Aurangzeb is now the leader of the coalition - he has the largest number of soldiers, 80,000 men! The money is also the most, including Anusa Khan, General Khalifa, Lev. Everyone, including Golov, was given silver rupees. The hands of the man are short, and they naturally want to give him a little face now.

The emperor of the Timurid Empire had an iron and bloody face, but he was quickly pulling a small abacus in his heart...... If you fight in a coalition battle, of course, you have to consume friendly forces and save yourself.

So what Aurangzeb had to calculate now was that it would be more cost-effective to keep the Persian red-headed army with him, or it would be more cost-effective to let them go around with the Turkmens.

The Persian Redheads were firearms cavalry, armed with arquebuses and camel cannons, and also carried several 6-pounder field guns imported from the British, which still had a certain strength. If they were allowed to follow the Turkmen in a detour, the detour would have a better chance of success, but Aurangzeb's side would be dangerous!

Although Aurangzeb did not intend to fight the Sangha, but wanted to set up a camp under the city of Samarkand to confront the Sangha, the Dzungar army was very effective and had a strong ability to attack fortifications......

"General Califa," Aurangzeb said to the famous Persian general, fluent in Persian, "I hope that you and the Persian Redheads will remain in Samarkand...... We fight side by side to smash the invading Dzungars! In order to motivate the fighting spirit of the Redheads and all the soldiers who participated in the Battle of Samarkand, I have prepared 10 million rupees, and all the meritorious soldiers will be rewarded! ”

Rs 10 million!

This Aurangzeb is really out of the way!

As soon as his heavy reward came out, not to mention that Califa was unwilling to leave Samarkand, even several tribal leaders of the Turkmen people were a little unhappy.

Seeing their faces, Aurangzeb hurriedly and generously threw money, and he said to the Turkmen: "The Turkmen who are circuitous will also be rewarded, and every Turkmen warrior who participates in the battle will be rewarded with 50 rupees!" ”

The Turkmen pulled out 15,000 people this time, 50 rupees per person, which is 750,000!

Of course, the warriors below can't get that much, and it's good to have 10 rupees for one person, so several tribal leaders are now rich!

After pacifying the Turkmens, Aurangzeb ordered Shesta. Khan said: "Send an envoy to the north of the Jizzakh Pass and invite the king of Sangha to the south for a decisive battle!" Tell him that we will withdraw the troops south of the Jizzakh Pass...... I, Alamgil of the Timurid Empire, will fight him to the death under the city of Samarkand! ”

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The camp of the Sangha army is made up of countless yurts, and it is huge in the oasis north of the Jizzakh Pass. If you look down from the Turkic Mountains, you will be frightened by the astonishing momentum of so many yurts placed together.

With so many yurts, how many Mongolians should be in them? I'm afraid it's more than 100,000...... 100,000 Mongol warriors! When Genghis Khan went west, he was probably just that.

Now that Genghis Khan's army is back, and it is still carrying muskets and cannons, the Samarkand Oasis is going to suffer!

The monk lives in a gold-roofed tent, which is similar in shape to the big tent where Genghis Khan lived, but there is no white silk outside, but the sun and moon of the Ming Dynasty and the flying dragon flag of the Jungar Kingdom - the dragon flag was granted to the Zhunger Kingdom by the Ming court, symbolizing that the King of Junggar has the identity of the Ming Prince. The monk also had people embroider the swastika symbolizing Buddhism on the dragon flag, and it became the swassh-character flying dragon flag of the Junggar Kingdom.

Contrary to what the people of Samarkand might imagine, the monk who lived in the golden-domed tent was not a rough man in a dirty leather robe, with a ring of shaved hair and a braid on the left and right sides of his head. It's a Ming Dynasty official with a python robe and black yarn, with a bun on his head, and he is cleaned up, and he looks elegant.

In the big tent where he lives, there is also a row of bookshelves, which are full of all kinds of thread-bound books - the monk is now knowledgeable, and he can already read the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from beginning to end, although there are still many words that he does not recognize, but it does not affect the reading. So he is now a Confucian general, and he also asked people to find a lot of thread-bound books and put them in his big tent, which is not a façade, but a person who can really study knowledge as soon as he has free time.

When the envoy sent by Aurangzeb arrived at the Dzungar military camp at the Jizzakh Pass, the monk was sitting behind the bookcase, holding a thread-bound book called "The Golden Vase of Plums" and reading it carefully.

The Mingzhu Lama walked in quickly with Aurangzeb's war book, and when he saw the monk studying the "Golden Vase Plum", he stepped forward and said with a smile: "King, is this book okay?" ”

The monk was looking at it with taste, and when Mingzhu asked him, he replied casually: "Yes, yes...... Are there any such good books? The king also wants to read a few books. ”

"Yes, yes...... Recently, the minister was given a copy of "***" by a friend, which was written by the Jiangnan writer Li Yu, and he had some taste, and he went back to the prince to taste one or two. ”

"Okay," the monk laughed, "Bring it to me!" ”

Mingzhu happened to be holding Aurangzeb's war book at this time and handed it over, and the monk took it and took it: "How is it in Persian?" How did this Jiangnan writer write a book in Persian? ”

"King, this is not "***", it is a war letter sent by the people of Aurangzebu?"

"What? Sending a war book again? The monk frowned, "He came all the way from Tianzhu, he hasn't fought a battle, and the battle letters are one after another, isn't it too troublesome?" ”

Mingzhu said with a smile: "King, Xu is that Aurangzeb thinks that he has literary talent, write more things so that people can know." ”

"Oh," the monk nodded, "what's going on this time?" ”

"He said that he would transfer the troops blocking the southern pass of the Jizzakh Pass, and let us go south to Samarkand for a decisive battle."

"What?" The monk was stunned, "Did he really let us go south?" ”

"Really!" Mingzhu smiled, "King, this will save us a lot of trouble!" ”

The monk laughed and said, "It really saves us trouble!" But we're not afraid of trouble...... We can go south, but we won't fight them! There are few of us, there are many of them, we can't afford to die, they can't die, and we still have to do less things to fight hard. ”

"The prince is wise!" Mingzhu complimented.

"Sensei," the monk smiled, "first go and urge the Three Treasures Lama, and ask him to quickly repair the fortress at the north entrance of Jizzak!"

After repairing the fortress, let's go south to the south entrance of Jizzakh and build another fortress! When both fortresses were built, they went to Samarkand and built a third fortress...... When the fortress under Samarkand is repaired, we will win! ”

That's right, this is the tactic of the Sangha - to build the fortress outside Samarkand!

Then the fortress and its defenders were used to contain the combined forces in and under Samarkand, and then the Dzungar cavalry was used to attack everywhere, and the wheat fields in the Samarkand oasis were about to be harvested, and then to cut off the communication between Samarkand and the Amu Darya River, so that the grain of Khorezm could not reach Samarkand.

After doing this, the Sangha can wait quietly under Samarkand for victory to come!

The people in Samarkand thought that there was a "monk Khan", but no one expected that it was a steady and steady "monk vassal domain".

On the third day after receiving Aurangzeb's war letter, the northern city of the Jizzak Pass, which was supervised by the Three Treasures Lama, was completed. Leaving behind 3,000 defenders, and then dismissing half of the minmen (forcibly requisitioned from the bottom of the Fergana valley), he led his main force of about 30,000 and 15,000 Fergana miners who were responsible for transporting military rations and coolies, and drove the valley that had long been firmly controlled by the Jungar army, entered the northeastern corner of the rich Samarkand oasis, and began to build a second citadel at the foot of the Turkic mountains and on the banks of the Sanzar River.

The prologue to the Battle of Samarkand, which was long beyond the imagination of Aurangzeb and Anusa Khan and others, began!