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More than 10 years after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Nationalist army found that the Qing army was still patrolling in Xinjiang, and did not know that the Qing Dynasty had died
Xinjiang has been an inseparable part of China since ancient times, and in addition to historical proof, the military personnel stationed in Xinjiang throughout the dynasties and the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang have responded to this with their own actions.
The city is full of white-haired soldiers, and they will not lose their knives when they die.
After fifty years of independent resistance, how dare we forget the Tang Dynasty.
This is written by posterity to Guo Xin, the king of the Iron-Blooded County of the Tang Dynasty, guo Ziyi's nephew. From the end of Emperor Suzong of Tang to the yongtai period of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo continued to invade the western frontier of the Tang Dynasty, and Guo Xin was ordered to patrol Hexi, Anxi and other places, and served as the queen of the four towns of Anxi. After the Anshi Rebellion, most of the garrisons in Anxi, Beiting, and Hexi were transferred internally, and Tubo took advantage of the void to occupy Longyou, Hexi Prefectures, and the passage between the four towns of Anxi and the imperial court was interrupted. However, the remaining troops of the four towns remained alone in the towns. Guo Xin was isolated in the western region for fifteen years, until tang dezong jianzhong in the second year (781) began to contact the interior.
The Tang Dynasty was deeply moved, and at this time, about a military sound was issued to the heroic troops led by Guo Xin, and the coins printed with the words "Tang Jianzhong" were brought here, and the city gate was opened, and the payers saw that the soldiers in the city were clutching strange knives, but each one was already pale. They said: A lonely city is full of white-haired soldiers. Born as a Member of the Han Family, died as a Tang Soldier. Although they were isolated, they were there, and Datang was there. In the third year of Emperor Dezong of Tang (787), the Tubo army captured Beiting, and Anxi once again lost contact with the interior, they looked at the Tang Dynasty, or died in a tragic battle, or disappeared in the long river of history.
Further afield than this story is an army of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 74 AD, the Eastern Han Dynasty re-established the Western Regions Capital Protectorate, and appointed Geng Gong and Guan Yu as lieutenants. The following year, the Northern Xiongnu Sent 20,000 Elite Soldiers to attack Cheshi, killing the Queen of Cheshi, and instead attacking Geng Gong's garrison, which had hundreds of troops stationed there, and besieging it into the city. At this time, when Emperor Ming of Han died and had no time to send troops, the rescue troops could not arrive, and Che shiguo betrayed the Han Dynasty and joined forces with the Xiongnu to attack Geng Gong. The Han soldiers ran out of food and were in trouble. They refused the Surrender of the Huns and held on to the city. It was not until Emperor Zhang of Han ascended the throne that he sent troops to defeat the Xiongnu. When reinforcements came to Geng Gong to defend the city, there were only 26 people left in the city. When the Han army returned to Yumen Pass, there were only 13 people left, and their clothes were torn and ragged, describing them as haggard and withered. The Jade Gate Guards will be moved to personally bathe and change their clothes.
This story was called "The Thirteen Generals Return to the Jade Gate" by later generations, and at the most difficult time, the soldiers drank their juices from horse dung and boiled armor and crossbows to eat their tendons. In order to seduce them, the Xiongnu promised to give them a glorious and rich life as long as they surrendered, and they also wanted to marry the Xiongnu princess to Geng Gong. However, the Han army killed the emissaries sent by the Xiongnu and roasted them at the head of the city. Many years later, Yue Fei was inspired by them and wrote in the famous "Manjiang Hong, Fury Hair Chong Guan": Zhuangzhi starved of meat, laughed and talked about thirst for Xiongnu blood.
This is the historical soldiers stationed in Xinjiang, singing the long song of patriotism with the flesh and blood of youth, revealing the dependence of individuals on the motherland, and expressing people's sense of belonging, identity, dignity and honor to their homeland and nationality and culture. The same is true of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, who all have a fine tradition of fighting for the motherland. Let's take the Tajiks as an example.
In the 18th century, the Khanate of Kokand near the Pamir and other ministries repeatedly harassed and plundered the Thérùkul region. In the winter of 1836, the Kokand invading army invaded Selekul, and Achim burk Kurchak led the crowd to fight a bloody battle, was killed by kokand invaders, and sacrificed his precious life to defend the territory of the motherland. The long poem "Taihong", which celebrates this national hero, is still sung among the Tajiks today.
In 1877, after the Qing government sent Zuo Zongtang to send troops to retake Xinjiang, the Tajik people were recruited to form the "Selekur Suiyuan Hui Brigade", with the horse team flag officer stationed in the local area concurrently serving as the general sentry of the pipe belt Aqimu Burke, responsible for defending the local area. Many Tajik herders voluntarily moved to places such as Bianka and Mingtigai near Jeskam in southern Tashkurgan, where they long served as border guards.
After the founding of New China, many Tajik compatriots consciously shouldered the responsibility of defending the national border and the security of pastoral areas, and there was once a Herdsman named Bayak Tajik who insisted on being a guide to the border guards for 40 years, and his family had been volunteering to patrol the border for more than 60 years. According to reports, there are currently thousands of Tajik militia members in our country, distributed in various areas inhabited by the Tajik population. Thus, according to military experts, the Tajik militia is a force that never withdraws and guards the border of the Republic, and that wherever their tents are placed is equivalent to where the barracks are located.
Today, we are going to tell a story related to the previously mentioned sentry in Setura. The Setula outpost is 424 kilometers away from the county seat of Pishan, 15 kilometers away from the town of Setula, and 3800 meters above sea level. Originally the southern communication route of the Silk Road, it can be used to travel to India, occupying this place to peek into the interior of southern Xinjiang. Setula was an ancient trade route and the last settlement on the ancient Silk Road leading to Leh, the capital of Ladakh, India. In 1877, after Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, he set up a death squad, joined hands with the local people in Setula, Kryanka and Mazadara Shika, established a defensive base camp on the westernmost border of the motherland, and undertook the task of defending the Karakoram Mountains, more than 800 kilometers from the western border.
On February 12, 1912, Yuan Shikai, the minister of Beiyang, induced the Qing Emperor Puyi to abdicate and issued an edict of abdication, and the Qing Dynasty ended there. However, the Qing troops stationed in Setula did not know that the Qing Dynasty was dead, and for more than 10 years after that, they still stood guard, sentry, and patrolled to guard the frontier for the motherland. In Setura there are still stories of their side.
In June 1928, after Yang Zengxin, the governor of Xinjiang who had previously obeyed the Beiyang government, returned to Nanjing, the nationalist soldiers met the Qing soldiers in Setula, but the Qing soldiers did not know that the Qing Dynasty had long since perished and that history had changed dynasties. The Nationalist army encountered the third generation of the Qing army garrison. The first generation of Qing troops, because there was no one to change their defenses, they intermarried with the locals and never left, and then there was a second generation, a third generation... When the Nationalist army met them, the first generation of Qing troops was already very old and were about to die.
This story may have a deductive component, saying that when the nationalist soldiers saw them at that time, the leader was a very old man, who could hardly walk, trembling, standing with a wooden stick to support, he asked the nationalist soldiers: "The Qing Dynasty is dead?" The nationalist soldier said, "Dead." He put his ear together and asked, "Dead?" The soldiers of the Nationalist army said: "They have all died for more than ten years!" He passed out.
To be honest, I doubted the veracity of this story, because it was similar to what I wrote before, in 1950, when the People's Liberation Army was stationed in Setula, when the Nationalist soldiers saw the Plaster, they thought that the troops had changed their clothes. But the man who told me the story said to me: Hello, author! There is a boundary monument at an altitude of 6700 meters above sea level at the location of the dividing line between Xinjiang and Tibet, and there are herds of Tibetan antelopes on the mountainside who are not afraid of humans, and they can rest when they want to rest, and run when they want! The white clouds overhead, the white snow around you, the Tibetan antelope in the distance! What a beautiful sight! Pangong Lake, 4241 meters above sea level, the Chinese part is freshwater, the Indian part is saltwater, this is a great spectacle that even scientists can't explain... The frontier thing is so magical, what right do you have to doubt it!
It is said that after the old man of the Qing army was awakened by everyone, he said: "Alas, if you die, you will die, everyone who comes is the same, just keep this place (border defense) on the line..." The soldiers of the Nationalist army found that these Qing army rags and rags had a piece of Qing Dynasty military uniform on them, and it was sewn and patched, some were just a sleeve, some were a piece of chest or back, patches were layered, and the pieces of land were like scars, which would make people heart-wrenching to watch! (Wen | Lusheng)