The Governor of Huguang has nothing to do with Liangguang, and his official title is Governor of Hubei, Hunan and other places, Governor of Military Affairs, Grain and Governor, officially referred to as Governor of Hubei and Hunan, and because the Ming Dynasty set up two lakes for Huguang Province, the Qing Dynasty followed the Ming system, so it is also called the Governor of Huguang. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The first Qing Dynasty Huguang Governor Liaoyang Luo Xiujin, this person was a Ming Dynasty Xiucai, later descended to the Emperor Taiji, affiliated to the Han Army inlaid with blue flags, Shunzhi died of nine years of old age. The second governor of Huguang was Hu Quancai, a native of Wenshui, Shanxi, who was a Jinshi of the Chongzhen Dynasty and served as the governor of Xunyang and Ningxia. Hu Quancai had been the governor of Huguang for seven years, but he never dreamed that he would be dismissed by the imperial court and sent back to Beijing by the imperial court.

The reason for Hu Quancai's dismissal was the erosion of the situation in Huguang. Almost overnight, most of the province of Huguang fell into the hands of the Ming army, only the provincial capital Wuchang and the important towns of Changsha, De'an, Huangzhou and other places were still in the hands of the Qing army, and the loss of Huguang not only meant that the grain route of the southwest army was cut off, but also meant that hundreds of thousands of troops were surrounded by the Ming army in the southwest. Shunzhi Longyan was furious and dismissed Hu Quancai, reappointed Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, as the governor of Huguang, and sent a special envoy from Beijing to Zhang Changgeng, asking him to calm down the chaos in Huguang as soon as possible.

Less than three days after Zhang Changgeng was promoted to governor, another bad news came from the front line, Hanyang, the gateway to Wuchang, was attacked by the Ming army. It has been reported that the Ming army came to invade the two big thieves, Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao, with no less than 10,000 people. In order to protect Wuchang and protect himself, who had just sat in the governor's seat, Zhang Changgeng ordered the gentry of Wuchang to pay a large salary, and even made a large amount of money to the people in the city, and obtained more than 400,000 taels of silver to Dong Xueli, the governor of the Huguang Green Battalion, and ordered him to immediately recruit new soldiers to be brave, and transferred soldiers and horses from De'an, Huangzhou and other places, and even the water division was drawn, so that an army of more than 30,000 people was finally assembled.

Because he was worried that he would follow the old path of Hu Quancai again, Zhang Changgeng ignored the fact that most of the more than 30,000 soldiers were strong men, and strictly ordered Dong Xueli to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard, and he personally led the remaining more than 20,000 soldiers to the Chinese army, and drove towards Hanyang. As soon as the army left the city, according to the usual practice, and in order to provoke the soldiers to sell their lives, Zhang Changgeng actually ordered the green camp to wash Hankou and other places in blood, which made the gentry and people in Wuchang City scolded.

When the Qing army of Wuchang came to aid Hanyang, Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao were fighting happily around Hanyang. The soldiers and horses under his command are really like more than 10,000 people reported by the Qing army, but there are only more than 1,000 old soldiers, and the rest are strong men who were forced to wrap up after leaving Kuidong. Originally, with the strength of Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao, they couldn't take Hanyang City with another 10,000 people, so Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun in the rear gave Hao Shaoqi an order just to let him monitor the Qing army in Hanyang, wait for the other soldiers and horses to arrive before attacking Hanyang, and then besiege Wuchang together. If Wuchang is down, this Hubei will be completely in the hands of Kui Dongbing, and De'an, Huangzhou and other prefectures should not be worried. On the other side of Changsha, with the help of the Taiping Army, it is also a trivial matter to take it. But Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao were eager to hunt, and with the wealth in Hanyang City, they actually launched an attack on Hanyang.

Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao thought that the Hanyang defenders were only two or three thousand people, and there should be no problem in taking them, but who knew that the Hanyang defenders were stubborn, and the people in the city also heard that the Kuidong Ming army was the remnant of the rogue thief Li Zicheng, so they were worried that after the city was broken, these rogue Ming troops would sack the whole city, so the people of the city spontaneously went to the city to help defend without organization, which made the Hanyang defenders full of confidence and added a lot of difficulty to the Ming army's siege.

Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao oversaw the army for two days, and lost more than 1,000 people in vain, but they couldn't even knock down a single brick in Hanyang City, and their depression can be imagined. While they were suffering, the Qing army in Wuchang rushed to Hanyang under the leadership of Admiral Dong Xueli. The arrival of the Qing army in Wuchang made Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao lose their proportions, and the two armies fought outside the city, and the Ming army was defeated.

Things get tricky. Since leaving Kuidong, with the help of the Taiping Army, the Kuidong families have turned Hubei upside down, and almost every battle must be won, which makes the Kuidong soldiers full of confidence, high morale, and rapid expansion of strength. However, these newly expanded soldiers are all new recruits, and it is okay to fight with the wind, but if they really encounter hard stubble, they will suffer a lot of casualties, and they will suddenly lose their morale.

Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao led the rest of the troops to retreat to the vicinity of Xiaobie Mountain south of Hanyang, originally wanting to rest there for a while, and wait for the little tigers to come over and settle accounts with Dong Xueli. But Dong Xueli led his troops to bite them tightly, and the two armies repeatedly fought for the distance in Caikou Town, near Xiaobie Mountain, and the battle fell into a stalemate. There are casualties among soldiers every day, the consumption of veterans is even greater, and the food and grass are also running out, Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao know that if they delay for a while, I am afraid that the veterans they brought from Kuidong will be consumed. And without these veterans as role models, the morale of those Hubei recruits will fall at a faster rate. Without those veterans, Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao would have become Guang Pole Generals.

Hao Shaoqi regretted a little, he should probably wait patiently for Little Tiger, He Zhen, Liu Tichun, and Dang Tiansu to arrive, and fight Hanyang together, so that although Hanyang cannot be captured alone, it is better than the current loss-making deal.

But it's useless to regret it, no matter how cost-effective the deal is, he and Ta Tianbao can only hold on, so they will lose their blood capital, and they will always be able to settle down in the moment. If you don't support it, you will lose all your money. However, Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao did not expect that their opponent Dong Xueli was now under more pressure than them.

Dong Xueli was originally the deputy general of Huamachi in the Ming Dynasty, and when Li Zicheng captured Shaanxi, Dong Xueli surrendered and awarded Huaiqing the general army. In the first year of Shunzhi, many Duo soldiers went to Henan, Dong Xueli surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and wrote a letter to recruit Chen Zhilong, the envoy of Ningxia Jiedu of the Dashun regime, and the letter was intercepted by Li Zicheng's subordinate Niu Chenghu, so his family members were slaughtered, so for Li Zicheng's army, Dong Xueli hated it to the core. When Li Zicheng's army attacked Meng County, Dong Xueli crossed the river to rescue, killed more than 1,000 enemies, and was later awarded the title of first-class viscount by the Qing court for his meritorious service.

The rest of the army and Dong Xueli have the hatred of destroying the family, and now he led the army to surround the big Kou Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao, it stands to reason that Dong Xueli should immediately cut off the head of the second Kou, but Dong Xueli is also powerless now, the reason is that most of the more than 10,000 soldiers he brought are also strong men of Xinla, and their combat effectiveness is not much better than that of the Ming army that also came from Zhuang Ding.

The insistence of Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao also gave Dong Xueli the illusion that the combat effectiveness and morale of the Ming army were okay, and if he played like this, he would probably not be able to completely annihilate the other party. (To be continued.) )