Twenty years ago, the Kokand, Bukhara, and Khiva khanates did not have the concept of a satrapy.

But from the day they accepted Russia's support, a political reform began within the three khanates, with Russia as their master, just as Japan and Siam looked to China.

In Siam today, all the political structures and administrative departments in the country, as well as the hierarchical divisions, look to China. And Japan seems to be still sticking to their traditional system, but in fact, Lao Zhong is their cabinet minister, and the chief Lao Zhong is their first and auxiliary minister.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the name, and the old bottle is filled with new wine.

As for the satrapies of the Kokand Khanate, the Bukhara Khanate, and the Khiva Khanate, that is, the policy of the Russians copied, and all of them were placed in the northern frontier of the three khanates.

The Pamir Governorate was a new jurisdiction of the Kokand people after the Seven Khanates were formally established in response to their threat to the north. The center is located in Andijan, and its jurisdiction covers half of Kyrgyzstan. The governor was Muhammad Umar, the younger brother of the present-day Great Khan of Kokand, Airim!

If the Three Khanates and the Seven Khanates to the north were to go to war, the Pamir Governorate would be the front line of the battle, and the Kokand soldiers here would not only have to resist the pressure of the Seven Khanates in the north, but also guard against a possible surprise attack by the Chinese Defense Forces in the east.

"Da Yuzi [the easternmost part] has a total population of only twenty or thirty thousand in the valley of the Chu River, so there are not many garrisons. The local Kyrgyz people were driven away, and the tens of thousands of Uzbeks who originally lived here were also driven south by the Kazakhs. Now the Kazakh army there is completely dependent on the Chinese at Lake Balkhash for military ammunition. The Kazakhs have lived on this land for ten years, and the grain and livestock produced can not only feed themselves, but not even a gunpowder factory has been built.

Every summer and autumn, at the flat mountain pass between the Gertau Mountains and the Aitau Mountains, countless Chinese are transporting to and fro. But these people will return to the upper north before the snow falls. There were only a few Kazakhs in the Chu River valley, and in addition to the vulnerable Kazakh cavalry, there was only one regiment of newly built army. ”

Muhammad Umar listened carefully to the reports of his intelligence officers, and was very comfortable with the contempt that the latter had given to him in his words.

The valley of the Chu River is a small plain in the northeast of the Kokand Kingdom, which is divided into two by the Kokand Khanate and the Great Yuz, each occupying the north and the south. It is also the gateway to the country of Kokand. In recent years, with the help of Russia, the Kokand Khanate has built a series of fortresses such as Bishkek, Tokmak, Aksu, Kara-Balta and so on the plains of the Chu River valley.

To the north from the valley of the Chu River is the Gertau Mountains and the Aitao Mountains, which are the territorial boundaries between Dayuzi and Chen Han, and further north is the Balkhash Lake area. And along the Chu River, a thousand-kilometer-long river, to the west, that is the hinterland of Da Yuzi.

And the valley of the Chu River is an arm of the Great Yuz stretched out to the east, and this arm is sandwiched between two large deserts, the Moinkum Desert, which is shared with the Kokand Khanate, to the south, and the vast Badong Desert to the north. The so-called Padang Desert is the eastern shore of Lake Balkhash, and the desert stretches for thousands of miles.

And half of the Chu River valley is the fist of the Great Yuzi people.

In the eyes of the Kokand Khanate, why did the Chinese leave the Great Yuz people with half of the Chu River Valley? This is purely to provide convenient offensive conditions for Da Yuzi.

As long as the Great Yuz people can enter Kokand from the Chu River Valley, that is, into the Ferghana Basin, it will be difficult for the Kokand Khanate to have any more natural and geographical advantages. Here, Da Yuzi is backed by China's support, and there is no shortage of military supplies and salaries, so if the war starts, it will inevitably greatly affect the energy of the Kokand country.

Otherwise, how could the Kokand people build so many fortresses in the southern part of the Chu River Valley?

In fact, the valley of the Chu River is a gate to Kokand. If this place is opened by the enemy, the gates of the Ferghana Basin will be opened. The Kokand Khanate will no longer be able to withstand the iron hooves of the enemy.

"But we can't underestimate the Kazakhs because of that." Waving his arm, Muhammad Omar said to the attendees that the Kazakhs living in the Chu River valley are soldiers when they pick up guns and cavalry when they ride horses, and they have short-term training every year. The Chinese support the Kazakhs is very strong. "We can't afford to be negligent and mistaken in this war!"

At the time when the Seven Khanates issued a battle report on Nanjing, the Three Khanates did not enjoy peace either. The Kokand Khanate, with a keen sense of smell, was the first to launch a war mobilization.

Muhammad Umar had in his hands detailed information on the Seven Khanates provided by the Russians, and he had a thorough understanding of the strength of the Great Yuz.

With a total population of less than 500,000, the regular army is only 15,000, but the number of their militia is not small, and there are 10,000 militia members who have been in the formation for a long time, and half of them have been deployed in the valley of the Chu River.

Counting the war potential, Da Yuzi will have forty or fifty thousand people when he is fully counted. This is already the strength of the upper milk, and the 'militia', which occupies the absolute main force in it, cannot be compared with the regular Yuzi army in terms of armament and combat effectiveness.

A single Great Yuz Khanate, the Kokand Khanate, can be said to be able to eat them without much effort.

And the westernmost small Yuzi, the strength and territory are half a catty and eight taels with the big Yuzi, which is on par.

Among the three khanates of Kazakhstan, the most populous is Zhongyuz, whose population has now exceeded one million. It is the Standing Army alone that has 30,000 people and the militia that exceeds 50,000.

The combined power of these three Kazakh khanates cannot be underestimated. Not to mention that they also had the Mongol Four Khanates as allies.

As soon as the Kokand Khanate made a move this time, "Then we will have to face not only one big Yuz, but also one middle Yuz." Muhammad Umar's words surprised all who attended. Because the information in Omar's hand not only contains the population of each country and the approximate number of troops, but also the distribution location and number of artillery of the armies of the Great Yuz Khanate and the Middle Yuz Khanate, as well as rocket reserves. It's top secret!

In opposition to the garrison in the northern part of the Chu Valley, the Kokand Khanate garrisoned 20,000 troops in the Pamir Governorate, half of which were stationed at the fortress of Bishkek at the forefront of the Chu Valley. Among the 10,000 cavalry were 3,000 'mercenaries' – the Kyrgyz cavalry and the Cossack cavalry, the latter of which had been gradually transferred by the Russians to the Kokand Khanate over the years.

Although Russia and the three khanates of Central Asia no longer have direct access by land, through the Caspian Sea, the Russians directly entered Ashgabat, and the contact was still relatively convenient, at least to reach the Khiva Khanate.

The Russians will not send too many orthodox Slavs to the Three Khanates, that will send a handle to the Chinese. Some of the Cossack ethnic groups were mixed with Central Asian ancestry, and such mixed units had quite good combat effectiveness.

Moreover, the majority of the population of the entire Three Khanates still existed in the form of tribes, and as long as there were sufficient arms reserves, and the local population generally owned horses and scimitars, it would be possible to pull up a team in the blink of an eye. If the Three Khanates had a sufficiently high appeal, Muhammad Omar would have been able to raise 20,000 militias in the Pamir Governorate alone.

But the enemies of the three khanates are not only the three Kazakh khanates, but also the four Mongolian khanates, and the population of the seven small khanates together is less than six million, but they have at least 100,000 plus regular troops and no less than 200,000 civilian cavalry, how can the three khanates not vigorously develop their military forces over the years, they are really Alexander.

Such a force does not have much moisture, even if it is attached to the Russians, the behemoth of Tsarist Russia will grin its teeth. And behind them, there is a huge and unshakable China backing them.

Russia has long formulated its own rejuvenation strategy, and they still have a decisive battle to fight with China. But before that, they needed the three khanates of Central Asia to be able to hold back the Chinese, so St. Petersburg vigorously supported the three khanates, that is, to grind it into a sharp dagger, and then die on the waist and eye of the Chinese.

And the reason why the Chinese strongly support the Seven Khanates is obviously not helpful.

The Ten Khanates of Central Asia, no matter what ethnic group they are, no matter what their position, they are just lackeys raised by China and Russia. This war is also a war between lackeys!

"Believers in the true God, the Chinese are provoking the great true God, they have rejected the legitimate requests of the elders, and more and more blasphemous objects have appeared in the Atsar [Six Cities of Southern Xinjiang] and the Kazakh steppe, where the glory of the True God is shrouded. They are going to provoke war. We will not give in and let them unscrupulously tarnish the faith of the true God. ”

"Our northern Kazakhs are rebelling against God, and all Kazakhs will be thrown into the torment of Hell of Pain to atone for their original sins. They sided with the Mongol khanate, which worshipped evil gods, and they blasphemed their faith. Mohammed Umar waved his arms. We cannot watch the glory of the true God tarnished and they will provoke war, so let us give them back the war! ”

"Don't put your hopes in diplomacy. That's a coward's performance! And even if the Great Khan agrees to negotiate with the Kazakhs and Mongols to the north, do you think they will go and prepare the negotiating table? No, it won't. What they want is war, a war that will be launched immediately, taking advantage of the fact that the Kokand Khanate, which is protected by the true god, has not yet completely completed its military innovation, and use war to fight for the precious land that belongs to Kokand. We must prepare for battle, recruit militias, distribute ammunition, and use the short time to store food, not waste that precious time. ”

Muhammad Umar was the representative of the hawks in Kokand, and his brother Arimu Khan was more serious, because Arimu knew very well that Kokand could not win the war. Unless Russia is prepared to take it personally, but for now Russia has only promised to send troops to the Ural region - to contain the Seven Khanates.

Mohammad Umar doesn't care what his brother thinks, as a hawkish leader, he has close ties with the Russians, and Russia recently sent him a top-secret piece of information from which Omar saw the war - Da Yuz is mobilizing troops, more and more troops are gathering in the Chu River Basin, and the prelude to war is about to begin.

"Kokand should not be beaten passively!" - said Muhammad Umar.

"War is coming. Leave behind the ridiculous thoughts and get ready for battle. Kokand was not afraid of war. We are a people who obey the true God, let the bayonets and bullets teach the blasphemers a lesson, and they need to maintain the necessary reverence and reverence to the great true God, to the faithful servant of the true God, the Great Khan of Kokand, the faithful caliph. ”

"It was my decision. The decision of the Emir of Muhammad Umar, the decision of the Supreme Military Governor of the Pamir Governor's Territory. I don't care what you think in your heart. Quickly do what I say.

Every day I want to see the good things that I deserve.

Do you understand? Followers of the true God? ”

The waving arms show Mohammed Umar's determination at the moment. The officers and government officials present at the meeting bowed their heads respectfully one by one.

"Yes, the honorable Emir of Muhammad Umar. We will act in full accordance with your decision. There will be no errors. ”

War, a war between 'lackeys', is on the verge of breaking out!