Chapter 22 Nanhe Crisis
Julu County, Shunde Prefecture, had a classic battle here more than 2,000 years ago. The Qin army, which was boasted by countless descendants, ended their invincible history here. It was defeated by the uprising Zhao army with less victory. Wang Li was captured and Zhang Han voluntarily surrendered.
Today, more than 2,000 years later, Zhao Dongyun can no longer see any traces related to the battle of the ancient Giant Deer. Standing on the wall of Julu County, he holds a telescope, and the endless Hebei Plain can extend his sight far and far.
"Is that Dongzhao Village over there? Didn't a bandit really find it?" Zhao Dongyun put down the telescope, but still looked northeast.
Li Zejun beside him said, "It's true that I haven't found too many bandits. They have fled to Guangzong when our army went south. Now there is no Lianzhuang Association and boxing bandits around Julu County!"
Zhao Dongyun frowned: "These people are not stupid. They know how to run away!"
Zhao Dongyun led his army all the way south from Ningjin. After the soldiers were divided into three roads, they almost formed a dense network and were almost destroyed. The strongholds of the League and the martial altar of the boxers he met on the road were almost destroyed. The new army under Zhao Dongyun was not those training troops. It was very good to suppress the boxing bandits and killed hundreds of thugs all the way south. While arresting hundreds of thugs, he suffered less than ten casualties. The only one who died was that he accidentally walked and fell to death, and the remaining seven or eight wounded were only slightly injured.
Although the casualties are not large, the consumption is a little large. During the march, the consumption is much more than usual. The food supply is open, and although they are exiles and bandits, they will not deliberately save bullets, so over time, the consumption of bullets is also relatively large.
Along the way, Zhao Dongyun was a little depressed. So far, his troops have not fought with large-scale Lianzhuang meetings and boxers. They are all small fights, often on the scale of dozens of people. What's more hateful is that these boxers dare to hit his logistics supply line and send people to attack. Several times, although his supply line did not cause any casualties and losses, it also forced Zhao Dongyun to send more troops to maintain the normal operation of the supply line.
He has always had a strong feeling that he can't use it!
"Today's plan is to find the gathering place of these thugs and then flatten them in one fell swoop. Since they are not in Dongzhao Village, they will expand the search scope. I don't believe that so many of them can hide!" Zhao Dongyun was very dissatisfied with the investigation work of the army. After going south for so long, he had not found Jing Tinbin's hiding place.
At this time, a messenger came on the wall. This is a letter sent by Duan Qirui. The military order said that the bandits broke through Shunde's military training yesterday, and Nanhe was facing a great crisis. It asked Zhao Dongyun to go south as soon as possible to create greater pressure on the bandits, relieve the pressure on Nanhe County and Shunde Prefecture from the side, and said that he had personally led the troops. The team went south from Zhengding to Shunde.
For a period of time, the Qing army's encirclement and suppression strategy of the Lianzhuanghui is very clear, that is, to dispatch troops from multiple directions at the same time, gradually expel and compress the living space of the chaotic army, and finally drive them to a certain place and annihilate them in one fell swoop, because if it is not the case, it is difficult to completely encircle and eliminate these chaotic troops. .
It's just that everyone didn't expect that the military training would be so useless. In the first year of Jiawu, it can't beat Japan, and it's okay if it can't beat the Eight-Nation Alliance in the year of Gengzi. Now even the exiles can't beat it.
Now that the fiasco of the military training in Shunde has caused great loopholes in the strategy arranged by Duan Qirui in the early stage. Now we can't take care of anything else. Let's get rid of those boxing bandits first, and then slowly clean up the other bandits in the place. We can't let those mob really capture Nanhe County!
You should know that although the activities of the Union and Boxers are extensive, they are still limited to rural areas. Even in the four counties of Guangzong, Julu, Nanhe and Weixian counties with the most serious bandits, the thugs have not yet captured the local counties. From this perspective, it shows that the situation is still under the control of the Qing army, but if the bandits should attack If the city is broken, the political meaning will be very different. At that time, I don't know how many people will be responsible for losing the land and falling into the city.
With these factors, Duan Qirui gave up the tactics of letting Zhao Dongyun fight steadily and ordered him to quickly go south to eliminate the thugs in Guangzong and Giant Deer and reinforce Nanhe County.
Zhao Dongyun, who received the order, also frowned slightly!
Although I am now a strong military force and am not afraid of the so-called Boxers and the United Zhuang Association, if I take risks to go deep into the southern part of the giant deer, Guangzong and other places where the thugs are dense, I am afraid that I will suffer some unnecessary losses! In Zhao Dongyun's heart, it is irrational to put himself in danger in order to destroy the thugs.
It's just that the current situation on Nanhe is so critical. According to Duan Qirui's military information, although Shunde Prefecture and Nanhe County had more than 2,000 people trained at the beginning, they have been lost since yesterday's defeat. Of course, this does not mean that they were killed and injured by the rebels, but mostly ran away. The border only collected less than 500 people to train.
And these 500 soldiers are also panicked. If it hadn't been for the forced bomb pressure, they would have had to escape first without waiting for the rebels to attack the city.
Today, Shunde Prefecture and Nanhe County can only be used by more than 100 horse teams in Shunde Prefecture and more than 50 county teams under Zhu Jiabao in Nanhe County.
In such a large prefecture and county, only more than 100 cavalry and dozens of foreign gun teams are available.
The army resisting the westward march of the rebels is not the regular army of the imperial court, but the county team composed of arresters, government officials, large families, nurses and urban residents in local governments and counties. The commanders sitting in the south of the town and the front line to fight against the rebels in the west are not the generals of Daming Town and Zhengding Town. It is Zhu Jiabao, the county magistrate of Nanhe County.
This has to be said to be a funny and sad thing!
Even because the foreigners are worried about the safety of foreigners near Shunde Prefecture, they are more worried that the rebels will go north to repeat the Gengzi Incident on a large scale. Thousands of troops have gathered in Tianjin and are ready to go south to help the Beiyang army quell the rebellion. Of course, because the garrison of various countries have withdrawn from other areas of Zhili after the signing of the Xincho Treaty, However, if the allied forces of various countries want to march on a large scale to Nanzhili, they also need to obtain the permission of the Qing court.
The situation is still under control for the Qing court, so Yuan Shikai and others naturally refused the request of foreigners to send troops without hesitation.
However, after the foreigners heard that the army was defeated in Nanhe County, because they were worried about the safety of foreigners near Shunde Prefecture, although they could not send large-scale troops, they still played a side ball and used the excuse to protect the foreign engineers who built roads to send a foreign cavalry of more than 40. The troops quickly went south from Zhengding County in the name of the Luhan Railway Road Guard Team and are expected to be stationed in Shunde Prefecture to protect the safety of local churches, priests and religious people.
Looking at the contents written on Duan Qirui's letter paper, Zhao Dongyun didn't know what to say!
Zhao Dongyun can't control these political matters, and he doesn't want to care about his upset, those foreign armed interference, foreigners and so on. Naturally, Yuan Shikai has to deal with them. What he has to do is to eliminate the rebels early, catch Jing Tingbin, and then whip his body a hundred times. Well, it hurts you to play rebellion, even if you rebel, but it still mixes with the Boxer Rebels, making the whole Zhili nervous, afraid that if it is not good, it will repeat the disaster of Gengzi.
This is the kind of person who harms the country and the people!
With the military order, Zhao Dongyun can't delay for too long. He can't really let the rebels and the county in Nanhe County be beaten down, right? He immediately ordered to lead the main forces to continue south to Guangzong. At the same time, it was also ordered Lin Pingxiong, who led the troops to eliminate the rebels near Longyao County, to ignore those small miscellaneous fish and quickly go south to the county. If there is no large-scale resistance in the area, it can continue to go south to reinforce Nanhe County.
The order to Lin Pingxiong is to reinforce Nanhe County, while Zhao Dongyun himself is ready to lead the main force to go straight into Guangzong, prepare for a strong sweep, and eliminate the rebel forces south of Julu County and central Guangzong and other areas at one stroke. Of course, it would be better if he could catch the main gathering points of the rebels. If not The rebels will also continue to drive south.
At the same time, he ordered Bi Xiaoqiang's troops to suppress the rebels in the area of Xinhe and Nangong to speed up the south and arrive in the western area of Qinghe County as soon as possible to prevent the chaotic army from going to Shandong.
As the messengers rode out one by one, Zhao Dongyun's main force also quickly started from Julu County. This time, their march was very fast and it took only one day to reach Guangzong County.
Then Zhao Dongyun immediately sent troops to quickly go to Dongzhao Village, Hulu Township, Pingxiang, Fengjiazhai and other directions to clean up the strongholds of the Lianzhuang Association in various places.
However, such an arrangement has aroused some concerns. Li Zejun said, "If it's just a whistle, isn't the force too weak? It's okay if you encounter a small number of rioters, but if you encounter a large number of mob, I'm afraid there will be trouble!"
Zhao Dongyun didn't care about it. It was not that he despised those Boxers and United Villages, but that he really didn't pay attention to them, and the combat effectiveness of those people was similar to that of farmers. Besides, this is a new army, not a training army. More than 100 people in a sentry are pulled out to fight, and the mob on the opposite side can easily defeat it.
Zhao Dongyun's troops belong to the Right Army of Wuwei. Its formation is different from the standing army. It belongs to a large battalion. There are four teams under one battalion, and each team has three sentries, but there are six sheds without sentry. There are 17 people in each shed, including soldiers and the eldest husband, and 114 people in one sentry. Of course, this kind of organization is not good. At least Yuan Shikai stopped using it when training the standing army, but used a pure Western-style small battalion.
But let's not talk about whether the establishment of the Wuwei Right Army is good or not. The key is that this sentry has more than 100 people. It is enough to go out to suppress the rebels in the sentry.
Just as Zhao Dongyun was waiting for the troops to be released to return the results of the battle, there was indeed a noise outside the temporary station. Zhao Dongyun frowned. Without waiting for him to ask a question, soon one of his guards quickly came up and whispered in Zhao Dongyun's ear, "Your Excellency, someone from outside said it was open. There are molls on the other side to besiege the church again!"
After the two strings of mobb and church were connected, Zhao Dongyun was shocked: teaching plan?
Damn, what are you really afraid of? What's wrong with your Boxer? You have to attack the church and cause trouble to the country, right?
At that time, he didn't have time to think about it. He immediately ordered the troops to assemble urgently and prepare to deploy troops to rescue the church in Pingxiang.
At this time, he did not know that several men in short robes were talking in a whisper in a small yard in Guangzong County: "The Qing demon surnamed Zhao is ready to lead the army to Pingxiang. Should it be sent a message to Brother Jing in the other side of the village!"
"Well, it's not too late. Zhao has been so tight these days, and it's not easy to trick him to go to Pingxiang now. Now it's time to raise the flag, and it's too late!"
When Zhao Dongyun led his army to Pingxiang for rescue, another man took advantage of the night to sneak out of Guangzong County and went north.
Early the next morning, that is, on April 23, Jingtingbin, the head of the United Zhuang Group, and Zhao Sanduo, the leader of the Boxer Rebel Group, gathered more than 10,000 people in a village in the northeast of Guangzong, shouting slogans such as "cleaning out the ocean" and "officials to force the people to rebel" and raised the banner of rebellion. Jing Tingbin called himself "Marshal of the Dragon Regiment".
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