Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Narrow Encounter (Ask for Collection)
ps: The number jù is so miserable, ask for collection, ask for support! I don't want to run naked next week (⊙o⊙)!
"My lord, that's Wang Yingyuan, the Toast of the Pine Forest—"
On the seventh day of the fifth month, Liu Xian led the team to arrive at the Songlin Division, which was more than 50 miles northwest of Asbestos in later generations. Liu Xian saw Wang Yingyuan, who led the native soldiers to meet him.
Before Liu Xian led the army to arrive, the people from Chengdu had already arrived at the Songlin Land Office with 5,000 taels of silver. The white silver and the abundant Xu Li made Wang Yingyuan immediately moved, and led five hundred native soldiers to deploy on the chain bridge of the pine forest river.
"Wang Qianhu!"
"I've seen an adult!"
Wang Yingyuan stepped forward and saluted. He is the Tuqianhu of the fifth grade, Liu Xian is the commander of the third grade, and Wang Yingyuan is the first to salute. Liu Xian looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, he was fat and had a fat face, and he didn't have the slightest heroism, but because of his existence, he trapped Shi Dakai, a world-famous hero!
In later generations, some people talked about the mystery of Shi Dakai's defeat of the Dadu River, nonsense about Wang Niang's birth of a child, Shi Dakai's greed for his wife and his mistaken military aircraft, and the slightly more reliable Shi Dakai's greed and recklessness, who committed military adventurism, and the military advisor Cao Crouching Hu's advice and misguided master, and so on. But what really relies on historical data to restore the truth is that Shi Dakai is by no means unaware of the treacherous terrain of Zidadi. Even Shi Dakai had already sent someone to contact Wang Yingyuan when he marched into Zidadi, but Wang Yingyuan had already received a heavy gift from Chengdu and firmly stood on the side of the Qing court.
"This is the Purple Bridge?"
After shivering with Wang Yingyuan, Liu Xian took the lead in crossing the river, and accompanied by Wang Yingyuan, he came to the Songlin River on the left.
The Zidadi Bridge on the Songlin River is forty-eight zhang long and five zhang high. Twelve iron cables cross the water, and the wooden planks are paved, which can definitely not be said to be a small bridge in China in the current era. On the geographical map of Sichuan Province, Zidadi Bridge can be found.
It was also this bridge that firmly blocked Shi Dakai from his 'vitality' when he failed to cross the Dadu River and decided to break through to the west and enter Luding. Because Shi Dakai did not accept the construction of the military advisor Cao Crouchinghu, just like Liu Xian told Zhang Shoudai, the army arrived at Zidadi and then Like Xiaohe. So that Wang Yingyuan succeeded in destroying the bridge.
The Taiping army failed to control the Songlin River in time, and when the Dadu River basin suddenly rained, the water level of the big and small rivers soared, and the Taiping army, which had been weakened, wanted to cross the Songlin River again.
The real Songlin River in history is not the one or twenty meters wide river in later generations, Liu Xian read some articles on the Internet about Shi Dakai's defeat at that time, many people ridiculed Shi Dakai's transition with troops, and the morale of the soldiers was completely lost, so that the 200-meter-wide Dadu River could not be opened, not to mention the 120-meter-wide river guarded by tens of thousands of Taiping soldiers and slaves.
But the fact is that the Zidadi Bridge, which is 48 zhang long and 160 meters long, is at least 100 meters wide. In addition, the river is soaring, and only those rafts that the Taiping army have built can be crossed in the past!
"Xiang Fa."
"Humble duty."
"You take the second brigade to stay in Zidadi, send a squadron to guard the bridge, and the other men and horses on the south bank of the Dadu River, and build a camp for me. If you can build as strong as you can, I will leave it to you as long as you can—"
Liu Xian turned his head and said to Wang Yingyuan, "Wang Qianhu, you must first collect as many boats as possible around Zidadi and return them to the north shore. Moreover, some of the people on the south bank were brought across the other bank as much as possible, and all the surrounding villages were not allowed to buy a grain from Shi Wei, and if they dared to sell grain and rice, they would be punished for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, and there would be no forgiveness for killing.
Wang Yingyuan nodded again and again, and at the same time, Liu Xian's gaze was different. Isn't it very insightful, compared to the young appearance, there are too many sophisticated.
"When the camp on the south bank is being built, Wang Qianhu, you will help me a lot!"
"This is natural. The responsibility of the pine woods division is unshirkable, and adults can rest assured. ”
The camp is on the south bank of the Dadu River, which means fighting against the water, even if the ships on the opposite shore are under the control of friendly forces, it is also a ruthless means of death.
Wang Yingyuan is not very capable, but he is self-aware. People like Liu Xian, in the current situation, as long as he can survive this hurdle, he will have a great future in the future, and it is not at all something that a toast like him can hope for.
Although in terms of current status, I don't need to slap each other. Wang Yingyuan will never be stupid enough to make a feud. Liu Xian said that as long as he was still standing on the position of the Manchus, he had to do, and sending people to help build the camp was even more difficult - would there still be a shortage of slaves under Tusi?
On the 8th, Liu Xian's whole army crossed the Dadu River and galloped towards the old crow.
Old Crow Whirlpool, this is Shi Dakai's last place to be captured. This scene in history happened a month later, when Shi Dakai dismissed 4,000 of more than 6,000 troops, and he was captured and walked into the Qing camp in exchange for the vitality of his subordinates. In the end, he was executed by Luo Bingzhang in Chengdu Lingchi, and he did not say a word until he died.
The crow whirlpool further south, along the way the road is densely forested, the road is narrow, very difficult to walk.
In two days, the team walked to the Great Salt Well Division, with Wang Yingyuan sending a personal entourage as a guide, and the local village naturally did not dare to reject Liu Xian's army. And Liu Xian did not forcibly take it, but used money to buy things, which made the people of the local Tuzhai and Tu villages feel relieved.
Liu Xian set up camp and rested for a whole day, and before he reached the big village, the scouts on the road ahead met Shi Dakai's horse team.
The leader of the reconnaissance team who led the team was taken aback. He didn't expect the Taiping Army to come so quickly!
At that moment, the team leader who remembered Liu Xian's order immediately led people to hide in the mountains and forests on the side of the road, and then quickly returned to report after the Taiping army horse team passed.
Liu Xian was not frightened. He remembered very well that Shi Dakai arrived at Zidadi on May 14, and hundreds of people in the vanguard had crossed the river, and there was not a single Qing army on the north bank of the Dadu River at that time. But the troops who crossed the river were recalled by Shi Dakai again, and Shi Dakai wanted to wait for the baggage to arrive later to cross the river. The Zida Bridge was not destroyed by Wang Yingyuan at that time, cough cough Shi Dakai was bent on going north, and he didn't go to divide his troops to take the Songlin River. However, the next day, heavy rain fell in the Dadu River basin.
After three days of heavy rain, Tang Yougeng had already reached the opposite bank, and Wang Yingyuan also destroyed the Zidadi Bridge. The Dadu River is surging, turbulent, and there are waves of flood peaks. Shi Dakai's most elite 5,000 troops were not allowed to return the pieces of armor that were flooded by a wave of flood peaks when they were rowing a raft across the river.
Luo Bingzhang was so thick-skinned that he didn't dare to ignore the merits of the river god when he wrote a good news for Beijing, and said that 'the river god helped Shun', which shows the benefits of this heavy rain to the Qing court.
Liu Xian went from the old crow whirlpool to the big salt well division, it took two days on the way, and another day of rest, plus the soldiers crossed the Dadu River to the old crow whirlpool for more than 20 miles, and the big salt well division went south for half a day, the reconnaissance team came to report that it jumped to Shi Dakai's horse team, and Liu Xian's face was as usual.