Yarkand had not experienced war for at least fifty years, and when the airship army rushed to the city gates, the defenders of the city seemed to have forgotten how to fight, and they all looked at the airships in a daze, not knowing what to think. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Looking at the Ming Wehrmacht descending from the sky, as well as the grenades that continued to detonate around them, most of the defenders directly threw away the weapons in their hands, knelt on their knees, and chanted the word "Allah" in their mouths.

In fact, this war has been declared over since the special forces carried out the surrender, and the reason for the delay for an hour is mainly that a large number of enemy troops threw away their weapons and knelt in front of the two hundred special forces, including the local people.

Yang Xiu didn't know how to choose, but he also knew the truth of "surrender the gun and not kill", for a group of prisoners who threw away their weapons, the Ming army really couldn't do it.

However, due to the language barrier, Yang Xiu's team could only "confront" this group of kneeling people inside the city, and could not open the door to the army outside the city.

The two sides were in a stalemate for nearly an hour, and in the end, a local person who understood Chinese knew the meaning of Yang Xiu and others, so he told everyone to get out of the way and let Guo Sheng's main force enter the city.

In the Ming National Defense Force, the most well-equipped special forces were "blocked" by a group of unarmed civilians for two hours.

The Yarkand Khanate is a typical Islamic state, where people believe in the true God Allah and the angels created by Allah.

For the Yarkands, angels are messengers sent by Allah to rule over heaven and hell, to convey Allah's will to the earth, and to record the merits and deeds of the people.

There are four angels in the Qur'an: Jibra'il, Mikal, Azral and Israfil, who are responsible for delivering Allah's commands and revelations, administering secular affairs, presiding over death and sounding the trumpet of the Last Judgment.

Compared with conquest by force, superstition is easier to make the people of this era submit.

Yang Xiu's special forces first fell from the sky, and then threw grenades everywhere to "show their might", so that the soldiers and civilians of Yarkand City directly came to the world as the messenger of the true god Allah, and wanted to judge the royal family members of Yarkand City.

In this way, not to mention that the defenders did not dare to resist, even the members of the royal family obediently chose to surrender, and Guo Sheng and his party took the royal city without much effort.

"This is too ........" Li Hongfei didn't know what to say after reading all the information, so he couldn't help but mutter: "Didn't you say that the Yarkand people hate the Han people?" Why did these guys surrender obediently after changing their identities? ”

In fact, Li Hongfei still underestimated the feudal superstition, the entire Yarkand Khanate was actually a local government established by Islam, and the people in it, including the Khan, were all loyal believers in Islam.

The monarchs of the feudal dynasty used the divine authority of the monarchy to bewitch the people under their rule, and they were also bound by this so-called "god".

The Ming army descended from the sky, in the eyes of the local people, it was definitely a "miracle", and the appearance of the airship resembled the "Noah's Ark" marked in the Quran.

As for the hatred of the Han people, it is because the Han people do not believe in their god Allah, but they directly send messengers of God, who would dare to hate them?

The Yarkand royal family, even if they are unwilling, but the army has given up resistance, what can they do.

"In fact, according to our understanding of the Yarkand Khanate, the one who really hates the Han people and wants to exterminate the Han people is a part of the Yarkand people living in the Kuriktag region, and its main force is the Yarkand army near the Ming border." Yang Song said.

The Kuliktag region, which was a necessary part of the Silk Road, was particularly lucrative in doing business, which led to hatred of the Han Chinese because of greed.

At first, the Han people were not unable to do business in this area, but they had to pay a lot of tolls, and sometimes there were even horse bandits robbing the Han caravans.

In order to crack down on "smuggling", the Yarkand people used various excuses to trouble the Han people at the beginning, but as time went by, they simply didn't even bother to find excuses.

And what supports these people is the heavy soldiers in the two checkpoints of the Horsehair Mountain Grand Canyon and the Dangjin Pass.

"By the way, Guo Sheng has already taken Yarkand City, and the enemy army outside Jiayu Pass has been moving in the past two days?" Li Hongfei suddenly asked.

"Everything is fine, the Yarkand people at the two checkpoints have not made any moves." Yang Song replied.

"It shouldn't be! Didn't Guo Sheng ask their king to send a letter in person, asking the other party to surrender to the nearby defenders of Jiayu Pass in the Ming Dynasty? Do these people still want to resist? Li Hongfei wondered.

To be honest, he really hoped that these people would resist, so that he would have enough reason to use force to deter the Yarkands.

The surprise attack was so dramatic that Li Hongfei had no bottom in his heart, and wanted to use a real war to establish his authority.

"The two places are nearly 3,000 miles apart, how can a handwritten letter be delivered here so quickly." Yang Song said.

Letting tens of thousands of troops surrender naturally cannot be as simple as sending reinforcements, there are too many things that need to be explained, and the flying pigeon book obviously does not work.

No matter how fast the BMW is, it will take five days before it can reach the Kuliktag area.

However, the Tianshan region is preparing to invade the heavy troops of Junggar, and it is possible that the surrender order has been received at this time, but the direction of the Tianshan Mountains is also far away from the Ming Dynasty, and even if the other party withdraws, it will take two or three days to know.

"The order, if the army in the Tianshan area surrenders, don't be in a hurry to withdraw the army, and you must not disclose the news to Tsarist Russia, and the follow-up arrangements will be made after the imperial court sends envoys." Li Hongfei suddenly thought of something and hurriedly explained.

The Yarkand army on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains could not be withdrawn, let alone let Tsarist Russia know about the changes in the Yarkand Khanate.

Once this move is played, the Ming army that invades Mongolia may end the war in Mongolia in a short time...........

Three days later, the news came again from the Flying Pigeon Chuan that the main army of Yarkand in the Tianshan region agreed to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and continued to be stationed in the Tianshan region to deal with the Russian army that invaded and occupied Zungar.

This army is about 10,000 people, and has been in the western region of the Yarkand Khanate, fighting with the remaining fourteen countries, and has little contact with the Ming army.

After thinking about it, since even the royal family has surrendered honestly, there is no need for those of them who are courtiers to continue to resist, after all, it is almost the same for anyone to be a courtier.

At the same time, the 20,000 Yarkand defenders near the Jiayu Pass had a change.

According to the news that the NSA agents who had been stationed in the city in advance had risked their deaths, a letter from the Yarkand royal family had arrived in the area yesterday.

However, instead of accepting the surrender, the local defenders directly beheaded the envoy and began to recruit troops in the local area in preparation for a long period of resistance.

As long as the Ming army cannot break through the Mamanshan Grand Canyon in the east and the Dangjin Pass, and send troops to hold Korla in the west, then the Yarkand people here can implement independence.

Such an incident occurred in the Yarkand Khanate a hundred years ago, when a civil war broke out in the Yarkand Khanate, which eventually split into two states, one of which was to hold these three dangerous places and complete the de facto independence of the regime.

The royal orthodoxy of the Yarkand Khanate took decades for this, until the previous monarch, at great expense, bought off the defenders of the Korla region, which was able to invade Turpan and Hami, and once again unify the Yarkand Khanate.

Now it seems that the other party either wants to learn the tactics of the past and go out independently again, or wants to use this as a bargaining chip to bargain with Daming.

"An important transit point on the Silk Road, while allowing these people to live a prosperous life, they also forgot the strength of the Ming army, and it is time to teach these people a lesson, so that they can understand who is the master of this area." Li Hongfei said coldly.

Li Hongfei knew in his heart that a large part of the reason why the other party was unwilling to surrender was that he couldn't let go of the huge interests here.

In addition, in the current Ming Dynasty, the main force is trapped in the Mongolian region, and naturally there are not too many troops to forcibly attack the Yarkand Khanate, otherwise the tactics of sneaking up on the royal city will not be adopted.

The Ming Dynasty could not invest heavy troops to deal with this area, and the local defenders had been in contact with the Ming army for a long time, so they would not believe in the so-called "gods from heaven" at all, and it was not impossible for them to rely on the geographical advantage to resist for a long time.

Since Li Hongfei saw the essence of the problem clearly, how could he let the other party succeed?

With Li Hongfei's order issued, the defenders of Jiayu Pass, who had already entered a state of first-class combat readiness, immediately mobilized 40,000 troops and launched fierce attacks at the two checkpoints of Horsehair Mountain Grand Canyon and Dangjin Pass, without giving the other side the slightest respite.

There is no "divine soldier from the sky", but the Ming Dynasty still has a cannon, a treasure of the town, 260 mm heavy artillery, even if it is a fortress with a concrete structure in later generations, it is difficult to withstand a direct hit, let alone an ordinary masonry structure.

What about natural insurance, what about a husband who can't open it?

The giant artillery of the Ming army specializes in the so-called natural hazards and the so-called checkpoints, unless you don't send troops to defend it, you will kill as many as you want.

In war, the defense is always in a passive situation, especially in the key defensive areas, in the face of the ruthless destruction of artillery, even if more troops are invested, it will only increase casualties.

As for the counterattack, don't even think about it, if it is in the open plain area, the cavalry can also use the advantage of mobility to fight guerrilla warfare with the Ming infantry.

However, the Turpan and Hami areas are mostly hills and deserts, and with the superior strength of the Ming army and the powerful firepower output, they only need to occupy the opponent's towns, and these people can be trapped to death just by besieging them.

Without the approval of the Yarkand royal family, these people belong to the rebel army, and once the war is lost, even the local people can no longer support these people, let alone any guerrilla warfare.

Therefore, the two checkpoints of the Grand Canyon of Horsehair Mountain and the Dangjin Pass have become the last barrier of the Yarkand people, knowing that it is very dangerous to hold this place, but they can't and dare not evacuate easily.

Two days, only two days of shelling, the Yarkand people stationed in the Dangjin Pass, the first to bear the huge casualties and surrender, the two checkpoints are close to each other, one was breached, the Ming army can take advantage of this detour, from the inside to the other pass attack.

The battle lasted a total of three days, and all the Yarkand people in Turpan and Hami surrendered.

Although the Ming army invested 40,000 troops and more than 500 artillery pieces, only these 500 artillery pieces really played a role.

This kind of battle with serious asymmetry in scientific and technological forces, not to mention the Yarkands, even during the Opium War in later generations, hundreds of thousands of troops faced thousands of high-tech armed British troops, it was only a tragic situation of losing their armor and betraying the country and begging to surrender.

From the decision to take the Yarkand Khanate to the complete recovery of the land of the Yarkand Khanate, the Ming army only took twenty days, of which sixteen days were spent on war preparations and marching, and the real battle time was only four days.

It takes four days to destroy a country, and it is a country whose territory is larger than most provinces in the Ming Dynasty, which is also the first time in Chinese history.

Technology changes fate, it's really not just talk.

As for Guo Sheng and his entourage, after settling the Yarkand Khanate, only 1,000 troops were stationed in the Yarkand royal city to stabilize the situation there, and the rest of the troops rushed to the next country non-stop..........

Using the airship tactic, in just one month, the Ming Air Force successfully destroyed the remaining 14 countries in the Western Regions, subdued Xinjiang, Tibet, and later Almaty, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other places, and expanded nearly 2 million square kilometers of land for the Ming Dynasty.

With 3,000 troops, the fifteen countries of the Western Regions were captured in one and a half months, and the Daming Air Force became famous in the first war, becoming the sweetheart of the Ministry of Defense, and the issue of the Air Force becoming an independent army has never had any objections since then.

The National Assembly even made a special proposal for this purpose, applying for the expansion of the scale of the Ming Air Force, increasing military spending, and striving to build several more airship production lines.

As for the Ming cavalry that had been thinking about it before, it was left behind by these people, there was originally a cavalry army, plus 50,000 Mongolian cavalry columns, and 80,000 cavalry was enough to ensure the mobility advantage of the army.

And there is a real need for long-distance expeditions, isn't there a group of air knights, like airships, which do not need to consume raw materials (only when taking off and landing, they need to be filled with air and hydrogen, and the consumption is negligible), and the war machine that does not need to rest can completely replace the cavalry.

It seems that the airship troops are omnipotent and have a bright future, but Li Hongfei knows very well in his heart that the take-off and landing of airships are too restricted, at least rain, snow and windy weather, which are not suitable for airship operations, especially in the Siberian region planned by the Ming army, airships have almost no room to play, but the cavalry, which is not favored, can gallop freely in this area.

Therefore, in the end, Li Hongfei sent a letter to reject the request for the expansion of the Air Force, and only agreed to the plan to increase the production line of airships.