After probably introducing the origin of Luo Bingzhang's recital, He Qinghan presented the renunciation with both hands and asked the soldiers to transfer it to Yang Fuqing, Yang Fuqing took it and opened it in confusion, and carefully read it for a long time to understand the main content of this recital, which was Luo Bingzhang's report to the Manchu court that he was ready to go all out to recruit himself and Yang Yuanqing, Ji Wenyuan and other remnants of the Taiping army, and soon found that there was something wrong, and couldn't help but read directly:

“…… Our Lady is at ease, and the minister also knows that Ji Wenyuan, Yang Fuqing, Yang Yuanqing and other thieves are capricious, and they must not be entrusted with the important task. If it can succeed, the minister will only use the high-ranking officials as bait, and falsely say that he will help the courage of the three thieves, so that he can fight to the death with the Wu thief, and I will reap the benefits of the Qing Dynasty, whether it is the three thieves to weaken the power of the Wu thief, or the Wu thief to capture and kill the three thieves, all of them have a hundred benefits in the court and no harm. When the time comes, the minister will kill the three thieves, get rid of the troubles forever, and also avenge the shame of the Qing soldiers who died tragically under the knife ......of the three thieves. ”

"Fake! Fake! This piece of music was forged by Wu thief! General Yang, you must not believe it, how could we Luo Futai say such a thing? He couldn't have said such a thing! Fake! This was forged by Wu thieves and used to deceive them! ”

Before Yang Fuqing finished reading the most critical paragraph, Liu Fan had already yelled with a pale face, and shouted at He Qinghan, the envoy of the Wu army, with his teeth and claws: "He Qinghan, you are also a famous family, just give Wu Chaoyue a traitor and a tiger, and use a fake Luo Futai to cheat!" Do you know what the crime of forging a provincial honor is? It's going to kill the head plant and fill the door! ”

Laughing and admiring Liu Fan's angry appearance, He Qinghan smiled and asked: "Liu Gongzi, you said it yourself just now, this recital is a recital written by the Duke of Ruzhai to the rebellious party, why has it suddenly become fake now?" Also, is the text on this fold the handwriting of the Confucian Zhaigong? Is the seal on the fold the seal of the governor of Shandong, your rebel party? ”

"It's all your fakes!" Liu Fanyi was angry and shouted: "You rebellious thieves dare to do anything to rebel, what else can you not do?" ”

He Qinghan was very graceful and didn't entangle with Liu Fan, but continued to ask: "Liu Gongzi, then please ask again, since you insist that this piece is forged and faked, then do you have evidence to prove that it is forged?" ”

"It's ......." Liu Fan was completely dumbfounded, and then remembered that he had absolutely no way to prove that this piece was forged by Wu Jun - he couldn't invite Luo Bingzhang, who was already seventy years old, to come here to confront him face to face, right?

"Wait, don't make any noise." At this time, the party Yang Fuqing finally spoke, first drank the argument between He Qinghan and Liu Fan, and then asked He Qinghan in a little confusion: "What does it mean that the bird kills the three thieves?" How do you kill birds? ”

"Bird killing?" He Qinghan also found out that Yang Fuqing had recited a strange term, but fortunately, He Qinghan quickly reacted and said with a smile: "General Yang, you pronounced it wrong, that word is not pronounced birds, but is killed by birds." ”

"What does that mean?" Yang Fuqing hurriedly asked.

"General Yang, you should ask Liu Gongzi this question, it is inconvenient to explain it below."

He Qinghan sold Guan Zi and deliberately refused to explain the meaning of the word. As a result, Yang Fuqing also immediately turned to Liu Fan and shouted, "What does it mean to kill?" Can you explain it to me? ”

"It's ......." Liu Fan was a little embarrassed and said, "General Yang, you should ask this surnamed He, this piece of music was forged by them, you should ask him." ”

"Liu Gongzi, it seems that we have to turn the problem back to the original words again." He Qinghan smiled and said: "You have red lips and white teeth, and we forged this piece of music, where is the evidence?" ”

"I have no proof!" Liu Fan roared angrily, "Anyway, this recital was forged by you, what kind of person is Ru Zhaigong, how could he write such a recital and say such a thing?" ”

"Then it's embarrassing, Liu Gongzi said that the chapter was forged, and on the other hand, he couldn't show evidence to prove it, how did you ask General Yang to believe you?" He Qinghan asked again.

Liu Fan was completely speechless, and He Qinghan turned to Yang Fuqing at this time, and said with a smile: "General Yang, killing means poisoning." Just like Song Jiang in the heroes of Liangshan in the Water Margin, he surrendered to the imperial court, and was forced by the imperial court to fight Fang La's loss of soldiers, and when the heroes of Liangshan died almost completely, the Northern Song Dynasty court poisoned Song Jiang with a cup of poisonous wine. ”

Yang Fuqing finally came to his senses, and immediately turned his angry gaze to Liu Fan, and He Qinghan took the opportunity to say: "General Yang, for the self-proclaimed orthodox rebel party, you are a rebel thief, you can only kill but not stay." But for our rebel army, you are a comrade-in-arms who can win over the rebels and rebels, and you can be reused and trusted. So General Yang, I think you should have made a wise choice. ”

"Fart!" The pretentious and elegant Liu Fan finally scolded a dirty word, and shouted with a red face: "Trick others into surrendering and then settle accounts after the autumn, this kind of thing can only be done by you Wu thieves!" ”

He Qinghan didn't bother to deal with Liu Fan, who was already mad, but said to Yang Fuqing again: "General Yang, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you, your clan brother General Yang Youqing also came this time, just outside the city, how did our rebel army and the king of Zhennan treat the surrendered generals of the heavenly kingdom, he is the person who knows best, this is his handwritten letter, please take a look." ”

After that, He Qinghan took out Yang Youqing's handwritten letter to Yang Fuqing, as well as Cao Yanzhong's letter persuading Yang Fuqing to surrender, and handed it to Yang Fuqing. If you wait for your army to run out and lose its use value, the chaotic party will be like Luo Bingzhang said, a cup of poisoned wine will result in your life, why should you do such a stupid thing! ”

"He Qinghan, you fart!" Liu Fan scolded again, and said to Yang Fuqing again and again: "General Yang, you must not believe the nonsense of this Wu thief envoy, I dare to guarantee that our Qing Imperial Court will never do such a thing!" ”

"Liu Fan, what guarantee do you get?!" He Qinghan also raised his voice and shouted: "You are an alternate governor, what qualifications do you have to guarantee that the rebellious party court will not do this?" Are you the queen mother of the two palaces of the chaotic party? Or is it the puppet Prince Gong who steals power and messes with the government? What power identity guarantee do you have?! ”

"You ......."

"Don't make any noise!"

Yang Fuqing opened his mouth and yelled, interrupting the argument between He Qinghan and Liu Fan again, and after hesitating for a long time, Yang Fuqing suddenly gritted his teeth, pointed at Liu Fan with his hand, and yelled: "Come on, take down this Qing Demon Messenger!" ”

The soldiers present stepped forward according to the order and immediately pressed Liu Fan to kneel on the ground, Liu Fan struggled and yelled, but Yang Fuqing didn't pay attention to it at all, but just said to He Qinghan: "Trouble Mr. He to go back and tell General Hu, just say that I am willing to surrender, I will prepare today, and I will open the city gate and surrender to him tomorrow." ”

He Qinghan was overjoyed, and hurriedly agreed, but Liu Fan over there was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted: "General Yang, don't be fooled!" Don't be fooled! That piece of music is really forged by Wu's rebel thief army! ”

"Lao Tzu surrenders, you are fooled!" Yang Fuqing roared angrily and roared: "Lao Tzu has killed so many of you Qing Demons, can you kill me after surrendering?" Lao Tzu has never fought with the king of Zhennan, he has no grievances with him, and he has no reason to kill me after surrendering! ”

"General Yang is really smart, that's the truth." He Qinghan smiled and said: "Let's not say that our rebel army has no grudge against you General Yang, and it is impossible to harm you, just in order to recruit more Heavenly Kingdom soldiers in the future, our rebel army will also treat you General Yang well." ”

Yang Fuqing nodded, and said in his heart: "It's better to surrender beyond the little demon insurance point, the Qing demon has no credit at all, and before he deceived me, he had already calculated to poison me to death." No matter if this piece is true or not, I still have to prevent the Qing Demon from settling my old accounts with me. ”

After finally making up his mind, in order to prove his sincerity in asking for surrender, Yang Fuqing also handed over Liu Fan to He Qinghan, and asked He Qinghan to take him out of the city to dedicate to Hu Huaizhao. At the same time, it is natural that Hu Huaizhao, who was nurtured by Wu Chaoyue, was full of morality and bad water, and did not dare to believe Yang Fuqing's request to surrender, and was still ready to prevent Yang Fuqing's subordinates from surrendering.

Facts have proved that Hu Huaizhao is worried in vain, although there are indeed some diehards in Yang Fuqing's army who refuse to surrender, but Yang Fuqing, who has always been selfish, unceremoniously killed these people, and after the appointed time, Yang Fuqing also obediently took the Taiping army that disarmed himself to the Wu army kneeling and surrendered. - Of course, Yangzhou City, which was once as beautiful as clouds and rich treasures, has now become a desolate city with ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

After successfully recruiting Yang Fuqing's subordinates, the overjoyed Hu Huaizhao not only sent a letter to Cao Yanzhong to report the good news, but also prepared to behead the stubborn Liu Fan in public to set an example. However, for the sake of being in the same line of the Hunan literary circle, He Qinghan, a famous son who joined the Wu army when he saw the wind, stood up to stop him and persuaded him: "General Hu, this Liu Fan is just a small person in the rebellious party army, killing him will not play any role, and it will also make you fall into the unrighteous name of indiscriminately killing prisoners of war, which is not conducive to our next recruitment of Yang Yuanqing." In the student's opinion, it is better to leave a life for this Liu Fan and let him do another great use. ”

"How can I do it differently?" Hu Huaizhao hurriedly asked.

"Put him in a prisoner car, escort him to the north, and let the students take him to surrender Yang Yuanqing, who also has no grudge against us, so that Yang Yuanqing can see with his own eyes how well we treat prisoners and will not kill prisoners of war indiscriminately." He Qinghan suggested, and said: "If we succeed, we can also return this Liu Fan to the rebel army, so that the rebel army can also see what kind of belly and mind we have, so that we can capture Shandong in the future and extinguish the chaotic party in Shandong." ”

After thinking about it, he felt that He Qinghan's words were quite reasonable, Hu Huaizhao immediately adopted, and at the moment, the Wu army selected the best soldiers under Yang Xiuqing's command, and dismissed most of the soldiers on the spot, while continuing to wave his army north to Xuzhou, and all the way smoothly to collect and surrender other cities controlled by Yang Fuqing, during which he only encountered slight resistance in Huaiyin, but the Wu army quickly broke through the counteroffensive spontaneously organized by some Taiping army elders, Huaiyin City also quickly opened its doors and surrendered, and a large area of land south of the Huai River was recovered.

After seeing the Luo Bingzhang twists and turns that He Qinghan brought into Xuzhou City, he saw with his own eyes that Wu Jun did not even kill Luo Bingzhang's envoy Liu Fan at will, Yang Yuanqing, who was already very psychologically inclined to Wu Jun, also made a decision on the spot, opened the city gate on the same day, and surrendered to the Wu army with the disarmed army, and Xuzhou, which is also a famous city in the world, immediately changed its master. And then, because of being attacked by the Shandong Qing army and the Jiwen Yuan army, the Yanzhou Taiping army in a difficult situation also immediately obeyed Yang Yuanqing's order, laid down the arms and surrendered to the Wu army, and went north from Zhenjiang for more than 20 days, the Wu army set foot in Shandong, and won more than 30 cities for Wu Chaoyue at a speed that shocked the world, completely replicating the miracle of the Taiping army sweeping the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in one day and one city.

The matter is not over, when the soldiers of the Wu army handed over Liu Fan to the Shandong Qing army to be released, Liu Fan, who was ashamed and angry, also tried to commit suicide several times to apologize, and when Liu Fan was forcibly tied up by the Qing soldiers and brought to Luo Bingzhang, Luo Bingzhang, who was seventy years old, just asked about the failure of the surrender, and immediately vomited blood and fainted to the ground, Liu Rong and Zhang Guoliang and other civil and military officials of the Shandong Qing army hurriedly stepped forward to help, but after finally rescuing Luo Bingzhang, Luo Bingzhang, whose hair and beard were already snow-white, was dying and could no longer get up.

That night, Luo Bingzhang, who was old and sick, vomited blood again and again, knowing that it was difficult to protect, so he cried to Liu Rong and Zhang Guoliang and other generals who were guarding the marquis: "After I die, Wu thieves and soldiers will inevitably take advantage of the situation to go north, although the old man does not like Wu Chaoyue's cunning and sinister ambitions, but the old man still has to admit that the general trend of the world has completely fallen to him." After his thief army goes north, you can block it if you can, but you really can't stop it, or you can consider obeying the sky and protecting your life. ”

After his death, Liu Rong and others counted his inheritance, and were surprised to find that in addition to the official uniforms, his home was full of old cloth with patches and patches, and there were 800 taels of inheritance, all of which were silver with the fire seal of the feudal division.

By the way, although the author does not like Luo Bingzhang's political position very much, but I also have to admit that he is a rare good official who is honest and loves the people, and we must thank him for his great contribution to maintaining the unity of China's borders.

To get back to the point, after Luo Bingzhang died of illness, Liu Rong and Zhang Guoliang and other Qing army civil and military forces of course were crying and shaking the sky, and the people of Shandong under Luo Bingzhang were also crying everywhere, mourning all over the field, in order to thank this honest and honest official who loved the people like a son, the people of Shandong also spontaneously boycotted the market, and took the initiative to wear filial piety for Luo Bingzhang, crying and sending the funeral. But when the news reached Hu Huaizhao, the general of the Wu Army, who had already beaten Ji Wenyuan all over the ground, Hu Huaizhao, who had a bad character, not only did not feel the slightest sadness, but on the contrary, he jumped up directly with joy and shouted:

"Luo Bingzhang is dead? As soon as the old fox died, the chaotic party in Shandong was leaderless, and the opportunity was rare! Could it be that I still hope to take the opportunity to take over the entire land city of Shandong? ”