Ma Benyuan was finally understood. Even though his clothes were no longer neatly dressed, at least he had not forgotten to carry a fast enough knife in his hand. There was also a majestic war horse with bare backbone under his crotch.
Therefore, he once shouted angrily and wanted to gather some people around him to try his best with the Taiping Tianqi team who dared to rob his camp.
But as soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Ma Benyuan immediately became discouraged again.
Because he suddenly realized that this Taiping Tianchen army that dared to sneak attack his camp was not the Min Dianchen's men that he had seen a while ago, but a team that was more powerful than Min Dianchen's. The Red Army horses were much more fierce and completely unfamiliar to him.
Shigangdun is originally a small town with only a hundred households, and it is even more pitiful for the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by Ma Benyuan and the old women and children accompanying the camp.
Because of this, and although there have been no signs of pursuit by the Taipingtian team for many days, it is always unjustifiable not to take some preventive measures. In addition, Ma Benyuan has become very aware of the crisis. , and I don¡¯t want to give people the bad impression that I won¡¯t even let go of the grass next to my nest. Therefore, in addition to Ma Benyuan bringing more than a thousand old battalion soldiers and their family members with the battalion into the town, he also drove the other battalions outside the town.
Especially in the south of the town, just behind him, there were three to four thousand "holy soldiers" camping in the open air.
But now, when Ma Benyuan burst out of his temporary commander's residence, holding a steel knife and carrying his bare-butt war horse that didn't even have time to put on a saddle, he yelled at the old camp guard beside him and was about to rush out of the courtyard. However, Ben Yuan was surprised to see, just passing by the gate of the compound of his temporary commander's residence, on the only relatively wide loess road in Shigangdun, a group of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's cavalry, and the routed troops that had already filled the street were marching from the south. The north wind came over like lightning.
It was only then that Ma Benyuan finally figured out that the crisp sound he heard in his sleep was not the sound of firecrackers celebrating the victory of the Suzhou Muslim people at all, but came from the Taiping Heavenly Fire in front of him* The sound of gunfire from the army.
Ma Benyuan has never seen the cavalry team using such novel tactics.
Wherever the cavalry of the Taiping Tiananmen Army went, there were not only gleaming steel knives flying up and down, but also foreign guns fired ping-ping-pong-pong (for foreign guns, Ma Benyuan once said in his interactions with Tu Gabu and others I have heard of it more or less from the mouths of businessmen traveling to and from Xinjiang).
What made him even more baffled was that the Taiping cavalry could "fight" at will while rumbling and galloping.
Since the day Ma Guiyuan failed to "take over Lanzhou", in Ma Benyuan's jurisdiction, many of his troops had been "fighting" with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's army. It's a pity that Ma Benyuan is still so ignorant.
Ma Benyuan was unfortunate, but he should also be considered very honored. He actually had a fight with Liu Changlin's cavalry division, the leading force of the First Front Army of the Taiping Rebellion's Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
After the Battle of Xining, Liu Changlin's cavalry division and the First National Army moved forward side by side on the right and left, and began to sweep westward.
In late April, on the fourth day of Ma Yuan's hasty escape from Yongchang, Liu Changlin on the way directly communicated with the North Route Army forwards, Ma Zuowei and Lai Peiying who were in the final capture of Yongchang.
What Ma Benyuan didn¡¯t know was that from that day on, the fierce Liu Changlin had replaced the roles played by Ma Zuowei and Lai Peiying and became his secret stalker.
Of course, one thing Ma Benyuan never expected was that his Muslim compatriots did not follow his wishes and attack the "evil" Taiping Army - the "damned Han people" who "went in alone" along the way. large-scale harassment and vandalism.
Because more of his compatriots along the way have chosen to hide at home and be honest "good citizens" in order to take good care of their property and land.
This is the power of propaganda, and of course it is also the result of deterrence.
The brutal power of the Taiping Army against those unrepentant enemies has long been widely known in the northwest.
¡°After all, what most people think about is how to live a good life.
¡°Otherwise, how could the Manchus, as invaders, have been worshiped as masters and mothers by tens of millions of people for more than two hundred years?
In this aspect, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government was able to satisfy the wishes of many people living at the bottom of society.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government wants to expel the Tartars and regain all the land. Therefore, the westward advance of the workers' and peasants' Red Army, which is the cornerstone of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government, is a historical responsibility that no one can stop.?
¡°There is nothing in the world but the king¡¯s land. This is a ¡°truth¡± that ordinary people understand. The current Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has overthrown the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government is the "king". Therefore, it is natural for a "king" to take his own "royal land".
What's more, the "king" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also the best at "killing the local tyrants and dividing the land." As long as you are willing to live an honest life, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government will give you land and provide you with a house.
And if you insist on struggling to do it, what will you get?
The Taiping Tiantian Revolutionary Team said that wherever the Red Army went, all property whose owners could not be found would be confiscated and distributed to the poor.
This is not a rumor, but a reality that happened in Ningxia.
At the beginning, many people in Ningxia were left with nothing because they had to work for Ma Hualong with their families. But those people who continue to work honestly at home have changed their days and places.
Think about it, once all these ordinary people understand, how many of them will still ignore their own property instead of engaging in the dangerous business of licking blood from a knife edge?
To put it bluntly, no matter how wise and kind God is, He cannot give us food, drink and clothing.
If you want to live a good life, it¡¯s better to be realistic.
Therefore, the Celestial Red Army, which is willing to live in friendship with the kind-hearted Hui compatriots at any time and anywhere, and respects the national customs of the Hui compatriots, will also encounter such things caused by individual die-hard elements on its way to the west. Or such a small trouble, but the situation as Ma Benyuan imagined never appeared.
What made Ma Benyuan even more puzzled when he found out was that when his large group of people got up early and started to drive towards Shigang Dun, Liu Changlin followed his footsteps and followed him. In the camp where they rested their horses the first day, they comfortably began to recharge their batteries. Among his compatriots who were watching all this, no one took the opportunity to come out to vent his anger.