Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Although Dushan prefecture is called a prefecture, it is actually just a fortress built according to the dangerous situation of the mountain, and the locals also call it Dushan City. Before Chongzhen, this place was the place of thousands of households of the Ming army, responsible for the jurisdiction of the nearby chieftains such as Pinglang, Danxing, Danping, and Pingzhou Liudongsi. From Dushan City to the west is the official road leading to Guiyang, and to the south is the direction of Guangxi. Guizhou is full of mountains and mountains, and there are few entrances and exits. It can be said that Dushan City is the only way to enter Guizhou from Guangxi, and its geographical location is very important.

When the three-way army of the Qing army invaded Yunnan and Guizhou, the left army was led by Zhuobutai and entered Guizhou from here. Later, when Xian Guoan led the army back to Guangxi, the 11th town of Taiping Army fought against this town under the leadership of the town general Gao Jinku. This battle also indirectly caused the Taiping army to be passive for a long period of time in the later Liuzhou battle.

Wu Sangui returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and after raising troops to oppose the Qing Dynasty, the tension on the border between Guizhou and Guizhou was eased. Wu Jun in Dushan City even did business with the Taiping Army in Nandan Prefecture opposite. For a year, it can be said that there is nothing to do with each other, but the war is coming quietly.

"Boom, boom!"

The sound of the cannons at dawn suddenly broke the calm in the mountains, and also woke up Wu Jun, who was sleeping in Dushan City. While avoiding the cannons that fell from the sky, they looked at the Taiping army outside the city like a red ocean in amazement.

The general of the Wu army who guarded Dushan City was Huang Yuancai, the former chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty. This man surrendered to Wu Sangui together with Ma Bao, and his troops were organized into a battalion by Wu Sangui, with more than 4,000 soldiers.

Looking at the dense Taiping army outside the city and all kinds of flags fluttering in the wind, Huang Yuancai couldn't help sinking. So many soldiers and horses were dispatched. Huang Yuancai felt very ridiculous when he thought that he had written to Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi from the Taiping Army last month, asking him to sell some military rations to him, and the other party agreed. He knew very well that the Taiping Army would not have tens of thousands of troops to attack. Such a large-scale troop gathering could not be completed in a few days. The raising and transportation of food and grass was a huge project. Without a month or two to prepare for deployment, the Taiping Army would It is impossible to launch an attack. It can be seen from this that I have been kept in the dark by the Guangxi side, and I only thought that the Wu army and the Taiping army would not fight each other until the Qing court was overthrown. I never thought that I was really willing, and the other party had already saved the idea of ​​attacking Guizhou. Heart.

But this incident is unexpected, but it is reasonable, one mountain cannot hold two tigers!

Huang Yuancai sighed.

The artillery of the Taiping Army continued to bombard Dushan City, and the roar of huge artillery shells resounded over Dushan City, making the Qing soldiers at the top of the city dodge. The generals under his command were all looking at Huang Yuancai, waiting for his order, whether to surrender or fight.

After Huang Yuancai struggled in his heart, he decided to fight. Because Wu Sangui never treated him badly, and more importantly, his friends are all under Wu Sangui now. If he surrenders to the Taiping Army, he will inevitably fight to the death with his former friends in the future. This is obviously unacceptable to Huang Yuancai, who has always been loyal. .

Although the Taiping Army had a large number of troops, Dushan City was also in danger. He still had 4,000 troops, so it was not impossible for him to hold on. If Dushan falls, the official road leading to Guiyang will be opened to the Taiping army. Once the Taiping army advances to Guizhou, the emperor and court of Guiyang will be disturbed. This is the consequence that Huang Yuancai could not imagine. He is loyal to people, but also loyal to the monarch. If the emperor had not suddenly abandoned the country and did not know whether to live or die, and Ma Bao and Ma Weixing had tried to persuade them, Huang Yuancai might not have surrendered to Wu Sangui. Now that the emperor is back and Wu Sangui has turned against the Qing, it is impossible for him to repeat it.

"The order goes on, the battle to the death will not retreat, and those who dare to abandon the city and flee will be killed without mercy!"

Huang Yuancai pulled out his saber and ordered a deadly battle. At the same time, Lu Guangzu also pulled out his long saber and issued an attack order to Dushan City before he rode his horse out of the Taiping army formation.

"kill!"

The expeditionary soldiers who had long been gearing up to show their faces in front of the domestic friendly army shouted and rushed to Dushan City. This is the first battle for the expeditionary army to return to China. Everyone in the town is ambitious and vows to play the prestige of the expeditionary army.

Huang Yuancai failed to hold on, and Dushan fell the next day. Since the beginning of the war, the Qing army in the city has been crushed by the artillery fire of the Taiping army. The expeditionary forces that returned from Annan took on the heavy responsibility of sieging the city. After paying more than 600 casualties, the Taiping army blew up the gate of Dushan City. With the influx of the Taiping army, the flag of the Wu army on Dushan City was quickly cut down and replaced by the banner of the Taiping army.

Huang Yuancai was captured, and the remaining 2,000 Qing troops in the city surrendered to the Taiping army after the fall of the city gate.

"Duke Lu, what to do with these prisoners!"

Zhang Yue, Lu Guangzu's deputy general, was very emotional when he saw the Wu army prisoners who were taken out in groups. Two years ago, right here, he witnessed the death of the town general Gao Jinku, and he desperately brought it back to Eleven Town. military flag. Although Xian Guoan was the one who wiped out the entire army of his eleven towns at the beginning, he took out his anger on these Wu Jun, because in his eyes, regardless of whether these Wu Jun had braids or not, they were all Qing troops, and a gang would only Just picking up cheap wallgrass. The real Ming army is only their Taiping army, nothing else.

"Let them do whatever they want, and they will kill things."

The one who spoke was Wang Youxi, the town general of the fourth town, who was born in Lvying, Jiangxi, and was an old subordinate of Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi.

"Okay!"

Zhang Yue originally intended to kill the prisoners. Hearing Wang Youxi's words, he immediately responded loudly and ordered to kill the prisoners, but Lu Guangzu shouted, "You can't kill them!"

Wang Youxi frowned and looked at Lu Guangzu: "Why?"

Lu Guangzu stepped forward and shook his head, and said, "The commander said that Han people don't kill Han people."

Wang Youxi sneered: "What kind of Han people are these people~www.wuxiaspot.com~ used to be the Qing army, which one doesn't have the blood of our Han people?"

After hearing this, Lu Guangzu was silent for a moment, then said, "General Wang, we were also Qing troops in the past."

Hearing this, Wang Youxi was stunned.

Lu Guangzu persuaded: "General Wang, we have fought for so many years, and enough people have died. Since these people have surrendered, why should they be executed? The commander has always said that population is the most important strategic material for our Ming Dynasty. It takes 20 years for one to grow again, which is too long. We can no longer kill and capture prisoners as before. These people might as well be sent to Governor Zhao of Annan. In two years, they will be another one. Soldiers."

At this time, Shao Jiugong from the rear also sent fast horses to ask Lu Guangzu and Wang Youxi not to slaughter the officers and soldiers who laid down their weapons on the Wu army side. After the army entered Guizhou, it was necessary to appease the people, not to destroy the town, and to restrain the military discipline. Wang Youxi then No longer opposed to Lu Guangzu's arrangement, he ordered his subordinates to send all the prisoners to Guangxi, and then make arrangements.

After Dushan, the gateway into Guizhou, Lu Guangzu and Wang Youxi immediately led their troops to Pinglang and Duyun, in order to capture Guiyang as quickly as possible and complete the military commander's strategic intention of cutting off the connection between Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan and Shaanxi.