Shandong governor Zhang Liangji and the Taiping army are old acquaintances, when the Taiping army besieged Changsha, Zhang Liangji was the governor of Hunan, he relied on Zuo Zongtang and a group of Qing troops from Guangxi to finally hold the situation. Transferred from Hunan to Shandong, Zhang Liangji felt that he should be able to get out of the war, but what he didn't expect was that he would still have to be on the front line of the battle against the Taiping Army.

The commanders of the Taiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Force, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, were subordinates of Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, and followed Xiao Chaogui to Changsha City. Naturally, he is an old acquaintance of Zhang Liangji. These people are now surrounded near Tianjin, and there is no threat to Zhang Liangji for the time being.

However, before the Northern Expedition troops stopped, Zhang Liangji's other group of old acquaintances, Shu Yue bandits, killed again. This unit left a deep impression on Zhang Liangji under the city of Changsha. Zuo Zongtang was extremely good when he was defending Changsha, that is, Zuo Zongtang designed a battle against the Shu Yue bandits. In that battle, the Qing army used more than 10,000 troops to attack about 5,000 Shuyue bandits, luring the enemy, encircling them on three sides, and assaulting the cavalry. The Shu Yue bandits not only withstood the attack of the Qing army, but also defeated more than 10,000 troops of the Qing army in the following battle.

Zhang Liangji has always spoken highly of Zuo Zongtang's ability, even now, Zuo Zongtang's design for that battle has reached the best, and the battle command has not made any mistakes. If there was anything wrong with that battle, it was just that Zuo Zongtang really didn't take into account the powerful combat effectiveness of the gang of Yue bandits.

In this battle, Zhang Liangji thought of the battle of the Shu Yue bandits before the battle. In order to avoid directly fighting the Shuyue bandits, Governor Zhang Liangji divided his 2,000 troops into two, and led half of the men by guerrilla Yushan to open the way, first marching east to Linqing City, and then moving towards Chaocheng to fill the gap left by the killing of Suiyuan's general Shanlu. Zhang Liangji himself led a thousand troops to advance to Balizhuang in the east of Linqing City.

As the governor of Shandong, Zhang Liangji was very clear about the movement of the Qing army at this time. In addition to the 7ooo reinforcements of Shengbao, Seng Lingqin also sent 1ooo horse teams to attack the Taiping army. Shandong's political envoy Chong'en led the 4ooo army in Zhangguantun in the northeast of Linqing.

The Taiping army had about 20,000 people, and the Qing army had as many as 20,000 troops at this time. It is unlikely that the Taiping army will divide its forces to fight. Even if the troops are divided, they will be divided into two or three troops at most. Gui Ling, the general army sent by Shengbao, Chong'en, Linqingzhou City, and Seng Lingqin, these troops and targets are much larger than him Zhang Liangji. From a logical point of view, Zhang Liangji should not have had an accident.

But when fighting against the Shu Yue bandits, the general truth becomes unreasonable. As soon as Zhang Liangji approached Balizhuang, a group of Cantonese bandits appeared in front of him, and there were not many of them, about 500 people. However, when such a group of guys saw thousands of officers and soldiers, they rushed over like hungry wolves that saw food.

Governor Zhang Liangji didn't know how to fight, so he could only let his subordinates meet the enemy. After a moment of exchange of fire between the two sides, Zhang Liangji's subordinates began to retreat towards Balizhuang. It was a nightmarish retreat, and Master Zhang Liangji heard the sound of gunfire behind him all the time, and his troops obviously felt that there were fewer and fewer people. Whether the reduced number of people fled to other places, or were simply killed, Zhang Liangji did not know. What Zhang Liangji knew was that after the official army escorted Zhang Liangji and fled into Balizhuang, the Taiping army surrounded Balizhuang.

After hiding in Balizhuang, Zhang Liangji felt that his legs were numb, and his crotch was a little damp. But at this point of life and death, where is the time to check the strange feeling in the crotch. Zhang Liangji first ordered his officers to hold Balizhuang, and at the same time began to write official documents, asking the surrounding troops to come to help.

"Are you sure that it is Governor Zhang Liangji who is surrounding Balizhuang?" Wei Ze asked Chief of Operations Staff Nguyen Hi Ho.

"That's what the captives caught outside Balizhuang said. Moreover, we caught the heralds of the Qing army in Zhangguantun, and in the official documents they carried, Zhang Liangji asked Chongen to immediately take the Qing army to rescue him. Speaking of this, Ruan Xihao thought about the content of the official document he saw, and couldn't help but smile, "Zhang Liangji's words are very sincere!" ”

"Haha, it seems that Governor Zhang Liangji doesn't know what happened to Chong'en." Weeser also laughed.

At this time, it was already February 27, 1854, and no one in the battle with the Taiping army of the Qing army on the 25th escaped the net. After Wei Ze caught Chong'en and asked for information, Chong'en actually thought that he was a high-ranking official and played a big card in front of Wei Ze. How could Wei Ze be polite to the Manchus, the Twist Army had not personally killed the Manchu high-ranking officials, so Wei Ze took Chong'en to the camp of the Twist Army.

It was the first time that the Twist Army had seen a living political envoy, but after hearing Chong'en scolding the Twist Army, these brothers could only "play" with Chong'en. In the cold February wind in the north, the brothers below stripped Chong'en naked, poured cold water on his body, and dragged him around the back of the horse with a rope.

After slipping away for a while, Chongen fell to the ground, preferring to die rather than get up. The brothers of the Twist Army dragged him up and served Chong'en with finger clips, clamping sticks, tiger chairs, leather whips, soldering irons, castration and other methods. Chongen sang in front of the Twist Army for a long time, and after being castrated, Chongen strongly applied to the Twist Army from the bottom of his heart to "just want death". The Twist Army finally fulfilled Chong'en's wish, and the five healthy horses divided the living Chong'en five horses.

Wei Ze and several other high-ranking officials of the Twist Army watched Twist Jun's brother Na Chongen be happy, and talked about some recent problems. After the five horses divided Chong'en, Wei Ze said with a smile: "The Manchurian official is just like this. ”

"That's true, this guy fell into our hands, and we thought we could live. As long as he is a bear who still does not bow his head at this time, does he think that we will not dare to kill him? Liu Yongjing sneered.

So when I heard that Zhang Liangji sent an official letter to Chong'en, asking Chong'en to rescue Zhang Liangji who was besieged, Wei Ze felt that Zhang Liangji felt very unlucky to do this.

"Chief of General Staff, do you want to capture Balizhuang where Zhang Liangji is located now?" Ruan Xihao asked.

"What do you think?" Weeser asked rhetorically.

"This ......, since we are now encircling the point to send reinforcements, it is naturally better to keep Zhang Liangji." Nguyen Hee Ho replied.

"Since it is a siege point to send reinforcements, how many reinforcements will arrive in Linqing in a short period of time?" Wei Ze continued to ask Ruan Xihao.

"This ......, I got the news from the captives, and the Qing army has no reinforcements in the short term." Nguyen Hee Ho replied.

"Since there are no reinforcements, what kind of reinforcements are still fighting? Let's arrange it and take Linqing down. ”

Ruan Xihao thought that this was indeed the case, and was about to gather the staff officers to make a plan, but he heard Wei Ze say: "All the prisoners are still handed over to the Twist Army to deal with." ”

Hearing this order, Ruan Xihao was slightly stunned. Along the way, Weese's troops have always been able to fight the war of annihilation extremely effectively. The Twisters, who had a large number of cavalry, were greatly credited. Relying on Weezer's infantry, they couldn't fight such a clean and neat battle of annihilation no matter what.

Similarly, the Twist Army basically did not leave any alive in the pursuit battle. The Qing army's military salaries and property were all carried with them, and everyone came out to serve as soldiers for these money. For the sake of money, the Qing army will fight for their lives. The Twist Army knows this very well, and in order to avoid trouble in the future, they can only make a dead hand. And although Wei Ze didn't think it was necessary to give special preferential treatment to Qing prisoners, he really let him kill prisoners on a large scale, and Wei Ze couldn't do it. Therefore, letting the Twist Army dispose of the prisoners is tantamount to letting the Twist Army execute these people.

Ruan Xihao didn't have any special concept of this, at this time, Wei Ze's troops were invincible wherever they went, but after all, everyone was in the Manchu control area, who knows how many Qing troops will be killed in the future. The execution of prisoners can also solve the trouble, and when Ruan Xihao defected to Wei Ze, he participated in the massacre of Wujia Town, Wuzhou, Guangxi. At that time, the entire Wujia Town was slaughtered.

Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to one's own people, if Ruan Xihao let go of the people of Wujiazhen, will the people of Wujiazhen think that Ruan Xihao is a "life-saving benefactor"? That's absolutely impossible. They will only think that they are blessed by their ancestors that they are not dead, and as for Ruan Xihao's behavior, the people in Wujiazhen will only think that Ruan Xihao harbors evil intentions.

With the determination of the entire purpose of the campaign, Zhang Liangji's fate was also determined. On the morning of the 28th, the three brigades brought 12 guns to solve the problem of Balizhuang by the enemy. According to Zhang Liangji's thoughts, someone has to come to stop him at this time, so Zhang Liangji has taken the initiative to beg for death, even if he is caught by the Shu Yue bandits, it can be regarded as following the process of "showing" in the Manchu officialdom. You must know that in the Manchu officialdom, this "show" is very important. It doesn't matter whether you die or not, but whether you have taken the initiative to ask for death or not, that is the difference between the world and the mud.

If you look at it from the perspective of officialdom, Master Zhang Liangji's idea is very correct. However, the army below is not a person in the officialdom, and the artillery fire of the Cantonese bandits is fierce, and they can't hold it anymore. At this time, everyone didn't expect to arrest the governor Zhang Liangji and send it to the Cantonese bandits for merit, even if it was an extremely loyal cousin. As for how Master Zhang Liangji wants to put on a show, no one cares about the officers and soldiers who are scurrying around like flies under their heads.

As a result, when the Taiping army rushed into the courtyard of the rich family where the governor of Shandong, Zhang Liangji, was standing by a well, and when he saw someone coming in, he firmly grabbed the well rope in his hand and jumped into the well.

Coincidentally, when the Taiping army attacked Linqing City, which was already panicked and had no fighting spirit, Zhang Jigong, the lord of Linqing Zhizhou, also jumped into the well. After all, this is a state city, and Lord Zhang Jigong's personal entourage watched Lord Zhang throw himself into the well. This group of lovers did not go to save Master Zhang Jigong, but went out to surrender to the Taiping army. When these guys who took the initiative to surrender took the Taiping Army to salvage Master Zhang Jigong from the well, Lord Zhang held the well rope tightly in his hand, and his lips were purple from the cold.

Looking at the crowd of people who had rescued him for so long, Master Zhang Jigong did not look grateful, but had a look of resentment. I think it's because these people are late to save people, so Master Zhang has been soaking in the well for a long time, and he feels that he is frozen. rg

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