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Chapter 90: Xinjiang Governance Strategy Breakthrough and Ask for Help

Chen Yong and his wife led 600 Red Flower Association warriors to Urumqi. At this time, Urumqi had been razed to the ground. The people in the former Jiujiawan city had disappeared when the Qing army captured the rebellion of the Junggar in Erut Mongolia! After that war, all the buildings in Urumqi were burned out by fire!

That war allowed Xinjiang people to witness the cruelty of the Qing army. It was really a place wherever they went. No grass grew! It was also possible that the Junggar tribe was too tenacious, so Zhao Hui, the commander of the Qing army, issued an order to massacre the city! Since then, the herdsmen on the grassland have been hiding when they saw the Qing army. Even now, the Qing army is powerless to ease this relationship.

This "Red Temple" is said to be built by Qiu Chuji when he came to Xinjiang. Qiu Chuji (1148-1227), whose name is Tongmi, his name is Changchunzi, was from Qixia, Dengzhou (now Shandong Province), a Taoist priest in the early Yuan Dynasty of the Jin Dynasty, and one of the "Quanzhen Seven Sons" of the Taoist Quanzhen Sect. He was famous all over the world for traveling to the Western Regions at the age of 74 and persuading Genghis Khan to stop killing and loving the people.

Therefore, even in the war, this "Red Temple" was still in full swing, and herdsmen often came here to burn incense and pray for peace. The Qing army was stationed here this time and built a Tucheng here. The Qing army was enthusiastic about the herdsmen who came to burn incense and fulfill their wishes, and there were items needed by the grassland people in the newly built Tucheng.

Brick tea, salt, iron pot, and weapons are all available, they can be exchanged for cattle, sheep, horses, or purchased with silver. And the old man is still alive. Grasslanders around Urumqi also began to trade goods with the Qing army. This newly built earth city of the Qing army gradually gathered some merchants, and the grassland developed towards peace.

Chen Yong and Cheng Lingsu, with several warriors from the Red Flower Society, put on makeup and looked like herders, entered the earth city built by the Qing army. Like the herdsmen, they used cattle, sheep, horses and traded goods with merchants. The staff of the Red Flower Society are also self-sufficient, so they are mainly grazing in Xinjiang, with cattle and sheep everywhere.

In the city, Chen Yong found out that the court probably had to reasonably govern the border areas of Xinjiang this time. The court asked the Qing army that came this time to build cities in various places, and slowly transport population from the mainland to assimilate the ethnic minorities here. He also prepared to garrison for a long time in order to curb the rise of ethnic minorities like the Hui tribe and the rise of large tribes.

Otherwise, the war would last forever. As soon as the place was defeated, the Qing army had just retreated, and another tribe would be formed. If the lives of the people returning to Xinjiang were not guaranteed, they would naturally continue to launch wars and fight for various supplies. This also caused the Qing army to be exhausted and the more they governed, the more chaotic it became.

Only then did Chen Yong and Cheng Lingsu realize that the Qing army was really prepared this time. They were different from the usual battles against Xinjiang. They wanted to divide their troops and fight on their own, just to protect their respective territory and prevent chaos from happening here. They prepared to coexist for a long time, rather than just seizing the day and watching the achievements of one day.

This time, Emperor Qianlong really invested a lot of money and prepared to build a stable and peaceful land for Xinjiang once and for all? His actions were just for peace in the return to Xinjiang, or to strangle the living space of the Red Flower Society? Chen Yong and Cheng Lingsu knew that this time, Chen Jialuo had used all the vitality of the Red Flower Society to help Huo Qingtong.

At this time, is it really right to expose all the power of the Red Flower Society? There is nothing wrong with helping Huo Qingtong's Hui troops, but the vitality of the Red Flower Society made the Qing army stationed in various places notice it. Is it really the best choice? In order to win a general named Zhao Hui of Dingbian, Chen Jialuo, the head of the Red Flower Society, can really help.

Cheng Lingsu communicated with his elder brother Chen Yong. The Red Flower Association is not short of gold, silver and jewelry at all. They just lack the determination to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty! If you are alone, how can you have the ambition to restore the Central Plains? All of this is because the Red Flower Association lacks a talented and strategic leader. Under the leadership of Chen Jialuo, the strength of the Red Flower Association has not increased but decreased, which is an indisputable fact.

Now let’s see how much power they can exert in this battle with the Qing army. Whether they can win the success of this battle in one fell swoop, or can only play a support, and cannot play a decisive role. All this depends on how the leader Chen Jialuo will make a decision. This is also the key to whether they can send the treasure of the King of Breaking out!

If you give it to an organization without ambitions, no matter how much money you have, it is impossible to carry forward the organization. The King of Chuangzhang has been lying quietly for more than a hundred years, and it is not a shortage of these days. As long as the Red Flowers can really play the leading role in the anti-Qing and restoring Ming Dynasty, donating this money to them will not be a loss!

It is better to have more results than to make small fuss and support the people in the hands of the two of you. There are so many people in the world, and you can't help them. Only by rebelling the Qing Dynasty and resuming the Ming Dynasty and taking down the Qing court can more people live a happier and more fulfilling life. Honghua will not lack the chivalrous and loyal people, but now they cannot see the space for sustainable development, which is the biggest problem.

I hope that this struggle will be over and the helm leader Chen can be alerted. As long as he can see the key to the problem, he and his two can hand over the treasure of the King of Breaking into his hands. Not only can he hand over the treasure of the King of Breaking, but he and his two will also join the Red Flower Association and fight with them to contribute their strength to the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty!

Chen Yong and his wife stayed in the Tucheng built by the Qing army, and let the 600 soldiers on the periphery pretend to be ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and raise horses and sheep here with peace of mind. The two of them could ensure that the Qing army in Urumqi did not return to Yarkand and Kashgar, and subsidize General Zhao Hui, who was besieged by Huo Qingtong. The rest of the matter was not something that these 600 people could care about.

However, the situation of the war did not develop as Chen Yong imagined. Since the soldiers of the Red Flower Society appeared in many areas, it would naturally arouse the alertness of the Qing army generals stationed in the local area. Then, large and small battles continued. How could you not get wet when you walk by the river? When the Qing army met the soldiers of the Red Flower Society, a big battle could not be avoided...

In this way, the soldiers of the Red Flower Society suffered heavy losses. Thanks to the elixirs refined by Cheng Lingsu, the leaders of the Red Flower Society did not die in the battlefield. Even so, many people were seriously injured. Moreover, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Huiri Zen Hall in Tianchi Tianshan was also raided by the Qing army. Sien Tower was burned to ashes by the Qing army, and the Huiri Temple no longer existed.

When Chen Yong and Cheng Lingsu learned about this, they had no time to help. Even if they knew the news in time, they could not help. The Qing army dispatched 5,000 iron cavalry and were fully armed. Chen Yong's 600 Red Flower Association warriors came forward together to fight desperately, but they were just a mantis armed mantis chariot.

The garrisons in various places also suffered heavy casualties, but the strong elites of the Red Flower Society were exhausted in these large and small battles, and there was little left. Including the mobile troops of the chief lord Chen Jialuo, they also met the Qing army because of supporting the second leader, Taoist Wuchen. The battle ended with a tragic victory. Although more than 7,000 enemies were wiped out, even these more than 2,000 elite troops were almost extinct.

At this moment, Dingbian General Zhao Hui's request for help actually reported that news came out. The news was transmitted to the nearby Qing army as the troops transporting military rations. Then, 70,000 to 80,000 Qing troops rushed to the Yarkand and Kashgar areas, disrupting Huo Qingtong's deployment...

General Zhao Hui, Dingbian, led 6,000 Qing soldiers and more than 20,000 elite soldiers in Hui troops for three months. During this period, Huo Qingtong occupied the upper reaches of the river and broke the water to irrigate the Qing army camp, but General Zhao Hui dug ditches downstream. Although the strong camp was washed away by the water, it also made the road surface muddy, which was even more unfavorable to attack.

Huo Qingtong's Hui troops gathered heavy troops and forcibly charged. The arrows were like locusts, and they rushed to the Qing army camp. However, they could not stop the Qing army in the camp from firing at the outer edge with bows and arrows. In the end, the Hui soldiers were killed and injured, and they did not finally break through the Qing army camp that General Zhao Hui was stationed. Moreover, so many arrows were taken away by the Qing army after the war, and became a powerful weapon to defend the camp!

Until January, General Zhao Hui's army died on the battlefield, and in the end, there were only nearly one thousand people who were seriously ill. However, Huo Qingtong worked hard and fell ill in front of the two armies. The Hui army had to be led by Huo Ai. Because the war had been delayed for too long, General Zhao Hui's military rations gradually ran out, so they had to cook saddles and kill horses for food.

At this time, General Zhao Hui saw that the matter was critical, he had to send 600 elite troops out of the siege and ask for help from the Qing army stationed in other places. Huo Ayi was drunk because of the greed of cups. In addition, in two or three months, the Qing army showed no sign of breaking through at all, so he did not notify his sister Huo Qingtong, but asked his confidants to protect him!

It was a coincidence that General Zhao Hui of Dingbian sent out elite troops to break through the siege at this time! Because the soldiers of Hui troops were careless, they actually gave the 600 Qing troops a chance to break through. After a night of fierce fighting, the soldiers who broke through the siege were almost dead, but there were still nearly ten dead soldiers who luckily broke out of the encirclement.

It is a pity that the defenders of Hui troops did not dare to speak out, shirk each other's responsibility, and concealed the truth. They only said that the Qing army broke through the encirclement that night, but were wiped out by Hui soldiers on the spot! Huo Ayi was so happy that he could not stop talking about the Qing army soldiers who were shot to death by arrows. He believed that the Qing army should have run out of ammunition and food, so he would have made such a bad move.

So he led the Hui army to raid the Qing army camp again, but Dingbian General Zhao Hui had long thought of this war. Huo Ayi's Hui soldiers were still shot back by the rain of arrows, and they did not dare to sacrifice their lives to attack the Qing army camp with their army. Therefore, they missed the best opportunity to win the Dingbian General Zhao Hui...

When Chen Yong and his wife heard the message in Urumqi, it was already the time when the Hui soldiers were defeated by the Qing army. The several escaped Qing soldiers had few chances to survive in the severe cold. However, the Hui soldiers did not dare to inform Huo Ayi of the news, which led to the Qing soldiers having to cross the Heishui River.

In addition, they were lucky enough to catch up with the Qing army's troops transporting food. In this way, these soldiers who were about to die were rescued by the Qing army when they were frozen and hungry. They informed General Zhao Hui about the trapping of General Zhao Hui's soldiers in the Heishui River camp by the soldiers.

When General Fude was transporting food, he informed the three garrisons around him. Then the news spread, and more and more troops were returning to Dingbian General Zhao Hui. Soon, 70,000 to 80,000 troops gathered and rushed to the Heishui River camp to rescue General Zhao Hui. At this time, Chen Jialuo, the head of the Red Flower Society, suffered losses and generals, and was defeated because of the rescue of Taoist Master Wuchen...
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