scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 376
Just like Fatty Lu said, at the same time, Huai'an City was indeed in chaos.I saw Qing army forward Dong Weiguo's team rushing under the city of Huai'an, not even daring to enter the city. They rushed directly from the official road to the east of Huai'an and the canal to the west. The fish that slipped through the net, the soldiers and civilians in Huai'an who were already opening the city gate to welcome Dong Weiguo into the city, were all terrified, knowing that the danger must be approaching.

Immediately afterwards, torches all over the mountains and plains appeared on the official road to the south, and a larger number of Qing army fleeing for their lives appeared. The Qing army's central brigade led by Yue Le also arrived. The mixed Qing Army's Central Army Brigade has long been out of formation, and the ones rushing to the front are the traitorous troops who fight the most fiercely and also escape the fastest. Chaotic and chaotic like a group of flies, many of the treacherous cavalry's horseshoes were still stained with blood from friendly soldiers. It was obvious that many Qing infantry cavalry soldiers were trampled to death on the way to escape.

Immediately after the Qing army infantry who were also out of formation, many infantrymen were still carrying stretchers, carrying wounded Qing army generals and companions on their backs. He swaggered away on the road, fleeing frantically all the way north.Then there are mite cavalry who are barely maintaining their formation, led by Yue Le himself, but they still don't enter Huai'an City, they just go around the city, and at the same time, the white flag of the Fat Man Army has also appeared in the sight of Huai'an defenders .

Seeing such a scene, Yang Yingyao, the magistrate of Huai'an, and Wu Zhan, the garrison of Huai'an, who hurried to the south gate to meet the friendly army, were inevitably frightened. After hastily closing the South Gate of Huai'an and pulling up the suspension bridge, Yang Yingyao and Wu Zhan hurried to the governor's office of water transport, Ask Cai Shiying, the highest official in Huai'an City, for advice on countermeasures, but Yang Yingyao and Wu Zhan are inevitably stunned again when they go to the Yamen of the Governor of Water Transport. He had already opened the north gate of Huai'an and fled northward with his wife, concubine, and gold and silver treasures!

"Old stuff! Old country thief! Don't die!" Yang Yingyao turned to Wu Zhan and shouted, "Wu Shoubei, from now on, you sit at the south gate of Huai'an. Stand firm! I will command from the center and organize the people in the city to serve as your backup!"

"Your Majesty, the situation has come to this point, can Huai'an be defended?" Wu Zhan said with an earthy face: "All the troops of Prince An have fled, and there are only 1000 or 500 green battalion soldiers and [-] township warriors in Huai'an city. What are you going to do to defend Huai'an?"

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it!" Yang Yingyao stomped her feet and shouted righteously: "You and I share the imperial salary, and we are honored by the emperor. No matter how dangerous Huai'an is now, you and I have to defend the city and wait for reinforcements. The city is alive and the people are alive, the city is dead and the people are dead! Even if you fight to the last soldier, you must not surrender against the bandits. It is better to have the jade broken than the tile!"

Yang Yingyao, who always liked to deduct the military salaries of the village warriors and resell the military rations, suddenly became so righteous and impassioned. Wu Zhan felt a little ashamed of his illegal activities of secretly colluding with fat army smugglers and smugglers for more than a year. He immediately knelt down to Yang Yingyao, Cupping his hands and cupping his fists, he said, "Since the magistrate said so, then Wu Zhan would just lose his life in Huai'an at worst. Please rest assured, magistrate, as long as Wu Zhan is alive, Wu Gou will never even think about stepping into Huai'an!"

Prefect Yang was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked Wu Zhan again and again. Wu Zhan didn't say much, and immediately returned to Huai'an city wall, restrained the soldiers to organize the team, and prepared to meet the siege from the fat army. According to Wu Zhan's estimation, the fat army was so fast. Marching at full speed, the team must not have time to carry siege weapons. No matter how small the defenders in Huai'an City are, they can at least block the fat man's footsteps for a day or two!

While directing the soldiers to sort out and collect the weapons for defending the city, a servant from the Huai'an magistrate's yamen suddenly rushed up to the Huai'an South Gate city wall, came to Wu Zhan and saluted and said, "Report to General Wu, the magistrate asked the villain to report to you, and he suddenly I remembered that there were more than 1 taels of imperial military pay in the Huai’an treasury, and my Qing army stationed in the Xiba Camp to resist Wu Dog’s victory over the river would inevitably require a large amount of military pay, so the magistrate has already brought the pay The account is the same as 200 taels of silver, disguised as ordinary people and left the city from the north gate of Huai'an, and went to the Xiba camp to pay the salary, and then the defense of Huai'an city is all entrusted to you, General Wu."

Wu Zhan almost didn't spit out a mouthful of old blood. After a while, he jumped to his feet and cursed, "Old man Yang Yingyao, I'll fuck your mother's eighteen generations of ancestors!"

"General Wu, what should we do?" Ji Huai, Wu Zhan's deputy next to him, asked tremblingly, "Wu Gou is less than five miles away from Huai'an, and our small number of people is not enough for Wu Gou's army."

"Damn it!" Wu Zhan just thought for a while, and immediately yelled, "Cai Shiying and Yang Yingyao have both run away, and I still play ball, put down the suspension bridge, open the city gate, and surrender to the Zhou army! Anyway Man Gou is almost finished, now surrendering to Da Zhou, just in time to get promoted and get rich!"

"General Wu is right. Surrender to the Great Zhou army!" The Huai'an Green Battalion soldiers shouted in their hearts.

"Maybe there is only this way now." Ji Huai didn't intend to go to be buried with the Qing army, but asked with some concern: "But General Wu, will the Great Zhou army accept our surrender?"

"Why not?" Wu Zhan said triumphantly, "At this point in the matter, I will not hide it from my brothers. In fact, all the private goods that have passed under our hands in the past year or so are actually all that the Yangzhou Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty entrusted us with. Let’s go, and Da Zhou and I will burn the yellow paper and worship the brothers, and you will follow me to keep all of you delicious and spicy!”

"General Wu is still the best, we don't have to worry this time!" The Qing soldiers next to him cheered again, and Wu Zhan waved his hand, and the Qing soldiers immediately put down the suspension bridge happily, opened the city gate again, and went outside the city gate together Line up to welcome the Fatty Army into the city. In order to show our sincerity in surrender, our General Wu Zhanwu also took the lead in cutting off the money rat tails on his head. Both are.

So, soon, such a scene appeared in the city of Huai'an. When the three thousand fat army infantry led by the fat army general Wu Yonghua rushed to the south gate of Huai'an, there was still time to see the situation of the city wall. Leading a large group of Qing army generals and soldiers to meet them, they shouted affectionately from a distance: "Brother Ang, I am your brother with the same surname, Wu Zhan, you are finally here, Brother Ang, please enter the city quickly, Huai'an City Brother Li was all persuaded by me, and they were all willing to abandon the dark side and join the Great Zhou army! Brother Ang, you must report this matter to General Lu Yifeng Lu!"

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At the same time, at the Qinghe Ferry, the defeated Qing army who had fled here had stopped their escape under the personal obstruction of Kang Mazi, and sent [-] Qing troops led by Cai Yurong to defend Huai'an City, and the remaining [-] The fresh troops of the Qing army lined up five miles south of the Qinghe Ferry and waited. The defeated Qing army who had fled here in chaos went to the back of the formation to reorganize and reorganize their teams, and gradually assembled into formations. All ships, large and small, were burned and scuttled by the Qing army, and all the rebel iron pots were destroyed, leaving only dry food. They tried their best to fight the Fatty Army at Qinghe Ferry.

When the traitorous cavalry fled to the Qinghe Ferry, because the traitorous cavalry did not listen to the call and broke up a phalanx of the Qing infantry, Kang Mazi beheaded the perpetrator Horqintai Jibandi without saying a word, and chopped down dozens of others. The soldiers of the traitorous generals who escaped quickly put dozens of bloody heads in carts for public display. The traitorous cavalry finally stabilized and assembled after the formation under the organization and command of the generals of the Qing army.Seeing more and more troops gathering around him, the shouts of the fat man's army, the sound of footsteps and the sound of horseshoes getting closer, Kang Mazi's heart beat faster and faster, and he muttered the same sentence over and over again, "Lu Yifeng dog thief, come on, come on!"

Of course, Fatty Lu couldn't rush to die in front of Kang Mazi immediately, but Yue Le's main force's defeated soldiers kept coming, and when it was half past four o'clock, when the sky was about to dawn, the cavalry brigade of the Qing army led by Yue Le finally arrived Qinghedu battlefield.Seeing the treasure fan and dragon banner representing Kang Mazi's identity appearing in the place where the torches were densely packed, Yue Le, who was almost exhausted, almost fainted from fright, and cried out on the spot, "My God! Why did the master cross the river himself? He crazy?!"

"Prince An!" Lang Tan led a group of imperial guards and appeared in front of Yue Le with torches, and shouted viciously: "Prince An, please dismount immediately, the master wants to summon you!"

"Cover." Yue Le agreed, quickly got off the horse, and was about to ask Kang Mazi why he crossed the river, when Lang Tan waved his hand and shouted, "Take it!"

"What?" Yue Le thought that his ears had misheard, but the guards brought by Lang Qin didn't say anything, rushed forward and held Yue Le down, and then he tied up Yue Le's body with ropes, Then Lang Tan said coldly to Yue Le, who was shouting for grievances: "Prince An, don't ask the slave why, this is the master's will, so the slave can only offend, the specific reason, please ask the emperor himself."

"Why did master take me? Because I lost so many battles?" Yue Le was confused, but he didn't dare to resist, so he followed Lang Tan and other guards to see Kang Mazi honestly.

At the same time, Gao Dejie's team, who had been clinging to the tail of Yue Le's team all the way, had rushed to ten miles from Qinghe Ferry. Dejie ate more salt on the battlefield than Kang Mazi ate. When he saw the torches of the Qing army lined up four or five miles away, Gao Dejie immediately understood that the fresh troops of the Qing army from the Xiba camp crossed the river to meet them. up!So Gao Dejie didn't say anything, and immediately ordered the exhausted fat cavalry to stop, turned around and went south to pinch the rear of the Qing army led by Jie Shu!

The fat man army who was about to rush to the front actually slipped away temporarily. Hearing the scout's report, Kang Mazi was so angry that he immediately ordered Bi Liketu, the general of rebellion, to lead three thousand cavalry to chase after him. After setting off, Yue Le was escorted by Lang Tan to Kang Mazi.Seeing Kang Mazi looking at him with a pockmarked face on the royal horse, Yue Le didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed and said: "Slave Yue Le, kowtow to the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live."

"Yue Le, I want to ask you, how much of the 12 Southern Expedition Army that I entrusted to you last year is left?" Kang Mazi took a lot of effort to keep himself from roaring, and asked coldly while clenching his scorched teeth: "The land in the south of the Yangtze River that you restored for me, can you take back one foot and one inch now?"

"The slave is incompetent and deserves death!" Yue Le kowtowed heavily, not even having the courage to defend himself.

"I don't want you to die, I just want you to die and apologize!" Kang Mazi gritted his scorched teeth, and shouted: "Prince An Yue Le, you have failed to live up to the grace of God, your teacher wasted your salary, you lost your opportunity, lost your teacher and humiliated the country, and you have failed me deeply." Immediately cut off all titles and official positions, and beheaded for public display!"

"Master! Master, please spare me!" Yue Le never dreamed that Kang Mazi would chop off his own head as soon as he met him, so he kowtowed in shock and begged for mercy. Next to him, Zhou Peigong, Bo Guoduo and other civil and military officials also knelt down and kowtowed to him. Kang Mazi pleaded: "Master, Prince An really deserves to die, but please forgive him for his past merits, and give him a chance to make meritorious deeds."

"Master, the enemy is in front of us. Killing the general will not be good for the army. Please give Lord An another chance, master."

"Jie Jie, Jie Jie Jie Jie Jie Jie..." Kang Mazi's laughter was harsher than that of a night owl, and he said in an extremely cold voice: "Opportunities? Are there still too few opportunities for me to give him? If I give him another chance this time... , I'm afraid that my head will really be given to that failed scholar by him!"

"Master, why did you say that?" Yue Le's face turned ashen, and he thought to himself: "Could it be that Lu Yifeng's bastard is using another trick? Master has fallen into it again? Also, why should I say again?"

"You do a good thing yourself, you know it in your heart!" Kang Mazi roared, waved his numb hands and shouted: "Push it down, behead! The head will be passed on to the three armies! Tell all the soldiers in the army to fight Wu Gou in a while. Those who retreat before the battle! Immediately cut!"

"Master, please be merciful!" The civil and military officials of the Qing army screamed again.

"Shut up!" Kang Mazi yelled angrily, "Anyone who pleads for Yue Le will be regarded as an accomplice and beheaded together! Push Yue Le down immediately and behead him before the battle!"

Zhou Peigong, Bo Guoduo and the others didn't dare to intercede anymore, they could only watch with tears in their eyes as the guards pushed Yue Le, who was shouting for grievances, to the front of the whole army, and beheaded them in front of all the soldiers of the Qing army. At that moment, Yue Le finally yelled helplessly, "Lu Yifeng bastard, you won, this king was finally killed by you—!"

Before saying a word, the ghost head knife had already chopped Yue Le's neck, blood splashed, and Yue Le's head fell to the ground. It was extremely honorable to become another important minister of Mi Qing who was tricked to death by Fatty Lu, a true loyal minister of Mi Qing!

After conveying Yue Le's headed Pegasus to the end of the three armies, the sky was already twilight, and the noise, shouts and explosions from the south were still heard for ten miles, but the main force of the Fatty Army refused to show their faces at all, but after the formation The soldiers of the Qing army who had been waiting for more than an hour stood weakly, and at the same time, the two teams of Cai Yurong and Bi Liketu who had set off to the south before did not hear back.Kang Mazi was so anxious that he had no choice but to send scouts to investigate, and also sent messengers to contact the two teams of Bi Liketu and Cai Yurong.

"Master, there may be an accident in Huai'an City." Zhou Peigong had a bad premonition, and quickly suggested to Kang Mazi: "My slave proposes that the master should lead our army to the south immediately, and we must rush to Wugou. The army arrived at the battlefield before gathering and reorganizing, and defeated Wugou's army."

"Then you didn't say it earlier?" Kang Mazi glared angrily. Zhou Peigong hurriedly confessed, but he muttered in his heart: "Do I dare to say it sooner? Marching thirty miles at night and the battlefield is like that. If you are in the dark If I was shot by Wu Gou in the wild, wouldn’t my glory and wealth be all gone? The key is to kill Lu Yifeng’s dog thief, he is too treacherous, and he must have found our new army crossing the river to fight, so I dare not come over!”

After scolding Zhou Peigong, Kang Mazi immediately gave an order, and the remaining [-] fresh troops of the Qing army immediately stepped forward and went south at full speed to take the initiative to meet the fat army.And when Kang Mazi's army walked twenty miles away and could see the Huai'an city wall from a distance, the sky was already bright, and there was already a roar of killing in Huai'an city. At the same time, the messengers sent earlier returned to Kang Mazi. The report said that when Cai Yurong's army arrived in Huai'an City, the traitor Wu Zhan had already offered Huai'an City to the Fatty Army. The main force of the Fatty Army found that the Qing army's fresh troops crossed the river, and chose to enter the city instead of going north. The team was fighting under the city of Huai'an with the rear army of the Fatty Army who hadn't had time to enter the city to rest.

"Goddamn Lu Yifeng dog thief!" I had already fought the decisive battle across the river, but Fatty Lu chose to flee to Huai'an City to avoid the battle. In a rage, Kang Mazi immediately ordered: "The whole army charges, we must grab it!" Arrive at the battlefield before all the Wu dogs enter the city! Kill——!"

Roaring, Kang Mazi charged forward with his saber in hand. Seeing how brave Mazi Tartar was, the Qing army naturally did not dare to neglect, and rushed to Huai'an City at full speed.But when Kang Mazi's fresh army finally rushed to the Huai'an city, the north gate of Huai'an had already been closed, and when they turned to the east gate of Huai'an where there was a scuffle, the last fat army had fled back to Huai'an city. At the same time, muskets, bows and arrows shot indiscriminately on the city wall, blocking the pursuit of the Qing army.

What made Kang Mazi vomit blood even more was that the fat army that finally retreated into Huai'an City was still wearing the uniform of the Qing army, but the bald head that had just cut off the rat's tail was exposed without the bamboo hat--obviously, this army The fat man army at the back must be the team of Wannian Soy Sauce Man Xin Qing rape Wu Zhan!

"Master, look quickly! Lu Yifeng is a thief!" Zhou Peigong exclaimed, holding a telescope in one hand and pointing at the West Gate Tower in Huai'an with the other.Kang Mazi also hurriedly raised his binoculars and took a closer look. Sure enough, the hideous Fatty Lu was wearing white clothes and white armor and a stick sword, standing on the west gate tower, surrounded by a lot of fat generals, extremely majestic and majestic. The villain has reached the extreme.

"Lu Yifeng! Dog thief——!"

Seeing Fatty Lu's ugly face again after eight years, Kang Mazi went completely crazy, and rushed towards the west gate of Huai'an with his horse, and yelled frantically from a distance: "Lu Yifeng! Dog thief! Dog thief! Here I come! Come out! Fight to the death with me! Fight to the death with me!"

"Master! Master! Bows and arrows! Be careful of Wu Gou's bow, arrow and musket!" Kang Mazi's guards were all frightened, and hurriedly patted their horses and rushed up to pull Kang Mazi's reins, resisting Kang Mazi's whip whip, desperately He reined in Kang Mazi's war horse, so to speak, he finally reined in Kang Mazi's war horse half a mile away from the west gate of Huai'an.But at the same time, Fatty Lu naturally also saw Kang Mazi wearing bright golden armor...

"Kang Mazi! Have you crossed the river?! Have you really crossed the river?!" Fatty Lu yelled in great surprise: "Just now, my secret agent who was ambushing in Qinghe County came back and reported that you might have crossed the river and scuttled it. And burned all the ferries, I thought it was fake! It turned out to be real! You actually crossed the river! Great! Really great!"

"Lu Yifeng, dog thief!" Kang Mazi roared with bloodshot eyes, "Come down, come down for me! I want to fight you to the death! Whether it's an army showdown or a one-on-one showdown! I'm not afraid of you!"

"Don't!" Fatty Lu shook his fat hand quickly, and shouted: "It's fine for one-on-one duels, I can't even draw a bow with a stone, and I definitely can't beat you, the rabbit terminator! If you are really interested in duels, How about I ask my nephew An Jiarong to fight for me?"

"Uncle, my nephew is willing to fight for you!" An Jiarong, who was wrapped in a bloody white cloth on his head, jumped out, brandished the village sword and roared wildly: "Emperor Mangou, if you want to fight my uncle, I will fight for you!" My uncle is going to fight! If you don't dare, you are a bastard tortoise!"

"Hahahahaha...!" There was a burst of laughter on the Huai'an city wall, and Kang Mazi was shaking with anger, wishing he could rush to the city wall immediately and chop Fatty Lu into mincemeat!

Fatty Lu waved his hand to stop the fat soldiers from laughing, and shouted at Kang Mazi again: "Kang Mazi, if you want a decisive battle, you can, but you have to wait. My brothers have marched for more than 90 miles and are a little tired! Although We are still not afraid of you, but if we want to wipe out your new force, we will definitely increase casualties, so you wait patiently! Three hours later, we will leave the city and fight you decisively!"

"Brothers, shout with me!" Fatty Lu shouted, "Kang Mazi, see you in three hours, don't run if you have balls! You can't run anyway!"

"Kang Mazi! See you in three hours! Don't run if you have balls! You can't run anyway!" Tens of thousands of fat soldiers shouted in unison, repeating rhythmically over and over again, and finally turned into Huai'an City More than 5 fat soldiers shouted in unison, and the shouts went straight into the sky, and the sound spread for ten miles.

Amidst the thundering slogans, Kang Mazi's pockmarked face turned pale, his pockmarked eyes spit fire, the veins on his forehead twitched violently, and he almost vomited blood again, but the surrounding generals, guards, officials and ordinary soldiers were all silent In other words, the morale and fighting spirit that Kang Mazi had worked so hard to boost up before was also wiped out in this instant.

"Our Great Qing may only have the last three hours." Zhou Peigong sighed quietly in his heart.

At the same time, on the tower of Huai'an City, Fatty Lu beckoned the generals of the Fatty Army to the front, and ordered in a low voice: "Let the soldiers take the time to rest, eat and drink enough, and leave the city for a decisive battle in two and a half hours. Then send the fast boat Go south, go [-] miles south to contact Han Daren's team who is resting there, let him also march in two and a half hours, and rush to the city of Huai'an for reinforcements."

"Two and a half hours?" The fatty generals looked at each other and asked together: "General, didn't you just say three hours?"

"You pigheads?" Fatty Lu scolded, "Being loyal to Emperor Mangou, am I crazy or stupid?!"

(End of this chapter)