Section 159 The Alliance Under the City
After the breakthrough of Ming City, Zhu Jinglun's XA County Yong stayed to rest and wait to see the development trend of Enping's Tuke Fight. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This time, the Hakka people's bravery was defeated by the manpower, financial resources, and organizational strength of the Cantonese people, who had the money to recruit people and buy guns, and were greatly superior to the Hakka people in terms of weapons and equipment, and they were beaten back step by step.
Zhu Jinglun sat in Xin'an, and constantly received all kinds of news, it is said that the Hakka people resisted extremely fiercely, especially when they surrounded their hometown, they could retreat from the land of the Turen, but how to retreat from their hometown?
There are often thirty or fifty Hakka young people who rush into the army of the Turen and slash indiscriminately, not because they are not afraid of death, but because there are only women and children left in the village behind them.
There is a bloody term in the Tuke weapon fight, called shovel village, that is, to uproot a whole village, when the Hakka people are strong, this kind of thing is not less, after killing people, they will burn the village, the revenge of the natives is also barbaric, but the natives have a problem, the economic concept seems to be stronger, such as Tan Cai, he does not kill people completely, kills all the men, leaves the women, and buys them in the courtyard of Macau after playing, if the men can catch them, they will not kill, and sell them to foreigners as piglets.
He bought rifles, recruited villagers, and invested so much that he relied on these things to recover his costs.
Seeing that villages were uprooted one by one, the Hakka people continued to retreat, and the Hakka strongholds in Hengpi, Niujiang, Langdi, Datian, and Naji were lost one after another, and finally forced to retreat to the Wukeng Mountains in Kaiping, L County, and the Hakka people in an entire county were eradicated.
At this time, the Hakka people in other counties were greatly shocked, and they all petitioned the local government, looking for Fangshan to hope to stop the fighting, and the Hakka gentry of Gaoming and Gaoyao counties, who had always had illusions, talked with the Guangfu squires one after another, and under the personal witness of Zhu Jinglun, they made a township covenant and vowed never to invade each other.
The Hakka people made the biggest concession and returned all the encroached fields, except for Enping, the other five counties, all of a sudden returned to before the fight, at this time everyone found that all these years of fighting, except for the dead people like the sea, nothing has changed, and then the family wears filial piety, first bury relatives.
Because of Enping, it can be said that the Hakka people temporarily signed an alliance under the city, and BJ's Xianfeng had much backbone, and he refused to sign the alliance under the city.
Anyway, they also arrested their peace envoys, so there is no need to negotiate, it is estimated that it was the literati who fooled him and felt that he was sure of victory, Xianfeng had a hot brain at this time, and decided to go to war.
Xianfeng immediately instructed Monk Greenqin that he didn't have to worry about the situation, and he must be beaten hard. Instruct the governor of Zhili, Hengfu, to instigate the local militia to block the back road of the foreigners in TJ and beat him hard to vent the anger of the people. Tell the people to buy the heads of the Yi people with a lot of money, 50 taels for the Heiyi (Indian soldiers), 100 taels for the Baiyi (British), 1,000 taels for those who can kill the leader, and 5,000 taels for those who can burn the ships. At the same time, he reprimanded Gui Liang, who had always insisted on peace talks, was still in a dream, and he Xianfeng was going to wake up first.
The Anglo-French forces also wanted to fight at this time, and their negotiators were arrested, but they still didn't fight? Can't afford to lose this person.
So he marched to Tongzhou, and in the area of Zhangjiawan, he fought with the Mongolian cavalry under Seng Lingqin and a large number of Qing infantry.
More than 1,500 people under the first war were killed and wounded by the monk Greenqin, and their own casualties were only 23 people, and at the same time occupied Zhangjiawan, after which the British and French troops plundered Zhangjiawan, local women committed suicide to avoid humiliation, and even the women in Qinglou swallowed opium in the big smoke house, and finally most of them were rescued by foreigners, it is estimated that the purity is not enough, and profiteers can sometimes do good things.
Zhangjiawan fell, and then Tongzhou County surrendered without a fight. After the British and French troops entered the city, they looted again, and in order to rectify military discipline, Grant hanged a Hong Kong coolie who was very fierce in robbery, and whipped countless people in public, so as to suppress the army's robbery atmosphere and maintain military discipline.
Xianfeng continued to command the battle at this time, telling Seng Lingqin the results of his interrogation of the foreigners' prisoners, telling the foreigners the tactics of war, and giving Seng Greenqin ideas. At the same time, let Hengfu urge TJ's militia to attack.
But Jingyou Ziwei's mouth, this group of gangsters in TJ Wei usually brag is a good hand, and they really move seriously, one by one, and no one dares to go to the front line at all.
It also had to rely on the Mongol cavalry of the monk king.
Three days later, the Anglo-French army marched to Bali Bridge, and another major battle broke out.
Needless to say, the monk king was defeated again, and more than 20,000 Mongolian cavalry were wiped out, but their death won the respect of the British and French forces, and they were very moved by their courage.
However, the Anglo-French alliance thought that the weapons of the Mongol cavalry were too poor, and in front of the cavalry, the Anglo-French alliance formed an infantry phalanx to defend, with soldiers on all sides and artillery in the center, and set up bayonet defenses.
But the Mongols were light cavalry, good at mounted archery, and they repeatedly rushed into thirty or forty meters to throw bows and arrows. The foreigners found that the Mongols' bows and arrows were very erratic, basically no lethality, and tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry exchanged their lives for archery opportunities, but in the end only more than 20 foreigners were killed or wounded. Of course, this casualty is controversial, and various sources in later generations show that it ranges from 2 to 1,000 people.
Because it is difficult for people to understand, tens of thousands of cavalry shoot arrows at close range, and the British and French troops are all cloth uniforms, not even a piece of armor, how can there be almost no casualties.
Zhu Jinglun later heard an explanation, it is said that these brave Mongolian cavalry are all directly transferred from the Mongolian steppe prince's personal guards, usually herdsmen, riding horses and archery skills still have, but because the Qing Dynasty demarcated the Mongolian tribes to the grassland, so the tribes no longer swim between each other, there is no territory dispute, as a result, these herdsmen can no longer pull the hard bow of the ancestral era, usually use the light bow for hunting.
And when they arrived at BJ, they didn't bring bows and arrows at all, because the Qing army's arsenal had bows and arrows, but when they arrived in Beijing, they found that they couldn't pull away the heavy arrows of the military Qing bow.
The imperial court could only urgently purchase light bows and arrows in BJ, and there were a large number of bow and arrow shops in BJ's era, but the bows and arrows they made were not military bows and arrows, but light bows for the children of the Eight Banners, so these Mongolian cavalry still pulled open. It's just that these bows and arrows themselves are for people to play, so for the convenience of archery, all of them only use half of the feathers, usually the young masters of the Eight Banners use it to shoot chickens and ducks at close range, but once they are used for battle, more than ten meters away, the arrows shot out will only be fluttering, and there is no accuracy at all.
In the final analysis, the kung fu is gone, the children of the Manchurian Eight Banners no longer hang their arms every day, they can't pull the 80-pound heavy bow of their ancestors, and even the Mongolian herdsmen living in the steppe don't have the technology of Genghis Khan's era.
Therefore, it can be said that if they have the ability to shoot at the British and French infantry in cloth clothes at close range, they will definitely make the coalition army cool and crooked.
As a result of the slack of armaments, the Mongol cavalry tragically won a defeat, the British and French forces easily won the battle of Baliqiao, and Emperor Xianfeng went to Rehe to patrol the hunt.
What happened to BJ, Zhu Jinglun has not received the news for the time being, he came to Guangzhou at this time, and the Tuke weapon fighting in Wuyi and six counties has temporarily subsided, and he is here to report to Baigui.
At that time, he was ordered to take care of the people, and now that it is completed, of course he has to report back.
Bai Gui was worried about BJ's situation at this time, and he didn't know anything about how Zhu Jinglun ended the Tuke weapon fight so quickly.
Zhu Jinglun reported carefully, and by the way, he inadvertently revealed the fact that the Yongdu of XA County was equipped with a rifle, saying that it was not that he had concealed it before, but that you didn't ask.
Sure enough, Bai Gui was very concerned about this kind of thing, and hurriedly asked Zhu Jinglun where he got so many foreign guns, and Zhu Jinglun replied that he bought it, and the money was withdrawn from the bureau.
Of course, Bai Gui knew that the money must have been mentioned, but he was shocked that he didn't even know that Zhu Jinglun had quietly formed a musket team of tens of thousands of people, no wonder he could suppress the Tuke Arms Fight so quickly.
Zhu Jinglun strongly argued that he had mentioned it to Bai Gui, and it was Bai Gui who agreed, otherwise how could he dare to use such a large amount of money to buy foreign guns. I kindly reminded that when the report sank the American gunboat, Bai Gui himself would be suspicious, there were too many things during this time, and I couldn't keep Zhu Jinglun from saying it, and I didn't take it to heart.
So far, Bai Gui still has not doubted Zhu Jinglun's loyalty, but only to prevent his subordinates from being too strong, which is the common sense of an old bureaucrat at the governor level.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Jinglun immediately led the topic to the Tuke Weapon Fight, and told Bai Gui that he asked the squires of five of the six counties to make a township contract by himself, and agreed to abide by it, and everyone stopped fighting for the time being.
After that, Zhu Jinglun changed his words and said that he was very worried about this, and he was afraid that the two families would not be honest and settled, and there might be another dispute, and put forward a proposal.
That is, in the area where the Turks and Hakkers live together, in the places where the land of the Turks and Hakkers border, the army is stationed to take precautions, and a large-scale outbreak of armed fighting is organized at any time, and once there is a sign of it, it will be immediately strangled in accordance with the township agreement.
However, Zhu Jinglun said that his subordinate county warriors suffered heavy casualties, and they also had to guard against the Yingyi in Hong Kong, so they could not stay in other counties for a long time, and hoped that Bai Gui could send people to train new county warriors in each county.
If it was in the past, Bai Gui would definitely not think much about it, and directly handed over this matter to Zhu Jinglun to do, and then waited to hear the good news.
But this time, Bai Gui pondered for a long time.
In the end, he said: "Your county has been fighting for a long time, and it's time to transfer back to this county." What you said is also reasonable, these two Turks are both my Qing Dynasty people, and they have been fighting for a long time and have suffered heavy casualties, all of which are the victims of my Qing Dynasty. According to you, you have to station GIs in the area. Since you can't take care of XA County, I have a suitable candidate here, Deputy General Nanxiong and the Guangdong bandit Shi Wei (Dakai) have repeatedly fought bloody battles, and they will be stationed in Wuyi, which should be foolproof. Jinglun, what do you think? ”
Zhu Jinglun sighed secretly in his heart, Bai Gui really took precautions against himself, although he was not suspicious, but from today onwards, I am afraid that he will start to guard against and limit his strength.
Zhu Jinglun echoed: "My lord is thoughtful, Vice General Zhang is indeed old and serious, and he is worthy of a big responsibility. ”
Zhu Jinglun never thought that Bai Gui would choose to transfer Nanxiong's deputy general, what a coincidence, because the Nanxiong general soldier was Zhang Qianshan whom Zhu Jinglun knew! Zhu Jinglun didn't expect that the pit he picked in every possible way was finally jumped by Zhang Qianshan, the old man.