Chapter 25 Coalition Operations
During the Spring Festival of 1862, Chen Daxi's Twist Army continued to fight with the Qing soldiers in Runing Prefecture, harassing the soldiers defending the city at night from time to time, and the deadly officers and soldiers could not sleep and eat. Suddenly, Liu Chengzhong received a document from the minister of the Qin Mission to manage the military affairs of the three provinces. Yun: "This minister wants to sweep away the Chen rebel thief party through your aid, and it will be there soon." After Liu Chengzhong saw it, he was overjoyed, thinking that as soon as Lord Sheng arrived, Chen Daxi and the others would definitely die.
Now let's talk about Yingzhou. A team of twist troops sent by Chen Daxi, under the leadership of Zhang Lexing's Anhui Twist and Ma Ronghe's Taiping Army, launched an attack in Yingzhou. Bombarding the city wall with artillery, Jia Zhen, the governor of Anhui, wrote to the Qing court to request rapid support. At this time, Xianfeng was dead, and Tongzhi Doll became the emperor. Therefore, the two queen mothers of the east and west heard the music and hurriedly sent Shengbao and Yuan Jiasan to relieve the siege. Chen Daxi heard that Shengbao was going to pass through Runing and go to Yingzhou for reinforcements. It was decided to avoid its edge and look for an opportunity to set up an ambush. Therefore, the Twist army besieging Runing was withdrawn and ambushed in Yanglou Village, twenty miles west of Pingyu Street. Shengbao's troops have always been lax in military discipline, committing adultery and plundering everywhere they go, and doing all kinds of evil. After the Shengbao forward troops arrived in Runing, they heard that Chen Daxi's Twist Army had heard the wind and left, and withdrew their troops. They all believed that this was due to the prestige of the victorious army. After eating and taking cards, head towards Pingyu Street.
The forward troops encountered only a few twisters along the way, and they mostly fled without a fight. This made the enemy paralyzed, believing that it was unfavorable to suppress bandits before, and that the officials in front were incapable of eating dry food. This group of Qing troops traveled all the way, and decided to meet a larger village on the road, so they ordered to enter the village to rest (rape and plunder). When passing by Yanglou Village, more than a dozen big girls dressed as women soldiers of the Twist Army saw the Qing soldiers approaching, so they took small steps and fled to the village. Here let's talk about the female warriors of the Twist Army. In the ranks of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there is a team of more than 100,000 female soldiers. This female soldier is the first female armed force in China and even in the world. Led by Hong Xuanjiao, the righteous sister of King Hong. This Hong Xuanjiao led the female army, often out of the battle with light makeup, wielding double swords, when the battle was fierce, she had undressed and ridden her horse, entered and exited the Manchu army, and was very brave, and the female soldiers broke the Qing army many times. Later, in the defense of Tianjing, he fought in the streets of Tianjing City, swearing to defend Tianjing to the death, but most of them were brutally killed by the Qing army. According to the records of Qing history, after many female soldiers were arrested, the Qing soldiers first took turns to annihilate and insult, and then cut out their hearts and hearts, most of them were tortured by Ling Chi, and even cut off the flesh and stuffed it into the mouths of the female soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or threw it into the noisy crowd of onlookers, the cruelty of the scene was unbearable. And our Pingyu Street Yu Army, the sister-in-law and son of the Chen family are a female general, riding inferior horses, making guns and sticks, and Chen Daxi rushed to kill the Qing soldiers many times. and sister-in-law's subordinates, there are also dozens of female soldiers who are five big and three thick.
When this group of Qing soldiers saw it, they had the idea of going into the village to make a move. Unexpectedly, as soon as they entered the village, the Twist Army surrounded them from all directions, and their bows and arrows were unstoppable. The Qing troops were defeated, and they withdrew to the village, blocking the road with people's tables, chairs, and trees, and building fortifications. Seeing this, Chen Daxi ordered the soldiers to dig ditches and set up cards around the village to surround the village. ------ when Chen Daxi mobilized troops to ambush, he had already transferred the people of the village and the money and grain to Pingyu Street. At this time, there is nothing but these Qing soldiers! Three days later, the Qing army ran out of food, so they had to kill horses to satisfy their hunger. At this time, Yang Feixiong, the deputy general of Shengbao's center, arrived in Runing, and heard that the front was trapped, so he divided his troops with Zhang Yao and Wu Yuanbing to relieve the siege in three ways, and the Qing soldiers in Yanglou Village broke through and fled to Runing Mansion. Shengbao's battalion troops saw that Chen Daxi was overjoyed, and they were afraid of delaying the rescue of Yingzhou, so they decided not to go to Runing, but diverted to Shenqiu, Taihe, and Xiangcheng, and stationed the battalion in Shenqiu Huaidian Town. Shengbao urgently ordered Yang Feixiong to rush to Shenqiu to rendezvous.
When the Shengbao advance withdrew, Chen Daxi commanded the Twist Army to follow and re-encircled Runing Mansion. Liu Chengzhong saw that the city was besieged again, and Yang Feixiong was about to be transferred away again, but he was terrified. hurriedly sent a message to Shengbao, asking Yang Feixiong to stay, and the text burst into tears. After Shengbao saw it, he analyzed the situation and had no choice but to leave Yang Feixiong behind. Chen Daxi's behavior of besieging Runing and harassing the fighting from time to time delayed the pace of the Qing army, making it impossible for some Qing troops to go to Yingzhou for help, and greatly relieving the combat pressure of the Yingzhou army. Therefore, Zhang Lexing, the king of Wo, asked Chen Daxi for a reward from the king of Yu!
At this time, Chen Decai, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led 30,000 horses from Luzhou to Xincai, and joined Zunwang Lai Wenguang, Qi Wang Liang Chengfu, and Hu Wang Lan Chengchun in Fuyang. After that, he ordered Ma Ronghe to go west with the army. Zhang Lexing, the king of Wo, ordered his nephew Zhang Zongyu to lead the Twist Army to fight with the Taiping Army. At this time, Chen Daxi, the king of Yu, was already waiting in Xincai. The kings decided to prepare to besiege the camps of Xincai and Shengbao, and lure the enemy army to the area of Xincai and Shenqiu. Then take the opportunity to pounce on Nanyang and enter the martial arts. The Twist Army and the Taiping Army jointly attacked Xincai City, and used gunpowder to collapse the city wall for more than 100 meters, Han Chengxuan of Xincai Zhi County urged the soldiers to defend to the death, but when the city wall collapsed, he was pressed below, only half a life, and urgently asked Zhang Yao of Runing Mansion for help. And Runing Mansion is not having a good time, but after receiving a letter asking for help, if it is not saved, after Xincai is lost, his own crime will be big. So I had to send Yin Guest and Liu Zishun to detour to Xiangcheng to Xincai for rescue. The Twist Army and the Taiping Army have been waiting in formation in Xincai Shili, which is very close to Xincai City, and the city wall can be seen with the naked eye. After the Qing soldiers arrived, the twisted troops fled, and Yin Guest and Liu Zishun led the troops to chase after them, and they were about to chase to the city wall. The Twist Army and the Taiping Army outflanked Yin Guest and Liu Zishun's troops from the two Ji, and the two retreated sharply when they saw this, but they were killed by the Twist Tai Sergeant, and the two escaped desperately. When Zhang Yao heard that the two had been defeated, he stopped advancing and camped and waited for the defeated army to converge to prevent the Twist Army from pursuing.
And the Shengbao camp has also been attacked by the Taiping army and the Twist army, and it is in a state of stalemate, unable to get out. Shengbao saw that the thieves were strong, and eastern Henan and northern Anhui seemed to be falling, so he had to report to the imperial court for help. The imperial court assigned Li Xuyi and Li Zhaoshou to lead troops to reinforce Yingzhou and Shenqiu, and concentrated their forces in Yingzhou, Shenqiu, and Xincai. At this time, the Taiping Army and the Twist Army decided to go west, using an empty camp strategy, so that the Qing army did not dare to advance westward. After walking for three days, he was discovered by the Qing army. At this time, the Tai Twist coalition army had already entered Nanyang from Runing through the Queshan Mountain and attacked Nanyang Mansion directly. The Qing court was shocked and hurriedly sent Zheng Yuanshan, the governor of Henan, Yingqi, the governor of Shaanxi, and Guan Wen, the governor of Huguang, to prepare to wipe out the Taiwu coalition army in Nanyang with the strength of the three provinces. When the kings heard the news, they sent a small detachment of troops to feint to attack Nanyang City, but the main force entered southern Shaanxi from Zhenping through Neixiang and Wuguan. The trick of the Qing army came to naught.
When the Taiping army entered Shaanxi, they left Chen Daxi and Zhang Zongyu's twisted army behind, and they prevented the Qing army from reinforcing Shaanxi in the area of Lu and Xixia. Shaanxi's taxes and labor are very heavy, and the suffering of the common people is even worse than that of Anhui and Henan. After the Taiping army entered Shaanxi, it propagated the system of acres of land in the Heavenly Dynasty, which won the hearts of the people, and there were seven or eight out of ten people who participated in the Taiping army, and the Taiping army expanded rapidly, and then besieged Xi'an. At this time, there was the bad news that King Chen Yucheng was arrested by Miao Peilin of the Twist Army and sent to the Qing Army. This Miao Peilin is a repeated person, where there is benefit, he will take refuge. Now it has been lowered again, and he accepts the surrender of Shengbao. Suddenly launched an attack on the Twist Army from behind, until the Twist Army besieging Yingzhou failed, and withdrew to Pheasant River Collection. After Chen Yucheng was arrested, Sheng Bao escorted Chen Yucheng back to the capital, and when Chen Decai heard about it, he decided to rescue the British king from the road. So he led all the soldiers to conquer the west and went out of Tongguan in the east.