It was decided to play the banner of revenge for Wu Yingqi under the banner of Fengtian rebellion to the extreme, and the resolution to openly turn his face and start a war with the Wu army was finalized, but it was unrealistic to ask the fat army to immediately send troops to fight to the death with the Wu army, first, because the fat army had gone through a series of battles, the consumption of ammunition was very huge, and all kinds of firearms had not had time to produce equipment in large quantities. Second, the autumn harvest is coming soon, and the main manpower and material resources in the areas controlled by the Fat Boy Army must be invested in the work of rushing to harvest grain; at this time, it is very difficult to effectively guarantee the logistical supply of the Fat Boy Army -- in this era when the transportation of materials is all carried by ships and vehicles, the logistical supply is a big tiger that devours manpower. 【Reading.com】

Therefore, there was no way, the jackals, tigers and leopards of the fat army headed by Lu Fatzi had to temporarily suppress their excitement and joy, and put their energy into the work of army brainwashing, firearms production, and autumn grain harvesting, temporarily adopt diplomatic means to negotiate with various forces, and adopt the means of division and bribery to negotiate with Wu troops from all walks of life, so as to win the support of as many former friendly forces as possible, weaken Honghua's war force, and lay a political foundation for the decisive battle on the battlefield.

Fortunately, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is very beneficial to the Fat Army for the time being, the first is the economic level, the Fat Army with the rich financial and material resources of the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River is absolutely proud of the world, and the unlucky opponents of the Fat Army are either worried about the lack of military salaries, or they are troubled by the lack of self-sufficiency in food, the longer this situation lasts, the more beneficial it will be to the Fat Army.

The second is internal problems, Kang Mazi Dong Shi Xiaofeng learned that the huge debt owed by Lu Fatzi to issue military coins is about to expire, and the Qing court will definitely not be able to repay so much silver, once the deadline reaches the time limit and the poor northern people can't get the silver, it is destined to be the people's resentment boiling, the people are in all directions, and the local government affairs are paralyzed; Geng Jingzhong, Shang Zhixin and Zheng Jing are in a better situation, but their strength is too weak to fight alone, and they distrust each other, stumbling on each other, and the internal friction is very serious, and it is impossible to really unite and compete with the fat man.

As for the Wu army, without the Optimus Pillar of Wu Laohan's annihilation, Guo Zhuangtu killed Wu Yingqi in a frenzy, and the fragmentation of the Wu army as in history is a foregone conclusion, the longer it drags on, the more serious this division will definitely be, and without the help of the fat army, the combat effectiveness will at least be reduced by more than half.

As for the Fat Army, although there are problems within the Fat Army, they are all trivial problems - for example, the Gao brothers and the Han brothers are at odds and want to see each other's jokes, but the two sides are not hostile to each other, nor are they incompatible. At the same time, the generals of the Fat Man Army who came out of the bitter place know very well that there is no better free nest in this world except for Jiangnan, and naturally they are not willing to go out of this easy nest and return to the poor place to suffer and suffer, and subconsciously do not want to make infighting to let the enemy choose the cheapest, plus Lu Fatzi is good at winning people's hearts and uniting the army's despicable skills, so the internal cohesion of the Fat Army at this time is definitely stronger than any army in the world.

In view of these circumstances, clearly aware of the advantages and disadvantages of their own side and the enemy, Lu Fatzi, who is already extremely good at sowing discord, can show his strength, the day after receiving the bad news of Wu Yingqi's killing, Lu Fatzi sent a messenger to carry his own handwritten letters, and rushed to Guilin by sea through Guangdong, and contacted Wu Yingqi's eldest son Wu Shicong, expressing his willingness to raise troops with Wu Shicong to rebel, kill the Great Zhou thief Guo Zhuangtu, and avenge Wu Shicong's father, so as to repay Wu Yingqi's kindness. At the same time, he also suggested that Wu Shicong form an alliance with his brother-in-law Shang Zhixin and join forces to open up land links with him.

Of course, Lu Fatzi also knew that with the situation faced by Guo Zhuangtu, after killing Wu Yingqi, he would definitely have to lure Wu Shicong back to Kunming, and kill the eldest son of Wu Yingqi, who was destined to be punished, in Kunming City, whether his letter could be delivered to Wu Shicong's hands is still two words. But it doesn't matter, it is good that the letter can be delivered to Wu Shicong, if Guo Zhuangtu has already killed Wu Shicong, then Guo Zhuangtu will not only further anger the Wu clansmen, but also anger the generals of the Wu army who are loyal to Wu Lao Han, causing the Wu army to split and fight faster, and Lu Fatzi will also have more excuses to completely tear his face with the Honghua court.

In addition, when sending a letter to Wu Yingqi, Lu Fatzi had to send a letter to his brother-in-law Shang Zhixin, introducing to Shang Zhixin the process of Wu Yingqi's murder, explaining his determination to fight against Fengtian and asking Shang Zhixin to send troops to help. -- Lu Fatzi can be sure that after seeing this letter, his good brother-in-law will definitely take the opportunity to get rid of the control of the Honghua Imperial Court, tear his face with Guo Zhuangtu and Wu Shifan, and will definitely take the opportunity to instigate himself to send troops to the south, and join forces with him to attack Geng Jingzhong, who was innocently shot, and take the opportunity to expand his territory and strength.

In order to make his own Xingshi more rational and arrogant, and further promote the division of the Wu army as soon as possible, Lu Fatzi ordered Guizhou Xie Yuan Wang Shaobo to ghostwrite, and gave Wu Shifan a note in the honor of the general of Zhengdong, asking Wu Shifan to explain why he concealed the cause of Wu Laohan's death? Ask Wu Shifan to explain why he sat back and watched Guo Zhuangtu kill Wu Yingqi's father and son's affectionate behavior? There is also a requirement for Wu Shifan to behead Guo Zhuangtu's whole family and spread it to the world, so as to set the record straight! Then there is to copy multiple copies of this recital and send them to Hu Guozhu, Fang Guangchen, Xia Guoxiang, Wu Guogui, Wang Pingfan, Ma Bao and Wang Fuchen and other generals of the Wu army, asking them to respond to their call and ask Wu Shifan to kill Guo Zhuangtu!

After doing these things, Lu Fatzi plunged headlong into the internal affairs work again, while making every effort to organize the people to harvest autumn grain and hoard the grain, grass and horse fodder necessary for the army's war, and at the same time seizing the time to go all out to produce rocket shells and three-good explosives, and also to develop new firearms, develop and apply new production processes such as lathes and assembly lines, and ensure the supply of firearms to the greatest extent. There is also the need to improve internal affairs, expand the six Cao Divisions in the south of the Yangtze River, crack down on crime, consolidate public order, and patiently wait for the time to dominate the world.

As the days passed, the good news also came one after another, and in the case of hopelessness for help, Ningguo Mansion and Guangdezhou in Anhui Province, which were half surrounded by the fat army, took the initiative to send a table, voluntarily cut their braids and grow their hair, and returned to the fat army. At the same time, Xiaozhuang's decree not to allow the local officials and generals of the Mites to surrender to the Fat Army has also been made clear to the world, and it is clearly announced that all the local officials and generals of the Mite Qing who surrender to the Fat Army will be killed by their families.

In the face of the psychological offensive of the old witch of Xiaozhuang, Lu Fatzi did the opposite and issued a diametrically opposite order, that is, if the local officials and generals of Mites Qing had families north of the Yellow River, even if they resisted the fat army, they could be spared death, and after being captured, they could also be given travel expenses to return to the north of the Yellow River to reunite with their families. The mite Qing officials and generals who had been captured by the Fat Army before, whether they were Han mites or mites, as long as they were not Manchu with four surnames, and those whose family members were in the north could choose to stay by themselves, and those who were willing to go home to reunite with their families would be given travel expenses and sent out of the country.

The power of hypocrisy and false righteousness is endless, after the promulgation of Lu Fatzi's order, not only did there not be many mite Qing officials and generals who chose to go home, but Tongling, Huizhou Mansion and Chuzhou Mansion also sent them down one after another, took the initiative to cut their braids and grow their hair, paid taxes and grain to the Fat Army, and accepted the jurisdiction of the Fat Army. These local officials are not fools, at a glance they can see that the old witch of Xiaozhuang is to force them to fight hard with the fat army, but Lu Fatzi's order is to be gentle with them, they are not trapped in the lonely city, and wait until the fat soldiers surrender and be humiliated under the city, and lose their lives, it is better to take the initiative to surrender earlier, not only to keep the official position and family property, but also to have the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, even if the family is in the north, it doesn't matter, the father and mother can save funeral expenses when they die, the wife can remarry when he dies, and the children can be reborn.

The biggest harvest of Lu Fatzi's Huairou policy is in Jiaxing, because Tian Fengji and Geng Jingzhong have taken the initiative to withdraw from the army, the more than 10,000 Qing troops in Jiaxing City have been completely isolated, the grain, grass and military salaries are decreasing day by day, and the farmland outside the city is unable to collect grain because the fat army is surrounded on all sides, and the Qing army in Jiaxing is panicked, the army's morale is disheartened, and people's minds have changed. At the same time, Lu Zhangtai, the righteous brother of Lu Fatzi, who was sent to the Suzhou Army, also took advantage of the fire to rob, and obtained Li Tianzhi's consent to send a secret envoy to infiltrate Jiaxing, and sent a secret letter to Hu Tu, the deputy of the Jiaxing garrison general Lai Ta, who had a one-sided relationship, and there was only one sentence on the letter-I, the king of Baojun, have surrendered, what are you waiting for?

After reading Lu Zhangtai's secret letter, Hu Tu, whose surname is Hong E, no longer hesitated, and launched a mutiny that night, opened the city gate to welcome the fat army into the city, and the unprepared tower wanted to lead the army to fight to the death, but the Qing soldiers fled to surrender to the fat army, and soon there were less than 100 people left around the tower, seeing that the general trend had gone, the tower sighed and killed himself with a horizontal knife, and the city of Jiaxing, which had been isolated for more than half a year, finally fell into the hands of the fat army, and the defenders in the city almost all surrendered to the fat army.

At this point, the control area of the Fat People's Army has more than doubled, the northern line has advanced to the Yellow River, the western line has advanced to Tongling, the southern line borders the entire line of Hangzhou Prefecture, Taihu Lake has directly become the inner lake of the Fat Army, the population has increased by more than half, and after a large number of prisoners of war of the Qing army have been recruited, the army has also reached an astonishing more than 200,000, and the overall strength has surpassed the Qing court in the last years of the wind and candle, second only to the southwest Wu army that is about to be divided, ranking second in the world - so it may be already the first in the world. In order to arm these armies and use troops to the west, the construction of the Tongling Arsenal has also been put on the agenda of the fat army.

The surrender of the Jiaxing defenders also gave Lu Fatzi a wake-up call, that is, the Jiaxing Qing army, which is basically composed of mites, can be surrendered, and the mite armies in other places may still follow suit, so Lu Fatzi soon issued another order, that is, to reiterate the four killing orders again, and take the initiative to push all the atrocities after the mites entered the customs to the four mites surnamed Aixin Jueluo, Hesheri, Tong Jiashi and Niu Colu, and asked the fat army not to kill and abuse the mite soldiers and people who were willing to surrender to the four surnames. At the same time, mites who do not have these four surnames are allowed to change to Han surnames, and those who can speak and write Chinese can also be given Han status.

Even if it was a four-surnamed mite, Lu Fatzi did not force them to the point of complete resistance, and mercifully allowed the captured and surrendered four-surnamed mites to be self-defeated, and allowed to be buried in the ground, and those who had conditions could also be rewarded with a severed head meal, and their bodies were returned to the hands of the Qing army to be buried in coffins. Kang Mazi's uncle Belle Shangshan was the first beneficiary of this policy, after Lu Fatzi gave him poisoned wine to commit suicide, he put his body in a coffin, sent it to the north bank of the Yellow River by boat, handed it over to the local government of Mites, and transported it back to his hometown in Mitesu for burial.

The repeated emphasis and perfection of the four killing orders have achieved satisfactory results, and the surrounding Qing army ranks that confronted the fat army are very seriously divided, the mite soldiers with the four surnames of non-evil slaves are full of confidence, and hold the idea that the fat army will surrender to save their lives as soon as they come, while the four evil slaves are panicked, complaining, complaining that they did not find the right mother's belly when they were reincarnated, and they are constantly fleeing, and even desperate suicides have appeared. In Yanjing City, the base camp of the mite Qing Dynasty, the panicked four evil slaves also fled back to Liaodong and fled back to their hometown in Tunguska.

At the beginning of August of the lunar calendar, the autumn harvest of rice in the south of the Yangtze River entered the **, just as Lu Fatzi led a large group of officials to the farmland every day to cheer up the people, but the people who asked for food came to the door, and there were two - Zheng Jing and Geng Jingzhong together cheekily sent a messenger to ask Lu Fatzi to reward some grain for the winter, because of the war and destruction, the autumn grain production in northern Zhejiang was greatly reduced, especially the Hangzhou Mansion far from the rear was almost no harvest, Geng Jun and Zheng Jun could not achieve local supply, and there was no main grain producing area in the rear, Zheng Jing and Geng Jingzhong, who had run out of military rations, had no choice but to speak to the big landlord Lu Fatzi, hoping that Lu Fatzi could help more or less for the sake of the anti-Qing rebels.

For the messenger sent by Zheng Jing, Lu Fatzi sprayed a mouthful of saliva directly on his face, scolding Zheng Jing for being ungrateful and ungrateful beasts, he gave Hangzhou Heaven and a large number of weapons and grass to Zheng Jing in vain, Hangzhou was in danger and sent troops to rescue, and benevolence and righteousness were exhausted to the extreme, but when the fat army was attacked from all sides, Zheng Jing not only did not help, but also deliberately let go of the road to let the Qing army and the Geng army join forces to attack the fat army. Zheng Envoy was speechless and left in shame.

To Geng Jingzhong's envoy, Lu Fatzi's attitude was extremely polite, and he also promised to give Geng Jingzhong 200,000 stone of military rations, Geng Jingzhong's envoy was overjoyed, but Lu Fatzi's next additional conditions made Geng Jingzhong's envoy almost cry - Geng Jingzhong's army must return to Fujian unconditionally and hand over the occupied Zhejiang Prefecture to the Fat Army to apologize, the reason is that Geng Jun and the Qing army joined forces to attack Huzhou and had betrayed the anti-Qing camp, so they did not deserve Zhejiang, only Geng Jun gave up Zhejiang, Only the Fat Army can forgive Geng Jingzhong's betrayal. At the same time, Lu Fatzi also asked Geng Jingzhong's army to unconditionally open the road passes in Fujian, so that the Fat Army's army could make a detour to Liangguang to attack Guo Zhuangtu. Geng Jingzhong's envoy left in embarrassment, sweating profusely.

It wasn't until the brazen Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing's envoys were sent away that Yao Qisheng, who accompanied him to meet him, said to Lu Fatzi: "General, at the moment our enemy is Guo Zhuangtu and the dead Mangou Imperial Court, at this time, even if you don't buy Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing, you shouldn't completely tear your face, why did the general deliberately provoke Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing and make enemies for yourself?" ”

"On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore?" Lu Fatzi sneered and said: "Geng Jingzhong's hundreds of thousands of rabble have been stationed in Hangzhou, and it is clear that they have ambitions for Jiangnan, if we show weakness, Geng Jingzhong's children will inevitably have to make inches and put forward more shameless conditions, the only way is to refuse forcefully, and not give him a chance to get on his nose and face!" ”

"As for Zheng Jing, it's not a good thing!" Speaking of this, Fat Lu paused and said: "Zheng Jing worked hard to maintain the enclave of Hangzhou, and did not use this as a foothold to annex Jiangnan's ambitions, who believes?" If I renew my covenant with him, he will surely continue to reach out for money, food, and weapons, and shall I give it or not? If Zheng Jing is given, he will still get an inch, ask for more grain and grass, military salaries and weapons, and maybe even make land claims, so wouldn't we be a tiger relic? ”

Of course, students understand these truths." Yao Qisheng said in a deep voice: "What the students are most worried about now is that if the three armies of Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing and the remnants of Zhejiang Mangou form an alliance and join forces to attack us, and Guo Zhuangtu is behind the scenes and provides weapon support, then we will be in trouble." ”

"Don't be afraid, this has long been in my consideration, and it is also the point I can't ask for the most." Lu Fatzi said confidently: "Even if these three miscellaneous branches form an alliance, they will definitely not work together, they will only look at each other's jokes, and try their best to preserve their strength and reap the benefits. Moreover, in this way, we can save a lot of expenses on the southern expedition by waiting for our work and fighting these three miscellaneous armies on our own territory, and at the same time we will have an excuse to recover the use value of Hangzhou's Zheng army, which is almost over, and it is time to take back Hangzhou. ”

"If these three miscellaneous roads confront us on the southern front, we are even more afraid." Lu Fatzi said more confidently: "Just a few days ago, General Liu Jinzhong, the first anti-Qing banner in Guangdong, sent a messenger to send me a secret letter, telling me that Zheng Jing'er was short-sighted and insatiable, and had rejected his proposal to let Zheng Jing'er return Geng Jingzhong to Tingzhou, Fujian, and planned to send troops to seize Shaowu, Yanping and Xinghua, and then annex the whole territory of Fujian (historical facts), Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing were completely opposed, General Liu Jinzhong was disheartened and determined to submit to our army, Serve as an inside line for our army to ambush inside Zheng Jing. ”

"If General Liu Jinzhong hadn't told a lie, then our southern front wouldn't have to worry." Yao Qisheng nodded and said: "The three miscellaneous tribes will attack together, and we will annihilate their main force with ease and wait, and then take advantage of the situation to go south." The three miscellaneous branches confront us, we just have to wait patiently, or it won't be long before the three miscellaneous branches will kill each other, and we will still reap the benefits. ”

"I'm afraid they don't even have the qualifications to confront us for a long time." Lu Fatzi laughed proudly, "The northern grain-producing areas of Zhejiang have been destroyed, and there is no way to supply the military food on the spot with the three miscellaneous pieces, and there is not much grain production in the rear, how long can it be supported by the long-distance transportation?" ”

Yao Qisheng is also hehe, knowing that the current situation in the world is already a fat man alone in the world, the fat army only needs to hold the essence of the territory, stabilize the inside, or it won't be long before the enemy stabbed all over the gunpowder will explode one after another, divided and cannibalistic, war is everywhere and the people are not happy, the fat army with money, food and internal stability will also Shi Shiran pick peaches, this peach is - Jiangshan.

In fact, when Lu Fatzi and Yao Qisheng said this, the powder keg inside the enemies of the Fat Man Army had gradually begun to explode, in mid-July, after receiving the news that Lu Fatzi had captured and killed Kang Mazi, Zheng Jing believed that Lu Fatzi must retaliate because of Geng Jingzhong's collusion with the Qing army, and also determined that Geng Jingzhong must not be Lu Fatzi's opponent, so Zheng Jing brazenly tore up Zheng Geng's peace proposal, and ordered the generals Feng Xifan and Wu Shu to send troops to attack Xinghua Mansion and Shaowu Mansion controlled by Geng Jingzhong respectively!

Zheng Jing betrayed the alliance and took the lead in cannibalism, Geng Jingzhong's true face of being strong and unpopular was exposed at this moment, Zheng Jun had just approached the city, Xinghua guard general Ma Chenglong and Shao Wu guard general Yang De did not make any resistance, and directly surrendered Kaicheng (historical facts, contained in the first volume of "Taiwan Province General Chronicles"), Zheng Jun successfully captured the two provinces, surrounded Yanping Mansion, the largest grain producing area in Fujian, and directly threatened Geng Jingzhong's base camp Fuzhou Mansion. When the news reached Zhejiang, Geng Jingzhong scolded and was determined to retaliate.

At the same time, the news of Wu Shicong's murder was also confirmed, as early as the end of May, Guo Zhuangtu falsely passed on the holy decree of Wu Laohan's annihilation, falsely claiming that Wu Laohan was seriously ill, and ordered Wu Shicong to return to Kunming to help Gu, Wu Shicong did not know what to do and hurriedly returned, but as soon as he entered the territory of Yunnan, he was poisoned by Guo Zhuangtu's henchman Xu Zhenming with poisonous wine, and then used Wu Shifan's reputation to convey to Wu Jun's generals, declaring that Wu Shicong was trying to rebel and had to kill him -- but this statement was not completely unfounded, once Wu Shicong knew that his father was killed by Guo Zhuangtu, Ironclad will definitely raise troops to ask for the guilt, and then he will definitely join forces with the more dangerous Lu Fatzi.

After receiving the news of the death of Wu Yingqi and his son, Lu Fatzi's father-in-law Wu Guogui played the Fengtian rebellion flag in Jingzhou, and spread the message that the soldiers and horses of the Wu army invited the alliance to Changde, and decided to kill Yungui to avenge his righteous brother - Wu Guogui can't do it if he doesn't do it, Guo Zhuangtu, who controls the Honghua dynasty, is so vicious to the Wu clan, Wu Guogui is the son of Wu Laohan, and he has won the hearts of the army with heavy troops, how could Guo Zhuangtu let him go?

Wu Yingjing took the lead in raising the flag in response, and sent troops from Changsha to Changde to join Wu Guogui, and also seized the Jijia Mountain firearms camp in the west of Changsha, and then Wu Guozhu and Wu Zhimao raised troops in Sichuan, as well as Xi'an Wang Pingfan and Xunyang Liu Zhifu and others also decided to respond, Xia Guoxiang and Ma Bao had an ambiguous attitude, did not express support or opposition, and Wu Yingqi had a grudge against Wang Fuchen, who secretly rejoiced, and watched the fire from the other side.

Civil strife is imminent, Hu Guozhu and Fang Guangchen, who have a view of the overall situation, stand up and work hard, but the result of the maneuver is doomed to failure, the Wu clan is impossible to reconcile with Guo Zhuangtu in order to protect themselves, and Guo Zhuangtu is impossible to give in in order to survive, and a huge storm that is about to sweep the entire territory controlled by the Wu army has gradually brewed and taken shape.

(To be continued)