Chapter 547: The Defeated Chin Cha and the Governor Dog Eat Dog
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This is the case with the Sanxia River, the minister of the Qin mission in the camp of the Qing army.
Tomina knew that his defeat was assured, and even if he resisted the attack of the Cantonese thieves that night, once the next day, when the Cantonese thieves brought over the terrifying heavy artillery of the day before, the camp of the Sanchao River would definitely be destroyed, it was only a matter of time.
More importantly, after reorganizing his troops, he suddenly found that the three people, the chief soldier Chen Shengyuan, the admiral Chen Jinshou and the criminal department squire Lei Yiyan, did not know when, they actually took advantage of the night and the defeat of the Qing army to lead their respective armies and escape from the camp of the Sanchao River.
Originally, the Qing soldiers in the Jiangbei camp were not too many, less than 20,000 troops. In yesterday's battle, the Qing army died on the spot, many of them even trampled to death, and most of the rest were scattered, although they were gathered and reorganized, but in the middle of the night, a large number of soldiers could not return to the camp.
As soon as Tuo Ming'a ordered people to count, he found that the other camps in the entire Jiangbei camp had been lost, and only the Sanxiahe camp remained. The strength of the Qing army was only 1,000 garrison soldiers of the Beijing Division led by himself, as well as 3,000 cavalry outside the pass who were transferred from Shengjing, Jilin and Heilongjiang, as well as 3,000 Shandong and Zhili green battalions led by Jiangnan Admiral He Chun, and 3,000 Shanxi and Henan green battalions led by Admiral Huicheng.
The entire Jiangbei battalion originally had nearly 20,000 troops, but now there are only more than 10,000 left.
Fortunately, among them, there are still 3,000 cavalry, who have been in the camp of the Sanchai River, and have not received many losses, which is still a large combat force.
However, Tomina clearly overestimated his Qing soldiers.
The 3,000 cavalry who came from outside the Guan, as well as the green battalion soldiers who were transferred from Shanxi and Zhili, were all from the north, and although they had been in the Jiangbei camp for half a year to a year, they still failed to adapt to the weather in the south of the Yangtze River.
Especially in the rainy season that has just passed some time ago, the Jiangnan area is already humid and rainy, coupled with the rainy rainy season, so that these northern soldiers are very uncomfortable, many Qing soldiers are brave because of the water and soil adaptation, plus the barracks in the vegetables, fruits, herbs and so on are very inconvenient, many soldiers suffer from dysentery, prostration.
Although the weather has changed now, there are still about twenty percent of the Qing soldiers in the Qing army who are often thin, and it is good to not move on weekdays.
Early the next morning, the camp of the Sanchao River was surrounded by Cantonese thieves from three sides and attacked intensively. Sure enough, Tomina found out that the thieves had brought in that kind of heavy artillery again and began to bombard the camp.
Tomina ordered the Qing army to return fire, but only a few guns were issued, and when he turned his head to ask, there were thousands of Qing soldiers looking for latrines. Tuo Ming'a was furious, he also thought that these soldiers were afraid of death and war, so they found an excuse to dodge, and killed more than a dozen people one after another, and found that the Qing soldiers really didn't go to the toilet, but the whole camp smelled——— many Qing soldiers didn't dare to go to the toilet, but they couldn't hold back, and they went directly down their thighs in their trouser pockets.
With such a delay, the Chinese army camp has been forcibly attacked.
The Yiyi Division, which had not played a role much, under the leadership of the Shi brothers, bravely rushed into the camp, lit fires everywhere, and burned one piece of it.
Admiral Huicheng, who was engaged in the front camp to meet the enemy, was killed on the spot by Shi Fengkui, who was like a fierce tiger. As a result, the green battalion soldiers in Shanxi and Henan quickly bombed the camp, and fled one after another along with other green battalion soldiers.
The arrangement of the military camp of the Sanchai River, there is a river in the northeast to block the army, so that the captives can not all besiege the Sanchai River, and there is a stone bridge on the river, which can escape from the Sanchai River to Yangzhou.
The Qing army, which had no fighting spirit, followed the defeated green battalion soldiers, grabbed the stone bridge one after another, and fled in the direction of Yangzhou.
Tuo Ming'a and Hechun led 3,000 cavalry outside the pass and the garrison of the Beijing Division to resist bravely and stubbornly on both sides, and suddenly found that the front camp had collapsed, and was immediately shocked, knowing that the Sanchaohe battalion could no longer support it, and hurriedly gathered troops to flee to the stone bridge.
It's just that at this time, the stone bridge is already a little narrow, and it is crowded with green battalion soldiers who have not yet had time to escape.
In desperation, Tomin Arang and Chun sent a thousand people to the palace to win time for the Qing army to evacuate, but at this critical juncture, Hechun deliberately ignored it and ignored it at all.
Lost the power of the war horse galloping, the cavalry was not as good as the foot, and the poor more than 1,000 iron horsemen outside the pass were slaughtered by the swarming Yiyi Division.
However, it also delayed for some time, allowing Tuo Minga and He Chun to escape, but they only had time to lead more than 1,000 troops to escape from the camp of the Sanchao River, and the rest of the Qing soldiers were either killed by the red-eyed Yiyi Division or captured by the B6th Division.
The captives chased across the stone bridge and routed all the green battalion soldiers who were fleeing slowly, and the Qing army was completely defeated.
On the same day, the captive army defeated the Qing soldiers in the camp of the Sanchao River, and broke more than 100 Qing army tents. Killed a number of adjutant generals, staff generals, and guerrilla generals.
At this point, the Jiangbei camp, which had been operating for more than a year, was destroyed by the captive army in one fell swoop, and the 20,000 Qing troops disappeared in an instant.
During the two-day battle, the captive army killed more than 4,000 Qing troops, captured more than 9,000 people, and captured countless baggage.
In terms of the Qing army, except for the general soldier Chen Shengyuan, the commander Chen Jinshou and the criminal department servant Lei Yiyan led more than 3,000 troops to escape, only the Jiangnan governor and Chun led more than 1,000 troops to retreat to Yangzhou City. The minister of the Qin Mission, Tuo Ming'a, was so frightened that he fled directly to Shao Bo Town, northeast of Yangzhou, with more than 1,300 cavalry, without stopping, and went all the way north, passing through Gaoyou without entering, and went straight to Huai'an Fucheng.
The other main force of the captive army, the 3rd Division B and the former Taiping Army stationed in Guazhou Li Zhenhui, who had just returned to the Holy Country, plus the 2nd Regiment of the 10th Division, more than 17,000 people, had already made a detour from the waterway to the Wantou Wharf more than ten miles northeast of Yangzhou City, and then went south along the canal and arrived at Yangzhou City.
At this moment, there were originally 3,000 Qing soldiers stationed in Yangzhou City, and after Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, led 3,000 Qing soldiers into Yangzhou City, he was unified under his command.
Subsequently, Qin Dingsan, the general soldier of Guizhou Zhenyuan, led more than 1,000 troops to flee directly from Danyang to Yangzhou, and the general soldier Chen Shengyuan, the commander Chen Jinshou and the criminal department servant Lei Yiyi led the troops to flee from the Jiangbei camp into Yangzhou City in advance, however, some soldiers fled bravely halfway, and when they arrived in Yangzhou City, there were only less than 2,000 men and horses.
Of course, these people naturally do not say that they fled back to Yangzhou City after losing the war, but only that they attacked the Cantonese thieves, lost their way, and came to Yangzhou City to rest for two days.
Rao is like this, and there are more troops in Yangzhou City, with a total of nearly 9,000 troops, which makes Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, finally settle down a little.
However, at noon that day, when some scattered Qing soldiers came to Yangzhou City, Yiliang was heartbroken.
Eat the big defeat! The camp in Jiangbei is over.
Sure enough, these soldiers bravely reported that the Jiangbei camp was destroyed by the Cantonese thieves, and the entire Qing army was defeated, and even the main general Tuo Ming'a did not know where to go. After a while, Jiangnan Admiral He Chun, covered in mud and embarrassed, led more than 1,000 people to the south of Yangzhou City and asked to enter the city.
Yiliang hurriedly ordered people to be released into the city and interrogated Hechun, only then did he learn that the Jiangbei camp had been conquered.
At this time, spies from outside the city came to report, saying that there were a large number of thieves in the north of Yangzhou, and I am afraid that there are no less than 20,000.
Knowing that the thief army was huge and had that kind of heavy artillery with great power and accuracy, Yiliang began to panic. However, fear turned into fear, and Yiliang knew that he could no longer escape.
As the governor of Liangjiang, he originally fled from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, and he was already unable to explain to the imperial court, and if he fled again, he was afraid that even if he was a man with a red flag, he would not be able to get the emperor to forgive him for his great sins.
Moreover, with the assistance of Hechun next to him, coupled with the fact that Yangzhou City is extremely strong, and the Qing army is quite sufficient, in Yiliang's opinion, it should not be like the Jiangbei camp, which will be broken within two days.
As long as you can stick to it for two months, you will fulfill your responsibility. At that time, if the imperial court does not send reinforcements to rescue and abandons the city itself, the imperial court will have nothing to say.
However, the Qing Dynasty has reached this point, and no matter how Yi Liang looks at it, he feels that the flower world in the south of the Yangtze River is difficult for the Qing Dynasty to hold onto. Even if reinforcements are sent, it won't be too much, at most it will support for another half a year, this Yangzhou and northern Jiangsu area, after all, will still be captured by the growing Guangdong thieves, it's just a matter of time! For this, Yiliang sees it very clearly.
In addition to Qi Shan, the former minister of the Imperial Mission, who died not long ago, Yiliang can also be regarded as a veteran of the Three Dynasties and an important minister in the court.
Yiliang, who was over 60 years old, served as the governor of Guangdong during the Daoguang period more than ten years ago, and together with Lin Zexu, he banned smoking in Guangdong, and after Lin Zexu was dismissed, he served as the minister of the Qincha and the governor of Liangguang, supported Lin Zexu, impeached Qishan to Daoguang, and let him be investigated by the imperial court.
It's just that what Yiliang didn't expect was that at this moment, he rode his horse to death and fled to the head of the important town by the canal in the north of Gaoyou, paused, and wrote thousands of words of impeachment and folds, crying that Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, took the lead in escaping, and together with Admiral Chen Jinshou, the criminal department servant Lei Yixuan, the chief soldier Chen Shengyuan, Qin Dingsan and other high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty from the first rank and the second grade, fled without a fight, and asked the court to arrest and investigate all these people.
In the compromise of this impeachment, the minister of the Qin Mission, Tomin'a, said that he was a lonely hero who could sing and cry, rose up to resist, and was about to defeat the Cantonese thieves, but helplessly, under the non-cooperation of Yiliang, the governor of Liangjiang, the Qing army in the northern camp of Jiangbei fled into the city of Yangzhou, Tomina had to fight to the death, and his chief soldier Liu Ji led the troops to fight bloodily, killing thousands of thieves, and finally died because he was outnumbered.
And Tomina himself was also seriously wounded, and most of the thousands of people he led were killed in battle, and only more than 1,000 people broke out of the siege and got lost and stationed in a small town.
Tomina even sought out a few soldiers, cut their fingers, and pressed bloody handprints on the folds to show his appeal.
After writing the bloody recital, Tomin Ah breathed a long sigh of relief, and no longer fled, but stationed in Jieshou Town, waiting for news from the imperial court and Yangzhou City.