左宗棠西征记

文/黄清宝（上海）

岁在光绪元年，天山南北乱起。阿古柏据喀什，自称汗王。俄人乘隙入伊犁，据其地。朝廷震动，廷议纷纭。

左公时年六十有四，白发萧然。闻西陲告急，慨然曰："老臣虽衰，敢辞王事？"遂拜钦差大臣，督办新疆军务。

是年秋，左公发兰州。亲督三军，舁榇以行。将士见之，莫不感奋。军至肃州，粮饷不继。公令士卒屯田，自与农夫同耕作。幕僚劝曰："公贵为督师，奈何亲事穑稼？"公笑曰："昔诸葛屯渭滨，今吾耕河西，皆为国耳。"

二年春，师出玉门。戈壁千里，水草绝迹。公命将士负水囊，携苜蓿种，沿途布之。或讥其迂，公曰："此非独为今用，更为后人计也。"

五月，战于古牧地。贼据险而守，矢石如雨。公亲擂鼓，将士蚁附而上。血战三日，克其城。公入城，见饿殍遍地，令开仓赈饥。有司曰："此军粮也。"公斥曰："民无食，军安得独饱？"

八月，师至达坂。阿古柏闻风胆裂，饮药自尽。其子伯克胡里遁走俄境。公遣将穷追，尽复南疆诸城。

三年春，俄使来议伊犁事。公陈兵边境，列炮百门。俄人慑其威，终还我伊犁九城。

公在西陲凡六载，植柳三千里，人称"左公柳"。及归，囊无余财，惟载天山雪水一瓮，曰："使子孙知西征之苦也。"

太史公曰：左公以垂暮之年，建不世之功。其用兵也，如雷霆震击；其治民也，如春风化雨。昔班超投笔定远，今左公舁榇收疆，皆丈夫之烈也。然公之功，岂独在拓土哉？每观西域道上，杨柳依依，犹见老臣心在玉门西也。

2025/9/8

🌹🌹作家简介🌹🌹

黄清宝，1939年出生，中共党员，籍贯江苏江阴市。现居上海市。《中国诗人作家网》会员档案库认证委员，《中国诗人作家网》认证诗人、签约诗人，《一枝红莲文学诗社》签约作家诗人，《世界作家澜韵府诗社》签约作家诗人，《中国诗人作家网》主编。曾创作散文、小说及诗词千余篇，发表于《中国诗人作家网》等网络平台及报刊。荣获首届《凤雏生》国际诗歌大赛优秀奖，五大院士签约诗人卓越文学奖，《金诗星光杯》实力文学奖，以及《中国诗人作家网》主编卓越奖，世界诗歌作协.中国诗人作文学领军人物最高荣誉奖。现为中国诗人作家网执行总编。

🎋🎋Writer's Profile🎋🎋

Huang Qingbao, born in 1939, is a member of the Communist Party of China. His native place is Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, and he now resides in Shanghai City. He is a certification committee member of the Member Archive Database of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network, a certified poet and contracted poet of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network, a contracted writer and poet of the Red Lotus Literary Poetry Society, a contracted writer and poet of the World Writers' Lanyunfu Poetry Society, and the chief editor of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network. He has created more than a thousand pieces of prose, novels, and poems, which have been published on online platforms and newspapers and periodicals such as the Chinese Poets and Writers Network. He has won the Excellence Award of the First Feng Chusheng International Poetry Competition, the Outstanding Literature Award for Poets Contracted by the Five Academicians, the Strength Literature Award of the Golden Poetry Starlight Cup, the Chief Editor's Excellence Award of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network, and the Highest Honor Award for Leading Figures in Literature by the World Poetry Association · Chinese Poets and Writers. Currently, he is the executive chief editor of the Chinese Poets and Writers Network.