Just when the volunteer divisions and brigades of the revolutionary army led by Xiao Xuan stepped up preparations for the whole winter from the second year of Chongzhen to the third year of Chongzhen, preparing for a decisive battle with the Ming army in the south after the beginning of spring, the decisive battle between the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains was also unfolding.

Hei Huan Bolie is comparable to Chongzhen's lineup that entered the customs in the second year, and roughly more than half of the main force was still very cautious when it first launched the western expedition. After all, it is thousands of miles away from the Beishan Heishui across the entire Mongolian steppe to the nearby Hezhong Oirat Mongolia area, and it takes about half a year just for the expedition to march. The upper echelons of Houjin, who attach great importance to the intelligence line, are also very clear. The total military potential of the Yarkand tribes and even the Oirat tribes in the vicinity of the river is absolutely not to be underestimated, and there are 100,000 people from all walks of life, and the cavalry and equipment level do not seem to be very bad. Compared with the main force of Jianzhou, which includes many Mongols and servants, which has a total of only about 30,000 people, and the core Manchurian armor is only more than 10,000 people, it seems that it is still not suitable to make too many enemies.

Before launching the western expedition, Hei Huanbolie had already set a strategy: the forces of Turpan, which occupied the Central Plains and advanced to the middle of the river, and even Lin Dan Khan, who fled to Qinghai, were impossible to please. It is the so-called long-distance and close attack, attracting the forces of Junggar and others, focusing on attacking the forces of Turpan and Batur east of Oirat. If necessary, it can even be digested by means of marriage, as in the case of the Chahar Mongols.

In the autumn of the second year of Chongzhen, across thousands of miles of desert, in the face of unforeseen difficulties, the main vanguard of Jianzhou, the troops of Yiqi, who were tired and tired, encountered the siege of more than two horses of the Turpan Division, which had been prepared. However, the result of the battle was that those seemingly well-armed Turpan people only caused no more than one or two hundred casualties to the main vanguard of Jianzhou, and less than 100 people were killed in the battle. Because the cavalry of the Turpan people was not as powerful as the Manchurian cavalry, they suffered casualties and losses of nearly 10,000 people in the counterattack and pursuit, and their vitality was completely damaged. To a large extent, this is due to the fact that the long march on the Hexi Corridor caused the main force of Jianzhou, which lacked combat experience in the northwest, to lose a lot of horses, and the ability to pursue and kill was greatly reduced.

Based on the Turpan people, if the casualties and losses in the initial battle were only a few thousand small, it may have been some kind of sacrifice made to lure the enemy deeper. However, he lost nearly 10,000 soldiers at one time, including a lot of artillery and armor, which is undoubtedly a real defeat rather than a feigned failure.

"How is the combat effectiveness of this Turpan people compared to the battle of Sarhu and even the Ming army during the Apocalypse?" After making sure that this was not some conspiracy, the uneasiness after the long journey, and in order to boost morale, Hei Huan Bolie asked with a smile at a military meeting with the generals who went with the army.

Even Mang Gurtai and the others, who had been dissatisfied along the way before, laughed and said: "I'm afraid, it's not as good as the opponents we met during the Battle of Sarhu." Confrontation with the Ming army is still more or less a headache. Although the officers and men of the Ming army were very poor in combat effectiveness and training, they were also very self-aware. Countless artillery pieces and vehicles are often used to confront our troops. If it weren't for the stupidity of the Ming generals at that time, and the fact that our army occupied the home field, it would never have been possible to defeat the main force of the tens of thousands of Ming troops at the cost of no more than a few hundred casualties. However, these Turpan people, if you talk about the training and equipment of the officers and soldiers, it is indeed better than the ordinary Ming army. But they are too self-aware, and they actually have a head-to-head hand-to-hand fight with our army than cavalry and archery without two brushes, and the cavalry is not as good as the Mongols, and there are not many firearms and artillery, so how can they be invincible? ”

The encounters and victories in the Turpan area completely changed the morale of the main forces of the Houjin after a long expedition, especially when this area was not like the Mongols on the steppe, not only had a lot of water and farmland, but also had many outstanding civilian women that the Mongols had never seen before. Because of the provocation and resistance of the Turpan people, the main force of Jianzhou no longer had any worries about launching a massacre here.

Hei Huan Bolie and others also changed their previous thoughts and attitudes: seeing that the Yarkand army seemed to be easier to fight than the main forces of the Ming army concentrated in Liaodong, the resistance of the people was weaker, and it was not as frequent as the Mongols, they made up their minds: the Yarkand people seemed to be too far behind Jianzhou in terms of race and faith, and it was difficult for the Turpan people or the Yarkand people in southern Xinjiang to the west to digest it effectively. Not to mention, using these xenomorphs to rule the Central Plains, no one knew that there would be more fierce resistance and non-cooperation than it would be. Therefore, since these people cannot fight and cannot run, then the main thing should be to exterminate.

At this time, although the Mongols were not the opponent of the main force of Jianzhou, it seemed that they were at least able to run, and in order to settle here as soon as possible, Heihuan Bolie still sent envoys to the Oirat tribes, in order to jointly crusade against southern Xinjiang as a bargaining chip, in exchange for the establishment of an extensive marriage between the Oirat tribes and Jianzhou like the Chahars.

However, Hei Huan Bole still underestimated Batur, who had just driven out the Turks. At this time, Batur also called himself "Hun Taiji", and the entire Dzungar Department gradually rose. In the face of the Houjin dissident forces that crossed the Hexi Corridor and launched a large-scale killing campaign in the Turpan area, Batur Hun Taiji was of course unwilling to obey the orders of this outsider to do something to jointly join forces and send troops to the Central Plains. Because that is undoubtedly subject to man.

At the same time, Batur, who rarely taught the Later Jinta in the east, did not believe that the army was not too large and how powerful the Jianzhou people who fought in other places could be, so he finally decided to unite the entire Oirat Mongols to resist the invasion of Jianzhou, and rejected Heihuan Bolie's request. Of course, the Jianzhou Army's strong combat effectiveness in the successive operations in Turpan and even Yarkand also has different voices within the country about whether to cooperate with Jianzhou. When Batur resolved these internal differences, the main elite of the Jianzhou Army was also devastated, and the entire southern Xinjiang was swept away in just one autumn. As soon as the cold winter passed, they launched an offensive against the Oirat Mongols from many directions, trying to subdue the Oirat Mongols.

In this way, at this time, under the city of Ili, the land of the Emperor of Oirat, the decisive battle between the Manchurians and the Dzungars began many years in advance. This decisive battle did not take place after the entry of Manchuria, but broke out under the strategy of westward orientation, when one of the two forces was in the early stage and the other was in the prime of life. Although the Dzungars began to understand the strength of the Jianzhou army, they also believed that it was not impossible to resist in defense.

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