Chapter 422: Heshute splits

The news of the annihilation of the army led by Dayan Ozir Khan soon spread in the Qinghai-Tibet area, causing an uproar within the Hoshut Khanate.

The Heshut Khanate was not a regime born and raised in Uszang, but a khanate established after the forcible conquest of Uszang by Gushi Khan, and the local nobles of Uszart did not have a strong sense of belonging to the Khanate, and even some people wanted to support the fifth *** to become independent from the Ushut Khanate and establish a state of their own.

Here we have to mention the internal composition of the Heshute Khanate, the Heshute Khanate is a dual regime, that is, the *** system and the Khan system, *** power comes from the Gushi Khan after the overthrow of the Zangba Khan regime Gushi Khan, *** is responsible for managing part of the government affairs, military and other aspects are governed by the Khan.

After Dayan Ozir Khan was captured, this part of the Us-Tibetan nobles began to move, and they began to secretly gather troops and horses led by the second Diba (Tibetan head and chief) Liegyatso, intending to stage a coup d'état, seize the city of Rakha, and kill Dayan Ozir Khan's eldest son, Sonjin Punsuke.

However, after receiving the bad news of his father's capture, he quickly took precautions, and while ordering the gathering of troops loyal to the khan near the city of Raksha, and ordering the nobles from all over the country to rush to the capital, he kept a close watch on the nobles of the *** system.

This surveillance was detected by him in advance of the conspiracy of the nobles of the *** system.

In order to maintain his position and authority, Punsuk decided to strike first, and he publicly accused Chen Gyatso and other nobles of conspiring against the Khan, and ordered the army loyal to the Khan to attack the *** army first.

Naturally, the army was not to be retired, and they fought back under the orders of Diba Tschen Gyatso, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides in and around the city.

This fierce battle lasted for a day and a night, and the majority of the cities were loyal to ***, and they saw the Khan's army fighting with ***'s army, so they naturally chose to help ***.

With the help of the inhabitants of the Raksha, the Khan's army was eventually defeated and had to be driven out of the city of Rakhe, and Dipa Chan Gyatso then declared independence from the Hoshote Khanate, and established the 5th Emperor *** as a theocratic monarch and established the earthly Buddha state.

In this life, Uszang lost the intervention of the Qing Dynasty, and the Khan's army was wiped out in Qinghai, and there was no limit, and his desire naturally swelled rapidly.

After being driven out of the city, Punsuk was reluctant and vowed to one day return to the city of Los Angeles and slaughter the bald donkeys, but he also knew that he had to retreat for the time being, so he could only endure this anger and evacuate the law.

Punsuk's defeat not only led to the split of the Hoshote Khanate, and the independence of Luo and many other cities that practiced Tibetan Buddhism and had *** as their spiritual leader, but also caused his prestige in the country to fall to the bottom, and his seven uncles (the eight Taiji canonized by Gushi Khan) also began to become restless.

There was a rumor circulating in the country that the Khan's defeat was enough to prove that he was no longer worthy to continue to be the Khan of Heshuot, and that Qitaiji should support a new capable Taiji to inherit the authority of the Khan, so as to prevent the evil Han people in the east from using the captured Khan to do things that threatened the interests of the country.

The young Punsook was not strong enough to subjugate the various factions in the country, so during this short winter, the Hoshut Khanate quickly split into multiple forces, and the various forces fought against each other, and Punsouk, the legitimate heir of the Khan, was poisoned in the war.

Punsuk was poisoned, and his second brother failed to escape from Gansu, and his younger brother, after leading an army of 5,000 across the Qilian Mountains, was soon surrounded and intercepted by the Xia army in Gansu, and finally was routed by the Xia army on the banks of the Zhangye River one day in December, and he himself was drowned in Hanoi while attempting to escape the Zhangye River.

All this, the captured Dayan Ozir Khan did not know, after receiving a simple treatment, he was escorted back to Jiangning with a group of captured nobles, before leaving, Liu Shixun specifically asked the escorted sergeant to take good care of the captured khan to prevent him from committing suicide on the way.

It turned out that Liu Shixun's reminder was prescient, Dayan Ozir Khan did not want to be sent to Jiangning to suffer all kinds of humiliation, and on the way to Jiangning, he intended to commit suicide with the help of his belt, but fortunately, the soldiers guarding it detected it in time and cut off his belt, so as to prevent him from dying halfway.

On the subsequent road, the sergeants paid special attention to him, and in order to prevent him from harming himself, they directly tied him up with flowers, and stuffed a stinky cloth in his mouth to prevent himself from biting his tongue.

In this way, the convoy set off from Xining, and finally arrived at Jiangning City after more than three months of stop-and-go all the way.

Before crossing the Yangtze River and entering Jiangning City, they forcibly cleaned the khan, who had lost a large circle of weight and was almost inhuman, and put on new clothes, before crossing the Yangtze River and allowing the prisoners of war to accept the ...... of the people of Jiangning Admire.

After entering the city, the people of Jiangning who heard the news almost stood on both sides of the street, they looked at the Western khan curiously, as if watching some novel species, Dayan Ozil Khan who was locked in a cage was ashamed and almost committed suicide, he looked angrily at the people on both sides of the street pointing at him, but he did not scold, and still tried his best to maintain his dignity as a monarch.

In the end, the emperor did not personally meet the defeated king, but ordered the khan to prepare a good cage and keep him in it as if nothing had happened.

In fact, there was already a lot of arguing in the court about what to do with the Khan of Heshut, and a faction of ministers thought that the Khan and other nobles should be beheaded for public display, and their heads should be passed on to the four kingdoms to show the surrounding countries the fate of offending the Celestial Empire.

One faction of ministers believed that these people should be spared, not only to show the benevolence of the Celestial Empire, but also to be useful in the future - it would do no good to kill the monarch of a country that was still at war, it would only provoke the country to resist more resolutely.

Obviously, Su Yan naturally adopted the latter's opinion, he knew that the Heshute Khanate was not so easy to conquer, after the Khan was captured, there would definitely be factions fighting for power in his country, if the orthodox heir was defeated and seized power by the side factions, he could continue to attack under the pretext of Dayan Ozir Khan's reinstatement, with this excuse, the resistance encountered by the Xia army would be greatly weakened.

In order to protect the stability of Hehuang and Qinghai pastoral areas, Xiningwei was the station, the Qinghai Metropolitan Division was established, and Ma Tai, the commander of Shaanxi, was transferred to the commander of Qinghai Metropolis, and the Qinghai region was completely included in the imperial territory.

Liu Shixun captured Dayan Ozir Khan for meritorious service, and was named An Yangbo, and the soldiers of the third town were also rewarded.

On the other hand, the imperial court also made different progress in the other two battlefields, and the Yarkand Khanate, which had been in a stalemate outside the Jiayu Pass, finally left thousands of corpses behind and was forced to withdraw after several months of stalemate.

After the withdrawal of the Yarkand Khanate, considering the victory of the Xia army in Qinghai, the Governor's Office decided to change its tactics and allowed Daniel Zhang to lead the Gansu border army to take the initiative and launch a counteroffensive against the Yarkand Khanate.

After receiving the order, Daniel Zhang immediately gathered a large army, went west out of Jiayu Pass, and attacked Turpan of the Yarkand Khanate, Abdul Raha Khan led an army to meet the battle, the two sides fought in the area of Gelding City, the Yarkand army was defeated, Abdul Raha Khan took the initiative to retreat to Kuyu City, built a number of camps here, and blocked the way for the Xia army to continue westward.

In Mobei, the Russian army lost a number of strongholds under the fierce offensive of the Xia army, and the Russian army lost almost all the strongholds south of Turukhansk and east of the Irtysh River.

The 2,500 troops sent from Moscow did little to turn the tide of the war, and when they stopped at Tarrasco, they did not want to continue eastward under the pretext of strengthening the Irtysh line of defense.

At this time, the Cossack cavalry, who had been hired by Moscow to come to the East, took the initiative to take on the task, and they crossed the Irtysh River under the leadership of the Cossack princes, galloped on the icy frozen soil, and took the initiative to attack the transportation lines of the Xia army and the small group of Xia troops who were left alone.

With the participation of the Cossack cavalry, the casualties in the Xia army began to increase, although the Cossack cavalry of the Russian army was not as well equipped as the Han cavalry in the Xia cavalry brigade with the Cossack cavalry as a template, but their belligerence and murderous degree far exceeded that of the Xia cavalry, at some point, you have to admit that the personal courage is to a certain extent

It is possible to make up for the gap in equipment.

However, the victory of the Cossack cavalry was only exchanged for the frenzied revenge of the Xia army, and the cavalry of both sides fought each other on the vast frozen soil of Siberia, and the blood of many cavalry was stained on the white plain.

In 1661, the Russo-Polish War was still going on, the Russian army and the Polish army were inseparable on both sides of the Dnieper River, and the Polish army launched several attacks on the city of Kiev with the intention of seizing the city from the Russian army.

Without reinforcements from Moscow, the Russian army in Siberia could only use gold and grain to recruit and buy a large number of indigenous tribes in Siberia to join the Russian army against the Xia army.

The Xia army also received assistance from the indigenous tribes, the Buryats who settled along Lake Baikal and had to submit to the Russians after a 25-year war with the Russian colonists after entering the upper reaches of the Guska River, a tributary of the Yenisei River, in 1631.

And now, with the war between the Xia army and the Russian army, the Xia army finally liberated these Buryats who were forced to submit from the Russian army, and in order to take revenge on Tsarist Russia, they joined the Xia army one after another, became allies of the Xia army, and fought with the Russian army.