Located on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, the climate in Khotan and Yarkand can be imagined. The Nanjiang Avenue that runs through these two places is not enough to form a town, unless there is a river passing through it.

Starting from Hongliugou in Xinjiang, to Kaqiang, Ahabayi, to Kelediya, Qierla, to Zhangguya, Muji, Guman, and now Chuluk, this is the case.

Every town is accompanied by a river, and the difference is only in the size of the river.

The river on the edge of Chuluk is much smaller than the Alziling River, which flows through Guman. However, this place is flat and waveless, the surrounding land is fertile and open, and the town is simply located on the side of the river, unlike Guman City, which is surrounded by ravines in the south and high ridges and hills in the north. Of course, this is also the reason why Liu Xian chose the breakthrough point in Guman instead of Chuluk.

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The gunfire gradually faded, and the shouts of killing died down in the afterglow of the setting sun. It didn't take long for a detachment of more than 1,000 Uzbek cavalry to return from the desert in disgrace.

"Another failure. The Qing generals' sense of smell on the battlefield was too sensitive. "Forsait. Sayif shook his head, looked at the returning Uzbek cavalry and said with a sigh.

From the first day the team left Guman, the Agubo army was shrouded in the shadow of the bypassing attack of this small Qing cavalry unit. From the several raids in the desert to the cavalry assault when the main road was just turned into the avenue, this small number of entouring troops, like a lone wolf hunting for food, pursued the Agubo army relentlessly.

Forsaiat. Sayif was a proud man, and as a colonel officer of the British Empire, he looked down on the East. Whether it was the countries of Central Asia or the Qing Empire. In his eyes, these countries are backward barbarians. Just like before the 'dream of the Celestial Empire' was broken, the foreign barbarians in the eyes of the Chinese were the same.

The Qing Empire was defeated by the British army a few years ago, and the Qing army was completely out of his eyes. In Forsaiit. In Sayif's view, the Agubo army was as useless as the Qing army. The total number of his military delegation was only 30 people, and he said that he was a military instructor, and at the beginning it was only a training of guns and artillery, and their more important task was to inspect the combat effectiveness of Aguba's army.

When the news of the Qing army's attack on southern Xinjiang came from Khotan, Forsayt who checked the map. Sayif was full of sympathy for Liu Xian. In his opinion, the journey across thousands of miles, without the guarantee of railway transportation, Liu Xianam's expeditionary army is sending him to death.

As a result, Liu Xian took the whole of Khotan and entered Yarkand. Beat Forsaith with an iron-like reality. The British military delegation headed by Sayif slapped him in the face. Because of Forsaith. Sayif's opinion must have been Cheng Dù on behalf of the entire British military delegation.

When Aguba led his army of tens of thousands into Yarkand, Forsayt. Sayif also believed that Liu Xian would definitely be defeated. Because half of Aguba's army of tens of thousands was a new army equipped with new rifles. In Forsaiit. In Sayif's mind, the Qing army was still the same stupid army with cumbersome arquebuses.

Forsaiat. It was with this absolute psychological confidence and arrogance that Sayif and most of his military delegation stepped into the war. It's just that they guessed the beginning, not the end. Aguba's overwhelming strength is the actual lure of the expeditionary army to the enemy's depth, and the logistics route is stuck in the Forsaiyt. For the first time, Sayif looked squarely at the Qing army.

Because of this formal, solid offensive and defensive battle, Forsaith. Sayif praised the 'defense' of the expeditionary army. The expeditionary army used short-range mortar artillery with infantry assault, and the infantry's bayonet and grenade strategy, so that Forsaith. For the first time, Sayif became wary of the Qing army.

And the grenade, which was withdrawn from the army decades ago, in this offensive and defensive battle, is also like a flame in the night, attracting Forsaith. Sayif's gaze.

And then there is Liu Xian's bug-like bypass.

No matter how covert the ambush Agubai designed, Liu Xian was stunned and didn't fall for it once. Each of his attacks was to pick a place where Aguba's army was lax or weakly defended. Tear off a piece of meat and turn around and leave, never be greedy.

Forsaiat. Sayif was the infantry commander, but he could also see Liu Xian's 'extraordinary', and he admired Liu Xian's cavalry combat sense. "This is a good cavalry officer!" He said this to his companions more than once in the course of a few days.

"Aguba must speed up. The food in the army can only last for a week, and if he can't bypass Yecheng's obstruction and enter Shache after a week, then the food in the army will be cut off. "For an army, it is self-evident what the consequences of the deprivation of military rations are.

Forsaiat. Next to Sayif, a brown-haired Englishman said. Judging by the rank on his shoulder, this is an army major.

Jack. Dural, deputy head of the British military delegation, major in the British Army.

"A week?" Forsaiat. Sayif smiled. “no，no。 Major Dural, that Qing cavalry general will not let Agubo go lightly. You know, in Chuluk, he just added five hundred cavalry. Moreover, the distance between Chuluk and Shache City is more than 300 miles. ”

After Liu Xian took Guman City, Wei Ming swept through Chuluk like a whirlwind of 2,000 cavalry marching westward, and then left a 500 hussar battalion here. When the 500 hussar battalion of Aguba's army turned, they naturally would not stay in Chuluk City to carry Agubai's army, but turned north according to Liu Xian's previous instructions and joined Liu Xian's more than 300 cavalry in the desert. The strength of Liu Xian, which had expanded to more than 800 horses, had just swept the Uzbek cavalry in the desert.

The Uzbek cavalry of 14,500 people was killed by Liu Xian and lost 200 cavalry.

When he was only more than 300 horsemen, Liu Xian had already made it difficult for Agubai's army to sleep, like maggots on tarsal bones. Now that the strength has expanded to more than 800 cavalry, it is impossible to ask Agubai's army to travel more than 300 miles under the harassment of Liu Xian within a week, and to cross the obstruction of Yecheng.

"Then may their true God bless them." Jack. Dural smiled suddenly.

Aguba's current army is mainly composed of Kokand soldiers, that is, Uzbeks, supplemented by the local natives of Xinjiang, and most of them believe in the true god religion. This made the Protestant Britons very uncomfortable. Although in major national affairs, this issue of faith is just a cloth to cover shame, and if you can use it, you can hold it in your hand, and if you don't need it, you will throw it aside. However, there were still people in the military delegation who did not like this point. In particular, in order to maintain his rule in southern Xinjiang and to win over the upper class of the True God Cult, Agubai implemented harsh and extremely conservative decrees.

Not to mention the various differences and taxes that have aggravated the people, this situation has not been understood by the British, and what can really make the British 'clear at a glance' is: for example, women are not allowed to appear in public without masks.

Completely conservative in the style of church and religion let Jack. Dural was disgusted.

But Forsyt. Sayif and Jack. Dural was not worried about Aquba's future after this defeat. With the support of the British Empire behind them, the two thought that even if Aguba was defeated, it would be easy to regain his strength.

Even the two of them were looking forward to the last defeat of Aguba at this time, so that Aguba could be completely tied to the ships of the British Empire.

A day or two, ...... day, there was less and less food in Aguba's army. But the team is still hundreds of miles away from Ye City. With a virtual map in hand, Liu Xian started to attack, which was completely a bug.

Agubo set up three more ambushes, but apart from wasting a large amount of precious time, he never caught Liu Xian once. It can be described as a typical mess without eating mutton.

Liu Xian still led the cavalry to wander along the edge of the entrance line of the ambush circle, as if he could enter the ambush circle in the next step, but in fact, one foot was always outside the circle, like a delicious bait hanging Agu Bai had to wait 'calmly'. Finally, the chicken flies and the egg is beaten!

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Erriqi City.

After issuing an order to transfer coal to Sangzhu, Cao Huailiang became bored again. There's nothing to do, he's so idle that his bones are itching!

In this Eli Qi City, in addition to issuing documents every day, he went home to play with the two female slaves assigned to him, and there were only five high-ranking officers in the entire expeditionary army who were qualified to distribute female slaves: Liu Xian, Dong Fuxiang, Wei Ming, Huo Guangzheng, and himself. But he is the only one of the five who can play with a slave girl!

I don't know when I will be able to remove the burden of Team Rocket.

Cao Huailiang thought in reverie, when will he be able to go to the battlefield and make a real contribution?

is like this, thinking about how brave and wise he will be after going to the battlefield in the future, Cao Huailiang spent another day. After returning home at night, looking at the two female slaves who were cautiously bowing down in front of him, Cao Huailiang was so bored.

He didn't know how to deal with the two slave girls now.

Be kind to Yan, right? After all, she is carrying her own child in her belly. But the identity of the child's mother is really embarrassing. After the news of her pregnancy broke out, Cao Huailiang felt that someone was pointing at him behind his back wherever he went.

Then treat each other with a good face? Cao Huailiang couldn't give up this heart. After all, the child in the womb is his own, and the two daughters will also be sent home in the future.

After a simple meal, Cao Huailiang entered the study and sat in front of the table for a long time. In the end, he wrote a letter to Liu Xian. He's going to the front!

He was really tired of this kind of life in the rear.

If you don't have a suitable position, you can enter the cavalry and become a squadron leader.

The letter traveled all the way for five days before it reached Liu Xian's hands. At that time, Liu Xian was on the bank of the Abu River outside Yecheng.

The game of lone wolf hunting is about to enter the highest and most climactic. R1152