scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 337
Naturally, it is much closer from the capital to Huai'an than to Xi'an, and it is eight hundred miles in a hurry. On the evening of February 28, Kang Mazi's imperial decree to Yue Le was sent to the Jieshou Camp of the Qing Army in the Southern Expedition—as for The content of this false decree must be very clear to everyone. In addition to scolding Yue Le bloody, there is also a restriction that Yue Le must come up with something that satisfies Kang Mazi before March 23. Achievements, a key breakthrough!Otherwise, hum.

Being scolded bloody by Kang Mazi was of course within Yue Le's expectation. After all, Yue Le's statement this time was very correct in terms of military strategy, but it was nothing to Kang Mazi's overall national strategy. A debilitating laxative.But what really scares Yue Le is the last sentence of Kang Mazi's false decree - if Yue Le can't produce a record that satisfies Kang Mazi before March 23, then Kang Mazi will not send anyone to arrest Yue Le and bring him back to Beijing for trial. Go south to punish Yue Le himself!
"Oops!" Yue Le slapped the table, and repeatedly complained: "The emperor has moved the mind of Yu Jia's personal conquest again. If he really comes, our Qing Dynasty will really be over!"

"Your Majesty wants to conquer in person?" Tu Hai, Shang Shan, Dong Weiguo and the others were all taken aback. After listening to Yue Le's explanation and analysis, Tu Hai, Shang Shan and the others screamed like killing pigs, "Master What on earth are you thinking? How did you think of Yujia’s personal conquest? He came to the Jiangnan battlefield in person, what is it not to give Lu Yifeng a godsend opportunity to destroy our Qing Dynasty in a single battle?"

"Master is young and energetic, and has a high self-esteem. He has thought of conscripting himself more than once." Yue Le sighed, then slapped the table and shouted: "Master must not be allowed to take risks on the Jiangnan battlefield, we must stop it!" The master personally conquers! Otherwise, our Great Qing Dynasty will really be over!"

"Judging from the tone of the imperial decree, the master may want to give us one last chance." Shang Shan analyzed: "If we can achieve certain results before March 23, for example, take down an important town of Wugou, or severely damage Wugou once The main force, then the master will give up the idea of ​​personally conquering, and continue to let you, the prince, lead the army of the southern expedition. If it comes to March 23, if we are still empty-handed, the master will definitely go to the southern expedition in person."

"It should be like this." Yue Le nodded, and said: "So there is no other way. Before March 23, no matter how much we pay, we must win a Wugou town, or severely damage Wugou, and give the master an explanation. .”

"That's the truth, but the question is, how can we achieve such a result?" Tuhai frowned and said, "Leaving aside the fact that Wu Gou's Yangzhou Corps has been standing still, even if they move, we may not necessarily It can take advantage. Wugou in the two cities of Gaoyou and Xinghua is a weak point. There may be some hope for a strong attack at any cost, but these two cities are only county towns. Even if they are defeated, the master will definitely not be satisfied. Yangzhou city……."

"Lord Tu, how much hope do you think our army has in attacking Yangzhou?" Yue Le asked.

"Almost none." Tu Hai shook his head, and said helplessly: "The reason why our Prince Yu (Duoduo) of the Qing Dynasty was able to capture Yangzhou City back then, apart from having the advantage of artillery, another key reason was the internal strife in Nanming. Willing to rescue each other, no one sent reinforcements to Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa fought alone, and Yangzhou was captured by our Qing army. That's it, our Qing army used to step on the corpse mountain to rush into the city wall, and now we have enough The troops can step on the mountain of corpses to attack the city again, but if the Wugou army does not rescue each other, it is impossible to even think about it."

"I just don't know how well Wugou's army is capable of defending the city." Dong Weiguo pondered: "Since the Battle of Anshun, our Qing Dynasty has been on the defensive, and Wugou has been on the offensive. If we are good at defending the city, we have many ways to prevent the Wu dogs from rescuing each other."

"What does Dong Zhitai mean is that our army's north, south, west and three routes will attack side by side, making it difficult for the Wu dogs to rescue each other?" Yue Le turned his head and asked Dong Weiguo.

"That's right." Dong Weiguo nodded and replied: "Let the Qing army in Zhejiang attack Hangzhou and Huzhou to contain Wugou's Suzhou Army; Lord Kang sent troops from Chuzhou to attack the two counties of Jiangpu and Liuhe in Jiangning Prefecture to contain Wugou. The Jiangning Legion; Hilgen and Shuncheng Baylor joined forces to attack Taiping Mansion and restrain Wu Gou's Taiping Mansion Legion. Finally, we can deal with Wu Dog's Yangzhou Legion alone, increasing our chances of winning."

"If you say it, you don't say it. Isn't this kind of multi-pronged attack tactic exactly what the king's previous strategic arrangement is?" Yue Le smiled bitterly in his heart, and said even more helplessly: "Although this plan is great, our army's firearms And the quality of the soldiers is not as good as Wu Gou, even if you attack a Yangzhou army alone, I am afraid that there is not much chance of winning."

"My lord, at this point in the matter, even if there is only a [-]% chance of winning, I have to try." Dong Weiguo reminded: "Don't forget, my lord, we only have [-] days left. If we don't do anything, we will be killed." It doesn’t matter if the court dismisses you from office and returns to the prison, if the master really goes to conquer in person, then everything will be over!”

Thinking of the scene of Kang Mazi personally driving him south to die, Yue Le couldn't help shivering, and was about to make a final decision.Tu Hai suddenly said: "You can't try, you will be defeated if you try, and you will be defeated if you attack three ways together. Not only will there be no chance of winning, but you will only suffer heavy casualties."

"Why? Master Tu, what's your opinion?" Yue Le raised his eyebrows.

"It's very simple. This three-way attack strategy is too simple. Not to mention Lu Yifeng's dog thief, even that idiot Zhangtai can figure it out." Tuhai said coldly: "With the current deployment of our army, Lu Even with his toes, Yifeng dog thief can guess that once our army makes a move, it must be a three-way attack, let his four major armies fight on their own, and create opportunities for each to defeat. So this is slipperier than loach The dog thief must have formulated a countermeasure, and may even have set up a trap for us to drill, as long as we march according to his predicted route, we will suffer a disastrous defeat!"

"Lu Yifeng's dog thief is really so godly, can he predict the future?" Dong Weiguo asked unconvinced.

"This dog thief can even guess our strategy of using Gao Jiayan to die with him, how can we not expect this?" Tu Hai continued to sneer, and said: "Lu Yifeng, this dog thief, is just a fucking one. Freaks are best at guessing what the enemy is thinking, and setting up traps quickly according to local conditions. If we follow his thinking, we will only suffer losses and not take advantage. So if we want to defeat this thief, we can only be unexpected and break the rules , do the opposite, so that Lu Yifeng's dog thief will never expect our action steps, so that we can really catch some chances of winning."

"It makes sense." Yue Le asked: "Master Tu, how can we do the opposite, so that Lu Yifeng's dog thief can't predict our action steps?"

"Put the breakthrough on the western front!" Tuhai said surprisingly, "The northern and southern fronts are for feints, and the western front is the main attack!"

"Western Front?" Yue Le, Shang Shan, Dong Weiguo and the others were all taken aback, and said together in surprise: "But Wugou's Western Front is the strongest. Not only are there two legions, Taiping Mansion and Jiang Ning, but they are only 150 miles away from each other. Rescue is very convenient, we have no chance at all."

"Because Wugou's western line is the strongest, our army can only choose the western line as the breakthrough point, so that Lu Yifeng's dog thief can't be on guard!" Tuhai waved his hand resolutely, and said with a smile: "Besides, not only Wugou is the western line. The front line is the strongest, but our army is not the strongest on the western front? Whether it is the team of Le Erjin, Lord Kang or General Niyahan, the quality of the soldiers is far superior to the 12 mobs in our hands. Let their army take on important tasks. Isn't it safer and more sure?"

Yue Le asked: "Then we should choose the important town of Wugou on the western front as the breakthrough point?"

"Of course it's the Taiping Mansion." Tu Hai smiled darkly, and said, "I know Han Daren, the general of Wugou's Taiping Mansion, well. He is very happy and likes to take risks. Last time, Bei Le surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao to attack Taiping Mansion. He still did not adopt a safe guard strategy when Wu Dog's main force had already gone south to Zhejiang. Instead, he chose to attack instead of defending. Chengbeile. This time, our Qing army will press on the Taiping Mansion again. If there are no accidents, this Wu dog will take the initiative to attack again and go to the west of Wuhu to fight our army, leaving the Taiping Mansion empty of troops and revealing its flaws."

"It makes sense, so what should we do?" Dong Weiguo asked.

"According to your plan first." Tuhai replied with his arms folded: "Immediately send people to inform the soldiers from all walks of life, let them send troops immediately, and attack Hangzhou, Huzhou, Jiangpu, Wuhu and other places in a joint attack. We will also send troops to attack Gao You, first let Wu Gou's four legions fight on their own."

"Then, please ask the prince to issue two more orders." Tuhai continued: "One is for Lord Leerjinbeile, let him retreat to Tongling after fighting with Han Daren, and he must not retreat too quickly, and let Han Daren Seeing the hope of expanding the victory, Xiaoer lured him to chase away from Taipingfu City. Another order was given to Zhang Tai to lead [-] elite cavalry, carry a batch of firearms and three good explosives he captured from Wu Dog, and detour to Ningguofu. Majiayuan ambushes, once Han Daren is lured to Fanchang by Shuncheng Baylor, Zhangtai’s cavalry can immediately attack Taiping Mansion, which is empty of Wugou troops, and use three good explosives to blow open the gate of Taiping Mansion, and capture this important town of Wugou.”

"Let Zhangtai take on this surprise attack mission? Is this trash okay?" Yue Le, Shang Shan and others asked in surprise.

"If someone else is in charge of the surprise attack, Zhangtai is willing to take out the three good explosives he seized?" Tu Hai sneered and asked, Yue Le, Shang Shan and the others also remembered that Zhangtai's [-]-year-old selfish character made him hand over him. The three good explosives seized from Xia Guoxiang and helping others to make contributions is indeed a more difficult task than reaching the sky.

"Besides, there are two more advantages to letting Zhangtai take on this surprise attack mission." Tu Hai said with a smile: "First, although our new Baojun King is a typical two hundred and five, but because he is a two hundred and five, so he His brain is different from other people's, and his actions are beyond the expectations of Lu Yifeng's dog thief. For example, this time in Chizhou, this [-] moves to copy Zhuge Liang's strategy completely killed Wu Gou by surprise. Lu Yifeng's two thieves are swapped, I'm afraid Lu Yifeng's thieves would never have imagined that someone would copy the idea of ​​"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" unchanged, and they will suffer a lot."

"So let's just let him try his luck again this time. Maybe this Erbaiwu is triumphant and messing around, punching the old master to death, and killing Lu Yifeng, a dog thief who has always been a master of things. Surprise."

"That's right." Yue Le slapped the table and sighed: "Although Zhangtai is my cousin, he never listens to my words. This time I asked him to take the surprise mission to attack Taiping Mansion, and he will obey the order." And yes, he will also play tricks at critical moments, maybe he can really kill Lu Yifeng's dog thief by surprise."

"Tutang, you only mentioned the first benefit, what about the other one?" Shang Shan asked.

"The second benefit, of course, is for our Qing Dynasty." Tu Hai smiled mysteriously, "Honestly speaking, Lu Yifeng's thief is indeed very good. Can I hide my surprise attack plan from him? Eyes, I am not absolutely sure, and it is still a dangerous gamble—since it is a dangerous gamble, do you want to let generals who are useful to our Qing Dynasty go? Or do you hope to let generals who are useless to our Qing Dynasty go? "

Yue Le, Shang Shan and the others laughed together, saying that what Tu Hai said couldn't be more correct, since it was a dangerous adventure with no absolute certainty, the most useless person should be sent there - so that he wouldn't feel bad if he died.With a certain idea, Yue Le, Tu Hai, Shang Shan and the others immediately discussed the details of the operation, considered every step, and calculated the action time of each army in detail. It is best to formulate and perfect the plan.Only then did Yue Le, Tu Hai and the others send fast horses overnight to send orders to the Qing army in Zhejiang and the Qing army in Chuzhou respectively, and finally arranged for Shang Shan to rush to Anqing in person, commanding and coordinating the two Qing armies in Anqing and Tongling to cooperate with each other and launch a surprise attack.

In the next few days, Yue Le's army began to prepare for the siege, and built a large number of siege weapons such as ladders, cloud platforms, flying ladders, and crash vehicles, and two hundred catties of precious three-good explosives were also taken out. They were divided into four groups, and they were going to learn Fatty Lu's city gate blasting tactics when he attacked Hangzhou—although the Qing army could not confirm whether the Fatty's army blocked the city gate when they defended the city.Ten days later, on the ninth day of March in the 14th year of Kangxi (the 14th day in February of the 30th year of Mazi in the lunar calendar), Yue Le's army crossed Ziyinggou and headed south, aiming at Gaoyou City, the old traitor's hometown!
On the day Yue Le's army was dispatched, Tian Dazhuang, the fat man guarding Gaoyou, had already received the scout report. Tian Dazhuang didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly flew the report to Gao Dejie, the number one general of the Fat Man army in Yangzhou, and gathered the people back to the city to avoid the flames of war. , and the other is to organize the people to strengthen the city defense, move the defense materials and prepare to defend the city with all their strength.Fortunately, in view of the many evil deeds of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River before, the people of Gaoyou were afraid that the Qing army would massacre the city again, and they all supported the fat man's army's work of defending the city. In less than half a day, they all returned to Gaoyou City and helped the fat man defend the city. action in the city.

At the second watch on the same day, Gao Dejie received an urgent report from Tian Dazhuang. Gao Dejie also immediately sent a clipper to Nanjing to report to Fatty Lu, and at the same time sent a batch of grenades and instructions to the Gaoyou defenders to reply-resolutely defend!The city is alive and the people are alive, but the city is dead and the people are dead!For one month, the defenders of Gaoyou will be rewarded with 5 taels of grain silver, for two months, 10 taels of silver will be rewarded, and so on!As for the reinforcements, there are none for now!Another thing is to send news to Chen Ming, the fat man guarding Xinghua, and ask him to prepare to defend the city to prevent the Qing army from splitting up to attack Xinghua.

In the afternoon of the next day, Gao Dejie sent an urgent report to Nanjing. Fatty Lu, who was in Nanjing, did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent [-] reinforcements to Zhenjiang to join Li Guodong's navy, so that he could rescue from the north of the canal at any time in case of emergency.Another thing is to send messengers to contact the two legions of Han Daren and Li Tianzhi, so that they are ready to go to war at any time. If there is no accident, the Qing army on the southern and western fronts will also attack, and Han Daren and Li Tianzhi are required to hold their ground. , must not attack rashly!
The messengers who contacted Li Guodong and Han Daren had just been dispatched. At noon on March [-]th, Quan Jie, who was stationed in Jiangpu County on the north bank of the Yangtze River, sent an urgent report, saying that he had discovered that Jieshu's [-] troops stationed in Chuzhou had come out in full force, via Wuyi Town. , Liutang Mountain is coming to Jiangpu, there are not many troops in the whole festival, and the firearms were also consumed a lot in the previous battle of Dongge, so I asked Fatty Lu for reinforcements.

"Old Yue Le finally jumped the wall in a hurry." Fatty Lu said contemptuously, "I'm sure I can't bear the pressure of Kang Mazi, so I have to take a chance and try my luck."

"Boss, how should we deal with it?" Wang Shaobo asked: "Should we stick to the original plan, or take the initiative to repel the invading Mangou in turn?"

"Mr. Yao, what do you think? Which battlefield should my direct army be sent to?" Fatty Lu turned his head and asked Yao Qisheng.

"The general has already made up his mind, so why ask the students?" Yao Qisheng asked back with a smile, and then said: "Annihilating or severely injuring Mangou on the northern line will cut off the hope of the Mangou emperor's own conquest; annihilating or severely injuring Le Erjin and Niya John's full-dog team will let Prince Pingxi take advantage of it; it is too far south to Huzhou, and it will be difficult to return to help if the other roads change. But if Jieshu's full-dog team is severely damaged or wiped out, the impact will not be so great big."

"Junshi Yao is indeed my confidant." Fatty Lu applauded and laughed nastyly, "I was too lazy to go on an expedition to fight Chuzhou, and exposing my strength too early cut off Kang Mazi's hope of going to the south of the Yangtze River himself, but since Jie Shuxiaoer took the initiative to send Naturally, I won't be polite if I come to send him to his death, so I can relax a little bit when Kang Mazi's royal conquest is in the future."

"Students go and make arrangements immediately to prepare boats for the master to cross the river." Wang Shaobo comprehended, and asked again: "My master, are you going to fight Jieshumangou yourself? Or send a general to go out?"

"Anyway, it's not far away, and it's easy to contact. Lord Kang and I are old friends again. If I don't make a trip in person, I'd be too sorry." Fatty Lu waved his hands generously, and then ordered: "You all get ready. , Master Yao and Doctor Zhu will follow me to the expedition, Shaobo, you and Xie Dong will stay in Nanjing City, as for the generals, Wang Xu, Han Yuanren, Hu Tongchun and Yao Yi will follow the army, Gao Hongchen and Xiaoyong will stay behind, and the defenders will be led by Gao Hongchen In terms of military affairs, Young Uncle, you can give him some advice."

Wang Shaobo, Yao Qisheng and others agreed to hurry down to arrange and prepare for the expedition.Two days later, on March [-]th, Fatty Lu personally led Wang Xu, Han Yuanren and other generals to cross the river with [-] soldiers carrying a large number of rocket artillery. As soon as the team set off, Fatty Lu sent a clipper to order Quanjie to abandon Liutang Mountain, which was being attacked by the Qing army, and retreat across the Chu River to lure Jieshu's army into Jiangpu County.

Fatty Lu’s courier had just set off, and when the crossing fleet was halfway across the river, Wang Shaobo sent a fast boat to send an urgent report, saying that Liu Guoxuan, the Taiwanese army stationed in Hangzhou, had discovered that the Shaoxing Qing army had sent troops to the west, targeting Hangzhou directly. Liu Guoxuan, a widowed general, was worried that he would not be able to resist the enemy, so he sent messengers for help to Li Guodong and Guo Yingfu, and this urgent report was sent by Guo Yingfu, the fat man Huzhou defender who was relatively close.

"You asked for help before the battle started. Do you, Liu Guoxuan, want me to send troops to take the whole of Zhejiang for you?" Fatty Lu sneered, turned to Zhu Fangdan and said, "Master Zhu, write back to Guo Yingfu and Li Tianzhi, and let them The excuse is that our army on the northern front is in an urgent situation, and we cannot send reinforcements for the time being, and we will send troops to help Liu Guoxuan hang himself after Mangou and Liu Guoxuan are both wounded in the fight. Also, closely monitor every move of Geng Jingzhong's team, and be careful that this bastard will take advantage of the fire."

Zhu Fangdan agreed, after writing the letter and sending the messenger, Fatty's army's river-crossing fleet had arrived at the North Shore Wharf. Before Fatty Lu had time to board the ship, Wang Shaobo's second fast boat with the messenger had already arrived at Fatty Lu. In front of him, he presented an urgent military report from Taiping Mansion to Fatty Lu, and said: "General, the scouts of our army's Taiping Mansion Corps discovered that the Mangouleer Jin Division stationed in Tongling was dispatched in full force. Departing on March [-]th, they were heading towards Taiping Mansion, the west gate of our army. At noon on the same day, Mangou Anqing navy fleet was also found on the river. They joined forces with Leerjin Mangou and sailed eastward together. .”

"Unsurprisingly, Little Yue Le is really planning to attack in multiple ways." Fatty Lu snorted coldly, but just after he finished humming, Fatty Lu's heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly asked, "Wait, what did you just say?" ? Le Erjin was the teacher of the Mangou Navy Club on the day of departure?"

Seeing the courier nodding and repeating, Fatty Lu couldn't help feeling a little suspicious, "Is it a coincidence? In just three days, I have received three urgent calls from the northern line, the western line, and the southern line. On the day Mangou set out, did he join forces with Leerjin Mangou? Even if it is as expected, Old Yue Le wants my four legions to fight on their own and cannot rescue each other, but there is no need to arrange it so carefully. Are you cooperating so well? Could it be just a coincidence that Yue Le's orders just happened to reach the hands of all the dogs in these three days?"

Suspicious, Fatty Lu inevitably regretted his lack of care and greed, and hurried across the river to clean up Jie Shu, an annoying fly.

(End of this chapter)