When the Fat Army on the Southern Front led by Li Tianzhi was in full swing on the Fujian-Guangdong battlefield, the Fat Army's troops on other fronts were not idle, and they also launched battles of different scales, either to expand their territory and train troops by the way, or to kill the remnants of the enemy, or to deter potential opponents, or to support the most fierce Fujian-Guangdong battlefield from the side. 【Reading.com】

On the battlefield in the northeast, in order to completely exterminate the most evil enemy of the Qing Dynasty, but this mortal enemy who does not share the sky to take a breather, as early as April of the second year of Honghua, taking advantage of the opportunity of the temperature in Liaodong after the beginning of spring, the Liaodong Fat Army led by Gao Dejie has launched an attack on the remnants of the Qing army entrenched in Jinzhou, and at the same time Gao Dejie resolutely implemented the vicious plan formulated by Lu Fatzi himself to consume the strength of the mite Qing, and was not in a hurry to break through Jinzhou in the case of superior artillery, but surrounded Jinzhou and engaged in Tuntian, He also carried out horse grazing in the nearby Dalinghe Ranch, and put on a resolute posture of besieging and killing the remnants of more than 10,000 Qing troops in Jinzhou City.

The important surname of Jinzhou, which is located in the throat of Liaodong, is self-evident, if Jinzhou is lost, Shengjing, the new nest of the Qing court, will have no danger to defend, and will be directly exposed to the fat man's saber, plus Tong Guowei, who was trapped in Jinzhou City, came to ask for help in three days, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang, who was a political genius but lacking in military affairs, really hit the plan, first borrowed an army from the Mongolian Horqin Niang's family to rush to Jinzhou for reinforcements, and was defeated by Gao Dejie; The old witch of Xiaozhuang refused to give up, and cobbled together more than 30,000 Qing troops from her Mongolian mother's home, Tunguska's hometown, Liaodong and Korean vassals, handed them over to the Ningguta general Bahai, and once again went south to rescue Jinzhou.

In view of the fact that Bahai had fought with the Russian musketeers and had not lost - and had not won, Gao Dejie, the number one general of the Fat Army, did not dare to despise this opponent, first used the scouts and the four non-evil slaves surnamed mites who took the initiative to surrender, found out the details of the Pakistani Navy, found the weaknesses of the mixed and complex composition of the Bahai Army, formulated a countermeasure according to local conditions, and divided 10,000 troops to hand over to his deputy Gao Qi, and asked Gao Qi to divide the 10,000 troops into 20 teams, each team of 500 people, and ambush them in the Yiwu Mountain on the north side of the east bank of the Daling River. Gao Dejie himself led the main force to be stationed on the west bank of the Daling River, and built more pontoon bridges to cross the river.

When the Pakistani navy arrived at the Daling River, as Gao Dejie expected, seeing that the main force of the Fat Army was stationed on the west bank, Bahai really did not dare to cross the river immediately, and chose to camp on the east bank of the Daling River to rest, but as soon as it was dark, the ambush soldiers led by Gao Qi were killed from the Yiwu Mountain, and the soldiers were divided into 20 ways to kill the Qing army camp from all directions. Gao Dejie took the opportunity to drive the main force to cross the river from the pontoon bridge, and attacked the Qing army camp head-on, the Qing army was defeated, trampled on each other in the dark night, the dead were innumerable, Bahai knew that he was invincible, and led a small number of pro-troops to flee to Shengjing overnight, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang spent countless efforts to put together more than 30,000 Qing troops were annihilated, and more than half of the surrenderers were destroyed.

The news was transmitted back to Shengjing, of course, the old witch of Xiaozhuang was spitting blood, almost kicking her legs on the spot, Gao Dejie, who was expected to be unable to reinforce the Qing army, calmly returned to the division, and launched a war to attack the city of Jinzhou, hundreds of artillery shelled day and night, the defenders of Jinzhou suffered heavy casualties, and the mite soldiers who were not four evil slaves fled from Jinzhou City to surrender to the fat army, and the guard general Tong Guowei also sent an envoy to contact the fat army, saying that he was willing to sacrifice Jinzhou and kill all the four evil slaves in the city. Gao Dejie not only flatly refused, but also escorted Tong Guowei's envoy to Jinzhou City, and announced Tong Guowei's surrender conditions to the four evil slaves in Jinzhou City.

Hearing that Tong Guowei planned to kill all the four evil slaves in Jinzhou City in exchange for his life, the more than 1,000 evil slave soldiers with the most resolute resistance in Jinzhou City were of course furious, launched a mutiny and killed the traitor Tong Guowei, and elected the leader to continue to defend the city and wait for help, while the mite soldiers and Han soldiers with other surnames took the opportunity to escape from the city and surrender to the Fat Army, and also offered the east gate of Jinzhou to the Fat Army. Took Jinzhou, the bridgehead for attacking Shengjing.

Originally, Gao Dejie also wanted to take advantage of the situation to attack Shengjing, but the sky is not beautiful, this year's climate is cold, the time has just entered the ninth lunar month, the land of Liaodong has been seriously cooled, Gao Dejie, who was born in Liaodong, is expected to be extremely cold in the winter of Liaodong this year, which is not conducive to the fight of the fat army with more soldiers in the south, so he had to temporarily stop marching, and at the same time go to Shu Lu Fat Man to explain the reason, and ask to suspend the plan to attack Shengjing, first let the fat army soldiers get used to the low temperature in the winter of Liaodong, and then attack Shengjing in the spring of the next year. Lu Fatzi, who was also worried about the unfavorable climate for the war, was of course gracious, and the Qing court in the twilight West Mountain finally won another winter of respite time.

The battlefield of northern Jiangxi is the only battlefield in the defensive position of the fat army, in order to drag down the expansion of the fat army and encircle Wei to save Zhao to support the Fujian and Guangdong battlefield, the Honghua imperial army launched an active attack on the Jiujiang and Nanchang defense lines of the fat army, Li Xiongfei, the Jiujiang defender of the fat army, was worried that the Honghua army was too strong to resist, and sent an envoy to Li Mao in the rear for help, Li Mao sat in Anqing and did not dare to leave lightly, and asked Lu Fat for instructions on how to deal with it, Lu Fatzi's answer was only one sentence - to defend! Lost Jiujiang and Anqing, Li Xiongfei and Li Mao came to see each other!

Wang Xu, the deputy commander of the Fat Army's direct legion, objected to Lu Fatzi's refusal to reinforce the northern Jiangxi battlefield, thinking that the direct legion of the Fat Army had nothing to do instead of sitting in the direct subordination, it was better to invest in the northern Jiangxi battlefield, which could not only ensure the safety of the financial and tax areas in the south of the Yangtze River, but also take the opportunity to weaken the Honghua army, so Wang Xu took the initiative to ask for an order, hoping that Lu Fatzi could allow him to lead an army to reinforce the northern Jiangxi battlefield.

"There is no need for reinforcements, and there will be no problems on the battlefield in northern Jiangxi." Lu Fatzi smiled and rejected Wang Xu's request, explaining: "Guo Zhuangtu and Xia Guoxiang sent troops to attack Jiujiang, but they wanted to drag down our expansion momentum, encircle Wei and save Zhao to share the pressure on the Fujian and Guangdong battlefields, and they didn't have the courage or strength to attack Jiangnan, because there was exactly a Wu Guogui at the junction of Guo Zhuangtu and Xia Guoxiang's two armies, if Xia Guoxiang's army dared to go deep into Jiangnan, Wu Guogui could cut off his contact with Guo Zhuangtu at any time, and then cut off his firearms supply road, turning Xia Guoxiang into a lone army, Xia Guoxiang didn't dare to take this risk." ”

"Although the prince's words are reasonable, the last general is still worried." Wang Xu refused to give up, and said: "The Li Xiongfei brothers only have more than 35,000 troops in their hands, and most of them are new soldiers, and they have to guard the two important towns of Jiujiang and Nanchang at the same time, so the pressure is really a bit great. We don't send reinforcements, and if something happens, I'm sorry for Brother Li Xiongfei. ”

"Have you forgotten about Li Jiyang? He is stationed in the Poyang Lake next to him, if Li Xiongfei is in danger, can he see death or not? Lu Fatzi smiled, "Besides, Xia Guoxiang is most afraid of fighting a tough battle, and Brother Li Xiongfei has suffered a lot in his hands because of our involvement, and he hates him to the core. ”

Seeing that Lu Fatzi insisted on not sending reinforcements, Wang Xu had no choice but to keep his mouth shut honestly, Lu Fatzi saw his thoughts, so he patted him on the shoulder again and said: "I know that you have good intentions, I am afraid that your friendly troops will encounter danger, and I also know that you are idle and want to make contributions." But I left the direct legion in Zhili, and kept you still, in fact, it is also for the sake of friendly forces in other battlefields, we still have many enemies, and leaving you, the most elite reserve, can have a deterrent effect on them, so that they understand that we have not yet shown our full strength, and we can launch a larger-scale attack at any time, so that they do not dare to force our army too much, and the pressure on our army is relatively small. ”

Observing the words and finding that Wang Xu still didn't quite understand his words, Lu Fatzi had to make another analogy: "It's like a musket, right?" What kind of musket is the most terrifying? It's not the firing pin musket I invented, it's not Dai Zi's water bead repeating musket or the Rakshasa long-range musket, the most terrible musket is the musket that is full of ammunition and shoots at any time without firing! You are this musket that is full of ammunition and does not shoot, and our enemies, as long as they are not stupid, must hope that others will block your muzzle, not that they will stand up to you! So as long as you don't move, we still have the strength left, and our enemies will not dare to come out and block your guns! ”

Speaking of this, Fat Lu paused, then lowered his voice and added: "In the same way, as long as you don't shoot, we don't dare to expose the hidden dangers that may exist within us, and this king can also win time to eliminate the hidden dangers inside." Do you understand this truth? ”

After more than four months of arduous battles, the Wu army Wang Ping Fan and the Fat Army Xie Chang joined forces to finally break through the famous Xiongguan Tong Pass City, and the defenders of the Guanzhong were completely annihilated, and the Qing army Tong Huinian committed suicide by throwing himself into the well and was captured by the Wang Ping Fan Army, and then Wang Ping Fan kept his promise to withdraw the army from Tong Pass, and sent his deputy Wu Zhen to escort Tong Huinian into Beijing to offer prisoners, and discussed the details of Wang Ping's army merging into the Fat Army.

At that moment, Lu Fatzi immediately promulgated a decree to crown Wang Pingfan as the first-class Marquis of Suning, the governor of Henan, and Wu Zhen as the governor of Jingbian, the governor of Shaanxi, and determined to take political means to appease Wang Pingfan, a warlike army, and then find an opportunity to reorganize and digest. At the same time, Lu Fatzi also ordered Han Daren's main force to move to Huaiqing to fill the gap left by Xie Chang's westward advance, and to store grass and grain in the westernmost part of Mengjin that the Yellow River's grain and grass water transportation could reach, so as to prepare for the westward conquest of Shaanxi and Gansu or the southern conquest of Huguang.

When the military and political affairs were busy together, Shang Wanyan finally returned to Lu Fatzi's side, I heard that his wife returned, Lu Fatzi personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to Tongzhou Wharf to greet the marquis, and the husband and wife finally reunited after more than five years. Only Lu Fatzi's other two wives Xiao Pepper and Lu Yu'er were in a different mood, after carefully observing Shang Wanyan's appearance, Xiao Pepper breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that it was not likely that she would take away Lu Fatzi's favor, and Lu Yu'er held her two-year-old son and secretly sneered, convinced that she was the winner of the final harem struggle.

With the Fat Army's territory getting bigger and bigger, the comprehensive strength is getting stronger and stronger, the number of troops and bureaucrats is expanding rapidly, and the hope of unifying the world is getting bigger and bigger, and there are naturally more and more cases of fighting for power and profit and forming gangs and factions within the Fat Army, and three major factions have naturally been formed.

There are also civil and military officials from all over the country who surrendered later, they did not dare to form a gang under the noses of Lu Fatzi and these three major factions, either choosing neutrality, or joining these three factions according to their regions, blood and kinship, respectively, resulting in these three factions becoming stronger and stronger, and indirectly leading to the increasingly fierce open and secret struggle of these three factions - Lu Fatzi had already noticed this, but he couldn't stop it at all, so he could only let these three factions check and balance each other, serve as referees, and use the contradictions of the three factions to consolidate his power, also use the psychology of these three major factions to clean up the enemy.

Among the three major factions, the most powerful is of course the old Wu military faction with a strong foundation and a steady stream of newcomers joining, and at the same time forming an overwhelming surname advantage over the Guangxi faction and the descendant faction, but fortunately, the internal contradictions of the old Wu military faction are far more than the other two factions, first of all, the two leaders of the old Wu military faction, Gao Dejie and Han Daren, are absolutely not in the same pot, canceling out a lot of strength from each other, and cannot threaten Lu Fatzi's boss status. At the same time, in order to overwhelm each other, the two factions of Gao and South Korea had to win the support of the other two factions, and the exchange of interests to win allies naturally increased the complexity of the power struggle within the Fat Army.

Lu Fatzi's harem is also the epitome of the three major factions vying for power and profit, Wu Xiaosuo who is far away in Jingzhou is the wife of Wu Lao Hanjian assigned to Lu Fatzi, the root is the reddest and the most positive, and it should be fully supported by the old Wu military faction, but because Wu Guogui is annoyed that Lu Fatzi supports the army and respects himself, in fact, he went out of the Pingxi palace and refused to return Wu Xiaosuo, resulting in Wu Xiaosu still having no son, so the old Wu Junfaction in the fat army team can only turn their attention to Shang Wanzhen and Lu Yuer, who already have sons, for the benefit of future generations, and choose supporters according to their close relationshipIn this way, the contradictions between Shang Wanzhen and Lu Yu'er, who already have their own supporters, are naturally irreconcilable.

Shang Wanjian's supporters are, of course, the Fat Men Army faction headed by Li Tianzhi and Wang Shaobo, and because Shang Wanjian's son Lu Bangjing is the eldest son, Shang Wanzhen naturally won the support of the traditional defenders of the Fat Army, civil and military officials, and Gao Dejie chose to support Shang Wanjian's mother and son because his daughter Gao Zilian was designated to Lu Fatzi early. But because Lu Bangjing is still detained in Yunnan, even if Shang Wanjing's mother and son have the support of Gao Dejie, the strongest in the old Wu army's faction, they can't immediately establish a victory, and they can't pull the neutral over to knock Yu Yu'er down - the neutral faction in the fat army is not stupid, in case Lu Bangjing can't come back and Lu Bangning succeeds him, will he have a future on the wrong team?

Of course, the supporters of Lu Yu'er are the Guangxi faction, and there are some realists who think that Lu Bangjing can't come back, Han Daren is because his daughter promised Yu Yu'er's son, of course, he also stands on the side of Lu Yu'er's mother and son, but it's a pity that Han Daren is not very popular because of his surname, and he was crushed to death by Gao Dejie in the old Wu Jun faction, even if he added Lu Yu'er's mother and son, he couldn't ride on Shang Wan's and Gao Dejie's heads, so there was no way to form an absolute advantage, so he could only pray that Guo Zhuangtu would cut Lu Bangjing earlier. While patiently waiting for the turnaround to come.

As for Xiao Chili and Lu Fatzi's two Mongolian concubines, there is no need to mention, they are all soy sauce, as long as Wu Xiaosuo, Shang Wanzhen and Lu Yu'er have a son, even if they have a son, don't want to covet Lu Fatzi's inheritance, unless Lu Fatzi learns from Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang to kill the heroes after unifying the world, otherwise even if Lu Fatzi passes on the throne to their son when he is senile and dementia, their son will not be able to sit firmly - the three major factions of the Fat Army can slap their son to death with one slap.

The problem of factions has been unavoidable since ancient times, and the problem of the heir is also in the future, Lu Fatzi is only thirty-five years old now, and it is too early to have a headache for this problem, the biggest problem that plagues the Fat Army the most at present is always the problem of Lu Fatzi's claim to be the emperor, if this problem is not solved earlier, even if the Fat Army unifies the whole world, it will face an extremely embarrassing problem - how to deal with the honorary emperor Wu Shifan?

However, when things come to this point, even Ma Bao and Wang Shirong and other new Wu Laohan annihilation lackeys who joined the Fat Man Army have already had to admit in private that no one can stop Lu Fatzi from becoming emperor, even if Lu Fatzi himself does not want to be the emperor, the Fat Army magnates and vested interests in the team will not agree, in order to maintain their powerful position and vested interests, even if Lu Fatzi is not the emperor, they will definitely put the dragon robe on Lu Fatzi - otherwise, once Wu Shifan becomes their emperor, They don't want to say that if they can't keep their power and interests, their heads will be in danger!

It is precisely because of this, so with the gradual stabilization of the foothold in the north, the advantages of the Fat Army are getting bigger and bigger, and the voice of the Fat Army supporting Lu Fatzi to be the emperor is getting louder and louder, and the upstarts and vested interests of the Fat Army have put on the table, asking Lu Fatzi to change his name and ascend the throne as the emperor, and even Wang Xu, who has always been loyal and honest, couldn't help but put on a persuasion letter, asking Lu Fatzi to make a living for the people of the world and be the emperor for the people of Li as cattle and horses. As for the folk and local speculators, the persuasion letter asking Lu Fatzi to ascend the throne and become emperor is even more loaded.

It's a pity that our Lord Lu is a rare loyal and filial son, cultivated, idealistic, and qualified, the powerful are not flattering, the powerful are not attached, the captivating are not served, the evil is not shy about it, the strong are not afraid, the weak are not bullied, the good are friends, the likes and evils are abandoned, the long is respected, the young are sheltered, the people are in peace, the officials are in their duties, the poor are not unrighteous, they do not deviate from the road, they bear the weight of Wu Lao Han Annihilation, and they are deeply affected by Wu Lao Han Annihilation's knowledge, how can they do the thing of usurping Wu Lao Han's descendants and descendants? So no matter how others persuaded him, Lord Lu's answer was the same sentence, "No!" This king can't do anything to be sorry for Emperor Taizu Gao! ”

Lu Fatzi wants face and reputation and refuses to usurp the throne, but the powerful and vested interests of the Fat Army don't care so much, for their own interests will not be deprived in the future, after many secret series and private consultations, on the first day of the first month of the third year of Honghua in the Great Zhou Dynasty, when the Fat Army civil and military officials went to the Wuying Hall to congratulate Lu Fatzi on the New Year, a major event that shocked the world happened...... "What are you doing?" What do you want to do?! ”

Lu Fatzi was frightened like a flower girl surrounded by hundreds of perverts, staring at the dragon robe held in the hands of the ministers and shouting, just kowtowed to Lu Fatzi to congratulate the New Year, and the civil and military officials of the Fat Army laughed together, while holding a bright yellow dragon robe in front of Lu Fatzi, kowtowing together and saying in unison: "The Yue King Debu Quartet, benevolence and all things, the more ancient and modern, ascend the throne and call the emperor, the heart of heaven, the will of the people, and the Chinese are very lucky!" Lucky for the living! Your Majesty! The ministers respectfully invite the prince to be the emperor, and to be orthodox! ”

"Qing and the others want to be lonely and unfaithful?" Fat Lu shouted out the sentences he had memorized a long time ago.

"Definitely!" Mu Tianyan kowtowed and said: "Wu Shifan was born to the mite chieftain's sinful daughter, and he has survived his life, and he is already blessed by God, how can he steal the throne again?" The king of Yue is the orthodox Miao descendant of China, and he is the successor to the system! ”

"Although this king is a descendant of China, he does not have Deze Yibu to the people, and now once he establishes himself as the emperor, what is the difference between it and usurpation?" Fat Lu still resolutely refused.

"Lord, if you don't take the throne, the minister will die in front of you!" Jin Zhen, who had already taken office as an official of the Yue Palace, took the lead, jumped up and wanted to commit suicide by hitting Tingzhu, and several sycophants followed suit, all of them stood up and rushed to the edge of Tingzhu, threatening that if Lu Fatzi did not ascend to the throne for the happiness of the world, they would all die in front of Lu Fatzi. There are also countless civil and military officials howling and crying, desperately grabbing the ground with their heads, begging Lu Fatzi to be an emperor for the common people as cattle and horses.

The attitude of the ministers was so resolute, in fact, the fat man Lu who was really caught off guard had no choice, so he could only speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, it's not that this king will live up to your expectations, it's just that this king is blessed by Emperor Taizu Gao, and he is too wolf-hearted and self-reliant. ”

"Why did the prince have to wait a year and a half?" The civil and military officials of the Fat Man Army looked at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Lu Fatzi's gourd? At that moment, another Fat Man Army official spoke, asking Lu Fat Man not to delay and take office immediately.

"The decision has been made, and the secretaries don't need to persuade again." Fat Lu replied categorically: "If you wait and see for another year and a half, if within this year and a half, Emperor Honghua still does not cultivate morality, is not popular with the people, and has no people's blessings, so that the Quartet will continue to be in chaos!" That has a plan! If Emperor Honghua can rein in the precipice, change the past, give grace to the world, benefit the people, and go all out to welcome back Long live, please ask Emperor Honghua to be in the capital! ”

"What the hell is the prince going to do? Do you still want to use the edict to appease the team of the Wu clan? Those people, killing them should be less dangerous than recruiting them? Besides, if those people could be appeased, they would have been appeased a long time ago? The civil and military officials of the Fat Army were even more puzzled in their hearts, but seeing that Lu Fatzi was resolute, they had no choice but to kowtow together honestly and agree.

"After a year and a half, what method will be used to frame the blame?" Fat Lu thought in his heart, "Is it okay to dream?" It should be possible, Wu Laohan gave me a dream, and then deducted the basin on Wu Shifan's head, and the Wu clan and the old man of Pingxi were completely speechless. ”

(To be continued)