scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 322 The rain is coming
Several flowers bloomed, one for each branch. It was almost the same day when the news of the fall of Hangzhou reached the capital. It was also the day of November 13th in the [-]th year of Kang Mazi. Finally, under the personal leadership of Fatty Lu, he embarked on the road back to his old nest in Nanjing.

It was not because Fatty Lu wanted to repent and did not want to give up Hangzhou to Zheng Jing after so much tossing. The main reason was that the preparations for the retreat were too troublesome. The mountains of grain and grass in Hangzhou city needed to be loaded into trucks and ships. The raw materials of gunpowder need to be loaded on trucks and ships, and the gold, silver, jewelry and valuables copied from the Hangzhou Fan Treasury, Treasury, Micheng, and Qing officials’ homes have to be loaded on trucks and shipped away, right?In addition, there are the assets of Fatty Lu's fiancée Xiaojiali's family and Xiaojiali's dowry. Can they still stay in Hangzhou for others to grab?Shouldn't it be loaded into a truck and shipped?
In this way, the size of the Fat Man's army when it retreated was terrifyingly large, using more than 10 vehicles, more than [-] ships, and recruiting more than [-] civilians. Although it is easier to recruit civilians in the slack season, but There were still not enough able-bodied civilian men recruited in the city of Hangzhou. As a last resort, Fatty Lu had to order Wu Qi, the prefect of Huzhou, and Guo Yingfu, the commander-in-chief of Huzhou, to urgently recruit a group of civilian men from the Huzhou government, which met the transport force needs of the fat man's army.And on the day of the retreat, the Fatty Army's transport convoy and fleet alone stretched for more than [-] miles. The official roads and canals were full of people, and there were cars and boats passing by everywhere. It was so spectacular that it was almost impossible to use pen and ink. describe.

The Fat Army took so many good things from Hangzhou City in one go. The Taiwanese army who took over Hangzhou City said they were not jealous. A word to accuse Fatty Lu, because Fatty Lu not only left them enough food and food for a year and a large amount of military supplies, but also took away only the Hangzhou provincial treasury, government treasury and the homes of some Qing officials. The food property and private property of the Fat Army have not been moved at all, and most of the property and property of the gentry and landlords have not been taken by the Fat Army. It can be said that more than half of the food and property have been left in Hangzhou by the Fat Army. As long as the Taiwan army is not afraid of losing popular support , If you want to grab and grab, there are still opportunities.As an ally, the Fat Man Army has achieved this level, what else can the Taiwan Army say?How could he have the face to accuse Fatty Lu?
In addition, Fatty Army has another thing that makes Taiwan soldiers unable to open their mouths. Since the main force of the Qing Army in Zhejiang came to counterattack Hangzhou City in two ways, Fatty Lu worried that the Taiwanese army would not be able to gain a stable foothold from afar, so he sent Gao Hongchen and Hutong Chun led 2000 troops eastward to Shaoxing, joined forces with the Taiwanese army, and fought a battle with the Shaoxing Qing army that had reinforced Xiaoshan in Qianqing Town. They fired more than [-] rockets and drove back the Shaoxing Qing army, forcing the southern Qing army to return. Withdrawing to Zhuji County to garrison temporarily relieved the urgent need in Hangzhou and bought time for the Taiwan army to gain a foothold in Hangzhou.

In the end, the Fatty Army pulled out the small nail of Xiaoshan County, and gave Xiaoshan to the Taiwan Army. For this reason, the Fatty Army was delayed for a few days to return to the division. The benevolence and righteousness have reached this point. Liu Guoxuan and other Taiwanese generals are grateful. It's too late, what else can I say?What face is there to talk?So there was no way, Liu Guoxuan could only lead the soldiers and civilians in Hangzhou to send Fatty Lu back to the north. While watching Fatty Lu take away the golden mountains and silver seas, he had to be extremely grateful to Fatty Lu.

Fatty Lu is indeed bad enough. Considering that he is carrying so much food, grass and baggage back to the north, if he takes Huzhou and Yixing to go home, he has to go through the Tianmu Mountains. The road is difficult and it will take a long time, so Fatty Lu simply chose Going back to Nanjing through Jiaxing and Suzhou, they opened the way with elite soldiers to prevent the Jiaxing Qing army from attacking the city, and ordered Li Tianzhi to send troops to respond, and then sent envoys to contact the Jiaxing Qing army, and arrogantly borrowed the road directly from the Jiaxing Qing army, threatening to say that Jiaxing If the Qing army is willing to give way honestly, then the fat army will not invade each other!If the Jiaxing Qing army dared to fire a shot and an arrow to prevent the fat man's army from returning north, then the fat man's army would directly attack the city with force, and after the city was broken, the fat man's army would kill the Jiaxing Qing army!

After reading Fatty Lu’s letter sent by the envoy, the veins on the foreheads of General Laita of Qing Pingnan who had fled to Jiaxing and Mu Helin, the defender of Jiaxing, almost exploded with anger. Let the troops go out of the city to fight to the death with the Fatty Army!But looking at the only [-] Qing troops in Jiaxing City, and thinking about the fat army Li Tianzhi's army in the north, and recalling the tragic end of the field battle with the fat army in Yixing, Laita and Mu Helin still swallowed honestly. After taking this breath, he ordered the entire army to guard the city and not to go out to fight—that is, not to go out of the city to intercept.

On November 3000th, the transport fleet of the Fat Man Army arrived in Jiaxing and passed through the canal under Jiaxing City. More than [-] large and small ships stretched for more than ten miles, and it took half a day to pass through the Jiaxing Wharf. But the defenders didn't dare to fire a single shot or an arrow, let alone go out of the city to intercept them, and just sit and watch the fat army pass through Jiaxing in a big way. ——No way, there are tens of thousands of elite fat soldiers outside the south gate of Jiaxing, and there are five thousand reinforcements sent by Li Tianzhi outside the north gate. The siege will be Amitabha, so how dare you go out of the city to intercept it?

On November [-]th, the transport convoy of the Fatty Army transported northward arrived in Suzhou first. A day later, the transport convoy led by Lu Fatty also arrived in Suzhou City. The generals came to the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou to meet Wu Mei, the traitorous daughter of the old traitor Wu who lived here, that is, the daughter of the traitor Wu who married the beggar Wang Yongyuan according to his promise. In terms of seniority, Fatty Lu had to call her aunt.

Here, by the way, I will talk about the situation of the old man Wu’s traitor to his daughter and son-in-law. After the old man Wu married Wu Mei to Wang Yongyuan, he bought the Humble Administrator’s Garden in Suzhou and gave it to his daughter and son-in-law to live in. When the old man Wu rebelled, the news spread to Suzhou However, the cowardly and fearful Wang Yongyuan was so frightened that he fell ill and soon died. Wu Mei was imprisoned twice by the local government and almost died.After Li Tianzhi led the army to capture Suzhou, he rescued Wu Mei from prison, and finally returned the Humble Administrator's Garden to her to live in, and paid her salary, silver and lumi on time according to the ceremony of the princess. At that time, Wu Mei naturally wouldn't make things difficult in the slightest, and she dragged Fatty Lu into mouthfuls and called his niece and son-in-law very affectionately, and she was extremely grateful to Fatty Lu.In addition, it is also fortunate that Wu Mei is already an old man, and she has been tortured in the prison. Otherwise, with Wu Mei's gratitude and appreciation for Fatty Lu, would there be adulterous aunts and nephews in the courts of the Great Zhou Dynasty? Nor can scandal.

After dinner in the Humble Administrator's Garden, we returned to the temporary residence. It was already the second watch of the night. The exhausted Fatty Lu was about to go to bed, but Wang Shaobo sent an urgent report to Fatty Lu, but he said it was an urgent report. The news written in the newspaper was already almost a month ago - on October 13, 25, Kang Mazi, after a siege battle that lasted May, the Wu Jun Xia Guoxiang Department finally broke through Nanchang City, the most important town in Jiangxi. The defender Xi Bu led more than a thousand remnants of the army to flee to Raozhou, Zhao Yue, the son of Zhao Guozuo, committed suicide and died, and Xia Guoxiang captured Nanchang.So far, all the land in Jiangxi to the west of Poyang Lake has fallen into the hands of the Wu army, and the land that the Qing army in Jiangxi can effectively control has only four state capitals, Raozhou, Guangxin, Fuzhou, and Jianchang.

"Idiot, with so many new weapons, it took five months to attack a city of Nanchang. Fortunately, he still has the face to live in the world." Fatty Lu snorted coldly and handed the urgent report back to Wang Shaobo, saying: "Don't worry! He, Xia Guoxiang and Wu Yingqi are all the same kind of people, brave but not resourceful, one is greedy for money and the other is lustful. .”

"Boss, after reading this, you may not be so relaxed." Wang Shaobo took out another urgent report, and said in a low voice, "It was sent by the secret agent we sent back to Yuezhou. After Xia Guoxiang captured Nanchang, Hu Guozhu ordered, Send the three airships that you personally supervised and the two new airships sent by Yunnan to Jiujiang and prepare to hand them over to Xia Guoxiang. Along with the airships, there are [-] reinforcements. Judging by the posture, Hu Guozhu also understands that if you let the boss If you continue to grow up in Jiangnan, you will have no way to control it, and you are going to do whatever it takes to get in touch with us, so that you can regain control of your boss."

Fatty Lu finally raised his vigilance. The Wu Jun airship was built by Fatty Lu. He is well aware of the various weaknesses of this primitive airship. Of course, Fatty Lu will not be afraid of airships, but Fatty Lu is not afraid. It does not mean that the Qing army is not afraid. Xia Guoxiang took these airships and really opened up the connection with Jiangnan, so what about Fatty Lu?Fight against Xia Guoxiang with force?Most of the backbone of the fat army is the old Wu Jun, and the prestige of the old traitor Wu is still there. Tell them to rebel against the old traitor Wu and fight Xia Guoxiang. How dare they do it?
After thinking about it for a long time, Fatty Lu suddenly felt moved, and hurriedly took over the secret letter sent from Yuezhou by his military secret agent, and read it carefully again. Fatty Lu hurriedly asked: "Judging from the information provided by our military secret work, Hu Guozhu is going to use Xia Guoxiang as the main general to be responsible for opening up the land connection with us, so what about Wu Yingqi? Why didn't Hu Guozhu appoint Wu Yingqi as the main general?"

"I don't know the exact reason." Wang Shaobo replied, "However, the students think that Hu Guozhu's arrangement is considered clever. Your boss is so coaxing, if Hu Guozhu appoints the second prince as his commander, even if he succeeds in entering Jiangnan, it will be difficult to completely control your boss. And more importantly, the second prince is also the candidate for the succession of the prince. If the second prince is allowed to enter the Jiangnan Jiangnan sits at the top, and the prince will choose his grandson Wu Shifan as his heir in the future. If the second prince refuses to accept, our army may immediately be divided and kill each other, but if Xia Guoxiang enters Jiangnan, these problems will not exist."

"It makes sense. Hu Guozhu and Fang Guangchen are both careful people, and they must be able to take this into consideration." Fatty Lu nodded, and after pondering for a while, Fatty Lu ordered: "Uncle, write a letter to the second prince for me immediately , tell him that now I am his student and student, and in the future I will be his courtier and official. Everything I have in Jiangnan now belongs to him, so I ask him to lead the army to the south of the Yangtze River to join me as soon as possible and take over my hands. territory and army."

"The tone of the letter must be respectful, and the sentence that instigates the second prince to go to the south of the Yangtze River to stand on his own must be tactful, so that the second prince can understand it but not be too explicit. We must not leave any excuses behind. Now that the prince is still here, we have to be careful in everything."

"The master wants the second prince to compete with Xia Guo for the position of coach?" Wang Shaobo's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "It's a good idea, but I'm afraid it's too late now? It's been almost a month since Xia Guoxiang captured Nanchang on October 25th. No matter how slow the speed is, we should have led the army to cross Poyang Lake by now, and even if our messenger can reach Wuchang smoothly, the second prince will not have time to compete with Xia Guo for the position of coach."

"Why is it too late?" Fatty Lu sneered, "You forgot one thing, even if Xia Guoxiang has already led the army to go out, his food and supplies must be escorted and supplied by the second prince. As long as the second prince blocks his With food and supplies, can he enter the south of the Yangtze River?"

"My master is brilliant!" Wang Shaobo suddenly realized, and said with great joy: "With the two hundred and five characters of the second prince, as long as he is willing, he will definitely not give food or supplies on purpose, he will definitely do it!"

"I'm not sure, but I have to give it a try anyway." Fatty Lu nodded, and said: "As before, ask the messenger to bring more jewelry to the second prince, and also, give the second prince our current list of money and food. The prince sent a copy to the prince, saying that he asked the second prince to forward it to the prince, so that the prince can understand how many great Zhou troops there are in the south of the Yangtze River, how much money and food they have."

"Understood." Wang Shaobo agreed with a sly smile, knowing that with Wu Yingqi's character of loving money like his life, seeing how much food and silver the fat army has now, he must say that he would not let Xia Guoxiang rush into the south of the Yangtze River first - all Xia Guoxiang robbed them all, what else would Wu Yingqi rob?
The plan was certain, and Wang Shaobo immediately worked hard to write, and changed his draft several times before he wrote a letter that Wu Yingqi could understand without any provocative words.In the end, Fatty Lu was afraid that it would not be safe, so he went to see Wu Mei again in the early morning of the next day, and asked Wu Mei to write a letter from home to Wu Yingqi and the old traitor Wu, explaining Wu Mei's current situation, and pleading with Wu Mei. The old traitor or Wu Yingqi sent his troops eastward earlier to reunite with his daughter or sister in person. Wu Mei really missed her father and brother without knowing what it was, so she happily wrote a letter and handed it to Fatty Lu. A few letters and a batch of valuable jewels, disguised as private businessmen, rushed to Wuchang day and night to deliver letters to the good prince Wu Yingqi.

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In fact, Fatty Lu and Shaobo Wang also wrongly blamed Hu Guozhu. Hu Guozhu was worried that Fatty Lu would be out of control, but his courage was not enough to prompt him to order Xia Guoxiang to give up the strategic plan to join forces with Geng Jingzhong, and try his best to open up the relationship with Fatty Lu. Contact by land, let alone hand over all five airships, Wu Jun's treasure of the army, to Xia Guoxiang.The person who actually gave this order is Old Traitor Wu!It is precisely because of this that even though Wu Yingqi was full of reluctance, he had no choice but to follow the order honestly, and gave up the position of the commander of the Eastern Expedition to Xia Guoxiang, and also assigned [-] troops to the commander of Xia Guoxiang, to try his best to open up the relationship with Xia Guoxiang. Fatty Lu's land contact.

Abandoning Wu Yingqi and choosing Xia Guoxiang as the coach of the Eastern Expedition is also the decision of the old traitor Wu after careful consideration. The old traitor Wu really knows the character of the two hundred and five sons. He is greedy and unpopular. Jiangnan is also destined not to win the hearts of Jiangnan. On the contrary, he may lose the morale of the army and be emptied by Fatty Lu, and it is even more likely to mess up Jiangnan's wealth.

In contrast, although Xia Guoxiang is far inferior to Wu Yingqi in fighting tough battles, his head is obviously much better than Wu Yingqi. As long as he enters Jiangnan, unless Fatty Lu wants to rebel and become a double traitor, he will not want to be strong. Obtain the qualification to compete with the old Wu traitor for the world.It was also because of this that old traitor Wu made such a decision, preparing to let Prime Minister Xia go to the south of the Yangtze River to restrain Fatty Lu, so that Fatty Lu, a fat loach, would never have the chance to become a dragon and fly into the sky.

At the same time, the situation in various battlefields is becoming more and more complicated, making it more and more difficult for Fatty Lu to have the opportunity to dominate.First of all, on the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield, when the old traitor Wu defeated Hanzhong and broke through the Qinling Mountains, civil uprisings and rebels appeared in various prefectures and prefectures in Shanxi-Gansu. Guan once came to the city of Xi'an, and then there were peasant uprisings in six counties in Qiaozhou, all of which were spontaneously organized to capture the county seat in response to Wu's entry into Shaanxi; in addition, Wang Fuchen's generals Wei Minyu, Ma Ruixuan and Wei Hushan, He also successively raised troops in Jingzhou, Lingtai, Qingyang and other places to meet Wu Jun's entry into Shaanxi.

In addition, Li Changju, the leader of the Peasant Army, also took down the important town of Guyuan. Zhu Long and his son, the deputy general of Dingbian, set up troops to attack Dingbian, Jingbian, Yan'an, Suide and Mizhi, and Sun Chongya, the deputy general of Shenmu, followed suit. Zhu Long and his son revolted in Yulin, and Chen Shan, the guard of Qinzhou, and Wu Chengyin, the guard of Lanzhou, also changed their flags to present the city successively, and there was chaos in Shaanxi.The old traitor Wu took advantage of the momentum to capture Fengxian, Baoji, Meixian, Fufeng and other places one after another, and rushed to the city of Xi'an before the Packed Army led by Tong Guogang detoured to Shangzhou for reinforcements, forcing Tong Guogang and Zhou Peigong to rescue Tongguan. Will be so stupid to eat Wu Jun rockets on the flat ground, Xi'an will fall into the hands of Wu Jun, it is a foregone conclusion.

By the way, if the old traitor Wu successfully captures Xi'an and Tongguan, and takes advantage of the victory to go straight to Beijing, then the fledgling Fatty Lu will stop thinking about dominance, and just bow down to the old traitor Wu honestly.

On the battlefield in southern Jiangxi, Fatty Lu's restless uncle, Shang Zhixin, had joined forces with Wu Shizong's army to enter Ganzhou after completely controlling the Qing army in Guangdong. The defenders of the Qing army abandoned the city and fled one after another, and retreated towards the northeast of Jiangxi. new threat.

In addition, on the battlefield in southern Zhejiang, the regrettable Geng Jingzhong army has also launched an offensive again. The Zhejiang Qing army was completely chaotic due to the attack on Zhejiang, its base camp, and lost its unified command. Breaking through the blockade of the Qing army and "joining forces" with the fat army, there has been a glimmer of hope.

So far, there have actually been two main battlefields in Huaxia. One is the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield where the old traitor Wu personally sits in the battle between the Wu army and the Qing army. Just a matter of time.One is the south of the Yangtze River battlefield centered on the Fatty Army, and the battle is going on around this rich land. There are Fatty Army, Zhejiang Qing Army, Jiangxi Qing Army, Anhui Qing Army, Geng Jingzhong Army, Shang Zhixin Army, Zheng Jingjun, Ma Baojun, The ten armies of Wu Shizong Army and Xia Guoxiang Army do not belong to each other. , the situation is beyond description.

The one who made Fatty Lu vomit blood is still behind. After Kang Mazi smashed the bones, sucked the marrow, and scraped the ground three feet to build a new army of 12, he did not send reinforcements to the endangered Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield. Instead, he went to the Jiangnan battlefield. The attack was still direct Pointing to Fatty Lu who is firmly established and fledgling!As a result, the Jiangnan battlefield, which was already extremely complicated, became even more chaotic and complicated.

In the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on November 13, the 23th year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, Kang Mazi sent an imperial edict to officially restore the title of Prince Yue Le'an, and reappointed the title of General Dingyuan Pingkou. Dong Weiguo, the governor of Jiangxi, is the deputy general of Dingyuan Pingkou, and together he serves as Yue Le's deputy to commit crimes and meritorious deeds.The slogan is also the same, restore Jiangnan, and kill Lu Yifeng alive!
Probably because he felt that the Jiangnan battlefield was not complicated enough, and that Fatty Lu hadn't had enough troubles. After Yue Le, who hated Fatty Lu, took office, the first order he gave was to Tian Fengji, the governor of Zhejiang who was in charge of the war on the southern front of Zhejiang, and all of them. Command Mahada, order Tian Fengji and Mahada to immediately abandon the three prefectures of Jinhua, Yanzhou and Quzhou in Zhejiang Province, no longer serve as a free shield for the fat army, transfer food, grass and heavy troops to Shaoxing and Ningbo prefectures, keep the forces on standby at any time, let go of Geng Jingzhong went north to the passage, and asked Geng Jingzhong to stab Lu Fatty in the back!
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