Flowers bloom several, each with a branch, almost on the same day that the news of the fall of Hangzhou reached the capital, and it was also the day of November 12 of the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi, after exchanging city defenses with the Taiwan army, the direct legion of the Fat Army finally embarked on the road back to Nanjing's nest under the personal leadership of Lu Fatzi. [Full text reading]

After tossing so many days to set off to return to the nest, it's not that Lu Fatzi wants to regret not wanting to give up Hangzhou to Zheng Jing, the main reason is that the preparations for the retreat are too troublesome, the mountains of grain and grass in Hangzhou need to be loaded and shipped, and the important baggage and gunpowder raw materials need to be loaded and shipped, and the gold, silver, jewelry, and valuable property copied from the Hangzhou Domain, the Treasury of the Mansion, the Mite City and the homes of the Mites Qing officials, so they all have to be loaded and shipped away, right? In addition, there are the assets of Lu Fatzi's fiancée Xiao Chi and Xiao Chi's dowry, can they continue to stay in Hangzhou to rob others? Doesn't it have to be loaded onto a truck and shipped away?

As a result, the size of the team when the Fat Army retreated was very large, using more than 30,000 large and small vehicles, more than 3,000 ships, and more than 100,000 people to requisition - although it is easier to recruit people in the agricultural slack season, but the strong men who can be recruited in Hangzhou City are still not enough, and Lu Fatzi had to order Wu Qi, the prefect of Huzhou, and Guo Yingfu, the general soldier of Huzhou, to urgently recruit a group of people from Huzhou Mansion, which met the transportation needs of the Fat Army. And on the day of the retreat, the Fat Army's transport convoy and fleet alone stretched for more than 20 miles, and the official roads and canals were full of people, and there were cars and boats coming and going, which was so spectacular that it was almost impossible to describe with pen and ink.

The Fat Army took away so many good things from Hangzhou City in one go, and the Taiwan army that took over Hangzhou City said that it was false, but even the Taiwanese soldiers who were the most attentive and loved to talk about right and wrong behind their backs could not say a word of accusation against Lu Fatzi, because Lu Fatzi not only left them enough military salaries, grain and grass and a large number of military supplies to support them for a year, but at the same time, what the Fat Army took away was only the food and property of the Hangzhou Provincial Treasury, the Government Treasury and some of the homes of Mites Qing officials, and the civilian property of the Fat Army did not move at all. It can be said that more than half of the food and property of the gentry and landlords were left in the city of Hangzhou, and as long as the Taiwan army is not afraid of losing the hearts and minds of the people, it still has a chance to grab it. As an ally, the Fat Scout Army has reached this point, what else can the Taiwanese army say? What else can you have to blame Fat Lu?

In addition, there is one more thing that the fat army also makes the Taiwanese soldiers unable to open their mouths, in view of the fact that the main force of the Qing army in Zhejiang came to counterattack Hangzhou City, Lu Fatzi was worried that the Taiwan army would be difficult to gain a foothold in the distance, so he sent Gao Hongchen and Hu Tongchun to lead an army of 10,000 east into Shaoxing, and joined forces with the Taiwan army to fight a battle with the Shaoxing Qing army that reinforced Xiaoshan in the area of Qianqing Town, and blasted out more than 2,000 rockets to blow up the Shaoxing Qing army, forcing the Qing army on the southern front to retreat to Zhuji County to garrison, temporarily relieving Hangzhou's urgent need. It has won time for the Taiwan army to gain a foothold in Hangzhou.

In the end, the Fat Army also pulled out the small nail of Xiaoshan County, and sent Xiaoshan to the Taiwan Army, for which the Fat Army also delayed the return time of the Fat Army for a few days. And what face to speak? So there is no way, Liu Guoxuan can only lead the soldiers and civilians of Hangzhou to send off Lu Fatzi to the north, while watching Lu Fatzi take away Jinshan Yinhai, he has to be grateful to Lu Fatzi, and he is grateful.

Lu Fatzi is really bad enough, considering that he is carrying so much grain and grass to return to the north, if he takes Huzhou and Yixing to go home, he has to pass through the Tianmu Mountains, and the road is difficult to travel and takes a long time, so Lu Fatzi simply chose to take Jiaxing and Suzhou back to Nanjing, and opened the road with elite soldiers to prevent the Jiaxing Qing army from attacking out of the city, and ordered Li Tianzhi to send troops to respond, and then also sent an envoy to contact the Jiaxing Qing army, arrogantly and arrogantly borrowed the road directly from the Jiaxing Qing army, threatening that if the Jiaxing Qing army is willing to honestly give way, then the fat army will not offend each other! If the Jiaxing Qing army dares to fire a shot and release an arrow to stop the fat army from returning north, then the fat army will directly attack the city by force, and after breaking the city, the fat army will kill the Jiaxing Qing army!

After reading the letter sent by the envoy, the blood vessels on the foreheads of the mite Qingping Nan General Lai Ta and the Jiaxing guard general Mu Herin, who had fled to Jiaxing, almost exploded, and they almost wanted to cut the envoy of the Fat Man Army with a knife, and then go out of the city to fight to the death with the Fat Man Army! But looking at the only 6,000 Qing troops in Jiaxing City, and then thinking about the Fat Army Li Tianzhi's army in the north, and recalling the miserable end of the field battle with the Fat Army in Yixing, Lai Ta and Mu Herin still swallowed this breath honestly, and ordered the whole army to defend the city and not go out of the city to fight-that is, they were not allowed to go out of the city to intercept.

On November 16, the Fat Army transport fleet arrived in Jiaxing, passing through the canal under the city of Jiaxing, more than 3,000 large and small ships stretched for more than ten miles, and it took half a day to pass through the Jiaxing wharf, but the Qing defenders in Jiaxing City did not dare to fire a shot and an arrow, let alone go out of the city to intercept, and sat back and watched the Fat Army pass through Jiaxing in a big way. - No way, outside the south gate of Jiaxing, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the fat army, and outside the north gate, there are 5,000 reinforcements sent by Li Tianzhi.

On November 20, the transport fleet of the Fat Army on the north of the canal arrived in Suzhou first, and a day later, the transport convoy led by Lu Fatzi himself also arrived in Suzhou City, and began to dismiss the people, all changed ships and water transportation, and at the same time Lu Fatzi led the generals to Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, to meet Wu Mei, the daughter of Wu Laohan who lived here, that is, Wu Laohan Jian's daughter who kept his promise and married the beggar Wang Yongyuan.

By the way, let's talk about the situation of Wu Laohan's daughter and son-in-law, Wu Laohan's annihilation married Wu Mei to Wang Yongyuan, and bought the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou to give to his daughter and son-in-law to live in. Li Tianzhi led the army to capture Suzhou and rescued Wu Mei from prison, and finally returned the Humble Administrator's Garden to her to live, and gave her silver and rice on time according to the county officiating ceremony, so when Lu Fatzi personally led the generals to meet the courtiers, Wu Mei naturally did not have the slightest difficulty, and pulled Lu Fatzi to a niece and son-in-law to scream very affectionately, and was very grateful to Lu Fatzi. In addition, it is fortunate that Wu Mei will be an old man, and she has been tortured in prison and has passed away, otherwise, with Wu Mei's gratitude and appreciation for Lu Fatzi, it is uncertain whether there will be a scandal of aunt and nephew in the small court of the Great Zhou.

After dinner in the Humble Administrator's Garden, I returned to the temporary line, the time was already the second watch of the night, the tired Lu Fatzi was about to go to bed to rest, but Wang Shaobo sent an urgent report to Lu Fatzi, but it was an urgent report, and the news written on the urgent report was almost a month ago - on October 25, the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi, after the siege that lasted for May, the Wu army Xia Guoxiang finally broke through Nanchang City, the first important town in Jiangxi, and the guard general Xi Bu led more than a thousand remnants of the army to flee to Raozhou, Zhao Yue, the son of Zhao Guozuo, killed himself. Xia Guoxiang captured Nanchang. At this point, all the land in Jiangxi to the west of Poyang Lake had fallen into the hands of the Wu army, and the only land that the Jiangxi Qing army could effectively control was Raozhou, Guangxin, Fuzhou and Jianchang.

"Idiot, with so many new weapons, he fought a Nanchang city for five months, and he still has the face to live in the world." Lu Fatzi snorted coldly and handed the urgent report back to Wang Shaobo, and said: "Don't pay attention to him, Xia Guoxiang and Wu Yingqi are the same kind of people, brave and unscrupulous, one is greedy for money and the other is lustful, and they won't use their brains to fight, as long as the cities of Anqing, Chizhou and Raozhou are still in the hands of Mangou, they won't be able to reach Jiangnan." ”

"Owner, after you finish reading this, it may not be so easy." Wang Shaobo took out another urgent report and said in a low voice: "We sent back to Yuezhou to send it to Xizuo, after Xia Guoxiang broke through Nanchang, Hu Guozhu ordered that the three airships built by the owner and the two new airships sent by Yunnan were all sent to Jiujiang to prepare to be handed over to Xia Guoxiang, and there were 10,000 reinforcements sent along with the airship. Looking at the posture, Hu Guozhu also understands that there is no way to control it if you let the owner sit in Jiangnan again, and he is ready to open up contact with us at all costs and regain control of the owner in his hands. ”

Lu Fatzi finally raised his vigilance, Wu Jun's airship was built by Lu Fatzi, and he knew all kinds of weaknesses of this primitive airship, of course Lu Fatzi would not be afraid of airships, but Lu Fatzi was not afraid of airships, but Lu Fatzi was not afraid does not mean that the Qing Army was not afraid, in case Xia Guoxiang really opened up the connection with Jiangnan with these airships, then what should Lu Fatzi do? Armed confrontation with Xia Guoxiang? Most of the backbone of the fat army are the old men of Wu Jun, and the prestige of Wu Laohan is still there, so they are asked to rebel against Wu Laohan and Xia Guoxiang for a decisive battle, do they dare to do it?

After thinking about it for a long time, Lu Fatzi's heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly took the secret letter sent from Yuezhou by his army and carefully read it, Lu Fatzi hurriedly asked: "Judging from the information provided by our army, Hu Guozhu is preparing to use Xia Guoxiang as the main general, responsible for opening up land links with us with all his might, what about Wu Yingqi?" Why didn't Hu Guozhu send Wu Yingqi as the main general? ”

"The exact reason is not clear." Wang Shaobo replied: "However, the student thinks that Hu Guozhu's arrangement is quite smart, no matter how brave and resourceful Xia Guoxiang is, he is stronger than the second prince, and you are the second prince's protégé who is personally promoted by the second prince, and you are often coaxed by the owner, if Hu Guozhu sends the second prince as the commander, even if he succeeds in entering Jiangnan, it will be difficult to completely control the owner." And more importantly, the second prince is also a candidate for the succession of the prince, if the second prince enters Jiangnan to sit on the throne, the prince will choose Wu Shifan as his successor in the future, once the second prince is not convinced, our army will immediately be divided and cannibalistic, but let Xia Guoxiang enter Jiangnan, there will be no such problems. ”

"It makes sense, Hu Guozhu and Fang Guangchen are both careful people, and they must be able to take this into account." Fat Lu nodded, and after muttering for a while, Fat Lu commanded: "Young uncle, immediately write a letter to the second prince for me, telling him that now I am his protégé and student, and in the future I will be his courtier and official, and everything I am now in Jiangnan is his, so please be sure to personally lead the army east to Jiangnan as soon as possible to join us and take over the territory and army in my hands." ”

The tone of the letter should be respectful, and the sentence instigating the second prince to enter Jiangnan to stand on his own feet should be euphemistic, so that the second prince can understand but not too explicit, and he must not leave any handle. Now that the prince is still here, we have to be careful in everything. ”

"The owner wants the second prince and Xia Guoxiang to compete for the position of coach?" Uncle Wang's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "The idea is good, but I'm afraid it's too late now, right?" It has been almost a month since Xia Guoxiang broke through Nanchang on October 25, no matter how slow the speed is, this will have already led the army to cross Poyang Lake, even if our messenger can successfully reach Wuchang, the second prince will not have time to compete with Xia Guo for the position of commander. ”

"Why is it too late?" Fat Lu sneered, "You forgot one thing, even if Prime Minister Xia has already led the army to the battle, his grain and grass baggage must be escorted and supplied by the second prince, as long as the second prince gets stuck in his grain and grass baggage, he can enter Jiangnan?" ”

"The owner is clever!" Wang Shaobo suddenly realized and said with great joy: "With the second prince's two hundred and five surnames, as long as he is willing, he can definitely do it without giving food or baggage!" ”

"I'm not completely sure, but I have to give it a try." Fat Lu nodded, and said: "As before, let the messenger bring some more jewelry to the second prince, and send a copy of our current list of money and grain to the second prince, and ask the second prince to pass it on to the prince, so that the prince can understand how many Great Zhou troops there are in Jiangnan now, and how much silver and money and grain there are." ”

"Understood." Wang Shaobo agreed with a smile, knowing that with Wu Yingqi's surname of loving money like life, seeing how much food and silver the fat army has in his hands now, he must have said that he would not let Xia Guoxiang enter Jiangnan first - they were all robbed by Xia Guoxiang, what else did Wu Yingqi rob?

The plan is certain, and at that moment, Wang Shaobo immediately worked hard to write a letter, and it took several drafts to write a letter that Wu Yingqi could understand and did not instigate. In the end, Lu Fatzi was afraid that it would not be safe, so he went to see Wu Mei again in the early morning of the next day, and asked Wu Mei to write a letter to Wu Yingqi and Wu Laohanjian, explaining Wu Mei's current situation, and begging Wu Laohanjian or Wu Yingqi to move eastward earlier, and come to reunite with her daughter or sister in person. disguised as a private businessman, he rushed to Wuchang day and night to deliver a letter to the good prince Wu Yingqi.

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In fact, Lu Fatzi and Wang Shaobo also blamed Hu Guozhu, Hu Guozhu was worried that Lu Fatzi would be uncontrollable, but his courage was not enough to prompt him to order Xia Guoxiang to give up the strategic plan of joining Geng Jingzhong, and make every effort to open up land contact with Lu Fatzi, let alone hand over all the five airships of Wu Jun's town army to Xia Guoxiang. The person who really gave this order was Wu Lao Han Jian! It is precisely because of this that although Wu Yingqi was full of reluctance, he had no choice but to honestly follow the order, give up the position of the commander of the Eastern Expedition to Xia Guoxiang, and also assign 10,000 troops to the commander of Xia Guoxiang to make every effort to open up land contact with Lu Fatzi.

Giving up Wu Yingqi and choosing Xia Guoxiang as the commander of the Eastern Crusade was also Wu Laohan's decision after careful consideration, Wu Laohanzhan really knew too well the surname of the two hundred and five sons, greedy and unpopular, his head was almost a bag of grass, even if he could enter Jiangnan, he was destined not to win the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, on the contrary, he might not be discouraged by Lu Fatzi, and it was more likely to make a mess of Jiangnan's wealth.

In contrast, although Xia Guoxiang is far inferior to Wu Yingqi in fighting tough battles, his head is obviously much better than Wu Yingqi, as long as he enters Jiangnan, unless Lu Fatzi wants to rebel and be a double thief, he doesn't want to sit big and strong, and obtain the qualification to compete for the world with Wu Laohan. It is precisely because of this that Wu Laohan made such a decision, preparing to let Xia Guoxiang enter the south of the Yangtze River to restrain Lu Fatzi, so that Lu Fatzi, a fat loach, would never think of having a chance for Jackie Chan to fly.

At the same time, the situation on the battlefields in various places is becoming more and more complicated, making it more and more difficult for Lu Fatzi to have a chance to dominate. First of all, on the battlefield of Shaanxi and Gansu, when Wu Laohan annihilated Hanzhong and broke through the Qinling Mountains, the prefectures and prefectures in Shaanxi and Gansu with strong folk customs successively had civil uprisings and rebels, first of all, the Nanshan folk rebellion in Xing'an Prefecture, the rebels broke through the old county pass and once came to the city of Xi'an, and then there were peasant uprisings in six counties in Ganzhou, all of which spontaneously organized to capture the county seat, echoing the Wu army's entry into Shaanxi; In addition, Wang Fuchen's subordinate generals Wei Minyu, Ma Ruixuan, Wei Hushan and others also raised troops in Jingzhou, Lingtai and Qingyang to meet Wu's army into Shaanxi.

In addition, there is the leader of the peasant army, Li Changjiao, who also laid down the important town of Guyuan, and the deputy general of Dingbian, Zhu Long and his son, raised troops to raise troops, and successively captured Dingbian, Jingbian, Yan'an, Suide and Mizhi and other places, and Sun Chongya, the deputy general of Shenmu, also followed Zhu Long's father and son in Yulin, and Chen Shan, the defender of Qinzhou, and Wu Chengyin, the garrison of Lanzhou, also changed their banners and offered the city one after another, and there was a great chaos in Shaanxi. Wu Laohan took advantage of the situation to capture Fengxian, Baoji, Yixian and Fufeng and other places one after another, and rushed to the city of Xi'an before the Baoyi army led by Tong Guogang detoured to Shangzhou for reinforcements, forcing Tong Guogang and Zhou Peigong to change and rescue Tongguan - the Baoyi army would not be stupid enough to eat Wu army's rockets on the flat ground, and it was a foregone conclusion that Xi'an would fall into the hands of Wu Jun.

By the way, if Wu Laohan successfully captures Xi'an and Tongguan and takes advantage of the victory to smash Yanjing, then the fledgling Lu Fatzi will not think about the emperor's hegemony, and honestly bow down to Wu Laohan's ministers.

On the battlefield in southern Jiangxi, Lu Fatzi's restless uncle Shang Zhixin has also joined forces with Wu Shizong's army to enter Ganzhou after completely controlling the Qing army in Guangdong, and has now taken the capital city of Ganzhou, causing the surrounding Qing army defenders to abandon the city and flee, retreating towards northeast Jiangxi, and gradually concentrating their forces in northeast Jiangxi - in other words, intentionally or unintentionally, gradually assembling towards the western and southern fronts of the Fat Army, forming a new threat to the Fat Army.

In addition, on the battlefield in the south of Zhejiang, the regretful Geng Jingzhong army has also relaunched the offensive, the Zhejiang Qing army because the base camp Zhejiang was smashed and completely chaotic, but also lost the unified command, fell into the bitter situation of fighting separately, Geng Jingzhong army broke through the Qing army blockade and the fat army 'division', there has been a ray of light.

At this point, there have actually been two main battlefields in the land of China, one is the Shaanxi and Gansu battlefields where Wu Lao Han personally sat in the Wu army and the Qing army to face off, and the situation was that the Wu army attacked the Qing army and defended it, and the Wu army won steadily, and it was only a matter of time before Shaanxi and Gansu fell into the hands of the Wu army. One is the Jiangnan battlefield with the fat army as the center, and there are ten armies of the fat army, the Zhejiang Qing army, the Jiangxi Qing army, the Anhui Qing army, the Geng Jingzhong army, the Shang Zhixin army, the Zheng Jingjun army, the Ma Baojun army, the Wu Shizong army and the Xia Guoxiang army.

After Kang Mazi knocked on the bones and sucked the marrow and scraped the ground to finally establish a new army of 120,000, he did not send reinforcements to the dangerous Shaanxi and Gansu battlefields to rescue, but killed the Jiangnan battlefield, and the spearhead was still directly pointed at the strong and fledgling Lu Fatzi! As a result, the already complicated Jiangnan battlefield is even more chaotic and complicated.

In the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on November 23 of the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, Kang Mazi issued an edict to officially restore the prince of Yue Le'an, re-enshrined the general of Dingyuan Pingkou, and named the former Dingyuan general Tuhai as the squire of the military department and the governor of Jiangning, and named the former governor of Jiangxi, Dong Weiguo, as the deputy general of Dingyuan Pingkou, and served as Yue Le's deputy to wear the crime and make meritorious contributions, commanding 120,000 troops to march south, and ordered Yue Le to control the soldiers and horses of Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, unify command, and join hands to encircle and suppress Lu Fatzi! The slogan is also, recover Jiangnan, and kill Lu Yifeng's dog thief alive!

Probably because he felt that the Jiangnan battlefield was not complicated enough, and Lu Fatzi's troubles were not enough, after Yue Le, who hated Lu Fatzi so much, took office, the first order he gave was to give Tian Fengji, the governor of Zhejiang, who was in charge of the war on the southern front of Zhejiang, and Mahada, the capital commander, to order Tian Fengji and Mahada to immediately give up the three prefectures of Jinhua, Yanzhou and Quzhou in Zhejiang, no longer serve as a free shield for the fat army, transfer grain and grass and heavy troops to Shaoxing and Ningbo, save the strength and stand by at any time, let go of Geng Jingzhong's northward passage, and let Geng Jingzhong stab Lu Fatzi in the back!

(To be continued)