Chapter 133: Ten Thousand Miles to the Machine
Because of the appearance of Liu Xian, it is not like history, Duolong'a, who died under the city of Xugu three years ago, has now extended the most valuable hand to his 'life-saving benefactor' Liu Xian - to Xinjiang!
Duolonga does not need Liu Xian to go to Shaanxi, after Liu Xian entered Hubei, in more than two years, Duolonga has leveled the entire Shaanxi, and the soldiers have entered Qingyang in Gansu.
If it weren't for the fact that the Twist Army crisscrossed the Central Plains and stepped on both sides of the Yellow River, it could fly into Shaanxi at any time, and Duolonga would have already raised the main army to storm the True God Sect riot army in Gansu.
He didn't need Liu Xian to help him at all. I don't want to have trouble with the entire Hunan Huai and Chu armies because of one Liu Xian. But Duolonga also didn't want to see a good general 'fall' like this, and the place he came up with for Liu Xian was Xinjiang.
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Since the rebellion of the True God Cult believers in Shaanxi and Gansu, the natives of Xinjiang, who had been under the rule of Tongzhi for three years, had rebelled again after being defeated by Emperor Daoguang forty years earlier.
This time they don't have Zhang Ge, but they have more Li Geer and Wang Geer. There are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains, and they are kings. If you don't have a head, you can be the head by yourself.
At the end of June of the third year of Tongzhi, the aborigines of Urumqi rebelled, and the Qing general Suo Huanzhang rebelled, and conquered Urumqi Hancheng on July 15. The local leader of the True God Cult, Tuo Ming, was elected as the "King of Qing Dian", Suo Huanzhang was called the generalissimo, built the "Wang City", and changed the name of the year to "Qing Yunnan 2893 years".
Prior to this, the natives of the southern Xinjiang road also raised troops to attack Aksu under the leadership of He Zhuo Rexiding, and on July 10, they defeated the Qing army that reinforced Karasar, and the Qing leader Wen Yong was martyred.
With Kuqa as the center, Residin also established his own regime.
Then Changji, Suilai, Gucheng, Yarkand, Turpan and other places successively rebelled against the indigenous people of the True God Cult.
In August, Ibibullah of Khotan raised an army and occupied Khotan, becoming the third rebel regime in Xinjiang to claim the throne.
In just two months, the north and south of Xinjiang have been burning with beacon fires. The Ili general Chang Qing was anxious and frequently deployed troops to suppress him, but he was repeatedly defeated. What is even more dangerous is that the city of Urumqi was broken, the whole city was besieged, and the rebels were approaching Ili. Chang Qing saw that the situation was out of control, and his forces could not suppress this chaos at all, so he hurriedly went to Beijing and asked for reinforcements.
The Qing court was sewing the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Twist Army was also trapped in Huoshan, the defeat was revealed, and the morale of the whole hall was high, although the eyes of the three giants in Beijing had been fixed on the Hunan army, which was difficult to govern, and they did not have much energy to distract themselves from the affairs of Xinjiang. However, he still transferred more than 1 million taels of silver from Shanxi, Hubei, and Hebei provinces, and ordered Lin Xing, the counselor of Uriya and Sutai, Guangfeng, the counselor of Chelin Dunbudo, and Kuichang, the deputy minister, to quickly send 20,000 Khalkha soldiers to reinforce Xinjiang.
At the end of September, 500 troops were dispatched to Tushetu Khan and Chechen Khan to reinforce the city of Urumqi.
However, at this time, the Kirgiz Berkesidil (Sidik) of Kashgar raised an army to occupy the old city and established itself as "Pasha". In order to establish his prestige, he also sent his subordinate Jin Xiangyin to Kokand City to welcome back Yamato Zhuo's great-grandson, Busuluk, known as the "Holy Descendant", and wanted to be established as a puppet.
This is the fourth local separatist rebel regime to emerge in Xinjiang.
In October, the city of Urumqi was broken, and Tuo Ming opened a large-scale killing, and all the troops were in Pingduan, and Yichang A was killed.
Tu Ming then joined forces with Ma Fu, the indigenous leader of Qitai, to occupy the cities of Qitai, Changji, Hutubi, Wusu, etc., and conquered the Mancheng of the ancient city, and the Qing defenders from the leader of the army Huiqing and the following soldiers and more than 7,000 women and children died, and the Tu Ming soldiers approached Turpan.
At this point, the situation in Xinjiang is so bad that it cannot be delayed. However, the 20,000 soldiers of the Khalkha Mongols, after the fall of Urumqi, reinforce the ancient city, and as soon as they engaged the rebels, they were defeated and returned to the city of Kobdo.
The Khalkha Mongols were scarce and could not withstand large losses, and a group of Mongolian princes made a commotion, and the Qing court had no choice but to order the soldiers to return to the banners.
At this point, the Manchu Qing Dynasty completely lost its right to control the situation in Xinjiang.
In the following year, Alimkul Khan of Kokand sent Aguba with 50 cavalry to escort Busuluk to Kashgar. As soon as they arrived in Kashgar, Busuluk and Aguba organized a mutiny and drove Sidil out of Kashgar. In March, Stik led more than 7,000 Kirghiz soldiers back to Kashgar. However, he was defeated by Aguba with a small number of cavalry night attacks. Aguba, who had received the Sidik forces, quickly assembled an army of thousands of soldiers, conquered Ingisha in April, expelled the remnants of Sidik from Xinjiang, and completely gained a firm foothold in southern Xinjiang.
Under the auspices of Aguba, Busuluk established the "Zhedeshar Khanate", meaning "Khanate of Seven Cities", indicating the ambition to unify the seven major cities of the Hui (generally believed to be Kashgar, Ingisha, Yarkand, Khotan, Aksu, Kucha, and Ushi).
The news was reported to Beijing by the new Ili general Mingxu, and Beijing was also anxious. I can no longer care that Xinjiang is the self-reserved land of the banner people, you see, all his elected officials are all flag people, and the frequent transfers at the beginning are also Manchurian. Directly ordered Yang Yuebin, then governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, to reinforce Xinjiang.
However, Yang Yuebin had no one under his command at all, and if he wanted to enter Xinjiang, he had to go back to his hometown Hunan to recruit troops. That's.
Annoyed, the Manchus ordered Bao Chao's Thunder Army to reinforce Xinjiang. However, most of the Thunder Army were southerners, and the remnants of the Taiping Army had already advanced into Fujian, and they had not received any money for several months at that time.
The army led by the general soldier Lou Yunqing made a big uproar in Shanghang County and went to Jiangxi to ask for wages, and Jiangxi urgently transferred 60,000 taels of silver to appease them. The troops led by Song Guoyong, another general soldier, were even more awesome, mutiny themselves on the Yangtze River waterway, and captured Xianning County after going ashore. The Qing court had no choice, so it had to give up by transferring the Ting army into Xinjiang.
Then Xinjiang became two large blocks, north and south, and the southern territory can be called the history of Agubai; The block territory can be called the history of the Qing army's hanging and beating.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty, who was forced to be helpless, faced the bitter pleading of the Ili general Mingxu, and even thought of the strange idea of borrowing the troops of Tsarist Russia to strengthen their courage. And how could Tsarist Russia, which is salivating in northwest China, let go of this great opportunity to eat fatty meat? Just know that the cities of Ili are still in the hands of the Qing army, and the Manchus have not yet reached the point of exhaustion in Xinjiang, and if Russia wants to obtain the greatest benefits, it also needs to watch the Manchus defeat his last bit of family foundation in Xinjiang.
Sure enough, not long after the time entered the fourth year of Tongzhi, the cities of Ili were successively captured by Tuoming.
However, Tuo Ming was not able to stay in the Ili region for long, because another force arose in the Ili region, led by Abutla, known as the "Taranqi Sultan", and occupied the Ili city in the first month of the fifth year of Tongzhi (1866), (Note: There were nine cities in the Ili region at that time, and the Ili city was Huiyuan (now Yining). He then occupied Tacheng. The fifth rebel regime in Xinjiang was established.
Tens of thousands of ministers, civil and military officials, soldiers, women and children's dependents died in the massacre. The Ili Valley fell.
Rong Quan, the counselor of Ili, who rushed to Russia to negotiate the borrowing of troops, acted as General Ili and guarded the area of Tacheng alone.
In the whole of Xinjiang, such a big place, only this small piece is still under the rule of the Qing court.
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Under such conditions, Liu Xian led the army into Xinjiang, that is, to pull Zeng Guoquan out and Liu Rong out again, and the two of them would not take the opportunity to make trouble and ruthlessly rectify Liu Xian.
From the overall situation, Duolonga really found a good place for Liu Xian.