Early the next morning, Sadik planned to say goodbye and leave. After all, he was a blind man and could not do any physical work. He was very sorry to eat and carry food. However, Yunyan persuaded him because the injury on his foot had not yet healed.
Stay here for the time being and leave after you recover.
In fact, Sadik had nowhere to go, so he settled in Wujiazhuang. In the following days, Yunyan and Timur still left early and came back late, leaving two people to look after the house every day. Although the identity of the caravan was
You have to make a show of taking cover. Besides, the radio station hidden in the cargo is very important and must be guarded by someone.
After a few days, the members of the team discovered that this Uyghur had very good ears and could hear any noise in the yard, even if it was a mouse sneaking around the corner. The so-called "blind eyes but bright mind" refers to people like him.
Bar.
As time went by, Samuba, the telegraph operator who stayed behind every day in the team, occasionally sang some Mongolian folk songs, which made Sadik feel very novel. In fact, there are also many Mongolians on Xinjiang East Road, such as the Eight Banners soldiers from various places.
There are many of them, and Sadik has heard them humming Mongolian long tunes, but he has never heard Samuba sing them.
"The white clouds are floating in the blue sky, and the snow-white sheep are covered under the white clouds. The sheep seem to be speckled white clouds, scattered on the grassland, so charming..."
In addition to Mongolian songs, Samuba and the others also sang some "Three Major Disciplines" in Chinese, which made Sadik confused. He could understand what a soldier was, but they were not allowed to take a needle or thread, and were not allowed to search their pockets.
Price compensation... Are there such officers and soldiers in the world? Anyway, he has never encountered them.
As a wandering singer, Shadik would naturally ask about the origin of these songs, but every time Samuba would change the subject in an unclear way, saying that he had heard them.
That's not all that puzzled Sadik. Every day when it got dark, Samuba would go to the room full of goods next door. Not long after he entered, there would be a strange "tick-tick-tick" sound coming from there.
Although the sound is very slight, it is quite rhythmic. It lasts for a while and then stops.
This Mongolian caravan is so strange!
When the injury on his foot was almost healed, Sadik decided it was time to leave and could no longer cause trouble to others. So when Yunyan and the others came back in the evening, he told them.
Yun Yan listened silently and asked, "Where are you going in such a cold weather?"
"I want to go back to Yihe City for a visit. Don't worry about me. In Chinese terms, I can feed one person and the whole family is not hungry. Haha~"
Barkol was called "Yihe" in the official title of the Qing court, and Yihe City was attached to Guo City, and the Zhenxifu Yamen was also there. As for Huining City in the southeast, it was where the Eight Banners garrisoned the city. These are
Riyunyan is a place they often hang out.
As the captain of the team, Yunyan was very aware of the team's next move. He was worried that Sodick would be involved in the war, so he tentatively asked: "Brother Sodick, have you heard that the Northern Navy is coming to the grassland to the north?"
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Sadik shook his head blankly, and then asked: "Is it Bogda Khan's army? Is there going to be a war in the north?"
Although Beihai Town occupied Khalkha and captured Khovd, the distance between the two places was thousands of miles, and separated by the vast Gobi and Tianshan Mountains, it was really too far. Besides, since the Beihai Navy occupied Khovd, there is no way to access it from there.
The commercial road to the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain has been cut off.
Yunyan said with a smile: "The Northern Navy was not sent by Bogda Khan, it was specially sent to fight them."
Sadik said in surprise: "Why?"
Timur, who was in the group, talked to him: "Help the poor drive away the princes, Taiji and officers and soldiers who oppress the people, and let the poor make decisions."
Sadik was shocked and said in amazement: "There are still officers and soldiers in the world who make decisions for the poor? Are you kidding me?"
"Of course! The life on the grassland is very different now." Timur's tone was extremely sure, and he said with unfinished meaning: "It won't be long before they come over. Brother Shadik, your great revenge must be avenged."
The day is coming too!”
Sadik suddenly realized something. He grabbed Yunyan's arm and said tremblingly: "Tell me quickly!"
Well, the reason why Yunyan advised Sadik not to go to Yihe was because they received a telegram from the battalion headquarters last night. It informed them that two regiments of the main force planned to follow Yihe on the 18th day of the 10th lunar month.
Ningcheng launched a surprise attack and defeated them in one fell swoop.
And today is already October 15th. If Sadik goes there, he will definitely run into him.
The reason why the Northern Navy's cavalry units delayed dispatching for so long after taking over the ancient city area was because in order to gain time, the cavalry brigade had one person and two horses to attack for sixty or seventy miles every day. Although the task was completed, the result was that the baggage was wasted.
The team and the main force were far behind, with a distance of more than ten days between the two sides. Then there was another snowstorm, and the operation had to be postponed.
Fortunately, although the cavalry brigade stood still and left the baggage train behind, there was no need to worry about food and fodder.
The ancient city area has ushered in a period of agricultural development since the 24th year of Qianlong's reign. More than thirty years have passed. Now, in Qitai alone, there are more than 10,000 acres of military villages and more than 40,000 acres of commercial villages.
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According to the information the Beijing Intelligence Station received from Ruan Yuan last year, the total amount of grain stored in the official warehouses of the entire Zhendidao (Zhenxi Prefecture, Dihua Zhili Prefecture, under the Chief Secretary of Gansu Province) is now as high as more than 500,000 dan; and the cavalry brigade from Fu
As much as 50,000 shi of highland barley, barley and peas were found in the official warehouses of Yuancheng, Jingyuan City and Mulei City, which indirectly confirmed this information.
Besides, if you really don’t have enough food and grass, you can still summon the "North Sea Divine Beast"!
On November 24, 1793, when more than 3,000 cavalrymen from two regiments of the Northern Navy appeared at the gates of Huining City and Yihe City, the Qing troops in the two cities were immediately shocked, and the shrill sound of gongs sounded at the top of the city.
, the city gate was then closed tightly, and a lot of wood and debris were blocked.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Barkol Commander He Lun guarding Yihe City and the leading minister He Sheng'e guarding Huining City were all stunned when they heard the news. When they learned that the Northern Navy was coming from the north
When they came over, the two of them realized that the ancient city must have been lost almost at the same time, but then they broke into a cold sweat.
Even though there was a blizzard a few days ago and the roads were difficult to travel, Mulei City was less than a hundred miles away from Barkol, so why didn't there be any news at all?
Barkol's Eight Banners Soldiers and Green Camp didn't know much about the Northern Navy. Many people had only heard about it. Although He Lun and He Sheng'e knew more, they were limited to correspondence with the capital and Tangzhi.
The news. Baoning, the left deputy general of Dingbian, led the remaining soldiers to flee south, which made them nervous for a while. However, two years later, the Northern Navy has remained stationary, which also made the defenders in Zhendi Road relax.
The Northern Navy did not fire artillery to attack the city as soon as they came up, but fired a letter of persuasion to surrender at the top of the city. Although He Lun knew that the situation was not good after reading it, he was a veteran general after all; he had fought against Burma with Fu Heng, and fought against Jinchuan with Agui.
, how could he be willing to surrender despite his repeated military exploits? He immediately recruited the brave merchants and horsemen in the city and gathered more than 5,000 people. He Shengquan in Huining City did the same and began to mobilize all the Manchus in the city, regardless of men, women, old and young.
, prepare to close the city and defend it to the death.
In addition, the two also planned to send people to sneak out of the city after dark and ask for help from Hami and Urumqi respectively.
But they still don't know that all the post roads leading from Barkol to other places have been cut off by the Northern Navy, and the people in the vanguard have even disguised themselves as Qing troops and are guarding the post station waiting for the messengers to come.
When the footage transmitted back from the drone showed that the Qing troops in the two cities not only refused to surrender, but also summoned civilian courage, deputy brigade commander Bayan immediately ordered the artillery fire.
The cavalry troops brought all mortars this time, so the sound when firing was very small, but the sound when it landed on the city wall was loud!
The successive explosions frightened the soldiers and civilians in the city. The Qing army at the head of the city thought that the Northern Navy was going to attack the city, so they immediately fired back. However, after fighting for a long time, they found that nothing had been hit. The Northern Navy was still in the area.
Staying abroad for a long time!
The sky-blocking artillery fire killed and injured the defenders on the city. Whether it was a cannon of several thousand kilograms or a small cannon weighing more than a hundred kilograms, they were all blown to pieces.
At this time, the Northern Navy outside the city began to move. They sent two platoons, under the cover of several machine guns, and rushed straight to the city gate with explosive packets. Just as the remaining defenders at the city head were about to fire their arrows,
He was hit again with heavy casualties by the crackling rain of bullets.
With a huge explosion, as countless Manchus in the city were stunned, a big hole was blown out of the city gate of Huining City. Seeing this, the leading minister of Barkol, He Sheng'e, drew his sword and led his men Goshiha and
Dozens of Eight Banners soldiers rushed into the city gate filled with gunpowder smoke, preparing to fight with the enemy troops. Unexpectedly, the enemy troops did not encounter them. When the smoke cleared, two black muzzles appeared outside the city gate cave.
.In a dense rain of bullets, dozens of people fell into the city gate.
The situation in Yihe City on the other side was similar. As soon as there was a huge explosion at the city gate, the gathering of civilian heroes immediately dispersed. Frightened horses also ran around in the city, neighing continuously.
Seeing the heavy casualties among his men, General He Lun knew that the situation was over, so he sent someone to inform the prefect Shu Yong'a, and then returned to the General Military Office sadly. Surrender was absolutely impossible, and all he could do was to surrender his wife, concubines, and children first
He killed them all, set a fire in the General Military Mansion, and then wiped their necks.
Shu Yong'a, the prefect of Zhenxi Prefecture, and the magistrate of Yihe County were ashen-faced when they learned that the city had been breached in a blink of an eye. Shu Yong'a had been Barkol during the fifty years of Qianlong's reign and did not understand the power of the Northern Navy at all. Yihe
Not to mention the county magistrate. These two people also held the belief that they would never surrender. The whole family hanged themselves and burned themselves.
Although the resistance in Huining City has ended, the troops outside the city did not rush into the city. Instead, they sent people to climb to the top of the city and played the Anmin Notice back and forth in Mongolian and Mandarin through electric speakers. The reason for doing this is
Because during the previous attack on Fuyuan City, the Manchu soldiers and their families in Hecheng were afraid of being massacred, so they first engaged in street fighting with the Northern Navy, and then set themselves on fire.
It’s really not necessary!
On November 26, 1793, after two days of rest, Bayan ordered one of his regiments to stay in Zhenxifu, while he led a regiment and set off towards Hami.
Today, there is only one passage connecting the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, which is the "Tianshan Winding Road" passing through the Heigang Ridge. Although the total length is only thirty-five miles, the Heigang Ridge with an altitude of 3,000 meters is the only way to pass and cannot be avoided.
The climate there is weird and changeable, and even the locals can't tell when a blizzard will happen.
Bayan led 1,500 cavalry, spent two days, braved the wind and snow, passed the Tianshan winding road without any danger, and appeared at Nanshan Pass two days later. At this time, the Northern Navy no longer had to hide.
He followed his actions and raised the flag openly, which shocked the Hami garrison.
After hearing the news, Erdesir, the king of Hami, was busy gathering soldiers and civilians to defend the city, and sent a letter to the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu for help. He also called Xiao Jiujiu, privately sent people to contact the Northern Navy, and also sent
Here comes the local specialty dried cantaloupe.
We must know that in history, the reason why the Hami kings have been able to survive for more than two hundred years and have been guarding the east gate of Xinjiang is because they have seen clearly from the time of the first generation Hui King Ebedullah.
With insufficient control, they can only rely on big trees to seek benefits. Therefore, whenever the climate changes, the Huiwang family will seek refuge with different "benefactors". The first is the Yarkand Khanate, followed by the Junggars, and finally the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
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Now in Beihai Town, Erdsil thinks it's okay. As long as his wealth can be guaranteed and the family's rule in Hami can be continued, who can he hang out with?
His idea is actually typical of the Sufi order regime in the Hezhong area, which is desperately trying to consolidate its wealth advantage and only pursues the two indicators of actual control of land and franchise, not the size of the territory.
King Hui, who is a descendant of the Mongols, flaunted his fabricated identity as a saint and became a local leader who transcended the existence of the sect in the image of God and King. Outsiders could not drive him away, and he would not expand outwards.
Although the Qing government implemented a system of prefectures and counties in Hami, it adopted a supervisory system for the internal affairs of local ethnic groups at the grassroots level, which were managed by the local Bokes and Zasaks. Simply put, it was a kind of integration of military and political affairs, with the military dominating the government.
administrative management system.
Although the Uighurs in the Hami area have also implemented household registration and Baojia, it is only to prevent them from causing rebellion. As long as military control of the Xinjiang East Road can be ensured, even if they return to the fish and meat village of the Wang family, they will turn a blind eye. At most, they will turn a blind eye.
If you overdo it, give me a few words of reprimand.
However, Erdsil's plan is doomed to fail. Even if Beihai Town pursues autonomy in ethnic internal affairs, it will never allow such a thing to exist. Even if it sends 10,000 kilograms of cantaloupe, it will be in vain!
Facing the artillery fire of the Northern Navy, Hami's Qing army was completely unable to resist. In just three days, Hami City and Huicheng were successively occupied by the Northern Navy, while Erdsil was strictly ordered to stay in the palace.
No going out is allowed.
One day in early December 1793, the blind singer Sadik followed Yunyan's team back to his long-lost hometown in an excited mood.