On the Khiva oasis in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya, a magnificent ancient city rises over the land, and this is the capital of the Khiva Khanate.

Because the city is located near the Karakum Desert, the climate here is unusually dry. If it weren't for the Amu Darya, it's hard to imagine such a large oasis here.

Khiva was the last stop on the Central Asian route to Persia and controlled the Central Asian trade route from the Volga to Persia.

Sixty-five years ago, Nader Shah of Persia had conquered this place, but after the assassination of Nader Shah, the whole of Persia was in chaos, and naturally, Vasi, who was conquered by Nader Shah, also rebelled, and the Khiva Khanate, which had been struggling to breathe, revived.

However, the Khan's royal family, which had lost its authority, fell into rebellion, and after decades of infighting, Iltuzer of the Kongol Department abolished the old "puppet Khan" and established the Kongol Dynasty. If time and space had not changed, the Kongele dynasty would have had a rather glorious period until the second half of the 19th century when it was conquered by Tsarist Russia.

The reign of Muhammad Rahim Khan, the son of Irtuzel, will be the golden hour of the Kongele dynasty.

But there is an extra Chen Ming in this time and space, which is like a fulcrum that has pried the trajectory of the earth, making the rolling wheel of history deviate far from the established direction. The newly established Kongol dynasty had not yet gathered everything from the ruins of the old Khiva Khanate, and now everything was gone, and Muhammad Rahim Khan fled to Tsarist Russia in disarray, and the whole of Khiva fell to his knees under the forces of the northern coalition.

In the ranks of the Kazakh and Mongol armies, there are a small number of Chinese, but they have a high status that many Kazakh and Mongolian nobles do not have. They are nominally the field observation group, or the military advisers of the Northern Alliance, but in fact they are the emperors of the Alliance, and their status is very special.

It's just that these people have undergone special training before coming to the coalition army, and their daily behavior will not violate the life, beliefs, and customs of the Mongols and Kazakhs, nor will they be domineering, let alone act recklessly. Therefore, although the status of these people is very high, the evaluation they receive in the team is also extremely high.

The inner city of Ichin, the last fortress of the Khiva Khanate, the inner city of the royal palace of Khiva, was now silent, and only the sound of flags fluttering on the city walls that were very different from the Khiva Star and Moon Banner could be heard.

From the Emir of the Khiva Khanate to the Emir of Bashar al-Assad, the remaining ministers, generals, members of the royal family, and the elders of the Sect of the defeated country all gathered in the square outside the north gate of the inner city, and the defenders of Khiva had surrendered, and six or seven thousand people had lined up to enter the many prisoner of war camps established by the coalition forces outside the city.

Captured guns, cannons and rockets were piled up outside the north gate.

The rest of the people were the upper echelons of Khiva, hundreds of whom stood in solemnity and bowed down in fear. At the same time, a large number of soldiers of the Northern Coalition Army had entered the inner city and occupied many military points such as fortresses and forts. On the city wall, there were also two rows of soldiers with loaded guns, all of them looking nervously below, and there were sharpshooters with rifled guns on the commanding heights everywhere.

Outside the inner city of Ichin, in the city of Khiva, the common people and merchants of the outer city crowded to both sides of the street, crowded to see the coalition soldiers standing on both sides of the street. Stretching straight from inside the city gate, like two parallel lines that never intersect, in the center of the city gate hangs a black seven-star flag, which is the military flag of the alliance of the Northern Seven Khanates, marked by the Big Dipper. Under that banner, a detachment of coalition cavalry on tall horses, wearing cuirasers, sabers and muskets on their backs rushed in!

This is a small part of the city dedication ceremony before the arrival of the Gao Dynasty, the cavalry riding a tall horse from the outer city straight into the north gate of the inner city, and then presents the outer figure-of-eight, including the north gate of the inner city, looking at the hundreds of Shiva nobles outside the door.

The man who led the coalition army to Matakhiva was not Wobasi or Shelen, but Zeberkdorzi, who was nearly sixty years old. The Wobasi were also on the Kokand battlefield, together with the Kazakhs, to suppress local resistance. For well-known reasons, the beliefs of the Kazakhs are not pure, and there is already a lot of miscellaneous things, and now there is a Buddhist tantra mixed with a foot, which is even more mushy and more lively.

Sheleng, on the other hand, has been dead for six months.

He was old, and the siege of Samarkand had drained his last strength, and he was not able to survive the cold winter.

Sheleng is dead, but the overall situation is fine.

The siege of Samarkand was still won, and when Zebekdorji led his troops into Khiva, Wobasi also led his army into Bukhara as a conqueror.

There were three major battlefields in Central Asia, one was personally controlled by Chen Han, one was in charge of Wubasi himself, and the other was jointly dominated by Zhongyuzi and the Turkut Khanate. This is the foundation laid by Abu Ben Khan for Zhong Yuz, although he has been sick for several years, but finally left a few generals with war experience in the Zhong Yuz tribe, so that Zhong Yuz has achieved a more important position in this war.

And the advantages of the Turgut Khanate need not be said.

Worbasy himself and his generals were not all good at fighting, but at least they had good experience in warfare. This was missing from the other three Mongol khanates. The other three Mongol khanates, some of them only had the experience of beating the water dogs, and the advantage of Turghut was too great.

Zebok Dorji rode a black and sweaty horse to the south gate of the inner city of Ichin.

The Western Regions are already rich in horses, and the origin of the sweaty horses is in the Akhal Oasis of the Khiva Khanate, between the Kopet Mountains and the Karakum Desert. This is an ancient horse breed, an excellent horse breed with a history of three thousand years. It is also the purest horse breed in the world, which has been bred since ancient times and has never broken its bloodline. As an excellent horse breed, the sweat horse has always been the most valuable asset of the Khiva Khanate. Prior to this, Chen Han had exhausted all his means and only introduced a hundred sweaty and bloody horses from Khiva.

When Muhammad Rahim Khan fled to Russia, he only swept away one or two hundred horses from the city of Khiva, and many more of them still lived in the hands of the nobles of the Akhal oasis and the Three Khanates.

Later Turkmenistan took it as a national gift, and there were only 3,000 horses in the world. And what about the sweaty horses now? The number is not very large either.

Comparing the number of Kazakh horses and Mongolian horses in the millions, the total number of sweaty horses is only about 10,000. As a horse herd race, this number is very small. But there is no way!

Most of the horses used in ancient warfare were castrated, which made some excellent war horses lose the ability to reproduce offspring, resulting in the deterioration of the quality of horse breeds. Sweaty horses have suffered from it, and because of their fame, they have experienced countless wars since ancient times.

Many of the citizens of Khiva had experience in raising horses and riding horses, and in Central Asia, not being able to ride a horse was like not being able to drive a motorcycle, and they still remember what their cavalry looked like in their minds. The people of Khiva have seen a lot of cavalry, and they have an idea of what a cavalry should be like.

Those Khiva cavalry were also brightly armored before the war, and Khiva also had cuirassiers. But compared with the cavalry in front of him, he felt that the difference was a little far. It's like a silver-like pewter head and a real sharp spear. This is not because of whether each other's queues are as neat as knives and axes, but also because of the breathless murderous aura!

Some Khivas who had seen the Russian Cossack cavalry could not help but compare the cavalry of the Northern Coalition with the Russian cavalry, and finally came up with a unified understanding that this was as powerful as the Russians!

As Tsarist Russia, which sent troops to invade Khiva a hundred years ago - Peter I once sent a duke to lead six or seven thousand men to Khiva, and now Khiva, the whole army was wiped out, and the prestige of the Russian cavalry is known to every Khivan from an early age.

All the Khiva people know that 'Tsarist Russia' is a powerful country, even Persia, which has conquered Khiva, and the Ottoman Empire, which is more powerful than Persia, such a towering power has been pressed and bullied by Russia, and the strength of this 'Tsarist Russia' can be imagined.

The powerful cavalry of that powerful country was called the Cossacks, and the combat effectiveness was naturally much higher than that of the nomadic cavalry of Khiva.

And with this preconceived perception of the Khivans, and then seeing the Cossack elite cavalry sent by St. Petersburg to the three southern khanates of Central Asia, it is natural to conclude that the Cossacks are really powerful, far more powerful than the Khiva cavalry. And now, under the fear of being conquered, the Khivas saw the cavalry of the Northern Coalition who had been fighting and killed on the battlefield for three years, and looked at the murderous cavalry of the Northern Coalition, and they naturally came to such a conclusion that made the real discerning people feel ridiculous.

After three years of actual combat, the cavalry of the Northern Seven Khanates has indeed grown a lot. It can be said that Chen Ming can now confidently and boldly use them to fight against the Russian Cossacks, but to say that they are completely comparable to the Cossacks is a layman's word.

Cossacks are calm-brained barbarians, they are barbarians in their essence, and from the very bones hundreds of thousands of Cossacks exude an indescribable wildness. This is the character they have cultivated for the tsarist conquest for two or three hundred years, and it has been deeply engraved in the heart of every Cossack.

The cavalry of the Northern Seven Khanates, on the other hand, were essentially nomadic people.

The nomads were also wild, but their wildness was only compared to the farming peoples, and they were much different from the Cossacks.

This is like the gap between the Mongols of the naturalized Ming Dynasty and the Eight Banners Tartars. That's a fundamental difference!

How could such a cavalry of the Northern Seven Khanates be exactly the same as the Cossacks?

But a calm barbarian is not necessarily stronger than a well-trained ordinary person, the Cossacks were strong in individual forces, but what about group comparisons? Today's Cossacks are not the huge war groups that will have a population of more than 10 million a hundred years later. Today's Cossack population, all taken together, is at most a million people. How can such a population be compared to the Northern Seven Khanates, which had a population several times the number?

But in the eyes of the Khiva people today, this is: the northern army has an elite like this, no wonder it can break the allies and become the lord of Central Asia!

Jimmy Martin, the China correspondent for the British newspaper Daily News, also entered Khiva with the coalition forces.

He lived in a fairly comfortable place, with all the neighbors being war correspondents in the army.

Jimmy Martin closed the window, and the sound of celebration continued to reach his ears, but it was much quieter.

“…… Today, the coalition forces successfully entered the city of Khiva, and more than 6,000 Khiva soldiers laid down their weapons and entered the prisoner of war camp prepared for them by the coalition army. The guns in Central Asia have not completely subsided, and there has not yet been a complete calm in Central Asia, but the war in Central Asia can be said to be over.

The Chinese won a brilliant victory, and the whole of Central Asia fell to their knees at the feet of the Chinese. Yes, Chinese. They are the masters of Central Asia, and the Northern Seven Khanates are just seven vicious dogs guarding the pastures for their masters! ”