Chapter 176: Clarifying the Northwest
The sound of artillery, gunfire, and the explosion of grenades, on the ground for dozens of miles, attracted the attention of Huaxia Tian**, and the troops that had been ready to attack for a long time immediately attacked, Lei Zhengjuan's army, Tao Maolin's army, Kong Guangshun's army, Zeng Shihe's army, immediately killed out of the barracks, the cavalry flanked and protected, the infantry swarmed forward, and the artillery marched with the team and quickly rushed to the battlefield.
Hearing the overnight battle, as soon as the morning dawned, the Dai Beibei special operations force, an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion and other mixed brigades that were attracting the enemy army in the area of the Guanghe River quickly set off to attack the Hui army from the flank.
At eight o'clock in the afternoon of this day, it was the most ** fierce battle,
More than 40,000 Hui troops, fighting to the death between Dongxiang and Hezhou, then, 50,000 An Yu Hui army ambushed troops, withdrew from the ambush site, quickly reinforced, maintained a huge offensive, and then, the Huaxia army attacked several ways, and then surrounded the Hui army, the whole battlefield has been chaotic, it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me,
First the attack of firepower, then the charge of manpower, the Chinese army, which was almost swept away by guns, shells, shells and grenades, swarmed forward to carry out the final annihilation battle against the encircled Hui army.
At eleven o'clock in the afternoon, after a full three hours of encirclement and fighting, Ma Zhanao's Hui army was completely defeated.
At this time, more than 300 cavalry sent by Luoyang escorted the political heart-attacking team of more than 360 families of the Hui army, which played a role.
After the war, this army was severely reprimanded by Luo Yang, because they did not play their due effectiveness.
In fact, I don't blame them, at the beginning, they hid far away, according to the plan, before the Hui army collapsed, poured out, used family hostages, shouted to the Hui army, and coerced them to surrender, but the Hui army was too heroic to drag out the battle, and the commander of these cavalry units was a dogma worm who was loyal to his duty, as long as he saw that the Hui army was still attacking, he would not attack,
More than 300 women were lifted from their mouths, and as requested, they cried and demanded that they surrender to the Hui army, who were still fighting to the death.
What is surprising is that half of the families of the returned soldiers did not shout like this, but asked them to fight to the end.
Therefore, the political offensive did not play any positive role.
At the end of the bitter battle, the Hui army was almost completely wiped out.
At about half past eleven, the remnants of the Hui army of more than 1,000 people, raised their hands to surrender, these, all wounded soldiers, have lost any physical strength, in the face of the corpses full of blood, the tragic family members finally woke up, began to cry, begging them, so, they surrendered,
After Ma Zhanao fell into a coma, he woke up again, led the troops, and fought a heroic battle, and the flesh and blood of the Hui army blocked countless guns and shells, and in the end, it was cut into pieces, proving that the flesh and blood castle is nothing but a cruel dream,
More than 60,000 Huaxia Tian** troops, fifteen miles north of Hezhou, intercepted the Hui army, surrounded it and annihilated it.
Ma Zhanao did not die, a few shrapnel, cut his skin, seriously injured, he still stood next to a pile of corpses of the Hui army, when the Chinese officers and soldiers came up, he opened his eyes angrily: "Don't move me, tell your head, I see him." ”
The angry Huaxia soldiers brandished their sabers to chop him, but the officer stopped him and protected him well, and soon, while he was unconscious again, he was caught in front of Luo Yang.
The 130,000 Hui army was overthrown, and the Hui army in Hezhou completely collapsed.
In this battle, only more than 1,200 Hui troops were able to survive, and almost all the young and middle-aged Hui troops in the Hezhou area were killed.
The casualties of the Huaxia Army are not small, if you do not count the casualties of the previous attack, just this time of encirclement and annihilation, more than 2,100 people were hacked to death by the enemy's sabers, more than 1,100 people were cut and disabled for life, and the total loss of troops was close to a brigade, not including more than 1,000 people who were slightly injured.
In any case, the Luoyang army achieved an absolute victory in exterminating Ma Zhanao's forces in Hezhou, and also arrested Ma Zhanao, did not give him a chance to surrender, nor did he give the Ma family a chance to claim the king and hegemony in the northwest region and do whatever he wanted.
In Hezhou, Luoyang reorganized the soldiers and horses, inspected the prefectures and counties, captured the remnants of the Hui army, and resettled all the families of the Hui army, hundreds of thousands of people, and some of them were relocated, of course, absolutely guaranteed the safety of their lives and property, gave land and other means of survival, and set up Tuntian County and other institutions to protect and monitor some migration sites.
After the war in Hezhou, Luo Yang immediately sent several Hui prisoners of war to Xining in Qinghai and Suzhou in Gansu with his own letters, to put pressure on the two Hui rebel separatist forces and demand them to surrender.
In the letter, Luo Yang told in detail the history of the Battle of Ningxia and the Battle of Hezhou, told the comparison of forces between the enemy and us, exaggerated the power of Huaxia Tian**'s weapons and equipment, and the comparison of battle losses between the two sides, and finally declared: "If the Hui troops of Xining and Suzhou do not surrender, then our Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom army will conquer them one by one, and at that time, the disaster of jade burning will not be guaranteed." ”
The Hui forces in Xining and Suzhou were far inferior to Jinjibao in Ningxia, Hezhou in southern Gansu, and even less than the Hui troops in Shaanxi.
It can be said that due to resistance, the Ma Hualong Army in Ningxia and the Ma Zhanao Army in Hezhou were all wiped out, and there were very few who could survive after the war.
Luoyang in Hezhou, strict military discipline, prohibiting any officers and soldiers from retaliating against the massacre, and even more prohibiting any officers and soldiers from bullying the Hui people, especially women, for this reason, several former Qing soldiers who violated military discipline were publicly executed, maintaining discipline, and also ensuring the gratitude of hundreds of thousands of families of surrendered Hui soldiers.
Because after the war, Shaanxi and Gansu were sparsely populated, Luoyang sent people to Sichuan to recruit people, successively reaching five batches, more than 4 million people, plus the Han people who fled and returned, quickly filled the vacant land in the two provinces and resumed production.
Two divisions of the Luoyang Army, each with two divisions, advanced to Xining and Suzhou, accepted the surrender of the Hui army, and then, investigated the situation, punished the culprits of the genocide, and killed dozens of people each, and then, the main force of the Hui army, selected the elite, and organized the strength of each division, and set up a follow-up soldier training office, continue to train the rest of the Hui army young and middle-aged, thinking that the future troops will go east to clear the source of conscription,
In dealing with the aftermath, on the one hand, it is necessary to ensure the interests of those who surrender to the Hui army, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to greatly weaken its strength and use it for its own use, and the strength of more than 20,000 people was transferred to Shaanxi, which played a considerable role in the war to destroy the Qing Dynasty.
The Hui rebellion in the northwest has ended, but the problem in Xinjiang has not yet been resolved, and Bai Yanhu, the leader of the Hui rebellion in Shaanxi, led nearly 10,000 troops and their families to flee from Gansu to Xining, and then to Xinjiang, and combined with the invading forces in Xinjiang, becoming an accomplice to the scourge of the Chinese nation.
At this time, Luo Yang, who was preparing for an expedition, immediately changed his mind when he heard the news that Shaanxi was attacked by the Qing army, and he appointed Luo Bingzhang as the minister of plenipotentiary in the northwest region, leading 50,000 Huaxia Tian** troops, 10,000 surrendered troops from Shaanxi and Suzhou and other places, and expedition to Xinjiang, at that time, Xinjiang was still under the jurisdiction of General Ili, and the invader was Agu Bai of Kokand, who had already established a country.
Luo Yang quickly transferred his troops eastward and drove them back to Shaanxi, and collected a large number of Hui men and horses along the way, forming two cavalry divisions of 12,000 people, with 18,000 war horses.
A new battle is about to begin, this time, the soldiers will point to the city of Beijing to eliminate the Manchu thieves who have brought disaster to the country and the people.