The Yarkand camp in the Uzgen region was built with a local village as the core, the right hand of the village is a river, the left is a wild walnut forest with no end in sight, the road facing northwest is the direction of the Andijan army's attack, and behind the village is a large river beach grassland, which can provide a large amount of forage for the horses carried by the Yarkand army. Mobile M.

Shah. It was precisely because of the favorable geographical conditions of this village that Bazbok and Ma Shouying decided to set up the camp here.

The Yarkand people dug a trench on the northwestern road and built a one-man high wooden fence to seal the gap between the woods and the river, which became the outer defense line of the camp. After deciding to stick to the camp, Ma Shouying relied on nearly 100 flat-roofed houses in the village to arrange the second line of defense, which was also the core position of the camp.

Ma Shouying had just divided the battalion's 1,800-strong team into four teams, one team guarded the periphery of the northwest road, the other team guarded the periphery of the village, one team controlled the horses of the whole army and guarded the rear of the camp, and the last team of 300 guards who guarded the horse were sitting with him in the village. The sound of horses' hooves of the Andijan people was heard in the northwest.

Although the Bukhara Khanate was a semi-nomadic and semi-settled kingdom, its military strength was still dominated by cavalry. One is the heavy cavalry with armor, and the other is the light cavalry with the burden of armor. Although the Bukhara Khanate was a predominantly nomadic kingdom, its weaponry was much stronger than that of the Yarkand Khanate.

The high-quality steel shipped from India and the highly skilled Persian craftsmen hired to create a sophisticated armament for the Bukharan army, making it on a par with the armaments of the Safavid and Ottoman empires. Bukhara's warriors were mostly armed with armor such as turban helmets, chain mail, chain mail, and four-mirror armor, and weapons such as composite bows, axes, spears, shields, *, maces, etc.

Andijan was a trading town on the Silk Road, and the city's Berke had a strong force of 800 hoplites and nearly 3,000 light cavalry. When he heard the news of the invasion of the Yarkand army, Andijan Berkesaifei ordered his two sons, Haidar and Babur, to bring two-thirds of Andijan's troops, including 500 heavy cavalry, in an attempt to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Yarkand army and drive it back to Mount Alai.

Although the Yarkand Khanate was supported by the Ming State, the Yarkand Army had not yet been officially transformed into a standing army, and like the Bukhara Khanate, the Yarkand Army was still an army dominated by tribal force, and it was also a semi-professional force that was the so-called peacetime army for the people and the army in wartime.

However, the Bukhara Khanate, which fought against the Safavid Empire and the Mughal Dynasty for many years, established a professional army with heavy cavalry. Without adequate training and good material replenishment, ordinary people could not afford the physical exertion of heavy cavalry charges.

And this elite heavy cavalry is also called the guard cavalry, in addition to the Khan and the princes, the big bureaucrats, the big nobles also have such guard arms. Usually 10 Ashakels (the standing cavalry of the Khanate) of a Guards cavalry force, of course, to support one Guards cavalry, is also worth 20-30 Ashakels.

The common tactic of the Bukhara army was to place the guards cavalry on both flanks and cooperate with the army to form a crescent formation, when the heavy cavalry broke through the enemy's two flanks, it could encircle and annihilate the enemy's chaotic army.

Shah. Bazbok suffered the loss of not being familiar with the tactics of the Andijan army, obviously his own strength was twice that of the opponent, but because the two wings failed to block the impact of the opponent's cavalry, the army began to be chaotic, and was finally easily defeated by the Andijanians, and even his head was cut off by the enemy.

The Andijan soldiers, who had won two consecutive battles, were at a time when their morale was high. Haidar asked his younger brother Babur to pursue the Yarkand army with 800 cavalry, but Babur attacked outside the Yarkand army camp in one go.

After seeing the trembling Yarkand people behind the wooden fence, Babur spat fiercely in their direction, and then turned to his subordinates and said: "30 returning soldiers are not as good as my Andijan soldiers, these returning soldiers have lost their courage, and when we rest for an hour, they will also take this large battalion in one go, so that Yarkand Khan will know what will happen if they invade our land..."

Under the leadership of Babur, the Andijan soldiers took off their armor, laid blankets on the ground to rest, drank and ate in front of the Yarkands, and regarded the Yarkand army as nothing. However, the Yarkand soldiers who were hiding behind the wooden fence did not even dare to come out, so watching the Andijan soldiers recover their strength, which made the morale of the Andijan soldiers even higher.

Babur figured that an hour was almost up, and then he jumped to his feet and beckoned his men to begin preparing for battle. Babur had nearly 200 cavalry guards with him, and he had 150 of his men ready to dismount and fight. Then he ordered the light cavalry to divide into six teams of 50 men, and these six teams of men and horses took turns to harass and grasp the stakes with leather ropes to find out the weak points of the wooden fence.

The shallow trenches dug by the Yarkand army outside the wooden fence were not taken seriously by these Andijan people. Unlike the Ming army, the Yarkand army did not pay attention to the construction of fortifications, so even under the supervision of Ma Shouying, these shallow trenches did not meet the standards of the Ming army, and it was difficult to cause any trouble for these Andijan people.

Like the Yarkand army, the nomadism of the Andijan people is obviously more retained. These Andijan people showed a good horse archery skill in front of the Yarkand army, and the more than 300 Yarkand soldiers who were shielded by the wooden fence were unable to suppress the constant roaring Andijan light cavalry with bows and arrows.

In front of the Yarkand defense line, these Andijan light cavalry sometimes gathered together to shoot at one place, and sometimes scattered to avoid the Yarkand bows and arrows, and the light cavalry swept in front of the defense line in such a circle that the Yarkand soldiers guarding the defense line were tired of physical strength and energy.

After about half an hour, after the Andijan soldiers saw that the bows and arrows of the Yarkand soldiers were sparse, they threw out the piso and lassoed a few wooden stakes that they had already seen, and then pulled them with the help of horsepower.

In a hurry, every wooden fence cannot be solid. These Andijan cavalry went back and forth many times before the battle, and finally observed a few stakes that were not strong.

After only three or four attempts, two stakes could not reach the pull of the piso, one broke and the other was completely pulled out of the soil. The follow-up Andijan cavalry saw the opportunity, and naturally stepped forward to force the lassoes on the stakes near the two wooden stakes, which made the nearby Yarkand soldiers very frightened, and they drew their knives and ran to cut these leather cords.

However, their reaction was too late, and when they ran to these ropes, four or five wooden stakes had been pulled out of the soil by the straightened ropes, and soon the five or six meters wide wooden fence was pulled down, and the Yarkand soldiers in front of them also fell hard.

After a "boom", more than a dozen horsemen ran to the side with several wooden stakes, and behind them the wooden fence formed a gap.

Babur no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the light cavalry behind him to rush into the gap in half, and then ordered the long-awaited 150 guards cavalry to attack on foot and widen the gap, while he himself led the rest of the men and horses to the formation.

When the Andijan soldiers opened the gap, there were still nearly 300 Yarkand soldiers behind the defensive line, and it should be said that they could still try to plug the gap again. However, when the Yarkand soldiers, who were demoralized, saw the gap, they dropped their weapons and jumped off the breastwork, and ran towards the village a hundred meters behind them. Some, who were more clever, simply ran into the nearby wild walnut forest to avoid being pursued by Andijan's cavalry.

With less than 20 men lost, the first line of defense of the Yarkand was opened, and Babur was even more firm in his judgment, the Yarkand army no longer had the courage to reach his attack, and the seizure of the supplies of this large battalion became his primary goal.

Babur, who was carried away by greed, immediately asked his subordinates to go around the rear of the village with 150 light cavalry, seize the baggage of the Yarkand army and cut off the back road, while he himself led the main force to storm and hide in the remnants of the village.

But it is clear that Babur miscalculated, and it was not the remaining remnants of the Yarkand army hiding in the village, but the remaining Yarkand main force of the battalion at this time, which was two or three times the number of attacking forces.

The complex terrain inside the village greatly eliminated the military superiority of the Andijan Guards cavalry, forcing them to fight in a narrow terrain.

Ma Shouying quickly discovered the weakness of these guards cavalry, and perhaps these guards cavalry could deal with twenty or thirty Yarkand light cavalry on horseback, but their tactics were somewhat good in foot combat.

They did not know how to form formations, nor did they know how to fire salvos or formations, but they relied on armor and their own force to attack. In this kind of narrow alley, it was not as powerful as the spear infantry trained by himself, and the musketeers released above their heads, the more than 100 guards cavalry who quickly rushed into the village were blocked in an alley by the Yarkand army commanded by Ma Shouying.

Babur came to his senses and quickly stormed with the rest of his men and horses, trying to rescue his own cavalry.

It was not easy to live such a big fish, and Ma Shouying naturally would not rescue Babur. The war had reached this point, and he understood that these Guards cavalry were the main force of the Andijanians, and killing a Guards cavalry and capturing a group of light cavalry would be more demoralizing to these Andijanians.

However, although the guards cavalry wearing armor was at a disadvantage, it was obvious that it could not be solved by the Yarkand army in a short time. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Ma Shouying ordered his guards to throw the kerosene stored in the battalion and the firewood and grass in the village into the alley where the cavalry was besieging the guards.

When the reinforcements led by Babur had already heard the shouts of the trapped Guards, a raging flame suddenly burst out of the alley. Looking at the screaming and struggling guards in the alley, the Yarkand soldiers who were throwing firewood, grass and kerosene into the alley couldn't bear to stop.

Ma Shouying, who was standing on the roof watching his masterpiece, was unmoved, and scolded his subordinates again and again: "What are you doing there, can I order you to stop?" Keep throwing firewood and grass down there, and don't let a single gap open..."

The Yarkand soldiers on the roof looked at this ordinary-looking man in fear, treating him as a demon.

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