Chapter 122: The Game
The battle of Yuezhou City lasted for a long time, a large part of the Qing army was wiped out in this battle, and the remaining Qing army also became prisoners of the Fu Han army, and the officials below the governor Zhang Changen were also captured by the Fu Han army.
After eliminating the Qing army in the south, Ning Yu took a short rest, and when the morale of the army recovered slightly, he set off towards Luoxiao Mountain, with high morale and smiles on everyone's faces.
At this time, the Qing army in Luoxiao Mountain was only more than 7,000 people, and they were blocked by the Fu Han army on the mountain and could not move, especially with the repeated failure of the attack, the morale of the Qing army on the mountain dropped sharply, and many people began to secretly run down the mountain and surrender to the Fu Han army.
In this case, the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, and Wang Xuan's heart has begun to waver, if he votes for the Han army at this time, he must not be too embarrassed by himself.
As for what is loyal to the Qing Dynasty and the emperor, it can be compared to his own life?
But Wang Xuan has also read the book of sages, if he takes the initiative to surrender, he is a little reluctant to go on this face, he thinks in his heart, whether to send his cronies to contact, talk about the conditions of surrender, and then come to three invitations and three concessions, so that he pretends to be forced by his subordinates to surrender, and he will have face.
It's just that before Wang Xuan sent someone down the mountain, Ning Yu had already planted Zhang Changen's governor banner at the foot of the mountain, but this time Wang Xuan was completely shocked, what does the governor flag mean? explained their back road, and Zhang Changen was also brought down by a nest.
How long has it been? Wang Xuan's heart was a little shocked, he couldn't care about any decency anymore, and gathered all the green camp generals.
"Ladies and gentlemen, now that our army has become a lone army and is trapped on this Luoxiao Mountain, what is the best countermeasure?" Wang Xuan said quietly while looking at the expressions of the generals in the camp.
At this time, everyone also knew that their back road was cut off, and they were also panicked in their hearts, and their faces were gloomy, and someone immediately said: "Please give us a way to live." ”
Wang Xuan also thought the same thing in his heart, but he pretended to sigh on his face, and even felt a little grief-stricken, "If there is a glimmer of life, I should do my best to protect you, but there is no way out at the moment." ”
All the generals opened their mouths in unison: "General, this battle is not our incompetence, it is really the guns of the Fu Han army, the defeat of our army is no longer a general, it should be mainly to protect our army, it is better to negotiate peace with the Fu Han army." ”
The so-called peace, the big guys know in their hearts, it's just a surrender to change the word, for them, the green battalion generals, there is no psychological burden at all, the big guys are all from Huguang, and the villagers will naturally not embarrass the villagers.
Out of this consideration, Wang Xuan also sent someone to contact the Fu Han army and expressed his intention to surrender.
After Ning Yu learned the news, he was also very happy, expressing his willingness to accept Wang Xuan's surrender, and would not be embarrassed by the surrender of troops and generals, as long as they were reorganized, they would be allowed to lead the troops at that time.
For this result, Wang Xuan didn't dare to think of it, it was completely whimsical to want to preserve his military power in this situation, but at this time, Ning Yu was willing to give him such hope, so he naturally did his best.
In fact, in this battle, there were quite a few officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion who surrendered, totaling at least 12,000 people, and only about 6,000 Green Battalion soldiers actually died on the battlefield, and some of them ran away on their own.
As for the green battalion generals who surrendered more than 1,000 generals, there are as many as dozens of people, and how to deal with these people will directly affect the view of the green battalion army on the Fu Han army. Like Yue Lingfeng and Xu Mingyuan before, if it weren't for these two people as examples, these officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion would not have surrendered so smoothly.
To put it bluntly, fighting the world is also a process of fighting for people's hearts, and Ning Yu's attitude towards the green battalion generals has always been Huairou, and only by attracting these people to join the Han army as much as possible can we fight this war against the Qing Dynasty.
Ning Yu is going to send these generals to the Fuhan Army's martial arts hall to study, as for the soldiers of the green battalion, they will be executed for the most heinous crimes to boost the hearts of the people, and the rest will cut off their braids, cut off the old and weak among them, and turn them to other uses, as for the remaining elite forces, they will be sent to the new barracks to start training and complete ideological education courses again.
These recruits will also be scattered to supplement the divisions and regiments, so as to prevent them from holding together, after such an operation, those green battalion soldiers will also know what is good or bad, and naturally there will be no second thoughts.
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After the battle of Yuezhou, Ning Yu also began to garrison and repair in Yuezhou, and at this time, news from other directions also came, making Ning Yu's brows suddenly stretch and wrinkle.
First of all, Ning Zhongyi's second main division, there was no Qing troops to stop it along the way, and he had already led his troops to capture Changde, and was preparing to continue southward and sweep the entire Hunan. But at the same time, the 40,000 green battalions of the Qing army's Liangguang reinforcements have arrived in Hengzhou, and they will arrive in Changsha in a few days.
In addition, what worries Ning Yu the most is that according to the news from the spies, the green battalion of the four provinces of Chabina, with a total of 70,000 Qing troops, is rapidly assembling and will leave Nanchang to attack Jiujiang by July at the latest. And Nian Qianyao's 30,000 Shaanxi soldiers are also gathering in Xing'an Mansion, making the appearance of approaching Yunyang.
This is the 100,000 Green Battalion, not to mention the 50,000 Eight Banner soldiers and horses from the Xishan Battalion of the Beijing Division, if all of them are gathered together at that time, this is a 150,000 army, and if you add 40,000 taels of soldiers and horses, this is a real 200,000 army.
Ning Yu believed that at this time, his father and Mr. Cui were also trying to expand their military strength to resist the attack of the Qing army on three sides, but they had to play tricks along the way, and they must first eliminate or cripple the Qing soldiers in Liangguang before the end of the month, otherwise they would be threatened by the enemy. The second is to send these more than 10,000 prisoners back to Wuchang for reorganization, and then it can also strengthen the strength of the current Han army, and finally after relieving the worries, go east into Jiangxi and coerce Jiangnan.
On May 18, the 60th year of Kangxi, Ning Yu arranged for Xue Cheng, the commander of the second regiment, to lead the troops to send the 10,000 green battalion troops back to Wuchang for changes, and he led the remaining 8,000 people of the first division from Yuezhou out of Xiangyin to coerce Changsha. In addition, Ning Yu also sent an order to Ning Zhongyi, asking him to lead the army from Changde to Yiyang to form a flank attack on Changsha.
It can be said that the current Fu Han army is competing with the Qing army for time, whoever can occupy Changsha first will occupy the initiative in the battle first, Yuezhou, Changde and Hengzhou are carrying out a life and death game around Changsha.