Although Shi Dakai's East Road Division was defeated, and the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition, which had never been smooth, was forced to adjust its strategy, Zhang Lexing, who was very righteous, still pulled Su Tianfu and Li Kaifang east into Shandong, and joined forces with Chen Yucheng, the Taiping Army's West Road Division, which greatly made up for the gap in maneuver speed between the Taiping Army and the Qing Army's Shengbao Department, and immediately joined forces with Chen Yucheng to succeed, revitalizing the military prestige of the Taiping Army to a certain extent. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But it's a pity that because of the strong support of Cixi and Ci'an, Luo Bingzhang, who could give up all the towns in southern Lunan, refused to send troops south, and the Taiping army could not seize the opportunity to fight the main force of the Qing army in Shandong. At the same time, he spied on the subordination of the Taiping Army to each other, and learned that not only could the Twist Army not listen to Shi Dakai's order, but even Li Kaifang listened to Shi Dakai's announcement, Luo Bingzhang laughed loudly and said: "God help me!" God help the old man! The Qing Dynasty has a greater grasp of Shandong Changmao! ”

Luo Bingzhang's current chief of staff is still Liu Rong, an old man of the Hunan army -- he couldn't get along with Wenge, who took over as the governor of Hunan, and he didn't speculate with Wu Chaoyue, who had no ink, so the ancient writer Liu Rong accepted Luo Bingzhang's invitation, and as early as when Luo Bingzhang was still serving as the prefect of Tai'an, he had come to Shandong to join Luo Bingzhang, and Luo Bingzhang had shared weal and woe with Luo Bingzhang for many years. Seeing Luo Bingzhang smiling happily, Liu Rong was inevitably a little surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Why is Ruzhai so ecstatic?" Changmao has increased his troops by tens of thousands, and they are all horse teams, why do you say that you have a greater grasp of breaking through Shandong Changmao? ”

"Mr. Meng Rong forgot Cao Mengde in the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shui broke Ma Chao?" Luo Bingzhang smiled and said: "Although the story of Han Sui between Cao A's books is just Luo Guanzhong's joke, there is a passage in it that makes sense, all the thieves gather in one place, although there are many people, people's hearts are different, but it is easy to break. ”

"Lunan's situation now is very similar to the situation in that book." Luo Bingzhang pointed out sharply: "Although the thieves in Lunan are numerous, the five big thieves Shi Dakai, Ji Wenyuan, Li Kaifang, Zhang Lexing and Su Tianfu are not subordinate to each other. But once the war is unfavorable, it will inevitably fall apart and fall apart! ”

"What's even better is that as far as the old man knows, the interpersonal relationship between the long-haired people is still quite complicated, and there are places to start everywhere." Luo Bingzhang said with his eyebrows fluttering: "The old man asked He Mingbiao before, and he confessed that Ji Wenyuan had never accepted Shi Dakai's moderation before, and he had been fighting hand in hand with Li Kaifang for a long time, and so on, then Li Kaifang must not have accepted Shi Dakai's moderation, and the relationship with Ji Wenyuan must be far closer than with Shi Dakai, and now the two of them have reunited after a long absence, reunited on the battlefield in Lunan, what do you say will happen?" ”

"The two thieves of Ji and Li join hands to fight against the stone rebellion!" Liu Rong quickly came to her senses, and replied without thinking about it: "Even if you don't openly oppose Shi Dakai, at least you have the capital to go it alone!" ”

"Clever!" Luo Bingzhang high-fived, and said with a smile: "There are also loopholes between Shi Dakai, Zhang Lexing, and Su Lefu, the two twisting bandits, do you remember the shameless thief Miao Peilin who killed Yuan Jiasan?" ”

"This capricious rat generation was at first pulling the group to practice against the twisting bandits, and later saw that the twisting bandits and long hair were powerful, and changed to join hands with the twist bandit Su Tianfu to fight against the official army, and then saw that the heavy troops of the imperial court officials and troops were deployed on the front line of Huaishui, so he immediately sold the twist bandit and took refuge in Weng Xincun, and when he defected, he also stabbed Su Tianfu in the back and killed Su Tianfu's subordinate Ge Canglong? Do you think Su Tianfu can hate Miao Peilin? What can you have a good impression of Shi Dakai, who is currently sheltering Miao Peilin? ”

In addition to Miao Peilin's capriciousness, Liu Rong was inevitably a little ashamed, and sneered: "I didn't care about Miao Peilin's rat generation before, and I really didn't know that this thief could be so shameless." is still well-informed in Confucianism, knowing these situations, this can come in handy. But how do we do that? ”

"Of course, it's the easiest person to start."

Luo Bingzhang smiled, and immediately personally picked up the pen and wrote a letter to Wang Jinkui, the general of the Miao army sent by Miao Peilin, the king of the late Qing Dynasty against water, to help Shi Dakai, mentioning the previous incident of Miao Peilin killing Su Tianfu's general Ge Canglong, claiming that he had received accurate news, saying that Shi Dakai was going to give Wang Jinkui as a meeting gift to Su Tianfu in order to curry favor with the Twist Army, and also took the opportunity to officially annex Wang Jinkui's troops and horses. persuaded Wang Jinkui to strike first, set up a Hongmen banquet to kill Shi Dakai and bring the head to him to receive the reward, and promised Wang Jinkui a position of a third-grade general.

"Will Wang Jinkui, that thief, be fooled?" Liu Rong asked with some concern.

Luo Bingzhang didn't answer, but just turned out a piece of Shi Dakai's official document seized from He Mingbiao from the bookshelf, imitating Shi Dakai's handwriting and tone and wrote a letter to Su Tianfu, promising to hand over Wang Jinkui to Su Tianfu in exchange for the full support of the Twist Army for Shi Dakai. In the end, Luo Bingzhang also took out a large seal of Shi Da Kaiyi King that he didn't know when to forge and stamped it - and used ordinary ink clay very carefully, instead of the best eight-treasure seal clay for the governor's yamen.

"Ru Zhai, I've convinced you." Liu Rong lamented and bowed her hands and made a move, and expressed her admiration to Luo Bingzhang from the bottom of her heart, and said: "Seeing this letter, let alone Miao Peilin's capricious rats, they are just righteous gentlemen, I am afraid that they will have to be suspicious immediately." ”

Luo Bingzhang smiled again, and then ordered: "When arranging the messenger, you must not let him know that Shi Zhi's letter was forged by his own official, but let him know that this letter was captured by General Shengbao's subordinates during the patrol." ”

Liu Rong gave Luo Bingzhang another thumbs up, and then asked, "How will Wang Jinkui react after reading the letter?" Will you really kill Shi Dakai and vote for us? ”

"That thief definitely doesn't have the guts, and his strength is not enough." Luo Bingzhang smiled and said: "If the old man is not bad, it is estimated that he doesn't even have the courage to confront Shi Dakai." His smartest choice should be ....... ”

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Tai'an Mansion has always been firmly in the hands of the Qing army, Luo Bingzhang sent the dead to take the Tai'an Mansion Avenue south, and easily rushed to Yanzhou, where Shi Dakai's army is currently stationed, and then pretended to be Wang Jinkui's relatives during the death, and successfully met Wang Jinkui, who was not very well treated by the generals of the Taiping Army, and presented Luo Bingzhang's letter of persuasion and forged Shi Dakai's letter after identifying himself.

The effect is amazingly good, under his own control, Wang Jinkui not only immediately believed that Shi Dakai was ready to betray himself to curry favor with the Twist Army, but also really had the idea of killing Shi Dakai and then surrendering to Luo Bingzhang. However, considering that he was in Shi Dakai's army, and the main force of the Shi army could strangle the rabble under his command with one hand, Wang Jinkui dispelled this idea.

Then after repeated calculations, Wang Jinkui also learned the duplicitous methods of his boss Miao Peilin, and promised to consider it while sending Luo Bingzhang's envoy gift out of the camp, leaving himself a retreat to surrender to the Qing army at a critical moment; On the other hand, he sent someone to tell Shi Dakai that he pretended that Miao Peilin sent his army back to Fengtai to fight against Weng Xincun, and was ready to take the gold, silver and jewelry he had looted in Xuzhou.

The typical rabble of Miao Peilin's army staying in the ranks of the Taiping army is purely a waste of food, and it is useless at all, so Shi Dakai did not refuse Wang Jinkui's request, and after politely retaining a few words, he agreed to Wang Jinkui's request and agreed that Wang Jinkui would lead the army back to Anhui. However, the more this is the case, the more frightened Wang Jinkui becomes, for fear that Shi Dakai will deceive himself and take it lightly, and then suddenly attack, so after hurriedly preparing for evacuation, Wang Jinkui didn't even greet Shi Da, and directly led the army to slip away overnight.

After the news was reported to Shi Dakai, Shi Dakai, for the sake of prudence, immediately dispatched the night army to take precautions, and at the same time sent someone to summon Wang Jinkui to meet him - the result was natural, Wang Jinkui of course refused, and ran away under the pretext of the urgent military situation, and forcibly rushed out of Shi Dakai's camp.

The situation quickly got out of control, for the safety of the camp, the closely guarded Taiping army on duty at night army could only shoot to block, after the gunshot, Wang Jinkui's army also immediately shot back, the two armies soon in the Taiping army camp Ping Pong into a ball, the frightened Shi Dakai had no choice but to quickly lead the army to suppress it. As a result, Wang Jinkui's army, which was a pure rabble, was quickly defeated, not to mention, Wang Jinkui himself was captured alive by the Taiping army and taken to Shi Dakai for interrogation.

"The Winged King is eight thousand years old, spare his life! The Winged King is 8,000 years old! Yiwang, please spare me, please spare me, I will help you fight Xuzhou, and I have been helping you with the Northern Expedition during this time, even if there is no merit, there is hard work, you must not kill me, you must not kill me! ”

Facing Wang Jinkui, who was desperately kowtowing and crying for his life, Shi Dakai was at a loss for money, so he could only yell: "Shut up!" Say, why did you run away overnight? This king promised to let you go, why didn't you even say hello, and just ran at night? ”

It was only after Shi Dakai personally promised not to kill Wang Jinkui that Wang Jinkui, who was crying bitterly, said what had happened and also presented the letter, but Shi Dakai almost fainted when he saw it, and yelled at Wang Jinkui: "Idiot! How could this king have done such unrighteousness? This letter is false! ”

Wang Jinkui opened his mouth, and within two days, Shi Dakai opened his mouth even more, Shi Dakai had just cleaned up the camp that had been disturbed by Wang Jinkui's army, and he had not yet decided how to deal with Wang Jinkui. Over there, Su Tianfu, the chief black flag lord of the Twist Army, happily sent someone to send a thank you gift - and by the way, he took Wang Jinkui and escorted him to the Twist Army, so that Su Tianfu could dig his heart and pay tribute to Ge Canglong.

"When did this king say that he would hand over Wang Jinkui to you?" Shi Dakai asked inexplicably.

"Wing King Eight Thousand Years Old, didn't you send someone to send a letter to our flag master, and you want to give Wang Jinkui to us as a greeting gift, so that we can send someone to pick it up?" The envoy of the Twisted Army asked inexplicably.

Shi Dakai immediately understood what was going on, and when he asked in detail, he unexpectedly found that there was indeed an unidentified Taiping soldier who falsely claimed to be his messenger and sent a handwritten letter to Su Tianfu, who had been betrayed by Miao Peilin, saying that he would give Miao Peilin's subordinate Wang Jinkui to Su Tianfu as a greeting gift, and asked Su Tianfu to send someone to receive it.

"The faith is false! It's a Qing demon forgery! ”

Shi Dakai roared again, and then he told the Qing army that he had forged his letter and almost forced Wang Jinkui to rebel. As a result, the envoy of the Twisted Army opened his mouth and had no choice but to ask: "The Wing King is eight thousand years old, what about Wang Jinkui?" Can the envoy still take it away? ”

If it was replaced by another prince of the Taiping Army, in order to win over the Twist Army, he would definitely hand over Wang Jinkui to the Twist Army Envoy without hesitation, but there was no way, this prince was Shi Dakai. Whether it is out of morality or for the stability of his Anhui rear, Shi Dakai can only choose to refuse to hand over people, even if it is the persuasion of his cronies Zeng Jinqian, it is useless, Shi Dakai insisted: "No!" No matter how guilty Wang Jinkui is, he deserves death, and he can only be executed by this king, and he must not be handed over to Su Tianfu! Otherwise, what face does this king have to live between heaven and earth? ”

The envoy of the Twist Army, who ran in vain, slipped away, and the already unfamiliar relationship between Shi Dakai's army and the Twist Army was naturally more rusty, and the Twist Army, who hated Miao Peilin's army to the bone, complained a lot about Shi Dakai, and the morale of the army was affected somewhat. After Luo Bingzhang, who received these effects without spending a single soldier, found out the news, he immediately threw out his second trick - he personally picked up the pen again and wrote a letter directly to Shi Dakai, humiliating and ridiculing Shi Dakai's incompetence in governing the army, and even the main camp was able to mutiny, and strongly persuaded Shi Dakai to take the initiative to resign from the post of commander-in-chief of the Taiping Army on the northern front, abdicate to make way for Xian, and hand over the descendants of the army to Li Kaifang or Ji Wenyuan to command, so as not to be incompetent and exhaust thousands of troops, not to mention that the people of the world think that the Qing army in Shandong is invincible.

In the end, the old fox Luo Bingzhang also prepared a beautiful gift for Shi Dakai - a set of mud-stained peasant clothes, implying that Shi Dakai was only worthy of being a rural villager.

"Ru Zhai, I can't understand your hand at all." Liu Rong next to her asked very strangely, "What is your purpose?" Provoke Shi Rebellion and induce him to go north again? It's unlikely, right? No matter how stupid Shi Wei is, it is impossible to readjust the tactical strategy of the entire northern front for the sake of momentary anger, right? ”

"Of course not." Luo Bingzhang shook his head and said: "My purpose is to prepare for a decisive battle with Shi Dakai's main force, lure Shi to urge the army to go north, and fight a decisive battle with us south of Tai'an." Otherwise, our main force will go south, but Shi Dakai will not be able to shrink in Yanzhou, and the battle situation will be unfavorable to us. ”

"You're going to fight Shi Rebellion?" Liu Rong was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Is it too hasty?" It doesn't seem to be ripe for a decisive battle, right? ”

"There is no more ripe time than now." Luo Bingzhang replied lightly: "Shi Reverse was blocked from going north, and he was forced to divide his troops to sweep Lunan, and his morale has been frustrated. After the main force of our army successfully forced Shi to retreat south, the generals and soldiers had already established confidence in victory, and secretly equipped with Rakshasa sharp weapons, and they worked together to desire a battle, and the decisive battle at this time was the most beneficial to our army. ”

"But our overall strength is still not as good as Lunan Long Hair?" Liu Rong hurriedly asked again: "If we gather our main force in Shandong, it may be just a decisive battle with Shi Dakai's main force, and there may be some certainty." But if Shi Dakai withdraws back the soldiers on both wings and then unites the power of the bandits, we will definitely be at a disadvantage? ”

"This is also the key reason why the old man deliberately humiliated Shi Dakai." Luo Bingzhang smiled and patted the letters and gifts in front of him, and said with a smile: "The old man expected that after Shi Dakai saw the old man's letters and gifts, he would inevitably be furious and swear revenge. When we find out that our main force is going south, Shi Dakai will definitely not recruit the two wings to return to help in order to avenge and save face, but will only come to the main force of the headquarters to fight to the death with us! ”

"But what if Shi Da can't be fooled?" Liu Rong hurriedly asked again.

"Shi Dakai will definitely be fooled." Luo Bingzhang said confidently: "The old man once carefully studied the information about this traitor, and found that the biggest character flaw of this traitor is that he is too proud and refuses to bow his head to others, so he can pick up the burden of supporting the whole family when he is less than fourteen years old, and he is famous before he is sixteen years old. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Bingzhang paused, said a digression, and said: "If Shi Dakai's traitor is like Wu Chaoyue's traitor, he is cunning at a young age, and the city government is deep, then the old man's plan will never succeed. But there is no way, Shi Dakai is both civil and military, famous all over the world, and he is always inferior to Wu Chaoyue's treacherous and vicious thief, and he has many tricks, so the old man can conclude that Shi Dakai is bound to fall for the traitor! We will never ask for help from the soldiers on both wings, but will only lead the main force and fight a decisive battle with our troops who have taken the initiative to go south! ”

"But what if?" Liu Rong said with some unease: "In case Shi Cheng is not fooled and recruits reinforcements from the two wings, or Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan, these rebels receive the news and take the initiative to send troops to help Shi Rui, what can we do?" ”

"Of course, this possibility cannot be completely ruled out." Luo Bingzhang nodded, and then said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter, the old man has to personally supervise and command this battle, if you really encounter such a situation, you can adapt to the situation, adapt to local conditions, or retreat north to protect yourself, or use tactics to protect yourself, or use tactics to protect the enemy, and will not give Shi Da any chance to break us by the traitors." ”

Everywhere there are sour and rotten talents who read sage books and read stupid books, and Wu Chaoyue, the old fox Luo Bingzhang is also the best at using such a stupid fork as cannon fodder, knowing that he will die and live, a nerd under Luo Bingzhang still went south to Shi Dakai's army with letters and gifts, and presented letters and gifts to Shi Dakai on behalf of Luo Bingzhang.

As the saying goes, character determines fate, after seeing the letters and gifts, even though Shi Dakai knew that this was Luo Bingzhang's deliberate provocation, he was so angry that he pulled out a knife and cut the handsome case in front of him in half, and roared and vowed to chop Luo Bingzhang with a thousand knives and chop it into mashed meat! After discovering that the Shandong Qing army was mobilized by Luo Bingzhang to assemble on the Tai'an battlefield, Shi Dakai categorically rejected the proposal of Zeng Jinqian and Zhang Suimou and other confidants, and transferred the two wings of the Taiping Army back to the Yanzhou battlefield, and also ordered the whole army to prepare to go north, and bring the main force of his headquarters to fight a decisive battle with the Shandong Qing army between Yantai!