After Zhang Xian and Ma Zhankui successfully negotiated peace, they asked the skilled craftsmen in the army to carve a large seal of the governor of Shanxi, and under the pretense of Rong Lu's brushstrokes, he sent an official surrender document to Ma Zhanao in the city.It has been three days since the water in Lanzhou City was cut off, and there have been a lot of commotions in various places in the city.This arid place, which is located in the great northwest, is difficult to survive without water sources.Ma Zhanao had no other way, and under the persuasion of his second brother Ma Zhankui, he finally agreed to raise troops and surrender.Zhang Xian had only one condition, that is, to release the Han people in the city immediately.Ma Zhanao kept an eye on it and also made three conditions.First, the soldiers of the Hui people still have the commander of the Hui people, and the Han people are not allowed to reorganize.Second, the Hui army had to go to Funan County, thirty miles north of the city, in order to release the Han people in the city.Zhang Xian naturally understood that Ma Zhanao was afraid that after surrendering, he would regret and surrender.If there is any movement, you can take the opportunity to flee north.In order not to attract the attention of the Hui army, Zhang Xian only sent two regiments of the Left Division, which were stationed in Yongdeng County in the northwest of Lanzhou and Baiyin County in the northeast.If the Hui army fled north, this was the only way to go.When everything was ready, Huaxingjun gave way to the north gate.The Hui army left only more than 1,000 people of Ma Zhankui to continue to stay in the city, and the remaining more than 9,000 soldiers and horses were all headed by Ma Zhanao and Ma Zhanyong towards Funan County in the north.The Huaxing army did not do anything to block it, and allowed the Hui army to go north to Funan County.After Ma Zhanao and Ma Zhanyong arrived safely in Funan County, they no longer had any suspicion of Huaxingjun, and they were relieved to send a message to Ma Zhankui to open the door and surrender.Zhang Xian took the Huaxing army into Lanzhou City, and after the strongholds of the city towers were properly defended, he feasted Ma Zhankui and the generals of the Hui Army in the main hall of the Lanzhou Mansion.At sunset, all the generals who returned to the army gladly went to the banquet.After all the people gathered, Zhang Xian gave an order, and the Huaxing army in ambush on both sides of the hall rushed out with live ammunition.Before the generals of the returning army could react, gunshots rang out in the main hall.None of the generals who returned to the army survived, and all of them were beaten to a bloody pulp.At the same time, more than 1,000 Hui troops who had just been assembled and stood by in the city were also surrounded by the Huaxing Legion.Seeing that the situation was not right, the Hui soldiers wanted to scatter and flee, but the firepower of the Huaxing army had completely covered the thousand people.Bullets weave through each other in the night sky, cutting beautiful arcs.Weaving into a fiery red net, tightly buckled the Hui army inside.Ma Zhanao inserted spies everywhere outside the city, and as soon as the gunshots in the city spread, the spies flew to Funan County to spread the news."
These Han people who have no faith, one day, they will be punished by Allah."
Ma Zhanao received the military report, and his resentful eyes burst into flames.I knew in my heart that my second brother must be in a catastrophe."
Big brother, we can't hesitate any longer, we will now lead our troops north to Ningxia.No matter how late it is, the Han army will catch up. ”Ma Zhanyong exhaled nervously."
Don't worry, the Han army must have guessed that we are heading north, so they will inevitably set up an ambush on the road, just waiting for us to jump into the fire pit.Ma Zhanao waved his hand to stop it, and kept thinking about countermeasures in his mind."
Then what should we do, we can't sit still," Ma Zhanyong's face flushed."
Don't panic, go down and tell the brothers to bring enough food and water.We made a detour from the desert to Xinjiang to join the commander of Agube. ”Ma Zhanao finally made up his mind, and he can only fight once at present."
Brother Desert, the yellow sand is boundless, we can't get out when we go in."
Ma Zhanyong's eyes widened in surprise."
That's better than being wiped out by the Huaxing army, go down and prepare, we'll set off in half an hour."
Ma Zhanao shouted loudly, although his face was tough, but he was also very unconfident in his heart.I don't know how many of these 10,000 people will be able to come out of the desert."
Command."
Ma Zhanyong reluctantly hugged his fists and responded, and when he got out of the military tent, he asked the soldiers to loot materials everywhere in the city.When the Huaxing army moved against the Hui army in the city, the remaining soldiers and horses of the left division had already left for Funan County to pursue and suppress the more than 10,000 people brought by Ma Zhanao.After dawn, the military newspaper was sent back to Lanzhou City.Whether it is in the northwest or northeast, no trace of Ma Zhanao has been found.Zhang Xian didn't have time to pay attention to him, and hurriedly sent military reports to Taiyuan and Nanjing.The hundreds of thousands of Hui people in the city are still a thorny problem, and Zhang Xian has not thought about the problem of slaughtering the city.But the common people are different from the soldiers, so they can't do this ruthlessly, so they can only wait for Nanjing's order.Qiao Zhiqing of the Nanjing Presidential Mansion finished reading Zhang Xian's military report, and his heart was also very entangled.Now that the grievances of Han Hui have been deeply rooted in the bones, if you don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots now, there will be a lot of trouble in the future.However, according to Zhang Xian's report, there are hundreds of thousands of Hui people in Lanzhou City, and if so many people are slaughtered at once, Qiao Zhiqing really can't do this."
Dashuai, are you worried about how to deal with the Hui people in Lanzhou City" Wei Ziyou looked at Qiao Zhiqing's sad appearance, and couldn't help but ask sweetly."
Yes, now Lanzhou is the first step of the Huaxing Army's westward expedition, and there will be more and more Hui people in the future, and we can't solve the problem by killing alone."
Qiao Zhiqing sighed, constantly weighing the powerful relationship in his heart."
Dashuai is confused, and when people slaughtered Han people, they didn't have any mercy."
Wei Ziyou reminded that after sitting in her seat for a long time, her heart will always become cold."
If we are like the Hui people, isn't it no different from the beasts" Qiao Zhiqing patiently taught, and came up with a compromise to give the Hui people a way to live.The Hui people originally migrated from the Silk Road to China during the Tang Dynasty, and now they are allowed to return along the Silk Road.If anyone disobeys the order, they will be killed again.At the same time, a militia of the Han people was established in Gansu, and all the old foreign guns were transported from Taiyuan to Gansu and distributed to the Han people.In this way, even if they encounter the invasion of a small group of Hui people, the Han people have enough ability to protect themselves.After a night of incident, peace talks between the North and the South began again on the second day.Prince Gong just talked about it, but he really didn't dare to take a blank piece of paper and go back to the two queen mothers.This time, both sides have calmed down a lot, and each has come up with substantive issues to solve.The main direction of Huaxingjun's current attack is the northwest, so the northwest has become a hot point of debate between the two sides.Originally, the imperial court had little interest in running the northwest, where the land was barren, and every year there was either drought or civil unrest, and the imperial court had long had enough.It was only Prince Gong who wanted to exchange this for greater benefits that he used the issue of the northwest as a bargaining chip.The two sides each made a concession, and the Manchu court recognized the actual control of the Huaxing army over Shanxi and the northwestern provinces, abolished the Yamen in the northwest, and placed it under the control of the Huaxing army.Nominally, however, Shanxi and the northwestern provinces remained under the imperial court.The issue of Xiangyang and Yangzhou eventually became the focus of controversy, and according to Cixi's idea, as long as Jiangbei was kept, everything in Jiangnan could be considered.To keep Jiangbei, we must first pull out the two nails of Xiangyang and Yangzhou.As a result, Sichuan was inexplicably assigned to Jiangbei and became a bargaining chip for the imperial court's peace talks.Prince Gong proposed to exchange Sichuan for Xiangyang and Yangzhou, and as long as the Huaxing army withdrew from Xiangyang and Yangzhou to Jiangnan, the imperial court would transfer Luo Bingzhang's Sichuan army into the customs and put Sichuan under the ownership of New China.The Manchu court also had many considerations for doing so, and now the Taiping army in Sichuan is becoming more and more powerful.Originally, the Elders' Association was strong in Sichuan, and as soon as the Taiping Army entered Sichuan, uprisings broke out in various places.Li Xiucheng and Shi Dakai have already supported Hong Tianguifu to gain a firm foothold in Chengdu, and Luo Bingzhang is difficult to support even if he has great ability.At present, the imperial court only cares about Jiangbei, and it can't even give Sichuan a penny for military salaries, all of which are raised by Luo Bingzhang and the local squires.If Luo Bingzhang's Hunan army is dropped to Jiangbei, not only will the imperial court have more power to defend Jiangbei.And you can also use this chip in exchange for greater benefits.As soon as the power of the imperial court is withdrawn, Sichuan will inevitably be contested by the Huaxing army and the Taiping army, so that the imperial court can also reap the benefits of the fisherman.The delegation of the new China had already seen through this problem, and although Sichuan was nominally owned by the imperial court, in fact most of it was already controlled by the Taiping army.The imperial court is now using Sichuan as a bargaining chip, which is equivalent to holding a fake silver ticket to exchange for real money.The delegation did not dare to make a decision lightly for a while, so they sent the results of the negotiations to Qiao Zhiqing for approval.Surprisingly, Qiao Zhiqing quickly made a reply and agreed to the proposal of the imperial court.The delegations of the two sides discussed some details of the peace talks, and after half a month, they finally drew up a draft of the Nanjing Peace Treaty.Qiao Zhiyuan took the contract to Qiao Zhiqing, and after sitting down on the couch, he asked Qiao Zhiqing with a puzzled expression, "Zhiqing, Sichuan is obviously an empty shell."
I don't understand, why do you want to exchange Xiangyang, Yangzhou and the imperial court" Qiao Zhiqing smiled and poured a cup of tea for the second brother, took the contract and looked at it and sat down opposite him."
Second brother, do you say that in Sichuan, the Taiping Army is powerful or Luo Bingzhang is powerful" Qiao Zhiqing asked thoughtlessly.Qiao Zhiyuan thought for a while, and replied inexplicably, "Of course, the Taiping Army is powerful, occupying the Tianfu Plain, Luo Bingzhang is about to be driven out of Sichuan." ”"Wrong, on the surface, it seems so, but in my opinion, if it takes a long time, Luo Bingzhang will definitely exterminate the Taiping Army."
Qiao Zhiqing retorted confidently."
Why is this, is there anything outstanding about Luo Bingzhang," Qiao Zhiyuan frowned puzzled."
Luo Bingzhang is talented, but it's not all because of this.King Fu of the Taiping Army was young, and it was Li Xiucheng and Shi Dakai who actually controlled the Taiping Army.They only seem to be powerful now, but they occupy the barren land of western Sichuan.The main thing is that they do not have a clear political program, and they are no different from a gang of bandits who only know how to rob houses and houses, so they are not destined to have much success.Now it is Luo Bingzhang who is pressing in Sichuan, and if Luo Bingzhang leaves, the Taiping Army will inevitably divide into two forces, from cooperation to confrontation. ”Qiao Zhiqing explained lightly, he said that his words were not groundless, and the information sent back from Sichuan had already shown that the contradiction between Li Xiucheng and Shi Dakai had become more and more serious
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