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Chapter 328: Release Water on the Western Front

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    ? Sunrise and sunset, the moon is full and the moon is waning, autumn goes to winter, and auspicious snow falls. Unknowingly, the pace of time has quietly entered the first month of the second year of the lunar new year, and at the same time entered the new year of the 14th year of Qingkang Mazi.

    For the Eight Banners parasites in the capital who are used to eating, drinking, and having fun, it is undoubtedly an extremely difficult and bleak New Year.  The road rebels fought bloody battles, and most of them were dead, injured, missing, or unknown. The rest of the old, weak, sick, and women and children struggled to survive.  With the ever-increasing price of rice, food and goods, they are all counting the rice grains and putting them into the pot. There is not much meat on New Year's Eve, and there are no new clothes or shoes on the first day of the new year.  There are also many girls from mite families who are even more miserable. Because Ama was drafted into the army, she couldn't find anyone to give her first night when she got married.

    Compared with the Han people, the Eight Banners parasites are actually lucky. The poor Han people in Gyeonggi, Zhili and Shandong are living a miserable life.  Due to the increase in population, over-exploitation of land, and climate change in Shandong Province, Zhili has long been unable to achieve food production. In addition, the water transport was cut off by Fatty Lu, who killed thousands of dollars, to support the Qing court, hundreds of thousands of parasites and mites  The heavy burden of the southern Qing army was all passed on to them. Not to mention the extremely harsh taxes and labor, they had to be plundered by the military currency issued by the Qing court, and they had to be exploited and searched by corrupt officials. All kinds of oppression and exploitation  As a result, before the first month arrived, most of the people's homes were cut off from cooking.

    Prices are soaring. A sesame seed that once could be bought by a big man is now generally sold for 50 yuan a piece, and a pair of cloth shoes with 20 yuan copper coins is now sold for at least one tael of silver¡ªif it is military currency, it costs three taels.  The body of a girl with a yellow flower is not worth five catties of food, and the lives of the Han people are not as good as a lame donkey. Especially in remote and impoverished places, tragedies of cannibalism have occurred.  The common people complained endlessly, and the local officials searched desperately while thinking about how to surrender to the rebels. The Qing court was frowning, and they all counted on Yue Le's Southern Expedition Army to wipe out the Jiangnan rebels as soon as possible, re-open the water transport, and let the Eight Banners  The parasites can go back to the good old days when they parasitized and sucked blood from the Han people all over the country.

    As for Kang Mazi, besides having to shut down Chengde Mountain Resort and Changchun Garden completely, all of Kang Mazi's hopes were pinned on his cousin Yue Le alone.  If Fatty and the gang of rebels do something, the economic collapse will kill Kang Mazi!  No, Yue Le's army had just arrived at the edge of the Yellow River, and Kang Mazi had already issued an order to urge Yue Le to cross the river as soon as possible to fight Fatty Lu.

    After receiving the imperial decree from Kang Mazi urging him to cross the river for a decisive battle, Yue Le could only smile wryly, and promised to give himself half a year, and now he is here to urge him, and in a few months he will not be ordered to receive thirteen gold medals every day  Send troops?  But fortunately, the accurate news of Fatty's army and Geng Jing's army's turning against each other has spread to Yue Le's army, and Yue Le has no choice but to write the good news of Lu Geng's turning against him as a memorial, and rush it to the capital to hand over to Kang Mazi, temporarily stabilizing the military idiot Kang.  Mazi, at the same time, sent someone to contact Shang Shan Tuhai, and asked them to organize the Qing army on the western front to release water as soon as possible, so that Xia Guoxiang would go to the south of the Yangtze River and fight with Fatty Lu.

    ?Besides, Yue Le, who knew the beauty of combining vertical and horizontal forces, had no choice but to send secret envoys to the south to try to get in touch with Geng Jingzhong's army, and secretly joined hands with the north and south to attack Fatty Lu.

    At this time, Tuhai, who was lame on one leg, and the light cavalry team led by Mite Qing Baylor Shangshan, finally arrived at the front line of the battle between the Qing army on the western front and the Wu army Xia Guoxiang's department - Anqing City.  While passing through Luzhou on the way, Shang Shan Tuhai had already conveyed Yue Le's order to Prince Kang Jieshu who was stationed here, ordering Jieshu to send troops east to Chuzhou, directly threatening Nanjing City, the headquarters of Fatty Lu - the key is  Don't let the grumpy and high-ranking Jie Shu make trouble on the Western Front.

    Facing Yue Le's strategic deployment, although Jie Shu raised doubts and worried that the Qing army would be dispersed too much, Tuhai and Shang Shan tricked Jie Shu into saying that Yue Le's move was to disperse Fatty Lu's troops and let Fatty Lu's four major armies fight on their own  , unable to support and rescue each other, it is convenient for the Qing army to defeat each other.  Jie Shu felt that it made sense, and because he hated Fatty Lu, the enemy who killed his son and cut his fingers to the bone, Jie Shu didn't say much, and immediately agreed to send troops eastward as soon as possible, and personally command the main force of the Qing army in Luzhou to wait for orders in Chuzhou.

    Monk Tuhai came to De'anqing City. The southern general Niyahan of Miqing Town, the naval admiral Gente Batulu, and the governor of Anhui Jin Fu naturally led all the Chinese and military officials of the city to greet him outside the city.  Shuncheng Beller Jin received the order in advance, and left his deputy Shu Shu to lead the army temporarily, and has already rushed to Anqing to join his former comrades in arms.  When I met my old friends who traveled south to Yunnan and Guizhou, things were different and people were different, and the ranks of titles were also very different. Naturally, I couldn't help sighing.

    ?, Afterwards, he also guaranteed not to block his grain ships and military ships, so that his grain, grass and luggage could be delivered to the front line smoothly.  "

    "Will the Xia Guoxiang dog thief believe it?" Niyahan said with a wry smile: "There is no reason to propose to draw the river as a boundary, to give up the road on the south bank and to guarantee that he will not block his grain road.  Is he going to dance?"

    "Just say that you have a grudge against me, and you want to use his hand to kill me." Le Erjin said impatiently: "The Tongling Mansion where I am stationed is also blocking his way to the east.  Start a war with me, and you say you plan to use his hands to kill me, he should believe it, and when he attacks Tongling, I will retreat to the north bank of the Yangtze River and give him the way."

    Speaking of this, Le Erjin paused again, and added: "If Xia Guoxiang's dog thief still doesn't believe it, you can give him a hostage, and hand over your son to Xia Guoxiang's dog thief, so that Xia Guoxiang's dog thief can enter the Jiangnan smoothly.  Let your son go, anyway, you will not break your promise, as long as Xia Guoxiang keeps his word, your son will not be in danger."

    Niyahan and Jin Fu stopped talking again, Le Erjin was risking their son, so they naturally couldn't agree.  On the contrary, Tu Hai said: "Don't mention the hostage in advance, send an envoy to contact Xia Guo first, and then do it according to Lord Belle's idea, saying that you deliberately let him go to Lord Belle to settle accounts, so you are willing to lend him the way. Next  How to make Xia Guoxiang fully trust you, I will figure out a way."

    Niyahan and Jin Fu finally nodded and agreed to Tu Hai's arrangement together. Immediately, Jin Fu immediately went to find an eloquent eloquent person to serve as an envoy to the Prime Minister of Xia. Niyahan, Tu Hai and others also left the table  Prepare letters and gifts, and think about how to make Xia Guoxiang feel at ease bypassing Anqing and going straight to Jiangnan.  As for Master Zhangtai Bei who was crawling on the table and got drunk, no one even took a look at him, but asked his servants to carry him back to his room to rest.

    What Tu Hai and the others never dreamed of was that they had just left the front foot, and the snoring master Zhangtai Beizi who was lying on the table suddenly opened his eyes, and continued to snore while laughing in a low voice, "Okay!"  Ah, I said it's no wonder why I have to drink alcohol anyway, and whispered secretly, so I wanted to do such a good thing to deceive the king without telling me!"

    "Hmph! Fortunately, Ben Beizi is familiar with military books, has a deep understanding of military strategy, and has an amazing capacity for alcohol¡ªI just went to the latrine to spit out some wine. Otherwise, Ben Beizi will miss a great opportunity to expose treacherous officials for my master." (  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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