For the Qing army in Fengshan County, they have been caught in the cracks during this time, and the pressure is quite great.

When the Zuo Battalion reported to Gao Penglai, the general commander, that the Zuo Battalion had been captured by the Haikou Bandits, for the purpose of shirking responsibility, the officials of Fengshan County immediately reported the incident to the Taiwan government, but the subsequent development did not shirk the responsibility and pressure to the top as they imagined, but was pressed down by the top.

The Taiwan prefect attaches great importance to this, because Taiwan has not been very peaceful in recent years, and a few years after the Lin Shuangwen rebellion, a small group of Tiandi such as Chen Zhuangzhou will rebel one after another, in order to prevent the emergence of a rebellion like Lin Shuangwen that will affect the whole of Taiwan, the Taiwan prefect strictly ordered Fengshan County to immediately counterattack the left camp.

As a result, Fengshan County had to take military action to cope with the pressure from above, and finally dispatched nearly 1,000 men to besiege Zuoying.

Even if they have an absolute advantage in troops, but they still did not launch a strong attack, firstly, the Yiren combat effectiveness returned by Gao Peng is extremely strong, and the garrisons, staff generals and other generals in Fengshan County are unwilling to attack, and secondly, fighting is not only a high-risk action for them, but also has a rich return, there is a promotion fee, and there is a double salary for fighting, of course, these benefits cannot all fall into the pockets of small soldiers, the vast majority of them are actually the welfare of officers, so they prefer to surround and not fight, the longer it drags on, the greater the wealth.

Of course, this civil official can also benefit from the war, but he values the credit of recovering the left battalion, and as a result, he is isolated by a group of generals who are not willing to work hard and want to get rich.

Fighting a war costs money, and the county magistrate naturally knows this, and fighting a war is also a good time to make money, and he knows it even more. Therefore, the county order is also desperately raising food and salary these days, the financial situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is very unsound, and it is impossible for him to get the food and salary allocated from above, according to the convention, he can only temporarily raise it from the local area, that is, to pay additional taxes, and the donation is a temporary tax, which does not belong to the imperial court's regular tax, and there is no certain amount, and there is a large space for operation.

As a result, the increase in taxes caused a lot of public resentment, the merchants in the city were unhappy, the landlords in the countryside were not happy, but the ordinary people were even more unhappy than these people, because the social pressure would always be transmitted downward, and the merchants would let their employees bear the burden, at least part of it, so the income of the urban employees was greatly reduced, and the landlords directly increased the rent to the tenants, and the tenants' already difficult life immediately fell into difficulty, and the affected people were not only these people. Almost all the city's inhabitants were affected, because they found that with the outbreak of war, the prices of goods in the cities were rampantly raised, and the common people insulted the merchants for hoarding, but the government could not do anything to the merchants because the merchants paid taxes, and they also took the benefits of the merchants, but did not want to do it.

As a result, most of the pressure was actually borne by the bottom of the society, and the bottom of the society is the soil where heaven and earth will survive. At this time, as long as someone stands up to take the lead, a large number of people who are in trouble in their lives will be carried away by a wave of resentment and will rise up to resist.

Chen Zhouquan, who was hiding in Changhua, heard the news and immediately realized that his opportunity to revolt had come, and immediately led dozens of backbones to go south to Fengshan in the guise of merchants, and finally successfully launched an uprising and occupied Fengshan County.

Fengshan County fell, the county order committed suicide, and the Fengshan staff general who led the troops in the Lianchitan area immediately arrested Gao Peng, who was guilty of meritorious service among the generals, and Gao Peng died in the army that night, and it was rumored that he committed suicide in fear of crime. Obviously, Gao Peng has become a scapegoat, and all the blame will definitely be pushed on his head by his bosses, who have taken Gao Peng's money, so Gao Peng must die.

After the fall of the county seat, in fact, these senior officers such as the general and the general also began to panic, they knew that the matter was big, the county seat was lost, and an officer died, this is no longer a crime that can always be shouldered, how many of them will lose their heads, how many people will be exiled, it is not easy to say.

So in addition to arresting Gao Peng as soon as possible, they also discussed countermeasures together. In the end, it was decided to immediately counterattack the county seat, so he immediately withdrew his troops from Lianchitan and returned to the county seat; On the one hand, he urgently asked the government for help, of course it was better for him to recover Fengshan County, and if he couldn't recover it, he had to count on the elite pacesetters of the prefect to come to the rescue.

In addition, in order to reduce their own guilt, they desperately exaggerated the enemy's strength, just like the previous Zuo Battalion General Gao Peng. The red-haired pirates who captured the left camp were exaggerated to 5,000 people, and the strength of the Tiandihui that captured Fengshan County was even exaggerated to tens of thousands.

After their warning documents were sent to the Taiwan government through the fast horses of the post station, it is not known whether the Taiwan government will choose to dispatch elite governor pacesetters, but far water cannot quench the thirst of the near, their emergency documents have not been delivered, and they have not yet succeeded in counterattacking Fengshan County, but the red-haired pirates of the left battalion have been dispatched.

After the Qing army understood this situation, they immediately chose to continue to storm Fengshan County, if they could take down Fengshan County before the red-haired pirates arrived, and then rely on the county defense of the county, there was still a chance to wait for the reinforcements of Fucheng, if they could not beat the county seat, they were attacked by the red-haired pirates behind them, and under the attack on both sides, all the generals thought that they were invincible.

There is also a reason why he chose to attack Fengshan County with all his might, rather than defeat the red-haired pirates first. Because they had already fought with the red hair, although they did not take the initiative to attack the red haired pirates, but the red haired pirates took the initiative to attack the Qing army twice, and easily defeated the Banping Mountain and Dagu Mountain they guarded, and the Qing soldiers who fled back were all extremely afraid of the combat effectiveness of the red haired pirates; At the same time, last year, they fought a battle with Chen Zhouquan of the Tiandihui, Chen Zhouquan did not defeat the county government, nor did he defeat the attack on Shijingxun, compared with the two, they thought that the combat effectiveness of the Tiandihui was not worth mentioning, and if they pressed the whole army, they could easily recapture Fengshan County.

Before dark on the first day of the Red Haikou army, the Qing army's scouts reported the situation, and the next morning they set out from Fengdanxun, near the county seat, and attacked the county seat with all their might.

They originally planned to capture the county seat in one day, but their attack was heavy and rainy, and the fight was particularly lively, but after a day of fighting, only a dozen people died, and they didn't even climb the city wall.

The angry staff general wanted to ask the three generals in charge of the attack to be guilty, and only after the thousand general supposed, did they agree to give them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and strictly ordered them to conquer the county town the next day, otherwise military law would be involved.

But they underestimated the speed of the Red-Haired Bandit, who didn't give them another day to attack calmly, and just before they attacked the next day, the Red-Haired Bandar appeared behind them.