In July, news of the Qing army's arrival in Khotan finally reached Agu Bai'er in Kucha from Kashgar. Agubai, who was busy clearing out the rebel forces in the vicinity of Aksu and Kuqa, and was in contact with the four banners of the old Turgot South Road and the three banners of Heshuot Middle Road, was very shocked.

"Have you already laid down the city of Erliqi? How many of them are there? Who led the soldiers? What about armament? ”

The panicked tone revealed the panic in Aguba's heart. Qing State, after all, is a big country, although the country's fortunes have been declining in recent years, but when he is determined to suppress Xinjiang, how can Agubo still be calm? The current Agu Bai is not the Agu Bai seven years later, whether it is weapons and equipment, or the foundation, he does not have the slightest confidence to fight against the Manchus!

"The leader is a general surnamed Liu, the new governor of Urumqi, with tens of thousands of troops. Now they have surrounded Nyazbek at Harahash, and their troops have penetrated into Yarkand. ”

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Aguba quickly turned back to Kashgar from Kucha, and on the way he issued an order to assemble troops, and by the time he arrived in Kashgar, Kashgar had already gathered tens of thousands of troops.

In the southern Xinjiang region, the size of this army is powerful, but Agubai is very uncertain in his heart. His opponents also have tens of thousands of troops.

Moreover, Kashgar is more than 1,000 miles away from Khotan, and it will take a month for the army to complete this journey quickly.

Yarkand, with a total population of only 100,000 people, will definitely not be able to support the food of Aguba's tens of thousands of troops. Moreover, Yarkand also has troops locally. At that time, Aguba will have to disperse his team and seek food in the land; Or turn around and transfer grain from Kashgar and other places into Yarkand. And both of these methods are, really, not very good!

Turn your head to look at Harahash again.

As one of the cities of Khotan, Harahash is at the same level as Qierla and Klediya. In the past, thousands of inhabitants of this area were slaughtered by Aguba, just like the other cities. The more than 1,000 people who now live in the city are all immigrants from Andijan and Uzbekistan.

After Liu Xian defeated the Niazi army in Luopu, he really failed to capture Niazi alive on the battlefield. And Niazi, who fled for his life, was chased by Liu Xian all the way, and he couldn't even take care of the city of Erliqi, went around the west of the city, and went directly into Harahash before he stopped.

Having lost 2,000 troops, especially the 500 young and strong men in the city, the city of Erliqi did not last long despite the defeat of Niaz. After Liu Xian pulled more than 1,000 prisoners he had captured alive under the city of Luopu and circled around the city, the defenders were in great confusion and their morale plummeted. Subsequently, Liu Xian used Abdu's army and his hussar battalion as the main force to ascend the city, and launched a fierce attack on the city of Erliqi, and in just two hours, the others stepped into the Burke Mansion of the city of Erliqi.

There are more than 2,000 stone of grain, and there are only more than 2,000 stone of grain in the treasury of Eliqi City, which is really not much. These Andijan and Uzbek migrated from Central Asia are more likely to graze livestock than to cultivate land with their backs to the loess.

Liu Xian's methods of dealing with the three or four thousand residents and more than two hundred prisoners of war in the city of Erliqi were far more spicy than those of Qierla and Klediya.

Because there were people in the city to help the defenders, and then there were 500 militiamen who appeared under the city of Luopu, and they were all the people of the city of Eliqi. Liu Xian first searched and killed the whole city, there were injuries on his body, and those who hid weapons at home were all beheaded by men, and women were pretended to be female slaves, that is, what is that.

More than 300 of the 500 militiamen in the city of Eliqi were captured, and the rest naturally died.

Behind every dead person is a family. For the expeditionary army, that is a potential enemy. The second move of the expeditionary army was to have the captured militia identify the families of the militia who had died in battle, and once they were identified, they would be dealt with mercilessly.

As for the small family of the rebel army defending the city in Eliqi City, as long as the person is dead, it will be treated the same. And if there is overlap with each other, for example, the captured rebel soldier is the eldest in the family, and the second child of his family is involved in the militia and dies, then I'm sorry, the captured soldier will also be harmonized immediately, their family, the man is killed, and the woman is used as a female slave!

There are a total of 4,000 small residents and thousands of households in the city. Half of the expeditionary army's cleansing was done. There were three more pits filled with corpses outside the city, and there was an extra place called the comfort house inside the city.

Of course, Liu Xian had not immediately begun to purge the homes of middle and high-level figures in the rebellious army, such as Niazi, and he was still looking forward to Niazi's surrender at the beginning. But the fact is that until Liu Xian finished counting the pastures around the city of Eliqi and completely compiled the captured horses, sheep, and cattle in the register, Niazi still ignored his surrender.

So it's no wonder that Liu Xian is no wonder. In front of the soldiers and civilians of the city of Harahash, he beheaded more than 40 people from many high-ranking families of the rebel army headed by Niazi, from old men in their sixties and seventies, to babies who were waiting for their breasts!

Although Niazi and others cried in the dark at the head of Harahash City, some of the soldiers and civilians of Harahash were full of righteous indignation, but there were also some soldiers and civilians of Harahash who were terrified.

Liu Xian did not have many troops at that time, and the follow-up troops had not yet arrived, so he could only stop at the city of Harahash and besiege it. For Yarkand, which is close at hand, all that can be done is to send Abduli's army to conduct small-scale reconnaissance and testing. And when the main force of the follow-up expeditionary army arrived at the city of Erliqi, Liu Xian continued to besiege Harahash, and at the same time, he waved his troops to take Zhangguya of Yarkand in one fell swoop.

By the time he returned to Kashgar from Kucha, the Sangzhu in the five major cities of Yarkand had already fallen into the hands of Liu Xian, and the heads of Niazi and others had already been taken into Liu Xian's hands.

Seriously, Niazi is really incompetent. Liu Xian beheaded him, and he was invincible.

He didn't pay attention to the movements of his subordinates at all, thinking that all the followers of the True God Cult would 'unite as one' to resist the expeditionary army. Half a month after Harahash was surrounded, due to the betrayal of his subordinates, Harahash was once recovered by the expeditionary army led by Zhang Zhongkui. At this time, if Niazi is a true hero, he wipes his neck cleanly. Unable to escape, he turned to disguise himself and infiltrated the homes of the city's residents, where he was betrayed for the second time that day, and was eventually captured by the expeditionary army.

That 'splendid' life is simply a cup.

The time entered August, and Agubai's army entered Yecheng. Liu Xian only raised troops to kill Chuluk at this time, and he was still a hundred miles away from the target Yecheng. The reason why this is so should be because Liu Xian was in Guman before Chuluk, and encountered the stubborn resistance of Yarkand Aqimu Boke Yunusjiang.

This man was an old friend of Aguba. In the autumn of the fourth year of Tongzhi, the Kokand Khanate itself was fiercely attacked by the Tsarist Russian army. About 7,000 remnants of Kokand's army, led by the close attendant of Kokand Elim Kul Khan, Yunusjan, fled to Kashgar and defected to Aguba. Subsequently, Yunusjiang made great contributions in the attack of Yarkand, and washed the Yarkand city of Shache in blood, and Agu Baiyou awarded Yunusjiang as the Aqimu Berke of Yarkand.

Unlike the Nyazina waste, Yunusjiang still has the ability. After receiving the report of the Khotanese military situation, he immediately reorganized his army for war. But unlike two years ago, there were no more than 7,000 Kokand remnants under Yunusjan's command, and most of those soldiers and horses were taken away by Aguba when he was awarded Yarkand Berk. At present, there are only 2,000 Kokand soldiers under Yunusjiang.

All of these two thousand Kokand soldiers lived in Yarkand with the Yunusjan, and many of them had families. Because in two years, Yarkand, who fought three times with Aguba, had too many orphans and widows who had lost their family pillars. After the Kokand soldiers entered Yarkand, a bloodbath did not know how many injustices were caused, rape, yin captivity, and these Agubai's descendants were not too simple to rob people to be wives.

Gentle Township is a hero's mound. With a family, the two thousand Kokand soldiers who had nothing had their own concerns, and the originally outlaw splashed skin changed too much in two years.

Yunusjiang mobilized all, and there were only three or four hundred cavalry in his two thousand Kokand soldiers, but the distance between the cities of Yarkand, Harharik, and Qipan was not far, and the cavalry under Berke in each city made do with a small thousand people.

In this mixed coalition army, the three or four hundred Kokand soldiers were also outstanding, and there was no one who had only one life left two years ago. These Kokand soldiers, who had shocked the entire Yarkand with bloody slaughter, had become less brave and good at fighting.

When the shells of the expeditionary army blew up the gravel of the city, and when the people hit by the bullets like water could not raise their heads, the Kokand soldiers, who lost their will to the guns, fled from Sangzhu with their heads as if they had been defeated by the Russians.

This battle made Yunusjiang understand the gap between his subordinates and the expeditionary army. It's not just a matter of numbers.

The subsequent Muji retreated without a fight and gave the city directly to the expeditionary army. The army retreated more than 200 miles until the city was solidified! The place where the infantry of the Yunusjiang rushed into.

There were 3,000 people in the cavalry, and if these people were holding all Mini rifles, or more advanced rear-loading trapdoor single-shot rifles, Liu Xian's troops would have died in battle under Guman City, and it would be impossible to drive Yunusjiang out of Guman City. But it is a pity that the share of these 3,000-step mini-style rifles is less than 10%, and the vast majority are flintlock pistols and even arquebuses.

In other words, the Eastern Front troops of Tsarist Russia are also holding Minnie rifles in their hands.

But it was the Minnie-style rifle that was less than one percent, relying on the protection of the solid city wall, which also made Liu Xian frown outside the city. The head of the city is outward, and the radiation range of 500 meters, the cavalry cannons of Liu Xian's army can only be obtained from the original version.

In order to take Guman City, Liu Xiandu commanded the troops to dig the trenches for three days, and then drove more than a dozen mortars to the foot of the city, and the fierce artillery fire directly tore apart the deterrent power of the Mini rifle. It took eight days and more than 200 casualties before Guman was captured.

If it weren't for the fact that the large volcanic area of Sangzhu produced both sulfur and saltpeter, just the thousands of flowering bombs launched in the Battle of Guman would have made Liu Xian feel distressed to death.

ps: There are some things in reality, I'm in a very bad state, this chapter is not well written, please forgive me. R1152