late Qing Dynasty arrest

On a dark and windy night, Li Ziying pulled out the village quietly. There were many mosquitoes in summer. Soldiers applied medicated oil to disperse the mosquitoes. It is called "Dragon and Tiger Fengyoujing".Marching at night can also avoid the scorching sun, and the soldiers are full of energy and marching at a fast speed.Advance quickly and break away from the command of the Songwu Army.

Sure enough, as Li Guolou expected, the patrol team of the Songwu Army did not have any doubts about Li Ziying's departure at night.Li Guolou led the brigade to the east and disappeared into the darkness.

Regarding Li Guolou's violation of military orders and leaving the Songwu Army without authorization, none of his subordinates raised any objections. Li Ziying's soldiers were tired of arresting villagers in the countryside, and the generals also complained. Where did they come from the front to fight? A servant who does dirty work that is inferior to others.Therefore, Li Guolou was able to do the ideological work of his subordinates, and successfully took away a team of nearly 2000 people.

The other troops are an army with a designation and the area where they are stationed, while Li Ziying can only be regarded as a small unit. It has not yet formed an independent army. The soldiers are also dissatisfied and feel that they are inferior.Although he prided himself on being the Imperial Guard, he boasted at that time that he always had a good record, and he couldn't make great military exploits by cooperating with the large army every time.

The soldiers longed for a battle with real swords and guns, hoping to wipe out the rebels of the Gelaohui and capture the enemy leader Lei Heng alive. They all silently endured the difficulty of marching at night.They approved of the sudden night march initiated by Li Guolou in their hearts, and the officers who knew the basics encouraged the soldiers by saying that they were about to fight. [

This army belongs to Li Guolou, and it has already been branded with Li Guolou's mark, full of superstition towards him.Walking through the rugged trails, crossing dangerous bridges, climbing mountains and wading through dense forests, the team walked extremely hard.In a place in Shimen Village, it was already dawn, the large army stopped to rest, and a small group of rangers was sent out to inquire about news.

Seeing the rising sun, Li Guolou's face calmed down. He marched quickly all night without encountering harassment from the rebels, which meant that Shimen Village, which is not a bird shit, is no longer suitable for people to live in. The rebels hiding in the village, It is far away from the mopping up Songwu army.

Li Guolou was thinking about a question, where would Lei Heng hide the looted food when it was difficult to supply?It's a pity that he doesn't have a perspective eye, so he doesn't know where the rebel army's grain is buried under their feet.

"Ma Dequan, give me the map." Li Guolou took the map, and the sky turned pale. He had to use his brains to find out the weakness of the rebel army, and force the rebel army wandering in the countryside to come out and fight.

Fan Dahui stepped into the dilapidated yard with a whip in his hand, and said carelessly, "Mr. Li, if I am going to lie in ambush in the forest, I will kill your troops directly, and I won't give you the chance to travel hundreds of miles at night."

Li Guolou didn't raise his head, he was still looking at the map on the stone mill, and replied: "Master Fan, is it so easy to survive in the forest? If the enemy dares to stay in the forest, I dare to set it on fire, believe it or not? "

"Believe me! Why don't I believe it? Chief Li, I'm just testing it out." Fan Dahui rolled his eyes twice and figured out the disadvantages of the forest. People can hide in dense forests, but when they meet people like Li Guolou Such an enemy is seeking his own death.

"What shall we do next, and where will the troops move?" Fan Dahui really regarded Li Guolou as a god, thinking that he would be able to fight the war, but never thought that there were still many difficulties to overcome.

How did Li Guolou know which corner the enemy was hiding in?But now that the team has been pulled out, he maintained a confident style and said confidently: "Let the soldiers rest assured that the enemy is right under their noses. According to the established route, there is an enemy's lair ahead."

"Really?" Fan Dahui was deceived, and looked at the map area pointed by Li Guolou.

Diebu County is located on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. It is more than 200 miles long from east to west and more than 150 miles wide from north to south.In the county, there are green mountains and clear waters, layer upon layer of ridges, scattered springs, waterfalls, sacred lakes, beautiful peaks, narrow gorges, etc., which are beautiful and spectacular.The climate is mild and humid, with four distinct seasons, severe cold in winter and hot summer.

The rebel army did not capture Lazikou, but the large troops did not leave Diebu County. This is because there are mountains and rivers here, and it is easy for troops to survive in such a rugged environment.If they went to the plains, they would have been wiped out by the Qing army long ago. Those rebels who occupied the county towns and villages and resisted stubbornly would have been wiped out one by one by the Qing army. survived.Although the rebel army is now besieged by the Qing army, they are still able to survive in a dangerous environment, which shows that the rebel army still has some food reserves, and it is not at the point of desperation.

"Luo Daxiang!" Fan Dahui looked at the area on the map and exclaimed.

"That's right! I expected that Luo Da Township has the enemy's grain reserves. We will go straight into Luo Da Township and dig three feet to dig out the grain." Li Guolou is quite confident. He believes in his unique vision and counts Lei Heng. act of self-preservation.

It is impossible for the insurgents wandering in the countryside to carry a large amount of food with them. They need to hide some food on the route of action so that they can get supplies during the march. Luo Da Township is just right for Lei Heng.

"Okay! It's exciting now, I'm going to issue an order now." Fan Dahui glanced at Li Guolou, feeling strange, such a cunning Li Guolou, when the large army swept Luo Daxiang last time, Say nothing.It wasn't until Li Ziying acted alone that he revealed the secret. Even Zhang Yao, who is called a brother, dared to lie. Li Guolou was too bad.

Li Guolou raised his eyelids and smiled slightly at Fan Dahui. As long as he was willing to use his brain, he could guess every move of the enemy, and his innate talent allowed him to show his unmatched military talent.Li Guolou is tired of being a senior counselor, and he has to keep explaining to the chief, or he should form an army on his own, and deploy the war according to his own ideas.Stealing a teacher's skills can be applied. This time he led nearly 2000 troops and was able to fight the rebel army alone.Lei Heng's troops died, fled, and the morale of the army was scattered. The rebel army left in the village of Diebu County was less than 5000 to [-], maybe even less. Judging from this posture, there will be rebels uprising on the battlefield. Miss a golden opportunity.

The most important point is that the aborigines in Diebu County have been wiped out by the Qing army. There are only two hostile armies fighting each other.The people roaming in the vast countryside were either the Qing army or the guerrillas of the rebel army. They could become famous if they seized the opportunity. If Li Ziying wanted to become the Xinwu army, he had to make new achievements.The ambitious Li Guolou seemed to see the military flag of the Xinwu Army planted in the sky above Xiaozhan Town in Tianjin, and he became a prince along the way, and became the commander-in-chief of a party with the right to speak in the military.

Although Li Guolou was a vassal under Li Hongzhang's wing, he regarded himself as Li Hongzhang's cronies.But he never thought that Li Ziying was a part of the Huai Army. This was a new royal army, a new type of army established in full accordance with the great thought of Emperor Tongzhi Zaichun.The mentor Weng Tonghe is the founder of the Xinwu Army, and he happened to be on the cusp of the new era, and he was lucky to become a commander of the Xinwu Army, and he was the only commander.Li Guolou was quick-witted, resorted to conspiracies and schemes, and used a series of tricks to secretly evade his mentor Weng Tonghe, and even wanted to kick away his senior Liu Mingchuan, so as to turn Xinwutang into his own one-acre three-point land. [

Li Guolou is prepared for danger in times of peace. In a society where seniority is considered, he coordinates the relationship between all parties and can be accepted by various factions in the court.After Emperor Tongzhi came to power, the rapid emergence of an army showed the demeanor of a leading figure.No one dared to underestimate his existence. This time, he forcibly won a share of military exploits from Zuo Zongtang, Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu in the Northwest.

In the early morning, the officers and soldiers of Li Ziying were stationed in Shimen Village, burying pots for cooking, and the marching of large troops could not be hidden. According to the regulations of wartime, the officers and soldiers of Li Ziying kept a high degree of vigilance to guard against the enemy's sneak attack.Each sub-team is divided into bright sentry and dark sentry, dispatched outside the village to inspect the situation in the surrounding areas.

According to the strategy formulated by Zuo Zongtang, it was only a matter of time before the Qing army defeated the rebel army. To deal with the rebel army wandering in the vast rural areas, the Qing army adhered to the consistent style of "encircling" and first controlled strategic locations to prevent the rebel army from fleeing.The Battle of Lazikou was when the Qing army saw through the purpose of the rebel army's actions. Liu Jintang led the old Hunan army to successfully implement the encirclement, preventing a large number of rebel troops from fleeing into Sichuan. With a big victory, it was announced that the Qing army had taken the initiative on the battlefield.Let the insurgents have no courage and dare not fight with them head-on.

Afterwards, the various Qing armies reduced the living space of the rebel army. Lei Zhengwan's troops of the Qing army wiped out the small rebel army fleeing in the south of Yan'an, and successfully recovered Ganquan, Fuxian, and Luochuan counties.

Zhang Yao's unit of the Huai Army carried out a brutal sweep in Diebu County, not giving the rebels a chance to grow and narrow the encirclement.But the final victory will take time, and the Qing army has to invest a lot of manpower and financial resources to make the rebel army a source of water according to the established strategic deployment, waiting to die, trapped in the narrow territory of Diebu County.

This battle of wits and courage is not over yet, and it is still unknown who will win the battle?How strong is the dying rebel army, can they break the iron barrel formation set by Zuo Zongtang?The war is full of variables, and Li Guolou's aggressive advance is to give the rebels a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.Li Guolou is good at gambling, and also likes to play games with the enemy. He deliberately sold a loophole to Lei Heng, exposing Li Ziying to the rebel army, and it depends on whether the enemy has the courage to fight fiercely.

The insurgents who stayed in the rural areas of Diebu County had no room for maneuver. They had to build a base area so that thousands of insurgents could live and recuperate.Either break out of the siege, go to a place where the Qing army is weak, and create another great cause of the Gelaohui.But these two points are extremely difficult for today's insurgents, because they met a strategist Zuo Zongtang.

Zuo Zongtang is a great strategist, farmer, and conspirator. His attitude towards the Hui army's various armies can best reflect his inconstant, treacherous and changeable character.Don't talk about credibility with the enemy, turn your face, don't admit old scores, and implement the strategy of long-distance and short-term attack.

The Qing army never mentioned such unrealistic slogans as "liberate the Northwest!"Zuo Zongtang's strategic deployment was slightly modified, but the general idea remained the same. As always, military operations were used to recover the land of the Qing Dynasty occupied by the Hui people, and the Gelaohui rebels were not given a place to stay.Zuo Zongtang adjusted his strategy, and the main force of the Qing army focused on dealing with Lei Heng's troops who had not yet matured, accumulating small victories in exchange for big victories, trapping the rebel army to death in the desolate Diebu County.

In today's Shaanxi-Gansu region, there is no soil to breed rebellion, and the villages that have long been tossed and incomplete by the rebellion cannot afford to support so many rebel soldiers.

The insurgents who stayed in the mountains to recuperate and recuperate have lost their morale since the first battle in Lazikou. Soldiers escaped every day. In addition, a small group of insurgents were wiped out. Lei Heng's troops fled to Diebu County from tens of thousands of people. , so far less than 4000 people.The morale of the army has been lost, but the hearts of the people are complete.

Surrounded by dilapidated villages, the crops were overgrown with weeds, and the forests were reduced to ashes. The Qing army euphemistically called it "burning barren mountains!" This was the dilemma faced by the rebels. .

Lei Heng didn't dare to gather a large army together, and the rebels scattered in the countryside fought on their own, living with a full meal and a hungry meal.