As the head of the four major generals of the Fat Army's conquest of the southeast, northwest and northwest, Gao Dejie's record after the Fat Army captured Jiangnan was actually not very dazzling, and he even faintly had the momentum of being suppressed by Han Daren and Wang Xu. [Full text reading]

However, Gao Dejie can't be blamed, it's all a matter of luck, out of strategic needs, Lu Fatzi has always refused to allow Gao Dejie to beat the Qing army on the northern front, tying Gao Dejie's hands and feet, Gao Dejie's performance on the Jiangnan battlefield is of course not as good as Han Daren and Wang Xu, who are attacking cities everywhere. The decisive battle of Huai'an was out of tactical needs, Gao Dejie's team temporarily withdrew from the battlefield, and the limelight was robbed by the infantry of the Fat Army led by Wang Xu. The Battle of Guide was because of the distance of the road, Gao Dejie's team arrived on the battlefield late, and the first merit was robbed by the sworn enemy Han Daren. In the Battle of Yanjing, although Gao Dejie's partial division entered the inner city of Yanjing earlier than the main force, because he encountered Yu Chengchan's stinky and hard old coffin nail in Baoding, he arrived at the Yanjing battlefield five days later than the main force, and his record naturally cast a shadow.

But that's the end of it, when Lu Fatzi handed over the strategic initiative of attacking Shanhaiguan to seize the Liaodong battlefield to Gao Dejie, Gao Dejie, whose brilliance had been covered by his companions, finally flashed the light of the first general of his fat army, and led the army from Yanjing on the eighth day of August, carrying a large number of heavy artillery to Shanhaiguan, and only walked ten days for 700 miles. After meeting with his right-hand man Gao Qi at Shenhe Fort, Gao Dejie immediately formulated a battle plan and ordered Gao Qi to lead the main force and all artillery to feint an attack on Shanhaiguan Pass, while Gao Dejie himself personally led 6,000 cavalry and an elite infantry to attack a stone pass under the cover of night.

As Gao Dejie expected, seeing that the main force of the Fat Army attacked the Shanhaiguan Pass, and also concentrated more than 100 heavy artillery pieces outside the Shanhaiguan Pass, the Qing army defender Bo Guoduo really concentrated the main force in the Shanhaiguan Pass, but only more than 2,000 people were left to defend the stone pass that was not very important. And when the battle was fought until it was completely dark, Gao Dejie's side suddenly sent sappers to dig two large holes in the wall of the Great Wall that had been in disrepair for a long time, buried explosives and detonated them, blowing up a stone pass to seize this secondary pass, and completely annihilating a stone pass defenders.

Immediately afterwards, Gao Dejie, who was originally born in Shanhaiguan, did not go along the Great Wall to capture the beacon tower one by one, but chose to lead 6,000 cavalry to return to Balipu in the north of Shanhaiguan to ambush, and the infantry outflanked the north gate of Shanhaiguan, and surrounded the Shanhaiguan City with the main force led by Gao Qi in the north and south. Afraid of being annihilated by the fat army, the Qing army in Shanhaiguan was in turmoil, Gao Qi took the opportunity to lead the main force of the fat army to launch a fierce attack, Gao Dejie took advantage of the opportunity that the Qing defenders did not have time to block the north gate of Shanhaiguan, so that the infantry blew up the north gate with explosives, took advantage of the situation to kill the pass, and responded to Gao Qi's team to kill the city, the morale of the Qing army collapsed, abandoned Shanhaiguan and fled north, and as a result, he plunged into the encirclement arranged by Gao Dejie in Balipu, and after a big battle, more than 13,000 Qing troops guarding Shanhaiguan were annihilated, and Bo Guoduo died tragically in the chaos. The first level in the world, which once made Wu Laohan annihilated infamous all over the world, was finally taken back by Gao Dejie, the old lackey of Wu Laohan annihilation.

took back the Shanhaiguan, the initiative of the Liaodong battlefield also fell into the hands of the fat army, Gao Dejie led the army to the north non-stop, still opened the door with explosives, blew up the Ningyuan city gate that was too late to block, and once again annihilated the Ningyuan Qing army, the last Qing army stationed on Juehua Island The last water master Lata Department sent troops to rescue, and was defeated by Gao Dejie, and had no choice but to give up the Juehua Island, which had little food and no help, and fled to the mouth of the Xiaoling River, and participated in the famous city of Ningyuan, which brought down the finances of the former Ming Dynasty, and finally returned to the hands of the fat army. Become the offensive bridgehead of the Fat Army on the battlefield in Liaodong.

Because the Fat Army's naval division was still in the southern battlefield and had not yet gone north, there was a serious lack of surface strength on the Liaodong battlefield, coupled with the rapid expansion, the logistical burden had reached a critical point, Lu Fatzi rejected Gao Dejie's suggestion to take advantage of the situation to attack Liaodong, and crowned Gao Dejie as the governor of Liaodong, and ordered Gao Dejie to lead the army to guard Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan City, first defend the safety of Jinggi and Zhili, and wait for the poor logistics and unstable foothold, and wait for the northern naval division of the Fat Army to be completed, and then try to capture the entire Liaodong, Completely drive the Mites Qing court back to Tunguska's hometown.

Lu Fatzi really doesn't need to be in a hurry, and he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it took 18 years to unify the entire continent from Shanhaiguan to Yunnan; Zhu Yuanzhang launched the Northern Expedition at the age of thirty-eight when he was in his prime, and finally won the Northeast to completely unify the world, and has become a sixty-year-old man. Lu Fatzi got rid of the control of Wu Lao Han in the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi, dominated the south of the Yangtze River, and took more than two years to win one-third of the world.

Fortunately, Fat Lu is only a little over thirty-four years old now, and his health has always been very good, even colds and fevers are rare, and there is still time, so there is no need to worry about encountering unlucky things like Wu Laohan's annihilation, the enemy has basically been defeated, the world is at his fingertips, but his life is short. There is a more important point, the most fertile land and the best source of soldiers in this era have been snatched up by Lu Fatzi, and he can obtain the supply of horses from the Mongolian steppe through trade, whether it is economic or manpower, Lu Fatzi is confident to become the final victor.

Just like what Liu Xuanchu, a good teacher of Lu Fatzi, said to Wu Lao Han when he suggested that Wu Jun cross the Yangtze River and go straight to Huanglong: The weak fight with the strong, the weak take advantage of the victory, and the strong are conducive to wrestling; The rich sue the poor, the poor are happy to settle the matter quickly, and the rich are happy to last. What is the difference between the weak and the strong, and the poor and the rich compete for wealth?

Liu Xuanchu said that the weak and the poor are Wu Laohan, and the strong and the rich are Kang Mazi, and now Kang Mazi has been burned into a toilet by Lu Fatzi, and the essence of the territory has also been robbed by Lu Fatzi, Lu Fatzi has become the strong and the rich, and the world's heroes and forces have become the weak and the poor, and Lu Fatzi is still afraid of fighting with these poor people to spend money and manpower? Time is the talisman of Wu Laohan, who is over sixty years old, but it is the killer of Lu Fatzi who is thirty-four and five!

In the following time, what Lu Fatzi did could only be described as unremarkable, burying his body in the pile of official documents every day, dealing with all kinds of government and military affairs, internal and foreign affairs, cultivating land, recruiting troops, buying horses, grass and accumulating grain, but whenever he was a little free, he had to go to the newly established Beijing Division Firearms Battalion on the shore of Shichahai to guide and train craftsmen to produce new firearms; Or go to the Jingshi Artillery Bureau on the edge of the God's Temple in the capital and instruct the craftsmen there to cast cannons with iron molds; If he had more free time, Lu Fatzi would have to go to the Shouyun Iron Mine in Miyun to inspect the iron ore mining and construction there.

By the way, because Yanjing was originally the largest firearms production place of the Mites Qing Army, Kang Mazi also hoarded a large number of saltpeter, alum, grease and seaweed ash and other raw materials for explosives in the Gunpowder Bureau in the northwest of Yanjing Imperial City, but it has not been put into production until the production process has been put into production.

Like Lu Fatzi himself, the Fat Boys Army also stopped most of its military operations and focused on recruiting, training, recruiting new recruits and forming a new army, and the tall Shandong soldiers and Zhili soldiers were indeed stronger than the relatively short southern soldiers in terms of soldier quality, coupled with the severe famine in the north and a surplus of manpower, in less than two months, 150,000 qualified recruits were recruited, and all that was left was training and equipment, and they were put into actual combat training.

The only team of the Fat Army Han Daren who maintained an offensive posture, according to Lu Fatzi's request, Han Daren divided the main force into two, one led by Xie Chang, a general from Guangxi who was the general of the Fat Army, first captured Luoyang, and then guarded Luoyang and Huaiqing. A group led by Han Daren personally, with the surrender of the Qing army as the vanguard, all the way to surrender the rebels to attack the city, and constantly advance towards Taiyuan, along the way there are only a small number of local green camps and local township Yong town guards of the Shanxi government have surrendered, scrambling to cut off the tail of the rat, become a new dynasty official, and recover the entire territory of Shanxi, which is already a waiting for the fat army.

While the Fat Army is trying to stabilize the interior, the main opponents of the Fat Army are fighting more and more fiercely, and they are becoming more and more cruel, and all kinds of hidden dangers are becoming more and more serious, especially in the economic aspect, after more than five years of war, Wu Lao Han and Lu Fatzi joined forces to use the Eight Banners Fushou Paste to give the Wu Army the accumulated money and food and military salaries have long been exhausted, and the military salaries and silver are better, and most of the silver collected with the Eight Banners Paste is circulated in the controlled areas of the Wu Army, and it can be snatched back if it is used, and the most important food is too bad.

Wu's three major grain producing areas, Sichuan, Biyuan and Huguang, Biyuan and Huguang have been abandoned because of the civil war, a large number of grain fields are barren, Zhuangding has been transferred into the army in large numbers, the grain production is very serious, the price of grain per stone has risen to more than six taels of silver, and Wu Guogui, the old man of Lu Fatzi, who holds the land of fish and rice in Jingzhou, even has to ask Wu Zhimao in Sichuan for grain borrowing in great depression. And Guo Zhuangtu and Xia Guoxiang are even more miserable, Guo Zhuangtu controlled Yungui and Guangxi half of the country is not a grain production area, the years in the past few years are also very bad (historical facts), the supply of military food has long been stretched, although the northeast of Biyuan controlled by Xia Guoxiang produces grain, it is impossible to supply the whole territory of Yunnan and Guizhou There is no shortage of grain and grass, so the military food situation of the Honghua army is actually worse than that of the Wu Guogui army.

As for the military rations in Liangguang, Fujian and Taiwan, although we don't want to hurt the hearts of the three princes, Geng Jingzhong and Zheng Jing and Monk Zhixin, they are really even worse! The land under their control is also not producing much grain, and now they are fighting every day for the territory, delaying the autumn harvest and delaying farming, the military grain is in and out, the people are not living, the sergeants and the people are all fleeing seriously, and the roads in Zhejiang, the capital of Zhejiang, which borders Fujian, are crowded with fleeing Fujian and Guangdong people and fleeing soldiers every day, and there are deserters from that army.

Of course, it's not that there are no people who make our Lord Lu vigilant, at least Wang Pingfan, Wang Fuchen and Ma Bao are the vigilance of Prince Lu. Wang Pingfan and Wang Fuchen reached a gentleman's agreement not to invade each other, not to engage in internal strife, and to focus on the outside world, although it is a good thing for the soldiers of the Wu army and the people of Shaanxi and Gansu, it is bad news for our Lord Lu.

These two generals of the Wang family, Wang Pingfan are loyal to Wu Laohan, even if they will obey Wu Laohan's edict, obey Lu Fatzi's dispatch orders, and charge for Lu Fatzi, it will be difficult to support Lu Fatzi to usurp the Great Zhou Dynasty. Not to mention Wang Fuchen, he didn't get along well with Lu Fatzi in Qujing, coupled with the bad relationship between Wang Fuchen and Wu Yingqi, Lu Fatzi, who played the banner of avenging Wu Yingqi, wanted to cooperate closely with him and gain his sincere support, which was really a difficult thing.

What's more troublesome is that these two Wang generals are difficult to fight, and occupy the Shaanxi and Gansu horses, the number of cavalry is also quite a lot, on the battlefield is definitely two difficult opponents, at the same time the special terrain of Shaanxi and Gansu is also a big advantage for them, Dafan is from Shanxi to attack Shaanxi, the battle is generally very difficult to fight, when the Qin State guarded the Hangu Pass to block the siege of the six eastern countries, and later in the war of resistance, the devil can not enter Shaanxi and Gansu with aircraft and artillery, and the fat army wants to use force from Shanxi to Shaanxi and Gansu, and must be prepared for a bitter war.

For Lu Fatzi, who is good at sowing discord, it may be easier to deal with Wang Fuchen and Wang Pingfan, who only have a gentleman's agreement with each other, and the enemy who worries Prince Lu the most is General Ma Baoma. General Ma Da said it well, he refused to participate in the Wu army's civil war and was sorry for Wu Laohan's annihilation, but secretly took advantage of the opportunity within the Wu army to desperately recruit rebels to expand his strength, and a large number of Wu soldiers like Du Hui who refused to participate in the Wu army's civil war have taken refuge in him, and what made Lu Fatzi even more angry was General Ma's shameless behavior of grabbing territory, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Wu army's civil war, General Ma Da aimed the spearhead at the surrounding blank area, and has now seized a large piece of territory in the northeast and west of Hudong, southeast of Henan and western Jiangxi. Not only is it about to border the territory controlled by the Fat Army, but it has also seriously threatened the safety of the Fat Army's territory!

Of course, while angrily accusing General Ma of taking advantage of the fire to rob and grab territory, as a qualified robber logic ruler, our Lord Lu naturally chose his surname and forgot what he did, as if he was the same as General Ma, and the plot was a hundred times more serious!

Finally, the news that our Lord Lu couldn't bear General Ma came - Yan Hong, the guard general of Fengyang of the Fat Army, hurriedly reported that General Ma's team had entered Yingzhou Mansion in Anhui Province from Henan, and launched an attack on Yingzhou Mansion! Although Yingzhou is not a very good territory, if General Ma Da succeeds, the Fat Army will not only immediately border the territory under his control, but also Fengyang Mansion and Luzhou Mansion, which are very important grain producing areas in Anhui, will also be exposed to General Ma's sword! In this turbulent world where food is strength and gold, how can our Prince Lu endure it? !

In anger, Lu Fatzi immediately summoned the lackey accomplices Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan, threw Yan Hong's military intelligence report in front of them, and shouted angrily: "Let's discuss it, how can I clean up this Ma Zhong Lu Bu?!" Even Lao Tzu's Anhui territory dares to rob it, it's just greasy! ”

"Even the prince's Anhui territory dares to rob?" Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan are both the same, they glanced at each other, and said together that our prince's skin is really getting thicker and thicker, we have never fought in Yingzhou, and Lu Youshan, the governor of Yingzhou Prefecture, has not surrendered, how did it become our territory?

Disdain is disdain, but since Lu Fatzi has confessed, Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan can't answer correctly, after a little calculation, Yao Qisheng replied: "Lord Wang, the student thinks that it is not a big fuss, the Yellow River broke in Zhengzhou, robbed the Yinghe River into the Huai, Yingzhou is all the Yellow Flood area, before the Yellow River is blocked, Yingzhou really does not have much oil and water to fish, Ma Bao wants to let him take it first, anyway, with his temper, even if he takes Yingzhou, he will grab a handful and leave, and he will not govern there with his heart, It should not be stationed there to garrison the granary of Anhui and threaten us. ”

"Wrong!" Fat Lu said angrily: "Master Yao, what you said is very wrong, Ma Bao'er ostensibly went to Yingzhou, which didn't have much oil and water, but in fact he was testing the bottom limit of this king's tolerance, and wanted to see how this king would deal with his expansion!" If this king ignores it and lets him rob Yingzhou, he will definitely fight the ideas of Anqing, Fuzhou, Jianchang and the prefectures and prefectures of southern Gan in the next step! If he is allowed to get hold of these territories again, not only will it be more difficult for him to deal with, but Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing and Shang Zhixin, these turtle bastards, will border him off, and maybe they will hook up together! ”

"What the prince is very worried about is that he can't let Ma Bao's expansion be too rampant." Yao Qisheng nodded, and said cautiously: "But Lord Wang, now that the main force of our army is tilting northward, and the recruits have just been reorganized, they urgently need time to train equipment, and General Han Daren is still attacking and recovering the northwestern part of Shanxi. ”

"Yes, my lord, I don't think it's appropriate to start a war immediately." Zhu Fangdan also echoed: "The north is initially decided, all kinds of ruins are waiting to be rebuilt, there are still dogs and remnants entrenched in the northeast, and the army is also very tired, at this time it is best not to open a new battlefield, we should invest money and grain in the new land in the north, and wait for us to gain a firm foothold in Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong and Shanxi, and then calmly go south and west." ”

"One more point." Yao Qisheng added: "Compared with other old men in Pingxi Palace, General Ma Bao should be regarded as a major general of Pingxi Palace, if he fights for the sake of territory, it will not only increase the difficulty of appeasing him, but also may force him to the side of Guo Zhuangtu and Xia Guoxiang, now General Hu Guozhu has been detained by Guo Zhuangtu, the strength of the Honghua court and the Wu clan is roughly equal, and then the neutral General Ma Bao is forced to the side of the Honghua court, the Wu clan is afraid that it will not last long. We don't have much time left. ”

Being persuaded by Yao Qisheng and Zhu Fangdan like this, Lu Fatzi, who was a little inflated in his thoughts, finally calmed down and began to consider the adverse consequences of turning his face with the veteran of the Wu Army at this time, but Lu Fatzi was not completely dead, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Even if you are reasonable, if this matter is not handled well, with Ma Bao's surname, there is a good chance that you will have to make more turf decisions." If he is allowed to fight in the border area between Jiangxi and Fujian, Geng Jingzhong, Zheng Jing and my wolf-hearted brother-in-law will wear a pair of pants and join forces to deal with us. ”

"There's an idea of the best of both worlds." Yao Qisheng smiled and said: "As long as the prince takes two moves, he can not only avoid a war with General Ma Bao, but also let General Ma Bao see the danger, stop his expansion, and curb his inflated ambitions." ”

"What's the plan? Hurry up, please say. Lu Fatzi was also a dog-faced, and he turned over when he said it, and asked overjoyedly: "Should this king take those two moves?" ”

"The first step is to send reinforcements to Fengyang Mansion." Yao Qisheng raised a finger, "It can not only ensure the safety of Fengyang's grain-producing area, but also warn Ma Bao in disguise, if he dares to attack Fengyang's idea, our reinforcements will not be welcome!" ”

"This king has this intention, so what about the second step?" Fat Lu asked again.

"In the second step, Ma Bao went east and took the initiative to border us, and we went west and also took the initiative to border him." Yao Qisheng raised his second finger and said with a cruel smile: "Ma Bao hit Yingzhou, which doesn't have much oil and water, and test our tolerance limit, and we will call Anqing Mansion, which is rich in oil and water, to respond to him!" Anqing City chokes the throat of the Yangtze River and takes Anqing, so that our sailors can go up against the current at any time, go straight to Jiujiang City, Ma Bao's nest base camp, and attack and harass his largest grain producing place Nanchang Mansion at any time! These two places are in an emergency, I see if he still has the courage to expand arrogantly! ”

"Brilliant plan!" Fat Lu snapped his fingers, and said with a more hideous smile: "Fighting Anqing Mansion is full of dogs, morality is invulnerable to us, and we can turn Anqing into a dagger, threatening him at any time Ma Bao Lao'er's heart, I see if he still has the courage to grab land with Lao Tzu!" ”

"The city of Anqing is strong, the terrain is dangerous, I'm afraid it's not so easy to fight." Zhu Fangdan reminded: "I think that when our army moves west to Anqing, we should take appeasement as the top and strive to appease Anqing. ”

"It should be appeased as much as possible, Anhui Governor Jin Fu is a good hand at governing the river, if he can serve this king, it will naturally be better." Lu Fatzi nodded, and quickly ordered: "Immediately draft an order, seal Yao Yi as the governor of Anhui, and let him lead 20,000 new troops to Fengyang to sit in the town, Fengyang Cao grain will stop the northward transfer, and leave it to Yao Junshi and your son as military food." ”

"Humble for the dog, thank the prince for his kindness." Yao Qisheng was overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted and thanked Fat Lu, and then asked, "Lord Wang, what about the people who attacked Anqing?" Do you want to send a general from Yanjing to the south to preside over the Anqing War? ”

"No need, just send Li Mao, who stayed in Taiping Mansion, and let Li Jiyang lead the Zhenjiang Naval Division to assist in the expedition." With a wave of his hand, Lu Fatzi rejected the suggestion to send a general from Yanjing to the south, and said: "It's also time to train some newcomers to take charge of themselves, and tell Li Mao in Jun Zhi that he has fought well on the battlefield in Anqing, and there will be more and more important missions to him in the future." Also, for Jin Fu, the governor of Anhui, he can be appeased as much as possible, and he can be allowed to give Jin Fu the position of Cao Yuanwai of the Great Zhou Gong and the political envoy of Anhui. ”

(To be continued)