Chapter 6 Chapter 5 Li Hongzhang of the Military Strategist (Part 2)

The chaos is rampant, Li Hongzhang used to suppress the loss of the generals Zeng Liping's strategy of twisting the battle of east twisting and the battle of west twisting Jinling was conquered, and the soldiers were half lost.Although, the chaos is still there, and the worries have not stopped.The origin of twisting also began with the homeless people in Shandong.In the third year of Xianfeng, Hong Xiuquan was trapped in Anqing and Jinling, and there was a major earthquake in Anhui Province. system.Among them, those who were ordered to supervise their teachers were often counterattacked and repeatedly defeated, so their power became more and more rampant.And in the winter of the seventh year of Xianfeng, his horsemen harassed Daming Mansion in Zhili and other places, and Beijing was under martial law.

From the beginning of the Nian Rebellion to the time before Li Hongzhang’s supervisor, the list of Ping Nian commanders assigned by successive generations is as follows: The year when the official was appointed as an official, the place where he was stationed Shanlu Henan Admiral Xianfeng three years Yongcheng County Zhou Tianjue, the imperial envoy, Suzhou in the third year of Xianfeng Lu Xianji, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, the third year of Xianfeng, Anhui Lu Yinggu, Governor of Henan Province, Kaifeng Mansion in the third year of Xianfeng Yuan Jiasan imperial envoy Suzhou in the third year of Xianfeng (replaced by Zhou Tianjue)

Shu Xing, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Chenzhou in the third year of Xianfeng Yinggui Henan governor Xianfeng four years Kaifeng mansion Wulong, Anhui admiral, Xianfeng five years, Haozhou The imperial envoy of Shengbao supervised the Jiangbei Army in the seventh year of Xianfeng Admiral Shi Rongchun Caozhou Yanzhou in the eighth year of Xianfeng Tian Zaidian Zongbing Caozhou Yanzhou in the eighth year of Xianfeng Qiu Lianen's commander-in-chief Luyi in the eighth year of Xianfeng Zhu Liantai led the army in Haozhou in the eighth year of Xianfeng Fu Zhenbang's commander-in-chief, Suzhou, in the ninth year of Xianfeng

Suzhou in the ninth year of Xianfeng reign of Yixing Edu The Guanbao Association led the Xianfeng Ninth Year to supervise the Henan Army De Leng'e co-led Caozhou in the ninth year of Xianfeng The Imperial Envoy of Shengbao Dutong Xianfeng Superintendent of Henan Army Guanbao Deputy Anhui for ten years Mu Teng'a's deputy capital ruled Xianfeng for ten years (deputy Yuan Jiasan) Mao Changzhao regiment training minister Xianfeng ten years in Henan Seng Gelinqin Mongolian Prince Xianfeng Ten Years Zeng Guofan Imperial Envoy Tongzhi three years During the Battle of Gengshen, Wenzong hunted Rehe in the north, and the Nian Party took advantage of it, invaded Shandong, and plundered Jining.De Leng fought against the forehead and was defeated.Beginning with Seng Gelinqin, the Prince of Horqin in Mongolia, as the supervisor, he followed all the twists and turns, known as brave.In the second year of Tongzhi, Chen Decai, Lan Chengchang, Lai Wenxuan and other chieftains of the Fadang joined Nian.Nian Chief Zhang Zongyu, Ren Zhu, Niu Luojiang, Chen Daxi and others each had tens of thousands of people, and they haunted Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Hubei counties.In September of the third year of Tongzhi, a group of Nian Party members from Hubei plundered Xiangyang, Suizhou, Jingshan, De'an, Yingshan, Huangzhou, Jinzhou and other places.Shu Bao died in battle, and the monk king's division was repeatedly defeated.The monk king is a man who is more than brave and brave, but he is ignorant and incompetent, and the military orders are too sloppy, so the prostitution and cruelty are no different from hair and twists, so the people of Hubei are greatly disappointed.

At that time, Jinling was newly conquered, and tens of thousands of remnants of the party joined forces with Nian, and then transferred to Henan and Shandong to plunder the cities.In the spring of the fourth year, the monk king determined to lead light cavalry, chasing his chieftain, and galloped three hundred miles a day and night.As far as Caozhou, the subordinates complained and rebelled.On April 25th, he got into the plan of twisting his head, and was defeated. He fell off his horse and died in a fierce battle. The court mourned.Suddenly, Zeng Guofan was appointed as the imperial envoy to supervise the military affairs of Zhili, Shandong and Henan, and Li Hongzhang was appointed as the acting governor of Liangjiang to support Guofan's grain transportation.

First of all, the government and the army suppressed Nian, but they only pursued things on a whim, and they worked hard to no avail.It doesn't matter whether it is offensive or defensive, if you don't tolerate it to support the enemy, you will advance impetuously and use blunt force. You don't have a comprehensive plan and establish a certain strategy. Therefore, you have worked hard for more than ten years without achieving anything.Since Zeng Guofan was involved in the incident, he began to draw up the strategy of a long-term encirclement system, saying that the enemy must be cornered, and then they can be gathered and wiped out.Li Hongzhang inherited it, so he decided on the Central Plains.

Zeng Guofan, a gentleman is also a man, always cautiously retreating bravely to maintain the surplus and protect the rapids.Jinling has been restored, and Su Zhi has been paid, so he wants to retire.With the death of the Monk King, Nianmo was approaching Gyeonggi, and the situation was critical. When Guofan was ordered to defeat the army, he was obliged to do so, so he forced himself to take office.However, I thought that the Hunan Army was getting more and more discouraged, and I was afraid that it would not be available, so I gradually sent it back, and only used the Huai Army to fight against the former enemy.It has been a long time since Gai Guofan first worshiped the great order, and he intended to empty this seat to wait for Li Hongzhang's success.And in December of the fifth year of Tongzhi, he resigned with illness, and Li Hongzhang acted as the imperial envoy on his behalf.Guofan returned to his post as governor of Jiang to raise food and pay for the future.

Hongzhang's strategy for suppressing Nian, he thought that the Nian thieves had become rogues, and it was the best policy to force them not to go out, and then join forces to suppress them.Sun Chuanting of the Ming Dynasty said that the suppression of bandits should be driven on the road that must be trapped, and that they should be taken on the day of death, just like each other, the victory or defeat is between the arrows and rocks, even if you win, it has nothing to do with peace.Hongzhang is the master of this idea.Therefore, in the eleventh month of the fourth year, it was said that the place where the mountains and deep waters were restored, abandoned the land to lure them in, and then combined the forces of the provinces to besiege it from three to four sides.Since then, the great success has been achieved because of it.

In May of that year, Ren Zhu, Lai Wenguang and other big stocks went deep into Shandong.Hongzhang ordered Pan Dingxin and Liu Mingchuan to try their best to chase after them, and wanted to flock them to the corner of Dengcai, and then tried to force them at the throat of Jiaolai, so that the north could not flee to Jijiang, and the south could not spread to Huainan.In June, the pro-supervisor went to Jining to check the situation. He believed that Ren and Lai were all left after hundreds of battles. But the pressure is too tight, the painting area is too narrow, so that it can see through the mechanism, and it is bound to rush out, and it will be fleeting, and the overall situation will be wrong.So we made a strategy to prevent the canal first to prevent the way out, and then to block the glue and lay the throat to break the throat.Nai Dongfu Ding Baozhen, who wanted to drive the thieves out of the country, had a lot of quarrels with Hongzhang's strategy.In July, the enemy rushed to the Weihe River, Wang Xin'an, the general of the Eastern Province, stationed in Daimiao, and allowed the enemy to smuggle in, but the defenses of Jiao and Lai collapsed.At that time, there were frequent slanders, and the imperial court blamed the strict compilation, and there was a proposal to stop transport and prevent it.Hongzhang recounted that the canal was on the east, south, north, and south sides of the canal, and the bandits were coming and going, and the officers and soldiers were chasing each other. Although the place was ravaged, the victims were only a few prefectures and counties.The same territory, the same child, and it is inconvenient to discriminate.But stick to the previous discussion, many changes.On October 13th, Liu Mingchuan won the battle at the turn of Weixian County in Anqiu.On the 24th, after chasing to Ganyu, Ming Chuan and Ma Butong general Shanqing fought vigorously, killing Ren Zhu in battle, so Dong Nian's power declined greatly.

On the 28th, Pan Dingxin fought in Shangzhuang, Haizhou, and killed a gang of gangsters.On November 11th and 2nd, Liu Mingchuan, Tang Renlian and others copied and attacked Shouguang in Weixian County all day and night. The enemy was united and many surrendered.Guo Songlin, Yang Dingxun, and Pan Dingxin followed, and they won all battles.On the twenty-ninth day, Mingchuan, Songlin, Xundong, etc. chased for seventy miles, and arrived at Shouguangmi River before they were able to take over the battle.After more than ten rounds of fighting, they chased and killed for more than forty li, captured tens of thousands of people, and threw away all the enemy's elite equipment, mules and horses.In Hongzhang's report, it is said that those soldiers who returned to the old camp were comforted by their relatives.After the defeat of the Mi River, Lai Wenxuan survived the drowning, so he rallied more than a thousand riders and rushed out of the Liutang River defense.Huang Yisheng, Liu Bingzhang, Li Zhaoqing and others rode on water and land with their tails down, chasing and suppressing them, only a few hundred riders remained, and forced them into Gaoshi Water Village.Hongzhang first sent Wu Yulan, who led Huaiyong Huaiyong, to guard the Yangzhou Canal.All the troops worked together, intercepting and chasing after. On December 11, Yulan captured Wen'ang alive.East Nian was flattened, and the five provinces of East, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Hubei were all wiped out.

After Hongzhang's victory, since the army under Chen's subordinates suppressed Nian, they have relaxed and chased several provinces, and fought all the year round.Liu Mingchuan, Liu Bingzhang, Zhou Shengbo, Pan Dingxin, Guo Songlin, and Yang Dingxun are all begging for vacancies. Please rest for a while and don't be transferred to long-distance service.And because Liu Mingchuan was sick due to overwork, he asked for leave on his behalf. March.It was the first month of the seventh year, and Zhang Zongyu, who was a big stock in the west, suddenly crossed Hebei from the right side of the mountain and ran straight to Jifu.The capital was shaken.On the seventh and eighth day of the lunar new year, Lei Feng sent an order to urge Liu Mingchuan, Shanqing and other Mabu battalions to quickly go to Hebei to fight against them. He led Zhou Shengbo Shengchuan Mabu Eleventh Battalion, Pan Dingxin Dingzi Quanjun, and Shanqing Wen , Dekelesi cavalry team, marched one after another, crossed the river from Dong'a, ordered Guo Songlin and Yang Dingxun to rectify the brigade, and then continued. In the battle of West Nian, there was someone who was more difficult to achieve success than East Nian. The north of the Yellow River was flat for thousands of miles, and there were no mountains and rivers to limit it. Mr. Zhang was cunning and knew his soldiers. In the blink of an eye, I wanted to set up a long siege to trap it, but the terrain was not suitable, and it was difficult to cast a net. In view of the mistakes of Ren and Lai, when he heard about the siege, he rushed out with all his strength, and did not allow the officers and soldiers to have leisure, and started to construct in sequence. The second Huai army is all from the south, and the atmosphere in the north of the river is very different. The southern men's accent is different from that of the northerners, and their habits of eating grains and pasta are different. Difficult also.Hongzhang was the first to ask for the method of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, thinking that the former Ren and Lai Niangu, who fled to several provinces in the Central Plains, feared the ruins and villages more than the soldiers.In the east of Henan and Huaibei, the people are strong and have been persecuted for a long time. They gradually build up villages and build cities everywhere.In recent years, only Hubei and Shaanxi have been disturbed the most. There are no villages in the past.The Zhi and Jin directions have no troubles, and the people's hearts are simple and cowardly, so they failed to build a stronghold to defend themselves.Zhang Zongyu is very cunning, and he is also a poor bandit. There is the Yellow River in the south, and he will rush across and flow everywhere. (omitted in the middle) Since ancient times, the use of troops must be based on the strength and hunger of each other.The thieves may not be stronger than the officers and soldiers, but he has more horses and I have fewer horses, so there is a tendency to be incomparable; he can plunder food anywhere, but I have to buy food anywhere.Today, if we want to cut off the thieves' food and horses, we can only persuade the gentry and people in Hebei to build up the villages as soon as possible.The flatness of the west twist depends on it. In April, please use President Liu Mingchuan's former enemy armies, and Wen Zhi urged them to go.Let the Huai army and the Zhi and Dongmin regiments build long walls and dredge trenches along the Yellow River canal to fend off the enemy.Dong sent troops to take turns to attack and take a rest. After a long period of pursuit, the tired and needing to rest for a while, they chose to station on the east bank of the canal.Zhang Yao and Song Qing were also sent to Zhajin and Gaotang areas, and Cheng Wenbing Zhaling County and Wuqiao area to protect the movement and defense.Zuo Zongtang also sent Liu Songshan, Guo Baochang and other troops from the north of Lianzhen to the east bank of the Jiahe River in Cangzhou, and cooperated with Yang Dingxun and other troops nearby. In May, Niangu rushed to the northwest, and the armies intercepted them separately, winning repeatedly.Hongzhang took advantage of the flood season of the Yellow River and surrounded it with the canal as the periphery.As for the Majia River in Si County, Xiajin, and Gaotang, the outer circle is the inner circle.Forcing thieves to the southwest, arranged layer by layer.In May and June, the armies achieved great victories one after another, the enemy's situation weakened, and more and more formations dispersed.From June 19th to 22nd, etc., take advantage of the victory and chase after each other, winning every battle.On the 23rd, Zhang Zongyu waded through the water and fled southwest.On the 24th, from the plains to Gaotang.On the twenty-fifth, Pan Dingxin chased for a hundred and twenty miles, and braved the rain to Gaotang. The enemy had already moved towards Boping and Qingping, trying to attack the canal.The officers and soldiers built a long wall hundreds of miles earlier on the northwest bank of the Majia River, which was enough to restrict troops and horses.At that time, all the armies were tired of chasing after a long time, so Hongzhang sent Liu Mingchuan's fresh horse army to help in the battle, and the army's strength was greatly boosted.On the twenty-eighth day, encircling the enemy between Huang Yun and Huang Yun, Ming Chuan mobilized horses to meet them and chased them for several miles, when Guo Songlin came to the east with the whole army on horses.Blocking the way, and the river diverged, the water flowed and the mud sank, Liu and Guo's cavalry, five or six thousand people, attacked vertically and horizontally, and there was no way to capture or chop.Zhang Zongyu only led ten cavalry to flee to the north. Luckily, he sank in the river to die.The west is twisted to clear up, and the Central Plains are flat.In August, Li Hongzhang entered the capital. Li Hongzhang's military strategy is also based on planning and then moving, predicting the enemy like a god, so he has been in the army for fifteen years, and he has not suffered any setbacks.Even though it's called luck, isn't it based on people?Its suppression and development also took the foothold of the three cities in the district, and it was only one year old and wiped out the whole Wuzai.Suppressing Nian Ye, with more than ten years of aggressive enemies, the generals are helpless, and they will be wiped out at the age of one.Gai Ruoyou rushed to teach Yan.The generals who are waiting for them are all connected with morality and love, and they love each other like flesh and blood, so salty and happy serve their lives, and they are really talented generals.Although, Li Hongzhang's military career ended with Zeng Guofan's, and it was not just a feeling of recommending the lord. Li Xiucheng was exhausted, and there was a gap to take advantage of.Its flat twist also.Inheriting the strategy set by the Guofan, and so those who donate food from thousands of miles away have food and food, the governor of Liangjiang will follow behind, so there is no worry for the wolf to take care of.However, Hongzhang has followed Zeng's army for several years. He has cultivated morality and training his military machine, and his spirit of perseverance and perseverance has been established throughout his life. Compared with the strategy of governing the army and generals to be honest, open and unite morale, there is nothing wrong with it. One does not come from the country.So there was Zeng Guofan and then there was Li Hongzhang.Shouldn't it be appropriate for the parents of this matter to respect them like gods?