If he could do such a job every month, in less than half a year, Mr. Jia's income would be enough to equal that of a prefect working for three years.
However, Jia Liu also knew that he couldn't do this kind of thing for a long time. This damn armored truck always had accidents when his seventh team was patrolling. Could the superiors not suspect something was going on?
If we really investigate, interrogate the flag-bearers and Han members of his seventh squad one by one, and some will confess on their own initiative without being subjected to severe punishment.
Therefore, for the time being, he just formed a team, maintained a good relationship among the team members through reasonable division of dirt, and then waited for the right time to get one or two votes from his mother.
When it comes to casting your next vote, you can't stop making small fuss.
At least, you need to start with 200,000 taels, otherwise you won’t be able to live with your conscience.
Let Liu De find a way to get on the line with that side. It's not that Jia Liu wanted to defect to the enemy and rebel against the Qing Dynasty and become an eternal sinner of the Eight Banners. He was really afraid of death, so he wanted to spend money to buy peace.
He didn't want anything else, he just wanted the thieves not to shoot him when Captain Jia led the team out.
Or, to save face, don't offend the river.
You rob yours, we take ours.
All conditions can be negotiated.
How many percent should be snatched, how many percent should be retained, and who should be snatched and whom should not be snatched, are all negotiable.
Soon, more than 70,000 taels of silver that were supposed to be transported to Muguomu Camp were ready. Liu De personally led the team to transport them back to the rear, and found a group of powerful intermediaries to exchange the silver that could not be carried into pockets.
of banknotes.
Here, Jia Liu walked towards the corpses of the fallen soldiers who were being carried onto the carriage by civilians, with a slightly sad look on his face. Then he stood in front of the corpse of Lord Turge, the hero of the Mongolian Eight Banners, and suddenly raised his hand to signal everyone to come over.
"Captain, is something wrong?"
Cui Hengyou did not dare to look at the dead person and always turned his face sideways when speaking.
Zu Yingyuan was not afraid of death, but he felt physically uncomfortable seeing Jia Liu's grief.
"Listen to my command!"
Jia Liu took off his hat first, revealing his bare forehead and the braid hanging down to his waist.
"All members of the Eight Banners Han Army's Seventh Arrest Team would like to pay our highest respects to the fallen soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country!"
After finishing speaking, everyone saw Captain Jia standing upright with his legs "squeaking" and his waist hanging down at a ninety-degree position.
"..."
Everyone paid homage to Tang A, Sula and the thirty Green Camp soldiers who stayed behind didn't know what kind of etiquette this was, but since it was Master Jia's request, they naturally followed suit.
The civilians standing aside didn't know what to do, so they had to lower their heads, fearing that the military men would think it was disrespectful to the fallen soldiers.
This was Jia Liu's tribute to the fallen soldiers below Turg and a farewell gift.
"The ceremony is over!"
No one finished it, it was Jia Liu who shouted it himself.
After the deep mourning, under the leadership of Jia Liu, the Seventh Arrest Team continued to escort Yin Che to Muguomu Camp.
The corpses of the fallen soldiers and the corpses of more than a dozen soldiers who were heroically shot by the seventh team were also transported together.
Jia Liu had just seen the corpses of those soldiers and found that these soldiers did not look like people from the plateau. They were probably armed forces composed of Ming Dynasty survivors, Miao and Yao people in Jinchuan.
These people were more familiar with the Jinchuan terrain than the plateau people who came in later, and were relatively flexible in sneaking into the rear of the Qing army to carry out attacks.
In order to prepare the people at the camp mentally, Jia Liu asked Wang Fu to take two Sulas on horseback to report the news to the camp.
In the evening, the team arrived at Liangtai Temple.
This place was a temple built by plateau people. After the Qing army occupied it, it became a military post integrating defense and transportation.
When the garrison at Liangtai Temple heard that the team transporting wages was attacked by Fan soldiers and that the whole army was wiped out, they were stunned. They didn't know how those Fan thieves got past the Qing army's layers of defenses and got around to the rear.
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The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Muguomu Camp.
Muguomu is located at the junction of Jinchuan and Jinchuan, and its strategic position is of great importance. Therefore, the Qing army commander-in-chief Wen Fu moved his camp here more than a year ago and sent admiral Li Xu and deputy capital commander Chang Baobao to lead troops to defend the north of Muguomu;
First-class bodyguard Dersenbao and deputy general Duolongwu led troops to station in the Kezhai area of Culajiao in the south.
Due to the recent arrival of new troops and horses at the Muguomu camp, there are more than 30,000 Manchu and Han troops gathered in Muguomu, including the forward battalion, Jianrui battalion and other troops from the capital.
Half a month ago, Wen Fu launched the Xiling offensive against the Da Jinchuan defenders. However, there were many stone blockhouses here, and the Qing army failed to capture them in multiple attacks, causing heavy casualties.
Wen Fu had no choice but to stop the offensive and ordered the Firearms Battalion and the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion to bombard the Xiling stone blockhouse with artillery every day. However, apart from wasting gunpowder, it had no effect.
The progress of the Agui Department on the South Road is also unfavorable.
Before the war, Agui's mission was to set out from Nawei and Nazham to Dangarla. The journey was only more than twenty miles. However, because the Fan army was at a high altitude, the Qing army could not attack step by step. As a result, not only the officers and soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, but also the rest of the army.
The soldiers were also exhausted.
Faced with the disadvantage, Agui could only use artillery bombardment every day like Wen Fu, and sent people several times to the Danggar blockhouse to try to blow up the stone blockhouse.
Because the cellars of the Fan army's stone blockhouses matched closely with the trenches on the side of the blockhouses, and the Fan soldiers attacked the enemy from covertly, the Qing army was unable to withstand the crossfire from the tunnels, trenches, and shooting ports of the stone blockhouses.
Another route, Fengsheng'e Road with more soldiers, also suffered setbacks in front of the Daltu Mountain Liang blockhouse.
The trench was wide and deep and difficult to cross, so Feng Sheng'e had to order bundles of firewood to be lined up along the edge of the ditch to protect against bullets. However, the army was also defeated, and some soldiers including the captain, Sakyamuni, were killed.
Fukang'an, Dong Tianbi and Hailancha made no progress.
Wen Fu was very distressed and thought hard about how to defeat the thieves, but there was no good strategy. He could only hope to reinforce the army and concentrate elite troops to attack one place later in the year to open a breakthrough.
The only thing that was beneficial to the Qing army was that the tacit agreement not to fight at the end of the year caused the Japanese soldiers who had been attacking the rear recently to stop their attacks, allowing the Qing army's food routes to become smooth again.
Otherwise, in the new year, the soldiers will not have enough food to eat, and Wen Fu will feel ashamed of the three armies.
Wang Fu, who arrived at Muguomu Camp, could not meet Wen Zhongtang, the commander-in-chief of the three armies. Instead, he was taken to the deputy capital Tong Fusheng'a, who was in charge of food and baggage.
"What, the soldiers robbed the pay team!"
After hearing the report from the seventh arrest team sent by Meinuo Village, Fu Sheng'a jumped up in shock. He couldn't believe it and rushed to Wen Zhongtang's tent without any further thought.
"What's the matter? You look so panicked?"
Wen Fu, who was gathering around the Jinchuan sand table with Counselor Mingliang, Commander-in-Chief Ma Liangzhu and other generals, who were studying strategies to defeat the enemy, looked displeased at Fu Sheng'a who barged in unexpectedly.
"Zhongtang, something happened!"
Fu Sheng's "Ba Ba" stepped forward to fight Qian, hesitated a little in his heart, raised his head with a sad expression on his face: "I just got the news, half of the annual salary transferred from the rear was robbed by the soldiers in the road, escorting the officers and soldiers from the Eight Banners forward school map