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Chapter 308

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    After repeatedly confirming the movement of Fatty Lu's army, on October 14th of the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi, General Laita of Qing Pingnan also personally led 30,000 Zhejiang Qing troops, including some new conscripts, to command Ya  Tali is the vanguard, going north along the canal to rescue Songjiang Mansion with only 5,000 defenders and Jiaxing Mansion with 6,000 defenders, and prepares to fight the main force of the fat man army in Songjiang where cotton and grain are abundant to resolve the crisis on the northern front.

    ?In view of the fact that the Qing army in Zhejiang made decisions before moving and striking later, the Laita army marched extremely fast, marching more than 60 miles a day, and arrived at Shimen County, the border between Hangzhou and Jiaxing, in just one day.  At the same time, the fat man's brigade, which marched no more than three to forty miles a day, had just arrived at Gaoqiao Town in Wuxi County like a turtle crawling, and it was still hundreds of miles away from its destination, Suzhou City.

    Marching in the base area under the strong control of the self-army is still crawling like a tortoise. Naturally, Fatty Lu's laziness and conservatism was unanimously complained by all the generals of the Fatty Army.  Fatty speeded up and rushed to Suzhou City to join forces with Li Tianzhi as soon as possible, killing all the dogs by surprise - anyway, the granary of the main force of Fatty's army was in Suzhou, and there were canals for the transportation of firearms and ammunition.

    And Han Yuanren, who is the forward, also sent people back several times to protest, hoping that Fatty Lu would take back the rule that he was only allowed to march 30 miles a day, and let him rush to Suzhou to join forces with Li Tianzhi immediately.  Here is the opportunity to join hands with Li Tianzhi to take down the cornucopia of Songjiang Mansion in the world of clothing and quilts!  But Fatty Lu replied eloquently: "What's the rush? Last time we ran thousands of miles to Nanjing, the soldiers were already very tired. Let them rest more. Otherwise, when they reach their destination, they won't have the energy to fight.  what to do?"

    "Haven't he recovered from the exhaustion from running thousands of miles to Nanjing City half a year ago? Are we so useless?" The fat generals all felt faint, but seeing Fatty Lu's smiling fat face, the fat generals  I also knew that persuasion must be in vain, so I had no choice but to go with Fatty Lu helplessly, thinking that I would waste a day of military rations anyway.

    On the morning of October 16th, Fatty Lu's army arrived at the foot of Wuxi city. The county magistrate Wang Guo was leading all the civil and military officials out of the city to welcome him.  This general will not enter the city anymore, your county is well governed, and this year¡¯s public grain handover ranks among the top among the counties in the south of the Yangtze River, this general should report to the prince of Ming to ask for credit and rewards for your county.¡±

    "The general has won the award. In fact, it is all due to the general." Wang Guozheng nodded and bowed and said, "Thanks to the general who organized the refugees from the Yellow River to refine nitrate in small counties.  Fertilizers for the rice fields, this year the small counties can only get a bumper harvest, and they haven¡¯t been apportioned indiscriminately like the Mangou court, and the people in this county are very grateful to the general, and many people have erected longevity tablets for the general.¡±

    "Is there someone else who will set up a longevity tablet for me?" Fatty Lu laughed, and was about to ask for details, but a rider came galloping from a distance, and the knight put a small red flag on his back, which represented the urgency of ten thousand, Fatty Lu quickly swallowed his words  , Pushing away Wang Guozheng took the initiative to greet the messenger, and asked before the messenger dismounted: "Is it the military situation of Zhejiang Mangou?"

    "Back to the general, yes." The messenger replied panting while rolling off the saddle, "Our army has made the latest scout report, Mangou Pingnan General Laita led an army of 30,000 troops, and he set off from Hangzhou the day before yesterday.  , the speed is very fast, as of yesterday morning, it has arrived in Shimen County, Jiaxing Prefecture!"

    "Then what is their purpose? Where is it?" Fatty Lu asked.

    "Songjiang!" The fat man's army courier replied panting: "The banner of the main force of Mangou is to rescue Songjiang and flatten Suzhou!"

    "Okay!" Fatty Lu clenched his fist fiercely, waved his hand and said to the messenger, "Thanks for your hard work, go down to rest and receive your reward." Then, without waiting for the messenger to agree, Fatty Lu immediately turned his head and shouted at the Wu army generals behind him: "  Gao Hongchen listens to the order!"

    "The end is here!" Gao Hongchen quickly stepped out and clasped his fists in agreement.

    "I order you to lead two thousand cavalry as the vanguard, and immediately divert to the southwest, and go to Yixing to join forces with Guo Yingfu, the guard there! Prepare to go south and attack Huzhou City!" Fatty Lu shouted loudly: "Remember, you are only allowed to arrive in Yixing before the third watch tonight!  Promise ahead of time, no delay!"

    "The last general will obey" Gao Hongchen was dumbfounded halfway through the promise, and exclaimed: "General, aren't we going to fight Songjiang and Jiaxing? Why did you temporarily change the plan and go to Huzhou?"

    "Who said I changed my plan temporarily?" Fatty Lu glared at Gao Hongchen, and said with a sneer, "Am I stupid? If I really plan to fight Songjiang or Jiaxing, I will let the news out in advanceThe end general doesn't know either.  "Gao Hongchen replied helplessly: "Fortunately, as soon as you pass the Macheng Ridge, the terrain will open up. You should be able to find out how many troops Mangou has and where the team came from.  "

    While speaking, Guo Yingfu, the fat man's army at the back of the palace, had withdrawn from the Machengling mountain area, and two more fat man troops went up to meet them, stopping the pursuers for Guo Yingfu.  At the same time, the chasing soldiers of the Qing army found a dark fat army brigade appearing on the south bank of the Jingxi River, and they were frightened out of their wits.  A good opportunity for the army's forward team, just patiently observe and judge.

    While waiting patiently, more and more troops of the Qing army came out of the mountainous area from the official road and the mountain road, and formed a large formation on the flat ground with the mountainous back.  Lime Mountain, when the commander-in-chief flag was planted on the top of Shihui Mountain, Fatty Lu finally figured out who the enemy was.  Correspondingly, Laita held up the binoculars to look at Fatty's army flag array, and when he saw Fatty Lu's flag with the word Lu, he immediately understood which plague god his army had encountered.  Then¡­¡­¡­¡­

    "Shameless and full of dogs! It really isn't a good thing!" Fatty Lu yelled, "The main force said to save Songjiang Jiaxing, but in fact they came here to sneak attack on my Yixing City, trying to smash my heart to pieces! Dreaming!"

    "Despicable Wu dog! It really isn't a good thing!" Laita's face was also livid, "The main force said to fight Jiaxing in Songjiang, but in fact, they came to sneak attack on Lao Tzu's Huzhou mansion, and wanted to take Lao Tzu's Huzhou granary! Dreaming!"

    "Fortunately, I am wise and powerful, and I was not fooled by Man Gou (Wu Gou)!" Fatty Lu and Laita cursed again in unison.  (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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