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Chapter 568 Hairy!

Due to the limited strength of the Qing army in Hunan, after arriving in Yuezhou, Bayan San focused his defense on Yuezhou City in order to be on the safe side. Killed 47 people below Ge'an in magistrate county, and captured more than 200 servants in the township Yongya, with 8 bird guns and a small cannon.

Because many people in the Xinghan Army were new members, some had their braids cut off, some had their braids loose, and wore red hats with the word Xinghan on their heads. .

It didn't take long for the derogatory term "long hair" to spread.

It was the fourth and fifth brigades of the first division that captured Linxiang.

The brigade commander of the Fourth Brigade, Qiu Ba, was from Huanggang, Hubei, and a member of the Tiandihui. He helped the Xinghan Army wipe out the Jingzhou Eight Banners Navy in the Battle of Jingzhou. The final siege of Manchuria in Jingzhou.

Qiu Ba contributed a lot to conquering the entire city of Jingzhou. In order to reward him for his contribution, Gu Zhengdao, the commander of the Xinghan Army, gave him the post of brigade commander.

When asked why this Qiu Ba turned against the Qing Dynasty, Qiu Ba actually said that he was the Duke of Qi State of Ming Dynasty and the empress of Qiu Fu, the first minister of Jing Nan.

Besides, Qiu Ba is just his pseudonym for walking in the rivers and lakes, but his real name is Qiu Xingxiang.

I don't know if it's true or not, after all, it's been three hundred years.

The brigade commander of the fifth brigade was Zhou Linwang, the former general officer of Hubei Lvyingqian. He once went to Jinchuan with his lieutenant general Zheng Tai, and later retreated to Jingzhou.

Three months ago in Xianning, he was reported to Hubei governor Zheng Dajin for extorting local officials and gentry. Zheng Dajin was furious and ordered Zheng Tai, who had just been promoted to the general army, to punish him and send him to the governor's garrison to make an example.

After Zheng Tai received the official document from the Governor, he sent someone to tell Zhou Linwang to lead his troops of more than [-] soldiers to surrender to the Xinghan Army with Xianning City.

And said: "This is the meaning of the organization."

Zhou Linwang heard that it was an arrangement in the meeting, and because Hubei Governor Zheng Dajin wanted to kill him, he knew that he would not be able to get along with the green camp, so he led troops into the county government office on the ninth day of the winter month to kill all the magistrates and other officials, and then dispersed on the spot. Braided and changed flags, and sent people to contact the nearby Xinghan army.

In order to make his brothers follow him wholeheartedly, Zhou Linwang even circled hundreds of big families in Xianning, and then divided these big families with his soldiers to loot and slaughter them. More than a thousand people.

The big gentry and landlords in Xianning County were almost uprooted, and few escaped.

After being incorporated into the Fifth Brigade of the First Division by the Xinghan Army, Zhou Linwang took the initiative to ask Ying to capture the two cities of Puqi and Chongyang in the south.

The generals of the green camp of the Qing army guarding the second city were all former colleagues of Zhou Linwang, who either shifted their strategy under the arrangement of the organization, or left in a cool manner after receiving Zhou Linwang's money to buy the city.

As a result, the big landlords in the second county were killed by Zhou Linwang immediately, and thousands of people died.

Wang Ang, the former Yichang Xuezheng Wang Ang who was appointed as the governor of Hubei by the commander of the Xinghan Army Gu Zhengdao, learned of this, and scolded Zhou Linwang for putting the Xinghan Army on the opposite side of the gentry and landlords, and would make it impossible for the Xinghan Army to get scholars. support.

Anyway, the general idea is that massacre tyranny cannot win the hearts of the people.

Gu Zhengdao believed that Wang Ang's opinion was correct, so he ordered people to go to Chongyang to restrain Zhou Linwang.

Zhou Linwang was so hard to learn, he didn't argue with Marshal Gu's people, obediently gave up the control of the three cities of Chongyang, and took his troops and the looted goods to Luxikou to accept the command of Marshal Gu An.

And because most of Zhou Linwang's subordinates were from Hanyang, there was an endless stream of ships transporting goods from Luxikou to Hanyang for a period of time.

At the same time that Qiancai returned home, a large number of Hanyang people came to join Zhou Linwang's army with friends and friends, resulting in Zhou Linwang, the brigade commander, actually supporting more than [-] troops.

The establishment of the Xinghan Army imitated the Zhou etiquette, with five men as a team, five teams as a liang, four liang as a pawn, five pawns as a brigade, five brigades as a division, and five divisions as an army.

One brigade has exactly 500 people, five brigades of 2500 people form a division, and the first army has 12500 people.

Officers from low to high are corps commander, second commander, pawn commander, brigade commander, division commander, and army commander.

At that time, Jia Liu, who was far away in the capital, had objections to his father-in-law's method of organizing the army, because the method of his father-in-law was too unreasonable. 500 people can be a colonel brigade commander, 2500 people can be a major general, and 12500 people can be among them. General, it's really a bit inaccurate.

However, considering that the Xinghan Army had only 4100 soldiers at that time, and more than 1000 soldiers were recruited by the Yunmen Great Victory from Jiangsu and Jiangxi Green Battalions, they did not raise any objections to the bluffing method of the father-in-law's army formation.

Now the Xinghan army occupies half of the prefectures and counties in Hubei, and the number of soldiers has snowballed to more than [-] after the capture of Wuchang, so there are actually four armies.

However, because the new ministries were either members of civil society organizations in Hubei, or were captives, or were newly recruited poor peasants, or were speculators, or were former green camp generals like Zhou Linwang who brought their own dry food to join them, although the number of them doubled compared to before. Ten times higher, but the combat effectiveness plummeted, basically the same as the green battalion.

For this reason, Gu Zhengdao focused his resources on the first division commanded by his nephew Gu An. This division was also the first division established by the Xinghan Army. Although the establishment was 2500 people, it actually had more than [-] people.

The core backbone is a thousand veterans of the Xinghan Army, and the rest are activists such as Qiu Ba and Zhou Linwang.

Qiu Ba's Fourth Brigade actually had 2800 soldiers, and half of them were members of the Tiandihui from various places in Hubei and members of civil society associations related to the Tiandihui. Its influence is even stronger than that of the Xinghan Army.

Gu Zhengdao used more than [-] people from the first division of his nephew to attack Hunan, but the strength was obviously not enough. In order to improve the morale of the army, he promised the brigade commanders who participated in the battle, especially Zhou Linwang and others who brought their own dry food to vote, as long as they took Hunan, they would be able to do so. People are military commanders (general soldiers).

Gu An even convened a brigade commander's meeting, announcing that after the city was broken, "every big family can be divided."

The two orders of the grandfather and grandson made the morale of the Xinghan army going south strong, but in order to break through the important town of Yuezhou, the Dongting Lake navy on the periphery must be cleared first, otherwise the Xinghan army will be attacked by the Dongting Lake navy in the back. attack.

Although Gu An is young, he followed his third grandfather to fight against the Qing army at 11 years old, and he can be said to be a fierce general in the anti-Qing guerrillas of the Jinchuan adherents.

The old men of the Xinghan Army said that Gu An was a little tiger, and some said that this kid was better at fighting than Huagouxiong.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, the fifth brigade of the first division forward Zhou Linwang arrived at the outskirts of Yuezhou, and then Qiu Ba also led the fourth brigade to arrive. The second general led more than [-] officers and soldiers to attack Yuezhou City the next day.

It's just that although the momentum is fierce, it is thunderous and rainy.

The reason is that the order received by the second general was a feint to divert the attention of the Yuezhou defenders.

Gu An's strategy is to pull out the Qing army's navy in Junshan first, to ensure that the next attack on Yuezhou City will not be harassed by the Qing army's navy, and at the same time block the Qing army's water reinforcements.

In order to achieve this goal, Gu An led the main third brigade to station in Chengling, dozens of miles northwest of Yuezhou City, where he built bamboo rafts, recruited civilian boats, fishing boats, and recruited water-based fishermen with large sums of money to assist in the battle.

Although the Xinghan army inevitably destroyed the place during its rise, the military discipline of the Qing army is obviously much better. In addition, the purchase and sale are paid according to the price, and the army does not enter the civilian fields and camps. The poor people did not object to the Xinghan Army.

Moreover, the slogan put forward by the Xinghan Army, "everywhere is uneven, and everywhere is full and warm. All the people in the world, all people in the world work together" is very popular and inspiring. Furthermore, the sadness and heroism of the survivors of the previous Ming Dynasty attracted a lot of attention. Many fishermen from Dongting Lake came to join the army.

These fishermen who live in Dongting Lake all the year round and even come ashore rarely a few times a year not only brought information on the garrison of the Qing army's navy to the Xinghan army, but also brought hundreds of fishing boats, solving the biggest problem of the Xinghan army's capture of Junshan. problem.

Just as the Xinghan army was preparing to capture the water camp of the Qing army in Junshan, Li Zhongyuan, the deputy general of the green camp of Hunan governor Bayan, also saw the importance of the entrance of Dongting Lake in Chengling, and proposed to the governor to lead his troops to join the navy Working together to snatch the city mausoleum, one can cut off the rear of the bandits who are attacking Yuezhou City, and secondly, it can also make the bandits who are attacking the city face the enemy. The thief who came.

Bayan San, an illiterate man, knows nothing about how to use troops other than making money, but this man has one advantage, that is, he pretends to understand what he doesn't understand, and he listens carefully to the opinions of professionals.

So Wanxiu, the admiral of the Navy, was issued, ordering him to cooperate with Li Zhongyuan in using troops to attack the city.

Wan Xiu's great-grandfather was Wan Zhengse, an admiral of the Navy who was as famous as Shi Lang in the Kangxi Dynasty.

Shi Lang made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty with his platform, while Wan Zhengse made great contributions in the battle against Wu Sangui's rebels, and was awarded the title of Prince Shaobao.

If Wanxiu used his navy to cooperate with Li Zhongyuan's infantry to seize the city, even if he could not capture this point, it would bankrupt Gu An's tactical plan to capture Junshan.

Never thought that this Wanxiu was unwilling to obey Bayan's three restraints, or wanted to wait until the end of the new year before taking action, but in the end he used various excuses to delay.

Without a navy, Li Zhongyuan couldn't get around Yuezhou City, so he had no choice but to worry.

Bayan San felt that it was reasonable for Li Zhongyuan to seize the important land, and also felt that Wan Xiuda was justified in fearing that the soldiers would not use their lives during the Chinese New Year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, fishermen quietly came to report that the Qing army on Junshan Island was celebrating the new year and was completely unprepared.

Gu An made a move.

He led 2000 people into the lake at night on fishing boats, private boats, and bamboo rafts, and rowed quietly to Junshan.

The surface of the lake was pitch black. If it weren't for the old fishermen who lived on the lake all year round as guides, Gu An and the others might be able to get lost on the lake for a few days.

In the middle of the night, the Xinghan army arrived at Junshan in the dark.

"on!"

Gu An, a young general who was only 20 years old, was the first to jump into the icy Dongting Lake, wading ashore in knee-deep water, and then ordered people to set fire to the reeds near the water camp of the Qing army.

After the fire broke out, the Xinghan army who went ashore shouted loudly, and the wind helped the fire blow to the Qing army's water camp. As a result, the Qing army who was celebrating the new year was shocked and shouted in terror: "The long-haired bandits are here, and the long-haired bandits are here! The Mao Fan thief is coming!"

Cannibalism, defeated.

Guerrilla Tang Shan, Zhang Bing, Qianzong Zhao Youku and others were killed in the chaos.

Wan Xiu was lucky enough to escape in a small boat under the escort of his own soldiers. More than 1400 officers and soldiers of the Yu Navy Division surrendered to the Xinghan Army under the leadership of Du Si Jiang Yangyuan, Li Guohui and others.

At dawn, in addition to surrendering soldiers, more than 2000 Qing soldiers were either killed, trampled to death, thrown into water and frozen to death, and more than 80 large and small warships were seized.

It can be called another disastrous defeat of the Qing army's navy after the Jingzhou water camp.

(End of this chapter)