What Lu Fatzi didn't know was that the most critical catalyst why Shang Zhixin was able to make up his mind to launch a mutiny was Lu Fatzi's occupation of half of Jiangnan, which finally prompted Shang Zhixin to make this important decision!

Originally, in the west of the Qing army in Guangdong, there was the vigorous momentum of the Wu army of Wu in Guangxi, the fierce pursuit of Zheng Jing in the east, and the sneaky yang hammer of Liu Jinzhong and Geng Jingzhong in the north. And Shang Zhixin is full of revenge and ambition, but he has to be subject to the hardcore Han Annihilation Dad who betrays the country and sells him so much that he doesn't even want pants, and he has to be governed by the so-called Belle Le Jin, who only relies on the bloodline of mites to show off his might, his ambition is difficult to stretch, his fists and feet are difficult to show, and he has long been full of resentment and anger, but he has never found a chance to vent!

Now, Lu Fatzi, a good brother-in-law who has always had a very close relationship with Shang Zhixin, has bitten down the most important half of the Jiangnan in the world, and has been relying on manpower, material resources and financial resources to consume Wu Laohan's mite Qing court, and the most fatal root of life was pinched by the good brother-in-law, pushing the rebellion of the three feudatories to the most, Shang Zhixin just said that he couldn't bear it! Relying on the power cultivated in the Qing army in Guangdong over the years, and also relying on the prestige established in the Qing army in Guangdong over the years, Shang Zhixin resolutely launched the Guangzhou Mutiny, and killed his biological father Shang Kexi Lao Han Jian, and bombarded the Guangzhou mite city with heavy artillery, although it failed to wipe out the Guangzhou mites, it also became the last straw that crushed the Guangdong mite army, completely expelled the mite army from Guangdong, and smashed the last fortress of the mite Qing in the south in one fell swoop!

It was also at this time that the major warlords in the south, including Lu Fatzi, were surprised to find that the Qing Dynasty had been weakened to this point by their own intentional or unintentional joint efforts to strangle and weaken, and in the entire south of the Yangtze River, the Mites Qing had only half of Jiangxi and half of Zhejiang's territory left, as well as two helpless and helpless lone armies of Zhai Pagoda and Niyahan! At the same time, because of the bursting of the Yellow River and the flooding of the demons, the hinterland of the Central Plains and the Huaihe River basin are almost empty, and the territory that the Qing Dynasty can really control has basically shrunk to the north of the Yellow River!

At this point, anyone with a little strategic vision can already see that the mite clearing is coming to an end, and the general trend has gone! After seeing this, not only are there more and more rebels who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, or they are actively or cautiously planning and preparing, looking for opportunities to show their strength and ambitions; The big and small thieves who have already raised the banner to rebel before are even more ambitious, and some things that they usually dare not do or even dare not think about have also made these chaotic ministers and thieves feel that they are no longer out of reach, and they are likely to be able to get them as soon as they reach out - among these chaotic ministers and thieves, Wu Sangui and Wu Laohan, who are currently the strongest and have the best situation, are the most typical characters among them!

Because of the roads, transportation, and communication channels, Lu Fatzi wrote a report to Wu Laohan in late April, and finally passed through the strict blockade of the Qing army on the Jiangxi and Anhui roads, and passed through the southern part of Huguang and Piyuan, which had not yet had time to perfect the post station system, as well as most of Sichuan, and finally sent it to Wu Laohan Jian, who was recuperating in Baoning City, in mid-June, more than 40 days later.

Prior to this, not only the news of Kang Mazi's excavation of the Yellow River and the destruction of the hinterland of the Central Plains had been sent to Wu Lao Han Jian, but even Shang Zhixin had launched a mutiny in Guangzhou and the news of success had been sent to Wu Lao Han Jian. Wu Laohan was naturally overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately canonized Shang Zhixin as a general and auxiliary to the Duke of Guo, and ordered Shang Zhixin to reconcile with Zheng Jing and join hands to kill the remnants of the Qing army in Guangdong, and appointed his henchman Dong Chongmin as the governor of Guangdong, Feng Su as the governor of Guangdong, and rushed to Guangdong to take charge of government affairs, while Jin Guangzu and Tong Yangju and others were appointed separately.

A few days after reading Shang Zhixin's surrender letter, Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi's Tang newspaper was sent to Wu Laohanjian at the same time, and Wu Laohan, who was anxious about the war on the East Road for a long time without news, did not dare to slack off, and quickly opened Wu Yingqi's letter to watch, and when he saw Wu Yingqi say that Lu Fatzi ran thousands of miles to attack Nanjing City, Wu Laohan's eyes suddenly widened, and he hurriedly opened Lu Fatzi's Songjie's letter, only a few glances, and the letter in Wu Laohan's hand fell to the ground. An old face that was quite good-looking was suddenly full of Mu Ran, and he was simply stunned.

"Lord Wang, what's wrong?" Wang Shirong next to him saw that Wu Laohan's expression was not good, and he hurriedly asked cautiously: "Is there something wrong with the East Route Army, Mr. Mao Yao's students?" ”

Wu Laohan was silent, and only sighed for a long time, "The fat loach has slipped away, and this oiled fat loach has now become a dragon into the sea." ”

Wang Shirong's eyes widened, and with the permission of Wu Laohan, he and Fang Xueshi and others on the side picked up and picked up the letters of Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi respectively, and read the contents together. However, before he had time to finish reading all the content, the younger Fang Xueshi cheered, "Weichen congratulates the prince, congratulations to the prince, General Lu has taken Nanjing City, and he has inserted a pole into the Jiangnan heavy land full of dog troops!" The prosperous hometown of Jiangnan will all belong to our Great Zhou and the ...... of the prince. ”

Fang Xueshi couldn't cheer anymore when he cheered here, because Wu Lao Hanjian and Wang Shirong, the two old slippery heads, had no joy on their faces, and they were all like mourners, as if they had just died of their father. Surprised, Fang Xueshi was also cautious and asked: "Lord Wang, General Lu took Nanjing and recovered the land of Longxing in my Ming Dynasty, why is the prince still so unhappy?" ”

Wu Laohan closed his eyes, and said slowly after a while: "Learn poetry, do you know that at the Yuezhou Conference last year, your father once said something to this king. Your father said that Lu Yifeng is a dragon among people, but he has never had water, so your father strongly advised this king not to give Lu Yifeng a chance to be alone, and must stay by his side to tie his hands and feet, and not give him the opportunity to turn over the clouds and rain and cross the seas, otherwise, this king will no longer be able to restrain and control him. It's a pity that the king didn't listen to his warning, and now, sure enough, something happened, and the fat loach dragon was sent into the sea. ”

"My father said something like that? Why has Weichen never heard his father say it? Fang Xueshi was taken aback, and Wang Shirong over there was also taken aback, saying that Fang Guangchen's old thing even said such a thing to the prince, no wonder the prince has been pressing Lu Yifeng intentionally or unintentionally over the years, even if he couldn't bear to abandon the talent, he gave Lu Yifeng a chance, and it was also the most hopeless and difficult battlefield in northern Jiangxi that gave him the most hopeless and difficult.

"Of course he won't tell you, what if you are young and vigorous?" Wu Laohan smiled bitterly, "It's just that I didn't expect that this fat loach would have such ability, such courage, and such luck, and he would be able to attack Nanjing City for thousands of miles, and let him succeed!" This time, it will not be so easy for Lone to catch this fat loach that has grown scales and horns. ”

Fang Xueshi opened his mouth wide, and it took a long time for him to wake up in a daze, scratching his short hair that was not too long and said: "Lord Wang, Weichen thinks it is not enough, according to Weichen's opinion, Lu Yifeng is still very loyal to the prince, and he will never do anything to collude with the dog to be sorry for the prince, besides, the soldiers under Lu Yifeng's command are all the Great Zhou soldiers who are loyal to the prince, even if he has any different intentions, the soldiers under his command do not agree, he can't help it." ”

"Gao Dejie and Han Daren's gang, in terms of scheming, are they the opponents of this oiled loach?" Wu Laohan snorted coldly, nodded again and said: "But you are right about one thing, this oiled loach beat from the beginning of defecting to this king, the only wish is to expel the Tartars, rejuvenate the Han and exterminate mites, and he can't do anything about colluding with Mangou or surrendering to Mangou - saying that he will collude with Zheng Jing and surrender to Zheng Jing, this king is a little worried." ”

"Lord Wang, please rest assured, Mr. Mao Yao, a student, will never collude with Zheng Jing." Wang Shirong finally spoke, and said with a smile: "If he really thinks that Zheng Jing is worthy of his assistance, Kang Mazi has already gone to Taiwan with Chen Yonghua when he was six years old, Zheng Jing is really anti-Qing and Mingming, and his ambitions are very similar to Lu Fatzi, but there are too many internal problems, the foundation is too weak, and Zheng Jing is loyal to the Ming court and insists on helping Zhu Shugui to ascend the throne, but this student of Mr. Mao Yao may not accept it, let alone be stupid enough to really believe it." ”

"Kind of makes sense." Wu Lao Han nodded, and muttered again: "The top priority at the moment should be to get through the contact with this fat loach as soon as possible, and put a tight spell on this fat loach, so that he will not be even more lawless, and also let the money and grain in Jiangnan be transported back to the rear of the lonely, and completely eliminate the hidden danger that the money and food of this king's army cannot be self-sufficient." ”

"Lord Wang, if you want to open up contact with Jiangnan, I am afraid that it will not be enough to rely on the strength of the second prince and General Jinwu." Wang Shirong reminded: "Mr. Mao Yao's students rushed thousands of miles to attack Nanjing City successfully, and the Mangou Imperial Court, which had suffered a big loss, will definitely not repeat the mistakes of the past, and will inevitably concentrate heavy troops to block the westward advance of our army and buy time for them to recapture Jiangnan." Although the second prince and General Jinwu had 60,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, they also shouldered the heavy responsibility of ensuring the safety of the rear of Biyuan, and the forces that could be invested in the northern Jiangxi battlefield to open the road were obviously insufficient. ”

Wu Laohan thought for a moment, and then nodded and said: "Yes, with the strength of Ying Qi and Guozhu alone, it is indeed difficult to open up the communication road with Yifeng, and with that oiled loach Annihilation, even if Ying Qi's straw bag barely enters Jiangnan, there is no way to control him, and if he doesn't do it, he will be counter-controlled, and the power in Ying Qi's hands will also be swallowed up." The battle from Wuchang to the south of the Yangtze River must be commanded by Gu himself. ”

"Lord Wang, you can't." Wang Shirong was anxious, and hurriedly persuaded: "The prince must have misunderstood the meaning of the student, the student did not want to suggest that the prince personally conquer northern Jiangxi, but just wanted to ask the prince to mobilize the army of southern Jiangxi to go north and put it into the battlefield of northern Jiangxi, and at the same time, our various forces, especially the strength of firearms, as long as they are all invested in the battlefield of northern Jiangxi, it is not difficult to open up the connection with Jiangnan." And the prince, you must not personally conquer northern Jiangxi, one is that the prince's illness has just recovered, and it is not suitable for a bumpy journey, and the other is that the Shaanxi and Gansu battlefields are equally important, only by completely eradicating the remnants of the dogs on the Shaanxi and Gansu battlefields, and effectively controlling the horse-producing land of Shaanxi and Gansu, our Great Zhou army can be invincible. ”

Wu Lao Han Zhan hesitated a little, got up and walked to the rough national map territory, while looking at the map and groaning, after a long time, Wu Lao Han Zhan asked: "What should I do if I let Xia Guoxiang's army turn to northern Jiangxi and can't get through the contact with Geng Jingzhong?" ”

"Back to the prince, compared with Jiang Nan and Mr. Maoyao's students, it is not worth mentioning the important surname of Geng Jingzhong." Wang Shirong replied respectfully: "Let General Xia Guoxiang turn around and go north to reinforce the battlefield in northern Jiangxi, which has three benefits, one is to open up the road in northern Jiangxi and obtain the grain and salary territory in the south of the Yangtze River; the second is to prevent Mr. Mao Yao's students from being checked and balanced, so they sit big; The third is to avoid conflict with Geng Jingzhong! ”

"The reason why Geng Jingzhong is so respectful to the prince now is because his strength is not enough to compete with the full dog, and he hopes to get an endless supply of weapons from the prince. And once our army joins forces with it, it is difficult for each other to avoid conflict for various interests, rather than killing each other and letting Mangou choose the advantage, it is better to let him continue to fight with Mangou alone, so that our army can sit back and enjoy its success. ”

"Then let's do it." Wu Lao Han finally agreed, and instructed: "Learn poetry, plan to order Xia Guoxiang, order him to give up attacking Ji'an and Ganzhou, turn his head to the north, give the old man all his strength to fight Nanchang, pull out the nail of Nanchang, and then go down the river, join forces with Ying Qi to attack Anqing, and be sure to make every effort to open up the contact with Yifeng." ”

Fang Xueshi agreed, and hurriedly picked up a pen and paper to draft the order, while Wang Shirong quietly glanced at Lu Fatzi's letter again, and said secretly: "I can help you, that's all." Xia Guoxiang gave up attacking southern Gan to join Geng Jingzhong, Geng Jingzhong wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and expand the territory, but he could only go all out to the north to fight the most convenient and cost-effective; Xia Guoxiang and the second prince joined forces to attack northern Jiangxi, and Anqing Mangou could only deal with the threat from the west with all his might, giving you some time to recharge and develop your strength. The prince's body is not as good as day by day, in case that day ......, our great cause of prospering the Han Dynasty and destroying the Manchurian will depend on your fat loach. ”

Secretly muttering in his heart, Fang Xueshi had written Wu Lao Han Jian's order into words, and after asking Wu Lao Han to use the seal, Wu Lao Han Jian commanded: "Give Yifeng another letter, three contents, one is to tell him that the surprise attack on Nanjing was successful, he was not guilty, and he was named the auxiliary marquis; the second is to let him stick to the new land in Jiangnan, and resolutely cut the throat of Mangou Caoyun, so that the Mangou Emperor can no longer obtain the supply of Jiangnan grain; Third, he is now surrounded by enemies and the road is impassable, so don't think about sending the side room to Yunnan, just let his side room be in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

"Yes." Fang Xueshi respectfully agreed, and asked cautiously: "Lord Wang, why don't you let the Yifeng brothers send troops to meet the second prince and General Xia?" ”

"His strength is still lacking in self-preservation, so don't want to let him go further." Wu Laohan replied casually, and snorted coldly: "Besides, this fat loach is so slippery, this king is giving this order, and he will inevitably do everything possible to refuse, rather than falling out with him and cheapening others, it is better not to mention this matter at all, and when the road connection is opened, it is not too late to slowly clean him up!" ”

Fang Xueshi stopped talking, and hurriedly bowed his head to write, and after Wu Laohan thought about it, he added: "By the way, at the end of the letter, you remind Yifeng again, just say that when he first tested the Sanhao rocket in front of this king by Dianchi Lake, he asked for the grace reward from this king, and this king agreed, let him watch it." (See Chapter 121 of this book)

"Grace rewards?" Wang Shirong and Fang Xueshi are both the same.

"Don't ask, that fat loach will understand." Wu Laohan smiled, unwilling to explain to the two lackeys, Wang Shirong and Fang Xueshi didn't dare to ask more, just honestly sang promises. And Wu Lao Hanjian recalled the past, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning again, knowing that it was his wind dizziness (high blood pressure) that had flared up again, he hurriedly beckoned Wang Shirong to carry him back to his seat, and muttered in his heart: "It seems that we have to hurry up, and when we take Xi'an, we can start to prepare." ”

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In fact, there was no need for Wu Laohan to give an order, Xia Guoxiang had already set his sights on the super fat piece of Jiangnan, and had already used Wu Yingqi and Lu Fatzi to ask for help, and personally led the main force of the Wu army in southern Jiangxi to the north and attack Nanchang with all his might. And after the news reached Kang Mazi, Kang Mazi guessed with his toes, and he could also understand that Wu Jun's gang of jackals, tigers and leopards were eyeing Jiangnan, in a vain attempt to open up the road with Lu Fatzi, so Kang Mazi also quickly issued an order to let the Guangdong Qing army Leerjin, who gave up Guangdong to break through to Jiangxi, rush north and make every effort to reinforce the battlefield in northern Jiangxi, so as not to let the evil attempt of these jackals and hungry tigers succeed - Leerjin went to northern Jiangxi to block Wu Yingqi and Xia Guoxiang, so naturally there was no way to enter Zhejiang to put pressure on Lu Fatzi.

What made Kang Mazi vomit blood and made Lu Fatzi snicker was Ma Bao's reaction, Ma Bao's department, which was almost flooded by the Yellow River and wiped out the whole army, jumped like thunder, and received the news that Lu Fatzi had captured Nanjing, General Ma Da commanded the whole army to turn around to the southeast without saying a word, and went straight to Jieshu's Laowo Luzhou Mansion via Gwangju, and was also preparing to take Luzhou to Jiangnan to get a piece of the pie.

Hearing the news, Prince Kang, who was fighting with the fat army under the city of Taipingfu, also vomited blood, and had no choice but to collect troops and go north to save the nest - Anhui is also an important grain-producing area, with the current situation of the Qing Dynasty, if Prince Jie Shukang loses the important town of Luzhou in Anhui again, Kang Mazi will have to peel off the skin of Jie Shu's cousin. and the new conscription army that Kang Mazi finally put together, and he had to put all of them into the Anhui battlefield to serve as a free shield for Lu Fatzi - not only free, but also without even a word of thanks.

The east and north are under the 'voluntary help' of friendly forces, there is no threat for the time being, let's take a look at the situation in the south of the Fat Army, after receiving the will of Kang Mazi, the general of the mite Qingping Nan, the tower did divide the army of 30,000 and handed it over to the deputy Yatari to command, and came north to attack Suzhou Mansion, the southernmost part of the territory controlled by the Fat Army. But the army has just entered the territory of Suzhou Prefecture, Shang Zhixin launched the news of the mutiny has already come, worried that Shang Gengjing and the three armies of the three armies to attack Zhejiang's Tartari had to order Yatari to stop advancing, urgently reported to Kang Mazi and asked for countermeasures, Kang Mazi had no choice, so he had to order the tower to stick to the grain producing areas in northern Zhejiang, and temporarily give up the new move to attack Suzhou.

However, Lai Ta and Kang Mazi are definitely not unfounded, Lu Fatzi's good uncle Shang Zhixin almost immediately sent a messenger to contact Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing as soon as the soldiers became hands, asking for a joint attack on Zhejiang and Gannan, and open up land contact with his good brother-in-law Lu Fatzi. Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing, who were worried about the lack of strength to attack Jiangnan, of course, couldn't ask for it, and the three families hit it off, and immediately sent envoys to each other to exchange in-laws and hooked up together, thinking about how to join forces to attack Zhejiang and southern Jiangnan, and how to make a fortune and share the spoils in the fat Jiangnan.

In this way, under the greed of many friendly troops working together, the lonely army of Lu Fatzi, who was attacked on all sides, became weak on all sides, Zheng Jing, Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin joined forces to contain the main force of the Qing army in Zhejiang, and in the west, Xia Guoxiang, Wu Yingqi and Ma Bao, three jackals and hungry tigers rushed and beat fiercely, and bit the two main forces of the Qing army of Jieshu and Niyahan like crazy, forcing Kang Mazi to have to put the new army into the two battlefields of Anhui and northern Jiangxi endlessly. As for Kang Mazi, who is directly north of the Fat Army, who is currently in a hurry, how many troops can he come up with to attack the Fat Army? - Don't forget, the Fat Army still has a Yangtze River in the north to defend, and even the Jiangnan Shipyard has been robbed by Lu Fatzi, what will the Qing army take to cross the river?

"Good people, they are all good people, there are still many good people in the world." Fat Lu was so moved that he almost wanted to cry, and he couldn't hold back a single tear for a long time, so he had to blow his nose to express his gratitude to many good people, and then buried himself in recruiting troops and accumulating strength.

(To be continued)