After repeatedly confirming the movement of Lu Fatzi's army, on October 14, the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi, the general of Pingnan of the Qing Dynasty, also personally led 30,000 Zhejiang Qing troops, including some of the new expeditionary troops, with the deputy capital Yatari as the vanguard, and went north along the canal to rescue Songjiang Mansion, which had only 5,000 defenders, and Jiaxing Mansion, which had only 6,000 defenders, and prepared to fight with the main force of the Fat Army's army in Songjiang, where cotton and grain were abundant, to resolve the crisis on the northern front. [No pop-up novel network]

In view of the fact that the Qing army in Zhejiang was planning and then moving, and then attacking, the march speed of the army was extremely fast, marching more than 60 miles per day, and it took only one day to arrive at Shimen County, the border between Hangzhou and Jiaxing. At the same time, the fat army brigade, which marched only thirty or forty miles per day, had just arrived in Gaoqiao Town in Wuxi County, and it was still hundreds of miles away from its destination, Suzhou City.

Marching in the base area under the strong control of the self-army is still crawling like this, Lu Fatzi's laziness and conservatism were naturally unanimously complained by the generals of the Fat Army, causing Wang Xu, Gao Hongchen and Hu Tongchun and other generals to rush to Lu Fatzi to persuade him, suggesting that Lu Fatzi speed up and rush to Suzhou City as soon as possible to join Li Tianzhi, killing the dog by surprise - anyway, the granary of the main force of the Fat Army is in Suzhou, and there is a canal for the transportation of firearms and ammunition, even if it is a rapid march, the logistics can definitely keep up.

and Han Yuanren, who served as the striker, also sent people back to protest several times, hoping that Lu Fatzi would retract the rule that he was only allowed to march thirty miles per day, so that he would immediately rush to Suzhou to join forces with Li Tianzhi, and take advantage of the opportunity that the main force of Zhejiang Mangou had not yet reacted, and joined forces with Li Tianzhi to take down the cornucopia of Songjiang Mansion in the world first! But Fat Lu replied with a heartfelt voice: "What's the hurry? After the last time we ran thousands of miles to attack the city of Nanjing, the soldiers were already very tired, so we should let them rest more, otherwise, what if they ran to their destination and had no strength to fight? ”

"Half a year ago, the fatigue of running thousands of miles to Nanjing City has not recovered? Are we so useless? All the generals of the fat army had a feeling of fainting, but seeing the fat face of the fat man with a grin, the generals of the fat army also knew that persuasion must be in vain, so they had to hold the idea of delaying for one more day and wasting a day of military rations, anyway, they didn't want to pay their own money, so they had no choice but to go with the fat man Lu.

On the morning of October 16, Lu Fatzi's army arrived at the city of Wuxi, and the county magistrate was leading the city's civil and military officials to greet him, and he dared to invite Lu Fatzi to enter the city to rest, but Lu Fatzi waved his hand and said: "The military situation is like fire, the general will not enter the city, your county has a good way of governing the county, and this year's public grain is among the best in the counties in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

"The general has won the award, in fact, this is all the credit of the general." Wang Guozheng nodded and said: "Thanks to the general who organized the Yellow River refugees to refine nitrate in a small county, and the toilet soil left over from nitrate refining was also given to the people as rice field fertilizer free of charge, this year the small county can achieve a bumper harvest. ”

"Someone else set up an immortal tablet for me?" Lu Fatzi was happy, and was about to ask for details, but a horse came galloping in the distance, and immediately the knight inserted a small red flag representing 100,000 urgency, Lu Fatzi quickly swallowed the words back into his stomach, pushed away the kingdom and took the initiative to greet the messenger, and asked without waiting for the messenger to get off the horse: "Is it the military situation of Zhejiang full of dogs?" ”

"General Hui, yes." The messenger gasped and replied while rolling the saddle and dismounting: "Our army has made the latest report, and the 30,000-strong army led by General Pingnan of Mangou has already set out from Hangzhou in the past, and the speed is very fast, and as of yesterday morning, it has arrived in Shimen County, Jiaxing Prefecture!" ”

"And what about their purpose? Is it there? Fat Lu asked.

"Matsue!" The Fat Army messenger gasped and replied: "The banner played by the main force of Mangou is to rescue Songjiang and set foot in Suzhou!" ”

"Good!" Fat Lu clenched his fist sharply, waved his hand to the messenger and said, "It's hard work, go down and rest and receive the reward." Then without waiting for the messenger to agree, Lu Fatzi immediately turned around and shouted at the generals of the Wu army behind him: "Gao Hongchen listens to the order!" ”

"The last general!" Gao Hongchen quickly stepped out of the queue and agreed with his fists.

"Order you to lead two thousand cavalry as the vanguard, immediately divert to the southwest, and go to Yixing to join the guard Guo Yingfu there! Prepare to go south to attack Huzhou City! Fat Lu shouted: "Remember, you are limited to arrive in Yixing before the third watch tonight!" Only in advance, not in delay! ”

"The last will obey ......." Gao Hongchen was dumbfounded when he agreed halfway, and exclaimed: "General, aren't we going to fight Songjiang and Jiaxing?" Why did you temporarily change your plan to fight Huzhou? ”

"Who said I changed my plans on the fly?" Fat Lu glared at Gao Hongchen and said with a sneer: "Am I stupid? If I were really going to fight Songjiang or Jiaxing, I would let the news out in advance and leak the news to unreliable allies? Let the full dog prepare in advance, so that we can spend time and effort to attack the fortifications city by city? ”

"Then will the attack on Huzhou affect the tactical purpose of our army?" Wang Xu asked worriedly.

"Of course not!" Lu Fatzi grinned, "Not only will it not, but the effect is better, Huzhou is a big granary in Zhejiang and it is inconvenient to transport through the canal, this will definitely not have time to transport away the autumn grain, we can not only make a big profit in Huzhou, and when the full dog hurries back to the division to rescue, we will wait for the work and have a strong city to defend, and hit the full dog in the field, isn't it easy?" ”

"It turns out that the general, you have been holding this back for a long time! No wonder he walked so slowly along the way, it turned out to be to wait for the main force of the dog to go east! Wang Xu, Gao Hongchen and others suddenly realized, Gao Hongchen suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly said: "No wonder when General Li Tianzhi sent the southern front garrison map to the general, we reminded the general that you said that the troops on the Yixing side are too thin and should be strengthened. ”

"It's good to understand!" Fat Lu waved his hand and urged: "Don't be wordy, go and execute the order, and when Huzhou is defeated, everyone will be rewarded!" ”

"Order!" Gao Hongchen clenched his fists loudly and agreed, and rushed down to carry out the order. Lu Fatzi ordered again: "Everyone obeys the order, the baggage artillery is immediately unloaded, the whole army stops going south, turns southwest, and marches to Yixing to rest!" Send someone to contact Han Yuanren again, let him also turn around as a rear team, and march to Yixing to join the division! ”

The fat army generals hugged their fists together and agreed, and the kingdom next to them was waiting for a dry Wuxi official, and they were all stunned, and it was the first time since they came out of their mother's womb that they had heard such shameless tactics with troops, and they released rumors early to fight Suzhou, so that the state capitals and counties that passed along the way were ready to be welcomed, and they turned around to fight Yixing halfway through. But Fat Lu didn't notice it at all, just laughed proudly: "Dian Ta Xiaoer, this time, Lao Tzu must give you a big surprise!" ”

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"Lu Yifeng, this time, Lao Tzu must give you a big surprise!"

After arriving at Shimen on the morning of October 15, Fata ordered the whole army to march to Wuzhen to rest, and when it was dark in Wuzhen, he ordered the whole army to march with torches overnight, and took the official road to Huzhou under the cover of night, and sent a fast horse to order Huzhou garrison Cheng Long to completely block the border, prevent the fat army from carefully reporting to Lu Fatzi, and try to delay the time when the movement of the army was known by Lu Fatzi. By the time Lu Fatzi received the first move of the Qing army in Zhejiang on the morning of October 16, the army of the tower had already arrived at Yuanjiahui, which was adjacent to the capital city of Huzhou, to rest.

"General, the soldiers are fast." Yao Qisheng, the new staff officer of the army, came up and saluted and suggested: "The slave thinks that our army should rush to Jiapu Town, Changxing County, to rest and spend the night today, and pass through the Tianmu Mountains at dawn tomorrow and launch an attack on Yixing, killing Wu Gou by surprise!" ”

"It makes sense." The tower nodded, and stood up and shouted under the support of Yao Qisheng: "Pass the order, the whole army will stop resting, continue to advance, and within today's day, you must arrive at Jiapu Town!" Rest for the night when you get there! The generals of the Qing army agreed together, and each rushed back to the team to give orders, and the 30,000 Qing troops also got up again and continued to gallop along the official road.

At this time, the Qing army sent to monitor the movements of the fat man's main force has also rushed to the front of the tower, when he heard that the fat army continued to move south along the canal, the Qing army generals such as the tower, Yao Qisheng and Yatari suddenly laughed, and said that Lu Yifeng's undefeated reputation as a dog thief will finally be reimbursed this time, just wait for them to take Yixing, and the soldiers will be in the hinterland of the fat army's root base, and Lu Fatzi will be dumbfounded.

Li Zhifang, who stayed in Hangzhou, sent a fast horse to catch up with his army, and sent the original letter from Lu Fatzi to the commander of the Geng Army's Northern Expeditionary Army, Zeng Yang, seeing the action route and tactical objectives of the Fat Army's Fat Army introduced by Lu Fatzi in the letter, Lai Ta proudly laughed at the ugly calligraphy of Lu Fatzi, who was the first talent to show talent, and was even more relieved of Yao Qisheng's clever plan, and urged the army to rush forward again and again, galloping north at the expense of physical strength, and rushing to the predetermined destination to rest and spend the night.

When the second watch of the evening was approaching, the exhausted main force of the Qing army finally arrived at the small town of Jiapu, which is located on the shore of Taihu Lake and the foot of the Tianmu Mountains. It's just that the main force of the Qing army never dreamed that almost at the same time, there was also an exhausted cavalry of the Fat Army that arrived in Yixing County, thirty miles to the north, and met with the team of Guo Yingfu, the guard of the Fat Army stationed in the city, and also immediately blocked the intersections of the roads in the Tianmu Mountains, allowing them to enter but not to leave, so as to prevent news leakage............

Here is a little introduction to the situation of the border area between Huzhou, Zhejiang and Yixing, Jiangsu, originally in the densely populated Fuhua Township in the south of the Yangtze River, it is difficult to find any ideal road for surprise attacks, except for this place, because the remaining veins of the Tianmu Mountains are directly adjacent to Taihu Lake, there are almost not many suitable land for cultivation in this area, and it is almost the only place in the Jiangnan Water Township that is vast and sparsely populated. In addition, the largest Changguang coal mine in Zhejiang has not been discovered in this era, so although there are official roads suitable for marching in this area, from Yixing County to Jiapu Town, there is no village and market town in this era, which can ensure the maximum number of marches and raids to conceal the surname!

It is precisely because of this that the two bad breeds, Lu Fatzi and Yao Qisheng, coincidentally chose this road as the surprise attack route, and as a result, the show is naturally about to begin.

To get back to the point, early the next morning, the rapid march of the fat army for a night and a half finally arrived in the small city of Yixing, just stopped outside the city to rest, Gao Hongchen, Guo Yingfu and Yixing Zhixian Shi Zongyao had already come up to ask for peace, Gao Hongchen and Guo Yingfu reported with their heads held high that they were ready to go to the army, but the county commander Shi Zongyao said tremblingly: "General, I really don't know that the general will send troops south from Yixing, and I can't prepare in advance, the people of Yixing City are thin, I'm afraid that the grain stored in the city is only enough for the general's army for half a month, and he is incompetent. ”

"Half a month, that's enough." Lu Fatzi waved his hand indifferently, and said with a smile: "Within three days, General Ben will be able to take Huzhou City, the granary of Zhejiang, and not only will he not ask you for grain and grass at that time, on the contrary, General Ben will also send you grain, and you can organize the people to prepare to receive it." Besides, the lack of military food in Yixing is that I didn't hoard here beforehand, what does it matter to you? ”

"General Xie is considerate." Shi Zongyao, who was worried that he would not be able to supply food and was afraid of being picked up by Lu Fatzi, was overjoyed, and hurriedly nodded and said: "The general and the soldiers of the Great Zhou are tired from afar, and the people have been organized overnight to prepare breakfast for the generals and soldiers last night, and the meals and dishes are hot, and the generals and soldiers can eat immediately." ”

"Be careful enough, do a good job, maybe you will be the prefect of Huzhou this time." Fat Lu laughed with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Then hurry up and bring out all the food, let the brothers eat, we are all hungry." Shi Zongyao agreed repeatedly, and hurried down to organize the people and officials to carry the food and distribute it.

"Guo Yingfu, you are familiar with this area." Lu Fatzi turned to Gao Hongchen and Guo Yingfu and ordered: "Immediately take your 1,500 troops to lead the way, and General Gao Hongchen's cavalry as the vanguard, pass through Tianmu Mountain to fight Changxing County, I will rest here for two hours, and send troops to meet you in two hours." ”

"Order!" Gao Hongchen and Guo Yingfu sang a promise together, took the order, and quickly organized the team to go south to open the way for the whole army, while Lu Fatzi led the main force of the fat army to eat and rest outside Yixing City, just waiting for his physical strength to recover a little, and immediately went south to attack Changxing City, the northwest gate of Huzhou.

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Lu Fatzi's movements were obviously a little slower, just when the sky was just dawning, on Jiapu Town (now Huzhou City, Huzhou City), the tired Qing army soldiers had been woken up by the commander's scolding under Yao Qisheng's suggestion and the order of the tower, and after hurriedly eating a little dry food, the unlucky 30,000 Qing troops went north again under the strict order of the tower, galloped along the official road with all their might, and pounced on the small city of Yixing thirty miles away. And in view of the fact that no abnormal movements of the Fat Army were found last night, the Qing generals such as Lai Ta and Yao Qisheng had already negotiated on the war horses and waited until they took the hinterland of the Yixing Army and the Fat Army, and the next step should be to attack those cities.

"Divide the army to attack Liyang first, and then hit Jintan and Danyang? Completely mess up Lu Yifeng's dog thief's nest? After listening to Yao Qisheng's suggestion, after repeated consideration, the tower quickly agreed to Yao Qisheng's plan, and said: "Then let's do it, when Yixing is taken, our army will immediately divide a group to fight Liyang, and then go north along the Kunlun River to fight Jintan and Danyang, so that Lu Yifeng's dog thieves will be difficult to take care of, completely destroy his hinterland, and create an opportunity for our Qing Dynasty's comprehensive counteroffensive!" ”

"You can also find an opportunity to cut off the supply line of Lu Yifeng's dog thief." Yao Qisheng smiled and said: "The person Lu Yifeng relies on is just his sharp firearms, which are difficult to resist, but if our army can find an opportunity to burn the firearms supply of Lu Yifeng's dog thieves like Zhou Peigong, a famous general of the Qing Dynasty, Lu Yifeng's dog thieves will be grasshoppers after the autumn, and they won't be able to jump for a few days." ”

"Yes, as long as Wu Gou has no firearms, our bow and horse riding of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty will be invincible in the world again!" The tower nodded again and again, and was about to brag again, when a noisy shouting and killing sound suddenly came from the distance, and Yao Qisheng was suddenly shocked together, and when they looked up at the place where the sound came from, they were even more surprised to find that these noisy voices of shouting and killing were actually coming from the north of the official road, and judging from the sound, this must be the cavalry of the forward Yatari and the enemy.

"Quick, send someone to find out, what's going on!" "The whole army is moving forward at a faster pace to meet General Yatari!" In case you fall into the ambush of Wu Dog, you will be in trouble! ”

The order was conveyed, and the main force of the confused Qing army accelerated its speed again, for fear that Yatari would rush to meet it in an ambush, and after a while, the forward general Yatari finally sent a personal soldier to report the battle situation, and saluted to the tower: "General Qiyu, the forward of our army, encountered Wu Gou's southbound team, and has fought with Wu Gou's team in the area of Mashanling!" ”

"How many soldiers and horses does Wu Gou have? Is it an ambush for our strikers? The tower asked anxiously.

"General Hui, there are about 3,000 people in Wugou, and most of them are cavalry." The soldier quickly replied, "It's not an ambush, it's an encounter!" And General Yatari can be sure that Wu Gou's team definitely did not expect such a battle beforehand, because when Wu Gou found our army, the cavalry was leading horses and walking to save horsepower. ”

"Wu Gou didn't expect to meet us here?" "Then how did they march south?" ”

"Father, could it be that Wu Gou is also planning to attack Changxing?" Fei Yeleng, the eldest son of the tower next to him, interjected and said: "The main force of Wu Dog has arrived in Suzhou, and a surprise army from Yixing has been sent into Huzhou, just like our surprise attack on Yixing, and we can also receive the miraculous effect of disrupting our army's defense." ”

"Does this Wu dog army have any backup?" Yao Qisheng hurriedly asked.

"Nope." The soldiers sent back by Yatari replied: "Mashanling happens to be quite high, and after encountering Wu Gou, General Yatari was afraid that Wu Gou would have backup and ambush, so he hurriedly sent people up the mountain to observe, but did not find Wu Gou's ambush and backup. ”

"Strange?" Yao Qisheng frowned, and said suspiciously: "Wu Gou's main force has gone to Suzhou, how can there be a lone army without backup here, and most of them are cavalry?" Could it be that Lu Yifeng's dog thieves also plan to let this strange army sneak attack Huzhou and disrupt the northern front of our Qing army? ”

"It must be so! It's just that Wu Gou never dreamed that our main force didn't go to rescue Songjiang and Jiaxing at all, but came here! Fei Yeleng waved his hand and made a categorical judgment. At the end, Fei Yeleng hurriedly suggested: "Father, this is a godsend, this area is high and dense, which is not conducive to cavalry combat. Wu Gou's war horses are all purchased by sea, and the number is extremely limited, and we can greatly weaken Wu Gou's mobile power by eating Wu Gou's cavalry team here in one go! ”

"Makes sense!" Lai Ta thought about it carefully, and then he waved his hand and shouted: "The whole army will speed up and kill this team of Wu dogs in front!" ”

"Hurry up! Speed up! In the continuous roar, tens of thousands of Qing troops once again accelerated their advance, and at the same time sent countless scouts to explore the way, looking for a small way to the north to share the pressure of the official road march. And when the Chinese army led by Lai Ta arrived at the battlefield of the encounter, the bewildered Wu army's Gao Hongchen Department and Guo Yingfu's department had begun to retreat in an all-round way - as Fei Yeleng said, this area is high and densely forested, which is not conducive to the Wu army's cavalry combat, and Gao Hongchen, who has rich experience in the battlefield, will not be stupid enough to attack the enemy here with his own shortcomings. And the Qing army brigade was in hot pursuit.

At this time, the news of the sudden encounter between the vanguard of the Fat Army and the Qing Army has also been sent to Lu Fatzi by the fast horse, hearing this news, Lu Fatzi was also startled at first, and he couldn't imagine that a Qing army team would fall from the sky here - the Tianmu Mountains are high and forested, which is not conducive to the development of the main force of the Wu army, and the Qing army can block the main force of the Fat Army for a long time as long as a few thousand people.

Shocked to shocked, the fat man didn't dare to slack off, so he had to order Gao Hongchen to retreat and withdraw from the mountain range that was not conducive to the cavalry of the Wu army, and on the other hand, he ordered the main force of the fat army to prepare for battle, ready to meet the pursuing army of the Qing army, or change into infantry to enter the mountain area to fight. And when the main soldiers of the Fat Man Army, who were resting, hurriedly got up and had just set up a position on the south bank of the Jingxi River to prepare for battle, Gao Hongchen had already led the Wu Army cavalry to take the lead in withdrawing from the mountainous area and returned to the south bank of Jingxi to report the enemy to Lu Fatzi.

"How many full dogs? Is that the team coming? Before Gao Hongchen could speak, Fat Lu had already asked with a face.

"I don't know." Gao Hongchen, who was obviously still dizzy, replied with a sad face: "The terrain in that area is too narrow, I can't confirm how many full dog teams there are, I only know a lot." By the way, the combat effectiveness is also good, the team of the last general was caught off guard, and suffered a small loss, losing nearly 100 brothers. Fortunately, Brother Guo's team is all infantry, and after giving the cavalry of the last general, I am afraid that the loss will be even greater. ”

"Where did the brigade full of dogs come from? Falling from the sky? Fat Lu also asked a similar question.

"The last general doesn't know." Gao Hongchen replied helplessly: "Fortunately, as long as you pass this part of Machengling, the terrain will be open, and how many troops Mangou has, and the team from there, should be able to figure it out." ”

While speaking, Guo Yingfu, the fat army behind the palace, had already withdrawn from the Machengling Mountains, and two more fat army went up to meet and stopped the chasing soldiers for Guo Yingfu. At the same time, the Qing army's pursuers found that there was a black pressure on the south bank of the Jingxi River, and they were immediately frightened, and quickly stopped to organize the team, waiting for reinforcements from the brigade, and Lu Fatzi did not dare to attack rashly because he did not know the enemy's situation, but he also missed a good opportunity to hit the Qing army's forward team, just patiently observed and judged.

Waiting patiently, more and more Qing army teams walked out of the mountains from the official roads and mountain roads, and formed a large formation on the flat ground with their backs to the mountains, and after a while, when the Qing army led the generals to climb the lime mountain, the highest point of the battlefield, and planted the handsome flag on the top of the lime mountain, Lu Fatzi finally figured out who the enemy was. Correspondingly, the tower raised the clairing mirror to look at the fat man's army flag array, and when he saw the Lu character banner of the fat man, he immediately understood that his army had encountered the plague god. And then............

"Shameless full of dogs! It's not a good thing! Lu Fatzi scolded, "The main force said that he was going to save Songjiang Jiaxing, but in fact, he attacked Lao Tzu's Yixing City and wanted to smash Lao Tzu's hinterland!" Dream! ”

"Despicable Wu dog! It's not a good thing! "The tower is also pale," the main force said that he was going to fight Songjiang Jiaxing, but in fact, he attacked Lao Tzu's Huzhou Mansion and wanted to take Lao Tzu's Huzhou granary! Dream! ”

"Fortunately, Lao Tzu is wise and martial, and he didn't fall for the big dog (Wu dog)!" Fat Lu and Lai Ta scolded in unison.

(To be continued)