H2> the more fierce the resistance, the more ruthless the retaliation becomes.

When the gunfire died down, all the young Slavs who had participated in the resistance in the city of Shamusi went to Heaven to meet their God. These are Russians, what the Qing Dynasty called 'foreign lords'. In the interior, it is a great deal to die a single death, but here it is reimbursed three hundred at once. But because it was all a 'fight' in the war, not a massacre, no matter how angry the Russians were, they couldn't talk about it.

The city of Shamusi was set on fire, and the remaining people, most of them old and weak, women and children, were forcibly escorted to Almaty by a squadron of expeditionary cavalry.

After a hasty rest for a day, Liu Xian did not delay any longer, knowing the reason of the speed of the soldiers, he quickly raised troops to the south after packing the useful materials in the city and loading them into the cart.

Liu Xianam's style of play is completely based on fighting to feed the war. Every time a city is taken, food and other daily necessities will be fully supplied, and guns, ammunition, and munitions, not to mention the support of previous seizures, can also be replenished locally, even if they are raised locally.

The vast majority of Russians in this era had muskets in their homes. Regardless of whether the musket was a smoothbore or a Mini rifle, the gunpowder was definitely grainy. The bullets are naturally made of molds prepared by the expeditionary army, and after they are finished, they are wrapped with ammunition, and each person only needs to spend an hour to get hundreds of bullets and fill their magazines.

In all fairness, Liu Xian's march in Qihe Prefecture, in addition to not killing many people, is not far from the three-light policy when the little devils invaded China.

After the end of this war, Liu Xian will definitely be the most hated person by the Russians in the East.

The influx of refugees made Almaty overcrowded for a while. Although the city area of Almaty is not small, the fact that the city is big does not mean that there are many houses. Timber is needed to build a house, and after Liu Xian arrived in Almaty, he had already burned down the orchards and woods around Almaty.

The influx of refugees, far outnumbering the inhabitants of Almaty itself, has consumed not only Almaty's stored food, but also large quantities of wood and fuel. Hygiene also needs to be taken care of, and more importantly, water sources.

The snowmelt on the Tien Tien Mountains provides Almaty with plenty of water on weekdays, and 22 large and small streams intersperse it, making Almaty one of the few cities in the world with a green coverage rate of more than 70%.

But now, the expeditionary army has cut off some of the water sources. Another group of human and livestock carcasses were thrown into the river, and although the flow of water was not stopped, was the water still drinkable?

The only thing you can drink in Almaty is the water from the wells. But there are not many wells in the whole of Almaty.

If Liu Xian's method is not unexpected, sooner or later Almaty will be able to bring Almaty down. It is very likely that this winter, Almaty will not be able to support it.

And it was at this time that Beijing's will arrived. Liu Xian was ordered to turn back to Ili, and the whole army withdrew from Russia.

Liu Xian looked at the literati in his hand and didn't know what to say. Beijing only allowed itself to withdraw from the so-called Qihe Prefecture, so did Lao Maozi promise to suspend the offensive on Kashgar?

"It's just playing the piano—"

In front of the messenger, Liu Xian yelled angrily. And the barracks of the military department who delivered the text had his head lowered into the crotch of his pants, and he didn't see him change color, and he shouted that Liu Xian was rude to the court.

This is a play played by Liu Xian. Because this messenger did not take Tacheng into the north of Ili, but arrived in the ancient city first, met Dong Fuxiang secretly, and then went to Karasar via Turpan, and then took two days on the way to Aksu, which is a little too slow, even if it is covered with ice and snow now.

It's a pity that Liu Xian has secret agents in Dong Fuxiang's department, but he has not been able to penetrate into the Turk Mongolia and Heshute Mongolia. After entering southern Xinjiang, although the messenger was in a hurry all the way, in the secret agent's report, this tolerance was too delicate.

The most important thing is that this tolerance accent is not a Gansu accent, but a mouth full of Beijing films. Although it is not strange that Titang in Gansu can speak Beijing, it is that the Beijing dialect is too slippery and makes people feel wrong.

Judging from the secret report, it is very likely that this tolerance who came in time was a flag man. And it is a bit self-evident that a person who hurried to Xinjiang in the name of Gansu Titang paid attention to what he was paying attention to.

Sino-Russian negotiations are ongoing, and the grasshopper after the autumn of the Tuoming army will not be far off. It can be said that the whole of Xinjiang is about to be pacified, and it is impossible for the Qing government to say that Liu Xian, who is in charge of this qiē, is completely relieved and does not have the slightest suspicion.

After the battle of Xinjiang, no matter what agreement was reached by China and Russia in the end, the expeditionary army that turned back to Han was a well-known signboard in China. Liu Xian is an independent mountain, and his power may not be as good as that of Xianghuai Chu, but his name is definitely not inferior to the Fourth Army of the Three Armies.

In terms of domestic military and politics, Liu Xian went from Hanzhong and southern Shaanxi to the whole country. This is a new force in the political arena, and it is also a force in the hands of the Han people, and if Beijing is really completely at ease, the Manchus will not be Manchus.

Although it cannot go deep, on the surface, Beijing must at least have some understanding of the political tendencies of the expeditionary army. Let's see how much weight the imperial court has in this army!

This should be the reason why the 'tolerance' in front of me has traveled thousands of miles to come to the army.

Liu Xian put on a good show in front of tolerance. Regarding the writing of the Ministry of War, he scolded 'the old student who misled the country', and angrily wrote a very straightforward recital, handed it to the commissioner, and asked him to send it to Beijing as soon as possible. And this recital is actually one of the drafts he has been working on in his mind for the past few days.

It wasn't a draft, and Liu Xian couldn't guess what the text was. He prepared several articles. But it is also essential to think of the Manchus as unbearable and prepare for the worst. And this is the one that I use! "It's really not a bit of a fight."

Liu Xian's expression in front of tolerance interprets the image of himself as 'loyal to the country' and 'rude and rude', which is very vivid and full of emotion. Because his heart was really full of anger at this official document.

This is Beijing's betrayal of the front-line officers and soldiers!

However, Liu Xian still withdrew his troops from Qihe Prefecture in accordance with the official document of the Ministry of War. Although it is a pity that Almaty cannot be taken, his efforts have been completely in vain. But for the sake of the overall situation in the future, the current Liu Xian still has to be tame to Beijing.

It's okay to just withdraw from the Seven Rivers State, but let go of the passage and let Kaufman lead the troops back, that's not to think about it. It has been a month since the support of Chelik Town was cut off, and Liu Xian did not believe that the grain reserves in Chelik Town could provide food for more than 2,000 Russian troops for a winter.

……

The Old City of Kashgar.

Early in the morning, a new day, the fog was thick. Dark shadows appeared in the thick fog, and the defenders' positions were silent. All the people made the final preparations before the battle, and this was the sixtieth day of the offensive and defensive battle in Kashgar.

The positions outside the city had been lost, and the fortified walls had been shattered by shells and blasts. It's like a train that turns over the rails in later generations, one by one.

The losses of the Russian army in the offensive posture were heavy, and the losses of the expeditionary army guarding the city were also heavy.

In this state of fierce fighting, a large number of casualties, and continuous fighting, a large number of recruits in the expeditionary army were on the verge of collapse, or they had to retreat and recuperate. Although some of them have become elite veterans, the situation has turned against the expeditionary army.

The constant fighting, the fear and nervousness of every day, the invisible mental trauma of this state on the recruits is far greater than the mental and intangible wounds caused by a break from fighting.

Some soldiers were coldly wiping their sabers in their hands, and many of the cavalry had already been replenished to the line. Although they don't have galloping horses under their crotches, they are still just as fearless.

A cacophony of voices came faintly from ahead. The defenders on the ground were stunned, because it turned out to be an indigenous language, and there was a small amount of Chinese during the period.

"It's the common people. Lao Maozi's group of turtle sons, they drove them here, this is to be cannon fodder. The scout brought back the information.

"Don't let it in, don't let it in." An officer who, covered in dirt and blackened with gunpowder smoke, and who could not tell that it was an officer at all, shouted loudly. What are the consequences of taking in this group of 'own people', the officers are clear. What the next move of the Russian army will be, you can also guess a rough idea. So he shouted so loudly that the soldiers would not let anyone in.

"These bastards, they can't die well-"

Huo Guangzheng came out of the front-line command headquarters and walked quickly to the lookout on the top floor of a nearby pillbox to observe. The fog was so thick that the binoculars couldn't see it kindly. I couldn't see a group of panicked and frightened natives and a small number of Manchu and Han civilians in the dense fog, a total of four or five hundred people, all of them were gray-faced, escorted by the Russian army with bayonets behind them, leaning towards the position of the expeditionary army.

"Contact the artillerymen and let them fire in the direction of the Russian attack to intercept the follow-up Russian troops."

Indigenous people die and die. Even if there were some Manchu and Han people inside, Huo Guangzheng couldn't care about it. The offensive and defensive battles have been fought so far, and both sides have been supported by one breath. If this breath is vented, the Russian army's offensive will not be able to slow down without waiting for three or five days, and the defenders' positions will not be able to hold until they shrink to the center of the city.

The entire old city of Kashgar is in ruins. The buildings that can still stand under fire are either made of stone or concrete bunkers. Each of them was the focus of the defenders' defenses. The Russian army kowtowed in front of them and bled out, and if they gave up half of the city at once because of low morale and no fighting spirit, the losses would be immeasurable.

An old man with gray hair walked the fastest, and he had already reached the front of the position before the large number of people was still a hundred meters away. The old man, who spoke Chinese, did not enter the position, but stood in front of the position and begged the defenders in a weeping tone to let them in. "Master Jun, it's good, save our ....... We are all the people of the Qing Dynasty, and we are all loyal to the imperial court, so you can let us in......"

"Call me—" Huo Guangcheng gave the order for the shelling. R1152