Pingyangfu immigrants to Bozhou

The Northern Expeditionary Army, led by Li, didn't want to go to Shandong, but it was surrounded by the Qing army, so it had to detour Shanxi and make a big turn, and finally killed the capital. 1On May 8th, 853, East Wang Yang, who had just occupied Nanjing, appointed Li, who was guarding Yangzhou, and led more than 50,000 people from nine armies to the Northern Expedition, with the goal of capturing the capital and overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. The Northern Expeditionary Army set out from Yangzhou, went up along the Yangtze River by waterway, and joined forces with Zhu Department in Pukou (now Nanjing), which is quite close to Anhui.

In addition to the setbacks in Liuhe County, the Northern Expeditionary Army was on a roll all the way. /kloc-captured Chuzhou in May, passed Fengyang, Mengcheng and Bozhou, and/kloc-arrived in Guide (now Shangqiu City), an important town in Henan, in June, and defeated the Qing army led by Lu Yinggu, the governor of Henan, in Songjiaji. Liujiakou, 40 miles away from Guide, is an important ferry on the Yellow River, where merchant ships from Henan and Shandong gather, and the north bank of the Yellow River is Cao County, Shandong Province. The Taiping Army was going to cross the river from Liujiakou, but Yao Jingchong, the magistrate of Cao County, had the foresight to put away all the ferry boats and set them on fire. The Northern Expeditionary Army can only sigh at the river on the south bank.

No way, the Northern Expeditionary Army chose to advance westward along the river, passing through Kaifeng, Zhuxian Town, Zhongmu, Zhengzhou, Xingyang, Surabaya and Gongxian, which took more than 20 days. On June 27th, just at the domino entrance between Surabaya and Gongxian, a civilian ship was found crossing the river. The generals of the Qing army were told to come to Ming 'a, and Xiling 'a took the opportunity to launch a surprise attack. The Northern Expeditionary Army suffered heavy losses and lost all its treasures. After crossing the river, there were only more than 20,000 people left in the Northern Expeditionary Army, but they stayed in Huaiqing House (now Qinyang City) on the north bank for more than 60 days. Lin Fengxiang led the troops to besiege Huaiqing, and used the magic weapon of Taiping Army to fight and lose? Cave siege? , but by the magistrate Yu Bingtao led the soldiers and civilians in the city to do his duty.

In order to supplement the troops, Yu Bingtao even released the prisoners from prison to participate in guarding the city. Among these prisoners, Ren Suicheng, a former coal miner, invented? You can tell by the grass? Crack? Cave siege? Standing at the head of the city in the morning overlooking the weeds outside the city, if there is no dew on the grass, there will be a tunnel below, which is clear at a glance. . Is this better than Zuo's invention? Burying urn method? More simple and convenient, become a crack? Cave siege? Magic weapon When the Northern Expeditionary Army was at loggerheads with Yu Bingtao, Emperor Xianfeng conferred Naer, governor of Zhili, as an imperial envoy, in charge of all the troops in the north and south of the Yellow River. The famous company commanders Dong Zhanyuan, Suiyuan General Tomina and Cabinet Bachelor Shengbao led reinforcements to Huaiqing respectively, occupied the strongholds outside the city, and carried out counter-encirclement campaigns against the Northern Expeditionary Army that besieged Huaiqing, leaving it in a dangerous situation between Scylla and Charybdis.

1September 4, 853, the northern expeditionary army marched westward, crossed the prince of Jiyuan, and entered Shaanxi, Lianke Park, Jiangxian County, Quwo,1September 6, 6, Kepingyangfu (now Linfen City). Then he turned to the east, crossed Shanxi and advanced to Zhili. The reason why the Northern Expeditionary Army retreated from Huaiqing to the west and bypassed Shanxi was mainly because the Qing army was besieged and Shanxi was relatively weak. As can be seen from the marching route map, the marching route in Shanxi is relatively smooth. Because the Northern Expeditionary Army fought alone and lacked backup, it could not confront the Qing army head-on, so it took the tactics of avoiding the enemy's sharp edge and made a detour.

As for why we didn't March from Shandong, as mentioned above, we originally planned to cross the river from Guide to Shandong, but there was no ferry, so we had to give up this shortcut and choose a difficult and tortuous road for the Northern Expedition.