"A Hundred Years of Chaos in the Army" 15: Turning defeat into victory over the foreign gun team, the general trend has gone to Song Jingshi to disappear The 15th time: turning defeat into the victory of the foreign gun team to make a threat, the general trend has gone to Song Jingshi to disappear

Last time, when it was said that the monk Greenqin personally led the troops to surround and suppress the Black Flag Army, he thought that it was a hand to hand, a piece of cake, but he did not expect that in a hand-to-hand fight, he was also defeated in successive battles. In the end, he personally supervised the battle to no avail, and watched as Yang Dianyi, the general of the Black Flag Army, killed him and shouted that he wanted to capture the monk Greenqin alive.

At this critical juncture, the last ace of the monks, the "Foreign Gun Team", arrived. The yankee team consisted of more than 500 people, all of whom were foreigners, and were equipped with the most advanced front-loading rifles in the world at that time, as well as nortonfeld rapid-fire machine guns, which was a natural general for the Black Flag Army. Just listening to the ping-pong ping-pong and ping-pong gunshots, the Black Flag Army had not yet seen the enemy, and the soldiers who rushed in front fell down in rows. Yang Dianyi saw that it was not good, and quickly collected his troops and returned to the camp. The monk Greenqin led his troops in pursuit and was stationed outside the east gate of Liu Guanzhuang, the headquarters of the Black Flag Army.

Yang Dianyi went back and said that Song Jingshi knew that this was the foreign gun team coming. Once they were together, the foreign gun brigade would not be able to fight again, and if they waited for the next day for the monk Greenqin to surround the village without attacking, they would be trapped inside. Without further ado, Song Jingshi commanded his troops to prepare for retreat that night. In order not to let the Qing army find out, they planted a lot of straw people on the city wall, and then hung the sheep on the war drums, tied the military flags to the cattle and horses, and let them walk freely, creating the illusion that the flags were fluttering and the war drums were beating wildly, in fact, the soldiers and horses in the city quietly ran from the west gate in the middle of the night. Monk Greenqin did not expect that the Black Flag Army, which was still evenly matched yesterday, would be able to escape at night, and as a result, the next morning, he attacked the village without effort, and when he saw the hanging sheep beating drums, the cattle and horses playing the flag, there was no one in the shadow, and he was so angry that he was furious and thunderous, and immediately sent troops to catch up. All the way to Zhao Xinzhuang, southeast of guanxian county, caught up with the black flag army and eliminated more than a thousand people; then chased to Chaocheng, Song Jingshi set up an ambush, won back a round, and captured the general Chengbao of the monk Greenqin alive.

Since then, the Black Flag Army has run in front, and the Qing army has chased after it, passing through Xinxian County, Fan County, Puzhou, and Kaizhou, entering Huaxian County in Henan, and then turning north, walking through Linzhang and Neihuang, crossing the Zhanghe River into Zhili, and then going north from Cheng'an, Feixiang, Handan, Yongnian, Quzhou, and Jize, until Xiakou, crossing the canal to the east from Dezhou back to Shandong. In half a month, more than thirty counties in the border areas of Zhi, Lu and Yu provinces went around a large circle and returned to Guan County. This circle turned the Qing army around, and the Black Flag Army itself was tired and sleepy.

After returning to Guan County, Song Jingshi reduced the Black Flag Army to pieces and launched a guerrilla war. Helplessly, the disparity in strength was great, and the Black Flag Army fought less and less. In October, the general Yang Dianyi was killed in battle, and Song Jingshi felt that the general situation had gone, and the remaining Black Flag Army fled south and defected to Zhang Zongyu, the Twister Army in Henan.

In 1865, Song Jingshi followed Zhang Zongyu to set up an ambush in Caozhou, Shandong, defeated the Qing army, killed the monk Greenqin, and avenged the revenge of Guan County. Since then, Song Jingshi has never been traced, some say that he was caught and cut down by the imperial court, others say that he fled to other places after the defeat of the Twist Army, and it is said that in the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, that is, in 1900, some people saw him return to Liu Guanzhuang. The story of Song Jingshi and the Black Flag Army has been passed down from generation to generation in guanxian county, and in 1955, the Shanghai Film Studio made a film "Song Jingshi", which told the story in its entirety.

One of the largest peasant uprisings in the history of Guan County failed. The Black Flag Army uprising was to win the interests of the peasants, and the military discipline was strict, only killing the rich and helping the poor, not harassing the people, and won the support of the people; Song Jingshi had strong military ability and leadership ability, and also had a strategic vision. Helplessly, although the Qing Dynasty at that time was worried about internal and external troubles, but the worms with hundreds of feet died and did not stiffen, the strength of the Black Flag Army could not compete with the imperial court, but it only accumulated valuable experience for the future peasant movement.