Chapter 182: Liu Songshan Dies, Ma Wuzhai (2)

Zuo Zongtang said goodbye and sent a letter to Wei Guangtao of Pingliangjing Gudao; The Ministry surveyed the journey from Huanxian County to Huamachi and set up a postal post, and promoted the two new battalions out of Fucheng Maling to protect the people in autumn, and the arrangement was very good.

I thought that the front road of Erbu also planned to be stationed in Zhangjiabao, 30 miles north of Qingcheng, and that the army would enter Huanxian County to contact the battalion as soon as the grain transportation was slightly sufficient. Liu Songshan, who was a businessman, quickly complied, pulled out the camp and advanced, and the Hunan army was heard outside, and the gate of Qing County was taken inside.

In addition, 41 official mules from the 9th Institute and 21 mules from He Dinggui have been transferred to Ningzhou to transfer grain to Xihuachi, and the vehicles under the management of Zhang Xuesheng have been drawn to the camp to wait for allocation. If the mule transportation in Xihuachi is insufficient, it should be allocated separately.

Yesterday, due to the urgency of the transfer, Ningzhou has been retained, and the people have been hired to transport grain to Xihuachi. It transports grain from Xihuachi to Qingyang; He also thanked the governor of Anhua and Heshui counties, and hired porters to help them transfer among the returned refugees. This is the way of the record. Look up to the road to check and supervise together.

After the grain road was urged, Zuo Zongtang scolded Liu Songshan again: to deal with major events, not to be anxious, not to be slow, not to be wide, not to be fierce, to be able to adapt to changes, not to involve Emperor Zhang, not to be a little negligent, but to be an expert.

Liu Songshan received the news and urgently summoned Liu Jintang, Dong Fuxiang, Yu Huen, Shuangshou, He Zuolin, Xiao Zhangkai and others to discuss the matter.

Liu Songshan Road: Ma Hua dragon thief rebelled against the yin, secretly dug the Qin canal, and flooded our army; We dig ditches and store water as a river to protect the river, and the position is steady, and we cannot retreat. Around Wuzhong Fort, small forts and big villages, the scale ratio is as much as a cow's hair. I intend to choose seven or eight forts nearby, surround and bombard, deter the enemy, and then return to besiege Lingzhou City.

Dong Fuxiang said: My flowering cannons and breech artillery are indestructible, and they are just small villages and small forts, and they are all right away; The cannon sounded, and our troops attacked first.

Liu Songshan Road: Killing chickens needs to use a knife, and after the cannon bombardment, Dong Fuxiang, Liu Jintang, and Shuangshou, Yu Enhu and horse teams poured out together to seize the village and grab the fort.

On October 16, 1869, at the time of the third watch, Liu Songshan ordered an attack, and in one day, conquered seven forts, killed 3,000 soldiers, and captured more than 220 alive.

Ma Hualong was frightened and anxious to be appeased.

His son Ma Yaobang said: If you fight, you will fight, and if you die, you will die, why sway! With a shout, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of Jinji Fort poured out a battle, and they were all gone.

Ma Hualongdao: There is no certainty of victory, and defeat will destroy the clan! Fight in the nest, never do.

Lingzhou Shepherd Ma Zhankui said: Sect Master, the Sect Master is so ambiguous, it is very easy to miss the opportunity. Zuo Zongtang is a Confucian handsome, and he entered Qinlong, and he did not kill in vain, although Dong Fuxiang was my generation, he was also appeased. If the sect leader really asks for caressing, he must put the knife and gun into the warehouse and put the horse in Nanshan.

Ma Hualong said: I don't want to, but for more than ten years, more than one million people have died in Han Wei disputes, and the grievances are too deep and difficult to resolve. The alliance under the city, don't sign it. Bow your head for the time being, and wait for the reinforcements of Ma Zhanao in Hezhou.

Ma Yuandao: For today's road, the only way to promote peace is to war; Pooling all his strength to encircle and annihilate Liu Songshan's army, Zuo Zongtang retreated despite the difficulties, and his own affairs were self-contained.

Ma Hualong said Ma Yuandao: Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo are all a clan, I am defeated with horse weapons, I am poor and I help with military food, I do my best to find a way to protect the clan, Bai Yanhu and others know my intentions, why do you want to go away from me repeatedly?

Ma Yuandao: The leader of the sect is uncertain in war, and the war will send Shaanxi fen as a spear, and as far as the Shaanxi fen as a shield, no matter the war and peace, Shaanxi fenn is bait! I have followed Bai Yanhu for many years and am familiar with his personality; It is also common for them to do so.

Ma Hualong sighed: We knew this for a long time, why did we kill people like hemp in the first place! The battle is weak, the fortress is lost, and it must be appeased. After months of fighting, Liu Songshan must be short of grain and rice, so he quickly passed on my order and sent 100,000 catties of grain and more than 100 cattle and sheep to promote peace.

Ma Yaobang and Ma Yuan both said: This is an enemy, and it is absolutely impossible.

Ma Hualong said: This is a military order, it must be implemented! In the past, I sent Shaanxi Governor Mu Tushan 8,000 taels of silver and 100,000 catties of grain in exchange for the autonomy of Ning and Ling.

Liu Songshan received the food and materials, and he was also happy, and he quickly turned the horse into a dragon: he presented the war horses and equipment, and the situation was opened.

Ma Hualong hesitated for three days, and finally did not dare to restrain his hands.

At dawn on the 21st, Liu Jintang's troops captured Majiazhai and intercepted Ma Hualong's letter ordering the defenders to resist stubbornly and wait for help.

Liu Jintang said that Liu Songshan said: Ma Hualong is in charge of the general affairs of local military aircraft in Lianghe, Ningjun and other places, and he resisted the rebel army. Ma Hualong is a person, hiding a knife in his smile, and he can't be trusted.

Liu Songshan said: Report to Zuo Shuai as soon as possible.

Zuo Zongtang received the note, if he got the treasure, he would rush to the Beijing division for 600 miles.

When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard the news, she immediately sent an edict: Xun Tu swept away Ma Hualong's rebellion, and returned to the gift, and he should not be rashly appeased.

Zuo Zongtang received the order, and then ordered Liu Songshan to shrink his forces, return to attack Lingzhou, and consolidate the back road; When reinforcements from the north and south arrive, they will attack Jinji Fort.

Liu Songshan received the order, then summoned the generals, and returned to besiege Lingzhou.

Liu Songshan said: Liu was incompetent, the thief withdrew from Lingzhou, General Dong insisted on leaving several battalions to guard, regretting not listening to General Dong's words, and making a big mistake.

Dong Fuxiang said: Lord Qiyu Junmen, the thief is capricious, so there is this change. I immediately led my headquarters to attack the bandit base of the Reunion Temple, and fought a bloody way for the army.

Liu Songshan Road: In Lingzhou City, there are less than 2,000 rebel troops; Outside the city of Lingzhou, there are 4,000 rebel troops, and they are divided into four fortresses: Reunion Temple, Stone Base, Buyer Village, and Luojiaqiao. The city defense of the opposing army, heavy on the outside and light on the inside, the troops are scattered, and they are not horns for each other, I can gather my forces and break them down.

In early November 1869, Liu Jintang, Dong Fuxiang, Yu Huen, Shuangshou, Yi Delin, Xiao Zhangkai and others poured out of the nest and fought for one day, breaking through the fortress of Reunion Temple, killing more than 1,500 people under the rebel leader Ma Shengyuan, Ma Zhihe, and Guo Lili, and capturing 241 people.

Hu Rudong, the general of the stone base, was originally a general under Mu Tushan, and he was embarrassed and had to be in a last resort; As soon as the reunion temple was broken, he immediately killed the head of the bean and went out of the fort to surrender to Cheng.

The next day, Liu Jintang and Dong Fuxiang attacked the remaining two villages, and killed 400 soldiers again.

Lingzhou Muma Zhankui was frightened, thought about it again and again, and surrendered Kaicheng.

Songshan entered the city, screened the good and the bad, killed the rebels, dismissed the old and weak, recruited the strong, reopened the commercial port, and was busy.

Dong Fuxiang asked where Ma Zhankui went.

Liu Songshan Road: The northwest has been turbulent for ten years, but there is only one peach source left, and the horse occupies the leader, and the lover is also! Who dares to kill! Immediately return the Jinji Fort and persuade Ma Hualong to return. Passing on my military order, the army rested on the spot, half a month later, the day of the day, the camp set off, seized the fort and robbed the village, and took Wuzhong Fort in one fell swoop.

Named Admiral Huang Wanyou said: Liu Junmen, Zuo Shuai has an order, wait for the armies of the north and south roads to arrive, and then besiege Jinji Fort.

Liu Songshan Road: The remnants of Xining on the North Road have not been destroyed, and Zhang Yao and Jin Shun are unable to cross the river; Lei Zhengjuan, Zhou Lanting and others on the south road are fighting with Bai Yanhu and Shaanxi, and they are unable to go north; The gratifying thing is that Jin Yunchang led Zhuo Sheng's camp to arrive, and I also have strong reinforcements.

Liu Jintang said: Liu Junmen, under the mark to investigate, there are two dangers outside Jinji Fort, one is the mouth of the bronze gorge in the west of the fort, which is also the water intake of the Han Canal; The Yongning Cave in the east of the second is the fort, where the two canals of Qin and Han intersect and re-enter the Yellow River to the north. Occupy these two places, you can control the water potential, and remotely control the gold fort.

Liu Songshan said: I don't know, but outside the Jinji Fort, the large and small forts and stone barriers, as many as more than 100, it will take time to eradicate it, and immediately send a letter to Lei Zhengwan, asking him to send a section to enter the mouth of the Qingtong Gorge; We first pulled out the fortress around Wuzhong Fort, and then concentrated all our efforts to fight for the Yongning Cave.