In the early morning of October 26, the fat man's army arrived at the city of Hangzhou in the early morning of the second day, Lu Fatzi personally went to the city of Hangzhou to observe the terrain, looking for a breakthrough in the siege, and led hundreds of cavalry around the city of Hangzhou for most of the circle. 【】

The city wall of nearly forty miles long is more than six zhang at the highest point, and the lowest place is more than five zhang, there are as many as fifty-eight Tibetan soldiers on the city wall, and the narrowest part of the moat under the city wall is also more than four zhang wide, and the widest part even reaches seven zhang, and the primitive ladder car, the cloud platform and the city crash car can not approach the city wall at all. At the same time, there are also protruding arrow battlements at intervals on the city wall, which allows the defenders to shoot the soldiers of the attached city, making it very difficult to climb the city ladder, which is extremely disadvantageous to the attackers.

In addition, other auxiliary fortifications of Hangzhou City are also very perfect, there are urn cities in ten city gates, and there are more than 20 Hongyi cannons and other artillery pieces of unknown numbers on the city wall, in addition, because Hangzhou is the base camp of the Qing army in Zhejiang, all kinds of fortification materials in the city, such as gunpowder, fire oil, arrows, rolling stones, wood and ash bottles, etc., must also be very sufficient, and it is impossible to use up in a short time. As for the grain and grass, the autumn harvest has just ended, and the grain and grass hoarded in the city of Hangzhou at the starting point of Cao Yun, even if it does not count the people's grain of the people in the city, the grain in the warehouse alone is enough for the defenders to support more than a year.

"Owner, this city is not easy to attack." Wang Shaobo said worriedly: "Needless to say, the city wall is two feet thick, Yao Qisheng and the full dog captives we caught also confessed, the city wall of Hangzhou is the whole city bricks and lime glutinous rice syrup repair, there is no rammed earth in the middle, our artillery wants to directly collapse the city wall, that is a matter of not even thinking about it." ”

"There is no strong city in the world that cannot be attacked, only people who cannot be attacked." Lu Fatzi said quietly: "The city of three miles, the Guo of seven miles, the ring and attack it without victory, the city is not high, the pool is not deep, the time is not as good as the location." The reverse is the same, the city of ten miles, the Guo of a hundred miles, the ring attack is broken, and the geographical advantage is not as good as the people. The main force of Hangzhou is full of dogs, the defenders in the city are relatively weak, and the people are flustered, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and there will be no fighting spirit, our army has high morale, the soldiers are sharp, if we can make good use of people, and can disperse the enemy's heart, our army has no hope of breaking the city. ”

"The owner plans to use the tactics of attacking the heart?" Wang Shaobo asked tentatively. Fat Lu nodded, but did not explain in detail, just raised the reins of the horse and urged the horse back to the camp, "Let's talk about it when we return to the camp, and I will think about it carefully on the way." ”

When the fast horse returned to the self-army camp near the buried armor bridge, the time was close to noon at three o'clock, and he entered the big tent of the Chinese army, and before Lu Fatzi's ass had time to sit down, Lu Fatzi's fiancée Huang Xifeng Xiaochili had already carried a food box out of the back tent, and the smile on her beautiful little face was like a flower, and she said sweetly to Lu Fatzi: "Xianggong, you are finally back, the lunch made by Xifeng himself, please try Xifeng's craftsmanship." ”

"How did you get in?" Fat Lu was startled, and shouted at the soldiers next to him and asked, "Who told you to let her in?" ”

"Back to the general, she insisted on coming in." Lu Fatzi brought the soldiers from Dali's hometown and replied tremblingly: "The little ones are not allowed, she will cry and make trouble, and say that she is the wife of the general, and it is natural for you to send you food and take care of you, we are not allowed to stop her from doing her duty as a wife, and she has to roll on the ground, the little ones have no choice, so they have to let her wait for the general in the back tent." ”

"Drag it out and beat the ten military sticks, and next time you dare to let people into the big tent, the punishment will be doubled!" Lu Fat Man drank hard, and the pro-soldier was helpless, so he had to salute and think that he was unlucky and went out to receive the punishment. Fat Lu turned his fat face to Little Pepper again, and shouted with a blue face: "Get out immediately!" Don't say that I haven't officially married you yet, it's the three women before me, who don't dare to enter my big tent, study and signing room without permission, and dare to come in next time to mess around, whip the waiter! ”

The smile on Xiao Pepper's face froze, and she began to show an aggrieved look, and then it immediately turned cloudy, and crystal tears flowed from her bright big eyes, and her red little mouth was about to cry loudly, but she was frightened by the majestic face of Fat Lu, and she didn't dare to cry. But it was this appearance that I wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry, which made Lu Fatzi a little soft-hearted, and couldn't help but pull her over, let her sit on her fat legs, and whispered softly in her ear: "I know that you are kind, but this is the big tent of the Chinese army that I call the command, discuss the military situation and summon the generals, and it is the most important place in the army. ”

Little Pepper nodded, choked up aggrievedly and said, "I didn't know before, no one told me." I just saw that it was almost time for lunch, so I made a few dishes for you in the boy's room, and wanted you to taste my craftsmanship, but I didn't ......, I didn't expect ....... ”

"Those who don't know are not guilty, and I will not punish you this time." Fat Lu whispered softly in her delicate ear: "Go out quickly, I will be promoted to the rank of soldiers, and after I finish my business, I will go to your small tent to see you and have lunch with you." Shrewd. ”

"Okay." Little Pepper burst into laughter, and suddenly opened his arms to wrap his arms around Fat Lu's neck, and before Fat Lu woke up, he already felt a sweet smell of strawberries, and Little Pepper had already taken the initiative to kiss his face. Then Little Pepper quickly jumped off the ground from Fat Lu's lap with a red face, picked up the food box and ran out, sprinkling a string of crisp children's voices like silver bells, "Xianggong, it's okay, I'll wait for you to have lunch together, if you dare to lie to me, I'll cry to you." ”

"This ghost girl, I really don't know how the old Huang family got used to it." Fat Lu smiled bitterly and muttered, touched the fat face that had been kissed by Little Pepper, and scolded secretly, "How could I feel it just now, and it still feels a little fragrant?" Trouble, am I about to degenerate into a slave? ”

Putting aside the matter of Xiao Chili for the time being, Lu Fatzi quickly ordered: "Young uncle, write for me immediately, write a letter to Li Zhifang, the governor of Zhejiang in Hangzhou, and Tula, the general of the Mangou guard, to persuade them to open the city and surrender, and promise that as long as they surrender, we will protect their net worth, surname, property and land, otherwise, the whole family will not be left." Also, write my four killings order in words and tell it directly to the Mangou defenders. ”

Wang Shaobo agreed, quickly buried his head in the book, Lu Fatzi ordered to blow the trumpet and raise the account, and in a moment, the fat army will rush to the big tent to line up to listen to the order, Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan and others also went to the tent to wait for orders. When all the generals arrived, Lu Fatzi said straight to the point: "Generals, after careful observation of the terrain of Hangzhou, the general decided to set the breakthrough of our army in Hangzhou Wulin Gate and Qiantang Gate, these two city gates are the main gates of Hangzhou, especially the Wulin Gate, there are as many as 12 towers on the city alone, it is the first gate in Hangzhou, and it is not far from Hangzhou Mites City, it is convenient for full of dog reinforcements, and it is the easiest to defend and difficult to attack, are you afraid?" ”

Although it was very strange why Fat Lu gave up the easy and the difficult, the generals of the Fat Army still shouted in unison: "Don't be afraid! ”

"Good." Fat Lu nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Convey the order, break through Hangzhou, and reward each soldier with twenty taels of silver for breaking the city!" There are also those who have made meritorious contributions, and they will be rewarded heavily! ”

"General Xie reward!" The Fat Army generals replied neatly again.

"Qin Yong, Hutongchun listen to orders." Lu Fatzi picked up an arrow and ordered: "Our army has 245 artillery pieces, Qin Yong, you will concentrate one hundred and eighty guns outside the Wulin Gate, and arrange the rest outside the Qiantang Gate, bombarding the defenders in the city with all your might, consuming the strength of the dogs, and scaring the dogs!" Hutongchun, you led 6,000 infantry to cover our artillery team, prevent the full dog from going out of the city to raid, pay attention to taking turns to rest, and maintain physical strength. ”

Qin Yong and the second general of Hutong Chun agreed together, took the arrow and temporarily retreated to the side, and Lu Fatzi pulled up another arrow and shouted: "Cheng Long listens to the order." Huzhou general Cheng Long came out of the column to hold his fists and agreed, Lu Fatzi ordered: "You lead 3,000 infantry, bring more sacks and hoes, borrow the cover of our army's artillery fire, to fill the moat of Wulin Gate and Qiantang Gate, within two days, be sure to fill in the east side of Wulin Gate for three miles, and fill in two miles on the west side of Qiantang Gate, so as to open the road for our army to attack the city, only many, not less!" ”

"Order!" Cheng Long took over this drudger head-on-understanding that almost all of his subordinates were newly surrendered soldiers, and Fat Lu asked him to do this drudgery, so he was naturally reluctant to take the veterans of the Fat Army to consume them in the work of filling the river.

"You can't just do it, you have to use your brains." Fortunately, Lu Fatzi told again: "This job is very dangerous, you have to wait for our artillery to beat the full dogs in the city and dare not show their heads, and then start filling the river, when the full dogs are fighting back with all their might, you have to retreat in time and replace our artillery to clean up the full dogs!" If you have to repeatedly tug at the dog, consume the dog's garrison, and then fill the river with all your strength at night to complete the task, you will be a great achievement. ”

"General Xie instructed." Hearing what Fat Lu said, Cheng Long felt much more comfortable, and hurriedly thanked and agreed. Lu Fatzi instructed again: "The rest of the generals except Gao Hongchen, the troops of each leadership headquarters will rush to build siege ladders and ladders day and night, the more the better, and when General Cheng fills in the moat, immediately attack the city!" Gao Hongchen, your cavalry is divided into two teams to take turns to rest and wait, and as soon as the dog makes any move, attack immediately! ”

The fat army generals agreed together, Lu Fat waved his hand, and commanded again, "Scatter the account, Xiao Yong, your artillery should pay attention to cover General Cheng Long's river reclamation team, no matter the new recruits and veterans are extremely valuable to our army, if you can reduce the losses, it doesn't matter if all the shells are fired, we can take it easier when we return to the army." The fat army generals agreed again, and then they were ordered to go out of the account to arrange.

It wasn't until all the generals of the fat army had finished walking that Lu Fatzi turned his eyes to Yao Qisheng next to him, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Yao, I don't want to attack Qingtai Gate and Wangjiang Gate, which are far away from Hangzhou Mite City, and I don't choose Genshan Gate and Qingchun Gate, which are relatively low city walls, but choose the most difficult Wulin Gate and Qiantang Gate, Mr. Yao can understand the reason?" ”

"Understood." Yao Qisheng nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The general wants to use his dignified military might to break the courage of the defenders of the dogs, and once the dogs are timid and cowardly, Hangzhou will be broken!" ”

"Mr. Yao is really smart." Fat Lu applauded happily, and asked with a smile: "Is there any news for Ling Gongzi?" ”

"Nope." Yao Qisheng shook his head and replied: "After the little dog disguised as a defeated soldier in Huzhou and fled back to Hangzhou City, he lost contact with the students, but please rest assured that the little dog is also thin and resourceful, as long as he is not recognized by the full dog, he will definitely be able to make a move when the general is attacking the city, and respond to the general's siege." ”

"Then thank you, if you can do this, Ling Gongzi is the first merit in this battle!" Lu Fatzi was even more happy, at this time, Wang Shaobo had also written the letter that Lu Fatzi had explained, Lu Fatzi checked it and felt satisfied, so he signed it and used the seal, and asked Wang Shaobo to arrange a messenger to send it to Li Zhifang and Tula, and then instructed Yao Qisheng: "Mr. Yao, our army is about to bombard Hangzhou City, you are familiar with the situation in Hangzhou, can you go and give my cousin Qin Yong a little pointer, and tell him that it is the most cost-effective to fight there?" ”

"The general commanded, the students dare to disobey?" Yao Qisheng respectfully agreed, and asked curiously: "General, don't you go to personally command the artillery battle?" ”

"There is a beautiful woman who asks me to eat, and I will go to see it after I finish eating." Fat Lu sighed as he got up: "It's barely a beauty, even if it's three or four years older, it's already early winter, it's so cold at night, and there is a lack of feet in the bed." ”

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How did Lu Fatzi shamelessly tease Xiao Luoli's process, it is estimated that friends should not be much interested, let's take a look at the situation of Lu Fatzi's unlucky opponents, and the fat army quickly advanced to the city of Hangzhou, and indeed killed the Hangzhou Qing army by surprise, plus there was a group of defeated soldiers of the Huzhou Qing army fled back to Hangzhou, bringing the news that the 30,000 army of the tower was wiped out, and the Hangzhou Qing army, which was mostly composed of second-line troops, was even more frightened and did not dare to go out of the city. He had to send a large number of messengers to ask for help from the nearby Qing army, and at the same time desperately strengthened the city defenses, intending to rely on the fortified city to survive and wait for friendly troops to come back.

When the envoys recruited by the Fat Army from the people of Zhejiang waved the white flag and sent Lu Fatzi's letter of persuasion into Hangzhou City, in view of the fact that the Fat Army was found to be assembled outside the Wulin Gate, Li Zhifang, the governor of Hangzhou in Hangzhou City, and the old and sick Hangzhou general Tu La, who was old and sick, had already come to the top of the Wulin Gate Tower to observe the enemy situation, and the Fat Army envoy was able to quickly climb the city wall of Wulin Gate and present Lu Fatzi's letter to Li Zhifang and Tu La and other Qing army generals.

"Go back and tell Lu Yifeng the dog thief." After reading Lu Fatzi's letter, Tula coughed and said to the envoy of the Fat Army: "If you want Hangzhou City, talk with knives and guns!" I want the old man to sacrifice Hangzhou and the four flag people in Hangzhou City, dream! For the sake of you as a messenger, spare your life today, get out! ”

The envoy of the Fat Army, who had no hope of success at all, did not speak, turned around and left, but at this moment, Li Zhifang, the governor of Zhejiang, suddenly shouted: "Wait." The envoy of the Fat Army was a little surprised, and when he hurriedly turned around, Tula had already roared, "Li Zhitai, what do you want to do?" ”

"Your Excellency, please wait a moment, let me have a few words with General Tu, and then give you an answer." Li Zhifang gave another order to the envoy, then turned around, gave Tula a look, and walked up to the city tower.

"Tujunmen, this is an opportunity." Li Zhifang said in a low voice: "The main force of our army is all in the southern front, it is difficult to return to the aid in time, although there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, but most of them are new soldiers and veterans, embarrassed by the big task, Wu Gou is full of elite soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles, although the city of Hangzhou is solid, once Wu Gou attacks, there is a slight mistake, I am afraid that it will be difficult to protect in case." If you can delay the time as much as possible, or wait until Wu Gou's food is exhausted, or wait until the main force of our army returns to help, Hangzhou can be safe. ”

"What does Li Zhengtai mean by pretending to be an intentional surrender, taking the opportunity to delay time, and buying time for our army to return to help?" Tula came to his senses. Li Zhifang nodded, and whispered a few words in Tula's ear, and agreed with Tula on a strategy, and then went downstairs with Tula again and met the envoy of the Fat Army on the city wall.

"Annoying and noble envoys return to the Great Zhou to conquer the Eastern Lu general." Li Zhifang said very politely to the envoy of Lu Fatzi: "His persuasion and kindness, the lower officials and General Tu have understood it, and now the main force of our army has lost the hands of your army, and Hangzhou has become a lonely city, and we also have a little intention to surrender, but the general's decree conditions are too harsh, and it is really difficult for us to accept." ”

"Lord Taiwan, what conditions are too harsh in our army?" The envoy of the Fat Army was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "As long as the Lord and General Tu are willing to surrender, of course the conditions can be discussed, no matter which one can be discussed." ”

"About killing the four bannermen in the city." Tula took over the conversation and said: "Although the old man is not a Chinese with the four surnames, but Aixin Jueluo, Hesheri, Tong Jiashi and Niu Colu are all our Manchurian compatriots, and if the old man wants to slaughter them and surrender for the sake of his family's life, the old man will never agree." ”

"That's right." Li Zhifang nodded in agreement, and added: "Please send your envoy back to General Lu Yifeng, as long as he agrees to accept the surrender of these four banner people, and give us a little more time to discuss, we can consider Kaecheng surrendering." ”

"Okay, the little envoy will return to General Lu, and he will definitely give a satisfactory answer to Lord Taiwan and General Tu." The envoy of the Fat People's Army was overjoyed, and hurriedly took his leave--a poor teacher who had just joined the Fat People's Army and was able to persuade the important town of Hangzhou to surrender was definitely a glorious event worthy of being written about in the history books. But what the Fat Army envoy didn't notice at all was that just as he turned around, Li Zhifang and Tu La, the corners of their mouths showed a hint of annihilation............

Li Zhifang and Tu La didn't have much time, and about half an hour later, the fat army envoy ran back to Hangzhou with a white flag, and did not ask to enter the city, but shouted directly by the drawbridge: "Li Zhitai, Li Zhitai, please come out to answer, my general has already given you an answer." ”

Li Zhifang and Tu La hurriedly came to the arrow stack to agree, and the fat army envoy saw it, and hurriedly shouted: "My general wants the small envoy to return to the Lord and General Tu, and he already knows your requirements, he believes in your sincerity, and also believes that you are definitely not using a delaying tactic, so he decided to give you three days, and after three days, as long as you open the city and surrender, he will never harm your surname, nor will he want you to have a penny of your family property." There are also Qing soldiers in Hangzhou City, and none of our generals will be killed. ”

"Good! Lu Yifeng has been tricked! Li Zhifang excitedly clenched his fists quietly, and hurriedly shouted: "Thank you envoy for the message, please ask your envoy to return to General Lu, three days later, Li Zhifang and General Tu will definitely give him a satisfactory answer." ”

"Lord Taiwan, please don't worry, the little envoy still has two paragraphs to finish." The envoy of the fat army shouted helplessly: "In the first paragraph, the general of my family only promised to give you three days to consider, but he will never forgive the four surnamed mites in Hangzhou Mite City, whether Hangzhou surrenders or not, after our army enters the city, the four surnamed mites will inevitably be killed all and avenge my compatriots in the south of the Yangtze River!" ”

Li Zhifang and Tula's faces fell, but after the Fat Army envoy finished shouting the third paragraph, Li Zhifang and Tula almost fell down from the city wall together and died. I heard the fat army envoy shouting: "The third paragraph, my general, he only promised you three days to think about it - but he did not promise that you would not attack the city within three days!" Therefore, our army will immediately launch an attack on Hangzhou, whether to surrender or not, and when to surrender, it is all up to the Lord of Taiwan and General Tu to decide! Okay, after the envoy's words are finished, he will take his leave, and please take care of the master and the old general. ”

After that, the envoy of the Fat Army really turned around and ran, leaving Li Zhifang and Tula, two unlucky guys, to scold on the city wall, "I thought that Lao Tzu was shameless enough, but I didn't think that there was anyone in the world who was even more shameless than us!" Lao Tzu's face is at most as thick as the city wall of Hangzhou, and the skin of Lu Yifeng's dog thief is even thicker than the corner of the Great Wall! ”

"Boom! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

As soon as the envoy of the Fat Army ran away, a new loud noise came, and the artillery of the Fat Army that had been lined up outside the Wulin Gate spit out fire and smoke, blasting one solid cannonball after another and flowering cannonballs into the air, drawing a wonderful parabola, and smashing it all over the world inside and outside the city gate of Wulin Gate. And the first thing to suffer was the Tibetan soldier city tower that Tula and Li Zhifang had talked about before, which was almost instantly shattered by the flowering cannon of the Fat Army; Followed by the defender batteries on both sides of the city gate, under the guidance of Yao Qisheng, the leading party, the first round of artillery bombardment of the fat army covered two batteries, and the Qing artillery on the fort was bombarded to pieces, and the artillery blew up to the point of crying wolf.

"Boom! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The artillery battle continued, and the Tibetan towers on the city wall of Hangzhou were smashed one after another -- when the development of firearms had evolved to a certain point, this fragile tower used to garrison and hide troops not only could no longer play a covering role, but was also the first target of the enemy's artillery shells, and at the same time a ready-made grave for the soldiers defending the city. After only three salvos of the Fat Army's artillery array, the twelve towers on the Wulin Gate section were swept away, and they were bombed into twelve piles of ruins, burying countless Qing soldiers who were hiding in them and had no time to escape.

After three rounds of shooting, the Qing soldiers on the city wall have fled cleanly, even Li Zhifang and Tula and other senior generals of the Qing army have escaped from the dead corner of the city wall to avoid artillery, most of the Qing soldiers in Hangzhou who have no battlefield experience will naturally be even more polite, one escapes faster than the other, one cries fiercer than the other, scrambling to escape from the city wall to avoid the shells, no matter how the Qing army supervision team can not stop it, the Qing soldiers who fell off the city wall and were squeezed off the city wall by their companions are countless, Almost everyone had one thought left in their minds, "Wu Gou is so powerful, is it better to run away from the city?" Or is it better to lay down your arms and surrender? ”

"Brothers, the opportunity has come, rush!" Seeing that the soldiers of the Qing army in the city had basically escaped, Ding Chenglong, the new Ding Chenglong of the fat army who was in charge of filling the river, waved the command flag and shouted, and thousands of fat soldiers immediately carried sandbags and shouted and charged, rushed to the moat at a flying speed, threw the sandbag boulder in his hand into the moat, and then turned around and ran away.

When the Qing army in the city found that the situation was not right, and hurriedly rushed to the city wall to shoot and fire arrows, the artillery team of the Fat Army had already exerted its power again, roaring and pouring more shells on the heads of the Qing defenders, forcing the Qing soldiers to flee from the city wall to avoid the cannon again.

(To be continued)