It was getting late, a fast horse, from Fuchengmen into the city of Beijing, all the way to the wild gallop, immediately the rider, shouting in a hoarse voice: "Borrow light, borrow light!" ”

Pedestrians and vehicles on the road avoided one after another.

One of the rear gears, very gorgeous, the front two of the car "top horse", the back of the car two "with the horse", the head of Xuanhe, although there is no signboard, but the discerning person knows at a glance that the car is sitting, at least a shell. However, when the attendant of the car saw the fast horse approaching, he also hurried to "huh-huh-" and tried to turn the horse's head and move the car to the side of the road.

The powerful servant is the most domineering, and it is rare to be so obedient.

The car turned in a hurry, and the person sitting inside shook his body and almost knocked him, so he couldn't help but scold: "Hu Liu, what the hell are you kids?" It's not dark yet, and you're going to hit a ghost? ”

Hu Liu, who was driving, hurriedly turned around and said: "Back to the prince, it's the difference of 'eight hundred miles to step up'!" ”

Blocking the "800-mile intensification" discount must be dealt with according to the law of "obstructing the rejuvenation of the army"; even if you are a prince, you must be greatly frustrated, and the people in the car will be silent.

He thought for a moment and said to himself, "From the west? Did Zuo Zongtang hand it over there? ”

The fold crossed the Bingbu Street in the east of Zhengyangmen, and went straight to the provincial Titang official offices in Beijing, and shouted as soon as he entered the door: "Good news, hurry, hurry!" ”

Everyone gathered around, and before they could ask in detail, the Titang official in Shaanxi took his "folding bag", that is, he went out and got on the horse, and went straight to the Forbidden City.

The recital folded into the outer recital office, through the inner recital office, when it arrived at the Changchun Palace. The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces has just withdrawn from the meal.

Take it apart and take a look. Two women love colors. Sure enough, that's good news!

Suzhou was restored, Ma Wenlu was killed, and the Guanlong rebellion, which had eroded for thousands of miles and devastated the people, was postponed for five years, and the troops were used repeatedly, and finally it was completely pacified!

Suzhou is the last fortress of the Shaanxi-Gansu Hui bandits, in addition to Ma Wenlu's department, the remnants of Gandong, Gannan and Shaanxi. All gathered here, and the most important one was the Bai Yanhu Department who withdrew all the way from Jinji Fort.

After Bai Yanhu and Ma Hualong parted ways, along the Hexi Corridor, all the way to the west, through Biandukou, through Shandan, east to, into Ganzhou, at that time, Baibu was almost exhausted. It was a big grab in Fuyi, and there was a lot of gain. But he didn't dare to delay, took a little breath, and continued to move westward, from the high platform to the lower river, and finally arrived at Ta'er Bay.

Bai Yanhu saw that there were several abandoned forts here, which were still quite large-scale, and he could be relied on by stepping up repairs, so he decided to use Taerwan as his old nest in Suzhou.

At this time, the white department, after thousands of difficulties and dangers, along the way, died of war, starvation, disease, plus buried in the wolf's kiss, the old department of Shaanxi brought out from Jinji Fort, has gone to one of the three.

Ma Wenlu invited Bai Yanhu to enter Suzhou City, Bai Yanhu expressed his feelings, but he thought that the strategic location of Taerwan was important, and he could become a horn with Suzhou by holding Taerwan, and he was willing to garrison Taerwan and echo Ma Wenlu.

Bai Yanhu's analysis is basically good, but he has other considerations that are not easy to put on the table: first, he doesn't want to repeat the mistake of sending people under the fence and relying on people's breath in Jinjibao; Second, he has a clear understanding of the strength of the officers and troops who are about to enter Suzhou, and the city of Suzhou will not be able to hold on to nine times out of ten, Taerwan can advance or retreat, the situation is really not good, and there is still time to retreat to Xinjiang.

As it turned out, Bai Yanhu was prescient.

After the officers and soldiers rested, the soldiers were full, and when they arrived in Suzhou, it was the season of high autumn and crisp weather.

After discussion, Zuo Zongtang, Zhan Donglu, Liu Jintang, and others held that it was not appropriate to attack Suzhou and Taerwan at the same time, but it was necessary to cut off the connection between Suzhou and Taerwan. The officers and troops first occupied Maomu City between Suzhou and Taerwan, with a deep ditch and high fortification, and then, with Maomu City as the center, the Xuanjun cavalry battalion and Lei Zhengwan's horse team, two cavalry units, roamed between Suzhou and Taerwan, echoing each other.

After the arrangement was completed, the officers and soldiers began to clean up the forts on the periphery of Suzhou one by one, and the Suzhou Hui bandits built more than 100 forts outside the city, and within ten months, all of them were destroyed, and Suzhou became an isolated city.

During this period, the bandits in Suzhou City returned to attack the city several times, but they were all rejected by the officials and soldiers. Bai Yanhu sent troops from Taerwan to echo, but in any case, he couldn't pass the pass of Maomu City, and several times when he was fighting under Maomu City, he was copied by the cavalry of the official army and suffered heavy losses.

Suzhou, Taerwan, close to the end of the world, but always out of reach.

The officers and troops finally completed the encirclement of Suzhou, mobilized artillery, began to carry out uninterrupted artillery bombardment of the city, and imitated the example of attacking Jinji Fort, built a fort as high as the city wall, and the entire Suzhou city entered the Napoleonic cannon firing boundary.

Looking at the earthen wall of Suzhou City, which collapsed in the artillery fire little by little, Bai Yanhu knew that the general trend had gone, and if he stayed in Suzhou, not only could he not do anything more, but the official army captured Suzhou and turned to attack Taerwan, and the remnants of the two thousand Shaanxi Hui under his command must be wiped out, and there is no reason to be lucky.

So the first suspicious array during the day, quietly out of the fort at night, in the direction of Suzhou to shake the sky in the shouting and killing, Wenshu Mountain, Jiayuguan between the road, from Dunhuang to Hami.

The officers and soldiers didn't expect Bai Yanhu to leave, and when they found out that Taerwan had become an empty fort, Bai Yanhu had already left the customs. At this time, if you are in a hurry, you may not be able to catch up, but it will definitely affect the deployment of troops on the Suzhou side, just ask.

The bandits in Suzhou City are very tenacious, braving the artillery fire in the sky, and the city wall collapses with the base, but the speed of the fortress cannot catch up with the speed of the collapse, and the situation is getting worse and worse.

Ma Wenlu had no choice but to send people to the official army camp to "beg for comfort", expressing his willingness to "go out of Rong to atone for his sins".

Some of the generals thought it was acceptable, and some thought that the Hui bandit army was in turmoil and their morale was exhausted, and if they were not surrendered, they should launch a general attack and take Suzhou City in one fell swoop.

Zhan Donglu said that Suzhou is the last fortress of Guanlong's return bandits, even if Ma Wenlu sincerely asks to surrender, if he accepts his conditions and lets him out of the customs, then Jingding's great merit of Guanlong does not seem to be a good "complete merit" ......? Suzhou Hui bandits have become anvils on the fish and meat, swallowing their stomachs, two days earlier, two days late, at this critical juncture, why bother to have another branch?

In addition, it is probably a fact that "the morale of the army is in chaos" when Suzhou returns to bandits, but "morale is exhausted" is not necessarily. This, when attacking Jinji Fort, the battle of Hongle Fort can be described as a lesson from the past.

When the Xuan army broke through Hongle Fort, the Hui bandits in the fort lit fires everywhere in the fort, and then stabbed their dependents one after another, and then undressed and shirtless, roared and screamed, and rushed towards the official army. Many of the elderly, weak, women and children who did not die under the swords of their relatives would rather throw themselves into the fire than surrender. In the whole of Hongle Fort, there are almost no dead children.

After the war, Hongle Fort was broken and ruined, and it was a scorched earth.

Most of the casualties of the Xuan army in the Battle of Honglebao occurred after the capture of Honglebao, and moreover, they exceeded the total casualties after entering Gan and before the Battle of Honglebao.

Zhan Donglu said, therefore, the point of view under the mark is to continue to bombard the fuck! Anyway, there are so many shells that you can't keep and you can't get a cub.

Zuo Zongtang laughed and said, good, good, Ke'an, just do as you say!

So, he rejected Ma Wenlu's request for "begging for comfort" and continued to bombard Suzhou, day and night.

However, in a few days, some Hui people began to go out of the city and surrender on their own, at the beginning, dozens of people a day, and then by the end of the day, there were hundreds, and none of them were in the same system.

Zuo Zongtang and others judged that the Suzhou Hui bandits were really "exhausted in morale."

The official army is attacking the city in a big way, and Tao Maolin is the first to enter the city, and the gap in the northeast city wall rushes to the head of the city "Zaka", cutting off the back bandits in the city. Then, Zhan Donglu's troops broke through the south gate, and joined forces with Tao Maolin's troops to press the bandits to the northwest of the city.

Ma Wenlu's counterattack was fruitless, knowing that the deadline had come, he opened the west gate of Suzhou City, and personally told Zuo Zongtang's Chinese army camp to "beg for surrender", this time, it was "unconditional surrender".

The surrender of Suzhou to the bandit city is different from the surrender of Ma Hualong of Jinjibao, and Suzhou is the last battle of the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion, so for the disposal of the surrendered people, Zuo Zongtang does not have the worries of Jinjibao.

On the second day, under Ma Wenlu, Tuhui and Kehui, all the big and small leaders and strong and rebellious people, a total of more than 1,570 people, were all ambushed.

Then, the officers and soldiers set fires all over the city, and the flames soared into the sky, and they could be seen hundreds of miles away. The fire burned for four days and four nights, and after the ashes, the whole city of Suzhou was scorched, and the people who remained in the city were buried in the fire, totaling more than 4,000 people.

Shaanxi and Gansu returned to chaos and completely flattened.

*(To be continued......)