"What?" Li Xiao's hand shook, the teacup fell to the ground, and the hot tea soup spilled all over the ground.

"The Uighurs from all over the country have joined forces to make trouble, and the whole Guanzhong has become a mess. The airship reconnaissance report came back and said that almost every village was on fire and smoke was coming out of every house. The villages along Weishui in Guanzhong have all been destroyed. People also ......" Sun Xing's hand holding the telegram kept trembling.

Li Xiao closed his eyes in pain, and his heart fell downward for a while.

"The country is in trouble, and it will be chaotic! In the past few years, Guanzhong has just recovered a little, and now it is finished again. I will say, "Those who are not of my race will have different hearts!" With a long exhale, Li Xiao stood up viciously.

"How's Xi'an?" Zu Dashou's Fourth Division was stationed in Xi'an, and most of the officers who had settled down in Xi'an over the years. Hearing that something happened in Xi'an, the Fourth Division was almost going to blow up.

"The Uighurs, through the Zoroastrian connection, have grown to the size of seven or eight hundred thousand. If you count the families behind them, the size of the Uighurs is already nearly two million. The Uighurs in Gansu are also preparing to move, but fortunately, all the passes in Guanzhong are in our hands. The Uighurs were temporarily sealed in Guanzhong, and they attacked Xi'an three times. All were repelled by the defenders of Xi'an!

After Sun Shoufu in the capital learned about the rebellion in Shaanxi, he immediately dispatched the elite garrison of Liaodong and transported it to Xi'an by airship. So far, more than 6,000 people have been transported. There are a number of guns and ammunition, and the airship is being transported in full force, and it is estimated that there will be an additional 2,000 people in the coming days.

A telegram from Xi'an said that the Uighurs had seized some weapons and ammunition. More than 30 mortars were found on the battlefield, as well as several breech-loading old guns. Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, telegraphed to report that ...... had killed all the Uighurs in Xi'an in order to eliminate the inner city of Xi'an. ”

After Sun Xing finished speaking, he closed the telegram clip and said that there was no new situation.

"The fourth division is the vanguard, and it will return to Shaanxi first. After entering Shaanxi, don't advance into Xi'an first. Instead, it was necessary to divide the troops into various passes, strictly guard against them, and ensure that the Uighurs were not allowed to break out of Shaanxi. After I returned to Shaanxi with the first division, we will jointly suppress the Uighur rebellion.

Zu Dashou! Remember! First of all, you have to bear with it, if the Uighur rebels wander the whole country, you follow the pursuit, this is the misfortune of the Ming Dynasty. Thinking about Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong back then, they turned the Ming Dynasty upside down. Li Xiao told Zu Dashou.

Hatred can easily get carried away, and Li Xiao is afraid of another Uighur version of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Because of ethnic and religious reasons, their harm to Daming will be deeper than that of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. I couldn't imagine that such a thing would happen, it was an astronomical amount of human life.

In the Tongzhi rebellion in history, more than 20 million Han people died. As a direct result, the population of Shaanxi and Gansu did not recover during the entire Republic of China.

"No!" Zu Dashou stood up straight and saluted.

"Cao Wenzhao, you take the third division to garrison Hami. Master Man will guard your grain route, and during this time you will have to recruit people to build roads to ensure your logistical supplies. In addition, the Ministry of Railways will send people to build the railway from Yumen Pass to Hami, and you have to send people to protect their safety. It's a heavy task, can you do it? Li Xiao was originally going to hoard supplies in Hami, and then use Hami as a base to continue westward.

Now it looks like all the plans have come to naught.

"No!" Cao Wenzhao stood up straight and saluted.

When both of them left, Ao Canghai came over: "It's not interesting to fight those Uighurs, so it's better for me to take people and continue westward." How about a guarantee to take the Ili Valley for you? ”

"I said Ao Ye, more than 2,600 miles. There are no roads for roads, and there are no railways for railways. Your division has so much heavy equipment, and you carry it to the Ili River Valley? Even if your soldiers cross the desert and the sea without eating or drinking, your guns will always shoot shells, and your guns will always shoot bullets.

I can tell you that the airships have to guarantee an airdrop to Xi'an. Don't even think about it!

Besides, you have a division and 50,000 horses, and the airship can't guarantee your logistical supplies. ”

"Uh......!" Li Xiao asked rhetorically, and Ao Canghai immediately lost his words.

"It's a bit ...... to fight back the ...... the Gurtons!" Ao Canghai's face was about to be turned into a bun, he had experienced the things in Jiangnan, and he was really unwilling to deal with those rebel troops. There is no technical content at all, and the army always fights such a battle, which can destroy a good army.

"After your first division returns to Shaanxi, it will immediately garrison Wuguan and Tongguan passes. All you have to do is keep these passes and don't let the Uighurs run away. In addition, Nie Dahu needed to be stationed in Gansu to intimidate the Uighurs there.

As for the extermination of the rebels, killing ......! I found someone better! ”

"Widows?"

"That's right! Since ethnic contradictions are irreconcilable, it is also a good idea to let them divert the target of hatred. If you see blood, let the Japanese people do it. Anyway, tens of thousands of them are here, and they eat for nothing when they are idle. ”

"You kid, you're getting more and more chicken thieves. Cheng, I will take the first division back to Gansu first. Ao Canghai was relieved to hear that he didn't have to fight the rebels. He really didn't want to fight this kind of low-level battle, and the rebels could have an egg tactical level.

Zu Dashou's fourth division moved very quickly, Li Xiao had just given the order here, and the vanguard over there had already been withdrawn. The Uighurs are about to push their homes, who can not be in a hurry? The boys of the Fourth Division can't wait to fly to Xi'an with their wings inserted. Those soldiers whose homes were in the counties around Xi'an were already red-eyed and ready to go back to take revenge.

Li Xiao looked at the army rolling away, and was glad that the recruitment of troops has been very strict over the years. One of them is to recruit only pure Han soldiers, if there are Uighur soldiers in the army at this time, then Li Xiaoke will be in a big dilemma. Are these Uighur soldiers purged or not?

Most of the soldiers of the Liao army came from Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei. In recent years, the Fourth Division began to recruit soldiers from Guanzhong, but it was also strictly stuck, that is, it must be Han Chinese.

Li Xiao is not worried about Xi'an City, and many of the militia in Liaodong are veterans. Moreover, Liaodong is the best place for the implementation of the reserve system in the entire Ming Dynasty. The militia was temporarily transferred from Liaodong, and there was no need to spend any effort on training. Everyone knows where the recruits are, what kind of equipment they want to use, and which reserve officer to report to.

Mobilizing 8,000 people in seven days is just the beginning. If we mobilize at full speed, it will be no problem to mobilize 50,000 people in half a month. Perhaps Sun Chengzong felt that it was not yet time for the whole army to mobilize.

It also proved that the Uighurs, with their rabble and no heavy weapons, were unable to attack the fortified city of Xi'an.

At the same time, Li Xiao was glad that the garrison was not equipped with heavy equipment at the beginning. At most, it is to give a few mortars, and the power of mortar shells will not be of much use against the strong Xi'an city wall at all. At most, add a little casualty to the defending troops!

Those old-fashioned guns loaded in the breech, Li Xiao believed that with the firepower in Xi'an City, they should not exist after a few rounds of fire. Old guns and modern new breech-loading guns are fundamentally different things.

The precautions that had been done all along, now worked.

The Uighurs numbered a million or two million. Li Xiao is now struggling with whether to carry out a slaughtering killing. If these Uighurs are spared, how will they face so many innocent and martyred Han Chinese?

The airship scouts came back and said that the entire Han villages on both sides of the Weishui River had been slaughtered. The Uighurs are spreading throughout the pass! Guess with your ass that this time the loss of the Han people will definitely not be small.

The Ming Dynasty not only had Uighurs, but also Miao and Zhuang in the south, Mongols in the north, and various ethnic minorities. Everyone was staring at each other, and if the Uighurs had not been punished, would the minorities have done the same?

But once the mass killing ......!

Once the seeds of hatred are planted, they will take root and sprout indefinitely. Although there were Japanese people who used them as swords, it was difficult to guarantee that those Uighurs would not resent the Ming court and the Han nation from now on. Once the regime changes, these Uighurs will rise again, and the Uighurs will be even more vicious and cruel than they are now.

After thinking about it for a long time, the murderous aura on Li Xiao's body gradually became thicker. Either don't do it or do it! Since the country is in trouble, there will be chaos in the return, so don't blame me.

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Smoke rises from the top of the city of Xi'an, and the soldiers defending the city hide behind the stacks of arrows that were originally used for archery with rifles in their hands.

The city was littered with Uighur corpses, and many Uighur corpses were stacked on top of each other. There was black blood everywhere on the ground, and a layer of flies fell on it. For some reason, some puddles of blood have an eerie purple color.

The Uighurs under the city had only old-fashioned flintlock pistols. But the Ming army in the city was full of new rifles. Although it is not as good as the Acre 47 rifle, it is much stronger than the old flintlock pistol. The mere rate of fire made the Uighurs hate it.

Although there were more than thirty mortars, the number of shells was really small. Moreover, the Uighurs did not have any serious military training, and the accuracy of the mortars was terrible. Of the ten shells, only one or two could hit the defenders at the head of the city.

Those old breech-loading guns were directly covered by the rocket artillery in the city. Even the artillery with guns turned into cannon fodder.

After three days of attack, the city gate of Xi'an did not even drop a few bricks.

Bai Yanhu cut off the child in his hand with a knife, his two calves fell to the ground, and the child's cry was terrible.

"Listen to the Han people in the city, if you don't come out, you will kill all the Han people in the whole pass." Bai Yanhu pulled his neck and roared, casually throwing aside the screaming child.

Countless hateful eyes shot out of the city, in fact, they couldn't hear what Bai Yanhu was shouting at all. Afraid of mortar and rocket fire, Bai Yanhu was five miles away from the Xi'an city wall, and it was impossible to hear what he was saying at such a distance.

"My brothers! The Han Chinese killed all the Uighurs in Xi'an, not sparing even the children they were carrying. We must avenge them, enter Xi'an City, and kill all the Han people. God will bless us! Brothers, rush! Bai Yanhu glanced at the child who had already lost his breath, and with a wave of his big hand, countless Uighurs with swords and guns in their hands, carrying a ladder and rushing towards the city wall of Xi'an.

Although he knew that this was a futile drain of human life, Bai Yanhu still didn't want to give up. There is an arsenal of weapons in Xi'an City, and only the weapons and ammunition depot in Xi'an City can be obtained. Only the Uighurs were qualified to fight with Li Xiao, otherwise Li Xiao would return with a large army, and all Uighurs would have died.

Everyone in the world knows that Li Xiao is stingy. The Uighurs had killed so many Han Chinese this time, and Li Xiao would definitely not let them go easily. The most likely outcome is that the Uighurs in Guanzhong will die out.

Attack Xi'an! It was a lifesaver for the Uighurs, and as long as the Uighurs held out for a year and a half, the Mongols would come to them. This was told to them by Ren Wu, and it was also affirmed by Hemingtang. Everyone didn't quite believe in Ren Wu, who only came last year, but they believed in the Great Elder Heming Hall of the Zoroastrian Sect in Guanzhong.

So! More and more people are attacking the city of Xi'an, which is their only hope.

Sun Chuanting himself stood on the tower and watched the Uighurs rushing over like a tidal wave. The city erupted in a "whoosh" and "whoosh" sound, and rockets flew overhead with tail flames before smashing into the Uighur charge.

The smoke of the explosion directly engulfed the charging team. You can see the stump and broken arm that was swept into the air by the gunsmoke, and the rolled gunpowder smoke steamed up, connecting the blue and falling to the Yellow Spring.

Just this round of shelling, the losses of the Uighurs were at least more than a thousand. But those who are agitated by religion are simply crazy. Even if they are blown to pieces by shells, they will think that the martyrs of jihad will live forever.

The dead go to a mysterious place where there are ninety-nine virgins and milk flows from the earth. It is said that only the most devout Christians can go to that place. In order to be able to go to that place, the fanatical congregation would rather die.

Soon, countless people carrying ladders rushed out of the smoke. They stared at each other and ran desperately with heavy ladders on their backs. At this time, they did not look like a person, but like a fierce beast.

Sun Chuanting's ears heard a sound of "tom", "tom", "tom", which was the sound of a mortar.

Columns of smoke rose from the charging crowd of Uighurs. Searing shrapnel splattered in all directions, deeply embedded in the Uighurs' bodies. Some people were beaten like sieves by shrapnel, and some unlucky ones had their heads cut off by shrapnel.

It is clear that mortars are not as lethal as rocket artillery. This time, the Uighurs threw away only a few hundred corpses. However, the frantic rate of fire of the mortars drove a wall of steel fire directly in the line of the Uighur charge.

All those who tried to rush through the wall of fire were torn to shreds by the hard steel.

Still, there were people who took advantage of the interlude in the artillery fire to rush through the line of death.

"Toot!" With a whistle, "crackling" gunfire began to sound on the city walls.

A large eight-grain rifle with very good accuracy at a distance of a hundred meters. Although it is not up to the level of a gun headshot, it is still very impressive to shoot at a wide target such as the chest and abdomen.

The Uighurs, who had just crossed the line of death, fell to the ground again.