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- After hearing Xiao Yungui's words, all the people in the West Palace Hall cheered, and the gloom in Suzhou City for the past few days seemed to have dissipated. Xiao Yungui smiled at Hong Yun'er and said, "Li Kaifang and Li Xiucheng are indeed famous generals of our army. The two of them teamed up to defeat Jiang Zhongyuan!"
Hong Yun'er said happily: "I've been busy with other things these days. I only know a rough idea of ??the situation in Hangzhou. Jiang Zhongyuan, please tell me how we were defeated."
Xiao Yungui stood up, walked to the hanging map in the room in high spirits, pointed in the direction of Hangzhou, and began to tell Hong Yun'er about the Battle of Hangzhou.
After Generals Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang surrounded the city of Hangzhou, Xiang Rong and Hangzhou General Du Xing'a joined officials at all levels in Hangzhou to defend Hangzhou, and at the same time quickly requested help from other Qing armies. The generals at all levels, including the vassals, dynasties, xuetai, daotai, and yuntai of Hangzhou, gathered for a meeting. Xiang Rong personally sat in the city to watch the battle. Seeing that the morale of the Qing army was high, they did not attack the city easily. Instead, they divided small groups to attack the counties and camps outside Hangzhou, with the intention of cutting off Hangzhou's wings and using troops against Hangzhou again.
In this way, Lin Fengxiang led troops to besiege Hangzhou and attack Xiangrong. Li Kaifang led more than 10,000 troops and attacked Yuhang, Xiaoshan, Shaoxing, Fuyang, Lin'an and other places from south to north in more than ten days. Where the Taiping Army's frontline was strong, Hangzhou The Qing troops gathered around them and stopped moving forward.
When they arrived, Jiang Zhongyuan led troops to help. This Jiang Zhongyuan was indeed a famous general of the Qing army. He sent troops from Huangshan and attacked Lin'an directly. After defeating Lin'an in one day, he directly threatened the Taiping Army's rear Lu Qing. Jiang Zhongyuan's original intention was to lure the Taiping Army to go north to support Deqing, and then ambush the Taiping Army on the way, then kill them and capture Fuyang, so that the siege of Hangzhou could be solved.
Fuyang is the place where Jiang Zhongyuan¡¯s Qing army must pass to attack Hangzhou. The county seat is backed by a river and faces a mountain, with a stream blocking it on the right. The situation was completely consolidated. After Li Kaifang occupied Fuyang, he had a sharp eye and could tell at a glance that the situation here was dangerous. He personally led five thousand soldiers and horses to build a fort and garrison it. In a short period of time, forts inside and outside Fuyang were all over the place, and the battlements were completely new. Li Kaifang is ready to stick to Fuyang.
" Then Jiang Zhongyuan's troops arrived and news of the fall of Lin'an came, but Li Kaifang remained unmoved. Ordering the defeated troops in Lin'an to retreat to Deqing, Li Kaifang concluded that Jiang Zhongyuan would definitely attack Fuyang, otherwise Jiang Zhongyuan himself would expose his flank to the Taiping Army in Fuyang. But Jiang Zhongyuan's boldness exceeded Li Kaifang's imagination. After capturing Lin'an, Jiang Zhongyuan only left his younger brother Jiang Zhongji to lead more than a thousand troops to guard Lin'an. The remaining more than 10,000 troops, led by Jiang Zhongyuan and Chu brave general Liu Changyou, attacked Deqing fiercely. Deqing was conquered in one fell swoop. Intimidating the Taiping Army's rear grain road to Huzhou.
After hearing the report, Li Kaifang almost fell into Jiang Zhongyuan's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain. Just as he was preparing to lead his troops north to attack Lin'an again, Xiao Yungui's general arrived. The letter only said that Li Xiucheng had led his troops south to Huzhou. Li Kaifang suddenly changed his mind. Since Li Xiucheng is in charge of Huzhou. There was no danger, so he stayed at the front line of Fuyang and Xiaoshan with peace of mind, because warning signals came one after another from Shaoxing and other outposts, and there were also strange movements in the Fujian Qingyao. He needs to guard the southwestern sides of Hangzhou.
Jiang Zhongyuan did not expect the reinforcements from the Taiping Army to arrive so quickly. After the troops surrounded Deqing, he thought that there were only 2,000 Taiping troops in the city who had returned from Lin'an, and he had a strong force of more than 10,000 troops, so he rested outside Deqing for two days. , and at the same time sent people to persuade the Taiping garrison in the city to surrender.
Deqing guard general Chen Bingwen was a native of Lujiang, Anhui. He was also a famous general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history and was later named King Ting. This Chen Bingwen once worked as a waiter in a tea shop in Wuhu City. He had extraordinary arm strength and could hold a huge pot with one hand and pour tea from several feet away without leaking. He could dance an eighty-pound sword. In early 1853, he joined the Taiping Army when the West Palace Taiping Army passed through Wuhu. Under Li Kaifang's command, he made many military exploits in a short period of time and was promoted to division commander. He was ordered to lead more than a thousand troops to garrison Deqing to protect the Taiping Army's retreat, which shows that Li Kaifang trusted him.
After the Lin'an Taiping Army was defeated, the general was killed, and more than a thousand of the remaining troops were defeated and returned to Deqing. After Chen Bingwen accepted the defeated troops, he quickly trained his troops and actively prepared for war, and at the same time called on the people of Deqing to defend the city together.
And the Qing army Jiang Zhongyuan was careless and gave Chen Bingwen two more days to prepare for the war. Chen Bingwen dismissed the Qing army Jiang Zhongyuan's persuasion to surrender, and even killed a fellow Qing general who came to persuade him to surrender.
When Jiang Zhongyuan saw that the envoys he sent were beheaded at the top of the city, he couldn't help but became furious and immediately ordered the Qing army to attack the city.
The Deqing Taiping Army resisted desperately for three days, continuously defeating the Qing army's offensive. Jiang Zhongyuan saw that Deqing could not be conquered by force, so he also learned the siege tactics of the Taiping Army and planned to attack the city in caves.
Chen Bingwen also participated in the attack on Nanjing and witnessed cave sieges. He also had defensive methods for cave sieges. Unlike the Qing army who dug trenches and set up jars, he learned from Li Kaifang how to see through the enemy. A wonderful way to siege a city in a cave. This wonderful method is to select soldiers with good eyesight to watch carefully on the top of the city in the morning when the sun has not yet risen. In the evening, before the white dew has receded, if there is a tunnel dug underground,The ground on the ground is warm and there is no dew. You can identify the location of the tunnel by observing the presence or absence of dew on the ground. Using this method, the Taiping Army of the Qing Dynasty discovered the tunnel dug by the Qing Army. They could see the twists and turns on the grassland at a glance.
Knowing the location of the Qing army¡¯s tunnel, Chen Bingwen immediately ordered the Taiping Army to dig the tunnel and then divert water to fill it. The Qing army in the tunnel suffered heavy casualties, including hundreds of casualties.
Angry and humiliated, Jiang Zhongyuan found that his army of more than 10,000 people was helpless in this small city. He immediately ordered a storm to attack the city day and night, and must capture the city within three days.
Taking advantage of their superior strength, the Qing army began to attack from all sides. Chen Bingwen responded calmly with his troops, but the force was really limited. The Qing army continued to attack day and night. By the early morning of the third day of the battle, Deqing was already in danger.
Fortunately, the situation suddenly changed, and a sudden storm swept near Hangzhou. Amidst the violent storm, the Qing army was finally defeated and retreated. There are rivers running through Deqing City, and there is also a windproof lake to release floods. The floods recede quickly, and the Qing army's offensive slowed down under the mud outside the city.
Subsequently, cholera plague broke out in Deqing and the Qing military camps outside the city. The Taiping army paid more attention to hygiene and the situation was slightly better. However, the Qing army outside the city was different. They did not have a complete health system, and there were many people and horses, so they were infected by each other. , many soldiers fell ill.
Jiang Zhongyuan, who was in a state of distress, suddenly heard that more than 10,000 reinforcements from the Taiping Army had arrived in Huzhou. After careful consideration, he had no choice but to abandon his original plan and send his troops back to Lin'an to prepare for the attack on Fuyang.
The Qing army retreated in vain, and more than 3,000 people died in battle and illness. After returning to Lin'an to rest for two days, Jiang Zhongyuan dragged his illness and ignored the persuasion of his younger brother Jiang Zhongji and his powerful general Liu Changyou, and forcibly sent troops to attack Fuyang. The reason why Jiang Zhongyuan took the risk to attack Fuyang was because Li Tingyu, the governor of Fujian, sent him a letter stating that more than 20,000 Qing reinforcements from Fujian would arrive in Shaoxing in the near future. In order to recover the losses caused by the defeat of Deqing, Jiang Zhongyuan naturally had to give it a try, so he led more than 5,000 Qing troops to attack Fuyang.
Li Kaifang of Fuyang had been waiting for work for a long time when Jiang Zhongyuan bit down on the iron plate. The strength of the two armies is almost the same. The Taiping Army in Fuyang is recharging its strength, while the Qing army under Jiang Zhongyuan has just experienced the defeat of Deqing, and the disease has not yet dissipated in the army. No matter how Jiang Zhongyuan attacks, Li Kaifang remains unwavering in guarding Fuyang. .
Jiang Zhongyuan could only camp outside Fuyang City for a stalemate. He only hoped that Li Tingyu's troops could arrive quickly and rush to Shaoxing to support him. As long as the Fujian troops arrived, Jiang Zhongyuan was confident that he could break the siege of Hangzhou. Unfortunately, what he waited for was Li Xiucheng's troops. A vicious attack by Taiping reinforcements.
Li Xiucheng's troops were trapped in storms and floods in Huzhou. After the water receded, he heard that the Qing army had withdrawn from Deqing. Li Xiucheng gathered all the ships near Huzhou and divided his troops into two groups. One group was led by Li Xiucheng and Shuiying General Lu Shunde personally led the troops along the South Canal and Waterway, bypassing Deqing and Hangzhou, entering the Qiantang River and rushing to Fuyang to attack the Qing army and guard against the Qing army in Fujian. On the other side, Li Xiucheng's warrior Cai Yuanlong led a direct attack on Lin'an, intending to cut off Jiang Zhongyuan's retreat.
Jiang Zhongyuan was attacked by two Taiping armies, Li Kaifang and Li Xiucheng, on land and water outside Fuyang. The morale of the Qing army was already low, and coupled with the rampant epidemic, their combat effectiveness had long been unfit for a fight. It was at the time when the Taiping Army's two soldiers, Li's soldiers, were at their peak of vigor, that they fought fiercely. One day later, the Qing army was defeated and fled to Lin'an.
Li Kaifang and Li Xiucheng joined forces. After the two discussed, Li Kaifang continued to lead the troops to guard the front lines of Fuyang and Xiaoshan. Li Xiucheng led the troops to pursue Jiang Zhongyuan and must get rid of this Jiang demon leader.
Jiang Zhongyuan was defeated and returned to Lin'an. When he was approaching Lin'an, he encountered Cai Yuanlong's Taiping Army who was attacking Lin'an. Li Xiucheng was following behind. Jiang Zhongyuan and Liu Changyou did not dare to enter the city, so they had to lead the remaining troops to retreat to Huangshan.
Li Xiucheng and Cai Yuanlong captured Lin'an that day. More than a thousand Qing army Chu Yong in the city were all killed. Jiang Zhongji, the brother of Chu Yong's fierce general Jiang Zhongyuan, committed suicide. Lin'an was conquered by the Taiping Army. Later, Li Xiucheng refused to let Jiang Zhongyuan lead the army. They pursued them for more than forty miles. After Jiang Zhongyuan and Liu Changyou retreated to Huangshan, there were only a thousand or so Qing troops left, and ten or nine of Chu Yong's elite troops were lost.
After escaping back to Huangshan, Jiang Zhongyuan received the news that his younger brother Jiang Zhongji had died in battle. He spurted out a mouthful of old blood. In addition, he had already contracted the cold and could not afford to be seriously ill. Faced with the aggressive posture of the Taiping Army Li Xiucheng's troops, the Qing Army Liu Changyou and others could only protect Jiang Zhongyuan and retreat to Nanchang.
On the way back to Nanchang, Jiang Zhongyuan was so ill that he kept muttering, "Why don't Li Tingyu's troops and horses arrive? Why don't Li Tingyu's troops and horses arrive?"
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In the palace in the west of Suzhou city, Xiao Yungui told Hong Yun'er about the entire process of the offensive and defensive battle in Hangzhou. Hong Yun'er said with a smile: "The reason why the Fujian soldiers and horses did not arrive in time must be because of He Bin, Liu Lichuan, Pan Qiliang, and Chen Alin. Something happened."
Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "This is the only explanation, otherwise veteran Li Tingyu would not be easy to chew on."??bones. "
Hong Yun'er raised a few documents in her hand and said: "Before the typhoon arrived, He Bin and the others said in their last letter to us that they were ready for an uprising, but there was no news after that. I guess It was because of the typhoon landing and the siege of the Qing army, and the news was cut off, but what is certain is that the Fujian Knife Club must have raised troops. In order to save his hometown, Li Tingyu had no choice but to give up the rescue of Hangzhou and return to Fujian to aid. "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!</dd> - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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