Under the influence of the rising situation of the Boxer Rebellion in Sichuan, the activities of the Red Light Church in Shibantan are in full swing. Sheng Shiying wrote a poem describing this situation. Although his evaluation of the red light religion was inappropriate in some places, it really reflected the situation at that time and the will of all believers to "fight against the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries". He wrote:
"The defense team scattered back to the fields, and the demon stars shone on Sichuan for five nights. The window of the fox fire is open for the first time, and the Longtan is full of fists in the quiet night. I dropped out of farming and dancing in Longpan village, saying that the girl in front of the stage was upset, as if she were drunk and ignorant, and even her head was poked and strengthened. "
Liao and Zeng set up the Red Light Sect as a unit, which was preached by Master: every eleven believers were divided into a small tent, and the leader of the tent led the boxing practice; Every ten sheds are a big shed to restrain the organization; Other leaders of the Red Light Sect are also known as arhats and immortals, relying on Buddhism to call on the people. Liao Guanyin turned the courtyard dam and dry pond in front of the door into a playground for practicing martial arts, and personally taught believers to practice boxing. At that time, there was a poem praising: "The setting sun is setting in Liaojiazhuang, and red lanterns is busy practicing boxing.".
The activities of the Red Light Sect reached the ears of Gong Ziman, the magistrate of Huayang County (Shibantan belonged to Huayang County at that time). He was restless and sent a group to search for it. Under the leadership of Liao Guanyin, the Red Light Army fought back and defeated Tuanding. At the same time, it smashed the court facilities, doors and windows of the county yamen and destroyed a church. The magistrate escaped and went to Chengdu to ask for soldiers. From then on, the armed confrontation between the Boxer Rebellion in western Sichuan and the Qing army began, with Liao Guanyin as the head and Zeng Ayi as the deputy.
Kui Jun, the governor of Sichuan, was very surprised when he got the news. He never expected that there would be a Boxer Rebellion near Chengdu. Now there will be future trouble, so he urgently sent Tang Zhiyuan, the alternate magistrate of a county, to lead 111 people in the Qing barracks to suppress it. On June 3, 1912, Tang rushed to Ertaizi to suppress it. The Red Light Army fought back heroically, defeated Tang Zhiyuan, destroyed a Jesus Church in Huayang County, and punished evil priests. The Qing court was shocked by the situation in Sichuan, and urgently transferred Ma Weiqi to be the prefect of Sichuan, "take brave battalions, equip arms and go to work quickly".
On June 7th, Red Light Sect practiced boxing in Wenchang Palace of Longtan Temple. After getting information, Huayang County Magistrate personally led Lian Ding to take charge. Where did the county magistrate know that as soon as the sentry jumped into the temple gate, he was hacked to death by the red light army lying in ambush. At the back, Lian Ding turned around and ran, and the red light athletes took the opportunity to fight, and Lian Ding was defeated and fled. Gong Ziman almost died and fled to the second platform to avoid the pursuit of the red light army.
Faced with the drastic changes in the situation, Liao Guanyin predicted that there would be fierce fighting in the future, but she did not flinch. Instead, she organized the Red Light Sect to firmly hold an uprising swearing-in meeting at the main temple of Shibantanchuan in order to avenge the suffering people by "killing foreigners, killing corrupt officials, helping the rich and helping the poor, resisting food donation, burning religious officials, resisting officers and soldiers, and encircling counties".
The couplet of the pledge of uprisings posted on the main temple gate of Sichuan by the Red Light Sect reads: "Strike while the iron is hot, strike the steel, and strike the mountains and rivers are all iron arhats to save the people, save the people and strive for success", and the banner reads: "Sweep away the ocean". Liao Guanyin made a strategic plan to besiege Chengdu immediately after the swearing-in uprising. The situation at that time was: the Boxer Rebellion of Li Yonghong in Jianyang, East Road was active in the area of Baihe Temple; Xiong Qinghe's Boxer Regiment in Renshou, South Road developed rapidly, and cooperated with Pengshan Boxer Regiment to form a strong armed force. There are Boxers in Wenxi, Xi, Chong and Guan. In addition, Ding Hongchen, the commander in charge of Sichuan's military command, has been transferred to Yulongshan, Anyue, northern Sichuan to intercept Liu Jingzhong, another boxer. Liao Guanyin thought that Chengdu would be desirable if the south, north and east roads could attack together at this time, so she decided to send more troops to Longtan Temple from Shibantan, North Road, and attack Chengdu.
In late July, after Liao Guanyin defeated the Qing army in Shibantan, he sent his troops to Yuanshan Temple (2 kilometers away from Longtan Temple) in the west, and joined the Boxer Rebellion in Ertaizi and Yuanshan Temple, and joined Li Yonghong in the east and Xiong Qinghe in the south "to attack the provincial capital on the 22nd and 3rd". Longtan Temple is very important to Chengdu. Liao Guanyin broke the defense line of Longtan Temple, and it took two hours to reach Chengdu directly. So the Qing army also sent more troops to Longtan Temple, and the battle of Longtan Temple was imminent.
On July 23rd, Liao Guanyin led the Boxer Rebellion to attack Longtan Temple, which was the first bloody battle since the uprising. After a day of fighting, Liao Guanyin's Boxer Rebellion "destroyed the field at night and burned dozens of straw houses at the end and the head of the field", driving the Qing army out of Longtan Temple and winning the first battle.
Liao Guanyin's victory in Longtan Temple shocked the rulers of Sichuan. At that time, Chengdu was "full of fire at night, and lanterns were the characters patrolling the streets." Wang Zengqi wrote in the poem "Pro-Inspector": "Boxing the militia Guo, beating the church, people are talking, and the officials are worried. Gathering in the supervision department, Hongyan raised business, and I didn't know how to find a way, but I panicked. "
These corrupt officials are usually bossy, but now they are in a mess. Military commanders are afraid to supervise teachers and soldiers are afraid to leave the city. Kui Jun had no choice but to finally decide that a 76-year-old civil servant would lead the troops to fight with Shi Chenju (next to Wang) in an attempt to pull out Liao Guanyin as soon as possible.
On July 24th, Chen Ju led the troops to Longtan Temple to supervise the war. When they arrived at Longtan Temple, they were still in nobody's business. Chen Orange was puzzled and sent Yong Ding to scout. As soon as the two men reached the field, the Boxer Rebellion, which was lying in ambush in the sorghum field, jumped out. Before they could return to their senses, they became the ghosts of the Boxer Rebellion. It turned out that Liao Guanyin decided to lay a pocket array after learning about the attack of the Qing army, and then withdrew the Boxer Rebellion from Longtan Temple and ambushed it in the bamboo forest in the nearby hills, ready to attack at night and destroy this main force guarding Chengdu. Chen orange gets caught. He thought Liao Guanyin had fled on hearing the news, so he stationed the Qing army in Longtan Temple.
In the evening, Boxers from all walks of life stormed Longtan Temple. Chen Ju was unexpected, and hurriedly ordered the Qing army to defend the entrance, shooting wildly with foreign guns. The Boxers were very brave, and under the strong firepower of the Qing army, they constantly attacked the positions of the Qing army. They "all fell forward, and the latter followed, dancing knives and chanting spells. If they were crazy, they were not afraid of death ..."
On July 26th, Liao Guanyin challenged Chen Ju, "About tomorrow's war". In a rage, Chen Ju killed the messenger and asked Kui Jun for help. Kui Jun immediately "flew to Xindu to practice for 411 yuan, and plunged into each pass to help fight in the starry night", and also transferred "Ya 'an Qing soldiers' second whistle to advance" to reinforce Longtan Temple. At this critical juncture, it is a pity that Liao Guanyin sent a secret message to Xiong Qinghe of South Road to meet and besiege Chengdu. Unfortunately, it was intercepted by the Qing army at the foot of Longquan Mountain, and Xiong was still wandering in Pengshan, waiting for news. Li Yonghong's Boxer Regiment in Jianyang, East Road, was blocked by the Qing army on Longquan Mountain and could not be reinforced. The situation is very unfavorable to Liao Guanyin, leaving her in a situation of fighting alone.
The next morning, Liao Guanyin personally supervised the war. Holding a triangular flag and a red handkerchief in her hand, she sat in a sedan chair, carried by four strong men and rushed to the entrance of Longtan Temple, and led the Boxer Rebellion to kill the positions of the Qing army. On the battlefield, gunfire roared, smoke filled the air, red flags fluttered in the air, cavalry took turns to attack, the sound of shouting and killing was like thunder, and the slogan of "capture Chen Laogou alive" resounded through the sky. The Qing army was shocked by the momentum of the Boxer Rebellion. Seeing that the situation was going to be chaotic and the defense line was about to collapse, Chen Ju was in a hurry and shouted, "Whoever dares to lose will be beheaded!" The Qing soldiers were ordered to resist, defend the entrance of the field, and shoot closely with guns and nine-son rifles. This bloody battle is "to the moment regardless of the outcome." Later, when the Boxer Rebellion was launched again, Liu Tong, the artillery of the Chinese Army in Qingyuan, ordered the Qing army to "bombard it with flowers", which caused great casualties to the Boxer Rebellion. In order to avoid unnecessary sacrifice, Liao Guanyin discussed with Zeng Ayi and decided to temporarily abandon the plan of besieging Chengdu, withdraw the slate beach and save his strength. Chen Ju led the Qing army in pursuit. Wherever he went, he killed everyone he saw, and the blood became a river. Liao Guanyin witnessed the atrocities of the Qing soldiers killing innocent people indiscriminately, and brimmed with grief and indignation. In order to make the people in her hometown no longer suffer from robbery, she led the Boxer Rebellion to withdraw from Shibantan and move in the direction of Jintang and Guanghan. In late July, 1912, Liao Guanyin's team entered Xiaojing Xiaojiaping. At the same time, Xiong Qinghe, Li Yonghong and other Boxers also came to Jintang. The leader of the Jintang Boxer Rebellion is Tang Shunzhi, known as the "Marshal", who is a famous scholar. He is familiar with history books, knows how to be tactful, is decent and loves to help the poor. The Boxer Rebellion he leads is very influential in this area. At present, the Boxers stationed in Yu Qingjiang Town, Huopen Mountain, live in the Huopen Temple on the mountain, the town's Fire Temple, and the western part of Jintang has become the world of the Boxers.
Liao Guanyin's meeting with Tang, Xiong, Li and others this time is even more powerful. They agreed to take Guanghan first, March to the northwest, attack Mianjian, occupy the plain and take Chengdu directly from the south. Kuijun saw that the Boxer was going north, and Sanshui Pass in Guanghan would be the next target, so he felt a sweat in his hand. The Sanshui Pass, known as the "natural barrier", will be covered with three waters (commonly known as the North River, the Middle River and the South River). It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is the main road of land and water transportation and the throat of Guanghan. If Sanshui Pass is kept first, Liao Guanyin has mastered the key to open the north gate of the provincial capital. Therefore, he urgently transferred Sun Liequan, the registered company commander, to "specifically suppress Hanzhou and Jintang to teach the bandits".
There is a person who needs to be mentioned here. He is Gao Weiyin, the magistrate of Hanzhou. This man is an executioner who started by suppressing the Boxer Rebellion in Sichuan. He is ruthless and has always been an expert of the "main suppression faction" in Sichuan, and has won the esteem of Governor Kui Jun. At present, Liao Guanyin and several other Boxers have gathered in Jintang. He is eager to make meritorious deeds, so he personally took more than 111 people from the arrest hall and Tuanding Lian Yong, and arrived at Jinshui Mill in Jintang, intending to block the Boxers from going north.
At the beginning of August, he found out that the Boxer Rebellion was practicing martial arts in the Black Temple, so he ordered a siege in an attempt to destroy it in one fell swoop. After Liao Guanyin heard the news, he decided to make a diversion. Yang showed weakness and set an ambush. Gao Weiyin proudly led the troops to the Black Temple and saw the Boxer Rebellion eating. After being discovered, his face was very "panicked" and he left the tableware and fled over the wall. Gao Weiyin didn't know it was a plan, and seeing that the number of Boxers was small, he ordered the left and right sides to pursue it. When he chased Qingjiang town, he suddenly heard a cry, "Kill!" See Liao Guanyin leading the Boxer Rebellion from the two wings. Suddenly, he was surrounded by the Boxer Rebellion. The soldiers were in a mess, and Gao Weiyin almost fell off his horse. After a fierce battle, the Boxer Rebellion won a great victory, killing 19 officials, including Fu Yueling, Chen Qingyun and Kang Songnian, the general manager of the Qing Tongzhi Title Corps, and Gao Weiyin fled back to Sanshui Pass alone. The fiasco of the Qing soldiers "filled the huge port with corpses", and the water turned pale. The Boxer Rebellion also destroyed two churches, Sujiashan and Qiduiwa.
After Liao Guanyin defeated Gao Weiyin in Yu Qingjiang Town, he immediately joined various Boxers to outflank Sanshui Pass in three ways, reaching Guanghan. Gao Weiyin ate Liao Guanyin's loss and dared not stay in Sanshui Pass for a long time. He fled back to Guanghan and stayed in the city, afraid to come out. Gao Junying, his younger brother, wrote a poem about Gao Weiyin's embarrassment when he fled back to Guanghan:
"The Sanshui Tide was uneven, and the military entered the customs and went out to meet him. The red light jumps all over the neighborhood, and the game-writing protocol recognizes the thief camp for a thousand years. The more poisonous the flames are, the more the soldiers will collapse. I have no life without the death of the group. People pity Gao Sima, a fierce general, and sing all around. "
When the news reached Chengdu, the provincial capital was shocked, and Kui Jun was even more shocked. He immediately transferred Chen Orange to Sanshui Pass and rushed to invade. In addition to general guns, the five regiments, composed of local strongmen in Sanshui Pass and business gangs in eight halls, prepared several "wax gourd cannons" at this time, helped the Qing army to stubbornly guard the east and west sides of the pass, and burned the slab bridge in the west to relieve the worry of fire in the backyard. They used the "winter melon cannon" to frantically fire "flowering shells" at the Boxer Rebellion, which blocked the Boxer Rebellion and caused heavy casualties. Under the condition of long-term attack, in order to avoid the unfavorable situation that the Boxer Rebellion was blocked by Yong Ying before and then attacked by the Qing army, Liao Guanyin and other leaders of the Boxer Rebellion decided to withdraw the Boxer Rebellion to Qingjiang Town, and put the team on the brazier hill, which is one kilometer away from Qingjiang Town. It is bordered by a pheasant on the left and Mi Mou on the right, and its geographical position is very dangerous. On August 4th, the gunboat of the Qing navy, led by Sun Liequan, the registered company commander of Sichuan, arrived in Shuangjiangdu to storm the brazier mountain. He went north along the Suishui River and just arrived at Peng Family Courtyard. Before dawn, he entered the ambush circle set by Liao Guanyin and other Boxer leaders. With a wave of the triangular red flag held by Liao Guanyin, all the Boxers fought together, and the Qing army was surrounded by groups. In hand-to-hand combat, the guns lost their advantage. In hand-to-hand combat, the Qing soldiers were killed by the Boxer Warriors. The battle was "from morning till noon", and the Qing army was "completely annihilated", and Sun Liequan, a second-class official of the Qing Dynasty, was killed. Liao Guanyin asked his men to cut off his head in order to sacrifice his heroic comrades in the Boxer Rebellion.
The news that Liao Guanyin killed Sun Liequan shocked the civil and military officials in Sichuan, and Governor Kui Jun was on pins and needles. He quickly dispatched troops to make Chen Orange wash the brazier mountain with blood. Chen Orange personally went into battle and led the soldiers to surround the brazier mountain. Gao Weiyin packed up the beaten army again and came from Guanghan to help; The landlord's armed forces were also arrogant and blocked all the passes below the mountain. The Boxer Rebellion was surrounded by heavy troops of the Qing army, and the situation was very critical.
On August 26th, the main force of the Qing army bombarded the Boxer positions with artillery fire balls, and the forest of the ancient temple caught fire, and the whole mountain became a raging fire. The Qing army took advantage of the Boxer Rebellion on the mountain to fight the fire and constantly increased its troops to storm. At this time, Liao Guanyin was not afraid of danger, and personally fought bravely against the enemy, commanding the Boxer Warriors to stubbornly persist in fighting under unfavorable circumstances. In the end, because of being outnumbered, the last camp brazier temple was also breached by the Qing army. The Boxer Rebellion sacrificed more than 911 people heroically, and Zhang Xian, one of the group leaders, died in battle.
Liao Guanyin struggled to organize the Boxer Rebellion to break through after the fall of the camp. Under her leadership, they fought their way out of the encirclement of the Qing army and broke through smoothly. In order to get rid of the pursuit of the Qing army, they moved north. When they arrived at the Beihe River, it happened that the Mianshui surged and the road was blocked, and Chen Ju led the Qing soldiers to pursue after them, which made the Boxer Rebellion into a desperate situation again. At this critical juncture, seeing that the Boxer Rebellion was in danger of being wiped out by the whole army, Liao Guanyin and other Boxer Rebellion leaders decisively organized the group to fight fiercely with the chasing Qing soldiers, while immediately crossing the North River to get rid of the danger. In the fierce battle, the Boxer lost a lot, Xiong Qinghe was captured, and Tang Yulong, one of the leaders of the Jintang Boxer, died, but there were still two or three thousand people swimming across the North River, passing through Zhaojiadu and Sujiawan and heading for huaikou.
In order to disintegrate the strategy of heavy encirclement and suppression by the Qing army, Liao Guanyin and other Boxer leaders decided to temporarily abandon the plan of marching to the northwest, break the whole into parts and disperse their activities. So, they led their respective teams through the blockade of the Qing army and returned to the local area to deal with the Qing army and turn into small-scale battles. After Chen Ju won in Jintang, Banshi returned to Chengdu. On the occasion of the official celebration, he wrote a song "Victory Song" with great pride: "Our company unified the army in June, broke the bandit nest and won ...................................................................................................................................
Just as the judge Shi was singing his "Song of Victory", a detachment of Liao Guanyin's Red Light Army suddenly appeared in Chengdu, the provincial capital, like a magic weapon, scaring these Manchu officials to hide and flee like ghosts and wolves. On the night of September 4th, this team of about 21 people touched the Qingyang Palace outside the west gate unnoticed, and took advantage of a downpour in the early morning of the next day. In the rain and fog, they climbed up the ladder with bamboo and wood, climbed over the south gate wall, and then went straight to the center of the government house from the south street to sneak up on the governor's house. On the way, like nobody's business, a small number of patrol soldiers were killed or defeated by them. Because the red light army suddenly appeared in front of the defenders in the city, I couldn't figure out how many people were killed in the city. These Qing troops were in a mess, and the soldiers disappeared. They ran and shouted, "Liao Guanyin was killed in the city!" For a time, the order in Chengdu was in chaos. When Kuijun learned the news, he was driven out of his mind and quickly ordered Wei.