Han’s Son is Not a Slave

At the beginning of the war in Guangxi, Shao Jiugong was very confident in inducing Xian Guoan to go deep into Guangxi and then encircle and destroy it. After all, according to those who surrendered, there were only more than 10,000 elite soldiers in Xian Guoan's headquarters, and most of the rest were Ming Dynasty soldiers who surrendered from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. military.

In terms of combat effectiveness alone, the Han army in the headquarters of Xian Guoan is not a strong army, otherwise it would not have been suppressed by the King of Jin Li Dingguo for so many years. It was not until the King of Jin went to Yunnan from Anlong, and the Guangxi Ming army was left behind with empty troops, and Xian Guoan was able to take the opportunity to capture Liuzhou, Xunzhou, Wuzhou and other important towns in Guangxi, cut off the communication channel between Yunnan and the Ming army in Guangdong, and realized the Guangxi territory on the bright side. Qing Dynasty. If the King of Jin had not withdrawn the main force from Guangxi, the remnants of Xian Guoan and Dingnan might not even have a chance to survive in Guangxi.

In terms of military spirit, the current line department is not necessarily monolithic. Most of the surrendered troops with three or four times the number of the National Security Headquarters were the former army of Sun Kewang and other Ming soldiers. After Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the morale of these people was low, and they were desperate to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and even after the Qing army entered Guizhou, either Looking at the wind and fleeing, or surrendering without a fight, is not one point or two points worse than the soldiers and horses of King Jin and King Gongchang who swear to resist. This difference is not in combat effectiveness, but in military spirit.

How much life could the 30,000 or 40,000 surrendered soldiers give to the Manchu court, Shao Jiugong doubted this. And Shao Jiugong also doubted whether Lian Guoan could drive these troops, which were much more than his headquarters, to charge into the battle. Under the two doubts, he is naturally full of confidence in the battle situation, and rarely optimistic.

Zhou Shixiang chose Shao Jiugong as the governor of Guangxi, and became the first general since the establishment of the Taiping Army to take on one side of the military and political affairs.

The core of the Taiping Army's southwest strategy is to block the Yungui Qing Army, which means defending in another word. Relying on the terrain of Xiangqian and Guizhou with many mountains and few roads, and relying on the geographical advantage to seal hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Yunnan and Guizhou, it is the "diligence king strategy" that Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong decided as early as in Guangdong.

There are two key points in this strategy, one is the blocking of the border between Hunan and Guizhou, and the other is the blocking of the border between Guangxi and Guizhou. The former, Zhou Shixiang personally led the troops to carry out, and the latter was handed over to Shao Jiugong.

The veteran and prudent Shao Jiugong is undoubtedly suitable to undertake the task of "defense", and according to the original plan, he lured the enemy into the depths, gradually eliminated and then established national security on the Liuzhou encirclement line, cut off the connection between his troops and Guizhou, and made him stand alone under the strong city of Liuzhou. . At that time, even if the troops and horses under Xian Guoan and the Guangxi Taiping Army are comparable in strength, the opponent will not be able to win the battle.

Weather, geography, harmony, and the three elements of war, the Taiping Army has all acquired.

When the weather is right, the whole territory of Guangxi is occupied by the Taiping army; the place is favorable, the strong cities and strongholds are in the hands of the Taiping army; the people and people are united. , even if they are demoted, they will change their flags and change their flags under the front of the Taiping Army, and they will coexist and die with the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the biggest people and those who are demoted are all thinking about the fate of the family and the family. They don't dare to gamble the survival of the family on whether the Taiping Army's sword will be soft. Faced with two very headache-inducing multiple-choice questions about their own life and the possibility of their own life, the demotions unanimously chose the former, which led to a surge of anti-clearance in Guangxi.

The capture of Guangxi can be said to be very smooth, the only pity is that the Han army under the Dingnan clan did not bring their family members from Liaodong. It's not that they don't want to take it with them. In fact, when Dorgon ordered King Sanshun to go south, they all allowed them to open a vassal to build a town in the future, and Yongzhen to the south. In order to make the Han Fans work for the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon also generously allowed them to bring all their family members who stayed in Liaodong to the south. This is the so-called use of people without suspicion, suspects do not need.

Dorgon's generous decision really made the Han Fans work harder. After Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao captured Guangdong, they both moved their families from Liaodong to Guangdong, but Kong Youde didn't do it, because before he could move his wife and children from the bitter cold Liaodong for the soldiers, Li Dingguo's army surrounded him. in the city of Guilin.

There was a fire in the Dingnan palace, and more than 120 members of Kong Youde's family were killed. Only the youngest son Kong Tingxun and his daughter Kong Sizhen in Beijing escaped. Since then, the remnants of the Dingnan clan have been living a precarious life in Guangxi. Except for a few generals who carried their family members in the army, most of the family members of the Dingnan Han army were waiting for news in Baba, Liaodong. As a result, after the Taiping army occupied Guangxi, it could not threaten the lives of family members as in Guangdong, so that the Ministry of National Security would collapse without a fight.

There were no hostages, but a lot of gold and silver goods were seized. It can be said that the fortunes looted by the generals and generals of the Lin Guoan Army over the years have all fallen into the hands of the Taiping Army, but this is obviously not a good thing. After hearing about the fall of Guangxi, all the generals and generals under Xian Guoan's command were all gnashing their teeth and desperately trying to go back to Guangxi and the Taiping Army with red eyes.

Of course ~www.NovelMTL.com~ The Taiping army in Guangxi is not afraid that the men of Xian Anguo will come back and work hard, and it will be difficult for them to spit out what they have eaten.

With all the favorable conditions, it is to deal with the line Guoan who came from afar and returned to the army thousands of miles away. The person responsible for this task is Shao Jiugong, who is also known for his prudence. No matter how you look at it, Zhou Shixiang does not think that there will be any mistakes in Guangxi. Even if Shao Jiugong still can't deal with Xian Guoan, he can still be considered qualified to complete the task by containing the opponent near Liuzhou.

Zhou Shixiang once said to the generals when he was in Xiangshan, Guangdong, that cutting down the Qing Dynasty is like cutting down a tree, and the Manchu court is like a big tree with deep roots and thick roots. The roots are the Manchurians; the backbones are the Mongolian and Han Eight Banners; the branches are the green camps in various places, and the Han landlords and gentry who supported the Manchu Qing are the leaves of this towering tree. The first thing to do with this tree is to pluck off the leaves, saw off the branches, then chop down the main trunk, and finally plank off its roots. The process of felling trees is slow and extremely dangerous, and people will be killed if they are not careful. As for some branches and leaves, if they are willing to fall on their own, thus making the big tree of Manqing weaker and weaker, Zhou Shixiang is also willing to see it and is willing to fulfill it.

Zhou Shixiang was never so arrogant and arrogant that he thought that with the strength of the Taiping Army, he could take hundreds of thousands of Qing troops from the southwest to a pot, so he contacted the thirteen schools in Kuidong and sent the rest of the Shun army as a flood from Kuidong. Release it, go to the two lakes, and bear the pressure on the northern front for the Taiping army. On the other hand, with regard to the Qing army in the southwest, Zhou Shixiang still adopted the previous strategy of dividing and winning. (To be continued.)()