The people of the Kazakh Khanate naturally knew that they could not let the trebuchets rage, and a group of Kazakh Khanate soldiers came out of the city from the south gate and roared towards the trebuchet. Cao Bianjiao smiled slightly, the Ming army had already guarded against this, so there were six rows of firecrackers on both sides. When the soldiers of the Kazakh Khanate rushed more than 200 steps in front of the Ming army, three rows of Ming troops opened fire at the same time, then retreated, and the other three platoons continued to fire, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the battlefield.

When the smoke cleared, most of the Kazakh Khanate soldiers fell to the ground, the ownerless horses scurried around, and the fallen horses were screaming weakly. Although the soldiers of the Kazakh Khanate wore armor, bullets could still cause damage if they hit the unarmoured parts, and even if they hit the armor, they could cause some damage. And after hitting the horse, the horse threw the knight down and was trampled on by the cavalry behind, which was worse than being hit by a bullet.

At this time, the Ming army had already loaded the gunpowder again, because the distance was closer, and after the muskets fired, the Kazakh Khanate soldiers who continued to charge fell with the sound and fell off their horses. After the Ming army in the front row opened fire, they no longer loaded the bullets, but held bayonets and faced the front, in case any fish escaped the net and rushed into battle.

There were no more Kazakh Khanate soldiers who dared to charge into battle anymore, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to be unwound quickly retreated backwards until they were a mile away before stopping. At this time, the Ming army had already begun to clean up the battlefield, pull back the intact horses, and by the way, use bayonets to give the moaning Kazakhs and horses a good time.

Cao Bianjiao looked at the dozens of war horses he brought back, and said with a smile: "This can at least offset the ammunition money." "War horses are extremely important in the grassland, and the Ming army is now in the grassland The troops have especially strengthened their riding training, because mobility is almost everything on the grassland, although the Ming army has sharp firearms, but you can't catch up with others, and you can only look at the ocean and sigh, in vain.

Seeing that the Ming army had cleanly dealt with the Kazakhs leaving the city, Batur ordered the Dzungars to step up the siege of the city, and soon, the trebuchets began to be damaged, but the walls of the east gate were already in danger.

The Kazakhs saw that the troops on the flanks had been destroyed, so they began to retreat, anyway, this is the city of the Dzungars, but Batur has already thought of this, and a part of the Ming army is lurking in the woods outside the west gate, waiting for the Kazakhs to escape to intercept and kill.

The Kazakh leader of the city was Alam, the nephew of the king of the Kazakh Khanate, who gilded here with the favor of his uncle. Seeing that the situation was not good, he did not have the determination to defend the land to the end, so he escaped from the west gate with his subordinates.

Seeing that the Kazakhs at the east gate were silent, Batur asked the trebuchets to stop the attack, and the Dzungar soldiers quickly climbed up to the top of the city along the stones outside the city walls, opened the gates, and the Dzungars rushed into the city quickly.

Alam and his men had just left the west gate and walked on the road to Tikley, but they saw a few large trees falling in front of them, and they stopped on the main road. The Kazakhs were so anxious to flee that they went to move away from the trees, when the sound of firecrackers rang out intensively, and the Kazakhs fell one by one.

Alam was startled, it was impossible to return to the hot spring city, and the Dzungars would definitely come in immediately after abandoning the city, but now there was only one way to return to Tiekli, and if these big trees were not moved, they could only die here together.

The Kazakhs continued to rush up to move the trees, and the Ming army kept firing at ease, knocking the Kazakhs down next to the big trees, and only after the Kazakhs suffered dozens of casualties did one of the four trees be removed.

At this time, the Dzungars had already passed through the small hot spring city and chased after them from the west gate. The Kazakhs had roadblocks in front of them, and the Dzungar army behind them, and they were in chaos for a while. With a long sigh, Alam jumped off his horse, knelt on the ground and surrendered.

When Batur saw the Kazakhs kneeling down densely in front of him, he only felt that the depression of being pressed and beaten by the Kazakhs was swept away. He ordered the Kazakhs to be taken into custody and then returned to the hot spring town to discuss the next steps.

In this battle, more than 300 Kazakhs were killed and more than 1,600 were captured, while the Ming army and Dzungars suffered zero casualties. Batur had never encountered such a disparity in battle losses in the battle, and the weapons of the Ming army made him feel that it was too wise to cooperate with the Ming army.

Batur summoned the leaders of the Dzungar Ministry and held a small meeting with the generals of the Ming army. Batur said: "The hot spring city has been captured, and half of the occupied territory of our Dzungaria has been laid. The next target of our army was Tiekli, which was originally a Kazakh city, so after it was defeated, it was owned by the Ming army. ”

Some Dzungar leaders are actually reluctant to give the Tikeli general to the Ming army, but Batur has said it first, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is indeed fierce, although it has not shown any characteristics in the siege, but the power of firearms in the face of the charge is too amazing, the point is that the fire gun is a long-range attack, so that the Ming army's own losses can be minimized. They thought in their hearts that if the Ming army dealt with the Dzungars, they were afraid that the final result would not make much difference.

Cao Bianjiao said with a big grin: "Taiji is really a gentleman. However, now that we occupy the territory of Tiekle and even other Kazakh khanates, we must be temporarily managed by Taiji, and I have no way to transfer people to this place for actual management for the time being. ”

Batur was overjoyed that it would be a good thing to be able to occupy a part of the territory first, even if it was not nominally his own. Daming is indeed too far away from here, and it is indeed a bit difficult to transfer people to manage it for a while, so during the reign of the Dzungars, it is completely possible to make these places more inclined to the Dzungars. When the time comes, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, but I am afraid that these places can only belong to the Ming Dynasty in name.

Cao Bianjiao also has no choice, it takes time to transfer people from the country to manage, and it is a last resort to hand over the territory to the Dzungars for management. When he came, Lu Xiangsheng said that as long as it was nominally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it didn't matter who occupied it in fact. Of course, Cao Bianjiao disagreed with Lu Xiangsheng's statement, but he didn't understand that Lu Xiangsheng wished that the Dzungars would forcibly occupy the territory that did not belong to them, so that they could have an excuse to deal with them in the future, and finally turn the Dzungar tribe into a tribe directly ruled by the Ming Dynasty, instead of the current state of bondage.

After a brief rest in the hot spring city, the army continued westward, first occupying the territory of the former Dzungaria, and then attacking Tiekli, the important town of the Kazakh Khanate, opening the road to Almaty, the capital of the Kazakh Khanate, and dealing a fatal blow to the Kazakh Khanate.