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Chapter 569 Six sons, we must unite
After annihilating the Dongting Lake Navy Division of the Qing Dynasty and occupying the Junshan Qing Army Water Camp, Gu An did not send an order to rest and reorganize. Instead, he used the captured Qing Army warships to transport troops to the foot of Yuezhou City, moved the command post to Luxianguan in the west of Yuezhou City, and started a comprehensive campaign. Encircled Yuezhou City.

Hunan Governor Bayan Sanwenjun's Shanshui Camp was occupied, and in a panic, he fled to Lujiao Port in the south of Yuezhou by boat. Hepuzi Town in Yulidi.

It really is that the grass and trees are all soldiers, like a frightened bird.

If it wasn't for Li Zhongyuan, Fubiao's deputy general, who led his troops to arrive in time, I'm afraid this Lord Futai would be able to travel three hundred miles at night and escape directly back to the provincial capital Changsha.

The main force of the Qing army guarding Yuezhou City is the 2000 Green Battalion under the command of the chief officer Yamantai. There are also [-] people newly recruited from Hunan to practice bravery. In addition, the prefect Guo Tianen recruited young and strong soldiers. There are tens of thousands of defenders on the surface. .

Yamantai was born in the Zhenghuang Banner of Mongolia, the son of the former Suiyuan General Shu Ming, five years ago he was transferred as the second-class bodyguard of the imperial court to the deputy general of the Hunan Green Camp, and he was promoted to the general officer just last year.

Prior to this, Yamantai had no actual experience in leading the army, and only went to Tibet as a third-class bodyguard in the 32nd year of Qianlong's reign.

But Yamantai is not an ordinary banner man, and he still has some skills.

After the Xinghan army arrived in Yuezhou and launched the siege, Yamantai did not hide in the city, but organized troops out of the city to fight with the Xinghan army one after another, and the two sides won each other.

At first, Yamantai didn't know that the navy had been wiped out, but wondered why there was no movement from the navy.

It wasn't until the fourth day of the lunar new year that the fan thieves had set up their camp in Lu Xianguan in the south of the city. Only then did they know that the navy had been wiped out, otherwise the fan thieves would not have set up their camp to the south.

When the news came out, people in the city were panicked. It was rumored that Changmao would kill all men with braids behind their heads after breaking through the city, so many people secretly cut their braids.

Guo Tianen, the magistrate of Yuezhou, was even mentally prepared for the death of his family, but in order to leave the Guo family's flesh and blood, he still secretly handed over his youngest son to an old servant to hide among the people.

As for the Xinghan army, Gu An, who had no worries at all, ordered Jiang Yangyuan, the captain of the Qing army who surrendered, to lead the troops to remove the artillery from the warship and transport it to the shore. As a result, the shelling continued every day. The army dare not look up.

Only Yuezhou City was reinforced twice during the Kangxi period, and it was taller than the provincial capital Changsha. There were as many as 8000 people defending the city.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Gu An ordered the captives to bring a letter to the city, persuading Yamantai, the general guard in the city, to surrender.

The conditions offered were not unreasonable, that is, Yamantai could lead his troops to withdraw, and the Xinghan army promised not to pursue him.

The reason for this is that Gu An didn't want to lose too much under the fortified city of Yuezhou. After all, he was the only one who went south to attack Hunan.

Once the battle situation in Hubei becomes tense, his soldiers and horses will have to draw back their strength at any time.

Therefore, if the loss is too great and cannot be returned in time, it will be a failure at the entire strategic level.

There is a letter on Gu An's body, which was written to him by his uncle in Manchuria far in the north.

It is said above that if people lose land, all people and land will survive; if land is lost and people are lost, all people and land will be lost.

This principle is universal no matter which side is offensive or defensive.

My aunt also sent him a letter, but she didn't say anything, just the words of the aunt and nephew.

What was it when I was young, what was it when I grew up, what was before, what is now
There is a saying, but it has a deep meaning. The general idea is that my aunt will not be able to recover in the future, and where she will be buried depends entirely on you, my nephew.

As an authentic Mongolian old man, Yamantai would not abandon his ancestors and surrender to the Xinghan army. In order to show his ambition, he even summoned the banner Han officers of his subordinates, and publicly beheaded and hung the two officers and soldiers of the water battalion who delivered the letter for the Xinghan army. It is at the top of the city.

This approach is quite dishonest.

The two countries are at war, do not cut it!
It has been a hundred years since you entered Manchuria and occupied China. Even if it is a puppet dynasty, you have to follow the rules.

The young and energetic Gu An was furious, and ordered the first brigade and the fifth brigade to attack the North Gate of Yuezhou, and even mobilized all the artillery to storm the North Gate. The fighting was unprecedented since the beginning of the war.It's a pity that in the end, it lost a lot of money, and lost hundreds of officers and soldiers and failed to break through the city.

Li Guohui, the captain of the Dongting Lake Navy Division of the Qing Dynasty who surrendered, suggested digging tunnels, and then filled them with gunpowder to blast the city walls.

Gu An adopted it, and spent three days digging two tunnels under the south gate of Yuezhou. However, due to the insufficient power of the explosives, only a small part of the city wall was blown down, and they failed to break through the city.

At this point in the battle, it is no longer a strategy that can work. It is all about the two sides fighting for food, stamina, and reinforcements.

Gu An, who had calmed down, did not ask the third grandfather in Wuchang for reinforcements. On the one hand, he organized troops to continue to besiege Yuezhou City, and on the other hand, he organized the officers and soldiers of the Qing Army Water Battalion who surrendered to take advantage of the convenience of water transportation to continuously attack the Qing Dynasty around Dongting Lake. The military garrison made Yuezhou City completely an isolated city.

On the other hand, some officers and soldiers were sent to attack the counties under the jurisdiction of Yuezhou Prefecture, to expand the territory and at the same time recruit troops to strengthen their strength, so as to eliminate each other and increase their strength.

In terms of food and grass, the besieging and rejuvenating Han army has no shortage for the time being. When they captured the water camp of the Qing army in Junshan, they seized a large amount of food from the Qing army, which can last at least until March.

The life of the Qing army trapped in Yuezhou became extremely difficult.

After retreating to Qiangzipu, Bayan San, the governor of Hunan Province, gradually came to his senses after going through the initial dangerous period, and realized that Yuezhou must not be abandoned, otherwise he, the governor of Hunan Province, might end up being the governor of Hunan Province.

After "refuge" in Changsha, Chen Huizu, the governor of Qinghuguang, received a report that the Dongting Lake Navy was annihilated, and after Yuezhou was besieged by Xinghan bandits, he immediately gave Bayan San a death order, asking him to organize troops to reinforce Yuezhou at all costs.

It's just a matter of saying that if Yuezhou is lost, you Bayan San will die from the thief or the law.

The governor can't help it either, who let him be demoted to three ranks because of the loss of Wuchang to keep him.

If Yuezhou is lost again, and the bandits drive straight into corrupt Hunan, can the emperor spare him?

Bayan San was in a hurry, but he didn't understand military affairs, so he had to pin his hope of breaking the situation on Li Zhongyuan, the lieutenant general.

Li Zhongyuan is a native of Hunan. He enlisted in the army at 17 years old. He participated in the Burma campaign and fought against the bandits in Jinchuan for two years.

If its earlier plan of land and water to snatch Chengling avalanche can be implemented, the battle situation will definitely not be as passive as it is now.

Only the past can't be mentioned.

Under the repeated "pleading" of the governor, Li Zhongyuan led 1500 Fubiao people, together with more than 1800 Lianyong, to rescue Yuezhou urgently.

In order to break through the defense line of the Xinghan Army, Li Zhongyuan's department even carried more than [-] artillery pieces.

When the Qing army approached the Sheng'an Temple in the south of Yuezhou City, they fought with the Xinghan Army. Li Zhongyuan personally led the soldiers to use artillery cover to launch a fierce offensive against the Xinghan Army's defense line.

Stimulated by heavy rewards, and taking the lead, the morale of the Qing army was high, and the fighting spirit was strong. The second brigade of the Xinghan Army defending face-to-face couldn't stop the enemy, so they had to retreat for more than [-] miles, leaving more than [-] corpses. There were as many as a hundred prisoners.

From the results of the battle alone, there is no doubt that the Qing army won a major victory, which greatly increased Li Zhongyuan's confidence. After learning from the captives that his opponent was a young general who was only 20 years old, he would not release this boy. In the eyes, it is very majestic.

It is good for people to have self-confidence.

However, blind self-confidence, and the self-confidence that fails to see the overall situation, is often fatal.

After the victory, Li Zhongyuan was no longer satisfied with rushing into Yuezhou City for rescue, but wanted to defeat the Xinghan army in one fell swoop and make him a Marquis Shouyin, so he commanded the Qing army to march northward in a large scale, trying to break the siege of Yuezhou in a single battle.

"3000 people want to swallow me!"

Gu An, who learned that Li Zhongyuan had broken through the second brigade's defense line and was approaching Yuezhou City, decided to take advantage of Li Zhongyuan's opportunity of underestimating the enemy's aggressive advance. The Ministry set up an ambush in the woods, the only way for the Qing army to go north.

The strength of the ambush was more than twice that of the Qing army marching northward.

In Yuezhou City, the sound of guns and cannons from the south could already be heard.

Guo Tianen, the magistrate of Yuezhou, suspected that the reinforcements had arrived, so he hoped that the commander-in-chief Yamantai would lead troops out of the city to meet the reinforcements, but Yamantai was too cautious, worried that it was the treachery of the long-haired envoy outside the city to deliberately lure them out of the city, so he could not make a decision. As a result, the opportunity to rejuvenate the Han army by combining internal and external forces was lost.

War is the final result of countless coincidences superimposed.

Gu An used a brigade as bait to continuously lure Li Zhongyuan to head north rashly. As a result, Li was lured into the ambush circle bit by bit.

The guns and guns were loud, and the sky was shaken, and the Qing army's formation was chaotic and chaotic.

Gu An took the opportunity to urge the ambush, one cut off the Qing army's retreat, and the other two stormed the Qing army from both sides.

Because the Xinghan army had more flags and was covered by forests, the Qing army didn't know how many people there were. Lian Yong, who was recruited two or three months ago after the attack, was the first to collapse and ran back one after another, only to be picked up from behind. The Xinghan army pressed down and fought, and had to turn around and run back. As a result, the green battalion soldiers who were already confused and reluctant to fight were also in chaos.

During the fierce battle, as many as 2000 people were killed or trampled to death by the Qing army, including 47 generals, which can be described as a disastrous defeat.

The main general Li Zhongyuan charged left and right with his horse and was unable to break out of the siege. Later, the horse was shot by the Xinghan army with muskets, and Li Zhongyuan fell from the horse and was captured alive.

Except for more than a hundred people who escaped, more than a thousand people knelt down and begged for surrender.

After the war, Gu An sent a battle report to Wuchang, saying: "I went out from three sides, and the speed was like the wind. The Qing army was shocked, and the thief general Li Zhongyuan was captured alive, and most of the enemy was killed. Yuezhou has become a turtle in the urn."

The complete annihilation of Li Zhongyuan's department not only made Yuezhou completely lose foreign aid, but also left Hunan Governor Bayan San without a license to fight. Knowing that Li Zhongyuan's department was wiped out, Mr. Ba fled to the provincial capital Changsha in a donkey cart without saying a word.

After Li Zhongyuan was captured alive, Gu An treated him politely and wanted to persuade the general of the Qing army to surrender, but Li Zhongyuan had no intention of surrendering at all.

Gu An had no choice but to order Li Zhongyuan to be escorted to the foot of Yuezhou city, and behead the number one hero in central Hunan in front of Yamantai, the general of the Qing army in the city, and others.

When Li Zhongyuan's head fell to the ground, Yamantai must have felt regret in his heart, regretting that he should not listen to Guo Zhifu's advice and go out of the city to respond, so that the reinforcements were wiped out, and he was really trapped in the city.

The annihilation of the reinforcements made the morale of the Yuezhou defenders low, and there were even more anti-Qing elements in the city who spread rumors and caused troubles, and people's hearts fluttered.

Yamantai finally decided to break out with the deputy general Xiong Ding'an.

Xiong Ding'an's ancestor was Ming Chen Xiong Wenju who was included in the second edition of "Second Biography". He was born as a martial arts scholar.

Also known as the champion of martial arts.

Xiong Ding'an is good at using firearms and is a rare firearms expert in the Qing army. His 800 men are all firearms.

However, since the beginning of the war, this fully armed force has hardly played a role. It is completely passive and beaten, and the entire army is in danger of being wiped out.

Therefore, Xiong Ding'an agreed to break through the siege of the general soldier.

Just before breaking through, Yamantai had a whim and ordered someone to send a letter box full of explosives to the Xinghan army.

The medicine box is made by Xiong Ding'an, and it will explode as soon as it is opened.

In order to convince Gu An, the general of the Xinghan Army, to open it, Yamantai also wrote the words "Send to General Gu" on the letter box, and asked the person who sent the box to say that he would like to discuss the Kaesong matter with the Xinghan Army. .

Originally, I wanted to blow up Gu An, but if I couldn’t, it would paralyze the command center of the Xinghan army, so as to buy time for them to break through. However, I didn’t receive any reply when I sent the letter box, and I didn’t see Xinghan outside the city. There is no sign of any troop withdrawal.

The reason is that Gu An didn't open the letter box himself at all, but asked a prisoner to open it first in the open space. As a result, Yamantai's conspiracy was exposed.

This is also the result of the guidance of Gu An's Uncle Jia from Manchuria. In addition to teaching his nephew how to use soldiers, this uncle Jia told his nephew not to open anything sent by the enemy himself, and not to single-handedly fight with the newly surrendered Qing army. Generals and generals discussed, and in addition, no matter how thirsty you are during the march, you should not drink unboiled water, it must be boiled.

On the seventeenth day of the Lunar New Year, Yamantai couldn't hold on anymore and decided to break out.

The Xinghan army, who had been closely watching the Qing army in the city, soon discovered that the Qing army in Yuezhou had broken through, and a fight between breaking out and counter breaking out soon began.

In the area of ​​Wangjiahepu in the east of Yuezhou City, the fierce battle between the two armies was the most intense.

There is an unknown hill here. After Yamantai protruded from the city, he led his troops to occupy the highland here, and repelled part of the Xinghan army who wanted to take it back.

However, [-] "long-haired" soldiers failed to withdraw with the brigade because they lost their way, so they lurked in the reeds by a pond in the area. At night, this group of soldiers began to retreat in the dark. I lost my way, and ended up touching Yamantai's headquarters at the hill.

Seeing the Qing army in all directions, the two leaders who took the lead simply gritted their teeth and led their brothers to launch a death attack on the Qing army.

The Qing army, which was trying its best to break through to the east, had no idea that there was such a group of people behind them, and they were thrown into chaos by fifteen dead soldiers of the Xinghan army who were unsuspecting.

Just like that, fifteen "long hairs" with knives disturbed the Qing army's rear, and even Yamantai's headquarters were scared to move.

This "transfer" caused the collapse of the Qing army that broke through the encirclement. Yamantai escaped the encirclement by luck and ran to the Dayun Mountain area in the east of Yuezhou. Then there were more than seventy soldiers around him.

General Ya, who was filled with grief and indignation, was honest. In his memorial to the emperor, he described the defeat process in detail, and never denied his gains and losses. Beyond reason.”

He said with emotion to the left and right: "It's easy to regret the mountains, but it's difficult to regret. I don't want to do this."

The 23-mile express delivery of Yuezhou Shouqian was delivered to the capital on the [-]rd of the New Year's Eve.

At this time, Jia Liu was scolding at Fuller at home: "I don't care about other people's rumors about me, and you don't care about others' assassination of me. I don't care if I do my own damn investigation. If you catch someone, you just stab them." You look like a chrysanthemum, what do you mean!"

"Do you, Fu Zhongtang, really don't see me, Jia Jia Shikai, as a brother? If that's the case, well, in front of Prince An, we will go our separate ways in the future! I don't need you to mourn me when I die! Your name If someone is killed, don't blame me for lighting the firecracker!"

"How do you say that? Yes, family sacrifices are never forgotten to tell Nai Weng! You don't care if I die, and I don't care if you die!"

Jia Liu punched the table.

The fist wind failed to crack the table, but made Lao Fu's heart tremble for no reason, and his face was very uncomfortable.

Uncle Se opened his mouth, pushed his emotional cousin on the stool, frowned slightly, and educated in an elder tone: "Six sons, don't say anything that destroys unity. It's not that Fu Zhongtang doesn't care about you, but I just hope you don't do anything wrong." It's too much trouble, it's not good for you, Fu Zhongtang, or me."

　The two and a half chapters of the Huguang War Situation should be considered simplified.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)