, one of the leaders of the 18th battalion of the rebels in Shaanxi and Gansu, , Bai Yanhu, , is recorded in the county and county annals of all Shaanxi and Gansu. I will use the records in the five county annals of , Lintong , , Sanyuan , Fuping, , Gaoling , and , Weiyuan to let everyone know the cruelty of Bai Yanhu's rebels.
"Lintong County Chronicles" records: From 1862 to 1869, more than 300,000 people were killed, and Weihe No village in the north and south were spared.
"Fuping County Chronicles" records: In 1855, there were 46,579 households in the entire county town, and the number of people was about 250,000. However, in 1876, the result of the statistics again was that there were only 28,543 households left, and the number of people also became about 120,000.
"Sanyuan County Chronicles" records: Before the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu, the population of Sanyuan County was about 160,000, and only about 40,000 remained after the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu was put down.
"Gaoling County Chronicles" records: Gaoling County's population before the Shaanxi-Gansu Hui Rebellion was nearly 70,000. After the Shaanxi-Gansu Hui Rebellion was put down, the population of Gaoling County has been lost by half.
"Weiyuan County Chronicles" records: Tens of thousands of animals were slaughtered, and all the officials and people in the city died. After a day of killing, tens of thousands of people died, blood flowed into a canal, corpses piled up like mountains, and sad eyes were sad.
Bai Yanhu is the only leader of the rebel 18th battalion who fled repeatedly. When Daur tribe general Duolonga was ordered to lead the army to suppress the rebellion, Bai Yanhu became Duolonga's second target (the first target was the rebel marshal Renwu ), Bai Yanhu and Duolonga only fought one battle and led the rebels to escape.
Bai Yanhu portrait
Bai Yanhu escaped to Gansu Dong Zhiyuan and joined forces with Dong Zhiyuan's rebel leader Ma Zhenghe. The two had a total of 200,000 troops. They slaughtered a large number of innocent people in Dong Zhiyuan and arranged troops to try to stop the Qing army coming to suppress the rebellion.
At this time, Duolonga died in Shaanxi. The national hero Zuo Zongtang old general replaced Duolonga. Zuo Zongtang led the soldiers of the Hunan Army to march towards Gansu after destroying the remnants of Shaanxi's rebels.
The Hunan Army had less than 100,000 troops, but because Zuo Zongtang was in good command, the Hunan Army soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy. The 200,000 rebels were defeated by the Hunan Army of less than 100,000, including 20,000 rebels, and 20,000 rebels were killed in battle. Dong Zhiyuan's rebel leader Ma Zhenghe was also killed in battle.
Ma Zhenghe was killed in battle, while Bai Yanhu led the rebels to Jinji Fort and defected to the rebel leader of Jinji Fort Ma Hualong .
Although Ma Hualong and Bai Yanhu were both rebel leaders, Ma Hualong did not trust Bai Yanhu's character a little, so he asked Bai Yanhu's rebels to withdraw from Jinji Fort and go to the nearby Heichengzi to guard.
After the Ma Hualong rebels were pacified by the Hunan Army led by Zuo Zongtang, Bai Yanhu chose to escape again. This time, Bai Yanhu escaped to Xining.
Zuo Zongtang did not chase Xining immediately, but led his army to pacify the rebels of Hezhou . Zuo Zongtang was blocked in the process of pacifying the rebels of Hezhou. Thirty-one generals died in the battle. The battle to pacify the rebels of Hezhou was eventually ended with the voluntary surrender of the leader of Hezhou rebels.
After pacifying the rebels in Hezhou, Zuo Zongtang led his army to Xining. Bai Yanhu and Xining's rebel leaders Ma Guiyuan and Ma Benyuan led the rebels to block the Hunan Army. In this battle, the Hezhou rebels who surrendered to Zuo Zongtang worked as hard as the soldiers of the Hunan Army. The rebels in Xining were almost wiped out. Ma Guiyuan and Ma Benyuan were captured alive, and Bai Yanhu led his remnants to escape again.
Bai Yanhu defected to the "Central Asian Butcher" Agubai , assisting Agubai to slaughter innocent people in southern and northern Xinjiang. After quelling the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu, Zuo Zongtang returned to Beijing to persuade Cixi, which made Cixi agree to his suggestion of reviving the country in the west.
Zuo Zongtang once again led the Hunan Army soldiers to fight westward, and spent a year and a half to recover the northern and southern borders. Agubai committed suicide by taking poison, and Bai Yanhu led the remaining rebels to flee to Tsarist Russian . Their descendants are Dongganren in today's Central Asia.
Bai Yanhu fled repeatedly and even surrendered to the enemy twice. He is a historical sinner in modern history of our country that cannot be whitewashed. However, some people have now whitewashed him into a hero. These people may not know Bai Yanhu at all, but they only know that he is the leader of the Shaanxi-Gansu Hui Rebellion. If they knew that Bai Yanhu was a person who fled repeatedly and had no ability to lead troops to fight, they might not have whitewashed him into a hero. The main reason why these people cleaned Bai Yanhu was that they mistakenly thought he could fight. In fact, they didn't know Bai Yanhu's defeat and his crime of slaughtering innocent people.
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