Sichuan.

The remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Xiaojinchuan, which had been surrounded by the Qing army for a hundred years, took advantage of the Qing army's change of defense and suddenly launched a fierce attack.

Although the gap here was blocked by Zu Yingyuan, the deputy general of Jinchuan Town, in time, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty who had broken out of the blockade line had rushed towards Chongqing.

Feng Sheng, the general of Qingdingxi, urgently ordered Shu Jing'an, the right deputy general and deputy commander of the Chengdu garrison, to lead his troops to pursue, and immediately notified the garrison battalions in Chongqing, Shunqing and other places to intercept them, so as not to let the thieves out of Sichuan cause a catastrophe.

Sichuan governor Li Shijie was shocked when he learned that the thieves broke out of the encirclement, fearing that the thieves would come to attack Chengdu, so he urgently transferred Chengdu and Jianchang to return to the provincial capital, and ordered the Sichuan general army Marqin to lead the original governor to return to Chongzhou as soon as possible, and must not let the provincial capital be shaken by the thieves.

Shu Jing'an, the right deputy general, was the green battalion soldiers of Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces, and hundreds of soldiers stationed in the Eight Banners who had just been transferred from Chengdu.

Due to the great loss of the middle and senior generals of the Eight Banners, Zhan Yinbao, the former chief of the firearms battalion, was promoted to wing commander, and commanded the remaining Eight Banners soldiers in Chengdu and the firearms battalion.

Shu Jing'an judged that the purpose of the thieves rushing out was to mobilize the main force of the Qing army to encircle Jinchuan on the outside line, so as to achieve the purpose of encircling Wei and saving Zhao.

However, the outstanding thieves had limited troops, according to intelligence showing that there were less than 3,000 people, and lacked the equipment to storm the city, so they could not attack Chengdu, which was heavily defended, and it was difficult for them to operate in Sichuan for a long time, and judging from the escape of the thieves in the direction of Chongqing, they wanted to go down the river to the Huguang area where the Qing army was empty.

Therefore, the top priority is to lock up the thieves who rushed out in Sichuan, and really let them run to Huguang, that is, the dragon is like a sea, and it is difficult to encircle and suppress.

It is very likely that the former Ming thieves Li and Zhang will reappear and drag the Qing army away.

This judgment was unanimously agreed upon by the pursuing generals.

Qian Dade, the general of the Zhejiang Green Battalion, volunteered to pursue the thief for the vanguard, Shu Jingan praised his bravery, and personally gave him a sword, so that more than 2,000 people of the Green Battalion under Qian led the department to pursue quickly.

Qian lived up to General Shu's high hopes, the people did not stop, the knife did not leave the body, and when he chased to the area of Tongchuan Mansion and Shehong, he found traces of thieves in front of Malay.

Qian Dade drove the horse to see, and there was a group of thieves wearing the costumes of the former Ming and Han people in front of him, and the number of spectators was less than 100 people, and it seemed that they were behind the horses.

After pondering for a while, Qian Dade asked the soldiers to strangle this thief and take the first credit.

Unexpectedly, two people on the opposite side suddenly came over with white flags and said that they wanted to talk to General Qian.

The two armies are at war, and they do not come to the enemy.

Qian Dade was deeply martial, ordered the two to be brought, and asked what was going on, if he wanted to surrender, he could guarantee that the other party would not die.

I didn't want to come, so I took out a stack of silver tickets wrapped in brown paper in my arms and handed it over, and said very sincerely: "Please also ask the general to be accommodating, slow down and chase again, great kindness, grateful!" ”

Seeing this, Qian Dade's subordinates were silent.

"You gang of thieves, you dare to lure your own officials with profit!"

Qian Dade was very annoyed, and signaled his henchman Zhou Qian to rush forward to take it, and there were 14,000 taels.

"I'll postpone this money for three days at most."

Qian Dade was furious, and the horsewhip was pumped in the void: "Get out!" Three days later, the skin of the pickpocket! ”

The two glanced at each other, did not answer, and said goodbye to the third-in-command of the green camp in Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty.

General Qian is still quite trustworthy, although he was chasing the troops every day for three days, but he only traveled more than a dozen miles a day.

As soon as the time of the fourth day came, the soldiers chased after him again, but at this time, the thieves had already rushed out of Tongchuan and rushed into Chongqing.

Helpless, Qian Dade had no choice but to ask Deputy General Shu, who led the troops up, to ask for guilt: "The thief is as cunning as a fox rabbit, don't be heavy, travel lightly, or even travel at night in the rain, the last general will not be able to chase after him..."

"Get up, you can't be blamed for this."

Shu Jing'an was quite reasonable, knowing that the matter could not be blamed on Qian Dade, who was bent on serving the Qing Dynasty, after thinking for a while, he decided to personally lead the army to pursue, and did not want to be ambushed by the army in Yunmen Town, Chongqing.

In order to smoothly enter Kuizhou through Chongqing and attack Hubei, Mr. Gu, the commander of the Jinchuan Army, saw that the terrain of Yunmen Town was dangerous and conducive to setting up an ambush, so he asked his eldest son-in-law Wu Mingyuan to take 600 people to cross the Zhendong River, detour to the side of the Qing army, and occupy Gaopo.

The rest of the men and horses guarded Yunmen Town according to the danger.

Some people don't understand why they want to set up an ambush in Yunmen, and then they can enter Kuizhou to the east, so everyone spreads their legs and runs, dragging the dog Qingjun's nose to run.

Mr. Gu thought about it for a while, and used the words of his little son-in-law to explain to everyone why he set up an ambush and struck hard at the importance of pursuing the Qing army.

"Fight with one punch, lest a hundred punches come!"

Mr. Gu thought that the Cloud Gate ambush could buy them at least half a month, because they were not gods, but people.

If you are human, you will be tired.

It has been more than 20 days since Xiaojinchuan ran out, and everyone marched one after another, how could they not get tired.

If the Cloud Gate ambush is successful, you can rest here for two days before heading east.

After hearing this, everyone had no objections and began to prepare for the ambush.

On the side of the Qing army, after Shu Jing'an led his troops to Yunmen, he learned that the main force of the thieves was here, and he was overjoyed, and urgently ordered the green battalions of Jiangsu and Jiangxi to start crossing the river.

The Fujian Green Battalion carried six artillery pieces, and at this time it was also ordered to pull up the artillery and shell it across the river towards Yunmen Town.

Where is the artillery in the town, hidden in danger and darkness, allowing the Qing army to cross the river.

Soon, the Jiangsu Green Battalion, which was the first to break through the river, attacked the entrance of the town, and for a while, the guns and artillery were all at hand, and the rockets flew together.

The two sides fired at each other and fought for more than an hour, and the Jiangsu Green Battalion suddenly retreated because the ammunition was exhausted.

The Jiangxi Green Battalion was about to substitute for the attack, and the thieves suddenly rushed out of the town, and almost instantly, the Jiangsu Green Battalion fled back one after another.

Seeing this, the Jiangxi green camp was afraid of being washed away by the Jiangsu green camp, and they also grabbed the ferry and rowed to the opposite side.

Seeing that the battalions of the two provinces actually fled, Shu Jingan was furious, and personally led people to supervise the battle in front of the battle.

The Eight Banners of the Zhanyin Bao Command Post responded to the battle, but they did not attack with the thieves, so they had no choice but to ensure the evacuation of the right deputy general, and retreated more than 20 miles to be considered stable.

After calculation, the loss of personnel was actually not large, but the artillery and ordnance baggage were completely lost, there were countless scattered soldiers in various units, the army had no fighting spirit, and there were as many as 1,000 battalion soldiers captured by the thieves.

When the general of Dingxi Fengsheng heard that Shu Jing'an was defeated, he was furious and really wanted to cut Shu Jing'an with a knife.

But even if Feng Shengyi was the general of Dingxi, he did not have the right to execute Shu Jing'an, so he could only report the defeat truthfully, and then draw men and horses from the Qing army that surrounded Jinchuan to pursue him.

After the victory of Yunmen Town, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, under the auspices of the coach Mr. Gu, imitated "Zhou Li? The system of "Xia Guan" is organized according to the system of "five people are a team, five soldiers are two, four two are pawns, five pawns are brigades, five brigades are divisions, and five divisions are armies".

The remnants were officially called the "Xinghan Army", and including the prisoners, the total strength of the Xinghan Army was more than 4,100 people.

and put forward two slogans, one is the slogan of Emperor Taizu "expelling the Tartars and restoring China";

The first is that "everywhere is uneven, and no one is not full of warmth." The world is many, and the world is ploughed together".

The ninth day of the first month of June.

Under the leadership of Mr. Gu, the Xinghan Army, which had been reorganized and rested for three days, marched eastward.

"The division is on the road, driving Huguang quickly, attacking the city and seizing the land without greed, pointing directly to Wuchang!"