When the Son of Heaven abandoned the country and fled to the shock of the generals and officials of the Taiping Army who learned the news, on the official road from Guizhou to Guangxi, more than 4,000 Manchurian cavalry frantically beat their horses and galloped towards the east, followed by an infantry army that could not see the end at a glance, and it was roughly estimated that there were no less than 10,000 people.
This army of soldiers and horses who were hurrying was the Qing army that was urgently transferred from Yunnan to reinforce the Qing army on the battlefield in Guangxi after receiving an urgent report from the line Guoan asking for help.
The commanders were Gushan Ezhen and Ningnan Jingkou generals Luo Tuo, and there were also Manchu generals such as Gushan Ezhen Yilde and Arzin who accompanied the army, while the Han generals included Li Benshen, the left commander of the five provinces, Daniel Zhang, the right commander of the army, and Liu Fangming, Gao Di, and Bai Guangen, the commanders of the five provinces.
Doni originally wanted to transfer Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses to the north to reinforce Luo Keduo, the king of Pingjun, in order to open up the passage out of Guizhou, but he didn't want Wu Sangui to do everything possible to prevaricate, excuse that his troops suffered too much loss in the battle of Mopan Mountain, and the elite of the lineage was almost lost.
If he dares to lead these surrendered troops north, he may be in danger of mutiny again.
Doni was young and vigorous, knowing that this was Wu Sangui's excuse, and in a fit of anger, he wanted to seize his military power from Wu Sangui's army, but he was persuaded by Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, saying that Wu Sangui's subordinates had lost too much, and it was not necessarily an excuse.
Moreover, Wu Sangui Xinna Ma Bao, Gao Qilong, Ma Weixing and other Ming generals, the number of troops surrendered has exceeded their headquarters soldiers and horses.
However, if these generals are really driven north, once they know that the north has been blockaded by the Taiping army, and Guangxi and Hunan are also occupied by the Taiping army, I am afraid that there will be a risk of rebellion immediately.
And there are still Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan and other Ming army activities in western Yunnan, and Yuanjiang and other places are also newly pacified, and Wu Sangui needs to be left to guard.
Otherwise, after Wu Sangui goes north, Li Dingguo and others will lead the army to come again, and then the territory in Yunnan that has been hard to conquer will change hands again, and if it is not done well, Zhu Youlang, who fled to Burma, will also come back.
What Hong Chengqian said was reasonable, and Doni had no choice but to listen to his advice, and transferred Luo Tuo's subordinates and the left standard commander Li Benshen, the right standard commander Daniel Zhang and other Han generals to lead the army north to reinforce Luo Keduo, the king of Pingjun.
After receiving the order, Luo Tuo was dissatisfied with the fact that Doni did not transfer Wu Sangui's Han soldiers to the north, but transferred the Mongolian children to the north, but the military order was like a mountain, and Luo Tuo did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to lead more than 4,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry and Li Benshen and Daniel Zhang's green battalion troops to the north, and when they arrived in Guiyang, the line Guoan Liuzhou was defeated.
After discussing with Hong Chengchou, Doni thought that Luo Keduo's side could postpone reinforcements, but the line Guoan, which had opened up the gap in Guangxi, must be reinforced immediately, otherwise the gap in Guangxi would be blocked again by the Taiping army.
At that time, the Guangxi Taiping Army, like the Hunan Taiping Army, is likely to build a formidable flesh-and-blood defense line at the junction of the two provinces.
That would mean that if the Qing army wanted to open up the passage to the north, whether in Guizhou or Guangxi, it would have to pay much more casualties than it does now.
And this price is obviously unbearable for the Qing army.
If you don't want to pay the price, you can only take the road of Sichuan and Shaanxi, but if you really want to choose that road, it also means that hundreds of thousands of troops, several years of preparation, countless money, grain and resource investment to obtain the Yunnan and Guizhou provinces were reoccupied by the Ming army, which is also unbearable for the Qing court, let alone the young and vigorous prince of Doni.
So, Doni changed the military order and ordered the Luo Tuo army to go to Guangxi, and at this time, the Luo Tuo army had already set off from Guiyang for a few days, and had to turn back again after receiving the order to change the military direction, and there was a lot of delay.
In addition, the grain route was cut off, and the Qing army had difficulty in supplying, so it had to collect grain along the way, and the progress along the way was slow.
Line Guoan had been hoping for reinforcements for a long time in Qingyuan, so he was so anxious that he sent several batches of fast horses to Yunnan for help, and Doni had no choice but to urge Luo Tuo to speed up the march.
After the Taiping army launched another offensive, the line Guoan struggled for several days, only feeling that Qingyuan would be lost at any time, so a handwritten letter was sent to Luo Tuo's army, asking Luo Tuo to arrive within seven days no matter what.
Seeing the letter of help from Line Guoan who only said that if you don't come again, I will be finished, Luo Tuo knew that he couldn't delay any longer, otherwise if Line Guoan was defeated, it would be useless for him to rush to Guangxi.
Under Luo Tuo's strict orders, the Qing army marched lightly and hurriedly, and came to Guangxi for reinforcements.
Chen Weixin, the governor of Guangxi, who retreated to Duyun, spent a lot of effort to raise grain and grass to supply Luo Tuo's department.
When the Qing army finally rushed from Guizhou to Danzhou, Guangxi, another defeat came, but it was that Line Guoan had abandoned Qingyuan Mansion and was retreating to Hechi Prefecture.
It has only been five days since he received the letter from Line Guoan, but Line Guoan has already lost Qingyuan Mansion City and retreated all the way, Luo Tuo subconsciously felt that the situation was not good, and hurriedly sent the army Ezhen Arzin to lead the people to Hechi Prefecture quickly, and wanted Line Guoan to hold Hechi Prefecture City, and must not take a step back.
However, when Arzin rushed to Hechizhou City, what he saw was a large group of Qing army rout, whether it was the Han army or the green battalion, they were all running south without looking back.
Not far away, the city of Hechizhou was full of fires.
Taken aback by what he saw, Arzin pulled over a fleeing Han Army Banner officer and asked him where the line was located.
Seeing that it was a Manchurian general, the officer hurriedly led Arzin to find the line Guoan.
When Arzin found Line Guoan, Line Guoan was leading a group of subordinates to collect the rout, and when he saw Arzin coming, Line Guoan was first happy, and then his face was sad, and he couldn't be happy.
Arzin only said that the city of Hechizhou had been occupied by the Taiping army, so he stepped forward to comfort the national security without worry, and Luo Tuo was coming with a large reinforcement.
No, Xian Guoan shook his head and said that Hechizhou City was not occupied by the Taiping army, but that those routed soldiers robbed and set fire to the city.
Arzin was stunned for a moment, and asked where Guoan Tai'an was now.
Line Guoan smiled bitterly and said that he didn't know.
I didn't even see the shadow of the enemy soldiers, so I fled in a hurry, and the routs under my command also set fire to the state city, and Arzin was angry, and shouted at the line Guoan: "How did you lead the soldiers, how did you make a mess like this" The line Guoan took care of the loss, kept his face calm and did not squeak, and the generals of the Qing army did not dare to speak.
Arzin raised his whip and pointed at the smoke-filled city of Hechizhou and said: "You go back immediately to extinguish the fire in the city, and the army of Luo Tuo will arrive immediately, no matter where the Taiping army is, the city of Hechizhou cannot be lost."
If the Taiping army comes to attack, we can annihilate the enemy under the city. ” Arzin's words, if it were in the past, Line Guoan would really be moved, but now he really has no confidence and confidence at all.
Whether it was the battle in the field of Liuzhou Beicheng or the siege battle of Qingyuan, the performance of the Taiping army shocked him, and the confidence that he originally regarded himself was also greatly hit by the Taiping army, especially the moment when Qingyuan City was collapsed by the Taiping army, which almost made him collapse on the spot.
Line Guoan really didn't have the courage to fight the Taiping army again, he didn't think that Luo Tuo could bring many reinforcements, let alone that this Hechizhou city could be defended, so he was silent and didn't answer Arzin's words at all. oshow7 t1706231537: