Gao Qian's troops can be considered a strong force among the Henan officers and troops with countless vacancies. This army did not go south from near Xin'an with Li Xianfeng and Chen Yongfu's main force, but a line close to Yanshi
Head south to attack Luoyang.
He has about 2,000 troops, which is inferior to Chen Yongfu in overall strength, and the equipment and equipment are not as elite as Chen Yongfu's. Moreover, because most of the artillery is controlled by Fu Biao, who is directly controlled by Li Xianfeng, although Gao Qian has many artillery,
Most of them are light cannons such as Baizi cannon that fire iron sand and shotgun shells.
However, everyone felt that there were a large number of wealthy gentry in Luoyang City serving as internal agents, so there should not be fierce offensive and defensive battles around the city walls. Even if they fought with the bandits who stayed in Luoyang, it might be a pursuit after regaining Luoyang, and it should be mainly field battles.
Therefore, Gao Qian was quite satisfied with the situation of his soldiers and horses. He asked the garrison Ma Bao 1 to lead the troops to the area of Yao'ao Village to garrison, while he slowly marched forward while writing a diary to record anecdotes during the march.
What Gao Qian thought was that since Li Xianfeng and Chen Yongfu had unified their opinions, they would do their best to regain Luoyang. Then there was no need for him to compete with them for credit. No matter whether Li Xianfeng would fall in the future, Chen Yongfu would definitely remain his colleague for a long time.
Having a good relationship is always necessary.
Among the generals in the army, he is considered to be a person with little literary talent. Moreover, Gao Qian has a good habit of writing diaries very diligently. He wrote down all the details of his march north and south with Li Xianfeng in his diary.
, very detailed. The only problem is that the content in Gao Qian’s diary is always somewhat embellished.
When he wrote in his handwriting, "Our troops galloped south from Mengjin to recapture Luoyang, but the thieves refused to defend Yao'ao Village with three thousand people. The Yu soldiers guarding Ma Bao led 200 people to bravely ascend first, and fired cannons to kill many thieves. The thieves' power was defeated.
, rout to Yanshi, our troops are at the 900th level." After reading the content, he suddenly received an enemy report from Ma Bao, saying that the intruders had set up strongholds in Zhengjia'ao and Yegou, and the officers and soldiers could not attack them for a long time. Please help.
Qian sent out reinforcements again.
"What's going on? Ma Sanbao is brave and decisive. He also has more than 500 soldiers and horses. How could he be blocked by a few wooden villages? Aren't there only more than 1,000 intruders in Luoyang!"
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a heroic cavalry general named Ma Sanbao. Because Ma Bao was the bravest and tallest among Gao Qian's troops, the soldiers in Henan also respectfully called Ma Bao Ma Sanbao to show his bravery.
Ma Bao's troops were an elite group of soldiers under Gao Qian, and their strength was no less than that of Chen Yongfu's servant Jingqi. How could they be blocked by a copycat?
Gao Qian knew that although Ma Bao was a talented general, he was eccentric. Some people in the army nicknamed him "Two Skins", which meant that Ma Bao was two-faced and capricious.
So Gao Qian also wondered whether it was because Ma Bao didn't want to lose too many soldiers and horses, so when he encountered a few thieves, he started to beg for help? But when he thought about it again, he felt that this was unreasonable. Recovering Luoyang was like this
How could Ma Bao not fight for a great military achievement that was so easily available?
In any case, Gao Qian felt that he could not always walk leisurely in the rear. Writing a diary could only wait until the war was over!
Unfortunately, he had not yet figured out the situation, and the news sent by Ma Bao, who was attacking Chuangjun Yingzhai in the Zhengjia'ao and Yegou areas, was not specific enough. As a result, Gao Qian did not make enough preparations and hurriedly went south, only to suffer greater losses.
After Ma Bao went south first, he first discovered the wooden village built by the Chuang Army in Zhengjia'ao. At first, like Chen Yongfu and Chen De, he did not pay special attention to it, but easily led his troops to climb the hills to attack. As a result, the wooden village built by the Chuang Army
They were defeated by trenches, parapets, earthen walls and powerful cannon fire.
Although the Henan Army carried a lot of artillery, almost all of them were light artillery that fired iron sand and shotgun shells. They lacked heavy artillery that could destroy the wooden village. Even if they temporarily used local materials to make stone bullets or cast lead bullets on the spot, they would be reliable.
Sexuality was also a big problem, and it was too late to help. Before Ma Bao could react, the team behind him was attacked by Yegouzhai's invading army. He couldn't hold on for a while and retreated.
"Ma Sanbao! Futai ordered a two-pronged march to conquer Luoyang within a time limit. How could a small village in Zhengjiaao, with more than a hundred traitors at most, block you? If we march like this, how can we regain Luoyang as a reward?
kindness?"
After Gao Qian saw the heavy losses of Ma Bao's soldiers and horses, he was also very distressed. After all, these people are still his own soldiers and horses. Why didn't he find that Ma Bao was so incompetent in fighting before? He was given free money.
During military service, he fell into the gutter.
Ma Bao said helplessly: "General, the tactics of the Qin bandits are very different from those of the local bandits. The thieves' nest is located near mountains and rivers, with guns and cannons hidden everywhere and pits dug. It is by no means comparable to the harassment of ordinary bandits by bandits!"
"The thieves built an earthen wall in front of them and drilled holes in it. It was extremely difficult for our soldiers to climb over the mountains and ridges to attack. The thieves also dug deep pits at the steep end of the pass and buried bamboo sticks everywhere. Our soldiers fell into it by mistake, and we would have died.
Can. The intruders at the foot of the mountain even built a thick earthen wall, but our soldiers bombarded it with artillery but it could not collapse. The thieves were able to calmly arrange their gun positions and try their best to resist. Our army suffered many casualties but it was really difficult to succeed!"
Gao Qian still didn't believe it. After he waited for his main troops to approach the front line of Zhengjia'ao and Yegou, he forced Ma Bao's troops, who had suffered heavy losses, to serve as the vanguard, and used his main force of the Chinese army as the backing force to attack these areas again.
Copycat.
However, the invading army relied on favorable terrain and strong wooden forts, and even after Gao Qian's main force attacked, they were unable to achieve a breakthrough for a long time. In fact, the two camps at Zhengjia'ao and Yegou had only more than a hundred defenders each, but against such a small enemy,
Gao Qian could only lament that "even a small village becomes stronger over time, and it is not as difficult to conquer as a famous city"!
In fact, Ma Bao can't be considered cowardly. In Zhengjia'ao and Yegou, he led his servants to climb up and attack twice, losing three or four wounds to the intruders by stray bullets. The 500 soldiers and horses under his command suffered nearly a hundred casualties.
.But he still had some courage and was able to take control of the troops and continue the siege of the two wooden villages.
However, Gao Qian was extremely annoyed by these two small camps. After being unable to attack for a long time, Gao Qian decided to concentrate his forces first and attack Yegou Village, which had a simpler and easier to attack terrain.
But apart from the several hundred troops assigned to the mountain stronghold, the main force of the Chuang Army was lurking in the hilly areas. As soon as Gao Qian's main force moved, Hao waved his flag and the cavalry troops controlled by Zhang Pili took action at the same time.
The defenders of Zhengjia'ao also tried their best to resist. Taking advantage of the weakening of the siege force and the mobilization of troops, Guo Junzhen, who was guarding the stronghold, immediately organized troops and horses to leave the stronghold for a surprise attack.
Ma Bao was brave and courageous. When he was counterattacked by the Chuang army, he immediately dismounted and organized an infantry interception. However, because his troops suffered heavy casualties in the previous stage of the siege, their morale was further damaged by the various tricks of the Chuang army.
The impact was extremely low, and most of the friendly forces were in the process of being mobilized. Even with Ma Bao's bravery, he could no longer control his troops and was quickly defeated by Guo Junzhen.
Under this situation, Gao Qian, who was leading his main troops to the Yegouzhai area to concentrate his forces for a strong attack, had to turn around again after hearing the news and prepared to mobilize some troops to return to Zhengjia'ao.
But in front of the enemy, by repeatedly mobilizing troops and re-allocating troops, it was like putting one's neck under the blade of the invading army!
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1 Ma Bao was an outstanding military strategist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, but his qualifications were relatively low. He did not really come to prominence until the San Francisco Revolution. He became the mainstay of Wu Sangui's Zhou regime and created Li Dingguoheng in the Battle of Yongxing.
Zheng Chenggong's unprecedented victory since the Great Victory of Xiamen, annihilating tens of thousands of the Eight Banners' army, mainly Manchurians, killing the capital commander, guarding the army and leading dozens of senior generals below, especially giving the Eight Banners' army the most elite
The forward battalion strikes with annihilation.
Of course, Ma Bao is often ignored by those who pay attention to the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, also because his performance in the first half of his life was not outstanding.
After he joined the Dashun Army, his status was very low and he had no performance. It was not until he surrendered to the Qing Army and joined Li Chengdong that he became prominent because he joined Li Chengdong's "Dongxun" group, but he was just a fellow "Dongxun"
"Most people are the same capricious clowns.
It was not until after Li Chengdong's defeat that Ma Bao joined forces with Liu Xiyao, the remnant of the Dashun Army, to fight against the Qing Dynasty independently in northwest Guangdong, gradually showing his outstanding military talent.
After Li Dingguo entered Hunan, he cooperated with Li Dingguo to achieve a large number of victories in northwest Guangdong and southern Hunan. Qian Chengzhi even recorded that Prince Jingjin Nikan was killed by Ma Bao himself.
From then on until the fall of Nanming, Ma Bao served as Li Dingguo's deputy general and showed his unique military talent. After the fall of Nanming, he led his troops to surrender to Wu Sangui. After the San Francisco Revolution, Ma Bao became an important general of the Wu and Zhou regime.
They annihilated the Qing army for the first time, and even achieved the victory of Yongxing, which was the victory of annihilating a strategic corps of the Qing army.
Unfortunately, the old Wu Sangui could not take advantage of Ma Bao's victory in the battle, and the Wu and Zhou regime gradually collapsed. Ma Bao died generously to save the people, surrendered to the Qing army, was escorted to Beijing, and was executed in Lingchi.