After more than half a month of boring confrontation with the main force of the Qing army in northern Jiangxi, a major event finally broke out in the tense and boring Jiujiang Wu army.

The cause of the matter is this, on the afternoon of February 16, after the Qing army surrendered to the general Itambu after finishing the day's duty duty, just returned to his barracks to rest, the cavalry general of the fat army, Gao Hongchen, led a group of Wu soldiers to find him, and he had to drag Itambu to play dice, Itambu is a general and a mite, of course, he didn't dare to offend Gao Hongchen, an old man of the Wu army and a celebrity of the fat army, so he had to hold the idea of cutting meat and feeding eagles, and took a hundred taels of factors to follow Gao Hongchen and others into the casino. The heart said that it was a big deal to lose all the 100 taels, so it should be spent to buy peace and friendship.

Unfortunately, at the gambling table, Itambu not only really lost all the 100 taels of silver, but was also borrowed another 400 taels of silver by Gao Hongchen and others under the pretext of pulling the capital to continue gambling - not so much pandering, but semi-forced, and as a result, he quickly lost a fine light. And when things came to this point, Itambu, who was quite fond of money, naturally said that he would not gamble anymore, Gao Hongchen and others were reluctant, so they had to force Itambu to repay the money and silver immediately, and Itambu had no choice but to lead Gao Hongchen and others back to his barracks to withdraw money to pay off gambling debts.

It was at this time that the turmoil happened, in front of the gate of Han Darenjun's camp, Itambu and Gao Hongchen and others happened to meet Han Daren's younger brother Han Yuanren patrolling the camp, seeing Itambu leading his brother's nemesis Gao Hongchen back, Han Yuanren had to ask the reason, and when Itambu said the matter roughly, the hot-tempered Han Yuanren suddenly exploded, grabbed a person behind Gao Hongchen on the spot, pointed at his nose and yelled at Itambu, "You gamble with Li Ya?" Did you know that this little cub is a well-known old man! Ten times to bet ten times out of thousands, no matter how much money you have, it is not enough to lose! ”

Hearing Han Yuanren's words, Itambu, who was already quite puzzled, naturally suddenly realized, but Gao Hongchen and his gang over there stopped doing it, and Han Yuanren had to come up with evidence that Li Ya had made a thousand, otherwise he would definitely not give up with Han Yuanren. And Han Yuanren was not at the scene at the time, this meeting had already been gambled, so naturally he couldn't show evidence, but he just scolded Gao Hongchen for not being a thing, relying on Lu Fatzi's favor to cheat and bully the friendly army, Gao Hongchen scolded while mocking Han Daren's brother for the ugly thing that he said he had failed in the battle without authorization, and then the three sentences were wrong, Han Yuan's punch smashed on Gao Hongchen's face, Gao Hongchen and his gang fought back angrily, and they fought in front of the camp gate on the spot.

The fight was very big, and both sides continued to have good reinforcements to join, and Itambu, who wanted to break the fortune and avoid disasters, was also completely involved, and suffered a lot of punches and kicks from Gao Hongchen and his gang, and when Gao Dejie and Han Daren arrived one after another, not only did they not effectively stop the brawl, but Gao Dejie, who had a more violent temper, also joined the battle group under Han Daren's cynicism, and punched and kicked each other on the spot with his sworn enemy Han Daren, which led to the scale of the brawl expanding even more, and he injured many of his own people. In the end, it was Lu Fatzi's henchman Li Tianzhi who arrived when he heard the news and brought a heavily armed army to pull the two sides apart, which ended the intra-military brawl that almost led to internal fire.

At the moment of the great enemy, there has been such a big scandal, and as the commander of the whole army, Lu Fatzi is of course furious, and ordered the Gao Dejie brothers, Han Daren brothers, Itambu and Li Ya to be all escorted into the Shuai Hall to personally deal with the brawl. However, when he arrived in the lobby, the despicable character of Lu Fatzi also gave full play to his despicable nature of helping his relatives and not helping them, and when both parties were responsible, he simply put all the blame on the Han Daren brothers and Itambu, not only forcing Itambu to repay the gambling debts, but also dragging the Han Daren brothers, who had just recovered from the stick wound, out and beating the twenty military sticks.

After the matter was dealt with, the Gao Dejie brothers and Li Ya left happily, and the Han family brothers, whose buttocks were beaten to a bloody pulp, and Itambu, who had not been able to avoid the disaster, were angry, especially the Han family brothers, who had just been carried back to their barracks by their own soldiers, and immediately hid in the barracks and scolded, from Lu Fatzi's cheap mother to the nineteenth generation of Lu Fatzi's ancestors. Itambu, who innocently suffered from the fish in the pond, hung his head and sat on the side in a daze, not knowing whether he felt sorry for the five hundred taels of blood and hard-earned money earned by selling his fellow mites, or regretted that he had made a wrong step and chose to surrender to such a shameless and unfair enemy as Lu Fatzi.

scolded for more than an hour, until it was completely dark, and the Han family brothers, whose voices were hoarse, finally stopped scolding, lying on the bed with their bruised buttocks and moaning in pain, and Itambu, who had been sitting with a sad face for a long time, wanted to get up and say goodbye, but he never thought that Han Yuanren suddenly said to Han Daren: "Brother, it seems that Lu Yifeng'er is determined to declare a personal vendetta, last time, he was afraid of our cousin (Hu Guozhu)'s face, and he didn't dare to poison us, it doesn't mean that he wants to let us go from now on." If this continues, no matter how careful we are, we are afraid that we will not be able to escape his poisonous hands. ”

Han Daren groaned in pain and didn't speak, just let out a long sigh, while Han Yuanren looked at the door closed, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Brother, instead of waiting for him to kill us, let's start first and kill this dog mongrel first!" ”

"What?" Itanbu was so frightened that he almost collapsed on the ground, and quickly shrank his head, pretending not to hear. Over there, Han Daren was also taken aback, and said in a low voice: "Be cautious, be careful that the wall has ears!" ”

"Don't worry, there are all the old people our brothers brought from Yungui, and no outsiders can get close." Han Yuanren replied in a low voice. After that, Han Yuanren turned to Itambu again and said, "General Yi, how Lu Yifeng'er treats you and how he treats us, you have seen it with your own eyes, I think you should know how to choose, right?" ”

"The last general didn't hear anything." Itanbu stood up and said tremblingly: "It's getting late, the two generals please rest early, the last general will leave first, and come back tomorrow to greet the two generals." ”

"Stop!" Han Yuanren drank Itambu and shouted in a low voice: "Do you think that once you leave, there will be no trouble in the future?" The two bastard brothers of the Gao family are mortal enemies with us, you are our people, in the street battle in Jiujiang City, you also surrendered to our two brothers, and you have long been branded by us, if we are finished, do you think the Gao brothers will let you go? ”

Itambu didn't dare to say anything, hesitating in his heart, Han Yuanren lowered his voice and said: "Don't worry, if you help our two brothers get the big thing done, we will naturally not treat you badly, and you can pay back a hundred times the anger you suffered today." ”

"Yuan Ren, stop talking nonsense!" Han Daren shouted angrily in a low voice: "The prince is so kind to us, we can't do anything to be sorry for the prince." ”

"The prince is good to us, but we were also forced by Lu Yifeng!" Han Yuanren snorted coldly: "Since the beginning of our Pingxi Palace, Lu Yifeng has been wearing a pair of pants with the Gao brothers, but the two of us brothers have always been at odds with him, and now he is a villain, and he needs the support of the Gao brothers in the army, of course, he wants to take the two of us brothers, not only to clean up our two brothers' anger, but also to please Gao Dejie'er." You say, if we go on like this, do we still want to live? ”

Han Daren stopped talking, but just slammed his fist on the bed, and Han Yuanren encouraged again: "Big brother, instead of waiting for Lu Yifeng to torture our two brothers to death, it is better to strike first, cut off Lu Yifeng's dog thief's head, and cross Poyang Lake to surrender to the Qing Dynasty!" Not only has revenge been avenged, but there are countless glory and wealth to enjoy! ”

"Surrender the Qing Dynasty again?" To be honest, Itambu, who was not determined to surrender to the Wu army, had his eyes lit up, and hope began to grow in his heart, and he said that if the Han brothers really cut off the head of Lu Yifeng's dog thief to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, they would definitely want me to be the leader, then wouldn't I definitely follow the light.

After being silent for a long time, Han Daren said softly in an inaudible voice: "Do you have a way to do it?" ”

"General Yi, are you sure to go into Lu Yifeng's room overnight and cut off his head?" Han Won-in turned to Itambu and asked.

"Second General, don't be kidding." Itambu cried and whispered, "The slave is a mite, how can he approach General Lu at will?" ”

"Big brother, what about you?" Han Yuanren asked Han Daren in a low voice.

"Stop dreaming about it." Han Daren said in a low voice: "Lu Yifeng has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, there are many henchmen and soldiers around him, and all of them are ruthless characters who can die for him at any time, if you want to assassinate him, don't even think about it." ”

Han Yuanren lowered his head weakly, and Han Daren said again: "Yuanren, you don't need to worry too much, since Lu Yifeng's child can't tolerate us, then we don't follow him, you will let people bring paper and pen in a while, I will write a letter to my cousin, begging him to transfer us to another place, it's great to be demoted and lose power, just don't provoke this Lu Yifeng child." ”

"So what should I do?" Itambu was depressed.

Han Yuanren stopped talking, and only groaned when he was lying there gritting his teeth, and Han Daren snorted coldly: "It's a pity that the Qing army on the other side of the lake refuses to cross the lake to attack the city, otherwise it will ......, hum!" ”

"The Qing army on the other side of the lake refused to cross the lake and attack the city? Brother, how do you know? Han Yuanren asked in surprise.

"Lu Yifeng has already analyzed it." Han Daren replied: "After the Qing army on the other side of the lake crossed the lake, they were not absolutely sure that they would capture Jiujiang, and it was possible that they would suffer heavy casualties in the siege battle, and the gains outweighed the losses. Therefore, Lu Yifeng concluded that Hilgen's garrison at the mouth of the lake was actually only for three purposes, one was to cover the retreat of the Qing army in Nanchang, the second was to find fighters, ready to attack our sailors, as long as our sailors were finished, Anqing could sit back and relax, and the third was to verify whether Lu Yifeng'er was seriously injured and would die, and wait and see if there were fighters crossing the lake to attack the city, as long as our Jiujiang army did not move, Hilgen would never move. ”

"Big brother, then why don't we send someone across the lake and contact General Hilgen on the other side of the lake?" Han Yuan Ren had an idea and suggested: "As long as the old general Hilgen believes that we will make an internal response for him, won't he definitely cross the lake and attack the city?" ”

Han Daren's body was shocked, and he hesitated for a long time before he whispered again: "It's easy to say, will Old General Hilgen believe us so easily?" In case General Hilgen suspects us of surrendering by fraud and casually reveals the slightest rumor, then my cousin will not be able to save us. ”

"Great General, Second General." Itambu finally spoke, knelt down on his knees in front of the Han brothers' bed, clenched his fists, and said solemnly in the lowest voice: "If the two generals can trust the minions, the minions are willing to cross the lake to contact the old general Hilgen, explain the situation to the old general, and let the old general believe that you are sincere anyway!" ”

"You?" Han Daren and Han Yuanren brothers were both the same brother, looking up at each other, the corners of their mouths couldn't help but show a trace of imperceptible laughter.

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According to Lu Fatzi's crow's mouth, Kang Mazi's supreme instructions on the Battle of Jiujiang had indeed arrived at the Hilgen army stationed at Hukou on February 14. In the holy decree, Kang Mazi first praised the Jiujiang Qing army led by Zhangtai for injuring Lu Fatzi's miraculous achievements, and then scolded Zhangtai for the sin of easily losing Jiujiang City, so it was decided not to reward or punish Zhangtai, and to retain the original position, but Yang Jie, Zhao Dengju and Zhang Sheguang, who had meritorious service in killing the enemy, were rewarded heavily, and they were promoted and rewarded, but Dong Weiguo and Zhao Yingkui, who were suspected of collaborating with the enemy, were unlucky, and were ordered by Kang Mazi to investigate thoroughly, temporarily deprived of all powers, and waited for the Qing court to send a commissioner to investigate.

In addition to this holy decree of reward and punishment, the great Emperor of the Chaff Tartar also used a single holy decree to make a more important great instruction! In view of the fact that the six-way attack of the Wu rebel thief army has caused great pressure and great damage to the Qing court, the great chaff tartar emperor asked the generals of the Qing army in northern Jiangxi, such as Hilgen, Zhangtai and Zhao Guoqi, to seize the favorable opportunity of Lu Yifeng, the commander of the puppet expedition to the east of the Wu rebel army, who was seriously injured and about to die, to recapture the important town of Jiujiang in a comprehensive counterattack, and strive to annihilate the Wu rebel thief army on the battlefield in northern Jiangxi, so as to make a good start and lay a solid foundation for the Qing court to completely eradicate the Wu rebel thief army!

After listening to these two holy decrees, Zhangtai Bei Ziye and Zhao Dengju, Zhang Sheguang and others of course laughed so much that they couldn't even close their mouths, but the Qing army veteran Shirgen stretched his old face, his brows were furrowed into a Sichuan character, and his heart said that this is trouble, the master is on the rise, if the old man plays at this time and says that Lu Yifeng's dog thief may be a deception to lure the enemy, and the Qing army in northern Jiangxi is not absolutely sure to take Jiujiang Jiancheng, then the master must not be angry and angry? What's even more troublesome is that now whether Lu Yifeng's dog thief is fraudulent or not, the old man is not absolutely sure, if the old man insists on retiring from the army, it will be proved that Lu Yifeng's dog thief has indeed been seriously injured in the future, and it is the old man's misjudgment that missed this once-in-a-lifetime fighter, so does the old man want to have a good time in the future?

Hilgen was worried here, but the mite Qing generals led by Zhangtai, E Nai and Jueluo Babul quarreled and unanimously demanded to immediately cross the lake and attack the city, taking advantage of the opportunity of Lu Yifeng's dog thief being seriously injured and dying, to take Jiujiang City in one fell swoop and annihilate Wu Gou! Although Hilgen refuted with all his might, he had no choice but to say that all the generals were on the rise, and they couldn't listen to anything, and even many Eight Banners uncles shouted similar slogans, "What if Lu Yifeng is a dog thief and injured?" Our Eight Banners soldiers are invincible in the world with arches and horses, and there are red-coated cannons and Weiyuan General Cannons (sub-mother cannons) to help, even if they attack head-on, they are absolutely sure to take Jiujiang City! ”

In desperation, Hilgen had to think about how to persuade Kang Mazi to take back his fate, and at the same time under the pretext of discussing how to attack Jiujiang City on two routes, and ordered Zhao Guoqi, who was stationed in Nankang City, to meet at Hukou and discuss the plan of advancing the army with himself.

At noon on the 17th of February, Zhao Guoqi was ordered to lead a group of personal soldiers to the Hukou camp to meet him, and Hilgen, who admired Zhao Guoqi quite a lot, personally welcomed him out of the camp and ordered a banquet to be held. Before the banquet began, Zhao Guoqi first took the initiative to ask for guilt in public, expressing his willingness to be responsible for the Jianchang fiasco some time ago, and Hilgen also said on the spot that the Jianchang fiasco had little to do with Zhao Guoqi.

At the banquet, the two old foxes, Hilgen and Zhao Guoqi, shouted slogans loudly, breathed together with the mites and the Qing generals, and vowed not to break Jiujiang and never withdraw their troops. However, after finally sending away the mite Qing generals, and after talking secretly in Hilgen's private account for a long time, the two old foxes reached a common opinion - in view of the current comparison of forces and the superiority of weapons between the two sides, it is absolutely impossible to launch a siege battle! Otherwise, not only would it be difficult to capture Jiujiang, but the Qing army of Anqing and the Qing army of Nanchang would have to suffer a big loss in the battle of attacking the fortifications, which would be extremely unfavorable to the future battle of defending the city of Nanchang and Anqing!

It is easy to reach this common opinion, but how to explain to Kang Mazi is a headache for the two old foxes, especially Zhao Guoqi, who has just suffered a big defeat, at this time he wrote to ask Kang Mazi to give up the plan to attack Jiujiang, then his Jiangxi Governor Dingzi must be taken off. And although Hilgen's situation is a little better than Zhao Guoqi's, it is not much better, so much so that he sighed in front of Zhao Guoqi: "It's hard to ride a tiger, the old man just regrets it now, how could he easily believe the news that Lu Yifeng's dog thief was seriously injured in the first place?" It is now impossible to advance or retreat, and there is a dilemma. ”

"General, this responsibility is not on you." Zhao Guoqi looked left and right, lowered his voice and said: "The slave dares to say it in front of the general, the biggest responsibility for this matter is on the master of Zhangtai Beizi, and also on the master!" ”

Hilgen smiled wryly and didn't speak. Zhao Guoqi lowered his voice again and asked, "By the way, General, is that Lu Yifeng dog thief really injured?" ”

"Ten of the best are fraudulent injuries." Hilgen smiled bitterly, "But the old man can't produce evidence, there is no way to prove it, and there is no way to explain it to the master and the generals." ”

"The slave also thinks that this dog thief is the most likely to be injured." Zhao Guoqi nodded, frowned again and said: "If Lu Yifeng's dog thief is really a fraud, then this dog thief is really terrible, even if it kills our master's mind, and it is also dead, Zhangtai Beizi will grasp this life-saving straw and stick to it, and he will definitely stab this fake news in front of his master at any cost." Let the general, even if you don't believe it, you have to go according to his arrangement, and you can't resist at all. Before, we really despised this Wu dog too much. ”

"No, the old man has never despised him!" Hilgen shook his head decisively and said in a low voice: "Don't hide it from the old general, in fact, when the news of the old thief Wu Sangui appointing Lu Yifeng as the commander of the Eastern Expedition reached Anqing, the old man already had a premonition that this Wu dog would turn the battlefield in northern Jiangxi upside down, so the old man ordered Mu Tianyan, the governor of Jiangning, to send the already built warship to Anqing immediately!" Otherwise, the master's will to Mu Tianyan was to let Mu Tianyan build 300 warships. ”

"General, you have attached so much importance to this Wu dog from the beginning?" Zhao Guoqi asked in surprise.

Hilgen hesitated for a moment, and then whispered, "Do you remember Ao Zhongtang?" When his old man was in the world, you and I were still unknown under his tent, but the old man knew an accurate news - the head of Ao Zhongtang was cut off by this Lu Yifeng dog thief! ”

"What?" Zhao Guoqi jumped up in shock, and said dumbfounded: "Ao Zhongtang's head, was it cut off by this Lu Yifeng dog thief?" How did the last general hear that Ao Zhongtang killed himself? ”

"Wu Sangui's old thief is still a little humane, in order to take care of Ao Zhongtang's reputation behind him, so he announced that Ao Zhongtang killed himself." Hilgen replied in a low voice: "But the old man secretly sent someone to Guizhou to inquire, and then he learned the truth of the matter, after Ao Zhongtang was surrounded by Wu Dog, he was so injured that he didn't even have the strength to kill himself, it was his old man who begged Wu Sangui to see the old thief in the past, don't let him be captured and humiliated, and ask Wu Sangui old thief to give him a death." After Wu Sangui and the old thief agreed, Ao Zhongtang asked Wu Sangui to allow Lu Yifeng to execute the dog thief, because Ao Zhongtang believed that among Wu dogs, only Wu Sangui and Lu Yifeng were worthy of taking off his head. ”

Zhao Guoqi was even more speechless, and after a long time, Zhao Guoqi sat back on the chair weakly, and said with a wry smile: "Jianchang is defeated, and the last general will not lose unjustly, and the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves." ”

"It's good that you didn't die on the beach." Hilgen smiled bitterly, and sighed again: "It's a pity, the old man really can't confirm whether Lu Yifeng's dog thief was really injured by the gun, if he can confirm that Lu Yifeng's dog thief was really seriously injured by Bei Ziye's shit luck, then there is no need for the master to give an order, and there is no need for the generals to request, no matter how much the old man pays, he will also break through Jiujiang and take off his head!" For the great purge to go to this henchman! The scourge of the Great Qing Dynasty! ”

Zhao Guoqi was even more silent, Hilgen stopped talking, the two old foxes sat speechless, and after a long time, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tent, and then the joyful voice of Zhangtai Bei Ziye also came in, "General, happy event!" What a happy event! What a joyous event! Ben Beizi personally promoted that General Itambu, and he came back anyway! said that there is a confidential matter, and you have to report it to the general! ”

"Itambu is back?" Hilgen and Zhao Guoqi, the two old foxes, glanced at each other together, and then jumped up in unison, and said in unison: "Bring him in, right away!" ”

A moment later, Hilgen's inspection of Jiujiang City Defense, which had met once Itambu, was personally escorted into the tent by Zhangtai Bei Ziye, and as soon as he entered the tent, Itambu, who had been cut off his braids and had his arms tied behind his back, immediately knelt down on his knees and cried out: "General, slave Itambu, finally came back alive." Minion Itambu, greetings to the General! ”

"Bold Itambu, you still have the face to come back to see the old man?" Hilgen wrenched his face and shouted angrily: "How many times have you sent people across the lake to deceive our army for Wu Gou, are you guilty?!" ”

"The general spares his life, the general spares his life." Itanbu cried and said: "The slave is indeed a dog, and he sent someone to deceive the general and Bei Ziye, but the slave was forced, the Wu dog soldiers around the slave at that time were all sent by Lu Yifeng's dog thief to monitor the slave, and if the slave didn't follow Lu Yifeng's dog thief's instructions, the slave would immediately fall to the ground!" ”

"What?" Zhangtai Bei Ziye screamed miserably. The two old foxes, Hilgen and Zhao Guoqi, glanced at each other and said together: "The two messengers from before are indeed dead people who don't know the truth!" ”

"Then Lu Yifeng's dog thief, was he seriously injured by our artillery?!" Hilgen asked again.

"No, no." Itambu hurriedly shook his head and cried loudly: "The slave can swear to the sky, the artillery of our army that day did not even hurt a single hair of Lu Yifeng's dog thief, Lu Yifeng dog thief, he was cheating from beginning to end!" He wanted to deceive the general and our Nanchang army of the Qing Dynasty to take the initiative to attack and leave the fortified city for protection, so that he could kill all our Qing army! ”

"Bang!" Zhangtai Beizi sat on the ground, a handsome face, no longer bloody, and muttered: "How is it possible?" Ben Beizi is familiar with military books and knows the art of war, how could he not hurt Lu Yifeng's dog thief? ”

"Sure enough, it's a fraud!" Hilgan was so surprised that she almost screamed. After trying to calm down his excitement, Hilgen pointed at Itanbu again and shouted: "Say, tell me what happened, and how you helped Wu Gou defraud our army, and how you came back anyway, confess to the old man 1510, and don't miss anything!" Otherwise, watch out for your dog's head! ”

(To be continued)