Chapter 428 The Strange Disappearance of the Thief--
He Lin had been staying in the capital. Although he also asked Qianlong to fight many times, Fu Kang'an, the first general of the Qing Dynasty, had already appeared. Therefore, Qianlong did not agree to his request, or He Shen was also obstructing from it. After all, this was his only brother, and at this time, the situation in the Huguang area was weak. Rotten, in a short period of time, it is difficult to make contributions, and may even be convicted for it. Therefore, He Lin has never been able to take a step in Beijing.
After that, due to the ineffective fighting of the officers and army, and the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect became bigger and bigger. In Qianlong's anger, he didn't know how many senior officials of the deputy generals were dismissed, and even a provincial admiral was pulled down from the horse. Moreover, there were many Qing court generals who died in the hands of those anti-thieves, which made He Shen secretly congratulated himself. Fortunately, his younger brother didn't get involved in this mixed water.
However, when Zhili also appeared as an anti-thief, Qianlong's seven orifices were smoked. In order to shock the world, and to prove that the Qing court still had a strong force to control the world, Qianlong finally used He Lin, who was still in the capital.
All people are not worried that He Lin will fail, including He Shen. You know, although the Qing court [***], there are still a group of strong soldiers and strong generals in the continuous war. What's more, in order to clean up this rebel army in the shortest time, Qianlong even transferred a group of people from the divine machine camp and the Xiaoqi camp, and A group of elite Mongolian cavalry were transferred from Mongolia, and 70,000 to 80,000 troops were gathered together. It was necessary to eliminate this anti-thief force in the shortest time, and ordered the Zhili Green Battalion to cooperate with the operation, which made He Lin himself full of confidence, but who knew that the first army had caught up with the anti-thief department. After the team, he was defeated by the rebels and fled.
Yongbao saw the eyes of Lin and nodded heavily: "It seems that the Eight Banners of Mongolia said that Gude did not lie. If not, how could those rebels repel a Mongolian horse or even defeat it?"
"It shouldn't be. Could it be that these rebels are actually related to the Xiyi people? You know, the court has extremely strict control over firearms, and the officers and soldiers have also contacted the anti-thief's team several times before. Except for some fire cannons and some small cannons, there are no heavy cannons at all. A general next to him asked his own question with a puzzled face.
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"It's a pity that Gude has been escorted to the capital. Otherwise, we should be able to ask something else." Yongbao has some regrets. Not only was he defeated by the rebels, but even the generals were killed in the battle. The responsibility of Gude was certainly not small, and He Lin was really not interested in listening to the Mongolian Eight Banners crying, so she directly ordered him to lock him up and take him to the capital. By the way, the Eight Banners of Mongolia were lost, and the anti-thief team had already crossed the Xuanhui River and sent the emergency military information back to the capital.
"Ask him what he can ask? That coward is completely frightened. Another general replied. " Those arrogant Mongolians finally suffered this time.
He Lin just glanced at the man indifferently and said in a low voice to the general who was still standing in front of him, "Speed up the construction of the pontoon bridge. Early tomorrow morning, our army must step on the south bank!"
"I will obey at the end!" After receiving the order, the general quickly ran out of the central army.
After the generals left the camp, he and Lin sat back in their seats and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid things have changed."
"That's right." Yongbao's eyebrows, which were left, were also locked: "No matter what the Mongolian Eight Banners do, clean up a group of mud-legged anti-thieves, even if the other party relies on the large number of people, they are at most invincible. How can they be defeated to such an end?"
"Reinforcement, they must have reinforcements. Otherwise, the Gude would not have frequently talked about the black-clothed thieves who protected the rebels across the river. However, when was there such a fierce thieve army on the ground of the Qing Dynasty?" This question deeply puzzled He Lin and the counselor Yongbao.
Because according to the description of Gude and several Mongolian Eight Banners generals, it is an anti-thief force with a strong firepower that far exceeds that of the Qing army. They not only have a strong combat effectiveness, but also their artillery power is very powerful. More importantly, the fire in their hands are like There are countless launches that do not need to be loaded with ammunition, and of course, there are black iron balls that will explode if they are thrown by hand.
However, among their statements, He Lin and others only believe some of them. After all, he has never seen a fire gun that can be fired countless times without loading ammunition. Even if he has heard of it, he has also been in contact with Lin in Guangdong and Annan. In addition, he has a good personal relationship with Fu Kang'an. Kang An also told him in private that the Westerners were strong, but he had never heard of Westerners with such murderous weapons.
The Xiyi people are good at firearms, and the Qing Dynasty is good at riding and shooting. This is the cognition of Lin and other Qing generals. If even those Xiyi people did not have this kind of firearm, how could the little rebels have such a sharp weapon?
Therefore, the revolver is regarded by He Lin as a weapon that only exists in illusory fabricated by the Mongols because of their defeat.
However, as for the kind of flower bomb that can be thrown by hand, it is naturally regarded as a trumpet flower bomb by He Lin. However, even so, it makes He Lin's heart full of vigilance and doubts. Four thousand Mongolian cavalry are definitely not comparable to miscellaneous soldiers. Moreover, in this era, cavalry not only have strong mobility. Force, more importantly, has a strong impact and destructive power. Even if the other party is a pure gunnery force, it is absolutely impossible to easily defeat this elite Mongolian Eight Banners.
But the facts are in front of her. Even if He Lin wants to break her head, she can't imagine that the combat effectiveness of this anti-thief army has far exceeded that of other firearms forces in this era.
Their mortars that can be up to 10 to 12 rounds per minute, mines hidden under the surface, the kind of grenades that can be thrown, and the revolvers that can fire six bullets in a row, and the interval between loading ammunition will not exceed 20 seconds, and the kind that is used to build a defensive position, full of sharp steel. Thorny barbed wire...
Everything appeared in Liang Pengfei's army just to improve combat effectiveness. If the time was not too short, and the machine gun was still in the research and development stage, and the retreat of the rebel army could not wait for the first half of the year. Otherwise, I'm afraid that no Mongolian iron horse could easily escape from the position. Moreover, the end of the battle will be faster.
However, all this is enough to change the war mode of the world, and the first to enjoy this change is the unlucky Mongolian Eight Banners.
The next morning, the Qing army was finally able to cross the Xuanhui River, but when they were crossing the river. The anti-thief army, which made a lot of noise in Zhili, had passed through the Shejia wharf in the east of Haifeng under the response of countless ships, and went straight into the Bohai along the river of the hook pan river. The last ship also left the Shejia wharf when the Qing army crossed the river.
After the Qing army rushed to the She family dock along their footprints, they were extremely shocked to find that nearly 100,000 anti-thieves had disappeared at the She family dock and disappeared without a trace.
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And no trace of the anti-thieves were found within ten miles. The county magistrate of Haifeng County and others reported that between the ten days, a group of anti-thieves in black surrounded Haifeng County. They could not know what happened at the She family's wharf.
However, it should be certain that since nearly 100,000 rebels have lost their tracks here, there are only two possibilities. One is to commit suicide collectively. Of course, this possibility is that the surname is really pitifully low, and the other may be that there is a huge fleet that picked up the rebel force.
"One hundred thousand rebels, in three or four days, they were all picked up and taken away?" Standing on the messy She family wharf and looking at the waves of the river under the wind and snow, He Lin couldn't help subconsciously wrapping the fox fur on her body, but she couldn't stop the coolness of her heart. Unless I concentrate all the warships in the Qing Dynasty, I'm afraid I can do it, right?
Behind him, the expressions of Yongbao and others were equally ugly, and they were full of shock and disbelief. However, even if they want to inquire, they can't inquire at all, because all the people within five miles of Shejiagang Wharf have disappeared without a trace. Only the private houses and the furniture that have not yet fallen dust prove that not long ago, there were still living people living here.
This extremely strange ending made these generals feel a chill in their hearts. Is Yingyi coming again? A general wiped a handful of sweat wrapped in snow foam and muttered in a low voice.
"Yingyi?" Yongbao shook his head in disbelief: "Yingyi should not have such courage. Besides, this is nearly 100,000 people. How many ships do they have?"
"Search for me, search carefully, fifty miles, no, a hundred miles, give me all the search horses, I don't believe it. Who in the world has the ability to do this." He Lin left such a sentence, Le Ma turned around and left the dock. Tens of thousands of Qing troops took such a long time to hunt down the anti-thief force. In the end, they not only lost soldiers and generals, but also slipped away from under their eyes and disappeared.
He Lin doesn't know what to do anymore. Not only him, but also the generals behind him are all at a loss...
In a few days, the eight hundred-mile urgent military report was presented to Qianlong's desk. In exchange, it was the angry and hoaring roar of the undead Emperor Qianlong, who was nearly 80 years old, and a strange and unspeakable atmosphere shrouded in the hearts of those ministers who heard about it...
(to be continued)