Chapter Ninety-One: Soldiers enter Huguang, and Seven Rivers suppress bandits
Qi Lin, Zhou Jun, Zhang Zhongkui, and Xiang Fa became the captains of the first to fourth main battle teams, and Chen Boring also went further by relying on his hard work and became the captain of the fifth brigade. The captain of the Sixth Brigade was Hu Zhongyuan, a second-line general who played an outstanding role in the battle.
The four captains of the garrison brigade are Wu Jinzhu, Li Xueming, Wang Erqiang and Wang Fugui.
Among these four people, the first three are Liu Xian's old men, and the last one is the leader of the silk son who joined Feng County with Chen Bo.
There is still a lack of talent in Liu Xian's army, and there is not a shortage of battles, but there are no newcomers. The current expansion and adjustment of the system is simply a meeting of seniority.
The most significant is Wang Fugui, who only has a six-rank and a thousand generals on his official face, and it is because of the old qualifications of the green forest that he was pushed to the position of the captain of the tenth garrison.
There is more than one other candidate who is better than him, but he just can't bear the weight, several candidates are equal, and it is not a good thing to choose who is not chosen. So the snipe and the clam competed, and the fisherman profited.
Of course, Wang Fugui is happy to know his fate, he has no desire to win, and he completely wants to wear a vest to spend his later life in secret, which is also a big reason why Liu Xian likes him.
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In addition to male labor, there were also women, the elderly, and children in the camp. When all the men are transferred to build roads and open mountains, what are women, old people, and children doing?
Pick wattles, knead rattans, and weave rattan nails.
Liu Xian did not move the old battalion of Hanzhong Town, except for Chen Tianzhu, who continued to lead the three battalions of the town standard to stay under the military headquarters as a white ding, and the remaining generals and soldiers and horses were all classified into the battalion system of various states and counties.
Two-thirds of the volunteer battalion in Chenggu was cut, and the rest were incorporated into the Huayang battalion with Zhang Shoushan, and Zhang Shoushan was appointed as the general commander of the garrison.
Wu Yunzhi went to Fengxian County and led the drivers of the headquarters to support Fengxiang in the war. Liu Xian obviously doesn't treat him as his subordinate. Xu Bangda went to Luoyang to garrison the rebel army in Guyuan, Gansu, and Mu Huaide went to Ningshaanzhou, which was the only territory in the sixteen battalions of Hanzhong Town that was not in the territory of Hanzhong Prefecture, and the north and east were dealing with the threat of the Twist Army.
Liu Xian's method of 'eliminating dissidents' is very crude, but the rough thing is easy to use. Others just don't like it anymore, at most they will scold him behind his back. Can you hurt him a hair? On the contrary, this brutal method can also send a signal to the outside world: I am a rough person, a rough person! So, don't mess with me!
In late March, Beijing's attitude finally came down. Liu Xian was fined for half a year!
Where is this punishment? It's just a kind of naked 'protection'. There is not even a single relegation and retention, money, will it still be a matter for the general soldiers of a town?
Now is not the time when the world is peaceful, it is a troubled time, it is a troubled time.
In April, Zhang Zongyu, Ren Zhu and others wanted to go east to rescue Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but were trapped on the border of Hubei and Anhui by the Qing army led by Seng Lingqin.
In order to flank the Twist army, the Qing court ordered Liu Xian to send troops to Huguang to reinforce Seng Lingqin.
As for why not mobilize other troops, such as the Hunan army that is closer to Laohao. In order to suppress the Taiping Army in the north and south, and strictly prevent it from meeting in Sichuan, a large number of Hunan troops were transferred to fight in Sichuan.
Since Chen Decai waited for more than 300,000 Taiping troops to enter Sichuan, the situation in which the Qing army had the upper hand and Shi Dakai was at a disadvantage suddenly reversed.
After Chen Decai conquered Guangyuan and advanced into Dajian Mountain, regardless of the drag of the large army, he personally led more than 10,000 elites to rush to Chengdu, Kemianzhou, Xialuojiang, and killed until Hanzhou, which was only a hundred miles away from Chengdu, only because of the local complex and dense water network, was desperately blocked by the Qing army.
Although he failed to conquer Chengdu, at least he didn't see the city of Chengdu, and Chen Decai's plan was not implemented smoothly. But his rapid advance has greatly mobilized the Qing army that suppressed Shi Dakai, and a large number of Qing troops had to fight the southern front and quickly return to help in order to ensure that Chengdu was not lost.
Shi Dakai, who was greatly relieved of the pressure, not only eased the tense situation that had been tense since the defeat of Dadu River, but also took the opportunity to win a few battles, allowing his troops to sweep away the previous decline.
In such a situation, the Qing court looked around the entire land of Huguangchuan, Shaanxi, except for Liu Xian's Hanzhong Town, where were there any redundant idle soldiers.
At the same time as receiving the military order from Beijing, Liu Xian also received a batch of military supplies and money and grain from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households. It's just that the distance is far away and the transportation is inconvenient, and these things will have to wait for a while to be seen.
Liu Zhuo, Fan Debang, Zhang Zhongkui, Li Xueming, Wang Fugui and others stayed in Hanzhong.
Liu Xian led seven brigades, the military headquarters, the artillery team, the baggage team, Chen Tianzhu's three battalions, more than 3,000 people, a total of 10,000 people, on April 16, a mighty departure from Hanzhong to the east.
As of this day, Liu Xianam's fields and noodle shops have spread to all the prefectures and counties of Hanzhong Province, with a total of 230,000 acres of land and 135 shops.
Only this one aftermath situation has brought countless benefits to Liu Xian. As for how much Li Ying took away, Liu Xian knew very well that there was not an acre of land, only no less than 200,000 taels of silver.
Li Ying is not a native of Hanzhong, he doesn't need to leave much land in Hanzhong, he just needs to sell these fields to the local gentry and wealthy families in Hanzhong, and take away the silver of the white flowers.
The current Liu Xian is like a corrupt official in the Celestial Dynasty in the future, so many fields and shops are all scattered under the names of relatives, and his foundation is as clean as a dog licking.
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April 20. Huayang Town Green Camp Station.
Shi Donglai, the commander of the Qihe Bandit Detachment, sorted out his clothes, and then strode to the school grounds.
On the campus of the Huayang Battalion, there are 200 soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the Qing Army's Green Battalion, which is a total of 200 soldiers at the second and third posts of the Huayang Battalion.
In addition to these people, there were also three local mountain people from Yangxian County and two county officials standing on the school grounds. They are the guides of Shi Donglai's bandit team.
The vast majority of the people in the Huayang Battalion are from Chenggu County, and they know very little about Yangxian County, and they are even more confused about the vast mountainous area in the north of Yangxian County. Without the guidance of the locals, Shi Donglai was tired and vomited blood, and he might not be able to clean up the three rivers of Jiaoxi, Jinshui, and Youshui in the seven rivers.
It is true that the Taiping Army and the Lan Zhou Righteous Army left Hanzhong, but they also left many hidden dangers in Hanzhong. A considerable number of Hanzhong locals were reluctant to leave their hometowns, but they did not dare to return home for fear that the news of their joining the Righteous Army and the Taiping Army would be known to their neighbors. Then the only way left for them was to enter the mountains and leave the grass behind.
Previously, it may have been because of Liu Xian's strong deterrent, or it could be because there was still surplus food in his hands, and no one was showing his head lightly. Although Liu Xian asked his intelligence department to focus on exploring these hidden dangers, what could be eliminated was not the ideal that he had originally imagined.
At that time, Liu Xian was not in a hurry. He had time to spend with these people. When their reserves are exhausted, they must raid or surrender outright. And as long as there is a move, Liu Xian only needs to open the net and wait.
As a result, the reality is often skinny. Liu Xian was transferred by a paper document from the Qing court to fight the army.
More than 200,000 people in the entire county, at least one percent of them joined the rebel army in the one or two years that they were occupied by the Lan Chaozhu.
The northern border of Yangxian County borders the Qinling Mountains, and there are many reckless mountains. There are the most 'relics' left here, and at the same time, they have a fierce personality and are the most courageous.
The Huayang battalion has a heavy burden, with two counties under its jurisdiction, Yangxian and Chenggu, and Zhang Shoushan is an unwarlike person. Before Liu Xian sent troops to Huguang, he transferred Shi Donglai to the Huayang camp and served as the commander of the two counties to suppress bandits. And because a total of seven rivers pass through the mountainous area in the north of the two counties, it is under the command of the bandits, who are again called the seven rivers.