late Qing Dynasty arrest

Three days later, the sergeants of Li Ziying got up to the sound of the morning horn and started to set out.This team is the one with the most carriages. The number of long men exceeds that of soldiers. There are more than 1800 people, including more than 500 cavalry.Some Lijiabao soldiers also watched from the sidelines.

The officers and soldiers of the Chu army naturally felt that Li Ziying's army had excellent weapons and good food, and they had a good impression of Li Ziying's army.Although these soldiers looked vicious and like tigers and wolves, they were kind and did not commit any crimes.What envied the officers and soldiers of the Chu army the most was the outfits of the officers and soldiers of Li Ziying, who left Lijiabao flamboyantly wearing brand-new green military uniforms, but they were still wearing worn-out winter clothes without changing their clothes.

Deputy Marshal Xu Zhanbiao's Left Route Army had 4 regular troops, and the departure of the army was unprecedentedly grand. Just platooning and marching, the counselors had to study the marching plan of each road.Since the Qing army launched an offensive early, it must prepare to fight against the main force of the Hui army in the field.Xu Zhanbiao believed that the attack on Yongyang Fucheng would likely encounter the main force of the Hui army, so this time he dispatched the main force, ready to start a decisive battle with the Hui army in the wild at any time.

According to Zuo Zongtang's deployment strategy, the Qing army's strategy for dealing with the returning army was to compress space and occupy strategic locations. The complete victory of Xiao Kongtong and Lijiabao greatly boosted the morale of the Qing army. Be determined to win.Xu Zhanbiao's left army is the main force to attack Dong Zhiyuan. As for Zuo Zongtang's central army, it is mainly to contain and encircle. no period.

Dong Zhiyuan's terrain was high loess slopes, with endless hills, and it was impossible to completely block the return army's maneuvering road. Therefore, the Qing army was most concerned about the movement of the main force of the return army, and they sent out on horseback to find out the truth.The whole of Dong Zhiyuan was roamed by rangers from two armies, you came and fought with each other, and there were news of ranger casualties every day.

Li Guolou did not follow the main force of the deputy commander Xu Zhanbiao and stayed in the position of the central army, but asked for orders to lead the army and set off first in the name of the left-wing vanguard.The team behind him was Guo Baochang's Anhui Army, which reassured Li Guolou. In addition to 2500 infantry, the Anhui Army also had 1500 cavalry.This time he didn't bring his female relatives with him, and a thought of bloody battle lingered in his mind.

The dispatch of the army is more like a war than a relocation. A siege is a large transfer of supplies. The three armies are actually not far apart. Standing on a high loess slope, you can see the other two armies also overturning on the hills in the distance. Mountains and mountains.Passing through an abandoned village of the Hui people, even the wells were buried, and the houses were burned down, we can see how cruel the Hui people are.

The army's departure did not go straight to Yongyang Fucheng, but also to solve many situations in the small villages along the way.

In some small mountain villages, there are still old, weak and sick people left in the villages.Seeing the Qing army passing by, they hurriedly lined up to greet them, placed an incense burner on the ground, knelt on the ground, and held a snow-capped lion flag of the Qing Dynasty in their hands.

Looking at these Hui people suffering from hunger and cold, as long as they were human beings, they couldn't bear to do anything. The Qing army passing by did not do anything to these villagers.Instead, some food and clothing were given to these villagers, and the military counselors would stop and stay, chat with these villagers, and inquire about some situations.

Li Guolou rode on the wind, snow and thunder horse. When he passed the village, he saw Wei Hanyu and Xu Lan chatting with two old farmers.He jumped off the saddle and asked casually, "What do Lao Wei, Lao Xu and these Huizi have to say?"

Wei Hanyu picked a pair of cunning eyes, and said with a chuckle: "Mr. Li, let's just chat about some homework, and ask them if they have any returning soldiers hidden in the village?"

Li Guolou glanced at a group of old farmers bowing their heads, playing with the horsewhip in his hand, and asked, "Is there any?"

"No, no, absolutely not, we are all obedient citizens of the Qing Dynasty." The old farmers saw that Li Guolou was the chief, and knelt down to kowtow to Li Guolou again.

Li Guolou sneered and said, "Isn't there? I think you are tired of living. Whose are those two horses? People can hide them, but the horses are all in front of them."

The Qing army searched the village a long time ago, but they didn't find any living people, except forty or so old, weak, sick and disabled by the roadside, but they found two horses from the village.

"It's mine, I raised it." An old farmer kneeling on the ground raised his head and greeted him with a smile.

"Crack!" The whip in Li Guolou's hand had already lashed the old farmer's face, and the blood was left on the old farmer's face, and the bitter and bitter face could no longer smile.Li Guolou frowned, and shouted: "Let me ask one last time, where are the owners of the two horses?"

silence!Only the snorting of the horses was clearly audible.Forty or so villagers became dumb, and some shot at Li Guolou with hatred.

"Captain Jin, I leave this place to you. Old Wei, Old Xu, don't look at it, let's go together." Li Guolou didn't care about these old-fashioned hats, and got on his horse. He is not a kind person, he is not a good person, there will be no rebels if the massacre is complete, and he would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let one hundred go.

"Don't worry, Chief Li, with Captain Jin here, I'll make sure you have a safe journey." Jin Erzi jumped out of the dark corner eagerly, like a hound smelling delicious, and his minions are ready to use.

Li Guolou waved his whip, and the horse moved forward, sighing slightly: "Old Wei, don't look back, this is war, everything is done according to the law of war, and the great principles in the book are all false. There are only two shameless people in war." To sum it up in words, how can there be any just war? Huizi also thinks that they are fighting for justice. What you say cannot refute Huizi. Hundreds of years ago, Dong Zhiyuan was the territory of the Huihe people, and we were all invaders. "

Wei Hanyu sighed and said: "Mr. Li, how can I not know that they are lying, but my heart is not as vicious as yours, and I always want to give the Hui people a chance to reform themselves."

"Showing kindness has to wait until the Qing Dynasty reoccupied this land. Now we can only rely on killing. We are soldiers, and the only thing we can talk about is death. As long as the enemy refuses to surrender, we cannot put down the guns in our hands. You, Confucius and Mencius Reading the books of sages is stupid."

Ghoshha next to him let out a sneer, as if he was mocking the two scholars for being stupid, wasting their saliva, and getting close to people from the old Hui base area. Who would tell the truth to them?

Xu Lan sat on the horse, stroking his short beard, and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, it's not that I've broken my reading, but that I hate less when I use it. Why don't you dare to put pen to paper when you can clearly explain things. Xinwutang Don’t you pay attention to telling the truth? Chief Li, it’s up to you to write about the essence of the war. You even dare to speak about the Qing military scandal, and you have to take on such a trivial matter.”

"I'm stupid!" Li Guolou galloped, not arguing with the two scholars. He is not a poor scholar, using a pen to borrow the past and satirize the present. This kind of thing has never changed from ancient times to the present.Historians are unwilling to explain clearly, so why should he speak?Indiscriminate killing of innocents is already a common problem on the battlefield. The army all over the world kills civilians. The difference is how many problems are killed and in what name.

In particular, if the rebels want to accumulate wealth and feed an army, they must first eliminate the big households and classify the rich as the reactionaries.kill them all!Take it all!Establish a new order, gain the right to speak, rely on the barrel of a gun, and fight out the hard truth. The truth is based on the political power, and whoever is in power is the embodiment of justice.

The mountain ridges are one after another, which is the unique scenery of Dong Zhiyuan. Standing on the hills and looking far away, the white loess high slopes are like human ears, endless.The trees are sparse, and the crowd is like ants winding over the hills.

There were bursts of cannons in the distance. It was a small fortress that was resisting in the corner and was broken by the Qing army.Li Guolou was no longer interested in looking at those Muslims who were blocking their cars with their arms. He even thought that a few fortresses could stop the advance of the Qing army.

He held up the binoculars and stared closely at the mountain ridge, where a huge offensive and defensive battle was unfolding.A snow mountain lion flag was planted, showing a heroic posture on the mountain ridge.Li Guolou couldn't help but feel relieved, put down the binoculars, and said with a smile: "Grandma's bear, you are wasting our shells. You don't know how to live or die. Tell Cheng Kun to restrain the team with Li Ziying's rules and take all the prisoners to Lijiabao. "

The heralds go on horseback, and the army will restrain the troops at the beginning of the battle, not to kill prisoners of war, and not to kill civilians indiscriminately.But the officer cannot be killed. If any senior officer is killed by the enemy, then the people in this area will not want to live, and the battle will end in a massacre.The euphemistic name is: Revenge!

The Li character army flag is still advancing, keeping a certain distance between the troops, echoing each other with flags, and rangers are dispatched around.It is impossible for the returning army to fight an ambush.Dong Zhiyuan's terrain is undulating, but not steep. Although the hills seem to have no end, and people can't see the situation in the distance clearly, the situation of the hill in front of him can still be seen at a glance.

Rangers occupy a hill, and they can observe the situation of another hill in front. Some roads were destroyed by the returning army, so the army walked very slowly. The civilians who accompanied the army had to build roads. The first day of the march was walking. Stopping and ending.Dong Zhiyuan's terrain restricted the ability of the Qing army to maneuver quickly, but since the Qing army has set out, it will not retreat, and it will continue to walk no matter how difficult the road is.

The soldiers of Li Ziying took off their clothes and built roads with the peasants. Without roads, the cannons could not be dragged to the front line. An army had to overcome many difficulties to advance.From the map, it seems that the distance between Lijiabao and Yongyang Fucheng is only more than 40 miles away, but the distance of more than 40 miles is full of hardships and hardships.

In a blink of an eye, each army turned into a road-building army.The crowd on the high slope of the loess spread everywhere, and the magnificent marching scene is vivid in my mind.Military flags and national flags were planted all over the surrounding loess high slopes. Although the three groups fought a few small-scale battles, the morale of the Qing army was high. The Qing army in the distance reported that this land had returned to the embrace of the motherland.

"Hey, this is also called war." Li Guolou scratched his head, looking at the latest battle report.There was a lot of dissatisfaction with the results of the first day's march, and only thirty or so returned soldiers were arrested. In fact, they were ordinary people who stubbornly resisted to the end.It's still a vanguard battalion, and marching is not enjoyable at all. Those guerrillas who returned to the army just ran away after being harassed.

Gunshots can be heard from some loess hills. It is the return army guerrillas, using guerrilla tactics to harass the army.For these small groups of guerrillas, the Qing army was very troubled. There were endless hills and hills. They wanted to chase the returned guerrillas and often let the returned guerrillas who were familiar with the terrain escape.

"The whole army of the Hui army is dispatched, and they can't eat us, let them play." Battelle, who was full and full of food and drink, went to sleep with his clothes on, lying on a sheepskin to sleep.People are lazy, Li Guolou by their side, let them have a backbone, even if there are sporadic gunshots, they can still fall asleep.

"Well, you guys go to sleep! I'll be on duty tonight." Li Guolou patted his buttocks and stood up, got into a carriage, lit an oil lamp in the carriage, hung it above his head, and looked at Dong Zhiyuan's map.

Now several mountains and ridges are under the control of the Qing army, with powerful troops deployed around, and relying on depth, the returning army will definitely suffer a heavy blow if they want to attack at night.

The total population of Hui people in Dong Zhiyuan area is more than 20, and they have to defend scattered fortresses.But in this area, the two armies of the Qing army have more than 10 people in total. The huge gap in troop strength makes the Qing army more than capable of strategic deployment.Therefore, from the perspective of the battle situation, the Qing army's chess game is superior, and it takes the initiative everywhere. The only thing that restricts the Qing army is the supply line, as well as the injury situation.

With two big victories and quick victories, Xu Zhanbiao already had a huge psychological advantage. The Qing army had such a large march and had high requirements for logistical supplies. The deputy commander Xu Zhanbiao gambled all his belongings.This time the Qing army still demanded a quick victory, occupying the strategically important city of Yongyang Prefecture, and swinging an iron fist at the Hui army's face, it depends on how strong the Hui army can hold Yongyang Prefecture.

Li Guolou studied Xu Zhanbiao's strategic deployment, trying to find the omissions in it, and wondered what methods he would use to counter the Qing army's attack if he were the commander of the returning army.Where will the returning army use guerrilla tactics to attack the weakness of the Qing army?Li Ziying suffered a big loss to the Hui army cavalry last time, will the Hui army follow him this time?

Li Guolou stared at the map in horror, and danger was lurking around him, as if a huge net was opening to him.Don't rush in, don't rush in!If the commander-in-chief of the Hui army is a smart person, Li Ziying will be unimpeded tomorrow, and there will be no road damage.The other two armies will encounter many problems such as road landslides and constant sniping. Li Guolou's face glows blue under the oil lamp, like a ghost in the underworld, emitting a sharp light for his life.