"Guangwu, you are in such a hurry, Tian Fengji has sent someone to ask for help again?"

Seeing his confidant Xu Wenyao hurriedly opening the door with the letter, without waiting for Xu Wenyao to open his mouth to report, Geng Wangye immediately opened his mouth to ask about Xu Wenyao's intention, and saw Xu Wenyao nodding with shock and admiration on his face, and then looked at the admiring looks of the civil and military henchmen around him. Geng Wangye couldn't help but smile slightly, very proud of his expectations, and then knocked on Erlang's leg and asked, "Where did Lu Gou hit?" How's the war going? ”

"Lu Dog has already hit the city of Shaoxing." Xu Wenyao hurriedly replied: "According to Tian Fengji's statement in the letter, the Mangou defenders once mustered up the courage to go out of the city and fight with Lu Gou, but they were soon beaten by Lu Gou and fled back to Shaoxing City to defend behind closed doors. Tian Fengji was worried that the troops in his hands were insufficient, and he was also worried about the lack of grain and grass in the city, so he asked the prince, your old man, to send troops quickly, or directly reinforce Shaoxing, or encircle Wei to rescue Zhao to fight Hangzhou and cut off Lu Gou's grain route. ”

"Good! Good! Good! Geng Wang Ye shouted three times in a row, and applauded excitedly, and said even more proudly: "It's good to fight fiercely, the more intense it is, the more fierce the fight between Mangou and Lu Dog, the more beneficial it will be to this king." ”

"Lord Shengming, it's best for the Wu Dog Eastern Expeditionary Army to fight with Mangou and end up together, then it will be easier for us." Xu Wenyao hurriedly patted his ass, and quickly picked up the letter in his hand, and said with a flattering face: "This is Tian Fengji's handwritten letter asking for help, please take a look at the prince, the messenger he sent is also waiting outside the Xingyuan Gate, and the prince can pass it on at any time." ”

"If you don't read it, you just need to know the general content, and Tian Fengji's envoy Benwang is gone." Geng Wangye waved his hand and refused, and then ordered: "Go and tell Tian Fengji's envoy, just say that this king is occasionally infected with a small illness, so he will not meet him, and then let him go back to Shaoxing and tell Tian Fengji, let Tian Fengji put a hundred hearts, as long as he insists on holding Shaoxing City, this king's rescuers will soon be able to set off, besiege Wei and rescue Zhao to attack Hangzhou." ”

Xu Wenyao agreed, and hurriedly went out of the hall to reply, but Ma Jiuyu, the general of the Geng army on the side, was a little worried, and reminded: "Lord Wang, it's best to meet Tian Fengji's envoy, learn more about the current situation on the battlefield in Shaoxing, and judge how long the remnants of the dog can support, and our army can formulate countermeasures and get ready." ”

"What are you doing with him? Seeing him, on behalf of Tian Fengji, he asked the king to send troops immediately, and the king agreed or not? Geng Wang Ye sneered and said in a big way: "As for the specific situation of the Shaoxing battlefield, let Zeng Yang and Bai Xianzhong send some more detailed works to Shaoxing to investigate, let's ask the Mangou messenger directly, can we get the truth?" Mangou is not stupid, in order for us to send troops as soon as possible, can he still tell us the truth? ”

Ma Jiuyu thought about it carefully and felt that it was also, in order to let Tian Fengji send troops as soon as possible, the messenger he sent would naturally not tell the truth to himself, but would only do everything possible to induce his own troops to send troops, and if he didn't do it, he would be confused by his false information, so Ma Jiuyu no longer insisted, but just begged Geng Wangye to give orders to Zeng Yang and Bai Xianzhong as soon as possible, so that they could closely monitor every move on the battlefield in Shaoxing, and Geng Wangye also agreed.

Geng Wangye, who had the idea of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, probably never dreamed that when he and Ma Jiuyu were discussing the military situation, and at the same time on the afternoon of October 20 in the first year of Zhaowu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the 30,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army of the Fat Army, under the personal leadership of Yang Yingyuan, the deputy commander of the Suzhou Legion of the Fat Army, had already reached Changxiling, Cixi County, the west gate of Ningbo, which was less than eighty miles away from Ningbo's Fucheng! (The county seat of Cixi in the Qing Dynasty was located in Changxi Ridge, and the current Cixi was called Sanshansuo in the Qing Dynasty.) At the same time, the main force of the Fat Army's naval division led by Li Guodong himself had also directly killed Jintangshan Island, which was across the sea from Zhenhai City, cutting off the connection between Zhenhai Port and the Zhoushan Islands, and the last Zhejiang Qing army in Ningbo was also in chaos, and some swore to resist to the end, and there were also those who suggested surrendering to the Fat Army, and many soldiers had simply become deserters, and the people were terrified to the extreme. The coach of the Ningbo Qing Army, Giltab, and the coach of the sailors, Chen Shikai, were also hesitant, not knowing how to choose.

In the early morning of October 15, Yang Yingyuan's army first caught up with the remnants of the Shaoxing Qing army Lang Su on the bank of the Cao'e River, and it took more than an hour to completely annihilate the remnants of the Qing army of less than 600 people, and cut off Lang Su's head on the battlefield, and then rested for a day on the bank of the Cao'e River and grabbed the pontoon bridge to cross the river.

Immediately afterwards, Li Tianzhi sent a rear army to send Tian Fengji, the governor of Zhejiang, who had just surrendered, and some local Qing soldiers in Zhejiang who voluntarily surrendered. The Qing army in Ningbo was caught off guard, and just gathered the army back to the city to prepare for the war, but it was too late to send troops to block and block the fat army outside Ningbo Prefecture. Seeing that the victory was decided, Li Tianzhi simply became the shopkeeper, handed over the envoy of the Eastern Expedition to Ningbo to his deputy Yang Yingyuan, stayed in Shaoxing to reorganize and surrender the army, supervise the transportation of grain and grass, and prepare for the next stage of the big battle with Geng Jingzhong's army.

Changxiling Mountain Highland Danger, is the only way for Shaoxing to enter Ningbo in the east, since ancient times it is a place where soldiers must fight, holding Changxiling is equivalent to being able to keep Ningbo City, so although he is still hesitant to accept the surrender of the Fat Army, Giltab still left his deputy Chan Bai to lead an army of 2,000 to guard Ningbo City, and he personally led the last 4,000 troops to Changxiling for reinforcements, ready to strive to use the natural danger of Changxiling to block the Fat Army, and then consider whether to surrender. As for the fat army, Yang Yingyuan also adopted Tian Fengji's suggestion, postponed the attack on Changxiling, and sent Tian Fengji to surrender in the Qing military camp.

Giltab was originally stationed in Jinhua to resist Geng Jingzhong's army to the north of the Qing army generals, and later because of Yue Le's order to abandon Jinhua and withdraw to Shaoxing and Ningbo, this came to Ningbo stationed, Tian Fengji supervised the southern line, and he fought side by side for more than a year, they are very familiar with each other, and they are barely a little friendly, and they meet again after a few months apart, the two are naturally embarrassed, and unanimously believe that this life is impermanent, it is too unexpected.

After sighing and sighing, Tian Fengji naturally had to explain his intention to his old comrade-in-arms Giltab, first talked about the policy of the fat army, such as preferential treatment of prisoners and not killing non-four evil slaves, etc., and then analyzed the situation to Giltab, pointing out that the Mangou court has been destroyed soon, that is, if Giltab resists stubbornly, it is equivalent to a dead end, and the only hope for survival is to surrender to the fat army, and by the way, he can also save the surname of his wife and children and the family property. Otherwise, even if the fat army can spare Giltab from dying, the people of Jiangnan will not be able to spare Giltab.

In fact, there is no need for Tian Fengji to explain his intentions, just seeing his old comrades-in-arms walking out of the Fat Army team with a white flag, Giltab has already guessed his intention, after listening to Tian Fengji's statement, and looking at the huge Fat Army team and the black hole cannon under the mountain, Giltab, who was already shaken, was inevitably even more shaken, and almost wanted to agree to Tian Fengji's request, open the gate and surrender down the mountain.

Sometimes the Han Anniversaries are indeed more hateful than the Mandogs, and when Giltab has been completely shaken, a Han Anniversary in his shogunate named Lu Kongzhao stood up and strongly advised Giltab that he must not surrender to the Fat Army. This hardcore Han annihilation of Lu Kongzhao, who recruited Geng Jingzhong's general Bai Xianzhong's whole army in history, is very likely to be left in Zhejiang when the Qing army entered the customs, and was born full of hatred for Han compatriots, and his eloquence is also very good, pointing out to Giltab that the Qing army in Ningbo would rather surrender Geng Jingzhong than surrender to the Fat Army, because not only Giltapu's family is north of the Yellow River, but also the families of several important generals Chan Bai and Huang Lan are also in the north, once they surrender to the fat army, their families will inevitably be unable to escape the law, and the only way is to surrender to Geng Jingzhong, It can not only protect the families of Giltab and other Qing army generals, but also join forces with Geng Jingzhong to resist the Fat Army and save the surnames of Giltab and others.

In addition, Lu Kongzhao also pointed out that Geng Jingzhong's 100,000 troops were stationed in the south of Hangzhou, waiting for the main force of the Fat Army to advance eastward, while the Fat Army under the Changxi Ridge Mountain was only a division of troops, and the Qing Army relied on danger and defended with great hope of blocking the Fat Army, and Giltab only needed to defend Changxi Ridge while sending envoys to the Geng Army in Ninghai to ask for help, so it would not be long before the Qing Army in Ningbo could meet the turnaround.

In addition, Lu Kongzhao made another suggestion to Giltabu, that is, to push Qing Annihilation Tian Fengji out of the camp and execute him in front of the fat army! In this way, the fat army will no longer have the illusion of surrendering the Ningbo Qing army, and the desperate Ningbo Qing army will also work together to resist the fat army, and at the same time, the news will reach the capital, and the families of Giltab and others are bound to be treated well, even if Giltab surrenders Geng Jingzhong, his family members north of the Yellow River will live without worry, food and clothing, Geng Jingzhong will definitely believe in the sincerity of Giltab's surrender, and give a generous reward and reuse, counting in one fell swoop.

As soon as Lu Kongzhao, a hardcore man who was in the water in his head, was so disturbed, Giltabu, who was already inclined to surrender, inevitably hesitated again, and was afraid of his parents, wives and children who were in the rear, and Giltab couldn't listen to Tian Fengji's bitter persuasion to surrender, but fortunately, Giltab didn't have the courage to put Tian Fengji to death, but just sent someone to send Tian Fengji down Changxi Ridge, preparing to fight a few battles first. Tian Fengji saw that Giltab's attitude was resolute, and he was not reluctant, but just sneered and left.

After sending Tian Fengji away, the Qing army, which knew that the fat army would inevitably retaliate, hurried to make defensive preparations and prepared to meet the tide of attack of the fat army, but what puzzled the Qing army was that after Tian Fengji went down the mountain, the fat army not only did not attack the mountain immediately, but also retreated five miles to the west and set up a large camp eight miles away. In this regard, Giltab was of course confused, and Lu Kongzhao was triumphant, believing that the Fat Army was just a paper tiger, and he didn't dare to fight a tough battle except for being able to play tricks.

Lu Kongzhao didn't laugh for long and couldn't laugh, only a day later, there was bad news from Zhenhai, Chen Shikai, the deputy general of the Qing Army's water division, put down his weapons and surrendered to the Fat Army, and also acted as a leading party for the Fat Army, leading the Fat Army's water division to land in Longtouchang, Li Guodong sent 3,000 water divisions to land, carrying a large number of light artillery and three good rockets to the rear of Changxi Ling's natural danger, and Yang Yingyuan's 30,000 army surrounded Giltabe's team in front and back.

At the same time, after receiving the news of Li Guodong's naval division's landing, Yang Yingyuan finally moved, and 20 Hongyi cannons and 30 sub-mother cannons were pushed to the foot of Changxiling Mountain, and the Qing army camp on the mountain was bombarded indiscriminately, causing the Qing army on the mountain to cry wolf and howl, and suffered heavy casualties. Forced to desperation, Girtab followed Lu Kongzhao's advice and sent out the last of more than 500 elite iron horsemen to attack down the mountain in a desperate attempt to destroy the Fat Army's artillery array.

The result is very natural, the last more than 500 Qing cavalry just rushed down the Changxi Ridge, the fat army immediately killed five or six times the Qing army cavalry, with the crowd to launch a counter-charge, around these Qing cavalry slashed and killed, one meal time to chop the more than half of the Qing army to death, the fat army cavalry led by Hu Tu shouted in mite language to surrender, the last more than 200 Qing cavalry is also very eye-catching, honestly put down their weapons and surrendered on the battlefield, the Qing soldiers on the mountain saw it, all frightened, and their souls were scattered.

Then, Yang Yingyuan deliberately asked the military doctor to treat and bandage the Qing army's soldiers in public, and rewarded them with meat and wine that they hadn't seen for a long time. And when those Qing soldiers who surrendered to their stomachs were full of food and drink, they obediently ran to the foot of Changxiling Mountain to recruit their companions, calling friends and calling their brothers and calling their brothers and calling their companions to surrender, and the Qing soldiers who had not received a penny of military pay for more than four months scattered in a hurry, rushed open the gate and surrendered down the mountain, and the Qing army supervision team could not stop them, and some soldiers of the supervision team simply ran down the mountain to surrender to the fat army, and fled more than half of them in less than a moment.

The army's heart collapsed to this point, Giltab didn't want to surrender, but unfortunately the fat army didn't plan to give him a chance to revolt and surrender, Yang Yingyuan waved the flag, the fat army artillery sounded again, the fat army infantry tide surged, overwhelmingly poured up the Changxi Ridge mountain, shot arrows and desperately shot the Qing soldiers, the morale of the Qing army on the ridge was depressed, no intention to resist, either lay down the arms and surrender or scattered, the fat army commander drove straight in, and soon attacked the Qing army camp to kill people and set fire. Seeing that the general situation was gone, Giltab had no choice but to order his soldiers to lay down their weapons and kneel in front of the fat army to surrender.

"General Yang said, give you a shame, if you want to surrender again, it's not so cheap!"

In the roar, the soldiers of the Fat Army rushed up again, divided the body of Giltab who had taken the initiative to put down his weapons, and tied Lu Kongzhao into a sturdy knot, dragged him down the mountain and handed it to Yang Yingyuan. The Qing soldiers of the four evil slave families and more than 40 Qing soldiers who resisted fiercely were dragged by the fat army to the foot of Changxiling Mountain and buried alive in public. - But naturally, because of his short temper, he violated Lu Fatzi's military order, that is, the military order that all Qing generals with families in the north should not die even if they surrender after resisting, Yang Yingyuan was fined by Lu Fatzi for half a year.

One gram of Changxi Ridge, Ningbo Fucheng and Cixi County are completely unsafe, the fat army has just arrived in the city, and Li Sigao, the magistrate of Cixi, opened the city gate very honestly and led hundreds of villagers in the city to surrender; The acting counselor of the Qing army stationed in Ningbo Fucheng heard about Giltab, and saw that the army of the Fat Man Army was besieging the city, and without waiting for the Fat Army to send an envoy to surrender, he took the initiative to open the city gate and led the city's Chinese military officials and the last 2,000 defenders to surrender to the Fat Man, and the Ningbo War basically ended.

So far, the last remnants of the Qing court in Zhejiang were uprooted by the Fat Army, nearly 40,000 Qing army land and water troops surrendered more than 25,000, the rest were either killed, or were broken up, fled back to their hometown to be good citizens of the Great Zhou, and a small number of four surnamed evil slave mite soldiers fled into the deep mountains and old forests, incognito and lonely for life, most of the city land in Shaoxing and Ningbo was recovered by the Fat Army, only the distance between Shengxian, Xiangshan and Xinchang three county towns are still controlled by the local officials of the Mites, but it is also the king of the altar, I can't escape the clutches of the Fat Army.

By the way, I will introduce the whereabouts of a hardcore Han Annihilation, when Tian Fengji presented Shaoxing City to the Fat Army, Xu Hongxun, the prefect of Shaoxing, who had miraculously defeated Geng Jingzhong's army in Guimen Mountain, Changling, Shengxian County, was not in Shaoxing City at that time because he was sent by Mahada to Xinchang to lead the township soldiers to monitor the Geng army in Wenzhou. After the fall of the Qing army in Zhejiang, Xu Hongxun, who knew that neither Geng Jun nor the Fat Army would contain him, was cornered and chose to hang himself, ending his criminal life of betraying his compatriots and slaughtering them in exchange for glory and wealth. But even so, the former Qing Dynasty still did not forgive Xu Hongxun's family who stayed in Shaoxing City, the two sons were skinned, and the wife and daughter were sent to the Fat Army Junji Camp and went with Cao Yin's family name.

It took less than half a month to end the war on the Eastern Front, and Li Tianzhi immediately ordered Yang Yingyuan to transfer 20,000 troops back to Hangzhou, while he personally led the Shaoxing army, which had been expanded to more than 45,000 prisoners of war through the reorganization, to withdraw to Hangzhou first, preparing to start a war against Geng Jingzhong's army on the Western Front. It was also until Li Tianzhi's army withdrew from the Qiantang River and was stationed in Fuyang County, south of Hangzhou, that the generals of Geng's army, Zeng Yang, who were still in Xincheng and the fat army, woke up like a dream, knowing that they had missed the only precious fighter that could contain the fat army, and hurriedly sent fast horses to report to Geng Jingzhong and ask for instructions on the next move.

After receiving the battle report of the Fat Army's lightning-fast eradication of the remnants of the Qing army, our Geng Wang Ye almost couldn't believe his eyes, and while he was dumbfounded, Geng Wang Ye quickly scolded, "Zeng Yang's surname!" Bai Xianzhong! You two shit! This king asked you to closely monitor the battle between Lu Gou and Mangou, until Lu Gou annihilated Mangou and returned to the Qiantang River, and you can report it! What the hell are you eating?! Rubbish! Idiot! ”

"Lord Wang, it's too late to say anything now." Ma Jiuyu was relatively calm, and hurriedly proposed: "Please immediately issue a decree to let the two generals Zeng Yang and Bai Xianzhong atone for their crimes, and immediately send troops to take the initiative to meet the battle. ”

"Lord Wang, by all means." Xu Wenyao jumped out to stop it, and said loudly: "Lord Wang, now that Mangou has been destroyed, our army is fighting against Lu Gou's main force alone, and Zheng Jingxiao'er is taking advantage of the fire to rob in the rear, at this time, I can only ask Lu Gou for peace, and we must not start a war!" As soon as the war starts, even if we win a battle, we will not be able to hurt Lu Gou's muscles and bones, and we will not be able to get rid of the dilemma of Lu Gou and Zheng Jingxiao'er being attacked from both sides, on the contrary, we will completely offend Lu Yifeng's dog thief and cut off all hope of reconciliation! ”

The sycophant Xu Wenyao's words finally got to the point, even Ma Jiuyu, who proposed to send troops immediately, had to admit that at this time, even if he could defeat Li Tianzhi's army, which had just withdrawn from the Shaoxing battlefield, he would definitely not be able to hurt the muscles and bones of the fat army, on the contrary, it would completely anger the fat army, and attract the full revenge of the fat army, causing Geng Jingzhong's already passive situation to be even more passive. Xu Wenyao said again: "Lord Wang, at present, our army should send another envoy to Hangzhou to meet Lu Yifeng, under the pretext of congratulating him, and take the opportunity to propose an alliance again, and the two armies will stop all hostile acts and join forces to deal with Zheng Jingxiao'er." ”

"Lu Yifeng dog thief, can you agree?" Geng Jingzhong hesitated a little and said worriedly: "What if he asks for the whole territory of Zhejiang again?" ”

"Lord Wang, I think it's worth a try." Military Counselor Jiang Yuanxun was also very calm, and analyzed for Geng Jingzhong: "The biggest reason why Lu Yifeng's dog thieves sent troops to the south was to relieve the crisis on the southern front, and free up his hands to go to the north to attack Mangou and the west to conquer Guo Zhuangtu, whether or not to annihilate our army, Lu Yifeng dog thieves actually didn't care, and at the same time, Lu Yifeng's dog thieves were even more reluctant to see our army fall, so that Zheng Jing's dog thieves could sit big." Therefore, it is in the interests of Lu Yifeng's dog thieves that our army seeks peace and the main force returns to Fujian to fight a decisive battle with Zheng Jingxiaoer, and as long as some price is paid, the success of the peace quest is very certain. ”

"These kings know, but what should I do if Lu Yifeng's dog thief insists on asking for the whole territory of Zhejiang?" Geng Jingzhong said with a sad face: "This king paid countless costs to get most of Zhejiang, is it necessary to give it to Lu Yifeng for nothing?" ”

"Fight with him!" Jiang Yuanxun said loudly: "It took our army nearly three years, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and spending countless grains and grasses to take the land, and Lu Yifeng's dog thief reached out to take it away, is there such a cheap thing in the world?" He was willing to go to the envoy to Hangzhou to argue with Lu Yifeng and persuade him to make concessions and form an alliance with our army to rebel! ”

"Are you sure?" Geng Jingzhong asked with great joy.

"Don't dare to say it, do your best." Jiang Yuanxun said helplessly: "Lu Yifeng's eloquence is very good, and his humble position may not be able to justify him, but he can only say that he did his best. Also, Lu Yifeng's dog thief is full of deceit, and he has already seen through the dilemma of our army being desperate for peace by the enemy on both sides, so you still have to be prepared to pay a certain price for sacrifice. ”

"I'll just have to give it a try." Geng Jingzhong was even more helpless than Jiang Yuanxun, nodded and said: "Okay, you can go to Hangzhou, as long as Lu Yifeng Xiao'er agrees to a truce and an alliance, Zhejiang will be half a person, and when he conquests Guo Zhuangtu's dog thieves in the future, this king can also lend him the road." Remember, Zhejiang is half a person, this is the last limit of this king, if he is not greedy enough, this king would rather fight to the death with him, and never give in! ”

(To be continued)