Chapter 162: Wang Haiyang Kills Li Shixian (1)

King Kang Wang Haiyang rested for ten days in the areas of Meilin, Kuzhu and Shangkuiyang, reassembled the whole army, and attacked Tai Po.

On May 3, 1865, Hu Yongxiang, a pioneer officer and general, led an army of 10,000 and attacked first. Zheng Shaozhong, the capital of the Guangdong army, resisted stubbornly, and the two armies engaged for a day, and they dispersed after dark.

Fang Zhaoxuan, the deputy general of the Guangdong army, sent an army to Wutong Temple with Zheng's troops, and waited quietly by the mountains and valleys.

At dawn on the 4th, Wang Haiyang led an army of 50,000 to Wutong Temple, and besieged it without saying anything. At noon, Fang Zhaoxuan led the main army to join the battle group, and the Taiping army's offensive was frustrated. Wang Haiyang also did not attack, and ordered all units to build fortifications on the spot and attack in turn.

In the evening, the king of You, Li Yuanjidu, led the rear army to arrive, and Wang Haiyang immediately attacked all the troops, surrounded Tai Po, and forced the city to camp. At dawn the next day, the Taiping army divided into two routes, besieging the city all the way, and besieging Fang Zhaoxuan's army all the way.

Fang Zhaoxuan set up an ambush to trap him, and Wang Haiyang was caught off guard and retreated in a panic. The besieging army did not know the situation of the battle and retreated.

When Wang Haiyang's army besieged Tai Po, Wu Guangliang, the deputy general of the Guangdong army, and Kang Xiongfei, the alternate prefect, attacked Kuzhu and won it with one blow.

The bitter bamboo was lost, the back road was blocked, Wang Haiyang was helpless, so he ordered all the troops to withdraw and attack Yongding along Zhongkeng and Zhangxi.

There is a key pass outside the city of Yongding, the name is called shooting and hunting, and Wang Haiyang ordered the king Tan Tiyuan to attack it.

Tan Tiyuan inspected the terrain, that is, ordered each army to build four bases, trap and shoot and hunt recesses, and set the road of reinforcement of the Chu army forever. At night, several more bases were built, thinking that they were dead.

Two days later, the Chu army in the base was exhausted with rice, grain and gunpowder, Tan Tiyuan completed the order, took the lead, rushed into the enemy base, raised the knife in his hand, and beheaded the chief soldier of the Chu army, Ding Changsheng; The commander was suddenly lost, the defenders panicked, and more than 1,000 people were all cut down. The victory of the hunting concave increased, and the morale of the Taiping army increased, and Wang Haiyang redeployed troops to besiege Yongding City.

If Yongding is lost, the overall situation is passive, Liu Dian urgently ordered Kang Guoqi to rush to the aid of Wang Kailin's department.

On May 17, Kang Guoqi led an army of 2,000 and arrived at Hulei. Wang Haiyang ordered Youwang Li Yuanji to lead his troops to block. After a day of fierce fighting, he was defeated from afar. Wang Haiyang personally led an army of 20,000 to aid the battle. The fierce battle was in full swing, and Liu Dian led the main army to arrive. Wang and Liu's armies fought for a long time and could not hold each other.

Wang Haiyang Dapu was defeated, the road to Guangdong was blocked, Li Shixian did not dare to sit idly by, that is, the whole army, abandoned Zhangzhou, and divided the army into two routes, one route from Yongding to Xiaping to Chicaopu, colluding with Wang Haiyang's army. Shixian personally led all the way, marched from Pinghe to Zhangxi and Dajing, and ordered Lu Shunde and Ding Taiyang to quickly leave Zhangpu and Zhao'an city walls, and all met peacefully to find another way to survive.

Ding Changsheng's whole army was destroyed, Zuo Zongtang was very sad, and wept: On April 22, Yongding was defeated in hunting recess, the six battalions of Xinxiang and the two battalions of Laoxiang fell, and the general Ding Changsheng died, which was something that had never happened to the army......

After Zuo Zongtang finished the report, he shorthanded to check and fill in the gaps, and urgently ordered Gao Liansheng, Huang Shaochun, and Liu Qingliang to gallop to the Xiaxi area to cut off the connection between Li Shixian, Lu Deshun, and Ding Taiyang; Guo Songlin and Yang Dingxun immediately besieged Zhangpu and Zhao'an.

Gao Liansheng was ordered, that is, together with Huang Shaochun and Liu Qingliang, on May 21, he entered the city of Pinghe, attacked Li, and went together. The two armies engaged in battles, attacking back and forth more than 30 times; At noon, Li Mingcheng and Zhu Xinglong's rear team arrived, and the Chu army gradually fell behind.

Seeing this, Gao Liansheng hurriedly dispatched an army to attack around the rear; Li Shixian was unprepared, and in a hurry, he fell to the ground; The Taiping army suddenly lost its commander, rumors spread, people panicked, and collapsed in an instant.

Gao Liansheng took advantage of the victory to conquer Pinghe County, and immediately waved his army south, joining hands with Guo Songlin and Yang Dingxun to besiege Lu Deshun's army.

When Wang Lu Shun received Li Shixian's military order, he left the city and lost his dependence; Walking alone, the soldiers were tired, as soon as the battle was engaged, the whole army was defeated, Liu Zhaojun, the king of Zhu, and Huang Longyun, the king of Xiang, were killed in battle, and the army of 20,000 was lost eighty percent.

Zhangpu Deke, Guo Songlin, and Yang Dingxun immediately sent an army to besiege Zhao'an.

As soon as the heavenly general Ding Taiyang came out of Zhao'an, he was crippled by the Huai army; Ding Taiyang led the remnants from the mountain trail to Xiakuiyang and Kuzhu. Ding Taiyang took a breath, bypassed Longtan, and raided Liu Dian's camp without success, with no smooth way to go, and no place to live, so he simply knelt down and begged to surrender.

Li Shixian and Lu Deshun were defeated, and Wang Haiyang had no way to retreat, so he withdrew the siege of Yongding, collected Li Shixian's rout, and poured into the Shanghang territory to find a place to cross the river.

On May 29, 1865, Wang Haiyang ordered all departments to fold the beams of the roof into a raft and cross it from the Dagutan area. In three days, the whole army crossed the Tingjiang River and immediately attacked Guangdong.

On June 8, Wang Haiyang personally led an army to conquer Jiaoling. Wang Haiyang then led the Chinese army to settle in, and recruited people widely, that is, to open the mutual market, hoping to recover. In Jiaoling to Datuo ground, more than 100,000 troops were deployed, and more than 100 miles of company camps were held, thinking that they would hold on for a long time.