On the third day of the Lu Fatzi direct army stationed in Suzhou, and also on the 24th day of November in the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi, the 16,000 people of the Suzhou Corps of the Fat Army, who had not been trained in actual combat, were personally led by the corps commander Li Tianzhi to take the Kunshan official road to the east to attack Songjiang Mansion, the only one in southern Jiangsu controlled by the Qing army. Lu Fatzi temporarily sat in Suzhou in person, while directing the army and people to load the military salaries and grains stolen by the Fat Army from Hangzhou, and send them back to Nanjing's nest along the canal, while providing backup for Li Tianzhi.

Lu Fatzi said that he personally served as a backup for the Suzhou Legion, but the top and bottom of the Suzhou Legion of the Fat Army knew very well that Lu Fatzi was here to check the training results of the Suzhou Legion after the expansion and formation of the army, and also to observe whether the Suzhou Legion could be entrusted with important tasks in the future war, otherwise, with the current high morale of the Fat Army's direct legion, there is almost no difficulty in breaking through Songjiang, and there is no need to exchange defense with the Suzhou Legion at all, and the Suzhou Legion will fight Songjiang.

It is precisely because of this truth that the Suzhou Legion is ready to show its strength from top to bottom, take the unlucky Songjiang Qing Army to try out the knife, and make a good start to show Lu Fatzi. Li Tianzhi, one of the oldest lackeys of Lu Fatzi, the commander of the Suzhou Legion, and Yang Yingyuan, the old man of the Wu Army, the deputy commander of the army, also specially convened all the generals to hold a pre-war mobilization meeting when they set out on the expedition, and agreed that whether it is a siege or a field charge, the generals must take the lead in encouraging the morale of their own troops, and playing military prestige to satisfy Lu Fatzi and make the enemy afraid!

God made a big joke with the Suzhou Corps of the Fat Army, when the Suzhou Corps just approached the north gate of Songjiang Mansion Shanghai County, the Shanghai defenders who were only a small county at that time had already abandoned the city and fled, and the order to abandon the city was still given by Hu Tu, the guard general of Songjiang Mansion of the Qing Army, and Chen Zhizuo, the magistrate of Shanghai, did not flee - but he directly opened the city and surrendered, and before the Fat Army could do anything, he cut the tail of the mouse himself, and also forced the people of the city to cut the tail of the mouse, So that the Suzhou Legion of the Fat Army, which was holding back its strength, couldn't even find a person to vent to.

There was no way, Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan could only kill Songjiang City non-stop, not only arranged the siege steps in advance on the way, but also sent an army south separately to set up an ambush in Xiaozheng Village, the only way to Songjiang to Jiaxing official road, preparing to intercept the Qing army's Jiaxing rescuers, and ambush Hutu's defeated army out of the city, and strive to kill the thousands of Qing troops in Songjiang City cleanly, and show the military might of the Suzhou Legion of the Fat Army!

On November 28, the Suzhou legion of the Fat Man Army was under the city of Songjiang, Li Tianzhi didn't say a word, and immediately asked Qin Yong, who was sent by Lu Fatzi to assist him, to line up more than 300 artillery pieces outside the north gate of Songjiang, 50 siege ladders and 50 folding bridges used to deal with the moat were also lined up, and thousands of light flying ladders were also prepared. In addition, Li Tianzhi's deputy Yang Yingyuan also personally selected and formed a siege death squad of 1,000 people, promising a heavy reward, as long as this death squad can rush to the Songjiang city wall for the first time and not die, then each person will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver!

The siege preparations have just been arranged, and the Fat Army artillery team has just begun to load and reload, which made Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan and other senior generals of the Fat Army stunned together, and a white flag was raised above the Songjiang City Tower! Immediately after the suspension bridge fell to the ground, the city gate was opened, and Zhang Shengqu, the prefect of Songjiang, who had already cut off his braids, led countless people and gentry out of the city to kneel and surrender, and told Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan tremblingly that Hu Tu, the deputy commander of the Qing army, received the order to abandon the city from the tower, and had fled for his life with the five thousand Zhejiang Qing troops in the city yesterday evening.

"Hutu Xiaoer, I fuck your mother's eighteenth generation ancestor!" Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan scolded together, thinking of paying the bounty of the 1,000-person death squad that was intact, Li Tianzhi and Yang Yingyuan had an urge to tear Hu Tusheng apart!

The news was transmitted back to Suzhou, and Lu Fatzi, who had planned to take the opportunity to observe the situation of the Suzhou Legion, was also crying and laughing, not only proud that his military might had made Zhejiang full of dogs, but also secretly admired the wise choice of the tower, Songjiang and Jiaxing City The Qing army defenders are not much, if you insist on defending the two cities together, you will only disperse the troops, and be more easily broken by the Fat Army, and you can't do the Fat Army in the field to rescue each other, and you can't stop the Fat Army's three-good rocket, it's better to give up a city and defend a city in Jiaxing alone There is still some hope, and it is somewhat certain.

"The owner, General Li Tianzhi and General Yang Yingyuan also asked the order to go south to attack Jiaxing City, whether it is allowed, please ask the owner to show down." Wang Shaobo asked respectfully with Li Tianzhi's military intelligence report.

Lu Fatzi thought for a while, and quickly shook his head and said: "Don't fight, let Li Tianzhi leave an army to guard Songjiang, and the main force will return to Suzhou, Songjiang prefect Zhang Shengqu will stay in his original post and be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and as long as the other Songjiang officials surrender, none of them will move, and all the original posts will be retained." ”

"Dongjia, Jiaxing borders Huzhou, Songjiang and Suzhou, which are controlled by our army." Wang Shaobo reminded: "If this nail is not removed, the main force of the dog will come on both roads, and it will be difficult for the rear of our army to have peace." ”

"But if this nail is removed, the Taiwanese army in Hangzhou may be bigger." Lu Fatzi sneered: "If we solve the problem of Jiaxing Mangou again, Liu Guoxuan will have no threat from the north, and Mangou will be sandwiched between him from the three breads, he will have to go north if he wants to develop, and when the time comes, he will reach out to us for money, food, land and population, do we promise or not?" It is better to let Liu Guoxuan continue to be attacked on all sides, which can not only disturb the situation on the southern front, but also prevent him from taking the opportunity to sit big and threaten our southern front. ”

"The general has a point." Yao Qisheng echoed: "For our army, the more chaotic the situation on the southern front, the more beneficial it will be to our army. Leave a Jiaxing Mansion for Mangou, and if necessary, we can also use Jiaxing's Mangou to stop the threat from Geng Jingzhong for us. ”

Wang Shaobo is quite clever, but he is not enthusiastic in terms of strategic vision, and he is very puzzled by the singing and harmony of Lu Fatzi and Yao Qisheng, but he can only obediently accept the order and plan to order Li Tianzhi to return to Suzhou. After the order was passed to Li Tianzhi, Li Tianzhi was greatly disappointed, but he did not dare to disobey the military order, so he had to obediently return to the division, leaving the general Xue Qilong to lead an army of 3,000 to guard Songjiang, and the main force returned to Suzhou empty-handed to change guards with Lu Fatzi, so that Lu Fatzi could withdraw and return to Nanjing's lair.

On the second day of the lunar month, Lu Fatzi set off from Suzhou to return to Nanjing, and before leaving, Lu Fatzi repeatedly explained to Li Tianzhi that without his own orders, no matter what happens on the southern front, Li Tianzhi's corps must take a defensive position, and must not rashly attack to attack the city and conquer the city, exposing the relatively empty rear hinterland of the Fat Army. At the same time, he also asked Li Tianzhi to prepare more ships, maintain close waterway ties with Huzhou, and regard Huzhou as a buffer zone between the Fat Army and various forces on the southern front. Li Tianzhi honestly agreed and sent Lu Fatzi's army away.

At this point, the crisis on the southern front of the Fat Army has been basically resolved, and even the heavily damaged Qing Army in Zhejiang has lost its base camp, and it can no longer pose a big threat to the southern front of the Fat Army. At the same time, Huzhou controlled by Guo Yingfu's Fat Army and Hangzhou City controlled by Taiwan's Liu Guoxuan Department constituted a double insurance for the southern line of the Fat Army, and Huzhou and Suzhou had Taihu Lake waterways to pass, and the Fat Army's heavy grain and grass could be continuously sent into Huzhou City through Taihu Lake and Tiaoxi, so as to maintain the normal operation of this salient, maintain long-term sustainable combat capability, and prevent all accidents.

On the triumphant road, the main force of the Fat People's Army is quite beautiful, and the people organized by the local government are everywhere to welcome them -- anyway, it is now a farmer's leisure, and there are flowers and applause everywhere, and literati and Confucian scholars recite poems and write articles to pat each other -- but it is not surprising that since the entry of the Mites Qing Dynasty, the Jiangnan literati have always been the key targets of slaughter and looting, and they are also one of the most active groups of people with anti-Qing ideology. These literati and Confucian scholars naturally support and look forward to the Fat Scout Army very much.

It was also at this time that Lu Fatzi, who was entangled by Xiao Chili like kraft candy all day long, remembered a big event, and hurriedly summoned Huang Yanbo, Xiao Chili's father, and gave him an official position outside the Great Zhou Rite Cao Yuan, so that he would work with local officials to prepare for the Great Zhou Jiangnan Township Examination, that is, to hold the first imperial examination of the Great Zhou Dynasty - Lu Fatzi, the first talent of the Great Zhou, of course looked down on the imperial examination, but these Jiangnan literati had been taking the imperial examination for more than a thousand years, and suddenly they were not allowed to take the examination, so we can only coax it temporarily, and then start reforming when the overall situation is decided.

Regarding the appointment and explanation of the cheap son-in-law Lu Fatzi, Huang Yanbo, who is enthusiastic about fame, was very happy and happily agreed, but Lu Fatzi's fiancée Xiao Chili was very dissatisfied, and pestered Lu Fatzi to ask his fiancé to change his father's official position - of course, to manage money and grain, salt, taxes, and customs. It's a pity that Fat Lu is very wary of this little pepper fiancée, and refuses to agree to anything, just temporarily coaxing this insatiable little pepper, while thinking about when he can overthrow this little trouble, vent the evil fire as soon as possible, and not hurt her immature body.

"Xianggong, why do you keep looking at me like this?" When the ship arrived in Changzhou, Fat Lu's evil eyes full of lust finally aroused Little Pepper's vigilance, and he took the initiative to leave Fat Lu's arms for the first time, and asked with some fear: "Why do you always look at my chest and legs, and your eyes are still so strange?" Still swallowing? ”

"Is there one?" Fat Lu asked casually, a pair of squinting mung bean eyes couldn't help but fall on Xiao Chili's flat green chest, and quietly swallowed another mouthful of salivation, and the magic hand quietly put it on Xiao Chili's delicate thighs. The hot palm temperature frightened Little Pepper almost jumped up, and couldn't help but ask again: "Xianggong, do you have a fever?" Why are your hands so hot? ”

"Nope." Lu Fatziyin laughed, "Xianggong is not a fever, he is a little ......." ”

"Young Master, Master Yao, Mr. Young Uncle, and Doctor Zhu ask to see you." Xiao Erlang, who suddenly entered the cabin, interrupted Lu Fatzi's silver smile, and also prevented Lu Fatzi's further bestiality, forcing Lu Fatzi to let go of Little Pepper and sit up straight, and reluctantly agreed to meet him, and Xiao Pepper over there also found that things were not good, and quickly escaped from the cabin under the pretext of not daring to disturb Lu Fatzi's office, and kept his innocence and chastity.

In fact, Yao Qisheng, Wang Shaobo and others had already stood at the door of the cabin, and when they heard Lu Fatzi's order to receive them, they all entered the cabin without Xiao Erlang's conveyance, and passed by Xiao Chili. But these three old and new lackeys of Fat Lu obviously didn't have the heart to study what happened to Fat Lu and Little Pepper in the cabin, why did Little Pepper blush and escape from the cabin, just saluted Fat Lu, Wang Shaobo immediately said straight to the point: "Boss, here, Mangou is finally here." ”

"The main force of the dog is here?" Fat Lu hurriedly asked.

Wang Shaobo nodded, and said in a deep voice: "I just received the news that the Mangou Imperial Court has reactivated Prince An Yue Le, leading an army of 120,000, known as 200,000, and on November 23, he set out from the capital to the south, and the spearhead was directly aimed at us. ”

"120,000 troops?" Lu Fatzi hurriedly asked, "Where did these 120,000 troops come from?" How is it structured? How many cavalry, infantry and ships were there? What road to take to go south? Did you find out? ”

"Not yet." Wang Shaobo replied: "Our detailed work is from the news from the false edict promulgated by the Mangou Emperor, and there is no way to find out the specific situation of the Mangou Southern Expedition. ”

"That's right." Lu Fatzi nodded, frowned and thought for a while, Lu Fatzi gave three orders in a row: "First, send an order to the whole army, speed up the speed of returning to the division, and be sure to return to Nanjing before the tenth day of the lunar month." Second, we should send more meticulous officers and scouts, closely monitor every move of the Mangou army, and use gold and silver to bribe Mangou officials who have secret contacts with us, and collect all available information. Third, inform Gao Dejie and let him prepare to meet the enemy, strengthen the defense of Yangzhou, Tianchang, Gaoyou, Xinghua, and Baoying, especially the reconnaissance of the enemy situation in the north of Baoying, and must be strengthened. ”

Lu Fatzi's order was very concise and clear, Yao Qisheng, Wang Shaobo and others immediately agreed, Yao Qisheng said: "General, the news of the student's anti-Qing campaign should not have reached Mangou Beijing, and the student plans to write a letter to Huang Xiyan to try his luck, and strive to find out the specific situation of the Mangou Southern Expedition from him." ”

"It's worth a try, and the military division will arrange it as soon as possible." Fat Lu nodded, then turned to Zhu Fangdan and ordered: "Doctor Zhu, you go to see Huang Yanbo immediately, and ask him to immediately write a letter to his father, Huang Ji, the secretary of the Mangou Minister, and ask Huang Ji to provide us with the Mangou military information." Zhu Fangdan agreed, and hurriedly went down separately with Yao Qisheng and Wang Shaobo to arrange the arrangement, and Lu Fatzi also broke off Xiao Pepper's mind on the way home, and began to concentrate on preparing for the war, and urged the main force to return to the division as soon as possible, and poor Xiao Pepper temporarily kept his innocence.

Probably because Lu Fatzi had used up all his luck, on the way back to Nanjing, bad news came one after another, first the Qing army in southern Jiangxi retreated one after another to Raozhou, Guangxin and other places in northeast Jiangxi, which seriously threatened the security of the western front of the fat army; Then it was confirmed that Xia Guoxiang had crossed Poyang Lake on the fifth day of the first month of November and began to march to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it was also confirmed that Du Hui, the chief general of the Wu army's naval division, also led the naval division to the expedition, making the eastward march of the Wu army to more than 70,000 troops; And the most thunderous thing is Ma Bao's bad species, after fighting with Jieshu in the Luzhou area for several months without winning or losing, Ma Bao, who has run out of grain, grass and firearms, has given up attacking Luzhou, turned around and entered Lu'an Mansion in the southwest, and has captured Huoshan County in Lu'an Prefecture.

If you can't beat it, it is true that it is Ma Bao's rogue style, but he chose to flow to the southwest of Anhui at this critical moment, but it created two dangers and troubles for the Fat Army. First, Ma Bao's army will flow into the west of Anqing Mansion, meet with Xia Guo in the area of Wangjiang County, and even directly meet Xia Guo under Anqing City, and jointly attack Anqing City. The second is that without Ma Bao's friendship, Jieshu, who hates Lu Fatzi and hates it so much, can also free his hands and threaten the northwest defense line of the Fat Man Army again, and even enter Chuzhou eastward, directly threatening Lu Fatzi's old nest Nanjing City and Yangzhou Mansion, the north gate of the Fat Man Army, and echoing with Yue Le to attack Yangzhou, so that the major legions of the Fat Man Army are facing the dilemma of fighting their own battles.

In a hurry, the main force of the Fat Army finally returned to Zhenjiang City on the eighth day of the lunar month, and met with Li Guodong, the deputy commander of the Gao Dejie Army stationed here. However, to Lu Fatzi's joy and surprise, Gao Dejie also brought a handwritten letter from his fiancée Xiao Chili and his grandfather Huang Ji, and Gao Dejie also told Lu Fatzi that the letter was just received the day before, or Huang Ji's henchmen and family members disguised themselves as private businessmen and sent it to Yangzhou, and asked Gao Dejie to forward it to Lu Fatzi, and repeatedly explained that the letter contained confidential matters.

The letter was sealed with a firearm, Gao Dejie also knew the rules and did not open it privately, when Lu Fatzi took it and took a closer look, he was pleasantly surprised to find that in addition to hoping that Lu Fatzi would treat his children and grandchildren well, Huang Ji also provided the most needed military secrets for the Fat Army at present - that is, the list of the main generals of Yue Le's army, the composition of the troops, the source of soldiers, the supply of grain and grass, and even the top secret that the Qing Dynasty can only support Yue Le's army for half a year at most, and the old Qing Dynasty Huang Ji also leaked to Lu Fatzi without reservation.

"Hahaha......!" After reading it, Fat Lu laughed happily as a matter of course, "I was almost scared to death by Yue Leman's dog, and after a long time, Yue Le'er's so-called 120,000 army is all a group of rabble!" Even the food and grass military salary is only enough for half a year, and you still want to fight Lao Tzu's Jiangnan? ”

"What? And this good thing? Gao Dejie, Li Guodong, Yao Qisheng and others all asked in surprise.

Fat Lu laughed and handed Huang Ji's letter to Gao Dejie and others, and after reading it, several fat soldiers and thieves immediately put their hearts back in their stomachs and laughed happily. Only Li Guodong was more stable and asked, "General, is this yellow machine reliable?" Will he deliberately give us false information to make us take it lightly? ”

"Absolutely not!" Lu Fatzi waved his hand proudly and said with a smile: "In order to leave a way for his family's life and the glory and wealth of his descendants, the old boy has quietly promised his granddaughter to me before, and now all his children, grandchildren, sons-in-law and all family property are in our hands, even if we borrow a hundred guts from him, we dare not provide false information!" ”

"Hah!" Gao Dejie waved his fist excitedly, and said confidently: "Brother Lu, you don't need to dispatch your direct legion, one of my Yangzhou legions is enough, and I will kill Yue Leman's 120,000 rabble for you!" ”

"If the information is true, our Yangzhou legion is indeed enough." Li Guodong nodded and said: "This Mangou army from the north is only a large number of people, and the weaponry and soldier quality are not our opponents at all, a Yangzhou legion is enough to kill this Mangou army and return with a crushing defeat!" ”

"General Gao, General Li, it's better to be cautious." Wang Shaobo reminded: "Please don't forget the two generals, the commander of this army full of dogs is Yue Le, and the deputy commanders are Dong Weiguo and Tu Hai. ”

"In the face of absolute strength, no matter how clever the stratagem and how high the morale is, it is useless." Yao Qisheng opened his mouth and said in a deep voice: "But it is also appropriate to be cautious and cautious, the students think that it is best for our army to choose the tactics of each breakdown, and choose the defense strategy for other battlefields, and concentrate on solving the full dog soldiers all the way first, and the next battle will be easy to fight." ”

"If we choose the tactics of each break, we can first choose Yue Lemangou's way." Wang Xu interjected and said: "Huang Ji wrote very clearly in the letter, this time the Emperor Mangou asked Yue Le to control the soldiers and horses of Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces, and work together to encircle and suppress us, Yue Le is the commander of Mangou and his strength is actually the weakest, if we concentrate on killing Yue Le first, the other Mangou will lose their unified command, and it will not be a worry." ”

"Also, Yue Lemangou is here to recapture Jiangnan." Gao Dejie added with a smile: "Since we want to recapture Jiangnan, we must take an offensive, and if we take an offensive, we must attack the city and fight in the field, defend the city and fight in the field, are we still afraid of this rabble?" ”

"Guys, have you heard a story?" Fat Lu, who had been blinking mung beans and calculating with small eyes, suddenly opened his mouth and asked a clueless word.

"What's the story?" The heads of the Fat Army and the thieves looked at each other, and said in their hearts, "Do you still have the heart to tell a story?"

"It's the story of a marksman." Lu Fatzi said slowly: "On the Western battlefield, on the position of the confrontation between the two armies, the warring sides like to send some marksmen, holding a special musket that shoots very far and accurately, hiding in the dark and putting cold guns to kill the enemy, this tactic is called sniper tactics, and these marksmen are also called snipers in the West. ”

"Once, when two armies were fighting, the commander of one army went to inspect the position, and the soldiers reported that there was a sniper on the enemy's position, who liked to shoot people with cold guns all day long, but his marksmanship was very bad, and he never hit once, and he often exposed his target and was discovered by himself. The general asked, "Then why don't you hurry up and shoot him to death?" Guess what the Western soldier answered? ”

"How did you answer that?" The leaders of the Fat Army asked one after another.

Fat Lu smiled and said, "The soldier replied, 'Are we stupid?' If we kill that sniper with bad marksmanship, and change the enemy to a sniper with accurate marksmanship, then we will be miserable?! ”

The fat man laughed and said that the story was good, it made sense, and the soldier was very smart. Only Yao Qisheng thought for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he blurted out: "The general wants to say that if we kill Yue Le's dog-filled army first, it will be a fool?" Since Yue Le's team of full dogs can't pose a threat to us at all, we don't need to pay attention to him, and we can leave him behind, lest the Mangou Emperor draw a more powerful army from other battlefields. ”

"That's only half right." Fat Lu smiled again and said, "Actually, that stupid sniper has another advantage for the enemy, that is, wasting expensive special ammunition - Huang Ji has already made it very clear in the letter that the Mangou Imperial Court can only support Yue Le's campaign for half a year at most. Jiangxi Mangou, Anhui Mangou and Zhejiang Mangou have some grain-producing areas in the controlled fields, and the grain and grass are barely enough to be self-sufficient. Can I be self-sufficient? ”

"Of course not, the dog-filled Shandong has always relied on the grain to maintain, and now the dog's transport has been cut off by us, and the grain produced in those two provinces is not enough for the people to eat, so what else can they use to support the dog-filled army?" Gao Dejie also came to his senses and said happily: "Therefore, we must not kill Yue Le's army full of dogs first, we should try to delay time with him, let him, a stupid sniper, keep emptying his guns, and constantly waste the precious grain and grass of Mangou, even if Mangou draws elite soldiers from other battlefields in the future, there will be no military salary, grain and grass available!" ”

"It's good to understand." Fat Lu nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Actually, for our army, leaving Yue Le's army full of dogs has a better use, a better use." ”

"What's the use?" The head of the fat army and the thieves hurriedly asked again.

"Heavenly Machine, Don't Leak!" Fat Lu laughed and sold a pass, but a long-lost figure gradually appeared in his mind, an ugly figure with a pitted face.

(To be continued)