More than 100 years ago, Warat Taishi also took the lead, captured Ming Yingzong, and the army approached Beijing.

Yu Qian stepped forward and roared "Those who suggest moving south should be killed", and the overall situation was determined in one fell swoop.

At this time, the Warat army had approached Beijing, and there were still many problems in front of Yu Qian.

Tumubao buried all the elites of the Ming Dynasty, and Yu Qian needed soldiers and military rations, but there was a difficulty at that time, the food was not in Beijing, but in Tongzhou.

At this time, if the soldiers and civilians of Beijing were allowed to transport grain, they might also be killed suddenly, and if they captured Beijing, the people were easy to be discovered by Wara without an escort, so as to seize the grain in Tongzhou.

If the Warat cavalry comes, Tongzhou is likely to be unable to hold it, and the grain will fall into the hands of the Warat people, and the Warat people will be able to besiege Beijing for a long time if they have food.

At this time, some people suggested that hundreds of thousands of stone grain in Tongzhou should be burned, but after burning the grain, the reinforcements who rushed to Beijing ran out of food to eat.

This problem troubled the ministers of Beijing, but Yu Qian solved this problem with a word, he asked the reinforcements from the south to go to Tongzhou first, and each soldier took his own rations, and the hundreds of thousands of stone grain in Tongzhou were escorted into Beijing by 200,000 reinforcements.

At the end of August and the beginning of September, it is the autumn harvest season.

Although Wei has not had a major war for more than half a year since the Battle of Xinkou in January, it is a busy season for the people at this time.

At this time, it was obviously not suitable for smoking, but Yarkand couldn't continue to drag it on.

Although it was not very important for Gao Yihuan whether the city of Yarkand was captured or whether Yarkand Abdullah Khan was killed by Warat, the Wei state could not bear to cut off the trade routes.

If this continues, the handicraft industry of the Wei State will inevitably be hit hard and revert to a marginal area dominated by agriculture, and the silver bills copied by the feudal government will not be supported by taxes to buy back, and the credibility of the silver bills may also collapse.

At this time, next to the warehouse along the Bashui coast outside Wangjing City, groups of Wei army and horse army gathered here, and each auxiliary horse carried two bags of grain, or dried meat and salt, and then they turned over their horses and marched westward.

On the official road leading from Guanzhong to Jiayu Pass, Wei soldiers riding war horses, carrying fire guns, accompanied by one or two spare horses, and mule carts loaded with tents and other supplies, were in an endless stream from morning to night.

Because the infantry army went out to fight, the preparation time was long, the speed of action was slow, and the consumption was very huge, so Gao Yihuan only mobilized the horse army of the three towns for the time being.

Thanks to the defeat of the Qing army, the Wei state had its own pastures, and the tea and horse trade with the Mongols and Tibetans, the Wei army had a large number of horses.

Gao Yihuan ordered that the requisitioned horse army should first go to the warehouse near Wang Jing, take their own rations, and then ride west.

On the way from Guanzhong to Jiayuguan, the warehouses stockpiled by the state capitals will also be opened to the army for replenishment.

In this way, on the road from Guanzhong to Jiayuguan for more than 1,000 miles, the grain consumed by the Wei army could be replenished again, so that when the Wei army left the pass, it could carry a large number of rations.

At the same time, Gao Yihuan also issued an order to recruit and transfer, and the Mongols and Tibetans in Qinghai went out with the army.

Of course, the feudal government will give these tribes a batch of cotton cloth, grain, and other materials piled up in the warehouse in Guanzhong, in exchange for the cattle and sheep of these tribes, so that these tribes who go out with the army will drive herds of cattle and sheep as rations for the army, and take care of the war horses for the Wei army.

By the beginning of September, in Jiayu Pass, 50,000 Wei troops and horses, as well as more than 10,000 Mongols and Tubos, had gathered, totaling 60,000 troops.

At this time, on September 10, Gao Yihuan, surrounded by guards, came to Jiayuguan, summoned the generals of the Wei army who participated in the war, as well as the leaders of the Mongols and the Tubo people, as well as the rescued counterpart Prince Yarkand, and announced in public, "From now on, all the people of the Great Wei and the people of the vassal will no longer be divided into Han, Mongolian, Tubo, and Yarkand. From today onwards, the Wei people will advance and retreat together, and work together to fight against the invading enemy! ”

The next day, 60,000 Wei troops, majestic and high-spirited, drove out of Jiayu Pass and marched westward overwhelmingly.

At the same time, Li Guoshuai's 5,000 men and horses entered the Hetao, and cooperated with Wu Sangui, Babu and others to attack Moxi, and the Wei army played the strongest note of the decisive battle with Warat.

The grassland peoples are not like the Central Plains, the Central Plains Dynasty was defeated badly, and after three or four years, the military strength can recover.

After the defeat of the steppe peoples, the loss of the strong men was a fatal injury, and it took at least twenty years to recover, and some of them have been wiped out by other tribes in these twenty years.

Gao Yihuan didn't care about being surrounded on three sides on the surface, but in fact, he knew that if he didn't handle it well, it was really very likely that it would pose a threat to the Western Wei Dynasty.

In this battle, his goal was not only to control Yarkand and protect the trade routes, but also to hurt Warat and make Dolgon and Zhu Cihong's calculations fail, so that when he attacked Dolgon, there would be no threat from the rear.

At this time, the Wei army drove out of Jiayu Pass, and Xu Heihu, the Duke of Yuguo, led the cavalry to gallop forward, and under the rolling of iron hooves, the Black Mountain Yarkand along the way avoided the battle.

On 15 September, in just five days, the Wei army passed through Hami and Turpan to reach Bohu Lake north of the Tarim River.

Baturhun led the Warat army to sweep through the northern part of Yarkand, but after the Warat army plundered, it was handed over to the Montenegrin to control, but Warat was not controlled by the garrison, so the Wei army came all the way and encountered almost no resistance.

The army advanced to the vicinity of Bohu, the Wei army met the vanguard, Jiang Xiang led 7,000 men and horses, did not dare to approach Shache at all, he rushed forward several times, wanted to touch it, but was forced back by the Wara cavalry.

At this time, in the big tent of the Wei army, Gao Yihuan sat on the blanket like a Hu man, Ismailel saw that in the past two months, the Wei army reinforcements were still swaying near Bohu, and immediately became anxious, panicked, knelt on the ground and saluted eagerly, said a bunch of words, and the interpreter next to him translated at the same time, "King, please hurry up and send troops to rescue Shache and avenge the Yarkand people!" ”

Gao Yihuan turned his head to look at Jiang Xiang, "How is the situation in Shache City?" ”

Jiang Xiang said shamefully: "King, Shache City is very tenacious and still holding on!" ”

Isma'el was about to cry, "O king, there are so many people in Warat that it will be too late to wait." The minister begged the king to save Shacha, save the minister's father Khan, and save the king's people. ”

After hearing this, Gao Yihuan said to the translator: "Tell him that the lonely king will consider it, let him go down and rest first." ”

Isma'el was unwilling, and he said a lot, and he was unwilling to leave.

Gao Yihuan's face sank: "Come on, send the prince down to rest!" ”

Immediately a guard stepped forward and lifted Ismael out of the tent.

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