Chapter 531: Target Persian Empire
The mortally wounded King Dzungar retreated under the escort of his own guards.
Feeling the pursuit of the people behind him, King Dzungar's expression was full of horror, just now Dorgon actually cut off his scimitar, and he almost died directly.
"Withdraw! Evacuate! "The king of Dzungar endured the severe pain in his wound, and in addition to instigating the sitting, he also ordered the other Jungar cavalry to retreat, and from then on, he knew very well that he was defeated, and if he did not withdraw, he would also be killed by the Manchurians.
The Jungar cavalry was about to collapse because they could not withstand the Manchurian attack, and now the king of Jungar personally ordered a retreat, and in an instant, the remaining nearly 80,000 Jungar cavalry completely retreated.
"Kill!" Dolgon fiercely pursued with nearly 30,000 Manchu Eight Banners.
The desert flies in the sand, and the blood of the Dzungar people who are constantly being slashed and shot in the pursuit stains the sand of the desert.
The Manchus were not only brave and good at fighting, but also good at chasing and killing, and even the Mongols were not the opponents of the Manchus, and the Dzungars, who were slightly weaker than the Mongols, were not the opponents of the Manchus.
Roundabout volleys, bow and arrow shots!
The battle did not end with the rout of the Dzungars, but in the pursuit, the Dzungars suffered even more tragic casualties than in the head-on battle.
The hunt lasted for most of the day, and it was only when it was almost dark that Dorgon and the others returned.
In this fierce pursuit, the Dzungars fell more than 50,000 cavalry again, and more than 70,000 of the 100,000 Dzungar iron cavalry were annihilated by Dolgon.
As a result of the victory in the Great War, hundreds of thousands of Manchurian people, old and weak women and children also walked out of the Gobi Desert in the Third Line Gorge.
The Manchus cheered, and Dorgon's prestige among the Manchus increased.
"Dolgon!" After the Empress Dowager of Da Yu'er Xiaozhuang shouted at the returning Dolgon, she walked quickly towards Dolgon.
The beauty greeted her, and Dolgon smiled and rolled over and got off his horse.
"Da Yu'er!" Dorgon replied with a smile.
The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang directly stepped forward two steps and hugged Dolgon tightly. When she learned that the enemy army numbered 100,000 just now, although she had confidence in Dorgon, Dolgon was her and her son Fulin's current support, and she had to worry.
With Wen Xiang's delicate body in his arms, the iron man's heart will be softened, not to mention that he is the person he loves in his heart, Dolgon's eyes can't help but be full of tenderness, and he gently patted the back of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.
One is Huang Taiji's woman, and the other is Huang Taiji's younger brother, and the scene of this uncle and sister-in-law embracing each other was seen by all the Manchurians.
This is a shameful thing that violates ethics, but for the nomads, there is originally a tradition of brother to brother, brother and son inherit the woman, and the Manchus also belong to the nomadic people, and there is also such a tradition before Nurhaci, but later there is more contact with the Han people, and there is gradually an ethical distinction.
At this moment, the Manchus were defeated by the Ming Dynasty and forced to move west, which already had the meaning of a lost dog, and Dolgon was the support of all the Manchus at the moment, and the Manchus knew very well that they must be led by a man of great talent to break through the encirclement and find a happy land again.
Therefore, at this moment, the matter of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and Dolgon, even the Manchu ministers who were loyal to the emperor Taiji no longer showed opposition, but faintly supported it. In the final analysis, only when Dolgon and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang are together, Dolgon will not peep into Fulin's position, which is conducive to the unity of the Manchurians.
The two hugged each other for a long time before parting.
"Aobai, you immediately lead people to collect the battlefield, collect all the weapons and horses lost by the Jungar people, and distribute them to the clansmen!" Dorgon commanded Aobai.
"Wow!" At present, the Manchurians are extremely united, and Ao Bai has no extra thoughts, and he knows that he has only a dead end in confronting Dolgon, so he has no words to carry out Dolgon's orders.
More than 70,000 Jungar cavalry were killed, that is, more than 70,000 scimitars, although the Manchurian people did not have much ability to resist, but Dolgon did not want them all to be unarmed, on the contrary, he wanted to arm all the Manchurians, both old and young, women and children, at least so that they had a certain ability to resist.
There is a long road ahead, and there are too many unknown dangers to guard against.
Early the next morning, Dolgon began to move west with hundreds of thousands of Manchurians, young and old.
Stop-and-go, although the Manchurians walked not fast, a day was only dozens of miles, along the way there were also passing through the territory of some tribes, Manchu hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children, especially the young women and young children, no matter which tribe is enough to be red fat sheep.
No matter which tribe it is, as long as hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children who have robbed the people of the people go back to fill their tribe, it will not take ten years for the tribe to grow exponentially, and such a temptation is not small.
The temptation is true, but unfortunately, with the experience of Zhunger, the small and medium-sized tribes with only tens of thousands of cavalry do not dare to move at all, even if the Manchus pass by their territory, as long as the Manchus do not take the first step to snatch their cattle and sheep, they will not dare to act rashly.
And there are one or two large tribes with about 100,000 cavalry, which are also a lesson from Zungar, and they are not confident that they can be stronger than Zungar, and they also dare not act rashly.
Manren has been walking for nearly a month, and it has been extremely smooth.
In fact, Dolgon anticipated this and took Zhungar to open the knife, otherwise although the territory of Junggar is large, the Manchurians do not have to rely on the territory of Junggar when they move westward, and Dorgon deliberately wants to take Junggar Liwei in a war, so that those tribes who are not as good as Junggar dare not act rashly.
As it turned out, Dorgon had achieved his goal.
After another ten days or so, suddenly, a piece of news made Dolgon's face solemn.
"Newspaper"
"Regent, both the Braha Khanate and the Kokand Khanate have moved!" There are scouts full of people who come to report urgently.
The Manchus moved westward, after leaving the sphere of influence of Zungar, they moved to the southwest, there were two large tribal khanates, the power was only weaker than that of Zungar, of which the Bulha Khanate had 80,000 iron horsemen, and the Kokand Khanate had 100,000, and the two khanates had changes at the same time, and Dolgon had to pay attention to it.
Without much thought, Dorgon directly concluded that the two tribal khanates of Braha and Kokand wanted to unite against them.
The two khanates have a total of 180,000 iron cavalry, and even if it is impossible to come all, there will be at least 150,000 or 60,000, besides, the two major tribal khanates are likely not to fight with the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, but directly plunder the Manchu population, which is extremely difficult to prevent.
Dolgon's face darkened, and if he wanted to avoid it, then only they were full of people who would strike first.
"Gather all the Eight Banners soldiers!" Dorgon drank.
Soon, nearly 30,000 Eight Banners Iron Horsemen all gathered.
Dolgon looked at the sky, it was soon night, and he planned to take advantage of the night to take the initiative to attack one of the two khanate tribes of Braha or Kokand, only in this way could he break the unfavorable situation.
In order to win safely, Dolgon must take all the young and strong Eight Banners to attack, and how to protect hundreds of thousands of Manchurian people and children in this night has become the top priority, fortunately, a month ago, he defeated the 100,000 iron horsemen of Jungar, captured a lot of horses' scimitars, hundreds of thousands of Manchurian old and weak can also draw out more than 20,000 old Eight Banner veterans, plus more than 1,000 dragon breakers with powerful firearms, be careful and protect yourself.
The sky soon darkened, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Xiao Fulin, and hundreds of thousands of Manchurian people and children watched Dolgon and other Eight Banner warriors leave.
Dorgon chose the largest and most recent Khanate.
With a total of 100,000 horsemen, the Kokand Khanate was the most powerful nomadic tribe in the western Gobi Sea, with the exception of Dzungar and Kazakh.
Dolgon was an extremely rare general, and nearly 30,000 Manchu Eight Banners were personally led by him, and he launched a surprise attack on the royal tribe of King Kokand Khan very smoothly.
"Kill"
The same advantage of this armor and weapons, as well as the courage of the Manchu people who are not afraid of death, less than 30,000 Manchu Eight Banners have been defeated and defeated by the more than 80,000 Kokand iron cavalry gathered in the royal tribe.
"King Kokand!" Dolgon's eyes were sharp, and in the hazy night, he suddenly spotted King Kokand Khan, wearing a luxurious animal skin coat, and led his army to kill him without hesitation.
Along the way, all the Kokand cavalry that stood in the way were scattered, and soon Dolgon was killed not far from King Kokand.
Here, Dorgon and the others were held back by the most elite guards of the Kokand Khan.
All of a sudden, Dolgon and dozens of other elite people fought with more than 400 Kokand elite guards.
The night was hazy, and there were earth-shattering shouts everywhere, and the king of Kokand Khan had long been panicked and angry, and the Manchus were very easy to identify, and the king of Kokand had already distinguished that it was the Manchus who attacked him.
The king of Kokand Khan could not help but be angry, and during the day he also formed an alliance with the king of Bukhara, prepared the two khanates to train troops and divided hundreds of thousands of Manchu people, old and young, and promised all Manchu women and children The two khanates were divided in half, and at night, the Manchus actually came to take the initiative to sneak attack, and killed his Kokand iron cavalry.
King Kokand Khan, roaring in a language that the Manchus did not understand, commanded the Kokand Iron Cavalry to intercept Dolgon.
Dolgon's face was also full of gloom while slashing and killing the Kokand cavalry left and right, he knew very well that he couldn't drag it out like this, otherwise even if the Eight Banners could defeat Kokand in the end, they would suffer a lot of losses, they had not yet arrived in a paradise suitable for the Manchus to survive, and the Eight Banners could not lose too much.
"Poof!"
After slashing one of the Kokand cavalrymen, Dorgon rode past the other two and continued rapidly towards the Kokand Khan.
When he reached a distance of 100 meters, Dorgon quickly took out his bow and arrows, and fired three arrows at the king of Kokand.
This arrow, King Kokand Khan was roaring angrily, and when he was distracted, he reacted a little slower, and only dodged one of the arrows, and was shot in the chest by two other arrows, one in the thigh, and fell off his horse.
"Ah, King Khan! King Khan"
The people of Kokand were shocked and shouted in horror, but unfortunately the king of Kokand was already dead of anger when he fell to the ground, and could not respond.
"The King of Khan is dead! The Khan is dead! ”
I don't know which Kokand cavalry shouted first, more Kokand cavalry looked over, and sure enough, they saw the body of the Kokand Khan lying on the ground, and suddenly, the Kokand cavalry were terrified and their morale plummeted.
Fear spread like a plague among the Kokand cavalry.
"Kill"
Dolgon took the opportunity to take nearly 30,000 full-scale iron cavalry to cover the killing, killing a large number of Kokand cavalry from their horses.
The Kokand cavalry finally could not bear it anymore and collapsed in an instant.
What followed was a scene of fierce pursuit and killing by the Eight Banners, just like the pursuit of the Jungar cavalry a month ago, the Kokand cavalry was not even as good as the Jungar cavalry, and the night of pursuit and killing almost wiped out all the Kokand cavalry.
The death of the King of Kokand, coupled with the destruction of more than 80,000 Kokand cavalry, caused the Kokand Khanate to exist in name only.
The next day, news of the destruction of the Kokand Khanate overnight by the Manchus spread to all directions.
The many small and medium-sized tribes around were frightened, and the Braha Khanate, which had allied with the King of Kokand and was ready to divide up hundreds of thousands of women, children, and children.
Especially the king of the Burha, he felt that the Manchus might have attacked the Kokand Khanate because they learned the news of their alliance with Kokand, and the strength of their Braha Khanate was not even as good as that of the Kokand Khanate, and the Manchus could destroy the Kokand Khanate overnight, and they must also have the ability to destroy the Tabraha Khanate.
At this moment, there is not only the experience of the rout of the 100,000 iron cavalry of Jungar, but also the experience of the collapse of the Kokand Khanate overnight, all the surrounding tribes did not dare to move at all, and even extinguished the idea of beating the people.
With the fall of the Kokand Khanate, Dolgon and other Manchu Eight Banner Iron Cavalry led hundreds of thousands of Manchu people, old and weak, to occupy the royal tribal steppe of the Kokand Khanate.
The next day, in order to show friendship and faintly suspect of reparation, King Braha Khan sent 1,000 women and 100,000 cattle and sheep to the Manchurians.
In this war, Dolgon not only occupied the grasslands of the Kokand Khanate, captured more than one million cattle and sheep of the Kokand Khanate, but also captured a large number of women and children under the age of five of the Kokand Khanate, and at the same time, the Manchus also subdued the 13,000 Kokand cavalry of more than a dozen other Kokand Khanate tribes outside the royal tribe, plus more than 20,000 Manchu Eight Banner Iron Cavalry of the Manchus themselves, Dolgon already had nearly 40,000 iron cavalry in his hands.
"Dolgon, the water and grass here are abundant, do you want the people to settle here?" The Empress Dowager of Da Yu'er Xiaozhuang said to Dolgon.
"No, it's not suitable here, you have to continue to move west!" Dorgon shook his head and said.
Although the royal steppe of the Kokand Khanate was rich in water and grass and a good place to settle down, it was surrounded by nomadic tribes, which was not easy to develop and grow. Dolgon had found some Mongolian-speaking Kokands and learned from them that there was a Persian Empire to the southwest of Kokand and Burha.
Some parts of the Persian Empire were as splendid as the Ming Dynasty, and Dorgon's ambitions led him to set his sights on the Persian Empire.
Whether it was for the development of the clan, or to grab 100 million taels of silver to redeem the 200,000 clansmen captured by the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon had to choose the Persian Empire.
Zhu Ci's offer of 100 million taels of silver to redeem 200,000 Manchus, the elderly, the weak, women and children had already reached Dorgon's ears before the Manchus had completely left the Mongolian steppe.
Although 100 million taels of silver is huge, compared to the 200,000 Manchu population, Dolgon will definitely choose 200,000 Manchu population. When he evacuated the city of Beijing, Dolgon took 20 million taels of silver with him, which means that there was still a gap of 80 million taels, and the nomadic tribes could not grab so much silver anyway, only the Persian Empire had it.
Dolgon is not arrogant, to take on an empire with less than 40,000 cavalry in his hands, in fact, he knows that the Persian Empire has been established for nearly two hundred years, and it has reached the time of sunset, and the territory is much smaller than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the military strength is much weaker than the Ming during the Chongzhen period.
Dorgon also learned from the Kokand that there was a part of the Khanate close to the Persian Empire.
Dolgon pondered, he decided to exchange the steppe of the Kokand Khanate he currently occupied with the Bulha Khanate for the steppe that was close to the Persian Empire, and he was confident that the King of Bulha would not object.
When the Qing Dynasty settles down in the steppe close to the Persian Empire, and then conquers the Blaha as it conquered the Mongols, and then conquers the Persian Empire, and relies on the entire Persian Empire to grow the Qing Dynasty even stronger, if possible, one day he will take the Manchus back to the Ming Dynasty, recapture the ancestral land of Manchuria in Liaodong, and even the Ming Dynasty has conquered it together, this world, sooner or later, they will be the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty!
Thinking of the prospects, Dorgon was so enthusiastic that he was eager to settle on the edge of the Persian Empire.