The day of October 27 of the twelfth year of Kang Mazi in the Great Qing Dynasty was undoubtedly the most proud day since he ascended the throne for Kang Mazi, the supreme chief of the Taqing Dynasty who had been anxious for a long time.

As for why Zhou Peigong, the deputy commander of the Baoyi Army, personally sent the heads of the Burnie brothers back to Beijing? This is not entirely our Zhou Peigong Zhou handsome guy who wants to show his face and ask for credit, the main thing is that this time quickly quelled Burnie's rebellion, Zhou Peigong is indeed a great meritorious, playing an irreplaceable and important role, it can even be said that without the existence of Zhou Peigong, it is absolutely impossible for Burnie's rebellion to be pacified so quickly!

In view of the vast and sparsely populated grassland terrain and the high mobility of the Mongol cavalry, the top and bottom of the Qing court, including Kang Mazi, believed that this counterinsurgency war would be protracted and would not end in half a year -- this was also an important reason why Kang Mazi was determined to draw troops from the Huguang battlefield to Fujian to quell the rebellion.

In the case that the Bulni rebels continue to flow and are difficult to encircle and annihilate, Zhou Peigong decisively suggested that Tong Guogang let the Baoyi army stop the pursuit, stop and rest in the area of Syratchahan Lake, and let the Mongol army attack Chahanhot, the nest of the Burni brothers, so that Burnny fell into the dilemma of the brothers either completely abandoning the nest or returning to the nest, and then, Zhou Peigong used the relationship between the wife of the Bulni brother Luo Buzang is the sister of Korqin and Shuo Erfu Shajin, sent Sha Jin to surrender to Bulni's army, promising that as long as the Burnny brothers led the army to surrender, then Tong Guogang, Zhou Peigong and others could protect them from death in front of Kang Mazi.

As in history, the Burnie brothers are indeed a pair of straw bag brothers with great ambitions and talents, and when they saw Shajin surrendering, they moved to surrender, but they didn't dare to agree immediately because of Kang Mazi's ruthlessness, and put forward conditions to ask the Qing army to show Kang Mazi's forgiveness edict before agreeing to surrender, and Zhou Peigong took advantage of the opportunity of no longer wandering and relaxing his vigilance during the negotiations between the Burnny brothers, and suddenly dispatched elite cavalry to kill the Burnny brothers' camp, killing the Burnny brothers, defeating the Burnny rebels and surrendering most of the remainder, The decisive victory of this counterinsurgency war was achieved.

Although the means are not glamorous, but victory is victory, for the Qing court, which has been accustomed to consecutive battles and defeats for more than two years, this victory not only solves the threat from behind, but also is a shot in the arm, and it is a timely rain to save lives - and compared with Lu Fatzi's bad methods, such means are already very upright. Therefore, after receiving Zhou Peigong's victory, Kang Mazi was still a happy face, and immediately issued an order to reward the three armies, and added officials to his uncle Tong Guogang and Zhou Peigong and other meritorious ministers, and rewarded them generously.

Just as Kang Mazi pondered how to publicize and exaggerate the great victory of the grassland to boost morale, at noon on the same day, Zhejiang sent good news, Geng Jun General Zeng Yang surnamed sent the general soldier Ma Ruizhi to lead the division into Shaoxing Mansion, intending to induce the Ningbo Qing army to divide the troops and transfer the tiger away from the mountain, did not think that Ma Rui's light enemy ventured, Shaoxing guard general Man Jingui and Shaoxing prefect Xu Hongxun took the opportunity to lead the army in Shengxian County Changling Guimen Mountain to set up an ambush, ambush Geng Jingzhong rebels, beheaded more than 1,700 people, captured Geng army general Ma Ruizhi, Qiu Erzhang and Ma Yu and other fourteen people forced the remnants of Geng's army to retreat to Taizhou, and also captured a batch of new firearms from the Wu army to aid Geng's army, achieving the first major victory of the Qing army in the southeast since Geng Jingzhong's rebellion!

The Mongolian battlefield and the southeast battlefield were won at the same time, Kang Mazi, who had been worried for a long time, was so ecstatic that he couldn't express it with pen and ink, and ordered to reward the meritorious ministers such as Man Jingui and Xu Hongxun on the spot, Kang Mazi also ordered a banquet to be set up in the Tiren Pavilion, feasted the ministers, and celebrated the two great victories with all the civil and military officials.

In the afternoon, the celebration banquet was officially held, Kang Mazi personally led the civil and military officials to sit at the table, the great hero Zhou Peigong sat at the first table, and Suo Etu and Mingzhu and other Kang Mazi's henchmen and lackeys sat at the same table, and the civil and military officials were seated according to the size of the official position, under the arrangement of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and then naturally the hundred officials congratulated, singing praises and virtues, and praised the two great victories were achieved under the leadership of Kang Mazi's Wei Guangzheng, and they were obtained under the blessing of Kang Mazi's Hongfu, although Kang Mazi had long been tired of hearing similar words, but now he is in a good mood, Suddenly, I felt that I couldn't get tired of listening to it, and I was shaking my head and shaking my head, and my numb face was full of smiles, and I was full of will.

Finally waited for Zhang Ying to lead a group of civil officials to finish reading "Longevity Without Borders", Kang Mazi waved his hand to stop the sycophancy of the next group of officials, raised his glass and smiled and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, don't come to me again, these two great victories, the real heroes, are still our tens of millions of soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, as well as Tong Guogang, Zhou Peigong, Man Jingui and Xu Hongxun, these loyal ministers and capable ministers, if it weren't for their proper planning and soldiers' lives, how could I have come to these two great victories in the Qing Dynasty?" I want you to raise a glass and toast these soldiers and heroes together! ”

"Obey the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" The ministers shouted and toasted to the soldiers from the north and south. After putting down the wine glass, Suo Etu hurriedly said loudly: "Long live, the thieves of Pingchaharpurni and the heavy defeat of Geng Jingzhong's thief army are really the blessings of long live, which can shelter thousands of generations, and the holy lord of the Ming Dynasty in the past dynasties, and the model of the emperors of later generations, the servants are deeply honored, and dare to ask our emperor to raise a glass and accept the servants and other courtiers to toast together." ”

"Suo Aiqing is really good at talking, quasi-playing!" Kang Mazi laughed and agreed, Zhang Wanqiang next to him hurriedly poured another glass of wine for Kang Mazi, Kang Mazi raised his glass and laughed: "Ladies and gentlemen, please." ”

"Long live thanks!" The civil and military officials happily agreed, hurriedly raised their glasses, and drank the contents of the cup with Kang Mazi. After putting down the wine glass, Kang Mazi smiled again: "Everyone, Aiqing, I am not only overjoyed to receive these two good news today, but also completely relieved. I believe that as long as the main army of our Qing Dynasty arrives at the battlefield in Zhejiang, within half a year, the good news of the recovery of the entire territory of Fujian will also reach the palace! ”

"My emperor's martial arts, far beyond the Qin Emperor Han Wu, rare in ancient and modern times, long live my emperor, long live long live!" The hundred officials hurriedly knelt down together and shouted long live again.

"Zhong Aiqing, it's too famous, it's too famous." Kang Mazi laughed proudly, and sighed again: "If one day, I can receive the good news of pacifying the southwest, then it is the real martial arts, the real pursuit of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu!" ”

"Master, please don't worry." Mingzhu said flatteringly: "Just wait for me to wipe out Geng Zheng's sins in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, cut off the wings of the Western Thief, and gather the strength of the whole country, the good news of the great victory in the southwest will naturally be sent to the master sooner or later." ”

"yes, yes, it's only a matter of time." Countless civil and military officials echoed loudly, and Kang Mazi was even more happy, and said with a smile: "If there is really such a day, I must give a banquet in this Tiren Pavilion again, and celebrate with all Aiqing for three days, to celebrate the unification of my Qing Dynasty again, forever - ten thousand years!" ”

"Forever!" All the officials echoed in unison. Kang Mazi laughed out loud again, raised his glass again, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, raise a glass ...... again, hey, Huang Aiqing, what did the little eunuch say to you just now?" Can I help you? Why do you look so anxious? ”

"Back to the emperor, just now a father-in-law reported to Weichen." Huang Xigon, the left attendant of the military department, came out of the ranks, kowtowed and said: "The military department has just received an 800-mile urgent military information report, and the messenger cannot enter the palace, so he can only ask the guards and father-in-law to report to Weichen, saying that it is 100,000 urgent, and Weichen should pick it up immediately." ”

"Where is the military intelligence report?" Kang Mazi asked a little nervously.

"Back to the emperor, the little father-in-law didn't make it clear just now." Huang Xigon replied respectfully: "I just said that it was a messenger from other places, and the situation was extremely urgent, so I asked Weichen to pick it up immediately." ”

"Then you go." Kang Mazi smiled generously and arranged: "Go and return quickly, if it is good news, then present it to me immediately." ”

"Wechen obeys." Huang Xigon kowtowed and hurried to the palace gate. Kang Mazi and hundreds of other officials and dignitaries continued to drink and have fun in the Tiren Pavilion to celebrate the great victory between the north and the south, and by the way, they waited for Huang Xigon to bring good news—even better good news!

"Master, the minion has a proposal." Taking advantage of this opportunity, the first hawk pearl in the Qing court took the opportunity to suggest: "Please copy the two great victories of Mongolia and Zhejiang into the palace newspaper, and send it to the world, encourage my Qing subjects and soldiers from all over the world, and also casually warn those who have bad intentions, so that these clowns dare not have any other intentions." ”

"What Aiqing said is extremely good, quasi-play!" When Kang Mazi heard this, he waved his hand proudly and shouted: "After the newspaper is released, I will send a copy to my father-in-law, Cheng Engong, so that the people of the southwest will know that the brave and divine martial arts of our Eight Banners soldiers!" ”

"Za, the slave obeys." Mingzhu hurriedly kowtowed, and some more upright Han officials next to him, such as Wang Xu and others, although they felt that Kang Mazi's move was suspected of being a villain, but considering that Kang Mazi had been aggrieved for so long, and now he finally encountered two big victories, and it was normal for him to be overjoyed to make any outrageous moves, so he did not advise, but just celebrated with the ministers.

At this time, the figure in front of the main gate of Tiren Pavilion flickered, and Huang Xigon, the waiter of the military department who had gone out to receive the military intelligence report, suddenly appeared in front of the main gate of Tiren Pavilion again, Kang Mazi smiled: "Huang Aiqing is back, walking so fast, it seems that it is easy to ...... again." Having said this, Kang Mazi couldn't go on, because Huang Xigon tripped over the threshold when he entered the door, and he fell to the ground directly after eating.

In the surprised eyes of the ministers, Huang Xigon crawled up in embarrassment, and rushed to Kang Mazi with a roll and a crawl - the real rolling and crawling, walking quickly, Huang Xigon, who has always been known for his old and serious and scheming, actually tripped on his left foot and his right foot several times, and almost fell down several times. Seeing such a scene, the banquet hall that was still laughing and laughing just now suddenly became silent, and a thought was born in everyone's heart, "I'm afraid something big is going to happen." ”

Under the nervous gaze, Huang Xigon knelt down on his knees in front of Kang Mazi, knocked his head down and pressed his forehead to the ground, but he refused to raise his head or say a word. In the end, Kang Mazi couldn't help but take the initiative to ask: "Huang Aiqing, what happened?" Why don't you speak? What the hell did you receive a military intelligence report, and the tension became like this? ”

"Yes, Lord Huang, no matter what the big thing is, you have to report it." Mingzhu echoed and asked, "The sky is falling?" The ground is sinking? Even if the sky falls, there is no need to be embarrassed like this, right? ”

"Your Majesty, it's more terrible than the sky falling." Huang Xigon trembled and said: "Please calm down, don't be angry, hurt the dragon body, Weichen is going to report." ”

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Kang Mazi asked nervously.

Wu ...... Wu....... Huang Xigon's lips trembled, and it took a while for a while to squeeze out a sentence from his throat, "Wu Gou has broken through the Yangtze River." ”

"What should I do, it turned out that Wu Gou broke through the Yangtze River." Kang Mazi didn't react for a while, and smiled, but when he was halfway through the laughter, Kang Mazi jumped up violently and yelled and asked, "Wait, what did you just say?" Wu Gou broke through the Yangtze River?! ”

"Back to the emperor, it's true." Huang Xigon picked up the military intelligence report he had just received with both hands, and said with a crying voice: "Fuyuan General Tuhai 800 li urgent report, on the 17th night of October in the 12th year of Kangxi, Wu rebelled against the thief army shamelessly tore up the peace treaty, and the thief general Lu Yifeng led an army of 30,000 to first attack the important town of Hanyang in our Qing Dynasty!" In the early morning of October 18 of the twelfth year of Kangxi, Wu Sangui led an army of 50,000 to raid Luoshan, although the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty fought bloodily, they were helpless and outnumbered, and suffered heavy casualties...... Yangtze. ”

"How is that possible? How can it be? Mingzhu roared frantically, "Didn't Wu Sangui's old thief retreat south to Changsha Mansion on the whole line?" So many troops from here are attacking our Yangtze River defense line? And that Lu Yifeng, wasn't he dismissed from all official positions by Wu Sangui's old thief and punished with hard labor for life? How could it be possible to lead an army to attack Hanyang? ”

"Ming Zhongtang, we have been tricked!" Huang Xigon burst into tears, "Tuhai only found out afterwards that the prisoners of war that Wu rebel army escorted to Wuchang for exchange were all disguised by the elite soldiers of Wu rebel thief army!" Although it is not clear for a while that Lu Yifeng's dog thief came out of the mountain again, it is certain that this is likely to be Wu Gou's trick again! Also, Prince Gong's whereabouts are unknown in the Battle of Hanyang, and it is likely that he has been captured or killed by Wu Gou! ”

Mingzhu was stunned, and all the Mites Qing civil and military officials present were also stunned, and in the Tiren Pavilion of Nuoda, it was so quiet that even a needle could be heard clearly on the ground, and everyone's eyes were all shifted to Kang Mazi's Ma face. And our Kang Mazi Tartar Emperor has also been completely stunned, a pockmarked face was first stunned, then gradually iron green, from green to white, then from white to black, and finally gradually gray.

"Wu Sangui old thief! I'm going to cut you with a thousand cuts! Roaring out this sentence from the bottom of his heart, Kang Mazi was full of yellow teeth, and a mouthful of dirty blood suddenly spurted out of his mouth, and the person also fell down on his back, kicked his legs, and fainted with fright on the spot.

"Your Majesty!"

"Master!"

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When Kang Mazi was rescued and woke up, he was naturally surrounded by dozens of imperial doctors, and Zhou Peigong, who was known as a doctor and astrology, was also crying and kneeling beside Kang Mazi's bed, holding a small medicine bottle in his hand, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang had also rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing Kang Mazi wake up, Xiaozhuang, who still had tears on his face, hurriedly clasped his palms and said: "Amitabha, your majesty, you have finally woken up, fortunately, this Zhou Peigong is proficient in medical skills, and he proposed to use Chen Xiang to dispense medicine to save you, which is much stronger than these rice buckets." ”

"Grandmother......." Kang Mazi screamed bitterly, and tried to sit up, Xiaozhuang hurriedly said: "Grandson, don't move, you are angry, you have to lie down and breathe, you can't sit." ”

"Grandmother." Kang Mazi screamed again, and tears rolled down uncontrollably. Xiaozhuang choked up and said: "Grandson, you don't have to cry, you don't have to be anxious, you are the true dragon emperor, Wu Sangui's old thing is nothing after crossing the Yangtze River, this flower is still yours, he can't snatch it." ”

Choked and said, Xiaozhuang couldn't help but shed tears, everyone next to him was crying, and it was at this time that Kang Mazi found that he had returned to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, Suo Etu, Mingzhu and Zhang Ying and other close henchmen knelt beside the door, but they didn't know how Zhou Peigong followed in, and Zhou Peigong saw Kang Mazi's small eyes turned to him, and immediately understood the reason, and hurriedly kowtowed to Xiaozhuang and said: "Ancestor, the emperor has woken up, and Weichen should also retire." ”

"You stay, you know the way of medicine, you can't go." Xiaozhuang hurriedly stopped, turned to Kang Mazi and said: "Grandson, you should reward this Zhou Peigong, just now you fainted in Tiren Pavilion, a mouthful of phlegm blocked your throat, and you almost couldn't get up in one breath, thanks to this Zhou Peigong asked the palace maid to suck out the phlegm in your throat for you with her mouth, which pulled you back from the ghost gate." When the mourning family saw that he understood the way of medicine, they also called him to this heart cultivation hall. ”

- Xiaozhuang didn't tell the truth, just now Zhou Peigong asked the palace maid to suck phlegm, but the palace maid's lung capacity was too small to suck out phlegm, and in the end, Zhou Peigong himself opened his mouth, which saved Kang Mazi's life, but this matter was too indecent, and Xiaozhuang was not good at explaining it to Kang Mazi.

"Zhou Aiqing, I'm tired." Kang Mazi nodded slightly, gritted his teeth and said: "Zhou Aiqing, don't go anywhere else, just stay in the capital, I want to personally lead an army of 100,000 to fight to the death with Wu Sangui's old thief!" You stay by my side, accompany the king, and follow me to conquer Wu Sangui's old thief! ”

"Master, no!" Mingzhu, Suo Etu and the others were so frightened that they hurriedly kowtowed together and said, "Master, it is absolutely impossible for the royal driver to conquer in person!" The capital is important, and the master must not stay away! ”

"Shut up!" Kang Mazi lay on the bed and shouted angrily, "Wu Sangui's old thief shamelessly broke his promise, broke through my Yangtze River defense line, my Central Plains is no longer in danger to defend, if I don't go out in person, do I have to wait until Wu Sangui's old thief hits the gate of the capital, and I will commit suicide in Chongzhen Coal Mountain?" I have made up my mind, no need to say more! ”

"Grandson, don't be so impulsive." Xiaozhuang spoke, first ordered all the imperial doctors to kneel in the palace, and then said kindly: "Your Majesty, you plan to personally conquer Wu Sangui's old thief, your mind is good, but the mourning family thinks that there is no need for this, as long as the emperor selects a capable general to drive Wu Sangui back to the south of the Yangtze River, it is not hopeless, and there is no need for the emperor to personally send troops." ”

"Grandmother, what other person can the grandson send now besides himself?" Kang Mazi sobbed, "Jieshu, Yue Le, Leerjin, Tuhai, Rabu, Shang Kexi, these so-called pillars of the imperial court, which one did not lose his troops in front of Wu Sangui's old thief, and which one didn't return in a fiasco?" Now that I have nothing but myself, who else can entrust me with the heavy task of blocking the rebel army of Wu Sangui's old thief? ”

"Master, in fact, the slave thinks that the master should not be so pessimistic." Zhou Peigong's words were shocking, kowtowed and said: "Because the slave thinks that in terms of the current situation, even if the old thief Wu Sangui breaks through the defense line of the Yangtze River, it will be difficult to launch the Northern Expedition in a short time, and the master still has time to prepare for the war. ”

"Why do you think so?" Kang Mazi asked a little nervously.

"There are two reasons, one is that Jingzhou and Jiangxi are still in the hands of the master." Zhou Peigong said loudly: "Jingzhou is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is a nail nailed between Wu Reverse in Sichuan and Wu Reverse in Sichuan. Jiangxi is directly bordered by the east of Biyuan, and if we do not destroy the Jiangxi army of the Qing Dynasty, the rear of Wu Sangui's old thief will always be threatened by our Jiangxi army, and Wu Sangui's old thief will not dare to go all out on the northern expedition. ”

"The second is that the main force of our Qing Dynasty has not been hit hard, and its strength still exists. The slave is brave, I have read the report of Tu Zhongtang just now, and I know that although Wu Gou broke through the Yangtze River in the battle of the Yangtze River, my Qing Dynasty's 30,000 army only lost more than 10,000 people, and the water division is still alive, at the same time, Tu Zhongtang has returned to Jingzhou to consolidate the defense of Jingzhou, and the water division has also withdrawn to Jiujiang to meet with Governor Dong Weiguo to consolidate the defense of Jiangxi, and there are also 60,000 troops brought to Jiangnan by King Kang, which has not lost a single soldier, so as long as the master orders King Kang to return to the division in time, there is great hope for re-blockading the Yangtze River! ”

"Therefore, the slave thinks that the master can issue three holy decrees, the first one is to Jingzhou, let the garrison there defend the city, and block the road of the meeting between Wu Yi and Wu Yi in Sichuan! The second holy decree was given to Jiangxi, ordering the Jiangxi army to defend Jiujiang Poyang Lake, block Wugou's eastward road, and ensure the important financial and tax areas in Jiangnan! The third holy decree was given to Prince Kang, asking him to divide his troops and return to the division, one army to defend Lu'an, and one army to consolidate the defense of Anqing, so that he could dispel Wu Sangui's old thief's luck and go north, force him to capture Jingzhou and Jiangxi, and win at least three months of preparation time for my Qing Dynasty! ”

"Then what if Wu Gou goes north directly to Henan? What to do? Kang Mazi asked suspiciously.

"Master, please rest assured." Zhou Peigong said in a dark voice: "If Wu Gou dares to go north directly to Henan, the slave only needs three thousand old and weak soldiers, and he can block his 100,000 army, a million army!" ”

"I don't want to hear you brag, how can you stop it?" Kang Mazi asked angrily.

"Master, I don't know if you know that there is a place in Henan, called Cunjin Embankment?" Zhou Peigong Yin Yin said: "In the Southern Song Dynasty, our Mongolian friendly army of the Qing Dynasty used this place to block the northward army of the Han barbarians. ”

(To be continued)