Li Guolou led more than 400 soldiers of the Li Zi Battalion to leave the county magistrate of Dongzhi County, and the convoy stood tall in the wind and rain, wearing a cavalryman in a coat of cloth, sitting on a horse, wearing a wide hat, a gun, a combat knife, a leather case, a loaded gun and live ammunition in the leather case, the team looked majestic and majestic, and a team that could fight a tough battle was wrapped in a door, a team that could fight a tough battle, standing quietly and waiting for Li Guolou to review

This team only lacked a battle flag, and the Li flag on a rainy day did not stand on the chariot to show off its martial arts

Li Guolou didn't step into the carriage to have a long relationship with his mother's children

Like the soldiers, he crossed the horse, this was a parting day, with a little sadness and some worries, and the streets were full of people and veterans who saw them off, many of whom were still wearing military uniforms, mutilated limbs, bandages, and crutches, and all the way the people saluted Li Guolou

Li Guolou's eyes were a little moist, his face was flowing with rain and tears, and he saluted the people on both sides of the street, and the country would never forget the contributions made by these veterans to the reunification of the motherland

The soldiers of the Li Ziying Battalion were also moved by the people, and a basket of eggs and a few pairs of cloth shoes represented the situation of the army and the people

And walked away, Wei Hanyu said with great sadness: "The fake foreign devils don't know when they will meet this time, I really envy the rice bucket and Xu Lan."

Li Guolou wiped his face and sighed slightly: "Old Wei, don't think about it, we are still young, we should start a career, the world is raining heavily, you don't send it ten miles away to the city gate, what do we pay attention to, I will take it and we will swim together when we return to Beijing in the future."

"Don't be impulsive, even if Wanniang is robbed, it's not worth your desperate efforts," Wei Hanyu squeezed his eyes narrowly and said a strange word

Li Guolou looked at the carriage with a strange face, and was a little afraid of being heard by Wan Niang, pouted and said: "Lao Wei, give me a serious face, maybe I'm interested, and I'll write a poem, and I won't be in a good mood in the rain anymore."

After the hearty laughter, several old friends practiced three bowls of wine under the city gate, and after drinking, Li Guolou, Fan Dahui, and Xu Lanzhong stepped on the war horse and waved goodbye to Wei Hanyu, this farewell was at least five years, maybe forever melancholy, and everyone was immersed in no sadness

The long team moved forward silently in the rain, bidding farewell to Dong Zhiyuan, the front was still boundless, the loess slope terrain slowly became gentle, and the mountain beams in the distance were hazy

Peculiar ravines in Yan'an area. Liang Yuan, Kuo Xian add a lot of poetry to the scenery along the way, is the galloping imagination space in the march, these yellow-brown wrinkles are full of eyes, desolate places hide countless dangers, many people are also farmers and bandits, will rob the Qing army

Most of these bandits fled to Jinjibao, scattered along the way to the villages and mountains and forests, there are also local bandits, the two forces colluded to harass the Qing army's transportation line, and in the past, this was Ma Hualong's territory, so in the eyes of the local people, only the sect leader Ma Hualong did not have the concept of the Qing court, and the people were very independent, and regarded the Qing army as an invader

The fifth-generation leader of the Mahualong Islamic Sufi school of Jehrinye, known as Tybil Tula, was named Syed Shuhaidayi, the leader of the martyrs

Jinjibao Lingzhou is more than 50 miles southwest, east to Huamachi, south to Guyuan, west to the Yellow River

Ma Hualong's family lived in Jinjibao, and the rich side enjoyed the hereditary system of the Qing Dynasty, so it can be said that the Ma Hualong family was favored by the Qing Dynasty for generations, but he still reversed the self-proclaimed "Prime Minister, Ningjun, Lianghe and other local military affairs", Ma Hualong's rebellion made the Qing court very annoyed, but he was unable to deal with Ma Hualong for a while

When the domestic war was long, the Qing court adopted the strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and repeatedly threw olive branches to Ma Hualong

Mu Tushan, the former general of Duolong Abe, took over as the general of Ningxia to supervise the military affairs of Gansu, he adopted a policy of surrender, the Ningxia uprising, the Hui people raised the city and surrendered, and Ma Hualong also accepted the "appeasement" and became the imperial court appointed magistrate in the Jinjibao area

The Hui people in Lingzhou listened to Ma Hualong's orders, and they were extremely contemptuous of the Qing government's appointment of magistrates, and the officials sat back and watched the Hui people

Ma Hualong and his appointed officials in the Jinjibao area implemented the policies of uniting the Han people and "killing fewer people" and "emphasizing agricultural affairs", leading the Hui Han people to build water conservancy, increase grain production, promote economic development, and make the people's lives relatively stable, and were trusted by the local masses

Ma Hualong is wise and resourceful, and the Hui people have a high prestige, after he led the local Hui uprising, after the Shaanxi, Gansu and Hui people have defected to Jinjibao, so that the power is greatly boosted, relying on geographical advantages and popular will to attack the Qing army many times defeated, he also presented a table to the Qing Emperor, tribute, and wanted to make the Qing Dynasty recognize the high degree of autonomy of Jinjibao with existing facts

The Qing court also had a warm conversation with Ma Hualong for a while, but that was a political struggle, and now the Qing court is free and no longer willing to tolerate Jinjibao's independence from the Qing system

Ma Hualong was content with the status quo and was willing to do all the way, the princes' forces did not expand outward, and when the Qing Dynasty was weak, he took advantage of the situation and missed the opportunity, and now he can only deal with the Qing army's attack on the defensive

Ma Hualong knew that the Qing Dynasty would never allow this situation to persist for a long time, so on the one hand, he expressed his deference to the local government of the Qing Dynasty for grain and money, and on the other hand, he repaired grain storage, built forts, purchased horses and made weapons in the Jinji area, stepped up defense against the Qing army's offensive preparations, and in order to strengthen his own strength, Ma Hualong kept in touch with the Gansu Hui rebel army in Hezhou, Xining, Suzhou and other places, and Ma Hualong continued to give material help after the Shaanxi Hui rebel army retreated into Gansu

"If Shaanxi is defeated, it will be funded with horse weapons, and if Shaanxi is poor, it will be helped with military rations", so "from Lingning, Xida, Xining, Nantong, Hedi, and all the Hui people look up to their noses"

It can be said that Ma Hualong made stumbling blocks behind the Qing Dynasty to fund the rebellion and return to the army, causing actual damage to the Qing army

Zuo Zongtang hated Ma Hualong to the core, and Zuo Zongtang also deceived Ma Hualong to write a letter, saying clearly: "The official army only suppressed Shaanxi, and returned to the Ganhui to live in peace without fear."

Zuo Zongtang let Ma Hualong settle for the status quo, did not officially turn against the Qing Dynasty, and now the Qing army has pacified Dong Zhiyuan and opened up the way to Jinjibao, how can the Qing army return to the dynasty, and finally it is time for the bayonet to see red

Zuo Zongtang had a showdown with Ma Hualong, so that Ma Hualong's local armed forces laid down their arms and accepted the court's appeasement, and after everything was ready, Zuo Zongtang began to attack the Gansu Hui army, and the spearhead was first pointed at Jinjibao

The Qing army divided its troops into two routes to attack Jinjibao, and the Qing army on the north route entered Lingzhou from Liu Songshan and sent troops to capture Guojiaqiao in the east of Wuzhong Fort

In the middle, the Qing army marched north from Guyuan and Pingliang, and Zuo Zongtang himself also entered Pingliang from Jingzhou, so that the Qing army formed a large encirclement of Jinjibao, and was ready to recover Jinjibao with a thunderous momentum

Li Guolou was actually not enthusiastic about participating in the siege of Jinjibao, so Dong Zhiyuan stayed for more than a month to make suggestions for local reconstruction

Most of the stone forts in the Jinjibao area are built on dangerous terrain, attacking this kind of strong fortress on the hillside, digging tunnels is very slow, it takes hard work to blow up the stone cave little by little with explosives, and it takes hard work to blow up a city wall, if the Qing army climbs head-on and attacks, only to use the lives of soldiers to fight hand-to-hand, this kind of thankless battle, he is not interested in participating, so Li Guolou is slow and refuses to leave Dong Zhiyuan

Being on the front line, Xu Zhanbiao thought that Li Guolou had the talent to be a counselor, and wrote a letter urging him to go to Guojiaqiao, because the Qing army encountered great difficulties when attacking the first fortress of Wuzhongbao, and the progress of the war was unfavorable

At this time, Ma Hualong recognized Zuo Zongtang's face and officially turned against the Qing Dynasty, the Hui people in Ningxia and the Shaanxi Hui army united and fought to resist the Qing army's attack, when Liu Songshan's troops attacked from Lingzhou to Guojiaqiao, the Hui forts along the way opened guns and cannons, and the forts lined up to kill officers and soldiers stationed in Ning'an Fort, Tongxin City, Forehope City and other places, and the Shaanxi-Gansu Hui rebel army also came to help the Qing army, and was blocked in the area of Wuzhongbao

In order to contain the Qing army on the north road, the Lingzhou Hui army destroyed the rear transportation line of Liu Songshan's department, and took advantage of the weakness to capture Lingzhou City

The commander-in-chief of the Jinjibao Battle was Admiral Liu Songshan, and the deputy commander-in-chief Xu Zhanbiao was struggling to deal with Ma Hualong's harassment tactics, and they were in a dilemma, dealing with the rebels' harassment tactics, and the Qing army's consistent practice was to burn them all, loot them all, and kill them all

But this time, it will force the people of the entire Ningxia region to rebel against Ma Hualong, although the local territory is divided, but nominally the Qing Dynasty magistrate, so the people of Ningxia still have the consciousness of the Qing Dynasty, and they can't kill all the people under their rule, and this battle is not over, they will be locked by the imperial court and taken back to Beijing, and their career will come to an end

The Qing army's implementation strategy was to build beacon towers and station troops along the way, which made the long supply line more difficult, and the troops could not be expanded, tired of coping with the harassment tactics of the Hui army, the rear of the Qing army was unstable, how could the front line dare to let go of the attack, and the Qing army fought a fatigue battle with the Hui army in this environment

The scar on Liu Songshan's face shook like a centipede, and he said with a cruel smile: "Lao Tzu is not in a hurry, there is time, when Zuo Dashuai recovers Lingzhou City, I will ask Ma Hualong to die, you will tell me how to ensure the logistics and transportation line, Guo Dazui is not allowed to kill, or Lao Tzu will take you first."

"Once and for all, Liu Junmen, I am loyal, or I will take the responsibility," Guo Baochang looked like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and wanted to buckle a basin on his head, and other generals echoed it enthusiastically, showing a fearless spirit, and Liu Songshan was determined to solve the troubles along the way and open up a no-man's land

Liu Songshan slapped the table angrily and shouted: "Nonsense, do you dare not listen to the orders of the commander Zuo, come down with three orders and five shen, Ningxia wants to attack the heart, you are talking nonsense, do you want to force the people in the entire Ningxia region to rebel, what should the Mongols do, how should the Tibetans deal with the traitors, give me bad ideas, sit down for me, and then give me a way."

The conference room was quiet, and the generals and officers sat down one after another, what other good way could there be, and the Qing army garrison used the wartime cruel method of sitting along the way, so that the local people did not dare to communicate with bandits

"Liu Jun's subordinates think that the reuse of Cui Wei and Lan Mingtai can solve the harassment of our logistics and transportation lines by guerrillas, and can also clear up our grievances with the local government, so that those ethnic minorities have nothing to say, this is called razing and conquering the country."

"Zodiac officer, do you mean to let Cui Wei and Lan Mingtai be local magistrates," Liu Songshan stroked a big beard, thinking about whether Huang Ding's words were feasible

"It's Cui Wei, it's the image project, and he brought him out, just pretending to let him sit in Lingzhou City, we won't have any trouble, Lan Mingtai is a traitor, let him do evil deeds, what do we have to do, and this person just likes to make trouble, dealing with the Hui army guerrillas, he has his own experience, and these two people are more useful than us stationed 20,000 soldiers and horses," Huang Ding said that the idea was more useful than our 20,000 soldiers and horses."

Huang Ding's face was full of light, enjoying everyone's praise, brushing his beard, smug, squinting, a great achievement, in fact, this is Li Guolou wrote to him, the pros and cons were analyzed, Li Guolou was good at ghost ideas, Huang Ding also wanted to cooperate with Li Guolou to go down, and secretly returned to the army, and the more than 4,000 secret agents in the army were about to play a role