Chapter 651: The Capture of Dzungar

The killing unfolded in the Jungar steppe, where there was no mercy, and Ji Feng did not allow himself to be merciful to the enemy.

There is no one right or wrong in the war, the Dzungar people can wantonly kill the Ming people for food, and the Ming army can also take retaliatory actions, do everything possible to weaken the power of the Dzungar, and even defeat or completely destroy the Dzungar.

"Kill!"

"Bang! Bang! "Gunshots kept rang out.

One tribe after another, the Dzungar cavalry was killed in the back, the entire tribe was washed in blood, and any Dzungar who dared to resist was mercilessly shot.

This is already the third Jungar tribe destroyed by Ji Feng and other 20,000 Ming army iron cavalry.

After killing all the rebels, the Ming army captured all the supplies of this tribe, not only cattle, sheep and horses, but also the population.

"Commander Qiyu, all the population, cattle, sheep and horses have been captured, a total of 50,000 cattle and sheep, 1,200 war horses, and 3,000 prisoners!" A Ming army general rode to Ji Feng and reported to Ji Feng.

Ji Feng nodded, counting the gains of the first two tribes, the army had captured nearly 140,000 cattle and sheep, 3,000 war horses and nearly 10,000 people.

With so much booty, it is not conducive to the continuation of the war by the army.

"Order, withdraw troops!" Ji Feng decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops.

Since Zhungar took the initiative to provoke the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty returned the favor to him, didn't the Jungar people want to kill the Ming people and plunder the Ming Dynasty's money and grain, so he took the Ming soldiers to kill the Jungger people, and plundered the only remaining cattle, sheep and horses of the Junggar tribe, as well as the population.

20,000 Ming troops left Jungar with the spoils of war and returned to the city of Nalambra in the Mongolian steppe.

It was only two days after entering Junggar this time, and I believe that when he goes back and places the loot, Ji Feng will soon make a comeback, and he will not stop if he doesn't completely beat the Jungar people.

At the same time that the Ming army withdrew to Nalambra, the king of Zhunger, who was far away in the center of Zungar, also received the news that the Ming army had entered Zungar and destroyed the three tribes, and the king of Zhunger was furious!

The strength of the Ming army was not unexpected, thinking that when the Manchus were forced to move westward by the Ming army, they had defeated his 100,000 Jungger iron cavalry with 30,000 Manchurian Eight Banners, and from the combat effectiveness of the Manchurians, he could guess the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

It is precisely because of the fear of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army that the king of Junggar has not provoked the Ming Dynasty in recent years, if it were not for the natural disaster encountered by Zhunger this time, he must rob the food to survive, and the Ming Dynasty built the castle to the edge of Zhunger, in order to warn the Ming Dynasty, he sent the powerful general Taili to lead 50,000 cavalry to kill Nalambra City.

Of course, the result made him very dissatisfied, only 20,000 of the 50,000 cavalry returned, but they did not bring any results, which made him angry and shocked, and from the news brought back from Taili, he knew that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was even higher than he expected.

Although he was shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, the Ming army took the initiative to kill the three tribes in Jungar and wiped out three tribes, and the population that took away a large number of cattle and sheep still made him pale and angry, and shouted that he would personally lead the army to kill the city of Nalambra in the Mongolian steppe and give the Ming army a bloody lesson.

"King Khan, now is not the time for a large-scale all-out war with the Ming Dynasty, you need to be patient!" There are high-level people in Zhungar who persuade Jungar to be kingly.

King Jungar was originally angry again, of course he couldn't really personally lead the troops to a full-scale war with the Ming army, and now this high-level person persuaded him to give him a step to go down, and King Jungger couldn't bear to say anything like personally leading the troops and the Ming army to fully develop.

"King Khan, the most important thing at the moment is to question the Ming Dynasty and blame the Ming army, so that the Ming army will not dare to continue to offend me in the future!" The executive said again.

King Jungar's face was very ugly, but he still nodded, and agreed to such words that were obviously succumbed to the Ming Dynasty and seemed weak and incompetent, no way, who made the strength of the Ming army so strong.

Thinking of this, the king of Zhunger felt extremely humiliated, thinking that he was the overlord of this grassland at the beginning, and he didn't care about any surrounding forces, but everything has changed in the past three years.

Three years ago, the Manchus moved westward, defeated the 100,000 cavalry of Jungar, quickly captured the two khanates in the southwest of Jungar, and then captured a large area of territory of the Persian Empire, due to the large population of the Persian Empire, the Manchus captured two important towns that were quite prosperous, and now the population under the control of the Manchus has reached more than 6 million, and the military strength is not weak, so far, the Manchus have 65,000 people in the Eight Banners, 100,000 servant cavalry, and 70,000 infantry troops composed of the Persians, a total of nearly 240,000 troops.

King Jungar was originally defeated by the Manchus with 100,000 cavalry, and after three years of recovery, he not only regained his strength back then, but also surpassed a lot, with a total of 260,000 cavalry under his command.

This kind of strength seems to have a lot of advantages compared with the Manchus in the southwest, but don't forget the Manchu Eight Banners and Dolgon, Dolgon may not say whether he is really eloquent or not, but at least it is more than enough to deal with Jungar.

Jungar last year's cold disaster, the current incomparably short of food, in addition to the surrounding small forces, has also hit the attention of the Manchurians, a month ago he personally led 220,000 cavalry to the southwest to attack the Manchurians, in addition to plundering some cattle and sheep to replenish, but also by the way avenged by the defeat of 100,000 cavalry three years ago, and Dolgon's 200,000 cavalry army confronted the border steppe.

As in those years, under the personal leadership of Dolgon, the Manchu army fought in a roundabout way, fought bravely, coupled with the strategy of Dol Roll and the support of dozens of imitation Shenwu field artillery, the 220,000 cavalry of the king of Dzungar was quickly defeated, if it was not for the timely order of the king of Dzungar to withdraw his troops, and the Manchus did not know what concerns did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but only this King Dzungar also lost nearly 40,000 cavalry, and the cavalry under his command dropped to 220,000.

The surrounding small forces could not satisfy the appetite of the Manchu King Zhunger, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not sure of defeating, and under the increasing shortage of food, the King of Dzungar had the idea of the Ming Dynasty, which was based on the fact that there were 50,000 cavalry of Taili to attack the city of Nalambra under construction.

To say that the sneak attack on Nalambra City, although the losses were very large, it also grabbed enough food for 100,000 people to survive for more than a month, which can be regarded as giving some comfort to King Jungar.

The pressure of the Ming army on the king of Zhungar was undoubtedly greater than that brought by the Manchu Qing in the southwest, so although he lost nearly 30,000 cavalry and was destroyed by Ji Feng of three tribes, the king of Zhunger did not choose to start a full-scale war with the Ming army.

After the decision was made, the king of Dzungar immediately wrote two letters to the city of Nalambra, one a letter of questioning and the other a letter of accusation.

Questioning why the Ming army entered the Jungar and brutally destroying his three tribes, he blamed the Ming army for its indiscriminate killing atrocities.

When Ji Feng received this letter, Ji Feng had already settled the cattle, sheep, horses, and prisoners he brought back, and was preparing to enter the territory of Jungar for the second time and continue to give Zhunger a blow.