Gui Liang, the governor of Zhili, turned pale, his hands and feet trembled, he snapped, stood up, staggered and almost fell, and the Tianjin prefect Qian Xinhe and the warehouse waiter Chonglun hurriedly stepped forward to support him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Gui Liang coughed violently a few times, and scolded with his finger to the east: "Baoheng, this bastard thing, he didn't say anything about the defeat, he fled on his own, and he didn't report the news, he really deserved to be beheaded all over the house!" What are the troop forces in Tianjin now? ”

Gui Liang lost his temper and put the responsibility for the defeat on Bao Heng's head, but the last sentence was to ask Qian Xinhe, the prefect of Tianjin.

Qian Xinhe hurriedly said: "Lord Yubutang, there are only 700 people in the second battalion of Tianjin City Guard in Tianjin, plus more than 800 foot soldiers in the second battalion of the left and right battalions of Tianjin Town, a total of 1,500 Qing soldiers, as well as more than 1,000 regimental training volunteers and Cao Yun soldiers in the city. Outside Tianjin, the Jinghai Battalion and the Wuguan Battalion have been mobilized to garrison in the eastern suburbs of the city, with about 1,000 people. Coupled with the 500 horsemen who were about to arrive in Tianjin, and the 2,000 elite cavalry led by the Lord of the Ministry this time, there were about 5,000 horsemen and infantry in total. ”

"The rest of the troops in Tianjin Town are far away from Tianjin City, even if the Bazhou Battalion and the Jiuzhou Battalion are closer to Tianjin City, it will take two days." Qian Xinhe understood Gui Liang's intention to ask the troops, and as soon as he heard the messenger's message, he was also frightened, and then he thought about leaving Tianjin City as soon as possible. As far as Tianjin's troops and combat strength are concerned, they will definitely not be able to hold it.

Gui Liang turned his head again and asked the messenger: "Zhili Admiral Baoheng led a total of more than 4,000 horsemen, and fled in defeat?" The tens of thousands of troops of the Cantonese thieves, how much is the loss? ”

The messenger lowered his head and said with some hesitation: "The villain doesn't know much. I only heard from General Lan that it was the Admiral who led 4,000 horsemen to meet a thief soldier who was hurrying in a carriage, and there were only more than 1,200 people, and according to the military camp structure of the thief soldiers, it should be the strength of a regiment. The two sides went to war, and in the end, because two other regiments of thieves were about to arrive, the army had to lead the soldiers to retreat. Our army lost thousands of troops, and the thieves only suffered more than 100 casualties! ”

"What!? What did you say!? When Gui Liang heard this, he coughed violently again. He's a little out of anger!

Is Zhili Admiral Baoheng a-eater? Four thousand horsemen, even if they are not from cavalry, they are still four thousand people on horses, or the elite led by the general soldiers of each town, to charge and kill more than 1,200 infantry, and they lost one-third, thousands of horses, and the thieves only suffered more than 100 casualties?

What is the ratio? He even wondered if it was Admiral Baoheng and Chief Soldier Lan Li who deliberately said that the thief soldiers were so powerful in order to cover up their stupidity! It's unimaginable that 4,000 horsemen will rush to kill more than 1,000 foot soldiers, and they will still achieve this result!

However, on the other hand, Gui Liang also has reason to believe that the elite soldiers of the thieves are good at fighting, and the green battalion soldiers with poor and lax military discipline are difficult to compete with.

"Lord Ministry, villains don't dare to lie!" The messenger practiced kowtowing.

Gui Liang waved his hand and distraughtly chased the messenger away.

He didn't actually suspect that the messenger was lying, such a thing, the little messenger didn't dare to talk nonsense, not to mention that Lan Li was rushing to Tianjin City, and he would soon be able to ask clearly. He just couldn't believe it, when did the thief soldiers become so powerful, or did the green battalion soldiers of Zhili really fall to such a point?

Anyway, Gui Liang already knew how to choose.

He immediately ordered: "There seems to be a north warehouse on the Baihe River in the northwest of Tianjin, where a large amount of grain sent to Jingshi is stored, which is related to the food and livelihood of the emperor and the people of Beijing, and it cannot be robbed by Cantonese thieves." Anyway, the governor personally led his own soldiers to Beicang to transfer the grain there. After speaking, without waiting for Lan Li to arrive in Tianjin, he directly ordered more than 2,000 people from the headquarters to supervise the standard and cavalry, and took the 2,000 city guards and regimental Yong led by Qian Xinhe, the prefect of Tianjin, and wanted to leave Tianjin.

was just about to leave the gate of Tianjin, but he ran into Lan Li, the general soldier of Tianjin Town, who was just rushing back to the city.

Gui Liang asked, Lan Li talked about the incident in detail, Gui Liang was silent after hearing it, and after half a sound, he sighed: "I am in danger!" Immediately, he ordered the complete abandonment of the city of Tianjin.

So, half an hour later, 2,000 horsemen in front, nearly 4,000 foot soldiers in the back, and nearly 100 carriages in the middle, in addition to Gui Liang, the governor of Zhili, and Qian Xinhe, the prefect of Tianjin, and others, there were also officials of Tianjin Prefecture, and everyone led their men along the official road on the bank of the Baihe River to Beicang.

Three hours later, passing through Beicang, Gui Liang ordered Lan Li to lead the troops of the general army of Tianjin Town, collect people everywhere, and transport as much grain as possible from Beicang, and burn the rest according to the situation.

On the one hand, he sent people to inquire about the situation of the imperial court reinforcements, especially the whereabouts of the Mongolian cavalry of Seng Lingqin, and on the other hand, he sent people to report to the capital urgently, saying that the Guangdong thieves had dispatched as many as 70,000 or 80,000 thieves, and that the Dagukou Fort and Tianjin Fucheng had all been occupied by the thieves, and the local green battalion soldiers in Zhili were difficult to resist, and the Qing court quickly sent reinforcements.

As soon as the people in Tianjin City saw that the officers and soldiers had fled, they all rumored that the thieves had killed people without blinking, so they fled from Tianjin City and hid in the countryside on the outskirts of Tianjin.

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The 9th Division was the first to arrive in Tianjin.

Zhang Yingtuan of the Ninth Division captured more than 300 war horses, and after sorting, more than 120 war horses were intact, so they were asked to go by the reconnaissance battalion of the division headquarters of the Ninth Division, which originally had only more than 60 horses, but now with these more than 120 horses, there are nearly 200 war horses, which is finally enough for half of the 400 soldiers in the battalion.

The reconnaissance battalion with war horses was really different, and soon discovered the abnormality of Tianjin City, and reported the news to Zhang Ying, who was closest to Tianjin City, and the other two infantry regiments. Zhang Ying was overjoyed when he heard the news, and all the Qing soldiers in Tianjin City withdrew from Tianjin City and fled?

He immediately asked the reconnaissance battalion of the division headquarters to continue to report to the division commander Tan Shaoguang, while he and the other two infantry regiments immediately marched to Tianjin City.

Half a day later, three infantry regiments arrived outside Tianjin after a rapid march.

Zhang Ying sent people to push open the empty city gate, and found that the city was really empty, leaving only a few beggars and old and weak walking on the streets.

After the three infantry regiments entered Tianjin City, they found that the entire Tianjin City was already empty, and the entire Tianjin City was also empty, there was nothing, and there were still places on fire everywhere, but when the Qing troops withdrew, they burned everything that could not be taken away, and it has not been extinguished until now.

After the officers and soldiers in Tianjin left, there was no restraint, and gangsters and thieves began to come out to make trouble, looting food and property everywhere, in fact, there was no property left, but some furniture of large families, most of them were the rations of the old, weak, sick and disabled people who could not escape, and they were also taken away by hooligans.

Seeing this, the three regiment commanders of the captive army were furious! Zhang Ying and two other regiment commanders divided Tianjin into three parts, each managing a city district, while sending prisoners to extinguish the fires in all directions, while organizing patrols to patrol everywhere, and beheaded and killed gangsters when they found them.

At the same time, the captive army posted notices to the old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city, and issued the "Letter of the Holy King's Mansion to the Manchu Qing Officials", claiming that as long as the people support the Holy Kingdom and are willing to be the people of the Holy Kingdom, they will be treated the same as the people of the Holy Kingdom.

As a result, the remaining two or three thousand people in Tianjin opened their closed doors and windows one after another, took to the streets, and listened to the reading of notices. Zhang Ying and others took the opportunity to organize the medical team in the army headquarters to go out into the streets, check the pulse of the people, and set up propaganda platforms at various intersections to preach the various policies of the Holy State and the good treatment of the people, and preach the evil of the Manchus and officials.

The people who fled to the countryside outside the city heard that the thieves in the city were not only thieves, but that the ranks were strictly disciplined, did not disturb the people, and regarded the people who remained as relatives.

Tianjin was completely settled, and the captives took Tianjin firmly with no effort.