Seeing An Jie talking to himself, leaving the chamber without putting the fourth handsome Cui Wei in his eyes, the fifteenth handsome Halianjin, the sixteenth handsome Zou Baohe and others glared angrily at the fourteenth handsome Lan Mingtai, but at a glance, Lan Mingtai was still calm and calm, and he didn't care about stroking his big beard, and others couldn't say anything, the enemy currently thinks that peace is precious, and he can't afford to be a "swordsman" who is not educated

Ha Shi Shi by the emperor's grace for the Qing Dynasty Northwest military generals family has produced two martial champions Ha Lian Jin and a cousin Ha Lian Sheng, who was originally the deputy general of Tongguan, fighting a very fierce war, is a famous general in the northwest when Ha Lianjin rebelled, he deceived his cousin out of Tongguan to blackmail Ha Lian Sheng to join the rebel army, but Ha Lian Sheng swore not to obey, Ha Lian Jin did not kill his cousin, and now Ha Lian Sheng was coerced back to the army, neither died nor surrendered, the court also thought that Ha Lian Sheng was dead, and Ha Lian Sheng was posthumously sealed

Halenjin was dissatisfied with Lan Mingtai's subordinate An Jie talking to himself and leaving the council hall, but the swordsman tied his head to his trousers and belt, and everyone was a brother who lived and died, and he glanced at him and said, "I can also dispatch 2 people here."

Next to him, the fourth brother of Ha Lianjin, Ha Lian Hu, said loudly: "The younger brother is willing to personally lead the team to meet Zhao Zilong of the Qing Dynasty for a while······ What the hell?"

The people next to him also broke out into strange laughter, the Qing army is not worthy of the name, the actual combat generals have seen more, the Eight Banners army can't help but fight, they are only afraid of the group of southern and northern war troops under Zuo Zongtang, that is, from the sea of blood, the corpse mountain crawling and rolling, a hundred battles of elite soldiers have never fought, how can the student soldiers withstand the galloping of thousands of horses, shock, as if they have seen the iron hooves trampling Li Ziqi under their feet

Zou Baohe, who is over sixty years old, stroked his white beard and shriveled up, and said with a smile on his face: "Halianhu is young and vigorous, but he can send 5 people here."

The fourth marshal Cui Wei heard the sound of the strings, and the sixteenth marshal Zou Baohe was unwilling to let his henchmen join Erhe Prefecture as the commander of this sneak attack, and Zou Baohe was unwilling to see his battalion growing stronger and stronger, and said without revealing it: "Imam Zou is reasonable, it is time to let the young people experience some training, Erhe Prefecture ordered you to lead 8 soldiers and horses to meet Ha Lianhu, and this battle is under the full command of Ha Lianhu."

"It's a subordinate, I must live up to my mission, and I will come back with 2 pigtails and dog ears," Ha Lianhu was full of spirit, and his vigorous and wide face was full of confidence

All the congregants in the council chamber put their legs together, their knees on the ground, their hands raised a little higher than their foreheads, ten fingers together, palms up, palms up, slightly bent in the middle of the palms, and then began to pray, facing the holy place of Mecca, reciting a few verses of the scriptures, and reverently

The sixteenth marshal Zou Baohe is an imam, that is, a clergyman, and he prays: "My great and true God, in the holy name of the Lord, pray that the Lord will enlighten us, we will change, you will never change, we will bow our knees, cry out to you, have mercy on us, you are our Father, we will not do you good, may you keep us in this age, the devil roars like a lion, and he marches everywhere in search of a devouring man, and I pray that the Lord will give us strong faith, and the Lord will be our refuge, and we will rely on Allah and say: 'Pray to Me, and I will answer you, and if you refuse to worship me, they will go humbly into Hellfire: 'O our Lord, do not punish us, if we forget or mistake, do not burden us, just as you made the ancients carry it, our Lord, do not burden us beyond our ability, forgive us, forgive us, have mercy on us, you are our Protector, help us against the unbelievers, O Minai."

"Ah, Minai," the crowd sang together, and after a short prayer, several generals left the council chamber and went their separate ways

The twelfth handsome Bi Dacai followed the sixth handsome Yu Deyan and asked in a low voice: "Do you want to pass the news over?"

The sixth handsome Yu Deyan looked at the dim sky and shook his head and said: "It's too late for an afterthought, but it's better to inform everything, it depends on the will of heaven."

"Well, I think there is no return, how can there be such a good thing, Zuo Zongtang is cunning like a fox, Li Ziying is clearly a bait, we will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight", Bi Dacai hopes that Halian Tiger will be defeated and return, and the other battalions of people and horses will be disabled by the Qing soldiers like him, so that he can find out the stakes and bewitch many people to return to the Qing Dynasty

The big difference between the Hui army and the Twist Army is that there is a base and a no need for a base place, the Twist Army is famous for its brutality and ferocity, and it is like a locust to destroy large households and plunder local property, because of the lack of siege equipment, and mainly horses, most of the marching troops in rural areas and big cities can rarely be defeated, and it is a team that is out of touch with the people, so the Twist Army is not as big as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it is not so popular as the Hui Chaos

The leader of the Hui army, even if he is the commander of the army, also has to manage the lives of the people in the camp, and the next area is to expand the army, recruit people and take prisoners, and the local people rebel, as long as one person in the family joins the Hui army, the whole family will rebel

As for the idea advocated by the Hui army, it is to establish a religious, political, Military three-in-one Islamic regime, some Hui military regimes do not dare to openly seek independence, but also seek a high degree of local autonomy, if this kind of rebel army belongs to the righteous side and wins the final victory, then in later generations China will forever lose the great northwest land, nominally canonized, nominally recognized the Qing emperor as their master, as a unified territory of all ethnic groups, the idea of inadmissibility of separation, the Qing people of insight will never allow the Hui people to make independence, no matter what name they resist the Qing rule, they are reactionaries, must be resolutely suppressed

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There is a beacon tower on a high slope in this Yanji town, which is the wind-blown sand grassland area, the terrain is flat, perhaps it is a drought for many years, the wind-blown sand is the loess slope, and there are many sands and stones on the riverside, and poplar and elm willow trees can be seen from time to time

It was getting louder and louder, and the Li Zi battalion had already marched to this point, and Li Guolou climbed this beacon tower and looked into the distance

Next to this beacon officer, this beacon tower was destroyed by the Hui army and was refurbished, there is a reinforced team, a total of 5 soldiers are stationed here, as the front army supply line, Xu Zhanbiao attaches importance to the war here is the logistics and transportation, and there are news stations or beacons on the supply line

Generally, the Hui army is not willing to attack these beacons, and it will take hundreds of lives to fill them, if the time drags on, some officers and soldiers will come to the rescue, and the gains outweigh the losses, but they hate these beacons so much that they are itching, as long as they are built by the officers and soldiers, the cavalry of the Hui army will have no room for maneuver, and the cavalry will be monitored by the officers and soldiers

Nowadays, both sides are building military fortifications, but the Qing army has a state financial support, and the logistical supply is constantly keeping up, and both sides are doing their best, this is a national war, whether to be independent of all ethnic groups or national unity

The Qing Dynasty had a solid foundation and could afford to lose, and if one army was crippled or mutinied, another army would be sent to suppress the Hui army

Due to the fact that the local agricultural facilities were seriously damaged due to the continuous wars, the Hui army could only live a life of war and war, and became a plundering team, which had long violated their propaganda doctrine, and the war had no benevolence and righteousness, and both sides became bloody and brutal

Hundreds of miles ahead, the terrain is flat and suitable for horse teams to march, Li Guolou was worried that he would be attacked by the Hui army, so he climbed the beacon tower to watch the terrain

Battle, Cheng Kun, Xun Xi, Hongdu, Fan Ye and other senior officers all observed the terrain, unlike the loess high slope, as long as they occupy a high slope, they have more than 1 cannon, and a high slope as a position can be invincible, if the enemy cavalry dares to attack from the bottom up, the artillery can blow up the cavalry

The empty plain is suitable for cavalry mobility strikes, as long as the transport team breaks through a point, the transport team will be divided and surrounded by the cavalry, becoming a leaky sieve everywhere, and Li Guolou is hesitant whether to march alone or let Xu Zhanbiao send the army to escort a little distance after a little distance, do not capsize in the gutter, as a military theorist, Li Guolou knows what the advantages of the cavalry are, and what advantages and disadvantages the Li Ziying camp has

The officer of the beacon tower introduced the situation here, and after getting a meeting gift as a local snake, he knew everything and told him all about the customs and customs of Yanji Town, and he did not come out frequently when he returned to the army in winter, mainly with a small group of reconnaissance troops, and fired a few shots to scare the officers and soldiers on the beacon tower, and there were no major casualties in his defense area

The officers and men of the Qing Dynasty summed up a set of experiences in dealing with cavalry and twisted armies with strong mobility

The first is to build fortresses in the northern villages, so that the Twist Army can easily obtain supplies, so that the Twist Army can not grab supplies all the way

The second is to dig deep ditches and dig ditches on rural roads to prevent the horses from passing easily, so that the cavalry can become infantry and wait to be killed

These two experiences allowed Li Hongzhang to capture Lai Wenguang alive in the East Twist, and Zuo Zongtang forced Zhang Zongyu to death in the West Twist, and now these two valuable experiences are also implemented in dealing with the Hui army, and the Hui army horse team dug ditches and built forts in the haunted places

Battle and Cheng Kun saw that Li Guolou was hesitant and thought that they were all militants, and they had always had confidence in Wutang's tactical ability, as for the actual combat experience, it depended on fighting, and they all bewitched Li Guolou, who made up his mind to march to the target alone, thinking that the two horses of the Li Zi battalion were enough to resist the attack of the Hui army's horse team, and Battle couldn't help but ask: "Officer Ai, have you dug the ditch here?"

The officer of the thin team nodded and said: "Don't worry, the three trenches have been dug up, the main road connecting Dong Zhiyuan has been dug up, and if you want to launch an attack from the section under my jurisdiction, you have to be a citizen to fill the ditch, and at this time, the patrol soldiers will find out that we will light the beacon fire and the reinforcements will arrive in an instant."

Xun Xi interjected with an eager expression: "Our artillery can be pulled out anytime and anywhere, and I am afraid that the enemy will run away when he sees the power of the cannon, so that my long-range artillery will not have time to erect it, and even the piling will be in vain."

Hongdu was very dissatisfied with the short-range artillery which round was in charge of him, Xun Xi said in a dry tone: "Xun Guan is too late to take you, it's your business, don't include me, when will you pay me back last time I borrowed two howitzers?"

"What's more, still use Krupp cannons to fight cavalry, then if you can reach the Year of the Monkey, the two howitzers will belong to me, Officer Hong, what level do you have, how do you talk to the commander," Xun Xi replied in a strange manner, the two artillery officers from different units disagreed with each other, Xun Xi was of high rank, and he had been teaching Hongdu a lesson in the tone of a commander

Xun Xi and Hongdu are both full of people, and they are very good at mastering the military skills of artillery, and they think that they are high, and the children of the Eight Banners have a bit of military level, that is, the same as the king of heaven and Lao Tzu, the characters are born from the same root, and he is too anxious, and the mung bean eyes are facing pink eye, and the two of them are glared at on the beacon tower

"Don't make any noise, in the future, they will all be martial arts instructors, a level person," Li Guolou pouted slightly, and in an instant, a large number of enemy troops moved, and reinforcements should be sent out with great caution, Li Zi's battalion could not hold out for half a day or even a day, and there were no reinforcements in sight

Li Guolou looked at Fan Dahui, wanted to listen to the opinions of Fan Dahui, who was in charge of thousands of people, in fact, he was very assured of the soldiers, how long the artillery can set up the artillery, he had practiced many times, as long as he was not attacked by the enemy, he was confident that he would establish an artillery blockade in a short time, which made him worry that it was the establishment of military fortifications, which required thousands of people to quickly build a fence to block the cavalry, fence off the vehicles, dig a ditch and build a fence, and to do all this well, he had the confidence to let the convoy march into the plain