late Qing Dynasty arrest

Seeing that An Jie left the conference hall talking to himself, and ignored Cui Wei, the fourth commander, Ha Lianjin, the fifteenth commander, Zou Baohe, the sixteenth commander, and others angrily glared at Lan Mingtai, the fourteenth commander. Tai is still calm and composed, stroking his big beard indifferently, and it's hard for others to say anything?The enemy regards peace as the most important thing at present, and there is no reason to reason with uneducated "swordsman".

Ha's family was favored by the emperor. He was a family of military generals in the Northwest of the Qing Dynasty. The family had two military champions. Ha Lianjin also had a cousin, Ha Liansheng, who was the deputy general of Tongguan. .When Ha Lianjin rebelled, he tricked his cousin out of Tongguan and threatened Ha Liansheng to join the rebel army, but Ha Liansheng refused to obey, and Ha Lianjin did not kill his cousin.Now that Ha Liansheng was trapped in the Hui army, he neither died nor surrendered. The court thought that Ha Liansheng was dead, so he posthumously sealed Ha Liansheng.

Ha Lianjin was dissatisfied with An Jie, Lan Mingtai's subordinate, talking to himself and leaving the meeting room, but the swordsman was a person who tied his head to his belt to fight for his life, and everyone was a brother who shared life and death.He glanced sideways and said, "I can dispatch 2000 troops here."

Next to Ha Lianjin's fourth brother, Ha Lianhu, said loudly: "My younger brother is willing to lead the team himself, and meet Zhao Zilong of the Qing Dynasty for a while. Oh lol...what the hell."

The people next to him also burst into strange laughter. The under-named generals in the Qing army had seen a lot, and the Eight Banners army couldn't help but fight. They only feared Zuo Zongtang's army that went south and north.Those were elite soldiers who fought their way out of the mountain of corpses in the sea of ​​blood.How could the student soldiers who had never fought a war be able to withstand the shock of galloping horses, as if they had seen iron hooves trample Li Ziqi under their feet.

Zou Baohe, who was over sixty years old, stroked his white beard, smiled on his withered face, and said, "Ha Lianhu is young and energetic, and he is worthy of great responsibility. I can send 500 troops here."

The Fourth Marshal Cui Wei heard the implication, the Sixteenth Marshal Zou Baohe didn't want his confidant to join Erhe Prefecture as the commander of this sneak attack, and the old and cunning Zou Baohe didn't want to see his camp grow stronger and stronger, including He said without revealing: "Ah Imam Zou is right. It is time for young people to experience it. Erhe Prefecture ordered you to lead 800 troops to meet Ha Lianhu. This battle will be under full command of Ha Lianhu."

"Yes! This subordinate will fulfill his mission and bring back 2000 braided dog ears." Ha Lianhu was full of vigor, and his broad and energetic face was full of confidence.

In the meeting hall, all the believers put their legs together, put their knees on the ground, raised their hands higher than their foreheads, put their ten fingers together, palms up, and slightly bent the middle of the palms, and then began to pray.Facing the direction of the Holy Land Mecca, reciting a few scriptures, very pious.

The Sixteenth Marshal Zou Baohe is an imam, that is, a clergyman, and he prayed: "My great true God, the latest chapter of Ace Agent! In the holy name of the Lord, ask the Lord to enlighten us, we will change, and you will never change We bow our knees before you, crying out to you, please have mercy on us. you are our father, our good is not outside of you, may you keep us. In this age, the devil is like a roaring lion, prowling around looking for something to devour People, I ask the Lord to give us a strong faith, and be our refuge and our support. Allah said: "Pray to me, and I will answer you. Those who refuse to worship me, they will humblely enter Hellfire.' Our Lord! Do not punish us if we forget or make mistakes. Please do not burden us as you made the ancients burden it. Our Lord! Do not burden us What we are unable to do. Forgive us, forgive us, have mercy on us. You are our protector, help us against the disbelieving people. O Menai!"

"Ah Minai!" The crowd sang congratulations together, ending the short prayer.Several generals left the chamber and went separately.

Bi Dacai, the twelfth commander, quickly followed the sixth commander, Yu Deyan, and asked in a low voice, "Marshal Yu, do you want to pass on the news?"

The Sixth Marshal Yu Deyan looked at the dark sky, shook his head and said, "It's too late, but let me know, everything depends on God's will."

"Well, I think there is no return. How can there be such a good thing? Zuo Zongtang is as cunning as a fox, and Li Ziying is clearly the bait. We just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." Bi Dacai hoped that Ha Lianhu would return in defeat. It would be better for the other battalions of troops to be maimed by the Qing soldiers like him, so that he can show his interests and confuse more people to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The biggest difference between the Hui army and the Nian army is that one has a base and the other does not need a base.The Nian army is famous for its cruelty and ferocity. The places they walked were like locusts, killing big families and looting local property. Due to the lack of siege equipment and mainly horse teams, most of them marched in rural areas, and few big cities were able to take down. It is a team out of touch with the people.Therefore, the damage done by the Nian Army to the Qing Dynasty was not as great as that of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it was not as popular as Huichao.

The leader of the Hui army is the commander of the army, and he also has to manage the lives of the people in the camp.The first thing to conquer a region is to expand the army, recruit new people, and lead the local people to rebel. As long as one member of the family joins the army, the whole family will rebel.

As for the idea advocated by the Hui army, it is to establish a three-in-one Islamic regime of religion, politics, and military affairs, just like Aquba of the Zedshaer Kingdom in Xinjiang.Some Hui army regimes dare not openly advocate for independence, but they also seek a high degree of local autonomy. If this kind of uprising army belongs to the righteous side and wins the final victory, then China in future generations will lose the land of the Great Northwest forever, at most in name The table canon, nominally recognizing the Qing emperor as their master.As a man of insight in the Qing Dynasty who has the idea of ​​unity of all ethnic groups and that the territory does not allow division, they will never allow Hui people to fight for independence. No matter what name they use to resist the rule of the Qing Dynasty, they are all reactionaries and must be resolutely suppressed.

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In the area around Yanji Town, there is a high slope with a beacon tower on it. It is a windy, sandy and grassy beach area. As far as the eye can see, the terrain is flat.Maybe it's because of years of drought and sandstorms, that is, the riverside of Huangtupo is full of sand and rocks, and Populus euphratica and elm and willow can be seen from time to time.

At noon, Li Ziying had already marched here. Li Guolou climbed up the beacon tower and looked into the distance.

Next to it is the team officer of the Beacon Tower. This Beacon Tower was destroyed by the Hui army and then renovated. There is a reinforced team stationed here, with a total of 50 soldiers stationed there.As the supply line of the front army, Xu Zhanbiao attaches the most importance to it. Fighting here is logistics and transportation. On the long supply line, there are post stations or beacon towers that transmit news.

Generally, returning troops are unwilling to attack these beacon towers, and hundreds of lives will be used to fill them up. If it takes longer, officers and soldiers will come to rescue, and the gain outweighs the loss.But he hated these beacon towers so much that as long as the fortifications were built by the officers and soldiers, the returning cavalry would have no room to maneuver, and the cavalry would be under the watchful eye of the officers and soldiers when they dispatched the cavalry.

Now both the enemy and the enemy are building military fortifications, but the Qing army has the financial support of a country, and the logistics supplies continue to keep up, and both sides are doing their best.This is a war of nations. Do we want the independence of the nations or the unity of the nations?

The Qing family had a strong family background and could still afford to lose. If one army was disabled or mutinied, another army would be sent to suppress the returning army.

Due to years of fighting, the Hui army severely damaged local agricultural facilities, and could only live a life supported by war.Becoming a predatory team has long violated the teachings they propagated. The side that has no benevolence in the war will become bloody and brutal on both sides.

Hundreds of miles ahead, the terrain is flat and suitable for cavalry. Li Guolou was worried that he would be attacked by the return army, so he climbed up to the beacon tower to observe the terrain.

Bateer, Cheng Kun, Xun Xi, Hongdu, Fan Ye and other senior officers are all observing the terrain. This place is not like a high slope in the loess. As long as they occupy a high slope, they have more than 100 cannons and have a high slope as a position. never fail.If the enemy's cavalry dared to attack from the bottom up, the cannon could blow the cavalry to pieces.

The open plains are suitable for cavalry mobility to attack the transport team. As long as they break through a point, the transport team will be divided and surrounded by the cavalry, becoming a sieve with air leaks everywhere, and the cavalry will break through one by one.Li Guolou was hesitating whether to march alone or let Xu Zhanbiao send troops to protect him?Don't capsize in the gutter for the last mile.As a military theorist, Li Guolou knew what the advantages of cavalry were?And what are the advantages and disadvantages of Li Ziying?

The team officer of Beacon Tower introduced the situation here. After receiving a meeting gift as a boss, he knew everything and talked about everything, and told all about the customs and customs of Yanji Town.In winter, Hui troops do not come and go here frequently, mainly a small group of reconnaissance troops, who fired a few shots to scare the officers and soldiers on the beacon tower, and there were no major casualties in his defense area.

The officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty summed up a set of experience in dealing with the highly maneuverable cavalry in the battle against the Nian Army.

One is to build fortresses in the northern villages to prevent the Nian army from getting supplies easily, so that the Nian army can't get supplies all the way.

The second is to dig deep ditches and dig ditches on rural roads to prevent the cavalry from passing easily, so that the cavalry can become infantry and wait to die.

These two experiences allowed Li Hongzhang to capture Dong Nian Lai Wenguang alive, and Zuo Zongtang forced Xi Nian Zhang Zongyu to death.These two valuable experiences are also being implemented to deal with the Hui army now, digging ditches and building fortresses in places where the Hui army cavalry haunts.

Battelle and Cheng Kun saw Li Guolou's hesitation. They were all militants and had always had confidence in Xinwutang's tactical ability. As for actual combat experience, it depended on fighting. They were all bewitching Li Guolou. Make up your mind and march to your destination alone.It is believed that there are more than 2000 horses in Li Ziying, enough to withstand the attack of the Hui army cavalry.Battelle couldn't help asking: "Captain Ai, have you dug all the trenches here?"

The skinny team officer nodded and said: "Don't worry, everything has been dug, the three trenches have cut off the main road connecting Dong Zhiyuan, Hui Luan wants to launch an attack from the road section under my jurisdiction, and he has to be a civilian man to fill the ditches." Soldiers who have this little time to patrol will find out, we will light the beacon fire, and reinforcements will arrive in no time."

Xun Xi looked eager to try, and interjected: "Our artillery can be pulled out to fire at any time and anywhere. I am afraid that the enemy will run away when they see the power of the cannon. My long-range cannon will not be erected in time, and even piling will be for nothing."

Hongdu was very dissatisfied. He was in charge of the short-range artillery, and Xun Xi made irresponsible remarks in a dry tone: "Xun Guandai, it is your business that you are too late. Don't include me. Last time I borrowed When will you return my two howitzers?"

"What do you pay? If you use Krupp cannons to fight cavalry, it will last until the year of the monkey. The two howitzers will belong to me. What is your rank, Commander Hong? How do you talk to the officer?" Xun Xi replied angrily. Artillery officers from different units were dissatisfied with each other, and Xun Xi was a high-ranking officer, and he kept admonishing Hongdu in the tone of an officer.

Both Xun Xi and Hong Du were Manchus, and if they had mastered the military skills of artillery, they would be great, and they thought they were high numbers.Those Eight Banners disciples have a bit of military proficiency, that is, they are people like the Heavenly King and Lao Tzu, they are born with the same roots, why are they so anxious, the mung bean eyes meet the pink eye disease, and the two glared at each other on the beacon tower.

"Don't make any noise. From now on, you will be the instructors of the Xinwutang, people of the same level." Li Guolou curled his lips slightly, the fart came in an instant, large groups of enemy troops moved, and reinforcements should be dispatched with caution.Li Ziying couldn't hold out for half a day or even a day, and he couldn't see reinforcements.

Li Guolou turned his attention to Fan Dahui, wanting to hear the opinions of Fan Dahui, who is in charge of thousands of civilian husbands.In fact, he was very relieved of the soldiers. He had practiced many times how long the artillery could set up the cannon.As long as he is not attacked by the enemy, he has the confidence to establish an artillery blockade in the shortest possible time.What worries him the most is the establishment of military fortifications. This requires thousands of civilians to quickly build fences to block cavalry, surround vehicles, dig ditches, and build fences. March on the plains.