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"God forbid, God forbid ......"

Listening to the fierce gunfire on the northern front, Chernyaev could only pray to God sincerely, praying that his old man was really bless Russia, so that more than 600 soldiers could break out of the Qing encirclement as much as possible.

Slowly, is it half an hour or an hour? Anyway, the gunfire disappeared, and Chernyaev could not hear it. The dust has settled......

Outside of Chernyaev's sight, less than two miles north of the reunited Northern Front, hundreds of standing and fallen horses crisscrossed with hundreds of corpses on a wide flat field.

This is the final burial place for the Russian army. Except for less than 200 wounded and surrendered prisoners, the remaining 400 or so Russian troops had already gone to see the Lord of their faith.

"It's a massacre—"

"Premeditated massacre—"

Forsyt of England. Colonel Sayif shook his head in disbelief. Major Jack, who has a more emotional personality or is more white and supremacy. Dural protested loudly to Liu Xian.

Liu Xian didn't bask him. This is considered a massacre, so what is the Anglo-French alliance in the Battle of Bali Bridge that year?

"Mr. Colonel, I hope you will be able to go in tomorrow." Pointing to the Russian camp to the south, Liu Xian said to Forsayt. Said Said. "Persuade General Chernyaev to take the initiative to serve, then we will give them the best treatment."

"Prisoner of war treatment?"

"Of course!"

Forsaiat. Sayif's eyes looked at Liu Xian, "Then why not today?" ”

"I can't say why. Maybe you want to make yourself more successful. If you are not there, I will persuade the Russians to surrender in three days. Liu Xian rubbed his hands. The reason why the Russian army was persuaded to surrender was that the British who came to the front played a great role.

The British delegation did not wait for the expeditionary forces to clear the battlefield before turning back to their station. Along the way, everyone did not speak, and the atmosphere was very gloomy.

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, empathize!

In the face of the interests of the Qing Empire, although there were great contradictions between Britain and Russia, when it came to the racial interests of the whites, the defeat of the Russians was not easy for the British.

It's not just about dignity, it's about interests. The defeat of the Russians will greatly weaken the fear of the Qing Empire against European countries and foreigners.

After all, the two batches of 5,000 Russian troops before and after were all swallowed up by the rabble that Liu Xian relied on a group of backbone of the expeditionary army. Thousands of Cossack cavalrymen did not play to their strengths at all, and either died in battle or entered the prisoner camps of the Qing army. To hell would it be if the British delegation could be completely happy in their hearts.

"The Russian Empire, there is about to have a second general enter this prisoner of war camp."

Passing by the prisoner of war camp, Jack. Dural couldn't help but sigh.

……

In early August, the temperature in Yili was already as cold as late autumn in the mainland. Further north, in the area of Tacheng, the first light snow of the year fell.

Liu Xian's report of success will be a month younger before he can fly to Beijing. The figure of the follow-up units of the Russian army was also nowhere to be seen, and Chernyaev led the remnants of the Russian army, in Forsayt. The day after Sayif entered the camp, he officially surrendered.

Liu Xian now seems to be an invincible opponent with his sword drawn and looking around!

It should also be God's help to him, or to help the Manchu Qing. Urumqi's Tuoming is precisely because he is seriously ill and cannot be a director at this juncture. The last remaining rebel regime in Xinjiang is in a sensitive period of changing leaders. Therefore, in the two months that Liu Xian and the Ili natives and the Russian army were in action, the Urumqi rebels did not move at all.

And just a few days after Liu Xian leveled the second wave of Russian troops in Chernyaev, Ma Zhong and Ma Rende, the two generals of the Tuming Army stationed in Turpan, suddenly began to attack Karasar. It turned out that Tu Ming's body got better after the weather turned cold, and Tu Ming's regime regained its backbone, and the internal strife was temporarily put aside, and Liu Xian's threat began to be considered.

Now that the main force of the rebel army in Ganxi has been purged, the army of the Qing court can always attack Urumqi from the line of Hami and Balikun. No matter how difficult it will be to transfer materials and personnel during this period, anyway, as soon as the east is strengthened, a large number of troops will be pinned down. However, if the Qing court and the Russians reached an armistice agreement again, Liu Xian began to fight from the south to the north, and he was conceited, and his own strength could not withstand such a big storm.

Ma Zhong and Ma Rende were ordered by the sound of the better, combined with the reinforcements of Urumqi, to raise more than 10,000 troops and attack Karasar on a large scale. The former Suo Huanzhang, the former Qing court general who led his troops to garrison Turpan, had already lost ground in a series of struggles within the Tuming regime. Now that he is staying in Turpan in the name of beauty, in fact, he has no real power at all.

Tuo Ming's intention was to respond to the Russian army in the direction of Ili and strike at Liu Xian. It's a pity that a few days after his intelligence was finished, Urumqi received the news that the second wave of Russian troops was raging towards Ili, and he adjusted his team and drove out, and Liu Xian had already eaten up the 3,000 Russian troops over there.

The weapons of the Tu Ming army were backward, just like the previous Ili natives, the only firearms were either left by the Qing army or forged by themselves, and the quality and performance could not be compared with the armament of the expeditionary army.

Dong Fuxiang, who had already been transferred to Karasar, Kucha, and Aksu to garrison, sent the battle report to Liu Xian and Zhang Zhongkui in Kashgar on the other hand. Relying on the forces at his disposal, relying on the support of the Turkut Mongols and Heshute Mongols in Karasar, as well as the indigenous armies of Tohudisha and Isak in Kucha and Aksu, he did not ask Zhang Zhongkui for support at all, let alone Liu Xian to return from Ili to the division, and defeated the Tuming army in a battle by the Bosten Chipan, and captured 3,000 men.

Ma Zhong and Ma Ren led the army back, and Dong Fuxiang immediately led more than 2,000 cavalry of various ethnic groups in the army to pursue along the way, fighting seven or eight battles for four days and three nights, trekking for 200 miles, and finally completely defeated the Tuming army that would invade the attack at Ushaketa. The horses were killed, and more than 5,000 people of the Ming rebellion army were killed, and the thief leader Ma Zhong only led hundreds of cavalry to flee in a hurry.

A crisis was smoothed out for Dong Fuxiang before Liu Xian made adjustments. Liu Xian, who was overjoyed, directly ordered Dong Fuxiang to coordinate the Mongolian cavalry of Karasar, and the indigenous armies of Kucha, Aksu, and Wushi to attack Turpan! Open up the road from southern Xinjiang to northern Xinjiang.

At this time, Jing Lian and Wenlin in the Hami area were also planning to march westward.

The Ganxi rebel army was pacified, and the blood of Huihui to many soldiers was shed, and they didn't care about this. Jing Lian and the others pay more attention to the safety of their rear, and they don't need to keep the riot army behind them all the time. They can single-mindedly seek westward expansion.

However, a conundrum lay ahead of them. ――What about logistics and transportation?

From Dunhuang and Anxi Prefecture to the west into Hami, the road is more than 920 miles, all the way to the Gobi, the water and grass are difficult, and the water source of the place where you can camp along the line is less than 1,000 people.

This is a thing that every Qing army civil and military officer knows. The eastern part of Hami is desolate and desolate, and there is too much water shortage. This is a 'moat' separating the Ming army from Anxi Prefecture. At the beginning, the Tu Ming army captured most of the territory of Hami and Balikun, and the general army of Balikun could only lead the rest of the troops to retreat to Uriya Sutai, but in the end they still retreated to the ancient city, and Jing Lian could always keep Dunhuang and Anxi Prefecture This generation, and they are not much threatened by the Tu Ming army, it cannot be said that it is all dependent on this road, but it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with it.

It was very difficult for the Tu Ming army to cross Hami and come to Gansu. Jing Lian is like crossing Hami to kill into the ancient city, which is also very rare.

Of course, after he was able to march into the western part of Hami, he first united with the rest of the Balikun general He Sui, who had returned to the west of Balikun Town. In this way, there is no fear that the Tuming army of the ancient city will attack and kill, and then wait for the follow-up troops to arrive, and then plot the ancient city.

But these require the cooperation of Balikun and the tacit coordination of both sides. And Jing Lian's official position, for the general soldier of Balikun, obviously does not occupy a high position. Besides, Jing Lian's hard work in Dunhuang and Anxi Prefecture in the past few years has been high, why don't people also persist in Balikun for so many years? Why should we focus on Jinglian?

The officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, regardless of civil and military, said that they should do practical things, and maybe ninety percent of them were not very good at it. can be said to be higher than an official position, depending on the merit division, who is the master and who is secondary, and the ten out of ten people are very clear.

I don't know how many things are delayed because of a 'merit division, who is the main and who is secondary'.

……

"Your Excellency the Governor,

The Chinese fought another big victory in Ili. The 3,000 Russian soldiers led by General Chernyaev were wiped out. But this is not to say that the Russian army is no longer able to fight, nor that the Russian soldiers are no longer brave. I can swear to God that the Russians on the battlefield are still the same fighting people with tenacity, courage and sacrifice, and they are the best troops in Europe.

It can only be said that the Chinese can also fight, and under a good commander, they can burst out with combat effectiveness that is not inferior to the first-class armies of Europe.

Their two newly formed battalions fought a tough battle for three consecutive days, and were able to fight from more than 800 people to only 300 people, and captured the three lines of defense of the Russian army. I think this example can show a qiē.

Of course, it was the victory of these two newly formed battalions that allowed the Chinese General Liu to successfully choke the Russians' water source and finally win the final victory of the battle.

Let General Chernyaev succeed General Golpakovsky as the second Russian general to enter a Chinese prisoner of war camp.

Liu is an excellent commander with eyes that can see through the fog of war.

Although the Russian army could not have been worse in terms of results. But neither General Golpakovsky nor General Chernyaev had obvious mistakes in decision-making on the battlefield. The loss of 5,000 Russian troops can only be a clear proof of Liu Zhuo's excellence.

I hope that His Excellency the Governor will contact the Minister in China, and after the end of this war, Liu must be allowed to leave Xinjiang, otherwise it is not only Xinjiang that we will not be able to touch again, but also Tibet ......" R1152