Since the last guards of the previous dynasty were defeated by the Tubo people, the Han people in Shazhou have not celebrated the Spring Festival for almost two hundred years.

Here, no one with Han ancestry could write Spring Festival couplets, but they finally remember that they should be kowtowing their loyal ancestors and sing incense sticks at this time.

This is enough, culture can be retrieved or rebuilt when lost, as long as they still remember who they are.

During the Spring Festival of this year, Zuo Helin ordered the whole city to celebrate in Shazhou. In order to emphasize the advantages of Han culture, he even took out a portion of the large amount of property seized from the Pars people and rewarded the nearby tribes. He also forced the Pars businessmen's wife and daughter to dance to entertain the fun, creating a celebratory atmosphere in the war.

On January 16, 1793, the festival is almost over.

What Zuo Helin wanted was already waiting for-including reinforcements, minions sent by local tribes, and animal power and food supplies.

On January 17, Zuo Helin sent troops again, still mainly cavalry with one man and two horses, with a total force of 7,000 (but the Han people still only had 800).

On January 20th, Zuo Helin's battle group arrived at Yumen Pass.

Three hundred years later, the military flag of the Han regime was re-inserted at the head of Yumen Pass.

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The line of prosperity.

Li Jinghuai's main force also launched a continued attack after the New Year, but after the attack began again, he suddenly discovered that the defenders in various small fortresses of the Dangxiang people in the front were gone.

The Chinese army inspected the empty fortress and found that the enemy should have retreated while the Chinese army was preparing for the holiday. Perhaps because they were afraid that the Chinese army would notice that the retreating enemy did not set fire, but several holes were poked on the roofs of all buildings to prevent the Chinese army from using it directly.

The granary that Li Jinghuai attaches most importance to is naturally not left at all, and the well has been blocked.

However, perhaps in order to avoid the Chinese army's awareness, the Dangxiang people did not evacuate the village along the way and implemented a thorough scorched earth policy.

In fact, the retreat of the Dangxiang people was implemented by the tribe leaders of each tribe for the interests of their tribes, rather than strategically implementing the scorched earth policy - the Xia army did not intend to implement the scorched earth policy.

However, their approach caused great doubts to the cautious Li Jinghuai. He did not understand why the enemy withdrew the soldiers but did not withdraw the people.

You should know that the attack routes of the Chinese army are basically in the core areas of Dangxiang (but they have not yet entered the core scope). The villages in these areas are all good villages with a prosperous population and a large amount of food and livestock.

If the Dangxiang Tatars intend to use scorched earth tactics, then the population and food in these villages should be withdrawn quickly.

But in this situation...

Not only Li Jinghuai, but even the former enemy staff did not realize the profound meaning of the current actions of the Dangxiang people.

However, if you don’t understand the enemy’s ideas, the war must be fought, but the next actions must be more cautious.

For example, Li Jinghuai ordered to clean up all nearby pseudo-Summer villages.

The Chinese army immediately launched an attack and attacked every Dangxiang people's village. They captured all men, women, young and old, snatched all food and livestock, and then set a fire in the village to burn the Dangxiang people's village.

The miserable cry of the Dangxiang people resounded on the fertile plain between the Lingzhou River and the east bank of the Yellow River, but they had no choice. Most of the men in the village had joined the army to Xingling. At this time, only a few guardians, women, children, and elderly and weak were left in the village. Faced with the fully armed Chinese army, they had no power to resist.

What's even more terrible is that they don't even have the chance to escape - because it's still winter, and it's snowing outside. Even if the elderly, weak, women and children can hide in the mountains, they can basically die of cold and starvation.

Civilians without the protection of the state army are so helpless under the suppression of the enemy's regular army.

When the puppet Xia army went to Xingling, it had already requisitioned most of the food stored in the villages, but this was their own hometown after all, and they could not have done too ruthlessly. Most villages, especially Dangxiang and Qiang villages, still had food for winter, seeds for the next year and livestock waiting to grow up in the next year.

These things and the remaining population all became the spoils of the Chinese army. Li Jinghuai coldly ordered all the Dangxiang prisoners to be taken back to the prison to prevent them from cooperating with the pseudo-Xia army from both inside and outside. Although most of them were women and children, they could not imagine that under the enemy's strategy, any possible danger would be eliminated.

Starting from January 16, 1793, the Chinese army continued to escort the looted pseudo-Summer civilians into the pass, but in order to prevent problems with military rations, all the food and grass they had spent the winter were detained by the Chinese army.

Marching in the snow and ice, the end of the weak women and children is naturally very miserable.

From Huide City to Huanzhou, there are more than 300 miles of corpses everywhere that are exhausted and dead.

On the side of the road, under the snow, countless stiff Dangxiang and Qiang people were stacked layer by layer, with arms like dead branches deep in the snow piles...

By the second day of the second month, when the Chinese army slowly arrived at the city of Xiping Prefecture (Lingzhou), Li Jinghuai and his army had wiped out all the villages of the Dangxiang people in the south. The pseudo-Xia lost about 200,000 people, half of which had been buried under the ice and snow along the way.

In fact, when the war ended here, even if the pseudo-Xia could expel the Chinese army this time, with the decline of their national strength, it would actually be equivalent to losing.

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Xingqing Prefecture (Xingzhou)

"You bastards!"

The great emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, Li Qianshun, was furious at his ministers:

"You dare to withdraw your troops without my will! You are escaping at the last minute!"

The tribe chiefs lowered their heads and each responded, but no one apologized - as long as they had soldiers in their hands, the emperor could not do anything about them in the Great White Kingdom.

As for the losses of those villages in the south...

Who cares? They couldn't withdraw, not to mention that most of the villages in this area belonged to Wei Mingjia. No matter how bad the losses were, Guan Ren was too many and he didn't hide it. What happened to Ye Bo?

"Your Majesty, the young men have done their best."

After letting the emperor emit evil fire for a long time, Ye Boma was the first to stand up and said:

"We lost tens of thousands of soldiers in the forts in the south. These are the best warriors in the family, but they are wasted."

"That's because you are all cowards! You can't even delay the Han Dog for a while!" Li Qianshun was still angry: "As long as you delay for a while, the Mengwu people and the Zhou people will come to attack the Han Dogs in China! We can easily win!"

"If they don't come yet, they won't come." Rendao Chuqing: "We can't put our hope on those outsiders."

"Just let's fight Xingling." Mozang Epang said with his head raised: "Let the Hangou see the power of our Dabai Gaoguo warriors! We want to fight so that they dare not dare to think about Xingling anymore!"

"You guys! These guys! Bastards!"
Chapter completed!