In the Gansu region of Shaanxi, the ethnic contradictions between the Hui and Han ethnic groups intensified from time to time, and the reasons were very complex, but they were mainly caused by the ethnic division policy of the Manchu government. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stirred the whole country, the general Fuwang Chen Decai united the twist army to expedition to the northwest, becoming the fuse, the spring of the first year of Tongzhi (1862), known as the "Hui riot in the northwest region" The movement arose, in March, a few years ago participated in the Yunnan Hui uprising Ren Wu launched an anti-Qing uprising, Shaanxi Province's regimental training leader Zhang Fu and other extreme hostility, conniving at the regimental training armed ransack of Qinjia Village, arson robbery and murder, during the negotiations between the Qing army and the Hui army, Zhang Fu was killed, the Hui people in Guanzhong responded one after another, and formed eighteen battalions in a short period of time, More than 300,000 people, the famous leader has Bai Yanhu and so on, the Hui army encircled and suppressed the Qing army training in various parts of Shaanxi, and also in the chaotic national vendetta, wielding sabers, bloody rain on both sides of the Wei River, killing and injuring dozens of millions of peaceful residents, and then, the Shaanxi Hui army besieged Xi'an City, and then surrounded Tongguan, the momentum was huge.

An important driving force for the war in the northwest is the Taiping army's policy of disrupting the situation, the two lakes area, the Qing army gradually occupies the advantage, the British king Chen Yucheng saw that the frontal battle was losing one after another, and adopted a detour behind the enemy, encircling Wei to save Zhao's strategy, in January 1862, sent his subordinate generals to lead more than 30,000 troops, from Anhui Luzhou expedition to the northwest, in May, the main force of the Taiping army was to surround Xi'an, fierce attack, later, knowing that the situation in Luzhou was critical, most of the east returned to the south, Chen Yucheng died, the Taiping army was obstructed by the Qing army again, simply re-entered the northwest, In 1863, he occupied Xing'an, attacked Hanyin, captured Xianxian, and then obtained Hanzhong and Chenggu and other cities.

For the anti-Qing Dynasty, the situation in the northwest is quite gratifying, because the Taiping army is tens of thousands of elite troops, which is stirring up chaos in Shaanxi, and the generals of the department are all famous generals, such as Chen Decai, the uncle of the British King Chen Yucheng, who was named the king of Fu by the king of heaven Hong Xiuquan, and later became the commander of the Twist Army, Lai Wenguang, who was named King Zun, Liang Chengfu, King Qi of Taiping Tian**, Lan Chengchun, King Hu of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the so-called Four Kings Expedition.

The expedition of the Four Kings to save the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from the crisis of the war may have been very different from its actual results, not only weakening Chen Yucheng's army in Luzhou, but also indirectly causing Chen Yucheng's rout, and also igniting the flames of ethnic slaughter in the northwest region.

Luo Yang didn't care about these, he keenly saw the great harm of ethnic vendetta in the northwest region, and wanted to end it quickly with his own strength. After the occupation of Sichuan, the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu quickly spread to his military tent, and the intelligence agency of the Han Dynasty was also secretly established, expanded, and quickly entered into actual reconnaissance, and a large number of rumors of the fleeing people in Shaanxi were exposed to it, so that Luo Yang basically understood the situation in Shaanxi.

Entering Gansu, Shaanxi Province is a strategy that Luo Yang has conceived and planned for a long time, and it has been basically determined in the chat with Zhang Suimou, the prime minister of Dahantian. The central link is to protect Sichuan, march north into Shaanxi, join the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom troops, reorganize the Shaanxi Hui army, quickly determine the social order in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, and logically take Shaanxi and Gansu as their own, and then, with joint forces, enter Shanxi and Hebei in the east, and directly attack the lair of the Manchu regime, the city of Beijing.

"Now, Shaanxi is the time when the competition between the three forces is the most intense, and it can be said that they are all exhausted!" Luo Yang said with a smile, "Between the three, the contradictions are sharp and cannot be coordinated, the Hui army is violent, the Manchu government army is stubborn, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Chen Decai army is even more powerful, they are fighting each other, and we just happen to be profitable!" ”

Luo Yang's statement made everyone overjoyed, and they didn't expect that there were such good opportunities around them, so everyone immediately dispelled the idea of going east to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and was eager to try.

"Okay, just listen to King Rui!"

"King Rui said well, as long as we enter Shaanxi, we will be able to succeed quickly!"

"Yes, yes, just stab the demon from the waist and ribs, and the knife will be fatal!"

In the case of the excitement of the crowd, Luo Yang did not say anything else, asked Zhang Suimou to do dry goods, Zhang Suimou returned to Chengdu ahead of schedule, is to prepare for Luo Yang's confession, and now, he immediately ordered his entourage to hang up the topographical map of northern Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan.

In the room, the hanging map, huge and rough, with a brush to draw the basic mountains and plains, the main county seats, roads, this kind of map, in Luoyang, is simply simple to ugly, but all the generals of the Han Dynasty are watching with relish.

"Ah, good. Well, I see,"

"Where are we?"

Zhang Suimou was responsible for synthesizing the intelligence and handed it to Luo Yang with a bamboo stick, Luo Yang pointed to the map and said: "Look here, starting from our Sichuan, to the north, it is the Qinling Mountains, look, this large area, is a mountainous area with unpredictable traffic, to the west, Guangyuan City in Sichuan, is currently the occupied area of our army, out of Guangyuan and then to the north, it is Yangping Pass and Hanzhong, Nanzheng, Chenggu, okay, this circle, is the place where the Taiping Tian** forces are stationed, and further north, is the Lan Dashun army, who is Lan Dashun?" He is Lan Ershun, who rebelled in Yunnan Province and later invaded the Zigong Salt Works in Sichuan, the remnant of Li Xiaota, that is, Lan Ershun's own brother. Oh, and further north, the city of Xi'an, the provincial capital of Shaanxi, is currently surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Hui troops, and some county towns to the east are the power of the Manchu army. ”

"Oh," the generals of the Great Han Tian** have almost never played such a map operation, simulation strategy, and they are quite engaged in watching it.

"At present, the development of the power of the Shaanxi Hui army has gone through repeated repetitions, first the Taiping army returned to Hubei to save Chen Yucheng, and then the fierce attack of the Qing army, the Qing army took Shengbao as the commander of Shaanxi, but, this wine bag rice bag even suffered defeat and was deposed, followed by Duolonga, it is said that this guy is very powerful, and he has a very set of wars, he beat the Hui army so badly, but when he attacked the Lan Dashun army, he was killed, and now, the commander of the Qing army is Mu Tushan, the Taiping army re-entered Shaanxi, the Hui army was strong, and returned from Gansu, now, The three sides are evenly matched. However, although the number of Qing troops is not large, they are veterans with combat experience, and the number of regimental training in various places is huge, coupled with the Han Hui vendetta, the surviving people of the Han nationality all support the Manchu army, and the biggest advantage of the Manchu army is the same as our army's current one, that is, a lot of foreign artillery! Foreign guns. The Hui army was a rabble, but the will to fight alone was very strong, brave, and the religious belief was as cohesive as the regional lineage of the Hunan army. ”

"There are about 40,000 or 50,000 people in the Taiping Tian** Chen Decai Division, 200,000 to 300,000 Hui troops, more than 20,000 regular troops of the Qing Army, and more than 100,000 local regiments training troops."

"Another point, I heard that in Taiping Tian**, there is also a prince named Qiu Yuancai, who is a fierce general, who was named the king of Huai, and also led an army to the west and joined Chen Decai's army." "There is also a news that I don't know if it's true or not, saying that Lan Dashun completely belongs to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and was named King Wen."

"Our task is to quickly assemble troops, carry enough artillery, or gunpowder and other materials, ensure weapons and ammunition, go north to Guangyuan City, and first converge with Taipingtian**, if they are willing to cooperate, then cooperate, if they are not willing to cooperate, then we will contact Shaanxi Huijun first."

"In order to facilitate the contact with the Shaanxi Hui Army and make our national policy more comprehensive and reasonable, this king suggests that the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom be quickly changed to the Chinese Heavenly Kingdom,"

Luo Yang's explanation was a little higher, and he was still the knowledge and literacy of a modern small squad leader, but the generals of these big Han Tian** listened to it fascinated.