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Chapter 316 With such an absolutely advantageous situation, it is no wonder that Ma Fuyuan is reluctant to give up this "low-reaching" Zhennan City

As soon as Zuo Zongtang, who was the pioneer of the army entering Xinjiang, entered Hami City, he not only immediately sent troops to clear out the remnants of the bandits around Hami, but also sent Dong Fuxiang and Qi Baoxiang to lead the main force of the First National Army to chase after Ma Benyuan's escape route.

As the main force of the battle to recover Hami, Liu Changlin's cavalry division didn't even have time to appreciate what it was like in Hami City, and even couldn't rest comfortably in the city.

Ma Fuyuan originally received an order from his "king" brother Ma Benyuan before he withdrew from Hami, and according to this order of the "king" brother Ma Benyuan, he should immediately withdraw from Zhennancheng, move closer to Yiwanquan and Qizijing, and join the soldiers and horses withdrawn from Hami, and then retreat to Ili through the ancient city (Qitai) together.

However, Ma Fuyuan did not follow the instructions of his "king" brother, because this was the second time that Ma Fuyuan had come to Zhennan City, and although he had not been able to attack Zhennan City for many days, he still felt quite good about himself.

In his opinion, although the men and horses who besieged Zhennan City for the first time were not much less than this time, the so-called coalition army at that time could not be compared with the soldiers and horses in his hands now. After all, the coalition army is not a family, on the surface everyone seems to be like a family, but as long as it comes to a critical moment, it is inevitable that they will have their own ghosts, and they seem to be working, but they always refuse to contribute.

But now it's different.

Ma Fuyuan, who had already made an extremely serious review of the reasons for the first attack on Zhennan City, not only took away most of the elite of the "Xining Holy Army" when he left Hami this time, but also pulled out all the new guns and cannons that were given by the allies of Tsarist Russia, which were extremely limited. In addition, in order to break the deadlock in the Balikun area, Ma Benyuan, who "drove the expedition in person", then almost poured out, and the mighty "Xining Holy Army" successively defeated the former Qing army that dared to come out to meet the battle in two general battles in Songshutang and the western suburbs of Zhennan City, and finally forced the remnants of the former Qing Dynasty who suffered heavy losses to retreat to the two cities of Manchu and Han in Zhennan City, and the entire Balikun area almost became the world of the "Xining Holy Army".

Although in this good situation, the news of the Taiping Heavenly Army's entry into Xinjiang began to come, and his "king" brother had to hurry back to Hami to consolidate his lair, but in Ma Fuyuan's heart, this could not affect his appearance outside Zhennan City, because he still had nearly 30,000 "Holy Army" troops in his hands, and the defending army in Zhennan City was the defeated general of the remnants of the former Qing Dynasty who had been beaten by him.

Therefore, after Ma Benyuan left, Ma Fuyuan wanted to make persistent efforts to take Zhennan City to comfort his young "king" brother's extremely sad heart.

Of course, compared to his good brother Ma Benyuan, who can run and fight, the older Ma Fuyuan has a more unwilling mentality. He wanted to give his "king" brother, and also to find a safe and stable nest for himself to live a good life. And the Balikun area, which has the majestic Tianshan Mountains as its support, can be attacked, retreated and defended, is exactly in line with his mentality.

Zhennan City has become a place for him to fight.

Therefore, although Ma Benyuan, who was "driving in person", left the front line of Zhennan City, Ma Fuyuan did not dare to delay at all, and continued to launch a wave of fierce attacks on Zhennan City.

At this time, Zhennan City was not only the only place for former Qing officials and remnants of the defeated generals in the entire Balikun area to retreat, but also became a refuge for those local Uygurs, Han people and some Hui people who had become homeless.

The previous coalition of rebels and the two large-scale military operations against the Balikun area led by the "Xining Holy Army" were huge catastrophes for the people in Balikun.

During the coalition period, everyone was fed by the rioters with two shoulders and one head, and they needed to find food from them. During the period of the "Xining Holy Army", because the weather had begun to get cooler, the "Holy Army", who lacked food and grass and had nothing more to protect them from the cold, not only had to smash the jars and smash the cans to search for every grain of grain of the common people, and take away all the cattle, sheep, horses, donkeys and other livestock, but also snatched away the one that originally belonged to them.

Especially in the area around Zhennan City, the common people are even more miserable, and even the entire village has been burned down by the "Holy Army", and thousands of ordinary people have become the souls of the "Holy Army".

Ma Fuyuan never imagined that it was precisely because of their madness, which completely lost their humanity, that those helpless ordinary people finally chose to build up a piece of property, throw away the crops in the field, catch up with the few livestock left, and either hide in the mountains or run into Zhennan City, and finally became one of the forces to resist them.

Although Ma Fuyuan exerted a hundredfold madness on Zhennan City, the soldiers and civilians in Zhennan City, who were aroused by their perverse behavior, became more and more resentful of the same enemy, and the two cities of Manchu and Han relied on each other to fight to the death, and never let Ma Fuyuan put his feet into Zhennan City half a step.

However, Ma Fuyuan is still not discouraged, on the contrary, he seems to see hope.

The city of Zhennan City, the object of his main attack, has now been bombarded in many places, and although his "Holy Army" soldiers are still blocked under the city, he clearly feels that the resistance from within the city is not so fierce than before.

And more importantly, in a sudden counterattack launched by Hancheng in order to support the critical Mancheng just now, although he lost a great opportunity to open the gate of Zhennan City, he gave the Qing soldiers and horses in front of Hancheng who dared to go out of the city to counterattack a head-on blow.

In this rare face-to-face slashing and killing, Ma Fuyuan, who was stunned for a while at the beginning, not only quickly stabilized his position with the advantage of troops, but also entangled a former Qinglu battalion and militia that came out of the city.

In order to ensure that the counterattacking soldiers and horses that had already achieved their goal, especially the militia groups that had voluntarily gone out of the city to participate in the war that had been blocked outside the city with him, could safely withdraw into Seoul, Chen Shengheng, the deputy general of the Green Battalion, led more than 200 officers and men of the Green Battalion to fight desperately in the "holy army" surrounded by the regiments, and finally all of them were martyred.

With such an absolutely advantageous situation, it is no wonder that Ma Fuyuan is reluctant to give up this "low-reaching" Zhennan City.

Therefore, Ma Fuyuan, who was determined to take Zhennan City, continued to gnaw at Zhennan City endlessly, and on the other hand, in order to be prepared, he quickly deployed heavy troops on the front line of Songshutang and Nanshankou to hold the key passage for Hami to enter Balikun.

It's a pity that Ma Fuyuan miscalculated this time. He forgot that the object of his defense was not the usual army, but the workers' and peasants' Red Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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