Chapter 301: Cao Bianjiao (Page 1/1)

After the completion of the construction of the Beijing-small railway, the northern strategy of the Ming Dynasty could finally be carried out on a large scale. Because of the railway, a large amount of grain and manpower was transported to the Far North military city. First things first and foremost were to build barracks.

After the army was built, the two divisions of Xue Boling and Sun Fumin came to the Far North, so the Far North Military Region had four divisions, Zhang Zongling and the three division commanders held a meeting, and decided that Xue Boling's division would explore north along the Yenisei River, Sun Fumin's division would explore north along the Ob River, and Wei Junru's division would be stationed in Zhenbei City, and then take this city as the center to clean up the area east of the Lena River. Zhang Zongling himself led a division to first stabilize the situation near Xiaohai and ensure the smooth progress of railway exploration.

Wei Junru's Zhenbei City is located on the Lena River, and after coordinating with Cao Wenzhao's Eastern Military Region, the two armies divided their respective areas of responsibility to clear out all the Rakshasa forces in this area and rule effectively, and the most important signs are two, one is a military base, and the other is a tax collector.

This is a long-term process, which requires water grinding effort, Cao Wenzhao is actually very anxious, because now the Eastern Military Region has no war to fight at all, so he has reported to the emperor several times, hoping to transfer himself to the west, and fight the Rakshasa people or the Tile Thorn people. However, the emperor believed that stabilizing the East was a very important task, so it was necessary for the general to sit in charge, at least until the territory of the Eastern Military Region was explored, the administrative divisions of various places were divided, and the barracks and tax bureaus were repaired, and Cao Wenzhao could be transferred.

Cao Wenzhao couldn't, so he had to retreat and ask the emperor to transfer his nephew Cao Bianjiao to the west, so that his uncle and nephew would have nothing to do in the east. Cao Bianjiao followed Cao Wenzhao in his teens, fought bravely and quite strategically, and at the age of twenty-five, he had already accumulated merit and was promoted to brigade commander. Zhu Youxiao discussed with Lu Xiangsheng, promoted him to division commander, and led a division to live in Xiaohai.

Cao Bianjiao broke away from his uncle's control, and after coming to Xiaohai, he was eager to prove himself, and as soon as he came, he asked Zhang Zongling to fight westward and conquer the Kazakh Khanate, which had split from the Golden Horde, to the north of the Watts. Zhang Zongling did not dare to make his own opinion, so he asked Lu Xiangsheng for advice, and Lu Xiangsheng had already discussed with the emperor, so he asked him to allow Cao Bianjiao to go to the Dzungar Ministry to support, and take the opportunity to occupy a city in the north of the Dzungar Ministry that could march north and west, so as to use it as a base in the future wars of the Ming army.

At this time, the Kazakh Khanate was in the midst of a war with the Varspurs, which began more than a hundred years ago, and according to the original history, it would continue for several decades. At this time, the Kazakh Khanate was in the upper hand and had already occupied part of the western part of the Dzungaria.

In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the leader of the Dzungar tribe, Halakura, died, and his son Batur became the new leader of the Dzungar tribe, known as Batur Huntaiji (Taiji is lower than the tribal Khan, and the tribal Khan is lower than the national Khan), he is ambitious and wants to regain the land occupied by the Kazakh Khanate, at which time Cao Bianjiao sent someone to contact him.

Batur raised troops and horses to prepare for a showdown with the Kazakh Khanate, at this time, the Ming Dynasty, who was nominally subordinate to the Vaspurs, sent someone to contact him, saying that he wanted to help him deal with the Kazakh Khanate, he would naturally gladly allow it, and promised that as long as he had the original territory of the Dzungar Department, the rest of the territory could be handed over to the Ming army to deal with, and the Ming army's grain and grass in the Dzungar Department were all covered by themselves, and the seizures were divided equally according to the number of troops.

Although the equal distribution of the captured goods seemed unfair to the Ming army, which was capable of fighting, the Ming army actually took advantage of the supply of grain and grass and the ownership of the land in Kazakhstan.

Cao Bianjiao led a reinforced division with a total of 11,000 people, under the jurisdiction of three brigades, an artillery battalion, and a special bureau. The Military Investigation Bureau specially sent 30 people to join Cao Bianjiao's troops, preparing to collect local intelligence.

The reinforced division brought a total of 15,000 horses, and in addition to each person's mount, there were also horses to transport artillery, ammunition and food. When they came to the Dzungar Ministry, they were warmly welcomed by Batur Huntaiji, who not only provided them with a large number of cowhide tents, but also provided them with enough food for a month.

Cao Bianjiao had been idle in the Eastern Military Region for too long, so he was eager to fight, and after discussing with Batur Huntaiji, he decided to start attacking the Kazakh Khanate three days later, and first recapture the territory that had been robbed by the Dzungar Department.

The Kazakh Khanate was a khanate established after breaking away from the Golden Horde, with a large territory. One side is with the Rakshasa country, and the other side is the tile thorn. They fought at the same time as the Rakshasa and the Varspurs, and occupied a large area to the west of the Dzungar tribe.

Batur Huntaiji led about 20,000 Dzungar troops as the central army, and Cao Bianjiao led the Ming army as the left flank, and drove mightily to the hot spring city occupied by the Kazakh Khanate.

The Kazakh Khanate had not occupied the city of Hot Springs for a long time, and when he saw the menacing Dzungar army, Shaybani, who was defending the city, immediately sent people to the Khanate for help, closed the city gates and waited for them.

Batur Huntaiji had the city besieged, and then the Dzungars began cutting down trees to make trebuchets. They took the key parts of the trebuchet with them, and the trees were cut down to make the trebuchet shelves. A day later, thirty huge trebuchets stood near the east gate.

Cao Bianjiao saw that the Dzungars were making trebuchets, and immediately became interested. He knew that the Ming army was on an expedition, and the supplies could be used to feed the war in the local area, but ammunition or something might be a big problem. Therefore, although this trebuchet is not eye-catching for the Ming army now, it can play a great role when there are no shells.

So after talking to Batur Huntaiji, he asked a few officers to bring the craftsmen of the army to observe the process of making trebuchets. Then let's discuss together what steps can be optimized in the process of making trebuchets by the Dzungars, and what can be improved if the Ming army is allowed to make them. On the third day of the siege, a dozen officers were sent to observe the use of trebuchets.

The thirty trebuchets may still have bark on their shelves, and they don't look very pretty, but their huge bodies give a heavy sense of oppression. And when the trebuchet began to move, the unpolished stones were thrown high and smashed against the walls of Hot Spring Castle.

After the test firing, the Dzungars adjusted the trebuchet, and the stones that flew up again smashed on the top of the city, and some even fell into the city, and the sound of the collapse of the houses kept sounding, mixed with terrible screams.

Batur Huntaiji did not attack, but kept throwing stones, and if he continued like this, he was afraid that the east gate of the not majestic hot spring city would be destroyed within an hour.

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