Chapter 339 Sweet Pastry (Please Subscribe)
An iron gun weighing forty-five kilograms was in his hand, flying up and down, left and right, like a dragon out of the sea, arrogant and arrogant.
Jia Huan spurred his horse forward and was as invincible as cutting through the waves.
Directly in the dense Hu cavalry formation, a hole was torn open.
The Daqian cavalry following behind surged in like tigers descending the mountain.
The spear in Jia Huan's hand was pointing at almost no enemy!
No matter it is a sharp saber or a heavy mace, it cannot stop the iron gun in the slightest.
The iron spear swept left and right like a dragon, and the Hu Qi in front of him screamed and flew out in both directions.
Within a moment, they reached the location of Hu Qi's army. The bloody spear tip suddenly pierced the leather armor on the chest of the leading Hu Qi general.
In his unbelievably horrified look, he flicked his wrist and flew him away.
The next moment, the horse galloped past and instantly killed the thick Hu Qi army.
After another cup of tea, Jia Huan directly killed the entire Hu cavalry formation.
The Daqian cavalry following behind them quickly expanded their victory and shouted wildly. Each one of them was eager to kill and full of confidence in victory.
In fact, the outcome of the battle was doomed from the beginning.
In the case of similar military strength, if one side has a peerless general in charge, the balance of victory has long been tilted to one side.
The battle lasted for more than two hours and was completely over!
The actual battle only lasted less than half an hour, and too much time was wasted on chasing and escaping enemies.
In this battle, Daqian cavalry annihilated more than 900 enemies and suffered more than 300 losses. It was a great victory!
The value of the captured combat items exceeds 1.5 million, an absolute bumper harvest!
The battle report was sent to the capital on a four-hundred-mile expedited basis, which immediately caused a sensation among the officials and people in the capital.
They never expected that the three thousand barbarian cavalry that caused a headache for the Daqian court and local officials would be easily wiped out by Jia Huan's troops in less than half a month.
What's even more incomprehensible to the officials and people in the capital is that Jia Huan's subordinate is only over a thousand years old!
What does this mean? It means that the eight thousand cavalry sent out from the Beijing camp were all useless snacks.
It was like a loud slap in the face, which made the Beijing Cavalry General's cheeks burn with pain.
If Jia Huan is someone who has no bottom, just this one time, he will offend all the senior generals of the Beijing Cavalry, and the future life will definitely not be easy.
However, Jia Huan was born in Rongfu, a descendant of a noble family, and was considered one of his own.
No matter how unhappy you feel, you can only hold back your depression!
Today, I am naturally overjoyed. I didn’t expect Jia Huan to be so awesome!
Moreover, with one thousand against three thousand, he was still able to achieve a complete victory. He was definitely a rare general.
What surprised him even more was that the total value of the trophies secretly sent by Jia Huan reached 1.5 million taels.
In my heart, I was extremely satisfied with Jia Huan.
Even if it was later found out that Jia Huan and his thousand cavalrymen shared another 1.5 million taels of loot, they would still be quite happy.
Unexpectedly, sending Jia Huan out not only easily solved the problem of his confidants, but also gained an additional income of 1.5 million taels. What else is there to say?
If it weren't for the cabinet bosses, as well as the five army commanders' mansion, who strongly opposed it, they would have wanted to directly give Jia Huan a second-grade post as commander-in-chief.
But that's it. After Jia Huan returned to the capital with less than 400 cavalry, he was still given a big surprise today, and he was directly promoted to the position of the third-rank general in the Beijing camp.
In other words, his rank and position are equal at this time.
If we follow the previous military rules, if Jia Huan, the top martial artist, is deployed outside, it will be great to be able to get a fifth-level defender with real power.
If you had better luck and got a fourth-grade Dusi position, you would be particularly valued these days.
Now, through a battle of annihilating enemies that seemed very brutal to outsiders, he directly entered the ranks of high-ranking generals.
No wonder the civil servants in the court have always been indifferent to the military attache, or rather unhappy.
Once you have military exploits, your promotion speed is not as fast as usual!
Jia Huan is fifteen years old this year and is a full-time general of the third rank. If he accumulates more merits in the future, wouldn't he be able to join the ranks of a first-rank officer at the age of twenty?
Of course, military commanders are promoted rapidly because of their military exploits, but the dangers are also alarming.
Otherwise, so many famous generals in history would die on the almost unsolvable charge of "excellent achievements that shock the master".
At least, Jia Huan at this time seems to have great potential in this area.
Together with Jia Cong, who also performed well and was promoted to a third-grade guerrilla position at this time, the Rongfu twins are very likely to rise rapidly in the army.
After Jia Huan returned to Beijing to receive the reward, Ning Rong's second mansion immediately held a seven-day running water banquet to celebrate.
It can be said that as he became a third-grade full-time general, Rongfu re-entered the ranks of the top noble forces.
As the principals of the Ning Rong Mansion, Qin Keqing, the head of the Ning Mansion, and the second master of the Rong Mansion, felt it most clearly.
For no other reason, the other six founding prince families who had been somewhat estranged before have been sending frequent messages recently, inviting them to visit and communicate with each other.
Before, even if Yuanchun was granted the title of concubine or even gave birth to a princess, she did not receive such attention.
Sure enough, what the top beings in the Founding Group value most is real military power!
Both inside and outside the words were full of admiration for Jia Huan's ability, and expressed the hope that he could get Jia Huan's support in the army when there is an opportunity in the future.
As the saying goes, if there is no first place in literature, there is no second place in martial arts.
The military system worships the strong. You will know if you can look at their respective records.
Any fool would like to be friends with a general who can win battles and win them often!
Fortunately, Qin Keqing, the head of the Ning Mansion, is not very interested in the army and war. What she has to do now is to maintain and develop the power of the Ning Mansion step by step.
Although Jia Qiang has followed the path of the Dragon Guard, he will not join the army in the future. He is not that material.
Mr. Zheng, on the other hand, sighed a little more in his heart.
He felt the difference when the news came that Jia Huan led his troops to annihilate three thousand Huqi outside the Great Wall.
It seems that there is a little bit of the atmosphere when his father was around!
That familiar and unfamiliar feeling almost brought tears to his eyes!
The already bustling concierge has become even more bustling in recent days, with all kinds of people coming to visit, almost blocking Ningrong Street.
The old lady was so happy from ear to ear all day long that she would come to visit her every day. She would be flattered and complimented as if they were free of charge, which made her almost confused.
Even Mrs. Wang has benefited from it, and she has gained the respect of many outsiders in private.
In short, Jia Huan's performance this time was so dazzling that the entire Rong Mansion showed signs of further improvement.
Even the concubine Yuan in the palace has received some benefits. Today, she has been staying in her palace in the past few days, showing a very obvious willingness to win over her.
The other concubines, including the queen, could only gnash their teeth but were helpless about this. Who said that Yuan Concubine had a concubine who could fight? She was not enviable.
In the current situation, all fools know how much they yearn for a general who can fight and win wars to appear and help break the current stalemate in the northwest frontier.
It's funny to say that just three thousand horsemen outside the Great Wall can turn the northwest region upside down. It's like a slap in the face.
Jia Huan was able to lead a thousand cavalry to easily defeat 3,000 barbarian cavalry outside the Great Wall. His ability to lead troops was so strong that even a layman could see the obvious clues. How could he not pay attention to it today?
Outsiders don't know that not only Jia Huan is valued today, but also the martial arts scholars and martial arts officials who followed Jia Huan on the expedition are all planned to be reused.
Those who can come back alive, whether it is their eyesight, ability, or understanding of the war, are not the same as before they set off.
The key is that they are all from martial arts backgrounds. Except for Jia Huan and Feng Ziying, who are a small number of Xungui's children, the rest of them are considered to be general officers with a clean family background and not much involvement with the Xungui Group.
If he can win over them well, he can even rely on them to establish a group of confidant generals directly under his control, just like Taizong Congxun back then.
Once this is achieved, the current level of control over the military will be different from what it is now.
Some people may have guessed these thoughts, or no one may have guessed them. In short, Jia Huan led his troops to easily defeat three thousand horsemen outside the Great Wall this time, which disturbed the minds of many big men in the capital.
When he led his troops back to the capital, he was naturally given a grand reception!
The prince led part of the military department and the generals of the Beijing camp and went ten miles out of the city to greet him!
After Jia Huan settled down his men, he immediately went to the palace to report after entering the city.
The current emperor's attitude was quite enthusiastic. He not only listened carefully to his detailed battle report, but also invited Jia Huan to have a sumptuous palace meal.
That's right, a table just for him!
After three rounds of wine and five dishes, I took advantage of the warm atmosphere and asked Jia Huan directly what he thought of the war in the northwest frontier.
How could Jia Huan not hear the implication of today's words?
He himself wanted to lead the army to fight, so he naturally said directly: "If your Majesty is trustworthy, I am willing to lead the army to fight at the frontier!"
"Oh, what do you think if you lead troops to the frontier?"
Now he seemed to be interested, so he hurriedly asked: "General Jia, if you have any ideas, just say so!"
"In my opinion, it is not realistic to directly defeat the Huqi outside the Great Wall!"
Jia Huan put it more euphemistically. It was unrealistic and not possible at all.
The northwest frontier troops all huddled behind the city wall defenses and did not dare to go out to fight. Even if they had any opportunities, they would not be able to seize them. It was impossible to inflict heavy losses on the enemy.
To put it bluntly, with the combat mode of the Northwest Frontier Army, it is simply passive and passive!
Jin Jin didn't speak and signaled Jia Huan to continue.
"Weichen's idea is very simple. He is to lead a sufficient number of cavalry to fight around the Huqi outside the Great Wall, constantly harassing and cutting off their logistical food supply!"
Jia Huan said very directly: "Once the logistics cannot be maintained, the main force of Hu cavalry outside the Great Wall that besieged many Great Wall fortresses will definitely not be able to hold on and will have to retreat!"