Geng Jingzhong wanted to join forces with Tian Fengji to resist the fat army again, the abacus was too wishful and confident, Tian Fengji was loyal to Kang Mazi, but now Kang Mazi has been burned into the toilet by Lu Fatzi for the people to enjoy, Tian Fengji, who has no allegiance and has lost contact with all the Qing army teams, naturally there are only two choices left, one is to fight to the end alone, and pull the remnants of more than 30,000 Qing troops in his hand to accompany Kang Mazi for burial, and the other is to surrender to save his life and go to other courts to become an official and make a fortune. [No pop-up novel network]

Tian Fengji, who was instilled with the idea of loyalty to the monarch since he was a child, of course did not want to bow to the enemy, and Tian Fengji's origin also determined that he could not surrender to the fat army casually, Tian Fengji was a native of Hucun, Gaoping County, Shanxi, where it was also controlled by the Qing army, and the family was also very large, with hundreds of people, and also built a Panlong Village in the northeast of Hucun, and the family property was abundant. Therefore, in the case of Kang Mazi's capture and killing, and the friendly Geng Jingzhong and shameless rebellion, Tian Fengji still withdrew to Shaoxing with the remnants of the Qing army, hoping that a miracle would appear.

Of course, Tian Fengji was not willing to give Kang Mazi a funeral, ten years of hard study and finally admitted to a Jinshi, and it took 19 years to climb from a Shu Jishi to the position of a feudal official, how much hardship he endured during the period, how much effort and bitterness he paid, this finally climbed to the apex of the magistrate, but he was about to be buried with Kang Mazi, Tian Fengji is not a saint, how can he not have a little idea, no unwillingness? Therefore, after receiving the news of the southern expedition of the main force of the Fat Army, after hesitating again and again, Tian Fengji finally subconsciously sent his henchmen to infiltrate Hangzhou, trying to contact the high-level of the Fat Army, and testing whether the Fat Army could accept the surrender of the remnants of the Qing Army in Zhejiang, and whether he could accept the surrender of Tian Fengji himself.

The secret envoy was sent out, but whether it was a bloody battle with the Fat Army to the end, or Shuntian should surrender to the Fat Army, Tian Fengji actually hadn't made up his mind in his heart, even if the secret envoy brought the news that the Fat Army was about to surrender, Tian Fengji might not be able to make up his mind to surrender, let alone control the remnants of the more than 30,000 Qing troops, so that they could smoothly lay down their arms and surrender - Tian Fengji's deputy to lead the army, the Qing Dutong Mahada, surnamed Tong Jia, is a descendant of the four evil slave families that Lu Fatzi ordered to kill, and his hands are stained with Han blood. Lu Fatzi will not accept his surrender, and it is impossible for Mahada to surrender to Fatman, as long as Tian Fengji sent a secret envoy to contact the Fat Army, as long as he hears the slightest rumor, then Tian Fengji is likely to have no chance to surrender to the Fat Army.

The distance between Shaoxing Mansion City and Hangzhou City is not too far, on the afternoon of the ninth day of October, Tian Fengji's confidant Tian Qi sent to Hangzhou returned to Shaoxing from Hangzhou, bringing Tian Fengji accurate news about his contact with the Fat Army. Seeing Tian Qi returning, Tian Fengji was very cautious and deliberately asked Tian Qi in public why he had disappeared for a few days, where did he go? Tian Qi replied that his father-in-law who lived in Qianqing Town was seriously ill, and he went to Qianqing Town to visit his father-in-law before he had time to take leave, kowtow to Tian Fengji and ask for guilt, Tian Fengji scolded Tian Qi, so that Tian Qi went back to the room to rest, and teamed up with Tian Qi to act in front of other unreliable subordinates, so as not to leak the news.

More than half an hour later, Tian Fengji put aside everyone, went back to the study to rest under the pretext, and had a secret meeting with Tian Qi in the study. Have you seen the main general of the Great Zhou army? Is there any reply? ”

Tian Qi was a little depressed, and replied in a low voice: "Back to the master, the villain saw the Yue King Lu of the Great Zhou the night before yesterday, and also forwarded the lord your request to surrender the wax book, but after reading the wax book of the lord, and discussing with the important ministers of the Great Zhou court, he told the villain that he could not accept your surrender, master. ”

"Lord Lu doesn't believe me?" Tian Fengji was disappointed.

"No, it's not that the prince doesn't believe you, master." Tian Qi hurriedly shook his head, and said in a low voice: "Lord Lu asked the villain to tell the master, he believes that the lord you are sincere in surrendering, but he also learned some about your situation from Li Zhifang and Lord Li who surrendered before, and knows that the lord's family members are all in Shanxi, if you surrender, it will only harm your family." Also, Prince Lu is worried that General Mahada will not listen to your command, and even if you surrender, you will not be able to control the army, but you will be in danger. ”

"Li Zhifang? I really know this official. Tian Fengji smiled bitterly.

"Later, Lord Lu said it again." Tian Qi added in a low voice: "Lord Lu has arranged two choices for you, one is that after the war, you can escape to the port of Sanjiangchang, from there you can go to sea by boat, and go back to Shanxi by sea to reunite with your family, as long as you show the token he gave you, the Great Zhou army will not stop you." The second option is that after the Great Zhou army breaks through Shaoxing, you will secretly surrender to the Great Zhou army, and the Great Zhou army will announce in the war report that you have died in the line of duty, so as not to hurt the lord and your family, and then you can choose to sneak back to Shanxi secretly, or you can choose to wait for the Great Zhou army to hit Shanxi, rescue your family, and then you will appear in public. ”

As he spoke, Tian Qi took out a fat army token from the meat in his arms, and held it in front of Tian Fengji with both hands, Tian Fengji trembled and picked up the token with body temperature, and the seal characters on the token were dancing for a long time, and he couldn't help sighing, "Lord Lu, King Ren!" It was so thoughtful to be able to ...... for me. ”

"Master, what should I do?" Tian Qi asked in a low voice: "The two choices that Prince Lu gave you, which path do you choose?" ”

"Let's talk about it until we talk." Tian Fengji carefully put away the token, and said in a low voice with emotion: "Prince Lu has thought so much about me, I naturally want to try to repay his kindness." ”

On the same night, Geng Jingzhong's envoy Liu Yu also arrived in Shaoxing City, on behalf of Geng Jingzhong to the remnants of the Qing army to form an alliance against Lu, the Qing army diehards led by Mahada, Ekuna and Bao Hu were overjoyed, and unanimously asked their boss Tian Fengji to sign the covenant, Tian Fengji, who had the bottom in his heart, did not hesitate, and immediately signed his name on the covenant, and Geng Jun agreed to rescue each other, no matter which side the Fat Army sent troops to attack, the other side must unconditionally attack the back of the Fat Army. Liu Yu was overjoyed, and Ma Hada, who had been worried about Tian Fengji, a Han man betraying the Qing Dynasty, and other die-hard members of the Qing army also breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed their vigilance against Tian Fengji.

Still on the same night, there was a small-scale mutiny in the ranks of the Qing army, which had been in arrears for four months, more than 200 green battalion soldiers and more than 50 mite soldiers took the lead in making trouble, and rushed to Tian Fengji's provisional governor's yamen to demand pay, and also smashed the gate of Tian Fengji's yamen, Tian Fengji asked Mahada for help, and Mahada and Ekuna and other Qing army diehards attacked with iron fists, leading the army to slaughter more than 200 green battalion Han soldiers, and more than 50 mite soldiers were imprisoned, and the mutiny was quelled by force. However, the already low morale of the remnants of the Qing army was inevitably greatly affected again, and a scout team took advantage of the patrol to escape from Shaoxing City that night, and sneaked to Hangzhou overnight to surrender to the fat army. Mahada and other diehards of the Qing army were furious, and formed a large number of military law teams to patrol around, and found that the Qing soldiers had fled, and they were all beheaded!

While sneering at the dying struggles of Mahada and other diehards of the Qing army, Tian Fengji took advantage of the chaos of the soldiers' mutiny to send his henchmen to Hangzhou again to report to Lu Fatzi the news of the alliance between the remnants of the Qing army and Geng Jingzhong's army, and simply attached a copy of the covenant to facilitate Lu Fatzi's strategy to deal with it.

In fact, there is no need for Tian Fengji's kind informant, the remnants of the Qing army and the Geng army allied against Lu, which had already been expected by Lu Fatzi and his lackey Yao Qisheng and others, and had long been prepared to deal with it, after discovering that Geng Jingzhong's army abandoned Dusong Pass and withdrew to the new city, Lu Fatzi immediately ordered the fat army north of Dusong Pass Guo Yingfu to go south and stationed in Lin'an County to closely monitor every move of Geng's main force. At the same time, a large number of civilian ships were requisitioned and collected, preparing to cross the Qiantang River and march eastward, first taking the isolated remnants of the Qing army to sacrifice the flag.

On the tenth day of October, the preparation of the boats to cross the river was completed, and the 60,000 fat army horses and cavalry of the Eastern Expedition began to cross the river under the leadership of Li Tianzhi. In the evening of the same day, when all the 60,000 troops crossed the Qiantang River, the whistle-blowing letter of the shameless Qing Qing annihilation Tian Fengji was also sent to Lu Fatzi.

After reading the details of the alliance between the Qing army and the Geng army, Lu Fatzi scoffed and disagreed, but Li Tianzhi and Yao Qisheng and others did not dare to take it lightly, Li Tianzhi also took the initiative to say: "Lord Wang, if you don't want to leave a little more army in Hangzhou City, although Geng Jingzhong's army is rotten, but the army of Xincheng and Yanzhou combined, there are **10,000 people, if Geng Jingzhong comes to attack, there are only 10,000 defenders in Hangzhou, and I am afraid that it will be a little difficult to defend." ”

"No need, Geng Jingzhong won't come." Lu Fatzi smiled and said: "Geng Jingzhong'er is selfish, and he took the initiative to form an alliance just to use the remnants of the dog to weaken our army; Although Mangou is not much better, the remnants of Mangou are dying and struggling, and they agree to form an alliance with Geng Jingzhong in order to seize Geng Jingzhong's life-saving straw. Therefore, if our main force fights Geng Jingzhong first, the remnants of the dog will definitely come to the rescue with all their might, and to keep Geng Jingzhong is to protect themselves; If our main force first kills the remnants of the dogs, Geng Jingzhong will definitely not save them, and will only hide in a safe place to watch the fire from the other side, and use the remnants of the dogs to consume our troops. ”

"Although the words are reasonable, they ......."

Li Tianzhi also wanted to insist on leaving more troops for Lu Fatzi, but Lu Fatzi waved his hand and said: "Don't persuade you, just fight according to the original plan, you take 60,000 troops to Shaoxing and Ningbo, and I will take 10,000 troops to defend Hangzhou - in fact, the city of Hangzhou is so strong, and 10,000 troops are more than enough, and the people of Hangzhou will definitely not want to be robbed by Geng Jingzhong again." Also, your attack on Shaoxing and Ningbo is the first battle for our Great Zhouyue Palace's territorial expansion, don't let me down. ”

…………………… Facts have proved that Geng Jingzhong did not disappoint Lu Fatzi, and after discovering that the main force of the Fat Army crossed the Qiantang River and advanced towards Shaoxing, Tong Jia. The die-hard faction of the Qing army led by Mahada immediately asked Tian Fengji to send a messenger for help to Geng Jingzhong, and Tian Fengji, who was basically overthrown by the diehards, also immediately wrote a letter asking for help, asking Geng Jingzhong to fulfill the covenant and immediately send troops to attack Hangzhou, besiege Wei and rescue Zhao to relieve the Shaoxing crisis. But when the letter for help was sent to Geng Jingzhong Geng by the Qing army on a fast horse, Geng Wangye not only did not immediately order the army to attack, but also jumped three feet high happily and shouted:

"The herald Zeng raised the surname and Bai Xianzhong, and asked them to strictly restrain the army, and they were absolutely not allowed to take the initiative to provoke the Great Zhou army! As long as the Great Zhou army does not take the initiative to go to war, it is absolutely not allowed to shoot a single shot at them! ”

Geng Wangye's lackeys looked at each other, secretly admiring their master, Geng Wangye-Sure enough, he turned his face faster than turning a book. But there are also more sensible ones, Ma Jiuyu's right-hand man Li Yankui stood up, saluted to Prince Geng and said, "Lord Wang, isn't this good?" We have a relationship with Mangou with cold lips and teeth, and we have just formed an alliance, and the ink has not dried, and we will die immediately, isn't it ......? ”

"You know!" Geng Wang Ye shouted angrily: "Lu Gou has just sent troops, the edge is sharp, and we haven't gone far yet, we will immediately send troops to attack Hangzhou, except for hitting a head and breaking the bloodstream, what else can we take advantage of?" ”

"The prince is clever." Xu Wenyao hurriedly stood up and patted his ass, and said with a flattering face: "The prince's hand is too high, hold your troops for the time being, watch the fire from the other side, let Lu Gou and Man Gou kill each other, and wait for Lu Dog and Man Dog to fight each other and be exhausted, and then make a move, you can guarantee victory!" ”

"Guangwu still understands the heart of this king." Geng Wang Ye laughed and said: "As long as the army is kept and the strength is maintained, the more fierce the fight between Lu Gou and Man Gou, the better, even if it is not a lose-lose situation in the end, as long as Man Gou can consume part of Lu Gou's strength, it will be much easier for this king to send troops to fight Lu Gou again!" ”

"The prince is clever, clever, and unpredictable." Geng Wangye's henchmen echoed it and patted their ass. So, less than ten days after signing the new alliance, our Geng Wangye once again reneged on the alliance and renounced the contract, ordering the army to stand still and watch the fat army encircle and suppress the remnants of the Qing army.

Geng Jun's movements were transmitted back to Hangzhou, and our Lord Lu sneered, and quickly ordered: "Send a fast horse to order Guo Yingfu, maintain restraint, don't provoke Geng Jingzhong's children for the time being, and then send a messenger to Zeng Yang's surname and Bai Xianzhong to send some good wine, meat and beautiful women to close the relationship and facilitate surrender in the future." ”

The order was transmitted to Lin'an County, and Guo Yingfu, the general of the Fat Army stationed here, immediately followed the order, in the name of contacting feelings, and sent wine and sheep to the Geng Army generals Zeng Yang and Bai Xianzhong, who were confronting him, plus two Jiangnan women, Zeng Yang's surname and Bai Xianzhong were overjoyed, smiled unceremoniously, wrote back to thank him, and called Guo Yingfu brother and brother in the letter.

Geng Wangye did not disappoint Lu Wangye, Li Tianzhi did not disappoint Lu Wangye, October 14, along the canal eastward Fat Army 60,000 troops approached the city of Shaoxing, because it was found that the Fat Army carried not many rocket launchers, the remnants of the Qing army mustered up the courage to go out of the city to fight, the two sides set up a position in the western suburbs of Shaoxing, and launched a decisive battle.

The formation was set, and it was found that there were indeed not many rocket launchers placed in front of the Fat Army, and the die-hard faction of the Qing Army was determined, and the hardcore Han Annihilated Bao Hu and Mahada instructed, so he led 800 elite cavalry to avoid the front of the Fat Army's three-good rocket array, and hit the right flank of the Fat Army, in a vain attempt to reproduce the glory of the previous decisive battle in Xiaoshan. But it is a pity that the Fat Army is not Taiwan's Zheng Army, which has a negative land combat strength, and the quantity and quality of the cavalry are several times and more than ten times that of the Zheng Army.

On the cavalry battlefield, the cavalry of the two armies come and go, flying arrows like locusts, the snowy sabers dance like snow, the fighting is so tense that the onlookers are nervous and breathless, the wildly jumping war horses jump vertically and horizontally, and there are bursts of chilling collision sounds between the blood blades, some are cut off their hands and feet, some are cut off the Tianling cover, and the blood flowers are colorful like rain, sprinkled on the yellow land of Shaoxing in late autumn. Seeing such a scene, Mahada and Ekuna and other diehards of the Qing army inevitably looked at each other and trembled, only to know that the fat army was not only powerful in firearms, but also far superior in cavalry strength to the Zheng army and Geng army that the Qing army in Zhejiang had encountered before.

At this time, the cavalry on both flanks of the Fat Army moved again, and the new Qing Annihilation Hutu behind Zhu Sanshui led 3,000 cavalry to attack, bypassing the cavalry battlefield to outflank the left flank of the Qing army on the opposite side, and according to the gourd pattern, it was also the cavalry that raided the flank of the Qing army; The old Qing on the left flank of the Fat Army's Fat Army annihilated Itambu even more, leading 5,000 Fat Army cavalry to go around a big circle, and even went directly to outflank the rear of the Qing army's formation, forcing Mahada to dispatch the right wing army to intercept Itambu's army.

The thunderous cannon sounded, and the thirty Hongyi cannons lined up in front of the fat army's formation opened fire together, pouring the flowering shells directly onto the heads of the Qing army, and in the rumbling explosion, the Qing army began to be confused. At the same time, the infantry front of the Fat Army, which was basically composed of Qing troops, also strode forward and strode forward towards the front of the Qing army. And at this point, Mahada and Ekuna and other Qing generals finally woke up, understanding that the Fat Army was beating teachers with apprentices, learning from themselves, and using the Qing Army to defeat the Qing Army.

The fierce battle on the infantry battlefield entered the white heat from the beginning, and the Qing army who surrendered to the fat army surrendered to show their loyalty, cutting down their former companions mercilessly, and becoming more and more ferocious. Most of the Qing soldiers were demoralized, and they couldn't withstand the fierce impact of the fat army infantry, and they were killed by the fat army and retreated, striding backwards, Mahada sent two supervision teams to intercept and slash in succession, but they couldn't let the Qing army infantry come forward, and finally even the Qing army supervision team began to retreat, and there were even those who surrendered to the battlefield - what is the use of stubborn resistance to bloody battles? I haven't received my military salary for four months, and even if I win the bloody battle, I can get a penny of military salary? It's better to surrender early.

The situation of the cavalry battlefield on both wings is similar, except for a small number of die-hard cavalry of the Qing army, most of them are soldiers who have no fighting spirit, and they will have no fighting spirit, and they have been repeatedly impacted by the wolf-like fat army cavalry several times, and soon there are signs of loosening, and the loosening is getting faster and faster, bigger and bigger, especially after Zhu Sanshui cut off the head of the hardcore Han Annihilation Bao Hu, the eight hundred elite cavalry of the Qing army who took the lead in the attack took the lead in collapsing, and they did not even dare to return to the formation, and were chased and slashed by the roaring Zhu Sanshui army and fled directly to Shaoxing City, ten miles away.

Seeing such a scene, the Qing army was inevitably even more panicked, and the defeat was faster, but Lu Zhangtai, the righteous brother of the king of Yue who was named as the superintendent of the army, was so happy that he jumped and kept shouting, "Sanshui, do a good job, don't embarrass me!" Don't disgrace me! ”

The old Qing Dynasty on the left wing is not weak, in the melee, Itambu led more than 100 elite cavalry to kill directly to the cavalry general Qi Linbu of the Qing army, while shouting surrender in mite language, while desperately penetrating, after thousands of difficulties and dangers, finally rushed to Qi Linbu, Qi Linbu waved his knife to fight, the whole body has been dyed red by the blood of the mite soldiers, but the more brave the saber, the more fierce the sabre is, Qi Linbu couldn't parry the horse and ran away, but was tripped by the corpse of the war horse on the ground, screaming and falling off the horse, Itambu rushed up and cut off his head, Carrying the rat braid on his head and waving and roaring, the Qing cavalry was timid, and they turned their horses' heads and fled to the east.

When the Fat Army infantry pressed to the front of the Qing Army's large array, Li Tianzhi finally put in the second team of Fat Army infantry, and stepped forward to join the battle group, while shouting the slogan of surrender and not killing, while launching a series of attacks on the Qing Army's infantry array, like a huge hammer, violently and continuously knocking on the front of the Qing Army's infantry, the Qing Army's team was difficult to support, and the formation was gradually chaotic, but the Fat Army was rushing more and more fiercely, and scattered the three Qing infantry phalanxes one after another, and the rest of the Qing Army was even more frustrated, and it was already chaotic before the Fat Army killed in front of them, There were constantly deserters running out of the queue to flee for their lives, and the Qing army supervised the war team desperately to cut down the deserters, but they always achieved great success.

Among the four major army commanders of the Fat Army, only Li Tianzhi did not lead the Suzhou Army to cooperate with Lu Fatzi to personally command a large-scale decisive battle, and the number of meritorious deeds established was also the least, but this was not because Lu Fatzi did not trust Li Tianzhi, but because Lu Fatzi trusted Li Tianzhi too much, and compared with Gao Dejie, Han Daren, Wang Xu, these heavy generals of the Fat Army, although Li Tianzhi has the smallest reputation and the most inconspicuous, he is the most stable one, and his combat style is even more stable and cannot be stable, even in the case of obvious dominance, Li Tianzhi never ordered a general attack, but just let the first two infantry put into the battlefield continue to attack, keep knocking, and consume the Qing infantry little by little, and never take risks until the moment of victory. Therefore, when the front and both wings of the Qing army were turned upside down, at least half of the fat army was still standing still, coldly watching their companions fighting in front, patiently waiting for the victory to come.

Li Tianzhi's most conservative tactics are the most headache tactics for the actual commander of the Qing army, Mahada, because unlike the fat army, the remnants of the Qing army in Zhejiang have lost contact with all friendly troops, and they can't count on reinforcements and troop supplies. Therefore, Li Tianzhi's countervailing style of play happened to hit Mahada's seven inches, and he only suffered a loss, and he and Qisheng encountered Li Tianzhi's steady tactics, and he couldn't find the slightest chance to win, and Mahada was completely helpless.

The frontal battle of attrition lasted from noon to more than half of the unitary hour, and it took five hours before Li Tianzhi finally sent the third Fat Army infantry team forward to strengthen the frontal offensive that had been weakened by physical exertion and soldier casualties, but there were still more than 20,000 Fat Army infantry who continued to stand still and continue to wait for the opportunity to attack. Seeing this situation, and seeing the fresh force of the Fat Army rushing in front of him to fight, Mahada finally couldn't hold on anymore and shouted: "Mingjin! The front team becomes the back team, the back team becomes the front team, and the battle and retreat, retreat to Shaoxing to defend the city! ”

"General Ma, at this time, Ming Jin, Wu Gou will definitely have a full-scale general attack, which will increase our casualties." Deputy Ekuna exclaimed.

"If we continue to fight like this, we won't even have the strength to defend the city!" Mahada yelled with red eyes, "Withdraw! Keep your troops and defend the city! Fuck your mother's Wu dog, relying on a lot of people to bully people, if Lao Tzu has backup and troops to replenish, anyway, he will die as a Han dog, Lao Tzu will be afraid of confronting you?! ”

(To be continued)