"Your Majesty, the General Staff has reported that the Kokand people have taken the bait. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

A girl wearing a red military uniform and wearing the rank of major knelt down to Yang Feng and said.

"How's the Situation on the Two Rivers Battlefield?"

Yang Feng asked while admiring the flowers that were sent to him on the shore.

He was now standing on the deck of the Vostok with his hands behind his back, blowing the early spring evening breeze, and behind him were rows of female soldiers in red woolen naval uniforms, all of them tall and beautiful with their hands on their backs, their white belts stretched out their waists, and the same red brimmed fedora on their heads, various gold symbols and buttons of the same color shining on their bodies, and a sinuous golden dragon embroidered on their bulging chests to represent the special status of their emperor's personal guards......

Well, His Majesty the Emperor has begun to go on tour.

Serving His Majesty the Emperor on this huge cruise ship were eighteen concubines, including the noble concubine, one hundred and fifty palace maids, and a thousand sailors, all of whom were women, not a single man, not even a eunuch, and he was the only man on the whole ship, fully satisfying the ideal of the king of his daughter country. Next, he will start his patrol under the service of more than 1,000 beauties, from the distant North Pole to the South Pole, of course, he is not the only ship, the navy's latest four Qi Jiguang-class cruisers will all accompany the escort, for which supply depots have been specially built in various places, and the farthest has even been repaired to the South Pole.

"The Russian army has reached Samarkand, and the combined forces of Bukhara and Khiva, totaling 100,000, have reached the western foot of the Tianshan Mountains, but recently there has been a lot of wind and snow, so there is no real attack."

The girl said.

"Send a report to Gao Huai, and ask him to tell Lu Yi not to worry, lead the Kokand people to go deeper, and don't rush to close the door before they cross Wensu."

Yang Feng said.

"Honor!"

The girl immediately agreed, and went back to the cabin to make a report.

Wensu is the boundary delineated by Yang Feng for the Kokand people, this ancient city in the Western Regions is the capital of Shannan Province at present, just located in the middle of Shannan, to the north is the vast Tianshan Mountains that are simply impassable, to the south is the Taklamakan Desert or the Moraine Desert on the map of the Ming Dynasty, at this time the only water source Tarim River has long been cut off and dried up, it can be said that both sides are really dead. As soon as the west pinched the east, the tens of thousands of Kokand cavalry that came in were completely blocked in this area, the logistics were cut off and there was no food on the spot, and if you don't surrender, there is only one way to starve to death, and if you surrender, you will be ready to be a slave in the Ming Dynasty for a lifetime, and tens of thousands of free strong laborers will definitely make the people in Shannan cheer.

And more importantly, all the young and middle-aged people in Kokand were evacuated at once, and the total population of this country was hundreds of thousands, and the army of sixty or seventy thousand was almost more than half of the young and middle-aged, and after their entire army was annihilated, there was only the richest Fergana Basin in Central Asia, but only the old and weak women and children were left waiting for the Ming army to come over.

"Who's lucky tonight?"

Emperor Yang was entangled.

While he was struggling with who to be lucky tonight, Kokand Khan Rahman was looking at the city of Yutou in the distance.

Of course, he didn't bother with any beautiful woman in the city, in fact, he had just returned from this small castle, and he sent out an army of 20,000 at once, and among them there were elite armed with the precious rifled guns given to him by the Russians, and even ten rifled guns, and then he was bound to launch the most ferocious attack, and then ......

And then he lost again.

His rifled guns had to be erected in a place where they could be aimed directly because of the quality of the gunners, and as a result, just a round of shells was fired, and then the opposite cannonballs flew over like eyes, and then ten cannons were directly blown into parts.

The cavalry, without artillery cover, once again began to charge towards the city of Weitou with their own bravery, as under the city of Jiashi, but the result was still the same, they inevitably ran into the barbed wire fence on the periphery, and the barbed wire fixed by wooden stakes was like an iron wall in front of them. This thing is simply a nightmare for cavalry, or the nemesis of the nomads, since its appearance, from the east to the west, from the brave Mongol cavalry to the Arab warriors, all of them have been crushed into the sand. And this time was no exception, when the speed of the cavalry was restricted, the originally silent city wall turned into an erupting volcano, and the stormy bullets instantly made his warriors bleed, he really didn't understand, where did the Ming army transfer so many reinforcements, this is not scientific at all.

There are a total of four garrisons in Shannan, more than 8,000 Ming troops, this is what he has known for a long time, and the Ming army has always been these garrisons over the years.

But just Jiashi City can be deduced from the firelight when shooting, there must be at least more than four thousand defenders, and Weitou City is even more terrifying, he calculated that it is seven or eight thousand, even if it can still arm some militia, but this number is also very abnormal, after all, this castle is so big, it can live more than 20,000 people in the sky, 20,000 people, excluding children, women and old people, how can they not come out with seven or eight thousand guns, not to mention that Weitou City has no garrison at all according to intelligence.

This is really unscientific!

He was vaguely panicked, this situation was too weird, it was dangerous to continue to rush deeper without understanding this, it was only a few hundred miles from Kokand, and his camel team could barely guarantee supplies, but if he continued to Gumo and Wensu, the line would be very long. If you can't get supplies locally, then it is absolutely not enough to rely on camel fleet transportation, once the Ming army launches a counterattack, he will be in danger of collapsing the whole line, if he is really blocked here, there will be no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. He knew very well that the environment here was a cage, as long as the Shule Pass was blocked, even the cavalry would not be able to escape from this corridor sandwiched between the Tianshan Mountains and the desert without sufficient supplies.

"Great Khan, we have captured a Han fugitive slave!"

At this time, an officer reported to him.

"Bring it now!"

Rahman said.

Shannan Province actually has a large number of slaves and subjects, although the number of people in the province is only more than 700,000, but there must be nearly 200,000 slaves alone, all kinds of color and color, but mainly cheap Japanese slaves, and the subject people are the Dzungar Mongolians, but the Dzungar people here have basically converted to the Holy Religion after nearly 20 years of assimilation, basically have converted to the Holy Religion, except for the subject nationality and a subject identity, there is no difference between the Chinese people in other aspects, because of the intermarriage relationship between each other, the vast majority of them have gradually become Chinese people.

Although in the Ming system, if a subject marries a countryman, he becomes a countryman, and a countryman marries a subject and becomes a person, but isn't there still a person in it!

Like those dinosaurs that are not easy to shoot, the old widow who died of a man, and the disabled man who can't get married, this is all staring at the young men in those subjects, and after they become rich, they can become Chinese, this is a good opportunity for the carp to jump over the dragon gate, as for the children and the wife's surname, this is not worth mentioning, not to mention the children, even they themselves have the wife's surname!

This is also a component of the population growth rate of 40 per 1,000 in the Ming Dynasty, this amazing growth rate is not all born, and the number of assimilation is also very large, especially Goryeo now almost half of the population has become a countryman, and in less than 30 years, there will be basically no subjects there, and even a large part of the Goryeo royal family has been integrated into the Han nationality through aristocratic marriage.

Immediately after being brought to Rahman was a short man, lying on the ground and looking at him with frightened eyes, wearing the standard gray cloth clothes of Ming slaves, which was actually the horse coat of the banner man, wearing a leather hat on his head, and dragging small pigtails behind him, so that the master could easily catch them when he whipped them, and he could pull the braids and pump them directly, which was the standard appearance of Ming slaves.

"Checked?"

Rahman said.

"Checked."

The officer said.

"How many defenders are there in the city?"

Rahman asked with a murderous expression.

"If you go back to your father, there are a total of eight thousand!"

The slave shuddered.

"You're lying!"

Rahman sneered.

The officer roared at once, and then drew his scimitar and slashed down, but stopped when the blade touched the slave's neck, who was so frightened that he immediately peed his pants.

"Master, the slave is true!"

He lay on the ground and cried.

"Tell you the truth, how many defenders are there? Just say that when I say it, I can give you a large bounty and take you out of this country. ”

Rahman said in a different tone.

"Master, it's really eight thousand!"

The slave said with a sad face.

"There are only four garrisons in the entire Shannan, and the total number is only 8,000 people, where did they get the 8,000 guards to guard the captain's head, is it possible that the Ming army in the whole Shannan is here?"

Rahman sneered.

"Master, they still have reserves, there are six reserve brigades in Shannan alone, they are usually ordinary people, as long as they receive an order, they can be called together to form an army, who is a soldier and who is an official is determined, even the guns are in warehouses all over the country, just gather people and open the warehouses and send them down, the officials are all retired veterans who have fought in the war, and the guns are better than the regular army, but the guns are not the latest, and there are two such brigades in Weitou City."

The slave said.

"Dare to lie, I'll split your five horses!"

Rahman gasped and shouted.

"Master, the slave really didn't lie, the slave's family is from the Wa country, and there are wives and children in the family, who were caught by pirates and sold here, and were also given by them as slaves, and they suffered every day as cattle and horses, and dreamed of escaping from the sea of suffering, this time they took advantage of the opportunity to retreat to the city and fled into the mountains, starving and starving just to find a chance to leave these demons, it was too late for the master to save me and be grateful, how could I lie to you, I don't believe you look at this injury on my body, this is all beaten by them!"

The slave wept and took off his clothes to show off the shocking wounds.

"And where are the other reserves?"

Rahman said with satisfaction.

In fact, after determining that this person is a slave, he basically doesn't worry about being deceived, after all, everyone knows how cruel Da Ming treats slaves, especially this Yan muttering problem, it is even more frustrating, they can't be loyal to Da Ming, if they treat them like this, they can still do this kind of work for Da Ming, it is too cheap.

"I don't know, the minions know that this is the case, but their reserve brigades are all recruited locally, and there should be no shortage of reserves for so many people in the west."

The slave said.

"Take him down and get him something to eat."

Rahman said.

After the slave was taken down, he immediately said to the officer: "Give the order to go down, abandon the captain's head and go east, and attack Gumo directly, one of the six reserve brigades must be in the Jiashi division, plus the Khotanese garrison in Shule, the Shache garrison one garrison, and the remaining three brigades and one garrison in Gumo and Wensu, just form three lines of defense." But there can be no army further east, as long as we cross Gumo can break through Qiuzi to get supplies, and then attack Yanqi all the way, the chariot division goes straight to Luntai, at this time the Russians must have launched an attack, the Ming army of Longcheng is unable to return to help, and they can't arrive in time after the heavy snow closes the road, we can hit Luntai at full speed in two months at most, and have enough time to return after destroying their steel factory. ”

"Yes!"

The officer promised to leave immediately.

Rahman looked out at the snow and wind with great ambition, as if he had seen his own army galloping.

"Are you gone?"

In the warm boiler room of the Yahou Mansion of Weitou County, the county commander guarded the fire, and asked the captain of the county garrison who walked in while gnawing on the roast leg of mutton, there is no reserve brigade in this city, there is only a county garrison here, but the scale is a little larger, Weitou City and the settlements outside the city were withdrawn, a total of 25,000 residents, including men and women, a total of 8,000 reservists, and then organized into a county garrison, plus a reserve artillery battalion.

Although it is all militia, but the combat effectiveness is still strong, as long as you don't go out of the city, guarding the castle under the protection of the barbed wire wall, there is no problem in blocking the attack of the Kokand people, there is enough food in the city to eat for a year, and there is enough ammunition, there is no need to worry about the lack of materials, and now this is the situation in the castles of various prefectures and counties in Shannan.

"Let's go, the main force of Kokand has already set off and left, and there are only about no more than 5,000 cavalry left, I have to say that your trick is good, if they really go out and keep attacking, we really have to ask the provincial capital for help in the end."

The latter said.

"It's not that my tricks are good, it's that Priest Xu's means are good!"

The county magistrate looked at an old man in a green sermon robe and looked kind, and said to him.

"The Holy Lord said, there is no class, the dog brother is a sincere to the Holy Lord, loyal, willing to risk death to bear this heavy responsibility, his move is enough to move the gods of heaven, if you can return the whole body, we need to greet each other with generous courtesy, from now on as brothers, if he is unfortunately killed, we should also engrave it into the Ming Dynasty Heroic Soul List from this age to worship, must not be despised by his origin."

The old man said solemnly.

"The Holy Lord is above, may the dog give birth to a brother Jiren Tianxiang!"

The two county commanders hurriedly put on the same solemn expressions, stood up and bent over and said.

Well, that's a dead room.