Zasaktu Khan naturally did not choose to resist, in front of the powerful Ming army, Morakuma chose to accept the negotiations of the Ming Dynasty, the Tushetu Khan tribe chose to resist, the end was extinction, Lin Dan Khan, the descendant of the Great Khan, chose to surrender humiliatingly, look at their different statuses, Zasaktu Khan in the persuasion of the living Buddha of Jebzundamba, happily chose to integrate into the Ming Dynasty, and the Tuba people belonging to Zasaktu Khan naturally became part of the Ming Dynasty. Since then, the three Khalkha Mongols have been completely integrated into the system of the Ming Dynasty, completely accepted the traditional culture of the Ming farming civilization, and abandoned many bad habits of the nomads.

The Dzungar tribes, defeated by the Lu Xiangsheng tribe, are now in great trouble, with the strong Lu Xiangsheng army in the south, they cannot resist, and in the west they are blocked by the Kazakh tribes, and they can only flee to the area between the Irtysh and Ob rivers, where they can consolidate the forces of the nearby areas. Now they encountered another huge force, and the Russian Cossacks began to enter the area, and began to clash with them, although the number was not particularly large, but their ferocity was no less than that of the Ming army, not only to rob property, but also to kill blood, and to leave no grass behind.

Since defeating the allied forces of the Dzungar tribe, Lu Xiangsheng's troops have subdued the Turghut tribe and the Heshute tribe, and the two major chiefs, Orlek and Tulubaihu, have become his two right-hand men. After more than half a year of rest and training, Lu Xiangsheng's army has now reached nearly 80,000 troops, including Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Chongdi, and Orlek, Tulu Baihu, and Harbala, the son of Timur the Younger. In the past six months, Lu Xiangsheng did not continue to expand westward, nor did he continue to attack the Dzungar tribe, but around Lake Balkhash, according to Zhu Youxiao's intentions, training troops and settling down the place, and managing the area currently occupied, so that the area in this area can be completely stabilized, develop the economy here, and improve people's living standards. In addition to the prescribed pastoral areas, all the fertile land that could be heavier has been planted this year, including local spring wheat and cotton, as well as corn and potatoes imported from the interior, and most of the population has begun to settle down, forming countless villages, large and small, stationing troops in strategically important places, forming several small towns, which will become the center of commodity trading in the future.

Compared with here, the living conditions of the Dzungar tribe who fled north began to become worse and worse, and with the squeeze of the Russians and Kazakhs, some small tribes of the Dzungar tribe began to secretly send autumn waves to Sun Chuanting, and Sun Chuanting also slowly expanded northward, as a result, the sphere of influence of the Dzungar tribe gradually decreased, and the strength began to weaken. Especially for the Russian scorching army whose combat ability is getting worse and worse, constantly retreating to the east, losing the upper reaches of the Ob River, and can only be nomadic in the upper reaches of the Yenisei River.

The current situation is very unfavorable to the Dzungar tribe, for Sun Chuanting, he also needs a huge population to fill the area in this area, the Dzungar tribe of the Halakuthorn is the most populous tribe in the four tribes of the Oirat Mongols, and it was not hit in the last battle, but it suffered heavy losses in the war with the Russian Cossacks, so the Khala Kurg Thorn showed goodwill, Sun Chuanting immediately responded, and soon began negotiations between the two sides, and the result of the negotiation was very simple, that is, the Junggar tribe joined the Ming Dynasty, The status is the same as the other two departments, and 20,000 tribes were selected to join the troops of Sun Chuanting of the Ming Dynasty, and the son of Harahuthorn, Batur, also became a subordinate of Sun Chuanting, this person is not simple, after the death of Harahuthorn, he unified the four tribes of Oirat Mongolia, and his sixth son Geldan established the Dzungar Khanate.

Sun Chuanting's troops reached nearly 100,000 people, mainly infantry cavalry troops, the number of cavalry has more than 70,000 people, and the rest is 30,000 infantry cavalry, in order to do a good job in the battle with the Kazakhs and Russians, Sun Chuanting sent many local soldiers who are proficient in various languages to start reconnaissance on them, collecting information about the opponent's army, including weapons, establishment, artillery range, etc.

Now it has been more than 20 years since the fall of the Siberian Khanate, after the fall of the Siberian Khanate, the Russians began to march to the upper reaches of the Ob River, in the face of the fierce Cossack cavalry, those who are still in a slave and nomadic state of the indigenous soldiers and civilians are vulnerable, only tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people of several small countries have been destroyed, in order to consolidate these invaded lands, the Russian Cossack cavalry built a large number of fortified castles, and the existence of these castles, restricting the activities of the natives, It also became a solid logistical supply base for the Cossack cavalry to advance eastward, and the natives, who lacked artillery, could not open these fortified castles at all, so they fled except to surrender. The Jungar tribe had to retreat eastward because they could not confront these people, and when they saw that the upper reaches of the Yeseni River had been controlled by the Sun Chuanting division of the Ming army and had lost the area of activity, they proposed to the Ming army to join. After Lu Xiangsheng accepted them, the Junggar tribe also asked him to provide this information, which gave Lu Xiangsheng a general understanding of the complex forms in this area.

The number of Russian Cossacks was not too large, about 1,000 to 2,000 people in each castle, and they were generally equipped with flintlock guns, with a firing rate of about two rounds per minute, and the firing range was slightly farther and slower than the Ming army's firing guns, but the range was much closer than the Ming army's hand-cranked machine guns. The second is that each castle is equipped with cannons around it, these cannons have a long range, the mortars of the Ming army are obviously inferior to the firing distance, and the mortars are mainly to shoot people, and have no obvious effect on the siege, and its shells can't blow up those strong city walls at all. Lu Xiangsheng didn't plan to fill the hole with the lives of soldiers, then he had to solve the problem of siege artillery, in the area controlled by Lu Xiangsheng had not yet made usable artillery, he had to hope that more sharp artillery could be sent from the capital, which could break through the strong city walls.

Sun Chuanting was struggling to figure out how to deal with the castle of the Russian Cossacks, but something new had happened, and it was very ferocious. The Kazakh tribes, which had been suppressed by the Zungar tribe for a long time, were unstable, and in history the Zungar tribe destroyed the Kazakh tribal alliance a few years later, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty almost slaughtered the Zungar tribe by bloody means during the Qianlong period that they turned around and made friends with the Qing state. But now before the Junggar tribe is strong enough to unify the entire northwest, Lu Xiangsheng subdued them, and Lu Xiangsheng belonged to the literati background, not very murderous, mainly to subdue and integrate as a means, so these people thought that the Ming army was easy to bully, and the number of troops was not too much, so they united the nearby indigenous tribes including Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, etc., gathered an army of nearly 300,000 people, and rushed to kill with great momentum.

It was not only Lu Xiangsheng who got the news, but also Yuan Chonghuan, who was far away on Tianshan South Road. Yuan Chonghuan's army has also rested for more than half a year, after recovering the South Tianshan Road, Yuan Chonghuan's busiest is immigration work, where is he not like Lu Xiangsheng here to subdue a large number of people, but to kill a large number of people, bloody killing poke made most of the people who believe in the religion flee in large numbers, in order to fill the population of these blank areas, nearly one million people have migrated from all over the Ming Dynasty, but Yuan Chonghuan is a genuine civilian official, and he is quite experienced in these things, but this also makes him feel difficult.

In order to prevent those people from coming back to make trouble, Yuan Chonghuan occupied several key mountain passes, deployed corresponding troops in the area of the mountain passes, and then sent detectives to track and understand the whereabouts of those people, and found out their abnormal movements. Yuan Chonghuan began to assemble troops, sat in Kashgar by himself, and led 50,000 troops from the Turgat Pass to cross the mountains and go straight to Anjiyan, the purpose was to cut off the retreat of the coalition forces in the Caspian Sea, anyway, their young and middle-aged people were fighting, leaving behind women, children, old and young, Yuan Chonghuan let Lu Xiangsheng inform the news at the speed of 800 miles of express delivery, intending to take the opportunity to occupy the vast area on the west side of Tianshan Mountain.