The Ferghana Basin is an inland valley surrounded by mountains, with beautiful mountains and rivers, a pleasant climate, no floods, no predators, no epidemics, and an important passage of the Silk Road. Once the peoples from Central Asia entered the area, most of them were reluctant to continue their migration.

Therefore, although the population in the basin is dominated by Uzbeks, there are still hundreds of ethnic minorities living here, and the population composition can be described as very complex. The closed basin environment makes the people here have a very obvious estrangement from the people outside the basin.

This estrangement existed not only between the Andijan and Yarkands, but also between the Ferghana and the rest of the Bukhara Khanate. It can be said that before the invasion of the Ferghana Basin by the Yarkand Khanate, the loyalty of the inhabitants of the basin to Bukhara was already quite weak.

Nadir as the next Bukhara Khan. Muhammad, when he first entered the basin, did not show his mercy, but on the contrary, he showed a coldness and ruthlessness that disappointed the people who were already distant from Bukhara.

Of course in Nadir. According to Muhammad, this was the price that the Ferghana people should pay for the sake of the khanate and the protection of their homeland, just as the Balkhs under his rule had to pay for fending off the invasion of the Persians.

And because the political enemies in the city of Bukhara, who were gradually uniting against him, and the declining Bukhara Khan, did not allow Nadir. Muhammad stayed more in the basin. He needs a clean victory to silence his political opponents, and then return to Bukhara as soon as possible to stabilize the situation and take over the throne.

However Nadir. Muhammad's disregard for the suffering of the Ferghana people caused the Ferghana people to wake up quickly. In their opinion, neither the coalition side nor the Bukhara army is a good thing.

But if they had to make a choice, they would rather choose the side of the coalition. At least the coalition forces are still thinking about ruling the area in the future, so as long as the Ferghana people do not disobey their orders, the basic safety of the people can still be guaranteed.

The Bukhara army, which regarded itself as the savior, did not think of staying in the Ferghana basin for a long time, they only wanted to complete their mission as soon as possible, so that the Ferghana people would hand over all their savings, so that their brothers would not starve, or cross the mountains to transport food. As a result, if a farmer conceals a small bag of rations, he is tortured to deter the rest of the village.

In addition, the officers of the Ming army had effectively reorganized the coalition troops, and the materials looted from the cities of the Ferghana Basin were sufficient for the daily supply of the coalition army. Therefore, the military discipline of the coalition army is much better than that of the Bukhara army, which accounts for more than a third of the private army, and near the barracks of the coalition army, at least there are locals who set up stalls to provide food, but near the barracks of the Bukhara army, not even a dog can be seen.

Of course, with this kind of commercial activities near the barracks, the Ming banknotes are also rapidly circulating in the basin, which is a front station for the penetration of the Ming banknotes into Central Asia.

The people of Ferghana for Nadir. The disappointment of the Khanate army led by Muhammad made the coalition side more and more aware of the Bukhara army's movements, which created an opportunity for the coalition forces to stop the Bukhara army on the road.

The Bukhara reinforcements' policies of screening and forcibly serving the people in the reclaimed areas made the people who had originally expected reinforcements to liberate their own occupied areas, and instead began to assist the enemy in resisting their own reinforcements.

A resident of Namugan City, who volunteered to assist the coalition forces in the defense, replied curiously to the coalition soldiers: "Yes, I still hate you, but my family also needs to live, and it is better to be robbed once by one robber than twice by two robbers..."

The general population was so afraid of being liberated by the Bukhara army, let alone the Andijanians who surrendered to the coalition forces.

Although the Khalkha Mongols led by Arslan came from the bitter cold Mobei, they had obtained more adequate supplies since they were accepted by the Ming Dynasty, and Arslan obtained a large number of treasures from the treasure house of the royal city when he broke through the Zangba Khan royal city, so the Mongols under Arslan were much more generous than the Yarkand and Kyrgyz people, and Zhu Youzhen installed a large number of Ming army officers in this army, so that the military discipline of this army can almost be compared with the new army of the Ming Dynasty.

Andijan Burk's choice to surrender to Arslan was the right one, and the wealthy Khalkha Mongols lost interest in sacking the city after receiving a ransom money raised by Andijan Burke.

In order to prevent the Kyrgyz from robbing the city with poor military discipline, Arslan also forced the Kyrgyz to be stationed outside the city, and ordered his chief of staff, Hu Guanghan, to establish a gendarmerie to maintain military discipline in the city.

So life was pretty good after the Andijans surrendered, and when they heard that Nadir. After Muhammad disposed of the personnel serving the coalition forces, he immediately realized that if he had to make Nadir . Muhammad regained the city of Andijan, and it is estimated that there will be few living people left in the city.

Out of love for Nadir. Feared by the army led by Muhammad, the Andijanites approached Arslan and offered to do their part in the resistance to the Bukhara army.

It is in Nadir that . With the help of Muhammad's army, the coalition forces, with the help of the common enemies of Andijan and other inhabitants of the western part of the Ferghana Basin, were transformed from an invader to a defender of the homeland.

Without the help of the natives, the Bukhara army's march in the Ferghana basin was almost no different from a foreign march. Even the Kokand people are now reluctant to go with these foreign Bukharan troops, which means that the slightest deviation from the road near the Narryn River will lead to attacks by rebels organized by the locals, and even small coalition forces that are simply guided by the locals.

The Bukhara army struggled on the road from Kokand to Andijan, and frequent attacks caused the Bukhara army to clear the villages within 30 miles of the army station, which further deepened the local resistance against the Bukharan army.

By the end of May, the Bukhara army had finally reached the city of Andijan. But in order to protect the traffic to the city of Kokand behind him, Nadir. Muhammad had to leave behind the rebellious Kokand and part of his army, and the siege of Andijan was only 30,000 men.

At this time, the allied troops placed in the city of Andijan were as high as 15,000 men, and nearly 20,000 troops were stationed in Osh and other key roads. It's not so much Nadir. Muhammad besieged the city of Andijan, but rather the coalition forces ceded the open space outside the city to the Bukhara army, where they were prepared to exhaust and cripple the Bukhara army, and then eat the living force in one fell swoop.

Arslan's staff officer's battle plan for the coalition forces was quite successful. Muhammad's rash and impulsive personality led him to put himself and his army in danger with ease.

Although Nadir . Muhammad fought with the Persians for many years, but he did not encounter a land in which the inhabitants of his country would help the invaders against the armies of the Khanate.

This change in conditions alone allowed the coalition forces to release all their forces, while he had to spread nearly a quarter of his forces on the traffic points behind him, thus shifting the balance of power between the two armies.

If you want to surround a city, you need at least three times as many troops. And if you want to storm a city, you have to have more than five times the number of troops. These are all laws of war summed up in the wars of the cold weapon era, and except for the operations commanded by a few war geniuses, no ordinary army has yet been able to break this law.

Nadir. Muhammad was clearly not a genius general, and the containment of the coalition forces stationed outside the city prevented him from focusing on the city of Andijan.

Thus, after more than a month of staggering outside Andijan, the Bukhara army was still in vain, and the army's rations and morale fell to the bottom. Even if Nadir. No matter how strong Muhammad was, he knew that the army could not continue to support him, and if he could not stay under the city of Andijan, he would probably lead to a second defeat in Andijan.

However Nadir. Muhammad's luck was not good enough, the coalition army outside the city was indeed not enough to leave the demoralized Bukhara army behind, after all, the Kyrgyz and Yarkand were still not as good as the Bukhara army.

But right in Nadir. Before Muhammad could retreat, Gushi Khan arrived with 5,000 elite cavalry from the Heshute tribe. After more than a year of preparation, Gushi Khan's subordinates not only obtained a large amount of Ming army equipment, but also received the re-organization and organization of Ming army officers, which made the Gushi Khan's lineage, which was originally a good combat power, and its combat effectiveness was even higher.

In the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the leaders of the Oirat tribes, witnessed by the ministers of the Ming Kingdom and the Khalkha Mongol kings, finally completed a code of laws for resolving internal disputes in the Oirat.

Heshute Khan Ozirtu Khan was finally recognized by the chiefs of the tribes and became the Khan of Oirat, and Batur Huntaiji became the Deputy Khan, and the internal contradictions of the Oirats were finally eased and initially became a local "sexual" regime.

The arrival of Yang Sichang, the minister stationed in Urumqi, also allowed Fan Yixuan, the overseer of southern Xinjiang, to finally put aside the affairs of northern Xinjiang and take Gushi Khan and Meng Qiaofang to Andijan to prepare for the war of the Bukhara Khanate.

Meng Qiaofang took a cavalry division and an artillery regiment, about 3,000 people. Gushi Khan mobilized nearly 30,000 people, including 10,000 soldiers, 10,000 semi-nomadic cavalry, and 10,000 baggage troops organized by "women" and children. Obviously, Gushi Khan is planning to occupy territory for himself this time.

At the beginning of April, the army set out from Korla, and after more than two months, the advance led by Gushi Khan had crossed the Ferghana Mountains and entered the Ferghana Basin.

After Gushi Khan made contact with the Kyrgyz stationed in Jalalabad, he learned about the current situation in the basin. He immediately realized that this was a great opportunity to crush the Bukhara army, and once it was crushed, his troops would not meet any resistance until Tashkent.

Naturally, Gushi Khan would not give Arslan in Andijan another chance to make meritorious contributions, otherwise how could he open his mouth and demand that the Kokand region in the western part of the basin should be returned to him. So after contacting Osh's army, Gushi Khan forcibly took over the command of the army outside the city, relying on the reorganization of the Ming army's general staff, and the command of the coalition army has actually been in the hands of the Ming army.

Gushi Khan was also subordinate to the Ming army at this time, and with Fan Yixuan's authorization, in Arslan's absence, he easily got the command of the troops outside the city.

After deployment and adjustment, Gushi Khan, led by the elite of the Shute Division, took the besieging Bukhara army by surprise from the north of the city to the southeast of the city. After Arslan in the city saw that the Bukhara army outside the city was in chaos, he personally led the army to send troops from the south and east of the city, and cut off the besieging Bukhara army into three sections, so the Bukhara army outside the city completely lost its organization under such internal and external attacks.