Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Hunan was turned upside down by the Taiping army. When the Qing army in the two lakes continued to send out an emergency for 800 miles to Beijing, under the command of Qing’an Yuanjing Kou General and Xinjun Wang Duoni, Guangxi Admiral Guoan led his 47,000 troops. Starting from Yunnan, via Guiyang, he rushed to Duyun to reinforce the Guangxi governor Chen Weixin's department. At the same time, after hearing that the border between Hunan and Guizhou was blocked by the Taiping Army, the king of Qingping County in Guiyang, Luo Keyi, rushed to lead more than 4,000 Manchu soldiers and more than 10,000 Qing troops from Guizhou east to Zhenyuan Mansion. Report to Doni, please send the army back to the road to save food and get through the northbound passage of Guizhou.

In Guangxi, the new Guangxi governor and former fourth town general Shao Jiugong, who commanded the Guangxi Taiping Army with full authority, adhered to the military commander's strategy to lure the enemy into depth, and decided to send a town soldier to feign Guizhou to lure Guoan into Guangxi.

Zhao Ziqiang's troops in the fifth town were ordered to move westward from Nandan Prefecture, Qingyuan Prefecture, along the road that the Qing army from Guangxi entered into Guizhou that day.

The success of the fifth town's consecutive battles inspired the remaining towns in Guangxi. The eleventh town general Gao Jinku and deputy general Xiong Chaozuo jointly asked Shao Jiugong to fight. Shao Jiugong considered that the momentum created by a town's northward advance might not be able to induce Lian Guoan to settle down, so he agreed to the tenth town's westward advance to cooperate with the fifth town to feign an attack on Dushan Prefecture, an important road in Guizhou.

After the eleventh town arrived, Zhao Ziqiang, the general of the fifth town, excused that the troops needed to rest after fighting for several days, and the tenth town assumed the task of attacking Dushan.

Due to the return of the Ministry of National Security on the line, the Qing army strengthened the inspection of the checkpoint, resulting in the fact that the spies sent by the Ministry of Military Intelligence in Guizhou could not send information. Therefore, Gao Jinku, the general of the Eleventh Town, believed that the Dushan defenders were just the troops of Chen Weixin, who had retreated from Guangxi. The troops were mostly green battalions, and their combat power was low, which was nothing to worry about. Pretend to attack Dushan.

After Gao Jin's library arrived outside Dushan City, if he had guessed in advance, the Qing army in the city only came out to fight for a while, and after a while, he hurriedly returned to the city and closed the door to defend it, looking like he was being beaten first.

Gao Jinku had no intention of attacking Dushan, so he ordered to camp. Every day, they sent people to urge the soldiers to run down the city to attack for a while, and they shouted for a while, and they did this every day for more than ten days. The Qing army in the city was good, no matter how aggressive the Taiping army was and how much they shouted, they would turn a deaf ear. Only when the scolding person is close will they lazily put two guns to intimidate them. Other than that, the Qing army in the city does not move at all, and depending on their posture, they will not leave the city if they are beaten to death.

The Eleventh Town was not originally a direct line of the Taiping Army, but was adapted from the original Qing Army surrendered and a miscellaneous brand of the Ming Army in western Guangdong, so the town did not strictly observe the discipline of the Taiping Army. In addition, the northward advance this time was just a feign attack, and the Qing army would retreat only after the arrival of the Ministry of National Security on the front line. Therefore, after staying under Dushan City for a long time, there was no threat. The bad problems of the past appeared - fighting became a routine, officers and soldiers. It's all about slacking off, doing nothing in the camp, gambling money to pass the time. Some officers and soldiers even went to the nearby villages to loot, in order to capture the natives for fun.

Xiong Chaozuo, deputy general of the Eleventh Town, saw that the military discipline was scattered, and was a little worried, so he ran to the town hall to remind Gao Jinku to rectify the military discipline. They set up a banquet in the tent with Zhang Yue, Wang Han and others from the travel school. They were drinking and boxing, and they were very happy.

"Brother Xiong, you are here too! Come and have a drink with us!"

When Gao Jinku saw Xiong Chaozuo entering the tent, he immediately got up and led him to the wine table. Zhang Yue next to him was also full of smiles, and he poured a bowl of rice wine to Xiong Chaozuo and handed it over with both hands. Wang Han also stepped forward with a drunken face to pour wine for Xiong Chaozuo.

"I'm afraid it's inappropriate to drink in the army." Xiong Chaozuo hesitated.

"Hey, don't be afraid, brother. Shao Futai sent us here this time just to pretend to attack and lure the enemy, not to make the brothers really desperate. The Qing army was also scared by us, and they dared not leave the city for more than ten days. The **** is still on the way, we have nothing to do here, we have been in Guangxi for so long, we should let everyone relax, right? Come on, don’t think about it, brother Xiong, and drink this bowl first , but don't lose my face, brother...haha."

Gao Jinku said this, but Xiong Chaozuo refused, so he had to drink the bowl full of wine, and before he burped, Wang Han, a travel school, came up with another bowl of wine and said respectfully, "Wang is the most admired in normal times. For a cheerful person like Deputy Xiong, this time the Qinwang Mountain is steep and the road is long, and I don’t know how to repay the care of Gao Shuai and Deputy Xiong, so I managed to steal this time, so let’s give a toast to the humble post! Do it first!”

Accompanied by the sound of gudonggudong, Wang Han also served a good amount of alcohol. He drank the wine like a whale, which caused Gao Jinku to also laugh, and then he drank another bowl. Xiong Chaozuo couldn't save his boss's face and pushed Wang Han inconveniently, so he had to bite the bullet and drink another bowl. As a result, after eating two bowls of wine, the whole person felt light and airy, and the matter of persuading Gao Jinku to rectify the military discipline was also forgotten...

The next day, near noon, a guard hurriedly woke up Xiong Chaozuo, who was still asleep, and said in a hurry, "General, there is something wrong with the Qing army!"

"what?!"

Xiong Chaozuo was startled when he heard the words, he jumped up regardless of the discomfort of the hangover, put on his armor hastily and ran to the front of the camp with the guards. In the line of sight, I saw more than 3,000 Qing troops marching out of the city to fight to the death with the Ming army.

"Hey, the **** is weird, the sun is out in the west today, and the turtles in Dushan City are out!"

Eleven towns guarded the space outside Dushan City for more than ten days, and when they finally saw the Qing army coming out again, the whole town was shaken. The soldiers hurriedly put on their armor and lined up to the sound of the suona, and the formation was soon completed. Then the Qing army came over, and the Taiping soldiers from Eleven Town also stepped forward to meet the drum beat.

Moments later, the two armies exchanged fire. Both sides are from the green camp, and their combat effectiveness is almost the same. You come and I fight quite lively. However, there were many Taiping troops, and few Qing soldiers left the city. The Qing army retreated after a stick of incense.

Seeing that the Qing army was about to retreat, Eleven Towns would not let it go. In pursuit, they killed hundreds of Qing soldiers with slow legs, but they were knocked over by the artillery bird guns on the top of the city. Gao Jinku was afraid that his soldiers would suffer many more casualties, so he also ordered his troops to retreat to the battalion. I went back and counted the losses on both sides. I cut down more than 200 Qing soldiers, and lost 70 people myself. It was a small victory, so I ordered all the troops to rest and treat the wounded.

At noon the next day, the Qing army went out to battle again, and the casualties on both sides were similar to the previous day. It was the same on the third day, but the Ming army learned to be obedient and stopped being under fire from the city's head, only to lose less than 30 people.

This battle has been fought too much, and the profit is more and the loss is less. The eleven towns are so happy that they all ridicule the Qing army for such a loss-making business, aren't they afraid of grinding people down?

On the fourth day, the sky was just dawning, and the fog in the mountains of Guizhou had not yet dissipated. The sleeping Ming officers and soldiers were awakened by the sound of sharp horns.

Gao Jinku, the town general yawning, ran upstairs to the camp gate in a cloak, only to see that the Qing army had already lined up to challenge as usual.

"Damn it! This Tartar has taken the wrong medicine and came so early! Damn it, if you don't kill him today, this group of turtle grandchildren can't really be vegetarians!"

Gao Jinku was a little annoyed that his dream was disturbed by this group of Qing soldiers, so he ordered the whole town to go out in armour immediately.

The cook hasn't cooked yet, and the soldiers in Eleven Town are all empty stomachs, so they are as angry as the town general Gao Jinku, and each one is cruel: If you don't cut down a few more of these demons today, he will be the only one. The mother is a pure demon!

In just a few moments, Eleven Towns stepped out of the battalion and marched forward, and they caught fire with the Qing army in the same place as the previous days.

However, there was something wrong with the situation today. The Qing army did not retreat quickly. Instead, they fiercely formed a group with the Ming army, which was much more valiant than the previous days. The Taiping army, accustomed to the Qing army's retreat after a dozen hits, was a little stunned, and they actually killed a lot of people.

Gao Jinku was just a little surprised that the Qing army was so stunned today, did they try their best? The earth wall under the city not far away was suddenly torn down a few sections, and a large stream of Qing troops appeared continuously! Turning around the city gate, the drums were also loud, and a large banner of eight feet was erected.

"Xian Guoan is here? Is he in the scheme?!"

Gao Jinku's heart sank, secretly screaming bad.

In order to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop today, Gao Jinku did not divide the front and rear army reserves, but ordered his troops to line up and push up. Unexpectedly, this fraudulent defeat for several consecutive days turned out to be the exhausting plan of Xian Guoan!

Before waiting to enter the warehouse to regret and complain, the Second Brigade on the left has been rushed from the flank by reinforcements from the line department, and has fallen into a hard fight. Now this situation is impossible to advance, and it is impossible to retreat! The messengers came running from the side one after another to ask for help, but in addition to the town soldiers around Gao Jinku, where can there be adjusted soldiers!

It didn't take much effort, and the right side reported bad news: Brigade C was overrun by an enemy army with several times the advantage, and Wang Hanzhong, the brigade school, was sacked. Although the A and B brigades on the left and middle roads are supporting with all their strength, they are not far from collapse.

Gao Jinku's hands and feet were cold, and the hand holding the command flag trembled as he watched the Qing army surrounded by him step by step. Back then, when he was guarding Ganzhou in the Qing army, he killed Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong successively. Soon after he was promoted to Guangdong, he was forced to return to the Ming army. Although he was forced to surrender by the Taiping Army, he was still one of the few town generals in the Taiping Army. Originally, I thought that I would follow Xijin to get some credit, show his eleven towns well in front of Zhou Shixiang, and then be reused in the future. Who would have thought it would be such a situation in the end!

Xian Guoan was a general who could fight in the Qing Dynasty, and he had a lot of troops, so Gao Jinku could not think of the possibility of winning. At this moment, I can't help but regret the past few days of taking it lightly. But that's what happened. He was afraid of death in his early years and jumped around in the Chuang, Ming and Qing families. However, this time he was absolutely unable to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Gao Jinku's mind was buzzing, but the central army ran back to a general who was riding a horse and his armor was covered with arrows. Taking a closer look, it was his deputy town, Feng Zhengbo Xiong Chaozuo.

"Gao Shuai, brothers can't stand it anymore, let's go with the town flag! With this flag here, Zhou Dashuai can rebuild the eleven towns for us! Hurry up! If it's too late, we won't be able to leave!"

Xiong Chaozuo was covered in blood, it would be too late to say anything, it was useless to complain about anyone, they could only blame themselves for underestimating the enemy.

The corner of Gao Jinku's mouth moved to say something, but Xiong Chaozuo winked at the guards, and the guards dragged his horse around and ran south. And Xiong Chaozuo took his men to kill the enemy in the line of sight. The battlefield became farther and farther in sight, and finally disappeared into the dust.

Gao Jinku looked back at the battlefield in despair, and murmured, "Brother Xiong, I hurt you! Brothers, it was me who hurt you!"... He suddenly slammed into the hands of the soldiers in front of him. Pull the reins back.

"You protect the flag and go back to Governor Shao in Liuzhou, and I'll pick up the brothers! From now on, all of you will listen to the arrangements of the commander, and remember to offer us a glass of wine on this day every year!"

"grown ups!"

The soldiers stopped their horses and shouted, but they couldn't stop Gao Jinku rushing back. Can only hold the banner and run to Liuzhou.

Gao Jinku didn't want to go back and be embarrassed, and he didn't even want to shamelessly go to Xian Guoan to beg for surrender. No matter how shameless he was, he couldn't do the four surrenders!

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In the Battle of Dushan, the 11th Taiping army from the town general Gao Jinku and deputy general Xiong Chaozuo killed 6,700 soldiers in the battle. Only Zhang Yue, the school of the Brigade Brigade, fled the battlefield with 200 remaining soldiers from the left wing, and then gathered the scattered soldiers. After getting together 800 people, they were rescued by the fifth town in the Pingzhou Division. The wounded and captives of the Taiping Army who remained on the battlefield and in the camp, together with nearly 3,000 civilians, were ordered to be killed outside Dushan City by Lin Guoan.

After Dushan defeated the Taiping Army, Xian Guoan quickly marched eastward with 10,000 elite soldiers as the vanguard. The fifth town of the Taiping Army was weak and could not resist the front line Guoan, which had tens of thousands of troops. It could only retreat to Nandan Prefecture under the command of the town general Zhao Ziqiang.

On the 25th~www.NovelMTL.com~ The Ministry of National Security of the Line defeated the First Brigade of the Fifth Town, which was blocked by the Taiping Army in the Fengning Division. Taking advantage of the chaos, the cavalry changed the color of the Ming army's flag and entered Nandan, who was busy gathering the scattered soldiers. State City.

The fifth town garrisoned in Nandanzhou City retreated to Qingyuanfu City under the leadership of the town general Zhao Ziqiang without resisting. After the Ministry of National Security took over the city of Nandan Prefecture, it took the army to pounce on Qingyuan for several years. Zhao Ziqiang ordered Qingyuan defender Lu Guangzu to abandon Qingyuan and withdraw to Liuzhou.

On January 11, the thirteenth year of the Yongli calendar, the vanguard of the National Security Department of the Qing army reached Leitang Mountain in the north of Liuzhou to build a camp and began to attack this important town on the Xijiang River.

At this point, the Guangxi war situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

Zhou Shixiang's Guangxi strategy before entering Hunan was to plan the Taiping army to feign Guizhou first, and to lure the Qing army into the preset battlefield in Guangxi step by step, at least to start the Liuzhou campaign under roughly the same force conditions. Unexpectedly, in the first battle of Dushan, the 11th town was almost completely wiped out, the line Guoan was fast-forwarding again, and the 5th town kept abandoning the land in a hurry, and the strategic deployment was completely disrupted.

In order to protect Liuzhou, Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, was forced to use the fourth town of the headquarters, the Zhao Ziqiang department of the fifth town, the remnants of the eleventh town and a brigade of the tenth town, together with the soldiers of the two brigades reorganized from the descendants and the navy on the Xijiang River. A total of more than 30,000 people started the Liuzhou War. (To be continued.)