Chapter 397: Live or Dead

In just five days, Bai Yanhu, who was in Lanzhou, received bad news one after another, and his mood became even more irritable.

Cui Wei really surrendered to the New People's Army, and took the lead in killing Dingxi, so the pressure on Dingxi increased sharply, Hao Mingtang attacked on both sides, the army was discouraged and abandoned the city directly, and Dingxi was captured and received by the new army from the east.

And Ge Hui's cavalry set off towards Wei Yuan and Kang Le one step earlier, intercepting Hao Mingtang and others who retreated to Hezhou and throwing themselves to Ma Zhanao, and surrounded and killed all their subordinates in one fell swoop.

This made Bai Yanhu angry and annoyed, he didn't expect that the acting eldest brother Hao Mingtang would abandon the city at the last moment, and didn't return to his base camp Lanzhou to join Ma Zhanao, is this clearly looking down on him?

"That! Your Majesty, what should we do, the New People's Army is menacing, all the way to the bloody fortress, there are a lot of people who have recently entered Lanzhou, the New People's Army has attacked us in three ways, and will meet the city of Lanzhou, we lack muskets against it. Yu Deyan said worriedly.

Bai Yanhu said: "King Yu, don't be too pessimistic, as long as we don't give in, no one in this northwest can help us, now that the New People's Army is advancing, our manpower has exploded several times, and these people are mortal enemies of the New People's Army, even if the New People's Army has advanced weapons, we are confident to defeat them."

When the time comes, we will be able to capture the weapons of the New People's Army, and we will definitely be able to conquer the eastern part of the country, and we will definitely be able to build a great empire in four or five provinces. ”

After encouraging him, Bai Yanhu smiled again: "I have agreed with Ma Benyuan and them, arrest the Han people inside and outside the city for me, and see what the New People's Army does then, if they continue to attack, I will kill all the Han people in Lanzhou and break the net with them." ”

Looking at Bai Yanhu's hideous face, Yu Deyan chuckled in his heart, and a cold current passed by in his heart.

When he arrived in Xining, Yang Dongfang received the news that Datong had been liberated, and at the same time, the 4th Cavalry Brigade also launched a pursuit of the fleeing white bandits, and basically expelled them to the Mongol feudal banners in the central part of Monan, which caused the Mongol tribes to complain and sent envoys to the Chinese Empire to negotiate.

The first is to inquire about the tone of the Chinese Empire to see what attitude towards the Mongolian domain will be next, and how sincere Yang Dongfang will be.

Second, they want to buy muskets in the hands of the New People's Army to exterminate the white bandits who enter the country, so as not to let these people become big bandits and threaten their territory, and of course they want to strengthen themselves.

The muskets of the New People's Army are too sharp, and if they can have such weapons, they may be able to unify the Mongolian tribes and sit as the king of the steppe.

Yang Dongfang naturally has no time to manage the Mongolian domain, and there are only two ways to deal with the steppe peoples, one is to develop thermal weapons, as thermal weapons become more advanced and mechanized, the more obvious the loss of the natural advantage on horseback, the easier it is to deal with it.

The second was the control of economic development in later generations, such as the theory of sheep shearing, which increased the dependence of the Mongol vassals on the Central Plains.

Therefore, the matter of the Mongolian domain is not urgent, take your time, and do not rush for a while.

"Your Majesty! The big thing was not good, Ma Benyuan agreed to the plan to capture the Han people near Xining and Haidong City, and heard that they were going to use these people to threaten the westward army. ”

"What? Ma Benyuan actually wanted to use this kind of poisonous trick! Yang Dongfang had almost no doubts, because in the original history, the Hui bandits in Xining and Haidong used this trick to hold the Han people hostage, and Yang Yanzuo marched into Xining Prefecture, Qinghai and other places, and first killed all the Han people here, with a plan to break the net.

However, at that time, the Han villages in Xining and other places had already been killed by their brothers, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in power, so naturally they could not threaten Zuo.

So hearing this news at this time made him have to think deeply.

He is not a person who likes to be threatened, and the current Xining Han Village is only ten rooms and four empty, and there are many Han people, so he can't ignore it.

Immediately, a new decision was made, and he went to a nearby mountain recess to choose a place, then flew to Zhengzhou, and the next day transferred a main regiment from the Kaifeng Military Region to hide them.

Then they went to Haidong, arrived in Haidong a day and a half later, and then flew to the Wuhan Military Region to transfer a main force regiment to come over and hide it.

Then continue to go east, to the border pass of Xining Province, and then fly back to Lingzhou.

At this time, the entire Ningxia Mansion had been cleaned up, and the Ma Hualong Department had almost been eliminated from the training, so a new combat order was arranged, allowing Liu Songshan to lead 2,000 people to control the Ma Hualong Department and a regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade to launch an attack on Suzhou.

Yang Dongfang flew to Xining with more than 2,000 troops under General Liu Jintang and a regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and directly got into Ma Benyuan's stomach to implement a beheading plan.

Chengdong Guan Mosque, at this time the temple became the tallest building in the city, since the Ma Guiyuan brothers occupied here, the size of the mosque has been expanding and heightening, its height has exceeded the city wall, becoming the real power of Xining.

Ma Benyuan lived in it, living a life like the emperor of the soil, tonight he had a dream, in the dream he saw Bai Yanhu was defeated by the New People's Army, and finally defected to himself, and all the eunuchs also took refuge in themselves, and their own power was continuously expanded, becoming the largest military group in Qinghai and Gansu, and accepting everyone's support to establish a new Mu Shilin Empire.

Then he used the geographical conditions of Xining Mansion to defeat the attacking New People's Army, captured countless weapons, and finally counterattacked and captured Gansu and even the whole of Shaanxi, killing hundreds of thousands of New People's Army, so that the Chinese Empire could not help but seek peace and send the beauties of Jiangnan over.

But just when he pushed the beauty down on the bed, he suddenly found that the beauty had become Ma Zhanao, this guy stabbed himself in the heart, and said unashamedly that he would treat him and become the emperor of the empire.

"Whew! Damn Ma Zhanao! Ma Benyuan, who was shocked by a cold sweat, woke up from the demon, only to find that he was dreaming, but he still had palpitations, and patted his chest: "This dream is too real, it seems that I want to remind Bai Yanhu to be careful of Ma Zhanao, no, I have to write back to Bayan Rongge Hall to beware of Ma Zhanao's attack on Xunhua." ”

Ma Benyuan just thought of this, and suddenly heard gunshots outside, and it was very dense, so he quickly got up and walked towards the door, as soon as the door opened, the wind and fire outside rushed over his cronies to report: "My lord is not good!" There were a large number of enemies in the city, a large number of Han people with muskets, we could not resist, and the Han people were killed in the mosque. ”

"What! Damn, what's going on! Could it be that those weak and cowardly Han people have rioted, and if they dare to hurt the mosque, I will kill them all. Ma Benyuan grabbed the collar of his cronies with one hand, and then pushed it away, asking people to take a knife and go to suppress it in person, but as soon as he left the temple, he was beaten back.

The bullets beat all their parishioners half to death, and all the parishioners and troops in the city fled to the mosque, and everyone was terrified for a moment and had no idea what had happened tonight.

Why did a devil-like army suddenly appear, the muskets were so sharp, as long as they rushed over, they would be beaten to blood.

"What should I do, my lord! The entire city was occupied by this group of Han Chinese. ”

Looking at the frightened faces, Ma Benyuan comforted: "Don't panic! There are certainly not many Han Chinese in this group, but their muskets are sharper, and I have 200 captured Qing muskets in the mosque, waiting to be distributed.

The Han army appeared strangely, someone must have betrayed us and taken refuge in the Han people, after the matter is over, I must break his body into ten thousand pieces, the Han people came suddenly, and it doesn't hurt that they temporarily occupy the city.

As long as we can keep the mosque, there will be countless parishioners who will come to save us, and the mosque is now big enough and strong enough that we will be able to keep it. ”

After listening to Ma Benyuan's words, the people below regained some confidence, not as flustered as before, and then some people came to pray, faith is invincible, in the mosque they can get God's help and gifts, and the final victory is their own.

"Your Majesty! The city has been captured by us, and all those who resist have been killed. Liu Jintang, holding a knife in one hand and a revolver in the other, came to report murderously, and there was a lot of blood on his body, and the whole person was a little high-spirited.

Joining the New People's Army not only did not get sidelined, but was appreciated by Yang Dongfang and appointed to important positions, which made him see the infinite dawn and firmly believe that he could go further.

"Good! Just get rid of those weeds, and then surround the mosque for me, I heard that Ma Benyuan is inside, and I can't let him go. ”

"What is Your Majesty going to do, the living or the dead! Chen thinks it would be nice to have one or two Ma Hualong. Liu Jintang asked, and attached his own opinions, Yang Dongfang said:

"I don't want to see this thing, you can do it, do what you can to reduce the loss."

Leaving two 200-caliber cannons, Yang Dongfang didn't care, he believed that Liu Jintang could take care of it.

When he came to the prefect's yamen, the whole street was full of cavalry led by Tong Da, and Tong Dahou gave a military salute to Yang Dongfang in front of the door and said, "Your Majesty! The people who were detained by the bandits are in the prison and in the west of the city.,I've just inquired about it.。。 ”

While walking into the prefect's yamen and listening to Tong Da's report, Yang Dongfang nodded, went to the main court and sat in the middle and waved his hand: "Okay, I know, you go to the prison and bring those famous squires over, there are still some things that need to be done by them." ”

"My lord! Everything you need is ready! ”

Liu Jintang said: "Very good, then fire the cannon first, blast this building for me, force all the bandits inside out, and inform the battalions, don't live your mouth, don't talk nonsense with the bandits, shoot freely." ”

Soon the cannon roared, and the earth-shattering sound shook the whole city, and its target was suddenly in ruins, and the Hui bandits hiding in it were not killed by the bombardment, that is, they were injured by stones, and more frightened people ran out, and then they realized what kind of people their opponents were.

Such a cannon is not something they can fight against, and there are many people who want to surrender for a while, but it is too late, the Hui bandits in the Xining area have gone too far, Yang Dongfang does not want to subdue them, and they have no value worth subduing.

The gunshots were endless, constantly killing the bandits who rushed out and wanted to break through, looking at it almost, Liu Jintang waved his hand and said: "It's okay, pour oil and set fire!" ”

Soon, Dongguan suddenly burst into flames.