Lu Guangzu, the deputy commander of Wuzhen Chaoha, who fled back to Chaozhou from Puning, immediately organized the young and strong people in Chaozhou City to defend the city to prevent the Taiping army from taking advantage of the situation to seize Chaozhou.
I thought that Prince Jian knew that after the fall of Wuzhen Chaoha, he would be able to return to the division immediately to defeat the Taiping army, and although he was in charge of the battle, he had the merit of defending Chaozhou, and most of the merits could be offset by the merits, so as not to be punished too much by the imperial court.
But after a few days, he didn't even see the shadow of the army, and he couldn't help but panic a little in his heart.
On the fifth day, the spies sent by Lu Guangzu to the south of Puning to inquire about the news brought back bad news, the Taiping army built more than ten miles of fortifications along the official road in Yunluojing and Beishan Village, completely blocking the road for Prince Jian's army to return to the division.
And according to the people who built the fortifications, the Taiping army fought a vicious battle with the Qing army in the Xuanwu Mountain in the south, and the corpses of the dead soldiers brought back alone were four or five thousand, and the casualties were very heavy, but the Qing army was blocked in the Xuanwu Mountain.
Although the news inquired by the spies did not indicate exactly whether Prince Jian's army had been severely damaged by the Taiping army, Lu Guangzu captured the bad news from the fortifications built by the Taiping army at Yunluojing.
If he didn't guess wrong, the Taiping army wanted to use these fortifications to seal Prince Jian's army in the south, in case Prince Jian couldn't take Lufeng City, then tens of thousands of troops would be trapped alive in the Jieshiwei area.
Trapped in a desperate situation and without food supply, how can Lu Guangzu, who has been fighting for many years, not know.
He wanted to save him, but he had no soldiers, so in a panic, he could only immediately send someone to send an urgent report to the Fujian side, requesting the Fujian side to immediately send troops and horses south to rescue.
The urgent news of Chaozhou asking for help was delivered to Dasu the day after he fled from Xiamen to Quanzhou, and Dasu was both shocked and frightened.
What was shocked was that Jidu's more than 20,000 troops were unable to defeat the Taiping army, but they cut off the grain route and surrounded the narrow area from Jieshiwei to Lufeng, which was dozens of miles long; What I am afraid of is that if Jidu dies in battle, he, General Annan, will definitely not be able to escape the severe punishment of the imperial court, plus the losses in the battle of Jinxia that he concealed, the emperor is light, and if the imperial court can cut off his head, it will be smoke from his Zhang Jia's grave After the death of Prince Nikan in battle, the high-ranking generals who followed Nikan on the expedition, such as Bel Tunqi, Basihan, Beizi Zakana, Muryou, Gushan Ezhen Han Dai, Yild, and Aleshan, were all severely punished by Lejue and dismissal, and some generals of the Han army and the Green Battalion were killed by dozens of people.
At that time, Dasu was in the Nikan army, but he was exempt from punishment for leading other soldiers elsewhere, but he remembered the fate of those colleagues clearly, and now he is a little afraid to think about it.
If Prince Jian is broken again this time, you can imagine how angry the emperor will be, even if this Prince Jian and the emperor do not deal with each other, or even the emperor's eyes are thorns and flesh, but this does not mean that if Jidu dies, the emperor will not take their minions.
The fate of the generals who went south with Nikan back then is in vain.
Da Su's head was big, and his intestines were also repentant, regretting that he shouldn't have a fever brain and wanted to finish the battle in one battle, and launched the Battle of Jinxia without authorization, resulting in heavy casualties among the Qing army in Fujian, and he was unable to go south to rescue Jidu.
What is more regrettable is that he should not hide the loss after the defeat, the imperial court only thinks that he still has enough soldiers and horses, and now Chaozhou is asking for help and the urgent report is coming, as the closest soldier to the Jidu army, Dasu does not send troops to save who else to save Dispatch troops to relieve the degree, no soldiers can be adjusted.
If you don't send troops, if you die in battle, your own life will not be guaranteed.
Dasu would never dare to put his life on the favor of the emperor's master, if Jidu really died, even if the emperor didn't want his life, the princes and ministers would want him Dasu's head.
Da Su, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, didn't know what to do, but at this time the staff gave him an idea, saying that no matter whether he had enough troops to go south to rescue Prince Jian, this gesture was to be done for the imperial court to see, anyway, the imperial court did not know the real situation in Fujian, so he first sent the battalions from Nanjing, Zhao'an and other places near Chaozhou to Chaozhou, and reported to the imperial court that he had transferred troops to the south.
It also takes time to transfer troops from Fujian, and some accidents will inevitably happen on the way, and there must be enough soldiers and horses to guard against the Zheng army in Jinxia.
As long as the posture is sufficient, if you can't save Prince Jane, no one can say that Dasu didn't do his best.
Besides, if Prince Jian really died in the hands of Taiping Kou, the court should first pursue the people in Guangdong, followed by Fujian as a reinforcement, so Dasu does not have to worry about it at all, it is impossible for the court to take the commander of Fujian after losing the prince in Guangdong, which is a big taboo.
The staff also said that it was just right to take advantage of the fact that the losses in Jinxia would be included in the rescue of the south, as long as the mouths of the people below were sealed, not only would they not be at fault, but they would be able to get the image of a loyal minister who helped Prince Jian regardless of casualties.
After hearing this, although he felt that this idea was bad at home, it would damage his reputation as a master, but now it is also the best way, and he can only adopt it at the moment.
He ordered more than 3,000 battalions from Nanjing, Zhao'an and other places to be sent to Chaozhou under the command of Lu Guangzu with the general's warrant, and strictly ordered Lu Guangzu to recapture Puning City, which was occupied by the Taiping army, and open up the communication channel with the Jidu army, otherwise military law would be involved.
This can be regarded as putting the responsibility directly on Lu Guangzu.
It took more than 3,000 Fujian Qing troops four days to arrive in Chaozhou.
Lu Guangzu, who received Dasu's warrant, was so angry that he scolded his mother, knowing that Dasu was using himself as a scapegoat, and if he succeeded, his ministers and generals were well commanded, and if he didn't succeed, he Lu Guangzu was incompetent.
Scolding is scolding, knowing that it is a conspiracy, there is no way, Dasu is the minister of the interior, the general of Annan sent by the emperor to Fujian, what is himself, does the emperor listen to him or his own minions In order to save his own life, Lu Guangzu could only bite the bullet, he barely gathered more than 2,000 soldiers, plus more than 3,000 soldiers in Fujian, a total of more than 5,000 troops to Puning City.
The generals of the Taiping army put wine and joy on the head of the city, and threw the girls' underwear and the menstrual belt from the city to laugh at them, and did not put Lu Guangzu in his eyes at all, so angry that Lu Guangzu jumped and scolded in front of the battle.
Lu Guangzu's subordinate soldiers were all defeated, and the Fujian soldiers were also full of complaints, and no one refused to come forward to work for their lives.
Lu Guangzu had the intention to withdraw from the army, but he was afraid that the Qing court would cut off his head if he lost the prince, so if he didn't retreat, it was not a matter of spending it under Puning City, it was really a dilemma.
Da Su can still put the blame on him Lu Guangzu, but he doesn't know who to push it on.
At this time, the Taiping army had already withdrawn from the Xuanwu Pass to Beishan Village, and a brigade from the third town of Huizhou had also arrived, and their arrival supplemented the strength of the Taiping army on the northern front in time, making the Taiping army more confident in holding the official road around Beishan Village.
The Taiping were evacuated late at night, and the Qing army only discovered that the Taiping army had withdrawn the next day.
At first, Jidu couldn't believe that the Taiping army had withdrawn, but after the second group of people confirmed, Jidu was overjoyed and said to Du Eryou and Nahai that it seemed that the Taiping Kou was bluffing a few days ago, but in fact, his strength was also very weak.
In order to prevent the night from dreaming too much, Jidu immediately ordered all the troops to go north out of Xuanwu Mountain, and ordered Ezhen Arile to lead the Mongolian cattle to march north quickly, striving to catch up with the retreating Taiping army, and tearing off a piece of their flesh anyway to avenge the revenge of Xuanwu Mountain.
As long as it was not a strong attack, Su Rile naturally worked hard, leading the cavalry of his department to rush through the official road in the Xuanwu Mountains, roaring to the north and chasing.
As a result, after chasing for several miles, the traces of the Taiping army were found, but the next scene made the Mongolian soldiers stunned.
The Taiping troops who had withdrawn from Xuanwu Mountain were all hiding in those forts at the moment, and Su Rile clearly saw that there were firearms in the openings of many forts.
The trench was also covered with sharp piles, and the only passage that could be crossed was a wooden bridge suspended from the opposite side.
These fortifications built by the Taiping army can not be seen at a glance, and there are countless places that have been broken through, and the naked eye can see that under some forts, there are countless artillery pieces densely arranged, but it is the cannon brought by Wuzhen Chaoha from Beijing, among which the general cannon weighing thousands of pounds looks even more terrifying, and the muzzle of the Wudong Cave is facing straight ahead.
After Ji Du arrived, he was also stunned by what he saw, he had not seen the Ming army's forts, and there were many guards built by the Ming army to the north of Shanhaiguan, and there were more than a dozen places in dozens of miles at most.
The scale of these forts built by the Taiping army is not as large as those forts in Liaodong, and even the small ones are pitiful, but they are built intensively, the trenches are in front, the pillboxes are in the back, and there is a watchtower in the ten forts, and the guards are equipped with artillery under the watchtowers, and the official roads are blocked densely, and they really can't fly.
On both sides of the official road, there are either rivers and ponds or mountains, so people can't get around it if they want to.
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This is a place that is even more desperate than Xuanwu Mountain The Qing army looked at the buildings in front of them that did not exist a few days ago, puzzled, confused, shocked, dazed, and even desperate.
Du Eryou's heart fell into the depths: how many lives would it take to break through Nahai's lips were biting blue, he was never afraid of charging into battle, but in front of this never-before-seen fortification, he was really afraid.
Liu Zhong, the chief soldier of Guide, and Zhang Chao, the chief soldier of Nanyang, both stood on their horses, and the two brothers and sisters now also have the urge to cry.
After arguing for a long time, the Qing army launched an attack, and as a result, more than 700 corpses were left in half an hour, but they failed to break through the first line of defense of the Taiping army.
Few of the Taiping soldiers who were hiding in the fort and using the embratory to open the guns were not even hit by the arrows.
The cannons of Wuzhen Chaoha turned the front of the Taiping army into a hell on earth.
Ji Du ordered the withdrawal of his troops and withdrew to Jieshiwei, and he realized that it was impossible for him to break through the Taiping army's defense line and go north. oshow7 t1706231537: