The 4th Infantry Division led by Liang Litai smoothly joined Shi Dakai at Alimatu Fort. The Chinese Empire's military strength soared, with a total of nearly 40,000 troops in the western Xinjiang region.

Considering the geographical location of Alimatu Fort and the fact that the fortress was easy to defend and difficult to attack, Shi Dakai ordered 2,000 troops to be stationed here to support Lake Balkhash in the lower reaches of the Ili River at any time. At the same time, Shi Dakai sat here for more than half a month after capturing Fort Alimatu. During this period, he sent Shi Xiangzhen, Luo Qiongshu and others to conquer everywhere, and successively occupied Kopal Fort in the northeast of Lake Balkhash and many Russian fortresses in the middle and lower reaches of the Syr Darya.

At this time, the Kazakh population around the Aral Sea and in the lower Syr Darya valley revolted against the Cossack army that ruled them. Led by the Shekert tribe in the western part of the Aral Sea, a vigorous armed uprising broke out.

In fact, the Kazakh Sheket tribe began to revolt five years ago, but last year, the governor of Western Siberia sent two Cossack troops of more than 2,000 people to suppress the uprising, and the Cossack army launched a terrible massacre in the entire Aral Sea area, killing the Sheket tribe of more than 100,000 people to only 60,000 people, and the Sheket tribe was completely eradicated. But now, after the news of the defeat of the Russian army by the Chinese Empire spread, the remaining strong men of the Shekert tribe began to be active again, and they sent envoys to worship Shi Dakai and ask for the support and protection of the Chinese Empire. Shi Dakai of course gladly accepted the Imperial Brother who came to his door, and he protested the sale of some surplus weapons to the Shekert tribe. As a result, the backward Russian firearms seized from all over the place were given to the Sheket tribe on credit, so that the Sheket tribe greatly increased its power.

Soon, the Shekht tribe joined forces with other Kazakhs in the Aral Sea and the Syr Darya valley to attack the Cossack troops who had captured various posts and fortresses of Tsarist Russia. Due to the fact that Tsarist Russia's troops in Central Asia were not much, and there were many losses after several battles with the Chinese Empire, the remaining thousands of troops were scattered in various sentry posts and fortresses, and suddenly, the Kazakhs who were rioting captured one after another, and soon, except for a few strong fortresses, the rest of the two khanate territories of the original Kazakh Dazhong were basically cleared out of the Tsarist Russian forces.

On Shi Dakai's side, Liang Litai, the governor of Xinjiang, continued to sit in Alimatu Fort, and he personally led more than 10,000 captives and 1,000 Sikh cavalry to Kokand, and then, he only left 3,000 soldiers with him to guard Kokand City, and instead let Shi Xiangzhen and Luo Qiongshu each lead 10,000 troops to fight against the Bukhara Khanate.

Five days later, Shi Xiangzhen led his troops to attack the fortress of Nyazbek, and in the next ten days, he successively occupied Irjar, Khojand, and Nau in Bukhara. In accordance with Shi Dakai's instructions, Shi Xiangzhen made a request to the Bukhara Khanate to pay tribute to the Chinese Empire. At this time, Bukhara was weak and unable to resist the attack of the captives, but they saw the fate of the Kokand Khanate and knew that the eastern empire was ambitious, and like Tsarist Russia, the ultimate goal was to annex the country, so they refused to accept it. Shi Xiangzhen was angry and continued to attack, and soon the cities of Ula-Tyube, Jizzak, and Yangji Kurgan were occupied by the Russian army one after another.

In the end, Shi Xiangzhen led tens of thousands of troops to surround Samarkand, the most important capital of the Bukhara Khanate, and under the persuasion of Kazakh envoys, the Bukhara Khanate was forced to surrender and surrender to the Chinese Empire.

And when the soldiers of the Western Xinjiang Capture Army were fighting everywhere, Shi Dakai was not idle in Kokand City. He had already sent someone to write a recital to Feng Yunshan, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, who was thousands of miles away, suggesting that the original Kokand Khanate and the middle reaches of the Syr Darya region, which the Kazakh nobles were willing to cede, form a new province, and appoint officials to govern it as soon as possible.

Another point, Shi Dakai noticed that if the captive army wants to gain a foothold in this western frontier, it must have enough troops. In order to establish a long-term garrison, it is necessary to have sufficient supplies, especially military supplies such as firearms and ammunition, which are highly consumed and difficult to transport. This is a lesson that must be absorbed. Therefore, Shi Dakai planned to open a simple arsenal in the most suitable geographical location of Kokand City, focusing on the manufacture of gunpowder, bullets, shells and other consumable materials. Shi Dakai believed that with enough gunpowder and ammunition, it would be much easier to hold on to the fortified city. He took a closer look, this fortress built by the Russians, with low and thick walls, and a pentagonal fortress built on the dangerous terrain, is really different from the cities of the Chinese Empire, easy to defend and difficult to attack, no matter which direction you attack, you will be attacked, if it is not for the fact that the difference in strength is too great, if a fortress like Alimatu Fort is really forcibly captured, I am afraid that many soldiers will be killed in battle. And with gunpowder and food, plus such fortresses, this territory can be completely defended.

Shi Dakai originally thought of suggesting to the emperor that a large arsenal be built in the western Xinjiang nearby, but considering that the arsenals in the interior had just been completed, and there was a shortage of machinery, equipment and skilled workers, the problem of gunpowder and ammunition should be solved for the time being.

Shi Dakai learned from Liang Litai, the governor of Xinjiang, that after the original occupation of the Ili region, after more than two years of development and nearly 300,000 immigrants, more than 600,000 mu of cultivated land has been newly cultivated, and tens of millions of mu of cultivated land can be cultivated. In addition, the more than 900,000 mu of land reclaimed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty could meet the food rations of hundreds of thousands of people, so the entire western Xinjiang region, relying only on the cultivated land in the upper reaches of the Ili River north of the Tianshan Mountains, has completely solved the food ration problem of the new immigrants.

Originally, Shi Dakai was worried about the supply of more than 20,000 troops he had received, but now, after completely controlling the middle and lower reaches of the Ili River Valley, the food problem in the entire western Xinjiang has been solved, even if the garrison is expanded, or another 500,000 immigrants are no problem. After all, in addition to the Ili River basin, there is also the entire Lake Balkhash area, although half of it is desert, but the west bank is fertile land inhabited by the original Kazakh population. And the Syr Darya Dara Valley, which has the best arable land conditions, is a reassuring pill for Shi Dakai. This was originally the richest land of the Kazakh Great Yuz Khanate, because the Tsarist Russia moved the Kazakhs who had lived here for generations to Siberia and even the Eastern European steppes, and the Cossacks moved here, and now the Syr Darya River has been completely occupied by the Chinese Empire, and the Cossacks who migrated over were either defeated and became prisoners of war or fled to Siberia.

The reason why Shi Dakai sat in Kokand City, in addition to sending a large army to conquer the Aral Sea area, another important purpose was to manage the Syr Darya River valley well. Although the south of the Syr Darya River is a desert, the north bank is arable land, especially in the upper and lower reaches of Kokand and Tashkent, which is fertile for thousands of miles, and the land is more suitable for growing grain than the Ili River area known as the "Saiwai Jiangnan". Moreover, he also sent envoys to spread the news that the Kazakh people should return to the Aral Sea and settle in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya valleys, and as long as they submit to the Chinese Empire and recognize their own governance, they will distribute land according to tribes, and give priority to the original settlements of the tribes where their ancestors have lived for generations. As a result, the 200,000 or 300,000 Kazakhs in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya Darya, who had been forced to drive away by Tsarist Russia, rushed back from foreign lands one after another, and they spread the news to a wider range of Eastern Europe and Siberia. For a while, Shi Dakai was busy.

For these, Shi Dakai was very handy, and he published the "Letter of the Chinese Empire to the People of Western Xinjiang" in Chinese, Wu'er and Kazakh old scripts, appeasing Li Shu, comforting the suffering, suppressing the tyrants, and giving relief and appeasement to the poor people. He ordered the people of all tribes to be bold and relaxed, to reclaim barren land and dry soil, to be diligent in crops, and to exempt grain tax for three years. Suddenly, the Kazakhs and the Vultures, and even a small number of Cossacks, elected tribal representatives to the city of Kokand and declared their willingness to submit to the Chinese Empire and swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor in order to cultivate and multiply on the territory of the Empire.

In this way, the Russian army, which was still guarding several fortresses, gradually ran out of supplies, and in desperation, they finally couldn't help but come out and loot the Kazakh tribal villages next to them, but they were intercepted by the long-awaited captives and horses and annihilated one by one. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Cossack soldiers in the remaining strongholds took the opportunity to leave the fortress and retreat to the strongholds of Orenburg and Karaganda.

With the defeat and departure of the Russian soldiers, the captives officially took over these fortresses and fortresses, and took the opportunity to settle around to open up the wasteland, preparing to develop these places step by step.

In this way, from the middle reaches of the Irtysh River in the north, to the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River in the south, and to the west bank of the Aral Sea in the west, the vast area of Central Asia in later generations was all under the influence of the Chinese Empire.