Six days ago, Ao Bai led the main force of the Qing army to fight a fierce battle with Guo Zhuangtu, the general of the Wu army, in the Xuanwuwei area southwest of Kaifeng.
In this battle, Guo Zhuangtu was defeated, the general Wang Pingfan was killed, and the Wu army suffered more than 40,000 casualties.
Putting down the battle report, Zhou Shixiang was a little sad.
Although Wu Sangui's anti-Qing was not his original intention, but was forced by the situation and had a great speculative element, it is undeniable that the Guanning Army had replaced the Taiping Army as the main force to resist the Qing Dynasty.
In the past, those generals who followed Wu Sangui to fight for the tiger for the Qing court also became anti-Qing heroes at this time.
Their deaths in battle are somewhat tinged with tragic heroes.
Perhaps, dying under the sword of the Qing army is also a manifestation of their atonement for the sins of the first half of their lives.
In some respects, the Taiping Army was very similar to the Guanning Army, and most of its members were the original Qing Army.
So on a moral level, the Taiping army was not much higher than the Guanning army.
The difference is that since its founding, the Taiping Army has always been fighting on the front line of the war against the Qing Dynasty, and it is the armed force of the Han people who were killed in the sea of corpses and blood.
However, the Guan Ning army only speculated after the Qing court was already weakened and re-raised the banner of restoring the Ming Dynasty.
In this alone, the Guan Ning army is far inferior to the Taiping army.
But in any case, whether it is the Taiping Army or the Guanning Army, they are now all anti-Qing Han forces, and the Guanning Army is on the front line of the anti-Qing war, replacing the main role played by the Taiping Army in the past.
And Zhou Shixiang, as the commander of the Taiping Army, as an anti-Qing hero who has always regarded the destruction of the Tartars as his own responsibility, dragged the Guanning Army behind his back and indirectly helped the Manchu Dynasty, which is disgraceful and criticized in any case.
So after learning that Wang Pingfan and other Wu generals were killed in battle, Zhou Shixiang felt a little guilty and sad.
He felt that even if these people would be enemies of him in the future, it would be in the future.
Now, these people are fighting against the Qing army, they are members of the anti-Qing army, and the things they do in secret are always against them.
The details of the Battle of Xuanwu were also reported by the personnel of the Henan Military Intelligence Department, and the death of a large number of senior generals of the Wu Army made Zhou Shixiang sigh, but two of them shocked him very much.
One is that the Taiping army used the production method of the "no conscience cannon" in the Yangzhou battle somehow fell into the hands of Aobai, and the Qing army had a "no conscience cannon" in several battles, which caused the Wu army to suffer heavy casualties.
The second is that Zhao Liangdong and others, who surrendered to Wu Sangui in Shaanxi, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty again.
The "no conscience cannon" was developed by the Ordnance Bureau according to the drawings given by Zhou Shixiang, and was used for the first time in the Yangzhou War, and it was the emergence of "no conscience" that made the Taiping Army finally win the war.
Therefore, it can be ruled out that the leakage of "no conscience" was before the Battle of Yangzhou, so combined with the fact that the Qing army had already used the "no conscience cannon" on a large scale in the battle against the Guanning army, it can be affirmed that the Qing army made the "no conscience cannon" around the Chinese New Year, and the drawings of "no conscience" should have been obtained one or two months before.
"Regarding the leakage of secrets without conscience, you let the military intelligence Sima investigate.
The focus is on the Ordnance Bureau, let Cheng Hanbin's side immediately investigate the suspicious characters, and be sure to find out this leaked thief for me. ” Zhou Shixiang was not annoyed that the Qing army learned the production method of the "no conscience cannon", after all, the design of the "no conscience cannon" is extremely simple, and there is not even any "science and technology" factor, but the lethality is extremely powerful, and the Qing army, which has suffered a big loss, will sooner or later master the production method of the "no conscience cannon", after all, the current Qing army is not the Qing army two hundred years later, they are still very good at learning new tactics and using new weapons.
Zhou Shixiang hated that some of his subordinates secretly colluded with the Qing court to leak military intelligence.
The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.
Just like those Jiangnan gentry who participated in the riots and the landlords who fled north with their families and formed some kind of "homecoming group", these people have no national righteousness at all, and some only have their own interests.
For the sake of the so-called gentry privileges, they were able to shave their hair and be easily dressed.
Similarly, for the sake of the gentry's privileges, they also secretly supported the anti-Qing restoration of the Ming Dynasty.
Now, for the sake of lost privileges, they have reconnected the braids that have been twisted.
Capricious, only for self-interest, this is the face of the gentry who is the so-called ruling basis.
After the establishment of the Ordnance Bureau, the relevant personnel were recruited by Cheng Hanbin, because Cheng Hanbin himself was a Confucian student, and a group of scholars who were inextricably linked with the Jiangnan gentry would definitely come in.
The Taiping Army vigorously attacked the gentry class in Jiangnan, and it is difficult to say whether it will hit the interests of the people in the Ordnance Bureau.
However, it is still impossible to determine exactly whether it was leaked by someone in the Ordnance Bureau or by the Taiping Army, so Zhou Shixiang only needs the Military Intelligence Department and the Ordnance Bureau Ambassador Cheng Hanbin to secretly investigate thoroughly, and do not make a big fuss, so as not to attract people's hearts.
Zhao Liangdong is a person who is very familiar to Zhou Shixiang.
At the beginning, he also specially asked Daniel Zhang if Zhao Liangdong was a beard, and as a result, Daniel Zhang was baffled.
After hearing that Zhao Liangdong surrendered to Wu Sangui, Zhou Shixiang was as sorry as Wu Sangui after hearing that Daniel Zhang had surrendered to the Taiping Army.
It's just that he can't understand why Zhao Liangdong, who has already done it anyway, would turn around again to serve the Manchurian Tartars.
On that day, Zhao Liangdong and Wang Pingfan had a conversation in front of the army, but the personnel of the Henan Military Intelligence Department had a relatively low status in the Qing army and the Wu army, and it was impossible to find out what these two people had said.
They only knew that Zhao Liangdong led the Manchurian soldiers to surround the Wangping Domain, and the Wangping Domain would rather die than surrender, and finally killed Chengren and became the highest general killed in the Guanning Army anyway.
In addition to Zhao Liangdong, there are many generals of the Wu army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty again, such as Li Rubi, Wang Hui and others.
Some of them were generals of the Guanning Army, and some were the former Great Western Army and the Ming Army that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the southwest.
Su Bai, who was the first to defect, was originally the Xi'an general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the authentic bannerman, and his betrayal may not be understood by Wu Sangui, but Zhou Shixiang can understand it.
"Wu Sangui was wrong from the beginning."
Zhou Shi said this to Xu Yingyuan, who was confused and didn't understand why Wu Sangui was wrong from the beginning.
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From a strategic point of view alone, Wu Sangui entered Guizhou from Yunnan, then went out of Sichuan into Shaanxi, took Tongguan, entered the Central Plains, and took advantage of the Taiping Army and the Manchu Qing main force to fight life and death in Jiangbei, and took the northwest at once, and the troops entered the Central Plains, which can be said to be the first step by step "What I said was wrong is not that Wu Sangui's deployment was wrong, but that he used people wrongly."
Zhou Shixiang walked to the window with his hands down, and there was poplar catkins like flying snow outside.
Occasionally, poplar catkins float onto the face, which makes people very uncomfortable.
Zhou Shixiang secretly scolded Jiang Guozhu in his heart, because after Jiang Guozhu took office as the governor of Jiangning, he vigorously planted poplars in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River.
"Wu Sangui is a hero, but he is still a slave in his bones."
After gently blowing the Yang Su that fell on his hand, Zhou Shixiang sneered and continued: "Wu Sangui raised an army against the Qing Dynasty, and his subordinates were already hesitant.
Everyone is stained with blood, and there is no way back, so as to follow him all the way.
Fortunately, he not only did not dispose of these tartars, but continued to hand over the surrendered Manchu soldiers to the Subai commander.
Hmph, he thought that if he was so generous and treated the Manchurians so benevolently, the Manchurians would definitely be grateful to him, and when he hit Beijing in the future, the Manchus would have less resistance.
The abacus is good, but Wu Sangui didn't think about it, if he can play a triumphant song all the way, if there is a slight setback, can these full soldiers still be willing to work for him Don't forget, in the eyes of these full soldiers, Wu Sangui is the king of Pingxi, but he is just a minion, by the way, I almost forgot, in the eyes of the Manchurians, we Han people are not even as good as slaves.
If you really want to say it, this Wu Sangui is in the eyes of the Manchurians, that is, an Aha who leads troops to fight.
Why should the masters work for an Ahha?"
"Wu Sangui treats Manchurians well, and the harm outweighs the good.
Don't say that the former Manchurian masters will not sincerely work for him, even those generals under him will also have the heart of the Qin Dynasty.
It's easy to say that the descendants are not descendants, but I am afraid that all of them will have the meaning of waiting and seeing.
For people like Zhao Liangdong, if Wu Sangui drove them to slaughter Xi'an Mancheng that day, do you think he would surrender again?"
Xu Yingyuan thought for a while and said, "I heard that Xi'an surrendered on its own initiative that day. ” "Is it because the enemy surrendered on his own initiative, do you want to let them go and treat them well" Zhou Shixiang glanced at Xu Yingyuan, "The Tartars entered my house and killed my parents, wife and children, I rose up to resist, the Tartars couldn't beat and begged for mercy, do you say I spare them or not" oshow7 t1706231537: