Text Volume 3 The Road to Empire_Chapter 526 Westward Journey War 5

Abdul Rahahan, who fled to Kuqa City, did not think that he was safe, and he had already fled twice in front of the Ming army, and his mentality had completely lost his balance, and now he just wanted to run to a place that was difficult for the Ming army to pursue in order to regroup.

Soon after he arrived in Kuqa, he wanted to retreat to Beshbali, northeast of Kuqa, that is, the southern foot of the middle Tianshan Mountains, the mountain basin on the northern edge of the Choltag Mountains, and the upper reaches of the Weigan River. However, Burke and the army, who fled with him to Kucha, were unwilling, because Kuqa City was on the edge of the plains, and there were still storage savings available, while Beshbali was mostly mountainous, with no walls to defend against the enemy and no food to feed so many people.

Abdullaha Khan continued to flee into the mountains, undoubtedly to ask Berke and the army to leave his family behind. In addition, winter has arrived, and the heavy snow in the Tianshan Mountains is falling, which is an invisible existence that kills people.

Under the clamor of these Burks and the soldiers, even Abdullaha Khan's cronies did not dare to persuade him to continue his flight. Seeing the danger of a mutiny, Abdullah Khan had to personally summon the Burks, declaring that he had no intention of continuing to flee, but intended to fight the Ming and Mongolian forces here.

In order to show his determination, Abdullah Khan immediately ordered the people around Kucha to come to Kucha to expand the army and prepare for war, which can be regarded as suppressing the unstable mood of the generals and soldiers.

On November 23, Abdullah Khan received the news that the Tiemen Pass had been lost, and about 15,000 members of the Ming-Mongolian coalition army had passed through the Tiemen Pass and were coming towards Kucha. By this time, he had to compromise with his younger brother, Prince Ibraim, and no longer trying to seize command of the Aksu army, but asked him to come with the army to defend himself.

On December 5, Prince Ibraim led an army of 12,000 to the western outskirts of Kuqa, which finally relieved the soldiers and civilians of Kuqa. However, when Prince Ibraim went to the city to meet his brother, he proposed a plan to annihilate the enemy in the wilderness.

Prince Ibraim said in front of his brother and many Burkes, "... 12,000 of our army went north, more than 3,000 Kyrgyz came to the aid of the Khan, and nearly 20,000 reinforcements from Kuqa and various cities.

Our army now has 3 or 40,000 people, while the Ming-Mongolian coalition army is less than half of our army, and they are not familiar with geography, so the march is slow. When they arrived at the ground of Kuqa, it was the middle of winter, and the army had traveled a long distance and encountered the cold season, how much of the combat strength was left?

If our army goes out of the city to face the battle, it is in line with the advantage of waiting for work with leisure and defeating the outnumbered with the crowd. On the contrary, if the Ming-Mongolian coalition army is allowed to winter outside the city, wait until the spring of next year, God knows if there will be reinforcements from the Ming army to join them?

Besides, Kuqa is not Aksu and Korla, where there are so many savings to supply so many of our troops and inhabitants to survive this winter..."

Prince Ibraim's proposal immediately made the Burks who attended the meeting discuss it in a whisper, and Abdullah Khan was also a little hesitant.

At this time, the leader of the Kyrgyz who had been recruited by him, Klich Shamilkhanov, stood up, saluted and said: "King Khan, I think Prince Ibraim is right, fighting depends on the courage of the soldiers.

Now that our army is twice as numerous as the enemy, and they are a tired army from afar, if we still have to stay in the city and wait for them to attack, the courage of the soldiers will inevitably be greatly damaged, and then there will be a wall to cover the enemy's bows and arrows, but how can we resist the enemy's attack without a wall guarded by warriors?

If the Khan insists on defending the city, then we Kyrgyz are willing to follow Prince Ibraim to attack the Ming-Mongol alliance and take that risk..."

The words of the Kyrgyz people immediately aroused the resentment of some Burkes. As the successors of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the Berks of the Yarkand Khanate have always looked down on the Kyrgyz people, the slaves of the former Chagatai Khanate.

To this day, the Kyrgyz have not been able to establish a country of their own, and are only a group of nomadic tribes grazing in the mountains, not only by the surrounding Bukhara Khanate, Kazakh Khanate, Oirat, Yarkand Khanate, but also there are many contradictions within themselves, what is the difference between plain tribes and mountain tribes, what is the distinction between tribes with foreign surnames and tribes with inner surnames, and what is between tribes with 30 surnames and tribes with 9 surnames.

In the eyes of the Yarkand people, even the Oirats are barbarians, not to mention these miscellaneous people who are not even barbarians. Therefore, the contemptuous attitude of Klich Shamilkhanov's words immediately made these Burkes angry.

They either reprimanded Klić Shamilkhanov for his rudeness, spoke indiscriminately in the Yarkand court, or petitioned Abdullaha Khan to lead them out of the city to meet them.

Although Abdullaha Khan was extremely annoyed by his younger brother's public challenge to his authority, he did not dare to refuse in this turbulent situation, so he could only say that he would send someone to inquire about the movements of the Ming-Mongolian coalition army before making a decision.

The spies soon sent back the news that the Ming-Mongolian coalition forces had stopped in the Luntai area, 200 miles away from Kuqa, where the coalition forces had cut down poplars to build camps, apparently with the intention of wintering there.

This news immediately alarmed the Burks in Kuqa City, and it was clear that Prince Ibraim was right. The Ming-Mongol coalition was in no hurry to attack Kucha, which meant that they would face a recuperated enemy army at the beginning of spring.

Abdullah Khan had to agree to the plan to go out of the city to face the battle, and at this time he naturally did not dare to hand over all the military power to his brother, so he decided to take command of the expedition himself.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Abdullaha Khan brought all the troops inside and outside Kuqa City, although not as many as the 50,000 troops who had originally set out to conquer Kashgar, but also reached more than 38,000.

On 25 December, the army of Abdullaha Khan arrived in Luntai, and the Ming-Mongolian forces quickly assembled, and the two sides finally confronted each other in a hilly and plain area 20 miles northwest of Luntai.

The army of Abdul Raha Khanate was located in the highlands to the northwest, while the combined forces of the Ming and Mongolian armies were located in the plains of the southeast. Geographically, the coalition forces still suffered a lot. However, there were more hills in the northwest, so the Abdullaha Khan's army could only be lined up in a dense line, while the vast plains in the southeast allowed the cavalry-dominated coalition army to spread out and regain a little advantage.

Abdullaha Khan himself was in the center with an army of 20,000 men, with 12,000 Aksu troops under Prince Ibraim on his left flank and Yarkand cavalry under the Kyrgyz and Buguchiberk on his right flank, a total of 6,000 men.

Although the Ming-Mongolian coalition army was only less than half of the Yarkand army, it put on an extremely strange formation. The Ming-Mongolian coalition army placed heavy troops on the left and right flanks, but only about 3,000 cavalry were placed in the middle, as if a crab had two big turtles.

Abdullaha Khan saw that the coalition forces on the opposite side did not have the artillery that he feared, and the Chinese army was extremely weak, and the fear in his heart was immediately dispelled.

He looked at Tengger beside him. Curry said: "Although the Mingmeng coalition army has many cavalry, it is inevitable that it despises our army too much, and puts the main force on both sides, but the Chinese army is so weak, is this bullying us for not knowing the art of war?"

Summons the order to go down and let the cowardly Pike. Mir led 7,000 men from the vanguard of the Chinese army to attack. Then give orders to the left and right wings, and let them each entangle the left and right wings of the Mingmeng coalition army. After our army defeated the opponent's central army, we first cooperated with the left flank to defeat the right flank of the Mingmeng coalition army, and then went to encircle the opponent's right flank. In this battle, I will surely wash away the shame of the battle of Toksun..."

Batur Huntaiji, who led the right flank of the coalition army, couldn't help but feel a little anxious when he watched the three armies of the other side's left, center and right slowly moving forward, and the gray flow of people submerged the originally snow-covered ground little by little. He looked back several times, but he didn't see any instructions from Fan Yixuan, who was in charge of the Chinese army.

I couldn't help but be very annoyed and said to the generals on the left and right: "Do these Ming people know how to fight, cavalry is conducive to surprise attacks, and it is not conducive to fighting against infantry." But they told us to stay here and wait for orders, did they want us to stand here and use each other as targets? ”

Baturhun's subordinate Kong Jin looked at the opposite side for a long time, but said to him: "Taiji, there seems to be something strange in the army on the other side. ”

Batur Huntaiji opened his head to look at the other side and said, "What's wrong with the other side?" ”

Kong Jin raised his horsewhip and pointed ahead and said: "The opponent's flanks are moving slower and slower, and they are obviously out of touch with the Chinese army's forward, is this to lure us to attack their Chinese army?" ”

Kong Jin's words immediately caused the other generals to nod again and again. Batur Huntaiji looked at the enemy's Chinese army forward who had already stepped on the middle line of the battlefield, and finally couldn't help but order: "Kong Jin and Seling, you each bring a thousand-strong team to prepare to attack, if the Chinese army does not give the order after another 100 breaths, then we have to attack ourselves."

The first goal is to defeat the enemy's mid-line first. Then Sumail, you will lead a thousand people to entangle the left flank of the enemy, and the others will follow me and directly attack the opponent's Chinese army..."

Before Batur Huntaiji finished speaking, he heard three ringings from his own Chinese army, and before he could react, what signal was this, the Yarkand army on the opposite side suddenly underwent a great change.

The left-wing troops of Yarkand opposite him suddenly stopped, removed the flag representing the Yarkand Khanate, and unfurled a Ming banner of the sun, moon and stars. On the other side, the Yarkand right-wing troops appeared with earth-shattering shouts of killing, and it could be vaguely seen that this force was killing each other.

The changes that occurred in the Yarkand army on both flanks suddenly confused the forward of the Chinese army, which was still advancing in formation, some of them stopped and watched, and some of them had already turned around and wanted to run back to the rear troops.

Batur Hun Taiji was still thinking about what was going on, when his subordinate Kong Jin suddenly shook his arm and shouted: "Taiji, the Chinese army has sent a signal, let's ignore the enemy's two flanks and directly attack the enemy's Chinese army..."

Just a few minutes ago, Klich Shamilkhanov, who had suppressed the advance of his troops on the right flank of the ostensibly dominant Yarkand army, was still thinking about what the Ming merchant had said to Abdullaha Khan when he received his request for help.

“… Looking around the Kyrgyz, the Uzbeks have the Uzbek khanate, the Kazakhs have the Kazakh khanate, the Yarkand have the Yarkand khanate, the Oirats have the Oirat Union, only the Kyrgyz are wandering around and living under the fence...

The Ming Emperor is willing to give the Kyrgyz a chance, and if you are willing to be loyal to the Ming, then the Ming will support the Kyrgyz to establish a state of their own in Central Asia. Perhaps you are the future king of the Kyrgyz kingdom, Lord Klić..."

While Klich Shamilkhhanov was still in a state of admiration for the words of the Ming merchant, Buguchi Burke hurried over from the rear and interrupted his reverie, "Leader Klich, please speed up your march, we and the Chinese army are almost half a mile away." Are you afraid of the Mongols on the other side? If you are afraid, then please get out of the way and let our people open the way for you..."

Klich Shamilkhanov pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, and squinted at Buguchibok as he was about to say something, when he heard the sound of a firing from the opposite side.

He immediately sat up straight, pulled out the scimitar at his waist and said: "God bless, all honor is to the Kyrgyz..."

Led by Klić Shamilkhanov, the Kyrgyz cavalry all drew their weapons and prayed before the battle, and Buguchibok naturally stopped urging and waited for the other party to finish praying.

But what he didn't expect was that after the prayer, Klich Shamilkhanov would swing his knife and cut off his head, and the guards around him would also be cut off by the Kyrgyz. This scene soon appeared in the entire Yarkand right-wing troops.

The unsuspecting Yarkand cavalry obviously did not expect such a sudden attack, except for dozens of Yarkand cavalry with outstanding martial arts and superb horsemanship, who fled from the ranks, the rest of the Yarkand cavalry were basically sent to heaven by the Kyrgyz who were anti-water.

After Klich Shamilkhanov eliminated the Yarkand cavalry in the ranks, he looked coldly at the Yarkand army that was in chaos, and shouted to his subordinates: "Kuqa City is now defenseless, warriors follow me to get back the wealth and women that the true God has given us, and the first warrior to attack Kuqa City can give priority to the most beautiful women in the city..."

The Kyrgyz shouted at the shouts of Klich Shamilkhanov, and soon the group turned around and ran wildly towards the road from which they came, and the Yarkand army had no power to stop them, but could only watch the Kyrgyz leave.

In the battle of Luntai, the Ming-Mongolian coalition army defeated Abdullaha Khan's patchwork army with a loss of less than 30 men, and even Abdullaha Khan himself was tied up by his subordinates and sent to the commander of the coalition army.