If you are injured, you have to recuperate, and this recuperation lasts for more than half a month.
The military exploits of bravely defeating the bandits and rescuing Akoli Village last time have been recorded.
I heard from Cui Liangchen in the dispatch room that he could be promoted to a higher level, and even if there was no actual shortage, he could still make up for the empty title of Hualing from the fifth rank.
However, because too many Manchurian officers and soldiers died that time, a report was filed, but Liu Butang suppressed it.
During the Lantern Festival, Cui Liangchen, who had just received a gift of souvenirs and a hundred taels of care from Jia Liu, came over to comfort Jia Liu not to be discouraged, saying that it didn't matter if he couldn't be promoted this time, as long as this amount was recorded in the military merit book.
After waiting for this burst of limelight, he tried to find a way to find a real vacancy for Jia Liu, the sixth-grade forward school, the kind that would be profitable.
It's okay for Jia Liuxun to think about it. Anyway, he is injured now and can't lead troops even if he gets promoted. Besides, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of getting strong.
Deputy Commander Tie Zhu praised him very highly in front of many adults, and now he, Jia Liu, belongs to Jian Zai, Lord Tie's heart.
If the fighting on the front line becomes tense and Wen Zhongtang wants to transfer people, Lord Tie will probably get some of Jia Qianfeng's generals.
After getting promoted and having good legs, it is no longer worthwhile to go to the front line.
So, it is better to continue to be a dog in the back.
After thanking Lao Cui, he took out the "First Collection of Imperial Poems" published in the 24th year of Qianlong's reign and asked Shuan Zhu to go to Chongzhou to buy it.
Officials must always recharge their batteries and adjust their self-cultivation.
Who else in this world has poetry that can be as profound as Emperor Qianlong, who wrote more than 40,000 poems in his life?
However, although Jia Liu was recuperating in peace, he was also very concerned about the current situation.
Because the changes in the battle situation directly affect whether he can make further progress.
Wen Zhongtang launched the "Spring Offensive" seven days in advance on the 24th of the first lunar month, but unlike what was originally expected, several armies still stagnated and failed to achieve a "point" breakthrough.
Wen Zhongtang has not given up and is still working hard.
I heard that there were two urging orders from Beijing, each time more severe than the last.
The front line is fighting, and the rear is also fighting.
For more than half a month, the roads have been very unsafe.
The bandits' attacks on the Qing army's logistics supply lines became more frequent, and they became more and more willing to pay any price. They even once again gathered forces to besiege the most important link in the Qing army's logistics supply line - Akoli Village.
However, the reinforced garrison of Akoli Village once again repelled the siege of the Fan bandits. It is said that this time hundreds of Fan bandits were directly killed and many prisoners were captured.
The last time Guo Guangquan came to visit Jia Liushi who was recovering from his injuries, he told some stories. He said that after the prisoners were tortured and interrogated, they confessed that they had sneaked to the rear of the Qing army to carry out sabotage on the orders of monk Gesang, the chieftain of Xiaojinchuan, with the purpose of destroying grain.
Taoist methods forced the Qing army to withdraw.
Due to the increasing intensity of the attacks by the Fan bandits and the participation of a large number of plateau soldiers sneaking over from Da Jinchuan, the Qing army's grain transport team suffered heavy losses. It is feared that half of the grain was destroyed along the way.
If this continues, sooner or later the main force on the front line will be forced to give up the offensive due to lack of food.
Wen Zhongtang was furious, and so was Liu Butang.
In order to ensure the safety of the grain road, some battalions were successively transferred to strengthen guarding along the route, but this only addressed the symptoms rather than the root cause.
Because those Fan thieves were far more familiar with the terrain than the Qing army.
Moreover, these bandits could always find the weakest points of the Qing army to attack, and they would always quickly withdraw from the battlefield before the Qing army's reinforcements arrived.
This made Jia Liu strange, wondering if someone within the Qing army had tipped off the Fan thieves and told them secrets.
Guo Guangquan did not answer at first, and then quietly told Jia Liu that he also suspected that there were collaborators within.
This is actually not a secret. Over the past twenty years, the Qing army has carried out many internal purges, and generals who were once deputy generals were killed.
Twenty years ago, when Zhang Guangsi was the governor of Sichuan, one-third of the people in his governor's office were collaborators with the enemy. The leader was Wang Qiu, the leader of the fake Han people in Jinchuan.
There are rumors that Wang Qiu lurked around Zhang Guangsi because he wanted to persuade him to raise troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. This was the same as when the scholar Zeng Jing tried to persuade Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, to rebel.
There is evidence that Zhang Guangsi did have the idea of revolting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, because it was under Wang Qiu's persuasion that the governor of Sichuan just sat back and watched the imperial envoy Jin Lue University Shi Naqin's defeat, resulting in the bloodshed of tens of thousands of soldiers in Jinchuan.
Jia Liu did not dare to conclude whether what Guo Guangquan said was true, but he believed that there must be collaborators in the Qing army.
In other words, undercover.
But this has nothing to do with Jia Liu. As long as the battle continues and no one wants him to go to the front line to fight, it doesn't matter to him even if Wen Zhongtang kneels down to worship Ming Taizu in the tent every night.
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On February 2, the dragon raises its head.
After asking Yang Zhi to wash his hair and tidy up his braids, Jia Liu found his chess friend Wu Laoer with a walking stick.
Wu Laoer was the Green Camp soldier who was wounded in the leg by the bandits last time, and he was also the only wounded soldier in this battle.
Jia Liu is a wounded official.
An officer and a soldier came together to recover from their injuries.
Playing chess was Jia Liu's only form of entertainment in this era.
Desperate to make progress, he repeatedly rejected Liu De's offer to bring a woman to the camp because how could such a private matter be known to anyone?
Wu Laoer can't read a single Chinese character, but what's surprising is that his chess skills are astonishing.
The images of generals, horses, and artillery on the chess pieces are recognizable as thieves.
If Jia Liu's own chess skills were not superior, he might not be able to suppress Wu Laoer.
Just like this, the officers and soldiers were all concentrated, going back and forth under the sun, killing with great joy.
The flower bear next to him was lying there lazily.
A fresh bundle of bamboo on the ground did not interest it at all.
"General, dead move!"
Jia Liu laughed heartily. After a fierce fight, he finally won three to two.
"The adults are still good at chess, and I feel inferior to you. Alas... I have read a lot of chess records in the past two days. I thought I could beat the adults once, but I didn't expect that I am still far behind the adults..."
Wu Laoer looked helpless.
"It doesn't matter if you lose, the important thing is to have the spirit of fighting despite repeated defeats. Man, as long as you have the spirit to study hard, you will definitely be able to..."
Jia Liu suddenly thought that Wu Laoer was illiterate, and couldn't help but cast a deep look at Wu Laoer, who looked extremely loyal.
The master among the people will not deceive me sincerely.
He still wanted to kill one more game, but Zu Yingyuan came sneakily.
"Team, how about playing chess?"
"Well, something's wrong?"
Jia Liu raised his head and looked at Zu Yingyuan, but the boy's eyes were twinkling.
Jia Liu understood that something was really going on, so he asked Wu Laoer to go back first. Then he stood up with a walking stick made of bolts on one arm, and said angrily: "If you fart, hurry up, Mr. Zu."
Zu Yingyuan's military merits have been reduced a few days ago, and together with the two-level thieves leaders from previous years, he has been promoted from the ninth level to the associate commander Lan Lingchang.
It can be regarded as a formal step into the political arena of the Qing Dynasty.
Zu Yingyuan didn't care about Jia Liu's "sarcasm". He looked around and lowered his voice and said, "It's time to pay."
"It's a good thing to be paid. You can take two people to receive it."
Now that Jia Liu is rich, he doesn't bother to drink soldiers' blood. After saying this, he will leave with a cane.
"No, just listen to me!"
Zu Yingyuan quickly grabbed Jia Liu and said, "I mean Lao Peng has received news. A batch of military pay will be shipped to Muguomu tomorrow."
"Tell me the details."
Jia Liu threw the walking stick at Hua Gouxiong and took Zu Yingyuan to sit down and talk in detail.