Chapter 183: Eastern Front Battlefield

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Fatty Lu was sent to the eastern front by the old traitor Wu, leading his troops to assist his brother-in-law Wu Shizong, and sent more than 12,000 troops to attack Guangxi. While returning to Kunming to actively prepare for the Eastern Expedition, Fatty Lu also took time to summarize the military situation in Guangxi and discuss the plan of the Eastern Expedition with Wu Shizong.

It was also after statistics and summarizing the military situation in Guangxi that only two words can be described in the Wu army's eastern battlefield, which is relatively calm, but actually has a lot of murderous intent. The battlefield of the Wu army's eastern front can be described in two words - ridiculous!

Of course, what is ridiculous is definitely not the two lonely troops of the Wu army on the eastern front of the Wu army, but their opponents Geng Juzhong, Shang Zhixiao and the cuckold king Sun Yanling. First, in early March of Kang Mazi's eleventh year, the old traitor Shang Kexi, who was shot while lying, sent Guangdong Admiral Yan Ziming to lead 10,000 troops to invade Lianzhou. As a result, before even the camp in Lianzhou had even had time to stabilize, Du Hui and Guan Yuxuan had already been beaten to flee and retreated back to Leizhou in a mess. It happened that Zu Zeqing, the general of Gaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong, was the legitimate cousin of the old traitor Wu, and found various excuses to refuse to send reinforcements to assist, resulting in Yan Ziming's defeated army accumulated in the Leizhou area and unable to advance or retreat.

In late March, after receiving the so-called imperial edict from Xiao Mazi, after Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi, Sun Yanling and others obediently sent troops to launch an attack on the eastern front of the Wu army. Unfortunately, the troops were not too much. Geng Jingzhong asked his second brother Geng Juzhong, who was ulterior motives to lead the 5,000-line army to Jiaying, Sihui, Huaiji to Guangxi, and rob and harass the local area. Not only did the advance speed be comparable to a snail, but he also continued to ask Jin Guangzu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi for money, food and military pay, with a very sufficient reason - I was ordered to fight the thief, and of course the food and military pay must be paid by your local officials.

Compared with Geng Juzhong's shamelessness, Shang Kexi's second son Shang Zhixiao had to be much more successful. Not only did he threaten to break Kunming and capture Chen Yuanyuan alive, he also asked his father for half of the Guangdong army. But unfortunately, Shang Zhixin, the powerful elder brother of Shang Zhixin, saw through his second brother's black heart at first sight - he wanted to go to half of the army command in Guangdong. Can I, the elder brother, still be the one who is a brother in the future? Therefore, Shang Zhixin naturally did not say anything and did not say anything to restrain you. After a series of open and secret struggles, Shang Zhixiao finally only obtained the command of the 5,000 troops and the 10,000 defeated troops in Leizhou. In furious and disappointed, Shang Zhixiao naturally no longer had the intention of attacking Yunnan and Guizhou. He led the army to travel all the way, slowly swaying along the coastline to the west. After walking for nearly a month, he did not arrive in Lianzhou, so naturally he did not fight with the Wu army.

The most hard-working one was Kong Sizhen's official husband, the cuckold king Sun Yanling. After receiving the secret order from Xiaomazi, the entire army was dispatched without saying a word, leaving his brother Sun Yanji to guard Guilin, and led the army he could directly control and the army he took over from Dai Liangchen to move south. At the same time, he joined forces with the Guangxi Governor Maxiong Town, and ordered troops from Guangxi to send troops to Guangxi in the name of the General of Guangxi to meet with him in Liuzhou to discuss Wu's plan.

It is also a pity that Sun Yanling's ambition to serve the country is of course very impressive, but the Guangxi general, who was a noble wife, was very low in the Guangxi army. Not only did the military generals in Guangxi have no birds, but even the generals and soldiers he took over from Dai Liangchen were not honest and obedient. Sun Yanling ordered them to walk forty miles a day and only twenty miles a day, so he just lie down and stayed up. He also threatened to launch a mutiny to kill Sun Yanling and establish a new commander. Sun Yanling was another crab with a hard outside and soft inside. He really didn't dare to completely anger the old Qiu Ba, so he had to swallow his anger and let them go. From Guilin to Liuzhou for hundreds of miles, Sun Yanling's army walked for more than half a month.

After finally arriving in Liuzhou, it did not mean that Sun Yanling could make great efforts. The Guangxi Admiral Ma Xiong-Ma, who was stationed in Liuzhou, did not take Sun Yanling seriously. Not only did he make excuses that Sun Yanling's army had bad military discipline and disturbed the people and refused to allow Sun Yanling's army to enter the city, but he also refused to provide food for Sun Yanling's army with no food at the moment. No matter how Sun Yanling and Guangxi Governor Ma Xiong Town urged and begged, he would not give up any food. Under internal and external troubles, Sun Yanling, who had ambitions and had no ambitions, simply had the intention to withdraw the troops. In the end, he gave up this plan under the persuasion of the iron-core traitor Ma Xiong Town and stationed in Liuzhou to wait for Ma Xiong Town to allocate grain and grass supplies from various places.

The three opponents crawled slowly than the other like turtles. Although Du Hui and Suan Yuxuan's troops were relatively weak, they were safe and sound for a while. They were very relaxed. The Wu army's eastern battlefield never brought any trouble to the main battlefield, causing the main force to be distracted. However, in early April and May, this situation changed because of an imperial edict published by Xiao Mazi. This imperial edict was naturally the imperial edict that Zhou Peigong proposed that Oboi asked for the imperial edict, and Xiao Mazi issued an imperial edict to announce that those who entered Kunming were kings.

Although Zhou Peigong's character is notorious, it has to be admitted that his skill is indeed extremely clever. He just hit the vital points of Shang Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong, the two-five-child two-five-child ones who dream of being the prince. So after receiving this imperial edict, Sun Yanling, who has always been frivolous and arrogant, actually proposed to join forces with Geng Juzhong through Maxiong Town. However, Shang Zhixin and Geng Juzhong, who were worried about insufficient strength, certainly felt that someone gave him a pillow while sleeping, so they quickly agreed and hit it off with Sun Yanling.

After emergency contact and consultation, Sun, Geng and Shang decided to meet in Ancheng, Enshi Prefecture, Guangxi. At the same time, after full mobilization and crazy promises to the soldiers, the three armies finally accelerated the marching speed and successfully met in Ancheng on May 18th. They appointed Guangxi Governor Ma Xiongzhen as the commander of the entire army, and decided to attack Nanning first and then advance to Yunnan. At this time, the news that the main force of the Qing army had already entered Guizhou on the second day of the fifth month happened to be heard. Monk Sun Yanling Zhixiao, Geng Juzhong and others were even more ecstatic and determined to take advantage of the main force of the Qing army to go south to the Wu army's inability to return to aid Yunnan. They gathered more than 34,000 troops from the three provinces, claiming to be 100,000, and joined forces to fight against Nanning and fought with the coalition forces of Yu Xuan and Du Hui in the Bachizhai area of ​​Nanning, and each other won and lost.

"Brother-in-law, it seems we don't have to do it anymore." After reading the Eastern Front War Report carefully collected and sorted by Fatty Lu, Wu Shizong laughed and said confidently: "From the dispatch date and marching speed of this group of mobs, they had no courage to fight with our Pingxi Prince's Mansion. They saw the main force of the old thieves entering Guizhou, and then they mustered up the courage to attack Nanning. When the news of the old thieves being wiped out from the entire army reached Nanning, we didn't have to do it, and we would run away cleanly without taking it."

"From common sense, after hearing the news that the main force of Mangou was wiped out, this group of mobs should indeed be scattered and did not dare to wipe away the power of our Yunnan-Guizhou tiger." Fatty Lu pondered: "But brother-in-law, don't forget that the group of mobs dare not enter Yunnan again does not mean that they dare not continue to attack Nanning. Nanning Guosan Ministry of State Security is a firm ally of our Pingxi Prince's Mansion and the first military barrier on our Eastern Front. If there is any loss, the impact on our Eastern Front is still quite huge."

"What's the use of their strong attack on Nanning?" Wu Shizong asked inexplicably: "Although defeating Nanning can cut off our connection with the sea outlet, can they hold on? It angered us, and the main force can kill them completely with a counterattack. If they eat too much, they must do this thankless thing?"

"My brother-in-law seems to have forgotten what else is there in Nanning?" Fatty Lu asked slowly.

"What else is there in Nanning?" Wu Shizong was stunned at first, then slapped his head and said annoyedly: "Look at my memory, I forgot that Nanning has the largest silver mine in the world now! Even if I can't keep it in Nanning, I can make a fortune in the city and silver mines, and these scoundrels can make a fortune!"

"That's right, the idiots Sun Yanling, the monk Zhixiao, would rather die than suffer losses and try to take advantage of the situation. Nanning's Great Silver Mine is close at hand, would they not want to make a fortune?" Fatty Lu said slowly: "So brother, I dare to conclude that even if this group of mobs heard the news that Mangou was wiped out, they would definitely not withdraw their troops easily. Instead, they might struggle to gamble and attack Nanning before our main force returns to the army to see if we can break through Nanning and make a fortune."

"It makes sense." Wu Shizong nodded vigorously and said, "We are moving quickly. We will set out tomorrow and march to rescue Nanning. In addition, we will send someone to inform Wu Yuxuan and Du Hui to let them patiently defend Nanning City. Reinforcements will arrive soon."

"Brother-in-law, why are you so anxious to notify Ai Yuxuan and Du Hui and others? How good is it to give them a surprise?" Fatty Lu smiled wickedly and said, "Besides, if the news that our reinforcements had already set off came to Nanning, they were discovered by Monk Sun Yanling Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong's group of idiots, and ran away in advance. How can we fight this battle? One city, one city, one pass, one pass, and one pass? How hard is it? If we can annihilate the main force of the enemy in the field battle outside Nanning City, wouldn't we have the rest of the battles to fight too much?"

"What do you think you should do?" Wu Shizong asked quickly.

"Open and slow, secretly, and unexpectedly!" Fatty Lu said firmly: "Don't inform Ai Yuxuan and Du Hui that our reinforcements have already set off. We will march to Guangxi in a hurry. When we arrive in the Tianzhou area, we will send a messenger to inform Ai Yuxuan and Du Hui and others. We will say that although our main force won a complete victory in the decisive battle in Guizhou, it was also severely damaged and would be unable to reinforce Nanning for a while. Let them guard Nanning for two months at all costs. After two months, our reinforcements will arrive in Nanning."

"And then, we secretly ordered Du Hui to deliberately spread the news. We must let Sun Yanling's idiots know that if we let those idiots continue to attack Nanning without being wary, our reinforcements took the opportunity to march to Gaofeng Pass and suddenly broke out and cut off the retreat of Sun Yanling's idiots, and our army would win a complete victory!"

"Good plan! Just do it!" Wu Shizong slapped the table again and shouted loudly, but said worriedly: "But it's fine for brother-in-law, Sun Yanling and Maxiongzhen. On Shang Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong's side, grandfather just asked us to teach us a lesson and not to put too heavy hands. If they were wiped out, it would be hard for grandfather to speak in front of Geng Jingzhong and Kexi."

"This is easy to deal with." Fatty Lu said with a sneering smile: "After we cut off Sun Yanling's candid retreat, as long as we let them taste some pain first, we will immediately send someone to surrender Shang Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong. They are not completely idiots, so they naturally know how to choose. If it goes well, maybe we can also surrender Sun Yanling, and then our eastern front will be as stable as Mount Tai."

"Sure, that's it." Wu Shizong was overjoyed, agreed, and smiled lewdly: "It's a pity that Kong Si*** is not in Guangxi, otherwise we two would have the opportunity to taste the taste of this Han Gege."

"Yes, it's a pity." Fatty Lu nodded and agreed, and said in his heart: "Even if Kong Sizhen is in Guangxi, I don't have much interest in her. In Guangxi, there are people I am interested in."

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After finalizing the strategy of "light and slow down" and "light" and "light" on June 26, Wu Shizong and Lu Fatty's coalition forces set off from Kunming. They marched and slept in the wild, not entering the city, and did not set up camps. Anyway, the weather is hot in June, and they are not afraid of the people being frozen. They race against time and go south quickly. It took only four days to arrive in Tianzhou. Then Wu Shizong issued two official documents for light and dark according to the plan and rushed to Nanning. After the army rested in Tianzhou for a night, they headed south quickly and took Nanning straight.

No matter how fast Wu Shizong and Fatty Lu marched, they were naturally not as fast as Wu's messenger. When Wu Shizong's reinforcements had just arrived in Danliang, the messenger of the Wu army had already arrived outside Nanning City. The current situation in Nanning was just as Lu's expected. After hearing the news that Oboi was defeated and died and the main force of the Qing army was destroyed, Sun Yanling, Shang Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong not only did not withdraw their troops and flee, but instead stepped up their pace to attack Nanning. Sun Yanling and Monk Zhixiao and others even shouted the slogan of the People's Liberation Army's three-day discipline to boost morale.

Not to mention, the shameless slogans shouted by the monk Zhixiao and others were really useful. In addition, the legendary Nanning garrison had mined millions of taels of silver from the Phoenix Mountain silver mine and hid them in the city. The Laoqiu Ba people in the three armies of Sun Yanling, Shang Zhixiao and Geng Juzhong were even more motivated and rushed down with great force. They actually forced the Liuyu Xuan army back to Nanning City, surrounding Nanning City, causing the Wu army messenger to spend a lot of effort to sneak into Nanning City, and almost captured by the coalition forces of the three provinces.

The military allocation of the Wu army on the eastern front was like this. Du Hui had 3,000 Yunnan and Guizhou troops, and the Nanning army of the father and son of Guoan, was 8,000, with only more than 6,500 troops, with a total strength of less than 10,000. At the same time, in order to train the navy and protect the Wu army's seaport, the Wu army had to leave some troops to guard Lianzhou. There were also some military guards behind Taiping Prefecture and Zhen'an Prefecture, which were actually controlled by the Wu army, and some military guards had to be deployed at the entrance of the county and town of Nanning, so there were actually only more than 6,000 defenders in Nanning. In this way, although Du Hui and Yuxuan's army's combat effectiveness were obviously better than the coalition forces of the Qing army, due to insufficient troops, he felt a little stretched after several major battles.

"Hold for two months?" Holding Wu Shizong's military order, Yu Xuan's beautiful eyebrows were twisted into a knot, and many worries were also revealed on her face, which was so beautiful that it made a woman's jealous.

"Major General, this is not OK." Hutong Chun next to him was not as polite as Yu Xuan, and he shouted directly, "It was absolutely fine to defend Nanning City for two months. The city was barely enough food and grass, but it was soon harvested. Let Sun Yanling's beasts besiege the city for two months. What should we do next year's food?"

"General Hu, please rest assured. Since your losses are caused by our Pingxi Prince's Mansion, we should compensate you." Du Hui said, "After Nanning rescued the siege, I will naturally write to the prince to request money and grain to make up for your various losses, and will definitely not let you suffer any losses."

"General Du, don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about our military rations, I'm talking about the food of the people of Nanning." Hu Tongchun shook his head and said, "You have also seen the virtues of the beasts outside the city. You can do anything to kill and set fire to rob. Now Yongchun and Hengxian in the east of Nanning are completely destroyed. If they are surrounded by them for another three months, the county towns of Long'an, Guide, Xinning, Zhongzhou and Shangsi in the west, I'm afraid that they can't save anything. What should I do? Can you compensate?"

"Of course we can't compensate for this." Du Hui smiled bitterly and said, "But this is the case with war. If you want to not affect the people, it is a good thing that has not been around since ancient times. The only way is to avenge this deep hatred on the battlefield."

"Then just watch it..." Hu Tongchun was about to continue to persist. However, Hu Yuxuan waved his hand and interrupted, saying softly: "Brother Hu, needless to say, General Du is right. It is impossible for the people to be completely affected during the war. This is something that no one can avoid. Since the Pingxi Prince's Mansion wants us to stay in Nanning for another two months, then we have been guarding for more than half a year, and we still care about the last two months?"

"Besides, although Nanning is good, we cannot be limited to Nanning forever." said Wu Yuxuan, with a vision: "Now that Prince Pingxi has defeated the main force of Oboi's lackeys, and a full-scale counterattack is imminent. Our Nanning soldiers cannot hide behind forever to enjoy their happiness. Sooner or later, they will obey the prince's orders to go north to kill the thieves. At that time, there will be more prosperous and richer places than Nanning, so why bother to stick to the gains and losses of a city and a place?"

"That's true." After being enlightened by Yu Xuan himself, Hu Tongchun quickly turned around and patted Du Hui's shoulder and said, "Old Du, the ugly saying is ahead. After we help you get rid of Oboi's lackeys, it's time for you to counterattack. Remember to report to the prince and ask him to return Guilin City to us. At that time, brother, I'll treat you to Guilin rice noodles. Keep it safe and you want to eat it. Damn, I haven't eaten it for a few years, and I'm almost out of my mouth."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Du Hui agreed with a laugh, and couldn't wait to say to Liu Yuxuan: "General Wu San, since you have made plans to be transferred north, I will be transferred to the north by the prince sooner or later. Then, how about we continue to work together to kill the thieves?"

"About this, General Du, please forgive me. Because the last general has already agreed to the person and promised to kill the enemy side by side with him, so he can no longer agree to General Du?" Lin Yuxuan replied with a smile.

"Who? General Wu promised?" Du Hui was stunned, thinking that the bastard started so quickly. Although the equipment of the Lu family was a little bad, it was the most reliable in war. Who did he start so quickly to capture this elite force first?

"General Du, you know him." Su Yuxuan suddenly twisted and said with a pretty face blushing: "You General Qujing of the Pingxi Prince's Mansion, I heard that he was fighting very beautifully in Guizhou this time. Prince Pingxi was able to annihilate the main force of the old thief Obai, and he made great contributions."

"Lu Yifeng! General Wei San, when will you agree to him?" Du Hui asked in surprise.
Chapter completed!