"The Northwest is self-reliant, it is a dead end, we must recover Turpan as soon as possible, and restore communication and communication with Hami, this is the first contribution to quelling the chaos!"

After reading the telegram, Tang Bingcan's face was extremely ugly, although he did not reply positively, but the meaning was very clear, Feng Renxuan was indeed the king of his own power!

Seeing that his face was ugly, Zhao Jinwen said unhurriedly: "The Northwest Army ambushed and blew up the Zhennan Wang special train, put the Empress Dowager and the Emperor under house arrest, and the garrisons of various prefectures and counties also mutinied frequently, Feng Zhitai has no other way to go except to establish himself as king, and the same is true for Commander Tang and all the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Army!" ”

Is there no way back? Tang Bingcan glanced at the telegram again, not to mention the first merit in quelling the chaos, at least he could make meritorious service and redeem the merit!

His views are consistent with Zuo Zongtang, the independence of the Northwest is purely self-defeating, at most it is only temporary, and it will eventually be doomed.

Yuan Qi tried his best to recover the northwest and carefully consolidated it, which shows that Yi Zhi's attention to the northwest will not be easy to let the northwest stand on its own, and will inevitably do his best to recover the northwest, and the northwest can compete with the entire Qing Dynasty with a corner of the land? It's simply impossible!

glanced coldly at Zhao Jinwen, who looked complacent, and said in a deep voice: "Come on, take it down, and guard it!" ”

Zhao Jinwen looked stunned, and hurriedly said, "Does the commander not care about the life and death of his family?" ”

"Hold on!" Tang Bingcan waved his hand impatiently, he thought very clearly, the other party threatened him with his family, if he bowed his head, once the northwest was recovered, it would be difficult to escape death, and he would not be coerced, but his family would still have a glimmer of life.

"Herald——, Tomorrow morning, launch an attack!"

Gong Ning.

With the resumption of the cable telegraph to the outside world, all kinds of news flew all over the sky, the following many prefectures and counties garrison mutiny, large-scale riots, riots, and the news of the destruction of the railway emerged one after another, and the most shocking news was that Feng Renxuan, the governor of Anxi, established himself as king, and everyone realized that the two northwestern provinces were about to be in chaos, and the entire Gongning City fell into a huge panic.

The streets are full of panicked people rushing to buy essential items such as salt, oil, grain, and tea, and many shops have been closed for business, but they have been ordered to open their doors as usual, and have been repeatedly warned not to hoard and raise prices, even so, in less than half a day, many shops have successively put up signs for sale - all goods have been snapped up.

Zuo Zongtang didn't care about this at this time, but just sent more patrolling soldiers to prevent riots in the city from being taken advantage of by the chaotic army.

As soon as he settled down, Li Yunlin came in with a telegram, "My lord, Commander Tang is calling, and he will launch an attack as originally planned early tomorrow morning." ”

After reading the telegram, Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if Tang Bingcan responded with troops, he wouldn't even have any thoughts, but fortunately, Tang Bingcan didn't disappoint him and didn't follow Feng Renxuan to make trouble.

In this way, he finally has a little capital to compete with the rebellious army, at least Tang Bingcan can still control tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on hand, and Tang Bingcan's appeal is also above Zhu Shanhai, however, the top priority is to recover Turpan, restore communication and railways with Hami, and only by quickly entering the northwest can the inland army quell this rebellion at the minimum cost.

After pondering for a while, he ordered: "Send someone to the Governor's Palace, we should talk to Zhu Shanhai." ”

Before Li Yunlin left the gate, he heard that Liu Changxing, deputy chief of staff of the military region, wanted to see him, and he couldn't help but smile, "It seems that Zhu Shanhai can't hold his breath anymore, please ——。 ”

Liu Changxing's footsteps were steady, and he entered the study with a high demeanor, and after saluting Zuo Zongtang, who was sitting at the top, he saluted directly: "Feng Zhitai is self-reliant and king, and the self-reliance of the northwest is already the ...... of the times. ”

Zuo Zongtang interrupted him unceremoniously and said, "Zhu Shanhai is unwilling to make a wedding dress for Feng Renxuan? ”

After a pause, Liu Changxing said slowly: "The northwest is self-reliant, and those who can live in it." ”

Zuo Zongtang sneered: "That being the case, what did Zhu Shanhai ask you to do?" ”

"That time, this time." Liu Changxing said calmly: "Now that the situation is clear, I hope that the Lord of the Ministry can change his mind." ”

"The cranes and mussels compete with each other, and the fishermen profit, which is really a good calculation." Zuo Zongtang sneered and said, "However, I want to disappoint you, the old man has no intention of following the example of that chaotic minister and thief." ”

Liu Changxing smiled and said, "The war is all together, the jade is burned, and the lives are ruined, and the adults don't want to see the thirty years of hard work ruined in the war." ”

What kind of medicine is sold in Zhu Shanhai's gourd? Zuo Zongtang glanced at him, the prosperity of the two northwestern provinces can be described as hard-won, not only did it cost him countless efforts, but Yuanqi also spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, if he could keep it, he would naturally try his best to keep it.

After a slight groan, he said, "You don't have to hide it, just say it." ”

Liu Changxing said: "The two northwestern provinces are closely connected, Feng Zhitai is self-reliant and king, and he will inevitably send troops to Xinjiang, and the troops under the control of the adults cannot be stopped at all, and only when we join forces can we stop and prevent Xinjiang from being poisoned by war." ”

Joining forces? Zuo Zongtang sneered in his heart, this is to force him step by step into a desperate situation where he has to rebel? After a slight groan, he said: "It's okay to join forces, but the queen mother and the emperor must be released first." ”

"Yes." Liu Changxing was very simple, "However, since we have joined forces, should we withdraw from Turpan first?" ”

Going around and around, the original purpose was to want them to withdraw from Turpan? Zuo Zongtang said with a smile: "It's okay to retreat, you can retreat, I asked Tang Bingcan to allow you to evacuate from Turpan." ”

There's no way to talk about it! Liu Changxing said stupidly: "Lord Ministry, do you have to force us to join forces with Feng Zhitai? ”

"Joining forces also requires strength." Zuo Zongtang said slowly: "If the strength is exhausted, it will not join forces, but take refuge, I don't care." ”

Turpan, military district.

Xiang Yunshan stood in front of the sand table with a calm face, Zhao Jinwen didn't come back for a long time, he knew that he must have been detained, Tang Bingcan was determined to recover Turpan, and the war was inevitable, but the problem was that they couldn't win at all, although they had an advantage in troops, they lacked heavy weapons, even the number of mortars and heavy machine guns was not much, and the ammunition was limited.

"Gong Ning is calling." Guan Baishan walked in quickly and said, "Commander Zhu asked us to evacuate Turpan in order to preserve our strength." ”

After reading the telegram, Xiang Yunshan breathed a sigh of relief, "Order all departments to prepare for evacuation and retreat after dark." ”

The Turpan rebel army withdrew cleanly overnight, and the next morning, Tang Bingcan's troops did not regain Turpan bloodlessly, and he did not pursue the rebel army, but ordered to restore communication and railways with Hami as soon as possible, and in addition, step up the construction of fortifications.