The Red Mansions

Chapter 309 Focus on the overall situation

Chapter 309 Focus on the overall situation

Rongguofu

Last night, a heavy snowfall fell on the blue eaves of the courtyard, the high vermilion walls, and the withered yellow trees. The snow was piled up in clusters, covered in plain silver, and the sky and the earth seemed like glazed glass.

In the square courtyard, the snow had already been cleared on the stone steps, and the snow melted and flowed between the blue bricks and stone cracks, forming crisscross bright marks, reflecting the pale, cold winter sky above.

In Rongqing Hall, behind a cotton curtain, the room is full of hot air from the earth dragon. In the hall partitioned by twelve screens, there are crowds of people, and the fragrance of makeup and powder.

Jia Mu sat on an arhat bed made of cotton quilts embroidered with the Songhe Yannian Regiment Case, mandarin ducks, amber, and jadeite waited on her side. Aunt Xue sat on the embroidered pier at the bottom, chatting and laughing with Jia Mu. There was a peaceful smile on the fair and rich face, and Mrs. Wang was also sitting beside her.

On the other side, Fengwan, Sichun, Chaidai, Xiangyun and others each wore jackets and skirts of different colors, with pearls and hairpins on their heads, earrings and necklaces on their ears and necks. Accompanied by a maid, it becomes more and more colorful like a hundred flowers blooming.

Mother Jia watched this scene with a smile on her face, listening to Aunt Xue and Sister Feng telling jokes together.

Mrs. Wang suddenly asked, "Why haven't you seen Pan'er these two days?"

Aunt Xue smiled lightly: "Pan'er, he went to the camp early in the morning, and his uncle has given him a lot of errands in the past two days."

Mrs. Wang nodded and said: "Pan'er is also grown up now, knowing how to travel outside, she has grown a lot."

Having said that, it is inevitable that his heart is a bit complicated. His family's Baoyu is also younger, otherwise he could gain knowledge by his uncle's side.

Sister Feng said with a smile: "Cousin Wenlong is getting more and more powerful. I heard that next year, uncle will give him an official job."

This is naturally Xue Pan showing off when he meets people these two days, and it spreads to Sister Feng's ears.

At this moment, Sister Feng's eyes flashed, and her mood was also a little complicated.

Xue's big head, who broke into a life lawsuit in the south, still has today?

Aunt Xue was very happy, but she didn't show the slightest expression on her face. Instead, she sighed and said with a smile: "What progress is it? I thought about telling his uncle in two days to give Pan'er a few days off."

Mrs. Wang said softly: "The last one, his aunt came over and said that his elder brother has recently been reorganizing the army, and that Pan'er has also put in a lot of effort by being on the sidelines, maybe he can't do without."

"What can he do? Just run errands and pass on the word." Aunt Xue shook her head and smiled.

Mrs. Wang said: "No one can do everything for a little bit of experience. I see that Pan'er is a caring person. Follow his uncle, and he will be a general one day."

Jia's mother paused, smiled, and said, "Why did I hear that Wen Long had such an experience, or was Brother Heng's idea back then?"

The smile on Mrs. Wang's face froze for a while, her expression somewhat unnatural.

Aunt Xue answered with a smile: "Brother Heng said that Pan'er was good for joining the army, but Brother Heng has always been upright and knowledgeable."

Thoughts appeared on Yuan Chun's crystal clear face, and he said softly: "I haven't seen Brother Heng for a while."

As soon as this remark came out, Daiyu turned her eyes to look at Tanchun, and said softly: "Third sister, you must have seen Brother Heng during this period of time, right?"

Tanchun said softly: "It's not very common, just talk in the inner study in the morning, Brother Heng stayed in the Beijing camp for more than half a month, and went to Wucheng Bingmasi and Jingying after dinner in the morning. I was in the study After sitting for a while, I went to talk with my sister-in-law."

Baochai turned her eyes and said softly: "Yesterday, I was talking to Mrs. Heng. Brother Heng is busy with the rectification of the Beijing camp? Third sister should know about it?"

While speaking, the girl's bright almond eyes under airy bangs, a trace of curiosity flashed deep in her eyes.

Tanchun nodded, and said: "Right now, people in Beijing are discussing this matter, but brother Heng's battalion is not included in this rectification."

When Baochai heard this, she frowned, her eyes thoughtful.

Jia Mu laughed and said, "He leads an army and needs to command and train his troops. The Duke of Xiaoguo was like this when he was young. He often lived in the barracks during festivals."

Sister Feng laughed and said: "Our family is General Wu Xun, which is normal, but the Chinese New Year is coming soon, Brother Heng is the patriarch, there are still a lot of things waiting for him in the clan."

When everyone heard this, they laughed lightly.

Mrs. Wang's face gradually became indifferent, and she took the teacup handed over by Jin Chuan, and took a sip with her lowered eyes, suppressing a trace of dissatisfaction in her heart.

Because it's already winter, so...mosquitoes and flies don't grow.

While everyone in the hall was laughing and laughing, suddenly a woman came to the eaves of the corridor, opened the curtain, entered the hall, and said loudly: "Old lady, madam, the uncle sent someone to say that the Beijing camp has mutinied, and the people in the house are tight." Close your doors, don't go out, the streets are not smooth now."

Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang: "..."

Feng Wan, Si Chun, Chai Dai, Xiang Yun: "???"

It turned out that Jia Heng asked Ti Qi to come and go to suppress the streets to prevent someone from secretly linking up with the dismissed Beijing camp generals who lived in the middle of the capital. Once they heard about the outside world, they would cause trouble in the city and take the opportunity to rob.

It's not impossible.

"There is a mutiny in the Beijing camp, is that what you say?" Jia Mu's face suddenly changed, and she asked, "Where is Brother Heng?"

She hadn't listened to such troubles for many years. Could it be that there was another big trouble in Beijing?

The old woman said urgently: "Old lady, madam, Uncle Heng sent people from the five city soldiers and horses to say that the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp had mutinied, and Uncle Heng went out of the city to quell the chaos, and Ningrong Street had officers and soldiers guarding the street entrance." , not allowed in and out."

The smile on Aunt Xue's face disappeared, and she said in surprise: "Jingying? Isn't Pan'er and his uncle in charge of Jingying? How could there be trouble?"

Mrs. Wang said: "Which battalion is in trouble, or is it all in trouble?"

In the past few days, as Wang Ziteng's rectification of the Beijing camp has become more and more famous, when some imperial wives come and go, especially Wang Ziteng's wife Zhao's show off, Mrs. Wang has a little bit of affection for the Beijing [-]th Regiment Battalion learn.

Her elder brother is in charge of the [-]th Regiment Battalion, and even those in the East Mansion are under her elder brother's command.

The mother-in-law thought about it for a while, but she was not sure: "The man said about the uncle, did he go... Yaowu camp to put down the chaos?"

Baochai, who was listening attentively and pondering the reason, frowned upon hearing this, and asked worriedly: "Mom, brother, did you mean Yaowu Camp?"

Aunt Xue's face turned pale, and she said in a trembling voice, "My dear girl, don't scare me."

Ying'er, the maidservant behind Baochai, said softly, "Master looked hurried when he left this morning, as if he was going to work in Yaowu Camp."

When Aunt Xue heard the words, her eyes darkened, and she said in a trembling voice, "This... this, Pan'er..."

In Rongqing Hall, everyone was shocked when they heard the words.

Yuan Chun frowned, doubts floated in her beautiful eyes, and she turned to look at Tan Chun beside her, "Third Sister, the Beijing camp is in good order, why is there such a commotion? Third Sister is beside Brother Heng, do you know what's going on?"

Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang, and Feng Wan all looked at Tanchun for a while.

Tan Chun looked serious, and said: "In the past few days, the official document delivered by the five city soldiers and horses mentioned that the Beijing camp eliminated generals and schools, and there was a lot of resentment, and the Beijing government office was surrounded."

Yuan Chun's eyes flickered, he sighed, and said, "I guess it's because of this."

Facing the puzzled gazes of Mother Jia, Mrs. Wang, and Sister Feng, Yuan Chun explained: "The army has been rectified, the generals and schools have been eliminated, and the resentment aroused has caused trouble now."

At this moment, Aunt Xue was trembling with fright, her lips trembling and said: "Then Pan'er, what should Pan'er do now?"

Baochai also showed worry on her face, and said: "Mom, don't worry, let's send someone to ask the officers and soldiers outside to see what's going on."

Aunt Xue paused, and quickly said: "Yes, yes, that makes sense."

Mother Jia turned to Lin Zhixiao's family and said, "Hurry up and send more young men outside to inquire about what's going on."

Lin Zhixiao's family quickly agreed.

However, before everyone had waited long, a woman hurried into the eaves of the corridor, opened the cotton curtain, and entered the hall, out of breath, and said anxiously: "Old lady, madam, it's not good, the officers and soldiers said uncle There was a disaster in the mansion, the mansion let the rebels rush in, and now the officers and soldiers ordered every family to strictly guard the gates and not to walk around indiscriminately."

Madam Wang's complexion changed suddenly when she heard the words, and she hurriedly asked, "Uncle? Which uncle?"

The mother-in-law said: "Ma'am, it is Mr. Uncle Wang."

Mrs. Wang swayed, her eyes were dizzy, and she said in a trembling voice, "Uncle Baoyu, why did such a disaster happen?"

Aunt Xue seemed to be struck by lightning, her eyes lost her mind, and she murmured: "Pan'er's uncle has an accident, isn't Pan'er..."

When it came to the end, my heart felt like a prick, and I covered my face and sobbed.

Everyone at the scene heard the situation, and their faces were full of fear.

The rebels rushed into the mansion, this is... a catastrophe.

"Are there any casualties at Uncle's family?" Sister Feng asked anxiously as she stood up from her chair, Danfeng eyes revealing imperceptible fear under her curved and thin willow-leaf eyebrows.

The woman shook her head, and said with a bitter face: "Second Mistress Lian, I don't know either."

In Rongqing Hall, the atmosphere became tense in an instant, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, silent, as if a boulder weighed down their hearts.

Yuan Chunxiu frowned, her beautiful eyes were absent-minded, and she pursed her lips in silence.

The rebels rushed into the mansion, how will the women in the backyard be better?

Besides, these rebels must be aiming at revenge on uncle, I'm afraid that at this moment, the mansion is already bleeding like a river, it's too horrible to look at.

Tanchun's crystal clear eyes were full of worry, and his crisp voice was firm and decisive, and he said: "Old ancestor, there is chaos outside, so you should guard your door now."

Mother Jia reacted, and said anxiously: "Yes, yes! The third girl is right! Lin Zhixiao, let the front gate and corner gate be closed quickly, and let the servants and servants prepare sticks and guard inside and outside. "

This time, everyone in Rongqing Hall became nervous, Daiyu and Baochai held their handkerchiefs tightly and looked worried.

In fact, not only the Rongguo Mansion, but also the Ningguo Mansion immediately closed their doors.

Although Jinyi Mansion Tiqi left nearly a hundred people around Ningrong Street to protect the safety of the Ningrong Second Mansion, but in case bandits took the opportunity to cause chaos, they asked the Ningrong Second Mansion to close their doors and put on guard.

At the same time, Jinyi Mansion also sent nearly a hundred Tiqi to block the front and back streets of the street and Lifang where the Princess Jinyang's mansion is located.

In the eldest princess's mansion, Xia Houying walked quickly into the flower hall, and said to the beautiful woman who was full of worry on her bright and beautiful face, "His Royal Highness, I have asked you clearly, Luo Rui, the general of the Liwei Battalion guarding the west city, has turned against Luo Rui, and the soldiers under his command... At the gate of the city, there was a confrontation with the officers and soldiers of the Wucheng Bingmasi, Jia Yunhui had already carried the Tianzi Sword, and went to the Nancheng camp to mobilize troops to suppress the rebellion, but the rebels have not yet entered the city."

Princess Jinyang frowned, her beautiful eyes showed worry, and said, "How did you get to this point? He..."

For nearly half a month, because Jia Heng was busy with military training, more than half of the time was spent in the Beijing camp, and the rest of the time was returned to the Ningguo Mansion. Instead, he never came to the Jinyang Princess Mansion.

This beauty was at the time of deep affection, although she knew that Jia Heng was busy and felt a little bit of resentment in her heart, but after all, her status was precious, so it was not good for her to come to see Jia Heng.

Unexpectedly, such a thing happened in the blink of an eye.

Princess Jinyang looked at Xia Houying and ordered: "Xiahou, go ask someone about the situation."

Xia Houying responded, turned around and left.

Watching Xia Houying leave, the eldest princess of Jinyang had a gloomy look, and murmured in her heart, "It's best if nothing happens..."

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But it is said that Xue Pan, under the protection of Ni Biao's soldiers of the Central Guard, hastily left the Yaowu camp and fled along the official road towards the Chinese army camp in Longshouyuan.

At that time, the official road was covered with wind and snow, and the dead trees and grass on both sides swayed with the wind.

The snow covered their ankles, and they hadn't ridden their horses, so they couldn't get up for a while. There were a series of footprints behind them, and their whereabouts were very clear.

After running for three or four miles, Ni Biao suddenly heard the sound of horse neighing in the distance behind him. His expression changed, and he said in a low voice: "Mr. Fang, Xiao Ya Nei, those rebels are about to catch up. At the end of the day, the general led them away, and Mr. Fang and Xiaoya Nei ran from the woods to the city to find the commander-in-chief."

Fang Ji said anxiously: "General Ni, how can this be done?"

Ni Biao said: "Mr. Fang, General Pang should have gone to Yaowu Camp to put down the chaos by now."

Xue Pan cried and said, "General Ni, they are chasing you."

While speaking, a large number of cavalry walked across the snow like a whirlwind, like a black tide, approaching a hundred paces away.

The first person, with a cold face, opened his bow and set up an arrow, and shot towards the guards led by Ni Biao, only to hear a "噗味", accompanied by a muffled groan, and landed in response.

Xue Pan's face was ashen-colored, especially looking at the bright red blood stains on the snow, red and white intertwined, his calf twisted, and he said anxiously: "General Ni, run away."

"Go into the forest on the side!" Ni Biao made a decisive decision, and led dozens of soldiers to protect Fang Ji and Xue Pan and retreated to the depths of the mountain forest.

That Qianhu surnamed Wu was still riding on the horse at the moment, with a ruthless expression on his face, he said: "Brothers, shoot your arrows and kill these lackeys of Prince Teng!"

"Whizzing!!!"

The riding bow was drawn up, and the arrows pierced through the air, but the level of riding and archery of the Liwei Camp was really unsatisfactory. After seventy or eighty steps, they missed a single one except for the black feather arrows left on the snow.

And Ni Biao also supported Fang Ji and Xue Pan and fled towards the thorny forest. This forest is not big, but the withered grass and broken rocks inside are rough, and the cavalry just behind him chased after them.

"The whole army dismounts and kills them all!" Seeing the two soldiers on horseback fall off their horses, Qianhu surnamed Wu turned cold, got off his horse and let out a deep shout.

As he spoke, he waved his saber, led the cavalry behind him, and chased and killed dozens of people including Ni Biao.

Ni Biao led his soldiers and fled towards the inner room, and turned back to stop him with crossbows.

Let the time go back a little bit, when Luo Rui, a member of the Liwei camp, led the troops from the west city to the Yaowu camp, Jia Heng also led dozens of soldiers from the five city soldiers and horses, riding fast horses, not sparing horsepower , Go straight to Nancheng Camp.

As soon as he entered the barracks of the Chinese army, he quickly summoned all the generals to discuss matters.

"Everyone, Luo Rui, the general of the Liwei Camp, coerced the soldiers into rebellion. I was ordered by the emperor to supervise the troops of the Guoyong Camp, and was given the Emperor's Sword to put down the rebellion. All of you, gather your troops and horses, and enter the Yaowu Camp to wipe out the rebels! "Jia Heng's face is stern, and his clear voice is like a sword drawn from its sheath, and his voice is clanging. .

When all the generals heard this letter, their expressions all changed.

Liwei has rebelled?

Jia Heng didn't wait for them to ask the ins and outs at all, because at this moment time was racing against time, he said in a deep voice, "Where is Cai Quan?"

Cai Quan cupped his hands and said, "The end is here."

Jia Heng pointed to the defense map of the [-]th Regiment of the Beijing Camp in Shenjing City behind him, and pointed to the thoroughfare between Yaowu Camp and Longshouyuan, and said: "You lead a thousand cavalry soldiers to block here, and patrol here and there. The messengers from the military camp, as well as the messengers from the other battalions to inquire about the news, will all be detained! If you encounter a card breaker, you will be shot to death!"

The purpose of this move is to block the news and isolate the chain reaction. No matter how chaotic the Yaowu camp is, only one camp can be disrupted. The regiment camps in other camps are not allowed to send messengers to inquire about the news.

It's the same as disconnecting the Internet when something happens in later generations.

Cai Quan arched his hands and replied: "The last general takes orders."

"Go now, the sooner the better!" Jia Heng said in a deep voice.

Cai Quan's heart trembled, knowing that the matter was of great importance, he turned around and left.

Jia Heng said in a deep voice: "Commander Shan Ming, I order you to lead the rest of the cavalry from the Shenshu Camp to go to the Yaowu Camp first, while the general Xiao Lin leads the Fifth Army Battalion, and the guerrilla general Qu Guang leads the Shenji Battalion to retreat. If you encounter Pang Shili, a member of the Yangwu camp, leading the cavalry, you can attack the Yaowu camp together."

Four generals, Shan Ming, Shao Chao, Xiao Lin, and Qu Guang came out, clasped their fists together and said, "The last general takes orders."

Jia Heng's face was gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "I personally lead the teaching camp, the fourth camp of Fenglin Huoshan, to the camp of the Chinese army."

It is not difficult for the first army of Guoyong camp, together with the cavalry pawns of Pang Shili, to suppress the rebellion of the first battalion of Yaowu camp.

Although Cai Quan blocked the news, as time went by, the Beijing [-]th Regiment Battalion must have doubts.

Now we need to focus on the overall situation, and stop watching Wang Ziteng's jokes, otherwise, the [-]th regiment of the Beijing camp will all be bombed, and the gods will not be able to save them at that time.

He should use the sword of the Son of Heaven to lead his troops to Wang Ziteng's camp of the Chinese Army, order the Central Guard Army, summon the commanders of the battalions, the governors' acquaintances, and generals, and strictly order the battalions not to move without authorization.

Among them, the most important thing is to stop Wang Ziteng from acting indiscriminately.

Otherwise, the general will be incited by Luo Rui, and he will get angry when he sees Wang Ziteng, and he will not listen to his orders, and then he will stir up soldiers to cause a bigger mutiny.

In other words, Wang Ziteng itself is a powder keg.

At this moment, Jia Heng didn't know that Li Zan, Minister of the Ministry of War, had decided to go out of the city to appease the generals.

And just as Jia Heng dispatched his troops, he suddenly heard the sound of "Woo-Woo", which was clearly an enemy attack warning coming from the direction of Yaowu Camp.

According to Wang Ziteng's military order, the battalions are not allowed to help each other when they encounter a horn warning. Only Pang Shili, the general of the Yangwei battalion, can lead his subordinates to the Shenshu battalion to rush to the rescue.

Song Yuan looked worried, and said: "Commander, this is the horn of the enemy's attack from the Yaowu camp."

Jia Heng said in a deep voice: "Yaowu camp can't last long, Pang Shili heard the horn, he will definitely rush to Yaowu camp to help, this person cooperates with our army, it is not difficult to control the situation."

However, at the time of the discussion, the soldiers from outside came to report and said: "Commander, all the soldiers have been assembled and are waiting to leave."

Without further ado, Jia Heng said, "Let's go!"

　Second, don't wait, while writing.

(End of this chapter)