At the beginning of July 1665, envoys from Persia, Khiva, and Rakshasa finally arrived in Samarkand, the capital of the Timurid Empire. In the old but still solemn and gorgeous palace, the envoys of the three kingdoms first saw the 5,000 new Timurid troops standing in the palace square. These warriors from the river were dressed in plate chain mail (chain mail with iron plates on it), iron helmets on their heads, arquebuses on their shoulders, and scimitars hanging from their belts.

Even in the new army of Persian Gulam (a force led by the British adventurer Anthony. The Western-style army that Shirley helped train was made up of members from the Caucasus), and the Persian envoy Khalifa, who had served as a high-ranking officer, seemed to be an elite army. It is not comparable to the new army of Persian Gulam, which adopted the tactics of the Maurice phalanx, but it can still compete with the red-headed army of the Persian army.

An emperor of Hindustan can come up with such an army, and it seems that this Aurangzeb is not in vain!

Prince Alim, the envoy of the Khiva Khanate, was also a warlike general, and his attention was not the royal guards lined up in the palace square, but the camel artillery, camel cavalry, and ordinary cavalry he saw as he entered the city.

The camel cannon, also known as Shanatul, is a very popular weapon for the armies of West, Central and South Asia, between heavy muskets and light artillery, somewhat similar to the Chinese carrying gun. However, this weapon was not used by the infantry, but was assigned to the cavalry. The standard tactic was to bombard with camel cannons first, and then charge with cavalry.

Aurangzeb's empire was vast and wealthy, and the handicraft industry was extremely developed, so that camel cannons could be cast in large quantities. In order to equip his own soldiers in the river with camel cannons, Aurangzeb mobilized as many as 1,000 camel cannons from India, and now all of them are placed in front of the envoys of Persia, Khiva, and Rakshasa.

The Rakshasa envoy was Lev, the younger brother of the Marquis of Goloving. Golovin was also a battle-hardened soldier who fought against Poland, Sweden, and Turkey, and also participated in the translation of "Training and Transformation of Infantry Combat Formations", which was the combat code of the infantry of the Western European Army, which was introduced to the Rakshasa in 1647 to guide the reform of the Rakshasa Army's archery army.

The Rakshasa Nation's shooting army is those musketeers dressed like Santa Claus, and they have also continued to evolve in the past ten years - if they don't evolve, why have they fought with strong enemies like Poland, Sweden, and Turkey for seven or eight years without losing much?

After the reorganization of Alexei I, the shooting corps already had about 60 regiments of the "new system", and the total strength reached almost 60,000. Although these "new" regiments are still not as strong as those in Europe, they are the first-class powerhouses in Central Asia.

In addition, the Rakshasa Kingdom had already deployed many Cossack cavalry here in Central Asia, and they were the object of imitation of the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty's forward battalion.

The Jungger cavalry of the monk is borrowed from the cavalry of the forward battalion of the Qing Dynasty (many of the Eight Banners of Mongolia who served as officers and soldiers in the forward battalion ran under the monks), the black lancers of the Ming Dynasty and the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa country, in fact, it is also a "miscellaneous cavalry" that is common under the horse, and the biggest difference between them and the Cossack cavalry, black lancers, and forward battalion cavalry is Maduo! Are they Mongols, can they still lack war horses? So the mobility of the Jungar cavalry was super.

However, Jungar was not equipped with ultra-light artillery such as camel cannons, but was equipped with 6 catties of field guns donated by the Ming court. The power of this gun was very satisfying, much more powerful than the earlier 3-pounder gun. It can be used both to bombard the enemy's field forces and to destroy the not-so-impregnable walls of Central Asia. The only problem was that it was a little heavier - this cannon was cast in bronze and had a lot of weight! So it's not very convenient to transport.

Therefore, when the army of Jungar pulled on the artillery and had a very strong field and offensive ability, the mobility was lost. And when it does not carry artillery, it is a "Mongolian iron cavalry" that comes and goes like the wind.

Through "friendly contact" with the Sangha, the resourceful Aurangzeb has figured out the details of the Jungar Kingdom. 12 Dzungar households can theoretically provide 10,000 Dzungar cavalry, but that is the strength that can only be pulled out by general mobilization under extreme circumstances.

Under normal circumstances, the "60,000 households stationed in the kingdom of Zhunger" (in fact, they are also farmers and herdsmen) implemented a rotational service system similar to the government military system, and only one-third, or about 20,000 people, were in service.

In addition, the Sangha had a recruited army of 5,000 soldiers, including a Ming-style infantry regiment (modeled after the new army, armed with arquebuses and pikes), a cuirassier regiment, an artillery battalion, and an engineer battalion.

A standing army of 25,000 men formed the core of the military power of the Jungar Kingdom, and outside the core there were 60,000 nomadic cavalry.

These nomadic cavalry were more traditional Mongol cavalry, but they were also well-armed and had a large number of arquebuses and chain mail. However, due to the organizational problems of the nomadic tribes and the contradictions within the Guls family (the monks and several elder brothers were not born to the same mother), the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of these six nomadic households could not be compared with the standing army of the monks. Moreover, the territory that these 6 nomadic households need to control is very large, and there are still a large number of half-hearted Kazakh tribes to suppress in the jurisdiction, so in the upcoming war, the role that these 6 nomadic households can play is quite limited.

While mastering the details of Dzungar, Aurangzeb also figured out the strength of several allies. The strongest of these is of course the Rakshasa - Kazakh joint army, in addition to the 6,000 shooting troops brought by the Marquis of Golovin, the Rakshasa has about 4,000 troops (mainly Cossacks) on the Central Asian side. In addition, the Kazakh tribes of Xiaoyuz are all on the side of the Rakshasa Kingdom. Because the Kazakhs and the Dzungars have a great hatred for the destruction of the country and the destruction of their families, they will definitely fight desperately. The Rakshasas plus the Kazakhs can dispatch about 30,000 troops!

This alone is more than the standing army of the Sangha!

The Khiva Khanate, second only to the Rakshasas-Kazakh coalition, was second only to the Rakshasa and Kazakh armies, and after the incorporation of the Uzbeks in Bukhara (the Khiva Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate were relatives), Anusa Khan had at least 50,000 Uzbek warriors, as well as a large number of new firearms and military advisers provided by the Ottoman Empire.

The Persian-Turkman army was also very strong, with Abbas II of the Safavid dynasty sending at least 5,000 red-headed troops from Persia proper, as well as recruiting a large number of warriors from Turkmen tribes, with a total strength of about 20,000.

These three alone had an army of 100,000, while Aurangzeb had an army of 80,000 men at his disposal—including 30,000 expeditionary forces brought from India and 50,000 new troops recruited in Samarkand and Tajikistan. So the total strength of the anti-Junggar coalition was as high as 180,000...... Even if the six resident herdsmen of the Sangha are mobilized, the number of troops that can be pulled out is only 65,000.

And it is impossible for all of these 65,000 people to gather for a movement war, because the Hezhong Tianfang cultists under the rule of the Sangha are already ready to launch a great uprising.

No matter how you look at the current situation, it is very unfavorable to the sangha!

This is also the reason why Aurangzeb transformed from a good man to a great emperor.

In the royal palace of Samarkand, Emperor Aurangzeb sat on his throne in chain mail, a symbol of war, surrounded by a group of famous generals in India. In front of the envoys of the Rakshasas, Persia, and Khiva, the emperor beckoned one of his eunuchs.

The eunuch walked up to the Emperor with a plate containing a dirty old slipper!

Aurangzeb's face was gloomy, and he spoke in Persian: "I am known to be a tolerant and loving monarch, and I do not want to see endless killing and suffering, even if I am killed by heretics, so I will give the king of the monks one last chance before the war against the kingdom of Dzungar begins......" He pointed to the slippers, "This is the slipper I wear, I will send it to the royal city of Dzungar on my behalf to persuade him to surrender, if the monk is willing to convert to the true god and submit to the Timurid Empire, and then withdraw from the Middle Yuz, Ferghana and the middle reaches of the Syr Darya River, the crimes committed by him and his courtiers should be forgiven! ”