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Chapter 324 Shi Kai Leads His Troops Well
The shooting of Lexington kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

The gunshots at Jiming Station opened the curtain for another encirclement and suppression of the Jinchuan Fan Bandits by the Qing Dynasty.

The gunshots started on April 21.

The cause was that a group of bandits crossed the ceasefire line between the two armies and attacked the Mardang grain depot that had just been put into operation behind the Qing army.

This warehouse was built during the reign of Fu Lehun, the former governor of Sichuan. Since the completion of the project will greatly shorten the time for the Qing army to transport grain from the rear to the front line, after Fu Lehun left office, this project was built by Bo Qing, the left deputy general in Dingxi. Continue to build under personal supervision.

After the construction of the grain depot was completed, Bo Qing asked General Dingxi to increase the amount, and transferred a large amount of grain, munitions, copper pieces, and artillery materials from various places for centralized storage.

The Mardang grain depot is located more than [-] miles behind the front line, which belongs to the deep area behind the Qing army, so there is no need to worry about bandit attacks.

However, the more unlikely things happened, the more they happened.

On the tenth day of April, a group of bandits sneaked into the rear and attacked the grain depot, not only killing more than [-] Eight Banners soldiers guarding the grain depot and more than [-] green battalion officers and soldiers, but also causing a large number of equipment stored in the depot to be destroyed by fire, and the loss of money and food was even more inevitable. count.

After hearing the news, Bo Qing'er rushed to the scene. Looking at the granary that had been burned into ruins and the corpses of the officers and soldiers who died in the fire, even though he had been through the battle for a long time, seeing how cruel he was, he still couldn't help crying, and even passed out for a while.

In the final inventory of the accounts, the attack resulted in a loss of 170,000 taels of personnel and property.

This incident also shocked the army and shocked the court.

Dingxi General Feng Sheng was also speechless for a long time after hearing the news.

Compared with the previous ones, what Feng Sheng took over was a complete mess.

Affected by the Muguomu defeat, the Agui turmoil, and the attack on the Mingliang camp, there was a serious generational gap in the command of the Qing army that blocked Jinchuan and Jinchuan. In particular, a large number of Eight Banners generals died in civil strife, causing the overall combat effectiveness of the Qing army to plummet.

After Feng Shengquan took office, he gave a secret report to the emperor. After three incidents, the number of low-level officers in the Eight Banners, such as Lan Lingchang and Qianfeng, was less than one-third of the original number; one; senior generals less than one-tenth.

The heaviest loss was the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia. Compared with the 38th year of Qianlong, the death rate of officers was as high as [-]%.

The Qianfeng Battalion, Firearms Battalion, Shanpu Battalion, and Jianrui Battalion, the Eight Banners Forbidden Army that came from the capital, lost as much as [-]% of their troops.

The Sauron soldiers used by the Eight Banners as elites also lost thousands of people.

At present, there are only more than 2400 soldiers in the Fourth Battalion and Eight Banners in total. Due to the large number of faults among officers, the Fourth Battalion Forbidden Brigade can be said to exist in name only.

Therefore, Feng Sheng'e suggested that the emperor decree to recruit new recruits from the children of the Eight Banners stationed in the capital to supplement them.If it is not possible, some battalions will be given the qualification to raise the flag, so that the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp can be rebuilt as soon as possible.

The severe situation of the Eight Banners Army in Jinchuan forced Qianlong to suspend the policy of the Eight Banners of the Han Army to serve as Han people, and even planned to recall some of the Han troops who had been Han people.

But doing so would damage the emperor's face, so he issued an order to reorganize the children of the capitals of the Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners, increase the number of soldiers raised by each banner, and conduct several supplementary tests in succession, so that they can go to the Jinchuan Army as soon as possible. Supplementary children.

At the same time, Feng Shengquan asked the emperor to make an early decision on whether to fight or not, so as to prevent the morale of the army from being fluctuated by the discussion before the army.

Feng Sheng'e personally prefers to continue to encircle and suppress the bandits, because the attack on the Mingliang Camp is certainly a rebellious act initiated by some bold Eight Banners, but to some extent it also represents the will of a considerable number of officers and soldiers.

The siege of big and small Jinchuan has lasted for a hundred years. The imperial court has spent countless money and food, and sacrificed countless soldiers to greatly consume the strength of the bandits. Seeing that they can achieve all their achievements, they suddenly have to negotiate a peace, even if the peace is purposeful and has a Targeting, in fact, is a strategy to calm the size of Jinchuan, but after all, it was too sudden, and many officers and soldiers could not accept it for a while.

Moreover, it is impossible to declare the true purpose of the peace talks to the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, the peace talks themselves are a kind of wavering for officers and soldiers.

When Mingliang was there before, many Banner Han officials wrote to oppose the peace talks.After the Daying attack, the number of officials who opposed the peace talks increased sharply. Feng Sheng was worried that if the imperial court still insisted on peace talks with the Fan Bandits, it was very likely that the officers and soldiers would be stirred up again.

Emperor Qianlong, who was in Beijing, was also worried about this. He summoned the Chief Minister of Military Affairs Yu Minzhong, Minister of Rites Fu Lehun, Minister of Military Affairs Yiltu and other important officials who proposed the peace talks, and asked them whether the peace talks could continue. And how to prevent the extreme reaction of the officers and soldiers due to the peace talks.

However, after several discussions, there was no result, because another group of important ministers headed by Minister of Military Aircraft Fu Longan firmly opposed the peace talks with the bandits.

The public talks about the public's reasons, and the mother-in-law talks about the mother-in-law's reasons. In the end, it was Qianlong himself who really made up his mind.

Don't want to wait for the emperor to make up his mind, the Mardang granary where the army's money, food and supplies were stored was attacked.

After the incident spread to Beijing, the main combat faction immediately overwhelmed the main peace faction and gained the upper hand.

Qianlong was also very annoyed, and issued an order to Feng Sheng'e to stop all contact with the bandits, immediately organize a large army to attack, and secretly ordered that after the leaders of the bandits such as Suo Nuomu and Seng Gesang were captured, they must be delayed.

Feng Shenger, who received the order to send troops, immediately organized officers and soldiers to attack.

It's just that unlike the previous offensives organized by General Dingxi, the officers and soldiers organized by Fengsheng this time were almost all officers and soldiers of the green battalion.

There is no other reason, the Eight Banners can no longer undertake independent combat missions, even all the way alone.

Bo Qing'e, the left deputy general of Dingxi, asked to lead more than [-] officers and soldiers to attack Meinuo, Guanzhai Xiaojinchuan.

The Minuo village was re-fortified by the Xiaojinchuan bandits. Not only was the fortress high and strong, the walls were solid, but also many support points were set up on the periphery.

Bo Qing'e commanded the Qing army to divide the troops into encirclement, bombarding them with cannons and hitting them with sky cannons, and also ordered the green battalions of Jinchuan Town and Chengdu Town to sweep the periphery.

Seng Gesang, the leader of Xiaojinchuan defending Meinuo, concentrated all his forces on Meinuo, and the two sides fired and threw fireballs at each other.

A stalemate formed for a while, and the Qing army could not defeat Minuo, and the Fan army could not repel the Qing army.

More than a thousand battalions under the Dusi of Chengdu Town and Bao Guozhong, a son of the Eight Banners, captured Liangzhai in Hengshan, west of Meinuo.

Zu Yingyuan, the deputy general of Jinchuan Town and the younger brother of the Eight Banners, also led two thousand officers and soldiers to storm the Sedang Fortress guarded by the Fan thieves. The big fort that was captured twice.

Bo Qing's amount is not based on the merits of his subordinates, so he asked General Dingxi to ask for merit for Zu Yingyuan.

The Fengsheng amount report document stated: "Ying Yuanyuan was the leader of the team and a subordinate of Jia Jia Shikai, the admiral of Sichuan.

When Qianlong learned of the success, he ordered the Ministry of War to honor the meritorious officers and soldiers, and personally awarded Zu Yingyuan the title of General Soldier, rewarding peacock feathers, and wearing them to the second rank.

Not without emotion, he said to He Shen who was serving beside him: "I don't think there will be heroes one after another in the Han army."

"The blessing of the Qing Dynasty is also the blessing of the master and son."

He Shen stopped his hand grinding the inkstone, "As far as I know, the former Bao Guozhong and the current Zu Yingyuan were both under Jia Jia Shikai's command. Today, the two generals and the officers and soldiers are fighting bravely to kill thieves. It may not be Jia Jia Shikai's flag. It is due to the inheritance of the guerrilla spirit of the members."

"Shikai is a man who can lead troops well."

Qianlong glanced at Heshen, "However, we still have to grind the calendar, it's better to suppress our temper. In a few months, I will go to Jingling to see him."

(End of this chapter)