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Chapter 302: Easy to come, hard to go

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    Wang Kefan's war tax was linked to the land tax, so the burden on the homesteaders and tenant farmers was not too heavy. The real trouble was caused by the landlords with thousands of acres of fertile land and the gentry and gentry with fame.  Wang Kefan clearly announced that when the national crisis hit, everyone was obliged to pay war taxes. Regardless of scholars, candidates, or scholars, they would be taxed according to their own property and no longer enjoy the preferential treatment of tax exemption. As soon as the decree was issued, it aroused strong opposition from the Jiangnan gentry.  rebound.  Then, they were brutally suppressed by Wang Kefan.  Confiscating your home and confiscating the army is the standard treatment. The more serious the trouble, the more money and money you will lose. Wang Kefan's image among the Jiangnan scholars overnight became that of a greedy and treacherous minister who knocks bones and sucks marrow. But no matter what, the money is still enough.  The forehead is collected.  In addition to money, war also requires people. Wang Kefan used these few months to vigorously expand the army. A large number of the original auxiliary troops of the Chu army were converted into combat troops. He also recruited and drafted a large number of strong men in several provinces south of the Yangtze River to supplement the supply troops.  The auxiliary troops of the Chu army were all trained according to the standards of combat soldiers. Using the weapons and equipment captured in previous battles, more than 30,000 new troops were successively organized and sent to the front line of Huguang.  At the same time, the Chu army recruited young men from among the people for the first time. At first, one was drawn from every ten men, and later it was expanded to one from every five men. Together with voluntary recruitment, a total of hundreds of thousands of young and strong auxiliary soldiers were recruited.  After several months of basic training, they were assigned to various units.  Food, ammunition, weapons, medicine, livestock, vehicles, boats, tents, military uniforms, shoes and socks, and even oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar all kinds of materials were sent to the front line of Huguang one after another. Wang Sheng's strength became stronger and stronger.  Fighting a mushroom battle with Sun Kewang, while preparing for a general attack.  Sun Kewang knew nothing about this, and only placed his hope on Liu Wenxiu, waiting for him to return to the army after winning, and then fight Wang Sheng. However, at this time, Guizhou suddenly sent news that the Battle of Guiyang ended with a disastrous defeat for the Western Army.  , Liu Wenxiu was defeated and died, and the 150,000-strong army disappeared. Wang Shangli, Lu Mingchen, Bao Shengting and other generals were either killed in battle or captured. Miao Zhenzong, Zhou Wuding and others rebelled and surrendered to the enemy Sun Kewang was struck by lightning,  I really can¡¯t believe this shocking news. When I returned to the military camp, I fell off my horse and suffered a slight injury. As a veteran who has been on the battlefield, Sun Kewang could even sleep on the horse during the march, but now he fell in public.  The reason why he dismounted his horse was because the consequences of Liu Wenxiu's defeat were so serious that he was in a trance and lost his senses.  "This must be a misinformation, a misinformation! Liu Wenxiu will not die so easily!" Sun Kewang took a chance and hoped that this battle report was false. At least Liu Wenxiu was still alive and could still take charge of the overall situation of Yunnan and Guizhou and lead the Western Army.  The remaining troops defended Yunnan, but Feng Shuangli soon sent a more detailed battle report, which also included the details of Zhou Guodong's coffin autopsy. After confirming that the news was correct, Sun Kewang locked himself in the room and saw no one for the whole night.  Early the next morning, Sun Kewang finally opened the door and came out of the house, and said with difficulty to the frightened generals: "Our army has been defeated. Send an order to all ministries to prepare to retreat." The generals had long expected this result, and they were all silent, but  Then I heard Sun Kewang saying bitterly: "Liu Wenxiu is stupid and incompetent. He ruined an army of 150,000 and ruined my great career. How do you think he should be punished?" The generals were shocked and tried to persuade Liu Wenxiu.  Although he had no idea of ??whipping the corpse, he still ordered someone to draft a new battle report. In the battle report, he criticized Liu Wenxiu without naming him and put all the responsibility for the defeat on him. The generals became more and more disappointed and each led  The order was dispersed, and at the same time, people were sent to Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan, and the Western Army in various other state capitals to tell them to prepare for retreat.  Although Liu Wenxiu took away 35,000 armored soldiers, Li Dingguo sent another supporting army. Coupled with a large number of auxiliary troops and baggage troops, the Western Army had hundreds of thousands of troops in Hunan, and they were divided into various states.  The government suddenly decided to retreat. It was definitely not a trip that just happened. There was a lot of preparation work to be done before.  However, the Chu army was already closely involved and could not leave even if they wanted to.  Wang Sheng received the battle report of Guiyang's victory almost at the same time as Sun Kewang. Then he found that the various units of the Western Army were moving frequently, and they were obviously preparing to flee. He immediately ordered the Chu Army to launch a counterattack, pressing closely against the Western Army to prevent them from easily slipping away.  At the same time, two elite main forces, Lu Renqing and Teng Shuanglin, were dispatched to boldly penetrate deep into the Western Army and attack Yiyang and Anhua.  Wang Sheng also issued a death order to the two of them. They must capture the two county towns of Yiyang and Anhua within five days and cut off Sun Kewang's retreat, otherwise they would be demoted to brigade commander.  How is this possible?  Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong, both from the eighth battalion of the Chu Army, have already become army commanders. If Lu Renqing and Teng Shuanglin were demoted to brigade commanders, they would be embarrassed to see others in the future. They simply issued a military order. If they could not complete the task on time,  Instead of being a brigade commander, he became a soldier, and then he led the troops from Yuezhou.?Breaked through the Western Army's defense line between Changsha, rushed 200 miles westward, and launched a fierce attack on Yiyang and Anhua (Yiyang is closer, on the south bank of Dongting Lake, only a few dozen kilometers to Xiangyin, Anhua is farther away, but in  This era also belonged to the suburban counties of Changsha, and in later generations it belonged to Yiyang City).  At this time, the Western Army divided its troops everywhere, and the deficiencies in defense were exposed. Lu Renqing and Teng Shuanglin had penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Western Army, but the Western Army did not have enough power to eliminate or drive them away. In the three nearby big cities, Changsha was invaded by Wang  Sheng's main force was watching and did not dare to act rashly. Yuezhou was the closest to Jiujiang and had been fighting fiercely with Jin Shenghuan and other troops during this period. There was no extra force to rescue Yiyang. Changde was in the rear and the force was relatively empty. Because Du Yinxi defended Changde, the city wall  It was also seriously damaged in the fierce battle. Seeing that Lu Renqing and Teng Shuanglin were attacking fiercely, it was difficult to protect themselves, and they did not dare to easily send troops to rescue them. Lu Renqing and Teng Shuanglin drove them straight in. It was like entering an uninhabited country. It only took three days to capture them one after another.  Yiyang and Anhua.  At the same time, Wang Sheng led the main force of the Chu army to attack Xiangxiang and Xiangtan. Because the surrounding small strongholds had been wiped out by the Chu army, these two isolated counties did not last long before they were easily captured by the Chu army.  As soon as he arrived, the Western armies in Changsha and Hengyang were completely separated. In Wang Sheng's words, he was now a porter who could carry two cities on one shoulder, with Changsha on one end and Hengyang on the other. He had packed both cities.  In the basket.  Zhang Jiayu and other troops launched a counterattack on the southern front. Starting from Leiyang, they successively captured Changning, Qiyang and other counties, threatening Lingling, the capital city of Yongzhou Prefecture, and separating the Western Army in southern Hunan from Hengyang. At this point in the war, the Western Army in Hunan was  Divided into several parts, they were about to be surrounded by the Chu army and destroyed one by one.  The Chu army's counterattack was so ferocious that it once again exceeded Sun Kewang's expectations. He and Wang Sheng had been fighting for more than half a year and knew each other well. After Li Dingguo's reinforcements arrived in Hunan, the Western Army was able to compete with the Chu army, but where was Wang Sheng?  With so many troops coming, they actually launched counterattacks in several directions at the same time, completing the tactical division of more than 100,000 Western troops!  It took several days, as the intelligence from various places was collected one after another, and Sun Kewang figured out the reason. It turned out that Wang Kefan had carried out comprehensive mobilization in the rear, and expanded it to more than 30,000 combat troops and hundreds of thousands of auxiliaries.  Most of the troops were sent to the front line in Hunan, so that Wang Sheng once again gained a strength advantage.  Sun Kewang felt desperate. Wang Kefan occupied Jiangnan, which was the most prosperous in the world. The population, money and food were very abundant. If he said to expand the army, he would expand the army. In a few months, he could expand the army by hundreds of thousands. This was unimaginable for the Western Army.  Knowing the current result, we should have followed Bai Wenxuan's advice from the beginning, abandoned Changsha, Hengyang and Yuezhou, and shrunk to western Hunan.  passive.  There is no regret medicine in the world. Sun Kewang knew that he had made another major strategic mistake, but he quickly forgave himself and put all the responsibility on Liu Wenxiu. If Liu Wenxiu could win the battle of Guiyang, the Western Army would now encounter  All the problems are not a problem. Even if Wang Sheng expands his army by hundreds of thousands, the Western Army can still fight him.  It is a pity that Liu Wenxiu has been defeated and died, and Sun Kewang has to face the remaining practical problems by himself.  With Wang Sheng's counterattack, the situation became more and more unfavorable for the Western Army. One more day of delay would be even more dangerous. Because Liu Wenxiu's entire army was wiped out, the morale of the Western Army in Hunan plummeted. It was no longer possible to defeat Wang Sheng, nor could Qi Sansheng of Yunnan.  Knowing how long he could hold on, Sun Kewang knew that he had to retreat as soon as possible, no matter what.   On the Yunnan side, after Qi Sansheng returned to Kunming, he sent 10,000 Kunming garrison troops to Qujing as the first line of defense to intercept the Chu army. At the same time, he mobilized the Western troops from other state capitals to come to Kunming as their  After arriving one after another, Qi Sansheng deployed them at various key passes leading to Kunming, fortifying them layer by layer.  Kunming is located in the northeast of Yunnan, very close to Guizhou, and is only separated from Pu'an Prefecture by Qujing Prefecture, which is very disadvantageous to the Western Army. Fortunately, there are several natural dangers between Qujing and Kunming, such as Guansuoling, Tu  Erguan (also known as Tuerguan) is a dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As reinforcements from various places arrived one after another, Qi Sansheng and Gao Wengui gradually regained their confidence and were confident that they could hold Yunnan until Sun Kewang's reinforcements returned.  Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun led an army of 100,000 to invade Yunnan. The required grain and grass supplies had to be slowly transported to the front line by land, so they could only march along the ancient post road of the "East Yunnan Road", regardless of Qujing, Guansoling or Tu  There is no way around Erguan, and these obstacles must be cleared one by one before we can invade Kunming.  They first attacked Qujing.  One hundred thousand Chu troops surrounded the city on three sides. It was a typical siege of three buildings. They spent five days building siege equipment and then launched a fierce attack. The Chu army did not have much gunpowder in their hands, and now they had an absolute advantage in strength.  , so still??The traditional method is to launch an attack in an upright manner.
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