Chapter 159: Zuo Zongtang competes in Fujian

When King Kang Wang Haiyang heard that the young master was taken captive, he reprimanded Li Shixian for not saving him when he saw death.

Li Shixian replied: There are more than 100,000 people in the Yellow Department, and they will be defeated with one blow, who can do anything? This is the Wuyi mountainous area, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong provinces handover, the mountains are deep and dense, the people are hungry and poor, the supply is not smooth, it is not conducive to the turnover of the army, our department has entered Guangdong from Jiangxi, and the attack is far away. Brother Kang is coming quickly, I am equal to this, opening up the world.

Where to go, Wang Haiyang hesitated,

In a few days, Li Mingcheng, the king of Yang, Li Yuanji, the king of You, Huang Penghou, and Tan Tiyuan, the king of Kai, came to vote one after another.

Wang Haiyang said: Hong Youtianwang, was also captured?

Li Mingcheng said: The sound of artillery was everywhere, and the various departments were in disarray, and they were nowhere to be found.

Tan Tiyuan said: In the chaos of the army, I caught a glimpse of the first king Fan Ruzeng beating the horse to the north, and in a trance, there was no trace of him.

Li Mingcheng sighed and said: After the destruction of Tianjing, everyone has nothing to do, each plundering, and has no ambition to steal one side.

Wang Haidao: There is no fixed place to live, and the more the flow becomes, the more depressed. Quickly pass on my order, and each ministry will be located in Wuping from Changping, Leyuan, and Zhenping; It is far away from the king of the king, and it is connected into a piece.

On October 11, 1864, Wang Haiyang gathered 50,000 troops and besieged Wuping.

When Zhang Yunlan, the secretary of Fujian, heard the news, he Shizhen, Wang Minggao, and Lei Zhaoxiong, the deputy general, led 500 soldiers to help.

When Wang Haiyang heard the news, Xun Ke Wuping set up an ambush outside the city.

Zhang Yunlan was eager to rescue, went straight into the ambush circle, and the whole army was wiped out; Yunlan was injured and captured, refused to bow her head, and scolded wildly.

Wang Haiyang was annoyed, rode a horse and threw a rope, hooked up with Yunlan's head, and four other horses tied Yunlan's hands and feet; I saw the whip touching the horse's back, the horse was galloping, and Yunlan's body was scattered.

Wang Haiyang ambushed Zhang Yunlan's army, the Taiping army was shocked, and the poor people of Guangdong and Fujian were envious of the people.

Mao Hongbin, the governor of Liangguang, exclaimed: Guangdong Province's shortage of soldiers cannot be remedied for a while, and the ministers and others coordinate the overall situation and are always worried.

Li Futai, the secretary of Guangdong, also played: The thief entered Wuping from Changning, Jiangxi Province around Pingyuan and Songyuan, and merged with the Ruijin thief, and its momentum tended to be heavier than Guangdong. If the long drive to the east, Huizhi Xijiang is the hometown of Citigroup, Ben Duo is reckless, internal strife and external insults, especially worrying, near Pingshan, Hengli each erected a banner, has made Deng Dusi Anbang cover up.

Wuping Deke, into the Fujian road, Wang Haiyang quickly gathered 100,000 troops, within half a month, conquered Shanghang, Nanyang, Longyan, Yongding, Pinghe, Zhangpu and other more than ten cities.

Seeing this, the king Li Shixian did not slack off, and immediately marched out of Tai Po Pass, straight into Fujian, Xunke Nanjing, Zhangzhou Erfu City, and Wang Haiyang, echoing north and south, and making a piece.

At that time, the hungry and the unemployed returned to the public, and the army of Li and Wang was camped for hundreds of miles, with 400,000 soldiers.

Li Shixian entered Fujian from Guangdong, and Mao Hongbin, the governor of Liangguang, was relieved.

Li Futai said: The thieves are erratic, that is, they gather the main force, enter Fujian to suppress and wash, and completely eliminate the bandits.

Mao Hongbin said: I don't have a view of the region, but if the thieves gather together, suddenly return to Guangdong, and attack my first good district, what should I do?

Li Futai was speechless, and replied: The thieves came from Jiang Province, and there were no less than one million of them, and the Bao army was annihilated along the way, and half of them were gone. It entered Guangdong from Fujian, with Citi as a guide; Lin Zhengyang used the state of Sangzi and did not want the thieves to be deeply disturbed, so he lured him to go around Longchuan and still enter Fujian.

Today, the thieves are all in Tingzhou and Shanghang, and they are really the same as the rogues. It is difficult to think about its dispersion, and if it is frowned on all sides, it can gather the effect of annihilation. Zhangzhou is coastal on three sides, and the divisions of Fujian and Guangdong work together to separate the troops, choke them and push them on their backs, and drive them to Zhangzhou, taking advantage of the undecided respite, suppressing and appeasing them, which is a rare opportunity.

When you are poor, you can get twice the result with half the effort by smashing the scattered people.

The Empress Dowager Cixi took over and sighed: Xu Zonggan, the governor of Fujian, is powerless to prevent blockage, Mao Hongbin, the governor of Liangguang, and Shen Baozhen, the governor of Jiangxi, are beggar-thy-neighbors, how can they succeed! Mao Hongbinxiang failed to check his colleagues during his tenure and was immediately dismissed; General Ruilin of Guangzhou, who also served as his post; Together with Guo Songtao, we will firmly prevent the bandits from entering Guangdong.

Empress Dowager Ci'an said: Quickly send an important member, entrust him with Qin, and control the reinforcements from all walks of life into Fujian, can Ruilin do it?

Empress Dowager Cixi said: The thieves are also fierce, the two chieftains of Shi and Kang, entrenched in Fujian, peeping into the south and Jiangxi in the west, looking at Ting and Quanzhou in the east, driving the city in the north, and disturbing the east and Guangdong in the south, according to this situation, it has become a big disaster. In the past, although Ruilin followed the monk Greenqin to prevent and suppress the rebellion in Guangdong, his combat power was still shallow, and he was not a powerful man, so he could not coordinate Fujian affairs.

Prince Gong said: Yang Yuebin and Bao Chao's army can be defeated, and they will drive south.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Zeng Guofan is sparse, and Bao Chao has gone to Sichuan for funeral. After the death of Duoqing Long'a, Duxing'a and Mu Tushan were difficult to stifle the banditry in Shaanxi, Gansu, and urgently needed Yang Yuebin to enter Shaanxi.

Empress Dowager Ci'an said: Monk Gelinqin, Li Hongzhang, and Zuo Zongtang can all take on important responsibilities.

Empress Dowager Cixi said: Li Hongzhang is in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, conquering cities and conquering places, omnipotent, and his momentum is too strong to be repeated. The monks and ministers are crossing in Huoshan Heishidu, besieging the Fu chief Chen Decai's department, this group of 300,000 rebels, although it is a rabble, it is difficult to completely suppress it. Fujian rebels, Zuo Chen's punishment, justifiable. Quickly passed the edict, Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, wrote with the minister of Qincha Guan Fang, and the rate of Liu Dian, Gao Liansheng, Huang Shaochun and other armies galloped to Fujian to suppress the rebels. All the armies of Jiangxi and Guangdong aiding Fujian, Zuo Chen has the right to control them. According to the inspector Liu Dian in Zhejiang, the thief has a way, and he is given the assistant to handle the military affairs of Fujian Province.

Zuo Zongtang received the order, that is, he ordered Zhejiang to lead an army of 8,000 to Tingzhou; Taoist Kang Guoqi, marched to Longyan along Shaowu; Jointly attack Wang Haiyang's army. General Huang Shaochun and deputy general Liu Mingzhen led an army of 5,000 to Zhangzhou; Gao Liansheng, the governor of Zhejiang, led an army of 4,000 and galloped to Quanzhou by sea; Jointly attack Li Shixian's army.

Zong Tang led four battalions of personal soldiers, first from Hangzhou to Quzhou, and then from Quzhou to Yanping, northern Fujian, to command nearby.

In mid-December 1864, Liu Dian, the deputy minister of military affairs, was stationed in Yangjiafang from Liancheng, and sent Lu Huasheng, a deputy general, to lead an army of 2,000 to attack Nanyang.

Wang Haiyang showed weakness, lured Lu to go deeper, and completely annihilated his army.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Dian ordered the commander-in-chief Huang Yougong to lead the main force to help. Huang Yougong advanced by leaps and bounds, re-entered the ambush circle, and lost 1,000 people under the guerrilla Guo Liben.

Liu Dian was frightened, and the Taiping army had attacked in front of the camp. Liu Dian did not dare to fight again, gathered the remnants, and fled to the city.

When Zuo Zongtang heard this, he urgently ordered Wang Debang, the Fujian Division, and Wang Kailin, the chief soldier, to lead their headquarters to Liancheng to support Liu Dian. Repeat the armies, do not attack the city, do not wave the battle, deep ditches and fortifications, and plan one after another. can lure thieves to pounce, anti-guest-oriented, and slash several times, and then have a chance to take advantage of it; Changtai all the way to Zhangping border, can be contacted nearby, can prevent thieves from fleeing and defend Quanzhou, Xiamen, and relieve the worries of the Zhangjun army; It is difficult for the two chieftains to gather together, and they are divided and dissolved, and they are eliminated one by one, or they can be successful.

The general Tang ordered, and immediately dredged: The southeast Yu rebels all entered Fujian, and there were about four major stocks: Li Shixian, Wang Haiyang, Ding Taiyang, and Lin Zhengyang. The rebels are located in Zhangcheng, and they are divided into the pseudo-king of Longyan, the pseudo-king, and the thieves of Yongding, Nanjing, and Yunxiao, all of which are their sworn friends, and the number of thieves is about more than 100,000.

Wang rebelled in Nanyang, at the junction of Ting, Lian, Nanjing, and Shanghang, with a total of 185 teams of thieves, each team of 500 people, and a total of more than 90,000. Ding Wei and Lin Wei haunted Zhanglong, with tens of thousands of people each.

The soldiers were distributed for hundreds of miles, and they were guarded against and suppressed, and the troops were insufficient. If you want to be widely recruited, Fujian Province's salary resources will be exhausted early, and the province's soldiers will be brave, and they will be extremely poor.

The subordinates must take the long-term momentum, gradually press forward, drive the bandits everywhere into one place, and then work together to preserve, and the perfect area can be preserved, and the troops are also distributed.

The minister's view, the Nanyang where Wang Rebellion is located, the more difficult it is to prey for a long time. If this force can be expelled, the troops can still be barely suppressed.