At dawn, the Sharp Knife Team captured the city gate, and 2,000 Qin soldiers armed with Minnie-style rifles and horse pistols captured an unsuspecting Huiyuan City, was it not easy?

Abutra, the so-called "Sultan of Taranzi", is like an old turtle locked in an urn that was killed by Liu Xian. Of course, the natives of the city were fighting hard, and these people were covered with the blood of Qing officials.

On the 22nd day of the first month of the fifth year of Tongzhi, the rebellious indigenous army used the tactic of digging tunnels to bury explosives, blew up the city wall, and captured Huiyuan City, which had been besieged for more than a year. Ili general Mingxu led his wife, two sons and one daughter to burn gunpowder and die for the country. The leading minister Chongxi, the assistant leader Yongqian and his sons Fuer Guochun and Zuo Ling Erlejing and other officials of Hecheng were martyred, and countless soldiers and civilians were killed.

In the nine cities of Yili, the fall of each city was paved with the bones of a large number of Manchu and Han officials and soldiers defending the city. Abutra did not dare to surrender, and every native soldier did not want to surrender until he was cornered.

But the weapons of these people are too rudimentary. Except for a few muskets, the vast majority of the rebel natives still held knives and guns from the Cold Weapon Era. In the face of the shooting of Mini-style rifles and the merciless bombardment of grenades, Huiyuan City returned to Liu Xian with an irreversible momentum.

Huiyuan City has four city gates in the east, west, north and south, and the street is cross-shaped one vertical and one horizontal. East, west, north and south streets are divided into vertical and horizontal streets and alleys. In the south of the drum tower, there are 13 east and west horizontal alleys; To the north of the drum tower, there are 10 horizontal alleys in the east and 9 in the west.

There were corpses everywhere.

The earthen cannon on the city wall was originally used to defend Huiyuan City, but Liu Xian used it to bombard the natives in the city. Although the power of these cannons is very small, and the shells are all solid, perhaps not as powerful as a grenade, it is still a piece of cake to break up a few houses.

The battle in Huiyuan City lasted for a whole day and a night. The nearby cities of Gongchen, Guangren, Huining, and Ningyuan sent indigenous rebels to rescue Huiyuan City, but they were all defeated by the cavalry troops placed outside by Liu Xian.

Platoon of guns, platoon of guns, platoon of guns - and then the cavalry rushed.

Three battles in one day, the cavalry units did not show the slightest fatigue. The next day, he directly swallowed more than a thousand indigenous reinforcements sent by Gongchen City.

Liu Xian suddenly appeared in Ili, took Huiyuan City in a battle, and killed Abutla, the leader of the Ili indigenous rebellion. It's like a king-size firework bursting in the dark. The aftermath spread as fast as it could to the east and west.

Although the war made Huiyuan City dilapidated, and even more than half of the general's mansion was destroyed, Abutra's death marked the end of his life for the Ili rebel natives.

Tuo Ming was so anxious in Urumqi that he couldn't sit still.

Aguba died, and so did Abutra. In the huge Xinjiang, he is the only one of the three rebel forces. Although Tuo Ming currently occupies most of Xinjiang North Road and Turpan, he really has no bottom in his heart.

When he heard the news of Aguba's defeat, he couldn't sleep. After Kuqa, Aksu and other four places in southern Xinjiang surrendered or were occupied by the expeditionary army, he went crazy and mobilized troops to Turpan to block Liu Xian's road to the north.

But who would have thought that he would suddenly get out of Ili?

As soon as he heard the news, Tuo Ming's first reaction was to withdraw troops from Turpan and kill Ili. But fortunately, he was not crazy, and knew that although there was no Liu Xian in the southern Xinjiang, there were still expeditionary armies, and there were still thousands of indigenous troops who followed Isshak, Tohu Dixia and others to surrender to Liu Xian.

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Seven Rivers in Tsarist Russia.

This Xinzhou Province, which was established by the Russian Empire five years ago in the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary" and seized more than 400,000 square kilometers of territory in western Xinjiang, has always been a bridgehead fortress for Tsarist Russia to infiltrate Xinjiang.

Major General Golpakovsky, the commander of the local Tsarist Russian garrison and governor of the Seven Rivers Prefecture, waited for Kaufman's order with one ear and listened to any hint of wind and grass in the Ili region.

Therefore, when Liu Xian suddenly appeared from the hinterland of Ili and besieged Huiyuan City, Golpakovsky's shock and anger were even more obvious.

This is snatching food from the tiger's mouth!

Golpakovsky immediately ordered the 2,000 Russian troops under his command, dragged more than a dozen cannons, crossed the border between China and Russia, and advanced to Borohugil, which was only less than 100 miles away from Gongchen City.

At this time, the Ili indigenous rebels were in a dilemma. On the one hand, they have to face Liu Xian's attack, and on the other hand, they have to deal with the threat of the Russian army. If the knees are softer, they may surrender to Liu Xian or Tsarist Russia.

But the Ili natives did not do so. These people were very uninterested in Tsarist Russia, the Russians were arrogant and greedy, and they bullied not only the Manchu Dynasty but also the local natives over the years.

As early as the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), the Russian consul in Tacheng coveted the Yarkatu gold mine in the southwest of Tacheng, falsely claiming that the mine belonged to the Russian border and demanding the expulsion of the miners. At the end of the year, the Russian consul sent people to forcibly evict the miners; By April of the following year, more than 200 miners had been killed. In May, An Yuxian and Xu Tianxun led the miners to gather in the Russian trade circle and demand the surrender of the murderer, but they were dispersed by the Counselor of Qingta City. In mid-July, more than 500 miners of the Hui Han and other ethnic groups surrounded and burned the Russian trading circle. The Russian Liberal Arts and Scholars used the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to extort money. In the summer of the eighth year of Xianfeng, the Russian consul in Tacheng even led troops to Tacheng to threaten and threaten. As a result, the two sides signed nine articles of the "Sino-Russian Talbagatai Agreed Subsidy Treaty", in which the Chinese side promised to "subsidize" the Russian side for its losses of more than 130,000 taels of silver, which would be compensated with tea in three years; Russia obtained the right to garrison troops in the two consulates of Ili and Tacheng.

Since the signing of the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary," the Russians have become even more arrogant in the Ili region. It is full of contradictions with the indigenous people, almost to the point of irreconcilability.

And Liu Xian here, it can be seen from his bitter hand in Huiyuan City that his attitude towards the local natives of Yili. After all, there were as many as 10,000 Manchu and Han officers and soldiers in the nine cities of Yili, and now except for those who fled to Tacheng and Wusu, most of the remaining people were killed.

The situation created by this is that the local natives of Ili, who are not very strong, have to divide their troops into two routes, one side to the Ili River to confront the Russian army, and the other to continue to besiege Huiyuan City.

After Liu Xian captured Huiyuan City, he didn't mention how much he had captured and captured, anyway, he had all the food and gunpowder. This is the heart of Ili. Even though it had been destroyed by the previous war, Abtra had occupied this place for three years, and he had already filled the granaries and storehouses where rats could starve to death.

Historically, this guy went to Huining to lead Russian troops into Ningyuan City, and did not dare to fight against Tsarist Russia. Now he didn't have the opportunity to be a leading party, and his skull was cut off and crashed into the box.

And Golpakovsky led his troops to Borohugil, which seemed to be violent, but in fact he did not get Kaufman's orders, and he did not dare to really raise troops to crush the thousands of natives on the opposite side.

Golpakovsky waited for the order and stood still. Liu Xian wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, and used the hands of the Russian army to wash Ili in blood, and he also sat firmly in Huiyuan City, sitting and watching the situation outside.

And when Liu Xian appeared in Ili, took the city of Huiyuan, and killed Abtra, the news was telegraphed to Kaufman from the Seven Rivers Prefecture, and the Russian general nicknamed the 'Half-Tsar' suddenly came to his senses.

No wonder Liu Xian never showed up, it turned out that he led his troops to attack Yili. I thought he was going to be busy with the rest of the four cities in southern Xinjiang.

And throwing a subordinate to fight Russia in the ring is also to prevent the matter from being turned around. After all, no matter how stiff and hard his subordinates are, they are also subordinates, not him Liu Xian himself.

As long as I come forward when necessary to ease things and contradictions, I will still be able to pass through the wind and water without a trace.

Kaufman never thought that Liu Xian would attack Ili.

If we do not start from the perspective that the Russians will invade Ili, Liu Xian did not take Ili first and abandoned the Turpan argument for a hundred reasons. But from the point of view of Tsarist Russia's coveted Ili, his move is simply a stroke of genius!

"Do you want to let Golpakovsky ...... What about offense? ”

Kaufman really wanted to see the Qing general who surprised him with his own eyes. R1152