Just when the 3rd and 6th Divisions captured Suiyuancheng, the 4th and 6th Divisions of the 14th and 6th Divisions of Sichuan were pacified, and after the captive army stationed in Hubei and Yunnan entered Sichuan to take over, they also began the journey north to capture Gansu. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In September of the second year of Taisheng, Liang Litai and Luo Qiongshu led the 4th Division and the 6th Division respectively from Long'an Mansion to the north to capture Jiezhou, Minzhou and Qinzhou in Gansu, preparing to completely blockade Shaanxi, so that the Manchu heavy troops who were still stranded in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province could not flee westward, and solved the war in the northwest in one fell swoop.

In addition to the Xi'an General's Mansion stationed nearly 5,000 soldiers of the Manchu Banner and the Eight Banners, the whole of Shaanxi, mainly Xi'an and Fengxiang Mansion, had nearly 10,000 green battalion soldiers stationed in the whole of Shaanxi, mainly Xi'an and Fengxiang Mansions, and under the command of Zarafin, who was concurrently the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and Gui Ming, the governor of Shaanxi, not only did not disperse, but also recruited soldiers everywhere to develop troops, intending to hold the northwest and other places.

After analysis, the General Staff of the Capture Army found that in the entire northwest region, there were nearly 20,000 remnants of Qing soldiers in Shaanxi, most of whom were concentrated in Xi'an and Fengxiang, while Gansu was weak in troops, but although Xinjiang was vast and sparsely populated, because it was a frontier land, after many rebellions occurred in the late Qianlong period, it was heavily garrisoned, and after quelling the Junggar Department and the rebellion of Hezhuo in southern Xinjiang, there were still four battalions of Ili and two full battalions stationed in Ili and other places. Now because of the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Lanzhou sent to Xinjiang food and military pay cut off, resulting in a large number of inland Qing soldiers have fled from Xinjiang back to Shaanxi and Gansu and other places, Yaerqiang, Kuqa and other places of the Qing soldiers fled, but, even so, Ili still has Xibe battalion and Chahar battalion and two Manchurian battalions, a total of more than 10,000 people, plus a small number of Eight Banners soldiers in Tacheng and southern Xinjiang, there are still nearly 15,000 troops, and this part of the troops is a long-term veterans of the bitter cold land, very brave, plus it is a frontier, it is difficult to capture for a while.

Therefore, the strategy adopted by the General Staff of the Capture Army was to send two divisions in Sichuan to directly attack Gansu from Sichuan, occupy the passage to the frontier in Lanzhou and Liangzhou, and completely cut off the Qing troops in Shaanxi and Xinjiang.

In fact, the captives really did it.

After entering Gansu, the 4th Division and the 2nd Team of the 6th Division encountered almost no resistance all the way, and all the way to collect the sporadic Qing soldiers and local regimental training of Guishun, collected war horses, changed to horse infantry on foot, and after more than a month, occupied Qinzhou, Lanzhou, Liangzhou and other places, except for Ganzhou and Suzhou in the north and Ningxia Fu in the northeast, the rest of the soldiers occupied the important places.

At the same time, in addition to the 6th Division and the 1st Division of Yiyi stationed in Shanxi, the 3rd Division A and the 3rd Division, plus 30,000 recruits recruited from Shanxi and Henan, successively attacked Yulinfu, Suidezhou, Yan'an and other places in northern Shaanxi, and pressed heavily on Xi'an City, preparing to capture Shaanxi in one fell swoop.

At this moment, an accident happened that no one could have imagined.

In Chishui Town, Weinan County, Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, a group of more than 300 Manchu and Han Qing soldiers who had fled from the border of Puzhou Prefecture and other places in Henan Province were tired and hungry, so they thought about forcing the people of Chishui Town to give food and money as supplies. But what I didn't expect was that the people of Chishui Town were all surnamed Ma, and they were of the same clan, so they were unusually united, and they only agreed to give food, not money.

Therefore, this group of Manchu deserters from Henan was hungry, relying on force, slaughtered dozens of people, and after a big meal, robbed the property and continued to rush to Xi'an City.

The people near Chishui Town reported to the Weinan County Ya Bureau, and at the same time begged the local regiment to intercept the deserters and arrest and question the criminals. At this time, this group of Manchu deserters thought that Shaanxi was still under the Qing Dynasty, so they went directly to the county seat of Weinan, saying that all the people of Chishui Town had colluded with the captive army, intending to rebel, and demanded that the government quickly increase troops to suppress it.

The guerrillas stationed in Weinan City were very loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they listened to the words of the deserters and ignored them, and the deserters were overjoyed and even more arrogant, and they also recruited the Qing soldiers stationed in Weinan City to set fire to Chishui Town and several villages around it, robbed them at will, looted their property, and humiliated women. For a time, rumors spread throughout Weinan County, and it was strange to say that most of the local people were either surnamed Bai or surnamed Ma, forming a secret group called the "White Horse Society", and the congregations of the White Horse Club were unusually united, and everyone was like brothers and sisters. Therefore, this group of Manchu deserters and the Weinan government are in trouble.

Thousands of young and strong people gathered in Weinan and the three counties of Huazhou, Lintong and Gaoling in Weinan to arrest the rebels, and at the same time demanded that the local government ask the local government to interrogate the guerrillas in Weinan City or hand them over to the White Horse Society.

Seeing that things were not going well, this guerrilla and these Manchu deserters simply framed them, saying that "the White Horse Bandits and the Cantonese bandits are making a rebellion together, and they ask the prefectures and counties in Shaanxi to send troops to suppress and exterminate them." At the same time, the guerrilla also ordered the Qing soldiers to fly leaflets everywhere: Shaanxi will not leave the White Horse Club bandits, let alone allow the Cantonese bandits to invade, and the will of Heaven will destroy the White Horse, and the White Horse Congregation will be wiped out, and the White Horse houses will be burned down. People who are not members of the White Horse Club everywhere are strong, and after seeing the leaflets, they will help the food and soldiers, and those who do not obey will be ordered to burn down the house and kill them. ”

Originally, this guerrilla thought that this White Horse Club was just a congregation in Weinan and Huazhou, Lintong, and Gaoling, even if there were many people, it was only a few thousand people, and there was no big storm with the government suppressing it, but he didn't expect that this White Horse Club was far more than that, but a behemoth in the northwest.

In just a few days, tens of thousands of people gathered in the Baima congregations in Huazhou, Huayin, Lintong, Gaoling, Jingyang, Chang'an, Xianyang, and Xingping, which were adjacent to Weinan, to conquer dozens of towns and towns, and to kill the Manchu garrisons and dozens of troops trained by local regiments, totaling three or four thousand people. The main force of the White Horse Congregation of more than 20,000 people, under the leadership of the leader Ma Lao Wu, occupied the county seat of Lintong.

Now, things are getting bigger!

When the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu and the general of Xi'an, Zarafen, learned about it, he knew that something bad was going to happen. He also learned that the White Horse Club was actually a local villager, and it was not the same as the Cantonese thieves who were about to attack, so he transferred troops to guard Xi'an City and suppressed the rebellious White Horse Congregations in the prefectures and counties of Xi'an Prefecture, and on the other hand, he sent Gui Ming, the governor of Shaanxi and the governor of Shaanxi, to Lintong to summon the White Horse Congregation, preparing to persuade the leaders of the White Horse Club to surrender, calm the matter, and unanimously assist the imperial court to deal with the Cantonese thieves who were about to attack.

The so-called admonition is actually intimidation and pacification and suppression, but Gui Ming has always been used to being an official, domineering, how can he be appeased, it is directly a threat. Gui Ming, Ma Bailing, the prefect of Xi'an, and others went to Youfang Street outside Lintong County with great force, and did not mention any attempt to appease the White Horse Society, but instead ordered the White Horse Association to surrender to the imperial court unconditionally, and punished the head of the meeting, Ma Lao Wu and others.

As everyone knows, the head of this meeting, Ma Lao Wu, but in this White Horse Congregation, the prestige is very high, and among the congregations of the White Horse Club, they love each other and attach great importance to the friendship of the congregation, and they are not willing to betray Ma Lao Wu at all, therefore, Gui Ming and other Manchu officials accompanying him are tragic, under the leadership of Ma Lao Wu, the angry White Horse Congregation killed Gui Ming and other Manchu officials, but Ma Bailing is safe and sound because of his surname Ma, of course, the condition is that he also joined the White Horse Club.

Suddenly, the White Horse Society was completely confronted by the Manchu government in Shaanxi.

After Zaraphine learned of this, he gave up the idea of negotiation and pacification, and ordered the Eight Banners in Xi'an City and the local green battalion garrisons in several prefectures and counties of Xi'an Prefecture to assemble to quell the rebellion, and to quell the White Horse Society rebel party before the capture army attacked. He directly issued an order to counter-insurgency, but unexpectedly, it became an order to "see the white horse and not stay", this rumor soon spread, in Xi'an Prefecture and even in the central part of Shaanxi quickly dispersed, more places of the White Horse congregations have rebelled, Guyuan Bai Nasan led the people to revolt, Pingliang Ma Mu three led the rebellion, Ma Hualong rebelled according to Jinjibao, Jingyang Baiyanlong Baiyanhu brothers led the people to revolt, Shaanxi's Manchu government was in a state of anxiety and fell into trouble.