Song Jingshi
After the victory of the defense of Jinshuigou, Katsuho also arrived in Tongzhou from Tongguan with the General Mu Teng'a of Xi'an on the thirteenth day.
The rebels again divided into several ways to escape Pucheng and Baishui, intending to contain the officers and troops so that Katsuho could not return to the provincial capital.
At five o'clock on the 25th, Shengbao sent the deputy governor Chang Hai, Gao Fu and Song Jingshi to lead the horse team to cross the river at the mouth of the new bridge.
Former prefect Yuan Huaizhong, general Wang Yongfa, guerrilla Li Gaoqi, and Dusi Li Desheng led infantry to line up at Yangjiahe.
Chang Hai and others led the army across the river, the rebels dug trenches along the river, built fortresses to resist the officers and soldiers, saw the officers and soldiers crossing the river, that is, fired artillery bombardment at the Bandu officers, the officers and soldiers were sunk several times, and more than eighty people fell into the river.
Artillery fired Western artillery at rebel positions on the opposite bank to suppress the fire.
After the officers crossed the river, the rebels abandoned their positions and retreated backwards, and Song Jingshi commanded the spear team to pursue them on horseback.
The officers and soldiers pursued to che village, where five hundred rebels stubbornly resisted.
After the battle until noon, the rebels killed more than a hundred people, and the rest fled to Wangge Village and Qiangbai Town, and joined forces with a large group of rebels, a total of 7,000 or 8,000 people frantically counterattacked the officers and soldiers.
The officers and horses counterattacked in formation, the infantry held their positions, and fired muskets at the rebels, and the horse teams charged at the rebels from both wings, firing rockets on their horses, killing three hundred enemy people on the spot, and the rebels retreated to the nest and held on to the fort.
The officers and men then pursued to the edge of the fort trench, which was two inches wide and several feet deep, and contained sharp plum blossom stakes, which the officers and soldiers could not overcome for a while, and fired at each other in the trenches separated by the rebels.
Most of the rebel weapons are Russian-made muskets, and there is a Western breech cannon, which are the advanced weapons aided by the Ningxia Sect Leader.
The officers and men suffered more than 200 casualties in the trench battle, most of whom were officers and men of the horse team.
Chang Hai ordered the retreat to the new bridge, but the rebels actually pursued it.
Chang Hai ordered the infantry to snipe in place and cover the retreat of the horse team.
After the rebels defeated the officers and infantry, they crossed the river in three parts.
Along the river, there was already Xi'an General Mu Teng'a's Heilongjiang horse team on the left side, Xiang'en's Jilin horse team on the right side, and the infantry formed a phalanx on the opposite bank, and the two cannons in front of the line were waiting for the rebels to come ashore.
After all the rebels crossed the river, the infantry guns and artillery were fired in unison, the opposite side was cut like straw to a large area, the rest of the chaos were looking for hiding places, the officers and soldiers slowly advanced, suppressing the rebels to the side of the riverbank, and the officers and horses took advantage of the situation to encircle the two wings.
The rebels were shot, shot, trampled by horses, there was no way forward, and the commanding heights on both sides were occupied by the officers and soldiers, and they had no choice but to flee into the river, drowning countless people. After pursuing and killing for more than ten miles, the officers and soldiers returned.
On the twenty-sixth day, the rebels again entangled large shares, and came by two roads, with a total of about 20,000 horse infantry troops, and the officers and soldiers fought.
Wang Yongqing led his team to pounce on the enemy position, and the rebels besieged more than a hundred people, and Wang Yongqing was shot twice in the body and was snatched out of the enemy position by his own soldiers.
After three hours of fighting, the rebels retreated.
At dawn in early November, the weather was bad, with strong winds whistling and rain and snow.
More than 30,000 rebels from Wangge Village, Qiangbai Town, Cangtou, Panyi and other towns launched a fierce attack on the battalions of Li Gaoqi, Chen Zhenqing, He Tailai, and Zhang Baoxi stationed in the Qilipu area.
The officers and soldiers also fought in five ways, the officers and soldiers refused to hold the trench, first with a series of artillery and muskets to resist the enemy, the rebels were not afraid of death, repeatedly rushed, and the official positions were breached several times.
Zhang Baoxi led the infantry team to cross the trench to take the initiative, firing a large number of rockets and spray canisters, and the rebel offensive was slightly absent.
The officers and men rushed into the time to renovate the barrier, and suddenly saw five leaders dressed in red and holding the red flag leading more than a hundred people, armed with foreign guns, rushing toward the official positions, standing in front of the trench, firing muskets in a salvo, and dozens of officers and soldiers who were building the barrier were killed and wounded.
The officers and soldiers' battalions once again bombarded each other with guns and artillery, and the infantry rushed out of the camp and charged with swords and spears, and the officers and horses also rushed to the battlefield at this time, and responded in two ways, and the rebels saw that there were too many casualties and began to retreat.
In this battle, five rebel leaders were beheaded, wounded, more than 2,000 people were killed, and countless mules, horses, and firearms were captured.
The Shaanxi rebellion began in Wangge Village, so the fierce combat strength of this rebel army was at the top of the group of bandits.
In fact, this battle began on October 25 and ended on the third day of November, and a total of eight battles were fought, and the officers and soldiers won eight battles and eight victories.
This is the situation of the East Road in early November.
Since the Sujiagou rebels were defeated by Lei Zhengxuan, the rest of the people rushed to Fengxiang.
Jingyang:
Cheng Lu and Wu le Xing'a won the great victory of Yongledian on the third day of October, and on the sixteenth day, they went to Jingyang and attacked several rebel nests, and the rebels returned to the old nest, and the difficulties of Jingyang were slightly relieved.
As for the Lan's share
The Lan rebels held Shouyang County, and on September 29, they were pursued and suppressed by Mao Zhenshou, the shaanxi clan commander, Chen Tianzhu, and Yi Peishen.
On the 30th, the Lan rebels were blocked at the Liushui River, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Chu armies and Jia Jingxiu of Zhixian County, And The county of Chen, and the Lan rebels were killed by more than a thousand people.
Guo Daodao's remnants were channeled by Huixian County, and Mao Zhenshou sent an army to pursue them, but due to the thin strength of the troops, they could not all be annihilated.
Back to the same state:
Since the disastrous defeat in Tongzhou in early November, the rebels were not reconciled, and they lined up every day to show their military might in the area of Hancun, and from time to time fled to the local areas, intending to contain the officers and troops.
At this time, the battlefield in Shaanxi was slightly calmer, both sides were accumulating strength to fight again, and Shengbao was fighting with the imperial court for Miao Peilin to enter Shaanxi, and discussed with Ying Tang to negotiate the matter of all parties.
The royal bar was robbed
The rare calm was broken by a major event, and the imperial court official Silver was robbed.
On November 6, Shanxi Inspector Yinggui reported that "the salary of 10,000 silver will be raised for 10,000 taels, and the members will be relieved, and they will be able to reach the camp on the fifteenth day of the way." ”
Katsuho was overjoyed to hear the news, this was the first imperial court salary since he entered Shaanxi, which can be described as "sending charcoal in the snow"
The soldiers had not been paid for almost a year, which was a boost to morale.
Katsuho also knew that the road was not safe, the rebels were harassing everywhere, and how to ensure the safety of the money was a top priority.
Katsuho ordered the deputy governor Gao Fu to lead the horse team to escort the welcome, to the Eight Mile Shop, suddenly a large group of rebels had already gathered here, Gao Fu immediately sent people to the camp to report the news, Shengbao sent Chang Hai, Song Jingshi chi aid, fought for one night, the rebels fled, but The silver was robbed, and the escort commissioner was also killed.
Previously, military salaries have always been donated by officials and gentry, including many acts such as forced donations and private enrichment, and the vast number of officials and gentry and the officialdom have complained about Shengbao, and this time the official salary has been robbed, and the official field has once again set off a large-scale impeachment against Shengbao.
The officers and soldiers initially gained the upper hand on the battlefield, and from Tongzhou Xiguan to Yangjiahe, the pressure on the rebels increased sharply.
Han aides in the rebel camp advised him to surrender to the officers and soldiers, and then look for opportunities to fight again.
The rebels sent emissaries to ask for care and paralyze the officers and soldiers.
Secretly entangled Sujiagou, Xianyang, Taxia, Shahe, Gaoling and other places to come to meet.
At dawn on November 11, the rebel forces attacked Li Gaoqi and Zhang Baoxi from the northwest and southwest, and the other two battalions of Chen Zhenqing and Fan Desheng pounced on chen zhenqing and Fan Desheng, and the two armies of the officers and horses and infantry responded to each other and fought steadily and steadily, from midnight to noon, a total of four hours, and the rebels were repelled.
On the twelfth day, the rebels once again entangled more than 10,000 people of the horse infantry army, crossing the river from the north village, intending to rob the official grain, the officer army detachment intercepted, the rebels were numerous, and one of them bypassed the rear wing of the officer army and destroyed the rear wing officer army.
At the same time, a separate unit of troops attacked the officers and horses, and the horse team was also repelled.
After repelling two lines of officers and troops in succession, the rebels attacked Dongguan in Chengxian County, the officers and troops fought a bloody battle with the enemy at Dongguan, and the brave people in the city went into battle one after another to cooperate with the officers and troops, and the rebels were defeated and rushed west.
However, due to the insufficient strength of the officers and troops, they could not expand the results of the battle.
According to the prisoner's confession: "The head of the thief in Wangge Village, because of the repeated defeats of the army, has taken more than 4,000 horse steps from Fengxiang and gone to Tongzhou."
It coincided with the arrival of a newly recruited brave brigade of 1,800 men from Henan.
Huang Dekui led his army to attack the village of Dongxilian on the eighteenth and nineteenth, and tens of thousands of rebels flocked to the sun.
Huang Dekui's troops took the lead in the attack, and the generals Yuan Huaide, Guerrilla Ma Daxiang, Dusi Zheng Yongtai, Xie Desheng and others led the recruits to follow.
The officers, soldiers, and horses were divided into left and right.
Huang Dekui took the lead in entering the battle, and the officers and soldiers fired a salvo of foreign guns, rockets, and spray canisters.
Huang Dekui's formation was two leaders of the hand-bladed rebel flag, and the rebels saw that the leader was killed, and immediately came to snatch the corpse, the position was suddenly chaotic, the rear of the officers and troops rushed in, and the rebels did not support, and fled into the villages of Dong and Xilian.
The officers and soldiers chased into the village, and the rebels were so emboldened that they did not dare to resist and fled in defeat.
The officers and soldiers attacked the eastern and western villages, killing more than a thousand people and capturing countless people.
Ma Dezhao's camp captured the traitor confessed: "Within a day, there was a gathering of people to attack the provincial city."
At this time, the officers and troops were all outside the bandits, and the strength of the provincial city was not enough, so they had to pin their hopes on the arrival of reinforcements.
Fortunately, Duolong'a pursued the Taiping Army, and the Twist Army was victorious, and the Chu Yu military affairs were slightly at ease, and the imperial court urged him to enter the customs as soon as possible to replace Shengbao.
Doronga galloped in the night and arrived in Tongzhou on November 27, garrisoning the city.