scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 158 The Prelude Gradually Opens
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"Follow heaven to beg for thieves, kill Oboi? If you can't get the edict and can't find an excuse to obey the imperial edict to beg for thieves, you just use the fate? Such a shameless slogan, who came up with that old man Wu Sangui?"

After carefully reading Wu Sangui's call to arms full of shameless words and despicable sophistry, Oboi couldn't help laughing again, and couldn't help but increase his admiration for the thickness of the old traitor Wu's face—it's really not easy to deceive himself to this extent. .

At this time, with the rattling sound of wooden sticks hitting the deck, Tuhai, who had been reinstated and was canonized as General Fuyuan, and appointed by Aobai as the deputy commander of the Qing army, supported his crutches and dragged the broken With a crippled right leg in three pieces, he limped into the main cabin of the Qing army's flagship—not to mention that a lame man cannot be a general. As we all know, Mazi was among the traitors, but there was another one who was sitting in a sedan chair and wanted to charge forward. Zhang Yong, a lame traitor who helped Mi Qing massacre his compatriots.

As soon as they met, Tu Hai was about to salute, but Oboi hurriedly said: "Tu Hai is inconvenient, so there is no need, come, help Tu Hai to sit down." Aobai asked again with concern: "Tutang, is the wound still hurting? Have you used the high-grade Eight Banners Fushou Ointment that the old man sent to you?"

"Thank you for your concern. After using the top-grade Eight Banners Fushou Ointment rewarded by Enxiang, the pain of the wound has been greatly reduced, and I am much more comfortable." Tu Hai respectfully agreed.

"That's good. Just ask when you're done. I have a lot of high-grade reserves here." Obai nodded, and then said, "Don't blame the old man in Tutang for being cruel. You were forced to fight when you were released from prison and your wounds haven't healed yet." Yungui, the key is that we are full of generals who are old and dead, young and not well-trained and inexperienced, I have no choice but to use an experienced general like you."

"Enxiang, don't say that. If it wasn't for Enxiang's rescue, I would still be tortured in the sky prison every day. Life would be worse than death." Recalling the hell experience of the past three years, Tu Hai couldn't help crying He stumbled and fell, and said with a sob: "Compared to Tuhai's kindness of rebuilding, Tuhai is broken into pieces, and it is difficult to repay it, not to mention the turbulence of this mere expedition?"

"Forget it, don't mention the past." Obai shook his head and said, "You must also not blame the emperor for being ignorant, that barbarian Lu Yifeng is too cunning to use the former emperor's privacy to frame and frame him." As for you, the emperor was young at the time and couldn't verify the truth, so he wronged you, resulting in the ruin of your family and the separation of your wife and children. You must also be considerate of the emperor, he definitely did not intentionally wrong you."

"Of course I don't dare to blame the master." Tu Hai said with tears in his eyes: "The humble officer just hates the old thief Wu Sangui and Lu Yifeng, the thief. The whole family of the dog thief was handed over to the humble official, and the humble official flayed and cramped his whole family, and executed him in a hurry to avenge the tragic death of his wife and children."

"Of course, when I catch Lu Yifeng, I will hand him over to you." Aobai laughed, and waved his hand again, "I'll talk about these gossips when I have time. You dragged your handicapped body to come to visit me, wouldn't you?" Is it just for these few small talk? If you have any military affairs, just talk about it.”

"Yes." Tu Hai agreed, and quickly took out a military report from his bosom, and said respectfully: "Report to Enxiang, the guard of Yuanzhou, all feel that Luo Barbu hastened to report, and the thief will be victorious On the 11th day of the first month of the 29th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, I suddenly went northward and attacked Yuping Pass, the gate of Huguang. Although my guards fought bloody and bravely to kill the enemy, there were many bandits. Before the Yuanzhou defenders reinforced Yuping, they were still defeated After successfully attacking the key, the defenders of Yuping were forced to retreat to Huangzhou City and Centipede Pass. The battle lasted for nearly a day, and 510 of my guards were killed in battle, and about [-] enemies were killed.”

"But it's very strange." Tuhai paused, and then said: "After Gao Dejie succeeded in attacking Yuping Pass, he didn't take advantage of the momentum to attack Huangzhou City. He only repaired the pass wall at Yuping to consolidate the pass defense. Standing firm. General Jueluobalbu asked for instructions, should the Yuanzhou army be dispatched to counterattack and retake Yuping Pass?"

"What do you think?" Aobai asked, "Why do you think Gao Dejie did this?"

"I suspect that Gao Dejie is probably deliberately luring the enemy." Tu Hai replied in a deep voice: "The strength of Gao Dejie's bandit army has been confirmed repeatedly, and the main force is only 500. The local army has less than [-] people, and it can only play an auxiliary role. Its strength is only one-third of that of Jueluo Barbu. We have few enemies, and the enemy is mainly attacking, deliberately provoking our army and luring our army to attack. Sex is huge."

"That's the truth." Oboi slapped the table, feeling relaxed when talking to a smart person, and said firmly: "Gao Dejie, a barbarian, knows that under Wu Sangui's command, he is a rare general with both wisdom and courage. Wu Sangui sent him to serve The forward confronted our army head-on, and the plan was to use his adaptable tactics to anger our army and lure our army into Guizhou for a decisive battle! This barbarian deliberately attacked Yuping Pass with a weak force, obviously deliberately provoking and luring Jue Luobalbu Counterattack with the main force of the old man."

Speaking of this, Oboi snorted again, and said angrily: "But this Jueluo Barbu, the Yuping Pass garrisoned by [-] soldiers, couldn't survive a day in front of the barbarians who are so tall, he is nothing but a waste! "

"Enxiang, do you want Jueluo Barbu to counterattack and recapture the Yuping pass to make amends?" Tuhai asked cautiously.

"No need, it's just a Yuping Pass, if Wu Sangui likes it, you can take it." Obai snorted again, and said with a sneer: "Hurry up and send an order to Jue Luobabu, you must not attack Yuping, as long as the main force of the old man arrives Before the battlefield, the old man will not be held accountable for the loss of the jade screen by defending the key points of Huangzhou City, Centipede Pass, and Yuanzhou City. In other places, if the barbarian is so tall, he can go for it if he likes it, in case he can eat it. don't come out!"

"Enxiang, isn't it too long for Wu Thief's ambition and destroy our army's prestige?" Tu Hai said worriedly: "As soon as the battle started, our army lost the important land of Yuping. Didn't it have a greater blow to morale?"

"When the two armies are fighting, one must not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place." Obai sneered and said: "The strategic purpose of Wu Sangui's old thief is to lure the main force of our army into Guizhou for a decisive battle. , if you give up the established strategy for the mere Yuping Pass, then you can’t make the old thief Wu Sangui laugh his teeth out? You can’t counterattack, you can only defend me, and fight against the old thief Wu Sangui!"

"It's still En Xiangcheng who counts people, and the humble job understands, so let's do it." Tu Hai agreed in a deep voice.

"Wait a minute." Obai called to Tuhai again, and ordered: "By the way, send an order, the whole army's warships slow down, change the daily march from eighty miles to forty miles, and let the old thief Wu Sangui go in a hurry."

"Follow the order." Tu Hai understood, and after a ferocious smile, he quickly got up and ordered out of the cabin.

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By the time the news that Oboi's main force had slowed down reached Yunnan and Guizhou, Wu Sangui's main force of 2000 troops had already arrived in the Anshun area. With Anshun City as the center and Zhenning as its back, three front, middle, and rear camps were set up to strangle the troops at the same time. Wu Sangui and a large number of civil servants and military generals of the Pingxi palace also moved to Anshun City. Only Guo Zhuangtu, Liu Xuanchu and Feng Su stayed in Yunnan as backup. Fatty Lu The more than [-] troops in the army were assigned to the front camp and pushed to the Shuiqiaotun front camp in the northeast of Anshun-so that they could be pushed to the front at any time to serve as bait or cannon fodder.

In fact, speaking from the bottom of his heart, although the old traitor Wu looked down upon the Qujing army that Fatty Lu managed so hard to build, he treated Fatty Lu himself quite well. One is Wu Sangui's eldest son-in-law, Hu Guozhu, who concurrently holds the two most important civil and military positions of General Jin Wuzuo and Zhongshu Province's political affairs officer; He was appointed to two civil and military positions.

The position of General Qujing is of course a consolation prize given to Fatty Lu by Wu Sangui who couldn't stand Fatty Lu's insistence on going to the front line.However, the position of Zhongshu Chengzhi means that Fatty Lu can serve as a military adviser and participate in the formulation of strategies and tactics for the entire army, and it is also a proof that Wu Sangui pays more and more attention to Fatty Lu's military strategy ability.Therefore, because of this, Fatty Lu was fortunate to become the first group of dog legs in Wu Sangui's army to know that Oboi deliberately slowed down his marching speed, and he was able to once again show his unique insights on strategy and tactics in front of Wu's old traitor.

"Oboi old thief has seen through our strategy!" Fatty Lu said decisively to old traitor Wu: "He saw through our intention to lure him into Guizhou for a decisive battle, so he deliberately missed this plan and deliberately used full speed , Let us be impetuous, show our flaws, and then lure us out of Guizhou, and fight a decisive battle in Yuanzhou, which is beneficial to him, at the junction of Guizhou and Huguang!"

"My son-in-law can even assert that after the main force of the old bandit Oboi arrives in Yuanzhou, he will definitely not take a step into Guizhou, but will only try to strengthen the blockade, and consume food and grass supplies with our army, taking advantage of the fact that the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou cannot support themselves in food and grass. Achilles' heel, forcing our army to attack! So as to take the initiative in the battle!"

Old traitor Wu and the others were silent together. After a long time, Hu Guozhu said in a hoarse voice: "If Yifeng is unfortunate, then we have to fight this battle, at least we have to do it well. We can't decide the winner within a year. psychological preparation."

"One year may not be enough, two or even three years may be possible." Fang Guangchen said slowly: "Oboi's old thief is backed by the Huguang grain production area, and the Yangtze River waterway can transport grain and grass from Jiangnan at any time. Worrying about the lack of food and grass, if he is determined to consume us to death, no matter how long it takes, he will wait."

"Then what's the countermeasure?" Old Traitor Wu asked in deep thought.

"Garn the fields and grain, and prepare for a long-term garrison." Fang Guangchen replied: "The area around Anshun is open and has plenty of water, which is suitable for farming and farming. Our army can reclaim more wasteland and plant corn (corn) in addition to training. High-yield grains such as yams, yams (potatoes) and sweet potatoes reduce dependence on the rear. In addition, the grain-producing prefectures of Yunnan and Guizhou cannot grow Eight Banners Fushou Gao this year. They must all grow grains, and make it clear to the people, etc. After Oboi is eliminated, the Eight Banners Fushou Gao can be planted freely by them, but now we must grow more food and prepare for a long-term hard fight. Otherwise, the Eight Banners Fushou Gao that we planted this year cannot be sold, and the situation will be very bad."

Old traitor Wu nodded slowly, agreeing to Fang Guangchen's suggestion.Wang Shirong on the other side said: "Lianzhou should also speed up the construction of the port, and attract more Nanyang businessmen to come to Lianzhou to sell grain. As long as it is done well, we will have a stable source of overseas grain. There is also Burma and Annan, since they have not blocked us yet, they can import more grain at a high price, even if the freight is twice as expensive as Yunnan-Guizhou’s self-produced grain, we still have to buy it!”

"Anyway, we now have the Phoenix Mountain Silver Mine, so we don't have to worry too much about the source of the silver. Otherwise, if Annan and Burma will adopt a blockade policy against us under the threat of Mangou in the future, then we will spend no matter how much money we have. If you don’t go out, you won’t be able to buy food.”

"Mr. Xianyan, take Zhan Shenghua, Li Shipei and the others to start the farming business." It was rare for old traitor Wu to make a decisive decision once, and immediately ordered: "Move quickly, it's the end of the first lunar month, so don't delay the farming season. As for the import of grain I will hand it over to Mr. Guo Zhuangtu and Mr. Maoxia. Tell them that for the remaining 400 million taels of silver in Yunnan, they only need to keep 100 million taels of silver for daily expenses, and the rest, no matter what the price, will be exchanged for me. Food! If the money is gone, you can earn and grab it in the future, but if the food is gone, people will starve to death.”

Hu Guozhu, Fang Guangchen and others agreed together, and hurriedly took up their pens and wrote letters to order. Fatty Lu, who wrote with a brush in one hand that was uglier than chicken feet, didn't go up to interfere, but said to the traitor Wu: "Grandfather, grandson-in-law thinks that it is better to tuntian tun Food is just a passive method. If the old thief Oboi is determined to consume us, he will wait patiently no matter it is three or five years or ten or eight years. So my son-in-law feels that we are preparing for the worst At the same time, it is best to think of a way to force the old thief Oboi to enter Guizhou and fight us."

"Then what can you do?" Old Han Wu asked in a deep voice.

"My son-in-law thinks that the best way is of course to make a big fuss about the fact that Oboi and the Emperor Mangou are at odds." Fatty Lu said with a smirk: "Grandfather can let General Gao Dejie spread two warlords on the front line of Yuanzhou. Rumor, the first one, said that after Oboi left the capital, Emperor Mangou had seized the opportunity to take power, ready to kill Oboi's family and his lackeys at any time, and let Mangou Prince An Yue Le or Shuncheng County King Le Erjin get rid of them Get rid of Oboi and take over the military power."

"What about the second one?" Old Man Wu asked calmly.

"The second thing, of course, is that Oboi deliberately didn't enter Yunnan and Guizhou. He was planning to make peace with us and join hands to kill the Emperor Mangou." Fatty Lu said with a sinister smile: "Rumors can be said that the old thief Oboi went south to Yunnan and Guizhou this time. , In fact, I don’t want to fight us at all, I just take advantage of the opportunity of Mangou’s elite this time, take the opportunity to control the elite army of Mangou, consume Mangou’s national power, and then take the opportunity to use military law to kill the Mangou generals who are loyal to the Emperor Mangou, and finally Then join us to fight against Emperor Mangou, make the old thief Oboi the emperor, make you the king of the Southwest, and give Huguang and Guangxi to you as fiefdoms."

"Will it be useful?" Old Man Wu asked in a deep voice.

"In a short while, we will definitely not see the effect." Fatty Lu said confidently: "But after a long time, with the spread of rumors, as well as the stalemate in the war situation and the consumption of dog food and salaries, these rumors will be able to It will come in handy, because Oboi and Emperor Mangou are suspicious of each other, they will follow our arrangement and enter Guizhou to have a decisive battle with us."

"Then try it." Old Man Wu smiled treacherously, and said, "You also go and write your plan into a letter, and I will send someone to Gao Dejie, so that he can follow the plan."

"Grandson-in-law obeys..." Fatty Lu agreed, but just after he finished speaking, Fatty Lu's mung bean eyes rolled, and he hurriedly said: "Grandfather, why don't you write letters and just let grandson-in-law go to the front line of Sizhou directly?" Now, my son-in-law can also adapt to the actual situation and assist General Gao Dejie in implementing the plan to lure the enemy. By the way, you can also learn about Mangou's new firearms, so that you know yourself well and know yourself and your enemy."

"Well, anyway, this battle will take a lot of time, and it's a waste of talent to keep you bad boy behind." Old Han Wu, who admires Fatty Lu's wicked personality, said with a treacherous smile: "I hope this time, you little slicker It can also bring a surprise to the king, and help the king to introduce that old slicker Oboi to Guizhou as soon as possible."

"Grandson-in-law will do his best." Fatty Lu respectfully agreed, and then urged: "Grandfather, the last time my grandson-in-law suggested something to grandfather, I hope grandfather will never forget—grandfather must use various channels to give Emperor Mangou a piece of advice." Make more reports and ask him to issue an imperial edict, allowing you to crusade against Oboi Qingjun and punish the country's thieves. As long as the Emperor Mangou is tempted, no matter what conditions he puts forward, you can first agree to it, grandfather, and get his bullshit edict. Wan Dajun will soon be torn apart and turned into a bunch of chickens and dogs."

"Worry! Got it, the king will remember." The old man Wu laughed and scolded, and said: "Be more careful on the front line, Man Gou hates you to the bone, if you have any troubles, the granddaughter of the king has not yet If you go through the door, you will be a widow."

Fatty Lu agreed gratefully, and immediately took the official document to bid farewell to the old traitor Wu, Hu Guozhu, Fang Guangchen and others. Go to Xiao Erlang, Fang Shiyu, Hong Xiguan and other hard-core dog legs, pack up your luggage and prepare to go.But just as he was about to leave, Fatty Lu suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly told Li Tianzhi: "Brother Li, you send someone to Kong Fanlin, tell him to clean up, and go to Sizhou with me."

"What are you taking him for?" Li Tianzhi hesitated, and said, "Brother Kong has rich experience in scouting. He is helping us train scouts during this time. I think it will be more useful for him to stay in the rear to train troops?"

"For the training of scouts, please leave it to Luo Kedi. Kong Fanlin and I will go together, and it will be of great use." Fatty Lu said in a deep voice, "I don't know if you still remember? The three of Gan Wenkun and his son once said that Guiyang East In front of Longli, there is a small road passing Qingyan Fort, which can directly reach the Yunnan-Guizhou official road next to Maomao Cave, and they used this small road to get rid of Li Kaixian's pursuers and sneak into Yunnan secretly."

"I have a hunch that if this path is suitable for marching, it will be of great use in the future when the main force of the prince and the main force of the dog will fight!"

(End of this chapter)