"A Hundred Years of Soldiers and Horses" 11: Adjusting the tiger away from the mountain black flag army, the beacon smoke rises again Song Jingshi to return to his hometown The 11th time: the tiger leaves the mountain black flag army to march, and the beacon smoke rises again Song Jingshi to return home

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Last time, the rebel army of the Five Banners accepted the Katsuho Zhao'an and unified it into the Black Flag Army, Song Jingshi was named the Five Pins Staff General, and the reorganized team was prepared to go with Katsuho to the south to encircle and suppress the rebellion of the Twist army.

In August of that year, the Xianfeng Emperor died and the Tongzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne. At that time, Tongzhi was only six years old, and Xianfeng arranged for him to have eight ministers before his death. The eight ministers bullied Tongzhi and wanted to control the government, but Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong launched a coup d'état of Xin You, and the eight ministers killed three and investigated five, and Empress Dowager Cixi began to bow to the government. It was not until the imperial court stabilized that Katsuho received a military order to lead his troops south to suppress the twist, and the time was after the fifteenth day of the first month of Tongzhi, that is, in 1862.

During this time, although Song Jingshi and others accepted the recruitment, their hearts were always unreliable, and they were afraid that one day they would be counterattacked by the government, so they all left their back hands. At that time, the team was being reorganized, and Katsuho asked to clean up some old, weak and disabled soldiers, and Song Jingshi took this opportunity to let his third brother Song Jingshu return to his hometown with six or seven hundred people to lurk. Other generals also left some dead ends.

The troops walked to the north bank of the Yellow River, Song Jingshi crossed the river, Zhang Yuhuai and Yang Pengling thought about going, still unwilling to leave their homeland, today said that there was no boat, tomorrow said that there was a shortage of grain and grass, and refused to cross the river for a long time. Later, he simply returned to Qingshui Town with the team. Song Jingshi also wanted to go back, but because the government blocked the ferry and controlled the ships, she could not cross the river, so she had to follow Shengbao to Anhui.

Zhang Yuhuai and Yang Pengling returned to Guan County, freed from the command of Shengbao, and the local government could not control it, so how to deal with this team made Tan Tingxiang, the governor of Shandong, very troubled. The imperial court meant "killing on all sides to avoid future troubles," but Tan Tingxiang knew that there were many people left behind before the Black Flag Army crossed the river, and it was forced to make a big incident, so he came up with a way to require the black flag army generals who did not accompany the army to report back to their hometowns to report to the local militia regiment, hand over their weapons and horses, and return them to the local militia group in the future. In this way, the remaining black flag army can be reduced to pieces, and at the same time, the strength of the militia is strengthened, because the militia is organized by the landlords and rich people, and the government is easy to control. In the past two years, guanxian county, guantao, Xinxian county, and Tangyi area, because it is in the central area of the uprising, the militia groups have been suppressed by the rebel army, and they have not developed, and after the rebel army left, they took the opportunity to recruit troops and horses to strengthen the team.

Most of these Black Flag troops who did not cross the river were hardcore members of the original team, and there was a task in staying, and they were absorbed by the militia and handed over their weapons and horses, which was equivalent to surrendering their weapons and surrendering. Therefore, they are very resistant to the incorporation of vigilante groups, and many places have clashed with vigilante groups because of this. However, their main force left, and the strength of the militia group grew stronger and stronger, and they could not resist, and even the six or seven hundred people brought by Song Jingshu were forcibly disarmed by Wang Bailing of the Gantun "Loyal Love Regiment". Song Jingshu quickly let people inform the eldest brother Song Jingshi of the situation in his hometown. Song Jingshi had already moved to Shanxi with Shengbao, and in June 1862, he sent his second brother Song Jingli and the general Yang Dianyi back to GuanXian County, claiming to have received The military orders of Shengbao, so that the old troops who remained in Shandong would quickly return to the camp, and the weapons and horses handed over would be returned as they were. When the local vigilante groups heard this, they also fried the pot, threatening that they would only listen to the orders of the local government and not to the military orders of Shengbao. As a result, the conflict between the two sides intensified, and new uprisings broke out one after another, with Zhang Xizhu and Yang Pengling's younger brother Yang Pengshan revolting in Linqing, and Zhang Yuhuai and Yang Pengling's other younger brother Yang Pengju revolting in Xinxian County. The target of this uprising became a local vigilante group, the two sides came and went, fighting and killing every day, in this process, Song Jingshi's second brother Song Jingli was killed by Wang Bailing's yin move, and wang Bailing had formed a liang with the Song family and became a sworn enemy.

By the winter of 1862, more than 10,000 rebels had gathered in and around Guan County, and the local vigilante groups were growing stronger and stronger, on a par with the rebel army, but because they had the support of the government, the rebel army was still at a disadvantage overall.

During this time, Song Jingshi was also always paying attention to the situation in his hometown, hearing that his second brother was dead and the Black Flag Army in Shandong was in danger, he was anxious and wanted to rush back to Shandong immediately to support, only to suffer from being in the Qing Dynasty army and had no chance.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month of that year, the opportunity finally appeared. Katsuho was questioned by the imperial court for his inability to suppress bandits, and was sent back to the capital for trial, and his troops were handed over to Dolonga. During the handover period, there was chaos in management, and Song Jingshi seized this opportunity to return to Shandong with the Black Flag Army in the name of changing troops for defense.