With the demise of the White Horse Congregation in Xi'an, the whole of Shaanxi was quickly pacified. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 While reporting to Feng Yunshan in Shengjing, Chen Yucheng organized his troops non-stop and prepared to march into Gansu and the Alxa Erlut Banner area.

However, since entering Shaanxi, Chen Yucheng has become more and more aware of the limitations of the infantry. Unlike the south and the Central Plains, the northwest region will become vast and sparsely populated as soon as it leaves the rich Guanzhong Plain.

As soon as Chen Yucheng inquired, he said that sometimes he could not touch a town for dozens of miles, and he could not meet a single person, so he knew that it was no longer feasible to use the previous infantry model, and further to the northwest, a large-scale cavalry must be formed.

Fortunately, Chen Yucheng had already prepared, along the way, their 3rd and 3rd Divisions and the Henan New Army Regiment had been collecting horses, plus defeated the White Horse Bandits, these White Horse Bandits had a lot of cattle and horses, all of which were captured by the captive army, and at this time it was counted that there were more than 10,000 war horses that could be used to hurry, and as many as 20,000 or 30,000 cattle and horses that could pull artillery and transport food supplies.

Chen Yucheng planned to use this time to train the soldiers on the road to Gansu, even if he could not train a group of cavalry, at least a group of horse infantry who could ride horses.

Gansu was originally an important place for the Manchu Qing to garrison the northwest, and the Green Battalion soldiers stationed there were originally the provinces with the largest number of soldiers among the inland provinces. But since the Manchu court was overthrown, the whole Gansu has been in chaos, fleeing, hiding, now there are not many Qing soldiers in Gansu, and most of them have been driven away by the White Horse congregation in Gansu. The whole of Gansu is already in chaos.

However, even so, as far as the whole of Gansu is concerned, the main forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are stuck in Lanzhou Prefecture, the original Ningxia Town, Xining Town, Liangzhou Town and Suzhou Town, the four towns of Gansu troops, a total of more than 30,000 people, have now scattered and fled, only more than 10,000 people remain, some of them fled into Lanzhou City to defend tightly, and the other part is still stranded in Xining City, and the rest of the troops of the state capitals of Gannan, together with a small number of Eight Banner soldiers, were gathered by the Xi'an general Zarafen who fled from Xi'an along the way and rushed to Ningxia City, however, as soon as they entered Ningxia City, was besieged by all the white horse soldiers of Jinji Castle and struggled to support it.

In other state capitals, there are no large-scale troops.

The White Horse Club bandits are mainly concentrated in two places. The first is Pingliang Mansion, where there are two forces of the White Horse Congregation.

Bai Nasan of Guyuan Prefecture had generals such as Li Decang and Tian Chengji under his command, and there were 50,000 or 60,000 white horse soldiers. And Ma Musan on the outskirts of Pingliangfu City, known as Mu Sanye, is an elder-level figure in the White Horse Club, he launched an uprising based on Lotus City and Zhangjiachuan, and formed the "White Horse South Eighth Battalion", his subordinates wore white hats, played green flags, and wrote the slogan of "Resist Qing and Fu Ming" on the flag, and used the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen year to issue an order not to kill innocent villagers, and had a good reputation in Pingliang Prefecture, but was squeezed out by the White Horse Soldiers in the main force of the White Horse Club in the Ningxia Fucheng area.

If you want to say that the other force is the most powerful, it is the Ma Hualong force centered on Jinjibao in Lingzhou County, Ningxia Prefecture, he is known as the president of the White Horse Club, and his subordinates have gathered more than 100,000 elite soldiers of the White Horse Club in the area of Ningxia Mansion and Qingyang Mansion. Therefore, although these anti-Qing forces of the White Horse Society have not yet been unified, they are secretly colluding and relying on each other. The horse flower dragon of Jinjibao faintly has the posture of the big leader of the entire Gansu White Horse Club.

After straightening out the situation in Gansu, Chen Yucheng and Lin Qirong decided to send troops immediately.

The two of them each led their own troops, plus 10,000 recruits each, and went straight to Pingliang Mansion. The 4th and 6th Divisions in the west, under the leadership of Liang Litai and Luo Qiongshu, together with 30,000 recruits, passed through Gongchang Mansion and went straight to Lanzhou City. The remaining 10,000 recruits dispersed to consolidate the security garrisons around Xi'an and Qinzhou to prevent the resurgence of the scattered White Horse Congregations.

The soldiers are divided into two ways, time waits for no one, Chen Yucheng is thinking of pacifying Gansu in one fell swoop.

Half a month later, when the 3rd and 3rd Divisions and 20,000 recruits conquered the prefecture and county all the way to the territory of Pingliangfu City, Ma Musan, the head of the White Horse Club in the area of Pingliangfu City, sent people to ask for a meeting, saying that they did not want to be the enemy of the captive army, and only demanded that Pingliang City be owned by them, that they should be autonomous, and that they would not harm the captive army and the people in Pingliang County.

Chen Yucheng immediately refused, asking the other party to come to meet with him in person to discuss the truce, and stressed that he must surrender, and the captives should not kill the prisoners.

But General Ma Musan was skeptical and refused to agree. It's no wonder that there are no impermeable walls. The captives killed more than 100,000 people in the White Horse Congregation in Xi'an Mansion, although the captive army has been blocking the news, but the news of the annihilation of the Xi'an White Horse Congregation still spread, and Chen Yucheng's "Murder Demon King" has long been famous in Shaanxi and Gansu, and can even stop children from crying at night.

But it was precisely because of the experience of this captive army killing the White Horse congregation that Ma Musan was so panicked, and he sent people to test the bottom line of surrender before the war began.

This temptation found that the tone of this "killer demon king" was very tough, and Ma Musan was even more worried.

In desperation, he was ready to accept it. He knew that unless he left Pingliang, who had lived for many years, he would not be able to defeat the captive army, and only by surrendering might he be able to pick up a way to live.

But he thought so, and his White Horse congregation didn't. Except for his younger brother Ma Muhui, who expressed his willingness to follow him to the death, the rest of his generals actually concentrated on the rebellion, directly killed Ma Musan, and led the crowd to flee to Guyuan Prefecture in the north of Pingliang Province, and defected to Bai Nasan, the leader of the White Horse Club in Guyuan Prefecture. In the chaos, Ma Musan's younger brother Ma Muhui, who led less than 10,000 white horse soldiers, directly gave up some weapons such as wooden sticks and bamboo poles, unconditionally surrendered to the captive army, and asked the captive army to avenge his brother.

With the leadership of Ma Muhui's 10,000 white horse soldiers, the captive army was like a bamboo, directly conquering Huating, Chongxin and Pingliangfu City, Longde and other prefectures and counties, and besieging Yuanzhou City.

Bai Nasan, the leader of the White Horse Congregation in Guyuan, ordered Li Decang and Tian Chengji to lead the main force of 40,000 White Horse soldiers, and launched an attack without waiting for the captive army that had just arrived to set up camp, but he did not expect that under the frontal field battle of the captive army, the battle would be defeated. Immediately, the captive army launched a charge, killing more than 20,000 white horse soldiers, and the rest either fled into Guyuan Prefecture City, or scattered and fled, and the captivity army took advantage of the situation to conquer Guyuan Prefecture City in one fell swoop, Li Decang and Tian Chengji were directly killed, and Bai Nasan led more than 10,000 white horse soldiers to flee to Ningxia Mansion in the north. The entire White Horse Congregation in Guyuan collapsed in an instant.

However, Chen Yucheng and Lin Qirong found that not only did the local villagers and people in Pingliangfu City and Longde County not suffer brutal killings, but there were also many local squires and people in Guyuan Prefecture who were not slaughtered except for being forced to donate some food and silver.

After some understanding, it was found that in the entire Pingliang Prefecture, including Guyuan Prefecture, there was no large-scale killing of local villagers by the White Horse Congregation. Therefore, after Chen Yucheng and Lin Qirong discussed, they decided not to treat them the same as the White Horse Congregation in Xi'an Mansion, and directly captured the White Horse soldiers, announcing that they would be imprisoned for five years, forgive their crimes, and then release them to the people.

However, in order to prevent long nights and dreams, Chen Yucheng ordered to take 5,000 white horse soldiers to quickly go north and attack the lair of the White Horse Congregation, Jinji Fort in the south of Ningxia Prefecture.

With the precedent of Pingliang Mansion, Ma Hualong, the president of the White Horse Club of Jinji Fort, sent a letter to him, claiming that he was willing to submit to the Chinese Empire and was willing to disperse 100,000 White Horse soldiers, but asked to keep half of the troops and support 50,000 White Horse soldiers.

Chen Yucheng couldn't help but sneer, this is obviously wanting to establish himself as a king, he wants to establish a state within a state in the territory of the Chinese Empire! Chen Yucheng asked the messenger to send a message back directly, all the White Horse congregations must surrender unconditionally, otherwise, once the soldiers of the captive army are pressed into the border, the chickens and dogs will not be left.

I have to say that the elite of the white horse soldiers encountered along the way, the elite are weapons such as bamboo poles and wooden sticks, which makes Chen Yucheng a lot more arrogant.