"What?" Li Xiao's hand shook, the tea cup fell to the ground, and the hot tea soup spilled all over the floor.

"The Uighurs from all over the country have joined forces to cause trouble, and the whole Guanzhong has become a mess. The airship investigation report came back and said that almost every village was on fire and every household was smoking. The villages in Guanzhong along the Weishui River have all been destroyed. People..." Sun

Xing's hand holding the telegram kept shaking.

Li Xiao closed his eyes in pain, his heart falling downwards.

"The country is in trouble, and there will be chaos when we return! In the past few years, Guanzhong has just recovered a little strength, and now it is over again. I will say that people who are not of my race will have different hearts!" Li Xiao took a long breath and stood up fiercely.

"How is Xi'an?" Zu Dashou's Fourth Division is garrisoned in Xi'an. In recent years, most of the officers have settled in Xi'an. When they heard that something happened in Xi'an, the Fourth Division was almost furious.

"Through the connection of Zoroastrianism, the Uighurs have grown to a size of 700,000 to 800,000 people. If you include their family members behind them, the number of Uighurs has reached nearly 2 million. The Uighurs in Gansu are also ready to make a move. Fortunately, various places in Guanzhong

All the passes are in our hands. The Uighurs were temporarily sealed in the pass. They attacked Xi'an three times. They were all repelled by the Xi'an defenders!

After Sun Shoufu in the capital learned about the rebellion in Shaanxi, he immediately dispatched the elite garrison of Liaodong and transported them to Xi'an by airship. So far, more than 6,000 people have been transported. Several guns and ammunition are being transported by airship at full capacity. It is estimated that another 2,000 people will be transported in the next few days.

people.

The telegram sent back from Xi'an said that the Uighurs had seized some weapons and ammunition. There were about thirty mortars found on the battlefield, and there were also several old-style artillery with front loading. Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, called and said..., in order to

We have purged the internal forces in Xi'an City and have killed all the Uighurs in the city."

After Sun Xing finished speaking, he closed the telegram clip and said that there was no new situation.

"The fourth division is the vanguard and will return to Shaanxi first. After entering Shaanxi, do not advance into Xi'an first. Instead, divide the troops at various passes and guard them tightly to prevent the Uighurs from rushing out of Shaanxi. After I lead the first division back to Shaanxi, we will destroy the Uighurs together.

rebellion.

Zu Dashou! Remember! You have to be patient first. If the Uighur rebels wander around the country and you follow them to pursue them, this will be the misfortune of the Ming Dynasty. Think about people like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong who turned the Ming Dynasty upside down."

Li Xiao asked Zu to have a happy birthday.

Hatred can easily go to people's heads. Li Xiao is very afraid that there will be another Uighur version of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Due to ethnic and religious reasons, they will hurt the Ming Dynasty more deeply than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. He simply cannot imagine such a thing.

If it happens, it will cost an astronomical number of lives.

During the Tongzhi Rebellion in history, more than 20 million Han people died. As a direct result, the population of Shaanxi and Gansu did not recover during the entire Republic of China.

"Nuo!" Zu Dashou stood up straight and saluted at attention.

"Cao Wenzhao, you lead three divisions to garrison Hami. Lord Man will guard your grain road. During this period, you have to recruit civilians to build roads to ensure your logistical supplies. In addition, the Ministry of Railways will send people to build the railway from Yumen Pass to Hami.

You have to send people to protect their safety. The task is very heavy, can you do it?" Li Xiao originally planned to hoard supplies in Hami, and then use Hami as a base to continue westward.

Now it seems that all plans have been ruined.

"No!" Cao Wenzhao stood up straight and saluted at attention.

After both of them left, Ao Canghai came over and said, "It's no fun fighting those Uighurs. How about I take my people and continue westward. I promise to capture the Ili Valley for you. How about that?"

"I said Master Ao, it's more than 2,600 miles. We need roads but not roads, and we need railways but not railways. Your division has so much heavy equipment, how can you carry it to the Ili Valley? Even if your soldiers can't cross the desert and the sea without food or water

, your cannon must always shoot shells, and your gun must always shoot bullets.

I can tell you that the airship must guarantee the airdrop to Xi'an. Don't even think about it!

Besides, if you have one division and 50,000 troops, the airship cannot guarantee your logistical supplies."

"Uh...!" Li Xiao asked back, and Ao Canghai was immediately speechless.

"But fighting the Uighurs... is a bit...!" Ao Canghai's face almost turned into a pimple. After what happened in Jiangnan, he really didn't want to deal with those rebel armies. They didn't have any technical skills at all, and the troops always fought like this.

A battle can destroy a good army.

"After your first division returns to Shaanxi, immediately garrison the passes such as Wuguan and Tongguan. You just need to guard these passes and prevent the Uighurs from fleeing. In addition, Nie Dahu needs to station in Gansu to deter the Uighurs there.

As for annihilating the rebels and killing people...! I found a better candidate!"

"Japanese?"

"Yes! Since the national conflicts are irreconcilable, it is a good idea to let them divert their hatred. Let the Japanese do the bloody things. Anyway, tens of thousands of them are here, and they will eat in vain if they are idle.

It’s useless to call but not to call.”

"You kid, you are becoming more and more like a thief. If you succeed, I will take the first division back to Gansu first." Ao Canghai was relieved when he heard that he didn't have to fight the rebels. He really didn't want to fight such a low-level fight.

In this battle, the rebels can have a tactical level of eggs.

Zu Dashou's Fourth Division moved very quickly. Li Xiao had just given an order here, and the vanguard troops there had already set off. His family was about to be pushed away by the Uyghurs, who could not be in a hurry? The boys of the Fourth Division wanted to have both sides.

Wings flew to Xi'an. Those soldiers whose homes were in the counties around Xi'an were already red-eyed and ready to go back for revenge.

Li Xiao looked at the army rolling away, and he was glad that the recruitment controls had been very strict over the years. One of them was that only pure Han soldiers were recruited. If there were Uighur soldiers in the army at this time, Li Xiao would be in great trouble. These Uighurs

Soldiers, to clean or not to clean?

Most of the troops of the Liao Army came from Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei. In recent years, the Fourth Division began to recruit Guanzhong soldiers, but there was a strict restriction, that is, they must be Han nationality.

Li Xiao is not worried about Xi'an City. Many of the Liaodong militiamen are veterans. Moreover, Liaodong is the place where the reserve system is best implemented in the entire Ming Dynasty. The militiamen are temporarily transferred from Liaodong and there is no need to spend any effort on training. Everyone knows where the recruiting station is.

You need to know what kind of equipment to use and which reserve officer to report to.

Mobilizing 8,000 people in seven days is actually just the beginning. If we mobilize at full capacity, mobilizing 50,000 people in half a month is no problem. Perhaps Sun Chengzong felt that it was not yet time to mobilize the entire army.

Facts have also proved that the Uighurs, who were a ragtag group of people and had no heavy weapons, could not attack the well-defended Xi'an City with its high city and deep pool.

Li Xiao was also glad that the garrison was not equipped with heavy equipment. At most, it was given a few mortars. The power of mortar shells was of little use against the strong Xi'an city wall. At most, it was given a little more to the garrison.

Just casualties!

Li Xiao believes that those old-fashioned breech-loaded artillery pieces should disappear after firing a few rounds based on the firepower in Xi'an City. Old-fashioned artillery and modern new breech-loaded artillery are completely different things.

The precautions I have always taken have now come into play.

There may be one million or two million Uighurs. Li Xiao is now struggling with whether to carry out a massacre. If these Uighurs are let go, how will they deal with so many innocent Han people who died?

?

The airship investigation came back and reported that all the Han villages on both sides of the Wei River had been slaughtered. The Uighurs were spreading throughout Guanzhong! You can guess that the losses of the Han people this time will definitely not be small.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were not only the Uighurs, but also the Miao and Zhuang barbarians in the south, the Mongols in the north, and various ethnic minorities. Everyone was staring at it. If the Uighurs were not punished, what would happen to those ethnic minorities?

Will they learn from others?

But once there is a large-scale killing...!

Once the seeds of hatred are sown, they will take root and sprout indefinitely. Although there are Japanese people as swordsmen, there is no guarantee that the Uighurs will not resent the Ming court and the Han nation from now on. Once the regime changes, these Uighurs will take the opportunity to rise again, then

The Uighurs at that time would have been even more vicious and cruel than they are now.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Xiao's murderous aura gradually became stronger. Either don't do it, or do it! Since the country is in trouble, there will be chaos when we return, so don't blame me...

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Thick smoke billowed from the top of the city of Xi'an. The soldiers guarding the city were holding rifles in their hands and hiding behind the arrow stacks originally used for shooting arrows.

The walls of the city were covered with corpses of Uighurs, many of them stacked together. There were black bloodstains everywhere on the ground, with a layer of flies falling on them. I don’t know why, but some of the blood pools had a strange purple color.

The Uighurs below the city only have old-fashioned flintlock rifles in their hands. But the Ming army in the city all have new rifles in their hands. Although it is not as good as the Aka 47 rifle, it is much stronger than the old-fashioned flintlock rifles. Just for shooting

The same speed makes the Uighurs hate it with itch.

Although there are more than thirty mortars, the number of shells is really small. Moreover, the Uighurs have not received formal military training, and the accuracy of the mortars is terrible. Ten shells can hit the defenders at the top of the city.

Just one or two rounds.

Those old muzzle-loading artillery pieces were directly covered by the rocket launchers in the city. Even the artillerymen and cannons were all turned into cannon fodder.

After three days of attacking, not even a few bricks were lost from the Xi'an city gate.

Bai Yanhu chopped off the child in his hand with a knife, and the two calves fell to the ground. The child's cry was horrific.

"Han people on the top of the city, listen up. If you don't come out, we will kill all the Han people in Guanzhong." Bai Yanhu roared, pulling his neck and throwing aside the screaming children.

Countless hateful looks were shot from the top of the city. In fact, they couldn't hear what Bai Yanhu was shouting. Afraid of mortar and rocket fire, Bai Yanhu was five miles away from the Xi'an city wall. It was impossible to hear him clearly from such a long distance.

What are you talking about.

"My brothers! The Han people killed all the Uighurs in Xi'an City, and they didn't even spare the children in their arms. We must avenge them, enter Xi'an City, and kill all the Han people. The True God Society

Bless us! Brothers, rush!" Bai Yanhu glanced at the child who had died, and with a wave of his hand, countless Uighurs armed with swords and guns rushed towards the Xi'an city wall carrying ladders.

Although he knew that this was a waste of human lives, Bai Yanhu still didn't want to give up. There was a weapons depot in Xi'an, and only by getting the weapons and ammunition depot in Xi'an could the Uighurs be qualified to compete with Li Xiao, otherwise Li Xiao would bring

When the army returns, the fate of all the Uighurs will be death.

Everyone in the world knows how stingy Li Xiao is. The Uighurs have killed so many Han people this time, and Li Xiao will never let them go easily. The most likely result is that all the Uighurs in Guanzhong will die.

Attack Xi'an! This is the life-saving straw for the Uighurs. As long as the Uighurs persist for a year and a half, the Mongols will attack. This is what Ren Wu told them, and it was also affirmed by Hemingtang. Everyone didn't believe that they only came last year.

Ren Wu, but they believed that He Mingtang, the great elder of the Zoroastrian Cult in Guanzhong.

So! More and more people are attacking Xi'an City. This is their only hope.

Sun Chuanting personally stood on the city tower, looking at the Uighurs rushing over like a tide. Sounds of "whoosh" and "whoosh" erupted in the city, and rockets flew over their heads with tail flames, and then hit the charging Uighurs.

In the team.

The smoke from the explosion directly engulfed the charging team. You can see the broken limbs and arms that were swept into the air by the smoke. The smoke rolled up and connected to the blue sky above and the yellow spring below.

In this round of shelling, the Uighurs suffered losses of at least a thousand people. However, people inspired by religion are simply crazy. Even if they are blown to pieces by the shells, they will think that the martyrs of the jihad will live forever.

The dead will go to a mysterious place with ninety-nine virgins and milk flowing on the ground. It is said that only the most devout believers can go to that place. In order to be able to go to that place, fanatical believers would rather die.

Soon, countless people carrying ladders rushed out of the smoke. They stared and ran desperately carrying heavy ladders. At this time, they did not look like individuals, but like ferocious beasts.

Sun Chuanting heard another sound of "boom", "boom" and "boom" in his ears, which was the sound of mortars.

Pillars of smoke rose up from the charging crowd of Uighurs. Hot shrapnel flew in all directions and embedded deeply into the bodies of the Uighurs. Some people were beaten like sieves by the shrapnel, and some unlucky guys were cut off by the shrapnel.

A brain.

Obviously, the lethality of mortars is not as high as that of rocket launchers. This time, the Uighurs only threw away a few hundred corpses. However, the crazy rate of fire of the mortars directly created a steel wall of fire on the Uighurs' charging line.

All those who tried to rush through the wall of fire were torn into pieces by the hard steel.

However, some people still took advantage of the lull in the artillery fire to rush across the line of death.

"Beep!" Following a whistle, "crackling" gunshots began to sound from the city wall.

The big eight-grain rifle has very good accuracy at a distance of 100 meters. Although it cannot reach the level of headshot with a rifle, the accuracy of shooting at a wide target such as the chest and abdomen is still amazing.
Chapter completed!