The capital in Xi'an City was shocked when it received the alarm from Meixian County.Although the Dashun army was defeated and destroyed, its scattered troops hid in the mountains and became bandits.In his heart, those Shun soldiers who had become bandits were only dozens or hundreds of people, robbing the people and fighting against his regular Manchu army, and they did not have the courage to do so.Unexpectedly, these bandits incited tens of thousands of hungry people to gather to make trouble.It was not easy to collect this amount of food by himself, and if the bandits robbed him, he would have to walk around without food.The food was in Meixian, he didn't have time to think about it, he left 1,000 green battalion soldiers to guard the city, and he hurriedly led the 508 banners and 3,000 green battalion soldiers to Meixian in person.He believed that a group of rabble bandits would not be able to achieve any climate, and even if tens of thousands of hungry people were added, they would not be the opponent of his 3,000 regular army.As long as he leads the army to the city of Meixian, whether it is a hungry person or a bandit, he will inevitably kill them all.He never had a chance to rush to Meixian again.When the sky was light, he found that in the distance around his army, the shadow of the army faintly appeared, and the total number of people was probably more than 100,000.The mobile corps, plus Xin Sizhong's Longzhong Corps, of course, has more than 100,000 troops.To solve the capital class of only 3,000 people, only Xin Sizhong's cavalry army can't use it.The reason why all the troops went together was that they were afraid that they would miss the Qing army and went to Tongguan to report the news, so that the Qing army could guard Zu Kefa in Tongguan, which was not conducive to Xin Sizhong's attack on Tongguan in the next step.More than 100,000 Northwest Army surrounded 3,500 Qing troops, and when the encirclement was reduced to a certain distance, Xin Sizhong's 20,000 cavalry attacked.Slaughtering chickens with a knife, the outcome can be imagined.The whole army was wiped out, and he himself died in the chaos.After the battle, Xin Sizhong led the Longzhong Corps to continue to advance along the Wei River to Tongguan, while Wang Shuo led 50,000 soldiers to march from Xiegu Road to Taibai, leaving only Song Xiance with 20,000 soldiers to clean up the battlefield and deal with the remnants of the Qing army.Song Xiance divided his troops into 5,000 troops, and gathered the 3,000 soldiers besieging Meixian to capture Meixian, and he personally led the rest of his soldiers to march to Xi'an.He ordered the capital to surrender to the front, to open the gate of Xi'an, and then the army entered the city, and the soldiers occupied Xi'an without blood.The 1,500 defenders of Meixian County saw that the northwest army was strong, so they had to surrender to the city.Subsequently, the reserve cadre task force established by the Northwest Government, escorted by the security forces, began to move eastward.Take over the towns along the way, arrest and censor the old officials, co-opt the villagers, publicize and proclaim the new law, and mobilize the people.Wang Shuo's Northwest Army is good at this point, the army only needs to fight and lay down territory, and there will naturally be a special team to take over government affairs.Song Xiance didn't have to worry about government affairs, saved time, left 5,000 troops to sit in Xi'an, and the rest of the soldiers and horses went north to Tongchuan, purging the remnants of the Qing army along the way, and getting in touch with Li Guo's corps in the north.It was only at this time that he suddenly thought of why the Qing army wanted to store grain and grass in Meixian County, and what was this grain and grass used for?
Could it be that these grains and grasses are for the sake of helping Haoge's army, it must be that Haoge is in Sichuan, and there is a crisis in grain and grass.When the army had no food, he did not dare to attack Chencang directly on Chencang Road, but wanted to come out of Xiegu Road, supplement and rest in Meixian County nearby, and then enter Chencang from Meixian to the west, why didn't he think that Haoge had no food and grass He urgently ordered his staff officers to check the correspondence in Xi'an.Sure enough, five days ago, Du Zhi received an order from Hauge, telling him that he was going to lead the army out of the valley and let him try to get help nearby.In this way, Haoge has already been out of praise, and on the Baochu Road, he hurriedly ordered a staff officer, took a hundred soldiers, rode horses and galloped to the Xiegu Road, and told Wang Shuo, who was marching towards Taibai, this new situation, and asked him to beware of a sudden encounter with Haoge.Wang Shuo has few soldiers, and what he is most afraid of is encounters.In a hurry, whoever has more soldiers and horses will take advantage.Soon after the staff officer left, the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became, so he called Shen Yu, the deputy commander of the infantry army, and asked him to take all the soldiers in Xi'an City, find more guides who are familiar with the road, and the soldiers are lightly armed, and advance from Luogu Road to Hanzhong.Halfway through, there is a small road, climb over the mountains, and the plank road can be straight into the slope valley road.After they inserted into the valley road, they let Hauge's army attack its back, slowing down its advance and not giving Hauge a chance to attack Wang Shuo who was blocking in front with all his strength.Shen Yu was an old man who followed Wang Shuo out of Fuqiang City back then, and he was loyal to Wang Shuo.I heard that Wang Shuo was in danger, so of course I was in a hurry.But he took away all the soldiers and horses in Xi'an City, and Song Xiance became the commander of the light pole.Song Xiance is not worried about this, there are already security forces and work teams sent by Liang Min in the city, and the security problem is not big.Moreover, he wanted to urge the rest of the troops going north, and after opening up the contact with Li Guo's corps, the main force quickly returned to the army, and he wanted to take the main force to Taibai to support Wang Shuo.Although Xin Sizhong's Longzhong Corps had 50,000 horses, he had to attack Tongguan Jiancheng and drive Zu Kefa back to the Huaiqing area, and he also had to occupy key points along the way and develop strategic depth, so as to block the attack of the main force of the Qing army on Tongguan in the future.Now, what can support Wang Shuo is the more than 10,000 soldiers he can draw out here.Whether you can block Haoge's 200,000 troops in the deep mountains and not put him on the Weinan Plain is really a little uncertain.Once the blockade fails, Haoge's army enters the Weinan Plain, it will be like the flood of the embankment, and there is no power to stop it, and the consequences are unimaginable Song Xiance thinks about it now, Wang Shuo's original strategic plan is really a bit risky, and he should have carefully considered the right way.But now that the army has left the northwest and has begun to move separately, it is too late to say anything, there is no time to change, and there is no room to turn back.At this time, Wang Shuo led his army to march to Taibai along the Xiegu Road, and when he was about to reach Taibai, he received an alarm from Song Xiance.The trail is full of rugged mountain roads, which are very difficult to walk.Originally, he planned to rest in Taibai for a day and then move forward.Knowing that Hauge's army was already on the Baogu Road, he didn't dare to rest.While sending sentries to the south to reconnoitre, he ordered the army to cross Taibai and continue to advance.Taibai County is a basin under Taibai Mountain, surrounded by high mountains, but the terrain in the middle is open, the enemy can launch a force attack, which is not conducive to him blocking Haoge.In order to hold back Hauge's 200,000-strong army, it is necessary to find a narrow part of the canyon where Hauge's army cannot be deployed.The southern exit of Taibai County is a valley washed out by the water that originates from Taibai Mountain.From here, Baoshui winds all the way south, along the valley topography to Hanzhong, and finally into the Han River.Therefore, the road into Hanzhong from the south is often called Baogu Road.This outlet in the north is also washed out by a river that originates in Taibai Mountain, and it is called oblique water.All the way along the valley to the north, flowing into the Wei River, the road that follows the inclined water is called the inclined valley road.The valley road is relatively short and lacks strategic depth.Moreover, once it is broken through by Hauge, it will be released into the Weinan Plain.Therefore, Wang Shuo planned to enter Baogu Road and choose the terrain there to block Hauge.However, Hauge was already on the Baogu Road, he had just entered the Baogu Road, and it was really difficult to say whether the time allowed him to choose the terrain and establish a defensive line.This time, he made another risky move
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