The Governor of Huguang had nothing to do with Guangdong and Guangxi. He was the Governor of Hubei and Hunan and other places. He was also the Governor of Military Affairs. He was also the Governor of Hubei and Hunan. He was also called the Governor of Huguang because the Ming Dynasty established the two lakes as Huguang Province and followed the Ming system of the Qing Dynasty, so he was also called the Governor of Huguang.

Luo Xiujin, the first governor of Huguang in the Qing Dynasty, was a scholar from Liaoyang. He was later surrendered to Huang Taiji and was under the jurisdiction of the Han army. He died of old age in the ninth year of Shunzhi. He was the second governor of Huguang, Hu Quancai from Wenshui, Shanxi. He was a Jinshi of the Chongzhen Dynasty and served as governor of Xunyang and Ningxia. Hu Quancai had been serving as governor of Huguang for seven years, but he never dreamed that he would be dismissed from office by the court and sent back to Beijing.

The reason why Hu Quancai was dismissed was the corruption of the situation in Huguang. Almost overnight, most of Huguang provinces fell into the hands of the Ming army, with only the provincial capital Wuchang and the important towns Changsha, De'an, Huangzhou and other places still under the hands of the Qing army. The loss of Huguang not only meant that the food supply route of the southwest of the army was cut off, but also meant that hundreds of thousands of troops were surrounded by the Ming army. Shunzhi Longyan was furious and was renamed Hu Quancai, and was appointed as the governor of Huguang Zhang Changgeng to be the governor of Huguang, and sent a special envoy from Beijing to instruct Zhang Changgeng to quell the chaos in Huguang as soon as possible.

Less than three days after Zhang Changgeng was promoted to governor, another bad news came from the front line. Hanyang, the gateway leader of Wuchang, was attacked by the Ming army. It is reported that the invading Ming army had no less than 10,000 troops for the rebels of the treacherous troops. In order to protect Wuchang and to protect his newly-satisfied governor, Zhang Changgen ordered Wuchang gentry to pay a large amount of money, and even sacked the people in the city. He received more than 400,000 taels of silver to Dong Xueli, the admiral of the Green Camp of Huguang, and ordered him to recruit new recruits and brave soldiers immediately, and then transferred troops from De'an, Huangzhou and other places. Even the navy was removed. In this way, he finally brought together an army of more than 30,000 people.

Because he was worried that he would retake Hu Quancai's old path, Zhang Changgeng ignored the fact that most of the more than 30,000 soldiers were strong men. Yan ordered Dong Xueli to lead 10,000 troops as the vanguard, and he personally led the remaining 20,000 troops to the central army, and drove towards Hanyang. As soon as the army left the city, according to convention and to stimulate the soldiers to work hard, Zhang Changgeng actually ordered the Green Camp to slaughter Hankou and other places. This move made the gentry and people in Wuchang City curse.

When the Qing army in Wuchang came to support Hanyang, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao were fighting around Hanyang with great pleasure. The soldiers and horses under their command were as reported by the Qing army as the Qing army's horses, but there were only more than a thousand old soldiers, and the rest were strong men who were strongly wrapped after leaving Kuidong. Originally, with the strength of Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao, even if they were given ten thousand people, they could not get the Hanyang City, so the orders Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun from the rear gave Hao Yaoqi were just

He asked him to monitor the Qing army in Hanyang, wait for the other troops to arrive at Qi before attacking Hanyang, and then everyone besieged Wuchang. If Wuchang is brought down, Hubei will be defeated by the Kuidong army, and De'an, Huangzhou and other prefectures are not worth worrying. In Changsha, with the help of the Taiping Army, it is a trivial matter to take it down. However, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao are eager to hunt, and they are jealous of the wealth in Hanyang City, so they actually acted on the attack on Hanyang.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao believed that Hanyang defenders had only two or three thousand troops, so there should be no problem in taking them down, but who knew that Hanyang defenders were tenacious. The people in the city also heard that Kuidong Ming army was the remaining troops of Li Zicheng, the bandits who had been destroyed, so they were worried that the Ming army would loot the entire city after the city was destroyed. Therefore, the people in the city spontaneously went to the city to help defend without organization, which made Hanyang defenders very confident and also added a lot of difficulties for the Ming army to attack the city.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao supervised the troops for two days, and lost more than a thousand people in vain, but they could not even knock down a brick in Hanyang City. It is conceivable that they feel depressed. While they were suffering, the Qing army in Wuchang arrived in Hanyang under the leadership of the Admiral Dong Xueli. The arrival of the Qing army in Wuchang made Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao lose their composure. The two armies fought against each other in the city, but the Ming army was defeated. If Ta Tianbao had not led his personal soldiers to escort the formation, a major collapse would have happened.

Things became tricky. Since Kuidong, with the help of the Taiping Army, the Kuidong families have turned upside down in Hubei and won almost every battle. This has made the Kuidong soldiers confident and morale high, and their strength has also been rapidly expanded. However, these newly expanded soldiers are all new soldiers, and it is okay to fight with the wind. If they really encounter tough problems, they will lose their morale immediately.

Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao led the remaining troops to the vicinity of Xiaobie Mountain south of Hanyang. They originally wanted to rest for some time and wait for Xiao Laohu and the others to come to settle the score with Dong Xueli. However, Dong Xueli led his troops to bite them. The two armies fought repeatedly in Caikou Town near Xiaobie Mountain to set aside, and the war was in a stalemate. Every day, soldiers were killed and killed, and the veterans consumed more, and the food and grass were not continued. Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao knew that if they were dragged for a while, they might be consumed. Without these veterans as role models, the morale of the new Hubei soldiers would fall faster. Without those veterans, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao became generals with bare poles.

Hao Yaoqi regretted it a little. He might have waited patiently for the little tiger, He Zhen, Liu Tichun, Dang Tiansu and others to arrive, and everyone beat Hanyang together. Although he could not take Hanyang alone, he was better than the current loss-making business.

But regret is useless. No matter how poor the deal is, he and Ta Tianbao can only hold on with the bullet and hold on. In this way, they will lose a lot of money and can still make some money. If they don’t hold on, they will lose all their money. However, Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao did not expect that their opponent Dong Xueli is under greater pressure now than they do.

Dong Xueli was originally the deputy general of Huamachi in the Ming Dynasty. When Li Zicheng captured Shaanxi, Dong Xueli surrendered and was appointed as the general of Huaiqing. In the first year of Shunzhi, Duoduo troops went to Henan. Dong Xueli surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and wrote a letter to surrender Chen Zhilong, the governor of the Dashun regime, Ningxia. The letter was intercepted by Li Zicheng's general Niu Chenghu, so his family was slaughtered. Therefore, Dong Xueli hated Li Zicheng's army to the core. When Li Zicheng's army attacked Meng County, Dong Xueli crossed the river to rescue and killed more than a thousand enemies. Later, because of his merits in surrender, he was named a first-class viscount by the Qing court.

The remaining troops of the riot army and Dong Xueli had the hatred of destroying the family. Now he led his army to surround the riot army's riot Hao Yaoqi and Ta Tianbao. Logically, Dong Xueli should have immediately slashed the two riots' heads, but Dong Xueli was also powerless now. The reason is that most of the more than 10,000 soldiers he brought were also newly-laid men, and his combat effectiveness was not much better than the Ming army, which was also a powerful man.
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