Besides, Ye Faguang brought 300 tanks and tens of thousands of soldiers to the Mongolian grasslands at a mechanized speed.
At this point, the speed of mechanization began.
Ye Faguang's troops advanced hundreds of kilometers westward overnight. In the evening, they were still waiting at the junction of Shanxi and Mongolia. By the next day, they had appeared in Ningxia today.
At this time, Yinchuan was still singing and dancing, and they did not expect that enemy troops would appear in this rear area.
Speaking of Ningxia, in fact, in the late Qing Dynasty, Ningxia and Gansu were the same province. Although Yinchuan is now an important city in the northwest, its capital is indeed Xining.
Because of this, not many troops were deployed in Yinchuan.
When the Yinchuan men discovered that a large number of Hunan troops were approaching the city in the distance, it was too late to organize a defense, so these people simply went out and surrendered without any resistance.
After Ye Faguang's soldiers occupied Yinchuan, they only arranged for a small number of people to reorganize the defense in Yinchuan.
But the large army did not stop, and headed south under the leadership of Ye Faguang, heading straight for Xining, Gansu Province.
As for the current direction of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and Xining, they still don't know that there is an army of tens of thousands of people galloping towards Xining behind them.
This is also because the mechanized troops move too fast, even faster than the spies.
In this way, Ye Faguang, with tens of thousands of troops, appeared at the gate of Xining City again in just a few days.
At this time, Tao Mo, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, discovered that he had been captured by soldiers.
If you are an ordinary official, you have only two choices when faced with this situation, either surrender or flee.
But this Tao model was not an ordinary person. After he discovered that he was attacked by the enemy, he immediately closed the city gate and ordered all his soldiers to go to the city to fight a defensive battle with Ye Faguang in the city.
Why is this pottery mold so powerful?
Tao Mo's ancestral home was Xunyang, Jiangxi Province. He served as a military officer from Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) and went south to follow Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty. He then stationed in Xiuzhou (now Jiaxing) and settled in Jinqiao, the northern suburb of Jiaxing. After the death of the Song Dynasty, he moved to Wangjiangjing, a suburb of Jiaxing.
Tao Mo was poor since he was a child. He studied and did housework at the same time, and sold the silk his mother spun in the market to make ends meet.
In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the Taiping Army captured Jiaxing, and Tao Mo worked as a handyman in the Taiping Army for a time. He studied hard in his early years and learned everything from scholars. The Tongcheng School of Emperor Wenzong did not like eight-legged essays, thinking that they were "the basis of troubles and chaos."
Because people's hearts are not right and they are empty words, they are determined to use the world to govern the country.
After becoming an official, he focused on being pragmatic and was known for his honesty and ability. When he was appointed as the magistrate of Qinzhou, there was a severe drought and hundreds of thousands of people were hungry. So he used his accumulated salary and more than 40,000 taels of public funds to set up a porridge factory, build an almshouse, and increase charity.
He also built dikes, dredged ponds, built water conservancy projects, and planted trees on the dikes in the south of the state, which was known as Tao Gongdi. When he was appointed as the prefect of Ganzhou, he exempted the counties from paying the customary tribute of money.
Zongtang reported to the Qing government that Tao Mo "ranked first in governance and conduct" and transferred the magistrate of Dihua Prefecture in Xinjiang. At that time, the ethnic conflicts in Dihua were acute, the society was in turmoil, and there were few households. Tao Mo adopted a policy of appeasement, reducing land taxes and uniting back to the Qing Dynasty.
The Han people brought peace to the border towns.
When he was the governor of Xinjiang, he built Puchang City in the north of Lobu Nur and set up a garrison station in the south to organize the Hui people to settle, develop and expand the administrative system. The British army invaded and occupied our territory Kanjuti, and Tao Mo calmly negotiated and finally made Kanjuti belong to the motherland.
After that, they trained troops, raised food, and maintained tight defense. Russia forcibly borrowed our country's Barluk Mountain and refused to return it overdue. Tao Mo fought hard as promised and finally got it back.
In the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896), he appealed to the Qing government and asked the government to work hard. He believed that "a strong country underestimates talents" and suggested that the donation system should be stopped, redundant personnel should be eliminated, the flag soldiers should be eliminated, opium smoking should be prohibited, and arithmetic and arts should be established.
and other educational courses; abolished martial arts examinations and changed military training methods; selected the descendants of the past to study in various countries and cultivate craftsmanship, etc.
How could such a character be frightened by a sudden attack?
However, although this person has some talents, he is also relatively conservative. He is not as proficient in current military development as imagined.
Not to mention the mechanized troops led by Ye Faguang, he had never even heard of them.
Therefore, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu now believes that as long as Xining City has high walls and thick walls, it can withstand the enemy's attack.
When the time comes, he will gather the cavalry from all over Shaanxi and Gansu, and he will be able to annihilate all the enemies in the future under Xining City.
But the facts taught him a good lesson.
When Ye Faguang arrived at Xining City, it was only noon. His troops had a quick lunch under the city, and immediately broke into formation, starting with the artillery positions at the rear of the troops.
In order to keep up with the advance of the mechanized troops, the artillery under Judge Ye's command was only some light artillery of about 105 mm.
Although these artillery pieces are only light artillery for the infantry under Liu Hai's command, they are rare heavy artillery pieces for the city of Xining.
Therefore, the salvo of more than 100 105mm caliber howitzers immediately caught the unprepared Xining City by surprise.
Tao Mo has been working alone in the interior for so many years, but he has never seen such a violent bombardment.
Therefore, with this cannon, the pottery mold was unable to find its way back.
Although the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu still wanted to fight back, how could any soldiers carry out his orders in the face of artillery shells falling like raindrops?
At this time, Ye Faguang dispatched his trump card, an assault force consisting of 300 Type 59 tanks, and now all the troops were dispatched and headed straight for the north gate of Xining City.
Tao Mo poked his head out on the tower and saw smoke and dust rising from the north. At first, he thought it was the enemy's large group of cavalry starting to attack.
But he was soon stunned, because what appeared behind the smoke and dust were not batches of war horses, but hundreds of steel chariots.
These torrents of steel are rapidly approaching Xining City Gate with an unstoppable momentum.
Faced with this situation, Tao Mo knew that if he did not stop the approach of these steel chariots, Xining City would soon be breached.
So the governor also risked his life, and directly pulled out his pistol for self-defense, stood up and said to the soldiers behind him: "Soldiers, the enemy is right in front of you. If you don't resist, if you break the jade stone, it will be burned. Think about it.
Your family, think about your wives, children, old and young, and think about what the enemy will do to them after the city is broken."
The soldiers under his command were originally hiding behind the city wall and did not show their heads at all. Now after hearing the encouragement from the prestigious governor, they are now a little ready to take action.
Tao Mo saw that there was a way, and then the Governor continued to lie to him, which was nothing more than serious injuries to everyone and meritorious deeds.
Encouraged by the reward offered by the Governor and worried about their families, these soldiers guarding the city finally plucked up the courage to go up to the top of the city and began to move the old-fashioned artillery on the top of the city to bombard the tanks below.
However, these effects are in vain. The artillery now invested in Xining City looks very big and has a thick muzzle, but most of these things were cast during the Qianlong period, and some were even cast during the Kangxi period.
These old-fashioned artillery pieces all use black powder, and their range is only about 1 kilometer.
If they are dealing with infantry in formation, they may have some deterrent effect, but for tanks that are approaching quickly, they have no effect at all on stopping them.
Therefore, although artillery fire continued on top of the city, after dozens of shellings, not a single shell hit the tank.
In this way, 300 tanks quickly approached a few hundred meters from the city gate.
At this time, the tanks also began to fight back. The tanks rushing at the front have now stopped advancing and adjusted the firing direction of the cannon.
Then there were several cannon shots and several cannonballs, which hit the gate of Xining City.
At this time, the gate of Xining City was immediately blown into several pieces, and the soldiers defending behind were also blown to pieces, crying for their fathers and mothers.
Since there was no obstacle, the hundreds of tanks were not polite. They quickly passed through the city gate in order.
When the Qing soldiers who were responsible for the defense at the city gate saw that there were no battle stars in this situation, they immediately threw all kinds of weapons in their hands to the ground, and then quickly disappeared into the streets and alleys.
Judge Ye could see clearly from behind the formation and knew that Xining City had been forced, so he ordered the tens of thousands of troops under his command to quickly approach the Xining City Gate.
Tao Mo, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, who was on the city tower, had never thought that a siege battle would be so simple. The enemy just faced each other and his city gate was opened.
The current situation caught him off guard.
He had been attacked in the first place, so Xining City had no defensive preparations. Now that the city gate was opened again, how could he defend?
As for this governor, although he was born in the Taiping Army, he is now very loyal to the Qing court.
He knew that if he continued to wait like this, Xining City would be doomed. So he pulled out his sword in one hand and held a revolver in the other, driving away the soldiers who had not escaped on the tower, hoping to let them go down to the city to block the advance of Ye Faguang's troops.
city.
But his idea was good, but the reality was cruel. He had just descended from the city with his troops, and they were greeted by the fire of several Type 53 heavy machine guns.
The pottery model was first hit by several 7.62mm bullets, and then the soldiers behind him were also swept away in pieces.
When the remaining soldiers saw that even the Governor had been beaten to death, why were they fighting hard? So they dropped their weapons and lay on the ground one by one, raised their hands, and kept signaling to the people on the other side that they were on their side.
You've already surrendered, but don't shoot again.
At this point, all resistance in Xining City has been broken down. This can be said to be a very easy battle.
However, this was also due to the rapid penetration of Ye Faguang's troops, leaving Xining City with no room for defense.
If Ye Guangming's troops were slower and the news of Yinchuan's capture reached Xining, relying on Tao Mo's years of prestige, he would soon be able to organize a defensive force of hundreds of thousands.
By that time, Ye Faguang had advanced weapons, and it would be very difficult to capture Xining in a short time.