1794, this year also happens to be the penultimate year of Qianlong's reign, Qianlong 59 years, but this year and the previous year are also very troublesome, last year's Yingyi Rebellion, let the world shake, the prestige of the court was greatly damaged, and there are countless people with bad intentions around the country, after the White Lotus Sect in the Xiangyang area to make a rebellion, with a ** trend, almost swept most of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to Manchuria, Tibetan Province, Xinqi and Mongolia, the war burned to almost every province of the Qing Dynasty. 【Reading.com】

On the ninth day of March in the 59th year of Qianlong, an uprising led by Xu Tiande and Wang Dengting broke out in Dazhou, an uprising led by Leng Tianlu and Wang Sanhuai broke out in Dongxiang (now Xuanhan), and then an uprising led by Taiping Sun Cifeng, Long Shaozhou and others occurred.

On the seventh day of the sixth month, Feng Deshi, Lin Kaitai, and Weng Luyu also led the White Lotus uprising in Ankang and Mixi, Shaanxi.

On 17 and 18 June, heavy rain first appeared in the Yanshan Mountains of Chaobai and Yongding River in the northern part of the Haihe River Basin, and from 19 June, the heavy rain moved south to the windward mountainous area of the Hutuo River valley and the Taihang Mountains south of it, and gradually penetrated westward into the leeward mountainous area of the upper reaches of the Hutuo River. At the same time, heavy rains also occurred in the Qin and Dan areas of the Yellow River Basin.

In addition, in the plain of the Haihe River Basin and the middle and lower reaches of the Luanhe River Basin, there was another heavy rainfall process from 15 to 20 July, which aggravated the disaster situation in the plain areas of the Haihe River Basin that year and also caused floods in the counties in the lower reaches of the Luanhe River Basin.

The distribution range extends to the middle and lower reaches of the Daqing, Yongding and Chaobai rivers in the north, to the middle and lower reaches of the Fuyang River and the Zhanghe River and the entire Weihe area in the south, and the Qin and Danzhu rivers in the Yellow River basin are also within the scope of the rainstorm. The rainstorm centers are mainly located in the Hutuo River Basin and the Weihe River Basin. In particular, heavy rains have occurred in the Hutuo River basin, from above Zhengding to Wutai, Daixian, Fanzhi and other prefectures and counties in the leeward area of the Taihang Mountains, causing extremely heavy floods in the main stream of the Hutuo River for 1,200 years.

More than 4,700 villages in 20 prefectures and counties were affected, and millions of people were affected. The 17,000 Qing troops who had just been transferred from Manchuria and stationed in the area of Bazhou did not suffer much loss in men and horses, but the supplies were swept away by the flood.

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The Qing army deployed in the area of Zhili by the Qing court also suffered more or less material losses, and the flood lasted for seven days before retreating, after that, because the grain and grass in the rear were difficult to arrive, and the officials of Bazhou opened warehouses to release grain in order to ensure that the people in the territory would not lose control, but although the Manchurian flag army that lost the grain and grass did not lack their share, however, the grain in Bazhou was not much, and the people of the surrounding villages and towns gathered in Bazhou, in just a few days, nearly half of the grain in the warehouse had been consumed, and the officials of Bazhou had to be reduced. However, in this way, the four people made a noise, and even snatched the grain that was to be transported to the military camp of the Eight Banners in Manchuria.

At this time, the commander of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Jilin General Hengxiu, was annoyed, and actually ordered that the civilians who robbed grain and grass be arrested and executed for the crime of the White Lotus Sect. And, began to plunder in all directions.

And Li Huaiwen, a wealthy man in Bazhou, had several relatives who also let the subordinates of Jilin General Hengxiu raid their homes, and they didn't let go of any of them, and even his sister was killed by the Eight Banners of Manchuria. In a fit of rage, he scattered all his family wealth and gathered more than a thousand villages, and when he went out of the city to plunder under the Eight Banners of Manchuria, he attacked a large mansion that lived in the east of Bazhou County and became the temporary residence of the Jilin general.

And it was also Jilin General Hengxiu's carelessness, the army was all sent out to plunder the wealth and silk, sweeping away the "White Lotus Bandits", as only one battalion of personal soldiers was left, and in addition to leaving a few battalions of soldiers in Bazhou City, he thought he was very safe, so when he was playing peek-a-boo with his newly found beauty at night, Li Huaiwen took a heart of blood and hatred, and brought more than a thousand Zhuang Ding people who hated Hengxiu to the bone to play collective hide-and-seek with this Jilin general.

These Zhuang Ding people are just ordinary people, but, as the saying goes, those who rush are afraid of being stunned, those who are stunned are afraid of horizontal, and those who are horizontal are afraid of dying. The Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are horizontal enough, but these Zhuang Ding people who have angered the soldiers of the Eight Banners no longer want to die, and in the Hebei area, there are many people who practice martial arts, even among the people who went to play a game of hide and seek with General Jilin.

As a result, a tragic life-and-death battle unfolded in the east of Bazhou City at night. That night, there was chaos in the city of Bazhou, and the fire that was lit at some point turned half of Bazhou into ruins, and Li Huaiwen died under the personal knife of the Jilin general Hengxiu, but the Jilin general Hengxiu was also chopped into pulp.

Those Manchurian Eight Banners actually raised their butcher's knives against the civilians in those cities because of the loss of their chief officials, and their brains were congested, but Bazhou City almost slaughtered half of the Manchurian Eight Banners in anger.

In just two days, more than 70,000 people died under the knife of these Manchurian Eight Banners. Under the instigation of the White Lotus Sect, Wu Ping, a native of Baigoudian, raised the anti-flag, gathered more than 10,000 victims, and captured Xincheng County in one fell swoop under the cooperation of the White Lotus Sect members in Xincheng County.

By the time the Beijing division received the news, a raging fire had already ignited in the south of Zhili, not only the Beijing division was shaken, but the Central Plains was already rumored, and officials from all over the country wrote to impeach the atrocities of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Qianlong was so angry that he jumped like thunder, but the culprit Jilin General Hengxiu was dead, so that the angry people of Naba Prefecture had been chopped into a puddle of rotten meat that could not be distinguished, and the 17,000-strong Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers were all the children of the Eight Banners, although there was no such intertwined relationship between the children of the Beijing Banner, but there were also a lot of clans inside, what yellow and red belts and the like, he could not slaughter them all, so this army was demoted by all the people and driven out of the customs.

For Qianlong, he thought that it was the most appropriate disposal for him, a famous monarch, but in fact, all the scholars in the world watched coldly, and the scholars in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other coastal areas even picked up the books about the atrocities of the Qing army that were banned by the Qing court from overseas to compare them with the mentality of dissatisfaction with the court and this ruling class that had spread to the hearts of those who read. Although they still did not dare to squeak, the dissatisfaction was already there. Old events such as the Three Massacres of Jiading and the Ten Sayings of Yangzhou have been brought up again among the people, and the undercurrent has been surging among the people.

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On 15 August, Luo Qiqing, Gou Wenming, Ran Wenyu, Xian Dachuan, Ran Tianyuan, and others rose into trouble in Bazhou, Tongjiang, and other places. From the very beginning, the White Lotus Sect members used "white cloth wrapped around their heads, white flags as their signs", and posted the battle slogan of "big fights and small fights are unfair, and the heavens will send down the fire stars".

The various branches of the White Lotus sect also established their own political powers, established their own era names, and appointed officials at all levels. For example, the White Lotus Sect in Xiangyang, Hubei Province is dated with "Wanli", and the White Lotus Sect in Changyang is chronicled by "Heavenly Fortune". In the Xiangyang Army, there are civilian positions such as prime minister, governor, prefect, and county, as well as military positions such as marshal, vanguard, and general soldier.

Fukangan, on the other hand, gathered troops and horses from several provinces, and first pointed the spearhead at Hubei, in an attempt to concentrate troops. Annihilated the Xiangyang White Lotus Sect in one fell swoop.

Mingming, Ehui, Qingcheng and others led the Qing army and the cavalry composed of the newly released "Mongolian horse thieves" in Henan and Hubei provinces to surround the Xiangyang White Lotus cult. Qi Lin led one of the White Lotus cultists of more than 20,000 people to go down the Nanhe River, bypassing the defense line of the Qing army, breaking through the horse fence and passing the Qing army, and then attacking Fang County, and the Qing army lost more than 3,000 people.

After opening a warehouse in Fang County to release grain, Qi Lin's army made a posture of wanting to go north into Guanzhong, and Mingliang even 20,000 Shaanxi Ganlu battalions set up a defense line in the area of Wudang Mountain, but unexpectedly, Qi Lin led 10,000 of them, day and night, traveling hundreds of miles, and actually took down the important town of Xing'an Mansion in Shaanxi. The whole country was a sensation. Then, the White Lotus Sect in Shaanxi was attached to the clouds, and in less than half a year, they actually focused on nearly 100,000 people, and even the counties and halls of Ziyang, Xunyang, and Hanyin around Xing'an Mansion, and the soldiers pointed directly at Hanzhong, with the south connecting Sichuan and rejecting Ganshan in the north......

And the other Wang Cong'er, Yao Zhifu and others broke into the border area between Henan and Hubei, and Wang Cong'er once led an elite soldier out of Suizhou to capture Xiaogan through Anlu, so that Wuchang was shaken, and immediately dispatched a large number of soldiers and horses to defend Wuchang, and Wang Cong'er led the army to attack Wuchang several times, knowing that after all, he could not retreat, but the Qing army was in the middle of the battle, even folding several generals, general Fu Chengming, guerrilla Liang Shouxin, etc.

And the south, the northern part of Guangxi is now also erosive, and the Guangdong soldiers who were transferred from the past and the Guangxi soldiers guarded Guilin Mansion together, but the land north of Guilin was all in the White Lotus Sect. He marched westward to join forces with the Miao people in Guizhou and took Liping Mansion in Guizhou.

“…… The destructive power of these people is really serious enough, now, the White Lotus Sect has formed a mess with the Qing army in this area, and the Qing army is also very uncomfortable, the Eight Banners have already become a waste, and the green battalion has long been useless, and the soldiers who can be used, except for the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion, others, hehe...... It seems that it is really difficult to estimate how long this chaos will take, but the White Lotus Sect does not have a sense of the overall situation after all, although it can turn the world upside down, in the end, it is still difficult to achieve great things. Ni Ming stretched out the baton in his hand and pointed to the huge map, and after telling Liang Pengfei and others about the latest battle situation, he made a clear summary. It's a pity that it's the people of the world who suffer. ”

Hearing this, everyone present was silent, the cigar head in Liang Pengfei's mouth became even redder, the thick smoke erupted from his mouth and nose, and the cold star flickered in his eyes, like an enraged dragon.

(To be continued)