446. Heavy setback
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The Qing army in Sichuan looked like a dangerous egg, but the implementation was not like that. As early as when Hilda led his troops to invade Chongqing, he flew and asked Kangxi to transfer troops from the narrow west for reinforcements. After a short period of weighing, Kangxi, who was repaid, felt that there was no possibility of attacking Gansu again in a short period of time, so he agreed to transfer the elite of the Western Army from Sagan to fill Sichuan.
Although the northwest road was difficult to travel, and the army had to spend time preparing military rations to attack, the Qing army still entered Shu in July and August of that year, and by the time Li Sijiu's troops pretended to invade Chengdu, the Qing army had 70,000 people in Sichuan.
The 20,000 military horses that dealt with Li Sijiu with 70,000 people were naturally captured, but Hilda and Sang Er were bent on solving the Sichuan incident in one fell swoop, so they couldn't sit back and watch Li Sijiu transfer to Yazhou Kangbian with a false shot. When the Xia army team entered Longquanyi, Hilda opened the hole cards, but Mao Hongyan suffered a big loss.
If Mao Hongyan led all the veterans of the Xia Army, even if the Qing Army was the elite of the Western Army, they could fight for a while, but most of the troops of the Xia Army in the southwest were expanded on the spot, not to mention how effective it was, but it is an indisputable fact that the equipment of the department is far inferior to the various departments in the abdomen, so the Qing Army with a large number of horses is naturally not an opponent of an order of magnitude.
In the first year of Wucheng and the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, on December 11, the Qing and Xia sides fought fiercely on the Chengdu Plain for one day, and under the assault of the Qing army's horse team, the Xia army was defeated. Mao Hongyan, who knew that things could not be done, finally wielded the ability that a general should have, and after sending messengers to Chongqing, Xuzhou and other places to inform the enemy situation, he reluctantly organized the remnants of more than 20,000 Xia troops to retreat to Longquanyi. The Qing army then surrounded the Xia army, and the offensive and defensive momentum was reversed.
Seeing that the shape was very good, the Qing army made a mistake, Hilda denied the Sang'e siege and did not annihilate it, first divided the troops to control the correct construction of the prefectures and counties, and insisted on completely annihilating the Mao Department before sweeping the whole Sichuan. Silda's choice cannot be said to be necessarily wrong, from his point of view, Longquanyi did not have strong fortifications, and the Xia army was a newly defeated army, and the Qing army should easily annihilate it; If you don't attack, just besiege, I'm afraid you will need 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses, as far as the Qing army is concerned, there is not much spare power to attack the city, and you have to worry about Mao's protrusion and encirclement to threaten the back of the Qing army.
"A few adults, please see, this is a letter of persuasion sent by the Qing Yu." Mao Hongyan, who had lost a lot of weight in the past two days, swept the officers in the tent and took out Silda's letter of persuasion. "The conditions are still very favorable, as long as we are willing to surrender, the title will only rise and not fall, and those who want to continue to be in charge of the army can still be the chief soldier and deputy general."
Liu Shusheng, the first-class lieutenant of Zhengsanpin, the commander of the third division of the Dingsheng Army, and the man of Jianshi County, received the letter of persuasion, and it was torn to pieces without looking at it: "Lord General Soldier, can such things be used to stain everyone's eyes?" ”
Liu Ye, the commander of the third division of the Dingsheng Army and the third lieutenant of the fourth rank who was standing beside Liu Shusheng, stepped forward and bowed to Mao Hongyan: "Lord General Soldier, I am waiting for the imperial court to eat Lu, so I naturally have to be loyal to Huaxia, even if the horse leather shroud is today, it is a worthy death, surrender to the Tartars, my lord still don't be tempted, I will never be such a person who forgets his ancestors." ”
The Boy Scouts and the generals from the old Zheng Army on the side also responded in unison: "Lord Commander, I'd rather die than surrender." ”
In the midst of the cries for battle, Huang Deyu, the commander of the Second Division of the Xuanwei Army, Tang Zhiqi, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Huben Army, and Luo Zhi, the commander of the First Division of the Longwu Army, and several other local powerful generals who were incorporated from Yunnan and Guizhou had ugly faces, but their arms could not twist their thighs.
Seeing the word of the crowd, Mao Hongyan nodded slightly: "When we were in Dongning, how could I have thought that there would be today, but now that the Shijue is here, naturally we can't be ashamed of the official family to pull you and me up from the micro end, so there is only one way to be loyal, and I want to come to the official family's golden mouth, and I will not let you and my descendants have no way out." ”
In addition to the Chinese Dynasty Shijue system, Mao Hongyan was also very afraid of Zheng Kezang's connection to the traitor family, so he said that he would not harm his descendants, of course, there is no need to announce it: "But we still have to understand the kindness of the Tartars, so the official decided to send someone to talk to the Tartars about the specific conditions." ”
Mao Hongyan's words caused a startling buzz, but Mao Hongyan did not use the authority of the coach to suppress it at the moment, but further clarified his plan: "Negotiate the conditions, after all, we will pay back the money on the spot and ask for the sky, and we must talk about it a few times, so it will give us time to reorganize, and all departments will use this time to reorganize." ”
Everyone understood this, so they listened to Mao Hongyan and continued to care: "In addition, digging trenches is also a top priority, and if there is still some cement in a few middle base regiments, it will be used on the knife edge now." ”
Having said that, Mao Hongyan also knew that the amount of cement that could be preserved by each division was really small. On the one hand, the supply of the central center to the southwest is limited and requires thousands of miles of transportation, so the number of ministries is limited. On the other hand, cement will solidify when wet, and it is also inconvenient to preserve; In addition, when the army was defeated and retreated before, it was not easy to keep two or three out of ten in the end, but Liao Sheng had nothing.
So Mao Hongyan is just a passing pass, but the next content is even more important: "Grain, gunpowder, lead, etc. must be handed over in a unified manner, and the number of rifles, birds, and artillery will definitely not be very large, so they must be used in a centralized manner, and the jumping of each department must also be concentrated and controlled by Ben Shuai himself."
Because it had reached the end of the year, and knowing that the Xia army had limited food stocks, although Hilda saw through Mao Hongyan's strategy of delaying the army, she was still looking forward to the success of the lure and surrender, and at the same time was preparing for a strong attack and a long-term siege.
At this time, the defenders of Xuzhou, who got the bad news, hurriedly sent people to Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to deal with the emergency, but at this time the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou were actually very empty, and the Xia army originally had a total of 52 divisions, of which there was a division of garrisons in each of the five provinces of western Zhejiang, eastern Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangnan and Guizhou, and two divisions of garrisons in the five provinces of Jiangnan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Guangxi and Yunnan, 11 divisions in Jianghuai, 21 divisions in Hubei, and five divisions in Xuyong. It was Silda's immobility that gave Xia Fang the opportunity to turn the corner.
And when He Gan got the news of the defeat at the front, he didn't care about continuing to knock on the Sword Pavilion, and hurriedly led the troops back to the front line of Shunqing Mansion.
It is not that there is a knot between He Qian and Mao Hongyan who is unwilling to go straight to Chengdu for rescue, but that the composition of He is complicated, among which half of the main force of the Xia Army from Huguang into Sichuan has been transferred to Mao Hongyan, and the rest are mostly the Ming Army of Eastern Sichuan and the newly formed Changjie Army after the Green Banner of Surrender, whose combat strength is suspicious, and the reliability of Cheng Cheng is even lower. Under such circumstances, He Qian naturally could not advance westward lightly, and retreated to the Yangtze River waterway, and it became his only choice to receive more Huguangxia troops into Sichuan.
Xuyong and Yidong could only protect themselves, and without foreign aid, Mao Hongyan's troops could only survive under the siege of the Qing army and the pressure of hunger and cold. Fortunately, the Qing army was unable to continue to send troops from Ganshan to reinforce Sichuanzhong because of the cold weather, frozen roads, and grain supply problems, so the Xia army still had the last glimmer of hope to change the situation of the war****??
Although unable to convince Hilda to accept his proposal, Sanger nevertheless made a secret guarantee for Beijing. Kangxi, who got the Sange recital, was so shocked that he almost fell off the dragon chair, knowing that things might change, Kangxi, regardless of the practice of not handling government affairs in the New Year, sent Qincha to Sichuan to urge Silda to march, but by the time Qincha braved the wind and snow, crossed the Shu Road with one foot low and one foot high to the front line of Longquanyi, the time had already passed the Shangyuan Festival of the second year.
Kangxi was not allowed to live in peace in the New Year, and Zheng Kezang was naturally the same, affected by the suddenly corrupted situation in Shuzhong, Zheng Kezhang was also anxious at the beginning of the new year, so that the marriage of the second daughter of the second daughter, Princess Zheng Xinrou of Deyang, was also handed over to the queen Chen Xianqiao to be responsible, and he had no time to ask. Fortunately, in July, the eldest daughter of the emperor, Princess De'an, Zheng Xinjia, had already married Ouyang He, the concubine, otherwise Fang Yuniang would not be the only one to complain about Zheng Kezang.
The Privy Council, which was also driven by the people, came up with a plan for redeployment, according to which the Third Division of the Longxiang Army, which belonged to the Yangtze River Naval Division, was hurriedly transferred to Hunan, and correspondingly, one division of the original Hunan garrison and five divisions of the Hubei garrison followed the waterway and drove into the middle of Sichuan day and night. Although none of the heavy artillery could arrive on time, most of the soldiers were finally transferred to Chongqing at the beginning of the second year of Wucheng.
However, it is a pity that the reinforcements still came too late, and under the supervision of the Kangxi envoy, Hilda led the Qing army to launch the most fierce attack on Longquanyi. The Xia army, which had been without food for two days, resisted hungry, and although it inflicted great casualties on the Qing army, collapse was inevitable.
At the beginning of the second day of the battle, the Xia army, whose number had plummeted to less than 2,000 people, could only rely on a few official houses and shops such as the Inspection Department in Yizhen to carry out the final resistance. At this time, it was already known that Mao Hongyan, who was no longer spared, killed himself, Liu Shusheng was killed by the Qing army after being captured, Huang Deyu, Tang Zhiqi, and Luo Zhi were also killed or seriously injured in the battle.
Seeing that the remnants of the Xia army were trapped and fighting, the Qing army could not help but be beastly.
At the end of the hour, the Qing army set fire to Longquanyi, the fire soared into the sky, thousands of Xia troops would rather go to the fire than surrender, so they were martyred with the post town, and the Qing army won the final victory.
When the news of Mao Hongyan's defeat and martyrdom came back to Wuchang, Zheng Kezang burst into tears, and then posthumously named Mao Hongyan as the county uncle of Runan and Liu Shusheng as the son of Zhushan County. In view of the brutality of the Qing army in the final process of attacking Longquanyi, Zheng Kezhang ordered the interruption of negotiations between Qing and Xia, thus sounding the alarm for the continuation of the Northern Expedition.
(Hanging water, doing cerebral circulation・・・・・・)