This is a birthday present I prepared for her."

After saying this, everyone stopped laughing at Jia Lian, and Chaolu's mother told Jia Lian that this kind of horse also had a nice name called Peach Blossom Horse.

The next day, Jia Lian continued his efforts and finally conquered a four-year-old green horse. With this enlightenment, Jia Lian was out of control and began his happy horse-riding career.

After ten days like this, Chaolu's troops got a total of more than 200 horses. After that, they stopped chasing the horses.

Chaolu told Jia Lian that a horse herd should not reduce too much every year, otherwise, it would affect the breeding of wild horses, and there would be no wild horses to use in the future.

They were about to move further west, to find another herd, to continue lathering.

Wei Kun and Jia Lian's personal guards from Chaolu Tribe have a horse, all of them are tall and handsome green horses.

That night, the matouqin sounded again on the grassland, and everyone drank good wine and danced cheerfully.

At this happy moment, suddenly, there was a scream in the distance.

Chao Lu brushed out the scimitar at his waist: "No, there are horse thieves, protect women and children!"

Chaolu led forty or fifty sturdy clansmen to rush out, while the rest of the dozens of men surrounded the tribe's women and children and guarded everywhere.

Unexpectedly, just as Chao Lu rushed out with his men, another group of horse thieves emerged from the rear of the tribe.

Jia Lian knew that the Chaolu tribe was something people would miss.

He knew that he would not make a move. When the horse thief rushed in and fought hand-to-hand, the child soldiers around him were no opponents, and the power of the shotgun would not be able to be exerted, so it was better to take the initiative to attack.

After Jia Lian had a brief exchange with Wei Kun, he decided to cooperate with Wei Kun in an ambush.

Jia Lian pulled out his musket from his waist, and after a simple arrangement with the team members, he led his personal guards and Wei Kun to outflank them one by one on the left and one on the right.

The members of the Chaolu Tribe thought that Wei Kun and Jia Lian had escaped, and they all showed contempt on their faces.With hatred in my heart, the Han people really cannot be friends with each other.

Jia Lian surrounded the outside while spying with his senses, and found that thirty strong men came, and none of them got a BMW. Jia Lian immediately drooled, and told the monkey and others: "Don't shoot the horse, hit the head."

After the horse thief approached, Jia Lian typed out, and the man flew out. He first shot down the leader of the horse thief, and rushed out to catch up with the horse.

The Musketeers ambushed the Broadswords, just like chopping melons and vegetables.

Soon, the thirty horse thieves who attacked from the left were all given their heads.

When Jia Lian started to rob, Wei Kun also came into close combat with the horse thief on the right.Jia Lian quickly ended the battle and flew over to reinforce Wei Kun. This time, because the enemy was mixed with us, the shotgun lost its advantage. Jia Lian put away the musket, held a dagger, jumped up, and jumped on the enemy's horse. In a blink of an eye, Jia Lian harvested took the heads of seven horse thieves.

Wei Kun was not a showman either, he killed the horse thief with his hands, and the rest were cleaned up by the guards.Sixty enemies of the secret sneak attack were beheaded and killed.Jia Lian and Wei Kun each harvested thirty horses, thirty scimitars, and a lot of gems of various colors.

Apart from horses, Jia Lian was not interested in anything, so he waved his hand: "Put away the ones you like, and leave the ones you don't like to the tribe."

The things on the horse thief are probably useful to the herdsmen.

When Jia Lian and Wei Kun left, they were despised by everyone, and when they came back, they were regarded as heroes.

When Chaolu came back with a few captives, Jia Lian was worshiped as a hero by the herdsmen.

That night, Chaolu approached Jia Lian Weikun, saying that the most beautiful woman in their tribe was at the discretion of Jia Lianweikun and their personal guards.

Jia Lian directly refused: "I have a wife, and I don't intend to be younger. My brothers won't stay here for long, and they are still children."

Chao Lu said seriously: "There is no need to marry them, I just hope that the heroes can leave seeds for them."

Jia Lian was astonished that there were such rules in the grassland.

Wei Kun waved his hand at Chao Lu: "You and I form an alliance, I won't stand by if you have something to do, there's no need to do that."

That's all for Chao Lu, and he left disappointed.

The next day was the day when Jia Lian returned.They were arranging their luggage here, when suddenly, a group of baggage carts and horses came from a distance.

Chaolu led people to greet him, and it turned out to be another tribe who came to defect to Chaolu.

After some explanations, Jia Lian learned that this tribe was ransacked by horse thieves yesterday, and almost all the men were beheaded. After hearing that the horse thieves were beheaded by Chaolu's troops, they came here for refuge, and they were grateful for their survival. .

Chaolu was about to explain, but was stopped by Jia Lian. He cupped his fists and said goodbye: "When you get a horse in the future, just send us a letter, and we will choose it later."

Naturally, Wei Kun would not expose Jia Lian.The two drove the horses away in a tacit understanding.

It was the fifteenth day of June.

Jia Lian's purpose of coming here has been achieved, and he was very happy.He decided it was time to go home.Furthermore, at the beginning, the return date agreed by King Xijun to Jia Lian was exactly June.

Nowadays, the Imperial Forest Army is good at riding, and it takes at most two days to enter Beijing.

Jia Lian originally promised to help Wei Kun train the shotgun battalion, but it ran aground because the shotgun promised by Emperor Qianyuan was delayed.

However, before that, Jia Lian had already trained [-] musketeers for Wei Kun, but Jia Lian was able to give them skills, but he did not dare to give guns privately.The [-] shotguns that the Ministry of War promised to Jia Lian are now only [-] in cash. Jia Lian himself thinks it is not enough to use, and there is no spare gun.

Two days later, on the eighteenth day of the sixth month, the Imperial Forest Army returned to the capital just like a sharp sword.People rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, and the Imperial Forest Army rides a uniform green horse, with silver armor and silver spears embroidered with spring knives, like gods descending from the earth.With high spirits and high spirits, he stepped into the Xizhi Gate and headed straight for the Meridian Gate.

Along the road, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law are chasing and watching all the way. Whose son is this?He was so handsome!

When the Imperial Forest Army entered Zhili, Jia Lian went back to Beijing alone. After returning to Beijing, he dared not go home. He went all the way to Xihuamen, and at Qianqingmen handed a sign asking to see Emperor Qianyuan.

Originally the Imperial Forest Army was stationed in Xishan, and they were supposed to return to the Xishan garrison after their errands, but Emperor Qianyuan heard that everyone in the Imperial Forest Army could now ride and shoot well, so he temporarily decided to parade at the Meridian Gate.