Although it was too embarrassing to surrender the whole territory of Zhejiang to the fat army, and bowed his head to Lu Fatzi, who had gone to his Wanghailou to beg for travel expenses, the arrogant Geng Wangye also felt unacceptable, but after really retreating and bowing his head, Geng Wangye suddenly learned what it means to take a step back and open the sky, not only all the problems were solved, but the situation in the Fujian and Guangdong battlefields also suddenly became beneficial to Geng Wangye. 【Reading.com】

The most favorable point of the situation for Geng Wangye is, of course, the truce with the Fat Army, although among the several major corps of the Fat Army, Li Tianzhi's corps on the southern line is the weakest, but compared to Geng Wangye, it still has a certain advantage, even if Geng Wangye defeats Li Tianzhi with a weak victory, his own strength will be hit hard, and at the same time, it will definitely attract the full revenge of the main force of the Fat Army, and the remaining three legions of the Fat Army will pull out one of them casually, and they all have the absolute certainty of killing Geng Wangye in seconds! Being able to cease war with such an opponent and win the support of such a powerful ally is a great thing for Prince Geng.

There is also an equally important favorable situation, that is, Geng Wangye can win Shang Zhixin's friend, although Geng Wangye does not believe that Shang Zhixin will always be friendly with his brother-in-law Lu Fatzi, and will never swallow the other party even with his belt, but Geng Wangye can be sure of one thing, that is, Shang Zhixin, who was also robbed of a large piece of territory by Zheng Jing, will definitely not miss this opportunity to beat the water dogs, even if he does not directly send troops to help, at least he will effectively contain a large number of Taiwanese troops on the southern front of the Fujian-Guangdong battlefield. This is related to the fundamental interests of Shang Zhixin's territory, and it will definitely not be discounted at all.

The situation is indeed developing in this direction, on February 16, Geng Wangye's main force has just withdrawn to Wenzhou Fucheng, and the first batch of money and grain promised by the Fat Army has just docked at Wenzhou Wharf by sea, Shang Zhixin's fourteenth brother Shang Zhiying immediately ran to Wenzhou like a fly smelling blood, and on behalf of the eldest brother, he asked Geng Wangye to form an alliance and join hands to beat Zheng Jing, who grabbed the territory.

The allies who took the initiative to send to the door, Geng Wangye naturally would not refuse, not only agreed to form an alliance, but also agreed to the additional conditions proposed by Shang Zhiying on behalf of Shang Zhixin, that is, to open the sea and land roads to the Pingnan Palace, so that Shang Zhixin could reach out to his brother-in-law to ask for money, food and weapons - Lu Fatzi, who can disgust the jackal's heart, Geng Wangye is naturally happy. At that moment, the two families hit it off, immediately signed a covenant, and then rolled up their sleeves and began to work.

In late February, Geng Wangye, who had long hated Zheng Jing and Shang Wangye, moved together, Shang Wangye sent his cronies Wang Guodong to send 20,000 troops to attack Haifeng County, Huizhou, where Zheng Jing's team was entrenched, the battle was fierce and abnormal, and the long-standing Shang Zhixin army completely had the upper hand, and Zheng Jing's team was scattered because of the rapid expansion, and could not stop the offensive of Shang Zhixin's army, so he was forced to abandon Haifeng and retreat to Lufeng, and asked Zheng Jing for help. Zheng Jing was shocked when he heard the news, and urgently ordered Liu Jinzhong of Chaozhou to send troops to rescue, but Liu Jinzhong was angry that Zheng Jing disregarded the overall situation and destroyed the unity of the anti-Qing team, and stood still, and sat back and watched Lufeng Zheng's army being besieged by Shang Zhixin and did not save him.

At the same time, Geng Jingzhong also launched an all-out revenge against Zheng Jun, Bai Xianzhong returned to Tingzhou, Fujian from Xianxia Pass, and Zeng Yang's surname returned to Jianning from Fushi Pass, and launched a counterattack against Yanping Mansion, the most important grain producing area in Fujian, with the assistance of Geng Jingzhong's uncle Geng Jishan. And Geng Jingzhong personally led 50,000 main forces to the south by sea and land, rushed to the rescue of the Fuzhou nest attacked by the main force of Zheng Jing, and Geng Jun fought at Fuqiao Honglu Station, the main force of the Zheng army that was not good at land warfare was defeated, and fled back to Xinghua City to close the city and defend it, Zhu Feiyan, the governor of the Geng army's water division, led Zhang Wangong, Xu Ying and other generals, with the help of the fat army's sub-cannons and Molotov cocktails, also defeated the Zheng army's water division in the area of Haitan Island, forcing the Zheng army's water division to retreat to Meizhou Island, and the Zheng army's north and south roads were in an emergency.

The battlefield situation that was very favorable just now suddenly reversed, Zheng Jing was of course furious, and found out that the main force of Geng's army returned to Fujian because the fat army deliberately connived, and also funded a large number of grain and grass, baggage and military salaries, Zheng Jing was even more furious, and immediately sent an envoy Ke Ping to Nanjing to ask for the guilt, accusing Lu Fatzi of betraying the alliance and losing his trust in the world, and asked Lu Fatzi to immediately stop all support for Geng Jingzhong and start a new war against Geng Jingzhong!

Zheng Jing's condemnation and demands can be effective for the time being, not to say about him, with the main force of the Geng army fully returning to Fujian, Shang Zhixin, who had been accumulating strength for a long time, joined the battle, the fat army blocked Geng, Zheng and Shang's three armies in Fujian and Guangdong, and the strategic plan of fratricidal slaughter was finally successfully achieved, and the fat army was also in a favorable position to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight on the southern front, at least for a year, the fat army did not need to be distracted by the military situation on the southern front, and could free up their hands to deal with other enemies, and then take action to clean up the mess in Fujian and Guangdong.

It was spring in March, the southeast wind was blowing, and Ke Ping, the envoy sent by Zheng Jing by sea, had also quickly rushed to Nanjing City to condemn Lu Fatzi's betrayal of the alliance in person, but Lu Fatzi's eyes rolled and snorted coldly: "Who betrayed the alliance?" Is there any provision in the covenant signed between this king and the Yanping royal palace that this king is not allowed to accept Geng Jingzhong's surrender alone? Now that the king has implemented the covenant as agreed, and Geng Jingzhong has bowed down to the Great Zhou court and offered the entire territory of Zhejiang, has he broken his promise? Could it be that the king's army entered Fujian to grab territory with the Yanping Palace? ”

Ke Ping picked up the Fat Zheng Covenant and flipped through it for a long time, and found that the situation was indeed as Lu Fatzi said, and there was indeed no provision in the alliance between the two armies that the Fat Army was not allowed to accept Geng Jingzhong's surrender alone, and naturally there was no provision that after the Fat Army accepted Geng Jingzhong's surrender, Geng Jingzhong must also go to war. After understanding the plan, Ke Ping could only stubbornly accuse: "Lord Lu, even if the covenant does not stipulate that your army is not allowed to accept Geng Jingzhong'er's surrender alone, then why did your army deliberately let Geng Jingzhong'er's main force return to Fujian?" Also provide him with a large amount of food, grass and military supplies, and help him kill our Taiwanese soldiers? ”

"Why didn't this king let go of Geng Jingzhong's main force?" Lu Fatzi rolled his eyes again, and snorted: "Geng Jingzhong surrendered to the Great Zhou Dynasty and became the King of Jinghai of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he is already a member of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In the same way, since Geng Wang Ye is already the King of Jinghai of the Great Zhou, his team is naturally our army of the Great Zhou, and this king provides them with grain and grass and military salaries, what's wrong? Do you want the king of Yanping to starve the soldiers of the Great Zhou to death? ”

Ke Ping's face began to turn white, not because he was refuted by Lu Fatzi's crooked reasoning, but because he was pestered by Lu Fatzi's nonsense, and then Ke Ping had an idea, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Lord Wang, the little envoy understands, since Geng Jingzhong is already the King of Jinghai in the Great Zhou, Lord Lu, you really have nothing to blame for giving him military salaries and grain and grass." However, since Prince Geng is already a courtier of the Great Zhou, then he should carry out the covenant signed between you and us, Prince Lu, and draw the border of Fujian Province with us, and not set foot in Fujian - Prince Lu, you should also issue an order to order Prince Geng to completely withdraw from Zhejiang! ”

Lu Fatzi was a little speechless, and only then did he realize that he had been pitted into it. Fortunately, there was a sophistry and a reliable lackey beside Fat Lu, Wang Shaobo stood up and said with a smile: "Master Ke, it's not right for you to say that, why did our prince order Geng Wangye to withdraw from Fujian?" Why can't Geng Wangye go back to Fujian? ”

"Why?" Ke Ping glanced at Uncle Wang, and said in his heart, it depends on how you explain this ugly monster.

"It's very simple." Wang Shaobo smiled and asked: "Your envoy can look at the covenant again, is this covenant signed by our Prince Lu with your army in the name of the Great Zhou Yue Palace, is this correct?" ”

"That's right." Ke Ping nodded and replied without looking.

"Since this is the case, then does our Great Zhou Jinghai Palace's war against your army have anything to do with our Great Zhou Yue Palace?" Wang Shaobo hated iron but not steel, and asked: "May I ask your envoy again, is there any provision in our covenant that we are not allowed to recapture the occupied land in the Jinghai Palace?" Is there a treaty that clearly states that our Great Zhou Yue Palace's palace must stop and prevent other Great Zhou armies from waging war against you? ”

Ke Ping was completely speechless, but Lu Fatzi jumped up as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and applauded: "Young Uncle is too right, Geng Jingzhong's attack on Fujian is the matter of our Great Zhou Jinghai Palace, what does it have to do with this king's Great Zhou Yue Palace?" What is the covenant between this king and yours that stipulates that this king must restrain all the Great Zhou armies and not allow them to attack your army? For example, Guo Zhuangtu, can this king command him? ”

Sent away Ke Ping, who was blue-faced and white-mouthed, the Yinluan Palace of the Great Zhou Yue Mansion was naturally smiling, and Lu Fatzi was even more smiling and his eyes narrowed into two small slits, knowing that the southern line was basically as stable as Mount Tai, not only did he not have to worry about the threat of the southern line, but as long as he did it casually, he could decide who would win and who would lose in the three southern lines, and even Zheng Jing was quickly beaten to death It didn't matter, anyway, with Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong's virtues, they would never get along peacefully and amicably.

Basically laid the favorable position of the southern line, Lu Fatzi turned his attention to the northern line again, and the northern line of the Fat Army was also in a good situation, and successfully annihilated the last elite army of the Mite Qing, several Shandong and Henan prefectures in the plan have all been obtained, and the three counties of Henan Chenzhou Mansion and Daimyo Mansion Kaizhou, Qingfeng and Dongming who are not in the plan also took the initiative to send the table, Henan Governor Tong Fengcai gave up Kaifeng and escaped the Yellow River, Han Daren only sent two thousand partial divisions to try the westward expedition, Kaifeng prefect Hu Wenzhao surrendered Kaecheng without any resistance, and even Zhang Fengyi, the governor of Shandong stationed in Jinan, and Duan Yingju, the governor of Shandong, quietly sent envoys to contact Gao Dejie, preparing to leave a way back for themselves.

The hearts of the people in the north have reached this point, and the fat army naturally sounded the overwhelming voice of the all-round Northern Expedition, and the civil and military generals in Nanjing City and some literati who were looking forward to glory and wealth and speculative camps have put on the table and written to persuade Lu Fatzi to launch the Northern Expedition and launch the final blow to the Qing court in the twilight of the West Mountain, and even some officials and scholars have the courage to break through the ambition of Lu Fatzi, and write on the persuasion table: "Since ancient times, the emperor has not been a family from all over the world, and it is not orthodox. The Holy Dynasty has half of the world, why not ask a corner, and abandon orthodoxy? ”

Of course, the officials of the Fat Army who dared to write such a list of exhortations were all demoted by Lu Fat Officer and fined for three months—and then found all kinds of reasons to secretly promote these people and reward them with money and food. Several of them were quite famous literati, and they were quietly remembered by Lu Fatzi's good wife Lu Yu'er, and they were ready to arrange for Lu Fatzi's second son, Lu Bangning, to be a teacher.

Gao Dejie and Han Daren wrote letters one after another, requesting to expand the scope of the Northern Expedition, and constantly described the bright prospects of the Northern Expedition to Lu Fatzi, introducing the people's aspirations of the Han people in the north to the Great Zhouyue Palace. Even Wang Xu, the general of the Fat Man Army, who has always been loyal and low-key, couldn't help but find an opportunity to make a request in front of Lu Fatzi, hoping to lead the army to launch the Northern Expedition and take Yanjing for Lu Fatzi, Lu Fatzi said with a wry smile: "If I transfer one of Han Daren or Gao Dejie back to guard Jiangnan, and replace you to lead the Northern Expedition, what will be the result?" Then Wang Xu stopped talking, and honestly continued to accompany Fat Lu to sit in Jiangnan.

In fact, Lu Fatzi did not want to launch the Northern Expedition immediately, seeking to obtain the reputation of the second after Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the south and expel the Tartars, and the remnants of the Qing army in Shandong could not stop the iron hooves of the Fat Army, and the old witch of Xiaozhuang did not have Wang Baobao's 100,000 Qinwang army in Taiyuan, and the Northern Expedition situation of the Fat Army was actually better than the opportunity that Zhu Yuanzhang encountered back then. What really made Fat Man Lu make up his mind was not the problem of the Fat Army, but the psychological problem of Fat Man.

Like all the traversers who have been brainwashed by Harmony Education, Lu Fatzi also has an unrealistic fantasy in his mind, that is, he hopes that after he launches the Northern Expedition, he can save the famine people from fire and water everywhere he goes, improve the livelihood of the new land at once, let the cold have clothes and the hungry have food, and reduce the disasters brought by the war to the compatriots as much as possible. But it's a pity that this is a good thing that has never happened before, and the productivity and scientific and technological power of this era are also destined to make the idea of Lu Fatzi just a fantasy.

In the casual conversation after official duties, Lu Fatzi's innocent thought was noticed by Yao Qisheng, who was as careful as a hair, and Yao Qisheng also pointed out directly: "Lord, forgive me for being blunt, your idea is indeed a benevolent heart, but I think that this is just the kindness of a woman, or the kindness of a woman who brings disaster to the country and the people!" Since ancient times, every time there has been a change of dynasty, that time has not been a river of blood and a mountain of corpses, and the people have not suffered from it again, hungry and cold? ”

"But why did the change of dynasty succeed? Did the people voluntarily suffer from the war? Or is every ordinary person Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, born anti-bone? No, it's because the rule of the previous dynasty has been rotten to the core, and the people can't live anymore, so the people support Chen Sheng Wu Guang, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, if there is no murderous Yingye of Chen Sheng Wu Guang and Xiang Yu Liu Bang, how can the tyrannical Qin be overthrown? If there was no Zhu Yuanzhang's blood stained Poyang Lake and the accumulated white bones on the road of the Northern Expedition, how could the Tartars be expelled and lay the foundation for the 276th year of the Ming Dynasty? ”

"If it weren't for these sacrifices, wouldn't our Huaxia still be ruled by the Shang Dynasty and the tyrannical Qin, and would still be enslaved by the Wuhu aliens and the Mengyuan Tatars? If you miss the opportunity of the Northern Expedition because of the kindness of the woman, you will only save 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of Han compatriots, but you will harm millions or even tens of millions of Han compatriots! Because if you don't completely eradicate the Mangou court, our northern compatriots will be enslaved by the Mangou court forever, starve to death more of our compatriots, and freeze more of our compatriots!! ”

Although Yao Qisheng, who has a disgraceful reputation in history, said these words to Lu Fatzi, which was a little ridiculous and speculative, these words did hit Lu Fatzi's heart, and also made Lu Fatzi realize his innocence and ignorance after being brainwashed, and even remembered the blood sea corpse mountain when a certain dynasty was founded, and the idea and plan of the all-out Northern Expedition after getting the country to the people was ungrateful, and gradually brewed in Lu Fatzi's mind.

What really made Lu Fatzi make up his mind about the Northern Expedition was the news that the Qing Dynasty issued military coins on a large scale again, and the news that the old witch of Xiaozhuang still requisitioned grain on a large scale despite the starvation of Shandong in Zhili. But in mid-March, as the Korean king Li Li sent an envoy to pay tribute to the Great Zhou court, bringing information that the Qing court had cultivated farmland on a large scale outside the pass, and it was confirmed that the old witch of Xiaozhuang had not entered the customs from outside the pass, Lu Fatzi quickly understood the vicious intentions of the old witch of Xiaozhuang - the old witch of Xiaozhuang was ready to run away with the Qing court, and she was also ready to throw the mess in the north to herself.

Understanding this, on the day of March 28 of the first year of Honghua of the Great Zhou Dynasty, after some intensive and careful preparations, it was repeatedly confirmed that the civil war of the Wu army had expanded the entire territory of the southwest, and Lu Fatzi finally issued a decree on the Yinluan Palace, determined to personally lead the army to launch a northern expedition to completely eradicate the mite Qing court, first drive the mite Qing court back to the north of the Great Wall, and then arrange a plan to comprehensively exterminate the mite Qing court.

Although there are also many people who oppose Lu Fatzi's personal expedition and stay away from the center of Nanjing, Lu Fatzi, who dreamed of personally swinging his army into Yanjing City, has already been carefully considered and carefully arranged, categorically rejected the kindness of these lackeys, and issued an edict on the spot, ordering Han Daren, the general of the expedition to the west, to cross the Yellow River and march westward, hit Huaiqing Mansion in Henan, cut off the connection between the Qing army in Tongguan and Zhili, and wait for an opportunity to capture the entire territory of Shanxi. He also ordered Gao Dejie, the general of the expedition to the north, to immediately go north and capture the entire territory of Shandong. Lu Fatzi personally led an army of 80,000 to the north to respond, and joined Gao Dejie's army to launch a fatal blow to the Qing court, and ordered Wang Shaobo, Xie Dong, Wang Xu and Qin Yong to sit in Nanjing and deal with the overall situation.

Killing chickens with a knife, Lu Fatzi's Northern Expedition army is close to 200,000, Lu Fatzi personally led the 80,000 troops drawn from the four major army corps, more than 30,000 are new recruits or new soldiers, and Gao Dejie's 40,000 army after the invasion of Shandong, the number of troops also exceeded the 50,000 mark, Han Daren was even more ruthless, recruiting all kinds of cannon fodder in Henan, Anhui Province, and the army has exceeded 60,000. The three-way army marched north and west together, Han Daren was responsible for cutting off the wings of the mite, Gao Dejie opened up the road, and Lu Fatzi shamelessly smashed the Yellow Dragon!

On April 12, the last fat army sent to participate in the Northern Expedition returned to Zhenjiang from Zhejiang, and Lu Fatzi also worshiped the Ming Xiaoling and Wu Lao Han in Nanjing, and personally led the army on the journey. Before leaving, Fatty Lu gritted his teeth and said to the officers and men of the whole army, "Yanjing, it is the Yanjing of the Chinese!" It's not Yanjing full of dogs! No matter how long Mangou has been entrenched, no matter how deep Mangou's poison in Yanjing is, we Han people will drive them all out! All, annihilation! ”

(To be continued)