General Ma's wise and unexpected decision not only surprised the decision-makers of the Fat Army, but also made the decision-makers of the Fat Army cry and laugh, and even made the decision-makers of the Fat Army feel completely caught off guard. [Full text reading]

As an old warlord with territory, army and prestige, General Ma took the initiative to surrender with his territory and team, and also offered to accept the reorganization of the Fat Army and hand over the military power, its political significance and symbolic significance are huge, and it cannot be described with pen and ink, and the benefits brought to the Fat Army are not just calculating with benefits.

The key is that the timing of General Ma's surrender is not very appropriate, after the conflict in Ma Baojun's army, the reason why the Fat Army took gentle means to deal with it, and did not rely on the strong to bully the weak, is because the Fat Army expanded too quickly and various internal problems were exposed in large quantities, and they urgently needed time to stand firm and eliminate hidden dangers, and they didn't want to open a new battlefield at this time, and then make a new enemy, so they had to lower their voices once and bow to General Ma, intending to stabilize General Ma Lao first, and continue to use General Ma Lao as a buffer wall to block the Honghua Imperial Court team that was destined to be impossible to reconcile. Buy time for the Fat Scouts to solve their problems.

It's just that what Lu Fatzi didn't expect was that he was so casual and gentle, and General Ma Lao actually came over directly with the team and territory, so that General Ma's threat to the Fat Army was solved, but the Fat Army suddenly bordered on the army of the Honghua Imperial Court, and directly faced the biggest enemy.

Crying and laughing can't be returned, General Ma Lao is so sincere and obedient, and he also took the initiative to hand over military power and territory, of course Lu Fatzi will not refuse, let alone refuse - if he doesn't set an example of General Ma, what else will Lu Fatzi use to appease other warlords? So there was no way, Lu Fatzi could only quickly order, let the Yue Wangfu Hu Cao clean up the mite Qingkang Prince Mansion in Langfang Hutong, and announced that he would reward General Ma Lao as a mansion in Yanjing City, and with the reputation of the Great Zhou Holy Decree and the Yue Wang Order, he added General Ma Lao as a hereditary replacement of the first-class marquis, an auxiliary general, and a thousand fifteen hundred stone a year in Sui Lu, and gave a mansion, three manors, 8,000 acres of fields, 10,000 acres of mountainous land, 1,000 taels of gold, and 50,000 taels of silver, which gave General Ma Lao the benefits and left an opportunity for further promotion. The big and small generals in Ma Bao's team also have their own rewards.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Honghua Imperial Court from attacking Jiujiang and Nanchang in anger, Lu Fatzi hurriedly ordered Li Mao, who was stationed in Anqing, to send troops to Jiujiang, take over the defense of the line from Jiujiang to Nanchang, and reorganize the team of General Ma Lao. Then the team of Ma Lao, who was inextricably linked with the Honghua Imperial Court, was transferred to the southern front and handed over to Li Tianzhi, so that these veteran ruffians could abuse the weak Geng Wangye and Zheng Wangye to their heart's content.

At the same time when the fat army quickly adjusted its deployment, Xia Guoxiang, the prince of Chu in the Honghua court who received the news, was really annoyed and angry, and immediately led the army down the river to find Ma Bao to settle accounts, and the old general Ma who did not have a new firearm supply was not stupid, and did not go out of the city to meet the anger of Xia Guoxiang, but just closed the gates of Jiujiang and Nanchang and waited for the arrival of the fat army reinforcements, and the superior water division of the fat army stationed in Anqing did not disappoint General Ma Lao, the battle of Jiujiang only lasted five days, and the fat army water division led by Li Jiyang arrived at the Jiujiang battlefield, A decisive battle was launched with the Honghua Water Division led by Lin Xingzhu, a good friend of Lord Wei, and the Jiujiang Water Division led by Du Hui also took the opportunity to attack and joined forces with the Fat Army Water Division to meet Lin Xingzhu.

This is a evenly matched surface battle, the main force of the Fat Army's naval division is divided into three, and the other two main forces have rushed to Zhili and Wenzhou respectively, so the Fat Army Naval Division led by Li Jiyang does not have an advantage in the number of ships, and Lin Xingzhu's naval division is the same as more than 200 large warships, Du Hui's Jiujiang Naval Division ships are old and few, and they are just playing soy sauce on the battlefield, which does not play much role. It is precisely because of this that Lord Wei's good friend Lin Xingzhu, who has stepped on several boats, is full of confidence, and is determined to give the fat army a little color on the water, and avenge his real master, the Qing court.

Of course, it is a good thing to have fighting spirit and determination, but when it really came to the decisive battle, General Lin Xingzhu, a good friend of Lord Wei, found that the situation was wrong, the artillery on the Fat Army battleship was not only more accurate than his artillery, but also farther, but from the telescope, the artillery of the Fat Army was the same as the artillery of the Honghua Water Division, they were exactly the same Hongyi cannon and sub-mother cannon, there was no difference. And when Lin Xingzhu was puzzled, the Fat Army Naval Division gave full play to the long-range advantage of high-precision artillery shells, always hid outside the range of the Honghua Water Division and opened artillery, desperately using the range to bombard the Honghua Water Division, saying that he would not start a melee battle with the Honghua Water Division, Lin Xingzhu was forced to take advantage of the upstream to launch a charge, and Li Jiyang, who was deeply inherited by his father, fought and retreated, leading the water division to retreat into Poyang Lake.

It wasn't until he led the Honghua Water Division to chase into Poyang Lake that Lin Xingzhu, a good friend of Lord Wei who started by betraying and defecting to the enemy, found that he had fallen into a big trap, although the Fat Army Sailor did not ambush in Poyang Lake, but the open water surface of Poyang Lake gave the Fat Army more room to play with long-range artillery, and used the open water surface to constantly intersperse in a roundabout way, and kept bombarding the warships of the Honghua Water Division with artillery. Forced to be helpless, Lin Xingzhu could only lead the sailor to turn around and escape, and re-escape to the still narrow water surface of Jiujiang, Li Jiyang waved his division to pursue, biting Lin Xingzhu's ass and not letting go, and fired artillery bombardment one after another, weakening Lin Xingzhu little by little.

After receiving the news of the unfavorable situation of the naval division, Xia Guo made a decisive decision and ordered Lin Xingzhu to retreat to the shore ten miles upstream of Jiujiang, sent an artillery team to cover, and dispatched the treasure of the town army, the Great Zhou airship, to take off and rush to the river battlefield for reinforcements, intending to use the air superiority to severely damage the Fat Army, a naval division, and cut off Ma Bao's reinforcements from the water.

After the Fat Army got rid of Wu Laohan's control of Reading Power before, there was a move that always made all the enemies of the Fat Army very puzzled, that is, Lu Fatzi never built an airship to fight for air superiority, and even after capturing Anqing and getting the two airships captured by Prince Zhang from the hands of Xia Guoxiang, the Fat Army did not let these two airships rise into the air again to participate in the battle, but only transported them to Nanjing as samples for storage. In this regard, Xia Guoxiang has always been very puzzled, but after Xia Guoxiang took out the airship to deal with the fat army today, Xia Guoxiang understood everything.

The three airships of the Honghua Imperial Court were completely three coffee tables in front of the Fat Army-full of cups. When the three airships of the Xia Guoxiang army were full of ammunition and just approached the Fat Man Army Sailor, they really scared the Fat Man Army officers and men at first, and Lin Xingzhu's sailors were overjoyed, Lin Xingzhu was even more proud, shouting that the victory was decided, and Li Jiyang, the commander of the Fat Man Army Sailor Division, quickly took out the tips sent by Lu Fatzi -- the tips that were only allowed when he encountered the Honghua Army airships. After opening it and taking a look, Li Jiyang immediately smiled, and immediately ordered the Miyoshi rockets to be gathered and shot at the three airships of the Xia Guoxiang Army.

Breaking through the air sharply, one after another Sanhao rockets roared out, shooting at the approaching Xia Xiangjun airship in an oblique attitude, and the Xia Guoxiangjun airship invented and built by Lu Fatzi himself was unable to dodge because of technical limitations, and could only watch the Sanhao rocket fly to the surface and explode, blown up and down by the air waves generated by the explosion of the Sanhao rocket, and the soldiers of the Xia Guoxiangjun on the airship screamed screaming, grabbing the side of the ship and crying, for fear of falling off the airship and falling to death. Then, when a Miyoshi rocket finally hit the airship airbag and exploded, a bigger cup was born.

Friends must remember what kind of gas Lu Fat Man filled in the airship's airbag, right? What will happen when this gas encounters flames, I believe there is no need to explain, right? In short, just like the Hindenburg airship crash hundreds of years later, the airship of the Xia Xiangjun was just blown up by a rocket, and the black airbag ignited a skyrocket, and the hydrogen gas quickly erupted from the breach, and when it burned in the fire, it was like a huge fire dragon was spewed out, and the hull of the boat also fell rapidly, smashing into the surging Yangtze River water with the flames that rushed to the sky, and the soldiers in the boat did not even have a chance to escape, either being burned alive by the falling airbag with fire, or being killed by the martyrdom produced by the ammunition in the boat ignited by the flames, and none of them were spared.

Seeing such a scene, the whole army of the Xia Guoxiang Army was of course dumbfounded, the Fat Army and Ma Baojun cheered like thunder, and the soldiers of the Xia Guoxiang Army on the remaining two airships were naturally ghosts crying wolves, scrambling to parachute to escape, and the rockets of the Fat Army were launched mercilessly one after another, and the remaining two airships were blown up into two fireballs in three strokes and two blows, so that the airships smashed into the river with flames, shamelessly creating the first, second and third man-made air disasters in history.

The treasure of the town army, the three airships, was shamelessly killed by the Fat Army, Xia Guoxiang's army was naturally demoralized, but the morale of the Fat Army was like a rainbow, and the concentrated artillery bombarded Lin Xingzhu's naval division, Lin Xingzhu couldn't resist even if he was covered by land artillery, and was forced to flee upstream again, Xia Guoxiang hesitated for a long time, and finally issued a reluctant withdrawal order - no withdrawal, the army of the Fat Army is rushing towards Jiujiang, and there is no water advantage, the grain route cannot be guaranteed at all, and once the war is delayed, Wu Guogui, the sworn enemy in the rear, also has a chance. After the Xia army was forced to withdraw, the battle to defend Jiujiang finally ended with a small victory for the fat army.

After beating away Xia Guoxiang, the next thing is much easier, the soldiers of the Ma Baojun who are in arrears and lack of food are looking forward to going to the Fat Army team to be fed and clothed, Ma Bao does not want to be cannon fodder for others and wants to enjoy the blessings of Yanjing, and the generals of the Ma Bao Army want to be promoted and make a fortune in the ranks of the Fat Army, under this mentality, the Fat Army will naturally have no problem taking over the defense of Jiujiang, and the land transfer and army reorganization will be completed smoothly, and the control area of the Fat Army will also be advanced to Huguang and Biyuan at once, Most of Jiangxi and some of Henan's state capitals were taken into their pockets, while Ma Bao, Du Hui, Liao Jinzhong, Xue Qilong and other veterans of Pingxi Wangfu went down the river by boat, first went to Nanjing to enjoy a few days, and then took a boat along the canal to the north and rushed to Yanjing to meet Lu Fatzi.

At the same time, as the news spread that General Ma Lao had defected to Lu Fatzi with his territory and army, the anti-fat alliance that had been secretly formed quickly became chaotic, and the two princes Geng Jingzhong and Shang Zhixin reacted the fastest, and immediately sent an envoy to Kunming to ask Guo Zhuangtu to ask if Ma Bao was the fat army that defected with the secrets of the anti-fat alliance? - For Geng Wangye and Shang Wangye, this matter is not a joke, if Lu Fatzi knows that the anti-fat alliance was initiated by them, will their lives be lost?

Facing the questioning of the two princes of Geng Shang, Guo Zhuangtu and Guo Xiangye hesitated, don't tell the truth, Lu Fatzi's side promulgated a document to the world, and decided to crusade against Geng Wangye and Shang Wangye who ate a bowl of rice and turned against the bottom of the bowl, these two princes can definitely spread their anger on their heads. Tell the truth, Prince Geng and Prince Shang will immediately jump up and point their noses and scold their mothers, and then whether these two wall-headed grass princes will fall to Lu Fat again and shoot themselves to atone for their sins, no one can say. Dilemma, Guo Xiangye really doesn't know how to choose.

In the end, it was Yunnan Governor Guo Chang who gave Guo Xiangye a bad idea, "Xiangye, don't worry, just say that Ma Bao's traitor doesn't know the secrets of the anti-Lu Alliance-humble speculation, even if Ma Bao's traitor shakes the secret in front of Lu Yifeng's traitor, with Lu Yifeng's surname and consistent behavior, he must pretend not to know and then settle accounts after the autumn, and will not immediately announce the news, forcing everyone in the world to his opposite." First conceal the letter of the monk Geng Jingzhong, let them privately speed up the action of forming an alliance against Lu, launch hostile actions against Lu Yifeng's traitors, and force Lu Yifeng's traitors to attack them first, and our army can reap the benefits. ”

Guo Xiangye applauded when he heard this, and then immediately summoned the envoys sent by Geng Wangye and Shang Wangye, telling them that he had confirmed that his younger brother Guo Zhuangmou did not leak the list of the anti-Lu alliance when he contacted Ma Bao, and that he had decided to exchange Ma Bao's family for his only younger brother, so there was no need to worry about his brother leaking secrets. The envoy sent by Geng Wangye and Shang Wangye believed it to be true, and hurriedly returned to Guangzhou and Fuzhou to resume his life under great joy.

General Ma Lao has already defected, of course it is impossible for Lu Fatzi not to know the existence of the anti-Lu Alliance, but after hearing the news, Lu Fatzi's first reaction was to laugh loudly, saying that he would not believe that there would be such a thing, let alone that his character had fallen to the point of being as despicable as Kang Mazi, and that he could make the world's heroes rise up and attack him, and the group would punish him. In the end, Yao Qisheng presented the original covenant he had collected from Guo Zhuangmou, and Lu Fatzi finally sadly discovered that his character seemed to have fallen to the point of Kang Mazi.

Sadness is sadness, but after carefully reading the full text of the covenant, Lu Fatzi laughed out loud again, and he leaned back and fell back with laughter, as if he saw not the covenant book in which the world's heroes swore to devour themselves alive and Ling Chi Wanduan, but the funniest joke in the world. Several of Lu Fatzi's lackeys Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan and others were also laughed inexplicably by Fat Lu, and couldn't help but ask, "Lord Wang, what's so funny?" Is there a typo in this covenant written by Guo Zhuangtu? ”

"I'm laughing, what genius came up with such a whimsical idea to pull so many people into an alliance against me?" Fat Lu rubbed his belly that was getting smaller and smaller, and said with a painful expression: "Doesn't he even understand the most basic truths, the more people who form an alliance, the more difficult it is to implement the covenant?" I also want to bring in Zheng Jing, Wu Guogui, Zu Zeqing and the remnants of the Mangou, and the people who proposed this covenant must not know how to write dead characters, right? After that, Fat Lu couldn't help but leaned back and laughed wildly again.

Yao Qisheng didn't accompany Lu Fatzi to laugh and pat his ass, but said with a serious face: "Lord Wang, the lower officials think that things may not be so simple, and it is indeed impossible to let so many heroes work together and unite to attack our army." However, according to General Ma Lao's report, although the person who initiated this alliance was Guo Zhuangtu, the person who first proposed this alliance was Geng Jingzhong's monk Zhixin, and other people may not need to consider it, as long as these three people join forces and can work together and unite as one, it is likely to pose some threats to us. ”

"Yes, these three people have territory, population, and weapons, and if they work together to hook up, they may pose a huge threat to us." Zhu Fangdan echoed: "These three guys are bordering each other, the transportation and connection are quite convenient, and the strength is not weak, if they are united, it is possible to cause trouble for us." ”

"It's not that easy." Lu Fatzi suppressed his laughter and said with a sneer: "Guo Zhuangtu's goal is the whole world, Geng Jingzhong's goal is Jiangnan, Shang Zhixin's goal is self-preservation, interests are different, work together to encircle and suppress me, and do his mother's spring and autumn dream!" ”

"It may be difficult for them to join forces to attack us, but if they join forces to protect each other, it is very possible." Yao Qisheng said in a deep voice: "Especially at the critical moment of life and death, out of the consideration of cold lips and teeth, these three guys are likely to join forces and fight with us, and to keep their allies is to protect themselves." This is extremely difficult for our army to defeat them individually. ”

"It's possible, but it's okay, I'm best at dividing and sabotaging such a fragile alliance." Fat Lu waved his hand confidently, picked up the covenant and looked at it carefully, and said with a puzzled expression: "But there is one thing that I am very strange, how could Shang Zhixin get mixed up with Geng Jingzhong and Guo Zhuangtu?" It stands to reason that there is no conflict of interest between me and him for the time being, and the relationship is also in an intimate period, why did he start to be hostile to me? Is it because of the enclave in Chaozhou, that enclave, I also ordered the young uncle to negotiate with him? ”

"Regarding this, General Ma Lao has an introduction in the recital." Yao Qisheng took out Ma Bao's recital again, and while presenting it to Lu Fatzi, he explained: "Guo Zhuangmou went into the water for the old general to pull the horse, and once roughly introduced the reason why Shang Zhixin was hostile to the prince, it seems that Shang Zhixin has something in your hands, and you have been putting up with it, and Shang Zhixin is worried that the prince will settle accounts after the autumn, so he will strike first." ”

"Shang Zhixin has a handle in the hands of this king?" A cold light flashed in Fat Lu's little eyes.

"Could it be the Wax Pill Secret Book?" Huang Yanbo interjected and said, "Lord Wang, could it be the wax pill secret book that we confiscated from Mangou Nan's study?" ”

"That's the only explanation." Fat Lu nodded, sneered and said: "My brother-in-law, doing such a shameless thing, of course I'm afraid that I will know, and I'm even more afraid that I will use that secret book as evidence to kill his head and take away his Guangdong." ”

"If that's the case, then the lower officials have a plan to make Guo Zhuangtu, Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong suspicious of each other, embankment each other, and can't work together." Yao Qisheng said with a smile.

"What is Master Yao's plan?" Zhu Fangdan asked with great joy.

"It's very simple, send the Wax Pill Secret Book back to Shang Zhixin, tell him that I don't mind, and I won't pursue it, and then let Guo Zhuangtu and Geng Jingzhong know about this matter." Fat Lu answered for Yao Qisheng casually.

"Lord Shengming, this is exactly what the lower officials are planning." Yao Qisheng hurriedly patted his in admiration, and asked again: "Lord Wang, what do you think of this plan?" For the time being, return the evidence of the crime to Shang Zhixin, stabilize him for the time being, and if the overall situation is decided in the future, you can find any excuse. ”

"Yes, but ......." Lu Fatzi hesitated, "But my brother-in-law is also a slippery head, I verbally promised, he may not be able to believe it, and if I return the secret book of Lawan to him, he may not necessarily join forces with Geng Jingzhong and Guo Zhuangtu again." ”

"Is there such a possibility, what does the prince plan to do with it?" Yao Qisheng asked.

"Let me think about it." Lu Fatzi turned around the Wuying Hall with his hands behind his back a few times, suddenly stopped, raised his head and said: "This king thinks that if Shang Zhixin really rebelled against me because of this secret book, then he must attach great importance to the significance of this secret book, and we can also push the boat down the river, maximize the value of this secret book, and use this secret book to force or induce Shang Zhixin, Geng Jingzhong and Guo Zhuangtu to meet each other, so as to maximize the interests of our army." ”

"What the prince said is extremely true, but what should our army do?" Yao Qisheng asked respectfully.

"I haven't figured out exactly how to do that yet." Fat Lu pinched the mustache on his chin and said in a deep voice: "I think we first have to find out whether Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong, the two bastards, know that we already know about them, that is, whether we know that they have formed an alliance in the dark and are ready to join forces against me, and then we will make a plan." ”

"It's easy." Yao Qisheng smiled and said: "If they know that we have figured out their details, they will definitely seize the time to strengthen their defenses and prepare to meet the wrath of the prince, as long as we find out their combat readiness, we can analyze whether they know this." ”

(To be continued)