After Cao Kezhong's defection, he did not panic, but sensibly adhered to his duties, communicated with Dong Fu, and cooperated tacitly, in order to encourage the officers and soldiers and stabilize Dong's mood, he also cleverly blocked the news of the defection of the friendly Cao Kezhong, and now, the elite of the Hui army is about to arrive, he immediately withdrew twenty miles, chose a half-high area with abundant water and grass, firmly planted the camp, led the officers and soldiers, and dug trenches. The excavation of a trench that is three to four meters deep and more than ten meters wide is a hard work, and all the old Taiping soldiers are scrambling to work, proving that the real Taiping Army is a force with a strong people's character and laborers.

In order to speed up the progress, Lan Chengchun also sent officers and soldiers to supervise the return of prisoners of war, rope a string, and help excavate.

After digging a ravine, they set up camp in the open space inside, rammed a long wall more than a foot high on the edge of the trench, and arranged guns in it, foreign guns, flying thunder cannons, etc., and waited for the battle.

After the rapid arrival of the Eastern Expeditionary Army of Ningxia Ma Hualong, he confronted Lan Chengchun, the cavalry of the Hui Army, wandering around, reconnoitring and intercepting the other three sides of the Blue Army, and the elite Hui cavalry, in groups of three or five, pretending to be scattered, in fact, luring the Blue Army to attack, the extremely fast Hui Army, can be quickly gathered when the Blue Army attacks, and surround and defeat it, after the defeat, there is basically no then,

Lan Chengchun was very cunning, and ordered the soldiers to firmly hold on to the newly built earthen city, just to monitor, and not to go out in vain, no matter how the Hui army scolded outside, they didn't say a word.

Silence is the initial patience of people, after a long time, all the Chinese officers and soldiers were annoyed, and also cursed loudly, so, in northern Shaanxi, a large-scale bloody battle that may break out anytime and anywhere, evolved into an entertaining war of words, the two sides use each other's most hated and taboo language, body parts, and repeatedly emphasized, basically around each other's ancestors for more than ten generations, especially female family members, and religion,

The officers and soldiers on both sides were so angry that they even discarded their swords and guns, jumped and danced, and strengthened their momentum, some of them flaunted their language talents, and some of them showed off their golden voices.

Ma Hualong's son, Ma Yaobang, who has been doing business and making a fortune all year round, is a sober-minded, shrewd and capable figure, seeing that scolding people cannot achieve substantial lethality, he changed his tactics and sent military envoys to the Huaxia Army's earthen city trenches to write a war letter, and shot arrows into the city: "I hope that the generals of the Qing Army will not shrink so much, since they are coming, they should fight a decisive battle." ”

Lan Chengchun got the letter from the soldiers, written in authentic Chinese characters, with a palindrome on the side, looked at it carefully, and shouted loudly outside: "Okay, this general came on order, just to crush you rebels, but, to fight or not, the emperor and his old man did not say, this general is willing to fight, just rely on you thieves, the master still doesn't look at it, but whether the master fights or not, it is not that the master can have the final say, and the master has to wait for the Mongolian prince to arrive." ”

Lan Chengchun's ability to lie without blinking is really good, but as a result, he still doesn't fight.

Ma Yaobang was furious, and immediately drove the soldiers to attack, and the Hui infantry crowded in front of the trench like a tide, and while shooting with foreign guns and carrying guns to cover, they jumped into the ravine one after another, and climbed to the opposite bank.

There are really not many foreign guns in the Hui army, and the guns are limited, mainly by virtue of the courage of blood and gas, the Huaxia army has reserved shooting holes on the long wall, and there are undulating shapes to facilitate defense, and so on as soon as the Hui army approaches, the flying thunder artillery prepared behind the long wall immediately bombards, and now, the entire series of the Huaxia Army is equipped with a large number of flying thunder guns, mainly in cold weapons, the infantry is all breech Mauser type, the bullet range is only three or two hundred meters, and the number is very small, it is already a super powerful weapon,

Lan Chengchun's army has only 5,000 people, but the newly developed artillery has two battalions and more than 60 guns.

The Ningxia Hui Army, which fought head-on with the Huaxia Army for the first time, suffered heavy losses, no one knew that the Qing Army had such fierce firepower, and the well-protected and covered artillery fire suddenly bombarded the ground, and a bag of explosives that rose into the air could kill and wound dozens of dense Hui infantry, and an explosion filled with gunsmoke, which was a large area, and the psychological shock to people was extremely great.

The Hui army quickly retreated, without any ability to parry,

Ma Yaobang was furious and immediately urged Dong Fuxiang to cooperate with the attack in the north.

Unexpectedly, Dong Fuxiang immediately sent someone over: "Young marshal, you can't fight, you can't fight." ”

"What are you talking about, aren't you a friend of our Ningxia Hui Army, aren't you anti-Qing." Ma Yaobang's eyes are almost eating people,

"Master, go and take a look, we will rush and fight, and it will not be us who will suffer." Dong Fuxiang's military envoy hehehehehehe

"Is it that we are the ones who have suffered, we have already suffered, and besides, what if we have suffered?" Ma Yaobang was in a hurry, and he said anything: "If you Dong Jun want to rebel against the water, Lao Tzu is not afraid, it is a big deal to destroy you first." ”

"No, no, no, sir, go and see for yourself."

Ma Yaobang rushed over with the elite to take a look, and suddenly gasped, only to see that in front of the trench of the Huaxia Army in the north, almost one by one, a long column of Hui prisoners of war was densely tied, blocking his mouth, and his hands were tied behind his back, connected into a string, becoming a terrible human shield.

The officers and soldiers of the Huaxia Army, no, are now dressed as Manchu troops, and they are watching with swords and axes, if Dong Fuxiang's army dares to rush, they will use these prisoners of war to cover up,

Ma Yaobang was so angry that he couldn't stop scolding, and he was helpless, so Dong Fuxiangjun didn't have to be embarrassed.

After that, the Ma army also launched many attacks, but they were all defeated in the face of the bombardment of crazy flying thunder artillery, and in the end, the morale of the Ma army was low, everyone was timid, and when they heard the order to fight, they all looked sad.

In short, the troops of the Huaxia Army in the east not only firmly defended their own strength and achieved the great goal of containing the main force of the Hui army, but also reaped a vote from time to time, causing more than 2,000 casualties to the Hui army in a few days, and their own casualties were negligible.

The battle on the Eastern Front, which was a complete success, laid the foundation for the sudden attack of the main forces of Luoyang and Dai Beibei,

On the northern front, it was basically the same situation, Qiu Yuancai firmly implemented Luoyang's dogma, and from time to time attacked the Hui army with a small force, mainly the cavalry army, and the main force was rooted down, the barriers were tight, and they were invincible first, even the cavalry troops that attacked secretly always carried enough grenades to confront the Hui cavalry that far exceeded their own numbers.

The Hui army's troops in Lingzhou and Wuzhongbao, and even in Yinchuan, Ningxia Prefecture, were attracted to attention, and carefully held the city, not daring to move.

The containment of these two forces contained Ma Hualong's elite troops of 40,000 or 50,000 people, and they were getting farther and farther away from the core Jinji Fort.