scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 325 The Greatest Enemy

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Fatty Lu led the main force of the Fatty Army back to Nanjing City. Everything in the city remained the same. The military team of the old line family who married Fatty Lu was operating normally, and the civilian officials led by his good friend Xie Dong also took care of the site. Hearing that Fatty Lu had returned in triumph, this group of lackeys and accomplices, led by the pregnant Yu'er, came to the gate of Jinchuan to welcome Fatty Lu back, and continued to harm the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.

On the way home, Fatty Lu was quite worried about one issue in spite of his busy schedule, that is, whether Rong Yuer's narrow-minded personality and jealous temper could accommodate Huang Xifeng, a little pepper—in those days, Rong Yuer Wu Xiaotu, the authentic mistress that Fatty Lu is marrying, is regarded as a thorn in the flesh, and seeing Xiaojiao, a little vixen that Fatty Lu secretly brought back, can't the big jealousy of Ling Yuer be turned upside down?
The fact seems to be exactly the case. When I saw such a delicate and pretty little beauty like Xiaojiao in Lu Fatty's arms, her white and tender jade-like hands were still tightly hugging Lu Fatty's fat neck with a double chin. .The authentic mistress Line Yuer really felt like she was about to go crazy, her knuckles were clenched so tightly that her knuckles turned white, and the raging anger burst out from her big beautiful eyes, not only seemed to want to turn Fatty Lu's whole body fat into oil residue, but Quan Jie and Xie Dong, who were familiar with her character, were all scared out of their wits, scrambling to get out of the way, quietly praying that they would not suffer from the fish pond, and secretly praying for Fatty Lu.

"My dear, you will be reborn in bliss, you can ask for more blessings, we can't help you anymore - kiss your family property and field, we will take care of it for you."

What Fatty Lu, who was already prepared to see death as home, didn't expect was that at the moment when the volcano was about to erupt, Little Pepper, who had been tired of Fatty Lu's arms just now, suddenly jumped down on his own initiative, and his childish and pretty face was full of tears. With a cute smile, he trotted up to Line Yuer, pulled Line Yuer and asked sweetly: "Sister, if Xifeng guessed correctly, you must be sister Line Yuer Line, right? No wonder Brother Lu thinks about sister every day, sister Sure enough, she is beautiful and gentle, when Xifeng grows up, if she can be half as beautiful as your sister, Xifeng will be satisfied."

Although Little Pepper praised Line Yu'er for being gentle, it is typical to talk nonsense with eyes open, but she stretched out her hand without hitting a smiling person, and was flattered by such a small, beautiful and cute little girl, and Line Yu'er, who eats soft but not hard, is still very angry Eliminate, the anger is greatly reduced.Xiaojiao took a good look at his words and quickly touched Yu'er's tall belly again. He was very happy and said sweetly: "Sister Yu'er, I heard that you are about to give birth. When you give birth to a son for Brother Lu, you must give birth to him." Xifeng hugs, Xifeng likes children the most, Xifeng must take good care of him with her sister."

"Sister Yu'er, your bracelet is so beautiful. It must have been given to you by Brother Lu, right? Brother Lu is so biased. I've been with him for so many days, and he hasn't even bought me a piece of jewelry until now. Sister Yu'er , you have to decide for Xifeng."

Being flattered by Little Pepper like this, one sentence is sweeter than a sentence of sister Yu'er's cry, no matter how angry Yuer is, he will get angry at Little Pepper, and temporarily gave up the plan to tear Fatty Lu to pieces on the spot, just stared at him viciously. Glancing at Fatty Lu, he murmured in a low voice, “Fatty, you’ll have to wait and see, my old lady.” Then he pulled Pepper to the side and whispered, letting Fatty Lu temporarily escape this catastrophe—maybe even a catastrophe of murder. .

The little ghost who secretly admired the little pepper was relieved to be eloquent. It was also at this time that Fatty Lu finally discovered a person who appeared here unexpectedly. There was a traitorous guard of old Wu, Zhou Chaobao who was quite familiar with Fatty Lu. Fatty Lu didn't dare to neglect, so he hurried up to hold his hand and asked, "General Zhou, did the prince send you here? Or General Jinwu?" Sent you? When did you arrive?"

"Back to the general, the last general was sent by General Hu Guozhu, and he just arrived in Nanjing yesterday." Zhou Chaobao replied respectfully: "At first, the last general planned to go down the river to meet the general, but General Quan and Master Xie told the latter that , the general will be able to return to the city in triumph today, and the last general will stay here to wait for the general to return in triumph. By the way, the last general has not had time to congratulate the general. The richest place in the south of the Yangtze River has established a world-class feat."

"There, there, General Zhou is polite." Fatty Lu hurriedly humbled, and said with a wry smile: "I went deep alone without permission, and I don't know if General Jin Wu scolded his mother in Yuezhou, and I was planning to find a way to plead guilty in front of General Jin Wu , where you dare to claim credit.”

"The general is being polite." Zhou Chaobao said with a smile, "I heard that the general captured Jiangnan, and the first thing General Jinwu did was excitedly yelling, 'The dogs are finished'. How could he be willing to punish the general? ?”

After saying a few polite words, Fatty Lu greeted everyone to enter the city, while walking side by side with Zhou Chaobao, and asked in a low voice why Zhou Chaobao came. The official letter of appointment for Jiangnan's demotion conveyed Hu Guozhu's order to Fatty Lu by the way, asking Fatty Lu to march westward as soon as possible, cooperate with Prime Minister Xia to attack the Qing army in northeast Jiangxi and southern Huizhou on both sides, and completely expel the Qing army to the Yangtze River as soon as possible. north.After finishing speaking, Zhou Chaobao took out three letters on the spot, two letters from old traitor Wu and Hu Guozhu to Fatty Lu, and one letter from Hu Guozhu to his nephew Han Yuanren.

The letters written by old traitor Wu and Hu Guozhu to Fatty Lu were all sealed with wax, and Fatty Lu did not open them on the spot, but kept them carefully, and then ordered Xie Dong and others to treat Zhou Chaobao well. Over there, Xie Dong took this opportunity and whispered in Fatty Lu's ear: "Zhou Chaobao brought not only these three letters, but also one that he has already handed over to Han Daren in Taiping Mansion."

"Old traitor Wu and Hu Guozhu are really on guard against me." Fatty Lu's heart sank, knowing that old traitor Wu and Hu Guozhu were already on guard against him completely losing control, so he started to attack the old Wu Jun in his team. Without these old Wu Jun, even if he wants to stand alone, the army will immediately fall apart.

At that moment, Fatty Lu thought for a while, and then ordered in a low voice: "Send someone to keep an eye on Zhou Chaobao. If there is no accident, he should still have letters to brothers Gao Dejie, Wang Xu, and Li Guodong and his son." Xie Dong understood. , agreed in a low voice.

It was a triumphant return ceremony, the festive atmosphere was greatly reduced by the appearance of Zhou Chaobao, an unexpected messenger, and at the celebration banquet, many Wu Jun old men kept asking this and that around Zhou Chaobao, asking about the current situation of the traitor Wu, The current situation of Wu Jun's other teams, and the specific situation of the two provinces behind Wu Jun's rear, Yunnan and Guizhou.Seeing this scene, although Fatty Lu, Yao Qisheng, Wang Shaobo and others kept their faces calm and laughed as usual, they were really depressed in their hearts. They understood that the centripetal force of old Wu Jun's traitors towards these old Wu Jun was still there, and Fatty Jun wanted to get rid of Old Wu completely. The influence and control of traitors is still a long way to go.

After the celebration banquet was over, Zhou Chaobao was sent away, and then the civil and military officials present were dismissed. Fatty Lu had to summon a few absolute confidants to the back hall of Xingyuan to discuss with them the current major issues.After sitting down in the back hall, Fatty Lu first opened the letter that old traitor Wu had written to him, and found that old traitor Wu had pretended to be a bitch in the letter and set up a memorial archway, and scolded him for writing a letter to persuade him to proclaim himself emperor. , He also said that since Fatty Lu had made great contributions in capturing Jiangnan, he could not be prosecuted for the crime of disobedience and persuasion. He ordered Fatty Lu to take the crime and make meritorious service, and sent troops to the west to attack the Qing army in Jiangxi with the main force of the Wu army in Huguang, and to open up contact with the main force of the Wu army as soon as possible.

Opening Hu Guozhu's letter again, Hu Guozhu's tone became much gentler. In addition to ordering Fatty Lu to send troops to the west, he also praised Fatty Lu for his extraordinary feat in capturing Jiangnan. Finally, Hu Guozhu introduced Fatty Lu again. Regarding the situation of the only son Lu Bangjing, it is said that Lu Bangjing is living well under the support of his wife Hu Guozhu. He is well fed and warmly dressed. He just misses Fatty Lu, his biological father, and hopes that Fatty Lu can return to Yunnan as soon as possible to take a look at him son.Finally, Hu Guozhu said intentionally or unintentionally, saying that the parents, wives and children of the elderly Wu Jun in the Fatty Army are all behind Yungui, and they also miss their sons, husbands and fathers very much. —Their parents, wives and children are living well in Yunnan and Guizhou.

"Boss, General Jinwu is warning you in disguise." After reading the two letters in turn, Wang Shaobo reminded: "General Jinwu is warning Boss, the backbone of our army, the old man from Yunnan and Guizhou, his family and parents are all in the rear of Yunnan and Guizhou. Maybe it’s against you and the prince to follow my master. Another thing is to remind you that your only son is also in their hands, so you’d better not play tricks.”

Fatty Lu was silent, and it took a long time before he said a vicious sentence, "Why isn't that old Wu Sangui dead yet?!"

Several of Fatty Lu's confidantes smiled wryly together, and they all understood that under the current situation, the person who most hoped for Old Traitor Wu to die as soon as possible was definitely not the Emperor Kang Mazi, but Fatty Lu, the grandson-in-law of Old Traitor Wu.Otherwise, with the old traitor Wu's influence among the old Wu Jun, as long as he is alive, Fatty Lu will never want to get rid of his control!Without the support and support of the old man Wu Jun, Fatty Lu completely left the old man Wu and went it alone to seek death!
"General, excuse me for speaking bluntly, the greatest enemy of the general now is not the Emperor Mangou, but Prince Pingxi!" Yao Qisheng said in a deep voice: "The army of the general must not be without the backbone of Yunnan and Guizhou, but it must use the backbone of Yunnan and Guizhou. You have to be controlled and influenced by Prince Pingxi! You can put it this way, the day when the General and Prince Pingxi join forces is the day when you lose everything, General, and Prince Pingxi will never allow you to continue to sit in the south of the Yangtze River. Then transfer to other battlefields, if it is serious, it may be headed to the ground!"

Fatty Lu's fat face was longer than a donkey's. It wasn't that Fatty Lu thought Yao Qisheng's words were unlucky, but Fatty Lu understood that what Yao Qisheng said was the truth!Since ancient times, what emperor can tolerate a subject like himself?Not to mention what I have done in Jiangnan for more than half a year, just relying on my own ability, after the old traitor Wu really dominates the world, I am afraid the first thing he will do is to give himself a glass of poisoned wine, and if he has a conscience, let himself His son inherited his title and official position. If he had no conscience, he would wipe out his whole family.

"Boss, Mr. Shaobo, please interrupt you." Zhu Fangdan, who was still reading the letter, suddenly said, holding up the letter from old traitor Wu and asked: "Mr. Shaobo, you are a master of calligraphy, please help me to confirm, this letter Is the last signature of the letter the prince's own handwriting?"

Wang Shaobo went up to take a look, and found that Zhu Fangdan was referring to the signature of the last old Wu traitor——President Tianxia Waterway Master Xingming Begging General Zhou Wang Wu Sangui. After looking carefully, Wang Shaobo nodded and said: "This line is from The prince wrote it himself, and the signature of the prince has a secret mark, which is the second stroke of the word "three" in Tibetan ink to make the ink color a little heavier, and the character "three" also has this secret mark."

"Mr. Shaobo, are you sure?" Zhu Fangdan asked.

"Absolutely." Wang Shaobo replied a little impatiently, "Master Zhu, if you want to learn calligraphy, how about another day? My little brother will teach you all you can."

"What kind of calligraphy do I learn? I don't like it." Zhu Fangdan muttered, and then looked at the date of old man Wu's treacherous letter, and found that it was October [-], the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Said: "Boss, you don't have to worry, the prince won't live until June next year, if it takes five or six months, if it's long, if it's three or four months, the prince will definitely fall ill and die."

"How do you know?" Fatty Lu and the others asked in surprise.

"It can be seen from the prince's handwriting." Zhu Fangdan held up the old traitor Wu's letter and said with a smile: "Actually, I found out that there was something wrong with the prince's strokes in the last letter. This letter is even more serious. Twenty letters written by him Among the characters, the strokes of [-] characters are trembling. These are typical strokes of patients with wind vertigo, and they are especially severe strokes of wind vertigo. Also, every stroke of his characters is moving upwards. It’s because the prince’s orifices have failed and the hot phlegm is coming up, so if there are no accidents, the prince will have a stroke and die soon.”

"Master Zhu, can you tell the seriousness of the prince's condition from the words, and how long he can live?" Yao Qisheng, Xie Dong, Wang Shaobo and others all exclaimed.

"Of course." Zhu Fangdan said triumphantly: "I, Zhu Fangdan, may not be able to do anything else, but I am still a little confident in seeing a doctor. If you don't believe me, you can find out the old master's calligraphy and letters for comparison. The previous calligraphy strokes were very strong, but in the last letter asking his master to persuade him to proclaim himself emperor, the prince's strokes had already started to tremble, but it was not obvious, but this letter is particularly obvious."

Wang Shaobo, Yao Qisheng and the others looked at each other, and then went to compare old traitor Wu's previous letters without saying anything. Just die of a stroke!Although the old traitor Wu in the history books should still live for a few years, but Fatty Lu has also heard that some experienced doctors can indeed tell the severity of the patient's condition from clues, and the possibility of historical changes cannot be ruled out!
The old traitor Wu's previous letters were quickly found out. After careful comparison, Yao Qisheng, Xie Dong, and Wang Shaobo, three master writers, soon discovered that, as Zhu Fangdan said, the old traitor Wu's previous letters were sharp and sharp. However, the strokes on this letter began to tremble. On this letter received today, the strokes have already trembled very clearly. Even people who are not medically educated can tell that the traitor Wu signed it with his right hand trembling. Write down your name.

"How is it? Can you see it?" Zhu Fangdan was even more proud, and pointed out: "Pay attention to the direction of the strokes. Compared with before, is it obviously going up? Once the patient has shortness of breath, he feels that the breath in the chest is not enough. The written characters are like this! If you still don’t believe it, you can immediately go to the city to find a patient with insufficiency of clear orifices, and the written characters will definitely have upward strokes! If not, you can smash my genius doctor’s Shop sign!"

"Since Miracle Doctor Zhu dares to guarantee such a guarantee, we certainly believe in your medical skills." Wang Shaobo said joyfully, "It's just Miracle Doctor Zhu. From where did you find out that the prince will not live until June next year?"

"I can't explain this." Zhu Fangdan scratched his head and said, "I judged based on my experience as a doctor, the physical condition of the prince I learned when I asked for the pulse of the prince before, and the analysis of the prince's current condition. But I'm absolutely sure, as long as the words "Wang Ye" are not pretending to tremble on purpose, then he will definitely not live for half a year."

Of course, old traitor Wu would not be too idle to write and pretend to tremble on purpose, but Zhu Fangdan could judge how much time old traitor Wu could run with just a few words, which was a bit too fantasy, so although Wang Shaobo, Yao Qisheng and others were full of hope, But it can only be dubious.

But Fatty Lu stood up, and said in a deep voice: "I believe in the judgment of Doctor Zhu. Let's calculate according to the longest time, assuming that the prince can only live until May next year, and make a plan to temporarily stabilize the prince, Hu Guozhu and Xia Guoxiang. Stay! As long as we don't join forces with them within half a year, after another half a year, no one in the world can restrain us, and all hidden dangers within us can be eliminated invisible."

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In the early morning of the next day, Fatty Lu met Zhou Chaobao, the envoy sent by Hu Guozhu again, and told Zhou Chaobao straightforwardly that he would soon send troops to the west, and strive to open up land contact with Prime Minister Xia, but now Kang Mazi has sent 12 troops For the Southern Expedition, the main force of Fatty's Army must go north to Yangzhou to defend against the enemy, so there must be too many troops in the Western Expedition. At most, it can only serve as a restraint for Prime Minister Xia.

Fatty Lu's answer was ambiguous, and Zhou Chaobao was of course not very satisfied. However, Fatty Lu's next words surprised Zhou Chaobao again - Fatty Lu told Zhou Chaobao that after Xia Guoxiang's army joined forces with his own army, he asked Hu Guozhu to move to Nanjing as soon as possible to guard the city. Jiangnan provided backup, freeing up the [-] Fatty Army to launch the Northern Expedition, and go straight to Beijing for the old man Wu!
In addition, Fatty Lu had to take out a lot of gold, silver and jewelry to send Zhou Chaobao, and also sent Zhou Chaobao two Jiangnan beauties. Zhou Chaobao was overjoyed, and immediately patted his chest to assure Fatty Lu that when he returned to Yuezhou, he would definitely be happy. In front of Hu Guozhu, say a lot of good words for Fatty Lu, and convey Fatty Lu's loyalty to old traitor Wu!In addition, in order to thank Fatty Lu for his generosity, Zhou Chaobao also took the initiative to take out Hu Guozhu's autographed letters to Gao Dejie, Wang Xu, Li Guodong and others, and entrusted Fatty Lu to deliver them on his behalf, while he stayed in Nanjing City to rest for a while—to put it bluntly Just to enjoy the beauties, Fatty Lu agreed with a smile. Afterwards, he had to try to peek at Hu Guozhu's letters and learn how Hu Guozhu controlled the old man Wu Jun.

Fortunately, the marching and fighting speed of the ancient army is generally relatively slow. Fatty Lu still has a little time to prepare and prepare. Try to get in touch with the Anhui Qing army, and prepare to use the excuse of weapon smuggling to quietly sell a small amount of new firearms to the Anhui Qing army to help the Anhui Qing army resist Xia Guoxiang's Eastern Expeditionary Army.Another thing is to send envoys to contact Wu Yingqi again, and try his best to instigate Wu Yingqi to lead the army eastward as soon as possible, and come to the south of the Yangtze River to gamble and make a fortune to play with beautiful women-the implication is that if you come late, you will have to drink Xia Guoxiang's dishwashing water.

Of course, things couldn’t go as smoothly as planned. On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, a shocking news came from Zhejiang: La Hada, the guard general of Quzhou in the Qing army, had enough food and grass, but for some reason unexpectedly Abandoning Quzhou Fucheng, led the army to retreat to Jinhuafu, Geng Jingzhong's Ma Jiuyu took advantage of the situation and captured Quzhou, and Geng's Bai Xianzhong, who attacked Jinhua, sandwiched Jinhua Fucheng!Between the areas controlled by Geng Jingzhong's army and the Fat Man's army, there was only Yanzhou Mansion left.

What made the Fatty Army even more unprepared was that after only three days, another shocking news came. The Qing troops in Jinhua and Yanzhou both started a strategic shift, carrying food, grass and luggage to abandon their garrison, and headed towards Shaoxing together. Transfer, leaving only a small number of local troops to guard the city!The Qing army in Zhejiang retreated so suddenly that Geng Jingzhong's army was taken aback, and they all stopped to wait and see, for fear that the Qing army in Zhejiang was retreating to lure the enemy, so they dared not advance lightly for the time being.

"Fuck your mother, Yue Le! It's ruthless!"

At this point, no matter how confused Fatty Lu is, he understands that Yue Le deliberately let Geng Jingzhong go north and stabbed him in the back. At the same time, he transferred the Qing army on the southern line of Zhejiang to Shaoxing and Ningbo, where food and grass are most abundant. If you have the strength to avoid being defeated by Geng Jingzhong, you can also sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and wait for yourself and Geng Jingzhong to merge and then come out to pick up the cheap.

"We have to be prepared to fight with Geng Jingzhong." Fatty Lu said with a sad face: "Geng Jingzhong is a typical greedy guy. It is absolutely impossible for Yanzhou, Quzhou and Jinhua to satisfy his appetite. We reached out for land, money and food in the south of the Yangtze River."

"Boss, it's okay to talk about the problem on the south line. We have made full preparations before, so we don't need to worry too much in a short time." Yao Qisheng reminded: "The west line, the west line is our deadliest threat! Yue Leman dog Since he dared to release water in Zhejiang, why didn't he release water on the west front of our army, deliberately defeated and let Xia Guoxiang join us and let Xia Guoxiang restrain us."

Fatty Lu frowned, and there was only one thought left in his mind, if Yue Le also deliberately released water on the western front of his own army, and let Prime Minister Xia Guo go to the south of the Yangtze River to join him, then what should he do?If you continue to submit to the old traitor Wu, you can only fight the world for the old traitor Wu, and fight against Xia Guo. Will the old Wu Jun, the core core of your army, agree?

(End of this chapter)