The East China Government originally planned to launch a war to conquer the northwest after the New Year, but firstly, a series of thefts between male and female swallows occurred in Beijing, and then a run of silver dollars and shopping supplies and price gouging in Shanghai. The East China Government had to use strategic reserve materials to support Shanghai in fighting the economic war. Therefore, the war to conquer the northwest could only stop temporarily. After all, the war requires consuming materials. Before the Shanghai economic war has not ended, I don’t know how much more materials will be needed to support Shanghai, so I can only stop aside.

After Shanghai won the economic war, the East China Government's goal also returned to the war to conquer the northwest. Of course, at this time, Shanghai had begun to recycle the materials it had bought before. The East China Government was not in a hurry to start a war, but adjusted the layout of the north.

At this time, the East China Government's rule in Beijing was basically stable, and the responsibilities of the Beijing Regional Military Management Committee were basically over. Of course, according to the initial plan, the Beijing Regional Military Management Committee should be upgraded to the Northwest Military Management Committee, which is fully responsible for the command and dispatch of the Northwest War and logistics supply work, and Qin Zheng is still fully responsible.

However, after the Shanghai Economic War broke out, the East China Government realized that external forces would not allow the East China Government to easily launch a war to attack the Northwest, and there would be actions on other battlefields, and these wars were more complicated. Therefore, in Qingdao, Qin Zheng also needed to participate in the decision-making. After all, Qin Zheng's experience, experience and experience are top in the East China Government. So someone suggested that Qin Zheng be transferred back and another person was responsible for the command and dispatch of the Northwest War and logistics supply work.

The Executive Yuan also discussed this and sent a power to ask Qin Zheng for his opinion. After all, Qin Zheng should have the most say in this issue. Qin Zheng believed that it would be possible to set up a Northwest Region Military Management Committee, and each province would just set up local governments directly, because from the current situation, it is not very difficult to conquer the war in the northwest, and the allocation of materials can be completely responsible for the Beijing Municipal Government. Moreover, the East China Government has developed to the present, and has experienced many sieges of cities and land.

, has accumulated quite rich experience in stably occupying areas, and the northwest region is not large now, with only a few provinces such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu. Therefore, there is no need to establish a general management agency. As the war progresses, each province directly establishes local governments. During the war, it will cooperate and assist the army in managing local areas, scheduling materials, logistics supply, restoring local order, and establishing a good local administrative system. After the army withdraws, it will directly take over local administrative management work.

After receiving Qin Zheng's suggestion, the Executive Yuan discussed it and thought that the suggestion was feasible, so he announced the abolition of the Beijing Regional Military Management Committee and the establishment of the Shanxi Regional Military Management Committee as the predecessor of the Shanxi Provincial Government in the future.

After this operation, the work handover and coordination took another 10 days, so it was postponed until April 10 that the People's Army regained its momentum and launched a war again, and first launched an attack on Niangziguan.

Niangzi Pass is a must-pass pass to enter Shanxi from central Hebei. In the old time and space, the Gengzi Kingdom became Cixi and Guangxu fled westward. After the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, it still had the intention of confiscating. Wadexi, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance, organized an army to attack Niangzi Pass and attempted to continue pursuing. However, under the command of veteran Liu Guangcai, the defenders of Niangzi Pass relied on the mountains in the Niangzi Pass area to form a defense line of nearly a hundred miles and built forts, checkpoints, bunkers, caves and other troops. Both sides invested more than 10,000 troops. From November 1900 to April of the following year, the Eight-Nation Alliance failed to break through Niangzi Pass's defense line, but suffered great losses. It was considered a rare victory in the Qing court's foreign war.

The result of this battle also made the Eight-Nation Alliance realize that the Qing court was not without a single blow at that time. In June 1901, the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Wadesi, to German Emperor William II, wrote: "We cannot regard the Chinese people as weak or have lost their moral character. In fact, they still contain infinite vitality... The Chinese people's bravery and good fighting spirit have not been completely lost... No matter Europe, America and Japan, they do not have the brain power and military strength to rule one-quarter of the living creatures in the world... Therefore, it is a bad idea to divide one matter..." Therefore, the great powers completely gave up their plan to destroy the Qing court and divide China, and instead negotiate peace with the Qing court and obtain compensation.

However, in this time and space, due to the intervention of the time traveler, the battle of the Niangzi Pass in the old time and space did not happen. Before the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Wadesi, the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance, became a prisoner of the time traveler as the German Far East Fleet was defeated by the time traveler's navy. Of course, Liu Guangcai, who won the victory of the Battle of the Niangzi Pass in the old time and space command, did not have the highest moment of his life.

When the royal army fled to Taiyuan, Liu Guangcai had retired, and the royal army did not strengthen the garrison of Niangzi Pass. Therefore, when the People's Army launched an attack, the garrison of Niangzi Pass was very empty, and the defenders were unwilling to face the battle. They only resisted for a while and then withdrew from the position. The People's Army did not spend too much energy to capture Niangzi Pass.

When Niangzi Pass was lost, the People's Army could even go straight into Shanxi Province. The next day, it conquered Taiyuan Prefecture, the capital of Shanxi Province. Then the People's Army divided its troops into two groups, one way north, and continuously conquered Xinzhou, Daizhou, Datong, Suiyuan and other places until it bordered Mongolia; the other way to the south, it collected Fenyang, Linfen, Anyi and other prefectures, and opened to Henan Province.

Wherever the People's Army went, there was almost no decent resistance. The prefectures and counties passed by basically fled or surrendered. The People's Army almost had no blood. It took only more than 10 days to occupy Shanxi Province. The whole process was smooth, which had never happened in the war history of the East China Government.

The battle to conquer Shanxi went so smoothly, on the one hand, the morale of Shanxi's defenders fell and they had no intention of guarding. After all, the Qing court was over, so what's the point of continuing to hold on! On the other hand, Shanxi Governor Wu Huaidu fled to Xi'an with the royal family. Shanxi Province had no leader and no one was in command and garrison, so the guards of the prefecture would naturally not defend to the death.

After occupying Shanxi Province, the People's Army did not continue its attack and temporarily stopped its march. Instead, it stationed on the spot to assist local governments in stabilizing local rule and establishing an administrative system.

Although the People's Army did not continue to attack, Pu Hua and others in Xi'an could not sit still. First, there was basically no danger to defend from Shanxi to Shaanxi, and second, the royal family had no intention of defending the country in Shaanxi, so Pu Hua and others began to prepare to evacuate from Xi'an and go south.

At this moment, Russian Minister Gusowitz made a suggestion to Pu Wei, not to go south to the southeast, but to continue to go west and flee to Gansu, integrate Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang, and confront the East China government.

Kusowitz also explained the reason for this plan. The southeast region is long and the risk is too great along the way. Moreover, although the southeast region has advantages in population, financial resources, resources, etc., the governors and governors in the southeast region are actually in a state of separatism. Even if Pu Wei has already proclaimed himself emperor, the governors and governors in the southeast region will not be truly loyal to him at all. At most, they obey orders on the surface, but in fact they do their own things. Moreover, the places in the southeast region have basically been divided up by the governors and governors. Even if Pu Wei and his party have reached the southeast region, they have no place to gain a foothold.

In addition, after the East China Government pacified the north, it would definitely lead its troops south to collect the land of Jiangnan. With the current strength of the Jiangnan region, without the support of foreign aid, it would not be an opponent of the East China Government. Although both Britain and France have expressed their support for Pu Hua, Britain and France are thousands of miles away after all, and their support for Pu Hua is limited.

Continuing to flee west is of many benefits. Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces have a large area and sparse population, which is convenient for action. It is very difficult for the East China government to use troops to these three provinces to make logistics support. Although the population of Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces is not large, the people are brave and skilled in riding and shooting skills are suitable for recruitment. The favorable condition is that Xinjiang is connected to Russia's territory, and Russia can directly support Puhua to fight against the East China government. If it is really defeated, it can also retreat to Russia to hide.

At the same time, Russia also promised that once Pu Wei and his party retreated to Gansu, Russia could first support them 100 million rubles, 5,000 rifles, and 30 artillery, and send military advisers to help Pu Wei resist the attack of the People's Army.

It turns out that Russia's suggestion has its own selfish intentions, because now Russia has basically lost power in Mongolia, and the remaining forces cannot make a lot of trouble under the strong rule of the East China government. Although Russia is unwilling to lose Mongolia, it is helpless. However, in Russia, some people believe that they have lost Mongolia, but they can turn their attention to Xinjiang, Qinghai and other places, which can be considered as losing the east corner and gaining the mud.

In fact, Russia is also ambitious about Xinjiang. From 1865 to 1877, Russia supported the invasion of Xinjiang by Akmait Boke Aguber, the Khanate of Yakok, and once occupied almost the entire territory of Xinjiang.

But in 1875, the Qing court sent Zuo Zongtang to lead the Qing army to recapture Xinjiang. By the end of 1876, Zuo Zongtang had already recovered all the territory in the northern border, which also caused great panic for Agubo. At this time, the Tenth Russian-Turkish War broke out, and Russia was unable to support Agubo. So the following year, Agubo suddenly died in Karashar (Yanqi County, Xinjiang). Some said that he committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine, and some said that he was poisoned to death. By February 1878, Agubo's remaining troops fled back to the Hejian area of ​​Central Asia, and Zuo Zongtang recovered all of them.
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