Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 750

The word "capture" is interpreted in "Shuowen Jiezi" as "caught by the army".

Since ancient times, there have been three purposes behind the killing of prisoners, namely, to vent emotions, eliminate the enemy's power, and deter them.There is no need to argue that killing prisoners is an uncivilized and brutal act, but behind these purposes, there are often deep motivations.

Such as lack of food.Primitive societies often did this, and ancient societies were too numerous to enumerate. Even in the Second World War in modern times, Japanese devils were still doing it.Chinese, Koreans, Americans, British, Australians, Indians, and even their own people, there is nothing they don’t eat.

Another example is difficult to control. In the "Battle of Changping", Bai Qi killed more than 20 people because of his scruples about "repetition of Zhao soldiers". They surrendered to the south of Xin'an City.

After that, Zhao Xin sent several telegrams with Liu Sheng back and forth, and only then did he understand the whole story.

It was Liu Sheng, Fan Tong, and Jiang Fan who made the final decision. The cavalry brigade commander Samusu and the person in charge of the intelligence bureau stationed on the western front were responsible for supervising the implementation. More than 2000 converted Eight Banners soldiers and Qing Army prisoners.The number of people handled is 4416.

When the western front troops attacked Xinjiang East Road, most of the Eight Banners soldiers like Gucheng and Balikun simply surrendered except for a few escapees.No way, facing the hail of bullets from the Beihai Navy, there are very few people who are not afraid.There were 1600 cavalry infantry troops who surrendered from the ancient city side, and 1300 cavalry infantry troops who surrendered from the Balikun side.

The so-called "nurturing soldiers" is actually Yu Ding who cannot fill the vacancy in the Eight Banners.After the Manchu Qing unified the country, the number of troops in the Eight Banners was fixed, and the population multiplied day by day.In order to solve the livelihood problem of the banner people, from the 17th year of Shunzhi, 4800 Yu Ding were selected from the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han banners to train their skills, which is called nurturing soldiers.The pay is less than that of the regular soldiers, with a monthly salary of one tael or five dollars. The Manchu and Mongolian soldiers are given rice, but the Han army has no rice.

Don't look at the small amount of money given, just so many people can't get it!Because the vacancies for each leader are fixed.

Before the rise of the army in Beihai Town, the number of soldiers raised under the Manchu Qing rule was no more than 6000.After Mingming lost in the Battle of Ningguta, and the Beihai Navy again captured a large number of Eight Banners soldiers and refused to return them, the Qing government had to cancel the quota limit, which doubled the number of soldiers raised.

The Eight Banners soldiers in Xinjiang are different from the Green Battalion soldiers.The latter is specialized in farming, and they are useless in wars; the former is different, they are a vital force placed by the Qing court in Xinjiang.

As a result, most of these Eight Banners captives, who are skilled in bow and horse, have gone through a long winter of transformation education and training, and most of them have become cavalry of the Western Front Army. The number of infantry swelled rapidly.

With sufficient mobile forces, Liu Sheng turned his attention to the Tianshan South Road, and formulated a north-south battle plan. Samusu led two regiments of cavalry and one regiment of cavalry infantry to fight on the southern front.By the way, Wang Rong has now become the battalion commander, and Timur has also been promoted to be the deputy company commander.

The addition of more than 2000 regular Eight Banners Xiao cavalry made Samusu's march very smooth. The Qing troops all along the way were persuaded to surrender under their persuasion, and even became the leading party.If it hadn't been for wasting too much time in Turpan to deal with civil affairs issues, Samusu felt that he could go to Yarkand in one go.

However, the success is only temporary.When the troops arrived at Luntai, bad news came one after another from the west.

First of all, the total force of Kokand’s invasion of southern Xinjiang is as high as tens of thousands, and it is personally led by Kokand Khan Narbuta. At present, it has occupied Kashgar, Yingjishaer, Wushi and Aksu, and is stationed in southern Xinjiang. The Qing army retreated to Yarkand.

Secondly, the son of Narb Khanta supported Poronidu—that is, Samsak, who fled to Andijan, and publicly returned to Xinjiang in the name of revenge. Gal established the "Batuer Khanate", which was originally the banner of the big and small Hezhuo back then, which also made the dormant Hezhuo remnant party emerge.In addition, even more Huijiang dignitaries who had been loyal to the Qing court but sympathized with the Hezhuo Group because of religious factors and other traditional relationships also joined their ranks.

Another thing is that the two sons of the Huojisi family returned to Hotan and Yarkand. With the support of the Manchu and Qing ministers in the two places, they recruited the followers of the Black Mountain faction who were persecuted by the White Mountain faction and organized an army of 7000 people. .

When Liu Sheng and Fan Tong received the telegram from Samusu, they immediately realized that the next opponent of the Beihai Navy was not just the Qing army.To deal with the troops of the Kokand Kingdom and Samsak, it is necessary to carry out a devastating blow with a thunderbolt, without mercy.

Zhao Xin once told them that regardless of the size and size Hezhuo was taken care of by Zhaohui back then, Huo Jizhan's head was even made into a "Gabala bowl" by Qianlong, but the remaining influence of the two in Huijiang society is still very strong. So be sure to pay attention to the movement of Samsak.Although this person is rarely recorded in the history books of the Qing Dynasty, he is the only descendant of the Hezhuo family after all, and his status as a "holy descendant" is very appealing.

According to the copy of the letter archived by the military personnel sent by the Intelligence Bureau to the Urumqi Vice Capital Yamen and the rumors obtained from the mouth of the local business traveler, Samsak is by no means the "living life" that the Qing court believed. Living like a beggar”, his whereabouts in Central Asia over the years have been erratic, he has traveled a wide range, secretly amassed money, and has been accumulating enough power to support him to return to Xinjiang.

Zhao Xin once asserted that the Baishan faction and the Hezhuo Can party formed a group with Samsak as the core, capable of operating in the vast areas of Central Asia including the hinterland of Huijiang.Now it seems that his words have been fulfilled. Samsak and his party members came back this time to restore the power of their ancestors in the Huijiang area.

Zhao Xin was able to let the Manchus not fight at the beginning, and resolutely led the Beihai Navy northward to fight Tsarist Russia, and now he is able to go all out and let tens of thousands of Beihai Navy soldiers enter Tianshan.It would be better to keep the Manchus and continue to linger in the pass, but to completely eradicate the descendants of Hezhuo and the remaining party first.

For this reason, he sent a telegram to the Western Front Command again after the beginning of spring, and asked to inform the whole army. eliminate.

So why did Qianlong follow Heshen's suggestion when he was alive and release Huo Jisi's two sons back to southern Xinjiang?The monarch and his ministers have already figured out Zhao Xin's personality to a very close degree. The more chaotic Xinjiang is, the less time the Northern Navy will have to look south, and the more time they will have for themselves.

The problem is that Qianlong never imagined that the food supply in Beihai Town is so frightening that Zhao Xin can fully afford the food and wages of the [-] servants of the Sendai Domain. Frontier, and then pointed at Shengjing.

Closer to home, when Samusu led his army to Kuqa, he encountered Samsak's 5000 troops without accident, and there were also [-] Kokand cavalry.This should be replaced by other generals of the North Navy, who directly come to wash the ground with artillery fire. The enemy will either be scared to pee and run away, or run away for their lives.

The question is who is samoxylin?He was one of the thirteen armored soldiers captured on Bear Island, and he was an old man from Beihai Town.He treats Zhao Xin as if he is a second-born parent, and hits wherever he points.

The most important thing is that because Zhao Xin's mouth is fused with Manchu's later Beijing dialect, and it is also a serious Beicheng dialect, there has always been a secret rumor among the indigenous Manchus and Eight Banners naturalized soldiers in Beihai Town. Prince Zhao is actually a clan, and he is also a descendant of Prince Lian, so following King Zhao is not considered a rebellion
Well, Boss Zhao now has three identities: the former Ming clan, the Immortal clan, and the Manchu clan.The first two are purely self-inflicted, but the latter is really wronged!
Samusu had a deep understanding of Zhao Xin's spirit of "cleaning up all" and he did not directly set up a large formation to sweep the ground with artillery fire, but to show the enemy's weakness, he dispatched some of the Eight Banners soldiers captured in Luntai to lead the battle to lure the enemy Go deep, and set up an ambush in Kirish, a hundred miles northwest of Kuqa.

Samsak's rebels were going to fight Luntai, otherwise they wouldn't have put so many soldiers in Kuqa.Coupled with the fact that they didn't know much about the Beihai Navy, they were caught in the trap.It took only one hour for the three thousand cavalry to be wiped out, and one-third of them were scared to urinate and surrender.Afterwards, Samusu hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield, leading his troops overnight to besiege the Mancheng and Huicheng of Kuqa.

Because there are still innocent people in the two cities, it is impossible to wash the ground with artillery fire, and it is no problem to use drones for reconnaissance and then roll call.

A group of bumpkins from Central Asia have never seen such a cannonball, and they couldn't bear it before dawn.They wanted to escape, but they couldn't. There were several machine guns guarding the gates of each city. The red tracer bullets were like devil's whips. As soon as they left the gates, blood flowed like rivers. Dead bodies of people and horses blocked the gates.After persisting for a day, the rebel leader had no choice but to surrender in Kaesong after receiving Samusu's promise of "guaranteed preferential treatment".

After entering the city, Samusu first forcibly led the people in the city out of the city, and sent people to escort them to Qiresh, and then locked more than 4000 rebels and troops from the Kokand Kingdom into the school yards, barracks and various places in the city. In a private house.

Then, it was to send a telegram to Liu Sheng and the others, wait for a reply, and then wait until the dead of night, pour oil and set fire, machine guns blocked the gate of the city, and finally the Qing army captives armed with knives, guns and bows entered the city to clean up the fish that slipped through the net.

Chen Qingsong was the fourth person in the committee who knew what had happened, and it was Zhao Xin who told him privately before lunch today.At that time, he subconsciously asked the number of mouths, and after repeatedly confirming from Zhao Xin's mouth, his first reaction was to give himself a mouth.

What a shame, why don't you ask that one more question? !

Zhao Xin saw Chen Qingsong's worries, so he comforted him: "Old Chen, have you thought about it? We will not do this, but our descendants will also do it. One generation does what another generation does, and our generation will expand the boundaries After finishing the earthly work, there will be no future troubles."

Chen Qingsong sighed and said: "That's what you said, but there are more than 4000 people! There are so many in Kuqa alone. What about Wushi? What about Kashgar? What about Aksu?"

Zhao Xin took two puffs of cigarettes, and said in a calm tone: "He Zhuo is not clean, and Xinjiang is not at peace. Since they take advantage of the fire, it is tantamount to throwing their lives on the gambling table. It is only right and proper to admit the bet and admit defeat."

"Then why do you insist that Liu and the others go out of Congling and enter Central Asia? Our territory is big enough! Just thinking about building roads in the future gives me a headache."

Zhao Xin puffed out a puff of smoke, and said solemnly: "The divine right cannot be greater than the national law."

Chen Qingsong was stunned for a moment, he knew what Zhao Xin said was right.

By the way, why did Qianlong insist on fighting big and small?

The superficial statement is that the Hezhuo brothers imprisoned more than a hundred officers and soldiers of the Qing army, including Amindao, the vice capital commander, in Kuqa, and then killed them all in the spring of the following year, publicly raising the banner of rebellion.

However, the real reason is that this theocracy-religious theocratic system headed by Hezhuo and replaced by the leader's "word of mouth" is incompatible with Qianlong's unified concept of national sovereignty expansion as the core.Not to mention the Manchu Qing Dynasty, any regime in China that unified China would not agree.The White Lotus Sect is the best example.

Qianlong only used the "Amindao incident" as a tool for moral argumentation on the unification war of Hui and Xinjiang, and used it to persuade those princes and ministers who could not be persuaded with pragmatic logic on the issue of using troops in the Western Regions.

It's just that no matter how Zhaohui can fight, he can only stop at Congling due to the long supply line and huge logistical consumption. Moreover, with the decline of the Qing Dynasty in history, its influence on Central Asia has become "Wang Xiaoer". Chinese New Year", which led to the subsequent Zhang Geer Rebellion.

After the meeting in the afternoon, Chen Qingsong stopped Zhao Xin and asked softly, "How long are you going to hide that matter?"

Zhao Xin said casually: "Wait and talk, or you have to be surprised."

"What are you talking about? Who was surprised?" The two turned their heads and saw that Director Liu Siting walked in.

Zhao Xin asked with a smile: "Why are you back?"

"I forgot to take this bag." Liu Siting picked up the bag from the chair, glanced back and forth between Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong's faces, and suddenly said: "You two have a secret, and you have a secret relationship with Xinjiang. It's about something, old Chen winked at you."

Depend on!This woman's eyes are really poisonous.

"I have a lot of secrets!" Zhao Xin replied with a smile, and then changed the subject: "By the way, how is Mr. Rong Fu's health recently?"

In another time and space history, Wang Zhong only lived until 1794. According to records, he probably died of cardiovascular disease.However, because of Wang Zhong's status as Zhao Xin's teacher, he has become the head of the old-style literati in Beihai Town, and his role is very important, so Zhao Xin is afraid that he will have some troubles.

"Before I came, I checked him personally. There are no problems, but there are a few results that have not yet come out. Don't worry, I'll let Dr. Wu watch over it." Liu Siting waved her hand, and walked out and said, "Don't disturb the two of you and continue on." It's a secret, hmph, break away from the organization and have a small meeting."

(End of this chapter)