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Chapter 299

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    After receiving Wang Xu's application for an audience, Fatty Lu quickly canceled his plan to personally lead an army to reinforce Taiping Mansion, and instead sent Han Yuanren to lead an army of 3,000 troops to Taiping Mansion to help Wang Xu and Li Jiyang guard the west gate of Nanjing City  .  ¡ª¡ªAlthough Wang Xu didn't mention the purpose of coming in a single word in the letter, since Kang Mazi sent Fatty Lu's only friend in the Qing court to Nanjing, Fatty Lu has more or less guessed the purpose of his visit  Some.

    Fortunately, although there will be nearly 50,000 Qing troops approaching the city at the Taiping Mansion, Fatty Lu has already known the skills of its commander, Prince Kang Jieshu.  It may not be enough to repel the invading enemy, but it is not a big problem to defend Taipingfu city with all its strength. At the same time, Taipingfu city is only more than 150 miles away from Nanjing city, so it is very convenient for reinforcements and retreats.  So Fatty Lu doesn't have to worry too much, he can settle down and wait for Wang Xu's visit, while starting to solve two technologies¡ª¡ªfixed powder packs and lost-wax casting shells.

    In fact, Fatty Lu has been so bad for a long time that it has not been a day or two. As early as when Qujing Nulefeng was camping, Fatty Lu had already discovered the time-consuming and labor-intensive weakness of Wu Jun and Qing Army artillery reloading, and also discovered  After understanding the disadvantages of poor accuracy, poor airtightness, and insufficient range of the shells cast by clay mold technology in this era, I understand that the two key problems can be basically solved by using the fixed charge and the lost wax method to cast shells, which greatly improves the firing rate of the artillery.  Speed ??and artillery range.  But considering that sooner or later, he will go out of the Wu Jun brigade to fight for himself, so Fatty Lu just doesn't say anything - now that Fatty Lu is in charge of his own family, he will naturally have no secrets in this regard.

    Of course, before Nule Peak and Jiqi Mountain, we didn¡¯t talk about returning home, but Fatty Lu had already started to study the material of custom-packed medicine bags in secret, and found that using raw silk, a special Chinese product, as the outsourcing material, can make  Selling the cannon to quickly load the fixed ammunition packs to be fired, now that Fatty Lu occupies half of the Silk Town, this technology is naturally much more convenient and faster to use.  In just a few days, the raw silk that Cao Xi was going to make clothes for Kang Mazi's family turned into silk, and then turned into thousands of custom-packed medicine bags, which became the accomplice weapon of the fat army to kill the Qing soldiers.

    The problem of custom-loading medicine bags can be easily solved as long as you know the principle, but the problem of using the lost-wax method to cast shells is not so easy to solve for Fatty Lu, whose craftsmanship is in a mess.  The lost-wax casting method had been invented two thousand years ago, and there were a few craftsmen in Nanjing who mastered this technique, but at most they could only cast some high-precision solid shells, but they were helpless for the hollow blooming shells that Fatty Lu requested.

    There are many heroes in the south of the Yangtze River. When Fatty Lu and the Nanjing craftsmen were at a loss, Gao Dejie and Li Guodong who captured Yangzhou City sent a ship to Fatty Lu and sent a young man named Huang Luzhuang to Fatty Lu together¡ª¡ª  There is a wooden bicycle made by Huang Luzhuang himself!  Seeing the first bicycle in the world, Fatty Lu was so excited that his whole body was trembling with fat. He immediately invited Huang Luzhuang to join him and become the chief craftsman of Fatty's army. Huang Luzhuang, who was the same as Xu Zhengming, told Fatty Lu calmly,  He voluntarily came to work as a running dog for Fatty Lu, the only condition is that Fatty Lu must teach him the technology of airship manufacturing!  Naturally, the chief craftsman of Fatty Army took the surname Huang, and Fatty Lu kicked the problem of casting high-precision shells to the talented craftsman Huang Luzhuang like a football.

    Misfortunes never come singly. What happened yesterday, blessings never come to this day. Ever since Fatty Lu won Nanjing City with 50,000 Wu Jun as a desperate victory, Goddess of Luck kept favoring Fatty Lu as if she had lost her sight. On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month,  Li Tianzhi's army escorted Mu Tianyan to Suzhou City, and Mu Tianyan went to the city to persuade him to surrender, but Ning Yunpeng, the prefect of Suzhou, hesitated and did not reply for a long time.

    In the evening of the same day, Li Tianzhi's army scouts accidentally hijacked a courier outside the city, and found a letter from the Zhejiang Qing army to Ning Yunpeng from the courier.  After arriving in Jiaxing, they rushed to the city of Suzhou for rescue within a day at the latest.  Li Tianzhi resolutely gave up the surrender plan and commanded the Fatty Army to attack the city overnight. Never thought that the Fatty Army's artillery had just begun to be loaded with ammunition, and Ning Yunpeng, who had made up his mind, had already opened the city gate and led the entire city's soldiers and civilians out of the city to surrender.  Fatty's army entered the city smoothly.  After Hutu received the news of the fall of Suzhou, he had no choice but to abandon the northward rescue plan and instead went eastward to reinforce Songjiang Prefecture, which was relatively minor in this era. Suzhou officially fell into the hands of the Fatty Army.

    So far, the fat man's army has basically controlled the Jiangning, Zhenjiang, Changzhou and Suzhou prefectures in Jiangsu, as well as the most prosperous area in the south of Yangzhou mansion and Taiping mansion in Jiangxi.  It's only a matter of time.  And the most important question before Fatty Lu is how to block the Qing army's counterattack to buy time, digest and thoroughlyearly.  "Wang Xu quickly changed the subject, and said seriously: "Let's not talk about our Qing's Shaanxi-Gansu main force partially breaking through, even if our Qing's Shaanxi-Gansu main force was wiped out, so what?  The strong city of Hanzhong is still in the hands of our Qing Dynasty, and there are more than 100,000 green battalions, flag soldiers, and Mongolian soldiers in Shaanxi and Gansu. The main force led by your prince is still deeply trapped in the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield. Brother Mihao, you are in a tight siege.  Surrounded by enemies on all sides, reinforcements cannot be counted on.  Mihao virtuous brother, don¡¯t you think about yourself, don¡¯t you think about the soldiers under your command?  "

    "Listen, Mr. Wang wants to recruit us?" Gao Hongchen said arrogantly: "So what if we are surrounded by enemies? Want to take back Nanjing City and use a knife to speak? Your Lord Kang's outstanding letter was written by Brother Wang Xu  How long have you been in the Taiping Mansion? Why don't you see him coming to Nanjing City to fight us?"

    "General Hong Chen, it may be difficult to take back Jiangning City with Lord Kang's army alone?" Wang Xu asked slowly: "But what if we add the 80,000 troops of General Zhejiang Laita?  What about the 100,000 bannermen and Mongolian soldiers that were urgently conscripted? Is it enough?"

    "If you have the courage to transfer troops from Zhejiang, then you can come." Han Daren said with a sneer: "The 100,000 troops of Prince Jingnan are watching the tigers in the middle of Zhejiang. If you transfer troops from Zhejiang, do you still want Zhejiang?  ?¡±

    "Benefactor, I have a memorial here too." Suo Mintai stood up, took out a memorial from his sleeve, and said with a smile: "This memorial was also delivered from the capital when we were on the road. It is a kindness."  Please look over the memorial that you can never expect."

    Fatty Lu pouted, Xiao Erlang stepped forward again, and passed the memorial in Suo Mintai's hand to Fatty Lu. When Fatty Lu opened it, he was surprised to find that it was Fan Chengmo, Governor of Fujian who was imprisoned by Geng Jingzhong  A memorial to Kang Mazi, and it is stated at the beginning that this memorial was entrusted by Geng Jingzhong to Fan Chengmo.  When I took a closer look at the content, Fatty Lu's fat face turned pale¡ªGeng Jingzhong actually wanted Fan Chengmo to intervene in the decisive battle between the Geng army and the Qing army, to ask the Qing court for a peace truce, and to promise that only Taizhou and Wenzhou in Zhejiang  And the three prefectures of Chuzhou, and even the Hengzhou and Jinhua prefectures that have already controlled half of them, Geng Jingzhong also said that they could refund them to show their sincerity in seeking peace.

    "General, what happened?" Han Daren saw Fatty Lu's complexion was wrong, so he hurriedly came up to watch together, but after he finished reading quickly, Han Daren's expression changed, and he exclaimed: "Geng Jingzhong is crazy?"

    "General Han, of course King Jingnan is not crazy." Wang Xu said with a smile: "Here, Brother Yu can tell San Hao a secret. There are two reasons why King Jingnan asked the court for peace. One is that Zheng Jing  Feng Xifan, the running dog of the traitor, perfidiously captured Prince Jingnan¡¯s Tingzhou Mansion, Prince Jingnan was furious, and the covenant with the traitor Zheng Jing was about to be broken.¡±

    "The second reason." Wang Xu added with a smile: "It's because of you, dear brother Sanhao. After hearing the news that you have broken Jiangning, King Jingnan immediately understood that if he insists on attacking Zhejiang now, not only will he not  If you get a little bit of benefits, you will be a shield for you, the good brother of the three good brothers, and hold back General Laita and Governor Li Zhifang's Qing army for you. You will lose all your troops and get nothing, so Prince Jingnan is very smart. He chose to take the opportunity to seek peace  , and has already ordered Zeng Yangxing to stop going north¡ªthis was admitted by Prince Jingnan to Master Fan Chengmo.¡±

    Fatty Lu and Han Daren looked at each other, and thought together: "Oops, it seems that we still underestimated Geng Jingzhong too much. This bastard is far smarter than we thought, and he can even consider this."

    "No!" After the shock, Fatty Lu quickly calmed down and came to his senses, "It's not right. If Kang Mazi believed in Geng Jingzhong's sincerity in seeking peace, he would definitely not let Brother Zizhuan continue to go south to surrender, and he would directly fight with Geng Jingzhong."  Jingzhong made a peace talk, and then dispatched troops back to attack me! And Geng Jingzhong, the anti-Qing situation is very good now, he will not be so stupid as to spit out what he eats!"

    "Understood! Geng Jingzhong must be imitating Brother Lu's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain that I offered to the old traitor Wu, pretending to make peace with Mangou, trying to use Lu Brother and me as bait, luring Zhejiang Mangou's main force to go north, and then take the opportunity to annex it.  Zhejiang! Kang Mazi suffered a loss once and was fooled once, so he refuses to believe anything!"

    Thinking of this, Fatty Lu folded the memorial in his hands, pretended to be thinking for a long time, then stood up and said with a smile: "Brother Zizhuan, Brother Mintai, Master Wu, you have worked hard from afar, let's talk about other things slowly, little brother prepare  I have a little tea and light food, and I will welcome you. Brother Zizhuan, I know you like pancakes rolled with green onions, and my younger brother specially prepared a plate for you¡ªI bought it with my salary, clean.¡± (To be continued.  If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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