"Turkic Mountains...... Turkic Mountain ......"

Aurangzeb held the map table in his hands, half-bent over, and his eyes swept over and over again the map of the eastern part of the river region. At the bottom of the map (to the south) is the Samarkand Oasis, which is located in the southeast corner of the oasis and where a small river flows.

On the north side of the river that flows north of Samarkand, two tents are depicted, and above the tents are written in Persian the names "Allied Army" and "Jungar Army".

The coalition of soldiers and horses of the Timurid Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Khiva Khanate has been confronting each other for more than two months on the plain north of the river called the Zeravshan River. From early autumn to late autumn!

At the beginning of the confrontation, whether it was Aurangzeb or Anusa Khan, or General Califa, there was a feeling that they were in the middle of the situation.

Isn't it foolish that the Dzungar Mongols, who came from afar, did not seek a quick victory, but instead built a fortress under the city of Samarkand? How can there be such a war?

Therefore, the coalition forces at that time did not think at all about actively seeking a decisive battle in order to break the action of the Dzungar Mongols to build a fortress and dig trenches.

But when the Dzungars worked day and night, piling up a huge fortress out of sandbags and earth in just half a month, Aurangzeb, Anusa Khan, and General Khalifa felt the slightest bit of a bad thing. In particular, Califa, who had learned from the British military adviser how to build a city in Western France, could see at a glance that the Junggers had built a fortress that was difficult to break!

The Dzungar Mongols actually built a fortress...... That's an amazing progress! Are they really the Dzungar people who were herding sheep on the steppe not so long ago?

However, the actions of the Dzungar army proved that they were the Mongols!

After completing the sandbag fortress, the monk of Dzungar began to send large groups of cavalry to the oasis plains north of the Zeravshan River to plunder!

What's even more odious is that these Jungar cavalry did not take things well, they set fire to them after grabbing, and they did not burn houses or people, but burned the ripe wheat in the fields!

After the wheat was burned, the Mongol cavalry did not engage in any wheel chopping, or even kill people, but took the livestock of the peasants' families, pulled the grain stored in the peasants' homes and drove away. Leave the peasants who have lost their food to Aurangzeb...... This is clearly to use them to consume Aurangzeb's stockpile!

After figuring out the intentions of the Dzungars, Aurangzeb and Anusa Khan hurriedly sent cavalry to stop the Dzungar cavalry from doing evil - Aurangzeb's Rajput cavalry and Anusa Khan's Khiva cavalry were actually not weak, they were both feudal warriors with territories, and they were all strong in martial arts. And the horses under their crotch were also very good, the Rajput cavalry had folded horses from India, and the Khiva cavalry had Turkmen horses.

In contrast, the main force of the cavalry of Dzungar was the Xiji horse and the Mongolian horse of Ili, which was not bad in the Central Plains, but the good horses of the Rajput cavalry and the Khiva cavalry were still a lot worse.

But the outcome of the battle on the plains of the Samarkand oasis made Aurangzeb jump a little - his Rajput cavalry inflicted heavy losses on the Dzungars! These Dzungar Mongols fought a battle, not riding horses and shooting arrows, nor charging with guns, nor fighting in a dignified formation, but luring the enemy to fight with black guns and night attacks!

What made Aurangzeb vomit blood even more was that the Khiva cavalry that went out with his Rajput cavalry suffered little losses, and it was clear that everyone went out side by side. Why did the Rajputs suffer heavy casualties, and those who ran back also lost their armor. And the Uzbeks (Khivans) are mostly able to come back with all their beards and tails? That's too much of a bully! Do the Dzungars also discriminate against Hindus?

As the Rajput cavalry suffered repeated defeats at the hands of the cunning and murderous Dzungar Mongols, the Khan of the Khiva Khanate, Anusa Khan, became more and more unruly, and he no longer called Aurangzeb "His Majesty Alamgil", but called him the Sultan of India.

And that Prince Alim is even more annoying, and he actually fell in love with Princess Nissa and wanted to marry her back as a fourth wife...... He was nothing more than a prince in a desert oasis, and the income of the whole country was not necessarily 400,000 rupees - this is the amount of Princess Nissa's annuity alone! He's also poor, and the prince is worthy of Princess Nissa?

And Princess Nissa is a tool used to strengthen the friendship between Ming and India, can Prince Alim compare to Emperor Ming? The monk who is now tossing everyone anxious is just a lackey of the Ming Emperor!

Thinking of the faces of Anusa Khan and Prince Alim, Aurangzeb snorted coldly, and then exhaled with a heavy heart: "I can't go on like this, if I continue like this, the damned Uzbeks will ride on my head!" ”

"Your Majesty Alamgil, you are so wise!" Mircha, who was beaten to the ground by the Dzungars. LUO Yan. Chow. Singh chimed in, "These Uzbeks are so hateful, every time they rely on their horses to run away before our warriors, and throw our people to the Dzungars to kill!" ”

Aurangzeb turned his head and glared at him viciously: "That's your people useless...... Running away can't compare to others! ”

Mircha. LUO Yan. Chow. Singh looked aggrieved, "Your Majesty Alamgil, the people here in the river are too cunning, whether they are enemies or friends, they are very cunning, much more cunning than the Indians!" ”

His words are not wrong, if he lets his Rajput knights compete with Uzbek knights and Jungar knights, he may not lose much.

But the Zungar knights and the Uzbek knights of the Khiva Khanate were old men fighting in the steppes and deserts, and the kind of vigilance and sense of battle that the Rajput knights could not compare at all.

Therefore, every time the Dzungars were ambushed, the Uzbeks would inevitably let the Indians explore the way in front. In case of danger, Yizhun ran faster than a rabbit and left the honest Hindus to be slaughtered by the Dzungars.

In addition, the Uzbeks are considered indigenous to Samarkand, and they can also find a fellow villager to lead the way when they run away. The Rajputs are all outsiders and Hindus, so they are often mistaken for Dzungar Mongols, and once they are alone, not only can they not get help from the people of Samarkand, but they will sometimes be attacked by them, not to mention how unjustly they died.

After twenty or thirty days of fighting, the number of casualties and missing of the Rajput cavalry exceeded 1,500......

"Your Majesty Alamgil," Shesta. Khan said to Aurangzeb, "It is true that we cannot delay any longer, and while we can still summon the Uzbeks, we should send troops immediately!" ”

"Do you want to send troops to a decisive battle?" Singh frowned, "The fortress of the Dzungar people looks sturdy!" ”

"Of course you can't fight their bastions," Aurangzeb set his eyes on the Turkic Mountains, "is there any news from the Turkmen?" ”

"Yes," Shesta. "The period between the north of the Turkic Mountains and the Syr Darya River was largely emptied by the Dzungars, and only one fortress, located in the eastern part of the hungry steppe, was heavily guarded. In addition, Khujand at the western exit of the Ferghana Basin was heavily guarded. I don't think the Dzungars would have cleared the walls of the Fergana Basin if the Uzbeks and Turkmens had been able to break through Khujand...... The Dzungars will definitely withdraw their troops! ”

The banks of the middle reaches of the Syr Darya River, now occupied by the Dzungars, are considered good places in Central Asia, but they are not comparable to the Ferghana Basin...... That's a cornucopia! The land is fertile, the climate is humid, and there is basically no worry about floods and droughts.

As long as the grain production in the basin is not affected, the hundreds of thousands of Dzungars in the heart of the Sangha will not have to worry about eating.

"Ferghana is the weakness of the Dzungars!" Aurang preached, "As long as the Uzbeks can take it, the battle of Samarkand will be won." If they can't take it, the Sangha will definitely send troops back from the Samarkand Oasis...... In this way, we will be able to run out of food and retreat! ”