Chapter 180: Zuo Zongtang, Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu Rebellion (3)

Dong surrendered, Zuo Zongtang was overjoyed, personally summoned Liu Songshan and Dong Fuxiang, and lectured in front of the tent.

Zuo Zongtang said that Dong Fuxiang said: I am the emperor of Shangshu, and among the 100,000 followers, 3,000 are selected to be strong, and the three battalions of Dong Zi are organized under the command of Liu Songshan.

Dong Fuxiang said: Thank you Zuo Shuai for your love, in the future, Dong will definitely take a gun and leap on a horse, go to the soup to fight the fire, and fight to redeem his former sorrows.

Liu Songshan said: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, I will supervise the armies of the North Road, march west to Dong Zhiyuan, and encircle and annihilate Bai Yanhu's rebels.

Zuo Zongtang said: Fighting for months, the soldiers are tired, quickly pass on my order, the southern, central and northern armies, rest for ten months, and then march to attack. Today, I received the report, and the courage of Xiangchu's new recruitment has already entered Henan; Brother Shouqing led his own soldiers and went south to receive them. Shouqing is thirty years old, I heard that the hired woman has not married for more than 20 years, and I am glad to hear that the woman's family has sent her daughter to Nanyang for more than two years.

Liu Songshan said: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, the Han general Huo Qubing once said, why is the Huns home if they are not destroyed? Matsuyama has not become famous, why is it home?

Zuo Zongtang said: This is my military order, and I must obey it. Yesterday I have been on the emperor, the holy decree is coming soon, dare you go against the will? Life is like a white horse passing through a fleeting gap, retreat quickly, travel lightly, go south to Henan, and pick up Yong Na women.

After Liu and Dong said goodbye, Liu Dian said: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, last year Dong Zhiyuan drought, Bai Yanhu rebelled against the bandits and lacked food and capital, Liu Songshan North Road troops drummed Yu Yong again, met the middle road Gao Lian Sheng, South Road Huang Ding Department, and advanced with victory, winning with one blow.

Zuo Zongtang said: Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, not as good as Dong Zhiyuan's side, I don't know! In recent years, the food and salary, but Sichuan and Liangjiang have allocated the most, but since the death of Luo Gong, Di Laofu has been promoted to direct governor, which is unsatisfactory! Fujian and Zhejiang are the places where we started, but since Wu Tang was superintended, the co-payment of Fujian and Zhejiang has been delayed again and again; Wu Tang is stubborn and conservative, and has repeatedly said that the Fuzhou shipbuilding may not be successful, even if it is successful, what is the benefit? Last year, Wu Tang and Guangdong Governor Ruilin jointly impeached Jiang Xiangquan for his willful and unconventional case, and Xiangquan was forced to resign from Yuefu, and the co-payment between the two Guangxi was almost nothing. At this age, Wu Tangfu served as the new governor of Sichuan again; This person has few political achievements and few military achievements, but he is omnipotent and omnipotent.

Liu Diandao: Liu Yuezhao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, impeached Wu Tang for conniving at his servants to ask for gifts, and the imperial court also used this case to involve corruption and border defense matters, which should be thoroughly investigated; In this way, the governor of Wu's Sichuan is also as difficult as the Shu Road.

Zuo Zongtang said: Liu Yuezhao is also like our Hunan people, he is fierce and upright, but in the name of asking for gifts, it is very difficult to impeach the governor and Fu; The assistance of Sichuan and Shu does not have to be counted on. The silver has been in short supply for seven or eight months, and if this thing is in short supply for a long time, there will be rebellious soldiers; Quickly punish all departments, secretly investigate the party leaders, give more Sichuan money, dismiss on the spot, and those who do not do evil will be beheaded immediately after the secret trial.

Liu Diandao: The 18th road of the rebels, Dong Zhiyuan is one place, and they do not belong to each other; The sooner we attack, the better.

Zuo Zongtang said: Within a month, the salary and silver raised by Zeng Guofan, Hu Xueyan and others will arrive, and then the three-way army will enter Dong Zhiyuan in full gear to encircle and annihilate the rebels from all walks of life. Qin Long's civil turmoil, millions of casualties, the culprit, although not Bai Yanhu's rebels, but this rebellion is brutal and brutal, ancient and modern, and there is no one like it.

Liu Dian said: The sky does not pity the poor, and regards all the people as mustard! Shaanxi and Gansu proverbs: In March of the fifth year of Tongzhi, the murderous atmosphere filled the sky; More than 100,000 people were wiped out, and who was not sad to ask. The peach is sad and willow with smoke, and it is yellow and cold. The children of Heyi burst into tears and dyed red azaleas. Qing Song is a song of letter and history, and it is a famous mountain for thousands of years. The blood was sprinkled on the ground and the bones were held up to the sky, and the cry was Daulan.

Zuo Zongtang frowned and said: During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the five indiscriminate Chinese people, only the people were punished afterwards, why not? Brutal to the extreme, no one dares to take pity on them! The three armies were ordered to fight in the future, such as Bai Yanhu's rebellion, and there was no forgiveness to kill him! They will never be allowed to beg.

The Qing army broke through Zhenjing Fort, annexed Dong Fuxiang, and forced Dong Zhiyuan, Bai Yanhu was frightened, and urgently summoned Cui Wei, Ma Zhenghe, Yu Deyan, Yang Wenzhi, Chen Lin and others to discuss countermeasures.

Bai Yanhu said: The Qing demon is powerful, and it is approaching, whether to fight or withdraw, it is urgent to decide!

Cui Weidao: Can there be a way? Such as Dong Fuxiang of Zhenjing Fort.

Bai Yanhu said: Qingyang, Ningzhou, Zhenyuan, Pingliang, etc., the white bones accumulated in the city, did you not draw your sword?

The crowd was silent.

Bai Yanhu said again: Last year, the spring famine, the hungry people were everywhere, and the food shortage was extreme, I have sent out four horses, since the extension to reach Qianlong, risking death to prey, there is no day, but the robbery is very little. Food, guns, and fire supplied by the leader of Jinji Castle. medicine, etc., is just a drop in the bucket; If you delay the time, people will not attack, and I will collapse myself!

Yang Wenzhi said: Ma Hualong Sect Leader has a saying, Dong Zhiyuan is the gateway to Jinji Fort, the portal is wide open, and Jinji Fort is in danger!

Bai Yanhu said: Dong Zhiyuan is easy to attack and difficult to defend, food is scarce, and it will be broken in a few days; The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, two or three hundred thousand people, how can they be born? I intend to move north to Jinji Fort, rendezvous with the Mahualong Division, and resist the enemy. Ma Hualong is the leader of Zhehelinye, and we are not his disciples; The enemy is at present, and he has no choice but to do it.

Ma Zhenghe and Yang Wenzhi both said: There is no other way, it can only be like this!

Bai Yanhu said: The war is urgent, Ma Zhenghe and Chen Lin are two departments, protecting the old and weak, and marching north first; Yang Wenzhi and Yu Deyan feinted to attack the solid plains and stifle the Lei Zheng Demon Army; I and Cui Wei, each led an army, chose a place to set up an ambush, resisted the Huangding demon army, and protected the back road; Ma Shengyan and Guo Ahun rode at a rate and went straight out of both sides of the Jing River to guerrilla and confuse the enemy.

In late March 1869, a group of fennel riders went out of Dong Zhiyuan and attacked Pizhou, with the potential of going south to Qinchuan for 800 miles. Zuo Zongtang did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly attacked Gao Liansheng, Lei Zhengwan, Huang Ding, and Ma Deshun, and attacked together to suppress Dong Zhiyuan.

Lei, Huang, and Ma Deling were divided into Guyuan, Hanzhou, and Changwu, and they attacked fiercely.

Bai Yanhu, Ma Zhenghe, Yang Wenzhi and others fought separately, and their soldiers were weak and retreated; The old, the weak, the sick and the young could not walk quickly, and countless people were encircled, killed, starved to death, and fell into rocks and streams.

Huang Ding and others captured Yang Wenzhi and captured Dong Zhiyuan, Zuo Zongtang was overjoyed, visited the Malay newspaper, Gao Lian promoted to the first army, there were soldiers mutinied, Gao and the general soldier Huang Yufu, battalion officer He Maolin, etc., were all killed.

Zuo Zongtang was shocked, and personally led 5,000 men and horses from his headquarters to Yijun to quell the rebellion. When Liu Dian heard the news, he also led a group of men and horses to arrive quickly, and the two joined hands to kill more than 1,000 rebels; Zong Tang didn't understand his hatred, and the first offender Ding Yulong, Wu Hongsheng, Zhu Dekui, Jiang Honggao, and Shi Wenke were all slashed with their own hands, and the corpses of the five criminals were executed, and they sacrificed their hearts.

Three days later, Zong Tang calmed down, and Fang Shang said: In early February, Gao Liansheng, the governor of Gansu, had a lot of foreign travel because of the various revenues, and there were elder bandits hiding, so he ordered all battalion posts to strictly investigate and punish them, and ordered them to repent.

Ding Yulong, a soldier of the former battalion, was afraid of crime and advocated rebellion, and the members of each battalion colluded with him to rebel and commit the crime on the 18th, so he raised the matter.

Shi Gao Liansheng was very anxious to pursue Ding Yulong, Ding Yulong infiltrated the left camp, and Wu Hongsheng, the chief of the left camp, Zhu Dekui, the sentry commander, Jiang Honggao, Shi Wenke, etc., on the night of the 20th, in the name of asking for salary, caused this change.

In addition to the more than 1,000 beheadings, the rest of the main culprits Chen Henggui, Huang Qichang, Deng Desheng, Xiong Yigui, Xiong Zhaoxiang, Kuang Shimin, Huang Xiucheng, Zhang Lianfang, etc. were all captured.

Gansu Governor Gao Liansheng, unfortunately for the rebellion and harm, earnestly according to the admiral's death of the example to give mercy, add grace, and pay the history museum to establish a biography, in order to show the achievements.

At the same time, Huang Yufu, the commander-in-chief of Hunan, He Maolin, the deputy general of the general-in-chief, Xie Chunsheng, the deputy of Zhejiang, Xie Chunsheng, the deputy general of Sichuan, Gao Moju, the garrison Wu Xueyu, the commander of Qian, Yu Yongfu, the general Zhu Congyun, and the superintendent Fang Fuchen, all of them all begged the ministry to give mercy to the original rank, and requested that they be allowed to attach to the Gao Liansheng Ancestral Hall.

The two battalions before and after the unchanged should be under the command of Li Huiwu, and the 1,500 men collected by Ding Xianfa and Gui Xizhen were divided into three battalions, with two battalions belonging to Ding Xianfa and one battalion under the command of Wei Guangtao.

The more than 600 people received by Zhou Shaolian and Zhang Fuqi were ordered to fill the vacancy.