Han’s Son is Not a Slave

The governor of Huguang has nothing to do with Guangdong and Guangxi. The official title is the governor of Hubei, Hunan and other places to supervise military affairs, food and salaries, and governor. It is officially referred to as the governor of Hubei and Hunan. Because the two lakes were set up as Huguang Province in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty followed the Ming system, so it is also called the governor of Huguang.

The first governor of Huguang in the Qing Dynasty was Luo Xiujin, a native of Liaoyang, who was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. The second governor of Huguang was Hu Quancai, a native of Wenshui, Shanxi. Hu Quancai had been serving as the governor of Huguang for seven years, but he never dreamed that he would be dismissed by the imperial court and escorted back to Beijing.

The reason for Hu Quancai's dismissal was the erosion of the situation in Huguang. Almost overnight, most of the province of Huguang fell into the hands of the Ming army. Only the provincial capital Wuchang and the important towns of Changsha, De'an, Huangzhou and other places were still in the hands of the Qing army. It means that hundreds of thousands of troops were surrounded by the Ming army in the southwest. Shunzhi Longyan gave up Hu Quancai in a fit of rage, and changed Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, to be the governor of Huguang, and sent a special envoy from Beijing to Zhang Changgeng, asking him to pacify the chaos in Huguang as soon as possible.

Less than three days after Zhang Changgeng was promoted to governor, another bad news came from the front line. Hanyang, the gateway to Wuchang, was attacked by the Ming army. According to reports, the incoming Ming army was the two big bandits, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao, for the thieves Yubu. In order to protect Wuchang, and also to protect his position as governor-general, Zhang Changgeng ordered the Wuchang gentry to pay large sums of money, and even distributed it to the people of the city. Recruited new soldiers to be brave, and dispatched troops and horses from De'an, Huangzhou and other places, and even the navy was recruited. In this way, an army of more than 30,000 people finally came out.

Because he was worried that he would go back to the old path of Hu Quancai, Zhang Changgeng ignored that most of the 30,000 soldiers were strong men, and ordered Dong Xueli to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses as the forwards, while he personally led the remaining 20,000 soldiers as the central army, and marched mighty towards Hanyang. go. When the army had just left the city, according to the usual practice, and in order to stimulate the soldiers to give their lives, Zhang Changgeng ordered the Green Camp to bloodbath Hankou and other places.

When the Qing army in Wuchang came to help Hanyang, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao were fighting around Hanyang. The soldiers and horses of the two of them are as true as the Qing army reported on the horses, but there are no more than 10,000 soldiers, but there are only more than 1,000 old soldiers, and the rest are strong men who were forced to wrap up after leaving Kuidong. Originally, with the strength of Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao, they could not win Hanyang City with 10,000 people, so Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun in the rear only ordered Hao Yaoqi to monitor the Hanyang Qing army and wait for other families. After the troops and horses were all together, they attacked Hanyang, and then they all besieged Wuchang. If Wuchang were to fall, this Hubei would be considered to have fallen to the hands of Kuidong soldiers, and De'an, Huangzhou and other prefectures would not be a concern. In Changsha, with the help of the Taiping Army, it was a trivial matter to win. But Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao were eager to hunt for merits, and they were jealous of the wealth in Hanyang City, so they even made their own claims and launched an attack on Hanyang.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao thought that the Hanyang garrison was only two or three thousand people, and there should be no problem in taking it down, but who knew that the Hanyang garrison was stubbornly defended, and the people in the city also heard that the Kuidong Ming army was the remnant of Li Zicheng, the robber and thief of the year. , so they were worried that these rogue Ming army would sack the whole city after the city was broken, so the people of the city spontaneously went to the city to help defend without organization, which made the Hanyang defenders full of confidence and added a lot to the siege of the Ming army. difficulty.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao attacked for two days, and lost more than a thousand people in vain, but they couldn't even knock down a single brick of Hanyang City. While suffering, the Qing army in Wuchang rushed to Hanyang under the leadership of the admiral Dong Xueli. The arrival of the Qing army in Wuchang made Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao lose their sense of proportion. The two armies made a diplomatic deal in the city. As a result, the Ming army was defeated. occur.

Things get tricky. Since leaving Kuidong, with the help of the Taiping Army, the Kuidong families have turned Hubei upside down, and almost every battle will be victorious. However, these newly expanded soldiers are all new recruits, and it's okay to fight with the wind. If you really want to encounter a hard stubble, there will be a lot of casualties, and your morale will suddenly be lost.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao led the rest to retreat near Xiaobie Mountain to the south of Hanyang. They originally wanted to rest there for a while, and wait for the little tigers to come over and then find Dong Xueli to settle accounts. However, Dong Xueli led his troops to bite them tightly, and the two armies repeatedly competed for the distance in Caikou Town near Xiaobie Mountain, and the battle was at a stalemate. Every day there are casualties of soldiers, the consumption of veterans is even greater, and the food and grass are running out. Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao know that if it drags on for a while, the veterans they brought from Kuidong will be exhausted. And without these veterans as role models, the morale of those recruits from Hubei would drop at a faster rate. Without those veterans, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao became bare generals.

Hao Yaoqi regretted it a little. Maybe he should wait patiently for Little Tiger, He Zhen, Liu Tichun, and Dang Tiansu to arrive. Everyone fights Hanyang together. Although Hanyang cannot be captured by himself~www.NovelMTL.com~ Strong loss-making business.

But regret is useless, no matter how uneconomical the business is, he and Ta Tianbao can only hold on to it, so even if they lose their capital, they can always be left behind. If you don't support it, you will lose everything. However, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao did not expect that their opponent Dong Xueli was under more pressure than them.

Dong Xueli was originally a lieutenant of Huamachi in the Ming Dynasty. When Li Zicheng captured Shaanxi, Dong Xueli surrendered and was given the command of Huaiqing. In the first year of Shunzhi, Duoduo went to Henan, and Dong Xueli surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and wrote a letter to recruit Chen Zhilong, the Ningxia Jiedu envoy of the Dashun regime. The letter was intercepted by Li Zicheng's subordinate Niu Chenghu, so his family was massacred. But hate it to the core. When Li Zicheng's army attacked Meng County, Dong Xueli crossed the river to rescue him and killed more than a thousand enemies.

The rest of the army and Dong Xueli had a hatred of destroying their family, and now they lead the army to surround Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao, the big bandits of the army. It is reasonable that Dong Xueli should immediately cut off the heads of the two bandits, but Dong Xueli is also powerless now. The reason is that most of the more than 10,000 soldiers he brought are also newly drawn strong soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not much better than that of the Ming army who also came from Latin strong soldiers.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao's persistence also gave Dong Xueli the illusion that the Ming army's combat effectiveness and morale were okay.