The word "capture" is interpreted in "Shuowen Jiezi" as the military has captured it.

Since ancient times to the present, there are only three purposes behind killing prisoners: emotional catharsis, elimination of enemy forces, and shocking them. Killing prisoners is an uncivilized tyrannical act without any objection, but behind these purposes, there are often deep motivations.

For example, food shortage. Primitive society often did this, and there were countless ancient society. Even in modern World War II, the Japanese devils were still doing it. The Chinese, Korean, American, British, Australian, Indian, and even their own people, had nothing they didn’t want to eat.

For example, it is difficult to control. Bai Qi, the "Battle of Changping", killed more than 200,000 people because he was concerned about "Zhao soldiers' reversal". After Xiang Yu defeated more than 200,000 people in the Battle of Julu, was worried that the Qin officials and soldiers were dissatisfied, so he killed more than 200,000 surrendered troops in the south of Xin'an City.

Zhao Xin later sent several telegrams back and forth with Liu Sheng, and then he learned the whole story.

The final decision was Liu Sheng, who supervised the execution of the cavalry brigade commander Sa Musu and the head of the Western Front of the Intelligence Bureau. The specific actions were more than 2,000 converted Eight Banners soldiers and Qing army prisoners. The number of people dealt with was 4,416.

When the Western Front troops attacked Xinjiang East Road, like the ancient city, most of the Eight Banners soldiers of Balikun simply surrendered, except for a few fugitives. There was no way out. Faced with the North Navy's guns and bullets, there were few who were not afraid of it. The ancient city surrendered was 1,600 cavalry infantry, and the Balikun surrendered the raising soldiers and cavalry infantry.

The so-called "raising soldiers" are actually the surplus people in the Eight Banners that cannot be filled. After the Qing Dynasty unified the country, the number of soldiers in the Eight Banners was fixed, and the population was growing day by day. In order to solve the livelihood problems of bannermen, from the 17th year of Shunzhi, 4,800 remaining soldiers were selected from the Manchu, Mongolian and Han flags to train their skills, and they called raising soldiers. The treatment was less than that of regular soldiers, and they paid one tael and five cents a month. The Manchu and Mongolian soldiers paid rice, but the Han army had no rice.

Although there is little money given, there are only so many people who can’t get the turn! Because the vacancies for each assistant are fixed.

Before the Beihai Town Army was in full swing, the number of people raising soldiers under the Qing Dynasty was only more than 26,000. After Mingliang failed in the Battle of Ningguta, the Beihai Army captured a large number of Eight Banners soldiers again and refused to return them, the Qing court had to cancel the limit limit, which doubled the number of people raising soldiers.

The Eight Banners soldiers in Xinjiang are different from the Green Camp soldiers. The latter is specially used to farm farms and are useless in wars; the former is different. They are a vital force placed in Xinjiang by the Qing court.

Therefore, after a long winter of transformation education and training, most of these Eight Banners prisoners who were skilled in bowing and horses became cavalry of the Western Front troops. In addition, the number of Han people and Uyghur recruits quickly expanded.

With abundant mobile forces, Liu Sheng turned his attention to the Tianshan South Road and formulated a combat plan to advance north and south. Samusu led the cavalry of two regiments and the cavalry of one regiment to be responsible for the southern front. To put it bluntly, Wang Rong has now become the battalion commander, and Tiemur has also been promoted to deputy company commander.

The addition of more than 2,000 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners made Samusu's march very smoothly. The Qing army along the way surrendered under their persuasion and even became a leader. If it hadn't been delayed too much time in Turpan to deal with civil affairs issues, Samusu felt that he could have fought to Yerkang with a fierce attack.

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

First of all, the total force of the Kokhan Kingdom invaded southern Xinjiang this time was as high as tens of thousands, and was led by Kokhan Khan Narbuta himself. It has now occupied Kashgar, Yingjishar, Wushi and Aksu. The Qing troops stationed in southern Xinjiang retreated to Yarkand.

Next is that Narb Khanta supported Poronidu's son, Samusak, who fled to Anjiyan, and returned to Xinjiang publicly under the name of revenge. With the support of Kokhan Khan Narbta, he established the "Batur Khanate" in Kashgar.

As soon as the banner of Hezhuo was revealed, the Baishan Sect remnants who had already admitted defeat due to the power of the Qing army emerged. In addition, there were more powerful and powerful people who had been loyal to the Qing court who had sympathy for him due to religious factors and other traditional relationships with the Hezhuo group, who also joined the army.

In addition, the two sons of the Hojis family returned to Hotan and Yarkand. With the support of the Qing ministers in the two places, they recruited the Black Mountain believers who were persecuted by the Baishan School and organized an army of 7,000 people.

When Liu Sheng and Fan Tong received a telegram from Samusu, they immediately realized that the next opponent of the Northern Navy was no longer just the Qing army. To deal with the troops of Kokan and Samusak, they must carry out a devastating blow with thunder and no mercy.

Zhao Xin once told them that although Hezhuo was dealt with by Zhaohui back then, Huo Jizhan's head was made into a "Gabala Bowl" by Qianlong, but the remaining influence of the two in returning to Xinjiang society is still very strong, so you must pay attention to Samusak's movements. Although this person has little records in the history books of the Qing Dynasty, he is the only descendant of the Hezhuo family after all, and his identity as a "saint" is very appealing.

According to the copy of the letters archived by Liu Sheng and Fan Tong of the Deputy Chief of the Ulumuqi Office and the rumors obtained from local business travelers, Samusak was by no means "living a life like a beggar" as the Qing court believed. His whereabouts in Central Asia have been vague over the years, and his travels are very wide. He secretly makes money secretly and has been accumulating enough strength to support his return to Xinjiang.

The two believed that the Baishan Sect and the Hezhuo Remnant Party had formed a group with Samusak as the core and capable of operating in the vast areas of Central Asia, including the hinterland of Huijiang. Samusak and his party members returned this time to restore the Hezhuo family's power in southern Xinjiang.

Zhao Xin could have let the Qing Dynasty not fight, and resolutely led the Northern Navy to fight Tsarist Russia. Now he could have tried his best to get tens of thousands of Northern Navy troops into the Tianshan Mountains. He would rather keep the Qing Dynasty and continue to survive in the pass than to completely eradicate the descendants of Hezhuo and his remnants first.

For this reason, he sent a telegram to the Western Front Command again after the beginning of spring and asked to inform the entire army that this battle would not only go west to the Pamir Mountains and invade Central Asia, but also eliminate all the invading Kokhan army and the remnants of Hezhuo.

So why did Qianlong follow Heshen's advice and put Huo Jisi's two sons back to the southern Xinjiang? The king and his minister had already thought about Zhao Xin's personality. The more chaotic the Xinjiang army was, the more time the Northern Navy would have to look south, and the more time they would have left for themselves.

The problem was that Qianlong could never have imagined that the food in Beihai Town was scary, so that Zhao Xin could fully afford the food and salary of the 10,000 servants of the Xiantai vassal state, so that he could free up his hands to first deal with the Li Dynasty, stabilize the eastern border, and then point to Shengjing.

Back to the topic, when Samusu led his army to Kuqa, he met Samusak's 5,000 troops, and there were 2,000 cavalrymen in Kokhan. This was replaced by other North Navy generals who came directly to use artillery fire to clean the floor. The enemy would either be scared and unable to run away or run away.

The question is who is Samusu? He is one of the thirteen armored soldiers captured on Xiongdao and an old man from Beihai Town. He regards Zhao Xin as a reborn parent and beats him wherever he points.

The most important thing is that because Zhao Xin's mouth combines Manchu's later Beijing dialect and the authentic Beicheng dialect, there has always been a secret rumor among the indigenous Manchus and the Eight Banners naturalized soldiers in Beihai Town. Prince Zhao is actually a royal family and is also a descendant of Prince Lian back then, so we are not considered rebellion with King Zhao...

OK, Boss Zhao is now in the former Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the three identities of gods. The first two are purely self-inflicted, and the latter one cannot be explained.

Samusu deeply understood Zhao Xin's spirit of "all-purging". He did not directly set up a large formation to clean the ground with artillery fire, but instead showed the enemy as weak. He sent some of the Eight Banners surrendered soldiers captured in Luntai to take the lead, luring the enemy into depth, and set up an ambush in Chirishi, one hundred miles northwest of Kuche.

The rebels of Samusak were going to fight Luntai, otherwise they would not have put so many soldiers in Kuche. The problem was that they did not know the North Navy, so they fell into the trap.

What does it mean in later generations? Since the birth of the Maxim machine gun, the brave and combat-friendly nomadic peoples have become good at singing and dancing.

However, facing the "warm reception" of dozens of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, it was too late for the three thousand rebels to dance. It took only half an hour to be completely wiped out, and only more than twenty people survived.

Samusu handed over the work of cleaning the battlefield to the Eight Banners surrendered soldiers, but he led his troops to raid overnight. He rushed to Kuche early the next morning and surrounded the city and Huicheng.

Because there are innocent people in the two cities, artillery fire is not enough to clean the floor. They can only use drone reconnaissance and name shells.

A bunch of local buns from Central Asia thought they were in a strong city with enough food and supplies, so they could defend for several months and wait for reinforcements. Who would have thought they would be killed and suffered heavy losses and could not bear it after just one day.

If you want to escape, you can't escape. There are several machine guns guarding each city gate. The red tracer bullets are like the devil's whip. As soon as you leave the city gate, blood flows into a river, and the bodies of people and horses block the city gate.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the remaining rebels had to kneel down and surrender.

After entering the city, Samusu first forced the people in the city to take them out of the city, and sent people to take them to Chirish, and then locked more than 4,000 rebels and the troops of the Kokan Kingdom into the school barracks and various houses in the city.

Then, he sent a telegram to Liu Sheng, and when the order arrived, he waited until late at night, he poured oil and set fire, and the machine gun blocked the city gate. Finally, the Qing army prisoners holding swords, guns, bows and arrows entered the city to clean the fish that had escaped the net.

Chen Qingsong was the fourth person in the committee to know the whole thing, and Zhao Xin told him privately before lunch today. At that time, he subconsciously asked about the number of people who spoke, and after repeatedly confirming it from Zhao Xin, his first reaction was to give him a mouth.

I really feel sorry for you, why do you have to ask more questions?!

Zhao Xin saw Chen Qingsong's concerns, so he comforted him: "Old Chen, have you ever thought about it? If we don't do this, our descendants will do it too. Each generation will do things one generation after another, and our generation will complete the work of expanding territory to avoid future troubles."

Chen Qingsong sighed and said, "That's right, but there are more than 4,000 people! There are so many Kuches alone. What about Wushi? Where is Kashgar? Where is Aksu?"

Zhao Xin took two sips of cigarettes and said calmly: "Harmony is not pure, Xinjiang is uneasy. Since they are taking the snatch from the fire, it is equivalent to throwing their own life on the gambling table and admitting the gambling loss. It is natural."

"Then why do you have to let Liu and the others go out of the Pamir Mountains and enter Central Asia? Our territory is big enough! Just building roads in the future, I will have a headache when I think about it."

Zhao Xin squirted out a sip of cigarette and said in a serious tone: "The power of the divine cannot be greater than that of the national law. The roots of the Baishan Sect must be cut off, otherwise there will be a son today and a grandson tomorrow, and it will not be finished."

Chen Qingsong remained silent, he knew that what Zhao Xin was right.

By the way, why did Qianlong have to fight against Hezhuo?

The surface statement is that the Hezhuo brothers imprisoned more than a hundred Qing army officers and soldiers, including Deputy Chief Amindao, in Kuche, 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 theocratic system of unity of politics and religion, led by Hezhuo and replaced the law with the leader's "mouth call", is incompatible with the concept of unification of Qianlong with the expansion of state sovereignty as the core. Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, no regime that unified China would agree to it. The White Lotus Sect is the best example.

Qianlong only used the "Amindao Incident" as a tool for moral argumentation of the Unification War of Returning to Xinjiang to convince princes and ministers who could not convince them with pragmatic logic on the issue of using troops to the Western Regions.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! For example, a large number of conservative officials represented by Liu Tongxun were very dissatisfied with Qianlong's launch of the Western Expedition, believing that it was meaningless to consume national funds and work hard to expedition. They even suggested to Qianlong that they gave up the Western Regions and only set up defenses from the Hami to Balikun.

Faced with this kind of stubborn Taoism, even Qianlong was in trouble. Although they were not required to fight, military and political affairs, especially food and grass logistics, had to rely on the central government to local Han officials, so he could only find ways to find excuses so that the conservatives could not argue.

Although the Qing army was not afraid of difficulties and was defeated and fled westward, due to the long supply line, the number of troops entering Badak Mountain was only more than 400, let alone entering the Khanate of Kokhan to capture Samusak.

In history, as the Qing Dynasty gradually declined, its influence on Central Asia also became "Wang Xiaoer celebrates the New Year", which led to the Zhang Geer Rebellion later.

After the afternoon meeting, Chen Qingsong called Zhao Xin and asked softly: "When do you plan to hide that matter?"

Zhao Xin said casually: "Wait until you talk about it, otherwise you will have to be shocked."

"What are you saying? Who was shocked?" The two turned their heads and saw Director Liu Siting and Liu Daxing walk in.

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

"I forgot to take my bag." Liu Siting picked up the bag from the chair, glanced back and forth on Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong's faces with her eyes, and suddenly said: "You two have secrets, and it's related to Xinjiang affairs. Old Chen blinked at you."

Damn! This woman's eyes are so poisonous.

"I have too many secrets!" Zhao Xin replied with a smile, then changed the subject and said, "By the way, how is Mr. Rong Fu's physical condition recently?"

In another time and space, Wang Zhong only lived until 1794. According to records, he was likely to die of cardiovascular disease. However, because Wang Zhong is the identity of Teacher Zhao Xin, he has become the leader of the old literati in Beihai Town, and his role is very important, so Zhao Xinsheng is afraid that he will have a few good and two bad things.
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