The 10,000 infantry corps began to march westward. Gradually, they reached the edge of the desert. … Static is extremely large. On the other side, the Dzungar army did not encounter any cavalry flowing into the desert along the way. Although the Dzungar scouts showed the activity of many Han Chinese cavalry, it is clear that those Han cavalry disappeared before the Dzungars appeared, and the Dzungars entered Liaodong from Eastern Mongolia. The 100,000 infantry of the Ming army entered the desert from the Shanhaiguan area, and when he heard the news that the main force of the Ming army had entered the desert, Galdan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Since the main force of the Ming army has entered the desert, then Liaodong is naturally empty, and he has repeatedly ordered to speed up, and it is impossible to hide his intentions from the Ming army, because the only way is to kill the city of Shenyang as quickly as possible. In one fell swoop, Shenyang was taken and the rear of the Ming army was destroyed.

For Galdan, the key to victory or defeat lies in the degree, for this reason, he killed several Mongolian people who fell behind in a row, so that 100,000 Mongolian soldiers were terrified, sleepless day and night, and passed through Eastern Mongolia at a very fast speed, stepped into Liaodong, and then pounced on Shenyang, but what puzzled Galdan. After entering the territory of Liaodong, he did not encounter any resistance, and often encountered a small city, in which the Ming army had already withdrawn, and even the grain in the warehouse was all gone, and not a single straw was left, Galdan understood. The Ming army may have known about his actions, but he still has to continue to gamble, not for anything else. It's just that at this moment he has no way to retreat, the grassland has been completely destroyed, if he stays in the grassland and holds on, I am afraid that even if he wins, the upcoming winter will make tens of thousands of Mongolians freeze to death and starve to death, in this case, it is better to give it a go, at least there is hope.

In the city of Shenyang, only the Guards Corps was guarding the city, and after a few days, the scouts in front finally returned, sending accurate information that the Dzungars had entered Liaodong, and it would take two days at most. can arrive at Shen Shame City, the originally quiet Shenyang City suddenly became nervous, and the mood of preparing for war spread, closing the four doors and covering the trap. On top of the city walls, new artillery pieces were set up on the newly built forts, and everything was ready, just waiting for Galdan to take the bait.

Zhu Jun sat comfortably in the Guansui Palace of the Shenyang Imperial Palace, which had been built by Nurhachi with countless manpower and material resources when he was in a hurry, and Zhu Jun was receiving Chong'an, the great chief of Tunguska who hurried from the Guannei.

Chong'an put his old bones on a shy face, asked Zhu Jun to say goodbye, and then touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and said: "The emperor is in a hurry to recruit slaves, and the servants are in Gaoyou Prefecture, and when they heard the emperor's summons, they rushed here day and night." ”

Zhu Jun crossed his legs, looked at Chong'an for a moment, and finally his eyes fell on the back of Chong'an's head: "What?" What about the braids on the back of the head of the Great Chieftain of the United Nations? ”

The back of Chong'an's head was bare, and when he heard Zhu Jun's question, he hurriedly said, "Return to the emperor." The slave was cut, didn't the emperor say it? This braid is a symbol of servitude, and now I'm afraid even a five-foot child knows it, where would the old slave not know, the slave thought that the emperor must not like braids, so he simply cut it. ”

Zhu Jun pouted and smiled: "How is the project over there in Chong'an now?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the railroad tracks are almost paved. However, it is necessary to connect the railroad tracks in Jiangbei with Jiangnan. It is still necessary to build a bridge over the Yangtze River. The people in the Ministry of Engineering have already hired the mother craftsman to draw the drawings. The stones, steel bars, and cement are almost ready, just waiting for the ground to be broken. ”

"So fast?" Zhu Jun sighed in his heart, to say that this makes the slave work much better than recruiting laborers, as long as the slaves are rewarded and eaten, they can whip moss at will if they can't finish their work, and they can do it day and night, this laborer wants to be paid. You can't beat him yet, as soon as you hit other people's homes, you may drop your burden and run, can't you do it? There must also be a time limit for daily work, and unless the time limit is doubled, I'm afraid no one wants to do it, and the difference is really big.

"Well done, Lian has a reward, just reward you as the big chief of a thousand taels of silver, okay, Lian let you come, is to let you send a thousand people to the outside of the Guan, Lian is now fighting with the Mongolian people, after the war, I hope to build a railway in this grassland and Liaodong, Beiting Duhufu, and the construction period should be fast, there must be no delay, these three will build a railway network, and then connect into the Guannei. It is connected to the railroad tracks in the Kannai, and you can rest assured that you will stay here for a few days. After Galdan is pacified, and then accompany the scholar Zhou Mubai into Mongolia to survey the terrain, you must have done the project for so many days, and you should have some insight into this project

"The slave doesn't dare, how can the slave have any opinion. Everything is based on the emperor and Zhou University.

Chong'an was praised by Zhu Jun, but he was a little uncomfortable, this master has always been fierce when he sees him on weekdays, why do you treat yourself so well today? He didn't dare to think anything wrong. I foolishly thought that I had come to the Holy Grace. Just counting on this, "Lord Yama, don't be angry."

After nearly a year of hard work, Chong'an, as the great chief of Tunguska, is actually living a pretty good life, although a small official of the household can suppress himself, and he can reprimand him in person because of the non-compliance system of the project, but he also manages a few full people under his hands, and those dirty and tiring work are naturally not his turn to do, and the rations given by the court to the laborers. He and the general and the chief engineer can also get a piece of the pie, and they don't earn much every month, but there are not thousands of taels, and the most important thing is that in the Manchurian point, he has the absolute authority of life and death on Gao Dan, and this kind of power tastes. It's much better than the powerless prince in the past, I think back then, he was a prince on the surface, but there are a lot of princes in the capital, what uncles and princes, as well as auxiliary generals, Zhenguo generals or something more than the dogs in the capital, although he Chong'an has a noble status, although those little lords stammered him, but he also has no right to deal with others. He has lived for most of his life, and it is the first time he has tasted life and death, and the taste of power, that feeling really makes him reluctant to give up, what is it to be a slave to others? That Kangxi, Lao Tzu is still his own uncle, and he is not the master of the master. He wants to open it, people are still alive and practical, those are imaginary. What is the use of being shiny on the surface?

"Okay, then you go down, Zhu Jun waved his hand.

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Baihak with five thousand light horsemen, has arrived in Shenyang, under the towering city wall, Baihak did not dare to let the soldiers approach, for the Han people, as early as the western Xinjiang Shixian heard some merchants to and from the desert said, Baihak is a cautious person. As the former leader of the Kazakh Khanate, he was able to lead his people to survive in the strong western frontier, and it was precisely because of his prudence that these five thousand light horsemen were all his people, since returning to Galdan, for these Kazakhs who did not belong to the Mongolian tribes, Galdan was extremely tolerant, gave Baihak a lot of rewards, and named him a little king, and gave the Kazakhs a lot of land.

Kazakhs originally lived on the plateau. Because they occupied the westernmost part of Central Asia, these people were called "caretakers on the border" by those who lived in Central Asia at the time. The free-spirited warriors were later unable to resist the attacks of the Isedonians and Skiti from the east, and these nomadic races had to abandon their homeland and move south to the north of Persia. In the 18th century B.C., they returned to the north, and their former homeland was now occupied by the Alans, who were strong archers on horseback. It moved to the area of Nagystae, and by the sixth and seventh centuries BC, it was assimilated by the local Alans.

Another important ethnic group associated with Kazakh history is the Usun. At the beginning of the Chi period BC, Wusun and Yueshi were nomadic in the Qilian area of Dunhuang in present-day Gansu, and the Xiongnu were adjacent to the north.

Wusun King Nandou was attacked and killed by the Yue clan, and his son Hunt Jiaomi was just born, and was adopted by the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan Yu to raise a person, and later was able to revive the homeland. In the year of BC, Mao Dunshan attacked Yueshi. The Yueshi were defeated and moved west to the Ili River Valley. Drove out the Cypriots who had been nomadic in the local area for a long time. Later Lao Shangdan joined forces with Wusun Kunmo to attack the Yueshi who moved to the Ili River Valley, but the Yueshi was defeated, and gradually moved south to the territory of Bactria after the Cypriots, but a few people still stayed there. After the Cypriots and most of the Yueshi went south, Wusun gave up his homeland in Dunhuang and Qilianjian and moved to the Ili River Valley to herd with the remaining Cypriots and Yueshi.

During the Mongol expedition to the west, the Kazakhs and the Russians, who were later renamed the Kipchaks, formed a coalition and put up stubborn resistance, but finally could not stop the Mongol iron cavalry Batu After conquering the entire territory of the Kipchak and the Russian principality, the Golden Horde was established, because the territory of the Khanate was dominated by Kipchaks. That's why it's also called the Kipchak Khanate. The Golden Horde soon carved out the White Horde in its eastern territories.

At this point, the Kazakhs began to wander everywhere. In the west, they established the Kazakh Khanate. Also known as the Balandu Khanate, they occupied a large territory and lived in an area called the Kipchak steppe. It is divided into large Yuzi, medium Yuzi, and small Yuzi. It is also known as a large tent, a medium tent, and a small tent. The Middle Horde was in the present-day Central Highlands of Kazakhstan, the Small Horde was from the Ural River to the Caspian Sea, and the Great Horde was from Lake Balgash to Turkestan and the Small Horde also absorbed many Nogai people. It extends to the Irtysh River in the east, the Isham River in the north, the Turgai Prefecture, and Omsk, the Caspian Sea in the west, and the Chu River in the south. The country was at its peak, and this period was also a period of great expansion of the Kazakh Khanate, but soon after, the Khanate gradually divided, and the Dzungars invaded on a large scale, and the Dzungar leader at that time was still Galdan's father, who led the Dzungars to fight a five-year war against the Kazakh Khanate, which was divided in the western Xinjiang, and the Kazakhs called these five years the era of great calamity. Eventually, the Kazakh Khanate fell, and the Kazakhs had to migrate further west.

After Galdan inherited his father's position, his strength became even stronger, and some of the Kazakh tribes in the western Xinjiang were determined to resist, and some were like Baihak, for the survival of the tribe, Baihak, as a tribal leader, did not hesitate to throw himself into Kaldan.

If you talk about personal bravery, Baihak is definitely the leader of the Western Frontier, he has excellent arm strength, once fought with three wolves alone, has been recited by the shepherds in the Western Frontier, plus he is cautious, and it is precisely because of this that Gar will be so relieved to let Baihak lead his headquarters as a pioneer.

Baihak who arrived under Shenyang City did not make any order to attack the city, he asked people to report to the Junggar army that followed, and on the other hand, he asked people to camp on the forest side in the distance, Baihak is not an idiot, he knows his responsibility, but also knows the strength contained in Shenyang City, for him, his duty is only to tell the army route for the army, to resist Fayang City, his task has been completed. There is no need to curse the shield people to shed blood.

Baihak sat on the seat of the big tent, the big tent is completely yurt-style style, Mongolian and Uyghur beauties are singing and dancing on the dance floor, and the girls of Turpan and Kucha kneel on his legs to give him a muscle massage, and a little bit of alcohol rises to Baihak's head, he is a smart man, knows how to advance and retreat, and is powerful, and knows how to enjoy. He drank a glass of wine brought by Xijiang, and at this time he was already drunk, and said to the generals under his tent: "You see, the life of the Great Khan is probably not as beautiful as mine."

These generals are all members of the Baihak tribe. Therefore, there is nothing to be presumptuous here, and the gang of generals in the Golden Horde, Zuo Shunfeng, took the fart: "General, why don't you just be a big sweat for one night, and we will be your courtiers again."

Baihak laughed drunkenly: "This is not good, if the Great Khan knows, we will exterminate the clan." ”

I didn't think too much about it with the strength of the wine, it seems that they are all people who are loud and lustful, and they are all people with wine bags and rice bags. They even knelt down to Baihak in unison: "Great Khan Hail! ”

Baihak laughed: "Oh, haha, good! Then I'll sweat profusely. ”

Baihak was originally the prince of the Kazakh Khanate, coupled with his strength, courage and strategy, although he was among the lower Kaldan, but it was impossible to say that there was no ambition. Suddenly, he had the courage to immediately knight those joking generals, and those generals who were discriminated against by the Dzungars on weekdays have now become high-ranking officials such as Wanqi, Barnyard Wang, and the like. They are a pound. A martial artist hugged a beautiful woman left and right, and really regarded himself as a big official, and the atmosphere in the tent arrived.

"General," a Kazakh soldier stumbled into the tent, diluting the originally warm atmosphere a lot, attracting the angry eyes of many generals, Baihak sobered up a little, and frowned: "What's the matter?"

"The great Khan's army has come, twenty miles away

"Huh?" The glow-in-the-dark cup in Baihak's hand accidentally fell to the ground: "So fast? Fast. Let the brothers line up, and the generals above the commander of a thousand will go with me to meet the Great Khan,

Galdan put his hands in his hands, looked at Baihak, who was kneeling on the ground, stepped on the stirrup and raised his whip:

"Is there really only tens of thousands of Han people in Shenyang?"

"It will never be wrong to return to the Great Khan, I promise with my head." Baihak had already woken up from his drunkenness at this time, and reported the military situation to Galdan.

"Hmm" Galdan nodded thoughtfully, the situation was better than he expected. He pointed at Baihak and said, "You, take your people to the city to challenge, and see if the Han people dare to come out." ”

"Yes." Bayhak is going to turn around. At a glance, he saw a Kucha slave girl who had just served him in the big tent and Tashi Dorjee beside Galdan whispering something, his head buzzed, and he suddenly became confused. What's going on? How did this slave girl end up here? He should be in his own big tent, who sent her? Could it be that she escaped alone? A cold sweat broke out on his back, what was the slave girl talking to the lama? Could it be that Fang Cai himself,"

"Baihak, ". There was a dissatisfied cry from Galdan in his ears: "Why do you do it quickly?" ”

"Yes." Baihak came to his senses at this time, he didn't dare to delay, and he was even more frightened of Galdan, he suddenly understood, this slave girl was probably a secret agent planted by Galdan, this slave girl he remembered very clearly, he bought it from a whole clan leader, how did Galdan install it by his side? Moreover, there is a more important question, how many spies like slave girls are there around you? He was so shocked that he was covered in cold sweat and walked stiffly.

Before Baihak's figure left, Tashi Dorjee had already walked to Galdan's side with an unpredictable expression. He whispered, "The slave girl has some interesting stories to tell the Great Khan. ”

Galdan sneered: "Isn't it interesting now? Look at the former Kazakh warrior, you see, he can't even walk steadily. The figure of Baihak in the distance staggered, finally found a horse, and rode his horse to gather his troops to attack Shenyang tentatively.

Tashi Dorjee also laughed: "Great Khan, I'm afraid he won't be able to sleep tonight." ”

"Yes, it's really fun to tame a hungry wolf, well, the joke has been made. After some time, send a messenger to tell him that his Great Khan is going to give him a promotion, and besides. Give him another twenty pounds of gold, well, and five slave girls. Galdan's face was mysterious. ，，

Tomorrow the big war begins, that's basically it, in a few days it's Russia.

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