scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 324
On the third day of Fatty Lu’s direct army stationed in Suzhou, which was also the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty and on November 13th in the 24th year of Kang Mazi, there were 6000 members of the Suzhou Corps of the Fatty Army, which had not been trained in actual combat. All the troops were dispatched to take the official road of Kunshan and advance eastward to attack Songjiang Mansion, the only one in southern Jiangsu controlled by the Qing army.Fatty Lu stayed in Suzhou for the time being, commanding the army and civilians to ship the military pay and food that the Fatty Army had snatched from Hangzhou, and send them back to Nanjing's old nest along the canal, while providing backup for Li Tianzhi.

Fatty Lu said that he personally served as a backup for the Suzhou Legion, but everyone in the Fatty Army Suzhou Legion knew very well that Fatty Lu came to check the training results of the Suzhou Legion after its expansion and formation, and to observe whether the Suzhou Legion could continue to grow. Otherwise, with the current high morale of the Fatty Army's immediate legion, it would be almost no difficulty to break through Songjiang, and there would be no need to exchange defenses with the Suzhou Legion for the Suzhou Legion to attack Songjiang.

It is precisely because of this understanding that the entire Suzhou Legion suffocated and prepared to show their strength. They used the unlucky Songjiang Qing Army to try their swords, and showed Fatty Lu a good start.Li Tianzhi, one of the oldest lackeys of Fatty Lu, the commander of the Suzhou Legion, and Yang Yingyuan, the old man of Wu Jun, the deputy commander of the Suzhou Legion, also specially called all the generals to hold a pre-war mobilization meeting when they went out. You must take the lead, encourage the morale of your own army, and show your military power to satisfy Lu Fatty and make the enemy frightened!

God made a big joke with the Suzhou Corps of the Fat Man Army. When the Suzhou Corps approached Shanghai County, the north gate of Songjiang Prefecture, the Shanghai garrison, which was only a small county at that time, had already abandoned the city and fled, and the order to abandon the city was still the Qing army. Hutu, the guard general of Songjiang Mansion, did it himself, but Chen Zhizuo, the magistrate of Shanghai, did not escape—but he surrendered the city immediately, and cut off the mouse's tail before the fat man's army could make a move, and forced the people in the city to cut it With a mouse tail, the Fatty Suzhou Legion couldn't even find a single object to vent their anger on.

There was no other way, Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan had no choice but to attack Songjiang City without stopping. Not only did they arrange the siege steps in advance, but they also sent a separate army to the south to set up an ambush in Xiaozheng Village, the only way from Songjiang to Jiaxing official road. , preparing to intercept the Qing army's rescue troops from Jiaxing, and to ambush Hutu's defeated army out of the city, trying to kill the thousands of Qing troops in Songjiang City, and show off the might of the Fatty Army's Suzhou Legion!

On November 28th, soldiers from the Fatty Army's Suzhou Legion approached the city of Songjiang. Without further ado, Li Tianzhi asked Qin Yong, who was sent by Fatty Lu to assist him, to line up more than 1000 cannons outside the north gate of Songjiang. The city cloud ladder and fifty folding bridges used to deal with the moat are also lined up. In addition, thousands of lightweight flying ladders are prepared, and they swear with red eyes that they will break the city in one battle!In addition, Yang Yingyuan, Li Tianzhi's deputy, also personally selected and formed a siege death squad of 30 people, and promised a heavy reward. As long as the death squad can charge up the Songjiang city wall for the first time and survive, each person will be rewarded with silver. [-] taels!

The preparations for the siege had just been completed, and the fat army's artillery had just started to load ammunition. Li Tianzhi, Yang Yingyuan and other senior generals of the fat army were stunned. A white flag was raised above the Songjiang city tower!Immediately after the suspension bridge crashed to the ground and the city gate opened, Zhang Shengqu, the prefect of Songjiang who had already cut off his braids, led countless common people and gentry out of the city to kneel and surrender. The order to abandon the city at Lai Tower had already taken [-] Zhejiang Qing troops in the city to flee for their lives yesterday evening. They were still walking back to Jiaxing by the small road on the Jinshanwei and Pinghu lines, so they avoided the ambush of the Fatty Army. intercept.

"Little Hutu, I'll fuck your mother's 1000th generation ancestor!" Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan yelled together, thinking of paying the bounty for the undamaged [-] death squads, Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan had the urge to tear Hutusheng apart !
When the news spread back to Suzhou, Fatty Lu, who had planned to take the opportunity to observe the situation of the Suzhou Legion, was also dumbfounded. He was not only proud of his military power that had frightened many dogs in Zhejiang, but also secretly admired Laita's wise choice. The Qing troops in Songjiang and Jiaxing There are not many defenders. If you insist on defending the two cities together, you will only disperse your troops. It will be easier for the fat army to defeat each other. Rescue each other in the field battle, but you can't do it, let alone stop the three good rockets of the fat army. It is better to give up There is still some hope and some certainty in defending Jiaxing alone.

"Boss, General Li Tianzhi and General Yang Yingyuan also ask for orders to go south to attack Jiaxing City. Please show me whether they agree." Wang Shaobo asked respectfully with Li Tianzhi's military report.

Fatty Lu thought for a while, then quickly shook his head and said: "No more fighting, let Li Tianzhi leave an army to guard Songjiang, and the main force should return to Suzhou. Zhang Shengqu, the prefect of Songjiang, will stay in his original position and will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver. Other Songjiang officials only need to surrender. Yes, none of them will be moved, and all of them will remain in their original positions."

"Master, Jiaxing is bordered by the three prefectures of Huzhou, Songjiang and Suzhou controlled by our army." Wang Shaobo reminded: "If this nail is not pulled out, the main force of the dog will come from two directions, and there will be no peace in the rear of our army."

"But if this nail is pulled out, the Taiwanese army in Hangzhou may be overwhelmed." Fatty Lu sneered, "If we solve Jiaxing Mangou, Liu Guoxuan will have no threat from the north. If he wants to develop, he has to go north. When the time comes, he will reach out to us for money, food, land, and population. Should we agree or not? It is better to let Liu Guoxuan continue to be surrounded by enemies, so as to disrupt the situation on the southern front. , and it won’t let him take advantage of the opportunity and threaten our southern line.”

"The general is justified." Yao Qisheng echoed: "For our army, the more chaotic the situation on the southern front, the more beneficial it is to our army. Leave a Jiaxing mansion for Mangou, and when necessary, we can also use Jiaxing's branch Man Gou blocked the threat from Geng Jingzhong for us."

Wang Shaobo was quite smart, but lacked in strategic vision. He was very puzzled by the harmony between Fatty Lu and Yao Qisheng, but he could only accept orders obediently, and planned to order Li Tianzhi to return to Suzhou.After the order was passed to Li Tianzhi, Li Tianzhi was very disappointed, but he didn't dare to disobey the military order, so he had to go back to the army obediently, leaving his subordinate Xue Qilong to lead an army of [-] to defend Songjiang, and the main force returned to Suzhou empty-handed to change defense with Fatty Lu, so that Fatty Lu could Get away and return to Nanjing's old nest.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month, Fatty Lu departed from Suzhou and returned to Nanjing. Before leaving, Fatty Lu repeatedly explained to Li Tianzhi that without his own order, no matter what happens on the southern front, Li Tianzhi's corps must take a defensive position and must not attack rashly. Siege the city and conquer the territory, exposing the relatively empty rear hinterland of the Fat Man Army.At the same time, Li Tianzhi was asked to prepare more ships, maintain close waterway connections with Huzhou, and regard Huzhou as a buffer zone between the Fatty Army and various forces on the southern line. He would rather smash the whole of Huzhou to pieces. You can be sure of safety.Li Tianzhi agreed honestly and sent Fatty Lu's army away respectfully.

So far, the crisis on the Fatty Army's southern front has been basically resolved, and even the heavily damaged Zhejiang Qing Army lost its base camp, and can no longer pose a major threat to the Fatty Army's southern front.At the same time, Huzhou controlled by Guo Yingfu of the Fat Army and Hangzhou City controlled by Liu Guoxuan of Taiwan constituted a double insurance for the southern line of the Fat Army. Huzhou and Suzhou are also connected by the Taihu Lake waterway, and the Fat Army's supplies and supplies can be sourced through Taihu Lake and Tiaoxi River. Continuously sent to Huzhou City to maintain the normal operation of this salient, maintain long-term sustainable combat capabilities, and prevent all contingencies.

On the triumphant road, the main force of the Fatty Army was quite beautiful, and the people organized by the local government lined the road to welcome it—anyway, it was the slack season, and there were flowers, applause, and applause everywhere, and literati and scholars recited poems and wrote articles to flatter—but not Strangely, since the Qing dynasty entered the customs, literati in the south of the Yangtze River have always been the key targets of massacres and looting, and they are also one of the most active anti-Qing people. Overcoming the important town of the Qing army, these literati and Confucian scholars naturally supported and looked forward to the Fatty Army.

It was also at this time that Fatty Lu was entangled by Pepper like brown sugar all day long, and then he remembered a big event, so he quickly summoned Pepper's father, Huang Yanbo, and gave him a big Zhou Li Cao Yuanwai The official position, let him and the local officials prepare for the Jiangnan provincial examination in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is the first imperial examination in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Fatty Lu, a failed scholar, of course despises the imperial examination, but these Jiangnan literati have been taking the imperial examination for more than 1000 years, and suddenly they are not allowed After the test, these literati will turn upside down if they don't do it well, which is not good for internal stability, so they can only be coaxed temporarily, and then start reforms when the overall situation is settled.

Huang Yanbo, who is enthusiastic about fame, was very happy about the appointment and assignment of his cheap son-in-law, Fatty Lu, and happily agreed, but Fatty Lu's fiancée, Xiaojiao, was very dissatisfied, and pestered Fatty Lu to insist that his fiancé change his father's official position—of course It is to manage money, food, salt, tax and customs.It's a pity that Fatty Lu is very wary of this little pepper's fiancée, and refuses to agree to anything. He just temporarily coaxes this greedy little pepper, while thinking about when he can overthrow this little trouble, and vent his evil fire as soon as possible, without causing trouble. Hurt her immature body.

"Master, why do you always look at me like this?" When the boat arrived in Changzhou, Fatty Lu's evil eyes full of lust finally aroused the vigilance of Xiaojiao, and for the first time, he left Fatty Lu's arms voluntarily, and asked with some fear: "Why do you always look at my chest and legs, and your eyes are still so strange? You keep swallowing?"

"Have you?" Fatty Lu asked casually, but his pair of squinting mung bean eyes couldn't help falling on Xiaojiali's flat green chest. on the thigh.The scorching palm temperature scared Little Pepper almost to his feet, and couldn't help but asked again: "Master, do you have a fever? Why are your hands so hot?"

"No." Fatty Lu laughed lewdly, "It's not that my husband has a fever, he just wants to..."

"Young Master, Master Yao, Mr. Shao Bo and Doctor Zhu are here to see you." Xiao Erlang who suddenly entered the cabin interrupted Fatty Lu's obscene smile, and also prevented Fatty Lu from further beastly behavior, forcing Fatty Lu to let go of Chili Pepper and sit down. Straightening his body, he reluctantly agreed to meet him. The little pepper over there also found that something was wrong, so he hurriedly escaped from the cabin with the excuse that he didn't want to disturb Fatty Lu's work, preserving his innocence and chastity.

In fact, Yao Qisheng, Wang Shaobo and others had already stood at the door of the cabin, and when they heard Fatty Lu's order to meet them, they all entered the cabin without Xiao Erlang's conveyance, and passed by Xiaojiali.But the three new and old lackeys of Fatty Lu obviously didn't bother to study what happened to Fatty Lu and Pepper in the cabin, and why Pepper fled out of the cabin blushing and heartbeating. As soon as he saluted Fatty Lu, Shaobo Wang immediately Straight to the point, he said: "Boss, here we come. Man Gou is finally here."

"The main force of the dog is here?" Fatty Lu asked quickly.

Wang Shaobo nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Just received the news that the Mangou court has reactivated Prince An, Yue Le, and led an army of 12, claiming to be 20. On November 23, he set off from the capital to march south. us."

"12 troops?" Fatty Lu quickly asked again: "Where did the 12 troops come from? How did they form it? How many cavalry, infantry, and ships are there? What route will they take to go south? Have you checked it out?"

"Not yet." Wang Shaobo replied: "Our detailed work is based on the news from the false decree promulgated by Emperor Mangou, and there is no way to find out the specific situation of the Mangou Southern Expedition Army."

"That's it." Fatty Lu nodded, frowned, and after thinking for a while, Fatty Lu issued three orders: "First, send an order to the whole army to speed up the return to the division, and must return to Nanjing before the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month. Second, send more detailed work And scouts, closely monitor every move of the Mangou army, use gold and silver to buy Mangou officials who have secret contacts with us, and collect all available information. Third, notify Gao Dejie to prepare him to meet the enemy and strengthen Yangzhou and Tianchang The defense of the cities of Gaoyou, Xinghua and Baoying, especially the reconnaissance of the enemy in the north of Baoying, must be strengthened."

Fatty Lu's order was very concise and clear, and Yao Qisheng, Wang Shaobo and others immediately agreed, and Yao Qisheng said: "General, the news of the students' rebellion against the Qing should not have reached Mangou Capital, and the students are planning to write a letter to Huang Xiyan." Try your luck and try to find out from him the specific situation of the Mangou Southern Expedition Army."

"It's worth a try, and the military adviser will arrange it as soon as possible." Fatty Lu nodded, then turned to Zhu Fangdan and said, "Master Zhu, go see Huang Yanbo immediately and ask him to write a letter to his father, Huang Ji, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, immediately. Let Huang Ji provide us with full military information." Zhu Fangdan agreed, and hurriedly split up with Yao Qisheng and Wang Shaobo to arrange the arrangement, Fatty Lu also stopped thinking about knocking down the little pepper on the way home, and began to concentrate on preparing for the battle, and urging the main force Return to the teacher as soon as possible, and the poor little pepper has temporarily kept his innocence.

Probably because Fatty Lu had used up all his luck, on the way back to Nanjing, bad news came one after another. First, the Qing troops in the south of Jiangxi retreated one by one to Raozhou and Guangzhou in the northeast of Jiangxi. Xin and other places seriously threatened the safety of the fat man's army on the western front; then it was confirmed that Xia Guoxiang had crossed Poyang Lake on the fifth day of November and began to march to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The division went out, and the strength of the Wu army in the east was more than 7; and it was the bad guy Ma Bao who made Lu Fatty furious the most. Ma Bao had already given up attacking Luzhou, instead turned southwest and entered Lu'an Mansion, and had captured Huoshan County in Lu'an Mansion.

It is Ma Bao's rogue style to run away if he can't beat him, but he chose to flee to the southwestern part of Anhui at this critical moment, which created two dangers and troubles for the fat army.One is that Ma Bao's army will most likely flee to the west of Anqing Mansion, join forces with Xia Guo in the area of ​​Wangjiang County, or even meet Xia Guo directly under Anqing City, and attack Anqing City together. Once Anqing is captured by them, Wu Jun will rush into Jiangnan It won't be long.Second, without the restraint of Ma Bao's friendship, Jie Shu, who hates Fatty Lu so much, can free up his hands, once again threatening the Northwest defense line of Fatty's army, and even enter Chuzhou eastward, directly threatening Nanjing, Fatty Lu's old nest He and the Fatty Army's North Gate Yangzhou Mansion, and Yue Le echoed each other to attack Yangzhou, so that the Fatty Army's major legions faced the dilemma of fighting on their own.

In a hurry, the main force of the Fatty Army finally returned to Zhenjiang City on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and joined Li Guodong, the deputy commander of the Gao Dejie Army stationed here. Gao Dejie also returned to Zhenjiang from Yangzhou City not far away. Meet with Fatty Lu and discuss the plan to defend against the enemy.However, to Fatty Lu's joy and surprise, Gao Dejie also brought a letter written by his fiancée Xiaojiao and his grandfather Huang Ji. In addition, Gao Dejie told Fatty Lu that this letter was just received the day before However, it was Huang Ji's confidantes who disguised themselves as private businessmen and sent them to Yangzhou.

The letter was sealed with a firearm, and Gao Dejie knew the rules and didn't open it privately. When Fatty Lu took it and opened it for a closer look, he was pleasantly surprised to find that in the letter, Huang Ji hoped that Fatty Lu would treat his children and grandchildren well. , and also provided the military secrets that the Fatty Army needs most at present—that is, the list of the main generals of the Yue Le Army, the composition of the troops, the source of the soldiers, the supply of food and grass, and even the Qing court can only support the Yue Le Army at most for half a year. The secret, the old Qing traitor Huangji also leaked it to Fatty Lu without reservation.

"Hahahahaha...!" After reading it, Fatty Lu burst into laughter of course, "I was almost scared to death by Yue Leman's dog, after a long time, the so-called 12 army of old Yue Le is a bunch of mobs! Even food, grass, and military pay are only enough for half a year, and you still want to fight Lao Tzu's Jiangnan?"

"What? Is there such a good thing?" Gao Dejie, Li Guodong, Yao Qisheng and others asked in surprise.

Fatty Lu laughed and handed Huang Ji's letter to Gao Dejie and the others. After reading it, the fatty soldiers put their hearts back into their stomachs and laughed happily.Only Li Guodong was more stable, and asked: "General, is this yellow machine reliable? Will he deliberately give us false information to make us take it lightly?"

"It can't be fake!" Fatty Lu waved his hand triumphantly, and said with a smile: "In order to save the life of his family and the prosperity and wealth of his descendants, the old boy has secretly promised his granddaughter to me before, and now all his sons-in-law and grandchildren The son-in-law and all the family property are in our hands, even if we lend him a hundred courage, he will not dare to provide false information!"

"Ha!" Gao Dejie waved his fist excitedly, and said confidently: "Brother Lu, you don't need to send out your direct legion. One of my Yangzhou legions is enough. I will keep Yue Lemangou's 12 mobs to kill for you." No piece of armor will be left behind!"

"If the information is true, our Yangzhou Legion is indeed enough." Li Guodong nodded and said: "The army from the north is just a large number of people, and the weapons and equipment and the quality of the soldiers are not our opponents at all. A Yangzhou Legion is enough to fill this full army The dog army was defeated and returned home!"

"General Gao, General Li, it's better to be cautious." Wang Shaobo reminded: "Please don't forget, the two generals, the commander of this army of dogs is Yue Le, and the deputy commanders are Dong Weiguo and Tu Hai. Dogs are not good people, one is calm and sophisticated, the other is scheming, and the other is good at comforting the soldiers, able to win the lives of soldiers, all together, as long as they cooperate well, they can still cause us a lot of trouble."

"In the face of absolute strength, no matter how ingenious the strategy or how high the morale is, it is useless." Yao Qisheng said in a deep voice, "However, we should be cautious. The students think that our army should choose the best tactics to defeat each other. For other battlefields, choose a guarding strategy, concentrate your forces and deal with all the dog soldiers first, and then the next battle will be easier to fight."

"If we choose the tactics of defeating each, we can first choose the route of Yue Le Man Gou." Wang Xu interjected, "Huang Ji wrote very clearly in the letter that Emperor Man Dog this time asked Yue Le Man Gou to control Anhui, The soldiers and horses of the three provinces of Jiangxi and Zhejiang are working together to encircle and suppress us. Yue Le is the commander-in-chief of Mangou and his strength is actually the weakest. If we concentrate our efforts to kill Yue Le first, the other roads of Mangou will lose their unified command. gone."

"Also, Yue Leman is here to retake Jiangnan." Gao Dejie added with a sly smile: "Since we want to retake Jiangnan, we must take an offensive. To take an offensive, we must attack the city and fight in the field. We must defend the city and fight in the field. Still afraid of this mob?"

"Everyone, have you heard a story?" Fatty Lu, who had been blinking his small mung bean eyes and calculating, suddenly asked, and asked a nonsensical question.

"What story?" Fatty's army and the thieves looked at each other, thinking that you still have the heart to tell a story?
"It's a story about a sharpshooter." Fatty Lu said slowly: "On the Western battlefield, where the two armies are facing each other, both sides in the war like to send out some sharpshooters with a special weapon that can hit very far and accurately. Firearms, hiding in the dark and shooting coldly to kill the enemy, this tactic is called sniper tactics, and these sharpshooters are also called snipers in the West."

"Once two armies were fighting, the commander of one army went to inspect the position. The soldiers reported that there was a sniper on the enemy's position who liked to shoot people coldly all day long, but his marksmanship was terrible and he never hit a single shot. He often exposed his target and was discovered by us. The general asked, why didn’t you shoot him coldly? Guess what the Western soldier answered?”

"How did you answer?" The fat man's army and the thieves asked one after another.

Fatty Lu smiled and said, "The soldier replied, are we stupid? If the sniper with poor marksmanship is killed, the enemy will replace it with a sniper with good marksmanship, and we will be in trouble?!"

All the thieves in the fat army laughed, and they all said that the story was good and reasonable, and that soldier was also very smart.Only Yao Qisheng was thoughtful, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he blurted out: "Could it be that the general wants to say that we are fools if we kill Yue Le's army of dogs first? Since Yue Le's army of dogs can't deal with us at all If he poses a threat, we will ignore him, and we can keep him, so that the Emperor Mangou will not draw a more powerful army from other battlefields."

"It's only half right." Fatty Lu smiled again, and said, "Actually, that stupid sniper has another benefit to the enemy, that is, it wastes expensive special ammunition—Huang Ji has already made it very clear in his letter, full The Dog Court can only support Yue Le to fight for half a year at most. Jiangxi Mangou, Anhui Mangou, and Zhejiang Mangou control areas all have some grain-producing fields, and the grain and grass are barely enough for themselves. But Yue Le, his rear Shandong Zhizhi Li, is it a grain-producing land? Can the grain and grass be self-sufficient?"

"Of course not. Zhili Shandong, which is full of dogs, has always been maintained by water grain. Now we have cut off the water transport full of dogs. The grain produced in those two provinces is not enough for the people to eat themselves. What else can we support the army of dogs?" Gao Dejie also came to his senses, and said happily: "So, we must not kill Yue Le's army full of dogs first, we should try to delay the time with him as much as possible, let him, a stupid sniper, keep firing empty guns, and keep wasting precious dogs Food, grass, and military pay, even if the dogs are full in the future, even if they return from other battlefields, there will be no military pay, food, and grass to use!"

"Just understand." Fatty Lu nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Actually, for our army, leaving Yue Le's army full of dogs has a better use, a better use."

"What's the use?" Fatty's army and the thieves hurriedly asked again.

"The secret, don't let it out!" Fatty Lu laughed and let it go, but a long-lost figure gradually appeared in his mind, with an ugly figure full of bumps and holes.

(End of this chapter)