Chapter 180: Zuo Zongtang Shaanxi and Gansu Quelling the Rebellion (2)

Taoist Zhu Kai said: Qi Zuo Shuai, found the guerrilla Ding Taiyang Department, under the 500 soldiers, there is a shortage of more than 140 people, respectfully ask Zuo Shuai to ruling.

Zuo Zongtang said: Ding Mou Taiyang wanted to sell money and grain, and he should be beheaded according to the law.

Liu Diandao: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, beheaded before the war, the taboo of soldiers; In the past, Ding Taiyang defected in front of the formation and shot Wang Haiyang's rebels, and his achievements were huge.

Zuo Zongtang said: Meritorious service has been rewarded, there is a must be punished, cunning thieves and ruffians, black sheep, Zuo abandoned it like a shoe.

Liu Diandao: In the third year of Xianfeng, Zeng Dishuai recruited soldiers bravely, simple and rustic farmers are the best, and their oil head is slippery, there are market gas, and there are yamen gas, and they will not be used; In the ten years of Xianfeng, Zuo Shuai's first recruit of the old general Ben of Hunan and Chu is also brave and simple. However, after years of fighting, the dead and wounded, the source of hard-working soldiers was almost extinct, and the disciples who were rerecruited after that were not scoundrels in the market, that is, the elder brother, heaven and earth, white lotus and other congregational gangsters. Such a crowd is ruthless, knows profit and does not know righteousness, and can still form an army if they are sufficient, otherwise they will fight and fight recklessly, and openly resist. The generals are helpless, and occasionally those who falsely report the number of soldiers are actually short of food and salary; Zeng Yuanfu broke the big rope, and Bao Chunting was as broken as Xiang Yu, why not? Grabbing ill-gotten gains, just to boost the morale of the army!

Zuo Zongtang said: If the military has an evil heart, if the righteousness of the person is insufficient, the evil spirit will enter by taking advantage of the void, and the danger will swell, and the changes will be unprovoked. However, once the true qi is filled, all the troubles will be lost. The same is true when evil demons and monsters cannot survive in the blue sky and white sun. The only way to be a soldier is to work self-cultivation and to be honest with oneself. I immediately go up to the sparse and respectfully ask the Holy Judge Ding Taiyang to sell money and food.

Zong Tang said, that is, Shu: Hualing of the Ministry of Ministers guerrilla Ding Taiyang, since the surrender of Tingzhou, Fujian, from the military merit from the conquest of Fujian and Guangdong, accumulated merit to ensure the promotion of the capital.

The year before last, the minister crossed Jiujiang, and Ding Taiyangjian was invited to join the camp to serve. Last year, he entered Shaanxi with his ministers, and when he saw that he was brave in battle, he ordered him to recruit a battalion, and went to Zhili and Shandong with his ministers to suppress thieves and protect his current position.

The officer was cautious at first, but after the west, he gradually became arrogant and did not abide by the rules of the camp. After the Zhangde team, the team was not organized along the way, and there seemed to be a shortage, because the road was dawning and night, and it was inconvenient to check.

When they arrived in Xi'an and camped outside Xiguan, Zhu Kai and Li Yaonan, the Taoists of the Prime Minister's Camp Office, checked according to the shed, and there was a shortage of more than 140 people.

There is no way to hide the small exercise of mobilizing the battalion to read the roll call in person. The battalion officer was withdrawn and sent to the Xi'an Prefecture for custody and waiting for the participation.

Fu Nian Hualing guerrilla Ding Taiyang, from surrendering to Cheng to guerrilla, acting as a battalion officer, not knowing how to repay, he dared to lack more than 140 brave people, hoping to sell money and grain.

Although the monthly salary was only paid until May of this year, the fraudulent salary had not yet been paid to him, but the corruption had been exposed. If it is not punished severely, how can the military discipline be enforced and the police serve the police! In front of the French army, he should be asked to show the precepts.

Fu begging for the Holy Notes, the instructions are carried out. Sincerely.

That night, Zong Tang summoned Gao Liansheng and Huang Ding again to discuss the matter of the elder brotherhood privately.

Zuo Zongtang said: The elder brother will bandits start in Sichuan, expensive, and flourish in the two lakes. The army has been prosperous for a long time, and if the generations are famous and instigated, they will not join the meeting, and they will be robbed and killed when they leave the camp. The brave men we have recruited are not scoundrels in the market, that is, the congregation's gangs, and their others, gangs up, greedy and harassing discipline, unable to defend themselves, and unable to overcome war, and the second brother must be cautious.

Huang Dingdao: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, I am full of bitter brothers, and it is difficult to have military orders.

Gao Lian Shengdao: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, most of the brave people in the last general's camp are people in the elders' association, and there are very few participants.

Zong Tang sighed: The enemy is at present, and the power is up to it; Eradicate the rebellion and dismantle it together.

The Empress Dowager Cixi received Zuo Zongtang's performance, and immediately issued an edict: Zuo Zongtang played a guerrilla Ding Taiyang's department with a large shortage of brave soldiers, and intended to take the money. It is necessary to correct the law before the army and enforce the military discipline. This is known by the decree of the Six Hundred Miles.

Zuo Zongtang received the order, not only beheaded Ding Taiyang to show the public, but also replied to Liu Songshan and Zhang Yao: The elder brother will be a bandit, hiding in the ranks, invincible, not to be worried, and still want to pay attention. Suide to Yijun, Yijun to Baoji, are all 600 miles away, and it is very difficult for the three-way army to go hand in hand. The soldiers are at the speed of God, Liu and Zhang must be invisible, step on the ice into Qin, Liu to Suide, Zhang to Yulin, and attack together, encircling and annihilating Dong Wei; The momentum is indispensable, the south and middle two roads, with great fanfare, and the mighty line, echoing from afar.

Liu Songshan, the land governor of Guangdong, received the order and left 3,000 troops to guard the east coast; Songshan personally led the old Hunan camp, crossed the Yellow River from Yongning, and on the 6th day of the first month of December, he arrived in Suide, his body shape was undecided, and a group of soldiers could not ask for money, and openly mutinied. Liu Songshan was calm and calm, galloped to arrest more than 100 rebels, and immediately beheaded in front of the army. Cheng Dingkang, the general of Suide and the registered Taoist, was shocked.

Liu Songshan disagreed, and said: The soldiers are in an uproar, and Zuo Shuai has already been entrusted, so this is not enough to worry about. Brother Diquan led the Chengxin army and marched west into Dali River, from south to north; I led the headquarters, north to Xiaoli River, from the fork ditch from north to south, take advantage of its unpreparedness, will be the division of the attack, first destroy the big and small Li Chuan's rebel army forts, and then take advantage of the victory to smash its old nest town Jingbao.

Cheng Dingkang said: Dong is unprepared, it must overflow, and the area of Yulin in the northeast is very empty.

Liu Songshan Road: Zhang Yao sent a letter, and the next day he was drummed, and his general led the main force of the Songwu army to enter Qin from the ice of the river meander, and entered Yulin. We will reorganize our troops, take a short rest, and start attacking the day after tomorrow.

On January 10, 1869, Liu Songshan and Cheng Dingkang died down and quietly came to the fort. Dong's army was unprepared and collapsed at the first touch. The second army of Liu and Cheng advanced to the north and south, taking advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, defeating more than 30,000 people in the first battle and intercepting more than 3,000 mules and horses.

After days of fighting, the food was exhausted, and Liu Songshan immediately ordered the slaughter of mules and horses to relieve hunger; The second army of Liu and Cheng was full of food and drink, and marched forward in the starry night, and on the 15th, they attacked Longjiao Town, which was one step away from Zhenjing Fort.

Liu Songshan personally came to the front of the battle, supervised all departments, and fired guns and cannons. In half a day, more than ten forts on the periphery were broken; The town of Waist is in jeopardy.

The Qing army was like a bamboo, half a month soared for 500 miles, breaking two lines of defense in a row, Dong Fuxiang was frightened, and said that the generals Li Shuangliang and Gao Wanquan said: Although Zhenjing Fort is extremely strong, the Qing demon flowering cannon is more profitable, and it will be broken if it is defended; Our soldiers were divided into two routes, running east and west, swimming to attack the enemy, in order to protect the town of Jingbao and the Jingbian city wall.

Dong Fuxiang said goodbye and escaped from Zhenjing Fort overnight; His father, Dong Shiyou, was old and frail, inconvenient to walk, and could not be called, so he led the rest of the people to kneel down.

When Liu Songshan heard the news, he personally appeased him.

Dong Shiyou begged and said: All the disciples were intercepted, and those who were afraid of punishment either went to Yulin and Mizhi, or overflowed to Yanchang. Dong Fuxiang had three or four thousand people with him, and he didn't know where he was going. Someone has been sent to recall it, and he begs for a few days.

Dong Fuxiang entered Yulin in the east, and was attacked by Cheng Dingkang and Zhang Yao's two armies in the middle of the way, and the damage was huge, and he was about to collapse.

Dong Fuxiang said: This place is less than ten miles away from the Yellow River, and the Fenzhou area produces rice, and there is grain to be caused.

Zhang Jun, the curtain guest, advised: Qi Dong Shuai, my generation practiced the regiment, was forced by thieves, suffered from the annual drought, and ended up here, why did he disturb the people, and the future generations will come, who can forgive him.

When Dong Fuxiang hesitated, Bai Zijun, a person from Fengxi, was entrusted by Liu Songshan to persuade him to surrender.

Bai Zijun said: General Dong's father and Li Shuangliang's troops have surrendered, and General Dong's wife and children have also been treated kindly; If General Dong continues to be stubborn, he will be at the end of his rope.

Dong Fuxiang said: The construction of a fortress to ensure the people's peaceful residence, the establishment of a bureau to reduce the people's labor, the relocation of the people, the opening of the branch and other Mr. Bai's initiatives, also adopted by Zuo Shuai, and where I think about it; Now that the matter has come to this, what more can the husband ask for!