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The timeout is overtime, but it seems to be better than the central army.

Because there is a problem with the Central Army just to open the call.

A group of soldiers from the coating battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to go out, but when threatened by the Shangguan, they deserted the battalion and left the battalion.

According to statistics afterwards, as many as 13 soldiers escaped, only [-] were captured.

Although the incident was suppressed by Niu Lun and kept the impact to a minimum, it still spread to Zu Yingyuan.

To this, he just smiled.

Because he knew that Guizi Six's black hands had already been activated.

The news about the Qing army's upcoming large-scale attack on Huangzhou was actually leaked as early as the first day of the Huguang Green Camp, so Zu Yingyuan estimated that the Xinghan army in Huangzhou would definitely organize a large-scale blockade with Huang'an City as the center war.

You must know that Huang'an is the northernmost gateway of Huangzhou City. Once the Qing army occupies this place, it can go south to directly attack Huangzhou City, or go east to sweep the counties under the jurisdiction of Huangzhou Prefecture, completely isolating Huangzhou City.

Theoretically, even if Huangzhou City cannot be captured, as long as the defenders in the city are not dared to come out, it will cut off Wuchang's connection with Huangzhou and Jiujiang in the east.

Therefore, Zu Yingyuan reckoned that a fierce battle was inevitable.

How to preserve strength in this fierce battle and send away as many "friendly troops" as possible is no small task.

But what Zu Yingyuan didn't expect was that Huang'an was actually an empty city!
The Xinghan army completely abandoned the city.

Although he didn't know why the Xinghan army didn't defend Huang'an, Zu Yingyuan ordered the soldiers to fire a cannon outside the city, fired a few shots, and then reported the victory to the co-organizers in a decent manner.

Knowing that Huang An had been dispatched, Niu Lunbao was overjoyed, and personally led the Yuanmingyuan guard barracks under his command to Huang An. Two days later, the other two Eight Banners Central Army also arrived on the front line of Huang An.

One is the coating battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with 4000 people, and the other is the firearms battalion of 3000 people.

The Coated Banner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is also known as the "Shang San Banner Coated Guard Barracks". Although it is from Coated, it also belongs to the Central Army of the Eight Banners.

In addition to being able to ride a horse-drawn bow, the standard is that you must be a "Liao native".

That is to say, the ancestors of the soldiers can only be the Han people who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty during the Taizu Taizong period.

In the eyes of the Qing court, the loyalty value of this kind of Han people was even higher than that of the Mongolian Eight Banners. Therefore, when Qianlong abolished the Han Army Eight Banners, he also demanded that "the native Han people" should be cut first, and "the Liao people should come later."

The descendants of the "Liao people" under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also had a higher status than the Han army and Mongolia, and even the Manchuria under the Five Banners.

Since the Kangxi dynasty of the holy ancestor, about one-fifth of the important ministers and governors who were born in Baoyi, shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to "Liao people".

Badama, the commander of the army guard who was born in Zhenghuangqi, Manchuria, who commanded the coating battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Huoqi Battalion was formerly the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Suiyan, and later went to Beijing to quell the chaos under a secret order. With the help of Prince Rui, who was the admiral of the Nine Gates at the time, it was established in Beijing, and the entire battalion was reorganized into the Huoqi Battalion.

The minister of management is Irden, the former commander of the Eight Banners stationed in Suiyuan.

After the various Qing armies arrived at the assembly point one after another, Niu Lunbao held a pre-military meeting as a co-organizer of the military aircraft.

The content of the meeting mainly revolved around how to capture Huangzhou City.

Zu Yingyuan proposed to divide the troops into two groups, attacking Macheng all the way, then marching towards Luotian, and then turned southwest to attack Huangzhou City.

Along the way, Huang An went directly south to attack Huangzhou.

With such a deployment, first, it can disperse the bandit army in Huangzhou; second, it can encircle Huangzhou from east to west, reducing the difficulty of siege.

The Presidential Minister of the Yuanmingyuan Guard, Sonom Cering, thought that Macheng should be captured first, because according to detailed research, Macheng has a division and a brigade of rebels stationed in Macheng, with 5000 rebels. It is the second most important town in Huangzhou after Huangzhou City.

If it cannot be eradicated in one fell swoop, the bandits from the east of Macheng will inevitably swarm in. At that time, not only will the Qing army be stranded in Macheng, but it will also pose a flank threat to the Qing army who went south to attack Huangzhou.

Badama and Irden did not have a clear opinion on how to fight, anyway, it was to execute military orders.

In the end, Niu Lunbao adopted Sonomucering's opinion and ordered Sonomucering to command the Yuanmingyuan guards, Badama to command the coating camp, and attack Macheng with the main force of the Huguang Green Camp with nearly [-] troops.

The Firearms Battalion was stationed on the front line of Taohua Town to prevent Huangzhou bandits from coming to aid Macheng, and at the same time ensure the safety of the Qing army's food roads.

Xu is that the slow progress of the Huguang Green Battalion made the co-organizers dissatisfied, and he actually sat in the Huguang Green Battalion to supervise the promotion of the army.

Zu Yingyuan secretly dissatisfied with this co-organizer who was riding on his head as if airborne, but he also had to pretend to obey on the surface, mobilizing the main forces of Xindasu and Madri to cooperate with the Eight Banners The Central Army launched an offensive to Macheng.

The Xinghan army guarding Macheng faced the massive attack of the Qing army, and did not abandon it as easily as they gave up Huang An.

The fighting was extremely fierce, and the various divisions of the Qing army failed to win after fierce attacks. Even the Huguang Green Battalion lost more than 200 people.

From the people who fled the city before, they learned that Jiang Qingan, the leader of the bandit army guarding Macheng, was not a native of Hubei, but a bandit general who escaped from Xiaojinchuan.

There are more than [-] people under Jiang Qingan's command, and the most capable of fighting is a unit called the Zhongzhen Camp. There are only about [-] soldiers in the army, but they are all young people in their fifteenth or sixteenth year. Adopted orphans.

"The Loyalty Camp?"

Zu Yingyuan frowned. When he was a child, he read some books about the Ming Dynasty at home. One of them said that Li Zicheng's remnants later returned to the Ming Dynasty and formed the Zhongzhen Battalion. They fought against the Qing soldiers until the third year of Kangxi. The rest of the Zhiming Army was completely wiped out.

Apparently, the thief named Jiang Qing'an in Macheng named the personal camp "Loyalty Camp", which is somewhat related to the Ming Army's Zhongzhen Camp.

With this in mind, Zu Yingyuan deliberately persuaded Jiang Qing'an to surrender, so as to preserve this anti-Qing force.

After all, there are only 4000 defenders in the city, and the Qing army besieging the city is more than five times their size, and their firearms are far superior to those in the city.

Don't look at the strong defense of the city now, repelling the Qing army's attack repeatedly, but as long as there are no reinforcements, the Qing army will break the city sooner or later.

When he was worrying about how to persuade him to surrender, Badama, Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, took the lead and suggested to the co-organizers that he could recruit the city.

Badama meant that as long as the thieves in the city were willing to surrender, they could be given positions above that of generals, and their elite soldiers could also be retained.

Probably influenced by the peace policy promoted by General Wang Qianzhen.

Taking advantage of the situation, Zu Yingyuan also said: "The lower officials also have this intention. If the university scholars agree to persuade them to surrender, the lower officials can send people into the city to persuade them."

The other generals also agreed one after another, not because they cherished talents like Zu Yingyuan, nor because they wanted to preserve some anti-Qing forces, but because they really caused headaches for the bandits in the city.

Therefore, it is best not to fight if you can.

Unexpectedly, the co-organizer's scholar suddenly changed his face, and shouted angrily: "What do you know! The surrender is safe and reliable! Bandit soldiers are cunning by nature and do many evils. They are all repeated people. Most of them are forced to surrender today. In the future, if the disadvantages are not there, they will definitely betray me again, such villains should be punished, how can we give them a chance to repeat!"

Niu Lunbao disagreed with persuading the bandits to surrender, and took Wen Fu, the great general of Dingxi, who was killed by the bandits as an example, to describe the harmfulness of surrendering the bandits, and insisted on attacking Macheng to slaughter the bandits in order to boost the army's prestige.

Zu Yingyuan didn't like to hear these words anymore, because he knew that Jiangfan's rebellion was one of the reasons for the collapse of the Muguomu camp, but Wen Fu's death could never be blamed on Renjiangfan.

And although the other party is a co-organizer, he is also the governor of Hunan and the admiral of Huguang, so why are you a co-organizer bragging in front of me.

Call me a bachelor for face, call you a hairless man for no face, what can you do to me?
Of course, Zu Dashou, the gray grandson, also knows how to speak. He didn't contradict the co-organizers, but euphemistically stated that because of the peace policy promoted by the general Wang, not only the internal division of the Xinghan army was disintegrated, but also an endless stream of descendants. Let the Qing Dynasty regain some land without any effort.

The implication is that the benefits of persuading surrender are great.

Don't go out of your way.

The co-organizer suddenly sneered: "According to what I know, the reason why Prince Rui tried his best to recruit bandits is because of sympathy."

Ok?
The hearts of all the generals in the military tent beat in unison: What do you mean?