Chapter 705: Occupation of Shaanxi and Gansu (I)
Bai Yanhu only saw that the white horse soldiers he originally thought were extremely brave fell to the ground like dry wood at this moment. The sound of gunfire rang in the ears of the pen and the fun and pavilion www.biquge.info, and the roaring artillery province was endless, and the white face tiger changed color in shock!
It's not that his white-horse warriors are not heroic enough, but they are too heroic, and they go forward one after another, but they are all sent to death!
At this moment, the enemy troops on the opposite side had seen very clearly, and the artillery slowly stopped, only to hear more intensive gunfire like thunder. The smoke was filled, and in the smoke, the white horse soldiers fell in rows.
Seeing groups of white-horse soldiers swarming forward and rushing forward, Bai Yanlong couldn't help it, and he yelled and retreated. Suddenly, this time, these White Horse Congregations did not listen to the orders of the second leader, Bai Yanhu, and honestly followed Bai Yanlong to retreat west along the Weishui River.
All the white horse soldiers on the east road withdrew into Lintong City, but the dilapidated city wall of Lintong City could not withstand the fierce artillery fire of the captive army, and after losing tens of thousands of people, the white horse soldiers retreated again and retreated into Xi'an City.
At the same time, the white horse soldiers on the North Road also lost their troops and fled back to Xi'an from Sanyuan and Jingyang. Even, the losses of the white horse soldiers on the north road were even more serious than those on the east road.
The captive army that entered Yaozhou from Baishui, the capital of Tongzhou, and Pucheng, was more numerous, and easily defeated the white horse soldiers on the north road, and the troops were near the Weishui River, and they would soon rush to Xi'an City.
Only the white horse soldiers on the West Road did not return to Xi'an City, but the situation was even more miserable, they were besieged by the captives who entered Fengxiang Mansion from Qinzhou in the area of Fufeng County and Wugong County.
Inside the city of Xi'an.
Ma Mingtang and Bai Shengyan, the leaders of the White Horse Congregation on the North Road, hurriedly came to the Bai brothers to discuss the way out of the White Horse Congregation.
Ma Mingtang, a native of Cangdu Town, Weinan, had lived in Xi'an for many years, and a year earlier, he had also gone to Yunan to participate in the Du Wuxiu Uprising, and he was much more familiar with the captive army than other leaders of the White Horse Society.
In his opinion, when the army of the captives was killed, they should not want to resist the White Horse Society, but should withdraw from Xi'an Mansion earlier, or even withdraw from Shaanxi, and go directly to Gansu and Xinjiang, where the White Horse Association has more members, in an attempt to develop.
Therefore, he was the first to jump out and suggest: "Three white brothers, Ma will also speak bluntly." Now that our White Horse Club is not an opponent of the captive army at all, in my opinion, it is better to evacuate Xi'an as soon as possible! ”
Bai Shengyan has always listened to Ma Mingtang's ideas, but this time the stakes are very important, and seeing that he is about to succeed in the uprising and establish the holy White Horse Holy Kingdom, how can he be frightened and give up all this directly because of the strength of the captive army? He looked at the two brothers next to him, Bai Yanlong and Bai Yanhu, the leaders of the White Horse Soldiers of the Eastern Route Army.
Bai Yanlong somewhat agreed with Ma Mingtang's opinion, and just as he wanted to speak, his younger brother Bai Yanhu on the side preemptively said, "Why is Leader Ma so timid and afraid?" Like you, how can you build the Kingdom of Whitehorse? How can we, the millions of White Horse congregations, live a free and happy life? Isn't it to live forever under the slavery of others, to look up to others? ”
As he spoke, Bai Yanhu was naked, pulled out the sharp knife in his hand, stuck it on the table, and said fiercely: "I want to see, what kind of three heads and six arms are those begging soldiers?" Now our White Horse Society has 1450,000 soldiers in Xi'an City, and they only have 20,000 or 30,000 troops to capture the army. What are you afraid of! ”
Bai Shengyan thought of the tens of thousands of troops under his command, as well as Bai Yanhu's men and those soldiers in Xi'an City, and suddenly became confident, and also praised: "Not bad! Brother Bai is right, just wait for them to attack in Xi'an City, our White Horse will defend the city, and they will attack the city, which is beneficial to us. ”
Ma Mingtang shook his head and sighed: "You haven't been in contact with the captive army, they are powerful, they are all like devils. He recalled what he had heard in Yunan, when the Qing soldiers were defeated by the captive army, and couldn't help but persuade: "Now that the captive army has sat firmly in the world, we want to occupy important cities such as Xi'an. If you want to fight against the captive army, go to Gansu with me, and I will lead my congregation to Gansu first!" ”
After speaking, Ma Mingtang wanted to leave, but at this time, Bai Yanhu suddenly pulled out the sharp knife on the table, stabbed Ma Mingtang in the back of the heart, and shouted with a cruel smile: "As the leader of the White Horse Congregation, but greedy for life and afraid of death, at this time, I deserve it, and I will eliminate the harm!" From today on, the big leader of the White Horse Club in Xi'an Mansion is my Baiyan Tiger! ”
"Pass my order, prepare for war, I want to make this Xi'an City the capital of my White Horse Country!" Bai Yanhu shouted.
The surrounding White Horse congregation cheered, and from the White Tiger, they saw the shadow of the ancient hero, and chanted feverishly.
Bai Yanlong and Bai Shengyan had no choice but to obey Bai Yanhu's orders.
A few days later, the captives came to the outside of Xi'an.
The 3rd and 3rd Divisions, plus 30,000 recruits from Shanxi, occupied Gaoling, Jingyang, and Xianyang one after another, while the 6th Division B and 20,000 recruits recruited from Henan captured Lintong and came to the outside of Xi'an.
In order to demonstrate his authority and boost morale, Bai Yanhu sent Bai Shengyan to lead 60,000 White Horse Congregations to attack the approaching captives from the north.
Bai Shengyan did not dare to resist the young leader in the slightest, he was afraid that if he resisted a little, he was afraid that he would be killed. But as soon as I left the city, I saw the mighty white horse congregation in front of me, although they were full of momentum, but they were all armed with bamboo pole guns made of bamboo poles, or sharp knives to kill cattle, it was a thrill in my heart. He often heard Ma Mingtang say that the captives were well-armed, not only did everyone have waist knives, but most of them also had foreign muskets from the West, which were very powerful.
But now that he was ready to send an arrow, he had no choice but to dispatch the White Horse Congregation and soldiers to rush out.
Fortunately, when he rushed to kill, he kept an eye on it, deliberately fell, slowed down, and dragged behind. When the guards next to him helped him up, the gunfire was loud, the smoke was filled, and I saw the thousands of troops rushing in front of him fall in rows. He was stunned!
Next, a scene that frightened him happened, the heroic White Horse Congregation wanted to rush into the camp of the opposite army, but it was more than a hundred steps, but it was like a world apart, and it could never be reached, the White Horse Congregation fell in rows, but the gunfire on the opposite side never stopped, and it continued to sound endlessly.
The whole battle turned into a one-sided slaughter!
Bai Shengyan was frightened, he hurriedly wanted to flee back to Xi'an City, but found that the retreat had been cut off, this is, he remembered Ma Mingtang's words, and hurriedly led the remaining White Horse Club to flee westward, but suddenly found that the retreat to the west was also blocked, and this time the captured army was not twenty or thirty thousand people at all, but at least more than fifty thousand people.
Bai Shengyan was desperate, and he hurriedly sent someone to raise the white flag and surrender to the captive army.
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Chen Yucheng, the commander of the Third Division, looked at the majestic Xi'an City in front of him, and on the city in the distance, a white horse congregation with white hats flashed.
"Report that the white horse soldiers who went out of the city have been routed by our army, and the number of enemies killed has not had time to be counted, and it is estimated that there are at least 20,000 people, and the wounded are also tens of thousands. A leader who calls himself Bai Shengyan says that he is willing to lead the remaining White Horse Congregation to submit to the Empire! ”
Chen Yucheng sneered, turned his head to Lin Qirong, the commander of the Third Division B, beside him, and said, "Brother, this white bandit really can't hold on and wants to surrender." What do you think is going to do with it? ”
The 3rd and 3rd Divisions of the 3rd Division and the 30,000 newly recruited recruits of the Henan Army who came to attack the Shaanxi and Gansu regions, although Feng Yunshan and the General Staff had already ordered Chen Yucheng to take unified command, but because Lin Qirong was the original old man of the Heavenly Kingdom, he always asked Lin Qirong's opinion if there was anything.
"The General Staff didn't have a secret order in advance, these White Horse Club bandits are all cold-blooded, falling into madness, killing our Chinese people, and it is intolerable. Let's ignore it and just kill them all. Lin Qirong said dryly.