11-51 Railroad soldiers

After the Meng Dan gang fled, there was no longer any opposition to the Han people in the Hui Ministry, and Xiang Khan reorganized the cabinet to establish the Council of Elders to discuss the national policy of comprehensive cooperation with the Ming Dynasty.

Now according to the report of the merchants from the Western Regions, the situation in the Western Xia has gradually stabilized, and the Emperor Galdan has been mobilizing men and horses to prepare for the second Eastern Crusade, and the Hui Department is listed on the list of retaliation, and the news is circulating in the streets, making people panic, because the Hui Department has no soldiers to fight, and the Ming army will withdraw according to the previous treaty, so that the Hui Department will become an undefended country, and can only be killed.

Tens of thousands of people in Ningxia City went to the streets to petition, asking the Council of Elders and Xiang Khan to retain the Great Tomorrow soldiers to help defend Western Xia, Xiang Khan attached great importance to this, and immediately convened a meeting of elders, everyone's opinions were very unanimous, and Liu Ziguang, as the son-in-law of the Hui Department, should take on the responsibility of defending the Hui Ministry, as for the cost of the army stationed in the Hui Ministry, the Hui Department still afforded it.

Xiang Khan went home to discuss with her husband, and Liu Ziguang was naturally obliged, promising to leave two battalions of men and horses, and help the Hui Department train five more battalions of cavalry to deal with the threat of Western Xia. The two of them negotiated at home and signed a new treaty, garrisoned to assist in defense, laid railways, opened a field to promote trade, and reduced the tax rate to a minimum, the materials that were restricted from trading by the two sides in the past were also completely banned, and the Hui Han were equal, and all Han people who violated the law in the territory of the Hui were dealt with according to the Hui law, of course, the case involving the Red Shirts was to be dealt with by both sides, these policies can be regarded as equal and reciprocal, and the Hui Department seems to have taken some advantage, so the members of the Presbyterian Church, including Huo Lingyao, are very satisfied.

A brand-new battalion was built in the south of Ningxia City, which is the base of the Hui Ming Army, the banner of the Ming Dynasty and the Crescent Moon Flag of the Hui Department fluttered together, and the two battalions totaled 6,000 men and horses were transferred from the country in 6 times, and the veterans who participated in the Battle of Hui'anbao and the Battle of Ningxia City in the early stage will also leave some as instructors.

Outside the base, a commercial street was soon formed specifically for the Hui Ming army, selling wine and barbecue, national costumes, scimitars and daggers, and all kinds of leather goods, and they would go to the street to consume every turn off, but due to the restrictions of the Hui Ministry's religious rules, there was no red light district in the entire Ningxia City that could provide sexual services, so in order to prevent the hormonal soldiers from doing such a bad thing as raping Okinawan female students, the Hui Ming army formed a huge entanglement team, and the pickets with dog-headed silver plaques patrolled everywhere to strictly prevent the soldiers from causing trouble and destroying national unity.

These days, Liu Ziguang has been at ease, all day long is to take a bath and drink, the bath in the back part is very particular, the milk bath, the flower bath, the mineral bath are varied, the pool is full of fruits and wine, seventy-two beautiful maids wearing tulle are ready to be sent at any time, not to mention that there is a hot body Xiang Khan to take a bath together, and you can get a breath in the water when you wash your head, this day is no different from heaven, the only fly in the ointment is that the heart eats too much, cow heart, sheep heart, horse heart, It was all the animal hearts allowed by the rules of the Hui Ministry, and Huo Lingyao brought them to Liu Ziguang to eat, saying that they were eating what to make up, frying, cooking, frying, boiling, and cold dressing, and eating until they vomited when they saw their hearts.

The news that the Xixia people were going to attack on a large scale was fabricated by Nanchang, in order to let the Hui Department take the initiative to ask the Ming army to stay, but this is not out of nowhere, the situation in the Western Xia is indeed about to stabilize, and after it is stable, Galdan will definitely be the first to take the Hui Ministry.

Therefore, Liu Ziguang after enjoying a month of Qingfu, resolutely decided to attack, refuse the enemy outside the country, go south directly from Ningxia, occupy Lanzhou, cut off the eastward road of the Western Xia people, this decision was strongly supported by the Hui Department, the war is terrible, where to start fighting will suffer, it is better to be able to set the battlefield in Lanzhou for the Hui Department, in order to show the sincerity of support, the Council of Elders decided to send troops to cooperate with the Ming army to fight, on the one hand, you can obtain advanced combat experience in the firearms era, on the other hand, it is also a reward for Liu Ziguang.

After Xiang Khan told Liu Ziguang about this resolution, the general of Zhengxi was broken, this is a good thing that he didn't expect, since people are willing to help with the fist, then he doesn't have to express it, he immediately patted his chest, and said that he had all the military uniforms and weapons of the Hui Army, Huo Lingyao was naturally overjoyed, and the two were affectionate and harmonious, so I won't repeat it.

In the mid-autumn of the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, Liu Ziguang, the general of the expedition to the west, led 5,000 red-shirted troops, and 10,000 Hui troops came out of Ningxia, and the soldiers pointed directly at Lanzhou, Lanzhou originally belonged to Lintao Mansion, and Wei belonged to Shaanxi to command the envoys, but the strength of the Han people was weak in the Western Regions, and the city where the Yellow River passed through the city had already become a city inhabited by various ethnic groups. Coupled with the civil strife in Western Xia, the defense of Lanzhou is really weak, if it were not for the strategic policy of the Western Expeditionary Army to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, I am afraid that Lanzhou would have planted the banner of the Ming Dynasty long ago.

The uncle and nephew of the Western Xia Kingdom fought for power, and the fight was inextricable, Galdan's uncle Chu Huer Ubashi was also a hero, good at encircling his subordinates, the defender of Lanzhou City was his henchman, at the beginning of the rebellion, he set up a defense line on the front line of Lanzhou, intercepted the Eastern Expeditionary Army that rushed to aid the country, and strongly supported the rebellion of Chu Huer Ubashi, but the domestic news gradually came, saying that Chu Huer Ubashi was weak, which made the Lanzhou defender feel up and down, His Majesty Galdan is a ruthless person, After he returned to power, how could these people who had betrayed him be good, just when Liu Ziguang's army was approaching the city, and before the heavy artillery could be fired, the flag was erected over there.

Liu Ziguang has a total of 10,000 people in his hands, but there are 100,000 troops in Lanzhou City, but there are less than 10,000 soldiers who can fight among these 100,000 people, and the rest are herdsmen, farmers, and small traders from the Western Regions who were forcibly conscripted by the Western Xia, and the armor is not complete, the weapons are just swords, spears, and wooden shields, and the ethnic composition is also very complicated, and the Uighur Turkic Tubo people have them.

Lanzhou fell, 100,000 troops unloaded, swords, guns and armor piled up a mountain outside Lanzhou City, the base was higher than the Lanzhou city wall, the disposal of 100,000 people became Liu Ziguang's big trouble, stay, he didn't need so many people, the quality and loyalty of these people also became a problem, don't use it, put it back in the Western Regions is to increase the strength of the other party, and it is not a thing, seeing that these 100,000 people consume food every day and do not create a little value, so that there are gradually signs of trouble, Liu Ziguang suddenly had an idea, and thought of a clever plan.

On a crisp autumn day, the general of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to the west, the prince Shaobao, and the marquis of Zhenwu, Liu Ziguang, announced to the 100,000 Western Xia troops in the school field outside Lanzhou that the railway army was formally established, with a battalion for every 3,000 people, and the 100,000 troops were exactly organized into 33 battalions.

But the weapons that came down surprised them, not knives, guns, bows and arrows, but hoes, shovels, pickaxes, only the number of coats without armor, and the hats were woven with wicker, which could not protect against arrows at all. The railway soldiers began to make noise, but Liu Ziguang's next words made them happy, it turned out that the railway soldiers did not have to fight, as long as they opened mountains and bridges to lay railways, they could also get military salaries, and Liu Dashuai promised that when the railways were repaired to the Western Regions, it would be when they were honorably discharged, and each soldier would have a considerable amount of money to settle in. Anyway, who hasn't worked at home.

But what they didn't expect was that the railway soldiers were actually the most difficult troops, without the honor of the combat troops, but with the same hardship, but in the face of not the enemy with swords and guns, but the moody nature, in order to build the western railway, 100,000 railway soldiers in the end there were less than 1,000 people left, it can be said that this railway is paved with human life, and there is a railway soldier's undead under each sleeper.

After occupying Lanzhou, it is a smooth road to the west, the south is the continuous Qilian Mountain, the north is the Great Wall, and the area in the middle of the corridor is the famous Hexi Corridor, which is an important part of the Silk Road, from Lanzhou to Jiayuguan thousands of miles of space, there is not even a Western Xia army, Liu Ziguang only needs to wave his troops to regain thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, what an immortal feat.

After receiving the news that Liu Ziguang had captured Lanzhou, Yuan Chonghuan, who was far away in Chang'an, was so angry that he dropped his teacup, and urgently ordered Wu Sangui and Liu Zongmin to go out of Tianshui and gallop in the starry night, striving to capture Jiayuguan before the Red Shirt Army.