Around the city of Hami, there are also ten fortresses, collectively known as the Ten Forts of Hami.

The Qinghai Mongols came too suddenly, and many Yarkand nobles fled into the castle and hid, scattered everywhere and unable to gather.

There are one or two hundred soldiers in this castle and two or three hundred soldiers in that castle, how dare they come out to face the Mongol army?

Similarly, tens of thousands of Mongol troops were helpless against these castles.

The Ozir pretended to march towards Balikun in order to lure out the enemies in the city.

Before Muhammatisha and Zhuo led their troops out of the city, Batur took 5,000 cavalry and quietly turned east to kill, crushing the noble reinforcements from Anxi and Yumen in one fell swoop.

In the end, the two sides fought a decisive battle twenty miles northwest of Hami.

On the Ozier side, there are more than 40,000 troops, in addition to the Qinghai Mongolian cavalry, there are also Tibetan and Yugur coalition troops. However, their equipment was relatively backward, and many teenagers participated in the battle.

On the other hand, on the side of Muhammaitixia and Zhuo, the strength of the army is less than 10,000, but there are 6,000 elite troops. There are even 500 heavily armed musketeers, with a full set of armor similar to heavy infantry, which is completely capable of melee combat, and is equipped with heavy muskets that require two or three people to operate. The three thousand cavalry of the Balikun fanatics, all Central Asian chain mail, spears and scimitars.

"It's not easy to fight." Batur, who rushed back with his army, observed the situation with a clairvoyant mirror.

The clairvoyant mirror was bought from Sichuan, but unfortunately the imperial court was tightly controlled, and they were never able to buy muskets.

The Hami army, on the other hand, was able to buy muskets from Central Asia - the second-tier dealers were engaged in smuggling, and they fell several hands along the way, and these muskets were actually from the Ottomans.

Historically, the rise of the Dzungar Department was due to the perennial battle against the Cossacks and Yarkand, gradually realizing the importance of firearms, and then frantically organizing firearms troops. By the time the Jungar army raided the snow area, the proportion of musketeers was already as high as 12%.

Later, in the Battle of Ulan Butong, 20,000 Jungar troops fought against 100,000 Qing Dynasty troops, and the proportion of Jungar's musketeers exceeded 50%! In the first engagement, 20,000 against 20,000, the Qing army was almost completely annihilated, and the casualties of Jungar were negligible.

Ozir, who was already sixty years old, rode in front of the formation and shouted: "Warriors, we have come here from Qinghai, and there is no way to retreat. Only by defeating the enemy in front of you can there be a pasture to thrive......"

Some of the Mongol soldiers were boosted, but some were not convinced.

For example, the Ozir brothers, they thought that when they arrived in Hami, they would be able to win easily, but when they fought, they found that it was difficult to deal with. It's better to stay in Qinghai and dedicate the Kang District to Emperor Zhao!

Batur led 5,000 Mongol cavalry and circled to the left side of the battlefield.

He felt that he could fight, and no matter how elite the Hami army was, it would be easier than fighting the Han army. He sent people to investigate the Datong army, and both infantry and cavalry were 100% armored, which made Batur dare not engage in battle at all.

The troops on both sides pressed forward, and the battle was about to break out.

"Boom, boom!"

Hami's artillery was the first to fire, and the Mongol army was divided into more than a dozen units, lined up in a sparse formation and took turns to attack. It's still the traditional way of playing, rushing over and shooting arrows, one after another, trying to disrupt the enemy's formation with charging and cavalry shooting, and then seizing the opportunity to break through in one fell swoop.

The Hami army actually set up a car formation, and 500 heavy musketeers fired at about 100 meters.

This heavy musket can easily pierce cotton armor. If you get closer, you can even pierce the whole body of plate armor. But the Hami army, obviously lacking training and having some problems with tactics, did not know how to conduct a salvo, and did not get close to fight again.

There were constantly Mongol cavalry, hit by artillery muskets.

Due to the scattered killings, the morale of the Mongolian cavalry did not drop too much, and they continued to charge and shoot arrows in turn.

On the contrary, on the Hami side, more than 2,000 infantry were temporarily recruited, and under the repeated baptism of arrows, the formation was already chaotic. If it hadn't been for the chariots and horses that blocked it, it would have been crushed by the Mongol cavalry.

Suddenly, the cavalry of the Balikun fanatics was dispatched.

These men took their bows and arrows and went straight to Ozil's camp. Thousands of Mongol elites came to resist, and the two sides exchanged arrows, and the cavalry began to hedge.

Due to the inferior equipment, the Balikun cavalry did not want to die, and the battle was almost one-sided. With more than 400 casualties among the Balikun cavalry, they defeated the thousands of Mongol cavalry, and the Ozir took the opportunity to lead his troops around and shoot arrows at the Balikun cavalry who had penetrated the battlefield.

The Balikun fanatic cavalry turned around and rushed to the other side, chasing down the Mongol rout. After a while, he suddenly struck at the enemy next to him, who was a newly recruited allied army of various tribes by the Mongols.

The equipment and morale of the allied forces of all ethnic groups were even worse, and they collapsed before they could engage in battle, and were chased and cut down by the Balikun cavalry.

At this point in the battle, it was actually the side with fewer soldiers who had the advantage, and tens of thousands of Mongol troops were already showing signs of collapse.

"Kill!"

Ozir personally led the Mongol cavalry to surround and chase those Balikun cavalry.

Batur led thousands of Mongol soldiers and stormed the chariot formation at any cost. His point of entry was the Hami Provisional Levy Army, where the formation was already in disarray, and the Mongols were shooting with bows and arrows, dismounting and moving away from the horses and wooden carts.

There was a gap in the chariot formation, and Batur immediately led his army to rush and kill.

More than 2,000 Hami infantry were killed, and Muhammatisha and Zhuo were shocked and let their sons take the elite infantry to the top.

These Hami elites were all hoplites, armed with axes or spears. There are also a small number of shield bearers, holding large half-human-tall shields in front of them.

Batur was forced to retreat, and he had no choice but to do anything with the heavy infantry. Archery could not penetrate the armor, and close combat was even more blind, and within a few minutes, the Mongol cavalry suffered nearly 1,000 casualties. During the retreat, the Mongol cavalry was killed by heavy muskets and dozens of people.

"Withdraw!"

"Woo woo woo ~ ~~~"

The horn sounded, and the Mongol army retreated, leaving only more than 36,000 horsemen.

"Come back, blow the trumpet quickly, let them come back!" Muhammatisha and Zhuo shouted.

But when he saw more than 30,000 Mongolian cavalry retreating, and less than 3,000 Balikun cavalry were killed, they actually chased and killed them alone.

Muhammatisha and Zhuo were blowing trumpets frantically, and the Balikun cavalry didn't seem to be able to hear it. All of them came from southern Xinjiang, and they were invited to fight holy wars, and when they encountered heretics on the battlefield, they always had to kill them all.

And the more than 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, in the face of the pursuit of more than 3,000 enemies, were really fleeing in panic.

In particular, among the Mongol cavalry, there were a large number of teenage children. Many of them had never been to the battlefield, and now they had been slaughtered, and they only knew to whip their horses and flee farther.

The two brothers, Ozil and Batur, one in their sixties and the other in their fifties, did not panic at the moment. They always maintained the organization of their headquarters, allowing the enemy to slash and kill those who were slow to escape, and escaped all the way for nearly ten miles.

"Blow the trumpet!"

Ozil himself sounded the trumpet.

The horn sounded, and Ozil and Batur each led their cavalry to bypass in both directions. As for the other seven brothers, they really had collapsed and continued to be chased by the enemy and flee for their lives.

"Shoot the horse, shoot the horse!"

The cavalry under the command of Ozil and Batur fired arrows at the enemy in both directions, indiscriminately along with the pursued people.

More and more of the Barikun cavalry, due to wounds on their horses, fell. These fanatics were not fools, and soon gave up the pursuit and rushed towards the Ozir troops.

The Ozil did not engage in the battle at all, and led his troops to shoot while fleeing.

Farther north on the battlefield, Galdan is also on the run. But he soon found that the enemy was not coming after him, so he reined in and shouted: "Kill back, kill back!" ”

No one paid attention to him, and the surrounding Mongolian cavalry had long been frightened.

Galdan, who was only twelve years old, rode a horse to pick up a flag and immediately waved: "I am the Huo Buddha, kill the enemy with me!" I am the Buddha of Huo, kill the enemy with me......"

This slogan really worked, because the Mongols had known for a long time that there was a little Huo Buddha in their army.

One after another, more than ten riders gathered around Galdan. They went up the river in the rout, shouting "Huo Buddha is here" along the way, and the rout troops stopped and joined their counter-charge, and finally gathered into a team of more than 4,000 people.

The addition of this new force completely laid the victory.

The Balikun fanatic cavalry could only break through the siege to the south, and when they fled to the city of Hami, there were only more than 1,600 horsemen left.

Muhammatisha and Zhuo were furious: "Let you collect your troops, why don't you listen to military orders?" ”

It's useless to say anything, the battle is like this, and the next thing is to defend the city.

The Mongols also suffered heavy losses, and after gathering the routed army, they did not dare to besiege Hami again. With their men and livestock, they headed straight for Balikun, which had once been the pastures of the Hoshut Mongols, and could now finally be recaptured.

On the way, Batur found the eldest brother: "Firearms, we have to get firearms, otherwise we won't be able to fight in the future." The firearms of the Han people are powerful, and the firearms of this Hami return are also powerful, even if we are still using bows and arrows, we can't shoot through the armor for half a day! ”

Ozil said angrily: "I also know that firearms are powerful, but where can I buy them?" ”

Batur didn't speak, he could only be anxious.

The battle was very fierce, but it was also fought fiercely. The Mongol cavalry suffered thousands of casualties, but finally recaptured Balikun and joined forces with the Heshute tribe in the north.

In the next few years, it will definitely be the Heshute Department fighting Turpan and Hami, and there will be repeated battles around the Balikun area.

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Northern.

The Jungar Division, which had already taken advantage of the weakness to occupy Mobei, was attacking the Cossack outpost.

These Cossack robbers, a few dozen of whom built an outpost, dared to collect taxes from the Tiliangguti department. The Tiliang Guti Division, a subordinate tribe of Zungar, was so angry that the monk immediately led his troops to conquer.

The battle did not start at all, and as soon as the army of Dzungar arrived, the Cossacks had already fled by boat.

"Tear this place down!" Monk said, pointing to the Cossack outpost.

Just as the soldiers were dismantling the outpost, a horn suddenly sounded.

The eldest brother of the Sang, Chechnya, led his troops to kill the Sangge. Immediately afterwards, the second brother of the Sang, Zhuot Babatur, also led his troops to kill the Sangge.

These three are all Galdan's elder brothers.

The monk was caught off guard and had no time to flee, and soon died in the chaos.

The Dzungar Ministry, which was on the rise, fell into a state of division.

Chechnya ruled the vast area of northern Xinjiang, and Zhuot Babatur ruled the Mobei region and distributed pastures to their sons and cronies. As for the monks' cronies, some of them went south to join the Heshute Department, and some of them went to join the Datong army.

Even the son of the monk, Arabutan, took his subordinates to Raole Duhufu and begged Emperor Zhao to settle down in a pasture.

This plot against Alabutan has made Galdan miserable in history. His father was killed by two uncles, and Galdan returned from Tibet to avenge his father's murder. As a result, Galdan went east to conquer Khalkha, and this thing took the opportunity to jump back, blocking Galdan's retreat, and forcing Galdan to commit suicide in defeat. Afterwards, he also dedicated Galdan's ashes to Kangxi.

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