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In Xuzhou, the temporary residence of the Northern Camp of the Supreme Revolutionary Command Committee of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Lin Haifeng held the detailed report from the Shaanxi Red Army that he received not long ago, and looked at it repeatedly, his brows moving from time to time.

There were four people sitting in the room, Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan, Hou Yutian, head of the camp intelligence department, and another one who still had big braids like Zeng Guofan, but the difference was that he did not wear the popular robe and horse coat, but wore a set of Mongolian clothes, and sat on Zuo Zongtang's head, looking like an old man in his fifties.

Obviously, they all knew the details of the Shaanxi official document, and Zeng Guofan's small eyes narrowed into a slit, pondering. Hou Yutian's eyes were fixed on Director Lin's face, and as Director Lin's brows stirred, his cheeks were also agitated. And Zuo Zongtang whispered with a worried face, talking to the old Mongolian man.

"Jing Shou, this guy, who was dying and left us with such a trouble." Lin Haifeng finally put down the things in his hand, looked at the four people in front of him, and smiled faintly.

The main force of the Red Army out of the Qinling Mountains could not be said to be huge, and for the Manchu regime and its armed forces in Shaanxi, it was like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. It's a pity that they met a Manchu rebel Jingshou who had already stepped on the Huangquan Road with one foot, but was afraid that the world would not be chaotic and hoped that thousands of innocent people would be martyred for it.

Under the instigation and connivance of Jing Shou, fueled by some scum of the Han nationality, and maliciously confused by a small number of Hui thugs, the hatred of the Hui people in Shaanxi towards the Han people almost entered a state of madness.

When the main forces of the three divisions led by Zhu Xikun turned from Weinan and began to attack Xi'an, at the same time, Qing troops from Baoji, Meixian, Fufeng, and Ningxia Prefecture in Gansu were also pouring into Xi'an.

According to the overall arrangement, when Huang Zaixing's army from Chencang out of the pass took Chencang by surprise and took Chencang in one fell swoop, and then quickly conquered Baoji, when the main force of the Red Army began to move eastward into Xi'an, it was unexpectedly encountered a head-on interception and flank harassment from tens of thousands of Hui armed forces in Fengxiang, Fufeng, and Qishan. Among them, the one who bewitched the Hui armed forces and fought desperately against the Red Army of the Celestial Empire was precisely the Ren Wu who was defeated by the Red Army from Weinan, ran all the way to Dali, and was forced to flee west.

In order to realize the initial strategic intention of the Red Army in Guanzhong, Lin Shaozhang, commander of the Red 21st Army, led the Red 83rd Division and the Ma Zuowei Righteous Army to carry out a limited self-defense counterattack against Ren Wu and other Hui troops west of Weinan, and recovered the Tongzhou capital Zhidali in one fell swoop. However, due to the prior policy and in order to avoid a larger-scale conflict with the Hui armed forces in the future, Lin Shaozhang's subordinate only adopted a dispersal style of fighting against the Hui troops who came to make trouble, but did not kill them as they did with the Manchu armed forces and their reactionary regiments. He just hopes that the Hui army can learn a little lesson and learn a little bit about it.

However, for scum like Ren Wu, the goodwill of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire did not wake them up. However, they thought that the Red Army did not have the strength to eat them in one bite, so they took revenge on the Red Army even more vigorously, openly declaring that they would be enemies of the Red Army.

Lin Shaozhang and Ma Zuowei entered and occupied Dali, and in the face of Jiancheng, Ren Wu and others did not dare to provoke. The Red Army troops under the city of Xi'an were flanked by the Manchu Qing and other armies, and they did not want to go directly to the troubled water, lest others talk about their "temporary honeymoon" with the Manchus. So, they set their sights on the Red Army, which was advancing eastward from Baoji. They tacitly agreed with the Manchu army, directly took over the two counties of Fufeng and Qishan, actively acted as the western barrier of the Manchu army, and tried in vain to bargain for the Red Army in the long march.

Huang Zaixing was blocked. He had to pause for a moment and seek reconciliation with the Hui forces in front of him. It was not until the other side killed the negotiators sent by the Red Army twice in a row, and brutally hung the heads of the Red Army representatives who had been disemboweled, in order to threaten and intimidate the Red Army, and pretended to negotiate peace, and secretly attacked the Red Army camp many times, when he could not bear it anymore, Huang Zaixing was forced to order all units of the Red Army to fight back and forcibly break through the defense line of the Hui People's Army.

However, for this reason, the main force of the Red Army on the Western Front lost several precious days of maneuver time, and as a result, Zhu Xikun's troops in the direction of Xi'an were in a difficult situation of attacking and defending without the support of the main force of the Western Front, and the city of Xi'an became a stalemate for a while. In the difficult environment of a fortified city in front and Manchu reinforcements in the back, Zhu Xikun was not only forced to let the Qing army enter Xi'an, but also suffered undue losses. If it weren't for the fact that Qin Rigang led the rest of the divisions of the Red Second Army and the Red Fourteenth Army to quickly leave Kugu Road and enter the battlefield, Zhu Xikun would probably have hated Xi'an City.

Xi'an was taken, Jing Shou, who had done all his sins, was cornered and hanged himself, and Mu Yin finally became a prisoner of war of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, but the original plan was to clear Xianyang on the periphery to conquer Xi'an, and the battle that could be completely solved in only five days at most took ten days. Within 10 days, more than 10,000 Red Army officers and men had been killed in battle alone. Such heavy casualties were unprecedented since the Red Army units left Guangdong.

However, the danger of ** is far from over, and the riots are already evolving into large-scale riots.

Ren Wu's defeated soldiers burned and killed all the way into Ningxia Prefecture, and all the Han villages and towns along the way were looted. Ren Wu, who was bleeding in the face of the Red Army's self-defense and counterattack, became a demon who wantonly trampled on the lives of Han civilians and licked the blood of countless Han people, but barked all the way, "The Taiping Army is a group of bandits who drink Muslim blood and eat Muslim meat raw."

As a result, with the instigation of one after another with ulterior motives, Ningxia then jumped out of a bandit who was more cruel, more vicious, and more inhumane than Ren Wu - Bai Yanhu.

Wang Dagui and Zhou Jie, the leaders of the Hui people in Tongxin City, Lingzhou, Ningxia, who had already been in collusion with the Manchu government, and tried to take advantage of the power vacuum created by the Manchus to realize their dream of a Muslim oasis in Ningxia and then in the northwest, colluded with Ma Wanxuan, the leader of the Pingluo Hui people, and instigated some Hui people to run to Lingtai in Jingzhou under the pretext of defending the Hui people in Ningxia from being killed by the Han Chinese. While devoting themselves to the sacking of Han villages, they secretly selected Bai Yanhu, who was only 18 years old but was bloodthirsty, and fled from Tongzhou in Shaanxi Province to Tongxin City, and used despicable means to assassinate Ma Zhaoyuan, the general of the Qing army and the Hui people in Pingyuan (now Tongxin Prewang Town), who was transferred to Lingtai garrison, and pushed Ma Zhaoyuan's death on the head of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire. Tricked some die-hard friends into pretending to be witnesses, claiming that this incident was completely the act of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire.

A Hui can be mixed with an official position in the Manchu government, which at that time was something that could only be done with "great virtue", and it was also the pride of the clan. Therefore, Ma Zhaoyuan's death immediately caused more unrest among the Hui people. It is claimed to have a high reputation among the Hui people, not only "the Hui people near and far are satisfied", "if they are like thunder and lightning ghosts and gods, they dare not be different", but also "the Hui people everywhere are watching the behavior of Ningjun, in order to draw against the rebellion", "the rate of the gold accumulation as the back", the leader of the Zhehe Renye sect Ma Hualong, took the opportunity to announce a riot in the Jinji Fort in the Ningling Hall, and entered the Ningxia Mansion City, which can basically be said to be an empty city, in fact, it was also the Ningxia Mansion City that Jingshou deliberately left to him before his death. For a time, Ningxia Fucheng became the command center of Shaanxi, Ningxia and even the entire northwest.

In the face of the smoke of the first place, the Red Army was in a dilemma. Not only did the army led by Lin Fengxiang fail to achieve its strategic intention of attacking Lanzhou Prefecture in the west, but the eastern front troops that had already left Tongzhou and sent troops to Qin Rigang in Yanzhou and Yan'an Prefecture were also frequently harassed by the Hui People's Army and were struggling. The Red Army units had to fight against the Qing army on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had to take care of the Han people in various places to avoid being destroyed and entangled with the Hui army. A strong armed force that was originally extremely sharp has become a bloated and tired army with heavy burdens in desperation.

Before Yan'an was down, the Red Army of the Celestial Empire had almost no room to fight with the Manchus in the rest of northern Shaanxi, and their main task was to retreat, protect and resettle countless Han civilians as a last resort. They constantly had to garrison troops in one city after another, and gather the people of the four towns to avoid the national vendetta. All the county towns occupied by the Red Army of the Celestial Empire became large overcrowded refugee camps. It would be nice if all the civilians could see clearly and consciously and voluntarily temporarily evacuate their homeland, but unfortunately, in this cruel situation where every family is facing extermination, some Han people not only do not have the courage and willingness to take up arms to defend themselves, but there are still people who covet the ruined homeland. For their sake, it is difficult to count how many Red Army officers and men have endured the hardships of the so-called Hui Army, which is erratic and dedicated to killing people for fun.

The Red Army was facing a difficult environment, and the Red Army's iron fist was under constant threat of being dispersed. Take Qiaoshan in the central county of Yanzhou (now Huangling County) as an example, where a division of the Red Army was firmly dragged down, and it could not move even if it wanted to.

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