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Military Department.

Foreman Minister of Military Aircraft Fu Lehun, Minister of Military Aircraft Qing Gui, Liang Guozhi, and Yuan Shoutong were on duty last night, but it was not because of the upcoming National Assembly, but because the war in Taiwan, which was going well, suddenly took a turn for the worse.

After the Tiandihui rebellion occurred in Taiwan last year, the Qing government ordered Chai Daji, the former garrison of Fuzhou, to serve as the commander-in-chief of Taiwan. Together with Admiral Huang Shijian of the Fujian Navy, Ren Chengen, Admiral of the Fujian Green Camp, and Xu Dingshi, deputy general of the Fujian Security Association, led more than [-] troops to Haiping chaos.

Two months later, the Qing army crossed Taiwan and successfully landed in Lukang in the southwest corner of Taiwan, and then launched an attack on the rebels.

At first, the war was not good for the Qing army, and Xu Dingshi, the deputy general of Fujian Anxie, was surrounded by an ambush set by the leader of the rebel army, Lin Shuangwen.

However, Xu Dingshi's troops did not panic because of being encircled like Taiwan's green battalion. On the one hand, they used the surrounding terrain to form a defense line with muskets and mountain cannons. The soldiers cooperated with each other and stubbornly refused to defend.

The number of rebels reached more than [-], but their equipment was not as good as that of the official army. Although they had a numerical advantage, they were still unable to break through Xu's defense line.

Chai Daji, the new general of Taiwan Town, received the news of Xu Bu's call for help, and quickly led his troops to rescue.

The battle report stated that after Chai Daji led his troops to arrive, he launched a fierce attack on the back of the rebels. It is said that "arrows are like flying locusts, covering the sky and covering the sun." Xu Dingshi's troops also attacked from the encirclement immediately. It was washed away, the casualties were heavy, and the army was routed.

After the war, more than 3000 rebels were counted and killed, and thousands of others surrendered.

The bandit leader Lin Shuangwen led his remnant troops to retreat to Zhuluo County, but was attacked by the soldiers and civilians of Zhuluo County, resulting in numerous casualties, which prevented Lin Shuangwen from relying on Zhuluo.

Sensing the utter loyalty of the soldiers and civilians of Zhuluo County to the Qing Dynasty, the Military Aircraft Office reported the matter to the emperor. Qianlong in the deep palace changed Zhuluo County to Chiayi County in order to commend the loyalty of the people of Zhuluo County, taking the meaning of "Jia Qi Loyalty".

This defeat also caused a split within the rebel army. Many core members of the Tiandihui were timid, fearing that they would be uprooted by the Qing army, so they led their troops away from Lin Shuangwen, including Yan Yan, a fellow villager who introduced Lin Shuangwen into the Tiandihui.

Before Yan Yan helped Lin Shuangwen instigate the uprising, he was named the Lord of the Criminal Hall by Wan Yunlong, the leader of the Tiandihui.

Lin Zhenguo, deputy marshal of the rebel army, surrendered immediately after being captured by the Qing army, and confessed a lot of details about the Tiandihui. He even said that Lin Shuangwen dared to launch an uprising in Taiwan because he had the support of the Qing army.

The evidence is that after Lin Shuangwen returned to Taiwan from the mainland, he not only brought a lot of money, but also brought a lot of weapons.

The Fujian side attached great importance to this information, and Yu Wenyi, governor of Fujian, personally tried it. However, Lin Zhenguo only knew that there was someone behind Lin Shuangwen who supported him, and that this person had a high status in the Qing court, but he didn't know who it was.

In the end, he was tortured, but he said nonsense that the person who secretly supported Lin Shuangwen was a senior official of the Qing army in Fujian. Yu Wenyi was so frightened that he ordered Lin Zhenguo to be beaten to death.

I dare not report it at all, because it will put everyone in Fujian official circles at risk.

Not daring to report to the imperial court, but really suspected that someone in the official circles in Fujian was collaborating with thieves, Yu Wenyi started a secret investigation with the support of Debao, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

So far, there is no result.

The first battle was successful, and the Qing troops crossing Taiwan made persistent efforts and won three more battles in June and July. Although they did not annihilate many enemies and failed to encircle the bandit leader Lin Shuangwen, they dealt a powerful blow to the Tiandihui Uprising With momentum, nearly half of the cities and villages occupied by the rebels were recovered.

Taiwan’s General Soldier Chai Daji’s report to the governor of Fujian was more detailed, saying that although Lin Shuangwen’s rebel army had many bandits, most of them had no intention of opposing the Qing Dynasty, but were coerced by the bandits or seeking asylum.

Therefore, the strategy of suppressing and appeasement is proposed. On the one hand, we will resolutely attack the core of the thieves, and on the other hand, we will be lenient to those who come to surrender. In this way, the thieves will collapse themselves in a short time.

Yu Wenyi agreed with Chai Daji's appeasement strategy. In just over a month, more than ten thousand thieves came to surrender one after another, and many places began to contact the Qing army, hoping to get their protection, and they were willing to provide money and food support for the official army to suppress the thieves.

Debao, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, said happily: "The Lin thieves have betrayed their relatives, at most for more than a month, and Taiwan can be settled."

Ren Chengen, the admiral of the Fujian Green Camp, said that although the rebel army was nominally composed of members of the Tiandihui, most of them were actually from Zhangzhou, Fujian.

However, it was not the official army, but the Quanzhou people who were more tenacious in fighting the rebels, and even refused to surrender.

Ren Chengen analyzed that the reason why the Quanzhou people helped the government and the army to fight against the rebels was mainly because they were afraid that the Zhangzhou people would harm their interests after they ruled Taiwan.

Therefore, it is proposed to vigorously appease the Quanzhou people and focus on the Zhangzhou people.

The detailed work also revealed that Lin Shuangwen, the leader of the thieves, repeatedly asked the rebels not to be enemies with the Quanzhou people, and said that they should unite against the Qing Dynasty. The conflicts between the two governments cannot be reconciled at all.

As a result, most of the Quanzhou people, who accounted for one-third of Taiwan's population, fell to the Qing army. In addition, the Tiandihui rebel army failed one after another, and the internal divisions dropped sharply from the original 20,000 people to less than [-] people, and they were chased by the Qing army. There is nowhere to settle down, no matter from which angle you look at the chaos in Taiwan is about to be settled.

Debao, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, even wrote to the imperial court, arguing that a governor should be established in Taiwan, so as to increase the imperial court's rule over Taiwan, so as to prevent the Han people on the island from becoming enemies of the imperial court.

At this juncture, the war suddenly changed significantly.

First of all, Huang Shijian, the admiral of the Fujian Navy, sent an urgent report within 4 miles, claiming that bandits from foreign and barbarian warships attacked the grain and grass transshipment point set up by the Qing army in Penghu, destroyed 20 of our warships, and killed more than [-] of our Qing soldiers.

Afterwards, Yu Wenyi, governor of Fujian Province, forwarded an urgent report to Ren Chengen, Admiral of the Fujian Green Camp. Ren said that he had received a tip that Lin Shuangwen, the leader of the bandit, might have fled in Fengshan County in southern Taiwan, so he led the troops to destroy it.

However, when fighting with the rebels, a bandit army with a black flag suddenly came from its flanks. In addition to the Han rebels, there were also many Xiyi soldiers with deep eyes, sorghum and red hair. There are hundreds of people, and the sharpness of the muskets and artillery they hold is far better than that of our Qing soldiers.

The black flag soldier was very brave and good at fighting. Not only was he equipped with a large number of firearms, but the leader of the bandit was also fearless of death.

Ren Chengen could see clearly that the leader of the thief was very young. During the charge, his crown was broken once and his robe was worn once, but he was not injured at all.

Under his leadership, the black flag thieves became more and more courageous, and the officers and soldiers could not resist and had to retreat.

Afterwards, the rebel army used the black flag bandit as the backbone, and entangled a large number of bandits to storm Tainan, where the capital city of Taiwan is located. Although Ren Encheng led the whole city to defend to the death, the bandit was too powerful, and finally gave up Tainan and retreated to Taiwan five days later. Chiayi.

The fall of Tainan revived the momentum of the already lingering rebels, and the Black Banner Army even threatened to drive all the Qing troops into the sea, then counterattack Fujian and march northward.

What to say, "Destroy the green battalion first, and then flatten the Eight Banners. The soldiers of China, I am the only black flag!"

In view of the complete defeat of the Qing army in Taiwan, the entire army might be annihilated. The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Debao, could only ask the court to send reinforcements as soon as possible.

The military aircraft department discussed and discussed, except that the Taiwanese rebels may collude with Westerners, there is really no regulation on how to dispatch reinforcements.

Because there is no way to draw reinforcements.