In Donggou and Rehe, Deputy Governor Ruilin was discussing the drill with his subordinates when a military order from the Governor-General was delivered quickly from the General Manager's Yamen in Jingling.
The grand order required the Rehe troops to use the thirty miles surrounding Jingling as a warning area, divide their troops to guard the main entrances and exits, drive away the idle people, and complete the comprehensive encirclement (blockade) of the area around Jingling.
No one is allowed in or out except those holding a special permit from the Governor and the Malanyu artillery delivery team.
"Please report back to the Governor, the Rehe troops will resolutely implement the order!"
After Ruilin read the military order, he summoned Song Guozhong, the commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment who came with him, and began to make arrangements to implement the order's requirements.
Ruilin's understanding of the grand order's request was that as long as the governor didn't say anything, it wouldn't be enough even if the emperor came.
This understanding is correct, and it is also the fundamental reason why Ruilin was able to establish himself as a senior general in the direct line of the headquarters.
In the eyes of outsiders, Ruilin is actually a royal relative like Lady Jia Jia, because Ruilin's mother-in-law is the daughter of the late emperor, and the current emperor is actually his uncle.
Therefore, it is simply unbelievable that Ruilin, the emperor's nephew, and Jia Jia, the emperor's brother-in-law, would come together and conspire to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.
However, the root causes are complex.
Ruilin's E Niang was not the late emperor's biological daughter, but an adopted daughter.
Ruilin's grandfather was not the late emperor Yongzheng, but the deposed prince Yunfeng.
Yongzheng ascended the throne in the year of Yongzheng. In order to consolidate his position and succeed to the throne, he extended great favors and made his direct enemy the eighth elder brother Yunhu Prince Lian.
Lin's mother-in-law, including the daughters of other political opponents, took several of them into the palace as adopted daughters, gave them princess titles, and did a lot to win people's hearts.
After the throne was firmly established, Ruilin immediately fell out of favor, and Ruilin's grandfather Yunfeng and his uncle Hongxi were imprisoned and killed.
Under such circumstances, if there is no chance, forget it. If there is a chance, how can Ruilin be willing to work for Yongzheng and his son? What's more, in the ominous incident in Mancheng, his hands are stained with the blood of Shangsanqi Manchuria and many clan yellow belts.
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If he doesn't follow Lord Jia Jia all the way to the dark side, Ruilin will definitely be liquidated.
Not to mention that all his subordinates were eaten to death by Lord Jia Jia.
If Ruilin doesn't do it, there are plenty of people who do it.
Just as Ruilin said when he went to Rehe to take office and bid farewell to his colleagues that day: "Today I can only act like a hawk for Master Jia Jia, and don't think of anything else."
"General Mo will lead people to seal the road right now!"
Song Guozhong was Ruilin's old subordinate when he was in the Green Camp Army of the Capital. He was the seventh-rank general at that time. Later, he led troops to massacre Prince Xian's Mansion. Because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted to the rank of fourth-rank guard officer by Sir Jia Jia.
Because the Qing army's organization was complex and unfavorable for command, Jia Liu reorganized the directly subordinate departments into brigades, regiments, and battalions. The chief officer of the regiment was called Guandai, which was equivalent to the former military guard leader.
Externally, it is still organized under the old Eight Banners and Green Camp.
At present, in addition to the three Rehe cavalry regiments, Jia Liu's direct troops have three infantry regiments in Suiyuan, two regiments in Zhili's Xiaojiu Division, and less than four regiments in total of land and sea officers and soldiers in Tianjin, plus three infantry regiments in Baoding.
The barracks, directly under the Guards Battalion, and the total number of Manchurian garrison troops that could cooperate with each other were 15 regiments, with a total strength of less than 15,000.
In addition, under the command of Jia Liu, the direct governor, there were two admirals and eight general soldiers, with a total strength of 30,000.
One of the two admirals, Wan Chaoxing, the Zhili Admiral, and Ye Qing, the Tianjin Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Army, are loyal and reliable, while the other generals are unknown.
Even so, it has formed a sufficient advantage for the capital.
What's more, there are also the Eight Banners of the Han Army who support Jia Liu in the capital, and a firearms battalion that successfully moved to the capital with the help of Master Jia Jia.
As long as the rich man fails to integrate all the forces in Beijing, the rich dad will have to hold his nose and discuss the matter with his six sons instead of giving orders.
The formation of the new army has been carried out. Both Shandong and Tianjin have begun to recruit new soldiers for Lord Jia Jia. Baoding has also launched a recruitment plan. As long as the new soldiers from the five towns are trained, the old rich will wipe out all the opposition forces in Beijing. He will also
You can't overturn Guiziliu's fate.
At worst, the fish will die and the net will be broken.
Song Guozhong's Cavalry Regiment is also the main force of the Jehol Cavalry Brigade. Together with the grooms, it has 1,400 people and more than 2,000 horses of all kinds. From top to bottom, the officer ranks are all veteran guards with full loyalty points, let alone executing individual orders.
The blockade plan was planned, and even if they were to be dragged to Huguang to kill the Han army, they would probably be able to fight back and forth in a decent manner.
After all, the weak point of the Xinghan Army was the cavalry.
Jia Liu formed a cavalry unit just in case.
The cavalry troops from Rehe quickly moved out in company units and blocked all roads, large and small, around Jingling. No ordinary people or traders were allowed to enter or exit, which caused a lot of discussion among the people.
Those who didn't know it thought it was the emperor who was visiting the mausoleum again.
Around 4:00 the next morning, a loud bang came from the direction of Jingling. It was so earth-shattering that the sound waves of the explosion could even be heard by the blockading troops thirty miles away.
Ruilin, who was resting under the shade of a tree, was startled at that time. He quickly ran to a slope not far away and looked in the direction of the explosion, and saw a line of black smoke rising straight into the sky.
Like a black dragon soaring into the sky.
"Sir, what's going on? Where's the sex?"
Song Guozhong also heard the movement and rushed over immediately.
"It seems to be over there in Jingling,"
Ruilin was confused and really didn't know what happened in Jingling.
"Should we send someone to ask? Just in case,"
Song Guozhong was worried that something had happened in Jingling and someone had attacked the governor.
Ruilin ruled out this possibility. The Eight Banners soldiers guarding the mausoleum in Jingling didn't even have a few muskets, so it was impossible for them to make such a big noise.
But he was really afraid of an accident, so he asked Wanda, the captain of his own army, to take people to Jingling to have a look.
Not long after the Wanda people left, they came back. Also with them was Baozhu, the governor's guard captain. When he saw Ruilin, the guard captain asked anxiously: "Rui Dutong, have the cannons from Malanyu arrived?"
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Ruilin was not sure and asked Captain Jingling what happened.
"It's nothing. The underground palace door can't be opened normally. I asked you to use gunpowder to blow it up, but only half of it was blown up. Then you have to use artillery, otherwise you can't open the underground palace."
Baozhu casually told the whole story.
After hearing this, Ruilin felt relieved. He knew about the water seepage in the Holy Ancestor's underground palace. He also knew that the imperial court sent people to repair the underground palace. The governor and several adults from the imperial court were stationed in Jingling.
Immediately, Song Guozhong was asked to send people to check in the direction of Malanyu. If he saw the cannon coming, he would take them to Jingling.
Song Guozhong personally led the team and after running for about twenty miles, he saw people from the Green Camp in front of them using carriages and pulling cannons and slowly advancing.
He didn't care to say anything more and urged him quickly.
Over at Jingling, Jia Liu was scolding his mother.
At first, he used a few medicine bags to blow open the city gate of Linqing. Unexpectedly, dozens of medicine bags failed to blow open the door of Kangxi's tomb, and only half of it was blown open, revealing the screen wall inside.
Damn it! Could it be that this big tomb really has some kind of protective formation?
Jia Liu, who did not believe in God but believed in science, ultimately attributed the reason to the poor quality of the underground palace and the ineffective gunpowder he was using.
We had no choice but to wait for Malanyu to transport the artillery.
Fortunately, three cannons finally came over in the afternoon.
Jia Liu, who was thirsty after waiting, did not immediately order the cannon to be fired. Instead, he asked deputy director Delwang to kill a pig. He then used the desk to offer pig heads, fruits and other objects, and after offering incense, he knelt and kowtowed three times and nine times before calling the gun.
The muzzle of the cannon was pointed at the screen wall of the underground palace gate, and he silently recited the words "Let's fire the cannon and blast his mother" and personally used the torch to light the match rope.
No matter what the monsters are, no matter what the Nascent Soul Golden Pill is, they are all ants in front of science!
Along with the "puff" sound of burning, there was a "squirt" sound, a burst of black smoke from the muzzle, and then a large iron ball hit the screen wall straight, making a loud roar.
It made a huge dent.
There's drama!
Jia Liu made up his mind and asked Baozhu and the others to take turns firing their cannons. They blasted at the gate of the underground palace for half an hour, and finally the good news of victory came.
The door is broken!
It's broken, not collapsed!
The screen wall was violently smashed into pieces like five horses and quarters.
The entrance to the underground palace suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes, but it was so dark inside that nothing could be seen, and there was also an eerie feeling that made people's hair stand on end.
"There are no ghosts in the world, there are just bad people's hearts."
Jia Liu, who had experience in Tailing expeditions, was extremely calm and looked at technical expert Lao Lei.
Lao Lei nodded, and led several of his disciples into the underground palace with torches. Not long after, he came up and reported that the water in the underground palace was very deep, with shallow areas reaching knee level and deep areas reaching waist level.
Manpower must be organized immediately to drain the water, otherwise it will be impossible to move forward and open the three white marble doors in the underground palace.
Then drain it.
Jia Liu's personal guards went into battle, in groups of twenty, and used the large buckets used by farmers to scoop out water in turns. The efficiency was definitely much slower than that of water pumps.
Lao Lei estimated that it would take at least one day, or even two days, to completely drain the water from the underground palace.
This was an irresistible factor, and Jia Liu could only wait patiently with Kuini, Enming, and Jin Jian.
But my heart was itching, and I went to the underground palace several times to check, but because the white marble stone door was not opened, I could not get a glimpse of the gold and silver treasures in the underground palace, thus giving the court a specific damage value.
The actual drainage process was much faster than Lao Lei expected. By the evening of the next day, the water in the underground palace had receded to the feet. After confirming that the white marble door could be opened, Jia Liu immediately issued an order to open it.
Tonggui Ni, Enming and others waited patiently and breathlessly surrounded by many attendants.
The first stone gate opened successfully, the second stone gate also opened successfully, and the third stone gate encountered a little trouble, but in front of the technical boss Lao Lei, this trouble was quickly eliminated.
With the dull sound of the mechanism, the third stone door was also successfully opened, and what everyone saw was a dark and extremely cold passage.
It was quiet all around and only the sound of water could be heard.