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In 1858 (the eighth year of Xianfeng), the Jiangnan battalion dug a long trench and forced Tianjing, constantly attacking the Taiping Army strongholds outside the city. In March, Zuo Gui accompanied the Qing army to attack the Wujiang stronghold southwest of Tianjing. The stronghold of the riverside building, the danger must be strong, the number of attacks can not be overcome, the left precious disregard for the danger, the amount of copper cannon medicine doubled, adjusted the gun port, a cannon hit, the sound of the four fields, smoke scattered, the other side of the fortress fire, the wall collapsed several inches. He jumped bravely and rushed into the camp and occupied the Stronghold of Wujiang.
This Wujiang River is located on the border of Anhui and Jiangsu, which is exactly where Xiang Yu's soldiers were defeated and killed, and now it has become a place where Zuo Precious's reputation rose, and after the war, Zuo Precious was praised by the "Six Pins military merit" and his reputation was greatly praised. Later, the "Imperial Inscription" said: "Wujiang is the beginning of the fame of the claws" refers to this. The Claw is here referred to as a person who has contributed to the country. In April, in the attack on the Battle of Tuiji Bridge and the Seven Mile Tower, the Qing army won successive battles, and Zuo Precious was brave in battle, and his reputation among the soldiers rose. Li Xiucheng, a general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was besieged by the Jiangnan camp because of Tianjing, and in March 1859 (the ninth year of Xianfeng), he dispatched to the capital to solve the siege of Tianjing. He crossed the river north, and in September he gathered troops to defeat the Qing army's Jiangbei camp. After that, he led his army to yangzhou, and Ordered Chen Yu to attack Liuhe with his troops. Zhang Guoliang was ordered to supervise the general Li Ruozhu to lead a team north to Zhenjiao, and after entering Yangzhou, he heard that Chen Yucheng was attacking Liuhe, so he sent Zuo Zhen to Liuhe to "secretly da military book". Zuo Precious rushed through the layers of blockade of the Taiping Army, risked his life to deliver the military book on time, and after the war, he commented on merit and rewarded, "the Syrian Foreign Affairs Committee took the general."
The ranks of military attachés in the Qing Dynasty were ZhengYipin, from Yipin to Zhengjiupin, from Jiupin and unincorporated official positions. The foreign commissioners were always the generals appointed in the Green Camp of the Qing Dynasty outside the official quota. Its functions and powers are the same as those of the general manager, but the rank and salary are slightly lower, and they belong to the zhengjiu pin. He was an additional low-level military attaché of the Green Battalion of the Qing Army.
In May of the following year, the Qing army's Jiangnan camp was attacked by the Taiping army Li Xiucheng, and the Qing troops besieging Tianjing retreated to Danyang. The Taiping army took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the Qing admiral Zhang Guoliang was seriously wounded, fell into the trench and drowned, and the Jiangnan camp completely collapsed. The defeated soldiers were scattered and brave, and Zuo Precious survived the disaster and joined the Qing army's general Feng Zicai's department with his troops.
At that time, Xue Huan, the governor of Jiangsu, was also the governor of Liangjiang, and was one of the nine most senior feudal ministers in the Qing Dynasty, in charge of military and civilian affairs in Jiangnan and Jiangxi provinces. Zuo's precious troops were under Xue Huan's control, and he was soon ordered to defend the Shanghai front. In the blockade battles such as the Monk Road Bridge, the Ling Bridge, and the Tang Bridge, Zuo Precious was brave and resourceful, so that the troops regained their fighting spirit, won many small victories, and were appreciated by Xue Huan, who constantly played sponsorships, and the Qing court "rewarded Lan Ling".
Blue Plume is a kind of decoration on the Crown of the Qing Dynasty, made of osprey feathers, because it is blue, so it is called Blue Plume. The top of the blue plume was called the blue plume top wear, and at that time the emperor rewarded people with low official rank and meritorious service to show favor, and Zuo Precious began to be favored by the imperial court.
Partridge, a bird that resembles a pheasant and is good at fighting
In August of that year, Xue Huan was appointed as the governor of Jiangnan by the Qing court due to the fall of Songjiang Province, and the Qing court transferred the General of the Xiang Army, Zeng Guofan, to serve as the Governor of Jiangnan, so that Xue Huan remained in office. After Zeng Guofan arrived in office, he recruited a large number of soldiers and soldiers to expand his military strength. Xue Huan pushed Zuo Zhen to go to Jiangbei to recruit soldiers.
Zuo Precious came to Jiangbei as the general and found his brother who was the one who worshiped him. These friends saw that Zuo Precious was armed with swords and wore blue plumes on his head, which was no longer comparable to the cobblers of the past, and they were all overjoyed, and they each gathered relatives and friends to defect. Zuo Precious was overjoyed and returned to Jiangnan with hundreds of brave people with new recruits. Xue Huan saw that Zuo Precious was strong and united, and ordered him to lead a team to garrison Baoshan County, and Zuo Precious became the head of the group.
Baoshan County east of the Yangtze River estuary, south of Wusongkou, water and land transportation is convenient, only 40 miles away from Shanghai City, and Jiading, Qingsu, Songjiang, Shachuan as the same as the Shanghai barrier, and Baoshan is an important gateway to the north of Shanghai, the situation is dangerous.
The Taiping Army attacked Shanghai for the first time, first capturing Qingpu, while attacking Songjiang and Baoshan in separate armies. Zuo Zhen led his troops to garrison Baoshan and was responsible for defending the whole city. He took precautions before the Taiping Army besieged Baoshan. Selected elite warriors, went out of the city to meet the attack, and defeated the Taiping Army that came to besiege at the Xiluodian of Baoshan. The town of Luodian was captured. Zuo Precious was awarded the "Five Pins Top Wear" and once again won the honor and favor of the imperial court. In October 1860, the Taiping Army occupying Jiading, with the assistance of the Suzhou Taiping Army, attacked the Zhuzhai and Huacao Qing barracks stationed in the southwest of Shanghai, and the offensive was fierce, approaching the city of Shanghai, and Zuo Precious was ordered to crouch down. Baoshan was a hundred miles away from this place, and it was difficult to arrive in a short time, so he sent someone to find a guide, led the team to the road, and arrived at the interception site in time, and Zuo's valuable command ability was once again praised by his superiors.
In November 1860, the Taiping Army fought again at Baoshan, and both sides bombarded with foreign guns and artillery, and the battle was very fierce. After the other side's bombardment subsided for a while, Zuo Zhen immediately launched a counterattack, killing a general of the Taiping Army. Reinforcements from the Taiping Army brigade arrived quickly, firing artillery bombardment, and the left valuable boss was wounded by the shelling and could not walk on his legs. In an emergency, Zuo Precious carried the injured boss on his back, commanded the retreat, and ran for more than 40 miles back to the camp. An adult can carry an adult for more than 40 miles, this physical fitness is also excellent, this physical condition is now to participate in a "triathlon" has no problem at all, easy to kill other runners.
This boss was very difficult not to die, and he was extremely grateful to Zuo Precious. Through his strong sponsorship, Zuo Precious was therefore promoted to a higher rank, from the general to the thousand general, "with the thousand always returned to Jiangnan Governor to make up for it first, and reward hua ling." Zuo Was a military attaché of wupin when he was precious, and the top was changed from a blue plume of a bird feather to a peacock flower plume, which was impossible in the early years of the Qing Dynasty. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty when the state was employing people that the imperial court broke through the rules to reward them.
Zuo Precious believed in Islam, adhered to halal rules since childhood, and in frequent battles, always brought his own small iron pot and ate on another stove. Although he became a thousand general managers, he still cooked by himself. Once, when the two armies faced each other in the countryside, he had just cooked his meal, the Taiping Army launched an attack, and the Qing army brigade urgently assembled to counterattack. Zuo Precious poured out the rice, buckled the hot pot on the horse's butt, turned over on the horse, the horse was burned by the hot pot and screamed, but the horse was pitiful, only to see this horse frantically scurrying forward, straight to the other side of the crowd. Zuo Precious slashed and killed with his sword, was the first to rush into the enemy camp, slashed the general to capture the flag, won a great victory, and made another battle merit, and was promoted to Dusi when he was promoted. Just as Zuo Zhen was rising step by step, there were major changes in the government of Beijing.
After the British and French forces captured the Dagukou Fort in 1860 and occupied Tianjin, and then attacked Beijing, the Xianfeng Emperor Yixuan led his concubines to escape from Rehe, and died of illness in August of the following year. The six-year-old crown prince Zaichun succeeded to the throne with the era name "Qi Xiang". Soon, the Nala clan colluded with Prince Gong Yi to launch the "Xin You Coup", eliminating the "Eight Ministers of the Zanxiang Government" headed by Zaiyuan the Prince of Yi, and changing the Yuan Tongzhi to yuan tongzhi, with the empress dowager of the two palaces "bowing to the curtain and listening to the government".
The "Xin You Coup" exacerbated the domestic chaos, and anti-Qing forces in various places took advantage of the opportunity to move, crowning the title of king and rising one after another. The Twist Army in northern Anhui and the Banner Army in Shandong surged and echoed with the Taiping Army in Jiangnan, pinning down the military strength of the Qing court.
The Twister Army was an anti-Qing peasant armed force active in parts of the four provinces of Anhui, Suzhou, Lu and Yu north of the Yangtze River, at the same time as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Twister Rebellion lasted fifteen years from 1853 to 1868, and its history was divided into two stages. From the spring of 1853 to March 1863, it was the early Twister Army, and then the Late Twister Army.
The Banner Army was a peasant uprising in southern Shandong Province during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period at the end of the Qing Dynasty. From the open armed uprising in the third year of Xianfeng (1853) to the final failure of the second year of Tongzhi (1863), in the mountainous areas of Lan, Tan, Fei and Yi counties, from small to large, from weak to strong, persisting in armed struggle for more than ten years
At that time, hundreds of thousands of armed regiments of Miao Peilin in Anhui province were practicing rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, and they camped for hundreds of miles to attack Shouzhou and Mengcheng, posing a major threat to the Qing government. Miao Peilin is a Fengtai native, Born in Xiucai, once a master, fierce and capricious. In the early years of Xianfeng,000 years, he organized a regiment training in his hometown, and when he first joined forces with the twist army, he was immediately demoted to Qing and obtained the rank of Northern Sichuan Province. Because of his negativity and defection to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan named him "King of Song", and soon he shamefully betrayed the young general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, chen Yucheng, the king of LinkedIn, and finally raised an army against the Qing. Because of his capriciousness over the years, his subordinates were all resentful, not only the Taiping Army and the Twist Army wanted to avenge him for killing the British king, but the Qing court also hated him to the bone, and the court discussed eliminating him as soon as possible.
Miao Peilin's pro-supervision regiment practiced to besiege Mengcheng, dig ditches and build fortifications, and aimed to be a wicked man. The defenders of the city held on to their ground, anxious to rescue the troops. Due to the shortage of grain and grass, the soldiers and civilians in the city wrote a blood letter to ask for help, and the news shook the Qing court, and a few words a day urged Prince Gelinqin to lead his troops to break the siege. Zuo Precious was famous for his good at war, and was also recruited to the former enemy.
The Qing troops gathered on the outskirts of Mengcheng and surrounded Miao Peilin's troops, forming a miao army siege of the city, and the Qing army then surrounded the Miao army.
Chen Guorui, the general of the Qing Army, supervised the Qing army to approach the outside of the Miao army camp, and the two sides dug ditches and built fortifications to confront each other. Soon, the monk Greenqin led a large army to arrive, and successive fireworks were released, and the Miao fortress was violently bombarded, and the siege collapsed and the barracks caught fire. Zuo Zhen led the team to launch an attack, filling the trench with grass straw while struggling to attack the Miao camp and slashing with a knife. Miao Peilin saw that the general situation had gone, and led dozens of his henchmen to seize the road and flee, and the Qing general Wang Wanqing and Dusi Zuo's precious soldiers were united, and finally Miao Peilin was captured. Zuo Zhen was promoted to guerrilla because of his merits, and was later ordered to lead his troops to Yangfang to block the Imperial Taiping Army.
In July 1864, Zuo Guifeng participated in the siege of Tianjing. Because he had wandered here before becoming a soldier, was familiar with the terrain, and made many meritorious contributions in the battle to capture Tianjing, the Qing court ordered Zuo Precious to "stay in Shandong with guerrilla attacks to make up for it first" and awarded a medal in martial arts. "Trying to order the enemy, the front is connected, and the flag soldiers are shot. Precious with its banner to charge in, great victory, Sui is well-known. Won Miao Peilin, Ke Jinling, frequent meritorious service. (Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, 247)
In Nanjing, the qing army's large and small generals were rewarded, and many soldiers returned to their hometowns on leave. Zuo Precious also married a Female Soldier of the Tao Clan at this time, but this female soldier was a female warrior of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Tao shi was Zuo's first wife, a native of Huaiyin, Jiangsu, who was adopted by female soldiers of the Taiping Army and later joined the Taiping Army. In the autumn of 1864, the Taiping Army's female battalion army and the "Zuo" army led by Zuo Zhen launched a fierce battle in the Huaiyin area, and the Taiping Army suffered heavy casualties and Tao was captured. At the age of 27, Zuo Zhen chose Tao shi as his wife. Tao had no children, so he adopted two men and one woman, namely Zuo Wen, Zuo Huanzhang, and Zuo Hanzhang. After Zuo Precious's sacrifice, Tao arranged for the finances of the Zuo Mansion in Shenyang, and led his children Zuo Wen, Zuo Huanzhang, Zuo Hanzhang, and the honorary title of "Lady of yipin" and moved back to Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province. She was generous and simple, compassionate to the poor and weak, and enjoyed high prestige in the local area. After Tao died of illness in Huaiyin, he was buried in zuo zhongzhuang ancestral hall in Huai'an County.
It should be said that the combination with Tao Shi, this is the happiest moment in Zuo Precious's life, but as a soldier, this kind of affectionate life must not be long, the horn is blowing, and a new battle is waiting for him. What makes Zuo Precious sad is that in this war he has lost a loved one forever.
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