At the end of July 1887, a major event occurred that shocked the whole country, and it is believed that it will also become a world-class news. This caught Li Yi off guard and almost halted his entire plan.

In mid-June, the Uyghur Hui and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, supported by the Russian government, launched a bloody massacre of Han Chinese throughout Xinjiang, and more than half of the 400,000 Han people in Xinjiang were slaughtered in just a few days.

At this time, there were not many Han people in Xinjiang, and most of them were immigrants who migrated to the past after Zuo Zongtang put down the rebellion against Xinjiang a few years ago. They were already a vulnerable group and were often bullied by the locals, but this time a large group led by Chen Ping entered Xinjiang to punish some rioters and then continued northwest into the Balkesh Lake area.

Although Zuo Zongtang took back Xinjiang, but the imperial court did not pay much attention to this remote place, in the eyes of Cixi, it was only a useless barren land, the imperial court did not send a large army to garrison, but let the army led by Zuo Zongtang return, leaving only thousands of Qing soldiers stationed here.

In the eyes of Cixi, a dispensable barren land, in the eyes of Tsarist Russia, it is a treasure land, Xinjiang has more than 2 million square meters of land, as long as Tsarist Russia takes the Xinjiang region, then his land area can exceed 30 million square kilometers.

After Zuo Zongtang's army withdrew from Xinjiang, the Russians returned here, and the main reason why they did not occupy Xinjiang for a long time was because the British also coveted this land. It bordered India, which was under British control (India at this time included Pakistan and Bangladesh), and if the British got it, they could enclose the whole of Tibet and make the roof of the world British territory.

Needless to say, the whole world knows about the greed for land in Tsarist Russia, and they played a bigger game of chess. According to their plan, as long as they occupied Xinjiang and then invaded Mongolia, and his Far Eastern army invaded the three eastern provinces of the Qing state after it was reorganized and reorganized, then Tsarist Russia could force the Qing government to cede more than 5 million square kilometers of land in these three places. Even if it is not ceded, under the actual rule of Tsarist Russia, as long as the past few decades are the territory of Tsarist Russia.

It is precisely because these two greedy aggressors contain each other that Xinjiang is temporarily still the territory of the Qing Dynasty. The main task of Chen Ping's brigade was to stabilize Xinjiang, eliminate the influence of Tsarist Russia and Britain, and expand its territory to the west and northwest step by step.

On the shore of Balkesh Lake, there are blue waves and blue skies, endless prairies, gorgeous beautiful pictures, and Chen Ping's brigade is stationed here for repairs.

Chen Ping's army marched smoothly, and in mid-June they reached the established Lake Balkesh. Although the Russians and the British were making a lot of noise here, because the supply lines were too long and the roads were not good, their troops here were only a handful, and Chen Ping's 5,000-strong army almost did not expend any effort to annihilate them all.

"The captain didn't expect it to go so smoothly this time, I don't think we need to wait until October to complete the task before the heavy snow closes the mountain, and at this rate, we can complete the task in August." Wu Xiuping asked several squadron leaders to come over with a roasted whole sheep that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

"Captain, this is such a great place, I really want to stay here for a few more days!" Chu Hezheng, the leader of the first squadron, tore off a leg of mutton and handed it to Chen Ping.

Chen Ping said with a smile: "Of course it's good here, otherwise how could the commander-in-chief let us occupy this place, now this place is vast and sparsely populated, and some people are also some people who speak bird language, and it will be annoying to stay for a long time after a few days, and we will not be annoyed when we Han people build a city here." ”

"It's not good for the Han people to live here, just look at the bullied Han people in Xinjiang. It's even farther away, and if you really immigrate here, the people will be bullied. If it were my family, I wouldn't let them come to this place. Yan Fei, the leader of the third squadron, said with some solemnity.

When Yan Fei said this, everyone thought of the bullied Han people in Xinjiang and other places, and their hearts became heavy. The Han people in Xinjiang are too miserable, they are already living a difficult life, and they dare not resist when they are exploited by the locals, and even then the Han people have been killed by those mobs for more than ten years.

"You're right! If this problem is not resolved, there must be no immigration here. Chen Ping said with helplessness and frustration: "Dong Yunbiao's kid made too much trouble in Xikang, Qinghai and other places, I didn't expect that kid to be so ruthless, and now the commander-in-chief has ordered that indiscriminate killing is strictly prohibited, and we can't do anything about it." ”

"That's it! All right! We don't need to think about this, we are soldiers, just obey orders. We can't control this nerve-wracking matter, so let's let the commander-in-chief find a way to solve it. Wu Xiuping said with a haha, "Drink, come and do it!" ”

"Come on! Dry! A few people picked up the wine bowl and walked away.

The taste of the meat roast is very good, although the wine is a little worse than the grassland milk wine, but a few people are in a good mood and there is no emergency, so they all drank a lot. Just as they were dazed, the herald ran over panting and said loudly, "Captain, it's not good, something is wrong!" ”

"What?" Chen Ping was drunk and reluctantly opened his eyes and asked.

"Xinjiang is in turmoil! After we left, they launched a riot across Xinjiang to massacre the Han Chinese, and at least 200,000 people were slaughtered! After the herald finished speaking, he burst into tears and cried, "We have rectified some locals, they are taking revenge, we have harmed them!" ”

"What?" Chen Ping shouted, and the wine also woke up for eight minutes, and asked again: "Really!" The herald nodded yes.

Chen Ping felt a wave of dizziness, one of his mistakes cost hundreds of thousands of his compatriots their lives, and he slapped himself more than a dozen times until his entire face was swollen before stopping.

It was the first time for Wu Xiuping and the others to see the usually calm captain make such a crazy move, they didn't dare to speak, they were all waiting for his order, and they had already decided in their hearts that no matter what the order was, they would not hesitate to carry it out.

Chen Ping spit out a large mouthful of saliva mixed with blood, although his face was swollen and he couldn't see his expression, but his cold voice still made several people frightened.

"Those who survived the lucky ones now?"

"Don't worry, they are protected by logistics troops, and they are very safe now, but there are only more than 100,000 people protected, but there are more than 400,000 Han people in Xinjiang, it is estimated that there are more than 400,000 Han people."

"Don't cry for me, give me a good talk!"

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