On October 1 of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Ganning, arrived outside Turpan with Fan Yixuan, Chai Shihua and other subordinate officials and the main force of the 21st Division, and made peace with Wang Shizhong and Ding Guodong's forwards. Please Baidu search (product book network) to see the most complete! The fastest update!

Although the Turpan Oasis has been inhabited thousands of years ago, the vegetation in this area has been well maintained, and the low-lying special terrain around the Turpan Basin has made it not lack water sources.

About 100 miles south of Turpan City, is the largest saltwater lake in the Turpan Basin, Ayding Lake. Since the lake is located at the lowest point of the basin, the surrounding groundwater and river water are collected into the lake, and it takes three days to ride a horse from the east to the west of the lake.

In addition to this sea-like lake, the second most famous lake in the Turpan Basin is the East Lake of Shanshan Oasis and the Yila Lake of Tuoxun Oasis. Unlike Lake Yila, which is surrounded by Gobi sandy beaches, strange willows, and bushes, East Lake and Lake Yila are surrounded by dense primeval poplar forests.

Although the Turpan Basin is extremely dry, as long as there is water and plants, it is not a desert area with no signs of life. Even the Gobi Desert on both sides of the road from Shanshan Oasis and Turpan Oasis is full of shrubs and weeds such as Hetou grass, camel thorns, and salt claw claws. As for the sides of the surface river, it is covered with poplar forests.

Turpan City is also a city of peace, in fact, it is already the third Turpan city, the previous two Turpan cities are called Gaochang City and Jiaohe City, both of which are now in the west of this city of peace. The city is now located on the northeastern highlands of the oasis, with Flaming Hills and Grape Gullies to the north, poplar forests to the west, and large tracts of farmland built up from qanats to the south.

Backed by the Grape Gully and the Flaming Mountain, the Anle City is condescending, so you don't have to worry about being attacked from behind, and you don't have to worry about the lack of food and water in the city.

After Mei Zhihuan discussed with the generals, he originally wanted to lure the Yarkand army out of the city to fight again, but after the field battle with the Ming army, Su Litang obviously learned wisely, he did not pay attention to the invitation of the Ming army, but closed the city gate and did not go out, intending to wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

Mei Zhihuan tried to bombard the earthen ramparts of Anle City with a cannon, but the city dug directly from the high slope was obviously extremely strong, and only a few pieces of soil were dropped. The accompanying staff officers calculated the destructive power of the shells, and decided that in order to defeat the thick earthen ramparts of Anle City, it was estimated that all the shells brought from the Guannai would not be enough to consume in the city, which was obviously an unacceptable result. Even if the railway from Xi'an to Hami is completed, the shells made by the Xi'an Arsenal will be extremely expensive to transport to Turpan, and Mei Zhihuan does not intend to waste these shells in siege warfare.

So he quickly changed the battle plan, he first called the old Turpan nobles who had fled to the Ming Dynasty, ordered them to occupy all the villages outside Anle City, and ordered the villagers of these villages to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and provide supplies and labor. Then these laborers captured by the old nobles of Turpan were organized into engineering teams, while cutting down the poplar forests in the west of Anle City to build barracks; On the one hand, he built a long fortress outside Anle City, and put on a long-term siege of Anle City.

Although Su Litang and the Burkes in the city saw the movement of the Ming army clearly, they could only watch as the three long bases outside the city expanded from the east, south, and west to the two sides little by little. The reason why Su Litang did not dare to attack and destroy this long fortress was that the Ming army had established two camps in the southeast and southwest, and it was obvious that the defenders in the city were attacking and attacking.

Although there are now nearly 40,000 soldiers and civilians in Anle City, the ones who can really fight on the battlefield are the troops brought out of the city by Su Li Tangci, and the rest are just ordinary people who have never been on the battlefield. Like the Ming Dynasty, the Yarkand Khanate, which had changed from a nomadic to a sedentary people, had been declining in combat effectiveness. It is indeed difficult for the common people, accustomed to the hoe and the abacus, to be compared with the herdsmen who defend their livestock at the same time.

What's more, at the moment, the Yarkand Khanate has no firearms, only cold weapons such as bows and arrows and swords. Let these ordinary people defend the city, maybe it can also play some role, let them go out of the city and fight with these Ming troops outside, Su Litang basically has no hope. What's more, the people who are building a long fortress outside are also the people of Turpan, and they are killing their own people, and in a place like Turpan, it is too simple to build an earthen fortress, so after thinking twice, Su Litang still decided to continue to wait for reinforcements.

His brother Abdullaha Khan is now leading an army of 50,000 in Kuqa with Yarkand Khan to fight for the Aksu region, about 1,200 miles away from Turpan, in early September after he received the Ming army to capture Hami, he has already sent a messenger to his brother, at this moment I think that my brother should always be on the way back. As long as he guards until his brother returns, the Ming army has to retreat to Hami, and the next thing is to fight or make peace.

However, when Sulitang did not leave the city, Mei Zhihuan had quietly left Anle City with two infantry regiments and more than 1,000 cavalry, and rushed west to Tuoxun City. Unlike the sturdy and tall city of Anle, Tuoxun was a small city with little defense, with a permanent population of less than 5,000 and only 800 defenders.

The Tuoxun guard learned from the spies that the Ming army was building a long fortress around Anle City, and he was relieved for a while. Although he was still wary of the battle situation in the east, he did not think that the Ming army would abandon Anle City to attack him. So in a sudden situation, Ding Guodong led the cavalry to quickly cut off the passage to the south of Tuoxun City, and besieged the residents of Tuoxun in the city.

When Mei Zhihuan led thousands of Ming troops to Tuoxun City, the defenders in the city only considered for a few minutes and sent an envoy to the Ming army, asking the Ming army to protect the property and safety of the soldiers and civilians in the city, and they were willing to surrender.

By the time Mei Zhihuan led his troops into the city of Tuoxun, Abdul Rahakhan had already crossed Lake Bo with 35,000 men and horses, and it was still about 200 miles away from the city.

At this time, Gushi Khan, who had returned to his tribe, finally reached a compromise with Batur Huntaiji and decided to take 20,000 horses and horses south from Urumqi to attack Turpan. However, when they reached Haixi, they received a request from Mei Zhihuan to go south to Tuoxun to join the Ming army.

Tuoxun is already close to the western edge of the Turpan Basin, which is also the wind reservoir of the Turpan Basin, and winds blow for nearly half of the year. The rivers that flow down from the Tien Shan Mountains have carved out gullies here, and the terrain here has become extremely complex due to the combined action of wind and water over thousands of years, and there are only a few wide ravines that can be walked on.

For a long time, Tuoxun City, which controlled the ancient roads of Alagou and Gangou, was an important place to control the north-south passage of the Tianshan Mountains. The Ming army seized this place, and actually blocked Abdullaha Khan's reinforcements in the southwest ravine.

However, Mei Zhihuan was obviously not satisfied with the Ming army stopping in the Turpan Basin, and the retreating Abdul Rakha Khan still owned the vast area between Kucha, Hotan and Korla, and once the other party chose to shake hands with Yarkand Khan, the trade route from Turpan to Kashgar was still under his control.

Therefore, Mei Zhihuan was determined to take advantage of the favorable position of Tuoxun City to fight a defensive battle with Abdul Raha Khan, and when the two sides were deadlocked, the Oirath Department gave Abdul Raha Khan a hard blow to the flank, defeated Abdul Raha Khan's main force at one time, and brought all the places between Tuoxun and Aksu under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to achieve this goal, Mei Zhihuan ordered the Turpan Self-Defense Army to relocate all the residents of the city to other places, transported 12 artillery pieces to Tuoxun, and built a condescending artillery fortress in the city.

On October 15, Mei Zhihuan had just completed the transformation of Tuoxun City, and Abdullah Khan's younger brother, Prince Ismailil, arrived at Gangou west of Tuoxun with 3,000 forwards. After a group of anxious Yarkand sentinels rushed to the city and were wiped out by the Ming army, Prince Ismayil discovered that the city of Tuoxun had been occupied by the Ming army.

Tuoxun City was at the top of the ditch, and they were at the bottom of the ditch, although the bottom of the ditch was extremely spacious, enough for thousands of Yarkand troops to discharge the offensive formation, but the gentle slope of nearly 6 or 7 hundred meters made the attacking army completely exposed to the firearms of the Ming army, so Prince Ismayil only tentatively attacked twice, and then camped at the bottom of the ditch and no longer let his subordinates die.

After receiving the news from his younger brother, Abdul Radha Khan did not order the troops to retreat, but ordered the rear army to speed up the pace of advance. When Abdullah Khan arrived outside the city of Tuoxun and ordered his men to launch several attacks, he confidently said to his younger brother, Prince Ismailil: "These Ming people do not know the terrain of this place, and they do not know that we can bypass it from the north along the north of Gangou. It's just that the path is difficult and difficult to walk, and it is not suitable for large groups to walk.

Although the Ming firearms were sharp, it was inconvenient to transport materials here from the original. This time they came in such a hurry, how many * and lead can they bring with them? Tonight, you will take your men from the north to the rear of Tuoxun City, where I will lure the Ming army of Tuoxun to shoot, and once the number of shots of the Ming army decreases, you will hear my order, and you will flank him back and forth with my troops, and take back Tuoxun City. Only when these Ming people are beaten up, they will not dare to send troops against me again..."

Abdullah Khan was obviously wrong to guess the transportation capacity of the Ming army based on his own transportation capacity. The addition of four-wheeled carriages with rubber wheels and suspension devices on the railroad increased the transportation capacity of the Ming army by at least five times. Although it is nearly 2,500 miles from Ganzhou to Tuoxun, it is not an undifficult transportation task for the current logistics organization of the Ming army, at least now the logistics transportation and supply capacity of the Ming army has changed from a point to a line, making up for the last shortcoming of the army.

Abdurraha Khan's strategy of using small forces to repeatedly lure the Ming army in the city to open fire was quickly guessed by Mei Zhihuan. He also immediately issued an order to Wang Shizhong, asking the army to gradually reduce the number of shots, making the illusion of inadequacy.

After attacking for three days, the Yarkand army at the bottom of the ditch was finally able to gradually approach the position near the city wall. Although the Yarkand army lost more than 1,000 men in these few days of attacking, Abdullaha Khan thought it was worth it. He also received a signal from Prince Ismailil to the east of Tuoxun, so he decided to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army on the fourth day.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Abdullaha Khan ordered his subordinates to launch three successive charges of 1,000 men, the third of which had forced the Ming army to take the city wall and fight hand-to-hand with the Yarkand army. Abdullaha Khan, who believed that the Ming army had run out of ammunition and food, ordered his subordinates to be killed and rewarded with sheep, and announced to his subordinates that the first warrior to attack the city was Hami Amu, which greatly boosted the morale of the Yarkand soldiers.

After lunch, Abdullaha Khan signaled his brother to join him in the attack on Tuoxun City, but Mei Zhihuan apparently had finally waited for his chance.

Abdullah Khan selected 6,000 elites, each of whom was a team of 500 people, each in three rows, with the first row of soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding long cards to cover the rear ranks. While the first platoon approached the top of the slope, the last group was still at the bottom, and behind them thousands of disorganized soldiers were putting together the ranks.

It was also at this time that Mei Zhihuan ordered the 12 artillery pieces in the city that had not been used to fire with all their might. 4 4-pound guns, 4 9-pound guns, each shot only penetrated one to three rows of soldiers. But the power of the 4 12-pound cannons is a little scary, and every shell can penetrate from the top of the slope to the bottom of the slope, and directly make a flesh passage in the neat queue of Yarkand.

Under this terrible blow, Abdullaha Khan's forward quickly collapsed, and what terrified these soldiers even more was that the soldiers in the front row in heavy armor could not retreat at all, because the soldiers behind were blocking their retreat layer by layer. The heavily armored soldiers clearly did not have the courage to compete with the cannonballs flying in front of them, so in a hurry to flee for their lives, they began to ram their comrades who were blocking their way with their long cards. Soon, red-eyed, they recklessly slashed with their scimitars.

As Abdullaha Khan watched in amazement, when his most elite subordinates were killing each other, the Ming army's artillery fire began to cross the Yarkand army on the ramp and smashed towards the chaotic Yarkand army at the bottom of the ditch. Abdullah Khan, who was standing in the transport cart to watch the battle, was obviously within the range of the Ming army's artillery fire. Baz Berke, Hussey. Mir and the others hurriedly pulled Abdullah Khan out of the cart and ran south without looking back.

The Yarkand army was defeated in this battle, and when Abdullaha Khan fled back to the town of Kumish, he had a dozen or so Burks and more than 3,000 defeated soldiers with him on his side. Others were either captured by the Ming army and the Mongol cavalry, or simply fled back to their hometowns. Abdul Rakha Khan waited for two days in the town of Kumish, and after hearing that the Mongol cavalry had moved south, he reluctantly retreated to Korla with more than 6,000 defeated troops.

And his brother Prince Ismayil, when the Mongol cavalry appeared behind him, immediately raised a white flag and surrendered to the Ming army in the city. The prestige of the Khan of eastern Yarkand disappeared after this battle, and Mei Zhihuan immediately turned around with his army and took Prince Ismayil to land in Anle City.

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