Since the last defender of the previous dynasty was defeated by the Tibetans, the Han people of Shazhou have not celebrated the Spring Festival for almost two hundred years.

Here, no one with Han Chinese blood can write Spring Festival couplets, but they finally remember that it was time to kowtow to their loyal ancestors and put incense on the pillars.

It is enough that the lost culture can be recovered or rebuilt, as long as they remember who they are.

In order to emphasize the advantages of Han culture, he even took out a part of the large amount of property seized from the Pars people and rewarded the nearby tribes, and forced the wives and daughters of the Pars merchants to dance to create a celebratory atmosphere in this war.

On January 16, 1793, it was almost time for the festival to end.

What Zuo Helin wanted had already been waited for - including reinforcements, including the servant army sent by the local tribe, as well as animal power and food supplies.

On the 17th of January, Zuo Helin sent troops again, still dominated by cavalry with one man and two horses, with a total strength of 7,000 (but the Han still only had 800).

On the twentieth of January, the Zuo Helin battle group arrived at Yumen Pass.

After a lapse of 300 years, the military flag of the Han regime was replanted at the head of Yumen Pass.

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Xingling line.

Li Jinghuai's main force also launched a continuation of the offensive after the Chinese New Year, but after the offensive resumed, he suddenly found that the defenders in the small fortresses of the party in front of him were gone.

The Chinese army inspected the empty fortress and found that the enemy should have retreated at the time when the Chinese army was preparing for the festival, probably for fear that the Chinese army would notice, and the retreating enemy did not set fire, but several holes were pierced in the roofs of all buildings to prevent the Chinese army from using it directly.

The granary that Li Jinghuai attaches the most importance to is naturally not left, and the well has been blocked.

However, it may also be to avoid the detection of the Chinese army, the party members did not evacuate the villages along the way, and implemented a thorough scorched earth policy.

In fact, the retreat of the party members was carried out privately by the chiefs of the various tribes for the benefit of their own tribes, rather than the strategic implementation of a scorched earth policy, which the Xia army did not intend to implement.

However, their approach caused great doubts to the cautious Li Jinghuai, who did not understand why the enemy would withdraw the soldiers but not the people.

You must know that the Chinese army's attack line is basically in the core areas of the party (but it has not yet entered the core area), and the villages in these areas are all good villages with prosperous populations and large stock of grain and livestock.

If the Tartars really plan to use scorched earth tactics, then the population and food and grass in these villages should be quickly withdrawn.

But now this situation .......

Not only Li Jinghuai, but even the former enemy's general staff did not realize the profound meaning of the current approach of the party members.

However, if you don't understand the enemy's thoughts, the war will have to be fought, but you must be more cautious in your next actions.

For example, Li Jinghuai ordered to clean up all the nearby pseudo-Xia villages.

The Chinese army immediately scattered and attacked every village of the Dang Xiang, they took all the men, women and children, took all the food and livestock, and then set a fire to the village, burning the village of the Dang Xiang.

The fertile plain between the Lingzhou River and the east bank of the Yellow River resounded with the miserable cries of the Dangxiang people, but they were helpless, most of the men in the village had already joined the army and went to Xingling, at this time there were only a few Ding Zhuang, women and children in the village, and they had no power to resist in the face of the heavily armed Chinese army.

What's worse is that they don't even have a chance to escape - because it's still winter, and it's snowing heavily, and even if the old and weak women and children can hide in the mountains, they can basically only freeze and starve to death.

Civilians who are not sheltered by the national army are so helpless under the suppression of the enemy's regular army.

When the Pseudo-Xia army went to Xingling, they had already requisitioned most of the grain in the villages, but this was their own hometown after all, and they couldn't do too hard, and most of the villages, especially the villages of Dangxiang and Qiang, had at least left food rations for the winter, seeds for the coming year, and livestock waiting to grow up for the next year.

These things and the rest of the population were all spoils of war for the Chinese army, and Li Jinghuai coldly ordered all the party prisoners to be taken back to the Guannei, so as to prevent them from joining forces with the Pseudo-Xia army—although most of them were women and children, it was impossible to imagine that any possible danger would be eliminated under the enemy's strategy.

Beginning on January 16, 1793, the Chinese army continued to escort the plundered pseudo-summer civilians into the customs, but in order to prevent problems with military rations, all their winter grain and grass were detained by the Chinese army.

Marching in the ice and snow, the fate faced by the frail women and children was naturally very miserable.

From Huide City to Huanzhou, the distance of more than three hundred miles was covered with corpses that had died of exhaustion.

On the side of the road, under the snow, countless stiff party and Qiang people were layered on top of each other, and in the depths of the snowdrifts, their arms like dead branches .......

By the second day of February, when the Chinese army slowly arrived at the city of Xiping (Lingzhou), Li Jinghuai and his regiment had swept away all the villages of the Dangxiang people in the south, and the pseudo-Xia had lost about 200,000 people, half of whom had been buried under the ice and snow along the way.

In fact, the war has been fought here, and even if the pseudo-Xia can expel the Chinese army this time, with the decline of their national strength, it is actually equivalent to losing.

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Xingqingfu(Xingzhou)

"You bastards!"

Li Qianshun, the Great Emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, was furious at his courtiers:

"You dare to withdraw your troops without my will! You're on the run! ”

The tribal chiefs bowed their heads and each responded, but no one pleaded guilty - as long as there were soldiers in their hands, in the Great White High Kingdom, the emperor could not do anything to them.

As for the losses of those villages in the south.......

Who cares? They couldn't evacuate in the first place, not to mention that most of the villages in this area belonged to the famous family, no matter how miserable the loss was, what happened to Renduo, didn't hide, and Ye Xiao?

"Your Majesty, the little ones have done their best."

After letting the emperor send out the evil fire for a long time, Ye Xiaoma was the first to stand up and say:

"We lost tens of thousands of soldiers in those forts in the south, and these are the best warriors in the family, but they were wasted."

"That's because you're all cowards! You can't even delay for a while! Li Qianshun was still angry: "As long as it is delayed for a while, the Mugwu and Zhou people will come to attack the Han dog in Huaxia!" We'll be able to win easily! ”

"If they don't come now, they won't come." "We can't put our hopes on those outsiders. ”

"Let's fight in Xingling." He raised his head and said, "Let Han Dog see how powerful our Dabai Gaoguo warriors are!" We will fight so that they dare not dare to think about it again! ”

"You guys! This group! Bastard! ”

Li Qianshun roared in a low voice, his eyes full of cold killing intent.