Han’s Son is Not a Slave

In Nanyang, Ta Tianbao and Hao Yaoqi have been besieging Neixiang County for four days, but they have not been able to wait for the Qing army reinforcements from Nanyang Prefecture. Everyone is anxious and discouraged.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao had only more than 3,000 veterans, but they drove more than 40,000 young men from Hubei. Since entering Henan last year, the two generals have been active in southern Henan, capturing one prefecture and six counties, beheading more than a thousand Qing troops. However, the second general was still unable to gain a foothold in southern Henan. In March, Ta Tianbao was defeated by the commander Miao Chenglong of Nanyang in Zhenping, losing 4,000 or 5,000 people, so he had to join forces with Hao Yaoqi.

In the Battle of Zhenping, Miao Chenglong, the commander-in-chief of Nanyang in the Qing Dynasty, obeyed the orders of the governor Jia Hanfu, and took every step of the way. Every ten li, he had to build a village and dig a trench. This made Ta Tianbao unable to take advantage of the cavalry, and the storms failed several times. Unable to continue, he had to order a retreat. As a result, they were attacked by the elites of Miao Chenglong's troops on the way to withdraw, causing great chaos and collapsed for 50 miles. After the war, Pagoda Tianbao gathered the rest and only had more than 5,000.

After Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao joined forces, because Henan Governor Jia Hanfu commanded several Qing troops to approach Nanyang, and there was no food in Nanyang City, Hao Yaoqi abandoned Nanyang and led his troops to Xinye, Neixiang and Wuyang with Ta Tianbao. Activity. At the same time, he urgently reported to Li Laiheng, the little tiger, and asked the little tiger to help the army.

When Li Laiheng, Liu Tichun, Dang Shousu and others were working in the area of ​​Runing House, east of Nanyang. In April, Dang Shousu led the army to attack the Huainan area, trying to raise food and grass from the local area, but was attacked by the Qing generals Kuenbu and Jinli who were guarding Huainan and Lujiang.

After receiving Hao Yaoqi's letter asking for food, Li Laiheng couldn't help him because his troops didn't have much food and grass. On the one hand, he asked Liu Tichun to allocate some rations to Hao Yaoqi for emergency relief, and on the other hand, he sent a messenger back to Wuchang, and asked Yuan Zongdi, who was in Wuchang, to collect rations and transport them to the front line as soon as possible.

How could Yuan Zongdi have any food? The Zhongzhen Camp received Hubei from the Taiping Army for less than a year, but it took over 100,000 young men from Hubei. Dilapidated, landowner rebellion is one after another. It can be said that Yuan Zongdi, the governor of Hubei, has not changed from the status of a rogue to the role of governor of a province. When Bai Wang ruled Jianghan for three years, Jianghan became an important base for the Dashun Army, and he showed outstanding talent in resisting Zuo Liangyu and suppressing the rebellion of the landlords. Compared with Bai Wang, Yuan Zongdi is really a lot worse, even if his status in the camp was much higher than Bai Wang.

Li Laiheng asked Yuan Zongdi to raise food, but Yuan Zongdi had no food, so he asked the Hunan Taiping Army for help. The Hunan governor of the Taiping Army, Zhao Sihai, did not give food generously, but asked the messenger to bring back the four words "Encircle the point to fight for assistance".

As the name suggests, "encircling points and fighting for reinforcements" means that the enemy who surrounds a town uses it as a bait to attract reinforcements from other places. The focus of encircling points and fighting for aid is to fight for aid, so the focus of force deployment is to fight for the strength of the aid, and the one that surrounds the city is the auxiliary force.

"Encircling points and fighting for aid" is obviously very suitable for the fighting habits of the loyal camp, because the field ability of the loyal camp is stronger than that of the Qing army in Henan, but it is much weaker in the siege of the city. The Qing army in Henan fought against the loyalty camp by sticking to the village, which was to use its own strengths to deal with the shortcomings of the other. However, if the loyal camp adopts the tactic of "encircling points and fighting for reinforcements", the advantages of the Qing army will be lost. He took the initiative of the battle into his own hands, so he was no longer passively dealing with the Qing army, but actively dealing with the Qing army. Of course, the key to the success of "encircling a point and fighting for aid" lies in the first two words, that is, this point of encirclement must be the place where the Qing army will save, otherwise it doesn't matter, the main force of the Qing army will not come to help, nor will they be too worried about being attacked. The gains and losses of the encirclement disrupted its marching rhythm.

Yuan Zongdi failed to get food from Hunan, and he never complained that the Taiping Army was not interesting, because Zhongzhen Camp had already obtained too many resources from the Taiping Army. Without the support of the Taiping Army, Zhongzhen Battalion said that it would go to Henan, and it would not even be able to capture Wuchang City. In this world, it can help people in a moment of urgency, but not for the rest of their lives. The situation in Hunan is better than that in Hubei, but it is not much better. With so many soldiers being raised, it is also very tight on food, so how could it be possible to give it as soon as it is needed.

Yuan Zongdi, who was not good at local governance, was very experienced in marching and fighting. He saw the benefits of the words "encircling the point and fighting for aid" at a glance, and immediately informed Li Laiheng and Hao Yaoqi of this method of warfare. et al.

Neixiang was the first place where Hao Yaoqi decided to encircle and fight for aid, and it was also the first attempt of this strategy in the Loyalty Camp.

Although Neixiang is the county seat, it is the main road of Nanyang, Nanzhao, Tangxian and other places. The Qing army stationed more than 2,000 green camps here. Once the Neixiang was lost, Nanyang, except the Fucheng, was owned by the Taiping Army. Therefore, once the Zhongzheng camp besieged the inner township, Miao Chenglong, the general soldier of Nanyang in the Qing Dynasty, would definitely come to rescue. As long as Miao Chenglong is eager to save the inner village, problems will inevitably arise in the march. When the time comes, Miao Chenglong's army will be solved in one go. Not only will Nanyang Mansion be able to descend again, but the Loyalty Camp will be able to rush northwards, even approaching Kaifeng.

Unexpectedly, after four days of siege, the Qing army in Nanyang showed no sign of coming to rescue the inner village, which made Hao Yaoqi feel aggrieved. In order to besiege the inner village, he took all his belongings up, and if he could not solve Miao Chenglong, he would retreat to Hubei.

Ta Tianbao's strength has weakened since the first battle of Zhenping, so this time he was in charge of the siege of Neixiang, and Hao Yaoqi was in charge of the fight. If he really wanted to storm the inner town, Ta Tianbao thought to himself that he would be able to win if he had to fight his old foundation, but that would be too much loss and not worth it. In the past few days, Ta Tianbao has not been idle, and sent troops to pull the husband, looting the people's food and grass, and barely got a few hundred stones. But this food is not enough to eat, so he came to Hao Yaoqi's camp and asked Hao Yaoqi's next step~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If Miao Chenglong really doesn't come to save Neixiang, do they really want to attack with all their strength? Can't make the city?

"Old Tower, can those people you recruited fight fight?"

Hao Yaoqi didn't rush to talk about the war after seeing Ta Tianbao. Instead, he asked Ta Tianbao if the young men he had pulled in the past few days could do anything.

"I've seen a few battles and blood, and those who survived don't know how to fight." Ta Tianbao said angrily.

Hao Yaoqi smiled and asked Ta Tianbao earnestly: "Old Ta, give me a solid foundation, how many of your men can go into battle?"

Ta Tianbao pondered for a while and sighed: "There are more than 500 people left in the old foundation, and those from Hubei can barely pick more than a thousand people."

"Fold so much?"

Although Hao Yaoqi knew that Ta Tianbao had played hard enough for Miao Chenglong in Zhenping, but there were still more than 7,000 people who came back, but he didn't expect that there were only more than 1,000 elites.

"Why, do you think my Ta Tianbao is useless?" Ta Tianbao snorted, "I'm still capable of fighting Neixiang!"