Yarkand City is an important town in the northwest, with a circumference of ten miles and twelve city gates around it; The site of the confrontation between Mu Zhuolun and Zhaohui is in the east of the city, and not far from the east of the city, there is the Yarkand River flowing from south to north, commonly known as the Heishui River; The other side of the river was originally a flat land with abundant water and grass, but after receiving the news from Chen Jialuo, Mu Zhuolun had already burned the grass clean, and moved the surrounding residents into the city, and the bridge on the Heishui River was also demolished by the army, leaving only one, and digging trenches, building earth platforms, and garrisoning troops on the other side of the river, at this time Mu Zhuolun took 5,000 people to watch Zhaohui's army from afar.

Zhaohui, Wu Yashi, born in the Yellow Banner of the Qing Dynasty, is fifty years old this year, and has successively served as Lang Zhong of the Military Department, a bachelor of the Cabinet, a waiter of the Shengjing Criminal Department, a right waiter of the Criminal Department, the deputy commander of Manchuria under the Yellow Banner, and the commander of the Red Flag Guard; Since the nineteenth year of Qianlong, he has been the assistant military affairs and prime minister of the Northwest Grain and Grass, and has been awarded the first-class courage and courage for his outstanding attack; In August of this year, he replaced the rebellious general Yar Hashan as the chief of the military in the northwest, and since he went south, all parts of the country have been looking down on the wind, which has led to his erroneous judgment of the form, and only then did he have this rash advance; This time, he originally brought 4,000 soldiers and horses, and 800 people were led by Ailong'a, the deputy capital of Qiqihar, to the southeast to defend against the army of another tribe, and he took the remaining 3,000 people to confront Mu Zhuolun.

"Although the number of traitors is numerous, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, the formation is scattered, the orders are uneven, and the lack of armor and artillery, our army will win this battle!" , Zhaohui put down the clairing mirror held in front of him and handed it to Mingrui, the household servant next to him.

Since the founding of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the strategy of using the Manchus to control the Han has been adopted, and the Han people have been deeply guarded against in terms of military power, but the Manchus must be the main ones in the event of a big military move, so although Mingrui is a civilian official, he was also sent to the army by Qianlong; Mingrui took the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, "What the general said is very true, I congratulated the general first!" Gao Tianxi, the chief soldier of Xining Town, the deputy commander of the three grids, the commander of the guards, the commander of the army, the supervising imperial historian He Tai, and the guards also congratulated.

"Later, after our army breaks through the enemy army, the heroes will take advantage of the chaos to take down the head of this old thief, and the court will have a reward after the matter is completed!" , Zhao Hui said to a few people dressed as martial arts people.

The martial arts masters who came to serve in the Zhaohui Army this time are three of the six demons in the outer world, the eldest Teng Yilei, the second Gu Jinbiao and the fourth Hahetai; Teng Yilei was born in Liaodong, with infinite strength, and he is good at one-legged bronze people; Gu Jin is a horse thief outside the Guanwai, who is cunning and uses steel forks and flying forks; The fourth child was originally a Mongolian shepherd and was good at wrestling. The third Jiao Wenqi looked for Lu Feiqing in Gansu to seek revenge, but unexpectedly not only failed to take revenge but also died in the hands of Lu Feiqing, the fifth Yan Shikui and the sixth Yan Shizhang helped escort the treasures of Zhungeer back to Beijing, one died in the siege, and the other died under Huo Qingtong's sword; They came to the northwest this time to seek revenge on Huo Qingtong. Among the three, only Teng Yilei had dealt with the government, and when he saw Zhaohui's question, he clasped his fists and saluted, and replied, "We are not greedy for a reward, if we are lucky enough to take the head of the thief, I hope that the general will hand over Huo Qingtong to us after defeating the thieves." ”

"Just a little woman, just leave it to you!" , Zhaohui has long been familiar with the internal relationship of Zhunger, and in his opinion, Huo Qingtong is not an important person, so he agreed.

"Thank you so much, General." , Teng Yilei replied respectfully, the two demons next to him kept giving Teng Yilei a look, obviously dissatisfied with his refusal to reward him, and the four demons Hahetai smirked and didn't know what was going on.

Zhaohui gave an order, Gao Tianxi, the chief soldier of Xining Town, led five hundred soldiers to come forward to fight, here Huo Ayi took hundreds of cavalry to meet him, and when the battle was not long, Huo Ayi's troops were a little unable to withstand the Manchu Qing Dynasty's ironclad army, and fought and retreated, Gao Tianxi took the opportunity to rush over to disrupt the other party's formation, Huo Qingtong had already prepared here, and issued an order with ten thousand arrows, shooting Gao Tianxi back, leaving dozens of corpses of the Qing army on the ground, seeing the Qing army retreating, everyone cheered.

Gao Tianxi lost about 100 people in the battle just now, but Huo Ayi's side lost nearly 300 people, and the combat strength is high. No matter how the Qing army challenged next, Huo Qingtong strictly ordered his subordinates not to fight without authorization, and the warriors of the tribe had a lot of resentment in their hearts.

fought until sunset, and under the command of Huo Qingtong, the tribe gave up two lines of defense, but also blocked the Qing army; When the sun set, the Qing army suffered about 300 casualties, while Mu Zhuolun's troops lost thousands of people.

When he returned to the tent, the expression on Zhaohui's face was much more solemn, and he secretly said in his heart that he was a little light on the enemy this time, but he didn't expect Mu Zhuolun to change the style of field warfare in the past, but he started a defensive battle, this time he brought a little fewer people, and it was not a way to spend it with Mu Zhuolun like this; After thinking about it for a moment, I came up with an idea.

Zhaohui was in a bad mood, Mu Zhuolun's side was about the same, thousands of casualties at once, the crying in Yarkand City was endless, Chen Jialuo heard from time to time that some warriors complained about the grievances of today's battle, what is it to always hide behind the wall, the eagle on the Tianshan Mountain should go to fight the Qing army.

Huo Qingtong was discussing tomorrow's countermeasures with Mu Zhuolun in the tent, and Chen Jialuo and Honghuahui stayed in the tent next to them, "Brothers, how do you feel about today's battle?" ”

"The combat power of the Tartar ironclad army is not trivial, Zhaohui is a veteran soldier, although he has defended it today, but the troops have a lot of complaints, and it is not a way to go on like this!" , Lu Feiqing has read some military books, and has been by Li Kexiu's side for many years, so he has a little experience in military affairs.

"Chief helmsman, I'm going to sneak into the Tartar tent tonight and kill Zhaohui!" , The words of the dust-free Taoist chief have aroused the response of many people, and Jiudang Wei Chunhua is particularly positive.

"Zhaohui is an old soldier, it's not so easy to assassinate him, has the Dao Leader forgotten about our attack on the grain team?" , when attacking the grain team along the way, the dustless road chief wanted to kill the other party's leading generals, but who knew that the other party cautiously left heavy troops near the big tent, and the dustless road chief almost fell in; After thinking about it, the big tent on Mu Zhuolun's side was not very tightly guarded, so he immediately got up and found Huo Qingtong and said something; At night, they waited for the sneak attack of the three demons outside the gate, and the three of them were blocked by the Red Flower Society as soon as they approached the big tent, Chen Jialuo naturally would not give them a chance to fight alone, and ordered the group of heroes to surround them together, and the three of them died here in an instant, and the six demons outside the gate finally gathered in the underworld.

At dawn the next day, seeing that the three of them had not returned, Zhaohui knew that his plan had failed; In the next few days, a small group of people in the Qing army kept harassing and luring, Huo Qingtong was forced not to fight, and the two armies fell into a confrontation stage.

Zhao Hui's troops in Jin Yong's novel are a bit exaggerated, if there were 40,000 people, Huo Qingtong and they would have been beaten into scum, so it was better to follow the history books.