The Ming Dynasty survivors of Xiaojinchuan, who had been surrounded by the Qing army for a hundred years, took advantage of the Qing army's change of defense and suddenly launched a fierce attack. The Qing army was caught off guard and retreated for dozens of miles. Finally, the survivors broke out of the encirclement.
Although the gap here was blocked by Zu Yingyuan, the deputy general of Jinchuan Town, who led his troops in time, the Ming Dynasty survivors who had broken out of the blockade had already fled towards Chongqing.
Qing Dingxi General Feng Sheng'e urgently ordered the right deputy general and Chengdu garrison deputy commander Shu Jing'an to lead troops to pursue them, and immediately notified the garrison troops in Chongqing, Shunqing and other places to intercept them to prevent the bandits from leaving Sichuan and causing catastrophe.
Li Shijie, the governor of Sichuan, was horrified when he learned that the bandits had broken out of the encirclement. He was afraid that the bandits would come to attack Chengdu, so he urgently transferred Chengdu and Jianchang Second Town back to defend the provincial capital. He also ordered Sichuan Army General Malqin to lead the former governor Biao back to the garrison as soon as possible.
Chongzhou must not let the provincial capital be shaken by bandits.
The right deputy general, Shu Jing'an, was led by green battalions from Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces, as well as hundreds of Eight Banners garrison soldiers who had just been transferred from Chengdu.
Due to the heavy losses among the Eight Banners' senior generals, the former Firearms Battalion Chief Zhan Yinbao was promoted to Wing Commander, and also commanded the remaining Eight Banners soldiers in Chengdu and the Firearms Battalion.
Shu Jing'an judged that the purpose of the bandits' rush out was to mobilize the main force of the Qing army surrounding Jinchuan and Jinchuan on the outside, so as to encircle Wei and save Zhao.
However, the strength of the protruding Fan thieves was limited. According to intelligence, there were less than 3,000 people, and they lacked the equipment to attack the city. Therefore, they were unable to attack Chengdu, which was heavily defended by troops. It was also difficult for them to operate for a long time in Sichuan, and from the Fan thieves to
Judging from their escape in the direction of Chongqing, they wanted to move down the river to the Huguang area where the Qing army was empty of troops.
Therefore, the top priority is to lock up the bandits who rush out in Sichuan. If they really run to Huguang, they will be like a sea of dragons and difficult to encircle and suppress.
It is very likely that the former Mingliu thieves Li and Zhang will regain their momentum and drag the Qing army away.
This judgment was unanimously recognized by the pursuing generals.
General Qian Dade of the Zhejiang Green Camp volunteered to be the vanguard to pursue the bandits. Shu Jing'an praised his bravery and personally gave him a saber, and ordered Qian to lead more than 2,000 Green Camp troops in his unit to pursue the attack quickly.
Qian lived up to General Shu's high expectations. The men and horses never rested, and the swords never left their bodies. When they chased to the Shehong area of Tongchuan Prefecture, they came to report from the front that they had found traces of the bandits.
Qian Dade drove his horse to see, and there was a group of bandits in front of them wearing the clothes of the Ming and Han Dynasties. There were less than a hundred people watching, and they seemed to be behind the scenes.
After pondering for a moment, Qian Dade ordered his troops to strangle the thieves and take the first step.
Unexpectedly, two people suddenly came over with white flags on the opposite side and said they wanted to talk to General Qian.
When the two armies are fighting, the envoy will not be killed.
Qian Dade, a man of martial virtue, ordered the two of them to be brought here and asked what was going on. If they wanted to surrender, he could guarantee that the other party would not die.
Unexpectedly, he took out a stack of banknotes wrapped in brown paper from his arms and handed it over. He said sincerely: "Please general, please be accommodating and slow down for a while before pursuing me. It's a great kindness and I can't thank you enough."
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Seeing this, Qian Dade's subordinates were all silent.
"How dare you, a bunch of rebels, lure me with benefits!"
Qian Dade was very angry and signaled his confidant Zhou Qianzong to rush forward to take it. He counted fourteen thousand taels.
"With this small amount of money, I can postpone it for three days at most."
Qian Dade was so angry that he whipped his riding whip in vain: "Get out of here! In three days, we will skin you!"
The two looked at each other, said nothing, and said goodbye to the third-in-command of Zhejiang Lvying in the Qing Dynasty.
General Qian Shen was quite trustworthy. Although he had been supervising the pursuit every day for three days, he could only travel more than ten miles a day.
When the time came on the fourth day, the soldiers were in pursuit again, but by this time the bandits had already rushed out of Tongchuan and rushed into the territory of Chongqing.
Helpless, Qian Dade had no choice but to plead guilty to Deputy General Shu who led the troops: "The thieves are as cunning as foxes and rabbits. They don't need to carry heavy luggage, travel lightly, and even travel at night in the rain. In the end, they will be unable to catch up."
"Get up, I can't blame you for this."
Shu Jing'an was quite reasonable and knew that Qian Dade, who was dedicated to serving the Qing Dynasty, could not be blamed for the incident. After thinking for a moment, he decided to lead an army to pursue him personally. He did not expect to be ambushed by the Fan army in Yunmen Town, Chongqing.
In order to smoothly enter Kuizhou via Chongqing and invade Hubei, Mr. Gu, the commander-in-chief of the Jinchuan Army, saw that the terrain of Yunmen Town was difficult and conducive to setting up an ambush, so he asked his eldest son-in-law Wu Mingyuan to lead 600 people across the Zhendong River, bypassing the Qing Army and occupying Gaopo.
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The rest of the troops relied on the danger to defend Yunmen Town.
Some people wonder why an ambush is set up at Yunmen, where you can enter Kuizhou further east. Why don't you run away and drag the Qing army by the nose?
Mr. Gu thought for a while and used a sentence from his young son-in-law to explain to everyone why it was necessary to set up an ambush and the importance of severely attacking the pursuit of the Qing army.
"Punch away with one punch, lest hundreds of punches come your way!"
Mr. Gu believes that the Yunmen ambush can buy them at least half a month, because they are not gods, but humans.
As a human being, we will be tired.
It has been more than twenty days since we ran out of Xiaojinchuan. Everyone has been marching one after another, how can they not be tired?
If the ambush at Yunmen is successful, we can rest here for two days before heading eastward.
After hearing this, everyone had no objections and began to prepare for the ambush.
As for the Qing army, when Shu Jing'an led his troops to Yunmen and learned that the main force of the Fan bandits was here, he was overjoyed and urgently ordered Jiangsu and Jiangxi Green Camp soldiers to start crossing the river.
The Fujian Green Battalion carried six artillery pieces. At this time, they were also ordered to pull up the artillery pieces and bombard Yunmen Town across the river.
Where are the artillery pieces of the Fan army in the town? They hide them in dangerous places and in darkness, allowing the Qing army to cross the river.
Soon, the Jiangsu Green Battalion, which was the first to cross the river, reached the entrance of the town. All of a sudden, guns and rockets were fired.
The two sides exchanged fire for more than an hour. The Jiangsu Green Camp suddenly retreated because they ran out of ammunition.
Just as the Jiangxi Green Camp was about to attack, the thieves suddenly rushed out of the town. Almost instantly, the Jiangsu Green Camp lost their support and fled back one after another.
Upon seeing this, the Jiangxi Green Camp, fearing that they would be disrupted by the Jiangsu Green Camp, also seized the ferry and rowed to the other side.
Seeing that the troops from the two provinces had fled, Shu Jing'an was furious and personally led the troops to supervise the battle. Unexpectedly, there was a sound of killing from behind and some thieves ambush and came out.
The Eight Banners soldiers from Zhan Yinbao's command post responded to the battle, but when the thieves attacked, they had no choice but to keep the right deputy general from retreating. They retreated for more than 20 miles before they were able to stabilize.
After calculation, the human losses were actually not large, but the artillery, ordnance and baggage were lost, and there were countless scattered soldiers in each department. The army had no fighting spirit, and thousands of soldiers in the camp were captured by the bandits.
When General Feng Sheng'e of Dingxi heard about Shu Jing'an's defeat, he was so angry that he wanted to kill Shu Jing'an with a knife.
But even though Feng Sheng was General Dingxi, he did not have the power to execute Shu Jing'an. He could only report the defeat truthfully and dispatch troops from the Qing army surrounding Jinchuan and Jinchuan to pursue him.
After the great victory in Yunmen Town, the survivors of the Ming Dynasty, under the auspices of their coach Mr. Gu, imitated the system of "Zhou Li?
A brigade is a division and five divisions are an army.
The survivors were officially called the "Xinghan Army". Including prisoners, the total strength of the Xinghan Army was more than 4,100 people.
And put forward two slogans, one is Emperor Taizu's slogan of "Expelling the Tartars and restoring China";
The first is the slogan "Everywhere is uneven, no one is not fed and warm. Everyone in the world has a field, and everyone in the world works together".
The ninth day of June.
The Xinghan Army, which had been reorganized and rested for three days, marched eastward under the leadership of Mr. Gu.
"Teacher follows the path of the world, drives quickly across Huguang, attacks cities and seizes territory without greed, and points directly at Wuchang!"