There were still three miles away from the rescue target Akoli Village, but Jia Liu refused to leave.
Without Manchu soldiers exploring the way ahead, he always felt unsafe.
After all, the thieves are cunning and cunning. Who the hell can stand the trick of ambushing the Manchu soldiers just now if Master Jia's newly formed team is to be tried.
Of course, the bandits must be eliminated, there is no doubt about this, but who should do it is debatable.
Jia Liu wanted to give others the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
Less than a month after he arrived, he was promoted from a career officer to a full-time employee, from platoon leader to regimental deputy. His progress was not unsatisfactory.
Therefore, you must properly digest and study it to increase your own work ability and thereby better serve the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, there is no need to compete with allies and colleagues for credit in order to make progress.
After all, he is still young.
In order to prevent Shangfeng from misunderstanding that he was timid and timid in the face of battle, Jia Liu had to slightly exaggerate the situation.
The number of thieves he could see just now was about one or two hundred, so the number of hidden thieves was at least double. Coupled with the reserve team of thieves, the reported number of thousands was basically consistent with the facts.
There were thousands of thieves with sharp firearms. They set up an ambush in advance and were defenseless. This can also explain why the Manchu soldiers who rushed forward were completely wiped out.
A whole team of people only survived the two wounded soldiers who were wounded earlier. This clearly shows the cruelty and fierceness of the battle.
But after all, so many Manchu Eight Banners soldiers died, but only one battalion soldier from the Han army's capture team was injured in the leg. There is no reasonable explanation for this, and I'm afraid it's just a fool.
Jia Liu thought to himself that when he went back, he should become a boy who scattered wealth.
Based on his recent understanding of Meinuo Village, Jia Liu thought that after receiving his urgent request for help, the village would at most send a few arrest teams over, but unexpectedly a group came.
The fourth leader of Meinuo Village and the deputy commander of the Mongolian Zhenglan Banner, Tiezhu Guanyinbao, was entrusted by Liu Butang to personally command the Manchu, Mongolian and Han banner soldiers. A total of 1,400 people from the Green Battalion came to reinforce, vowing to attack the grain road and siege the army.
Catch all the thieves in the village.
Lord Tiezhu Guanyin Bao was originally called Guanyin Bao. Later, because his consort Guanyin Bao had the same name, he, Ama, added the word Tiezhu in front of it.
It means "iron man".
The mobilization of more than a thousand troops is definitely not something that can be dispatched with just one order. The first to arrive were the sixth and eleventh arrest teams temporarily commanded by Mr. Xu Liangdong, the commission commander of Zhenghong Banner of the Han Army.
Although Master Xu is not Jia Liu's direct superior, he is the third person on the "list of twenty-five people" who arranged for Shuan Zhu to give gifts to Jia Liu years ago.
After the year, Jia Liu returned to Menuo and personally went to pay his respects to Mr. Xu in his old age, and symbolically wrapped twelve red envelopes in accordance with the rules of the camp.
So when Mr. Xu shouted and asked where the leader was, Jia Liu immediately walked out of the crowd, "Ba Ba" gave Mr. Xu a thousand, and said respectfully: "Jia Dongge, a humble official, has seen you!"
"Huh?"
Master Xu was a little surprised to see it was Jia Liu, "Why are you here?"
"Reply to the adults!"
Jia Liu hurriedly told the story about his order to lead his troops to rescue Akoli Village, and took Mr. Xu to inspect the corpses of the fallen Manchu soldiers.
Jia Liu arranged for more than 70 corpses of Manchu soldiers, including Ashen Ling, to be placed on the roadside.
Everyone's face was wiped clean and the clothes were buttoned up as much as possible to preserve the last dignity of the deceased.
What is touching is that Mr. A is also covered with a Manchurian white flag.
Jia Liu found it specially when he had people cleaning the battlefield.
To show the last respect for this Manchu hero.
The solemn scene made Mr. Xu extremely sad, because more than 70 Manchu soldiers were killed in one fell swoop, which was the largest loss suffered by the Meinuozhai garrison so far.
The team that was attacked for transporting salary money years ago was under the control of the Governor of Sichuan and had nothing to do with Meino Village.
On the other side, the bodies of five Fan thieves who had just been killed by the Green Camp soldiers were also placed there. This was evidence that Jia Liu led his troops and fought to the death with the Fan thieves.
After feeling deeply sad, Mr. Xu finally remembered to ask where the attacker was.
Jia Liu hurriedly pointed towards the front of the mountain road and said that he led his troops and had been in a stalemate with the thieves for nearly two hours. The thieves saw that he was heavily guarded and had no way of succeeding, so they withdrew after several people.
"Withdrawn?"
Mr. Xu was stunned, "Why don't you chase me?"
That said, are you lending your courage to Mr. Liu?
"Sir, you don't know, those thieves are so powerful. Not only do they shoot people, but they also cut people's necks..." Jia Liu looked embarrassed, and pointed at Manzhou lying on the ground without daring to look.
The corpse of Ashen Ling.
"Sir, it's not that I don't want to pursue them, it's that I'm afraid of being ambushed by them again... It's a small thing for me to die, but if so many brothers end up like this, I'll be guilty of a big crime..."
Jia Liu did not dare to hide anything in front of Mr. Xu, so he told the truth and took out a thin piece of paper and handed it to Mr. Xu.
It is a banknote of one hundred taels issued by Chengdu Yinzhuang.
This bank note is a sign of his cowardice and guilt, and also a symbol of his guilty conscience.
"You have only been here not long ago, and your subordinates are indeed not very useful. Master Cui asked you to come here to embarrass you..."
Mr. Xu doesn't want to say anything to Jia Liu anymore, but he must remind Jia Liu that he is easy to talk to here, but I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to pass the test when the Tiezhu Guanyin Protector and Deputy Dutong comes.
In any case, how can the corpses of fallen Manchu soldiers here be explained to the higher authorities?
Someone has to take care of this, right?
You Jia Dongge said that you have been in a stalemate with the bandits for two hours. Anyone with a discerning eye will know that you are simply afraid of the thieves and dare not fight with them. When the time comes, Shangfeng will be furious and Mr. Xu will not be able to protect you.
Jia Liu was also aware of this trouble and hurriedly explained that he had advised Ashen Ling not to break away from the brigade and rush in, but Ashen Ling didn't know whether he was eager to save people or to make meritorious deeds, so he directly left the Han army's arrest team behind...
In order to be safe, Jia Liu had to take out another one hundred taels of silver note to atone for his sins from Mr. Xu.
Master Xu took it, folded it in half, then folded it in half again, and stuffed it into his pocket.
"I also know that Arles is a Manchurian. He usually doesn't take us Han soldiers seriously. He is very headstrong. You can't persuade him to be normal..."
The reasonable explanation given by Mr. Xu is also the unanimous view of Arles among the Han generals in Meino Village.
Manchuria and Mongolia also see it this way.
........
After waiting for about half an hour, that is, when it was almost dark, the reinforcements from the Meinuo Village arrived.
Tiezhu Guanyinbao, the deputy commander-in-chief, who had not yet dismounted, saw at a glance the remains of seventy-eight Manchurian fallen soldiers neatly arranged on the roadside.
The originally anxious face suddenly became extremely dark and scary.
"Despicable and incompetent!"
"You deserve to die for your humble job!"
"The sin of humble duty is unforgivable!"
"I'm sorry for your humble position, Sir A, I'm sorry for the imperial court, and I'm sorry for the Qing Dynasty!"
Before the deputy governor could dismount, Jia Liu quickly stepped forward and knelt on the ground, bursting into tears, feeling extremely self-blame, extremely guilty, and extremely painful.