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Chapter 369 Difficult Choice

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    It was almost completely dark, and the large-scale battle on the Taiping Mansion battlefield was basically over. Only some diehards were still fighting on the hills with more favorable terrain, but they were still fighting with their arms, so there was nothing to worry about.  Get up, there are fat soldiers who are eager to get rewards for their meritorious service and will go to clean them up, so Fatty Lu didn't bother to stay on the battlefield any longer, so he simply ordered the headquarters to be moved into Taiping City, where he rested overnight and took care of the battlefield  aftermath issues.

    The moon was sparse, and the moonlight was as bright as day, allowing Fatty Lu to see the mountains of corpses on the battlefield, and also let Fatty Lu see the blood flowing into streams on the ground, the burning bushes and woods, and hear the dying wounds.  The low and painful groans of the soldiers among the corpses, the tragic neighing of the horses that lost their masters, and the sporadic screams of dying people can be heard sporadically.  Although it is not the first time to see such a scene, let alone the first time to hear such a voice, Fatty Lu lamented habitually, "Do evil, full of dogs do evil, if they don't resist, if they don't resist, we will  Is it necessary to kill so many people?"

    "As soon as the generals are successful, we will drive out the Tartars and restore China. I don't know how many more scenes like this we will see." Han Daren next to him also felt emotional, and comforted himself: "Fortunately, the dead  Some of them are full of dogs and traitors, no matter how much murder we commit, we can live with our conscience."

    "Yeah, fortunately, most of the dead were dogs and traitors. We can say that we have a clear conscience about how much murder we have committed." Fatty Lu sighed again, and said thoughtfully: "But if we have to sacrifice dozens  Is it worth the lives of the Wan Han people in exchange for such a big victory? Can you have a clear conscience?"

    "General, what do you mean?" Han Daren, who had been stationed in Taiping Mansion before, asked curiously.

    "I've always had an idea." Fatty Lu didn't hide anything from Han Daren, and said frankly: "I want to blow up the Gaojiayan in Hongze Lake, and use the flood in Hongze Lake to cut off the retreat and food supply of the main force on the Mangou North Line."  Dao, catch the turtle in the urn and wipe out the main force of Mangou's northern line, and strive to capture the emperor of Mangou first and capture the king first, but considering the hundreds of thousands of Huainan people, I can't bear it.  , I also refused."

    Han Daren was silent, and Fatty Lu asked Han Daren again: "Brother Daren, you said that I did this, is it a woman's benevolence? Or compassion? Is it right? Or is it wrong?"

    Han Daren continued to remain silent, and followed Fatty Lu's horse for another half a mile before Han Daren said slowly: "General, as far as I know, Mr. Shi Kefa Shige has also encountered your problem.  Man Gou Duoduo attacked Yangzhou, and the Yangzhou defenders knew that they were no match for Man Gou. Liu Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief, proposed this suggestion to Mr. Shi Ge. He dug up the Huai River embankment and Gaojiayan, and flooded Man Gou. However, Mr. Shi Ge considered  The common people refused. You know what happened later, the general, so I won¡¯t repeat it for the last general.¡±

    "Do you want to say that if Mr. Shi Ge did this back then, there might not be Ten Days in Yangzhou, dogs would not be able to cross the Yangtze River, and there would be no subsequent Jiangnan massacre?" Fatty Lu asked.

    Han Daren nodded silently, and said to himself: "The last general has another idea. If Mr. Shi Ge knew that Man Gou would kill so many of our Han compatriots after he captured Yangzhou, then Man Gou would kill so many of our Han people after he entered Jiangnan.  After massacring so many of our Han compatriots, I wonder if Elder Shi Ge would choose to save hundreds of thousands of Huainan people?"

    Fatty Lu was silent, and he also understood that Han Daren's implication was that he agreed to blow up the embankment, sacrifice the minority, and make the public happy, and use partial sacrifices in exchange for overall victory.  After another moment of silence, Fatty Lu said softly: "Brother Ren, I still have a question. Back then, I suggested that the prince blow up the embankment of thousands of people to flood Jingzhou with dogs. Why did the prince refuse? Emperor Mangou, why can't you hide your eyes?"  Digging up the embankment of the Yellow River without blinking, and flooding our Northern Expedition army?"

    "Because the prince is a Han, he has to consider our Han compatriots." Han Daren replied quickly this time, "Kang Mazi is a man of dogs, so he doesn't need to think about our Han compatriots. No matter how many of our Han people die, the man of the dog emperor will not blink  eyelid."

    "But we are also Han Chinese, you are, and so am I." Fatty Lu sighed again, looking up to the sky and sighing: "It's a dilemma. On the one hand, there are hundreds of thousands of compatriots, and on the other hand, there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to kill Emperor Mangou. What should I do?"  choose?"

    With this difficult choice, on the second day, Fatty Lu led the main force of more than 30,000 Fatty Army and Taipingfu Navy back to Nanjing, while Han Daren temporarily stayed in Taipingfu to deal with the aftermath of the Western Front, reorganizing prisoners of war and cleaning  On the battlefield, after three days of preparation, lead an army of 20,000 troops to Nanjing to join Fatty Lu, and join hands with Fatty Lu to rescue the most critical northern and eastern battlefields¡ªnow the elite main force of the Qing army on the western front has been fully recovered., the rear is unstable, and the situation is difficult to last, and now Geng Jingzhong has made it clear that he is taking advantage of the fire, and wants to take advantage of our army being attacked from all sides, and join forces with Mangou to fish some oil and water from our territory.  If we had repelled Mangou on the northern line and the main force had freed up to go south, Geng Jingzhong would have escaped faster than anyone else, and maybe he would have stabbed Mangou again from the back, and then begged us for peace with the cheek.  possible.  "

    "On the eastern front, the main force of our navy is very well preserved. The combined naval forces of the Mangou and Red-haired countries are just trying to harass our coastal areas. They will never dare to attack our hinterland.  Destruction, when you free your hands, it is easy to clean them up. So you proposed to put the main force into the northern front battlefield, which is very correct, and I think so too."

    "Then why does the general look so hesitant?" Yao Qisheng asked even more strangely.

    "What I'm hesitating about is, do I want the common people? Or the pockmarked head of Mangou Emperor Kang Mazi?" Fatty Lu said slowly: "The main force of our army goes north to the Yangzhou battlefield. It may be easy to defeat the main force on the northern front that defeated Mangou, but  It is extremely difficult to take the head of Emperor Mangou. The first is that the Mangou army will definitely protect Emperor Mangou at all costs. The second is that the goal of Emperor Mangou is too small, so it is easy to  Escape from birth¡ªthe only sure way to kill Emperor Mangou is that is the embankment."

    Yao Qisheng, Wang Shaobo and others dared not speak any more. They dared not open their mouths to encourage Fatty Lu to blow up the embankment, cutting off the main retreat of the Qing army, and falling into eternal infamy.

    It was so quiet for a long time, Fatty Lu shook his head, stood up and said: "Well, let me think about this matter again, let's make this arrangement first, one is to do our best to prepare for the Northern Expedition, and the other is to give tomorrow  Li Jiyang's Taiping Palace navy added 3,000 infantry and asked him to move to the south bank of Jiangyin. The river there is narrow and not conducive to the warships of the Red-haired Kingdom. It is a good place to prevent the enemy's navy from invading our hinterland. As long as we hold it, we will  You don¡¯t have to worry about the hinterland for the time being. As for the two dikes, let¡¯s talk about it slowly, we still have time.¡±

    Yao Qisheng agreed with Wang Shaobo and others, and left.  The preoccupied Fatty Lu also felt that he was exhausted, so he also stepped out of the signing room and returned to his study to rest.  Come out, stand in front of Fatty Lu, look at Fatty Lu coldly and don't speak.  Fatty Lu knew that the person who called for the payment of the public grain came, so he smiled wryly and begged for mercy: "Yu'er, I'm very tired."

    "Don't do this!" Lin Yu'er gritted her teeth and said, "I went there for half a month, and was emptied by a woman from Taiping Mansion. When I came back, I pretended to have business and sneaked into the signing room, so I didn't dare to see me, did I?"

    "The conscience of heaven and earth, I have never even touched a woman's hand in Taiping Mansion." Fatty Lu cried out.

    "Sophistry!" Ling Yu'er gritted her teeth even more and said, "You tell me, how long have you not been in my room? Do you think I'm old and ugly, and want to marry more younger ones?"

    "No, no, I'm afraid." Fatty Lu hurriedly shook his head desperately.

    "What are you afraid of? Afraid that I will eat you?" The blood vessels on Rong Yu'er Bainen's forehead began to congest.

    "I'm afraid of the wind!" Fatty Lu finally told the truth, "Kang Mazi's full dog has really bad luck in this area! If I accidentally get that kind of bad luck, I will lose everything."  It's over!"

    Fatty Lu told the truth this time. Among several important opponents in history, Kang Mazi, Oboi Yuzhong committed suicide, old traitor Wu died of a sudden stroke, and Zheng Jing was pissed to death by his own mother at the age of thirty-eight.  , Zheng Kezang, who could have taken over the banner of the Zheng family, was killed by his grandmother again, and Ge Erdan simply died on the belly of a woman out of nowhere. The shit is so lucky!  Now it was Fatty Lu's turn to stand opposite Kang Mazi and prepare for a life-and-death fight, and he couldn't afford to be careless.  (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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