At this moment, among the Qing army outside the city, a man suddenly pointed at the top of the city and cursed: "Damn, don't let me enter the city and force Lao Ji to die, but I just don't do it. Lao Ji
Don't do it anymore." As he said that, he turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, threw away the weapons in his hand, shook off his helmet, and ran wildly towards the direction of the merchant army. While running, he waved his hands and shouted: "
Don't fight, don't fight, I surrender, I surrender."
But he only ran a dozen steps and then fell to the ground. I don’t know if it was killed by the Qing army behind him or the merchant army in front of him.
Although the soldier died inexplicably, he gave other Qing soldiers a reminder. Anyway, Huangzhou City cannot be entered now, and the left and right are dead. It is better to surrender to the merchant army, and there may be a way out. And there are many within the pass.
I have heard of the surrendered soldiers. The merchant army treats prisoners very well, because they treat Han soldiers in the pass, and under normal circumstances, they will not harm them. Even if the Manchu and Han flag soldiers are captured, they will also be captured.
Most of them work as a hard worker, and few of them are killed. Therefore, surrendering may be a good way to survive.
Therefore, although the first Qing army surrendered was dead, dozens of people immediately ran towards the merchant army, and threw away their weapons, raised their hands, indicating that they did not take the weapons, while running.
, while shouting: "Surrender, surrender. We surrender."
At first, the merchant army had not yet seen each other and shot several of them, but the horse reacted and immediately stopped shooting. The horse made a gap and allowed the surrendered Qing soldiers to pass through and instructed them.
When they went to the rear, there would be a special person to accept their surrender. As a result, when the other Qing troops saw it, they immediately dispersed and asked the merchant army to surrender.
Shang Shan was stunned at the top of the city, and did not expect such a result to occur. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed and immediately ordered the Qing soldiers who were shooting at the city wall and the merchant army, aiming the guns and arrows at the Qing who surrendered under the city.
Soldiers. As a result, some Qing soldiers who did not intend to surrender were forced to have no choice but to surrender, and they also surrendered to the merchant army.
Seeing that this battle had already won and had broken the Qing army's positions outside the city, Li Dingguo ordered the withdrawal of troops.
During this battle, the Shangjia Army wiped out more than 2,500 Qing troops and captured more than 2,200. Less than 500 Qing soldiers fled to Huangzhou City, and the Shangjia Army suffered only 374 casualties after it.
The man was also avenged a revenge of the defeated war yesterday. Therefore, Li Dingguo was very happy and ordered people to escort the prisoners back to Macheng for reorganization, and prepared to enter Huangzhou City again on the next day to launch an attack.
However, in the subsequent attack, the merchant army still did not fight easily. The Qing army relied on the city walls of Huangzhou and also carried out tenacious defense. Moreover, the merchant army in the Hubei theater also lacked the experience of fighting tough battles and heavy artillery, so it was transformed into merchants.
The army attacked for three days in a row. Although they attacked the city wall every day, they were unable to break through Huangzhou City under the desperate resistance of the Qing army. On the contrary, they lost nearly 2,500 soldiers.
Li Dingguo was also very anxious. It took six days for the merchant army to attack Huangzhou, and the first attack was taken to capture Qishui County. It took eight days to start the attack, but the goal of the battle has not been achieved. On the contrary, it has been almost the same.
Four thousand troops were lost. Therefore, Li Dingguo also began to think about whether it was necessary to continue to attack Huangzhou.
At this moment, Li Dingguo received an urgent report from Hangzhou. The Qing army in Nanjing had already begun to launch a large-scale attack on the Hubei theater. The total force of this march reached 150,000, from east to west to Hubei.
The war zone advances, so it is recommended that Li Dingguo do not blindly attack Huangzhou if he cannot conquer Huangzhou for a while. He can consider withdrawing his troops to fight against the Qing army and attacking the Qing army during mobile warfare.
Li Dingguo was not surprised. He never expected that the Qing army would dispatch such a huge force to the Hubei theater, which was much more than the original expected 100,000 troops. If the Jiaqing Army had existing forces in the Huangzhou area, then
The total force will reach about 18, almost five or six times that of the merchant army in the Hubei War Zone.
At the same time, Li Dingguo also received a war report from Li Yan that the Qing army on the west route had sent troops from De'an and Hanyang prefectures. The chief general was Geng Zhongming, the king of Gongshu, and captured Xiaogan and Huangpi counties, and was now approaching Huang'an County.
After receiving the report, Li Dingguo immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops from Huangzhou and to rescue Huang'an County first.
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After Hong Chengchou and Luke Dehun returned to Nanjing, they immediately began to arrange preparations to launch a fourth expedition against the merchant army in Hubei.
However, Hong Chengchou also knew that if this expedition failed again, it would be difficult to wipe out the merchant army in Hubei. Moreover, his mission to supervise the army in the south will probably be difficult to complete, so he must succeed in the battle.
.The work before the war must be well prepared and foolproof. This is also the military robbery of the fourth expedition against the Hubei merchant army after almost a month since Hong Chengchou returned to Nanjing.
But long time can also be beneficial, and the preparations are indeed done very well this time. To conquer the Hu family army in Hubei, we must first ensure the safety of Nanjing. Only when Nanjing is foolproof can Hong Chengchou be free from the vicious spirits.
Therefore, Hong Chengchou also decided to draw out 30,000 troops brought by Oboi to defend Ningguo Mansion; and ordered Mandahai to lead 20,000 troops to station Zhenjiang Mansion. Duoduo was still stationed in Nanjing, with a total of eight
More than 10,000 people were the descendants of Oboi and Mandahai.
In this way, the total strength of the Qing army in Nanjing reached 130,000, and reinforcements could be drawn from Jiangxi at any time, or attacked southern Zhejiang from Fujian to restrain the strength of the merchant army. Therefore, Hong Chengchou and Duoduo also felt that
This arrangement makes Nanjing area foolproof.
Next, Hong Chengchou began to arrange his troops to Hubei. Through the first three campaigns to suppress the Hubei merchant army, it was the third time to carefully study and summarize that Hong Chengchou had already understood the tactics of the merchant army very well, which was to be unconventional.
Flexible and changeable, do not care about the gains and losses of a city and a place. He is good at mobilizing the Qing army's forces through large-scale siege activities. During the movement, he concentrates his troops and looks for fighter jets to form local advantages. Through interspersion and division
Tactics such as siege and raid annihilate the vitality of the Qing army. This is also the tactic used by Shang Yi, which was fully demonstrated in the two battles of Jianghuai and Nanjing.
Although Shang Yi did not command in Hubei, the main general of the Hubei War Zone had obviously gained the essence of this tactic, especially in the third expedition and suppression. To be honest, this battle was also
It made Hong Chengchou admire him.
Hong Chengchou's response plan is: to use absolute superior forces to put huge pressure on merchants, but to use defense instead of attack, advance layer by layer, and advance step by step, and to break through the important road and the critical location, build more villages and forts,
Form a chain defense line to resist the raids of the merchant army, and to camp as the fort, be cautious and wait for an opportunity to attack, focus on ourselves, and not be moved by the temptation of the merchant army. Therefore, it was decided to divide the merchant line from the east and west to the merchant line to the merchant
The army launched an attack, and he would personally lead a army to Huangzhou to take charge, and command the side.
The main general of the eastern front was Luke Dehun, with a force of about 60,000. With Qizhou as the base, he first captured Guangji, Huangmei, Susong and other places in the southeast, and then attacked Qishui and Luotian to the northwest. He ordered his troops to guard Fengyang
Tan Tai from the mansion sent troops to respond.
The head general of the Western Front was Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, who led his troops to about 50,000 people. Based on De'an Prefecture and Hanyang Prefecture, they attacked from west to east. They first captured Xiaogan and Huangpi counties, and then attacked Huang'an, and attacked merchants.
The army formed a cross-strike in Macheng County, Hezhisuo, Hubei Province. And Han Dai, who attacked Hunan together with Geng Zhongming, sent troops to respond.
At the same time, in order to prevent the merchant army from detouring from the north side of the Dabie Mountains, Hong Chengchou ordered Ashan, which was stationed in Guide Prefecture, to send 30,000 troops to enter the mall and Jinzhai in the north of the Dabie Mountains, and to cut off the road for the merchant army to move towards Henan.
During this expedition to Hubei, the Qing army did dispatch about 150,000 troops, plus the original and other side-sided forces in Huangzhou Prefecture, the total number of troops invested can exceed 200,000.
Only in this way can we ensure that every Qing army on all routes has an advantage over the merchant army and will not be mobilized by the merchant army again. At the same time, Hong Chengchou also ordered the army to take steady steps and not to advance easily, but after the order is sent, no delay is allowed.
, it is necessary to form a situation of encirclement on all sides and gradually squeeze the activity space of the merchant army.
However, for this reason, Hong Chengchou had to draw considerable troops from Fengyang and Guide in the river. In order to prevent Yangzhou and Shandong's merchant army from taking advantage of the situation to attack, Hong Chengchou ordered Abatai, who was stationed in Shandong, to immediately go from Jinan.
He sent troops to attack southern Shandong and restrained the forces of the Shandong merchant army. Ashan, who was stationed in Jiangbei, and Tan Tai tried his best to defend Luo Yuanbin from Yangzhou.
Hong Chengchou's plan to attack this time was indeed very well prepared, almost everything was covered, but it was huge, so the preparation time was naturally not short. At this time, the merchant army also took the initiative to attack and took the lead in capturing Qishui County, and then went to the scene again.
Huangzhou launched an attack. Hong Chengchou was also shocked. Once Huangzhou was lost, the Qing army would lose a settlement under the command and mobilize, and coordinate the east and west troops. There would be more difficulties. Hong Chengchou had to order
Geng Zhongming asked him to launch an attack from the Western Front in advance to attract the attention of the merchant army and resolve the difficulties in Huangzhou.
Fortunately, Shang Shan insisted on Huangzhou and persisted until Geng Zhongming sent troops, so the Shang army had to withdraw the siege of Huangzhou and fight Geng Zhongming. The Qing army fought against the Hubei War Zone of the Shang army for the fourth expedition and suppression.