Li Wen'an was ordered by the young Zhan Shiweng Tongshu of the Zhan Shifu to go to Chaohu Lake to assist him in preparing grain and grass and setting up a regiment to practice righteousness and bravery. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Weng Tongshu is the eldest son of Weng Xincun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in the capital, and came to Jiangnan to assist the minister Qi Shan to assist in the military affairs of the Jiangbei camp.

In order to prepare for grain and grass this time, he first came to Luzhou, and after transporting a lot of grain, he heard that there was a lot of grain in the Chaohu area, so he called Li Wen'an and went to Chaoxian County on the edge of Chaohu Lake to supervise the transportation of grain and grass to Yangzhou. Since the waterway of the Yangtze River has been occupied by long-haired thieves, they can only recruit people, plus some regiments to train guards, and escort them all the way to the Jiangbei camp in Yangzhou by land.

Unexpectedly, not long after Li Wenan arrived in Chao County, he fell ill. But Weng Tongshu was a bit mean and rigid, and in order to make meritorious contributions, he was a little harsh on Li Wenan, and ordered him to go to the countryside with illness and collect grain everywhere.

Li Wenan saw that he couldn't bear it, so he wrote to Li Hongzhang, the second son of the newly promoted Lufeng Taoist and the governor of Luzhou, asking him to come forward to intercede, let him recover from his illness and then urge the payment of food.

Li Hongzhang had no choice but to order his elder brother Li Hanzhang and his third brother Li Yunzhang to lead 2,000 Qing soldiers and Tuan Yong to rush to Chaoxian County to rescue, and at the same time prepare to take his old father back to Feixi Town outside Luzhou City for treatment.

Originally, he also wanted to transfer the Qing army from Hezhou back to the capital city of Luzhou, concentrate his forces, and prepare to attack the city of Luzhou. Unexpectedly, the long-haired thief soldiers actually sent the thief chieftain pseudo-wing king Shi Dakai to personally lead the troops out, and also occupied Hezhou, these, not only Chaoxian County is dangerous, but even he himself and Feixi Town are also dangerous.

However, what Li Hongzhang didn't expect was that Li Hanzhang and Li Yunzhang led the troops, and before they arrived in Chao County, they encountered an oncoming defeated army. After asking carefully, he learned that Weng Tongshu had not waited for the long-haired thieves to attack Chao County, so he abandoned the city and fled, leading the troops to flee to Yangzhou by detour. Leaving the sick Li Wen'an, fortunately, a group of regimental Lian Xiangyong knew that Li Wen'an was the old father of the new prefect Li Hongzhang, and helped carry him by boat from Chaohu Lake waterway and rushed back to Feixi.

The two of them were a little relieved. Li Hanzhang asked his younger brother Li Yunzhang to lead 500 troops, chase his father from the waterway, and take him back to Feixi safely. He himself led the remaining 500 Qing soldiers to train bravely and continued to rush to Chao County. Before he arrived, he saw a group of long-haired thieves rushing over like a tsunami, Li Hanzhang calmly ordered the Qing soldiers to form a formation to prepare to resist, but he didn't expect that the long-haired thieves on the opposite side, under the leadership of several generals, were extremely brave, and rushed into the Qing army formation in a few strokes, and the Qing army camp was in chaos.

Li Hanzhang saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly fled back with a group of Qing soldiers, of the 1,500 Qing soldiers, only 300 fled back, and the rest were either killed on the spot, or surrendered on their knees and were captured.

When he fled back to Feixi Town, Li Hanzhang found that his father Li Wen'an had also arrived at the mouth of the Nanqi River in Chaohu, but he was already dying, and he died as soon as he arrived in Feixi.

Li Hongzhang learned that his father, who was fine a few days ago, actually returned to heaven like this, and he was very angry in his heart, especially for Weng Tongshu, who regarded him as the culprit who killed his father. The so-called revenge is not shared, and the Li brothers hate to kill him.

However, at this moment, in the face of the long-haired thieves who occupied Chaoxian County and would always go north along the shore of Chaohu Lake, Li Hongzhang didn't care about giving his father a big funeral, and buried Li Wenan hastily.

He put on linen and filial piety, stood outside the temporary government office in Feixi Town, and personally arranged for the Qing army to block the pass between Hefei City and Chao County, strengthen the checkpoint guards, and prepare to welcome the long-haired thieves to attack.

He was also at a loss for words. The emperor rewarded him as the prefect of Luzhou, but Hefei City, which was governed by Luzhou, was still in the hands of long-haired thieves. He even set up the prefect's yamen temporarily in Feixi Town, outside Hefei.

I wanted to besiege Hefei City, but I didn't expect that now there will be a rescue of long-haired thieves, once they will be divided, the power will rise, if you want to conquer Hefei City again, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult.

Therefore, he hurriedly sent someone to send an urgent report to Yuan Jiasan, the left capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court stationed in Maozhou and Mengcheng to exterminate the bandits, asking him to send troops to capture Hefei City with him and defeat the long-haired thieves who came to attack.

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At this time, the average soldiers in Chaohu County were celebrating one victory after another.

In a few days, Shi Dakai, the king of wings, led them, with a force of more than 2,000 people, successively captured the city of Hezhou and the county seat of Hanshan, and then captured all the gentry of the two places, and the family property was used to fill the army, and burned all their land deeds and leases, and distributed the land to the poor people in the territory, attracting the support of the poor people nearby.

Then, Shi Dakai threw out his name: Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, erected a flag to recruit troops, and for a time, the children of peasant families enthusiastically joined the army, and even some of the original regimental training also joined the Taiping Army because they no longer had to rely on the landlord's land rent, and in two days, more than 3,000 soldiers were recruited.

Shi Dakai himself ordered Shi Xiangzhen and Shi Zhenlun to lead 2,000 troops to attack Wuwei Prefecture, and he led the remaining 3,000 people to attack Chaoxian. Unexpectedly, when I arrived in Chao County, I found that the Qing soldiers in Chao County had abandoned the city and fled.

Shi Dakai was overjoyed. In this way, Chaoxian and Hefei City have become one as soon as they see it, as long as the Qing soldiers besieging Hefei City are defeated, they will be able to join Hu Yixuan's troops who occupy Hefei City. Moreover, Hu Yixuan is not a close confidant of the East King, and he will not help the East King spy on him.

Shi Dakaidang even sent a few personal soldiers to Hefei City on horseback to report the news, inviting Hu Yixuan to lead the troops out of the city and attack the Qing demon himself. He personally led the remaining 3,000 men to attack the Qing soldiers outside Hefei with great momentum.

The two sides met in a village called Twenty Lipu in the south of Hefei.

Shi Dakai's 3,000 Taiping soldiers, including 1,500 elite soldiers, carried 300 foreign guns and 500 bird guns, and the fire was very fierce. And the Qing soldiers were also 500 birds, but before the Taiping soldiers approached, they slammed their guns.

Shi Dakai did not give the order to open fire until he was within fifty paces. After a round of muskets, the Shi brothers took the lead and led the Taiping soldiers to rush forward to kill.

Li Hongzhang saw that the situation was not good, and he also went into battle in person, wearing filial piety cloth to lead the Li brothers to swing their knives forward, and the two sides slashed together.

At this time, Hu Yixuan in Hefei finally opened the city gate, led the Taiping army in the city to kill, and attacked the Qing army with Shi Dakai and others.

The Qing army was defeated and fled.

Shi Dakai led his troops to kill and disperse the three Qing troops, occupied the Qing army barracks, and the temporary prefect yamen of Li Hongzhang in Feixi Town. This seizure was quite large, Shi Dakai seized 100,000 stone of grain, as well as thousands of bird guns, three or four thousand waist knives and spears and other weapons, gunpowder and silver, and suddenly became rich.

Shi Dakai and Hu Yixuan rendezvous, and there is no need to elaborate on the intimacy and celebration of the defeat of the Qing demon.

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Li Hongzhang and his brothers were also wounded, but fortunately, under the courageous struggle of a group of regiments, they broke through to Shouzhou in the north.

However, Li Hongzhang only served as the governor of Luzhou and Lufeng Daotai for less than two months, but because of the defeat in this war, his official position and status were completely lost.

Originally, because he conquered Hezhou and Hanshan, he was rewarded by the imperial court that was in urgent need of victory, and was promoted from a minor official of the seventh grade to a Taoist of the fourth grade in one fell swoop.

Even Fuji, the governor of Anman, who originally promoted him, also received the filial piety of Zhang Guangdi, the governor of Luzhou Mansion, and also in order to clear up his own involvement, and pushed the defeat of the war on Li Hongzhang's head. It is said that it is all because Li Hongzhang wantonly handled his father's funeral, slacked off the military, and neglected to take precautions, allowing the long-haired thieves to take advantage of the chaos and bury the good situation of recovering Luzhou.

Therefore, Fuji petitioned the imperial court to dismiss Li Hongzhang from the position of Lufeng Taoist and the prefect of Luzhou, and Zhang Guang was appointed as the prefect of Luzhou, and formed a regiment to regain Luzhou.

The efficiency of the imperial court was very fast, and within a few days there was an edict back, and they were all appointed according to Fukuji's request.

As a result, poor Li Hongzhang became a white body with no real job.

However, at this time, a letter attracted Li Hongzhang's attention: his father's old friend of the same year, the new governor of the south of the country and the assistant minister of the regimental training of the two provinces of Huguang and Guangzhou, and Zeng Guofan, who supervised the military affairs of the two provinces of the south and the north, learned that Li's father was sick in the same year, and sent a letter of condolences and invited Li Hongzhang to help supervise the military affairs.

Speaking of which, Zeng Guofan can be regarded as Li Hongzhang's teacher. At Li Hongzhang's most helpless moment, he came to invite, Li Hongzhang was grateful, and hurriedly packed his luggage, leaving only his third brother Li Yunzhang to take care of the family property and spy on the news in Luzhou, and he took the rest of his brothers to Wuchang to go to Zeng Guofan.