The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 517: Eradicate All Pests and Become Invincible (Part )

March 1782, 3. The twelfth day of the second lunar month in the seventh year of the Guangzhong reign of the Great Yu of China.

Li Xianwen left 6,000 soldiers to guard Lingwu, threatening the rebellious troops in Jinjibao at close range and preventing them from fleeing.

At the same time, he submitted a memorial to Mozibu, asking him to order the Huaibei Cavalry Regiment stationed in Shanxi and the Mongolian light cavalry of the Khalkha, Sunite and other banners in the south of the desert to blockade the Helan Mountains and prevent the Christians from moving.

Afterwards, Li Xianwen led 30,000 main forces westward to Lanzhou, preparing to directly defeat the main force of the rebel army under the city of Lanzhou.

Li Xianwen's army was also very interesting. They did not come directly from the east, but crossed the Yellow River in Jingyuan. After making a circle, they appeared directly at Jincheng Pass west of Lanzhou, blocking the way of the rebel army to Ganzhou.

At this time, the rebels were divided into two parts. One part, about 60,000 people, was in Lanzhou New City and Yanchangbao on the north bank of the Yellow River.

The remaining more than 200,000 were distributed on the south bank of the Yellow River, near Cuijiabao west of Lanzhou.

Of course, in reality, the more than 200,000 people on the south bank of the Yellow River are spread out over a large area from Lanzhou to Hezhou, with Cuijiabao as the center.

Because Lanzhou is not a wealthy place with a large population and limited land, and has experienced almost a year of bloodshed, there is simply not enough food to supply nearly 300,000 laborers who have been off work for a whole year.

Hezhou (Linxia, Gansu) was also one of the bases of the rebel army, so many young men were arranged to go back to the countryside to farm.

At the same time, the most important task of these people on the south bank of the Yellow River, in addition to continuously filling the moat west of Lanzhou, was to deliver supplies to the 60,000 people in Yanchangbao in the north.

Or to put it another way, the essence and main force of the entire rebellious army were the 60,000 people in Yanchangbao on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the people in the south were just a mob among the mob.

Therefore, the actual arithmetic problem is not 50,000 against 300,000, but Li Xianwen's 30,000 elite soldiers defeated the so-called 60,000 main forces of the rebel army, and Wang Wubing's small 20,000 detachment blocked more than 200,000 rebel soldiers and civilians.

On the fifteenth day of the second lunar month, Wang Wubing's army, which had always been regarded as timid by the rebel army, suddenly set out. They marched westward along the Yellow River and quickly destroyed the forts set up by the rebel army along the way.

On February 17, just two days later, Wang Wubing captured the Yellow River floating bridge stronghold near Cuijiabao.

This pontoon bridge is an important channel for the rebel army to travel between the north and the south. Without this pontoon bridge, the rebel army can only rely on a small number of transport ships and rafts to deliver supplies to the north.

At this point, the commander-in-chief in the north, Su Forty-three, and Huan Qiyuxian, the gatekeeper of Hezhou who was specifically in charge in the south, realized that something was seriously wrong.

The top of Cuijiabao City is only five miles away from the floating bridge stronghold. Qi Yuxian can even see the imperial army deployed there from the top of the city.

"Brother, please organize some people. Our family is a sect of Gadeniye. We cannot lose this status." Before Qi Yuxian could do anything, the Qi family members below started shouting.

Gadniyya, one of the four major sects of Sufism, was founded by Qi Jingyi, who was active during the reign of Emperor Kangxi.

When this guy was young, he wanted to take Apakh Khoja, the grandfather of the two Khojas, who claimed to be a descendant of the Prophet, as his teacher. After being rejected, he took Abdullah Khoja, the so-called 29th generation grandson of Mahmud, as his teacher.

After completing his studies, he founded the Gadrinye sect and traveled around with his superb medical skills, even going to Suzhou to preach. He was away for 35 years, playing a huge role in the establishment of Muslim religion.

Qi Jingyi was eventually ordered to return home by local Qing officials. However, the Qing government did not supervise him strictly, so he wandered to southern Shaanxi to preach and eventually died in Xixiang County, Hanzhong Prefecture.

From Qi Jingyi, we can see one of the important reasons why the Northwest is becoming green.

Qi Jingyi lost his father at a young age and was raised by his grandmother alone. He did not come from a Christian family. He was very intelligent. He could recognize hundreds of words at the age of five and was eloquent. The people in his village regarded him as a child prodigy.

If it were the Ming Dynasty, such a little prodigy from a poor background would most likely attract investment from several local elders.

At the very least, there would always be a private school teacher who treated him as an old scholar and took pity on him and tried to teach him some of the Four Books and Five Classics to see if he had any talent.

But this is not possible in my Qing Dynasty. The Manchu Qing government destroyed the grassroots cultural transmission system of the Han people. Qi Jingyi's hometown, Hezhou, is a poor place in the northwest, so there is not a single private school within a hundred miles.

Therefore, Qi Jingyi's grandmother, who thought her grandson was the incarnation of Wenquxing, had no choice but to send him to study at the Tianfangjiao Temple in Hezhou City, because it was the only place in Hezhou at that time where one could learn knowledge for free.

The subsequent development was not surprising at all. Qi Jingyi not only learned medical skills here, but also learned a lot of Muslim knowledge and became a devout believer.

At this point, if there is no further development, Qi Jing will at most be just a believer herself, and it won't have such a big impact.

However, because the Qing government did not dare to mobilize the Han people, it could not close the western gate at all, and the Central Asian Muslim ideas could not be isolated and spread in waves.

So when Qi Jing grew up, the news that the so-called holy descendants Apak Khoja and Abdullah Khoja had come to Xining spread everywhere.

The believers in the northwest were ecstatic and regarded the two as the reincarnation of Confucius. Many people traveled thousands of miles to Xining to become his disciples.

Among them was Qi Jingyi, and even the uncle and father of Ma Mingxin, the founder of the Jahriyya sect, who also rushed to Xining at this time and met the so-called descendants of the saints. Their faith gradually became fanatical, and they even had the idea of going on a pilgrimage to West Asia.

Damn it, these two so-called Apak Khoja and Abdullah Khoja are fucking Uzbeks!

Were the Qing Dynasty's border defenses completely ineffective? How could they allow two Uzbeks, whose identities were so sensitive, to travel from Central Asia to Xining and even to Lanzhou to preach on a large scale, causing such a stir?
This was an unprecedented and even the most successful missionary work in the history of the Central Asian Sufi Order. Three of the four major Protestant sects in Shaanxi and Gansu were directly influenced by this event.

If you don't occupy the cultural heights, others will.

During the Qing Dynasty, under the suppression of the Manchus, the traditional rural culture of the Han nationality was lost, the elders of the northwest villages turned into Ahong, and the grassroots private schools that used Confucianism as a guise to spread Chinese culture were replaced by Muslim temples.

At the same time, the Qing rulers did not dare to mobilize the lower-class Han people to form a firewall, which allowed ideas, mainly from Central Asia, to continue to infiltrate inland through the Hexi Corridor.

This is one of the most important reasons for the greening of the Northwest.

Hearing the clamor from his family brothers around him, Qi Yuxian nodded. He knew that he couldn't just watch the floating bridge stronghold being occupied.

Qi Yuxian didn't really care whether he could provide aid to the north, but this time, almost everything was done by the Ma family's Jahriyya, which made the Jahriyya's reputation surpass all other sects.

As the Qijia Gaderenye, who is second only to the Jahriyya, it would be fine if he failed to achieve any merit, but if he lost the pontoon bridge and did nothing, he would never be able to hold his head up again.

This is equivalent to handing over the right to preach.

"I will personally pray for the soldiers. God will bless them. This is a glorious sacrifice." Qi Yu first shouted in a pretentious manner, and then said to the Qi family members around him:
"We are the descendants of the Taoist Ancestor. We should be at the forefront. Don't be afraid. Those who die in battle will go to a paradise of milk and honey!"

All of this seems quite familiar to the Han people, yet also mixed with a little bit of strangeness.

But if we replace Menhuan with powerful aristocratic families, and Muslim religion with the Confucian right to interpret scriptures, can we say that they are basically the same?

The people are still the Han people, and the methods are still the Han people's, only some core things have been replaced.

"General Anton, I am too familiar with this scene."

The commander of the Changshui Hu Cavalry Guards, Major General of the Army, Hungarian (Rakoczi) Zuoge pointed at the chaotic troops on the opposite side who were not in a tight formation and were rushing forward with swords and guns, chanting scriptures, and under the loud encouragement of many Ahongs.

"This is what the Ottoman Empire's conscripted soldiers look like. In the past, the noble landowners of this organization caused us Hungarians a lot of trouble, but it's not so good now."

As Europe's bastion against the Ottoman invasion, the Kingdom of Hungary and its people can be said to be one of the groups of people in the world who know the Muslim world best.

In the Ottoman Empire's former conquests in Europe, they also used a similar system of small lords and household soldiers to mobilize a large number of rural forces. Initially, this set of tactics really made the Europeans cry for help.

But as the Ottoman Empire declined, this approach gradually became unreliable.

The Ottoman conscripts that Zuoge mentioned were these unlucky people who had lost their means of production in Europe but were still forced to fight for the Sultan.

"Your Majesty is right. You Xiongnu people know how to deal with them best. I will send out the line infantry of the training army. After they are defeated, the Changshui Hu cavalry will immediately go up and reap the spoils.

Don't be soft-hearted. There are too many of them. We must make it so that if even one person dares to stand up, the steel knife cannot be sheathed."

Upon hearing the instructions from Commander Wang Wubing, Zuo Ge quickly saluted with his arms crossed and loudly replied in his fluent Nanjing Mandarin:

"As you command, General Anton, please rest assured that the Changshui Hu Cavalry will show no mercy."

. . . .

"Martyrdom is an act of heroism and of supreme honor!"

"Kill those faithless ones and take everything from them!"

The Ahhongs in the rebellious army still lacked some professional skills. The originally solemn and dignified chanting of scriptures turned into empty encouragement in the end.

But it was quite useful. After hearing the encouragement from Ah Hong and others, the chaotic army chattered and rushed towards Wang Wubing's troops who were on high alert, as if they were in a group fight.

"Boom!" More than a dozen field guns fired, and the huge projectiles repeatedly pierced the crowd vertically. Many believers caught up in the fanatical atmosphere were turned into minced meat before they could react.

"Charge, charge!" Seeing that there were heavy casualties and screams were heard everywhere, Qi Yuxian quickly ordered the chaotic army to speed up.

But this time, he mobilized 60,000 to 70,000 people and launched a dense attack from three directions.

There are so many people here that it's hard to command or dispatch them, or even just to get them to hear your orders.

So, those in the middle of the chaotic army who were badly hit by artillery fire started to charge as soon as they heard the order, while those on the left, right and other directions didn't feel much and were still advancing slowly.

This flaw was quickly seized by Wang Wubing, who immediately dispatched more artillery to bombard the center of the charge.

In an instant, it seemed to the chaotic troops in the middle that there were artillery shells coming from everywhere, broken limbs everywhere, and people crying everywhere. The huge casualties on the battlefield immediately stunned them.

The result was that nearly 20,000 people formed a dense formation in the middle, but before they could reach the range of the flintlock rifles, they were bombarded with four rounds by the 30 field artillery pieces dispatched by Wang Wubing.

The chaotic army was too dense, and one shot was enough to kill them vertically.

It took them five or six minutes to walk a distance of 500 meters, and they were hit by 120 to 130 artillery shells, with more than a thousand people killed or injured.

The mob of soldiers could not bear such a loss, and immediately retreated crying without obeying orders.

Then, Wang Wubing saw that the troops on the left were moving faster and were approaching his own army, so he quickly ordered 6,000 elite soldiers to go over.

Two minutes later, more than 5,000 flintlock rifles, 50 tiger squat cannons, and 10 mountain-splitting cannons hit the more than 10,000 rebel soldiers on the left.

In particular, the three-stage firing of 5,000 flintlock rifles, the continuous fire from the front and back, and the storm of lead bullets took away a large number of cheap lives.

Soon, after nearly two thousand casualties without even touching a single person, the left wing of the rebel army collapsed.

Just as they collapsed, the right wing approached Wang Wubing's troops.

This time, Wang Wubing moved all the artillery over there, and the firepower was even more fierce.

Thirty cannons and five thousand flintlock rifles killed more than two thousand rebel soldiers on the right wing in less than half an hour, making them scream in agony.

At this time, Qi Yuxian stepped forward personally and finally boosted the morale of the main force in the middle.

Afterwards, they began to advance again, attempting to get close to Wang Wubing's troops again and use their numerical advantage to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Poor guys, the black smoke obscured their vision. They only knew that there were fierce gunshots everywhere, thinking that there was a fierce battle, but they never expected that it was their own side that was being beaten.

So when they stepped forward again, they were met with the most ruthless blow as expected.

This time, Wang Wubing let them get close and then shot them with shotgun shells. Many of the soldiers were beaten into meat paste directly on the battlefield.

This is the dimensionality reduction attack by famous generals and professional soldiers on the rebellious soldiers and civilians.

Wang Wubing was in charge of the command here, but on the other side of the rebel army, the leader Qi Yuxian was completely unable to control the overall situation. All he could command were the core few thousand or tens of thousands of people, and he couldn't even command them well.

In this way, Calabash Brothers saved the chaotic army like his grandfather, and kept coming forward to be beaten. He was beaten in the middle and then on the left. When the left side retreated, he arrived at the right side.

Not only did the numerical advantage not come into play at all, but the opponent was able to fully utilize their firepower advantage.

Two hours later, the rebel army had achieved almost no results. Instead, the casualties on the three sides totaled at least 6,000 to 7,000, which was more than one-tenth of the rebel army.

Although Qi Yuxian didn't know the exact number, he felt that something was very wrong.

At this time, his smart brother came to offer another suggestion, saying that if they couldn't win, they should retreat to Cuijiabao and then think of a solution.

Qi Yuxian was also a confused guy. He pretended to think about it for a few seconds and then agreed.

As a result, Wang Wubing on the opposite side noticed as soon as the rebel army moved slightly.

Under his command, a thousand Changshui Hu cavalrymen were like wolves staring at a bison, constantly pouncing on and biting, constantly eating up the weak points of the rebel army and delaying their retreat.

This two or three kilometer retreat almost became a nightmare for the chaotic army. Not only did they suffer huge losses, but it also made everyone know that their side had been defeated.

So, in this atmosphere of panic, the rebel army was caught up by Wang Wubing's army when they were about to retreat into Cuijiabao.

At this moment, the rebel army, which was under tremendous psychological pressure, collapsed directly. No team resisted at all. They huddled together in front of the two gates of Cuijiabao.

Countless people were killed and wounded in the trampling inside, and outside they were bombarded by dozens of cannons and more than 10,000 flintlock rifles. The scene was horrific.

After struggling for thirty minutes and losing two or three thousand soldiers, the rebel army completely collapsed. They abandoned everything they could throw away and ran away from Cuijiabao in all directions.

Wang Wubing directly issued an order for the entire army to attack and kill. Gansu Admiral Bao Ning in Lanzhou City also immediately led thousands of defenders to attack.

The most ruthless moment of killing has finally arrived.

(End of this chapter)