Li Qingyuan gritted his teeth with hatred, and the deputy division commander of Qin, who was in the Qing army's handsome tent at the moment, was tied up and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

In the handsome tent was Li Qingyuan's long-time acquaintance Fukangan, and Deputy Division Commander Qin told everything he knew like pouring beans into a bamboo tube.

Fukangan touched the handle of the chair and asked, "So, the bandit leader is in this Puzhou city?" ”

Deputy Division Commander Qin said flatteringly: "Exactly, when I came out, it was rumored in the city that he had entered the city, and the marshal didn't know that this bandit leader called himself a general, and he was the only one in the whole army of rebels who was called a general, so he couldn't be wrong." ”

Fukangan asked curiously: "Then what position is your deputy division commander equivalent to?" ”

Deputy Division Commander Qin pondered whether the reward for saying that his position was higher and that the reward for surrendering to Cheng would be higher, so he had the courage to say: The small one is the deputy division commander of a division with about 10,000 people in command among the rebels, and the bandit leader is privately organized, with ten people as a squad named squad leader, three squads as a platoon commander, three platoons as a company, and then a battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, and finally division commander, and the division commander is the highest military rank under the bandit leader.

Fukangan asked, "Then how many division commanders do you have now?" ”

Deputy Division Commander Qin hurriedly patted his chest and said, "At present, there are only four divisions..."

"Oh? Are all four divisions 10,000 people? ”

Deputy Division Commander Qin rolled his eyes and said: "No, the other three are only two or three thousand people, of which there are one thousand each who use muskets, speaking of muskets, Dashuai, this bandit leader does have a hand in making muskets, and my subordinates brought a few shots, not only shooting far, but also aiming accurately, dedicated to the general..."

Fukangan said disdainfully: "The Han people love the most obscene skills, when I relied on the bow horse to get the world, now we can still rely on the bow horse to sit in the world, a few broken fire guns don't show off in front of me anymore, someone pulled him down, sent to the capital to ask for credit!" ”

The first is to explain that the recent bandits in Shanxi and Shandong are all the remnants of the Qingshui Sect, the second is that the bandit leader has been surrounded by him in Zaipu County, the third is that the bandit leader has a fire-making den on the right side of Taihang about 100 miles northwest of Handan, which should be destroyed immediately, and the fourth is that the remnants of the bandits are trying to flow westward to the northern Shaanxi region, and ask other troops to be ready to intercept them.

In short, after Deputy Division Commander Qin's babbling whistleblowing, Fukangan only summed up such useful things, and as for the rest, in his opinion, they were all trivial and not to worry about.

In fact, Fukangan did not take into account the remnants of the Qingshui Sect whose forces were all over Shandong and Shanxi as described by Deputy Division Commander Qin.

He has seen hundreds of thousands of people make trouble, as long as the leader of the bandits is caught, this gang of bandits will naturally collapse.

The reason why I deliberately wrote a recital was also to cover up my defeat, and to use the bandit leader to divert everyone's attention, and to invite credit by the way.

In the next few days, while resting the troops, Fukangan urged the logistics behind to transport supplies.

How to restore morale? The first is to increase reinforcements, but the reinforcements will not come in a short time, so Fukangan chose another method, that is, to raise big fish and meat, and then to appease while raising, and to distribute some rewards and dispose of a few small officers who escaped from the battle, and under the combination of grace and power, morale gradually recovered.

Li Qingyuan in the city got the news of the surrender of Deputy Division Commander Qin the next day, not because Li Qingyuan's intelligence work was done well, but because Fukangan did not hide it, not only did not hide it, but also hyped it, in order to hit the morale of Li Qingyuan's side, he also dragged the surrendered people to parade through the streets, and even announced that these people would be sent to the capital to be executed in Lingchi.

Deputy Division Commander Qin and the others were already paralyzed with fright, and they couldn't speak, they never dreamed that it was not the high-ranking official Houlu who greeted them, but Ling Chi.

The Qing Dynasty now thinks that it is still in its prime, and when it was in its heyday, it was rarely soft on those who rebelled, and usually dealt with it with an attitude of killing one and setting an example.

Moreover, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty regarded the Han people as pigs and dogs, as domestic slaves, and as their own trophies, just like the Taiping generals who surrendered during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period did not have good results.

But when the news reached Li Qingyuan's side, the fighting spirit of the people around Li Qingyuan became even more firm, and surrendering was death anyway, so it was better to have a vigorous fight.

Fukangan held a mobilization meeting for Li Qingyuan for free, and Deputy Division Commander Qin was put in a cage and paraded in the streets for three days before being sent to the capital.

It's just that Fukangan didn't pay much attention to this deputy division commander Qin, and only sent a sentry to escort him, and before he left the camp for thirty miles, he was intercepted by Li Qingyuan, and even the escort personnel and Deputy Division Commander Qin and others all died on the road.

Especially Deputy Division Commander Qin and others, who were crucified on the cross on the side of the road, Li Qingyuan thought about peeling the skin and lighting the sky lantern or something like that, but he still didn't do it, that would not make everyone return to their hearts, but made everyone deviate from morality because of fear.

Fukangan gritted his teeth angrily when he got the news, and the next day he pulled out the camp and surrounded the city again, but this time he did not rush to attack.

The other party has artillery, so the shield car is useless, the best way to deal with artillery is artillery, so Fukangan has ordered the rear to transport artillery up, those tiger squat cannons of the rebels are not seen by Fukangan at all, the Qing army has artillery, but Fukangan dislikes it with trouble, so it did not brought.

After waiting for another two days, the artillery arrived, and Fukangan immediately ordered the gunners to set up artillery and bombard the city wall 1,500 steps outside Puxian County.

He planned to directly collapse the city wall and rush into the city, the city wall of a county town can be bombed into ruins in two days at most, and then there will be no city wall, Fukangan wants to see what the bandits will fight with him.

The cannon outside the city roared, and inside the city, Li Qingyuan ordered everyone to hide behind the city wall, except for leaving the necessary population to prevent the Qing army from sneaking up on the city.

The division commander asked a few times, but Li Qingyuan just said lightly: "Let him boom!" ”

The Qing army bombarded for a day, and at night Fukangan deliberately left 5,000 people to prepare to pack up the bandits who went out of the city to steal artillery, but they waited all night and did not wait for anything.

Fukangan is very strange, whether this bandit is frightened or fearless, the city wall has been bombarded by the Qing army intermittently for a day and has collapsed in many places, and the city is indeed ignorant.

Fukangan decided to wait for tomorrow to bombard for another day, and if the bandits had not moved, they would attack the city overnight tomorrow night, and strive to break through the city wall and capture the bandit leader alive in one fell swoop.

The next day, the commander of the Third Division couldn't help but go to Li Qingyuan: "General, how can we defend this city wall when it collapses?" ”

Li Qing smiled and asked, "Why do you want to guard the city wall?" Wouldn't that be great? You can see that the Qing army has blasted the city wall into gaps, which has limited their attack surface, and they can only attack through these gaps, and we only need to defend these gaps..."