Chapter 189: Zuo Zongtang Pacifies Guan Long (1)

Li Hongzhang succeeded him as Governor of Zhili and concurrently served as Minister of Beiyang Commerce; Zuo Zongtang, the minister of the Qin Mission and the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, sighed: Li Hongzhang sits in Beiyang, governs the imperial court from afar, and the cardinal government often relies on the main authority in domestic and foreign affairs. The Li family is desperately an official, and his fortune is prosperous!

Makuke Yu Shaonan Road: Fenghou is not what he wants, but he wishes that Kyushu is safe. Zuo Shuai is not Li Shaoquan! Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, the imperial court came to the decree, said that the small village of Lingzhou in Jinjibao is not comparable to Tongdu Dayi, Ma Hualong is a soldier in Huangchi, and the people in Gansu are in turmoil, and Zhang Li is not comparable to Ming Ji; Zuo Shuai has hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of millions of dollars, and it has been nearly four years, why has it not been cleared up? Immediately supervised the Hunan and Anhui armies to recover Jinjibao, and cleared Xining, Hezhou with a victorious army, so as to relieve the country's worries.

Zuo Zongtang said: This decree of the imperial court is much milder than the decree of the previous one. At the turn of spring and summer last year, the army of our three roads attacked Jinjibao, a total of 120,000 people, from Pingliang to Lingzhou through Guyuan, more than 900 miles away; Now it is necessary to reel in the ropes and nets and fish with all the water. Jinjibao is surrounded by one mile to three miles, Jin Yunchang is in the north, Liu Jintang is in the east and south, Lei Zhengwan is in the southwest, Huang Ding is in the west, and Xu Wenxiu is in the northwest; I have taken advantage of the nine marshals to attack Anqing, Nanjing, digging two long trenches around Jinji Fort, one zhang deep, three zhang wide, building a wall on the edge of the trench, up to more than zhang, a defense of the internal army to break through, a defense of foreign troops to help, Jinji Fort has been a dead place! When the castle was full of hunger, Ma Hualong went out of the city and surrendered.

On January 6, 1871, when the Jinji Fort ran out of ammunition and food, Ma Hualong, the leader of the Zhehelinye sect, presented 58 artillery pieces and more than 2,000 guns, bowed his head and asked to surrender, willing to redeem the innocent lives of all the people in the fort with the death of one person.

When Zuo Zongtang heard the news, he said abruptly: Suppress this bandit, kill and wound a mountain, and repeatedly lose generals. Ten years of suppression, there are many casualties, and there are no more than this battle.

Chen Xiangdao, the chief manager of the camp office and the inspector of Shaanxi: Liu Jintang of Xining Road came to report that when the army destroyed the fort, it found more than 1,000 Russian-made foreign guns and several cannons.

Zuo Zongtang said: This fight is stubborn! From Lingning to Xining, Nantong Hedi, all the people look up to their noses. If this fight is not punished, there will be endless troubles.

On that day, Zuo Zongtang said: Ma Hualong, capricious, this time may not be a fraud. The thoughts of his people are comparable to Li Yuanhao of Western Xia, if they are not removed, there will be troubles. He is the leader of the philosophical faction, his people are dead, Protestantism is extinct, Protestantism is extinct and An, and Guan Long can be guaranteed for a hundred years.

The Empress Dowager Cixi took over and immediately passed the decree: those who secretly possess weapons and collude with foreigners should be punished by the nine clans. Ma Hualong was executed on the same day, and more than 80 of his father, brothers, sons and nephews, and more than 1,800 large and small leaders were all killed; The women and children of his family, old and young, were all sent into slavery; His grandson was confined to Xi'an and Kaifeng respectively until he reached the age of 12 and handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for routine handling. More than 10,000 believers in the fort have migrated to Guyuan and Huaping; This realm, the world of bitterness, can sharpen its uncivilized mind.

Zuo Qing Zongtang beheaded the big and small leaders of Jinji Fort, that is, when the whole army was motivated, he went west alone, and destroyed this dynasty food, and the court thought of the west like hunger and thirst, and it was also thousands of miles away.

Zuo Zongtang was ordered to kill the people of Jinjibao and summoned the generals to attack Hezhou, an important town in Hehuang.

Zuo Zongtang said: General Yili Rongquan sent a letter, saying that Yili had been invaded and occupied by Tsarist Russia, and the Agubai bandit army had also entered the northern frontier, and Urumqi would not be guaranteed sooner or later; The will of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, Hezhou, Xining, Suzhou are not quiet, the Hexi Corridor is not passable, and the land of Xinjiang is about to be lost.

Liu Jintang of Xining Road said: Qiqi Zuo Shuai, I will lead my troops to attack Hezhou and destroy this dynasty!

Shaanxi Admiral Lei Zhengwan said: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, Hezhou has been in turmoil for nearly ten years, and its people have no discipline, and they have plundered their own private interests, and their bitterness and happiness are uneven; The residence is each set up a sect, suspicious of each other, the leaders are numerous, and the backs are divided. The subordinates immediately raised the first army and marched together with General Liu.

Zuo Zongtang said: Our army attacked Jinji Fort, and the battle was unprecedented; Brother Lei and Jintang's troops suffered heavy casualties, and they really couldn't fight anymore. Quickly pass on my order, the head of the camp office, Shaanxi according to the envoy Chen Xiang, that is, the 40th battalion army of Tongnan Road, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, attacked Hezhou.

On July 26, 1871, Chen Xiang, the head of the camp office, ordered the army on the South Road to divide into three routes and swim across the Tao River.

On the left road, Yang Shijun, the governor of Hezhou, led the 10th battalion of the Chu army to march along the south of Guanping Town of Didao; On the right side, Liu Mingdeng, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, led the 10th battalion of soldiers to attack Kangjiaya; In the middle road, Fu Xianzong, the named admiral and the chief soldier of Liangzhou Town, led 20 battalions of the Hubei army, marched from Di Dao, waited for the opportunity to force the Tao River, and met the two armies of Yang and Liu.

The left army was in the Tao River, and the general manager of Hezhou, Rong Ma Zhanao, had a long discussion with the people, and decided to ask for plausion.

Zuo Zongtang received the request for the appeasement, and said: Ma Zhanao and other begging documents said, and now I know that the people of Jinjibao have designed to be appeased for you, and they will all be punished, and no one has missed the net; If Meng Daxian does not follow the example of Jinjibao, he will actually return to the Fu, and all of them will be enthusiastic.

Chen Xiang, the head of the battalion, said: Qi Yu Zuo Shuai, Ma Zhanao and others are afraid of the might of our army and want to surrender, but they are afraid of following the mistakes of Ma Hualong and others.

Zuo Zongtang said: Ma Zhanao and others thought that Ma Hualong's father and son had repeatedly rebelled and killed the generals, so they buried guns and cannons privately after the fuss, and harbored evil intentions; On the contrary, the appeasement of the officials and soldiers is a design, and its wandering thoughts have been revealed in its feelings. Now that the soldiers are not long in time, they are still far from Ma Zhanao's nest, so they can be taught to make up their minds as soon as possible. The officers and the military are not only designed, but they are not planned; The official and military appeasement is not solid, and its inauthenticity is soothed. The land of Hezhou, which has not been punished for ten years, is even more fearless, this is not a huge pain, and it is difficult to hope that it will be convincing.

Ma Zhanao received the notice and said: The soldiers and horses have not moved, and it is difficult to ask for help; The soldiers and horses moved, and they lived to die. The 20,000-strong army of Qing demons is surging forward, and we are outnumbered, and it is very difficult to resist. Quickly pass on my order, the Kangjia Cliff east of the Tao River is the only passage for me to enter and exit the east of the river, and it must be strictly guarded against; The three Jiaji in the west of the Tao River, (Ganping, Baxiankou, Dongjiashan) Taizi Temple, and Dadong Township are related to the gains and losses of Hezhou, and they must be defended.

After the pacification of the bureau, the battalion manager Chen Xiang gave an order, and Liu Mingdeng, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, personally led 2,000 elite soldiers and brazenly attacked. The high walls of Kangjiaya City were thick, and Liu Mingdeng attacked for three days in a row, but to no avail. Chen Xiang rushed to the aid of Xu Wenxiu, the chief soldier of Gaozhou Town.

On September 18, Xu Wenxiu led 5,000 troops to arrive, and Liu and Xu joined forces to attack at night and capture the city in one fell swoop.

The Wei army retreated to the west bank, built several fortifications, dug two trenches, and resisted to the death.

Kangjiaya is close to the shore of Zhouzhu, the water is turbulent, and it is difficult for Liu and Xu Erjun to swim across for a while.

On the side of Di Dao, Fu Xianzong and Yang Shijun also joined forces, built bridges by boats, and by surprise, they rushed to cross the Tao River, and set up camp in Xiping, Sancha River, and Chenjiashan.

When Zhu Wei heard about it, they flocked to the village and blocked it. The two armies fought for more than a month, with more than 100 casualties, and the victory was indistinguishable.