scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 278 Luck
(PS: It’s almost the end of the month, and the results of monthly tickets and rewards for this month are very dismal. Have you forgotten the pure wolf?)

When the two brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren were escorted back to Jiujiang City by the whole festival, they were naturally greeted by complex eyes from the Wu army officers and men in the city, including angry eyes, contemptuous eyes, gloating eyes, and disappointed eyes. , but more or less pity is carried in more eyes.

Under countless gazes like this, the two brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren really wanted to find a crack in the ground to sneak in, but regretted why their brothers didn't kill themselves on the spot, why did they accept Quanjie's rescue, and followed Quanjie back to Jiujiang City To suffer such disgrace?However, Quan Jie, who managed to rescue Han Daren brothers from the pursuit of the Qing army, was merciless. While letting the Han Daren soldiers, who had only more than 3000 people left, go to the station for rest and treatment, they personally escorted Han Daren brothers. Come to the Wu Army headquarters and hand it over to Fatty Lu for punishment.

In front of the gate of the Wu Army headquarters, Fatty Lu, who had received the news, had already sent his confidant soldier Xiao Erlang to the gate to greet him. After the meeting, he saluted first, and then said to Quan Jie and Han Daren brothers: "General, Two generals, my young master has been waiting for you in the lobby for a long time, please come in."

Quan Jie agreed, and was about to enter the door, but Han Daren said timidly: "General Xiao, can I trouble you with something?"

"Of course." Xiao Erlang nodded, and without waiting for Han Daren to speak, he hurriedly said, "But General Han, if you intend to ask me to help you find two ropes and two thorns for you, that's fine. My young master Having said that, this move is too old-fashioned, please General Han think of something new."

The faces of the two brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren turned pale together. They were amazed at Fatty Lu's foresight, but also understood that Fatty Lu would never spare his brother lightly this time—don't look at his brother's relationship with Hu Guozhu Even if Fatty Lu killed his two brothers in such a matter, Hu Guozhu, who has always been fair in the Pingxi Palace, would not gossip, and the traitor Wu, who attached great importance to military discipline, would even raise his hands in support.

In desperation, the Han Daren brothers also gave up their thoughts of pleading guilty, and honestly followed Xiao Erlang and Quan Jie into the gate, and then came to the meeting hall where Fatty Lu gave orders.At this time, Xiao Erlang ordered again: "Two Generals Han, my young master has an order, please kneel here and wait, and he will send you in later." Han Daren and Han Yuanren did not dare to disobey, they knelt down obediently together, Waiting tremblingly for Fatty Lu to announce the result, he followed Xiao Erlang into the lobby during the whole festival and reported to Fatty Lu the whole process of rescuing the Han Daren brothers.

Generals of the Wu army kept coming to check the situation after hearing the news, but the Han Daren brothers were always proud of their talents, and they liked to fight for merit and step on their colleagues to climb up. Although there were many generals in the Wu army, none of them expressed their desire to intercede for Brother Han Daren. They all watched the excitement and patiently waited for the results of Fatty Lu's treatment. Many people even sneered and gloated.Brother Han Daren was even more embarrassed, his forehead was pressed against the ground, his face was burning with embarrassment, and he didn't even dare to take a breath.

The Han Daren brothers waited for a long time for Fatty Lu's decision, but they waited for the two brothers' rivals Gao Dejie and Gao Hongchen cousins ​​to come back. The cousins ​​were all blood-stained, but the faces of the Chinese characters covered with sweat, blood and dust were full of happy smiles. Fatty Lu also greeted him out of the lobby in person, and congratulated the two brothers of the Gao family, "Brother Dajie, General Hong Chen , I heard that you not only won the battle this time, but also won a big victory, congratulations, congratulations."

"It's all thanks to Brother Lu's divine calculation that Zhao Guozuo really arranged all the new recruits in the Chinese army brigade, let us kill them!" Gao Dejie laughed and said: "At least seven thousand beheaded, our army lost With less than three hundred, Nanchang was full of dog food, supplies, and military weapons, all of which were burned by us!"

"The last general chopped off the heads of three full-fledged soldiers with his own hands!" Gao Hongchen lit up the heads in his hands, cupped them with both hands and smiled at Fatty Lu: "Please accept it, General!"

As soon as the words fell, all the generals of the Wu army present were cheering and congratulating, and Fatty Lu was also overjoyed, and announced on the spot: "Okay, come quickly, hang the heads of these three full-fledged soldiers on the gate of the city!" Order, the three thousand soldiers who went out with Brother Da Jie and Brother Hong Chen will be rewarded heavily, and each will be rewarded with two taels of silver..., no, three taels of silver! For the brothers who died in battle, the pension will be tripled!"

"The last general is waiting to thank the general on behalf of the brothers." Brothers Gao Dejie and Gao Hongchen hurriedly saluted and thanked him.Fatty Lu laughed and went to help Gao Dejie and Gao Hongchen, and said with a smile: "You two generals, don't be polite. If it's not for worrying about the lack of military use, I really want to reward you more. Come on, come on, please come in quickly Sit down and rest in the lobby, I will let someone arrange a celebration banquet for you, and discuss how to win the prince, and ask for credit for you two."

Brothers Gao Dejie and Gao Hongchen overjoyed and agreed, and hurriedly followed Fatty Lu into the hall. Fatty Lu smiled at the generals present: "Don't be dumbfounded, come in and have a drink with the two generals." He cheered and agreed, and quickly followed Fatty Lu and Brother Gao Dejie into the hall. Fatty Lu didn't even glance at Brother Han Daren from the beginning to the end, but just laughed and entered the hall with the generals, leaving behind Brother Han Daren who was tired, hungry and thirsty Continue to kneel in the courtyard.

The celebration banquet lasted from the afternoon until it was completely dark. Brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren also knelt until it was completely dark. In a word, no one handed the two brothers a glass of water or a piece of bun. They were so hungry that their eyes glowed green, their throats smoked from thirst, their knees were numb, and they lost consciousness several times, excruciating pain.But Fatty Lu still treated the two brothers as if they didn't exist, and ignored them at all.

After the celebration banquet was over, after the gold and silver rewards were awarded to Brother Gao Dejie on the spot, Fatty Lu personally led Wu Jun and the generals to send Brother Gao Dejie out of the lobby. It was also at this time that Gao Dejie seemed to have just discovered Han Daren Like brothers, pouted and asked seemingly casually: "Brother Lu, what should they do?"

Hearing this, Brother Han Daren's body shook, and Fatty Lu replied very casually: "Let's talk about it later, brother Dajie, you are also very tired, go back early to rest, and talk about other things tomorrow. There are other generals, you all go back to rest, pay attention to patrol and check the post, don't let the dog take advantage of the loopholes."

All the generals of Wu Jun agreed together, surrounded Gao Dejie and went out talking and laughing. Fatty Lu watched them go out with a smile on his face, until all the generals of Wu Jun had left, Fatty Lu stopped his smile and turned to Brother Han Daren , snorted coldly: "Get up, go into the second hall to talk."

Brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren trembled a few times and struggled to stand up, but they collapsed on the ground together as soon as they moved. Fatty Lu also understood that they had been kneeling for too long, so he pouted at Xiao Erlang, Xiao Erlang understood and led Leading a few soldiers to step forward, two helped the Han brothers up, followed behind Fatty Lu through the messy hall, and entered the clean and tidy second hall.After Fatty Lu sat down, the Han brothers wanted to struggle to kneel down, but Fatty Lu said impatiently: "If you can't kneel, don't kneel, Erlang, help them sit down, and give them two glasses of water. "

Xiao Erlang and the others followed the order, first helped the Han brothers to sit down, and then brought them two glasses of water. It wasn't until the Han brothers quickly finished drinking the water that Fatty Lu asked coldly. : "Han Daren, Han Yuanren, you two brothers, can you be convicted?"

"The general is guilty." The Han brothers agreed in a hoarse voice, and struggled to kneel down together. Han Daren tremblingly said, "The general deserves to die. Please deal with it, the general. The general has no complaints."

"Do you know why I didn't punish you in front of the generals?" Fatty Lu asked a random question.

Brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren looked at each other, and after a long while they answered carefully together: "The last general doesn't know, please tell the general clearly."

"I knew you didn't know." Fatty Lu sneered, then raised his voice suddenly, and snorted, "It's a shame that you, Han Daren, still have the guts to compete with me for the position of General Dong, since you regard me as your target, as your target." Competitor, if you stay with me and watch and listen to it every day, even a child who has just learned to speak, I am afraid that he has learned a lot, right?"

"What... mean?" Han Daren was completely confused by Fatty Lu's scolding.

"Look at the arrogance of your two brothers!" Fatty Lu continued to curse: "In order to climb up in a hurry, I usually grab the credit when I see it, let it go when I see difficulties, pick the thin and choose the fat, I would rather die than suffer, and try to take advantage! I You can ignore it, but with so many brothers in the Eastern Expedition Army, can you not hold grudges? If you want to seek death, it’s not like you are looking for it! Feel your conscience and say it yourself, if I announce the death of both of you in front of all the generals Brother beheaded to show the public, how many people will intercede for you? How many people will be willing to give up their lives to save you?!"

After scolding here, Fatty Lu paused, and then cursed again: "Take ten thousand steps back, even if I am willing to spare you, let you live, let you continue like this, until in the future, when you arrive at the battlefield where the two armies are fighting Come on, sooner or later you will be hacked with a black knife and shot with a black knife! You two idiots! Do you understand?"

Brothers Han Daren and Han Yuanren were stunned, and it took a while to recover, and they quickly kowtowed to Fatty Lu, and cried loudly: "The general taught you a lesson, the general's painstaking efforts for the younger brother, the latter understands everything! The last general will never dare again, will never violate military orders again, will never pick the thin and the fat, and will never dare to compete with the great general again."

"Do you think that I'm afraid that you two brothers will snatch my throne as General Zhengdong?" Fatty Lu snorted again, "Do you think that the prince chose me as the coach of Donglu because I can flatter and please? Wrong Yes! Let me tell you, if you two brothers still only want to step on others to climb up, even if I give you the position of General Zhengdong, you will not be able to sit still!"

"The last general will never dare again, and the last general will never dare again." Han Daren wailed loudly and said: "The general has a broad mind and magnanimity, and the general admires him very much. From today onwards, if the last general dares to fight against you The general was disrespectful at all, and told the last general to die tragically under the chaos of knives and arrows, and there is no place to bury him!"

Han Yuanren also kowtowed again and again, crying and expressing his thanks, he was both grateful and admired for Fatty Lu's magnanimity and meticulousness.Fatty Lu snorted, "It's up to you whether you dare or not, and it's up to you whether to change it or not. Anyway, I've done my best to you two brothers. If there is a next time, you two brothers will have the same old illness again, I don't know. How should I treat you?"

"Thank you, General, for not killing me, thank you, General, for not killing me." Han Daren was not stupid, and soon heard the overtones of Fatty Lu's voice, and quickly kowtowed and said, "Please rest assured, General, the end will be at the end of the battlefield." I must swear to the death to kill the enemy, and make atonement for my crimes, in order to repay the great general's kindness of rebuilding."

"I hope you can do what you say." Fatty Lu sighed, turned to Xiao Erlang and ordered: "Erlang, take them down, let the cook get them some food and drink first, and wait for them to finish eating and drinking." Now, lead them to get fifty army sticks each. After the beating, take them to see Dr. Zhu to apply medicine."

Finally, Fatty Lu turned his attention to Brother Han Daren again, sighed again, and said softly: "Correct your wounds as soon as possible, the great war is coming soon, and you will be able to perform crimes and meritorious deeds on the battlefield, let everyone look at you brothers again." Brother Han Daren With tears streaming down his face, he didn't speak, and kowtowed three times to Fatty Lu together, finally got up with difficulty, wiped his tears, and followed Xiao Erlang down to eat and be tortured.

As soon as the Han brothers left, Fatty Lu's confidant Master Wang Shaobo came out from the back hall holding a pile of official documents. He first saw that the Han brothers had gone far away, and then smiled like Fatty Lu: "Master, what a trick! Well, as long as the Han brothers have a little bit of conscience, they will be determined to say anything to you in the future. In fact, not only the two brothers and all the generals, but even the students think that you will definitely not let them go this time."

"Three reasons, you can't kill Han Daren." Fatty Lu said calmly: "First, Han Daren is indeed a rare talent, capable of both civil and military skills. It's just that he is unlucky, and the opponent he meets is too powerful to suffer repeatedly. Second, Han Daren Daren is Hu Guozhu's nephew, and Hu Guozhu is my elder, and he treats me pretty well, so I have to give him a little face. Third, if Han Daren is killed, I won't be able to talk to Gao Dejie in the future, Gao Dejie It's an old man in the palace, and his qualifications are much older than mine, and I am now above him, the reason why he didn't show dissatisfaction and disrespect towards me - to be honest, it's thanks to his enemy, Han Daren."

"It's still the master who is thoughtful and deliberately let the Han Daren brothers kneel for a long time. After suffering so much humiliation, our generals' anger towards them has almost disappeared. Master, you will give the two brothers another chance to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. Others People have nothing to say." Wang Shaobo flattered him with a smile on his face.

Fatty Lu smiled and did not speak, because there was another more important reason why Fatty Lu refused to kill Han Daren—Han Daren made it clear that he was sent by the traitor Wu to monitor and constrain him, so it would be easy to kill Han Daren by himself However, the old traitor Wu is beyond reproach, but there will definitely be suspicion and precautions in his heart. This is obviously a very unwise decision for Fatty Lu who has not completely escaped the control of the old traitor Wu.

"Boss, the students only thought of an important issue after the fact." After a few gossips, Wang Shaobo turned to the main topic and said: "Yesterday Han Daren attacked without permission, and our army ambushed Nanchang Mangou by mistake. It’s not cheap, but in this way, your master’s plan to lure the enemy with false injuries is likely to be exposed? Will Mangou suspect that you are a false injury, so he gave up attacking Jiujiang, which led to our plan to lure the enemy to a decisive battle under Jiujiang City? fail?"

"Regarding this point, I didn't consider it very carefully when I formulated the tactic of ambush Nanchang Mangou the night before yesterday." Fatty Lu said: "But it's okay, I have already thought of a remedy. You should write immediately , Write a letter to Zhangtai in the tone of Yitanbu, and then ask Zhangtai to send that Qiu Sheng across the lake."

"How do you write the letter?" Wang Shaobo asked impatiently.

Fatty Lu replied: "In the letter, I told Zhangtai in the tone of Itanbu that yesterday's battle on the southern front was like this. Leading an army to attack, Han Daren was ambushed by Zhao Guozuo, Gao Dejie deliberately refused to rescue, and accidentally ambushed Nanchang Mangou's infantry successfully. After Gao Dejie and Han Daren returned to Jiujiang City, because of Gao Dejie's The matter of Dejie's refusal to rescue Han Daren caused a lot of trouble. I was seriously injured and would die. It is an excuse for the army to seal the city tightly after going out to fight without permission."

"The letter is not difficult to write, but will Mangou be fooled?" Wang Shaobo asked doubtfully.

"Give it a try, other than that, I can't think of any better way at the moment." Fatty Lu smiled wryly, and said with relief: "However, I can be sure that the news that I am seriously injured and dying, It must have been sent to Beijing as a life-saving straw by that stupid pig in Zhangtai, and after receiving such a report, the Emperor Mangou will definitely order Anqing Mangou and Nanchang Mangou to counterattack Jiujiang and wipe out our leaderless Eastern Expedition Great army, attack the momentum of our army's six-way attack—I can think of this, and Hilgen can definitely think of this."

"He thought of this, so he must have to worry about the consequences of withdrawing troops." Fatty Lu analyzed in a dark tone: "Now there is no conclusive evidence whether I have been seriously injured. If Hillen withdraws troops here, not only will the generals If it proves that I am seriously injured and will die in the future, the pockmarked emperor will definitely not let him go, and there will be countless little shoes and scapegoats waiting for him. So if my predictions are correct, Hill Gen should at least bring the army to the mouth of the lake, wait for further confirmation of my injuries, and then decide whether to cross the lake and attack the city!"

"It makes sense, my master is really clever." Wang Shaobo nodded, and then smiled: "There is also Zhang Tai, a full-fledged son, who will be willing to believe that his master is really seriously injured for the sake of saving himself and atonement, and desperately trying to encourage Hill. Lied to the root."

"Hilgen's old man is very scheming, Zhang Tai's words are bullshit in front of him, he will definitely not listen." Fatty Lu put his thumbs on his brows, and said in a deep voice: "Will the plan to lure the enemy to a decisive battle under the city of Jiujiang be completely successful? Now we are powerless, and even old man Hilgen can’t make a final decision. Whether we can succeed, whether old Hilgen will give up attacking Jiujiang... To be honest, it depends on luck and God’s will.”

"It depends on luck?" Wang Shaobo smiled and said, "Master, when you formulate tactics and strategies, you never consider luck. Why did you change your nature today and say you depend on luck?"

"It really depends on luck this time." Fatty Lu sighed, and murmured: "The attitude of the Emperor Mangou, the attitude of the generals under Sir Gen, and the progress of the other five-way armies of our army. And moving the whole body may affect the decision-making of old man Hilgen. Which of these things can be influenced by me? But fortunately, even if the plan to lure the enemy to a decisive battle under Jiujiang City fails completely, I will There is still the option of attacking Nanchang first and then Anqing, but Mr. Hilgen probably doesn’t have the guts to leave Nanchang alone and lead the army back to Anqing.”

Fatty Lu’s luck seems to have always been bad, even though Yitanbu, according to Fatty Lu’s request, sent Qiu Sheng, who was still kept in the dark, to cross the lake overnight and sent Fatty Lu’s letter to Qing Dynasty on the other side of Poyang Lake. In the barracks, but Qiu Sheng did not return this time, and did not return to the west bank of Poyang Lake.But in the afternoon of the next day, which was also the afternoon of the first day of February, the scout ship of the Wu army sent to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River for reconnaissance reported that the Qing army in Anqing, which had arrived in Pengze in the early morning of the first day of February, suddenly stopped marching westward and chose to go westward. stationed.

In this way, even if Fatty Lu analyzed it with his toes, he would be able to guess the reason. After receiving the news of Zhao Guozuo's disastrous defeat, the old fox Xiergen must have begun to suspect that he was cheating to lure the enemy. !
(End of this chapter)