What great general in history died at the hands of an unknown person? November 19, 1867: The Eastern Twister Army is defeated at Ganyu, Jiangsu Province, and the leader Ren Huabang is assassinated by his subordinate Pan Guisheng.
In history, what general died at the hands of the unknown?
The monk Greenqin, who was killed by the young soldiers of the Twist army, was one of them.
The Twister Army was completely different from the Taiping Army and belonged to a peasant army of a different nature.
The Twist army was a peasant armed force operating in the four provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan, and it flourished for 16 years before it was pacified by Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang.
The Taiping Army was an anti-Qing army with the Hakka as the backbone and a mysterious religious color. Generally speaking, the Taiping Army was well-organized, had a complete military and political system, and had its own various systems.
In short, the Taiping Army was a scaled-down version of the Qing Army, a mature army close to the government army.
Moreover, the Taiping Army soon established its own base area and fought on all sides on this basis.
The Twister Army is completely different.
In essence, the Twister Army is just a half-bandit, half-local armed force of displaced people.
Due to the famine every year, the people could not live, and the young and strong people turned to the Twist army in order to survive. The Twister Army did not have a unified organization, each with its own territory and its own affairs. They were only formal alliances, and they had also cooperated with the Taiping Army, but they were only a gang of displaced people similar to bandits.
Objectively speaking, the threat of the Twist army is far inferior to that of the Taiping Army. They were a ragtag bunch, with no clear political or religious claims, and internally scattered, generally not facing the Qing army head-on.
Even in its heyday, the Twister army was only 100,000 in size and more than 10,000 cavalry. However, the Twister Army still has a certain combat effectiveness, and it is even more difficult to completely eliminate it. This is because the source of soldiers of the Twist army comes from the poor people, and the more disasters the Twist army, the more the Twist Army will be killed.
In 1853, during the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army, the Twister army near the Huai River responded one after another and fought together. After that, the Qing army began to attach importance to the twist army and dispatched large troops to encircle and suppress it.
The cavalry of the Twist army was very mobile, and it was difficult to grasp their main force in the eight provinces of Anhui, Henan, Lu, Su, Hubei, Shaanxi, Jin, and Zhi (Hebei) for more than ten years.
In the time of the monk Greenqin, the erroneous strategy of trailing pursuit was adopted, that is, the use of a large number of cavalry to pursue the Twister army until they were eliminated.
In 1864, Senggelinqin led tens of thousands of cavalry to pursue the Twist army to the vicinity of Lushan Mountain in Henan. While some of the Qing cavalry crossed the Shahe River, the Twister army suddenly launched a fierce attack.
The warlord Greenqin's henchmen, the wing commander Hengling, were killed by the Twister army, and several generals were killed.
In this battle, the monk Greenqin learned the strength of the twist army cavalry.
The data says: Twist army cavalry and the traditional Manchu cavalry focus on riding and shooting is different, their cavalry combat brave, accustomed to using saber spears to impact the enemy's battle position of close combat, due to the twist army cavalry desperate charge, caused great pressure on the psychology of the Qing army, history has recorded that the twist army cavalry is good at using spears, once organized the spear cavalry with a hand index meter to form a surprise attack on the Qing army's position. The Qing King Ding'an's "Records of the Disciples of Qiu Que Zhai" records that "thieves are especially good at using spears, and the giants are more than two zhang." Our army bombarded with guns and artillery, and the thieves and horses heard the sound of gunfire and pounced more and more fiercely, and in an instant they were forced to take a position, and the guns could not be used again. ”
In addition, the twister cavalry tactics are varied, it is difficult to deal with: the twister army a cavalry plus an infantry way to stagger slowly forward together, after entering the Range of the Qing army's muskets, the cavalry charged, quickly charged the Qing army musket troops, the infantry also quickly advanced, and when the Qing infantry came up to attack the twister cavalry, the twister cavalry retreated from both flanks. By this time the Twister infantry had already approached, and the two sides were engaged in infantry, and the Twister cavalry returned to encircle the Qing army from both flanks. It is recorded in the Book of Disciples of Qiu Que Zhai that xi rolled in with one step and one cavalry regiment, and the officers and soldiers feared it. "Zeng Guofan said: Riding with vigor to copy our army from both wings, the horses are happy, and the disease is like a storm."
Interestingly, the Twister Army also likes Western weapons and is equipped with a large number of foreign guns: the twist of the past, the flag is sometimes loaded, and everyone is in harmony; now it is uncertain and accustomed to struggle; the twist of the past is mostly a disciple, and there are fresh firearms. Nowadays, he is neglected to ride and has many foreign guns.
It can be seen that the Twister Army is not only quite effective in combat, but also very good at learning, and it is not easy to deal with.
After the defeat of this battle, the monk Greenqin became angry and decided to pursue the Twist army at any cost.
After 4 months of continuous pursuit, Senggelinqin fought with the Twister Army several times in a row, and had some achievements. However, the main force of the Twister Army still existed, and it entered the territory of Shandong from Henan.
The monk Gelinqin ordered his men to pursue Shandong, but most of the generals opposed it. The Senggelinqin cavalry pursued for many months, and along the way there was a shortage of food supplies, the road was difficult, and hundreds of officers and soldiers died of exhaustion and illness. Day and night chasing, the Qing officers and men were extremely tired and unwilling to pursue any more. Moreover, many places in Henan and Shandong were already in famine, and it was impossible to supply military food, and the Senggelinqin cavalry still needed to fight with hunger and starvation.
If it was only a month or two of fighting, the cavalry could still hold out. At this time, after chasing for 4 months, no one knows how long they will chase, the officers and men do not want to fight like this, and the troops are very angry.
However, Senggelinqin believed that the Twist army was close to collapse and could be completely annihilated as long as it persisted in fighting for another 1 month.
Believing that he would win, the monk Gelinqin forcibly ordered his troops to pursue, and those who violated the order were beheaded.
It is exaggerated that at this time, some of the small leaders of the Twist army surrendered, and they were actually killed by the monk Greenqin in retaliation. This made the Twisters think that when they surrendered, they could only fight to the death.
After more than a month of this, the Twister Army entered Henan again. By this point, the monk's men were already furious to the extreme. These cavalry pursued for almost half a year, day and night, fighting once in a few days, and the food supply was often cut off.
At that time, the morale of the army was fluctuating, and the morale of the cavalry was low.
On the contrary, the monk Greenqin believed that the Twist army was about to be destroyed, and decided to accelerate the pursuit, once and for all.
In the mind of the monk Gelinqin, he never thought that the Twister Army would dare to attack on a large scale, believing that they had collapsed into an army.
On May 18, about 10,000 cavalry of Senggelinqin pursued to the area of Gaolouzhai, where people were trapped and lacking, and the combat effectiveness was reduced to the lowest point.
What he didn't know was that Zhang Zongyu, the leader of the Twist army, had already made a plan to drag down the enemy and carry out another decisive ambush.
Previously, Zhang Zongyu judged that the Senggelinqin cavalry still had a certain combat effectiveness and could not casually carry out the main decisive battle.
At this time, he thought that the time had come, and decided to carry out an ambush at the high-rise village and annihilate the Senggelinqin cavalry group in one fell swoop.
At this time, the cavalry of the monk Greenqin in the high-rise village had more than 9,000 people.
Therefore, Zhang Zongyu carefully set up an ambush circle, and even drove the local people to assist, dug a long trapped horse ditch, and then sent a small number of cavalry to lure the enemy deeper. The monk Gelinqin had long since ignored the Twister Army, believing that they had already routed. He quickly hit the plan and ordered the main force to chase into the high-rise village.
Never dreaming of being ambushed, the monk Greenqin's various units chased after him in a scattered manner. Suddenly, tens of thousands of twisters came out from all directions.
Monk Greenqin's cavalry was already tired and demoralized, which was suddenly frightened.
Fortunately, after all, the monk Greenqin was experienced in hundreds of battles, and immediately sent various parts to meet the battle for the three teams, preparing to turn defeat into victory and annihilate the main force of the Twist army in one fell swoop.
However, the officers and men of the Twist Army were all fighting with their lives at this moment, and their morale was much higher than that of the Qing Army. In addition, the Twister Army was originally waiting for work, fully prepared, and had the advantage of troops, and soon gained the upper hand. First of all, the deputy governor of the middle road of the monk, Changxing Abe, was defeated, and the cavalry broke backwards and fled for their lives. At this moment, the other two Qing armies were still fighting fiercely with the Twister Army, regardless of victory or defeat.
Zhang Zongyu was also a general, and after judging the situation, he ordered the victorious Middle Road Twister Army to immediately attack the Qing army on the West Road. The Qing army on the western road could not support it, it was crumbling, and after being caught, it was suddenly completely defeated. With the defeat of the two Qing armies, the army of Senggelinqin completely collapsed.
At this time, the monk Greenqin considered leading the troops to retreat, but the only road that could be retreated was a deep trapped horse ditch, and it was impossible to break through.
From noon to night, more than 9,000 people in the Senggelinqin's army suffered casualties. Cabinet University Scholar Quanshun, General He Jian'ao, and Erjing'e were all killed in battle, and the rest of the army lost their organization and fled.
At this point, the monk Greenqin could only take care of himself first. He led a small number of his own soldiers and quickly broke through on horseback. But before long, the cavalry was caught up by the Twister cavalry, and the two sides fought fiercely in the night field. In the melee, the small group of cavalry of the monk Greenqin was killed, and a few survivors quickly fled on horseback in order to survive, and they could not take care of covering the prince. In this battle, the monk Greenqin was seriously wounded by the knife and fell on his horse and fell into the field.
At that time, the twister cavalry only cared about chasing, but did not check whether the monk Greenqin was dead.
After a while, a twist army came to clean up the battlefield. Zhang Pixiu, a 15-year-old twister soldier, found a big fat man still panting, hacked him to death with a knife, and snatched the three-eyed flower plume and rosary beads he was wearing.
The ridiculous monk Greenqin fought all his life, experienced countless fierce battles, and finally died at the hands of a half-grown child. Zhang Pixiu was uneducated and did not know that he had killed the monk Gelinqin. Later, when he returned to the large army and handed over the captured Three-Eyed Flower Plume, his superiors judged that he had killed the monk Gelinqin and gave him a heavy reward.
After the defeat of the Twist army, this Zhang Pixiu fled back to his hometown to farm, and only 8 years later was caught by the Qing court, and the rosary beads worn daily by the monk Gelinqin were found. As a result, Zhang Pixiu was executed by Ling Chi.
If the monk Greenqin died at the hands of a nameless teenager, it is really a nest.
Then, the Soviet Union's General Vatutin was even more miserable.
Vatutin was one of the soviet generals who were best at fighting, and was on par with Zhukov.
He joined the Red Army as early as 1920, and spent more than 20 years on horseback, experienced hundreds of battles and did not die, starting from platoon commander and receiving the rank of general in 1943.
Vatutin, who is a major general, is only 42 years old, which shows that the future is immeasurable.
Vatutin was Stalin's confidant and was entrusted with a heavy responsibility. He commanded the famous Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk.
In October 1943, he became commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front, commanding the Battle of the Dnieper and the Battle of Kiev.
Stalin even told Vatutin that he could take the place of the disobedient Zhukov in attacking Berlin and enjoy the highest honor.
Just as Vatutin was having a smooth sailing, an accident suddenly occurred.
On February 29, 1944, in the Ostrovhe district of Rivnu Oblast, a Soviet-occupied area, Vatutin rushed to the front command post by car and was suddenly ambushed.
The attackers were not Germans, nor special forces, but partisans of Ukrainian nationalists.
This guerrilla force is very weak, only a dozen people.
They saw 2 Soviet jeeps passing by, so they used submachine guns to shoot indiscriminately at the vehicles.
During the melee, Vatutin was shot in the back and leg.
In fact, these two gunshot wounds were not serious injuries, but after being shot, there was an unexpected serious infection.
Vatutin was in good health and did not die as quickly as a normal person. He persevered for almost 2 months and finally died on April 15. Before dying, Vatutin was very painful, and it was better to be killed on the spot by a bullet.
In desperation, Stalin appointed Zhukov as commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front in March. However, after Zhukov took office, the casualties of the front began to increase rapidly.
Vatutin's death, though accidental, also had its own factors of carelessness. At that time, British and American intelligence agencies had informed this Ukrainian anti-Soviet guerrillas. Normally, Vatutin should have taken at least a few armored cars or motorcycles with him to serve as a convoy. However, Vatutin believed that the guerrillas were cowards, and only dared to come out at night to shoot black guns, so they rushed in a jeep in the White Heaven and The Imperial Land, and did not carry the guards at all.
Vatutin was not killed by millions of German troops, and he died at the hands of more than a dozen poorly equipped Ukrainian guerrillas, which was really more wronged than Guan Yu.