The Hui concentration camp was set up two miles outside the south gate, and when Wang Shijie and Gu Yunfei arrived with a large team, the situation at the scene was completely out of control.Although Qiao Zhiyuan's militia is equipped with foreign guns, the breech guns need to be coordinated in a dense formation, otherwise they will not be able to give full play to their advantages.With the escalation of the Hui riots, the militia finally couldn't help but shoot to suppress it, after the gunshots rang out, Qiao Zhiyuan said in his heart, seeing the Han people shooting and killing, it confirmed the rumors that the Han people wanted to slaughter the Hui people, and the last straw in the hearts of the Hui people was crushed, and they all braved the rain of bullets to make the last desperate struggle.More than 2,000 militia groups were so weak in front of more than 200,000 desperate people, even if they had peerless weapons, due to Bai Yanhu's conspiracy in advance, they had already made all preparations, and after killing more than 10,000 Hui people in the chaos in the battle, all the people of the militia were surrounded and killed by the Hui army organized by Bai Yanhu, and more than 2,000 foreign guns were also owned by the Hui army.Qiao Zhiyuan was under the escort of the cavalry regiment, seeing that the situation was not right, so he retreated to the city, and the Qingzi army on the city wall had already prepared, but none of them dared to attack Ansai City again, and they all fled in all directions."
Master Qiao, there is an urgent report in Suzhou."
Wu Chenghai, the housekeeper of the county government, hurriedly trotted up the city wall and gave the letter paper in his hand to Qiao Zhiyuan, who specially flew a pigeon to pass the book to Qiao Zhiqing for the sake of the Hui people, wanting to ask his opinion on this handsome brother.This Wu Chenghai used to be the big housekeeper of the Qiao family, and later Qiao Zhiyuan went to Yan'an Mansion to take up his post, and he had no cronies around him, so he transferred Wu Chenghai from his family to his side, and he was very important to him.At this time, Wang Shijie and Gu Yunfei came across the war horse and led a large army, and asked loudly at the city wall, "Lord Qiao, what should we do with the return army, do we chase or not" Qiao Zhiyuan opened the letter with trembling hands, only to see that there were only four big characters on it, "Kill or kill" "Lord Qiao, you make a decision quickly, if you return late, everyone will escape." ”Wang Shijie anxiously asked Qiao Zhiyuan under the city."
Ge, kill, don't, discuss" Qiao Zhiyuan trembled his voice and gave the order loudly.Although he sympathizes with these Hui people, he will never gamble with the lives of the Han people again, and the Hui Han only saw that he had made a dead knot and lost his basic trust."
Brothers, revenge, revenge" Wang Shijie excitedly shouted at the Qingzi army behind him, although except for the cavalry regiment, all the infantry were Gu Yunfei's men and horses, but they all followed Wang Shijie and shouted.Gu Yunfei chuckled lightly and ordered loudly to the 10,000 infantry, "After leaving the city, pursue quickly, regardless of men, women, old or weak, kill them." ”"Kill, kill, kill."
The city gate was wide open, and all the Qing soldiers shouted out of the city gate, and quickly assembled into a gun array to encircle and suppress the fleeing Hui army.The Hui people were detained in a concentration camp outside the city for three days, and in addition to the dry food that some people had brought with them, more than half of them were hungry, leaning forward and backward, desperately escaping from the guns of the militia group, and they had long since lost their physical strength, and the old and weak women and children in the crowd soon lay on the ground weak and hungry, unable to get up.More than 10,000 Qing soldiers rushed forward in a fan shape, gunfire broke out along the way, blood flowed like a river, whether it was a young and strong man, or a weak woman and children, all fell under the gun, and the corpses covered the entire loess.Although the Qing Zijun hated the brutality of the Hui people, they unconsciously trembled their hands when they really attacked the unarmed Hui people.Bai Yanhu and Hao Mouse led more than 10,000 young and strong Hui people, according to the established direction, far away in the direction of Ningxia, and there were constantly Hui people looking back at their families, but behind them were rows of gunshots, so they could only follow Bai Yanhu and flee without looking back, all with tears in their eyes, and their hearts were like knives."
Allah, what exactly have we done wrong and why have we sent demons to punish us?"
More than half of the Hui people were killed and wounded under the pursuit of the Qing army, and seeing that they could not escape, groups of women and children gave up their lives, trembling kneeling down and constantly bowing to the west and praying, the wailing sound spread throughout the wilderness, mixed with dry winds raging on the entire Loess Plateau.The cavalry regiment led by Wang Shijie rushed to the front, and he had recruited 1,000 new sons of northern Shaanxi in Ansai City, and the cavalry regiment had resumed its previous establishment."
Commander, do these women, children and children kill or not" Zhang Xian straddled the horse and followed Wang Shijie's right, looking at the Hui people who were kneeling down on the ground and begging for mercy, and asked in a low voice.Wang Shijie gritted his teeth, he couldn't give the order for a long time, the war horse kept running around this group of Hui people, and suddenly a Hui child stabbed at Wang Shijie with a knife in his eyes, and just stood up and rushed two steps before being beaten into a sieve by the soldiers on the horse.Wang Shijie thought about the child's hateful eyes before he died, and suddenly clenched his fists and ordered loudly, "All Hui people, kill them, and those who disobey the military order will be killed." ”"Command."
All the officers and men of the cavalry regiment received the order, roared and roared and waved their knives into the crowd, and suddenly blood was splashed, broken meat flew sideways, and the Hui people who were not hacked to death by the saber were also trampled into flesh by the war horses, and the slaughter of just half an hour, under the war horses of more than 2,000 cavalry regiments, tens of thousands of corpses were left, and the sunlight was colorless at this time, only the fiery red clouds gathered in the sky above northern Shaanxi, like a pool of scarlet blood.The infantry led by Gu Yunfei had already blocked the various checkpoints where the Hui army had fled, cleaning the battlefield layer by layer from the inside out, and the people of the nearby villages also joined the battlefield with hoes and shovels when they saw this, and drove all the scattered Hui people who fled into the village back to the encirclement of the Qing army, and strangled the Hui people with the Qing army.Most of their relatives and friends were also slaughtered by the Hui people, and all of them had a bitter hatred for the Hui people, and they were more ferocious than the Qing army, and they hated to break the Hui people's corpses into thousands of pieces.Wang Shijie led the cavalry regiment to kill a circle, and after a round with Gu Yunfei's division, Wang Shijie dismounted, and the two smiled bitterly at each other after seeing Gu Yunfei.Gu Yunfei took the marked topographic map and explained to each of his brigade commanders, and all the brigade commanders had the same expression, and they hugged their fists at Wang Shijie and retreated."
Brother Shijie, the stuffiness in your chest is over," Gu Yunfei deliberately asked teasingly.Wang Shijie sat down on a piece of dead wood on the ground, stuck the blood-red saber in his hand to the ground, sighed, and said, "Brother Yunfei made fun of it, killing these women and children is not a skill, I have already decided to spare their lives, but when I saw their resentful eyes, I couldn't help but move the murderous thought, the hatred of the Han Hui people has been deeply rooted in the bones, I am afraid it is not something that our generation can resolve." ”"Drink water to moisten your throat, your northern climate is really dry."
Gu Yunfei handed the kettle to Wang Shijie as he spoke, he was originally from the south, and he was very unaccustomed to the dry weather in the north, and his voice was hoarse by the wind and sand in a month.Wang Shijie took a sip of the kettle, still full of melancholy."
In fact, the soldier is to obey the order as his duty, the merits and demerits are still handed over to future generations to say, Qiao Zhiyuan's mouth is probably the meaning of our marshal, he sees farther and more thoroughly than us, so we just need to carry out the order, the life and death of the Hui people is not our decision, the sins of heaven are still forgivable, and the sins of oneself cannot be lived, and the retribution at this time is caused by them, there is nothing to lament."
Gu Yunfei patiently persuaded Wang Shijie, after all, he was still young and had experienced too few killings, Gu Yunfei was different, the Hunan army had slaughtered the Taiping army more than once.Wang Shijie tried to calm himself down, and thought quietly, after this battle, he had become more mature.The sound of killing lasted for a whole day on this ancient Loess Plateau, until the dawn of the second day, the gunfire was still sporadically remembered, the massacre spread to a radius of a hundred miles from Ansai City, the vanguard troops of the Qing Army rushed indiscriminately, and even saw the city wall of Yulin Mansion, and the defenders of Yulin Mansion were inexplicably mobilized to step up the defense of the city.All the Hui people dressed up in the whole hundred miles were slaughtered, and the blood flowing from the corpses mixed together, causing the water level of the entire Wuding River to skyrocket by one meter, and the entire upstream river was dyed red, like a river of blood from hell, surging downstream.Qiao Zhiyuan was under the escort of the militia group, stepping on the corpses of the Hui people to patrol the battlefield, the housekeeper Wu Chenghai followed him for a while and vomited once, there was not a single living shadow on the battlefield, all of them were bloody corpses, the soldiers of the militia were responsible for cleaning the battlefield, piling up the corpses everywhere layer by layer, and the piles were as high as a hill."
Douse these corpses with fire oil and burn them all, otherwise it will not be good to cause a plague."
Qiao Zhiyuan said to Wu Chenghai with a sad face."
Sir, you don't seem to be very happy."
Wu Chenghai wiped the residue on his mouth with his sleeve and asked carefully."
Cheng Hai, you look at the corpses all over the ground, do you feel anything in your heart" Qiao Zhiyuan frowned and sighed sadly."
The lord is kind-hearted, it must be for the sake of these Hui people to be sad, but the lord is afraid that he has forgotten the hundreds of thousands of people in our Yan'an Mansion, a month ago when you fought to the death from there, you were left alone, if it wasn't for the villain who happened to be in Ansai City, I am afraid that he would have gone to hell a long time ago, so the poor people must have something to hate, and we Han people did not provoke them, and they have never been soft when they killed Han people.As the saying goes, in troubled times, you need to use thunderbolt means, Fang Xian Bodhisattva's heart, the lord is also for the sake of the reproduction of my Han people's descendants, so there is no need to blame yourself too much, it is always a hidden danger to keep people around, and one day they will convulsions and kill Han people. ”Wu Chenghai didn't have so much sympathy for the Hui people, he couldn't wait for them all to disappear from northern Shaanxi, his concubine in Yan'an Mansion Gangna was killed by the Hui people, fortunately he left his wife and children in his hometown in Shanxi when he came to Yan'an, otherwise he would have been poisoned."
If it weren't for your third master, the official wouldn't dare to make such a big decision, the official is worried that the killing will be too heavy, causing the curse of heaven, and when the time comes, the punishment will be imposed in northern Shaanxi, and it will be the people who suffer.The imperial court has taken special care of the Hui people since the beating of Taizu, and this time someone is going to say bad things about your third master. ”Qiao Zhiyuan thought of his younger brother and was worried.Wu Chenghai hurriedly persuaded on the side, "Don't worry, the third old man Ji has his own natural appearance, otherwise he will go to Hunan to sell tea, how can he become a member of the court guarding one side, you look at these soldiers under him, each of them is the same as the gods, I really didn't see that the third master had such a means before." ”"Yes, I hope he can get through the difficulties smoothly this time, after all, it is more than 300,000 lives, and the imperial court will inevitably react in order to calm the forces of all parties.Now it depends on how the Hui people in Ningxia react, if they stop making trouble, it must be your third master who is to blame, if they are still against the imperial court, I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will not be able to tolerate the Hui people. ”Piles of fires were blazing, Qiao Zhiyuan bowed deeply to the fire, turned around and went back to Ansai City to explain all the situation in detail, and the flying pigeon sent a message to Suzhou
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