But after losing the support and response of the frontal army, the outcome of these two partial divisions was not much better. The Hezhong Army who came from the Dayu Crossing to the south of Pujin Crossing was directly blocked by a group of Taiping Army Garrison regiments that came nearby in Shenbaiyu.
After fighting hard and rushing out part of it, I haven't walked far along the coast, but I ran into another group head-on to ride pawns upon hearing the news; the establishment was broken up on the spot, and the army was disintegrated as the birds and beasts.
However, the man and horse who came ashore from Wuwangdu to the north of Pujin Bridge was slightly more lucky; although it also triggered the on-site sentinel alarm, it rushed out in time overnight; and then went all the way east to Hexi County, which belongs to the same state recently. .
However, when they ransacked two villages and wanted to seize the Hexi county seat, they were found out by a few garrison soldiers who maintained order in the city. They immediately closed the four gates and recruited Ding Zhuang to go up the wall and set fire for help; Elsewhere.
As a result of this delay, more people who ended the Battle of Pujin crossing the next day joined the sequence of encircling and suppressing the invading enemy. Finally caught up with them in Jiaolibao, north of Hexi County;
After one after another the Taiping Army came to encircle and fight for several times, this enemy army, which had no backup and no lasting power, abandoned its weapons and surrendered on the spot after more than half of its casualties.
As a result, Wang Chongrong, who saw the failure of the strong crossing and lost nearly 5,000 strong athletes, could not help but halt the follow-up military operations with great pain; and hurriedly summoned more civilians from the rear to the east bank of the Yellow River in Puzhou. Building battalions and outposts, there is a great potential for on-site defensive changes.
However, at this point, General Xu Yi, the Taiping army general who was in charge of garrisoning the front line in the same state, was no longer satisfied with passive defense. Therefore, on the one hand, he requested the coordinated naval warships to continue bombarding the strongholds in the coastal rivers for harassment and containment; making them uncomfortable with construction.
On the other hand, with the captured ferry boat, under the cover of the movement made by the navy, it passed through the middle of the river from Wuwangdu, and successfully sent a group of fully prepared (lightly loaded) horseback rides ashore;
In the next few days, the ranger, which relied on the seized robes and disguised as the Hezhong Army, successively attacked and burned the Hubi, Gushan, Longmenshan and other areas north of Puzhou and the border with Jiangzhou. Place food and grass hoarding places and barriers.
All of a sudden, the rear of the Hezhong army facing each other across the river was full of chaos and rumors spread; even some people vowed to claim that the garrisons in Jiangzhou's Quwo, Wenxi, Jiangxian and other places were still sitting back on the spot and defected. Heyang Army from Zhiguanxing.
As a result, even Wang Chongrong, who insisted on going south to rescue Tongguan and Shanguo, could no longer suppress the dissident voices in the army and worry about the threatening sentiment between his wife and children in the rear; he had to divide the army again. The troops, led by the general Chang Xingru, went north to Jiangzhou for repression and defense.
As a result, on the defense line along the river with the Puban city of Puzhou as the core, there were only more than 15,000 people left by Wang Chongrong, and more than 20,000 newly recruited people and servants. And the group of people that basically completed the task had already passed through the defense line in Puzhou and returned to the east entrance of Dayu Ferry downstream.
Then, under a sudden assault from the rear, he easily defeated the defenders at the east entrance of Dayu crossing; and raised the fire on the spot to inform the opposite bank, and then continued to fight the Hezhong army's bases and stand firmly on the spot;
Therefore, when the Hezhong army, who came to investigate and inquire, disappeared in the patrol post and the tour team one after another, and finally realized that something was wrong and reacted. When the team mobilized from Puban City to the south, the river was also rumbled by the artillery. After the first batch of follow-up support firearms and equipment come back.
At the same time, he has arrived at Mianchi City in Dugui Province, and completed the initial defense with Dongdu. Continue north to cross the gateway Dakai Heyang Bridge, and then borrow the territory of Huaizhou, and still entrenched. In the west of Dayang Bridge (now southwest of Pinglu County, Shanxi), the other division of the Hezhong Army outflanked.
At the time when the war in the middle of the river was raging, the Jingzhaofu of Gyeonggi Province; Zhou Huai'an also began to walk out of the city of Chang'an, which was waiting to be flourished and had begun to see its scale, and inspected the many newly established villages and editing districts on both sides of the Weihe River Come.
In the hot summer air, there is a mixture of water-filled seedlings and freshly turned soil, exposed to the sun. Zhou Huaian, who was leaning on a stone slab and stepping on the cold canal water under a large tree covered with an umbrella, was also listening to the progress and successes from the front.
"So, is Heyang Zhuge Shuang completely determined?"
After listening for a while, he slowly said:
"According to the news from the front, Meng (Juehai) Lang Jiang's department (tentatively reorganized and reorganized mainly for the rebels) has taken over the Beiguan and Zhongguan surrendered by the Heyang Army, besides."
Li Shicheng, the liaison chief in charge of Kanto, lowered his eyes and paused and said:
"The Heyang Army also led his army with 8,000 soldiers from Zezhou to Zhiguan Xingjin (now Houma, Shanxi), and led 10,000 soldiers with his son Zhuge Zhongfang to attack Hebei with his son Zhuge Zhongfang. (County), Ruicheng."
"This old Piff truly deserves to be the "Zhongzhou Tumbler", he turned around faster than anyone else! However, the kindness and sincerity he showed, it is really impossible to refuse..."
Zhou Huaian said with a slight feeling:
"Then dare to ask the king, how to reply..."
Li Shicheng also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words; although the king nowadays does not see behavior, he is more and more authoritative, making people tremble all the time without fighting.
"Please reply to him, sincerity has been received, but don't worry about Yizhi or anything else, do I still need his Heyang army name to continue to play some usefulness?."
Zhou Huaian touched his forehead and said:
"However, relatives and family members can be delivered first, and the residences and properties in Chang'an City can also be built and purchased."
Then Zhou Huaian ordered:
"Later, we will send orders to the Armed Forces Division, from the (former Rebels) temporary and (descended soldiers) reform battalions that are being reorganized within the pass, each will draw out eight better battalions to rearm.
"The latter half will be assigned to Tongzhou Xu (Yi Jiang) Lang; half will be filled under Ruzhou Zhang (Juyan) Zhong Lang's command, to work together to stabilize the capital while taking into account the situation of Heyang."
"Since we have to count on others to contribute more, we must at least look after the rear and homeland for others, so that the forces that are attached to the governor's mansion will not end up bleeding and tearing..."
In today's Kannai Dao territory, there are about seven to eighty thousand prisoners and soldiers of various colors. After the selective selection and transformation, about 20,000 or nearly 30 supplementary camps can be organized. Among them, there are many athletes from Hexi and Longyou who are skilled in bowing horses, and they just happen to come in handy on the Kanto battlefield.
The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled, or those who are not very reliable and stable, have become candidates for free and cheap labor in tuntian and engineering construction under personal supervision in the large and small administrative areas set up in various parts of the Kannei Road. The assistant pawns and civil servants confiscated from the Shannan Eastern Road and the Shu area can just be responsible for this matter.
Then, by incorporating the former rebel army under the name of the new dynasty of Daqi, there are actually more than 30,000 Ding Zhuangs available. Therefore, after initially gaining a foothold in the pass and digesting a wave of spoils and captures, the potential source of troops that the Taiping Army can use has become more abundant compared to the labor gap that is still insufficient.
Of course, because the firearm-based standard equipment from the rear cannot keep up, these new and temporary sequences can only be piled up by seizures, and many cold weapons ready to be returned to the furnace are re-armed. Up.
At this time, another Yu Hou on duty stepped forward and reverently held a wooden clip in his hand to report in a low voice: "Shang Shang, Fengxiang urgent report..."
Later Zhou Huai'an took it and unpacked it and looked at it twice, and he couldn't help but hey. However, Fengxiang Jiedu Li Changfu, who had been under siege for a long time and almost had no sense of existence during the war within the Guan, finally surrendered in Kaicheng, Fengtian.
Of course, Zhou Huaian is somewhat lacking in interest in this vassal leader who used to persecute and force the two emperors of the late Tang Dynasty together with Wang Chongrong, Zhu Laosan and others on another historical line. To:
"The generals and relatives headed by Li Changfu were exiled to Lingnan, and the rest of the old soldiers were sent south to Hanzhong, and they were organized and managed on the spot..." (End of this chapter)