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In the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), there were people in the population war in the four counties of Jingzhou. death

In August of the second year of Tongzhi (863), the rebel army fell into Pingliang City, more than 100 officials died, hundreds of thousands of people died, and the population of Pingliangfu lost 2.49 million.

Huating County Chronicles, in November of the second year of Tongzhi, Shaanxi returned to the country, and burned extremely miserably. At the beginning of the Tuhui rebellion, Shang Ai Tu "is not very cruel, has no regrets, and burns ten times more than Tuhui." Huating has been in ruins since then, and only more than 70 people have returned to the city, and tens of thousands of men, women, old and children have died.

Longde County Chronicles, Tongzhi four years of the county broke the city, since then the official fled Zhuang Lang, the city is empty and ownerless for five years, the people have killed and starved to death, the old and weak have fled, and there are no twenty or thirty people in the county. The villages and villages of the county are scorched, and there are ten rooms and nine empty.

Guyuan County Chronicle, a report in the second year of Tongzhi said that Guyuan was suddenly broken by the rebel army, and Guyuan returned to the ...... More than 200,000 men and women died in the city, and 1.28 million were lost in the war of Qingyang Mansion, and the Han people were slaughtered!

Ningxia Mansion, in the second year of Tongzhi, rebelled against the army, trapped Ningxia Fucheng, and more than 100,000 Han people were slaughtered.

In the same year, Ma Hualong fell into Lingzhou again, more than 20,000 people died in the city, the population of the entire Ningxia Prefecture lost as much as 1.5 million, and only more than 100,000 remained after the war.

Machi (now Ningxia Yanchi), originally 100,000 Han people, after the war only 5,947 people, people. The loss is more than ninety percent, "the Han people are slaughtered!"

The Shaanxi Hui rebels entered Gan through Weiyuan and Qiudao to Hezhou, and the slaughter was very miserable, and the countryside did not dare to live. For example, after the source city was broken, "tens of thousands of poisonous creatures were slaughtered, all the officials in the city died, and tens of thousands of Han people were killed in one day, and the blood flowed into canals, and the corpses piled up like mountains, and the sad and miserable ......" said that the source population lost nine cities, and the Han people were basically killed, and ten years later the government was set up, and the people were recruited to farm, and there were only more than ten original households.

Autumn Dao, in August of the second year of Tongzhi, "the army of Huiban fell into the city of Qiudaozhou, and more than 100,000 residents were slaughtered.

Jingyuan, Tongzhi five years, Shaanxi Hui rebels trapped Jingyuan County, Shaanxi Hui Jingyuan Hui as the internal response, captured its city, Jingmin escaped 12 out of 10,000 Han dead men and women.

Linhuang County Chronicle contains "Shaanxi back seven years, Linhuang County died more than 30 million people, said that no village and no one was spared in the disaster of burning in the north and south of Henan!"

Jingyang County, with a population of more than 100,000!

Xingping County ,......!

For a total of 17 years, "the rebel army launched a frenzied massacre against the Han people, killing about 5 million people in Shaanxi from the first year of Tongzhi. ※※※※※I want to ※※※ net ※ (5) ※ (1) ※ Ο※ ΝΕΤ※※ A year later, the rebellion was suppressed by the Qing army and driven to Gansu, after entering Gansu, and carried out a crazy massacre of the Han people in Gansu.

Before the rebellion of the Hui army, "in the eleventh year of Xianfeng, the population of Gansu was 19.46 million, and the six years of Guangxu after the war. Only 4.95 million "people have lost their population!"

In Gansu, the Hui army slaughtered more than 100,000 Han Chinese in 27 massacres at a time, and the Han people in many counties were killed.

In 17 years, a total of about 20 million Han people in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces were killed! And men, women, and children, all of them were hacked to death with knives and burned to death with fire!

The potholed road made the specially dispatched command vehicle sway, Sun Jiugong looked at the documents excerpted from the former Qing Household Department and the Military Department in front of him, his eyes were red, his teeth were dead, and even the muscles in his cheeks were a little stiff.

After taking over the post of commander of the Northwest Military Region, he returned to Beijing at a fast pace, and from Beijing arrived at the Shanxi Round Troops, which was given to him by Li Mo when he met him that day.

Sun Jiugong clearly remembered that the emperor's eyes were red and his face was blue!

If Lan Fang in the late Qing Dynasty was a pain in the hearts of the Chinese in the open sea, then the seventeen-year rebellion was an indelible scar in the Central Plains! A history of blood and tears that can never be erased!

Similarly, for the Hui people, this is also a painful history, a small number of people took advantage of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's corrupt "rampant corruption, blackmail, and the Qing army training the countryside and coercion as an excuse to collude with foreigners, establish themselves as a country, split China, and incite ignorant sectarians, launching this terrible massacre!

It was also at this time that a person was ordered to be in danger!

On that day, there was no wind, no rain, no day and no moon, he took the official document of the title and went out of Beijing in the middle of the night, and there was no one to see him off!

That year, he was already in his prime, holding the coffin, with 60,000 Xiangxi brothers, stepping into the vast northwest, facing millions of rebels, his face did not change!

On the day of the expedition, he faced the white bones and the thousands of Han compatriots in the northwest who wept blood under the sword and axe, rode on the saddle, whipped and said angrily: "Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Han army has traveled long distances from here to the desperate region, opening up today's territory, the legacy of the ancestors, how can we lose ...... in our hands."

Since then, he has started the seventeen-year road of Jingo in the vast northwest, with horseshoe splashing, metal collision, and jetted blood dyed into a rainbow in the sky, how many times have he turned danger into a disaster, crawled out of the pile of dead people, bid farewell to his brother's corpse, and roared and waved his army again!

The Hunan army rose because of him, and also because of his fame in China, it is said that when the class was later divided, only 10,000 of the 60,000 Xiangxi soldiers who went out to fight returned, and the rest returned to the northwest!

If you want to select the person respected by Li Mo in the late Qing Dynasty, it must be him!

His name is You Zongtang!

In the end, with fortitude, tenacity, and ambition in the face of internal and external troubles, the Qing Dynasty faced the sky with one hand, and turned the crisis into the turbulent one!

Unlike Li Hongzhang and others, he has almost straightened his waist in the war all his life, especially in the face of French humiliation and the rebellion of ethnic minorities separatizing the country, he has never frowned, fought with one force, and won many battles!

His exploits are based on foreign enemies!

What impressed Sun Jiugong was that his steely mind, in the face of a crazy enemy, he returned with the same crazy and cold-blooded tribute, with the addition of 60,000 younger soldiers and Han people along the way, he also sacrificed a butcher's knife, and more than 3 million religious believers in Northwest Gansu and Xinjiang were swept into history by him in cold blood, forcing the rebellion to flee into neighboring Russia, Central Asia, West Asia and other places, and since then he has heard the name of Zuo and lost his fear!

What is sighing is that such a great person, in the era of the decline of the late Qing Dynasty, after retaining one-sixth of the country's land for the people, died in the barracks because a businessman finally withdrew from the political arena and was depressed because of the bullet pressure of Li Hongzhang and others!

He died, but he defeated France, shocked England, drove out Russia, quelled the rebellion, and left himself with a great northwest that was still intact, but also a great northwest full of holes!

Sun Jiugong closed this information: "When he was appointed commander of the Northwest Theater, he knew that he could not avoid this history, although the rebellion has passed twenty years, but the northwest is still desolate and secluded, it may be an exaggeration to say that there are no people for thousands of miles, but it is not uncommon to see no people for a hundred miles."

And he now has to face, officially, this situation!

After the rebellion, the Manchu Qing Dynasty never relaxed its control over the northwest, in addition to immigrating from the Central Plains to garrison the border Tuntian, there were also tens of thousands of elite troops stationed for a long time, which also became a headache for Sun Jiugong.

But this so-called elite cavalry is not a matter of concern, "according to the Ministry of Intelligence, it is great that Chang Geng can gather 60,000 under his hands, but he does have a set of means to be able to gather the troops of many nationalities together."

Sun Jiugong's real headache is the area and troops!

The emperor gave him two infantry divisions, and also gave him the only cavalry division, and even sent a Nighthawk squad to protect him for his safety, "In terms of numbers and equipment, he is confident that he will be able to annihilate those cold weapons in Chang Geng's hands within an hour in a head-on battle, but the problem is that others will not fight him head-on at all."

The person who can be the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu is never stupid, and there have been too many characters in this position" Chang Geng obviously also knew his disadvantages and advantages, so when he heard that Shanxi was occupied, he immediately retracted his troops" and even gave up Shaanxi and retracted his fist back into Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang.

This retreat not only did not make everyone breathe a sigh of relief, but made people more uneasy, because the three provinces are vast, and the local people who survived the rebellion are very grateful to the Qing army, and the Ministry of Intelligence cannot accurately grasp where Chang Gung's main force is.

The other side has 60,000 people, "I also have 50,000 myself, but the problem is that the northwest is all cavalry, although most of them are sword and horse cavalry, but cavalry is cavalry, coming like the wind, and the essence of going without a trace remains the same, unless there is the same equal mobile force, otherwise the vast territory will make it very difficult to clear them.

The important thing is that he knows very well what Li Mo meant by appointing him as the commander of the Northwest Theater, what the emperor wants is not to defeat Chang Gung, but to have a great northwest with long-term peace and stability, and a big base to compete in Central Asia in the future!

If these people are allowed to wander to various places, it will also be extremely detrimental to the future rule, not to mention that there is Russia outside the northwest, and hundreds of thousands or even millions of Kesak cavalry is a great test for the future!

Now that he is here and has become the commander of the Northwest Theater of Operations, he should use this opportunity to sharpen his blade and "prepare for the future!"

"Then where should we get the much-needed maneuver and prepare for the future......" Sun Jiugong frowned, and out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw Kulen hanging alone in the grassland, and a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The Manchus did nothing else, but they have not been interrupted in containing Mongolia for hundreds of years, and this dying nation that has been cleaned up because of several rebellions of the Dzungar tribe has long lost the courage of crisscrossing Europe and Asia hundreds of years ago, sweeping the steppes and intimidating all directions, and the descendants of the Golden Family have become puppets of Tsarist Russia.

But there is one thing they still keep, and that is the tens of thousands of natural cavalrymen who have grown up on horseback since childhood!

"Where did we go? Can the General Staff be contacted here? Sun Jiugong turned his head and looked at several of his staff partners in Cuba who were with him in the car, and after serving as the commander of the theater of operations, he also turned them over as assistants.

"In another hour, you can reach Yulin."

"There is interference with short waves", but you can contact the Taiyuan communication station through long waves, and they will relay ......"

"Immediately contact the Taiyuan Station, ask them to tell the General Staff that I need to know the current situation in Mongolia immediately, and in addition, inform all units to rest and stand by in Yulin, and order the officers above the regimental level to go to the headquarters for a meeting as soon as they arrive, and help me contact the commanders of the Second and Fourth Divisions, and please invite them to come over ......for a while."

After Sun Jiugong finished speaking, he immediately took out a compass and drew it on the map a few times, and the bold thoughts that had just floated became clearer and clearer in his mind.