In the first month, the reputation is spring, but in fact, the climate is definitely not better than the winter, especially at night and you have to sleep in the wilderness, it can only be described as a living sin, that taste, not to mention that the residents south of the Great Wall are difficult to bear, even the wild boar skin descendants from Tunguska Beizi Zhangtai also feel seriously unbearable, was frozen to the face of the white mouth, teeth fighting, extremely regretful that he died to face the sin, did not accept the advice of the minions to withdraw to Jiujiang City.

"Master Pei, please use felt." A felt blanket was handed to Zhangtai Bei Ziye, Zhangtai Bei Ziye looked up, but saw Dong Weiguo's love Tong Guodong stood in front of him at some point, and said very respectfully: "Bei Ziye, the sky is too cold, this is the felt of the slave, but Bei Ziye will use it." ”

"You give me the felt, so what are you going to do?" Zhangtai Bei Ziye asked hypocritically.

"The minion plans to go to the camp patrol, and he doesn't need it for the time being." Tong Guodong replied respectfully: "Our army sleeps in the wilderness, there is no camp fence to protect, all rely on the sentry to monitor and prevent Wu dog sneak attack, the slave plans to go to the check post to see if anyone is lazy to sleep." ”

"I'll use that shellfish first, and I'll return it to you when you come back." Zhangtai Bei Ziye was no longer modest, and quickly took the blanket and wrapped it on his body, feeling obviously warmer, Zhangtai Bei Zi Ye breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "General Tong is really worthy of Governor Dong's favorite general, he is really loyal to his duties, hard work, you go, and when Ben Beizi returns to Jiujiang City in triumph, he will definitely praise you in front of Governor Dong." ”

"Slave Xie Bei Ziye lifted." Tong Guodong thanked him, but he was not in a hurry to check the sentry, he just hesitated, and said cautiously: "Master Pei, do you think Wu Gou will really step into our ambush circle tomorrow?" Wu Dog Thief rebelled against the East Road Coach Lu Yifeng, although his reputation is not good, but the slave has long heard of it, there are three Qing princes who folded in his hands alone, and there are countless Belle Bezi, including the emperor's master, who hates him so much, but he is always helpless, such a cunning barbarian, will he fall for our tricks casually? ”

"Lu Yifeng, a barbarian, that's luck!" Zhangtai Bei Ziye waved his hand and snorted coldly: "My cousin Kangjun Wang Jieshu also raised this Lu Yifeng barbarian in front of me in advance, saying that this dog barbarian is completely ignorant except for collecting wealth and sycophants, and his cousin can strangle him with one hand, and he is as stupid as a pig, despicable as a dog, and cowardly as a mouse, but he is lucky to follow Wu Sangui's old thief to win a few battles, and when he really arrives on the battlefield, we love Xinjue Luo's family can pinch him to death by pulling one out!" Ben Beizi is also a person who likes to read military books among the banner people, knows the art of war well, and is familiar with Tao Strategy, can he still be afraid that such a barbarian will not succeed? ”

"By luck alone, can you capture three Qing princes one after another?" Tong Guodong muttered in his heart, "It seems that King Kangjun, his old man, was captured alive by Lu Yifeng's dog thieves on the battlefield, right?" ”

"Don't worry, Wu Gou would never have imagined that our Qing army would be ambushed in the cold and snow for a night, and he will definitely fall for it tomorrow!" Zhangtai Beizi said confidently: "Tomorrow, it is best for Lu Yifeng's dog thief to personally lead the troops forward, and Ben Beizi can capture him alive and escort him to the capital to ask for credit!" ”

"I hope it goes this way." Tong Guodong muttered in his heart again, and said: "Okay, please rest in peace with Bei Ziye, and the last general will go down to check the sentry." ”

"Go ahead." Zhangtai Bei Ziye nodded in agreement, but before the words fell, a shouting sound suddenly came from the west, and the faint distance seemed to be very far away, but it could only be heard at night when it was too quiet. Zhangtai hurriedly ripped off the blanket and jumped up, Tong Guodong also found that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly greeted: "Master Pei, go to the high ground next to you, you can see it clearly." ”

Zhangtai didn't speak, and hurriedly led Tong Guodong and a few Qing army generals who woke up to climb the dirt mountain next to him, and when he looked west, he saw that the fire in Hejiawan in the west was soaring, and the sound of explosions and shouting was clear and stable, Zhangtai Bei Ziye couldn't help but be happy and angry: "Okay, you Lu Yifeng dog barbarian, you really annihilate it, you don't chase and kill Itambu during the day, but you come to rob the camp at night!" ”

"Master Bei, Itambu will definitely retreat to this side, we should start preparing for an ambush immediately!" Tong Guodong reminded loudly.

"That's right, hurry up and prepare." Zhangtai Daxi agreed, and ordered: "Tong Guodong, you take Hu Shiying to the north, and the ambush in the south is led by Bei Zi himself. The rest of the generals immediately woke up the soldiers and prepared to fight! ”

The generals of the Qing army hurriedly agreed in unison, hurriedly dispersed to prepare, and when the 6,000 elite ambush soldiers of the Qing army were basically ready, the Qing army Itambu department that was attacked in the dark night in the west had begun a comprehensive rout. Observing this scene through the lights, Zhangtai Bei Ziye, who thinks highly of himself, secretly scolded Itambu for having no way to govern the army, but also inevitably secretly rejoiced - in such a situation, no matter who from the Wu army came, it was impossible to guess that there would be an ambush of the Qing army in the east!

After waiting patiently for nearly an hour, Itambu's defeated brigade fled to the ambush area of the main force of the Qing army, and the Wu army team pursuing with torches was very complete, and although the pursuit speed was fast, the formation was not chaotic. Seeing this scene, Tong Guodong was inevitably a little anxious, and said that Wu Gou's team was not chaotic, and if the ambush soldiers were killed too early, they were afraid that they would not have a big effect, and they would definitely get the front team of the Wu army's chasing troops to pass through and attack their waists, so as to maximize the results of the battle - but the question is, Zhangtai Beizi, who has always thought that Lao Tzu is the best in the world, will have such patience?

It seems that Tong Guodong underestimated his Beizi master too much, and when the front team of the Wu army had just stepped into the ambush circle of the Qing army, Zhangtai actually calmed down and did not immediately order an ambush, but just when Itambu was relieved. At the same time, when the front team of the Wu army had just entered the ambush circle, a trumpet suddenly sounded on the south side of the road, and the fire and the shouting of killing suddenly became louder, and countless Qing soldiers killed from the ambush like tigers descending from the mountain, killing the flank of the front team of the Wu army, Tong Guodong lamented that the ambush was launched a little too early, and he still ordered the general attack without hesitation - now the general attack can still drink some soup, and even the soup can not be drunk later.

"Kill! Kill Wu Dog! In the sound of the cannon, one by one Qing soldiers rushed out of the ambush point like a hungry tiger pounced on a sheep, like two tides left and right to the Wu army chasing soldiers, these Qing army teams are all the most elite people selected by Zhangtai Bei Ziye from the Jiujiang Qing army, and they are also the absolute main force of the Jiujiang Qing army, whether it is individual combat effectiveness or collective combat effectiveness, the people have not yet arrived, the arrows and guns have been the first to attack, and many Wu soldiers have been overturned in an instant. At the same time, the Itambu division of the Qing army, which had been chased by the Wu army all the way like a group of frightened rabbits, also turned its horse and killed again to the west, attacking the pursuers of the Wu army on three sides.

"Hit the mark! Evacuate! Evacuate! The Wu army team sounded screams, the well-trained Wu army team quickly changed from the rear team to the front team, the front team to the rear team, while returning the Qing army with bows and arrows and muskets, while retreating quickly towards the way they came, quickly breaking away from the Qing army's ambush circle, only a very small number of unlucky eggs were surrounded by the Qing army, and they were instantly divided into bodies by dozens of times the Qing soldiers.

"Chase! Pursue! Tong Guodong and other Qing generals were afraid that Zhangtai would have an accident and could not explain to the Qing court, so they quickly led the troops to follow, accompanied Zhangtai all the way to chase and kill the defeated soldiers of the Wu army, and the Itambu army, which was chased by the Wu army before, refused to let go of this great opportunity to beat the water dogs, and also followed the chase behind the back, for fear of running slowly and missing this great opportunity to make war achievements.

Probably infected by their slippery boss, the Wu army chased fast and fled faster, and it didn't take much time to escape to the temporary camp of the Qing army that was destroyed by the self-army in Hejiawan just now, but it still didn't stop, just continued to flee westward, and Zhangtai Bei Ziye has not been able to hack a Wu soldier to death with his own hands so far, so naturally he will not be satisfied, but just urge the Qing army to continue to chase and kill, and this Wu army must be wiped out! Although Tong Guodong in the back felt that the Wu army fled too fast and was afraid of deception, he was strong and Zhangtai withdrew his troops, but Zhangtai, who was fighting hard, refused to listen to anything, and only urged the army to chase and kill, leading the red-eyed Qing army to chase after him.

"Master Pei, it's not far from Ruichang!" Finally grabbed Zhangtai's horse's head, Tong Guodong didn't care about any master and slave etiquette, and shouted with red eyes: "Wu Gou's main force is camped in Ruichang, and if we chase it over, we will have to meet Wu Gou's main force directly!" ”

"I'm afraid of a ball!" Zhangtai pushed Tong Guogang away and yelled: "Continue to chase, let Wu Gou's defeated soldiers crush their camp, and capture Lu Yifeng's dog thief alive!" Kill! Chase! ”

"Kill ——!" The Qing soldiers next to him shouted, encouraging the whole army to continue the pursuit, Zhangtai Bei Ziye even clamped the horse's belly, led the Qing army to continue the pursuit to the west, ready to break through the Wu army camp in one go, and give the Wu army a dismount and a greeting gift!

"Da Zhou!" At this moment, slogans suddenly sounded on both sides of the road, and countless torches suddenly lit up in the dark mountains and forests. At the same time, the defeated soldiers of the Wu army, who had fled faster than rabbits just now, suddenly turned around, and slashed and slashed the Qing army team that was still chasing and killing their own army just now.

"Tricked?" Zhangtai Bei Ziye screamed, "How is it possible? Ben Beizi is familiar with the art of war and is well versed in strategy, how can he be tricked? How could Wu Gou ambush Ben Beizi in turn?! ”

"Master Pei, retreat!" Tong Guodong yelled, "Quickly turn around and break through to the east, and the slave will be the queen for you!" ”

"Good minion! Then the queen of the temple will leave it to you! Zhangtai shouted with a crying voice, and quickly led the army to turn around and break through to the way from again, but at this time, the east side, which was still silent just now, suddenly there was a sound of killing, and the horse's hooves were like thunder, and a team of Wu cavalry swept over, and the ambush soldiers on both wings and the friendly troops in front of them sandwiched the poor Zhangtai Beizi.

"There's also a Wu dog in the back?" Zhangtai Bei Ziye almost didn't cry, "When did Wu Gou come back to our rear?" Why didn't it say it in the war book? ”

It doesn't matter if Zhangtai Bei Ziye can recall whether there is such a tactic in the military book - even if he can recall it, he is attacked on all sides in the dark night when he can't see his fingers, there are enemies in front and back, left and right, and in all directions are bows and arrows and gun bullets shot by the enemy, smashed grenades, chopped sabers and stabbed spears, and the Qing army brought by Zhangtai Bei Ziye can't parry no matter how the elite of Jiujiang can't parry it - especially the enemy himself is also an elite soldier, and he was killed by the Wu army and was in chaos. The casualties were incomparably heavy.

"Kill! Big week! "The most desperate in the Wu army is of course the general of the Wu army, Han Daren, who dreamed of driving down the power of Lu Fatzi, the general of the expedition to the east, and replaced him in the face of such a good opportunity to make merit, naturally rushed fiercer than anyone else, cut more fiercely than anyone else, and even took the lead with his bare arms in the ice and snow, leading a Wu army to rampage in the chaotic formation, as if entering a no-man's land, and the direct killing was sweating all over his body, covered with blood, and he roared like thunder, dancing knives like the wind.

"Great Zhou ——!" Guangxi fierce general Quan Jie is not to be outdone, as a newcomer to the Wu army, the interests of the Guangxi soldiers brought by Yu Yuer have long been completely tied to Lu Fatzi, and now it is not easy for many years of daughter-in-law to become a mother-in-law, and finally look forward to the day when Lu Fatzi is in charge, as a famous general in Guangxi, Quan Jie will naturally not miss such a good opportunity to compete for the first merit, and he also took off his armor when he was killed, and carried two blood-stained steel knives on his upper body, leading the Guangxi soldiers who were known as fierce as tigers and wolves, and they were still rushing straight in the chaotic army, all of them are invincible, and there is almost no one in front of them.

"Great Zhou ——!" As the old man of the Wu army and the brother of Gao Dejie, Gao Hongchen naturally would not let the newcomer of the Wu army, Quan Jie and his brother Han Daren, be too arrogant, and led the most elite cavalry team of the Wu army, galloping in the chaotic army, charging back and forth, the snowy sabre rose and fell like a storm and slashed, cutting the Qing soldiers who dared to stop one after another into pieces, allowing blood to splash all over the body of the body and horse, the saber became a bloody knife, the war horse became a bloody horse, and he became a bloody man.

It was miserable enough to be ambushed and surrounded in the dark night, but I also encountered such a few ruthless characters who killed people without blinking, and the experience of the generals and soldiers of the Qing army can be imagined, the smart ones chose dark places to flee for their lives, and the unsmart ones stayed in place and waited stupidly, until they were trampled by Wu Sabre, chopped into meat sauce, and countless dead; The wiser threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, and there were countless surrenderers; Even smarter, for example, our Zhangtai Beizi Ye came up with a plan that was absolutely not recorded in the military books, changed into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, and was ready to lead his soldiers to escape to a dark and uninhabited place at any time.

After fighting like this for more than an hour, under the slashing of a team of more ruthless Wu army teams, the Qing army not only failed to break through, but when the sky was about to dawn, two more teams of Wu troops rushed to join the battlefield, and the leader Gao Dejie and Hu Tongchun were roaring like thunder, shouting that the soldiers should work hard, and they were robbed of their head work by their bad companions! Hu Tongchun is carrying a mountain axe directly into the enemy formation, catching the unlucky egg is an axe to cut down, directly an axe can open the enemy's head, and then return to the arm is an axe to cut over another enemy, fierce and powerful like the Shura Demon God!

The battle has reached this point, even if Zhangtai Bei Ziye and the bad breed Lu Fat Man are dropped, there is no power to return to the sky, one after another team of Qing soldiers either surrendered or scattered and fled, Zhangtai Bei Ziye also completely gave up the dream of leading the army to break through, led his own soldiers to take advantage of the darkness of the sky, fled to a dark and uninhabited place to escape, leaving the team to let the Wu army slaughter and kill; Tong Guodong, who was surrounded by the Wu army in the middle of the battlefield, had no choice but to hurry up and change the clothes of the soldiers, and also abandoned the brigade to lead a team of personal soldiers to flee to the south of the open terrain and disappeared into the chaos of the army.

On the contrary, as if the heavens were joking, on the contrary, it was the Itambu team that had the worst performance before because they had the least courage, fled the earliest, and were the last to be surrounded, they escaped from the encirclement in advance, and led the remnants of the defeated army to flee back to Jiujiang City - this is also the only Qing army team that successfully broke through in formation in the Battle of Hejiawan.

According to post-war statistics, more than 4,000 of the 9,000 Qing troops were annihilated by the Wu army, more than 2,000 were captured, and nearly 1,000 were lost and scattered, only the defeated soldiers of the Qing army who had just over 2,000 fled back to Jiujiang in embarrassment, and more than 20 Qing generals above the guerrilla were captured and killed, and even Tong Guodong, the favorite general of Dong Weiguo, the governor of Jiangxi, also disappeared in the melee, I don't know whether he was captured by the Wu army, or he had died tragically in the chaos. On the battlefield of Hejiawan, the corpses of the Qing soldiers and generals were scattered horizontally and vertically, layered for several miles, and the blood that flowed out was so much that the land in the spring could not completely absorb it, and flowed into the low-lying places to accumulate into a lake of blood.

The first battle of the Eastern Expedition was fought so beautifully, and such a brilliant record was achieved, the Wu army was naturally ecstatic, the morale was high, the military song on the battlefield shook the sky, and the cheers were like a tide, and when the banner of Lu Fatzi appeared on the battlefield, the cheers of the Wu army naturally reached a new **, rushing to Lu Fatzi to offer his first honor, and the disarmed Qing prisoners of war were squatting in a corner of the battlefield with their heads down, waiting for their future fate under the guard of the Wu soldiers.

"Good! Good! Good! In front of the soldiers of the whole army, Lu Fatzi first raised his head to the sky and shouted three good words, and then shouted: "Soldiers, you have worked hard——! ”

"It's not hard!" The Wu army heard a tsunami-like sound of promise.

"Pass the order!" Lu Fatzi shouted in public: "In the team that participated in the battle last night, the brothers led by the three generals Han Daren, Quan Jie and Gao Hongchen made the greatest contribution and the highest combat achievements. The brothers led by the two generals, Gao Dejie and Hu Tongchun, joined the war relatively late, but they also contributed a lot and made a lot of contributions, and each of them was rewarded with one or two silver! ”

"General Xie reward!" Crazy cheers resounded in the ranks of the Wu army - by the way, limited to the actual situation in the southwest, the salary of the Wu sergeant was very low, the cavalry was only six cents of silver per month, and the infantry was only four cents and eight cents of silver, and the reward of two taels of silver was indeed quite a large number in the eyes of the Wu sergeant.

"Brother Lu, the reward for the first battle is so high, be careful that the military will not be enough in the future." Gao Dejie reminded with a smile.

"It's okay." Fat Lu replied with a smile: "Don't forget, the places we want to fight are all good places that are fat, and just build a city is enough for us to support for a while." ”

After that, Fat Lu hurriedly asked, "Brother Gao, how are our casualties?" ”

"It's not fully counted yet." Gao Dejie replied in a low voice: "But judging from the current statistics, it will definitely not be more than a thousand, probably around seven or eight hundred." ”

"Good, good." Lu Fatzi was even more happy, with a casualty ratio of more than one to seven, it could be regarded as a complete victory in the era of cold weapons. After quickly thinking for a while, Fat Lu instructed Gao Dejie: "Brother Gao, please continue to keep an eye here, continue to clean up the battlefield, try your best to rescue the wounded soldiers of our army, gather the enemy's corpses and bury them, and I will go to the captive team to have a look." ”

Gao Dejie agreed, let Lu Fatzi rest assured to go, there is no need for Lu Fatzi to worry about cleaning the battlefield - it is true that Lu Fatzi does not need to worry about it, just rush at the silver and copper coins on the corpses of Qing soldiers, and some Wu soldiers are scrambling to do the errand of cleaning the battlefield. Lu Fatzi led Wang Shaobo, Li Tianzhi and Xiao Erlang and other henchmen to turn their horses around and rush to the location of the Qing army's prisoner team to check the situation.

When he arrived next to the captive team, Quan Jie, who was in charge of guarding the captives, came forward and praised Lu Fatzi with a smile on his face, and Lu Fatzi praised him vigorously and ordered: "You will send someone to ask these captives in a while, if the Han people are willing to join us, all of them can stay, and if they are not willing to stay, cut off their braids, pay twenty copper coins for the journey, and tell them to get out!" ”

"Twenty copper coins?" The whole section was stunned, and exclaimed: "Lord Lu, you are already merciful enough to let them go out of the house in large quantities, and pay them the passage expenses?" ”

"For the future." Fat Lu smiled and said, "If you don't treat the Han soldiers better, will they still be willing to surrender on the battlefield in the future?" If they all unite with the Mangou and work together to resist us, how will we fight in the future? ”

"This ......." The whole section was a little unbelievable, but considering that these copper coins should not be paid out by themselves, the whole section still did not insist, but just asked: "What about the full dog soldiers?" ”

"Of course those who are willing to join us can, but they must kill a full dog soldier who refuses to surrender with their own hands." Lu Fatzi casually ordered: "Those who are not willing to join our full dog soldiers, let those who are willing to join us kill the full dog soldiers first, if we can't kill it, we will kill it ourselves, if it is not enough to kill, we will gather those full dog soldiers who have no chance to kill full dogs, and form an army separately, usually only do hard labor and do not issue weapons, and then issue weapons on the battlefield later, and only after killing an enemy on the battlefield is allowed to officially join our army." ”

"It's too complicated." Quan Jie scratched his head and said: "The last general is stupid, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to pay attention to it for a while." ”

"Then I'll let Master Wang help you, and you can lead the soldiers to screen with him." Lu Fatzi pointed to Uncle Wang, and Uncle Wang also smiled at Quan Jie, saying that he was willing to help, and Quan Jie breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly agreed.

A moment later, the soldiers of the Wu army told the Qing army prisoners about Lu Fatzi's newly compiled prisoner policy, and the Qing army prisoners suddenly resounded with earth-shattering cheers, and countless Qing soldiers quickly knelt on their knees and kowtowed to Lu Fatzi again and again to thank them, and countless people expressed their willingness to join the Wu army on the spot. Even most of the soldiers of the Dog Banner were relieved, kowtowed to Lu Fatzi again and again, and began to think about how to kill their companions in exchange for their own life.

While busy, a small group of Qing army prisoners were escorted to the scene, and when they passed by Lu Fatzi, Lu Fatzi casually asked why these prisoners were only taken now? The soldiers of the Wu army who escorted this group of prisoners replied with a smile: "General Hui, this team full of dogs is running fast, and when we caught up with them, they were all almost running to Qinshan, and they surrendered only after being surrounded by our cavalry." ”

"There are dogs full of dogs, and the ability to escape is not bad." Fat Lu scolded with a smile, and wanted to wave his hand to let this group of prisoners go down, but in a blink of an eye, Fat Lu shouted categorically: "Wait, bring them all over!" ”

"General, what's wrong?" The soldiers of the Wu army were a little dazed, but they still escorted the twenty or so Qing army prisoners, let them line up in front of Lu Fatzi, and knelt down. The whole section next to him also came up and asked, "Lord Lu, what's wrong?" Is there anything wrong with this team full of dogs? ”

"There are big fish!" Lu Fatzi said in a low voice: "This is more than thirty miles away from Qinshan, and the full dogs began to completely rout in the early morning, if this team of full dogs is not riding, it is impossible to run so fast, if this team of full dogs is full of cavalry, can there be a big role missing in the middle?" ”

"That's right." Quan Jie also came to his senses, and was about to open his mouth to scream, but Lu Fatzi grabbed him and made him shut up with a look, and then carefully observed the team of dog-filled soldiers in front of him. And this group of Qing army prisoners, all dressed in the clothes of ordinary green battalion soldiers of the Qing army, were also very nervous, all of them shrunk their heads and showed timidity, and they did not dare to face Lu Fatzi.

"Who is the head among you?" Fat Lu, who had been observing for a long time, finally asked.

Except for a middle-aged man in his forties who bowed his head and said nothing, the more than 20 Qing army captives all looked at each other and secretly went to the middle-aged man, but in the end, a soldier in his thirties raised his head and replied, "General Hui, I am." ”

"Chopped." Fat Lu commanded quietly.

"Why?" The soldier screamed, but without saying a word, he drew his sword and cut off the soldier's head, and blood was immediately sprinkled all over the ground.

"Again, who is the head among you?" Fat Lu asked again, and said: "It's best not to pretend again, the one who dared to deceive General Ben just now is the end." ”

The rest of the Qing soldiers didn't dare to speak, and finally the middle-aged man raised his head and said weakly: "This general, please don't embarrass them, I am their head." ”

"Good." Fat Lu nodded with satisfaction, and ordered: "Change him into a new dress, and then take him to the big tent to see me, remember, you must treat him politely, if he is unwilling to do what he is unwilling to do, don't embarrass him." ”

"Huh?" The middle-aged man, who is also the chief soldier of the right battalion directly under the governor of Jiangxi, Dong Weiguo, said secretly in his heart: "This barbarian is the legendary Lu Yifeng and Lu Sanhao, why did he treat me like this?" Is he going to recruit me? If so, then he is dreaming in vain! ”

"Boss, what are you going to do again?" Wang Shaobo asked in a low voice in Fat Lu's ear.

"Don't talk." Fat Lu shook his head and whispered in Wang Shaobo's ear: "I want to use this big fish to catch a bigger fish." You immediately prepare a pen and paper to write a letter for me to Dong Weiguo, the governor of Mangou Jiangxi. ”

(To be continued)