Chapter 168: Attracting Enemies
In Hezhou, Ma Zhanao's Grand Marshal's Mansion, dozens of imams and leaders gathered together to discuss the great changes in Guanghe Town, and the defeated soldiers and fugitives brought a terrible news here, which made everyone deeply worried.
Fighting against the Han army, Ma Zhanao is not afraid, but how can it be Ma Hualong,
Everyone is speculating about this situation, Huaxia Tian** soldiers have pressed the border, has been pacified and surrendered, there has been no conflict for a long time, Huaxia Tian** also marched to the west of Gansu, threatening to destroy Suzhou, occupy Xining, and completely put down the rebellion, but, for Hezhou, adopted a mild to soft policy, and it was to woo, seal the official and make a wish, and proposed, to marry him, Luo Bingzhang, the chief general of Huaxia Tian** in Lanzhou City, suggested that Ma Zhanao's daughter should be married to Luo Yang, the consul of Huaxia Tian**, Ma Zhanao said that he had no daughter, Luo Bingzhang refused to allow it, and asked to select four beauties from the upper family of their Ma family and give them to the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom, and said that only in this way can the relationship between the two clans be closer and there will be no misunderstanding.
In terms of united front, or pseudo-united front, Luo Bingzhang's cunning has been brought into full play.
was discussing, someone had already reported it, and then, a small Huaxia Tian** cavalry was ushered into the room of the meeting, and in an atmosphere of anger and surprise, the soldier presented Luo Yang's letter of explanation,
"This king wants to solve the problem of Gansu peacefully, so split Gan Province into Gansu and Ningxia, each with provincial government organs, however, Ningxia Jinjibao Ma Hualong stubbornly did not allow, and actually sent troops to attack Guanghe, this king hopes that Hezhou will remain quiet, and at the same time, strengthen the vigilance, now, Jinjibao is proud of its strong troops, and does not put Huaxia Tian ** in his eyes, and the army also intends to recruit it."
This is the main content, the key places, and many, which tells in detail how Ma Hualong is rampant and so on, because the main force of Huaxia Tian** has conquered Suzhou in the west, transferred to Xining, and also has to protect the grain road to Shaanxi, and the rebellion against Ma Hualong cannot be eliminated for the time being.
"If Hezhou has spare strength, he can help his army and kill it together."
The leaders of Ma Zhanao's tribe sent the messenger away and began to study the situation, the situation was too complicated, and the Hui army, who had fled back from the Guanghe area, swore that there were indeed people who claimed to be Ma Hualong's army who attacked them.
Many leaders of the Hui army immediately advocated sending the main force to recover Guanghe, and then, on an expedition to Jinjibao, to kill Ma Hualong, the king of the eight lambs,
Ma Zhanao sneered, "I'm afraid it's not that simple." ”
In the end, Ma Zhanao's vision is much more superb, he can see at a glance that this is a conspiracy, because it is too much of a coincidence, just attacked here, you know the situation,
This is not the most fundamental, the fundamental thing is that Ma Zhanao does not believe in the Han people of the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom, but believes in Ma Hualong,
After Ma Zhanao's reminder, all the generals of the Hui army became angry and said that they would fight to the death with Huaxia Tian**,
"However, I also suspect that if that Ma Hualong ghost is obsessed with his mind and wants to be the governor of Gansu Province." Ma Zhanao's inner world was also fiercely questioned, and under the cautious insistence of several Hui army leaders, this concern also existed, which prompted them to make a compromise decision, "If nothing else, first recapture Guanghe with a large army, and then make a conclusion." ”
The religious power of the Hui people prompted them not to admit defeat easily, and Ma Zhanao's wisdom also determined that this was a test to respond, and he also instructed the officers and soldiers participating in the war to arrest several enemies from Guanghe and interrogate them.
The assault on Guanghe Town was also Luo Yang's test hand, and as soon as he succeeded, he immediately sent an infantry regiment to the town, and the defensive force was unprecedentedly strengthened, and he also ordered the vast majority of the residents, referring to those who survived with the Han people, to retreat immediately.
"Brother, I won't go, I won't go, I won't die, I will also fight with you and avenge the innocent dead." The angry original followers of the Han people, about 400 people remained, serving as guides and other tasks,
Guanghe Town, which has more than 2,000 people, was counterattacked by Ma Zhanao's army in the eighth hour after the recovery, and more than 3,000 vanguard cavalry have been surrounded by the town, reconnoitring on the one hand, and blockading on the other, making the town soon become an isolated island.
Dai Beibei, who showed his might, still served as the commander, and he set up the layout and went to rest, while the other officers and soldiers were in strict combat according to the requirements.
Huaxia Tian** made a very strict defense, with the fastest speed, the town was dug into a strong fortress, the streets in the town were cut off, the ravines were deep and wide, and there were many bamboo and wooden sticks inserted in the ditch, and there were many places, digging tunnels, as well as cat ear holes, in order to prevent the shelling of the Ma Zhanao army, according to the news, the Ma Zhanao army had more than ten foreign cannons, all of which were captured by the Qing army, and they also cast hundreds of iron cannons.
"Dig, dig well, we're going to stay here for a hundred days, and we'll kill that wild horse." Dai Beibei said,
Always paying attention to the movements of Guanghe, the army sent by Luo Yang is ready for everything, but, on the surface, the other troops composed of the Hui army will be mobilized to the west, threatening to attack Suzhou, as for here, he let out the rumors, no matter how Ma Zhanao and Ma Hualong fight, he doesn't want to care, anyway, as long as he is loyal to the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom, the winner is the governor and admiral of Gansu,
The Hui army did not attack the city directly, but carefully monitored, and then, when more than 10,000 infantry arrived, the earthen cannons they carried advanced to the front and bombarded the tall walls of the town.
The cannon roared, and the huge iron projectiles bombarded the dirt walls of Guanghe Town, and some of the bricks and stones that were covered on it, whether it was huge green bricks or long stones of more than two meters, could not withstand the repeated bombardment, many fractures, collapsed,
Dai Arctic is on fire,
He didn't expect that the artillery of the Hui army was far more than he imagined, and it was fierce, only to know that the power of the Hezhou horse was indeed not lower than that of the hippopotamus, so he immediately returned fire.
Dozens of riflemen, hidden, sniped at the enemy's gunners, the sound of which seemed insignificant in the sound of the guns, but, accurately, strong,
The gunners of more than 20 iron-cast earthen cannons were trying to reload their ammunition and bombard, when they suddenly screamed like an evil spirit, and collapsed to the ground, blood gushing out from different places.
Within a minute, more than 200 gunners and the Hui army in charge of the transportation of gunpowder and pellets were all poisoned, and in the eyes of the other Hui troops, it was simply a terrible and incredible scene.
The artillery of the Hui army was completely dumbfounded,
Annoyed and angry, the Hui army launched three waves of infantry charges, in the eyes of a certain imam who directly commanded the operation, this small Guanghe town, is really insignificant, he understands that it is the enemy's foreign guns that are doing it, but he is not afraid, the courage of the Hui people is the greatest,
He saw it clearly, the one who was active on the wall, and it was really Huiren: "The shameless Ma Hualong actually let the Han thieves and thieves not fight, and came to invade our Hezhou." ”
The attack launched by the Hui army was quite violent, and in the charge, there was no counterattack, until the wall was in front of the wall, and the whole town suddenly woke up from sleep, and the sound of guns and cannons continued, and the violent explosions swallowed up groups of heroic Hui infantry.