I don't know if it's God who opens his eyes or God has no eyes, Lu Fat Man fell down from the three-zhang high wall, but he didn't break a single bone, and he didn't drop any important internal organs out of internal bleeding or anything, and there were a few more bruises all over his body, and there were some soft tissue injuries on his buttocks - according to the analysis of the military doctor who rescued Lu Fatzi, the reason for this was that in addition to Lu Fatzi falling into the mud and slowing down the impact, the fat on Lu Fatzi's body also accounted for a lot of credit.

The injury is really not serious, but it is not a joke to fall off the wall once, at least in the next day, Lu Fatzi can only lie on the bed honestly, while recuperating from his injuries, he looks through the various information collected by Wu Sanguijun, so as to analyze the enemy situation and study the strategy to break the enemy. And in the evening, Hong Xiguan, who was ordered to go out on an errand, finally returned to Yuping Guanzhong, and brought a private school gentleman in Sizhou City to Lu Fatzi to help Lu Fatzi deal with some clerical affairs.

Lu Fatzi was not a whim and suddenly wanted to recruit another staff, the key is that Zhu Fangdan was left in Anshun by Lu Fatzi to help his cousin Qin Yong and henchman Li Tianzhi lead the army, and at the same time, Lu Fatzi, who was used to writing simplified characters with a pen, was indeed not good at brushes and traditional characters, so he had to find another master to help. However, after seeing the writing master that Hong Xiguan found for him, Lu Fatzi was suddenly startled, and couldn't help shouting: "Erlang, hurry, keep an eye on our money bags!" ”

It's not that Fat Lu suddenly short-circuited his head and gave such a confused order, but that the master that Hong Xiguan found for Fat Lu looks like Tai Chi, although he is wearing a Confucian robe, but the facial features are extremely incongruous, a pair of mung bean eyes are smaller than Fat Lu's, but the hooked nose is extremely huge, the mouth of the sausage is very popular, how obscene it looks, how unpleasant it is, plus the obscene behavior of those thieves who came into the room, looking left and right, it is no different from the street thieves who are often suppressed by Lu Fatzi's iron fist.

"Young master, the little one understands." Xiao Erlang subconsciously clenched his money bag, showing the same opinion as Lu Fatzi. The obscene master smiled bitterly and said, "My lord, the student knows that he doesn't look good, but the student is also a saint, and he hates the petty people such as stealing chickens and dogs, and he will not follow them and learn from them." ”

"Mr. misunderstood, this official is ......." Lu Fatzi was a little embarrassed and defended: "The official asked the entourage to prepare the money bag and prepare to pay the travel expenses to Mr. ”

"Pay students for travel?" The obscene master was stunned and hurriedly asked, "So, don't adults want to use students?" ”

"No......, I don't mean that." Fat Lu quickly shook his head, and then turned his head to look at Hong Xiguan. Hong Xiguan was quite clever, and immediately understood what Lu Fatzi meant, and immediately replied dejectedly: "My lord, the small one has tried his best, but because the war is approaching, the people in Sizhou City have run away and fled, and the whole city is more than half empty, and the small one has turned around in Sizhou City several times, and he has found such a private school gentleman." If the adults are really not satisfied, the little ones can only try their luck in Zhenning City. ”

"Damn, other people's doglegs are all good-looking and have good facial features, why are my doglegs destined to be the role of a roe deer?" Lu Fatzi complained bitterly in his heart, and asked the lewd scholar helplessly: "Mr. has a big name, where is his origin?" ”

"Students don't dare to be respectful." The obscene scholar replied politely: "The student's surname is Wang, his name is Shaobo, he is a Xiucai in Sizhou Mansion in the second year of Kangxi, and he is the eighth place in the Guizhou Township Examination in the fifth year of Kangxi." ”

"The eighth place in the township test is Yayuan?" Fat Lu's eyes widened, and he asked in surprise, "Then aren't you lifting people?" ”

"Back to adults, just because the students were ugly, the students at that time crossed out the students' names." Wang Shaobo replied with a wry smile: "The student swore to quit the exam in anger, and returned to his hometown in Sizhou to become a private school teacher to survive. The war was approaching, and the students and professors were scattered, and when they were worried about their livelihoods, they happened to meet the adults recruiting masters, so they came to Mao Sui to recommend themselves. ”

"The war is approaching, and the people are fleeing for their lives, so why don't you run away, sir?" Fat Lu asked casually.

"Why should the students run away?" Wang Shaobo's words were amazing, and he said with a smile: "The prince of Pingxi uses Yungui as the foundation to beg for thieves and kill Aobai, and wherever the army goes, it will inevitably strictly restrain the army and the people, so as not to lose the hearts of the people of Yungui; The banner played by Ao Bai is to rebel against the order, pacify Yungui, and the spearhead is directed at the prince's army, and wherever the army goes, it will inevitably take the people as the top, compete with the prince for the hearts of the people, and isolate the prince's army. Both sides put the people first, and they will inevitably not kill lightly, and the students have no officials or positions and civilians, so what do they have to worry about? ”

"You're so confident?" Lu Fatzi smiled and asked: "In the past, when the full people entered the customs, they slaughtered a lot of cities, and now you are not afraid that they will repeat their old tricks and slaughter the city again?" ”

"This time, that time." Wang Shaobo shook his head and said very confidently: "When the Manchurians entered the customs, it was because the people's hearts were not attached to the people's hearts and the resistance of the Han people everywhere was fierce, so they slaughtered the city and established the power to reduce the resistance of the Han people. Now they have basically sat on the throne, and basically won the support of the Han gentry and scholars everywhere, and among the army, there are also Han green camps in the majority. ”

Since he took power, he not only immediately stopped all large-scale wars, reclaimed the land and returned the land to the people, and recuperated with the people, but also adhered to the Shunzhi Dynasty's policy of reusing Han officials, and the whole world did not need a Manchurian superintendent - would such a hypocritical old thief do something to slaughter the city and harm the people when he personally led the troops?"

Speaking of this, Wang Shaobo paused, and asked Fat Lu with some confusion: "My lord, why do you look at the student like this?" Did the student say something wrong? ”

"No, you're right." Fat Lu closed his mouth that had been open, shook his head, and said seriously: "Mr. Wang, if you don't dislike it, then you can stay, I asked Hong Xiguan to hire a scrivener at the price of twenty taels of silver for a year, and now I have decided to give you fifty taels, and if you behave well, you can add more." ”

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At about the same time, in Huangzhou City, less than forty miles away from Yuping Pass, Ao Bai also led Yue Le, Leerjin and Labu and other senior generals of the Mites Qing to Huangzhou City to visit Tu Hai, the deputy commander of the Mites Qing army, Fuyuan, who was scolded by Lu Fatzi in the first day and vomited blood and was sick in bed. As soon as they met, the dying Tuhai tightened his sleeves and begged with tears: "Enxiang, I am forty-three years old, and I have never asked anyone for anything. But today, the lowly duty must beg you, please hurry up and capture Lu Yifeng's barbarian thief alive, and hand it over to the lowly duty to avenge the blood and the sea. Grace ......, I beg you. ”

"The hall in the picture is a little restless, and you can recuperate with peace of mind." Ao Bai rarely slowed down his tone, and comforted kindly: "The blood feud in the middle of the picture, the old man will definitely avenge you, but you can't rush it, let this yellow-mouthed child who has no virtue go free for a while, and when the time is ripe, when the main force of the Qing Dynasty counterattacks in an all-round way, we will slowly clean him up." ”

"Eun-sang, how long are we going to wait?" Tu Hai cried out, wiped his tears and clenched his fists and said: "Our Qing army has an absolute advantage in strength, manpower, and material resources, so we don't have to slowly fight with Wu Sangui's old thief, just go directly to Yungui and destroy Wu Sangui's old thief, do you still need to wait so slowly?" ”

"Tuzhongtang, you are carried away by hatred." Yue Le said, "Before this, didn't you also resolutely agree with Taishi's strategy of destroying the enemy? Yunnan and Guizhou are high and dangerous, and the army and food are inconvenient to transport, and Wu Sangui's old thief is not only fighting on the inside line, with strong fortifications, but also familiar with the terrain and has the hearts of the people. Only by forcing Wu Sangui's old thief out for a decisive battle can we give full play to the advantages of sufficient troops and food. ”

"Xia Guan was dizzy by Lu Yifeng's dog thief." Tu Hai nodded, admitted calmly, and wiped his tears and said, "Then Enxiang, how about we capture Yuping Pass or Sizhou City first?" If I don't cut Lu Yifeng's dog thief with a thousand knives, I can't swallow this breath! ”

"It's useless for you to take Yuping Pass and Sizhou City, you can't get Lu Yifeng's child, you still can't swallow this mouthful." Ao Bai shook his head and said solemnly: "Is it really just for this dangerous city that the thief will Gao Dejie sneak attack Yuping Pass?" No, he is to provoke us, induce us to send troops to retaliate, once our army counterattacks Yuping Pass, he will definitely abandon the west of the Guanxi flight, we are approaching Sizhou City, he immediately gave up Sizhou and fled back to Zhenyuan, his purpose is to introduce our main force into the hinterland of Guizhou, the farther we chase, the more he will fall into his arms. ”

"Then I'll lead an army alone to chase and kill." Tu Hai was also dizzy, and blurted out: "Please lead the main force of the Qing Dynasty to guard Huangzhou and Yuanzhou, and lead 3,000 elite soldiers to chase and kill Gao Dejie's barbarians, capture Lu Yifeng's dog thief alive, skin and cramp, and avenge my wife and children!" ”

Ao Bai didn't speak, a pair of copper bell eyes like cold electricity, just stared at Tu Hai coldly, staring at Tu Hai's heart, lowered his head timidly, and whispered: "Humble duty should be damned, humble duty is really dizzy by Lu Yifeng's dog thief - a ghost place like Guizhou, where mountains and forests are dense and roads are narrow, lowly and lonely, once ambushed, don't think that a soldier can come back alive." ”

"It's good to know." Ao Bai snorted coldly and ordered: "You don't care about the fortifications in Yuping, hand it over to Prince An to supervise the work, and you can go back to Yuanzhou for the old man to recuperate!" ”

"Grace ......." Tuhai wanted to object, but before he finished speaking, the notoriously short-tempered Ao Bai had already shouted: "Shut up! Thinking that you are a first-time offender, and you were deliberately provoked by Lu Yifeng's little slippery head and fainted, I won't pursue you this time, and next time I dare to say something similar, I will give the old man to go back to the capital! The old man rescued you from the prison, he asked you to come to the military service, not to let you come to mourn the teacher and humiliate the country! ”

Xiao Mazi didn't dare to be tough in front of Aobai, let alone a mere Tuhai, so Tuhai had to obediently lower his head and wipe his tears to agree. Ao Bai over there didn't bother to entangle with him, hard Bangbang threw down a sentence to take care, and directly led Yue Le and Le Erjin out of Tuhai's bedroom, and when he was about to go back to the room to rest, Ao Bai called Yue Le alone, and advised: "Prince An, the old man has to go back to Yuanzhou tomorrow, and arrange to dispatch troops from various provinces to strictly seal Yungui." On the side of Yuping Pass, the old man will hand it all over to you, remember, no matter how provocative Wu Sangui's old thief's army is, you must not take the initiative to attack, you must firmly implement our army's blockade strategy, and force Wu Sangui's old thief out of Guizhou for a decisive battle! ”

"Don't worry, Xiao Wang remembers." Yue Le, who was old and serious, solemnly agreed, and said in a low voice: "But Taishi, don't blame Xiao Wang for being alarmist, judging from the fact that Lu Yifeng's thief deliberately spread rumors, Wu Sangui's old thief is likely to take advantage of the slight contradiction between you and the emperor, Taishi, to make a big fuss and force Taishi to enter Guizhou for a decisive battle." I also hope that the Taishi will be vigilant as soon as possible, and must not let Wu Sangui's old thief's annihilation plan succeed. ”

Ao Bai was silent for a long time before he said, "Of course this old man understands, and he will be prepared. But you are at the forefront of the confrontation with the thief army, and you must prevent the thief army from taking the opportunity to spread rumors and shake the morale of the army. Also, you are the emperor's cousin, you have time to give him a few more tricks, explain the situation ahead to him, let him wait patiently, don't lose your breath and fall for Wu Sangui's old thief's annihilation. ”

"Let me explain the situation to the emperor more - it seems that the contradiction between you and the emperor is bigger and deeper than the rumors in the capital." Yue Le was silent, but when things came to this point, Yue Le had no other choice but to nod and agree.

The next day, Ao Baiti slipped back to the base camp Yuanzhou with Tuhai, who had been dizzy by Lu Fatzi, and in the next few days, two news came successively, which also made the worried Ao Bai show some smiles - the 20,000 right route army led by Beile Shangshan has arrived at Yucheng Mansion in the north of Guizhou on schedule, although this road is limited to roads, local forces and troops, it is destined to be unable to pose a fatal threat to Wu Sangui's army, but it can also effectively contain many of Wu Sangui's troops, forcing Wu Sangui to fight in Zunyi, Wuding deployed heavy troops as a precaution, so that Wu Sangui, who was in a weak position, was even more overstretched in terms of deploying troops, and at the same time, it could effectively blockade Yunnan and Guizhou and prevent Sichuan food and materials from flowing into Yunnan and Guizhou.

The second news is also good news for Aobai, after receiving the edict from Xiao Mazi, Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan and Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, both said on the spot that they would raise troops and enter Guangxi to attack Wu Sangui's hinterland -- it was absolutely impossible to expect these two slippery heads to really contribute money and strength to attack Wu Sangui, but their army appeared in Guangxi, and Wu Sangui naturally had to maintain a considerable number of troops on the east road as a precaution, and the pressure on the main battlefield in the northeast of Aobai was naturally greatly reduced. At the same time, Guangxi is not a grain-producing province, and with Geng Jingzhong's and Shang Keg's army stationed in Guangxi, it can naturally cut off the channel for grain from the south of the Yangtze River to flow into Yunnan and Guizhou, and further force Wu Sangui to take the initiative to attack and open up the grain route.

"As long as the blockade is effective, half a year, at most half a year, even if Yungui reserves more grain and grass, Wu Sangui's old thief will have a big mess!" Ao Bai secretly pondered with relief: "After Wu Sangui's old thief's military morale is in turmoil, the old man can also take the opportunity to use high-ranking officials to buy Wu Sangui's lackeys, which will make Wu Sangui's old thief's internal chaos even more chaotic." At that time, no matter whether Wu Sangui took the initiative or not, this battle would be much easier to fight. ”

"Master Qi, Prince An's envoy asks to see, there is an urgent military report." At this time, a pro-soldier suddenly rushed into the hall of Aobai's point general and shouted a report to Aobai. Ao Baileng was stunned, and hurriedly ordered a meeting, and said in his heart that it had only been a few days, why did Yue Le say that there was an urgent military intelligence report? With Yue Le's person, shouldn't he be the kind of person who likes to be surprised?

After a while, Yue Le's messenger was led into the hall of the council of Aobai, and after saluting, the messenger immediately said loudly: "Qiyu Taishi, something is wrong, Wu Gou's side suddenly released a rumor, saying that the emperor has issued a secret edict to Wu Gou to crusade against you, and also said that as long as you get your head, no matter who you are, you can be crowned king, but if anyone is attached to you, the emperor will all raid the house and destroy the door." Now in Huangzhou, the military and civilians have spread all over the country. ”

"It's just a heart-to-heart battle, what's the fuss?" Ao Bai was a little annoyed and shouted, "Didn't you tell you to prevent the thieves from spreading rumors? Why are the rumors still spreading? And it spread so quickly? ”

"Taishi, I can't prevent it." The messenger smiled bitterly, took out a piece of tissue paper from his arms, and explained with a wry smile: "Wu Gou's side, it was the fake secret edict of the Son of Heaven printed on the paper, and it was glued to the Kong Ming lantern. ”

"And this?" Ao Bai almost vomited blood, hurriedly left the table and walked to the messenger, and took the thin paper in person, but saw that the paper was indeed printed with a fake secret edict on the clay tablet: Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said, Taishi Ao worships the heavens and the earth, deceives the heavens and the earth, defiles the palace forbidden, harms the living beings, is unkind, and is full of evil! Qin ordered Wu Sangui, the prince of Pingxi, to raise an army to fight, support the royal family, and save the Li people! Those who have won the first level of worship will be crowned king by tearing the earth! The party is attached to the sycophants who worship the traitors, and they are all over the house! Chin this!

What's even more ruthless is that this fake edict is even stamped with a vermilion fake jade seal! As for whether this jade seal is carved from radish or wood, no one will know for a while.

"Wu Sangui, dog thief!" Ao Bai was furious, crumpled the fake secret edict, slammed it to the ground, and roared: "You even dare to forge the secret edict, and you still have the face to play the banner of the Qing monarch, where do you put the emperor?" ”

"Taishi, this doesn't count." The messenger said timidly: "Starting this morning, the Wu thief began to write big characters on the wall of Yuping Pass again, each word is the size of a zhangyu, and the content is also this fake secret edict, because the words are too big, and they can be clearly seen from two or three miles apart...... ”

"Carving insect skills, what do you want him to do?" Ao Bai sneered and ordered: "Go back and tell Yue Le, let him announce in public that this secret edict is fake, it is a trick of Wu Sangui's traitors, you can't believe it." The prime minister and the emperor are like flesh and blood, and the emperor will never give such a secret edict! ”

"Wouldn't the emperor really give such a secret edict?" said it resolutely, but after thinking about it carefully, Ao Bai's heart was a little drumming, "With the ghost eyes of Emperor Mazi, wouldn't you think of stepping on two boats between the old man and Wu Sangui?" secretly issued a similar secret edict to Wu Sangui, so that it would be easy to clean up the mess after the war, such a thing, Emperor Mazi is likely to be able to do it. ”

Thinking of this, Ao Bai hurriedly shook his head, trying to drive this thought away from his heart, "Is the old man really old, and he was moved by such a shallow discordant plan, it really shouldn't be, it shouldn't be." ”

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At about the same time, the Yuping was closed, and the soldiers of the Wu army were indeed writing a false edict on the wall with lime water under the command of Lu Fatzi and Wang Shaobo, and Wang Shaobo, who was responsible for supervising the neat handwriting, returned to the wall from outside the pass, first reported the progress of the project to Lu Fatzi, and then asked Lu Fatzi worriedly: "Owner, will it be useful to do this?" Such a secret edict, the dog knows that it is fake at a glance. ”

"You don't understand this, the lie is repeated a thousand times, and it becomes the truth!" Lu Fatzi waved his hand and said proudly and confidently: "In fact, the sharp contradiction between the old thief and the Mangou Emperor is no secret in the Mangou officialdom, as long as this fake secret edict spreads widely, the fake will become true." ”

"Boss, the students think that if you are determined to spread rumors, it will shake the hearts of the dogs." Wang Shaobo suddenly smiled and said: "Then the student thinks that the owner seems to have forgotten something, which can be used, and the effect must be amazing." ”

"What's that?" Fat Lu asked curiously.

"It is a kind of thing issued by the government, and people often copy and typeset it in exchange for money." Wang Shaobo's smile became more and more deceitful, "This thing is not only easy to fake, but also easy to make people believe that it is true, and it has spread very widely, no matter how poor the students used to be, as long as there is something on the market, they will definitely find ways to buy it and read it-Dongjia, now you should understand what this is, right?" ”

"Di Bao (official newspaper)!" Fat Lu slapped the arrow stack, and asked Wang Shaobo curiously: "Young uncle, I believe that you must know a person named Yuan Keding, right?" ”

Note: Yuan Keding, the son of Yuan Shikai, in order to encourage Yuan Shikai to become emperor, Yuan Keding forged "Shuntian Times" every day, specially printed some articles at home and abroad to support Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor, and then put this fake newspaper in Yuan Shikai's room every day............

(To be continued)