The gunfire at Lexington kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

The gunfire of the chicken song station opened the curtain of the Qing Dynasty's encirclement and suppression of Jinchuan thieves again.

The gunfire was fired on April 21.

The cause was that a group of thieves crossed the ceasefire line between the two armies and attacked the Mardang grain depot that had just been put into operation in the rear of the Qing army.

This depot was built by the former Sichuan governor Fu Lehun at the time, because after the completion of the project will greatly shorten the time for the Qing army to transport grain from the rear to the front, so after Fu Lehun left his post, this project continued to be built under the personal supervision of Bo Qing, the deputy general of Dingxi Zuo.

After the construction of the grain depot was completed, Boqing immediately asked General Dingxi to increase the amount of food, ammunition, copper sheets, and artillery materials from various places to be transferred and stored in a centralized manner.

The Mardang grain depot is located more than 30 miles behind the front line, which belongs to the deep area of the rear of the Qing army, so there is no need to worry about the attack of thieves.

However, the more things that don't happen, the more they happen.

On the 10th day of April, a group of thieves sneaked into the rear and attacked the grain depot, which not only caused the death of more than 100 soldiers of the Eighth Banner and more than 300 officers and men of the Green Battalion guarding the grain depot, but also caused a large number of equipment stored in the depot to be destroyed by fire, and the loss of money and grain was incalculable.

Bo Qing'er rushed to the scene when he heard the news, looking at the granary that had been burned to ruins by the fire and the corpses of the officers and soldiers who were killed.

In the final inventory, the damage to personnel and property caused by the attack was as high as 3.17 million taels.

This incident also shocked the army and shocked the imperial court.

After General Dingxi Fengsheng heard the news, he was also speechless for a long time.

Compared with the previous ones, what Feng Sheng's inheritance took over was a complete mess.

Due to the successive defeats of Muguomu, the Agui turmoil, and the attack on the bright camp, there was a serious discontinuity in the command of the Qing army that blockaded Jinchuan, especially the large number of generals of the Eight Banners died in civil strife, resulting in a sharp decline in the overall combat effectiveness of the Qing army.

After Feng Sheng's appointment to the emperor, after three incidents, the number of grassroots officers of the Eight Banners in the army, Lan Lingchang, and the number of forward colonels is less than one-third of the original; Middle-level officers, forward guards, and forward staff leaders are less than a quarter of the original; Less than a tenth of the senior generals.

The heaviest losses were the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, and compared with the 38th year of Qianlong, the death rate of officers was as high as 70%.

The four Eight Banners Forbidden Army, the Forward Battalion, the Firearms Battalion, the Shanpu Battalion, and the Jianrui Battalion, which came from Beijing, lost as much as 60% of the soldiers.

The Eight Banners relied on the elite Sauron soldiers to lose as many as a thousand people.

At present, there are only more than 2,400 soldiers in the four battalions and eight banners, and due to a large number of faults among officers, the four battalions can be said to exist in name only.

Therefore, Feng Sheng's suggestion that the emperor issued an order to draw new Ding from the children of the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing to replenish it, and if the children of the Beijing Division were not available, they could be recruited from the soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed in various places. If it really can't be done, some of the battalion soldiers will be given the qualification to carry the flag, so that the eight banners of the Beijing camp can be rebuilt as soon as possible.

The grim situation of the Eight Banners Army in Jinchuan forced Qianlong to suspend the policy of the Eight Banners of the Han Army to serve the Han people, and even had the intention of recalling some of the Han troops who had already served the Han people.

However, in doing so, the emperor's face was damaged, so he issued a decree ordering the Yamen of each of the Manchurian, Meng, and Han Eight Banners to rectify their children, increase the number of soldiers raised in each banner, and successively conduct several supplementary examinations to worship Tang A, so that they could replenish their children in front of the Jinchuan Army as soon as possible.

At the same time, Feng Shengyi asked the emperor to make a decision on whether to fight or not as soon as possible, so as not to cause the army's morale to fluctuate due to pre-military discussions.

Feng Sheng's personal tendency is to continue to encircle and suppress the thieves, because although the attack on the bright camp was a great rebellion initiated by some of the bold Eight Banners, it also represents the will of a considerable number of officers and soldiers to a certain extent.

The encirclement of Jinchuan has been for a hundred years, and the imperial court has spent countless money and food, and sacrificed countless soldiers to greatly consume the strength of the thieves.

Moreover, it is impossible to declare the true purpose of the peace talks to the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the peace talks themselves are a kind of vacillation for officers and men.

Previously, when Ming Liang was there, many Qihan officials wrote letters opposing the peace talks. After the attack on the camp, the number of officials who opposed the peace talks increased sharply, and Feng Sheng's forehead was worried that if the imperial court still insisted on peace talks with the thieves, it was likely to provoke the officers and soldiers to change again.

Emperor Qianlong, who was in Beijing, was also worried about this, and repeatedly summoned Yu Minzhong, the chief minister of military machinery, Fu Lehun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Yiletu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and other important ministers who had proposed the peace talks, and asked them whether the peace talks could continue in the end, and how to prevent the officers and men from reacting to extreme reactions because of the peace talks.

However, after several discussions, there was no result, because another group of important ministers led by the Minister of Military Aircraft, Fu Longan, resolutely opposed the peace negotiation with the thieves.

The public said the reason, the mother-in-law said the mother-in-law's reason, and in the end, it was Qianlong himself who really made the decision.

I didn't want to wait for the emperor to make up his mind, and the Mardan grain depot, which stored the army's money and food materials, was attacked.

After the incident reached Beijing, the main battle faction immediately overwhelmed the main peace faction and gained the upper hand.

Qianlong was also very angry, and issued an edict for Feng Sheng's forehead to stop all contact with the thieves, immediately organized a large army to suppress it, and secretly ordered that after capturing the leaders of the thieves such as Sonomu and Seng Gesang, he must be delayed.

Feng Sheng, who received the order to send troops, immediately organized officers and soldiers to attack.

However, unlike the previous offensives organized by General Dingxi, almost all the officers and men of the attack organized by Fengsheng's forehead this time were officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion.

Without other reasons, the children of the Eight Banners could no longer continue to undertake the task of fighting alone, not even all the way.

Bo Qing, the deputy general of Dingxi Zuo, asked for more than 20,000 officers and soldiers to launch an attack on Meinuo, the official village of Xiaojinchuan.

Meinuo Village was re-strengthened by the Xiaojinchuan thieves, not only the blockhouse is high and strong, the wall is consolidated, but also a number of support points are set up on the periphery.

Bo Qing's command of the Qing army divided troops to surround it, both with artillery bombardment, and with skyrocketing artillery, and also ordered Jinchuan Town, Chengdu Town and other green battalion soldiers to sweep around the periphery.

Monk Gesang, the leader of the small Jinchuan who defended Meno, concentrated all his forces on Meno, and the two sides opened fire on each other and threw fire bombs at each other.

A stalemate was formed for a while, and the Qing army was unable to defeat Meinuo, and the Fan army could not repel the Qing army.

More than 1,000 battalions of Chengdu Zhendu Division and Eight Banners Bao Guozhong Governor captured Hengshan Liangzhai west of Meinuo, Qianlong was overjoyed when he heard the news, and ordered a reward for a future, giving Xuanhu hat and mink horse coat.

The deputy general of Jinchuan Town, the son of the Eight Banners, Zu Yingyuan, also led the officers and soldiers of the department of 2,000, and attacked the Sedang Da Diao guarded by the thieves, and it was even more stubborn and stubborn, rushing to kill in front, after seven days of hard fighting, successfully captured the big tower, which had been captured twice by the Qing army.

Bo Qing did not rely on the merits of his subordinates, and asked General Dingxi to ask for merit for Zu Yingyuan.

Fengsheng's report document said: "Ying Yuan was originally a subordinate of Jia Jiashikai, the leader of the team and the governor of Sichuan. ”

When Qianlong learned of the good news, he ordered the Ministry of War to give meritorious soldiers an excellent reputation, and personally issued an edict to add the rank of ancestor Yingyuan, reward the peacock feather, and give the second product to wear.

He Shen said to He Shen who was waiting beside him with emotion: "I don't want heroes to appear one after another in the Han army." ”

"This blessing of the Qing Dynasty is also the blessing of the master."

He Shen stopped grinding his hand, "As far as the slaves know, Bao Guozhong and Zu Yingyuan were both under Jia Jia Shikai before, and today's two generals and officers and soldiers fought bravely to kill thieves, which may not be caused by the guerrilla spirit inheritance of Jia Jia Shikai's flag guards." ”

"Shikai is a good man."

Qianlong glanced at He Shen, "But you still have to grind the calendar, and it is good to suppress your temperament, and I will go to Jingling to see him in a few months." ”

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