Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Shui Wen kowtowed again: "I will not let my lord regret today's decision!"

Shuiwen's mouth is still very good at fooling people, but in a short while, he fooled a team of Lang back.

Jia Lian knew that maybe some people reluctantly joined the team in order to have a place to stay, but it was okay, after the Japanese pirates were finished fighting, the soldiers would be disbanded on the spot.

Although Jia Lian was happy, he was not soft on these recruits, and asked them to abide by the rules of the Imperial Forest Army and strictly implement disinfection treatment, otherwise, they would leave on their own.The recruits not only had to take preventive decoctions orally, but also had to bathe with water from head to toe. After three days of this, they were officially allowed to enter the garrison of the Imperial Forest Army to participate in training.

These three days have also verified that the pharmacy for treating the plague is feasible.

Under Jia Lian's suggestion, the First Prince took the lead and spread the prevention and treatment of plague to all the cities in Fujian and Zhejiang.

Five days later, the imperial physician sent by the imperial court brought dozens of carts of medicinal herbs to Haijiang City. Wang Ziteng distributed all the medicinal herbs to the Fujian and Zhejiang Guards, and strictly ordered the commanders to carry out the prevention and treatment plan of Haijiang City.

Half a month later, the plague around Haijiang city was brought under control.

During this period, the Japanese pirates seemed to be afraid of being infected with the plague, so they were quiet for a month or two and did not go ashore to plunder again.

Both Wang Ziteng and Jia Lian knew that the dormancy of the Japanese pirates was only temporary.

The Japanese pirates will never give up robbing and looting, they are just waiting for the opportunity.

After the plague was brought under control, the First Prince inspected the Yongding Army accompanied by Prince Teng Jialian.

The situation of the Yongding Army is not very good. They have fought against the Japanese pirates many times in the past few years, and their staff has been greatly reduced. The scale of 5000 has been reduced to 500.

Jia Lian found that there were only eight people left in the group that was distributed with Little Leopard. However, these eight people did a good job, and among them, Little Leopard had already achieved the position of Lang Guan.

The rest of them were the Marquis of Yu and the officials of grain and fodder respectively.

When Jia Lian came this time, he brought a letter from Little Leopard's mother. Her mother said that she was satisfied with living four more years, and told Little Leopard to repay her kindness.

The little leopard suddenly panicked, holding Jia Lian's hand tremblingly: "Is my mother's illness?"

Jia Lian shook her head: "Your mother's body was emptied in the past, so it's okay to let her live for two more years. No matter how much more, I can't do anything."

The little leopard felt relieved when he heard the words, and hurriedly kowtowed: "I don't want to thank you for your kindness. The little leopard will never forget your kindness."

Jia Lian couldn't help frowning: "You're still called Little Leopard?"

Little Leopard laughed: "I've changed my name to Mi Leopard now, but I can't remember it."

Jia Lian asked, "How did the other brothers die?"

The little leopard said: "Four of them went one after another, and then a dozen or so followed the general in pursuit of King Zhongshun and were ambushed..."

Jia Lian nodded: "I heard that there is a man named Shi Keming under King Zhongshun, have you met him?"

Little Leopard shook his head: "I haven't seen it before, but I've heard people say that he's a bit of a bitch, that a big man is holding a brocade handkerchief in his hand all the time, and I've heard people say that he even puts on makeup, anyway. Like a man."

Jia Lian said again: "How much do you know about the son of the Purple Banner Army who leads the Nanjun King?"

The little leopard snorted: "That man is really nothing. When he came, he cut the salary of our Yongding army in half, and forcibly confiscated ten warships of our Yongding army. Commander Lu refused to agree, so he used Fujian and Zhejiang The status of the governor is oppressive, and he insulted General Huang in his words. He is much worse than our General Huang. At least, our General Huang has never spent extravagant pleasures and whoring women. Soldiers of the Purple Banner Army went to the station to prostitute women openly , I heard that military officers above Langguan and above pay all their military expenses when they go whoring. They say that they are fighting for the court and they are in danger. If they sleep with a woman, they should be given their share. Pooh, it’s not that they marry their wives and keep their seeds. Surprised: "Is this really the case?"

The little leopard nodded: "Of course, the king of Nan'an County and his seven or eight captains often gather in the army to drink and have fun, let the station stand in and out of the barracks, and even share the bed with them, and spend the night in the barracks, just like husband and wife Usually, Lord Wang can't understand him and reported to the court, but he ended up being slapped clean, which is also a good thing, otherwise, Lord Wang would not take the blame for him."

Jia Lian asked: "Do you know the Wang family's fleet? Are they still running now? Is the money in the hands of Nan'an County King or Master Wang?"

The little leopard said: "The fleet of Wang's family used to be in charge of the Yongding army. It was through them that General Huang learned about Xu's pirates. Because of this, he won several battles and wiped out about 600 Japanese pirates. Later, he suffered Ambush. After the death of General Huang, the fleet was also rectified. It was only then that it was discovered that there were traitors, but two people fell into the trap of Japanese pirates. This caused the death of General Huang. After the rectification, the Yongding Army once again controlled After leaving the fleet, within a few days, the fleet was snatched by Nan'an County King, because he was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and General Lu had no choice but to accept his fate. Since then, our Yongding Army has become a beggar, Zi The Banner Army only gave us leftovers after eating leftovers. When the Purple Banner Army came, we still had 4000 people. He only gave us one catty of rice every day, and deducted a catty every day. The brothers often stayed in the middle of the night. Wake up from starvation. Their purple flag army can pay for military expenses by whoring prostitutes, and the court also favored him, and even masturbated Mr. Wang. The rice grains are exchanged with the mountain people for coarse grains, so we can hardly go hungry, and we really have no way to survive."

Jia Lian sighed, "How about now?"

"Later, something happened to the Purple Banner Army, Nan'an County Net was arrested, and the Purple Banner Army had no food to rely on, so they didn't dare to detain us."

Wang Ziteng and the eldest prince hid in the inner room, their veins bursting from hearing this.

Afterwards, Jia Lian talked to officers at all levels of the Yongding Army, all of whom complained about the Purple Banner Army.

While Jia Lian and the eldest prince were investigating the whole story, one night, the patrolling soldiers saw a letter on the sentry tower by the sea, but it was a letter sent by Japanese pirates to the imperial court, demanding that the imperial court hand over 100 million pieces of silver and 12 bolts of brocade and silk. , 200 shi of food and grass, in exchange for the lives of [-] officers and soldiers of the Purple Banner Army.

The Japanese pirates set a deadline and threatened the court that they would start tearing up votes in ten days and kill ten people every day until they were all killed.

The Japanese pirates are very clear about the identities of the officers and men of the Purple Banner Army. Among them, 100 million silver is the ransom of the prince of Nan'an and the son of the Prince of England, [-] pieces of cloth are the ransom of ten senior generals, and [-] shi of grain is the ransom of [-] soldiers. Soldier's ransom. "

The eldest prince sent the Japanese pirate's ultimatum and the results of the investigation to the capital at his home in eight hundred miles.

Emperor Qianyuan was furious after receiving the report, and the court deliberated that paying the ransom was too humiliating.The imperial court decided to increase its troops again and fight the Japanese pirates to the end, until they raised their hands and surrendered, and automatically handed over the prisoners of war.

The imperial court increased its troops very quickly this time, and as expected, just as Jia Lian remembered, the imperial court appointed Feng Tang as the general and Wei Kun as the vanguard.He ordered them to lead 3000 men and horses to march towards the sea separately.In order to prevent a repeat of the last incident in which the king of Nan'an blocked the sky with one hand, Emperor Qianyuan appointed the eldest prince Wei Junqian to supervise the military affairs, and Jia Lian was the army's front assistant to supervise the military expenditure of the various ministries in the sea.

The reinforcements from the imperial court have not yet arrived, and the Japanese pirates began to kill people at sea during New Year's greetings. The Japanese pirates were so arrogant that they even sailed the warship until the fortieth battle and stopped shouting, demanding that the imperial court pay the ransom quickly, otherwise, they would kill immediately.

Because the imperial court did not allow the payment of the ransom, the eldest prince and the prince Teng Jialian could only watch them murder and throw away their bodies before walking away.

For three consecutive days, the Japanese pirates gathered a hundred and ten warships each time, killed people and demonstrated, and retreated calmly.

Since our army has suffered two losses before and after, it is impossible to match it at all.

Wang Ziteng had no choice but to order the crew of the royal fleet to go out to sea to inquire about where the Japanese pirates kept the prisoners of war, and then try to rescue them.

Jia Lian asked to join the detective.

This time, Jia Lian took Xiao Baozi and other eight people to join the Wang family's sea fleet.

In order to fish, this time the royal fleet pulled ten boats full of grain and cloth, and went to Pisces Harbor for trade.

When he arrived at Pisces Harbor, Jia Lian was very shocked. The night here was as bright as day, and the prosperity was abnormal.

Jia Lian used his powerful spiritual sense and hearing ability to finally detect and find out that the prisoners of war were detained on an isolated island ten miles away from Pisces Island.

Jia Lian also saw another person, and this person was Gu Yun, a famous medicine merchant in Zhejiang.He is not only a famous doctor, but also the largest medicine merchant in Fujian and Zhejiang.The three so-called widowed daughters of his family turned out to be the wives of the leaders of the three bands of pirates.

Not only that, he also took advantage of the convenience of opening a medical clinic to provide medicinal herbs to Japanese pirates, and his warehouse allowed Japanese pirates to pile up goods.

Gu Yun is shameless, saying that as long as a son-in-law succeeds, he will be a ready-made head of state.

In his eyes, the Japanese pirates are omnipotent, and the officers and soldiers of the imperial court are rotten wood and grass, vulnerable to strong winds.

There is also Gu Yao, the captain of the Fujian Guards, who is Gu Yun's nephew. He actually had an affair with the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates went in and out of Guanjin without checking or questioning, and stole a large amount of military supplies to support the Japanese pirates.

The information Jia Lian brought back made Wang Ziteng wish to scrape off these nest owners and eat their flesh.

The eldest prince was even more angry: "This kind of dog slave, who eats the imperial salary but colludes with Japanese pirates to harm the people, immediately arrest him and cut him to pieces."

Jia Lian thought it was too early to scare the snake away, and said: "General Feng has not yet arrived, and we are not strong enough to fight the Japanese pirates. The subordinates believe that we can only move Gu Yao when we are able to restrain the main force of the Japanese pirates." The prince clapped his hands: "Seeing them being arrogant and killing prisoners of war right in front of our eyes, I can't wait to go up and fight them to the death immediately."

Jia Lian sighed: "But right now we only have ten warships from the Yongding Army, and the Japanese pirates have a hundred warships. Fighting against them is like hitting a stone with an egg. Our advantage lies on land. We can't repeat the same mistakes again. Short attack the enemy's strength."

The eldest prince looked anxious: "But, we can't watch him every day. You kill people, right? You have to find a way? Otherwise, let's ask for an order, or..."

Jia Lian immediately interrupted the eldest prince: "If you accept the book, you will only anger His Majesty, and you will gain nothing other than that."

The eldest prince also knows that his words are flawed. How can the emperor change his words from his own mouth?

Wang Ziteng was also very annoyed: "If I could persuade the king of Nan'an County, these things would not happen."

Jia Lian shook his head: "He was the king of the south of the Yangtze River at that time. What can you do as a food and fodder officer? It's useless to say these things now. I have an idea, but it's very difficult to implement, so let's not talk about it."

The eldest prince hurriedly said: "Tell me quickly, how do you know it won't work?"

Jia Lian said: "The Japanese pirates always flock a hundred or ten warships to threaten our army every day. If we can manage to hold them back and send people to the isolated island to rescue the hostages, as long as we can hold them back for an hour or two, It should be possible to rescue the prisoners of war." Wang Ziteng shook his head: "The rescue mission can be undertaken by Lu Ping of the Yongding Army. Ten warships are enough to rescue the prisoners of war. The key is who can hold the Japanese pirates for an hour or two?"

Ten days later, Feng Tang's army rushed to the sea.

At this time, the Japanese pirates had killed a hundred prisoners of war.

The reason why Feng Tang was five days late this time was because they brought ten red cannons.

That night, Feng Tang presided over an emergency battle preparation meeting. The participants included the First Prince, Wang Ziteng, General Lu Ping of the Yongding Army, Jia Lian, the former assistant of the army, and Chen Rong'an Shuihuai, the captain of the Fengsheng Army.

After researching, Feng Tang felt that Jia Lian's strategy was feasible, so he decided to fight the Japanese pirates head-on to hold them back.

However, once the cannons are fired, the Japanese pirates will definitely flee. The cannons have a range problem, which requires at least ten warships to pull these cannons to chase the Japanese pirates at sea.

Wang Ziteng clapped his hands: "This is easy to handle. There are still five complete warships left in the Purple Banner Army. We can use five warships and five cannons to ambush in the nearby harbor in advance. When the Japanese pirates come, we can go around to their side , When the Japanese pirates fled after a burst of artillery fire on our side, they will come out and bomb again. The task of chasing and entanglement will depend on the Yongding Army. The Fujian Guard can't point it out at all, and besides, they dare not leave , there is a pirate's den on the island ten miles away from them, and with the wind and sail, they can land in half an hour."

Jia Lian said: "As far as I know, there are dozens of sea ships in Gu Yun's family. Although there is no fort, it is no problem to load soldiers. The warships of the Yongding Army are divided into two groups, five ships go to rescue people, and the rest Five ships participated in the interception battle. The merchant ships of the Gu family also divided into two groups. Half of the ships followed to load the prisoners of war, and the other half of the merchant ships stayed behind to carry kerosene, attached to the cannon warships, and specially dealt with the fleeing Japanese pirates. It cannot be completely eliminated, but it can also seriously hurt their vitality."

The First Prince heard his blood boiling, and clapped his hands in admiration: "That's it!"

After deliberation, Feng Tang also felt that this method was feasible.

Jia Lian asked to go and arrest Gu Yun, the owner of the big nest.

It's twilight tonight.Jia Lian's Pingziying quietly sneaked into Gu Yun's house, a big drug dealer, and took more than [-] members of Gu's family into custody, including the three Japanese pirate wives and a total of more than a dozen Japanese pirate boys from their three families.

Fifteen merchant ships belonging to the Gu family were confiscated.

The next day, the Japanese pirates escorted the prisoners of war again to demonstrate and provoke. This time, the Japanese pirates approached the shore for [-] battles. Before they could speak, five cannons fired at once.

Feng Tang ordered that the first wave be aimed at the outermost warships, and the second wave be aimed at the warships in the middle, until the Japanese pirates set sail and escape, and then attack individually.

It's a pity that after four rounds of cannon firing, the remaining warships of the Japanese pirates had already escaped the range of fire.

However, this round of strikes was very effective, directly destroying [-] Japanese warships, and these [-] ships sank to the bottom of the sea in front of the Fengsheng Army.Most were killed by the shells, and some were stunned by the impact of the shells and drowned.

A small part of the pirates who were good at water also escaped.

Feng Tang intentionally missed the warship that was carrying the prisoners of war. He just blew up the tail of the warship and overturned the ship.

This is also the arrogance of the Japanese pirates, who deliberately let the prisoners of war escape on the ship for fun. If their hands and feet were tied, Feng Tang would be hit with a cannonball.

Looking back, he said that Jia Lian followed the Lang team of the Yongding Army Little Leopard to the isolated island to rescue the hostages.

Arriving on the island very smoothly, more than a dozen Japanese pirates wearing underpants and clogs were cleaned up by Jia Lian alone.The prisoners of war were scattered directly on the isolated island without binding their hands and feet. Some even searched for weeds on the island to feed their hunger.Seeing Jia Lian and others, they burst into tears one by one.There was an instant cry.

However, Jia Lian searched all over the island but could not find the king of Nan'an and the son of Prince Ying.

With great difficulty, Jia Lian coaxed a black-faced man, and asked, "Have you seen the Nan'an County King? Where is the Prince Ying's son?"

The big man shook his head: "We have never seen the two of them, they are not on this isolated island."

Jia Lian asked, "Do you know where they went?"

The black man shook his head.

Jia Lian didn't dare to delay, so he had to go back in a hurry.

Feng Tangwen was disappointed when he heard that the King of Nanjun and Prince Ying's son were missing: "This is troublesome, the Japanese pirates will definitely make a fuss about them, and they may not necessarily highlight any requirements."

The eldest prince and Feng Tang made a memorial to the imperial court, claiming that the king of Nanjun and the son of Prince Ying were missing.

Five days later, Wei Kun's troops arrived in Haijiang.

His Majesty's decree required them to arrive in half a month, so they came here to check out the spot.

Jia Lian finally let go with a heart.

In the previous life, although Wei Kun was defeated in the war, his family members were later implicated because they did not follow the imperial court's decision to reach the sea, passively slack in the war, and in addition to the defeat, a scapegoat was needed at that time, and Wei Kun had only one way to blame.

Now that the combat effectiveness of the Krupp army led by Wei Kun has been greatly improved, it is estimated that there will be no such situation in the previous life where the Japanese pirates swarmed and ran away, leaving only the main general to fight to the death.

Wei Kun always bowed to Jia Lian and said, "Thank you, my nephew, if you hadn't pointed out the shortcomings of the Krupp army's training last time, we would not have been able to gather on time if there were 1000 soldiers next to the cavalry battalion."

Jia Lian cupped his hands: "This is also a corporal who is respectful and humble, otherwise, no one will be able to save you."

Jia Lian suddenly thought of Chaolu, and asked, "How did Chaolu become?"

Wei Kun laughed and said, "He is very happy now, he has three wives, and he has four ready-made sons."

Jia Lian was astonished.

Wei Kun explained: "Have you seen the tribe that defected? Among them are two widows of the leaders. They voluntarily followed Chaolu. In addition, Chaolu's original wife is not three wives."

Jia Lian laughed immediately: "This is very lively, the whole family has a table of mahjong players."

Wei Kun smiled: "I thought you would ask about your relative's situation."

Only then did Jia Lian remember that there was indeed an acquaintance in Beijiang, and he said with a smile, "It's probably not wrong for him to follow your lord."

Wei Kun nodded: "He is now a food and fodder officer. He can't practice martial arts, so he is still good for business."

Jia Lian nodded: "He is also a strange person. When he was at home, he wished that he would even have his food fed to his mouth. Now it's time for him to be successful."

Wei Kun smiled and said: "He is also very grateful to you. He gave each of the three boys in your family a batch of chrysanthemum and green pony. Now he and Chaolu have become friends in panties. That means that he doesn't want to go back to Beijing, and wants to have three wives and four concubines on the grassland."

Jia Lian was shocked again: "Can soldiers get married?"

Wei Kun shook his head: "He's not considered a serious soldier, it's not a bad idea to settle down."

Jia Lian asked, "Where is your lord stationed?"

Wei Kun said: "We will rest for three days, and after three days, we will go to Fujian to garrison."

Jia Lian was startled: "Uncle, do you know what's going on in the guard over there?"

Wei Kun nodded: "My nephew is talking about Gu Yao? General Feng told me that I plan to take him first, and then gather the troops of the guards and put them under the unified deployment of our Krupp army."

Jia Lian nodded when he heard the words. It seems that this time the commander of Fujian will be liquidated. As a commander, his subordinates had an affair with the Japanese pirates. He turned out to be blind.

Jia Lian originally thought that the Japanese pirates would soon discuss the issue of prisoners of war with the imperial court, but unexpectedly they disappeared without a trace.Half a month later, they neither harassed nor raised the issue of ransom.

Feng Tang and the others felt that it was extremely high, and there was no other way except patrolling day and night.

On this day, an urgent report came from eight hundred miles from the capital, and the Prince of England left the capital privately.

Emperor Qianyuan ordered Feng Tang to quickly arrest Prince Ying and send him to Beijing.