Chuluk, Guman, Muji, Zhangguya...... Dong Fuxiang and Abduli retreated all the way. The loss of Muji even gave way to the aggressive route of Sangzhu on the south side.

One of the Wanduo Agubai rebel army was led by Agubai to closely pursue the Dong army and the Abduli army, and the other was led by Yunusjiang and divided the troops to capture Sangzhu. This place produces sulfur and saltpeter, which are not precious to Agubai, who occupies most of the southern Xinjiang, but are precious to Liu Xian's army.

Although as long as Agubai's main force conquers Zhang Guya and blocks the exit of Sangzhu's north, this place will be a dead land. Even the sulfur saltpeter produced could not be transported to the hands of the expeditionary army, but Yunusjiang did not have the slightest intention of despising Sangzhu because of this.

To the east of Chuluk, tens of thousands of Yarkand people withdrew all the way to Sangzhu with the attack of the Agubai army. In Yunusjiang's view, these Yarkand people are all 'rebellious', and he wants to kill them again to make Yarkand sober up.

This qiē is naturally under Liu Xian's control. Agubai only saw that only Dong Fuxiang and Abduli were resisting along the way, thinking that it was his own surprise attack, so that the main force of the expeditionary army had to turn back to Eliqi City, where did he know that Atoai and hundreds of Kokand elites had already become zombies on the snow field, and the rest were all taken prisoner. Liu Xian, who has completely mastered Agubai's plan, is now just luring the enemy to go deeper!

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"It's cold!"

On the Taklamakan Desert, a camp sits on the edge of the desert. The Al Chiling River, which was next to the barracks, had already been sealed, although looking around the camp, only a thin layer of snow on the Alziling River had witnessed a light snow just hit. Liu Xian's whole person was wrapped like a brown bear, but even this could not prevent the deep chill from seeping into the bone marrow.

"It's fucking cold!" broke out again, and Liu Xian shrank his neck and hugged the cloak on his body tighter.

This time, in order to cut off Aguba's back road, it can be said that he suffered a lot. The three thousand Qin troops had been huddled on the edge of this desert for half a month. The amount of food and drink has dropped a lot compared to when they were in Sangzhu and other cities, and there is not even enough firewood to roast the fire. Although the temperature in Khotan Yarkand in winter is much warmer than that in northern Xinjiang and much warmer than in Qinghai, it is still unbearable to have a sudden snowfall when it is warm.

Fifty miles south of the Alziling River is Guman, and it is clear on the virtual map that there are few defenders left in this place. The three cities of Muji, Zhang Guya, and even Sangzhu can also be clearly seen on the virtual map, and the reason why Liu Xian chose such a place to garrison troops was not a casual decision. In addition to the water source, there are four cities of Guman, Muji, Sangzhu and Zhangguya, all of which are within the range of its 200 miles in a straight line.

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When Agu Bai attacked Zhangguya for two days and did not move and had to stop the city, when Yunusijiang failed to attack Sangzhu, but was attacked by the hussar battalion, and the wolf bèi retreated to Muji, Liu Xian moved.

The morale of the Agubo rebellion has been defeated, and 3,000 horsemen have appeared in the north of the unsuspecting Guman City.

"Poof-" is the sound of a bayonet entering flesh......

"Ahh

"Boom-" This is the sound of mortar fire and grenade explosions.

In the small Guman city, the three thousand expeditionary troops were like invading locusts, rapidly devouring the rebellious army of Qiē Agubai that they saw.

They suddenly appeared to the north of Guman, and Berdymu, the general of the Aguba rebellion who was sitting in Guman, had no time to react, and was killed by the expeditionary army.

The city of Guman is stockpiled with a batch of military supplies from the Agubo rebellion. However, the conceited and carefree Agubo did not have many troops left in Guman City at all, and Berdemu did not even have enough 500 men, so how could he stop Liu Xian's attack.

In less than half an hour, Berdemu escaped from Guman with a hundred and ten rebellious wolves. Liu Xian, who suddenly killed, blocked Agubai's retreat in one fell swoop and stuck the logistics line of the chaotic army.

However, this is not the ultimate purpose of Liu Xian's battle. In the afternoon of the same day, Wei Ming led 2,000 cavalry to the west. Chuluk not far away is not their target, and Yecheng, where the garrison is empty, is their ultimate goal.

Don't look at Liu Xian luring the enemy deep and trapping Agubai all the way, but don't forget, the north of the line of Chuluk, Guman, Muji, and Zhangguya is the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, and as long as there is sufficient water along the Taklamakan Desert, how many troops cannot bypass these towns. Just as Liu Xiantun's troops were more than fifty miles north of Guman City, Agubai was not in danger of being wiped out in a war.

Liu Xian didn't have that much appetite to eat Agu Bai in one bite, what he begged for was to tear off a piece of Agu Bai's meat, and then swallow Ye Cheng into his mouth.

Of course, if the desert can make Agubai's army collapse, Liu Xian will definitely be very happy to step forward and beat the water dogs.

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continued to attack Zhang Guya, or turned around and attacked Guman. Three days later, Aguba gave the answer.

He didn't have the courage to go straight into Khotan. Liu Xian was able to sit down in such a targeted arrangement, it was obvious that the sneak attack troops had missed. In this case, if Aguba still has the ambition to rely on this little supply of the head team in his hand, he will go forward to take Khotan, and he will be the god of war!

The battle began early the next morning.

Thirty cannons aimed at Guman City and began to bombard. Outside the city, black smoke rose from the artillery positions of the rebel army of Aguba.

With the smoke pillars in the city, the broken bricks and trees where the cannonballs fell flew straight into the air, and stones were scattered all over the sky. Sporadic screams in between. The whole city, regardless of the casualties of the defenders, was completely wrapped in dust and smoke anyway.

The shelling lasted all morning, and hundreds of shells, such as hot shells, flowering shells, solid shells, and howitzers, completely gave Guman a complete baptism.

The eastern wall was torn alive by cannonballs, and as soon as the shelling stopped, Agubo waved his hand, and hundreds of infantry soldiers rushed towards Guman.

Liu Xian was not a man who was afraid of death, and at the first moment when the cannon stopped, he led his soldiers to the eastern city wall. Although the commander is already in power, as the supreme commander of the expeditionary army, his presence will certainly boost morale a lot.

The straight-line distance from the Zhenshen Temple to the eastern city wall of the city is very short, and the detour of the streets and houses is only 200 meters at most, but it is this short 200 meters, Liu Xian was stunned and walked for half an hour.

Agubai, who was supported by the British, had a much higher explosion rate and power than the Qin army, and the city itself had been repeatedly warned, and now the whole city had completely changed. Ruins and ruins. The city wall was directly torn apart, not to mention the gap, not to mention the situation outside the city, Liu Xian still can't see it, just say that the chest wall and fortifications deployed at the head of the city and inside the city have been damaged a lot. The only thing I don't know is the specific casualties in the shelling!

As Liu Xian arrived in Dongcheng, a bad news also reached his ears. The powder keg of a mortar cannon was ignited by a hot bullet that was falling there, and after a series of explosions, the entire group on the gun emplacement was all left with bones, and the surrounding fortifications collapsed as if they had been hit hard.

Huo Guangzheng commanded his subordinates to organize a defensive line to resist the attack of Agubai's chaotic army, and there were soldiers in the rain of bullets and bullets, and they were trying their best to repair the gaps in the city wall. The mortar artillery of the expeditionary army also opened fire one after another, although it was not as powerful as the artillery group of the rebel army, and the firing range was also inferior, but with the cooperation of the defending expeditionary army, it also caused a great obstacle to the attacking rebel army.

"Boom, boom, boom," the cannon continued to fire.

Aguba withdrew his attacking forces, and this was only the first round of tentative attacks. After hastily clearing the troops, more than 40 people were killed and 20 or 30 people were wounded.

"The Qing army in the city still has the strength to fight back, we must continue to bombard until they completely lose their combat effectiveness." Forsaith, who served as a field observer in the Austro-Prussian War. Colonel Sayif muttered. In his mind, to conquer a castle guarded by soldiers with Minnie rifles, cannonballs are more valuable than human lives.

Aguba naturally agreed. Forsaiat. Colonel Sayif was the head of the British military delegation, and in the months before that, he had been modernizing Aguba's army.

Huo Guangzheng saw that the Agu Bai rebel army outside the city stopped attacking, and hurriedly asked his men to help strengthen the broken city wall, count the casualties, and extend the position outside the city to transport troops.

More than a dozen stretchers were carried into the city from outside the city, and in the battle just now, the squadron outside the city suffered the heaviest losses. The previously full team only had a morning of shelling and the attack just now, and more than 30% of the casualties were killed.

In the second shelling, the scope of the key attack was still the head of the east city and the extended positions outside the city. After more than an hour of shelling, as soon as the artillery stopped, hundreds of infantry rushed towards Guman City again.

The gunfire in the eastern part of the city crackled like fried beans, and the explosions of flowering bullets and grenades did not stop from beginning to end.

Aguba's brows furrowed, the other army with cut off logistics, one bullet was missing if one bullet was lost. If you keep competing with Liu Xian and attacking, it won't take a few days for the army's reserves to bottom out. Moreover, the strength of the resistance in Guman City also exceeded his expectations, and the expeditionary army was steady and steady, and there was no feeling of impetuousness, steadily consuming the living force in his hands.

In terms of firepower, the current Aguba rebels had the absolute upper hand, and the continuous artillery bombardment almost completely collapsed the solid eastern wall. Looking through the collapsed city wall, it is like a steamed bun that has been gnawed by a dog, and there are gaps everywhere with the dog's teeth.

However, this did not diminish the defenders' counterattack. After the two formations clashed, Aguba's cannon basically fell silent. As far as the eye can see, the whole Guman no longer has its own target that it keeps bombarding.

Dressed in a gray disguise, the snipers killed the targets in Aguba's army one by one. It seems that the number of shots per person is not very high, but the results are still very gratifying. And the death of a large number of low-ranking officers also made Forsytt . Colonel Sayif quickly lifted his heart. The Chasseur is not an uncommon thing in Europe!

This was not a small blow to the Aguba army. Every junior officer and the warrior soldier at the forefront of the charge was the backbone of a small group, and their death was like a heavy drum beating on the heart of the Agubo army.

Every time it fell, the hearts of the rebel soldiers shrank. R1152