"Da Da Da, Da, Bang Bang, Rush, Kill!" At the foot of the majestic Qilian Mountain is the narrow Hexi Corridor, where the war of the Republic of China unceremoniously spread with Wu Peifu's Northwest Frontier Army......

After the Xinhai Revolution, there was a situation in Gansu Province in which local powerful small warlords were divided, forming the "Eight Towns of Longshang". Among the eight towns, half of the Hui Han are each. On the Hui side, there are: Ma Fuxiang, the envoy of the Ningxia Protector, Ma Lin, the envoy of Ninghai (Qinghai), Ma Tingxun (the son of Ma Anliang), and Ma Lan, the envoy of the Ganzhou Guard; On the Han side, there are: Lu Hongtao, the envoy of Longdong Town, Wu Tongren, the envoy of Suzhou Town, Kong Fanjin, the envoy of Longnan Town, and Pei Jianzhun, the envoy of Hezhou Town. In this way, there was no unified military force and command center in the whole province, which was the characteristic of the political situation in Gansu at the beginning of the Republic of China, which reflected the decentralization of the feudal economy and the complexity of ethnic relations here. The small warlords of the eight towns do not belong to each other, and there are many contradictions.

But it doesn't matter, Wu Ziyu is here, and he is still here with hundreds of thousands of tigers, wolves and lions.

Wu Peifu doesn't look at it as narrower now, but after taking refuge in Wang Zhenyu, his strength immediately recovered, and the subordinate Northwest Frontier Army had a total of five divisions, the commander of the first division, Xiao Yaonan, the commander of the second division, Sun Chuanfang, the commander of the second division, Feng Yuxiang, the commander of the third division, Yang Sen, the commander of the fourth division, and Wang Lingji, the commander of the fifth division, actually reached an astonishing total strength of 150,000. Most of them were the hard-working Sichuan army and the brave and skilled Shaanxi army, and more importantly, they also received supplies from Wuhan, sufficient ammunition and food, and enough officers. In Wu Ziyu's own words, leading troops for so many years is the most generous this time.

And the army of the eight towns together is about 100,000 people, you must know that such a scale has made the nine million people of Gansu miserable. Therefore, as soon as Wu Ziyu's banner came out, the heads of the eight towns had to give up their past grudges and start planning to protect themselves.

The most tragic thing here is that Zhang Guangjian, the then overseer of Gansu, was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the overseer of Gansu in 1913. In terms of ability, he really has a little bit of ability, and in the case of unarmed soldiers, he actually successfully took advantage of the local Hui-Han contradictions in Gansu and the mutual restraint between the eight towns to successfully control the situation in Gansu, and once cleaned up warlords like Ma Anliang, seeing that Gansu was about to settle down in his hands.

But the world is unpredictable, just when Zhang Guangjian was satisfied with his ambition to govern Gansu, the Protectorate War broke out. originally thought that it would only be three or two months, but it turned out to be less than two months and ended in the defeat of the Beiyang Army on all fronts. After Yuan Shikai's death, unlike Yang Zengxin, the overseer of Xinjiang in the same year, Zhang Guangjian chose to continue to defect to Duan Qirui of the Beiyang government. originally thought that this day could continue to live, but after more than a year of effort, Duan Qirui's government collapsed in the Zhiwan War, and now the Gansu region was lively. The result of the weak central government is naturally obvious, everyone's fear and fear of Zhang Guangjian, an airborne cadre, has been directly reduced to zero, before Wu Peifu announced his march to the northwest, Gansu under the leadership of the Ma family has unceremoniously announced the expulsion of Zhang Guangjian.

Zhang Guangjian was not very worried about the Hui people, and it was Wu Peifu who really made him depressed. Speaking of which, everyone used to eat under the Yuan Palace's account, but now you Wu Ziyu picked up someone else's rice bowl and immediately came to smash your brother's rice bowl, no matter how you look at it, it can't be regarded as kind. Zhang Guangjian, who couldn't figure out the situation, even sent a telegram to Wu Peifu, hoping that he would not disturb the local people in Gansu.

Wu Peifu, who is arrogant, is strong and strong at the moment, so he didn't take Zhang Guangjian in his eyes at all, and directly sent a telegram back to him, asking him to resign immediately and get out of the house quickly, so angry that Zhang Guangjian scolded Xiucai for being rude.

Later, Zhang Guangjian sent an urgent telegram to the newly established Zhang Zuolin government in Beijing in the name of the Gansu overseer, hoping to obtain the support of the central government. ”

But the telegram seemed to sink into the sea, and the Beijing side turned a blind eye to Zhang Guangjian's telegram, and did not hear from it, as if it had never been sent.

At this time, if Zhang Guangjian still doesn't understand that he is a fool, Beijing must have adopted a tacit or even acquiesced attitude towards Wu Peifu's current actions. What else is there to say, Zhang Guangjian tried to keep his position as the overseer of Gansu under Wu Peifu's troops.

It's a pity that Yang Du, who Wang Zhenyu assigned to Wu Peifu, is still on vacation in Wuhan at the moment, and in Yang Du's view, the Gansu issue is not worth worrying about at all, what he has to worry about is what will happen after the army finally enters Xinjiang. So Wu Peifu, who had no political restrictions, simply rejected Zhang Guangjian's request, but Wu Peifu still didn't forget the old feelings, and finally told Zhang Guangjian, you kid leave in time, I will send troops to escort you, otherwise, that is the enemy.

When Zhang Guangjian saw such an answer, he couldn't help but sigh, the Gansu overseer who had been sitting for five years was over. On November 17, Zhang Guangjian, the overseer of Gansu, announced his resignation. And Lu Hongtao and the other four Han town guards thought about it again and again, and they couldn't calculate that their army would have the slightest chance of winning if they resisted by force, and they immediately announced that they would accept the command of the Northwest Frontier Army. And Wu Peifu naturally will not reuse these generals, and each of them will be sent to be a public servant with 500,000 Chinese yuan. As for the army under his command, he naturally unceremoniously chose the elite to be incorporated into the Sixth Division of the Northwest Frontier Army, and Yu Xuezhong was exceptionally appointed as the division commander.

As for Wuhan, Wang Zhenyu's idea of the northwest region is not only to complete the reunification, so Wang Zhenyu has taken an attitude of ignoring Wu Peifu's unauthorized expansion of the establishment, and has not approved or said a word about the report of the Security Bureau. It is only that a group of young officers with reliable political ideology have been mobilized from various military academies to take up posts, and Wu Peifu has also seen trust in them......

The four horses finally embarked on the reactionary road of joint resistance against Wu, and their first battle was a desperate battle with Wu Peifu's army at the foot of this Qilian Mountain.

The battle, which historians have named the Battle of Lanzhou, was actually fought in the Yuzhong region, about 30 kilometers from Lanzhou, where a total of 100,000 Hui troops gathered by four horses from Gansu Province to fight a decisive battle with Wu Peifu's 200,000-strong army.

Although the Hui army was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, the four horses were not worried about this, because they believed that their army was blessed by Allah. Moreover, almost all the imams of mosques in the jurisdiction came forward to mobilize, and in the name of jihad, they instigated 300,000 jihadist fighters to concentrate on Lanzhou, planning to defeat Wu Peifu in one fell swoop. Among them, there are many people who are full of fantasies, dreaming of taking this opportunity to continue to spread the teachings of Allah to the East......

On November 24th, I don't know what the reason is, and I don't know what happened, in short, the jihadist fighters who entered Lanzhou unceremoniously carried out an unprecedented frenzied slashing and killing of the Han residents in Lanzhou City, such a thing did happen in history, and the number of Han people killed was also very staggering, but the later government was very stupid to cover up the truth out of national unity.

However, the Han Chinese in Lanzhou were obviously more reliable than those in Nanjing, and in the face of murderous extremists, they knew that they would not be spared, and they fought desperately. Although the effect of this spontaneous resistance was weak, the result of the Lanzhou incident was that nearly 50,000 Han people in Lanzhou City were slaughtered in a frenzied and bloody manner, and more than 10,000 women were raped and tortured, and even after being raped, they were eaten raw, but the bloody outburst of Han men at the last moment shocked those who believed in Allah. As an imam, who held back the mob with his life but was killed by the mob as an apostate, said: "If it is really Allah who agrees with you to do evil in this way, and agrees that you can treat life like grass and beasts in this way, then Allah is the devil!" ”

The whole of Lanzhou has become a hell on earth, full of the wails of the dying, the screams and cries of women and children, and the triumphant boasting of the abusers. Even many years later, after nightfall, people can still hear the horrors of that day......

The Lanzhou incident soon reached Wu Peifu, who had just entered Tianshui, and when he learned the detailed report of the entire incident, he was filled with anger and vomited blood. Then he ordered the 200,000 tiger and wolf divisions under his command: "Brothers, just three days ago, a group of cultists from the northwest claimed to have served the will of Muha, and frantically killed 50,000 Han compatriots. Who gives these thugs the right to deprive others of their lives? Who gave this beast ...... As a soldier, I have nothing to say, I only know that I should do one thing, pick up our guns and avenge the death of our compatriots. Will you go with me for revenge? Kill all the cults, kill all the rebels! ”

Before the soldiers came to the meeting, they all got the news about the Lanzhou incident from their own officers, although they had little culture, but they saw the world as soldiers, and after a long time, they also knew what a nation was, what a country was, and what compatriots were. Now let the big marshal incite them like this, they felt that their brains were congested, and they roared murderously: "Revenge, revenge, kill all the cults, kill all the rebels!" ”

In Nanjing, the ethnic question aroused the most extensive discussion and controversy in the two houses, and the arguing legislators were unable to reach an effective resolution for a long time. And this time, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government in Wuhan issued an order that caused widespread controversy:

"First, from now on, all officers and soldiers will wear black veils for three days to mourn the victims of the Lanzhou incident, and the Northwest Frontier Army will mourn for one year;

Second, from now on, the distinction between ethnic groups will be abolished, and the Chinese nation will be the only ethnic group in the Republic of China, and there will be no distinction between Han and Yi;

Third, from now on, religious belief will be free, but cult organizations that incite mankind to be hostile to each other and vendetta and to defraud money and interests must not be regarded as religions.

Fourth, Wu Peifu, commander of the Northwest Frontier Army, was appointed with full authority to be responsible for the aftermath of the Lanzhou incident......"