Chapter 122: The Storm in the Western Regions (3)

Batur led his 10,000 cavalry but dressed up as Kazakh cavalry, because they have been fighting for many years, and the Dzungar tribe has always had the upper hand, so Batur is also fearless, plus many of his soldiers can speak Kazakh, so they are also very similar, they unknowingly mixed into the ranks of the Kazakh coalition army, and then looked for an opportunity to wait for an opportunity to attack, stayed for about ten days, and finally let them catch an opportunity.

That evening, the leaders of the Kazakh coalition called a meeting of the leaders of the tribes to discuss the imminent offensive of the tribes. Batur immediately divided the soldiers into five teams, and began to set fire to the camp in the middle of the night, and then attacked the nearby camp tents, and for a while the Kazakh joint camp was full of fire, people and horses were in chaos, the soldiers could not see the generals, they would not be able to find the soldiers, the whole camp was like a pot of porridge, the big tribal leader had to lead the troops to retreat when he saw this, Batur was chasing and killing in the back, when it was almost dawn, Batur was afraid of being surrounded, so he stopped the pursuit, and finally this 100,000 battalion suffered nearly 50,000 casualties, except for the soldiers who escaped, less than 30,000 people could return to the camp, The fate of this tribe can only be perdition.

The successive blows made the Kazakh coalition army panic, and they no longer dared to disperse, so they had to shrink their forces and prepare for a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army. Sun Chuanting has achieved his goal, now the number of coalition forces is less than 200,000, basically concentrated within a radius of more than 20 miles, it is not realistic to gather and annihilate at once, anyway, there are already Hong Chengchou and Liu Fangliang who are outflanking the back road, there is no need to rush to counterattack, wait until the other party's logistics supply is urgent, it will naturally retreat, and then it is much better to pursue and destroy it than to attack now, so the two sides began to confront each other and began to fight for logistics and supplies.

Liu Fangliang and Tian Jianxiu led 30,000 troops, from the north side of the Tianshan Mountains on the south side of Lake Balkhash, all the way to the west, the target is Turkestan City, the capital of the Kazakh Khanate, because most of the men were conscripted, and the rest were mostly old and young, except for the road was not very easy to walk, nothing else was a big deal, because there were two mountains to be crossed in the middle, and there was a small basin, and some resistance was encountered in the basin.

Besides, Hong Chengchou led an army of 50,000 people, from the Turgat Pass into the depths of the Tianshan Mountains, after passing through the mountain pass is a narrow Fergana Basin, the first town encountered is Andijan, according to Hong Chengchou's method or the same as in the Yarkand Khanate, kill all the men, leaving only the young women, fortunately, he did not encounter too much resistance after entering the city, but there were many merchant groups composed of merchants to comfort the army, which made Hong Chengchou rush to wonder. It turned out that this was a commodity distribution center on the ancient Silk Road, where many merchants from all over the West and the East lived, and even many Han people did business and lived here.

If you want to sleep, someone will send a pillow, this sentence really has a certain truth, the local business group heard that Hong Chengchou is a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, and there are good people who told him about the local customs and customs, and visited some local scenic spots. When he saw the image of Timur Khan in the monuments here, he remembered that the king of Khan here had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and then he remembered the little Timurid Khan who was subdued by Lu Xiangsheng, are they a family?

Hong Chengchou had this thought, so he decided to take a good look, and asked in this town, this inquiry was really right, and it was really a family, so Hong Chengchou sent a cavalry team of 1,000 people across the Tianshan Mountains to contact Lu Xiangsheng. When Lu Xiangsheng received the news from Hong Chengchou, Harabahar had just defeated the Kyrgyz, so Lu Xiangsheng immediately asked Harabaha to rush to Andijan with Hong Chengchou's people with genealogy and 10,000 cavalry to accept Hong Chengchou's mission.

Hong Chengchou didn't talk too much nonsense, just pointed to Andijan City and said: "I need to stabilize here, the emperor doesn't want to see this Mongolian people who believe in *** religion, I will ask the emperor to canonize you as Andijan Khan, I hope you can understand what the emperor means." ”

What Hong Chengchou said is very simple, this is the territory of the original Mongols, you are the legitimate heir, I hope you can subdue the hearts of the people in this area. Harabaha said with a serious expression: "Thank you for the trust of the general, Harabaha is the emperor's loyal courtier, he will never live up to the emperor's expectations, nor will he disappoint the general, and he will definitely let the Ming Dynasty have a stable border, and he will die with all his might." ”

Hong Chengchou said: "The business atmosphere here is very strong, and most of the businessmen value profit over righteousness, so I hope you can make full use of it." In addition, I will soon lead the army westward, everything here will be handed over to you, you can ask Lord Yuan Chonghuan to emigrate, and move half of your people over, maybe things will be much better, I hope you can handle it well. ”

Harabaha said: "Thank you for the general's reminder, Harabaha will definitely do what the general suggests." ”

Later, Halabahar really migrated from the banks of the Ili River nearly 100,000 people, Zhu Youxiao also sent the living Buddha of Jebzundamba and the Taoist of the Wudang faction and the Confucian master Huang Daozhou here, and built a school in Andijan to teach Chinese civilization, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism were carried forward here, and gradually expelled the power of the first religion, making Andijan the future cultural center of Central Asia, which is a later story.

After arranging the back road, Hong Chengchou began to lead the troops to continue westward, along the narrow mountain plain to the Syr Darya, where the soldiers were divided into two routes, part of which was led by Li Hongji to Samarkand and other 20,000 people, which was the transportation hub of the ancient Silk Road, leading to ancient India, Iran and China, where the former Timurid the Great built countless buildings, and later his descendants also drove to India from here to establish the Mughal Empire. This is a very critical place, as Hong Chengchou will never give up, he knows the ability of Li Hongji, so he asked him to lead the troops to build this place into the forward base of the Ming Dynasty.

After arranging for Li Hongji to go to Samarkand, Hong Chengchou led Hao Yongzhong, Liu Zongmin and 30,000 horses along the Syr Darya River to the city of Turkestan, where he would make peace with Liu Fangliang and Tian Jianxiu, and jointly take the capital of the Kazakhs and completely defeat the Kazakhs.

The city of Turkestan is a southern Kazakh city. It is located on the plain of the right bank of the lower Syr Darya River. The most valuable ancient city in Central Asia. It was once a handicraft and trade center in Central Asia. There are cotton ginning, building materials and feed mills, etc. There are ancient mausoleums and other monuments. Turkestan is the capital of the Kazakh Khanate, and there are many monuments in the city. Now the Great Khan here is Genghis Khan's eldest son Jochi's descendant of Sultan Kereh Khan's descendant Yesmu Khan, he himself is relatively mediocre and has not done much deeds, but his father Tavu Kal Khan is a great Khan, that is, during his reign, he conquered the east and west, laid down a vast territory, conquered the surrounding ethnic groups, and united with the Yarkand Khanate, defeated the Dzungar tribe, and weakened it for decades.

Hong Chengchou and Liu Fangliang arrived at the city of Turkestan at about the same time, and two forces surrounded the capital from the east and south. Yesmuhan never thought that he had attacked the Ming army, but the Ming army came to surround his capital, and a large number of troops came, and his own army was sent out, and the capital was about to become an empty city, so he had to step up the defense on the one hand, and on the other hand, notify the army to come to the rescue quickly, as for waiting for reinforcements, he had no bottom in his heart.

Hong Chengchou quickly helped Yesmuhan solve this problem, the second day after the army surrounded the city of Turkestan, the mortars of the Ming army began to bombard around the east and south of the city wall, and there were also artillery in the city, but that kind of artillery was simply masochized compared to the mortars of the Ming army, mainly because the range was not enough, and the Ming army did not brave the artillery fire to attack the city, so the mortars were lined up, and when they saw the artillery firing, they bombarded the position where the artillery was fired, until the city wall collapsed, and hundreds of mortars bombarded a place, It's not a stone wall, so I can't stand it.

Three days later, the city wall has been blown to pieces, the artillery is lost, not waiting for Hong Chengchou to launch a siege, Yesmu Khan sent an envoy to sue for peace, Hong Chengchou through Andijan's matter is not so murderous, tell the messenger, it is impossible to sue for peace, what we want is to surrender, otherwise after the city is broken, it will be a slaughter, helpless Yesmu Khan had to surrender, and wrote a letter asking the army attacking the Ming army to surrender, let Hong Chengchou send someone to send it.

Except for some ambitious tribal leaders who led their subordinates to flee to Xiaoyuzi in western Kazakhstan, most of the about 150,000 soldiers surrendered to the Ming army, and the smoke of the Western Regions was finally extinguished, and the Ming began to build in the Western Regions again, preparing to deal with stronger enemies next.