Chapter Seventy-Eight: Borrowing a Sword to Kill the Moon is Someone Else, Li Kui vs. the Yarkand People

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Li Feng smiled and said, "Actually, without us doing anything, don't those Mongolians hate Yue and others more?" ”

Ning De clapped his hands and said, "That's right! But as soon as the conversation turned to Li Feng, he said, "Borrow a knife to kill someone!" You kid is very insidious, I'm going to guard against you in the future! ”

"Oops! Do you think I'm unlucky? Li Feng deliberately said with a bitter face.

Sun Chuanting said: "I see, these army commanders and division commanders in Yaogang are all fucking human spirits!" ”

Ningde said: "I was so busy that I forgot about the Mongols. This month is that the others turned out to be the descendants of the Kipchak Khanate, but they began to betray the code of Genghis Khan from the beginning of the month of the king of the Khan, ordered everyone in the khanate to convert to *** religion, and killed the shamans and lamas, and the Mongols hated them even more. ”

"Hey! Now that we occupy this place, can we order them to convert to other religions? Wang Meng asked.

"They are engaged in theocratic integration, which is very troublesome. I also think that I can do this, but Mr. Zhang did not use this method in the Hexi area. Mr. Zhang has always wanted to engage in religious freedom. However, some religions are very hateful, and they think that those who do not believe in their religion are all devils and enemies, and they must be killed, and they cannot be merciful to such religions. Sun Chuanting said, "In fact, many people don't know what to teach or not, and you can believe whatever you ask them to believe." If it is not good for us, let the people believe it. ”

"I agree with Governor Sun's opinion, but we can't help but listen to Mr. Zhang's words, so after we open Tashkent, we will let the Mongols enter the city to solve this problem." Ningde said.

"Also, I suggest that all the Mongols here should not be moved back, and some Mongols should be left here to graze, and those Mongol nobles should not all move away immediately, wouldn't it be nice for them to manage the Mongols and stand guard here for us?" Sun Chuanting said.

Ning De nodded and said, "I think it's okay for the time being, but we must get rid of their leaders in the future, otherwise the Mongols won't listen to us." When they come to their senses, they will turn against us! ”

"That's a later story, in the future, we will build the road and railway here, the people can live a good life with us, we will slowly assimilate them culturally, and everything will be easy!" Sun Chuanting still sees the problem very thoroughly.

"Hey! As soon as you come, Governor Sun, our confusion will be solved! Ningde said sincerely.

"That's right! Treat me to a bar tonight! Sun Chuanting said proudly.

The men and horses led by Ningde mainly advanced southwest along the Tarim River. In fact, this is already the territory of the Yarkand Khanate, but the Yarkand Khanate is in civil strife and can't take care of them.

The Yarkand Khanate was a state founded by Sultan Saeed Khan on the former land of the former Chagatai Khanate, with the capital of the Khanate in Yarkand (Yarkand). The territory includes the Turpan, Hami and Tarim basins. The territory of the khanate is bordered by Jiayuguan in the east, Uszang (Tibet) in the south, Kashmir in the southwest, Bukhara Khanate in the west, Ferghana Valley in the north, and Kazakh in the north.

Yarkand used to be a very powerful khanate, but later there were internal disputes between the White Mountain Sect and the Black Mountain Sect, and its strength gradually declined, and the Mongols continued to encroach on many of them, and they were powerless to resist. When Li Kui drove away the Mongols and built the railway to places like Lop Nur and Hami, they had actually entered the territory of the Yarkand Khanate, and these Yarkand people knew about it, but they couldn't take care of it anymore. It is because the railway was built to Lop Nur Loulan, so that the people here have benefited a lot, the people of all ethnic groups around have come to Loulan to trade, and see that Loulan under the governance of the Yaogang people is peaceful and prosperous, and people live and work in peace and contentment, and they are looking forward to their hometown being like Loulan. Therefore, the arrival of Ningde was quickly welcomed by the people of all ethnic groups. Many leaders of small tribes came to Li Kui to express their obedience to the governance of the Ming Dynasty and their observance of the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Li Kui also received them warmly, and sent officials and police to take over the place, and also sent doctors to deliver medicine to everyone. This is a great boon to the people of all ethnic groups who lack medical treatment and medicine. The local people have never used antibiotics, and those patients with some inflammation do not need to use penicillin, and a little sulfonamide drug will quickly take effect. These miraculous things soon spread by word of mouth among the people.

Li Kui: The progress of the road is very smooth. But as they kept going. Abdullah, king of Yarkand Khan, is gone. After consultation, the two sworn enemies of Montenegro and White Mountain decided to temporarily abandon hostility and jointly deal with the approaching infidels.

In fact, the Black Mountain faction and the White Mountain faction are named because their followers take the white flag and the black flag as symbols. Later, it gradually evolved into the White Mountain sect believers wearing white hats, and the Montenegrin sect believers wearing black hats as a mark. The teachings of the two schools are basically the same, with only slight differences in the fasting rituals. The White Mountain sect advocates the silent recitation of Allah's praise. The Montenegrin faction, on the other hand, advocated the recitation of hymns, and the two factions fought decades of bloody war for power, and it was the religious congregations who were unlucky. It is the religious and political leaders who benefit from the integration of religion and religion. Theocracy is also the root of religious wars, and those leaders who are theocracy can wage holy wars in the name of God to achieve their own personal interests.

The believers of the Black Mountain and White Mountain factions have long been tired of strife after decades of bloodshed. Some tribal leaders quietly came to Ningde and introduced to Li Kui the cruel things that these so-called religious leaders had done in the name of Allah for personal gain, and asked Li Kui to come forward to stop the bloodshed.

Li Kui also knew that sooner or later he would face the King of Yarkand Khan, and when he heard such a request from the leaders of various tribes, he was naturally very willing to do this. This is also a good opportunity for the Yarkand people to separate government and religion. In this way, there are sufficient reasons to deal with the king of Yarkand Khan.

Therefore, when Li Kui and his others moved forward, they continued to propagate that the people of all ethnic groups have freedom of belief, and no one should force others to change their beliefs, let alone start a war in the name of religion for their own personal gain. In the future, it is necessary to implement the separation of church and state, and no religious clergy should participate in politics, otherwise there will be no forgiveness for their death!

Li Kui's move is deeply popular among the people, but the two sects of Black Mountain and White Mountain are gone, this is to seize their power, and it is the same as their lives.

The two factions of Montenegro and White Mountain mobilized many religious fanatics, as well as a large number of believers to meet Li Kui and them.

Li Kui now has an advantage, that is, he has the support of some of the clan leaders, so he can send various tribe scouts to find out the news for them. The news that Abdul Raha, the king of Yarkand Khan, led more than 100,000 men and horses to set up a formation in front of Yarkand (Shache) and prepare for a decisive battle with Ningde had already been reported to Li Kui.

Li Kui just smiled slightly when he heard it and said, "Okay! They finally got together. Otherwise, it would be really time-consuming and laborious for us to catch them one tribe after another! ”

The cavalry division commander who followed Li Kui had a good relationship with Li Kui, and was in the Ningde tent, when he saw that Li Kui didn't take the Yarkand people too seriously, he reminded: "General Li, there are more than 100,000 Yarkand people, we can't be too careless!" We don't have many troops on our side, and the cavalry is only one of my divisions. Let's prepare early, and when we defeat the Yarkands, it's not too late for us to go back and build roads! ”

"Huh! You are wrong, as long as the road behind us is open, we will not have an invincible enemy. Li Kui said, "As long as we ensure our logistical supply, our army will have no problem with one hundred." We are not in a hurry, the Yarkand people have concentrated more than 100,000 people, and the food is a very big burden. They did not dare to attack us, and it was a sign of cowardice to set up a position at Yarkand (Yarkand), but we still moved forward according to our plan. Just send a cavalry regiment to spy on the enemy. ”

Li Kui is such a person, he looks like a rough person, but he actually knows it very well. Li Kui divided the army and the prisoners on the road and constantly built roads, and the cars and carriages behind followed behind, continuously transporting supplies to the supply depots built in various places in front.

King Yarkand Khan concentrated more than 100,000 people, hoping to fight Li Kui and them as soon as possible, but Li Kui and his people were not in a hurry while building roads, and at the same time sent officials, police, and troops to the surrounding areas to consolidate the occupied areas, and they also continued to carry out propaganda, and they were not in a hurry to advance to Yarkand at all.

Yarkand Khan King Abdul Raha initially insisted on taking advantage of the favorable terrain in front of Yarkand to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army. But after waiting for more than a month, the army began to be nervous, and the Ming army was still far away from here, and the Khan king Abdullaha felt that he was being tricked by the Ming army.

The enraged King Abdullaha Khan knew that if he waited like this, he would not have to fight the Ming army, and his own people would be defeated.

Abdullahah again began to convene a meeting to study the attack. However, these guys who only ask Allah when they encounter trouble, there are few who know how to fight, and there is no good advice when they quarrel around, and the result is that Abdullaha made a deployment, and they also advanced along the Tarim River to meet the Ming army.

Li Kui was even happier when he received the news that the Yarkand had come out, and ordered the infantry to build fortifications and prepare to meet the Yarkands.

More than 100,000 horses walked up, and the dust they brought up was obscuring the sky and the sun, and the line was very long.

The fortifications built by Li Kui were surrounded by iron nets with trenches and fences and wooden piles on one side against the Tarim River on one side.

Li Kui's purpose in building the fortifications was to use the fortifications to kill and injure as many Yarkand people as possible. Of course, the classic things such as arranging ** in front of the position and digging a stumbling horse pit are the specialties of the kiln gang people, Li Kui didn't speak, and the staff officers below were all arranged.

The number of troops on Ningde's side is not large, and there are still many troops left along the way to cooperate with the officials who will take over the place, and now Ningde still has two infantry divisions and one cavalry division in his hands. There is not enough force to encircle the Yarkands. It is still the right choice to attract the enemy to attack, destroy the opponent in front of the battle and consume the opponent as much as possible.

When the Yarkand Khan king Abdullaha heard that the Ming army had now taken over the battle, he knew that the Ming army was too small in number, and when he heard that his army was coming, he was already afraid, and he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed in his heart. It seems that the original worry that the Ming army could not be defeated was a little too worried. Now the question is how to break through the positions of the Ming army and win early.

The Yarkand army was very calm, and surrounded the Ming army's position on three sides.

At this time, the Yarkand people knew that the Ming army was surrounded, and they could trap the Ming army to death if they were trapped without food and grass. The Yarkand people, including the Khan king Abdul Raha, were very optimistic at this time. The result of their discussion was that they could not use that kind of siege method to deal with the Ming army, because their own army would also consume a lot of supplies outside, and they were all cavalry, and the consumption was very large. Therefore, the Yarkand people agreed to capture the Ming army's position as soon as possible and settle the battle as soon as possible.

After pulling up more than 20 cannons, the Yarkand people attacked.

It was a good morning, but the thick murderous aura made it seem very depressing.

Needless to say, Li Kui knew that there was going to be a big battle today. Artillery scouts on the watchtower, reporting to the artillery the parameters of the position of the artillery positions of the Yarkands.

By the time the Yarkands began to line up, a 130-heavy artillery shell and a mortar and an infantry shell fell near their artillery position. The power of the explosion of the shells, especially the power of the 130 heavy cannons, not only shook the hearts of the Yarkand soldiers, but also shocked the heart of the originally confident Khan King Abdullah. However, the great battle was imminent, and the Khan king Abdullaha pretended to be calm and waited, and came to the front of the battle to command the battle.

The Khan king Abdullaha wanted to send cavalry to charge after bombarding with cannons, but how did he know that the kiln men would never let them fire first. Needless to say, Li Kui is like this, even the junior officers of the kiln gang will not suffer losses in the artillery when they fight.

Just when the Yarkand artillery began to load, the large and small shells of the Yaogang artillery that had passed through the calibration fell with a whistling fall. In an earth-shattering explosion, the artillery and artillery on the artillery positions of the Yarkand people flew into the sky.

Li Kui put down the binoculars in his hand and said to the staff officers beside him: "Fighting with Lao Tzu, and wanting to use cannons, it's really a big knife in front of Guan Gong!" ”

The staff officer also flattered and said, "Hehe! We kiln gang people are the ancestors of playing with cannons! First get rid of the opponent's cannon, this is the primary course of our Yaogang Military Academy. ”

"Stop slapping the horse!" Li Kui said, "Tell the brethren that the Yarkand are about to attack!" ”

The Khan king Abdullah, who was frightened by the sound of a burst of shells, saw that the artillery was blown up by the Ming army in this way, and he was angry and shouted in his voice: "Attack, attack, kill these infidels!" ”

The Yarkand people threw 10,000 cavalry from three directions, each direction, and the Khan king Abdul Raha wanted to use a sledgehammer to smash walnuts to eliminate the Ming army at once.

The Yarkand people don't know that Li Kui is also a person who likes to have fun, and his thoughts are the same as those of the Khan King Abdullah, but what he wants is to solve the Yarkand people at once.

The charging scene of tens of thousands of cavalry was very shocking, and the smoke and dust rolled up almost obscured the battlefield.

The tactics of the Yarkand people basically inherited the tactics of the Mongols, and they still sent people out to drag the horse stakes in front of them, but the snipers in Li Kui's position were specially used against them. When the standard-bearers who rushed out one by one to drag the rejection horse fell off their horses, the cavalry behind also rushed in front of the rejection horses. Rows of bows and arrows also shot at the Kiln Gang people's position.

The sudden sound of gunfire on the position of the kiln gang people immediately suppressed the sound of horses' hooves. One by one, the horses, along with the cavalry, fell in front of the position. At the same time, the cavalry team behind was detonated, and the horses that had broken their legs threw the cavalry leaves to the ground while throwing the cavalry leaves to the ground. The large and small caliber shells on the Yaogang people's positions, depending on the range, began to shoot at the follow-up troops of Yarkand.

On the barges pulled by tugboats on the Tarim River, a large number of infantry guns, mortars, and 12 o'clock 7-millimeter heavy machine guns and water-cooled heavy machine guns were set up along the banks of the Tarim River and began to fire at the large number of Yarkand camps placed along the river. Groups of Yarkand people were killed and blown up by the river. Batches of tents were overturned by shells.

For a time, the Yarkand people had no front and rear, and there were explosions everywhere, and gunfire everywhere.

It didn't take long to charge more than 30,000 cavalry, and almost all the casualties were lost.

Li Kui, who had been observing the movement of the battlefield with a telescope, put down the telescope and ordered: "Attack!" ”

More than a dozen tracked artillery tractors and cars suddenly drove out of the position of the Yaogang people, all of which were equipped with heavy machine guns, and they rushed towards the Yarkand people one by one with tongues of fire, and the Yaogang infantry also jumped out of the trench and rushed over with automatic rifles.

King Abdullah, who was already dazed, prayed for a long time, but Allah did not come to his aid. The guards saw that they couldn't do it anymore, and dragged him to flee with his life. The officers and soldiers who gritted their teeth and did not dare to flee saw that the king of Khan had finally escaped. They all beat their horses and joined the fleeing band.

However, it was too late to escape. If Li Kui defeated the Yarkand people like this, then his staff officers and lower-level officers and soldiers would also look down on him.

The Yarkands, who fled backwards along the Tarim River, encountered another barrage of rejecting horses, and a rain of bullets shot at them knocked down a group of fleeing cavalry. Seeing that the retreat was blocked, these Yarkand people beat their horses and fled to the side, but they encountered another blocking position head-on.

They didn't know that Li Kui led the cavalry to survey all the surrounding terrain in detail, and would not leave them loopholes. The Yarkand people didn't know that on the position they attacked, Li Kui only left one division of infantry, and the other infantry division blocked their retreat from various main roads from the back when the Yarkand surrounded Li Kui's position. And the cavalry division was waiting for them outside the position.

The fleeing Yarkands crashed into the blocking positions set up by the Yaogang people in several places, and they knew in panic that they had fallen into the pit dug by their opponents. The Khan king Abdullaha in the back didn't know whether to flee in that direction, but the pursuers behind, especially those who were emitting black smoke and breathing fire, heard the sound of a boom again. The desperate Khan king Abdullaha gritted his teeth and wanted to order to break through the temporary positions set up by the Ming army along the Tarim River and flee back.

But just as he was about to give the order, there was a "rumbling" sound of horses' hooves in the direction they were going.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.