535. Shaanxi-Gansu Endgame
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The sound of hurried horses' hooves appeared in front of Xichuan General Soldier He along the way: "My lord, the outpost of the first brigade of the first division of the shooting army has entered Jiezhou City, and Leng Yuanhua has already left the city to greet your lordship??????"
"Yay!" He Wenyan, who was also in the dust, laughed loudly. "It's not in vain that over the past year, the headquarters has worked hard to break mountains and dig roads." After laughing, He ordered, with a solemn face. "Order Zou Zishan, let him properly control Zhanì Jiezhou, and don't capsize in the gutter. In addition, I will send someone to tell the two adults, Tang and Jia, that Jiezhou has arrived, and they can rush to preside over government affairs??????"
If anyone can overlook from above, there will be a long dragon of Xia army marching up the river along the Bailong River valley. In fact, this valley originally had a trail for merchants to pass, but as revealed in the congratulatory message, if it had not been for the continuous expansion of the Xia army in the past two years, it would not have been possible to reach more than 10,000 troops in any case. Of course, the movement of opening mountains and expanding roads is quite large, and it can't be hidden from the Gansu side on the opposite side, and the Leng Yuanhua of Jiezhou was secretly connected with Huaxia earlier, and the Xia army had no way to complete this huge project under the resistance of the Qing army.
Therefore, when He's team came to Leng Yuanhua and his party who paid homage to the Great Ceremony, even if they looked down on this capricious overlord of the troubled times, He still took the initiative to get down from the horse and help him up: "Lord Leng, your merits have been known by the Holy Lord, and there will be an order from the top in the near future, and I hope that the Lord will continue to work hard, so that it may be able to bless future generations for a long time." ”
Leng Yuanhua said with a heavy face: "I only hate that I didn't make up my mind to welcome the imperial court and the heavenly army earlier, such a sin, if you don't deal with it, it's a fluke, and you are also cared for by the saint, Yuanhua is not careful!" ”
He sneered at Leng Yuanhua's coquettish attitude, he knew that if it wasn't for Yinzhen's series of perverse actions, how could Leng Yuanhua make up his mind to join Huaxia. But knowing that he is undecided, he still has a place to use Leng Yuanhua, so He naturally will not declare his inner disdain.
"As the ancients fabled, it's not too late to make amends, and there is no difference in order to abandon the dark and turn to the light." He relieved a few words, and then changed his words. "Now, what Lord Leng has to do is to effectively cooperate with the imperial court to control the counties of Jiezhou, Qinzhou, and Huizhou, and then the official will also use Lord Leng's reputation to send an exhortation to the towns of Quangan and tell them to surrender??????"
The news of the Xia army's march from Gannan into Gansu shook the whole of Gansu like a shock wave, and the warlords in various towns in Gansu were in a panic, and they all felt that their good days were over. However, in the face of the overwhelming superiority of the Xia army and the Chinese court, the princes, who were unable to fight at all, finally made the right choice.
From mid-June to early July of the eighth year of Wucheng in China, the two divisions of the Ganxia Army, with the cooperation of the Leng Yuanhua Department, successively conquered Qinzhou (Tianshui), Qingshui, Qin'an, Fuqiang (Gangu), Ningyuan (Wushan), Tongwei (Weiyuan), Longxi and other prefectures and counties, and Xu Chao, the governor of Gansu and the governor of Gansu, only had 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and he was forced to retreat to Anxi.
On 20 July, except for the towns of Ganzhou and Suzhou, which were a little farther away, which were not declared to be annexed, the rest of the towns changed their banners one after another after watching for a while, and led their troops to serve in front of the Dingxi Army in accordance with He's order.
On the third day of August, He attacked Dingxi with more than 20,000 new annexed troops. Two days later, Xu Chao surrendered, and Lanzhou, Ningxia, Qingyang, Pingliang, Gongchang, Xining and other places were completely controlled by the Chinese Dynasty.
At the same time, He took the first division of Lanzhou and the first division of Xining, so as to temporarily take a defensive position on Ganbei and northwest Gansu, and he himself led more than 20,000 new annexed troops to turn eastward to threaten the western border of Shaanxi, and had the posture of attacking Fengxiang in one fell swoop.
As early as mid-June, Yinzhen received an alarm that the Xia army was entering Gansu, but in the two towns of Fengxiang and Qianzhou were nailed to death in Tongguan by the Xia army's Henan camp, and the two towns of Dunzhou and Tongzhou were pinned down by the Xia army's Xichuan Corps at the north entrance of the Qinling Mountains, and Xi'an Town used troops in Yan'an, Yinzhen's mobile troops only had more than 15,000 people in Gongchang Town and Pizhou Town, as well as all the superintendents, military standards, Fu standards, and promotions. Although it seems that there is still enough troops, Yinzhen can't help but consider keeping a strong reserve behind the Tongguan defenders. In addition, because the promised food and salary of the towns were not solved, the Qing army was short of food and salary, and the morale was low, and there was no way to go out of Qinchuan for 800 miles to Gansu to support Xu Chao's department.
By the time He calmly cleaned up the towns in the east and south of Gansu and moved troops to the border of Gansu and Shaanxi, even Yinzhen himself was disappointed in the situation. At this time, Yinzhen's old background of not being good at military affairs was revealed, and he didn't know that He was actually the end of the crossbow. You must know that the towns in Gansu have attacked each other in the past few years, and they have always had contradictions with each other, and He can't easily squeeze them into a fist. Moreover, the civil war in Gansu almost turned Gansu into a white land, and the war that had just ended also destroyed the only summer harvest. Therefore, in fact, as long as Yinzhen grits his teeth, it will not be a problem to persist for another year.
However, the flustered Yinzhen finally remembered Kangxi's request for his "whole division". In a hurry, Yinzhen gave the order for each subordinate to withdraw across the Yellow River into Shanxi, and on the other hand, he issued an order for the massacre again, but this time Yinzhen's order was unanimously opposed by Xihana and Hua Xian.
Xihana and Hua Xian are both serious Manchus, and they will not have any sympathy for the slaughtered Han people, and the reason why they oppose Yinzhen's massacre order is very legitimate - because Yinzhen has done too much in Shanxi, Shanxi has caused a large area of underplanting and poor harvest due to the lack of labor for two consecutive years, which has affected the Qing court's fiscal and tax revenue.
Although the population of southern Jin has rebounded to a certain extent due to the migration of the people of Henan, there is still a lack of sufficient producers in more places. Therefore, Yinzhen, who is responsible for the aftermath, and Yinzhi, who is responsible for the relocation of Shaanxi, hit it off on this issue, and the combined strength of the two elder brothers is obviously stronger than Yinzhen alone. It is precisely because of this that Sihana and Hua Xian have the confidence to resist Yinzhen's order.
The temper of Yinzhen 205, who was resisted by the local government, came up again, and he ignored the order of Zhao Hongzhen, who he could effectively control, to return to the division to carry out the massacre order. As a result, Xi'an Town, which hurriedly returned to the division, was chased and killed for thirty miles by the chasing soldiers sent by Yulin and Yan'an Towns, and the headquarters were scattered, leaving only Zhao Hongxie himself to flee back to Xi'an City.
In this case, Yinzhen had to give up the order to kill the people of Shaanxi, and instead used various departments to forcibly capture the people of various prefectures and counties to cross the Yellow River eastward. But it is impossible for the troops who have been ordered to withdraw from the Yellow River to return to their dead places to carry out Yinzhen's orders, and those green battalions that carried out the orders will never return after completing the escort mission.
In this way, by the beginning of September of the 45th year of Kangxi's reign, only 5,000 soldiers and horses were left in the green camp in Shaanxi, including Fengxiang Town, Zuo Xiehe, who was stationed in Tongguan, 6,000 people in Shaanxi, 6,000 people in Sichuan and Shaanxi Fubiao, who were stationed in Fengxiang, and 5,000 in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Xi'an, who were stationed in Xi'an.
On September 11, Yinzhen ordered the Xi'an military standard to take over the Fengxiang Town Zuo Association to garrison Tongguan, but some of the junior officers in the military standard were unwilling to act as palace soldiers and substitute for the dead ghosts, so there was a mutiny, and the rebellious army wantonly looted and burned in Xi'an City. Although it was finally pacified by the Shaanxi and Gansu governors and some of the military pacesetters loyal to the Qing court, the fire burned almost the entire Xi'an city, but fortunately, most of the residents in the city had been forcibly plundered to Shanxi by the Qing army, so they did not unfortunately become Zhurong's tribute. It was only after this change that the Qing army could no longer stay in Shaanxi.
On September 16, the Xia army, which was now in a different situation in Tongguan, camped in Henan, and cautiously sent a small force to advance to Tongguan, and as a result, the soldiers captured this Xiongguan without blood. The Henan Xia army then poured into Shaanxi like a tide, and under the guidance of the surviving Shaanxi people who were full of revenge, pursued the Qing army's palace and rear units.
On September 17, the Xia army of Henan Province fought with the Qing army in Tongzhou with no fighting spirit Shaanxi Tibiao, Ganshan Dubiao and other units, the Qing army was almost crushed at the touch of a button, the Xia army pursued all the way to the crossing of the Yellow River, seized such as the Hongyi cannon and other large quantities of ordnance and military materials that were too late to withdraw, and rescued 10,000 people in Shaanxi, but Yinzhen, Xi Hana, Hua Xian and the following had already crossed the Yellow River in advance, so they did not do their full work.
On 19 September, after learning that the Xia army had entered Tongguan and that the Qing army had all fled to Shanxi, the two towns of Yulin and Yan'an, which had just defeated Zhao Hongxie, took the initiative to surrender to the Xia army, and the whole territory of Shaanxi was recovered.
On October 15, the Huaxia Imperial Court, which learned of the news of the resumption of the regulations in Gansu and Shaanxi, ordered the establishment of Shaanxi (county) west and other places in the places of Xi'an, Tongzhou, Hanzhong, Xing'an, Fengxiang, Shangzhou, Qianzhou, and Pizhou. Jingning Prefecture of Lanzhou Prefecture into Guyuan Zhili Prefecture, Pingchuan Zhili Prefecture Province into Pingliang Prefecture, Jingzhou (Jingchuan) Zhili Prefecture Province into Qingyang Prefecture, and Qingyang Prefecture, Pingliang Prefecture, Ningxia Prefecture, Yulin Prefecture, Yan'an Prefecture, Suide Zhili Prefecture, Juzhou Zhili Prefecture, Guyuan Zhili Prefecture and other places; Promote Qinzhou, Jiezhou, and Hezhou to Zhili Prefecture, reduce Huizhou to Hui County, and belong to Qinzhou with the original Liangdang County, and establish Long (county) west and other places in Lanzhou Prefecture, Xining Prefecture, Gongchang Prefecture, Ganzhou Prefecture, Liangzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Qinzhou Zhili Prefecture, Hezhou Zhili Prefecture, and Jiezhou Zhili Prefecture; The three provincial capitals are in Xi'an, Qingyang and Lanzhou.
On October 27, the eighth year of Wucheng, the Chinese court announced the establishment of Qinghai Xuanfu envoys in Xining and Hetao Xuanfu envoys in Ningxia, so as to carry out appeasement work for Erut, Ordos and other Mongolian tribes. On the same day, the Privy Council of the Huaxia Dynasty mobilized the 2nd and 3rd Divisions of the Hussars into Ningxia and the 2nd Division of the Iron Cavalry into Xining, so as to conquer by force the Mongol tribes who were either attached to the Qing court or relied on Dzungar in the event of no appeasement.
He was also ordered to go north to Ganliang with the two divisions of the newly annexed army, which was being reorganized, to completely unify Gansu.