Although the Emir's summer palace behaved fairly well under the repeated attacks of the volunteer troops, it also made Xiao Xuan understand that not all the armies of the Astrakhan Dynasty were as lax as the defenders of Samarkand, but after all, they were still unable to resist the onslaught of the top elite Naihuan of this era's top offensive tactics, and they fell in less than ten days.

Many armed forces in the Khanate, which had been ordered by King Qin, were assembled from all over the country, which made the volunteer troops have to carry out another reinforcement battle, but the battle against the main force of tens of thousands of Qin kings in the Khan was hardly much suspense after that. On the premise of arranging some intelligence points in advance, the Qinwang forces that came from multiple reinforcements did not escape the fate of being broken by each one in the end. The grassroots revolution and purges against the entire Bukhara Khanate were also soon launched.

The rectification and purge of the Kazakh Khanate in one winter allowed the volunteer troops to accumulate a lot of experience in how to liberate the grassroots and purge the middle and upper classes in foreign areas.

Compared with the predominantly nomadic and small settlements of the Kazakh Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate, which in many respects resembled the settlement civilization of the Han people in the interior, encountered significantly fewer problems in grassroots innovation. Especially if you don't have many domestic concerns, you can let go of your hands and feet. With the exception of a few skilled craftsmen and their families, and even merchants with little connection to the local elite, the entire middle and upper strata of the entire Bukhara Khanate, with the exception of the entire working class of the Bukhara, were thoroughly purged in the storm. Drawing on previous experience, of course, this kind of purge is not carried out directly by people in the volunteer army, but is widely mobilized by the local middle and lower strata to call for nominations.

Compared with the Kazakh Khanate, the religious atmosphere in the Bukhara Khanate is stronger, and the agrarian life creates more contradictions while also making the people here weaker, but as long as the means are not used, any group can single out people who are dissatisfied with the status quo, not to mention that the contradictions in the Bukhara Khanate are not few. When it was discovered that many privileges and benefits were available to those who started the struggle first, the fire of the shuffle burned throughout the territory of the Bukhara, despite religious interference. And with the demise of the majority of non-working groups in a society, the cultural concept of nations and civilizations is gradually dying out in the face of invasion.

After the complete pacification of the Kazakh Khanate, the army did not let up, but continued to attack the Khiva Khanate, which was already mired in long-term civil strife at this time.

It has to be said that although the population and economic resources are smaller, the Khiva Khanate is much stronger than the Bukhara Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate in terms of the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, but because of the serious internal friction, the large army can not only concentrate its forces to defeat each other, but also in many cases can obtain completely different information through effective buying and use.

Fearing that the volunteers would make dogmatic mistakes in some places where the people were bad, the purge of the troops in the territory of the Khiva Khanate was more extensive and drastic, and anyone who refused to surrender their personal weapons during the first mobilization was considered a potential bandit, and Xiao Xuan had to characterize many of the local people as "reactionary peoples" in order for the broader social purge to continue.

In order to eliminate the possible rise and even instability of the Central Asian zone without leaving hidden dangers, it is counted from the winter of the fourth year of Chongzhen to the spring of the fifth year of Chongzhen. It took about half a year for the army to move the entire three Central Asian khanates from the feudal era to the primitive village structure of the early civilization in the midst of violent upheavals and social revolutions, eliminating most of the potential threats.

Just when the main force of the volunteer army swept through Central Asia, the main force of Jianzhou gathered in the Turpan area also launched an operation when spring came, and the mighty army began to move forward after completing the rest. Because of logistical limitations, the Hexi Corridor, which was much worse than the Tang and Han dynasties, was difficult to accommodate the direct passage of 100,000 troops, which also made the Jianzhou Army entering the corridor have to first enter the Hexi Corridor with 20,000 elite main forces with 20,000 armor as the core and a total of about 30,000 auxiliary soldiers as the pioneer. Even if these 30,000 or so troops and strength, because the advance material reserves and hoarding points in the Hexi Corridor have not yet been consolidated, they can only be divided into two strategic groups successively, led by Yue Tuo and Hei Huan Bolie respectively.

At this time, of course, Heihuan Bolie also understood that in the eastward expansion strategy, the area around the Hexi Corridor was also the most dangerous section, because even if the main force of the Chongzhen regime marched westward, it was very likely that it would leave a fairly strong force to guard the Hexi Corridor. Therefore, when the army approached the Zhangye area, the main force of the Jianzhou vanguard led by Yue Tuo was ready for battle.

In the previous strategic dividing line, Zhangye was still the area controlled by the Jianzhou Ministry with troops to guard in advance, but in the news that came not long ago, Wuwei had fallen.

The main force of Jianzhou fought a fierce battle in the Wuwei area with the remaining Ming army of about 5,000 people in the Wuwei area, and annihilated the opponent without spending too much price. This also completely relaxed the hearts of some lower-level grassroots officers and generals in Jianzhou. However, Yue Tuo and the others did not give up their guard. Because from the interrogation of the captured people, it was learned that the Ming army that remained behind did not belong to the most elite volunteer troops under the command of Emperor Chongzhen and the main force of the revolutionary army. In such a critical outpost, would the Ming army in the mainland really leave behind a team that has not been the main force so carelessly?

Just as Yue Tuo and others feared, when the Jianzhou army was in Lanzhou, they finally encountered an ambush by the more elite First Army of the Revolutionary Army. Although there is not enough reliance on car shields and artillery, compared with the core main force led by Emperor Chongzhen at the time of the Battle of Qingyuan, the first army of the revolutionary army at this time is significantly more prosperous in terms of combat effectiveness, Yue Tuo and other Jianzhou vanguard forces saw that the scale of the ambush in the initial confrontation was not much, and there was no plan to retreat and break through at the first time, but when the battle really started, it was found that the fierceness of those people from the archery was far beyond their expectations, The force, including 10,000 core armor and about 5,000 auxiliaries, was surrounded from three directions by enemy soldiers who did not have a superior number of people. When Yue Tuo concentrated his elite attack in one of the directions, it was difficult to effectively break through, so the entire army had to go on the defensive, preparing to break the deadlock at night with a hand-to-hand assault.

(End of chapter)