Although Dushan Prefecture is called a state, it is actually just a fortress built according to the danger of the mountain, and the locals also call it Dushan City. Before the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info Chongzhen, it was the Ming Army's thousand households, responsible for the jurisdiction of the nearby Pinglang, Danhang, Danping, Pingzhou Liudongsi and other Tusi. From Dushan City to the west is the official road to Guiyang, and to the south is the direction of Guangxi. Guizhou has many mountains and mountains, and there are few access channels, so it can be said that the road of Dushan City is the only place for Guangxi to enter Guizhou, and the geographical location is very important.

When the Qing army's three-way army invaded Yunnan and Guizhou, the left-route army was led by Zhuo Butai to invade Guizhou from here. Later, when the line Guoan led the army back to Guangxi, the eleventh town of the Taiping Army fought with this under the leadership of the town general Gao Jinku, and as a result, Gao Jinku died in the battle, and the whole town can be said to be annihilated. This battle also indirectly led to the subsequent Battle of Liuzhou, and the Taiping army was passive for a long time.

Wu Sangui returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, after raising troops against the Qing Dynasty, the tension on the Guizhou-Guizhou border was eased, and the Wu army in Dushan City even started business with the Taiping army in Nandan Prefecture opposite.

"Boom, boom!"

The sound of the dawn cannon suddenly broke the calm in the mountains, and also woke up the sleeping Wu army of Dushan City. While dodging the cannons falling from the sky, they looked at the Taiping army outside the city like a sea of red in amazement.

The general of the Wu army guarding Dushan City was Huang Yuancai, the former general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, who surrendered to Wu Sangui with Ma Bao, and the department was organized into a battalion by Wu Sangui, with more than 4,000 soldiers.

Looking at the dense Taiping army outside the city and all kinds of flags fluttering in the wind, Huang Yuancai couldn't help but sink down, he didn't expect that the Taiping army, which could be regarded as a "friendly army" between each other, would suddenly fight without declaring a war, and dispatch so many soldiers and horses at once. Thinking that he had written to Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi on the Taiping Army, last month, asking him to sell some military rations to him, and the other party had agreed to it, Huang Yuancai felt very ridiculous. He knew very well that the Taiping army was coming to attack no less than tens of thousands of troops, and such a large-scale troop buildup could by no means be completed in a few days, and the raising and transportation of grain and grass was a huge project, and it was impossible for the Taiping army to launch an offensive without a month or two of deployment and preparation. It can be seen that he has been kept in the dark by the Guangxi side, only thinking that if the Qing court is not dead for a day, the Wu army and the Taiping army will not fight.

But this incident is unexpected, but it is reasonable, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers!

Huang Yuancai sighed secretly.

The artillery of the Taiping army continued to bombard Dushan City, and the roar of huge shells resounded over Dushan City, which shocked the Qing soldiers at the head of the city and dodged. The generals under his command were all looking at Huang Yuancai, waiting for his order, whether to surrender or fight.

After Huang Yuancai's inner struggle, he decided to fight. Because Wu Sangui has not treated him badly, and more importantly, his friends are now under Wu Sangui, if he surrenders to the Taiping Army, he will inevitably fight to the death with his friends in the past, which is obviously unacceptable to Huang Yuancai, who has always valued righteousness.

Although the Taiping army has many soldiers and horses, Dushan City is also dangerous, and they still have 4,000 men and horses, so it is not impossible to hold on. If Dushan is lost, then the official road to Guiyang will be open to the Taiping army, and once the Taiping army advances to Guizhou, the emperor and court in Guiyang will be alarmed, which is also a consequence that Huang Yuancai dare not imagine. If it weren't for the emperor's sudden abandonment of the country, he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and Ma Bao and Ma Weixing persuaded each other hard, Huang Yuancai might not have demoted Wu Sangui. Now that the emperor has returned, Wu Sangui has also rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, and it is impossible for him to repeat it.

"Pass the order, fight to the death and not retreat, dare to abandon the city and flee, there will be no forgiveness!"

Huang Yuancai pulled out his saber and ordered a battle to the death At the same time, in the Taiping army formation opposite, Lu Guangzu rode out of front of the formation, and also pulled out his long knife and issued an attack order towards Dushan City.

"Kill!"

The officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force, who had long been gearing up and were bent on showing their faces in front of friendly forces at home, rushed to Dushan City with a shout. This was the first battle of the expeditionary force's return home, and the whole town was full of ambition and vowed to play the prestige of the expeditionary force.

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Huang Yuancai failed to hold on, and Dushan was lost the next day. The Qing army in the city has been crushed by the artillery fire of the Taiping army since the beginning of the war. The expeditionary force that returned from Annam took on the heavy task of besieging the city, and they were all armed with muskets, all of which were captured from the Annamite people. After paying more than 600 casualties, the Taiping army blew open the gates of Dushan City. With the influx of the Taiping army, the banner of the Wu army on Dushan City was quickly cut down and replaced by the banner of the Taiping army.

Huang Yuancai was captured, and the remaining more than 2,000 Qing troops in the city surrendered to the Taiping army after the city gate was lost.

"Ludutu, what to do with these captives!"

Lu Guangzu's deputy general Zhang Yue looked at the Wu army prisoners who were escorted out by a team and sighed very emotionally, two years ago, in this place, he witnessed the death of the town general Gao Jinku, and he desperately brought back the military flag of the eleventh town. Although it was the line Guoan who caused the annihilation of his eleven towns at the beginning, he vented his anger on these Wu soldiers, because in his eyes, no matter whether these Wu soldiers had braids or not, they were all Qing troops, and a gang would only pick up cheap wall grass. The real Ming army is only their Taiping army, and nothing else.

"Whatever you leave them to do, they're all killed."

It was Wang Youxi, the town general of the fourth town, who was born in Luying, Jiangxi, and an old subordinate of Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi.

"Great!"

Zhang Yue had the intention of killing the prisoner, but when she heard Wang Youxi say this, she immediately responded loudly, and was about to go to the order to behead the prisoner, but Lu Guangzu shouted: "You can't kill it!" ”

Wang Youxi frowned and looked at Lu Guangzu: "Why?" ”

Lu Guangzu stepped forward and shook his head and said, "The marshal said that the Han people do not kill the Han people. ”

Wang Youxi sneered: "What kind of Han are these people, they were all Qing soldiers in the past, and none of them had the blood of our Han people in their hands." ”

Hearing this, Lu Guangzu was silent for a moment before he spoke: "General Wang, in the past, we were also Qing troops. ”

Hearing this, Wang Youxi was overjoyed.

Lu Guangzu persuaded: "General Wang, we have fought for so many years, and there are enough dead people, since these people have surrendered, why do we have to execute them?" Dashuai has always said that population is the most important strategic material of our Ming Dynasty, and it will take twenty years to grow one again if there is one less, which is too long. We can't kill prisoners as we did before, these people might as well be sent to the Zhao Governor of Annan, and in less than two years, they will be another elite army. ”

At this time, Shao Jiugong in the rear also sent a fast horse to arrive, asking Lu Guangzu and Wang Youxi not to slaughter the officers and soldiers who laid down their arms on the Wu army, and after the army entered Guizhou, it was even more necessary to pacify the people and appease the people, not to destroy the towns, and to restrain military discipline.

As soon as Dushan, the gateway to Guizhou, Lu Guangzu and Wang Youxi immediately led their troops to march to Pinglang and Duyun, in order to capture Guiyang as quickly as possible and complete the strategic intention of the military marshal's office to cut off the communication between Yunnan and Guizhou and Sichuan and Shaanxi.