After completely annihilating the Qing Dongting Lake Water Division and occupying the water camp of the Qing army in Junshan, Gu An did not give an order to rest, but used the captured Qing warships to transport troops to Yuezhou City, moved the command post to Lu Xianguan in the west of Yuezhou City, and began to fully encircle Yuezhou City.

When the Hunan governor Bayan Sanwen heard that the Shanshui camp was occupied, he fled by boat to Lujiao Harbor in the south of Yuezhou in a panic, and stayed in this port for half a day and felt unsafe, so he fled to Hepuzi Town, which was more than 40 miles to the south, with his entourage of 100 people.

It is really a soldier of all plants and trees, like a bird with a frightened bow.

If it weren't for the timely arrival of Fubiao's deputy general Li Zhongyuan, I am afraid that this Futai lord would have been able to travel 300 miles at night and flee directly back to Changsha, the provincial capital.

The main force of the Qing army guarding Yuezhou City was the 3,000 green battalion soldiers commanded by the chief military officer Yamantai, and there were 2,000 newly recruited and trained warriors in Hunan recently, in addition to the young men recruited by the prefect Guo Tianen, there were tens of thousands of defenders on the surface.

Yamantai was born in the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner, the son of Shu Ming, the former Suiyuan general, and was transferred to the deputy general of the Hunan Green Battalion five years ago as a second-class guard in front of the imperial palace, and the chief military officer just mentioned last year.

Prior to this, Yamantai actually had no experience in leading the army, and only went to Tibet as a third-class guard in the 32nd year of Qianlong.

However, Yamantai is not an ordinary flag person, and he still has some skills.

After the Xinghan army arrived in Yuezhou to launch an attack, Yamantai did not retreat into the city, but successively organized soldiers and horses to go out of the city to fight with the Xinghan army, and the two sides won and lost each other.

At first, Yamantai didn't know that the sailor had been destroyed, but wondered why the sailor had not moved.

It was not until the fourth day of the new year that I found out that the thieves had actually set up the camp in Lu Xianguan in the south of the city, and only then did I know that the sailor had been annihilated, otherwise it would be impossible for the thieves to set up the camp to the south.

When the news broke, the people in the city were immediately panicked, and it was rumored that Long Hair would kill all the men with braids on the back of their heads after breaking the city, so many people secretly cut their braids.

Guo Tianen, the prefect of Yuezhou, was even mentally prepared for the death of his family, but in order to leave blood for the Guo family, he secretly handed over his young son to the old servant and hid it among the people.

On the side of the Xinghan army, Gu An, who had no worries at all, ordered the surrendered Qing army Dusi Jiang Yangyuan to lead the surrendered troops to dismantle the artillery on the warship and transport it to the shore in order to strengthen the ability to attack the fortifications.

Only Yuezhou City has been strengthened twice during the Kangxi period, which is taller than the provincial city of Changsha, and the defenders in the city have as many as seven or eight thousand people.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Gu An ordered the captives to bring a letter to the city to persuade the city to surrender to the city guard, the general of Qing Hunan, Yamantai.

The conditions offered were not lenient, that is, Yamantai could withdraw with his troops, and the Xinghan army promised not to pursue him.

The reason why this is the case is that Gu An doesn't want to lose too much under the fortified city of Yuezhou, after all, he is the only one who goes south to attack Hunan, if the loss is too large, even if he obtains Yuezhou, it will do more harm than good to the entire battle situation.

Once the war situation in Hubei is tight, his troops and horses will have to draw strength to return to help at any time.

Therefore, if the losses are too large to be returned in time, it will be a failure at the entire strategic level.

Gu An had a letter on his body, which was written to him by his Manchurian uncle who was far away in the north.

It is said that if people lose land, then people and land will exist; If the land is lost, the land will be lost.

This principle is common no matter which side is attacking or defending.

My aunt also wrote to him, but she didn't say anything, just the aunt and nephew's own words.

When I was a kid or something, when I grew up or something, what was before, what I am now...

There is a sentence that has a deep meaning, to the effect that my aunt will not be able to rise up in the future, and where she will be buried is all up to you, the nephew.

Yamantai, as an authentic Mongolian Lao Manchu, will not turn his back on his ancestors and surrender to the Xinghan army, and for the sake of Mingxinzhi, he even summoned his subordinates to flag Han officers, and beheaded the two officers and soldiers of the water battalion who delivered the letter for the Xinghan army in front of the city.

This is quite unorthodox.

The two countries are at war, and they don't cut it!

It has been a hundred years since you entered Manchuria and occupied China, even if you are a puppet dynasty, you can't ignore the rules.

The young and vigorous Gu An was furious, and ordered the First Brigade and the Fifth Brigade to attack the north gate of Yuezhou, and even mobilized all the artillery to attack the north gate, and the fierce fighting was unprecedented since the start of the war. Unfortunately, in the end, it fell short, and hundreds of officers and soldiers were lost and the city could not be broken.

Li Guohui, the commander of the Qing Dongting Lake Sailor who surrendered, proposed to dig tunnels, and then stuffed gunpowder into the city wall to blast the city wall.

Gu An adopted it and spent three days digging two tunnels under the south gate of Yuezhou, but because the explosives were not powerful enough, only a small part of the city wall was blown up, and the city could not be broken.

When the battle has reached this point, it is no longer a ploy that can work, it is completely a battle between the two sides for food and grass, endurance, and reinforcements.

Gu An, who calmed down, did not ask the third grandfather who was far away in Wuchang for reinforcements, but on the one hand, he organized the army to continue to besiege Yuezhou City, and on the other hand, he organized the officers and soldiers of the surrendered Qing army's water battalion to take advantage of the convenience of water transportation to constantly attack the Qing army garrison around Dongting Lake, making Yuezhou City completely an isolated city.

On the other hand, some officers and soldiers were sent to attack the counties under the jurisdiction of the Yuezhou Prefecture, expand their territory, recruit troops and horses, and increase their strength.

In terms of grain and grass, the besieging Xinghan army was not short for the time being, and a large amount of grain was captured by the Qing army when it captured the water camp of the Qing army in Junshan, which could last at least until March.

The life of the Qing army trapped in Yuezhou became extremely difficult.

Ba Yansan, the governor of Qinghu South who retreated to the wall, gradually came back to his senses after passing the initial dangerous period and realized that he must not give up Yuezhou, otherwise he would be the governor of Hunan.

After Chen Huizu, the governor of Qinghuguang who "took refuge" in Changsha, received a report that the Dongting Lake Water Division had been destroyed and Yuezhou was besieged by Xinghan thieves, he also immediately gave Bayan San a death order, asking him to organize troops to reinforce Yuezhou at all costs.

Just say that if Yuezhou is lost, you Bayan San will die of the law if you don't die from thieves.

The Governor has no choice, who let him be demoted by three levels because of the loss of the Wuchang official to keep him.

If he loses Yuezhou again, causing the thieves to drive straight into the erosive Hunan, can the emperor spare him?

Bayan was in a hurry, but he didn't know anything about military affairs, so he had to pin his hope for breaking the game on his deputy general Li Zhongyuan.

Li Zhongyuan is a native of Hunan, enlisted in the army at the age of seventeen, participated in the Battle of Burma, and also fought with thieves in Jinchuan for two years.

If his earlier plan to seize the city by land and water can be implemented, the battle situation will definitely not be as passive as it is now.

I can't talk about the past.

Under the repeated "pleading" of the governor, Li Zhongyuan led 1,500 people to Fubiao, together with more than 1,800 Lian Yong, to rescue Yuezhou.

In order to break through the defense line of the Xinghan army, Li Zhongyuan's troops carried more than 30 artillery pieces.

When the Qing army approached the area of Sheng'an Temple in the south of Yuezhou City, there was a battle with the Xinghan army, and Li Zhongyuan personally led the soldiers to use artillery cover to launch a fierce offensive against the Xinghan army's defense line.

Under the stimulus of heavy rewards, and it was the first soldier, the Qing army had high morale and strong fighting spirit, and the enemy of the second brigade of the Xinghan Army who was defending in front of him could not stop it, so he had to retreat to the rear for more than 20 miles, with more than 300 corpses and 100 prisoners.

In terms of the results of the battle alone, there was no doubt that the Qing army had won a major victory, which greatly increased Li Zhongyuan's confidence, and after learning from the mouth of the captive that his opponent was a young thief who was only twenty years old, he did not put this hairy boy in his eyes, and he was very unstoppable.

It's good for people to have self-confidence.

However, blind self-confidence, and failure to look at the overall situation, is often very fatal.

After the victory, Li Zhongyuan was no longer satisfied with rushing into Yuezhou City to rescue, but wanted to defeat the Xinghan army in one fell swoop, and the marquis was shaded, so he commanded the Qing army to march north, trying to relieve the siege of Yuezhou in a battle.

"Three thousand people want to swallow me!"

Gu An, who learned that Li Zhongyuan had broken through the defense line of the Second Brigade and was approaching Yuezhou City, decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Li Zhongyuan's rash advance of the enemy, and on the one hand ordered the Second Brigade to continue to retreat in defeat, and on the other hand, to mobilize the main force of the First Brigade and the Third Brigade, together with the Fifth Brigade, to set up an ambush in the woods on the road through which the Qing army must advance northward.

The ambush was more than twice as powerful as the Qing army advancing north.

In fact, the sound of gunfire from the south could already be heard in the city of Yuezhou.

Guo Tianen, the prefect of Yuezhou, suspected that the reinforcements had arrived, so he hoped that the general soldier Yamantai could lead the troops out of the city to receive the reinforcements, but Yamantai was too careful, worried that it was the treacherous plan of the long-haired envoy outside the city to deliberately lure them out of the city, so he could not make a decision, resulting in the loss of the opportunity to join forces with the outside and the outside to severely damage the Xinghan army.

War is the final result of countless accidents.

Gu An used a brigade as a bait to constantly lure Li Zhongyuan to the north rashly, and the result was that Li Bu was lured into an ambush circle little by little.

The guns and cannons were loud, shouting to kill and shake the sky, and the Qing army's formation was chaotic and chaotic at that time.

Gu An took the opportunity to urge the ambush troops, one to cut off the retreat of the Qing army, and the other two to attack the Qing army from both sides.

Due to the Xinghan army's more flags and the cover of the woods, the Qing army did not know how many people there were, and Lian Yong, who was recruited only two or three months ago after the attack, was the first to collapse and ran back, but was pressed and beaten by the Xinghan army from the rear, and had to turn around and run back.

In the fierce battle, as many as 2,000 Qing troops were killed and trampled to death, including 47 generals, which can be described as a crushing defeat.

The main general Li Zhongyuan rushed left and right and could not break out of the encirclement, and the war horse was shot by the Xinghan army with a musket, and Li Zhongyuan was captured alive after falling from the horse.

Except for more than 100 people who escaped, the remaining more than 1,000 people all knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.

After the war, Gu An sent a war report to Wuchang: "I came out on three sides, and I was like the wind. The Qing army was defeated, captured the thief Li Zhongyuan, killed most of the enemy, and Yuezhou has become a turtle in the urn. ”

The total annihilation of Li Zhongyuan's troops not only made Yuezhou completely lose foreign aid, but also made Hunan governor Ba Yansan have no cards to play, and when he learned that Li Zhongyuan's troops were destroyed, Ba Daren fled to the provincial capital Changsha in a donkey cart without saying a word.

After capturing Li Zhongyuan alive, Gu An was courteous and wanted to persuade the Qing army general to surrender, but Li Zhongyuan had no intention of surrendering at all, and kept scolding the Xinghan army for being a long-haired traitor, and he only wanted to die to repay the Qing Dynasty.

Gu An was helpless, so he sent Li Zhongyuan to the city of Yuezhou, and beheaded the first fierce general in Hunan in front of Yamantai, the chief soldier of the Qing army in the city.

When Li Zhongyuan's head landed, Yamantai must have remorse in his heart, regretting that he should not have listened to the advice of Governor Guo and went out of the city to respond, so that the reinforcements were annihilated, and he was really trapped in a dangerous city.

The annihilation of the reinforcements made the morale of the defenders of Yuezhou low, and there were even anti-Qing elements in the city who spread rumors and created incidents, and people's hearts fluctuated.

Yamantai finally decided to break through with the deputy general Xiong Ding'an.

Xiong Ding'anzu is the Ming minister Xiong Wenju who entered the second part of the "Second Chuanchen", who was born as a martial artist and won the first place in the martial arts examination in the 27th year of Qianlong.

It is also commonly known as Wu Zhuangyuan.

Xiong Ding'an was good at using firearms, and was a rare firearms expert in the Qing army, and his 800 men were all firearms, and he was the only all-firearms unit in the Hunan Green Battalion.

However, from the beginning of the war to the present, this all-firearms unit has hardly played a role, and is completely passive under attack, and there is a danger of annihilation of the whole army.

Therefore, Xiong Dingan agreed to break through with the general soldiers.

It's just that before breaking through, Yamantai had a whim and ordered someone to give a letter box full of explosives to the Xinghan army.

The pill box is made by Xiong Ding'an, and it will explode as soon as it is opened.

In order to make Gu An, the commander of the Xinghan Army, believe and open it, Yamantai also wrote a few big words on the letter box, "Send it to General Gu in person", and let the person who sent the box say that he was willing to contact the Xinghan Army about opening the city.

originally wanted to be able to blow up Gu An, and if he couldn't be blown up, he could paralyze the command center of the Xinghan army and buy time for their breakthrough, but the letter box was sent but he didn't receive any reply, and he didn't see any signs of withdrawal from the Xinghan army outside the city.

The reason is that Gu An did not open the letter box with his own hands at all, but let a prisoner open it in the open space first, which naturally exposed Yamantai's conspiracy.

This is also the result of Gu An's Manchurian Uncle Jia's guidance, this Uncle Jia not only taught his nephew how to use soldiers, but also told his nephew not to personally open anything sent by the enemy army, nor to talk to the newly surrendered Qing army generals single-handedly, and even if he was very thirsty during the march, he should not drink raw water, and be sure to boil it.

On the seventeenth day of the Lunar New Year, Yamantai couldn't hold on anymore and decided to break through.

The Xinghan army, which had been closely watching the Qing army in the city, soon found that the Qing army in Yuezhou had broken through, and a battle between the breakthrough and the anti-breakthrough soon began.

In the area of Wangjiahepu in the east of Yuezhou City, the fierce battle between the two armies was the fiercest.

There is an unknown hill here, and after Yamantai protruded from the city, he led his troops to occupy the high ground here, and repelled the Xinghan army that wanted to recapture it.

However, fifteen "long-haired" soldiers were lost and could not withdraw with the brigade, so they lurked in the reeds by a pond in the area, and at night, the group of soldiers began to retreat in the dark, and before they thought about getting lost again, they came to the headquarters of Yamantai in the mountain bag.

The two leaders who took the lead saw that there were Qing troops in all directions, so they simply gritted their teeth and led their brothers to launch a death attack on the Qing army.

The Qing army, which was trying its best to break through to the east, had no idea that there was such a group of people in the rear, and they were unsuspectingly rushed by fifteen dead soldiers of the Xinghan army, and they only thought that there were many thieves coming.

In this way, fifteen "long-haired" armed with knives disturbed the rear of the Qing army, and even Yamantai's command was frightened and moved.

This "transfer" triggered the collapse of the Qing army, and Yamantai was lucky to break out of the encirclement and ran to the area of Dayun Mountain in the east of Yuezhou, and then counted the soldiers around him There were more than 70 people.

The grief and indignation of the general soldier Ya was honest, and in his recital to the emperor, he described the defeat process in detail, and never shy away from his gains and losses, saying that "the slaves see it very seriously, thousands of officers and soldiers are defeated by more than a dozen thieves, which is really unreasonable..."

He sighed to the left and right: "It's easy to regret the mountain, but it's difficult, and I don't want to do this." ”

The 800-mile express that Yuezhou had fallen was delivered to Beijing on the 23rd of the Lunar New Year.

At this time, Jia Liu was scolding at Fu Lerhun at home: "You don't care if others make rumors about me, you don't care if others assassinate me, I will do it myself, and arresting some people is like stabbing you in the chrysanthemum, what do you mean!" ”

"Do you really don't treat me Jia Jia Shikai as a brother! If that's the case, well, in front of Prince An, let's go our separate ways in the future! I don't need you to mourn when I'm dead! You killed someone, and don't blame me for lighting a cannon fight! ”

"What do you mean by that? That's right, the family sacrifice is not forgotten! You don't care if I die, I don't care if you die! ”

Jia Liuyi punched the table.

The fist wind failed to make the table crack, but it made Lao Fu's heart tremble for no reason, and his face was very uncomfortable.

Uncle Se spoke, pressed his emotional eldest cousin on the stool, frowned slightly, and educated in the tone of an elder: "Sixth son, don't say anything that destroys unity, Fu Zhongtang doesn't care about you, I just hope you don't do anything too bad, it's not good for you, for Fu Zhongtang, and for me." ”