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"These miscellaneous people are quite rampant!"

Chen Qi, the captain of the Shule garrison, looked outside the city and sneered.

At this time, on the snowy wasteland outside the city, there are countless horsemen galloping on horseback, arrogantly holding muskets, shouting and showing off their might, these guys wearing leather hats and dirty robes come from the other side of the Pamir Plateau, the Kokand Khanate with the Fernagan Basin as the core, originally part of the Bukhara Khanate, which had just established itself more than ten years ago, mainly Uzbeks.

They are only separated from the Ming by two hundred miles of mountainous areas, and it can be said that they are facing the threat of the Ming Dynasty, so this time they are also particularly cooperative with the Russians, and almost all the young and middle-aged people are armed to participate in the war.

"Grow taller, why do we abandon the mountain pass?"

The officer beside Chen Qi asked.

The Ming army had a frontier fortress in the west, that is, in the territory of modern Wucha County, but I don't know why, Chen Qi suddenly ordered a battalion stationed there to withdraw, and finally opened the gate to let the Kokand people cross this natural danger, otherwise, relying on the terrain there, the Ming army could completely block the Kokands, and the lofty mountains of the Pamir Plateau were not so easy to open.

"How do you close the door without opening the door first?"

Chen Qi said indifferently.

"Pass the order, if the enemy doesn't attack the city, don't open fire, if they want to go to Jiashi, just go, this winter is windy and snowy, let's bake the fire and drink tea in the house."

Then he said lazily.

"Obey!"

The officer immediately saluted.

Well, this is the strategy of the Ming army, let the enemy enter and then encircle and annihilate, the entire Shannan Province is currently only 700,000 people, all distributed in the settlements with castles as the core, at this time it is winter, all the people in all settlements have withdrawn into the castle, and there is nothing left outside the strong walls and clear fields, so there is nothing outside this season. The invaders couldn't find any supplies except for hunting yellow sheep, unless they stormed those castles and grabbed food, but those Ming-style fortresses and cannon breech guns would dry their blood, and if they didn't attack the city, they could just attack eastward, even if they ran all the way to Yanqi, and then sealed all the locks on this side of the mountain pass.

There are Tianshan in the north, green onions in the west, vast deserts in the south, and the Gobi Wasteland in the east, which is completely a closed cage, and they come to send slaves to many times.

As Chen Qi guessed, the Kokand people did not storm Shule City, this kind of defense system composed of barbed wire, trenches, flower-shaped fortresses, and reinforced concrete parapet walls is almost desperate, especially with the long-range artillery of the Ming Dynasty, it is almost impossible to overcome, the best way is to cut off the supply line and besiege, the Kokand people who arrived in Shule quickly divided thousands of cavalry to contain the periphery of Shule, and then the main force continued to attack to the east, their next stop was Jiashi.

"Ma, is Lao Tzu a bully?"

On the wall of the Jiashi city wall, Wang Song, the captain of the newly established Jiashi garrison, said sadly and angrily.

Unlike in Shule, the 10,000 Kokand troops who braved the wind and snow and traveled hundreds of miles to reach the city of Jiashi chose to attack, and on the white wilderness in the wind and snow, a large number of Kokand cavalry with muskets roared madly and launched a fierce charge towards this fortress, which was only less than two miles in diameter. The Kokand people had no choice, they had to get supplies, and it was not reasonable to choose this season to attack, but only the wind and snow in this season could stop the Ming army from reinforcing the army, but they also had to have a headache for supplies, after all, they didn't have much food to carry, and their horses needed fodder. And these are impossible to find in the barren fields of winter.

If it is to conquer Shule, of course, it will be good.

The castle was full of grain, meat, and even fruit, but Shule had more than 2,000 Ming troops, regular troops, armed with the latest rifles and machine guns, and the castle was much taller and stronger, and it would have been too expensive to attack it.

In this case, then the only option is to choose the Jiashi, who is said to have no garrison at all.

However, the Kokand people did not know that there was suddenly an additional garrison upgraded from the reserve, and there was also a garrison composed of reserve militia, in this small castle that could only accommodate 10,000 people, if even the female soldiers were counted, it should be 5,000 defenders, at this time, the 5,000 defenders had 5,000 rear-loading shotgun rifles and front-loading mini rifles in their hands, and they were aiming at the charging Kokand people behind the reinforced concrete parapet, and even more than a dozen old-fashioned front-loading rifled guns were also loaded with grenades and ready to fire.

"Calm down, fire later!"

Wang Song shouted loudly.

"Yin Yin, don't tremble!"

Then he looked at a young girl at his feet and said in a teasing tone.

"Shut up!"

The latter gave him a faceless look, and then continued to kneel on one knee, staring intently at an old-fashioned front-loading Mini rifle in his hand, the barrel of which protruded from the perforation of the parapet wall, and the crosshair was firmly aimed at a Kokand cavalryman fifty feet away.

The latter crashed into the first barbed wire fence almost in the blink of an eye.

The cavalry with superb riding skills led the war horse, and the red war horse, which was a very divine horse, neighed and jumped up......

"Fire!"

Wang Song suddenly shouted.

The girl named Yin Yin pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the hammer that had been opened long ago fell instantly and hit the fire cap, Lei Gong's flame immediately ignited the nitrified paper shell of the paper shell bullet, and the high-speed burning black powder pushed the bottom of the Mini bullet to expand, embedded in the rifling while flying out, and rotated with the muzzle flame to shoot out of the muzzle, instantly hitting the cavalryman's chest. The latter's horse had just crossed the barbed wire, and before the front hooves fell, the cavalry fell on its back under the impact force of the bullet, and the moment the horse landed, it was also tripped by the second barbed wire with its front hooves, and then fell forward and fell heavily forward, and then the other cavalry behind could not restrain the horse, and collided with it fiercely.

The girl on the city wall took out a bullet as fast as she could, loaded it into the chamber of the gun, and then used the whole pestle to the end, pulled out the whole strip and put on the fire cap, and aimed at the second cavalryman who was getting up from the ground, and half of the horseman's face disappeared when the gun rang out.

The girl glared at Wang Song, who was already stupid, and continued to reload as fast as she could.

Only then did Lao Wang come to his senses, and hurriedly aimed his firing pin rifle at the outside to fire, and at this time, the city wall was like a volcanic eruption, and blazing flames continued to erupt from the outside of the reinforced concrete parapet, and the dense bullets knocked the Kokand cavalry to the ground. Because of the barbed wire fence fixed with wooden stakes, the latter was quickly crowded, and the bullets fired from the city walls almost did not miss, either hitting people or hitting war horses, these Chinese immigrants in the Western Regions were not the same as those in the interior, they were all the same as the Americans when they went west, they completely regarded guns as daily necessities, and even young men and women sneaked out into the wild with guns.

No way, there are more wolves than dogs here.

Living in the border fortress all year round, almost everyone here can use guns, and now there are still many aunts on the city wall who are firing steadily!

And this is the nightmare of the invaders.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the corpses of the Kokand cavalry were piled up all over the city, and the thickness of the dead corpses continued to increase as time went on, and the cavalry that could not be restrained in the wild rush kept hitting the corpse wall in front of them, and then immediately fell under the bullets fired from the city wall, increasing the thickness of the corpse wall.

Then the Kokands did not hesitate to retreat.

They are cavalry, the reason why they are attacking the city is only because according to the intelligence there is no garrison here, it is nothing more than a small number of militia, in their eyes this is not an opponent at all, the only obstacle is nothing more than a circle of barbed wire, and there is also a city wall that is not too high, a moat that is almost out of water, as long as you rush over and step on the war horse and throw the hook, you can climb directly, but you didn't expect to hit the iron plate directly, the terrifying firepower makes them feel like they are in hell, and it is a fool not to withdraw at this time.

It's a pity that it's not so easy to withdraw.

All the defenders and militia on the walls were reloading and firing at maximum speed, and the bullets were constantly pouring out at a rate of tens of thousands of rounds per minute, and even the Minnie rifles with full cartridges were able to fire more than five rounds per minute, not to mention half of the rear-loading shotgun rifles. At the same time, the artillery was firing at the fastest speed, and the grenades filled with lead bullets continued to explode above the heads of the cavalry, and then the lead bullets inside poured down like a rain of fire in the explosion, and the dead bodies of the retreating Kokand people and war horses covered the white snowfield, forming patches of shocking red.

All the Kokand cavalry were whipping their horses desperately, trying their best to escape from the web of death, because the high-speed charge had exhausted the strength of the horses, and they retreated at a much faster speed, and it was not until two minutes later that they escaped the range of the rifles on the city walls, but the horrible grenades still raged overhead, and it was not until five minutes later that they were completely free of this horror.

The battle lasted less than ten minutes.

The nearly 10,000 Kokand cavalry who launched the attack only returned less than 8,000, and more than 2,000 fell under the militia guns of the Ming Dynasty, and they failed to kill even a single militiaman, in fact, the vast majority of cavalry did not even have time to fire their guns, and even if they did, it was impossible to hit the militiamen who were protected by the half-meter-thick reinforced concrete wall. This result made their commanders cry without tears, but what made them cry even more was that his supplies had not landed, and they couldn't open Jiashi City, how could they attack the next station of Weitou? The Kokand then stopped their attack, and then found a leeward place nearby and set up camp, and at the same time sent a messenger to ask the follow-up troops, especially the transport troops, to come quickly, and if they did not come again, they should run out of food and kill the camels to eat.

Fortunately, there are more than 60,000 troops behind them!

This time the attack was divided into two routes, the Kokand army and part of the Bukhara army crossed the green ridge to attack Shannan, this road was dominated by cavalry, the goal was to attack all parts of Shannan, and threaten the Luntai industrial base to the east as quickly as possible, they took advantage of the fact that Shannan did not have much Ming defense emptiness. And the Russian army and the Khiva army, the Xiaoyuz army, and a part of the Bukhara army attacked Lianghe head-on, targeting Longcheng and Lianghe Industrial Base, this part is actually mainly contained, and the real main force is the cavalry cluster on the south road, after all, the north road has to face the main force of the Ming army.

But now it's embarrassing.

They underestimated the military mobilization ability of the Ming Dynasty, and also underestimated the intelligence and information transmission speed of the Ming Dynasty, from the time the Russian army landed in Jinyiwei, the agents sent back the secret report by radio, and then Yang Feng and his generals understood their intentions, and in the few months after their Great Khan returned to the Khan's court and assembled the army, the Ming army also completed the comprehensive mobilization in the three provinces, and even the corresponding deployment was completed during this time.

Shannan, which was originally empty in defense, has now mobilized a total of 250,000 militiamen, and the reason why it has shrunk is only to let them in and close the door and fight dogs.

The Kokands, however, did not know this.

Compared with their intelligence ability and Jinyiwei, it is completely the level of kindergarten children, not to mention that the Ming army blocked the mountain pass, even if their spies knew, it was impossible to cross hundreds of miles of mountains and mountains and send the information to them in time, in fact, their spies were all targeted at this time, and it was not easy to operate in the land of the Ming Dynasty, where all the people were soldiers.

The Kokand Khan Rahman who drove the expedition soon led the main force to arrive, and the food he brought temporarily solved the food problem, although the place of Shule was not warm, but it was not really icy and snowy, and the land was sparsely populated, and there were grasslands everywhere, and their war horses could barely sustain it, so they tried to attack again, and even dragged the cannon up, but as a result, the cannon was blown into parts in a blink of an eye, and then after more than a thousand people were killed and wounded, Rahman wisely chose to abandon the attack.

He left 10,000 cavalry to camp nearby to contain and protect the logistics line, and then personally led the main force to continue eastward.

At this time, he still firmly believed that there were not many Ming troops in Shannan, Shule was in a special location, it was close to the forefront, and it was normal for the Ming army to mainly defend here, and it was originally normal for the Ming army to defend here in Shannan, two of the four garrisons in Shannan, one each for Shule and Shache, and the other two were in Wensu, the provincial capital of Khotan, and in his opinion, this must be the Ming army after getting the information to transfer Shache and Khotan's garrison, so as to explain the reason why there are so many defenders in Jiashi City.

After all, there are 8,000 Ming troops in the entire Shannan, but the defenders of Jiashi City must be at least more than 4,000, and even if there are some militias, it must be a garrison.

He could only find this explanation.

He didn't believe that there were so many defenders in all the counties in Shannan, especially in the places to the east where there was no need for garrisons at all, how could a few thousand people be stationed, so wouldn't the entire Shannan have two or three hundred thousand Ming troops?

That's an exaggeration.

However, this is the case, and in the entire Shannan Five Prefectures and Twenty-eight Counties, the number of garrisons in Jiashi City is definitely small, the most is in Pishan, where a full 50,000 troops are stationed, which is used when preparing for a counteroffensive, this huge army is all cavalry, of course, not professional cavalry, but there is absolutely no problem with shooting on horseback, they are on this oasis that can be said to be forgotten, leisurely waiting for orders, once the arrival of the Xijing Garrison Mansion, they will surge out like a torrent to cut off the return of the Kokand people.

It's a trap, a huge trap.