Chapter 725: The Flower of the Eight Banners Has Wilted
The 800-mile rush of Hukuo's defeat was sent from Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei, who picked up a life from the battlefield.
According to Zheng Futai's report, more than a month ago, in order to force the thief army that had invaded Hunan to return to Wuchang, so as to achieve the strategic purpose of concentrated annihilation, Feng Sheng, the general of Dingxi, personally led the main army of more than 40,000 people brought from Sichuan from Jingzhou to Wuchang.
At the same time, Ma Erzhan, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners, was ordered to replace the seriously ill Yunnan Governor Changqing Command Post Headquarters, and cooperate with Wang Fubu, the general army of Sichuan, to march to Wuchang from De'an and Huangzhou respectively, in order to contain the defenders of Wuchang.
Marzhan was originally a Dzungar general, and later descended to the Qing Dynasty, served in the army as a third-class guard, and was extremely brave, attacking Kailiye in front of the battle, bravely climbing the fortified city, and was given the title of fighting Labubalbaturu, and moved to the first-class guard.
Later, he was transferred to Jinchuan, awarded the minister of the team leader, and awarded the deputy capital of the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner, and was a first-class general in the Fengsheng account.
The green battalion brought by Yunnan Governor Chang Qing from Yunnan was relatively strong in the Huguang Qing army, because many of them participated in the battle to attack Burma.
In addition to the Yunnan Green Battalion, there were also battalions from Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces, and the total strength of the battalions in the three provinces was more than 13,000 people.
Although Chang Qing himself was seriously ill and could not command in person, Marzhan was also a famous general of the Eight Banners, so the Qing army under the leadership of Marzhan moved south from De'an Yingcheng, and successively captured Hanchuan, Xiaogan, and fought until Caidian, which was only a hundred miles away from Wuchang.
The Qing army in the direction of Huangzhou was mainly based on the Sichuan Green Battalion, supplemented by the Zhejiang Green Battalion, with a total of more than 20,000 people in 18 battalions.
Originally, there was also a section of the Fujian Green Battalion that was also in the direction of De'an, but two months ago, due to the tense war in Taiwan, the ministry had been ordered to rush back to Fujian under the leadership of General Wang Tiande to participate in the platform war.
After receiving the order of the general of Dingxi, Wang Fu, the general of Sichuan, immediately led Ma Dayuan, the deputy general of Chongqing, Zu Yingyuan, the deputy general of Jinchuan, and Zhang Dabiao, the deputy general of Chengdu, to march to Wuchang by three routes.
The thief army in the direction of Wuchang may know that the Qing army is attacking in a big way, and find out that the Qing army from the direction of Jingzhou in the west is the main force, so only a small number of thief troops are deployed in the east and north to delay the Qing army, and the elite main force is deployed on the west side of Wuchang, and the commander Gu Zhengdao also has the intention of fighting a decisive battle with the Qing army.
Feng Sheng's forehead received a report that Jinkou Town, southwest of Wuchang, was the pivot of the outer defense line of the Wuchang thief army, and it was an important place for water and land transportation.
The defenders of Jinkou are probably less than 5,000 people, and Fengsheng is close to the main force of nearly 40,000 people, accounting for an absolute advantage in troops, so he immediately supervised the troops to attack Jinkou, if he can capture this important town, it is the best, and if he can't capture it, he will also induce the thief army in Wuchang City to come to reinforcements, so that he can surround the point and send reinforcements.
The army under the personal command of Feng Sheng'e was a strong force that had been fighting in Jinchuan for ten years, and he firmly believed that he was invincible in the field.
Whether it is strategy or tactics, there is no problem with the deployment of Fengsheng, a famous general Miaozi, no wonder the emperor trusts him so much.
The army said that this young general of Dingxi had the style of his father Aligon.
However, on the way to Jinkou, the Qing army was attacked and harassed by a group of thieves, with a strength of only three or four thousand people, but they were very cunning and dared to fight.
Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei, who fled from Hunan to Enshi and then to Jingzhou, asked to set off with the former army in order to atone for his sins.
As a result, when he saw the thief army blocking the way, he was immediately frightened and sent someone to General Dingxi for help.
Feng Sheng's troops rushed to arrive, and after observing the battlefield at a high place, he divided the front army of more than 10,000 people into five teams, and he only led more than 100 soldiers who were good at fighting and rushed up the mountain on horseback, and the result was surprisingly beheaded a division commander of the thief army who was commanding the battle here on the spot, and seized its banner, which frightened the Xinghan army composed of Hubei community elements immediately panicked.
Seeing that the lord was so brave, the Qing army attacked bravely.
Because Feng Sheng's forehead was born in Manchuria with yellow flags, his handsome flag is the color of eight flags with yellow flags, and the generals of the Qing army near the left are called "Yellow Flag Invincible".
Seeing the rout of the thief army, Feng Sheng's deputy commander Yin Dali led the troops to pursue, did not think that the thief army was deployed with artillery on the way to escape, Yin Dali supervised the soldiers as soon as they arrived and were shelled by the thieves, and there were countless casualties at one time.
After the war, the Qing army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the casualties of the thieves were doubled.
On the second day, the weather was very good, and Fengsheng ordered the deputy commanders Yin Dali, Kuled, and Zhangjing Muhana, and the general Guoxing, the deputy general Bassa, and others to supervise more than 10,000 soldiers to attack the thieves.
The thieves broke four barracks before and after, drove the thieves in front of them to Jinkou, and destroyed one of the camps set up by the thieves on the periphery of Jinkou, capturing and beheading more than 300 people.
Although the morale of the Qing army was high and the Qing army had won a lot, the sergeants were also quite tired, so they suspended the attack and rested for a day.
Due to the fact that the Qing army failed to reach Jinkou in time due to being blocked by the thief army for several days, the thief army in Wuchang City sent reinforcements to Jinkou with three divisions of 7,500 people, so that the strength of the Jinkou defenders increased from the original 5,000 to 12,500 people, and then there were several bandit armies around the area, and the strength advantage of the Qing army was greatly reduced.
Ushihada, the deputy commander of the capital, suggested that one army and horses should surround Jinkou, and the rest of the soldiers and horses should cross Jinkou and join forces with Marzhan and Wang Fu to attack Wuchang.
Bad news came from time to time when Fengsheng's forehead moved, and the Northern Route Army Marzhan was annihilated.
It was not that he was severely injured by the Xinghan thief army, but that there were traitors inside.
This traitor was Guo Guangde, the general of the Jiangsu Green Battalion, who suddenly attacked the Yunnan Green Camp in the dark of night, set fire to the village, and personally led a team of dead soldiers dressed in armor to take the Chinese army tent in Marzhan.
Due to the suddenness of the incident, the unsuspecting Eight Banners warrior Marzhan was beheaded by Guo Guangde in his sleep, and the Yunnan Green Battalion soldiers were killed or wounded, surrendered or captured, except for more than 100 people who escaped.
After Ma Youde, a staff general of the Jiangxi Green Battalion, who was not far away, learned of the rebellion of the Jiangsu Green Battalion, he was so frightened that he fled to De'an overnight with more than 3,000 battalions of soldiers.
After dawn, Guo Guangde gathered more than 2,000 troops from the Yunnan Green Battalion, and together with more than 5,000 soldiers from the Jiangsu Battalion, he cut off the banners, saying that he would expel the Tatars, restore China, and never be a slave of the Manchurians again.
After Wuchang knew that Guo Guangde had surrendered anyway, the commander Gu Zhengdao personally came to contact Guo Guangde and named him the commander of the Fifth Army of the Xinghan Army.
Prior to this, the generals who came to surrender from the Qing army were only awarded the post of division commander at most.
Guo Guangde's ability to be so valued by the Xinghan Army is naturally related to his annihilation of the Yunnan Green Battalion, the killing of Marzhan, the deputy capital of the Eight Banners, and the successful settlement of one of the three Qing troops.
The fall of the Marzhan army made the generals of the Sichuan Green Battalion, who attacked Wuchang from the direction of Huangzhou, frightened and did not advance, and camped on the spot to celebrate the great victory.
Wang Fu, the chief soldier, even sent a secret letter to the president, saying that Guo Guangde could be added as an alternate executive committee member at next year's Communist Party meeting as a reward.
The defeat of the Marzhan tribe made the Qing army suddenly passive, but Ran Fengsheng was determined to continue the previous strategy, so he organized the soldiers to attack Jinkou.
However, the three attacks were stubbornly resisted by the thief army, and more than 3,000 people were lost to capture the 4th base outside the town.
The thief army in Wuchang City freed up their hands at this time to transfer troops to Jinkou and camped in Funiugou, 30 miles southeast of Jinkou.
Guo Guangde, who was awarded the title of military commander after surrendering, also led the battalion soldiers who had just been cut to help in the battle.
At this time, there were as many as 15,000 people in five divisions of the Zhongxing Han Army in Jinkou Town, and nearly 10 divisions with 25,000 people in the periphery.
Feng Sheng's forehead probably knew that it would be difficult to fight any longer, so he said to Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei in the army: "I have felt the opportunity to win or lose, and it is difficult to predict."
Zheng Dajin persuaded General Xi to withdraw his troops and return to Jingzhou to discuss again.
Feng Sheng'e knew that if he retreated, the number of mansions that he had recaptured with great difficulty would fall again, and it would also make the thief army rise in momentum and completely control the Lianghu region, and even if he withdrew to Jingzhou now, it would be difficult to maintain, because after the Xinghan army invaded Jingzhou, the city would be slaughtered, and the city walls would be all removed, and there would be no danger to defend and no food to rely on.
You can't go back to Sichuan in embarrassment.
In that case, I'm afraid that if you don't die at the hands of thieves, you will also die from the edict of the Jingshi.
After careful consideration, the young marshal decided to fight to the death with the Xinghan army at Jinkoustom.
Fortunately, Ma Dayuan, deputy general of Chongqing Town, led more than 4,000 battalions of troops to Chilu Mountain, not far from Jinkou, on the afternoon of 17 July
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Late at night on the 19th, Feng Sheng's troops and horses were divided into two routes, one was that he personally led the attack on Jinkou; The other route was led by the deputy capital Ushihada to defend against Wuchang to aid the thief army.
Fierce fighting soon began, and the Qing army was able to repel the Xinghan army defending outside the town for a time.
But when the Qing army wanted to pursue, the fog was suddenly foggy, and it was difficult to distinguish the footage.
At this time, someone in the Qing army suddenly shouted: "The general is dead, the general is dead!"
In the fog, it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, and it is difficult to distinguish between military intelligence.
The Qing soldiers, who did not know whether the general was really dead or faked, were in a state of confusion, scattered in a hurry, and fled in all directions.
And the one who shouted that the general was dead was none other than Zhan Yinbao, who had been promoted to the wing commander of the Jianrui battalion.
When the Qing army was in turmoil, the Ma Dayuan Department of the Chongqing Green Battalion, which had just arrived the day before yesterday, emerged from the rear of the Qing army and took advantage of the Qing army's rout to attack.
The Xinghan army in Jinkou Town and the reinforcements from the direction of Funiugou on the periphery also killed together.
At this point, the general trend of the Qing army has gone.
Feng Sheng's forehead was surrounded by the Xinghan army in a dilapidated camp, although the courage was a hundred times, fighting back and forth, but the left and right rushed out of the end, and finally was hit by the Xinghan army in the fierce battle.
The flower of the famous generals of the Eight Banners, the generalissimo who was only 23 years old, withered on the bank of the Yangtze River.
In this battle, the Qing army lost 195 bannermen above the left collar level, more than 240 Han soldiers above the total number of 1,000 Han soldiers, 20,000 casualties among officers and soldiers, and countless losses of money, food, and ordnance.
It can be said that there is no longer the strength to fight.
Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei who escaped by luck, reported in an emergency, also known as the general of Dingxi, who may have hanged himself in the chaos.
Whether he died in battle or committed suicide, he was not sure, and he had to explore again to find out.
At about the same time, Hunan governor Bayansan was captured by Gu An, the general of the Xinghan army, and knelt down and begged without waiting for Gu An to persuade Bayansan to surrender, saying that Manchuria has been in China for a hundred years, and as we all know, the Hu people have no national fortune for a hundred years, and he Bayansan admires the Han people with all his heart, and belongs to the Manchurian camp but his heart is really Han, so he is willing to contribute to China's recovery.
How did he contribute, that is, he acted as a leading party, led hundreds of Xinghan troops disguised as the Hunan Green Battalion to raise the standard, and defrauded Jiujiang, an important town on the Yangtze River.
Together with Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang who had surrendered before, he made plans for the Xinghan army, and Haicheng, the governor of Jiangxi, abandoned the provincial city and ran to Anqing like a frightened bird.
The middle reaches of the Yangtze River can be said to have completely fallen into the hands of the Xinghan army.
It is said that Chen Huizu was persuading Gu Shidao, the commander of the Xinghan Army, to find Zhu Ming's descendants to support him as the emperor, so as to inspire people and make the world's heroes come to vote.
On the other hand, it quickly went east to capture Jiangning, took the money and grain from the south of the Yangtze River and invaded the Central Plains in the north, so as not to repeat the mistakes of Wu Sangui.
Zheng Dajin's 800-mile rush made Qianlong in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, together with the princes and ministers, civil and military officials, everyone worried, and they were all relatives, as if the end of the world was coming.
Jia Liu's side was both happy and worried, happy that Qianlong's gold medal fighter Feng Sheng's forehead was fart, and a large number of elite Qing troops transferred from Jinchuan were wiped out, which effectively reduced the pressure on him to ascend the throne.
The worry is that the Xinghan Army seems to have played big this time, and even Jiangxi has been occupied, if he really wants to go east to take the land south of the Yangtze River, is his father-in-law still willing to mess with his son-in-law?
After all, the son-in-law has become a new Jueluo.
It's a fucking prince of Heshuo.
Even if the old man is still willing to listen to his son-in-law, will the generals under the old man listen?
Now the remnants have obtained not the palm-sized place of Jinchuan, but the territory of the three provinces, which is enough to subvert a dynasty.
It's really a sudden change, and the plan can't catch up with the change.
Jia Liu felt a headache, but what was more of a headache at the moment was the fourth devil, the old man, the old man, and the uncle, not him.
When I looked up, I found that Lao A and Lao Kui were looking at him, their eyes were full of excitement and eagerness, and they couldn't help but be angry: Look at your mother's look, it seems that I am very good at fighting!