Back in Baishui City, Ye Zhao learned that there was a disturbance between Awati and Arbat, and Bai Laoheng had led the Xiao Cavalry Regiment to divide his troops to quell the rebellion, and there were only two cavalry posts in the city, namely the Reading Force Regiment and the Xiao Cavalry Regiment left by Bai Laoheng.

After resting for a while, Ye Zhao couldn't sit still anymore, and at dusk, he came to the outside of the yamen, paced two steps under the stone steps of the yamen, and then ordered Deling to call the two sentinels.

The two sentinels are one named Meng Jiang and the other is Zhao Kui, both of them are black-faced men, Ye Zhao couldn't help but laugh when he heard the names of the two, and said: "Meng Jiang Zhao Kui, aren't they my two door gods?" Back then, Yang Liulang had Meng Liang Jiaozan under him, and your name is a bit interesting. ”

Meng Jiang and Zhao Kui hurriedly knelt down on one knee, and the two looked at each other secretly, but they didn't dare to speak.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Get up, order your two sentinels and horses, and follow me to attack Kashgar." ”

"Wow!" Meng Jiang and Zhao Kui's face was full of excitement and agreed in unison.

De Ling was stunned, Ye Zhao instructed him: "Transfer two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion to Kashgar, if I can't beat it, it will be reinforcements, which can help me, if the city has fallen, I will take over the defense." ”

Seeing Ye Zhao move to lead the horse, De Ling took two quick steps, knelt in front of Ye Zhao, and said urgently: "The master can't, the master's body is ten thousand gold, how can he easily get into danger, the matter of attacking the city and trapping the wall, the slave is willing to go for the master!" ”

Kashgar is the first of the eight cities in southern Xinjiang, west of the Kokand Khanate, is the springboard for the Kokand Khanate to invade China, although the information is now Kashgar to guard against the emptiness, if Kashgar is conquered, the eastward invasion of the Agu Bai Department will be cut off, and it will be captured. But how can the master be allowed to go into danger alone?

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "The soldier is fast, you are slow to pass, people have already gotten the news, how can you surprise the attack?" As the artillery fire continued, Li Min suffered many injuries. ”

Before De Ling could say more, Ye Zhao waved his hand: "Hurry up and prepare to deploy soldiers and horses." Looking around, seeing that Urden and the other guards were looking at each other, and if they had no choice, they were about to kneel down and admonish, Ye Zhao said: "Don't say it, I have my own measure, do I really want to die?" If the enemy chief is difficult to break, let's come back, am I a hot-headed person? ”

Deling, Ouerden and the others didn't dare to say it anymore, and when they thought about it for a moment, it was really as the emperor said, it seemed dangerous, but in fact, if the people of Andijan were prepared, they didn't need to alarm them, and they quietly drove back.

Ye Zhao waved his hand: "Hurry up and prepare!" ”

There are about 30,000 Uzbeks who invaded southern Xinjiang, plus the tribes incorporated in southern Xinjiang, a total of more than 50,000, of which the main army is the Uzbek cavalry, of which the well-trained and now called the Uzbek cavalry is about 5,000 or 6,000 people, in addition to the musket formation, about 10,000.

The so-called musket formation should be the infantry equipped with muskets from Tsarist Russia, and the kind of front-loading smoothbore guns used in the American Reading War and the Napoleonic War at the beginning of this century were largely eliminated by Tsarist Russia as scrap copper and rotten iron, and were naturally sold to Central Asia by annihilators.

According to the intelligence of Tanma, Agubai's musket regiment and a large number of cavalry gathered in the Sangzhu area on the eastern line of Yarkand, and were preparing to attack the city of Khotan, one of the eight cities in southern Xinjiang.

Now that he has made contact with the Emperor's [***] team on the northern front and suffered a crushing defeat, Aguba will inevitably rush back to Yarkand and Kashgar.

Taking advantage of the weak defense of Kashgar, only thousands of Uzbeks and surrendered tribes defended it, he led the cavalry to attack and break the city like lightning, cut off the connection between Agubo and the Kokand Khanate, and caught turtles in the urn, which was naturally the best choice.

Although there are only two sentinels and no more than 300 guards, Ye Zhao has made up his mind, in addition to a sober judgment of the situation, perhaps, in his bones, he likes to take risks. In war, if everything is well prepared, if everything is planned and then moved, and it is fought steadily, it is actually difficult to obtain the maximum benefits at the minimum cost.

In a short time, Meng Jiang and Zhao Kui had already assembled the cavalry, and Deling also quickly transferred the infantry battalion and artillery battalion, so that he could get to Kashgar earlier, and the danger of the master would be one less point.

The cavalry of the Xiao Cavalry Regiment are all majestic crimson double-row copper-buckled military uniforms, and unlike the Ouchi guards, the Ouchi guards use golden soft spike epaulettes, while they are silver star red tassel epaulettes.

Three hundred cavalry gathered in front of the yamen, when they heard that they were going to follow the emperor to attack Kashgar, the officers and soldiers of the Xiao cavalry regiment immediately burst into cheers, at this time the sky was getting dark, the night in southern Xinjiang, the cold wind hunting, but their hearts were hot.

Glancing at Afif beside him, Ye Zhao immediately took out two six-thunder cannons on his body and threw them to her.

Immediately, hundreds of redshirts galloped out of the city gate, turned into a long dragon, and galloped southwest.

Baishui City is more than 900 miles away from Kashgar, and similarly, the main army of Agubai in the Sangzhu area of eastern Yarkand is also thousands of miles away from Kashgar.

If the surprise attack on Kashgar is successful, the infantry battalion and artillery battalion may be stationed in Kashgar before Agubai returns to defense, otherwise, the city of Kashgar is fortified, and the army advances.

Along the way, there were sparsely populated, but Ye Zhao did not let the cavalry gallop in the starry night, and only traveled more than 100 miles at a time, so he wanted the surprise attack team to recuperate and meet this vicious battle with the best attitude.

In the evening, I saw a village, which was a Uyghur tribe, with Afaf as a translator, and Ye Zhao took out a lot of candy for the Uyghur children, and after a while, he became familiar with the villagers.

When night fell, a bonfire was lit by the stream outside the village, and the soldiers and civilians sang and danced, and they enjoyed themselves.

Originally, Meng Jiang exchanged a sheep from the village with a few boxes of matches, ready to roast it for the emperor's meal, although Ye Zhao did not reprimand him, but took out the silver coins and bought more than ten sheep, at this time set up a fire to barbecue, and also invited the whole village to eat, more than a dozen circles of bonfires, all surrounded by people, the rich aroma wafted with the wind, which made people appetizing.

The elders of the clan sat beside Ye Zhao and kept admiring, saying that it was because of the big handsome, "Our whole village has a mouthful." Afaf didn't tell him Ye Zhao's true identity, and the Uyghur elders originally wanted to sacrifice these lambs to the officers and soldiers, but Ye Zhao insisted on paying the silver coins, the elders had never seen such a kind officer in his life, which was extremely novel.

Uerden led people to send mutton to the mobile and fixed posts that were on guard everywhere, and when he came back, he sat behind Ye Zhao, Ye Zhao turned around and smiled: "Uerden, sing a song to help the fun!" ”

The other circles of bonfires were extremely lively, only Ye Zhao and Ouchi guards were in this circle, the guards were very restrained, and the young Uyghur men and women became overwhelmed unconsciously, one of the enthusiastic and unrestrained Uyghur girls invited the handsome guards to dance, and the guards were forced to be embarrassed, and scolded her urgently. The atmosphere around the campfire is even more eerie.

As for Ye Zhao, even if he didn't come out like this, no one dared to invite him to dance.

Listening to Ye Zhao's words, Uerden was stunned, but the master asked him to sing, and he couldn't shirk it, so he immediately roared a song with a broken gong in his voice, which made several Uyghur girls lean forward and backward with laughter.

Ye Zhao looked at Afaf who was sitting on his right side again, and Afaf didn't wait for him to speak, so he walked into the middle, his white clothes fluttering, his little snow boots stepped lightly on the beat, and he sang in a clear voice, "It's hard to draw dragons and tigers, please ask the painter to draw a foggy mile in the clouds." The clouds came in the middle of the mountain, the fog in the middle of the mountain, a wisteria grew in the middle of the mountain, crying in the middle of the day, laughing in the middle of the day, and thinking about the heartache in the middle of the night-"

Compared with the hymn of holiness, Afaf sang a folk tune, but it was gentle and sweet, better than a hundred birds singing.

Ye Zhao smiled and applauded, and when he saw Afaf walking back, he gave a thumbs up.

"I'll do a song too." Ye Zhao stood up with a smile and said, "Don't sit still!" The guards who were about to rise up were busy and sat down.

After clearing his throat, Ye Zhao sang, and said: "The sea is laughing, the tide on both sides of the strait is surging, and the ups and downs are remembered with the waves!" The sky is smiling, the tide is in the world, who loses and who wins, God knows, the rivers and mountains laugh, the smoke and rain are far away, and the waves sweep away the red dust and mundane things! The breeze smiled, but it was lonely, and there was still a night photo left of pride...... Laa...... ......"

The Uyghur men and women applauded lightly, the bonfires were quiet, Ye Zhao sang, and the guards and soldiers had to listen attentively, not to mention that Ye Zhao's singing was already very infectious.

After Ye Zhao sat back, a seven or eight-year-old Uyghur girl with more than a dozen fine flowers ran to him, offered a bouquet of wild lotus flowers, and hugged Ye Zhao and kissed Ye Zhao on the face.

The Uyghur elder smiled and said, "My lord, Ayiguli said that she wanted to marry you. ”

Ye Zhao laughed, took Ayiguli's little hand and danced a song, watching Ayiguli's little hand on her waist, kicking her legs and twisting her head, dancing very beautifully, Ye Zhao couldn't laugh, and she really loved her when she picked her up.

At night, Ye Zhao and the guards also took a rare shower in the creek to wash away their fatigue.

On the second morning, when the Pegasus was galloping, Ye Zhao asked Afafu: "Did you bathe in the stream yesterday?" After asking, he regretted it, but he saw that Affif bowed slightly, and it was natural. The heart said that the women on all sides are really different from the Central Plains.

I walked from Baishui City to Kashgar for eight days, and arrived at the foot of Kashgar City in the middle of the night, and hid my tracks behind a loess slope three or five miles away, and rested for a while.

Behind the loess slope, relying on the rows of brave soldiers, they were all loading bullets with solemn faces, checking firearms, and throwing away canned food and other dry food on their bodies, but in fact, the time of pinching was extremely accurate, and there were not a few cans left in the cans.

A sentry watched the direction of the gate from a clairvoyant mirror for a moment.

Looking at Afaf, who couldn't put down the six thunder cannons on his side, Ye Zhao said: "I've sent you, you can also take it after this battle." But don't turn your gun on me. ”

Afaf said yes, but I won't shoot you with this gun.

I don't know how much time passed, Ye Zhao found out the white wine sent by the Uyghur tribe, although Muslims ban alcohol, but some tribes do not abide by it, the wine was originally in a bamboo tube, Ye Zhao used a small glass bottle of Urden spirits, gently shaken, under the refraction of the glass, the wine shimmered amber-like luster.

Ye Zhao said: "Grape wine glow-in-the-dark cup, if you want to drink the pipa, urge immediately; Drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, how many people ......from the ancient battles returned, "Groaning to the end, sighing softly, how many people from the ancient battles can return?"

Uncorked the bottle and took a sip of it.

At this time, the huge gate of Kashgar slowly opened, and the muffled sound of "creaking" echoed, as if it could be heard behind the dirt slope.

Ye Zhao threw the wine bottle to the ground, jumped up, turned over his horse, and shouted, "Go!" ”

After the loess slope, more than a dozen horses galloped out, rushed to the city gate, in the city gate hole, the city defenders who were standing lazily against the wall with iron spears saw this, just stood still, walked two steps and were ready to ask, the cavalry had arrived in front of them, bang bang, the horse pistol rang out, and several city guards fell in a pool of blood.

Then, hundreds of horsemen poured out from behind the dirt slope, the sound of killing shook the sky, rushed into the city gate quickly, and joined the dozen horsemen in front, grunting and shouting all the way, but it was the local local language learned from Afaf, which roughly means, "The officers and soldiers have arrived!" Brothers and sisters, rise up and kill the people of Andijan! "It's just a few simple words, and it's very easy to learn.

The cavalry team entered from the north gate, and then rushed straight to the south gate, all the way to meet the bandits armed with knives, spears and firearms, guns and knives, in the city of Kashgar, immediately chickens and dogs jumped.

In the sound of gunfire, the cavalry rushed out of the south city gate like flying, and several of the dozen or so bandits guarding the south city gate who were trying to close the city were killed on the spot, and the rest scattered in a hurry.

The cavalry team reined in the horses in a circle outside the southern city, "Load!" Urden roared, and immediately a neat sound of metal guns rang out.

"Come again!" Uerden roared, and then, the cavalry rushed into the city again, this time directly attacked the long street of the Yamen of the Minister of Kashgar Affairs, the street gathered hundreds of bandits, many firearms, but between the chaotic reloading, the cavalry team had rolled over, bang, the close range of six thunder cannons, when the cavalry galloped past, the long street was already a pool of blood, dozens of corpses were lying horizontally, several ghosts and wolves howled and struggled wounded soldiers, and the rest of the bandits immediately scattered, but then, they were drowned in the cavalry chasing from behind under the iron hooves and snow sabers.

"Kill the Andijanians!" "Kill the Andijanians!" Karim was awakened from his sleep by an earth-shattering roar in the city, and the door of his bedroom was slammed open, and the guards Muhammad rushed in, not caring about the bare white concubine at Karim's side.

"Lord Burke, Chinese, Chinese cavalry, everywhere Chinese......" Muhammad was really frightened, he was just outside the yamen, and the master's well-trained hundreds of musket guards gathered as fast as they could, but what followed was a massacre, that is, the effort of sprinkling urine, and was almost completely slaughtered.

"Where did the Chinese come from?" Karim cursed, slapped the crying concubine silently, and then took out the fire gun and got out of bed.

At this time, the city of Kashgar had become a pot of porridge, and there were about 5,000 defenders loyal to the city lord Karim, including nearly 1,000 musketeers, and the rest were Uzbeks and surrendered tribesmen.

The Uzbeks, like all tribal countries, do not have real professional soldiers, but only brave people, herdsmen and peasants, who become an army when they are assembled. Even its newly formed musket infantry is mostly wealthy families with cattle and sheep meadows, and they become musketeers when they buy muskets, which is similar to the Eight Banners system in the early Qing Dynasty, which was the early Eight Banners military system, horses and weapons, all of which had to be provided by themselves.

Such an army, relying only on its bravery, may be able to defeat an enemy several times stronger than itself, but what if it has no power to fight back and is slaughtered in blood?

Inside the city, the Uzbeks gathered into an army, and when they heard the sound of horses' hooves and the roar of "kill the Andijanians", they immediately scattered and fled.

The Chinese cavalry had already dispersed into a dozen or so squads, a team of more than 30 people, scattered in the city to kill, and when they saw the Uzbeks wearing Turkic hats with deep eye sockets, regardless of whether they were armed or not, they immediately hacked them to death.

…… Yakupu has lived in the city of Kashgar for generations, he is twenty-five years old, a blacksmith with knotted muscles, and a famous strong man, but he has no way to protect his wife.

His wife, Charaperti, was a well-known beauty, and on the day the Andijanians broke the city, Charaperti hid in the cellar and was not discovered by the bandits who robbed from house to house.

Today, an Andijan cavalryman came to forge swords, and went to the inner chamber to search for some money for the drink, and finally he found the cellar. Listening to the screams of his wife from the cellar, Yakupu gasped violently, and suddenly, he clenched the hammer in his hand and was about to rush down the cellar, when he suddenly heard a loud bang outside, and I don't know how many people were shouting "Kill the Andijanians." ”

The Andijan bandits in the cellar seemed to be taken aback, and hurriedly climbed up, but as soon as they opened the wooden door of the blacksmith shop and walked out, the knife flashed, and the blood was sprayed on the wooden plank, splashing onto the floor tiles of the blacksmith shop, and his people also slowly fell, and a red-clothed cavalry flew by.

Yakup, who had just finished comforting his wife and climbed up from the cellar, watched this scene in astonishment, and cautiously came to the door, and looked out, and saw the smoke billowing in the city, the neighing of horses, the corner of the long street, and the red cavalry galloping back and forth, and the Andijanians, who were usually fierce and powerful in the city, were chased and slaughtered like frightened rabbits.

The wooden door across the street was suddenly opened, and several young men came out, clubs, knives and spears in their hands, "Yakup, go, go and kill the Andijanians!" They shouted excitedly, and they all ran over as fast as they could, and went into the blacksmith to find a weapon to fit. Yakupu knew them, and they were all guys from the oil mill opposite.

"Uripu, the cavalryman in red, is he a descendant of Yamato Zhuo?" Yakupu asked with doubts, although the rebellion was put down by the Central Plains, but in the minds of many Uyghurs, the big and small and Zhuo were heroes who resisted the tyranny of the Central Plains, and the suffering Kashgar people, how much they hoped that there would be another hero and leader like Yamato Zhuo, ascend to the heights, and lead them to drive away the Andijan people.

Uripu spat out, "Busuluk is a beast and a devil, he is no longer a child of our Tianshan Mountains!" "Busuluk is a puppet supported by the invasion of the Kokand Khanate, and is said to be a descendant of Yamato Zhuo's defeated army and fled to Kokand City, and is the great-grandson of Yamato Zhuo.

Urip drew his saber from the corpse of the Andijan lying on the threshold, waved it excitedly, and said, "I'll use it." He turned back and shouted to Yakup: "Kill the Andijanites with the cavalry of the Central Plains Emperor, will you go?" Without waiting for Yakup's answer, he turned and ran out.

The Great Emperor of the Central Plains? Yakupu was stunned, pondered for a moment, grabbed the hammer, and rushed out.

In the city of Kashgar, there are "kill the people of Andijan!" everywhere! Countless Kashgars wearing four-lined hats poured into the streets with sticks, knives and spears in hand, and began to demand blood debts from the Andijan people.

(To be continued)