"Ahh Thirty merits, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons! Zhuang is hungry for Hu Lu meat, laughing and thirsty for mite blood! I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory, and let China go, and the Quartet - come to congratulate! ”

Before he had time to step into Jiangxi, the complacent Fat Man Lu was already spreading his arms high, looking up to the sky and sighing, and the villain's ambition was soaring, overflowing! Seeing the appearance of Fat Lu, Fat Lu's absolute cronies Wang Shaobo, Zhu Fangdan, Li Tianzhi, Yu Yuer, Xiao Erlang and others were all smiling, sycophants, and sighed that Fat Lu and his daughter-in-law had been together for many years to become a mother-in-law, and they were able to keep the clouds open, and finally looked forward to today, survived to today.

"Phew!" Not everyone is a sycophant, including Lu Fatzi's subordinates - at least Han Daren, Lu Fatzi's direct subordinate, spat heavily and sneered at Lu Fatzi's villainous appearance.

Lu Fatzi's 40,000 army was in the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the 14th day of the first month of the thirteenth year of the mite Qingkang Mazi set off from the Wuchang oath division, the water and land roads entered Jiangxi together, the water route was led by Li Guodong, the chief soldier of the Wu Army's naval division, led the fleet eastward, the army was led by Lu Fatzi himself, with the henchman Hutongchun as the vanguard, and the general Wang Xu as the grain officer, taking the Xingguo County, where the famous minister Hai Rui had served as the county commander, and the mighty and mighty went straight into Jiangxi, and the blade pointed directly at the center of the Qing army's defense line in northern Jiangxi - Jiujiang Mansion, Jiangxi!

At the time of departure, it was clear that Han Daren, who was sent by Wu Laohan to mix sand as an eyeliner, also raised objections, feeling that the first battlefield of the Fat Army's Eastern Expedition should not choose Jiujiang, but should choose Nanchang City, which is two hundred and seventy miles south of the Jiujiang River, the purpose is of course to break the Qing army in northern Jiangxi, even if the Qing army in northern Jiangxi sends troops to rescue, it is only possible to use the Jiujiang army and dare not use the Anqing Qing army that is farther away, the pressure on the fat army is relatively small, and there is a second choice to besiege the city and send reinforcements.

Han Daren's suggestion also has a certain amount of truth, it may take a long time but it is relatively safe, but Lu Fatzi has another opinion, thinking that since the army has little fine food, it can only be fought quickly and cannot be delayed for a long time, although it is safe to attack Nanchang first, but the time will inevitably be delayed for a long time, and it will also lengthen the grain road, giving the Qing army the opportunity to rob grain, which is very unfavorable. Only a direct attack on Jiujiang not only means that the grain road is short and close, but also can induce the Qing army in Nanchang and the Qing army in Anqing to rescue Jiujiang, annihilate the main forces of the Qing army in the field battlefield that the Wu army is good at, lay the foundation for future wars, and further play a role in making the Qing court unable to send reinforcements to reinforce northern Jiangxi.

In the face of Lu Fatzi's crooked reasoning, Han Daren was angry, and it was inevitable that he secretly scolded Lu Fatzi for being greedy and chewing too much, but Lu Fatzi is now Han Daren's boss, Han Daren's good friends Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu are not in Wuchang, Wu Yingqi, who is sitting in Wuchang, is still Lu Fatman's hardcore friend, and it is impossible to help Han Daren speak and interfere with Lu Fatman's tactical choice, so Han Daren had no choice but to obediently accept the order, accompany Lu Fatzi and Gao Dejie and others to lead the Chinese army, and march east all the way directly to Jiujiang.

The situation of the fat man is basically introduced, and the following is a general introduction to the situation of Lu Fatzi's unlucky opponents, you can know by looking at the map, northern Jiangxi can be said to be the only barrier for the Qing army to defend against the Wu army's invasion of the south of the Yangtze River, so since the beginning of the war, the attention of the Qing court and Kang Mazi to the battlefield in northern Jiangxi has been increasing unabated, and at the moment when the war in Zhejiang and Fujian is extremely fierce, Kang Mazi would rather transfer the army of the northern line of Huguang than the nearest northern army to reinforce the battlefield of Fujian and Zhejiang.

Later, after the Wu army successfully broke through the Qing army's Yangtze River defense line, the 60,000 main forces of the Qing army from the Huguang battlefield were divided into 35,000 to go north to Anhui, and the remaining 25,000 troops were stationed in northern Jiangxi, in order to prevent the Wu army from going down the river and attacking the first key point of the Qing court, the rich land in Jiangnan, plus the Qing army that fled to the battlefield in northern Jiangxi from Luoshan, Huangzhou and other places, so Lu Fatzi's enemies on the battlefield in northern Jiangxi this time are not too many - just over 100,000!

Among the more than 100,000 Qing troops, about 45,000 troops were stationed in Anqing City, the first gateway to the south of the Yangtze River, and were led by the general of the Qing Dynasty, the minister of the interior, Hirgen, and many of the Qing capitals; The Jiujiang garrison was 32,000, led by Bei Zi Zhangtai and Dong Weiguo, the governor of Jiangxi; More than 20 years ago, Zhao Guoqi, a veteran of the Qing army who had forced Zheng Chenggong to retreat on the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River, led 25,000 troops to sit in Nanchang and fought with the Qing army in Jiujiang. In addition, Yang Jie, the commander of the Qing army's naval division, led about 7,000 Qing army sailors to hover in the area around the mouth of Poyang Lake to defend the safety of China's largest freshwater lake. It is indeed difficult for Fat Lu to pull teeth from the mouths of these new and old opponents who rely on danger to defend them.

After Xingguo did not go far, 40,000 fat soldiers had entered the territory of Jiangxi on all fronts, and led 3,000 elite soldiers to open the way in Hutongchun, which sent fast horses to report, saying that it was the Qing army guard of Ruichang County, Jiujiang Prefecture, Yi Tanbu, who led 3,000 defenders out of the city, and was killing Hutongchun's army. Lu Fatzi was a little puzzled when he heard the report, and said secretly: "Mangou dares to go out of the city to fight? Is it to look down on me and think that I am not a famous general and easy to bully? Or do you want to test my reality? ”

"Brother Lu, since Mangou dares to go out of the city to fight, we should face it head-on and kill Mangou's sharpness!" Gao Dejie next to him suggested: "General Hu Tongchun's subordinates are all elite soldiers in Guangxi, and they will never suffer losses in the field, and there should be great hope for a good start!" ”

"Full of dogs dare to go out of the city to fight? Could it be a fraud? Han Daren is actually the same kind of person as Lu Fatzi, and he is also suspicious and suspicious, so he quickly questioned: "It's just that there are dogs in other places, Ruichang Mangou has often been ravaged by us in field battles for more than a year, and they know our field capabilities well, and now they dare to abandon the city and attack, they must not have any good intentions, and our army should be cautious." ”

"Whether there is fraud or not, let's fight first." Gao Dejie is not a junior brother on the battlefield, he waved his hand and said: "This is the first battle of our army's Eastern Crusade, if you are afraid to face the battle, it will only frustrate the spirit of your own army." At most, he gave Hutong Chun an order not to chase the enemy too deeply. ”

"Brother Gao's method is good, just do it." Lu Fatzi nodded, asked the herald to report back to Hutongchun, and ordered him to attack Itambu head-on, but if the Qing army was defeated and retreated, it must not chase after Ruichang County. The herald flew away, and Lu Fatzi turned to Gao Dejie and ordered: "Brother Dajie, please let General Gao Hongchen lead two thousand cavalry to go first, and answer Hutongchun, if Hutongchun wins, you don't have to participate in the battle, if Hutongchun chases the enemy and is ambushed, you can rescue immediately." ”

"Brother Lu is cautious in his use of troops, our Chinese army is only thirty miles away from the advance of Hutongchun, so we must prepare cavalry in advance to respond?" Gao Dejie smiled and said: "But that's right, this is the first battle of our Eastern Crusade, and we would rather be troublesome than careless and give the dog a chance to exploit the loopholes." ”

After laughing, Gao Dejie quickly sent his deputy Gao Hongchen to take the lead, and the main force of the Fat Army continued to move eastward according to the original marching speed, unhurriedly driving towards Ruichang. After more than an hour, the news came again from the vanguard of the Fat Army, Hu Tongchun led 3,000 elite soldiers to teach Itambu a hard lesson in the field battle, more than 130 beheadings, 22 people were captured, the Qing army was defeated to Ruichang City, Hutongchun chased closely, and the pursuit battle has now begun.

The first outpost battle of the Eastern Expedition was victorious, and Lu Fatzi was naturally very satisfied when he heard the news, and ordered Hu Tongchun to pursue cautiously, preferring to let the enemy escape rather than pursue too deeply, and at the same time ordered Hu Tongchun to leave the prisoners on the battlefield and wait for the Chinese army to come forward and interrogate the confession. Li Tianzhi and Quan Jie and other generals next to him laughed when they heard it, and they all said that with Hutongchun's temper, they had to jump when they heard Lu Fatzi's order, and Lu Fatzi also laughed, but he said that he would not change the order - attacking Jiujiang was the first battle of his Eastern Crusade, needless to say, now the Fat Army basically didn't know anything about the specific situation in Jiujiang Mansion, and Lu Fatzi naturally didn't dare to take risks casually.

After walking for more than ten miles, he arrived at the battlefield where Hutongchun had fought with Itambu before, and there were indeed more than 20 unlucky Qing army prisoners on the side of the road. Lu Fatzi stopped on the side of the road, ordered the captives to be taken in front of him, first gave them wine to quench their thirst, and then comforted the captives with kind words, declaring that he was on the orders of Wu Sangui, the king of Zhou, to go eastward to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty to save the people of the world, and would never kill the captives at will—at least not the Han captives at will. After all the captives kowtowed and thanked them, Lu Fatzi asked them about the specific situation of the Qing army in Ruichang.

Several Qing army prisoners were quite honest, and soon confessed that the Qing army had already abandoned Ruichang, and the grain and grass in Ruichang City had been transferred to Jiujiang Mansion City as early as ten days ago, and Ruichang County was actually equivalent to an empty city, and the reason why Itambu led the army to fight was completely an order from Jiujiang Prefecture, so that the Ruichang Qing Army and the Wu Army could meet each other, and test the strength and weakness of the Wu Army in the Eastern Expedition, and retreat to Jiujiang City immediately if they could not fight. Therefore, the Ruichang Qing army did not have much morale and fighting spirit at all, and retreated on all fronts after a slight touch with the advance of the Fat Army.

"Lord Lu, Mangou is really testing our situation." Hearing the confession of the Qing prisoners of war, Quan Jie, who also belonged to the Wu army in Guangxi, was overjoyed, and hurriedly suggested: "Lord Lu, we should immediately pursue with all our strength and make a beautiful start, and the last general is willing to lead the troops to meet Hutongchun." ”

"What are you anxious about?" Fat Lu glared at Quan Jie, and when he turned his head to look at Gao Dejie and Han Daren next to him, he found that both of them were smiling, but they looked at themselves silently, obviously wanting to see what they planned to do next. Fat Lu smiled, turned to a few captives and asked, "Then General Ben will ask you again, from here to the east, the road from Ruichang to Jiujiang, is it good to walk?" Are there many hills and woods on the road? ”

"It's hard to walk." One of the captives quickly replied: "That road is a little low-lying, and it is better in winter, but in summer it is easy to flood the road when it rains too much, and there are many mountains and woods on the side of the road." (Note: At that time, there was no Saihu Lake between Ruichang and Jiujiang.) ）

"Very well, then you can go down." Lu Fatzi waved to a few captives and said: "If you are willing to stay, you can join our army, if you are not willing to stay, you can go home, but whether you go away or not, your braids cannot be left, you must cut off." ”

More than 20 Qing army prisoners were all in the local area, and they didn't want to have anything to say about when they cut off their braids and went home, so they all said that they would stay and surrender, and Lu Fatzi was overjoyed and hurriedly asked the soldiers to lead them down to cut their braids. At the end, Fat Lu turned to Gao Dejie and Han Daren and said with a smile: "Brother Dajie, General Han, you don't need to look at the jokes of the younger brother, you can all see it, there must be a full dog ambush ahead, right?" ”

Gao Dejie laughed when he heard this, and even praised Lu for being fat, while Han Daren sneered, but refused to speak. However, the whole section was inexplicable, and hurriedly asked: "Lord Lu, how can you conclude that there must be an ambush full of dogs ahead?" ”

"Big Brother Quan, when you lead your troops into battle, will you tell your subordinates that they are just going to test the enemy and shake their own military morale?" Fat Lu asked with a smile, and said with a smile: "If I'm not mistaken, the Mangou side must be planning to bully me for my lack of battlefield experience, deliberately throwing a bait to lure me into the bait, trying to lure me into full pursuit, and jumping into their ambush circle to cut them down - unfortunately, they are getting an axe at the banmen." ”

"Makes sense, so what to do?" The full nod asked.

"It's not early, our army is tired from afar, what to do tomorrow." Fat Lu smiled and ordered: "Immediately send an order to Hutongchun, chase the full dog through Ruichang City, no longer chase, enter the city to take over the city defense, our main army will camp outside Ruichang City tonight." Then give the sailors an order to rest overnight at the dock of Chengzi Town, and pay attention to keeping a distance from the main force. ”

When the order reached the Hutong Chun army, Hutong Chungang led the fat army to chase the Qing army led by Itambu through Ruichang City, and was planning to continue the pursuit to expand the results, but he had no choice but to receive the order that Lu Fatzi was not allowed to continue the pursuit, and he was embarrassed to disobey the military order when Lu Fatzi led the troops out for the first time, so he had to turn around and enter the city in despair, take over the empty city of Ruichang, post a notice ordering the people in the city to cut their braids, and wait for the arrival of the main force without mentioning.

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Hutongchun was disappointed in Ruichang City, but he didn't know that in the area of Tianjiaqiao in Jiujiang, thirty miles ahead, after getting the news that the Wu army's vanguard had stopped pursuing, the main force of the Jiujiang Qing army, which had been in ambush here for a long time, was far more disappointed than him.

"Master Pei, you don't need to be as knowledgeable as Wu Dog." The chief soldier Tong Guodong comforted: "Wu Gou is timid and afraid of war, and he does not dare to pursue, which is also right, since we can't ambush it, it is better to withdraw to Jiujiang City as soon as possible, and wait for Wu Gou to arrive at Jiujiang City, and then fight to the death with Wu Gou." ”

"No withdrawal!" Zhangtai Beizi refused, and said angrily: "Ben Beizi finally arranged an ambush here, how can he give up easily?" The army slept overnight, and then ordered Itambu to set up camp in Hejiawan! Continue to lure the enemy tomorrow, and be sure to lead Wu Gou into the ambush circle! ”

"But it's ...... weather." Tong Guodong pointed to the gray winter sky, his expression was a little hesitant, but he was glared at by Zhangtai's eyes, Tong Guodong still lowered his head honestly, and replied helplessly: "Zha, the slave will arrange it." ”

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When the main force of the Fat Army arrived at the city of Ruichang, it was already evening, and at the same time, the news that the Qing army Itambu was camping in Hejiawan, twenty miles away, had also been reported to Lu Fatzi by the Fat Army scouts.

After a while, the fat army generals entered the tent together to listen to the order, and Lu Fatzi said with a smile: "Mangou bullied me for being inexperienced, and wanted to engage in an ambush, so I didn't come to be rude, since Mangou wanted to get an axe, then General Ben naturally tried his best to meet their wishes." Listen to the whole festival! ”

"The end will be." The whole section is out of the line and clenches the fist.

"Three thousand infantry with you!" Lu Fatzi picked up an arrow and ordered: "Tonight, the second watch will be dispatched to attack the camp of Mangou Itambu overnight, and Mangou will retreat to Jiujiang, so there is no need to hesitate, boldly pursue and expand the results." If the dog ambush soldiers are killed from the ambush, immediately retreat back for me, and wait until our army is ambushed, and then turn around and kill back, and hit the full dog! ”

"Order!" The whole festival happily took the arrow. Lu Fatzi picked up the second arrow again, and shouted: "Gao Hongchen listened to the order, ordered you to lead two thousand cavalry, and at the beginning of the second watch, he sent troops to the south of Hejiawan to ambush, and when the dog ambush soldiers chased the defeated soldiers through Hejiawan, they should not go out to fight until our army launched an ambush, and then kill me to cut off the dog's tail full of dogs!" ”

"Order!" Gao Hongchen agreed. Lu Fatzi picked up the third arrow and ordered: "Han Daren listens to the order, and orders you to lead 4,000 infantry to send troops on the second watch and two minutes, and lie in ambush on both sides of the road five miles west of Hejiawan. ”

"The last will obey." Han Daren agreed weakly, and asked again: "General Lu, is the last general's strength a little less, only 4,000 troops to attack the two wings of the dog, is it too thin?" ”

"Since ancient times, soldiers have not been expensive, and four thousand infantry ambushes full of dogs are more than enough." Lu Fatzi smiled: "Besides, General Han, aren't you known as the civil and military Shuangquan Xiao Huaiyin?" Why is it that now it is also starting to be like those novices who have just entered the battlefield, only counting the number of troops? If I really don't have confidence, I can change people. ”

"Who says I don't have faith?" Han Daren snorted coldly, strode forward and took the arrow from Lu Fatzi's hand, with a very bad attitude. Fortunately, Fat Lu didn't care, just waved his hand and said: "Okay, let's break the tent, the rest of the generals just have to camp and rest in peace, and recuperate enough to wait for the future big war." ”

The generals agreed, most of them scattered and left, Han Daren, Quan Jie and Gao Hongchen and other Wu generals who received the errand also hurried down to arrange preparations for the battle, only Gao Dejie and Hu Tongchun did not leave, Hu Tongchun stayed of course to complain that Lu Fatzi did not send him a messenger, until Lu Fatzi repeatedly comforted him before leaving. Gao Dejie was forced to worry and said to Lu Fatzi: "Brother Lu, don't blame your brother for talking too much and slandering others behind your back, you have also seen Han Daren's attitude towards you and me." You also entrusted such an important errand to him, if he deliberately disrupted or deliberately delayed the fighter, then we will be in trouble. ”

"Please rest assured about this, Brother Dajie." Lu Fatzi said in a deep voice: "Han Daren is dissatisfied with you and me, but his dissatisfaction is only that the prince reused me, did not reuse him, and did not give him the opportunity to perform meritorious service, but he still has loyalty to the prince, and his competitiveness is a hundred times better than ordinary people, so this time he sent him to fight, in order to show a hand, and also to compare you and me, he will only fight to the death more hard, and will not deliberately make mistakes." ”

"Is that really the case?" Gao Dejie was a little worried, and said in a low voice: "Brother Lu, the elder brother relies on the old man to sell the old again, the elder brother has seen too many facts like this." People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, Han Daren, this kid is not authentic, we must prevent him from deliberately yin you, and deliberately let you lose the battle so that he can replace him. ”

"Brother Gao's kindness, little brother understands it." Fat Lu smiled and said: "But the junior brother still believes that with Han Daren's loyalty to the prince, he should not do such a thing - otherwise, the prince would not have sent him here to watch you and me for the prince." ”

After that, considering that Gao Dejie's face could not be left unfavored, Lu Fatzi instructed again: "Brother Gao, but your worries can't be guarded against, so let's do it, you are also ready to go to war tonight, if the battle situation is unfavorable, you will attack immediately and meet our army." Gao Dejie nodded in agreement, and then said goodbye and left.

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Forgotten note in the previous chapter: There are two theories about the death of Gao Dejie, the general of the Wu army, one is that Han Daren falsely accused Hu Guozhu that Gao Dejie had invaded the home of the Qing army general Sele and did not hand it over as usual, and Hu Guozhu severely punished Gao Dejie, causing Gao Dejie to die of anger and illness. Another theory is that Han Daren's brother Han Yuanren falsely accused Hu Guozhu of spreading rumors and framing Gao Dejie for deliberately letting Yue Le go in the Battle of Luozi Mountain, and not saving Han Daren caused the Wu army to be wiped out in Jiujiang. In view of this, the book is set to have a discordant relationship between Gao Dejie and Han Daren.

(To be continued)