In view of Dong Zhiyuan's retreat to Jinji Fort and the deployment of the troops, Zuo Zongtang formulated the tactics of advancing and pursuing the attack in various directions according to the conditions of the time

Zuo Zongtang thought about all kinds of sharp points, and then Dong Zhiyuan returned to the army or branches to disturb our rear road, and ordered each to leave four teams to clear the remnants of Dong Zhiyuan and return to the army, in order to be cautious, and also considered that the armies were distributed for hundreds of miles, and if they could not finish the time, they would rush to each army, but when they saw the movement of the Hui army, they would advance and chase after them, so that they could not wait and see, so that they could not be restrained and transported

Therefore, Huang Ding of Shaanxi Andao led the division to Guyuan Admiral Lei Zhengxuan, the named Admiral Ma Deshun, the second top belt Shaanxi Supplement Dao Li Yaonan, and the Chu army garrison Gao Liansheng also led the Ma Bu army to garrison the area of Xitun Town, which was 100 miles away from Lingtai and Xitun Town, and prepared dry food for ten days.

On February 22, Tanma Fei reported back to the People's Army, "the old and weak, and the baggage have all left the nest and fled to the north of the three forks of Yimaguan"

In the morning, Lei Zhengwan and Huang Ding led their divisions from Changwu to Jing, and in the afternoon, Ma Deshun, Li Yaonan, and Gao Liansheng also led the battalions of Ma Bu to follow up from Lingtai, and they all joined forces in Taichang

At this time, the elite Hui army Xi Fu Dong Zhiyuan, Marshal Ma Zhenghe and others rode more than 1,000 horses, choked the three non-passes, and resisted by the ditch, and the generals of all roads comprehended the business to return to the army, and the three no-passes, the west road of Lijiabao must be empty and unprepared, and Lei Zhengwan allocated the six battalions of the infantry team led by Chen Yi of the Ministry of Horses, and Ma Deshun sent Yang Shijun to lead the four battalions of the horse team from Taichang into Lijiabao to take Xiaojin West Road to reach the original Zhenyuan and intercept it head-on

The remaining army was divided into four teams, with Li Yaonan's Kejing horse team as the forward, Ma Deshun, Gao Liansheng horse team, followed by Lei Zhengjuan, and Huang Ding horse team as the left and right wings

At five o'clock on the 23rd, at five o'clock, the various armies marched to Qiujiazhai at the time of the attack, and the Hui army rode hundreds of horsemen to catch a glimpse of the large Qing army, and immediately fled, and the armies galloped until they reached the three passes

At this point, the Hui army, Ma Zheng and his subordinates retreated, and Dong Zhi County did not dare to fight the Qing army in the field

And escaped, Yu Yanlu led more than 3,000 Hui cavalry to retreat from the three passes, and still relied on geographical advantages to block the Qing army in sections

The Qing army's horse team rushed forward, and the army returned to the army with dangerous force, resisting guns and cannons like rain, and the horses were all limited by the deep ditch and could not move forward

Just in the middle of the standoff, it happened that the officers and soldiers of the infantry were divided into two roads, crossed the ditch and rushed to the plain, and bypassed the Huijun checkpoint, after which the Hui army was frightened and feared that the back road would be blocked, Yu Yanlu led the Hui cavalry to flee

The Qing army's horse team took advantage of the momentum and rushed in, guns and spears, and the Hui army could not support it, and they retreated one after another, and the Hui army was just about to rush out to resist, and the retreat army was affected by the defeat, so they had to run wildly together, and the Qing army followed and chased after it, killing more than 1,000 Hui troops, and the redividing army continued to pursue and flee the Hui army along the Malian River

The Qing army left behind Dong Zhiyuan then destroyed Jiaocun, Xiaojin Town, and a Hui army stronghold, and after the Hui army, a stronghold in Dong Zhi County, was successfully recovered by the Anhui army Guo Baochang on 16 April

Bai Yanhu and Yu Yanlu led about 100,000 Hui people to flee in the direction of Jinjibao with the old and the weak, and the Hui army died for more than 100 miles along the way

The hundreds of miles of loess on the high slopes are densely packed with people fleeing to the Hui people, and one mind goes to Jinjibao, as if there is a life after life, hoping that the Hui people are rushing day and night, and the countless tragic scenes of the Hui people fleeing and falling behind stretch for hundreds of miles

Gao Liansheng led more than 1,000 cavalry to garrison Qiujiazhai at 5 drums on the 24th, and at 5 o'clock on the 24th, Batel led more than 500 Li Zi battalion cavalry to follow and arrive at Xifeng Town in the morning

According to the confession of the captive, the old and weak before the Hui army, the baggage was heavy, and they could not escape because of the large number of men and horses, but they were only a day's journey, and the brave Hui cavalry behind the palace was afraid of the Qing army, and ran away at night, and about 20,000 Hui people fled to Jinji Fort

After discussing with Cheng Kun and other officers, Batel immediately sent a herald to inform Gao Liansheng that the cavalry of the Li Zi Battalion would not wait for the main force, and Batel led more than 500 Li Zi Battalion cavalry to march in a hurry to intercept the Hui people fleeing, and finally intercepted 10,000 fleeing Hui people in the Yan'an area

The remaining more than 10,000 Hui people fled into the ravine, and the cavalry of the Li Ziying battalion could not do anything but let the fleeing Hui people fend for themselves

The main force of the Qing army was from Yima Pass to Huanxian County, from Puhe River to Sancha River, Heichengzi and Xiama Pass, and Qi Tongtong to the area of Wangcheng and Banjiao City and Jinjibao

In front, the two armies of Admiral Yang Shijun and General Chen Yi sent by the Taichang Consultation Office set out from Lijiabao to sweep and kill thieves on the way to the front and recover the original county seat of Zhenyuan

Ma Deshun, Huang Ding and others led the horses and infantry to pursue and flee to Yimaguan and Huanxian to return to Yimaguan and Huanxian in the afternoon, galloping to Yimaguan in the afternoon to catch up with the Hui army, and the rear armies rushed to the first to chase 20 miles to the party's waist, where "the mountain trail is cramped, and the ditches on both sides are dozens of zhang deep"

Seeing that the situation was critical, Bai Yanhu and others were in a hurry, and hundreds of people from the pro-supervision and fierce party blocked the pass to death, and the Qing army bravely rushed to kill, guns and spears, and stabbed and killed more than 100 thieves

Bai Yanhu and other leaders of the Hui army saw that the situation was not good, and they fled first, and the rest of the people were defeated and fled, trampling on each other, and there were countless pit cuts, and the Qing army chased and killed more than 50 li, killing more than 1,000 Hui troops, and chased them all night, recovering Qingyang Fucheng on the 25th, and chasing them to Caijiamiao on the 26th

Bai Yanhu led the Hui army through Huanxian County, and fled all the way north from Hongdecheng into the Mahualong Jinjibao area

The Qing army could not catch up, so they closed the team and returned to Dong Zhiyuan on the 27th

In this battle, the Hui army starved to death, died in battle, and fell off the cliff, and the dead were not only 20,000 or 30,000 people, but also about 20,000 mules and horses, and about 20,000 horses were captured by various armies, and more than 40,000 people were captured, and countless weapons were found

But there are also 30,000 or 40,000 Hui people who arrived safely in Jinjibao, most of these Huimin after a long journey are in good health, and the national independence will is firm, so that Ma Hualong has multiplied his strength, and he has continued to divide Jinjibao, but among these Hui who fled from Dong Zhiyuan to Jinjibao, there are many Cui Wei sent undercover agents, more than 4,000 people, more than one percent of the number of refugees

Among them, Chen Daoqin took more than 800 Hui troops into a system and came under the command of Yu Yanlu, and it was logical that he was arranged to have a fortress, sporadic and single-strand undercover agents, and there were countless of these Qing army spies lurking in Jinji Fort waiting for the four marshals Cui Wei to summon this is Li Guolou's next move, so that the original solid Jinji Fort is full of variables, and in the future, there will be moths in the Jinji Fort Hui Army

Qing and Jing all belonged to the Hui army, and the bandit Dong Zhiyuan stubbornly defended the Hui army, and Xu Zhanbiao also purged the Hui army, and Dong Zhiyuan recovered all of them since then

Since the arrival of the Hui People's Army in Shaanxi, the lives and property of local residents, farmland, kilns, castles and villages have suffered great damage

Far and near the city, the walled fort was brutally killed and plundered, the people were left behind, thousands of miles of barrenness, the white bones, the yellow thatched cooking smoke was cut off, and the misery of the disaster was really unseen in the world

Wherever the Qing army went, the wells were barren, the water dried up, the grass withered, and the Hui army died as a result, and the Qing army also struggled to chase them

In addition to those who were killed, starved to death, and died of disease in the rebellion, some of the original residents of Dong Zhi fled to northern Shaanxi and became refugees or even bandits, unable to save themselves, and suffered terribly

After the war, there was no one in Qingyang, the grass in the city was barren and forested, the bones were piled up, strange birds and beasts gathered to harm Xu Zhanbiao, the shilling soldiers, the people, cut thorns, thorns, pick up the bones, and bury the bones in the city before they could be stationed

There are mountains and ravines around the city of Yongyang Mansion, and the common people can hide Dong Zhiyuan, which is the Loess Plateau, empty and flat, and the Qing army can survive after sweeping back and forth

It's really a thousand villages, and the people of Xuli have lost thousands of households, and Xiao Shu ghosts are singing

Regardless of Ping, Qing, Jing and Liang, the yellow sand and white bone roads are thousands of miles long, the yellow sand and white bone roads are absolutely uninhabited, the people are barren, and there is not a single wild wolf, and they dare not walk for many nights

After Dong Zhiyuan recovered, Zuo Zongtang believed that Gansu "must first arrange the Ping, Qing, Jing, and Gu areas bordering Shaanxi, and then advance and retreat to defend"

To this end, Zuo Zongtang sent officers and troops to Dong Zhiyuan to guard the key passes, and on the other hand, he handled the soldiers, Mintun, Qingyang, Heshui, and Ningzhou, and also had to be the second manager

Governance and development have been carried out from the following aspects

1. Select officials to organize the aftermath

After the recovery of Longdong, Zuo Zongtang first asked the imperial court to "break the grammar", break the convention, visit the nearest Gansu personnel, and act as the seals of Fuzhou and county, recruit exiles, count and scatter grain to prolong breathing, and give seeds and agricultural tools, supervise and persuade Ding Zhuang to cultivate in time, and choose the dangerous pass for the long term, choose the dangerous pass as the commander of the soldiers, the camp officials, and the lords of the forts, and the people of the prefecture and county are all sowing millet, millet, buckwheat, and wheat according to the season, and supervising the military and the people's daily affairs

According to the personnel appointment and dismissal system of the Qing Dynasty, the appointment of local state and county officials must be selected by the Ministry of Officials from other provinces, and cannot be selected and transferred nearby, because many prefectures and counties in Longdong Fu at that time lacked officials to organize the aftermath of the work, and selected and transferred officials from outside, and the distant water did not quench the thirst of the near and may not be familiar with the situation in Longdong, so Zuo Zongtang made a special case to ask the imperial court to agree to select local officials from Gansu nearby to organize various aftermath reconstruction work

2. Recruit refugees and reclaim the land in Guangxing

Because after the war, "there is only an empty city left in the Qingyang area", Zuo Zongtang decided to turn his entourage Dong Fuxiang and others into bandits, and now they have returned to Pingqing, and the refugees have been recruited back to their hometowns

3. Set up counties to strengthen management

Dong Zhiyuan added an important measure to strengthen the construction of local political power by adding county officials

4. It is forbidden to plant opium poppy and introduce cotton mulberry

The area around Guanlong in the northwest is small and barren, but for a long time there has been a bad habit of planting opium poppies, planting opium poppies and smoking opium is not only the cause of poverty in Gansu, but also the source of the decline and chaos of the people in the northwest

5. Sinking wells to fight drought and providing relief through work

Zuo Zongtang demanded that "in addition to the riverside and plateau in various prefectures and counties, there are rivers and springs in the direction of the plateau, which are sufficient for irrigation, but there are more Sichuan areas such as Qingyang, Ningzhou, and Zhengning, which are now doing relief, and it is especially suitable to dig wells, which is to engage in work-for-relief."

Dong Zhiyuan and the people of Qingyang prefectures and counties relied on Zuo Zongtang's relief and Daxing method of digging wells and irrigating fields to survive the post-war turmoil

6. Build roads and plant trees to improve the environment

Zuo Zongtang will repair the road and plant street trees, road trees as an important part of the march, the road road will be repaired there, the street trees will be planted there, only from Changwu County, Shaanxi Province through Longdong to Huining County, more than 600 miles, on both sides of the road over the years planted live elm willow, there are more than 260,000 trees, planted trees are dense as a wooden city, neat rows, these woods are called Zuo Gongliu by the people of Gansu to express the memory of the advocate Zuo Zongtang

There are more than 18,000 live trees in Qingyang; More than 12,000 live trees are planted in Chenghe and Zhenyuan counties in Dongzhi County

The place of Dongzhi County is the county seat of Dongzhi, where a large number of trees are planted, which improves the ecological environment and living conditions of Dongzhi Yuan

In addition, Zuo Zongtang's subordinates also repaired roads, Pingqingjing, Gugu subordinate post stations, Guyuan north to Pingyuan, to reach Hui'anbao, salt roads have all been repaired and flat, and Pingliang, Qingyang, Longde, Heshui, Dongzhi County, Cheng, Zhenyuan, Pingyuan, the county walls, government offices and ancestral temples, fortresses, post houses

The construction of these infrastructures, together with the planting of trees, has greatly improved the appearance of Dong Zhiyuan, and Dong Zhiyuan has blossomed again

Wei Guangtao of Pingqingjing Gudao inspected the aftermath of the Gansu East Road, built castles, built roads, built bridges, dredged rivers, planted official trees, benefited the people, and rejuvenated all kinds of waste