Chapter 329 Looking to the Northwest

In the original county chronicles of the town, the four townships and villages were captured, and the county was unique. The people who built the four townships escaped from the mouth of the tiger and took refuge in the city after birth. On the ninth day of the month, the rebel army returned to the city. The whole city was rotten, and the number of dead was unknown. Before the slaughter, the county had a population of 269,000, and the war loss of 234,000.

In the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), the population of the four counties in Jingzhou was 928,000, and 822,000 people died in the war.

In August of the second year of Tongzhi (1863), the rebel army fell into Pingliang City. More than 100 officials died, hundreds of thousands of soldiers died, and the population of Pingliang Prefecture lost 2.49 million.

Huating County, in November of the second year of Tongzhi, Shaanxi returned to the country, and the burning was extremely tragic. At the beginning of the rebellion, he still loved the local land. He was not very poisonous and did not care about it. He burned and killed ten times more than the land. From then on, there were only more than 70 people who returned to the city, and tens of thousands of men, women and children died.

Lund County Records, Tongzhi County broke the city for four years. From then on, the official fled to Zhuanglang, and the city was empty for five years. Nine out of ten people were killed and starved to death. The old and the weak fled, and there were no 20 or 30 people in the county. The whole county's village is scorched earth, and ten rooms are empty.

Guyuan County Records, a report in the second year of Tongzhi that Guyuan was suddenly attacked by the rebel army, and Guyuan rebelled... More than 200,000 officials and women in the city died, and 1.28 million people were lost in the war in Qingyang Prefecture. The Han people were slaughtered!

Ningxia Prefecture, in the second year of Tongzhi, returned to the rebel army and fell into the city of Ningxia Prefecture. More than 100,000 Han people were slaughtered.

In the same year, Ma Hualong fell into Lingzhou again. More than 20,000 people died in the city, and the population of the whole Ningxia Prefecture was lost as much as 1.5 million. After the war, there were only more than 100,000 left. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people who went to justice were all suffering from the sky!

Machi (now Ningxia Salt Pool), there were originally 100,000 Han people, only 5,947 people left after the war, and more than 90% of the population was lost. The Han people were slaughtered!

The rebels returned to Shaanxi entered Ganjing Weiyuan and Didao to Hezhou. The massacre was so tragic that they did not dare to live in the countryside. The rest of them poured into the county and used the city wall to save their lives. After the city was broken, they were washed with blood. For example, after Weiyuan City was broken, "There were tens of thousands of poisonous creatures, and all the officials in the city died. When they were killed, tens of thousands of Han people were killed. The blood flowed into a canal, and the corpses were piled up like mountains, which was sad and miserable." The population of Weiyuan lost nine cities, and the Han people were basically killed. Ten years later, an official government was set up to recruit people to farm. There were only more than ten original households.

Di Dao, in August of the second year of Tongzhi, the rebel army captured the city of Di Daozhou, and more than 100,000 residents were slaughtered.

Jingyuan, five years of Tongzhi, Shaanxi returned to the rebels fell into Jingyuan County, Shaanxi returned to Jiejingyuan returned to the internal response, and captured the city. The Jing people fled one in ten, and there were more than 100,000 men and women who died in Han.

Lintong County Zhizai, seven years after returning to Shaanxi, more than 300,000 people died in Lintong County, and no village survived the disaster of burning in the north and south of the Weihe River!

Jingyang County has lost more than 100,000 people!

Xingping County,!

In a total of 17 years, the rebel army carried out a crazy massacre against the Han people. Since the first year of Tongzhi, it has killed about 5 million people in Shaanxi. A year later, the rebellion was suppressed by the Qing army and driven to Gansu. After entering Gansu, he carried out a crazy massacre of the Han people in Gansu. Although Gan Hui also participated in it, the most brutal one was still Shaanxi Hui, the murderous.

Before the rebellion, Xianfeng had a population of 19.46 million in Gansu for 11 years, and only 4.95 million in Guangxu in the six years after the war, with a population loss of 14.555 million!

In Gansu, there were 27 massacres that killed more than 100,000 Han people at a time, and Han people in many counties were killed. In 17 years, a total of about 20 million Han people in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces have been killed! And regardless of men, women, old and young, all of them are killed with knives and burned with fire!

The potholed road made the specially sent command car shake. Sun Jiugong looked at the documents extracted from the former Qinghu Department and the Military Department in front of him. His eyes were red, his teeth were dead, and even the muscles of his cheeks were a little stiff.

After taking over as the commander of the Northwest Military Region, he returned to Yanjing as soon as possible, and then arrived at the Shanxi Round of troops from Yanjing, which was given to Li Mo when he met him that day.

Sun Jiugong clearly remembered that the emperor's eyes were red and his face was pale!

If Lan Fang was the most painful thing in the hearts of overseas Chinese in the late Qing Dynasty, then 17 years of rebellion is an indelible scar on the land of the Central Plains! A history of blood and tears that can never be erased!

Similarly, for the Hui people, this is also a heartbreaking history. A few people took advantage of the corruption of the Qing Dynasty, rampant corruption, and the wind of blackmail. The Qing army used the excuse of practicing brave coercion in the countryside, colluded with foreigners, self-reliance as a country, split China, encouraged ignorant followers, and launched this tragic massacre!

It is also at this time that a person is ordered in danger!

On that day, there was no wind, no rain, no moon. He left Beijing in the middle of the night with the title document, and there was no one to see him off!

In that year, he was in his rare years, holding the coffin, with 60,000 children of Xiangxi, and stepped into the vast northwest. In the face of millions of rebels, his face did not change!

On the day of the expedition, he faced the tired white bones and the bloody Han compatriots under the northwest. He rode on the saddle head and waved his whip and said angrily, "Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Han army has traveled a long distance from here to the desperate territory, opening up the territory of today. How can the ancestral legacy be lost in our hands!"

From then on, he began 17 years of the vast road to the northwest. The horses' hoofs splashed, the metal collided, and the ejected blood dyed into a rainbow all over the sky. How many times did he avoid danger, climbed out of the dead, said goodbye to the corpses of his children, and roared again!

The Xiang army rose up because of him, and it was also known as China because of him. It is said that when the class was later, only 10,000 of the 60,000 Xiangxi soldiers who went on the expedition returned, and the rest returned to the northwest!

If you want to select the most respected person of Li Mo in the late Qing Dynasty, he is the only one!

His name is Zuo Zongtang!

When I was a young man, I tried and failed again and again. Instead, I paid attention to farming, read group books, studied public opinion and military tactics, and finally! However, the Qing Dynasty, which faced internal and external troubles with perseverance, tenacity and ambition, held the sky with one hand and saved the crisis!

Unlike Li Hongzhang and others, he almost straightened his waist in the flames of war all his life, especially in the face of the humiliation of France and the rebellion of the secession of ethnic minorities, he never frowned, fought hard, and won many battles!

His achievements are based on foreign enemies!

What impressed Sun Jiugong most was that his steel-like mind, in the face of crazy enemies, he returned with the same crazy and cold-blooded response. With the participation of 60,000 soldiers and the Han people along the way, he also sacrificed a butcher's knife. More than three million believers in northwest Gansu Province and other places were cold-blooded into history by him, forcing him to rebel. I had to escape to neighboring Russia, Central Asia and other places, and I was frightened by the name of the left!

The most sighing thing is that such a great figure, after keeping one-sixth of the country's land for the Chinese people in the late Qing Dynasty, died in the military camp because a businessman finally withdrew from the political arena and the pressure of Li Hongzhang and others!

He died, but he defeated France, deterred Britain, drove away Russia, paced the rebellion, and left him with a complete northwest, but it was also a devastated northwest!

Sun Jiugong combined this information. When he was appointed as the commander of the Northwest Theater Command, he knew that he could not avoid this history. Although the past 20 years of rebellion, the parts of the northwest are still desolate and remote. It may be a little exaggerated to use thousands of miles without people, but it is not uncommon for people to see people in a hundred miles.

And he has to face this formal situation now!

After the rebellion, the Qing Dynasty never relaxed its control over the northwest. In addition to emigrating from the Central Plains to garrison the border fields, tens of thousands of elite troops were stationed for a long time, which also became the most troublesome thing for Sun Jiugong.

But this so-called elite cavalry is not the most worrying problem. According to the intelligence department, it is great that Chang Geng can collect 60,000 yuan under his hand, but he does have a set of means to gather the troops of many ethnic groups together.

Sun Jiugong's real headache is the area and strength!

The emperor gave him two infantry divisions, and also gave him the only cavalry division. For his safety, he even sent a night eagle team to protect him. In terms of number of people and equipment, he was confident that he would annihire the cold weapons in Chang Geng's hand within an hour, but the problem was that others did not fight with him head-on at all. .

People who can be the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu have never been fools. There have been too many people in this position. Chang Geng obviously also knew his disadvantages and advantages, so after hearing that Shanxi was occupied, he immediately withdrew back to the army, and even gave up Shaanxi and withdrew his fists back to Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang.

This kind of retreat not only did not make everyone relieved, but also made people more uneasy, because the three provinces were vast, and the people who survived the local rebellion were very grateful to the Qing army, and the intelligence department could not accurately grasp Chang Geng's main force there.

The other side has 60,000 people, and I also have 50,000, but the problem is that the northwest is full of cavalry. Although most of them are swords and horses, the cavalry are cavalry. They come like the wind, and the essence of going without a trace has not changed. Unless there is the same equal mobile force, the vast territory will make it difficult to eliminate them.

Most importantly, he is very clear about Li Mo's appointment as the commander of the Northwest Theater Command. What the emperor wants is not to defeat Chang Geng, but to have a long-term peace in the northwest and a big base for the future in Central Asia!

If these people are allowed to flow everywhere, it will be extremely unfavorable to future rule. What's more, there is a covetous Russia outside the northwest. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of ksak cavalry are a great test for the future!

Since he has come and become the commander of the Northwest Theater, he should use this opportunity to sharpen his blade and prepare for the future!

"So where should we get the most urgently needed mobility and prepare for the future?" Sun Jiugong frowned, and the corners of his eyes suddenly saw Cullen hanging alone in the grassland, and the corners of his mouth suddenly wiped a smile.

The Qing Dynasty has not done well, but it has not been interrupted in the containment of Mongolia for hundreds of years. This dying nation, which has been cleaned up because of several rebellions of the Junger tribe, has long since crossed Europe and Asia hundreds of years ago, swept the grasslands, and deterred the spirit of all sides. The descendants of the Golden Family have almost become puppets of Tsarist Russia. Puppet. .

But there is one thing they still keep, that is, tens of thousands of natural cavalry who have grown up on horseback since childhood!

"Where have we arrived? Can I get in touch with the general reference here?

Sun Jiugong turned his head and looked at several staff partners in Cuba with him in the car. After becoming the commander of the war zone, he also dropped them over as assistants.

"In another hour, you can arrive at Yulin."

"Short wave has interference, but you can contact the Taiyuan communication station through the long wave and they can forward it."

"Contact Taiyuan Station immediately and ask them to tell the general reference that I need to know the current situation in Mongolia immediately. In addition, I will inform all troops to rest and stand by in Yulin. I will order the officers above the regiment to go to the headquarters for a meeting as soon as they arrive, help me contact the commanders of the Second Division and the Fourth Division, and ask them to come over!"

After Sun Jiugong finished speaking, he immediately took out the compass and drew a few times on the map. The bold ideas that had just emerged became clearer and clearer in his mind

(to be continued)