scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 280
After more than half a month of boring confrontation with the main force of the Qing army in northern Jiangxi, another major event that can relieve boredom finally broke out among the tense and boring Jiujiang Wu army.

The cause of the incident was as follows. On the afternoon of February 100th, after the surrendered general of the Qing army, Itanbu, had just returned to his barracks to rest after finishing his duties for the day, Gao Hongchen, the cavalry general of the Fat Army, led a group of Wu troops. The soldiers came to find him, and insisted on dragging Itanbu to play dice. Yitanbu was a general and a mite, so of course he didn't dare to offend an old man in the Wu army like Gao Hongchen and a fat man in the army, so he had to hug the cut flesh Feed the eagle's mind, followed Gao Hongchen and others into the casino with 100 taels of factor, and thought that it would be a big deal to lose all the [-] taels, and just spend money to buy peace and friendship.

Unfortunately, at the gambling table, Yitanbu not only lost all the 100 taels of silver, but was also persuaded by Gao Hongchen and others to borrow another 400 taels of silver to continue gambling—not so much Pushing, it is better to say that it is semi-forced, and the result is quickly lost.But when things got to this point, itanbu, who loves money, naturally refused to gamble any more. Gao Hongchen and others could not help but force itanbu to pay back the money immediately. He led Gao Hongchen and others back to his barracks to withdraw money to pay off his gambling debts.

Just at this time, the storm happened. In front of the gate of Han Daren's camp, Yitanbu, Gao Hongchen and others happened to meet Han Daren's younger brother, Han Yuanren, patrolling the camp. They saw Yitanbu leading his brother's nemesis Gao Hongchen When he came back, Mr. Han Yuanren had no choice but to ask the reason, and when Yitanbu talked about the matter hesitantly, the fiery Han Yuanren exploded in anger. He grabbed the person behind Gao Hongchen on the spot, pointed at his nose, Tanbu yelled, "You bet with Li Ya? Do you know that this brat is famous for being a trickster! Ten times bet ten times and you get a thousand money, no matter how much money you have, you can't lose!"

Hearing what Han Yuanren said, Yitanbu, who was already quite puzzled, suddenly realized, but Gao Hongchen and his gang quit. He insisted on Han Yuanren showing evidence of Li Ya's cheating, otherwise he would absolutely refuse to fight with him. Won Ren Shan let go.However, Han Yuanren was not on the scene at the time, and the game had already been played, so naturally he couldn't produce any evidence, so he just yelled at Gao Hongchen for not being a thing, relying on Fatty Lu's favor to cheat and bully his allies, while Gao Hongchen continued to scold, while mocking Brother Han Daren for arbitrarily doing it the day before yesterday The scandal of the disastrous defeat in the battle, and then the three sentences were wrong, Han Yuan hit Gao Hongchen in the face with any punch, Gao Hongchen and his gang fought back angrily, and fought back in front of the camp gate on the spot.

The fight was intense, and good reinforcements from both sides continued to join in. Itanbu, who wanted to save money and avoid disaster, was completely involved, and was beaten by Gao Hongchen and his gang. In the end, not only did he fail to effectively stop the fight, Gao Dejie, who was even more irritable, also joined the battle group under Han Daren's sarcasm, and fought with his arch-rival Han Daren on the spot, which caused the scale of the fight to expand, and he injured many of himself people.In the end, it was Fatty Lu's confidant Li Tianzhi who arrived after hearing the news and led a heavily armed army to pull the two sides apart. This ended the military brawl that almost led to an internal fire.

The enemy is currently facing such a big scandal, and Fatty Lu, who is the commander of the whole army, is of course furious. He ordered brothers Gao Dejie, Han Daren, Yitanbu and Li Ya to be taken into the commander's hall and dealt with personally. This brawl.However, in the lobby, Fatty Lu, who has a despicable character, also gave full play to his despicable nature of helping his relatives and not helping his relatives. When both parties were responsible, he forced all the blame on the Han Daren brothers and Itanbu. Not only forced Yitanbu to repay the gambling debts, but also dragged Han Daren brother who had just recovered from the stick injury, and beat him with twenty army sticks.

After the matter was settled, the Gao Dejie brothers and Li Ya left happily, while the Han brothers whose buttocks were beaten to bloody blood, and Yitanbu, who was bankrupt and failed to avoid disaster, were furious, especially the Han brothers. Brought back to our barracks by the soldiers, he immediately hid in the barracks and cursed, from Fatty Lu's cheap mother to the nineteenth generation of Fatty Lu's ancestors, the lingering lingering lingering lingering for three days.Itambu, who suffered innocently, was dejected, sitting aside in a daze, not knowing whether he felt sorry for the 500 taels of hard-earned money earned by selling his fellow mite people, or regretted that he made a wrong step and chose to be so shameless to Fatty Lu. Just enemies surrender.

After scolding for more than an hour, until the sky was completely dark, the Han brothers who were hoarse from scolding finally stopped cursing. They lay on the bed and moaned in pain, while Yitanbu sat for a long time with a sad face. I wanted to get up and leave, but I never thought that Han Yuanren would suddenly say to Han Daren: "Brother, it seems that Lu Yifeng is determined to avenge his personal revenge. Last time, he was concerned about our cousin (Hu Guozhu)'s face, so he didn't dare to face him." Our murder does not mean that he wants to let us go from now on. If this goes on, no matter how careful we are, we may not be able to escape his murder. "

Han Daren groaned in pain, didn't speak, just let out a long sigh, while Han Yuanren saw that the door was closed, and suddenly lowered his voice and said: "Brother, instead of waiting for him to kill us, we should do it first, kill us first." Killed the bastard!"

"What?" Yitanbu was so frightened that he almost collapsed on the ground, and quickly shrank his head, pretending not to hear.Han Daren over there was also taken aback, and said in a low voice: "Speak carefully, be careful that the walls have ears!"

"Don't worry, we are surrounded by old people brought by our brothers from Yunnan and Guizhou, and no outsiders can approach them." Han Yuanren replied in a low voice.After all, Han Yuanren turned to Itanbu and said, "General Yi, how Lu Yifeng treats you and us, you have seen it with your own eyes, I think you should know how to choose?"

"The last general didn't hear anything." Itambu stood up and said tremblingly, "It's getting late, the two generals, please rest early, the last general will take his leave first, and I will come back tomorrow to greet the two generals."

"Stop!" Han Yuanren stopped Yitanbu and shouted in a low voice: "You think you will have no troubles after you leave? Those two bastard brothers of the Gao family are dead enemies with us. You belong to us. In the street fighting in Jiujiang City, you also surrendered to our two brothers, and you were branded by us long ago, if we were to die, do you think the brothers from the Gao family would let you go?"

Yitanbu didn't dare to say anything, hesitating in his heart, Han Yuanren lowered his voice and said: "Don't worry, if you help our two brothers accomplish great things, we will naturally not treat you badly, and the anger you have suffered today can also be a hundred times I'll go back."

"Yuan Ren, stop talking nonsense!" Han Daren yelled angrily in a low voice, "Your Highness has treated us with great kindness, we cannot do anything to offend His Highness."

"The lord is good to us, but we were also forced by Lu Yifeng's son!" Han Yuanren snorted coldly: "Since our Pingxi Palace raised troops, Lu Yifeng and Gao's brother have been wearing a pair of pants, but we two brothers have been If we don't deal with him, now that he is a villain, and he needs the support of the Gao brothers in the army, of course, we have to attack our two brothers, which not only punishes our two brothers, but also pleases Gao Dejie. You say, then If this goes on, do we still want to live?"

Han Daren stopped talking, just punched the bed heavily, and Han Yuanren encouraged again: "Brother, instead of waiting for Lu Yifeng to torture our two brothers to death, it is better to strike first and cut off Lu Yifeng's dog." The head of a thief, cross Poyang Lake to surrender to the Qing court! Not only have you avenged, but you can also enjoy countless glory and wealth!"

"Surrender to the Qing Dynasty again?" To be honest, Yitanbu, who was not determined to surrender to Wu Jun, had his eyes lit up, and hope began to grow in his heart. If you definitely want me to be the leader, then I will definitely follow and get the glory.

After a long silence, Han Daren said softly in an inaudible voice: "Do you have a way to do it?"

"General Yi, are you sure you can sneak into Lu Yifeng's child's room overnight and chop off his head?" Han Yuanren turned to Itanbu and asked.

"Second general, stop joking." Itanbu said in a low voice with a mournful face, "The servant is a surrendered general and a mite. How could he approach General Lu at will?"

"Brother, what about you?" Han Yuanren asked Han Daren again in a low voice.

"Don't have this dream." Han Daren said in a low voice: "Lu Yifeng is always greedy for life and afraid of death. There are many confidantes and soldiers around him, and they are all ruthless characters who can die for him at any time. If you want to assassinate him, are you Don't even think about it."

Han Yuanren lowered his head weakly, and Han Daren said again: "Yuan Ren, you don't need to worry too much, since Lu Yifeng's children can't tolerate us, then we just don't follow him, and you will ask someone to take a pen and paper later Come on, I will write a letter to my uncle, begging him to transfer us to another place, it is a great demotion and loss of power, just don't provoke this kid Lu Yifeng."

"Then what should I do?" Itambu was depressed.

Han Yuanren didn't speak any more, just groaned while lying there gnashing his teeth, Han Daren snorted coldly again: "It's a pity that the Qing army on the other side of the lake refused to cross the lake to attack the city, otherwise..., hum!"

"The Qing army on the other side of the lake refused to cross the lake to attack the city? Brother, how do you know?" Han Yuanren asked in surprise.

"Lu Yifeng's son has already analyzed it." Han Daren replied: "After the Qing army on the other side of the lake crossed the lake, they were not absolutely sure to capture Jiujiang, and they might suffer heavy casualties in the siege battle. The child concluded that Hilgen stationed troops at Hukou for three purposes. One was to cover the retreat of the Qing army in Nanchang, and the other was to look for opportunities to attack our navy. As long as our navy was finished, Anqing would be able to Rest easy, and the third is to verify whether Lu Yifeng’s child is seriously injured or dying, and wait and see if there is a fighter plane crossing the lake to attack the city, as long as our Jiujiang army stands still, Hilgen will never move.”

"Brother, why don't we send someone to cross the lake and contact General Hilgen on the other side of the lake?" Han Yuanren had an idea and suggested: "As long as the old general Hilgen believes that we will give him an internal response, he will definitely cross the lake." Has the lake attacked the city?"

Han Daren shook his body, hesitated for a long time, and then said in a low voice: "It's easy to say, will Old General Hilgen believe us so easily? In case Old General Hilgen suspects that we are falsely surrendering, just let the wind out , that means uncle can’t save us.”

"General, Second General." Itanbu finally spoke, knelt down in front of the Han brothers' bed, clasped his fists, and solemnly said in the lowest voice: "If the two generals trust me, I am willing to cross the lake and meet Hill. Contact the old general, explain the situation to the old general, and let the old general believe that you are sincere anyway!"

"You?" Brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren were both taken aback. When they looked up at each other, there was an imperceptible smirk at the corners of their mouths.

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According to Fatty Lu's crow's mouth, Kang Mazi's highest instructions on the Jiujiang War had indeed been delivered to the Hilgen army stationed at Hukou on February [-]th.In the imperial decree, Kang Mazi first praised the Jiujiang Qing army led by Zhangtai for his extraordinary achievements in injuring Fatty Lu, and then scolded Zhangtai for his crime of easily losing Jiujiang City, so he decided not to reward or punish Zhangtai. However, generals such as Yang Jie, Zhao Dengju, and Zhang Sheguang who had contributed to killing the enemy received heavy rewards, promotions and silver rewards. Only Dong Weiguo and Zhao Yingkui, who were suspected of collaborating with the enemy, were unlucky, and Kang Mazi ordered a thorough investigation and temporarily deprived them of All powers are waiting for the Qing court to send commissioners to investigate.

In addition to this decree of rewarding and punishing those who have been punished, the great Emperor Kushita also used a separate decree to make a more important and great instruction!In view of the fact that Wu's rebel army's six-pronged attack had already caused great pressure and great harm to the Qing court, the great Emperor Zhuxi asked Shiergen, Zhangtai, Zhao Guozuo and other generals of the Qing army in northern Jiangxi to seize Wu. Lu Yifeng, the head coach of the rebel army's puppet conquest of the East, was seriously injured and would die. He took a full-scale counterattack and regained the important town of Jiujiang, and tried his best to wipe out the Wu rebel army on the battlefield in northern Jiangxi. Lay a solid foundation!

After hearing these two imperial edicts, Master Zhangtai Beizi, Zhao Dengju, Zhang Sheguang and others couldn't even close their mouths from smiling, but Qing army veteran Hilgen stretched his old face, his brows were tightly wrinkled into a word Sichuan, and his heart ached. This is troublesome, the master is on his head, if the old man reports at this time that Lu Yifeng's dog thief may be cheating to lure the enemy, and the Qing army in northern Jiangxi is not absolutely sure of taking Jiujiang Jiancheng, then the master will not be able to win Yan Zhen is furious, throwing a tantrum?What's more troublesome is that the old man is not absolutely sure whether Lu Yifeng's dog thief is a fake injury. If the old man insists on retreating, it will prove that Lu Yifeng's dog thief has indeed been seriously injured in the future. So, do you still want to have a good life in the future?

Hilgen was worried here, but the Mite Qing generals headed by Zhangtai, E Nai, and Jue Luobabur had a quarrel, and unanimously demanded to cross the lake to attack the city immediately, taking advantage of the opportunity of Lu Yifeng's dog thief who was seriously injured and about to die, to win in one fell swoop. Go down to Jiujiang City and annihilate Wu Gou, the Eastern Expedition!Although Hilgen tried his best to refute, but all the generals were so excited that they couldn't listen to what they said, and even many Baqi masters yelled similar slogans, "Even if Lu Yifeng is a thief, so what? Like? Our Eight Banners soldiers are invincible in the world on bow and horse, and with the help of red cannons and general Weiyuan cannons (child and mother cannons), even if we attack from the front, we are absolutely sure to take Jiujiang City!"

In desperation, Hilgen had no choice but to think about how to persuade Kang Mazi to take back his order, and at the same time, he used the excuse to discuss how to attack Jiujiang City with two forces, and ordered Zhao Guozuo, who was stationed in Nankang City, to meet at Hukou to discuss with him the plan of attacking the army. It was only then that the generals of Chi Qing barely suppressed the cries for war, and bought a few days for preparation.

At noon on February [-]th, Zhao Guozuo was ordered to lead a group of soldiers to the Hukou camp to meet him. Hilgen, who admired Zhao Guozuo quite a lot, greeted him out of the camp gate and ordered a banquet to entertain him.Before the banquet started, Zhao Guozuo first took the initiative to plead guilty in public, expressing his willingness to be responsible for the Jianchang fiasco some time ago, and Hilgen also said on the spot that Jianchang’s fiasco had little to do with Zhao Guozuo, and it was really Wugou’s luck , By mistake, he picked a great advantage, blocked the mouths of the generals, and then sat down with the generals to talk about the siege plan.

At the banquet, the two old foxes, Xiergen and Zhao Guozuo, chanted their slogans loudly, breathed together with the generals of Chi Qing, and vowed not to withdraw their troops until they broke through Jiujiang.However, after sending away the generals with great difficulty, and having a secret conversation in Hilgen's private account for a long time, the two old foxes reached a consensus—in view of the current strength of the two sides and the pros and cons of weapons, Never launch a siege campaign!Otherwise, not only would it be difficult to capture Jiujiang, but the Anqing Qing army and the Nanchang Qing army would have to suffer a lot in the battle, which would be extremely detrimental to the future battles between Nanchang and Anqing!
It was easy to reach this consensus, but how to explain to Kang Mazi gave the two old foxes a headache, especially Zhao Guozuo, who had just suffered a big defeat. At this time, he asked Kang Mazi to give up his plan to attack Jiujiang. His Jiangxi admiral top son must be removed.Although Xiergen's situation is a little better than Zhao Guozuo's, it's not that much better, so that he sighed in front of Zhao Guozuo: "It's hard to ride a tiger, I just regret it now, why did I trust Lu Yifeng's dog so easily?" The news that the thief was seriously injured by the cannon? It made him unable to advance or retreat, and he was in a dilemma."

"General, this responsibility does not rest on you." Zhao Guozuo looked around and said in a low voice: "The slave dares to say it in front of the general. The greatest responsibility for this matter lies with Master Zhangtai and also with the master." body!"

Hilgen smiled wryly and did not speak.Zhao Guozuo lowered his voice and asked again: "By the way, General, is that Lu Yifeng dog thief really injured?"

"Nine times out of ten it's a fraudulent injury." Hilgen smiled wryly, "But the old man can't produce any evidence, no way to prove it, and no way to explain it to the master and the generals."

"The servant also thinks that this dog thief is the most likely to cheat." Zhao Guozuo nodded, then frowned and said, "If Lu Yifeng's dog thief is really a fraud, then this dog thief is really terrible, and it is the death of our master." Thoughts, it's considered dead. Master Zhangtai Bei will hold on to this life-saving straw, and will definitely expose this false news to his master at all costs. Even if you don't believe the general, you have to follow his arrangement. , There is no way to resist. We really underestimated this Wu dog before."

"Wrong, the old man has never underestimated him!" Hilgen shook his head resolutely, and said in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, the old general, in fact, when the news that the old thief Wu Sangui appointed Lu Yifeng the dog thief as the coach of the Eastern Expedition reached Anqing, the old man I already had a premonition that this Wu dog would turn the Jiangxi battlefield upside down, so the old man ordered Jiangning governor Mu Tianyan to send the already built warship to Anqing immediately! Otherwise, the master will give Mu Tianyan The decree is for Mu Tianyan to rush to build three hundred warships."

"General, did you value this Wu dog so much from the beginning?" Zhao Guozuo asked in surprise.

Hilgen hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice after a while: "Do you still remember Ao Zhongtang? When the old man was so powerful in the world, both of you and I were still unknown under his account, but the old man knew one accurate news—— ——The head on the neck of Ao Zhongtang was chopped off by this thief Lu Yifeng himself!"

"What?" Zhao Guozuo jumped up in shock, and said dumbfounded: "The head of Ao Zhongtang was chopped off by this thief Lu Yifeng himself? How did the general hear that Ao Zhongtang committed suicide and died for his country?"

"The old thief Wu Sangui has a bit of humanity. In order to take care of Ao Zhongtang's reputation behind him, he announced that Ao Zhongtang committed suicide and died for the country." Hilgen replied in a low voice: "But the old man secretly sent someone to Guizhou to inquire about it, and that's how I found out The truth of the matter is that after Ao Zhongtang was surrounded by Wu dogs, he was so injured that he didn't even have the strength to kill himself. It was he who begged the old thief Wu Sangui to see the old relationship, not to let him be captured and humiliated. As soon as he died, after the old thief Wu Sangui agreed, Ao Zhongtang asked the old thief Wu Sangui to allow the dog thief Lu Yifeng to execute, because Ao Zhongtang believed that among the Wu dogs, only the old thief Wu Sangui and the dog thief Lu Yifeng were worthy of the election. put his head on his neck."

Zhao Guozuo was even tongue-tied. After a long time, Zhao Guozuo sat back on his chair weakly, and said with a wry smile: "Jianchang was defeated, and the final defeat is not unfair. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead."

"Fortunately, you didn't die on the beach after all." Hilgen smiled bitterly, and sighed again: "It's a pity, I really can't confirm whether Lu Yifeng's dog thief was really injured by the cannon, if If it can be confirmed that Lu Yifeng's dog thief was seriously injured by Master Bei's shit luck, then there is no need for the master's decree, and there is no need for the generals to ask. No matter how much the old man pays, he will break through Jiujiang and take his head off. ! Get rid of this heinous trouble for the Qing Dynasty! The scourge of the Qing Dynasty!"

Zhao Guozuo was even more silent, and Hilgen stopped talking, and the two old foxes sat opposite each other speechlessly. After a long time, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tent, and then the joyous voice of Master Zhangtai Beizi also came in. , "General, happy event! Great happy event! Great happy event! Ben Beizi personally promoted General Itambu, but he has returned anyway! It is said that there is a confidential event, and I want to report it to you, General!"

"Itanbu is back?" Hilgen and Zhao Guozuo, two old foxes, looked at each other, then jumped up at the same time, and said in unison: "Bring him in, immediately!"

A while later, Yitanbu, who Hilgen had met once when he was inspecting Jiujiang City Defense, was escorted into the tent by Mr. Zhangtai Pei himself. As soon as he entered the tent, Yitanbu, whose braids had been cut off and his arms were tied behind his back, immediately knelt on his knees. Kneeling down, weeping loudly: "General, slave Itanbu, finally came back alive. Slave Yitanbu, please greet the general!"

"Bold Itanbu, you still have the face to come back to see the old man?" Hilgen turned his face and shouted angrily: "You sent people across the lake several times to deceive our army for Wu Gou, are you guilty?!"

"Great General, please forgive me." Itanbu cried and said, "This servant is indeed a coward. He sent someone to deceive the General and Mr. Beizi, but this servant was forced. The soldiers are all sent by Lu Yifeng's gangster to watch over the slave, if the slave doesn't follow Lu Yifeng's orders, the slave's head will fall to the ground immediately!"

"What?" Master Zhangtai Pei screamed.The two old foxes, Xiergen and Zhao Guozuo, looked at each other, and thought together: "The two messengers before are indeed dead people who don't know the truth!"

"Then Lu Yifeng, the dog thief, was seriously injured by our army's artillery?!" Hilgen asked loudly again.

"No, no." Itanbu shook his head quickly, crying loudly: "I can swear to God, the artillery of our army that day didn't even hurt a hair of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, Lu Yifeng's dog thief, he From the beginning to the end, he was cheating! He wanted to trick the general and our Nanchang army of the Qing Dynasty to take the initiative to attack and leave the protection of Jiancheng, so that he could kill all of our Qing army!"

"Bang!" Master Zhangtai Beizi sat down on the ground, his handsome face had lost any color, and he muttered in his mouth: "How is it possible? This Beizi is familiar with military books and has a deep understanding of the art of war. How is it possible?" Didn't you hurt Lu Yifeng's dog thief?"

"Sure enough, it's a fake injury!" Hilgen was so surprised that he almost cried out.After trying to calm down his excitement, Hilgen pointed at Itambu again, and shouted: "Say, tell me what happened, how you helped Wu Gou defraud our army, and how you came back anyway, one to five Confess to the old man ten times, and don't miss anything! Otherwise, be careful of your dog's head!"

(End of this chapter)