It turned into this situation, but Wang Qiu could not have expected it.
He was originally stationed in the military village under Hejiang City, while eating hot pot sliced with Jiang fresh and game, singing military songs; guarding and supervising the reciprocity with the nearby mountain people and the Tu people.
Although there were aggressive forces and threats gathered in Luzhou, they also seized the time to rush to repair and strengthen many fortifications, stock a lot of materials and enough food and equipment to last for several months.
Not only did they recruit nearby civil servants for a fee, they buried pointed wooden stakes under the waterway, but also dug a full eight staggered horizontal ditches relying on the rising terrain of the river. As long as the military striker comes to attack, he can be sure to hold back his support for a while.
However, the so-called "benevolent and generous" Gao Renhou's shot was really extraordinary. Not only did the forces advancing on land and water echo each other's pressing forces, but also the barbarians from Luzhou who were good at climbing over the rugged mountainous terrain. And support.
Coupled with the response of the local mountain people and Tu people who were self-preserving, the Taiping army, who was unable to give full play to its firearm superiority during the rainy season, suffered the boss's loss for a while.
Since the Pingkou Village under Hejiang City was circumvented by the barbaric army from the mountain, it broke through with the inside and outside. It was defeated and defeated one after another. There were eleven new and old towns and Guanshi built along the river for dozens of miles. It's important.
Thousands of Taiping army units guarding this front also retreated all the way from Hejiang City to Wanshou County, and from Wanshou County to Jiangliu County, and finally arrived at the Baishatuo Ferry, south of Zhisuoba County, Yuzhou. There are less than a thousand people, including Wang Qiu;
Fortunately, the garrison Captain Min Xie led by him was not a mediocre generation, but he organized a decent resistance in his retreat; and in Qukou Town outside Jiangjin City, he piled up unacceptable luggage and firearms. Get up, set up an ambush and fight back.
When the first barbaric army rushed in to looting the wealth and the army Zi, at least thousands of barbarians were burned and killed with the deadly men after the break; and they defeated the first and remaining units, which allowed the Shu army to be defeated. The offensive has been temporarily stopped.
It's just that their physical condition has also been exhausted and sleepy to the limit; in order to cover those Tunzhuang personnel who retreated first, after days of battles and defeats, they are on the verge of collapse mentally and physically.
Retreating along the narrow and winding river bank, without eating and resting for a few days, the mountains along the way are surrounded by villages and stockades with unknown attitudes and even hostility; once you leave the team, you will probably never be able to find them again.
Not only did they lose most of their equipment and food, but even the armor on their bodies was mostly incomplete; because many people, in order to run fast, even equipped with swordsmen and other extra burdens, they can discard them.
Fortunately, at the Baishatuo Ferry, they were fortunate enough to encounter more than a dozen river boats that transported and transferred materials. They supplemented the materials on the spot and transported away the seriously wounded and the old and weak women and children. They were on the verge of collapse. Pull back some more.
The boots were also thrown away, and Wang Qiu could only use a pair of straw shoes to make do with Wang Qiu, and finally he was able to stop for a while; rubbing the swelling and tingling soles of his feet, suddenly he saw a soldier in charge of the outpost, his face solemnly walking up. Come and whisper:
"Vice brigade, I found it again in front..."
Afterwards, Wang Qiu came to the scene of a tragic attack; looking at the transcripts and bulletins, he repeatedly emphasized and propagated, and it was necessary to clean up and suppress the mountain sheds, river thieves, and lake thieves. , And its association belongs to.
At the same time, it is necessary to spend a lot of effort to relocate people and fill up households afterwards, and continue to renovate the place. It is not like the voice of some people in some places, after paying a certain price and terms, it is better to continue to retain the established reality and continue to be effective.
Before most people saw the so-called simple and honest folk customs, it was just these mountainous Tu people who were accustomed to awe-inspiring and unscrupulous. Under the deterrence of the Taiping Army, they showed some signs of seeking and seeking survival.
Once they have a chance and show weakness, they will follow the habit of surviving in poor mountains and bad waters and the law of the jungle to survive in difficult and dangerous places, which naturally reveals the other side of fierce, cruel, violent, and unscrupulous.
Therefore, when Wang Qiu, who was covered in blood, set off on the return journey with a small number of people who were supporting each other carrying a stretcher, behind him was only the fresh bloody smell of Manzhaizi, which gradually ignited a soaring fire.
Although, he violated the military order halfway and did things on his own, and he did more things that couldn't bear to speak under the anger of the stockade, and he had to accept the corresponding military law when he went back.
But there is not much regret in his heart, at least he grudgingly comforted the dead, and he also needs to leave enough bloody warnings and lessons for the potential attackers.
However, just as they continued to chase the forward group of people, they encountered a ship from the lower reaches of the river, but temporarily ran aground.
At the same time, they also received a lucky piece of good news. In Ba County, many reinforcements and civilians from the rear have arrived, as well as a large number of vehicles, boats, mules and horses drawn from the downstream along the river.
When I saw these men and horses with my own eyes, they were still stationed and marching in and out of the city with normal morale and full of energy, which somewhat diminished the bleakness brought about by the successive defeats of the frontiers.
Obviously, the previous five states of the Gorge River Dao had to spend a lot of time and setbacks, and the local reconstruction and elimination operations carried out finally came into play at this critical time.
After the emergency mobilization of the ship and down the river, among the villages, factories and mines in various places, batches of young men who have received some simple military practices were quickly drawn out;
Then, they followed the distance and walk along the river one after another, gathered in the town of Ba County, received the arrangement and were armed, they naturally formed a new force and defensive force full of tens of thousands of people.
—I am the dividing line —
In Qixian City on Hedong Road, it is among the oldest large-scale building complexes.
The family elder Wang Renshou missed, Wang Yin, who stayed at his hometown at the Wangmen of Qixian County, was called "Pu Bangong" with the word Shuhuai. He also sighed loudly to his nephews:
"With this Jiangdong changing hands, won't the situation in the world become clearer;"
"My lord, how do you say this?"
His son Wang Wenli couldn't help asking rhetorically.
"Because, in the future, whoever wins from the Central Plains will have to face the peaceful thieves who are half of the world after the consolidation of Jiangdong!"
He sighed more and more:
"However, with the power of the Taiping thief to maintain the present, is he only willing to have the south of the big river, without losing sight of the land? Taking Jiangdong is not the pros and cons of Jiangdong itself, but the natural victory of more enterprising. "
Thinking of this, he became more worried and annoyed. To say that the Wang family in Qixian County has produced several Guixian branches in the Tang Dynasty:
For example, Tang Taizong's prime minister Wang Gui, specially entered Wang Renjiao, Prince Shaobao Wang Shouyi, and others, as well as the late Sui Dynasty Confucian Wangtong, Tang Gaozong's queen and his father Sikong Wang Renyou, and poet Wang Bo (moved to Longmen, Yizhou, now Shanxi Southeast of Hejin),
The Shangshu Wang Zhongsi of the Ministry of War in Kaiyuan (home in Zhengxian County, today Huaxian, Shaanxi), the minister of the household department Wang Ji, the Chang Shi Wang Zhi of Zuo Sanqi, the Chang Shi Wang Zhongshu of Zuo Sanqi, the King Fang Yi of Taiyuan County,
After Qianyuan, the emperor Wang Zhongyong, Taifu Wang Chongying, Hezhong Jiedu Shi Wang Ke, Shang Shuyou Cheng Wang Wei, Daizong Prime Minister Wang Jin (Wei brother, father Sima Chulian, Fenzhou, moved to Pu County in Hedong, now Shanxi Yong Ji), Xian, Wen Erzong Wang Ya and others.
But now, the kings of Qixian County, apart from a few subordinate officials who have been named for generations in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the official positions requisitioned by Hedong Jiezhen and Daibeihangying, they have nothing more to do in official careers and courts. Up.
"Now Xingyang (Zheng) and Zheng (Zheng) Xianggong are working hard to maintain the state of the country, Qinghe (Cui) and Cui (Anqian) make the monarch protect the land and protect the territory for restoration; Boring (Cui) has the plan of Wei Bo; In the Yang (Wang) family, there is also a Wang (Duo) veteran who has followed the Qi Qi..."
"Shandong Xianwang and all ethnic groups have already made their own choices. How can my family in Qixian fall behind? In addition to the children who have already entered the scene in various places, they can only add to the Taiping thief. Bet..." (End of this chapter)