Chapter 1882 Cleaning the battlefield (Part 1)
The guests and friends were enjoying the celebration banquet. The soldiers of the Zhejiang army fought for a whole day. First, they broke out of the camp, captured the gate, ambushed, and pursued the Japanese pirates. At the end of the day, I was already hungry, my chest pressed against my back.
Suzhou has a lot of money. Although the venue is a little rough, the food is definitely super luxurious.
All kinds of meat and various delicacies were served one after another, on table after table, more than thirty courses, almost all of which were hard dishes.
Fine wine was also served. Zhu Pingan allowed each person to drink one bowl, or only one bowl, and he would have to clean up the battlefield later.
Of course, because they had to clean the battlefield, the Zhejiang army officers and soldiers ate very quickly and devoured a battle banquet.
"Send this handwritten letter to my house for me and give it to my wife." Zhu Ping'an wrote a handwritten letter and asked someone to bring it to his house and give it to Li Shu.
The general meaning is to clean up the battlefield and return home later. Don’t think about it and sleep first. I will return by the moon.
"Sir, the young lady has been waiting for you for a long time. You can go back home. We can clean the battlefield as long as we are there."
Liu Mu, Liu Dadao and others persuaded Zhu Ping'an to return home.
"It doesn't matter, it won't take more than a moment. This battlefield will cause serious damage to the surroundings. I won't worry if I don't keep an eye on it personally. The forest must be completely put out, which is related to the safety of the surrounding villages, and nothing can be careless; the river must be clean, which is related to the downstream. Don't be careless when it comes to drinking water." Zhu Pingan waved his hand and insisted.
In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. When we enter the city, the sun sets and we finish the celebration banquet quickly. It is already dark outside.
"Shang Zhifu, it's getting late. We're going to clean up the battlefield now. Shang Zhifu can choose dozens of soldiers to go with us and send a message to the city every half an hour. Shang Zhifu The prefect will be able to know the situation outside the city."
Before leaving, Zhu Ping'an suggested to the prefect Shang.
The reason why Zhu Ping'an proposed this was because he didn't want to come back from cleaning the battlefield and be locked outside the city gate for verification and identification again.
It's fine during the day, but it's better to say goodbye this late at night. Everyone has had enough hard work cleaning the battlefield. It's freezing cold, sleepy and tired, and being locked up outside the city for verification and identification makes me feel miserable just thinking about it.
Before, facing the siege of Japanese pirates, Suzhou City could not allocate manpower to follow him to ambush the Japanese pirates. Now that the Japanese pirates have been repelled, there are enough manpower in Suzhou City to follow him.
"Well, what Zihou said makes sense. I asked Vice General Zhang to take five hundred people with you to clean up the battlefield."
Zhifu Shang nodded and adopted Zhu Pingan's opinion. He called Vice General Zhang and asked him to order 500 troops and horses to accompany Zhu Ping'an. At the same time, he also told him to send ten people back to the city every two moments to report on the situation on the battlefield.
After giving orders to Vice General Zhang, Magistrate Shang said with some regret, "If I hadn't been in charge of Suzhou City, I would have really wanted to go with Zihou and you to clean up the battlefield, see a lot, and learn a thing or two. ”
"With Master Shang's sea-fixing needle stationed in Suzhou City, we can safely clean the battlefield outside."
Zhu Pingan said with a smile.
It was getting late, so after being polite, Zhu Ping'an resigned from Shang Zhifu to clean the battlefield.
All the officers and soldiers of the Zhejiang Army, plus the 500 people led by Vice General Zhang, and 4,000 young and strong people recruited and selected in the city.
In fact, there were as many as thirty to forty thousand young people in the city who signed up for recruitment, but so many young people were not needed to clean the battlefield. Zhu Pingan asked Vice General Zhang to help select four thousand young people. strong.
"Hahahaha, Zhang Laosan, I'm sorry. Master Zhu chose me to clean the battlefield this time, and you failed. However, there is no need to be downcast. I will describe the situation of cleaning the battlefield to you in detail when I come back, hahahaha"
“Thanks to the blessings of our ancestors, Tiedan, you can be selected to help the benefactors clean up the battlefield this time. You must do a good job. , I will burn incense to my ancestors when I get home and tell them the good news.”
“Mom, don’t worry, I will definitely help my benefactors clean up the battlefield this time.” They all did it.”
The young and strong people who were selected were very proud and looked forward to it, as if they had received a great honor, and their relatives and friends were all honored.
The young and strong people who were not selected were dejected, as if the million-dollar prize had passed them by.
"Hey, this time I had diarrhea last night and was a little weak. That's why I wasn't selected, and Tie Dan got an advantage. If it had been before, I would have given Tie Dan two hands, and he wouldn't have been the same person. . ”
“You little bastard, I told you to exercise more, but you just didn’t listen, so you lost the election. Well, it’s really embarrassing for our ancestors.”
“Oh, Dad, don’t fight again. I didn’t get selected this time. I have a better memory. I will practice hard when I get back. Don’t worry, I will definitely be selected next time. Selected. "
The young and strong people who were not selected were dejected and said with envy and dissatisfaction to comfort their disappointed family members.
Zhu Pingan allocated a part of the Zhejiang Army to lead the young and strong people. Every ten young and strong people formed a small team, led by a Zhejiang Army soldier, who acted as the temporary captain and was responsible for command and maintaining order.
In order to facilitate the cleaning of the battlefield, Zhu Ping'an asked the prefect Shang for assistance and collected dozens of ships and hundreds of carriages from Suzhou City. He also took thousands of torches, shovels, long iron hooks and other tools from the Suzhou treasury and distributed them. Go down.
Zhu Pingan divided the people into two groups. One group went by boat and was responsible for cleaning the river; the other group rode mules and horses on foot and was responsible for cleaning the woods. The officers and soldiers of the Zhejiang Army were evenly divided into two teams by Zhu Pingan.
Everything is ready, let’s set off.
"Zihou, all my officers and men, and fellow countrymen, everything goes well. I am waiting for your return in Suzhou City."
Shang Zhifu led the officials of Suzhou City to see each other off at the door.
"Thank you, Mr. Shang/Mr. Prefect." Zhu Ping'an and a group of soldiers and fellow villagers returned the gift and turned around to set off.
"Hey, we are so awesome this time, we can actually help Mr. Zhu and the Zhejiang Army officers and soldiers clean up the battlefield. Let me tell you, this battle is the greatest victory we have in the defense of Suzhou City. Cifengqiao camp The results of the blocking battle were even greater. I heard that Master Zhu and the Zhejiang Army soldiers killed more than 20,000 Japanese pirates in this battle."
On the way to clean up the battlefield, the young people couldn't help but feel excited. , Hehe said to his companion with a smile.
"More than 20,000, I heard there were 50,000 or 60,000. Only two Japanese chiefs ran away this time, and the others were killed."
The fellow travelers corrected them seriously. road.
"What fifty or sixty thousand? I heard it was one hundred thousand." I don't know how it was spread, but later it was spread to one hundred thousand.
"How can there be so many Japanese pirates? The total number of Japanese pirates who came to attack Suzhou this time is only 50,000 or 60,000."
Someone questioned.
“What do you know? It’s true that there were fifty or sixty thousand Japanese pirates who attacked Suzhou at the beginning, but they still had reinforcements, and another fifty or sixty thousand reinforcements came later.”
Very good. Someone will answer your questions soon.
"So that's it."
Everyone around me actually believed it. (End of this chapter)