The War History Department of the General Staff records the battle of May 14, 1854, "...... After the hot air balloon of our army fell, at about 13:24 in the afternoon (based on the pocket watch of Ju Junfeng, deputy director of the Operations Department of the General Staff (then the Operations Department), He Chun sent about 2,000 troops to attack our army, and after half an hour of fighting, He Chun left 15 casualties on the battlefield......"

And the battle account of the artillery unit is as follows, "...... In this battle with the Hechun troops, the artillery department adopted standard grape shell specifications, and the weight of each projectile was two taels (about 1oo grams). Such larger projectiles were convenient for recovering them after the war and reusing them again. The Qing army (then called the Qing Demon) and our army both used scattered bullets when using artillery, but the difference between the two sides was relatively large, and the Qing army preferred to use a large number of relatively small pellets, which could increase the air tightness while also expanding some shooting ranges. Our army has adopted a lot of airtight measures for grape bomb packaging, and larger projectiles can obviously carry out more effective killing and damage to the enemy's living forces. In the battle count, nearly forty percent of the Qing troops were killed or wounded under the bombardment of our army......"

As for the military history of the Fourteenth Army, it is written, "...... He is more cunning with Harube, and is relatively able to stick to his strategic vision when fighting. However, in the face of a sudden situation that seems to be an opportunity, Kazuharu will waver and rashly change its strategic vision. Before He Chunbu engaged our army in close proximity, they were as difficult to catch as chickens, and when they began to fight with us, our army began to destroy the enemy as easily as killing chickens......"

These records are all the attitudes of the Taiping army, and as for the feelings of the Jiangnan Admiral and Lord Chun about this battle, it is actually not very long. After the deputy capital commander Zhongtai led 2,000 Qing troops to engage the Shuyue bandits, it took less than ten minutes for Zhongtai to send people to Hechun for help. In these ten minutes, Admiral Hechun was completely shocked by the fierce fire of the Yue bandits on the opposite side.

He Chun determined that there were at most 3oo people in the Taiping army on the opposite side, and even if these 3oo were three-stage strikes, they were only 9oo people. The largest platoon gun serial shot that He Chun has ever seen is a scale of 12oo people, which he has seen when he followed Xiang Rong. That time, Admiral Rong showed the true skill of a veteran, and easily defeated the enemy on the opposite side.

The gunfire fired by the Taiping army was much faster than the serial shooting of the 12oo people of the Qing army. It was like a torrential rain, like hail, like thunder. And in order.

However, before the Jiangnan Admiral and Lord Chun had time to "appreciate" this human-made storm, the deputy capital of the Shu Yue bandits, who had led the attack less than an hour earlier, had already knelt at Hechun's feet, crying like a tearful man. "My lord, the firearms of the Yue bandits are sharp, our army is ......, and our army is completely annihilated."

It is an exaggeration to say that the whole army was wiped out, and the 2ooo people went out, at least more than 3ooo came back. The medical department of the General Staff also recorded more than 100 cases of injuries and deaths within three days after being hit by grapeshot. This means that at most 1,500 people were killed.

However, Admiral Hechun is not very good at math and is not good at statistics. Seeing with his own eyes that the Qing army of 2ooo was wiped out in an instant, Admiral Hechun no longer doubted the news that Yindebu's 3,000 troops had been completely annihilated. More than 5,000 troops were killed in the blink of an eye, and Admiral Chun was no longer in love with the war, so he decisively ordered the withdrawal of the army.

On May 15, Admiral Hechun led more than 7,000 soldiers and horses to withdraw to the vicinity of Lu'an. A force of 5,000 troops of the Shouzhou Military Subdivision suppressed the 7,000 soldiers and horses of Admiral Chun from north to south outside the city, and the 4,000 troops led by Wei Ze suppressed from north to south and Admiral Chun's 7,000 soldiers and horses. Admiral Hechun, who was not ready to fight again, said these two news, and hurriedly led his troops to retreat westward.

Wei Ze announced in Lu'an that he would stay in Lu'an to be responsible for the finishing work, and the troops of the Shouzhou Military Region and the two armies of the 14th Army surrounded Admiral Hechun while chasing after him, forcing Admiral Hechun to move in the direction of Yaoli Town, which was ready to annihilate the position.

After sending out the troops, Wei Ze immediately mobilized the local administrative department in Lu'an. When Hechun came to attack Lu'an, the gang was frightened. Now seeing the appearance of He Chun running away, the hearts of these people are also put in their stomachs.

Wei Ze announced at the meeting, "Everyone immediately go to the countryside in Lu'an and ask the squires to come out and help clean up the battlefield." ”

"Cleaning the battlefield?" The people in the administration were puzzled.

"Yes, everyone led this group of landlords and gentry to clean up the battlefield together." Weser said in an irrefutable tone.

Now there are two kinds of people who can mix in the administrative department, the first is naturally the administrative cadres provided by the Weizer army, and the other is the civil servants after the local scientific examination. Either way, it's not a fool. Wei Ze asked the local landlords and gentry in Lu'an to come to "clean up the battlefield", what can they see when they clean the battlefield? Naturally, corpses are everywhere. According to Wei Ze, the Qing army was killed more than 5,000 people on two battlefields, and nearly 3,000 people died on each battlefield. This clearly shows that Wei Ze wants to demonstrate to the landlords and gentry.

Li Yongqing, deputy director of the Lu'an Prefecture Taxation Bureau, is a local civil servant who came up from the examination, and he immediately praised: "King Qi asked these guys to see the fate of the Qing demons who rebelled against the kingdom of heaven, seeing that these Qing demons are so vulnerable, as long as these people are not blinded by lard, they will not see the wrong shape." King Qi is really a bodhisattva in doing this! ”

The civil servants did not look at Li Yongqing with much kindness, either because they thought that Li Yongqing "You are also worthy of the surname Zhao" and led to the disgust, or they felt that they did not expect such a powerful words to let Li Yongqing say it first and cause jealousy.

Li Yongqing didn't care about everyone's eyes at all, he said: "King Qi, my subordinates feel that the weather is getting hotter and hotter now, and if the preparation time is too long, it will not be good if the corpse stinks." I might as well get the landlords and gentry from all over the country who have different intentions first, so that they can have a good look. I also carried the corpse along the way. I don't know if the king of Qi can deny the views of his subordinates. ”

Wei Ze nodded repeatedly, "This is a good method. We work at the grassroots level, and we always know which landlords and gentry are hostile to us. And I put it in my head, and I let them see it because I really didn't want to kill them. If these people don't dare to openly hostile after knowing how powerful our army is, and just play behind their backs, our army may be even more uncomfortable. Of course, if those people are playing yin, it is not uncommon for us to be caught and killed in anger. Therefore, I think many of us are from Lu'an, and we have to let them know not to do anything wrong when facing the villagers! ”

When he said this, Wei Ze was mild. But he had a malicious idea in his heart. Will anyone hear that Wei Ze will kill the guy who plays yin, and what tricks are he expected to play?

And Wei Ze's words undoubtedly determined the direction for the civil servants of the government system, and after the gang discussed, they took out a red-headed text of "On Moving the Landlord Gentry to Collect the Corps for the Qing Army", and Wei Ze approved it, so the personnel of the government system immediately went to various places in Lu'an and began to send the landlords and gentry to the two battlefields in Lu'an.

The gentry, who did not support the Taiping regime, were soon brought in to "clean up the battlefield". It was the first time that all the gentry had seen a battlefield where thousands of people had died at a time, and the corpses that had been shot were quite good, and the corpses killed in the shelling looked very miserable. The head was smashed, the arms and thighs were knocked away, and a large hole with a diameter of more than ten centimeters appeared in the chest.

According to the reports submitted by the civil servants who were watching nearby, the gentry were generally angry when they were forcibly taken out of their homes by armed soldiers. After visiting the battlefield and personally participating in the cleaning of the corpses that covered the battlefield, most of the gentry had vomited in the dark. Even some of the gentry who looked strong enough and were not really convinced by the Taiping Army were at least mentally wilted. Some of the timid frightened souls flew away, and before it was dark, they almost kowtowed and begged to leave the battlefield.

Wei Ze naturally did not let them go, most of the people who were brought in first were potential hostile elements, and the landlords and gentry behind them did not support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime. After watching the battlefield and personally participating in the cremation of the corpses of nearly 6,000 Qing soldiers, he was gathered in Lu'an City.

None of the landlords and gentry dared to speak loudly in front of Wei Ze's civil and military subordinates, and in the early morning of May 2o, these landlords and gentry were called up and "escorted" by the troops to Yaoli Town, west of Lu'an City. By noon, the landlords and gentry all gasped. Nearly 3,000 surrendered Qing troops knelt in formation on both sides of the road ahead, and the neat phalanx knelt out for two miles.

The cavalry of the Taiping army had stopped the landlords and gentry and prevented them from moving forward. Only Weese's troops, who had been at the forefront, continued to march. The landlords and gentry, some of whom rode on their own horses, could not help but kick on their stirrups and stand up. Some of them travel in their own mules and donkeys. Naturally, the car had stopped, and these people all stood up in the car. Try to stand taller and see farther.

Those Qing soldiers were frightened when they looked at them, and they knelt on the ground with their heads bowed. The total number of Taiping soldiers who guarded them was less than five hundred, and in addition to the fixed number of guards next to each captive phalanx, there were cavalry and infantry patrolling back and forth.

"Qing army, knock to the king of Qi!" More than a dozen people shouted together.

"Qing army, knock to the king of Qi!" Hundreds of Taiping soldiers guarding the captured Qing army shouted at the Qing prisoners they were in charge of. When thousands of Qing soldiers heard this order, they lowered their heads deeply.

On the road lined up on both sides of the prostrate, Wei Ze, the king of Qi, rode on a tall horse and carried his retinue among thousands of prostrating captives. Qingqi, who was holding the pennant of King Qi, rode on his horse and followed closely behind Wei Ze. The banner is waving in the wind, like a jumping yellow dragon.

Wherever the horses went, Wei Ze waved to the Taiping officers and soldiers. Hundreds of Taiping troops, all standing straight, raised their hands and saluted their commander with proud expressions.

The landlords and gentry had never seen such a scene, let alone such a pomp. In addition to their eyes widening, the gang couldn't help but open their mouths wide. But no one could spit a word out of the gaping mouth.

Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!