When Zhu Cihong pondered about sending her younger brother Zhu Cihong to Princess Kaunisa in mathematics and philosophy in India, Princess Nissa was still in Samarkand in Central Asia, with her father Aurangzeb!

Aurangzeb was still playing the role of the Great during this time, and he also declared war on the kingdom of Dzungar - and there were a few twists and turns in the declaration of war on Dzungar, because the kingdom of Dzungar did not know the rules of India, and neither threw away the slippers (did not dare) nor killed the elephants. Instead, he "expressed" the slippers to Yingtian, and took the elephant to the lama temple in the Shibao King City to raise it.

Shesta. When Khan went back to report, Aurangzeb was also confused, what does this mean? The slippers and the elephant were taken away, is this to fight or not to fight? So he sent someone to inquire again, and it was not until the summer of 1665 that he found out the situation. It turned out that the Dzungars were already in the clear wilderness, ready to meet the attack of the Timurid Empire.

Upon hearing the news, Aurangzeb finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The last thing he was afraid of was the strong walls of the Jungar Kingdom - although he also knew that those fortresses in Junggar were difficult to fight, but he didn't plan to fight at all!

The monk guards the city, he Aurangzeb also guards the city, you don't move, I don't move, how good it is for everyone to fight a sit-down battle!

So Aurangzeb did not go south to Termez, but continued to train his army in Samarkand and waited for the arrival of the Persian, Turkmenistan, and Khiva khanates.

According to the route of march negotiated by Aurangzeb and the envoys of the Persians, Khivas, Rakshasas, Turkmenistans, and Kazakhs, the six-party alliance will be divided into two routes, the north and the south, of which the Rakshasa and Kazakh forces will be responsible for the northern route, and the target of the attack will be Zhongyuz and Dayuz.

The Southern Route Army, a four-party alliance of Timur, Persia, Khiva, and Turkmenistan, would first assemble in the Samarkand Oasis, and then send troops after the autumn harvest to advance to the Syr Darya River in the north.

The reason why the army was chosen after the autumn harvest was, of course, to raise enough food in the Samarkand and Khorezm oases to support the war of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Since the important grain-producing areas in the Transoxiana region were in the hands of the Jungar Kingdom, the first difficulty encountered by the anti-Jungar coalition was the lack of food.

Although the Khiva Khanate had a large Oasis of Khorezm, it was able to produce a lot of food. But transporting grain from the Khorezm oasis to the Samarkand oasis was not easy, and it was necessary to take the Amu Darya waterway first, and then by land.

In order to transport the grain smoothly, the shipbuilders of the Khiva Khanate were busy building ships all summer, but by the early autumn they had not completed all the ships needed to transport the grain.

When autumn came, Anusa Khan, the Khan of the Khiva Khanate, who had personally led his troops to the Samarkand oasis, quarreled with Aurangzeb over the timing of the troops. Anusa Khan hoped that he could march in as soon as possible, and that as long as the army could occupy the Ferghana basin (the monks did not clear the basin), the problem of food shortage would be completely solved.

Aurangzeb, on the other hand, believed that it would be safer to wait for the arrival of grain from the Khwarazm oasis before marching steadily.

However, on September 10 of the Western calendar, the dispute between the two kings ended because of the unexpected news - the kingdom of Jungar had sent troops!

According to the information sent back, Dzungar made a big attack this time, and their king Sangha personally led the troops towards the Samarkand Oasis!

In the magnificent palace of Samarkand, the emperor of the Timurid Empire, wearing a white robe and a white turban on his head, sat on a throne that was said to have been sat by Timur himself, with a blank face, listening to the most courageous general of the Timurid Empire, the bearded Mircha. LUO Yan. Chow. Singh reported on the military situation on the front line.

The Khan of the Khiva Khanate, Anusa Khan, and his son Prince Alim, the general of the Persian Empire, the general of the Khalifa, and the envoy of the Rakshasa State, Lev. Golovin, as well as several leaders of the Turkmen tribes, frowned a little as they looked at the scene in front of them.

An emperor of the Great Empire of the Heavenly Sect, the most capable general under his command is actually a Hindu!

This Hindu spoke a highly Persianized Urdu language, which was only understood by the Khalifa of the Persian Empire, except for the civil generals brought by Aurangzeb from India. However, Aurangzeb arranged for all the visitors to have an interpreter so that they could learn about the southward movement of the Jungar army.

“...... According to reconnaissance by the cavalry of the new army, the army of the Dzungars had already crossed the hungry steppes and entered the oasis north of the Jizzakh Pass, starting from the fortified city on the left bank of the Syr Darya River, carrying a large number of baggage and artillery. Their number is quite large, estimated at around 10 people.

And our army was deployed south of the Jizzakh Pass, blocking the way for the Jungar army to go south. Now the armies of the two sides are facing each other across the Turkic Mountains, and the front line remains calm for the time being. ”

The Turkic Mountains are an east-west mountain range that stretches north of the Samarkand Oasis, separating Samarkand from the hungry steppes. However, this mountain range of five or six hundred miles is not an insurmountable natural danger, and there are many mountain passes along the route, and if the troops are to be divided, then the coalition forces concentrated in Samarkand will be scattered. Without holding so many passes, the cavalry of Dzungar would have rushed into the oasis of Samarkand...... Now that the autumn harvest is approaching, the fields of the Samarkand oasis are full of wheat that is about to ripen! If this is a waste of the Dzungars, where will the hundreds of thousands of allied troops, two or three hundred thousand large animals, as many as a million refugees, and countless oasis dwellers gather in Samarkand?

Aurangzeb the Great's sharp gaze flickered in the hall, taking in the anxious expressions of the two Uzbeks, Anusa Khan and Prince Alim.

Among the leaders of the coalition gathered in the palace of Samarkand, the two of them were the most breathless.

The battlefields of the Rakshasas and Kazakhs were in Siberia and Middle Yuz - they wished that the main forces of Dzungar would go deep into the oases of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khorezm!

The Persians and Turkmen were not in a hurry either, and Abbas II sent troops to the river for fear of a recurrence of Hulegü's conquest. But after a period of observation, the Persians have discovered that the Dzungars are not traditional Mongols, but semi-sedentary and semi-nomadic Mongols, and have also absorbed Western military technology from the Ming Dynasty...... Their military strength was similar to that of the Persian new army of Gulam and the Cossacks of the Rakshasas.

Although such an army was powerful, it was not a particularly big threat to the Persian Safavid dynasty, which had a new army of Ghulam.

So if Samarkand can't fight here, it's a big deal to retreat across the Black Desert.

And the Turkmens who came from those oases in the southern part of the Black Desert cared only about the silver rupee of Aurangzeb, and if they had the chance, they wanted to plunder the oasis of Samarkand......

Aurangzeb was even less in a hurry...... It's a good step to retreat from the army! As long as hundreds of thousands of people are brought back to India from Samarkand, then the unification of India will no longer be a dream!

"We should put the Dzungars into the Samarkand oasis to fight!" Anusa Khan of the Khiva Khanate really couldn't hold his breath and didn't wait for Mircha. LUO Yan. Chow. After Singh finished speaking, he shouted, "Now there are as many as 150,000 soldiers concentrated in Samarkand, and the enemy is only 100,000 at most, and our strength advantage is obvious, so we should fight a decisive battle immediately!"

Moreover, we have the fortified city of Samarkand behind us, and even if the decisive battle is unfavorable, we can retreat to the castle, and then send our cavalry back to the hungry steppe to cut off the grain routes of the Dzungars and force them to retreat. ”

The Persian general, Califa, also agreed to introduce the Dzungars into the Samarkand Oasis, but he did not want to fight to the death, but wanted to fight a clever battle, saying: "I propose to introduce the Dzungars into the Samarkand Oasis, and then confront them, and then use the elite red-headed army and Turkmen cavalry to cross the Turkic mountains from the small road, kill the Dzungars behind the back, and then make a flank attack to crush the army of the Sangha king in one fell swoop!" ”

Aurangzeb looked at Anusa Khan again, and the Khan of the Khiva Khanate thought for a moment and said, "General Khalifa's method is feasible...... However, it is not necessary to use the red-headed army to make a detour to the hungry steppe, it is enough to have Turkmen. Your Majesty, what do you say? ”