The battle of the Ayaguz River ended in a complete victory for the Ming army, and the leaders of the Turghut tribe and Orlek were the first to announce their surrender, because he had the least number of men and could not withstand any more killings. The head of the Heshute tribe, Tulubaihu, was captured, the head of the Dulbert tribe was killed, nearly 30,000 soldiers were captured, the captured supplies were mainly horses, and the food was basically exhausted. In the temporary camp, Lu Xiangsheng and Timur Khan received the leader of the Turghut tribe and the leader of the Orlek and Heshute tribes, Tulu Baihu, who could be said to be the heroes of the time. If it weren't for this war, two years later in his previous life he would have led some people from his headquarters and the other two divisions west to the lower reaches of the Volga, where he would have been nomadic for a hundred years. A few years later, Tulu Baihu became the Gushi Khan of Tibet* and the Panchen Lama, occupied the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and established the Heshute Khanate, which also existed for more than 100 years. But from now on, they won't have those things anymore, and Lu Xiangsheng won't give them another chance to do that again. Lu Xiangsheng and little Timur Khan entertained them for a meal, and then told them the truth of Zhu Youxiao, and the two of them went back to the resting place in a daze, and they didn't know if they were convinced.

Zhu Youxiao's will soon arrived, and it was necessary to agree to accept the naturalization of the tribe of Timur Khan, and he was directly authorized to administer the place to assist Lu Xiangsheng in recovering the Junggar tribe. The marriage was naturally agreed, and according to the old custom, he still asked Sun Chengzong to write a happy pair, and he also gave a pearl to Lu Xiangsheng and asked him to be a dowry. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also asked Qincha to bring 20 sets of "iron bulls", accompanied by more than 30 drivers and maintenance personnel. When little Timur Khan saw the "iron bull" running all over the ground with black smoke, he climbed directly to the ground and worshipped, he had seen such a divine object! Hurry up and call Orlek and Tulubaihu together, and let them see such immortals too. There is no doubt that the two of them were also stunned, especially when the driver pulled out three five-foot-long iron guns at the front end of the "Iron Bull", the momentum of twenty "Iron Bulls" rushing forward together made the two of them kneel down completely, and directly said to Lu Xiangsheng that they would accept naturalization unconditionally and immediately return to the tribe to contact the clansmen to discuss the return.

After receiving the two departments of Turghut and Heshuot, Lu Xiangsheng gained momentum, on the contrary, the Dzungar tribe completely lost the opportunity to advance eastward, especially the Turghut tribe was still in his rear, seeing that the situation was not good, Hara Huthorn immediately led his troops to flee north, and did not even dare to see the face of Lu Xiangsheng's troops, so he fled in fright between the upper basin of the Ob River and the Yeseni River. As for the department of Dulbert, which had lost its leader, his subordinates were accepted by Timur the Younger. After consultation, the three tribes crossed marriage with each other, cross-distributed pastures, and completely integrated into a new whole, and Orlek and Tulubaihu became generals under Lu Xiangsheng, and then each selected 10,000 soldiers, plus the 20,000 recruits recruited by Timur the little to break up and regroup, continue training, and after the training, Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates will reach 100,000 troops, waiting for Zhu Youxiao's next order.

Yuan Chonghuan, who was waiting for supplies in Khotanese City, was not idle, and carried out a smaller slaughter without a big battle, anyway, there is no need to be afraid of the people of the Yarkand Khanate to attack now, this Khotanese city is really good, Yuan Chonghuan got a large amount of food here, which solves a very important problem, and the rest only needs to transport bullets, *, shells, and medicine from Xining to here, and the rest are here, after all, this is one of the six cities of the Yarkand Khanate.

Patiently waited until the end of June, when the weather was the hottest, more than 30,000 cavalry under the leadership of Li Guo came to Khotan. A large number of supplies and 30,000 cavalry made Yuan Chonghuan very happy, and now he completely felt a sense of security in his heart. However, Li Guo was still unhappy, Yuan Chonghuan still asked him to guard Khotan City with 5,000 cavalry, and the other more than 70,000 horses were going to the next target - Yarkand, which was the capital of the Yarkand Khanate.

The Yarkand Khanate has not sent troops to seize Khotan, which has always made Yuan Chonghuan puzzled, thinking that the reinforcements are about to arrive, Yuan Chonghuan's scouts finally sent back the information, it turned out that this section of the Yarkand Khanate was fighting for the Khan throne. Since this is the case, Yuan Chonghuan decided to send troops to Yarkand City without hesitation, but this time it was an army of more than 70,000 people, so naturally it was impossible to cover up the whereabouts, coupled with the complex terrain of nearly 900 miles, and this was the capital of the enemy, it is estimated that it will take a long time, so you can only take it slowly.

The 70,000-strong army carried a large amount of provisions, and the speed of the march can be imagined, as the vanguard was still Hong Chengchou and Hao Yongzhong, who led 5,000 men and horses first, followed by 15,000 cavalry led by Li Hongji, and finally Yuan Chonghuan himself led a large group of men and horses. Yuan Chonghuan's arrangement was a strategy of slow advance and rapid attack, in order to avoid the fatigue of the soldiers on a long march, and the capital of the Yarkand Khanate was already approaching, the Yarkand Khanate would definitely have a large number of men and horses to meet the battle, and in order to avoid the surprise attack of the other party, the battle could only be resolved as soon as possible and not entangled with the other party.

Yuan Chonghuan's caution still had an effect, the forward Hong Chengchou and Li Hongji's troops were about ten miles apart, and Yuan Chonghuan kept a distance of no more than fifteen miles from Li Hongji. But even so, in a place where life is not familiar, it is not without accidents. Hong Chengchou's vanguard troops arrived around Yarkand City without much strength along the way, and they did not encounter too many troops of the Yarkand Khanate, but found that the four gates of Yarkand City were closed and flags were waving on the city walls. When Hong Chengchou came to the city, the soldiers in the city fired bows and arrows indiscriminately, and even earthen cannons came, Hong Chengchou's troops were all cavalry, and it was naturally not convenient to attack the city, so he went around the four gates to check. Half an hour later, Li Hongji's team also arrived, Li Hongji's 15,000 men and horses had 5,000 cavalry, and 20,000 people surrounded the city of Yarkand, and under the east city gate, the 5,000 cavalry set up more than 100 small mortars and began to bombard the city gate tower. After all, this Yarkand city is the capital, and the city walls are much stronger than the city walls and gates of Khotan, and they have been fought for nearly half an hour, but they have still not been cleaned up. At this moment, a signal soldier suddenly came to report that Yuan Chonghuan's troops had encountered a large group of men and horses of the Yarkand Khanate, and nearly 100,000 troops of the Yarkand Khanate suddenly besieged Yuan Chonghuan's brigade thirty miles away, and demanded that Hong Chengchou must capture the capital of the Yarkand Khanate as soon as possible.

It turned out that the newly enthroned king of the Yarkand Khanate, Abdureyim, was also a resourceful hero, coupled with his familiarity with the nearby terrain, and set a strategy of holding on to the capital and winning a decisive victory in the suburbs. Letting go of Yuan Chonghuan's two groups of forwards, the troops in ambush from the depths of the desert suddenly attacked, cut off and surrounded Yuan Chonghuan's main force, in order to strengthen the attack, he also arranged nearly 2,000 camel troops, this camel force is very powerful, the cavalry's sabers can't reach the slash, and the muskets can't be killed at once, it should be said that it is more difficult. Yuan Chonghuan's front 5,000 cavalry encountered this kind of problem, and the good leader of the team was more witty, and after losing more than 100 cavalry, he quickly retreated. Yuan Chonghuan was also taken aback when he saw the camel troops, and he immediately ordered to build fortifications on the spot with hand-cranked machine guns, and simply used straw bags to load sand and soil to build simple machine-gun fortifications, and finally used hand-cranked machine guns to block the attack of the camel troops, killing nearly 1,000 camels, but they were also blocked by the troops of nearly 100,000 people in the Yarkand Khanate. Yuan Chonghuan saw that he couldn't do anything, and immediately adopted defensive tactics, this guy was famous for his outstanding defense in his previous life, and then shelled Nurhachi, so defensive counterattack is his forte.

The Yarkand Khanate also adopted the tactic of encircling three and missing one, surrounding Yuan Chonghuan from three sides, and Yuan Chonghuan surrounded a city wall with sandbags on all sides, and then arranged some things such as rejecting horses, putting on a defensive formation, and waiting for the attack of the Yarkand Khanate. Yuan Chonghuan can't take the initiative to attack now, and the best way for the infantry cavalry to deal with the cavalry is to use the fortifications to kill a lot in the defense. Secondly, Yuan Chonghuan can't let Hong Chengchou and Li Hongji return to attack together, once they retreat, they may be counterattacked by the enemy forces in the city, and now it is a stalemate, if Hong Chengchou they can't take Yarkand City or fail, it depends on the result of the battle here, if Hong Chengchou takes the capital and turns over to attack, the 100,000 Yarkand Khanate soldiers here will quickly collapse, of course, if Yuan Chonghuan can't stop the retreat here, this battle will be a complete failure.