The 20,000-step ride walked on the winding road in the western part of Kashgar, like a long winding dragon wandering among the mountains and highlands. This is the reinforcement sent by the Kokand Khanate. At the head was Nasir-al-Din, a member of the Kokand royal family and a powerful member of the current Kokand Khanate. Muhammad. Gudaya Khan's confidant Marat. Berg served as Nasirdine's deputy.

Nasir al-Din had some objections to this dispatch. He believed that the use of troops in Kokand this time was completely to take advantage of the fire of Britain and Russia. In addition to offending the Qing Dynasty, there is no benefit at all.

However, just as Britain and Russia thought that victory was very good, Nasir al-Din did not see any danger in using troops in Kokand this time. On the territory of Central Asia, with the support of the British Empire and the Russian Empire, there is no disadvantage.

In order to instruct the Kokand Khanate to send troops, Britain and Russia also offered 1,000 Mini rifles and 20 artillery pieces as a price. These things all armed the Janissaries in Kokand. As for the 20,000 Kokand troops on the expedition, it was still the old level of armament of the Kokand Khanate.

Muskets, bows, scimitars!

But Nasir al-Din is associated with Marat. Berg all thought - that would be enough.

They had more than seven thousand Uzbek cavalry in their hands, which was a formidable force. In the history of time and space, ten years later, when the Russian army invaded Turkmenistan, the last resister of Central Asia, in the important town of Geok, the Akhal - Tekin Oasis (the famous sweat and blood BMW - the origin of Akhal's Tekin horse). Thepe, the Russian army, with the Cossack cavalry as the main force, met with resolute resistance from the heroic Turkmen cavalry. The Turkmen cavalry completely suppressed the Cossack cavalry in terms of horsemanship and bravery, and the Russians suffered a heavy blow and the wolves fled back.

The Turkmen cavalry was very capable of fighting. However, the Turkmen cavalry that can fight has not been suppressed by the Uzbek cavalry from beginning to end, and the three Central Asian countries are all countries established by the Uzbeks, so the combat effectiveness of the Uzbek cavalry can be imagined.

On traditional cavalry battles. Britain and Russia, which have a deep understanding of Central Asia, will give a thumbs up. And the sudden appearance of Kokand reinforcements in the new city of Kashgar and the sudden blow to the siege troops is itself a traditional cavalry battle.

Kokand reinforcements were already very close to the city of Kashgar. They are now located in what is now Wuqia County in China. The terrain is low in the southeast and high in the northwest and southwest. Surrounded by mountains, it is a typical mountainous terrain. The altitude is high and the plane is horseshoe-shaped. It is bordered by the western end of the South Tianshan Mountains in the north, the Pamir Plateau and the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains in the south, and is located in the wedge-shaped zone west of the Kashgar Delta.

In a word, the Kokand reinforcements that crossed the green ridge. It is a road from high to low, and the target is directly aimed at the Kashgar Triangle Plain in the southeast.

Liu Xian was very wary of the large red cloud that appeared in the west on the virtual map. Britain and Russia, did they personally take action? Or is there only one of them?

Liu Xian, who did not know enough about the details of history, did not know that the Russian army that invaded Ili in history was only a small number of 2,000 people, and it took 50 days of fighting to completely occupy the nine cities of Ili. All he knew was that the Russian soldiers were all grey animals, and the number was absolutely staggering.

Calculate strength and historical comparison. Liu Xian ruled out the possibility of the British army. Not to mention whether the British who have not yet settled Afghanistan and whether they have the strength to invest 20,000 British and Indian troops in Xinjiang, it is said that the interests of the British in Han China at the moment have cut off the possibility of them showing up in person.

Then the rest is most likely polar bears.

Tsarist Russia is greedy and has no integrity and faith, and it is really likely that it will openly send troops.

Liu Xian sent scouts.

As a result, the conclusive military information that was detected was that it was the Kokand soldiers.

Now Liu Xian really laughed. Ahh And that idle man reached out and fished into Xinjiang.

The next moment, Liu Xian thought that it was very likely that Britain and Russia were cheering up the Kokand Khanate in the back. But Kokand's sending troops to the rescue of Aquba was in itself a contempt for China.

Two infantry brigades of the Qin army. Two hussar battalion infantry brigades, plus a Qin cavalry brigade, and two battalions of Dong Fuxiang. With more than 3,000 horses, 20 mortars, and 100 carts and horses carrying ammunition, it was easy to take advantage of the cover of night. Bypass the new city of Kashgar along the Kashgar River.

On both sides of the valley more than 70 miles northwest of Kashgar New Town, more than 3,000 horsemen are ambushed here. Waiting for the Kokand army to come to the door.

What is the name of this valley, Liu Xian does not know. But he can be sure. After this ambush is fought, this valley will definitely have a name.

According to the previous scouts, there were more than 3,000 reinforcements from Kokand. Therefore, more than 3,000 people in Liu Xianla wanted to fight an ambush and make dumplings, but no one objected. I feel that more than 3,000 people have mental calculations and unintentionalities, and it is not uncommon to make dumplings for the same number of Kokand soldiers.

Only Liu Xian knew that the Kokand soldiers detected by the scouts were only the vanguard of the entire reinforcement force. Forty or fifty miles behind the vanguard was a large force of the errand Kokand army.

However, the Kokand army's own division of troops was also right for Liu Xian's appetite. There were too many of them, and Liu Xian's little belly couldn't swallow it at all.

Moreover, there are no too steep ambush places around Kashgar.

It is difficult to say whether the current valley can be filled with more than 3,000 people.

The man who commanded the vanguard of the Kokand army was Muhammad, a close confidant of the commander Nasir-al-Din. Omar. The army set out from Andijan all the way and went hundreds of miles inland into Xinjiang without incident. Omar has long let his guard down.

With hundreds of cavalry in the vanguard protruding from the front, his march was not called a march, but a trip.

Liu Xian stood on the top of the mountain, and the telescope clearly looked at the vanguard of the Kokand army, which was unvigilant and burrowed into the encirclement.

"Boom...... Boom" The fierce cannon sound sounded on the top of the mountain, after an orange-red firework rose up.

On both sides of the valley, Liu Xian, who was standing on a high place, could clearly press the muzzles of the twenty mortar cannons from time to time to spew out dry red flames, sending five-pound flowering shells into the sky.

The infantry that came out of the tunnel, raining bullets, slammed into the cavalry at the forefront of the Kokand army.

As the explosion of the flowering bomb sounded, the soldiers of the Kokand Army were thrown into the air by the shock wave like toys, and then fell heavily.

The powerful force of the explosion smashed the ground into large craters, and countless Kokand soldiers were torn to pieces by the explosion. Shicai is still as relaxed as the Kokand army that went to play, and now they are all panicked and hugging their heads.

Muhammad. Omar's face changed dramatically, but the incomparable surprise was suppressed for a moment, and it was replaced by the hideousness of the same face.

"Rush-"

"Rush out with me—"

"If you want to rush out with me for your life—"

The slopes on both sides are no more than 100 meters high, and the steepness is only 30 or 40 degrees. Militarily, such heights are absolutely not durable for war. But Muhammad. Umar had no intention of killing the high ground, his only plan was to run through the ambush and escape for his life.

In more than one battle with the Russian army, the officers of the entire Kokand Khanate knew the power of the Mini rifle, and even if the valleys on both sides were not steep, the terrain also limited the use of the Kokand army.

To immediately charge the enemy on both sides without trying to break out of the encirclement is to joke with the survival of the entire army.

Chen Wuzhong looked at Muhammad wrapped in a group of Kokand cavalry. Omar slapped his hand hard. "So that you don't fight—"

He did not know Muhammad. Umar was the commander of this Kokand army, but Muhammad. Omar's fancy outfit still caught his attention.

Unfortunately, the shot that was aimed only hit Muhammad. The guards around Omar. So much so that even Muhammad. Omar himself didn't even notice that he had been hunted on purpose.

Shells rained down from the sky, like dazzling fireworks.

Muhammad. Five or six hundred cavalry under Omar, under the heavy call of artillery and infantry, had already fallen one or two hundred men. Although the horses of the Uzbek cavalry have adapted to the sound of guns and cannons after years of fighting with the Russian army, under the sudden and fierce explosion, the war horses inevitably neighed in a little panic.

The gallop of three or four hundred horses should have been pouring like a torrent, but now it was as if the torrent had suddenly encountered a huge reef, and the whole operation was much more difficult.

Second and third rounds of shelling......

Only more than 200 horsemen of five or six hundred horses finally rushed to the mouth of the valley, so it can be imagined how sad the Kokand army infantry team that still remained in the valley road was.

The more than 2,000 Kokand soldiers only felt that they had completely fallen into hell, and the general could not find them, and the explosions around them were continuous, and the bullets rained down, and the originally smooth road was full of large craters and dead bodies. They couldn't hear anything in their ears except when they exploded, and they could do nothing but dodge bullets nervously.

Liu Xian only took a few glances and understood that the infantry of the Kokand army was finished.

"The true God is greatest, the true God is high!"

Muhammad. Omar cried out to God and was killed by a bullet. Dong Fuxiang's department, which was guarding the valley pass, perfectly completed his task - piercing the mountain pass.

The rear infantry team of the Kokand army, those hundreds of Kokand soldiers who were lucky enough not to step into the encirclement, naturally could not escape the fate of annihilation under the pursuit of a cavalry brigade of Liu Xian.

Muhammad. The vanguard of Kokand led by Omar was completely annihilated in this unknown valley in just over an hour.

Of the more than 3,000 people, more than 2,000 were killed and wounded, and the rest all abandoned their troops and surrendered, and obediently walked into the prisoner camp more than ten miles away, a place rebuilt from the Valley of Death.

Spending half a day cleaning the battlefield, Liu Xian left two incomplete infantry squadrons to guard the prisoners, and the main force went west in a straight line along the valley.

In the next battle, he faced off against the main reinforcements of the Kokand army and interrogated the prisoners, and Liu Xian already knew the strength and armament of the reinforcements. 16,000 people, but unfortunately the virtual map can only scan the surrounding area within 200 miles, if it is 500 miles, when this support army has not yet stepped out of the high mountains and dangerous places in the west, Liu Xian knows their existence, then he has a hundred ways to finish this army! (To be continued) R655