Chapter 141: The Enemy Advances and I Retreat
Wang Yide ordered the organization of various personal soldiers, because every governor had some personal soldiers, and these people called them "governors". Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThese Governor's personal soldiers can be used as the Governor's direct troops, and now Wang Yide has ordered them out. However, according to the rules, the governor could not easily transfer troops, but at present, Fujian is in chaos, and as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in Fuzhou, he has already disobeyed the orders of the imperial court in fact, or whether he does not listen, but it is really difficult to receive orders from the imperial court, so he can only make his own decisions first.
However, Wang Yide ordered the assembly, and it was originally only half an hour for the soldiers to gather, but this time it took a full hour and a half, and this Wang Yide immediately knew the seriousness of the problem.
"Bastard, how many of us, the yamen of the Governor's Mansion and all kinds of scribes, have betrayed my Great Qing Dynasty?" Wang Yide said angrily.
Of course, Wang Yide knew what was going on, and these scribes and all kinds of civilian officials began to grind, deliberately delaying the progress of his work and orders, which caused the troops to gather in a daze It took three times as much time. This made Wang Yide think that the matter was already very serious, and even Wang Yide thought that he must first exterminate these traitors of Qiu Erniang, otherwise the next result would be even worse.
"Soldiers, now that Fujian is rebelling everywhere, there is a female traitor Qiu Erniang, who actually led the traitors to harm the people, and the inextinction of such traitors is not enough to make the people angry. Now, the Governor will take you personally to exterminate the traitors, exterminate the traitors, and the day when you will be promoted to the rank of official and wealthy is in this day. Therefore, I hope that you must fight bravely to kill the enemy and be rewarded for your meritorious service! ”
Wang Yide's morale boost obviously did not have much effect, because these soldiers also probably knew the situation in the outside world, these soldiers have already been in chaos in the Qing Dynasty, Fujian and Zhejiang have become isolated islands, even if they have made meritorious contributions, they may not be able to get much benefit, because the imperial court is destroyed, so what is the use of obtaining official positions? As for the reward, the court is so poor that it can't even pay enough for the military, what reward is there?
This was also Chen Dingtian's propaganda strategy, by telling the Manchu soldiers about the "situation", so that they would lose their illusions about the Manchus.
Wang Yide had no choice but to forcibly order: "Now, go out for me immediately to suppress the thief and destroy the female bandit Qiu Erniang!" ”
Wang Yide set out with a mighty army of thousands, and a carrier pigeon immediately flew out and arrived at Qiu Erniang.
"Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, actually dispatched in person? This is a big fish! Qiu Erniang exclaimed.
The rebel troops present also began to gasp, this governor of Fujian and Zhejiang is an official at the level of the governor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, according to the grade, he is from the first grade, because he has the official title of the secretary of the military department. And from the first-grade official, this has not been thought of by them in the past, such a first-grade official in the past is enough to overwhelm them, the little people. However, at present, he actually led troops out to exterminate himself, but it made them excited.
"If we catch this governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Wang Yide, then wouldn't we be sent? When the time comes, it will be a sensation in Fujian and Zhejiang! "That's right, if I catch this Wang Yide, I'll make a sensation in Fujian and Zhejiang!" "At that time, the whole of Fujian will also be shaken, and we can expand more quickly." ……
"Miss Qiu, let's fight! Anyway, this Wang Yide is not very powerful, isn't it just thousands? We currently control more than 20 counties, which is almost more than a third of Fujian's territory. We have no less than 10,000 full-time troops, and those militias have more than 100,000 people. Although the militia is not very combative, the momentum alone is enough to shock them. Zhang Lu said.
However, Qiu Erniang said: "Don't worry, my husband said that if we can avoid casualties, we still have to avoid casualties." If we go directly to fight, not only will we suffer a lot of casualties, after all, our troops have not been trained for long, and their combat effectiveness may not be as good as that of the Qing army. Moreover, the Qing army has thousands of people, but it is relatively strong, if the real full-time troops go to fight, then it may be unknown whether they will win or lose. And if those militias are allowed to fight, it will not be conducive to the future. The will of these militias to fight is a bit worrisome, so we should not just go for it. Play to our strengths, that is, guerrilla warfare. This guerrilla warlord gave me the 16-character formula: 'When the enemy advances, I retreat, I pursue, when the enemy retreats, when the enemy is stationed, I disturb, and when the enemy is tired, I fight.' At present, we still have to clear the wilderness and retreat first. ”
With Qiu Erniang's arrangement, all the towns and counties that the Qing army had entered along the way also began to evacuate with militias and various full-time armed forces. And those Qing troops led by Wang Yide attacked all the way and "recovered" several counties along the way. However, the local people were very indifferent to these Qing troops, and they did not imagine the situation of "eating and drinking wine to welcome the king", but were very indifferent.
"Lord Governor, it is these mud legs who have divided our land, please be the master for us!" Some landlord squires cried.
However, Wang Yide did not support it immediately, because Wang Yide knew that this was not the time for extraneous branches. Of course, the land of the squires must be returned to them, but it is also not immediately obtained at this time, and the enemy has not yet been exterminated, and if it is rashly made extraneous branches, it will cause more problems.
Wang Yide did not support the squire's desire for land, and began to search these counties. As a result, none of these counties could find any suitable supplies, which Wang Yide had actually prepared for a long time. Because of course he knew that Qiu Erniang deliberately retreated and gave up, Wang Yide was not disappointed.
"Keep attacking, you must catch up with Qiu Erniang!" Wang Yide said angrily.
Wang Yide ordered the Qing soldiers to chase forward, but Qiu Erniang ordered the soldiers to start going around in circles with the Qing army, apparently not fighting them head-on. Wang Yide led his troops to chase for several days, but there was no situation of fighting the enemy at the root, which made the Qing army very depressed.
"Chase, chase, chase!" Wang Yide ordered and shouted.
The Qing army chased directly forward along the way, but their Qing army was obviously not a person who could walk in the mountains. Qiu Erniang's troops are specially trained according to the mountain troops, so they go directly into the mountains, and the more mountainous they are, the more they like to go. These Qing troops were not at all good at walking in the mountains, and they began a difficult mountain pursuit. But it's obviously very difficult.
Although the weapons of the Qing army were very professional, they also faced a situation that was not suitable for mountain warfare. The Qing army's weapons, spears, and even all kinds of firearms, were obviously difficult to play effectively in the mountains. On the contrary, it was not as light as these Fujian rebel army's light weapons, although the Fujian rebel army had few or even almost no firearms, but the weapons were light and walked quickly in the mountains, and the Qing army could not give full play to their weapon advantages.
"My lord, these traitors are running too fast, we can't catch up!" A Qing army general said.
Wang Yide said angrily: "Chase me, you must exterminate these traitors!" ”
In the distance, the general of Qiu Erniang's rebel army saw that the Qing army was obviously a little tired, and then finally said: "Let's slow down the speed to the west, don't let these Qing troops feel hopeless, and retreat prematurely." We slowed down a bit to make the Qing army feel hopeful, and continued to pursue and consume physical strength and sharpness. ”
The rebel army began to speed up, which made the Qing army feel some hope, and also made Wang Yide mistakenly think that the rebel army's physical strength was basically exhausted. After all, after running for several days in a row, the Qing army was so tired, so in their eyes, the rebel army should be the same.
This time, sure enough, these rebels were indeed much slower, which obviously gave them hope of catching up.
"Chase me, chase me desperately!" Wang Yide shouted.
The Qing army tried to run forward, and it was getting closer and closer to the rebel army, and when it was only three or four kilometers away from the rebel army, the rebel army immediately changed its strategy again.
"Speed me up, get away!" said the general of the rebel army.
Qiu Erniang's rebel army once again picked up the speed and once again distanced itself from the Qing army, maintaining a safer distance.
"My lord, these traitors have accelerated again! I feel like there's something wrong here! A Qing army general said.
However, Wang Yide replied: "The traitor is just seeing that we are catching up, so he starts to run for his life, and this is the case." Keep speeding up, these traitors are just dying, and when we catch up, we will be able to exterminate them!" ”
Wang Yide ordered the Qing army to pursue more quickly, because Wang Yide believed that this Qiu Erniang's rebel army was just a temporary and temporary outlaw escape, and such an outlaw escape would not last long, and it would soon be exhausted of physical strength and potential. Although it will stimulate the potential of the human body when running for the sake of death, this is certainly not long-lasting, and once the potential of the human body is stimulated, it will be more tired, which will help the Qing army to eliminate Qiu Erniang's rebel army.
Sure enough, the running speed of these Qiu Erniang's rebel troops soon decreased again, making Wang Yide think that his judgment was right, and began to continue to order a fierce pursuit.
Qiu Erniang's rebel army slowed down, but in fact, it was just to repeat the old trick, so that the Qing army thought that it could be easy to catch up, not let them lose hope, and let them continue to chase to consume physical strength and morale.
"My lord, we're about to catch up!" Some Qing soldiers gasped a little and said.
But immediately someone said, "My lord, the traitor has accelerated again!" ”
"Why is the traitor speeding up again? Keep chasing for me, until I catch up. Now we are fighting patience, and whoever has more stamina will definitely be able to catch up with them. Everyone remember to me that as long as we catch up with them, then we will definitely be able to exterminate the traitors and get the emperor's reward for meritorious service! Wang Yide shouted.
I had to raise my speed again to catch up, but the distance was still getting bigger and bigger.
"Haha, these Qing troops, they are still speeding up? We did this, and they all ran away from us. It's really nice to watch them gasp for breath! We haven't done our best yet! Some rebels laughed.
These rebels are people who live in the mountains all year round, and they are very experienced in running on the mountains. They have more experience in running on the mountains, how to run with less effort, how to avoid those rocks and all kinds of obstacles, these are the experiences of people who live in the mountains. Those Qing troops were stationed in the city on weekdays, and they didn't have much experience running in the mountains. Although the Qing army was more powerful than these rebel armies in terms of overall quality, it was far inferior to the rebel army in terms of long-distance running in the mountains.
"My husband said that in war, we must pay attention to promoting our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses. There are no absolutely strong soldiers, even the army must be divided into different specialties, give full play to their specialties, and avoid their own shortcomings, so that we can defeat the enemy. Since we are not as good as the Qing army in the front, we can give full play to our strengths and run more, so that the Qing army will lose its sharpness and combat effectiveness, and we can take the opportunity to besiege them with a relatively large number of troops. Qiu Erniang said.
The other rebel generals were also convinced by Chen Dingtian, because Chen Dingtian not only gave them a book on protracted warfare, but also allowed them to develop. even gave them this sixteen-character formula, allowing them to give full play to their advantages, avoid fighting with the Qing army head-on, and use their strengths to defeat the Qing army.
"This Mr. Chen is really talented!" "Yes! It's good that Miss Qiu can marry him! "I heard that Mr. Chen's other wife is the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society's rebel army? Then we are not 'brothers-in-law' with heaven and earth? ”……
Everyone felt very speechless, the two beautiful warlords of Fujian and Zhejiang were married to Chen Dingtian at the same time? So what are they? "Brother-in-law"?
"Okay, you just know about it, don't talk about it. It's not saying it yet, let alone saying it in front of your subordinates, understand? Qiu Erniang hurriedly said.
Zhang Lu hurriedly replied: "We understand, let's not talk about it first, when the time comes, we will be together in Fujian and Zhejiang, and it will almost be enough to sweep half of the world!" ”
However, Qiu Erniang did not say, in fact, half of the world is very stable, once the cavalry in Shandong is dispatched, and Yiliang is won over, then almost half of the southeast has been completely started. Even if the Taiping army can be eliminated, it is not surprising that the south of the Yangtze River will fall into their hands.
But these words are not suitable for saying, even in the face of these subordinates. This subordinate only knew about Chen Dingtian's other wife, Zhou Xiuying, and didn't know the relationship between Chen Dingtian and Mo Qing, the female leader of Shandong Xiangma, and didn't know that Chen Dingtian and Yiliang were already Weng's sons-in-law, if it was spread too much, it would be enough for the Manchu Qing to send assassins to assassinate Chen Dingtian, otherwise once Chen Dingtian integrated several forces, he would become one of the most powerful forces in the world, and even a threat much stronger than the Taiping Army.
(To be continued.) )