Abdurraha Khan's evacuation was not discovered by the Xia army until the next day.

This upright khan must not have seen Sun Tzu's Art of War, and he didn't know that Qiaobu's suspicious soldiers made Xia Jun think that his main force was still in Kuyu City, so when daylight came, his departure was immediately discovered by Xia Jun.

Daniel Zhang, who was accustomed to deceiving others in the war, initially thought it was a conspiracy of the Yarkand army and wanted to lure him into storming Kuyu City, but after he sent several teams of scouts to investigate, he finally understood that Abdullaha Khan's army had indeed withdrawn.

After discovering this, Daniel Zhang immediately gathered his army and killed Kuyu City, and the defenders at the head of the city saw the dust in the distance, knew that it was the Xia army attacking, and hurriedly sounded the alarm bell.

Turpan Aqimubabai Ibraim was still asleep at this time, and was awakened by the rapid sound of the bell, and hurriedly got up, put on his armor with the help of his attendants, and rode his horse towards the city wall.

By the time he reached the walls, most of the defenders had assembled, their weapons in their hands, and they looked in disbelief at the large force of the enemy from far and near.

The border army of Gansu was one of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, and its military equipment was naturally higher than that of the inland soldiers and horses, and the soldiers of the border army were mainly cloth armor and cotton armor, and the armor was dyed with the iconic red inherited from the Ming army, and it looked like a red wave from a distance, slowly advancing towards Kuyu City.

It wasn't until the Xia army got closer that the Yarkand army at the head of the city finally reacted, and the officers shouted loudly at the top of their voices and ordered the soldiers to enter the combat posts.

The soldiers also hurriedly checked their weapons or carried arrows, javelins, stones, fire oil, and other defensive materials to the city walls.

There are no city defense cannons on the head of Kuyu City, and more precisely, every city in the Yarkand Khanate, even the capital Yarkand City, does not have city fire defense cannons, at most it is a city defense trebuchet built hundreds of years ago.

As an important town in the eastern part of Turpan, Kuyu City also has several trebuchets erected on its head, and those trebuchets have been weathered and make a piercing squeak when used, which makes people wonder if it will fall apart in use.

"Hard! One, two, three—"

Under the shouts of the soldiers in unison, the levers of the trebuchets were pulled down, and the Yarkand soldiers wearing black and white turbans struggled to put the stones in the throwing bags, and when they finished loading, the Xia army outside the city had stopped outside the firing range, and began to line up, pushing a heavy artillery to the front of the military formation.

The Yarkand army did not take the initiative to attack, they were faced with an embarrassing situation, the range of the trebuchet was not as far as that of the artillery, and they could only be passively bombed until the infantry of the Xia army launched an attack and entered the range of the catapult.

However, this was obviously impossible, and only after several hours of the Xia army's arrival in the city, Daniel Zhang finally ordered the artillery to launch an artillery bombardment on Kuyu City, and one shell after another flew towards the city wall, smashing on the ancient city wall of Kuyu City, making the entire city wall tremble.

The city defense trebuchets standing on the city walls naturally became the most conspicuous target, the Xia army's shells mainly flew towards those trebuchets, most of which were destroyed by the cannonballs before they even threw the stones in the sac, and the trebuchets flew sawdust, which also affected the surrounding soldiers, killing and injuring several people.

After destroying the trebuchet on the head of the city, the Xia army mobilized all the artillery to concentrate on one of the sections of the city wall to carry out a fierce bombardment, where could the ancient city wall of Kuyu withstand such a fierce attack, after supporting a few rounds, with a burst of bad wall cracks, the city wall finally collapsed under the terrified gaze of the defenders, and some soldiers on the city wall who did not have time to escape were buried under the rubble.

"The walls are falling, and the whole army is attacking!"

After the city wall collapsed, Daniel Zhang gave an order, the Xia army rushed towards the gap in the city wall in the fierce attack horn, and the Yarkand soldiers on the top of the city wall that did not collapse hurriedly set up their bows and arrows, and shot sparse arrows at the attacking Xia army, the arrows fell like raindrops, hitting the shields on the heads of the Xia soldiers, making a clanging sound, and then the shields were bounced off and fell to the ground.

It would be a mistake to think that the Yarkand army had only these means of defense, and the trebuchets of the Yarkand army were not only in the city, but also in the city

After the Xia army launched an attack, the soldiers operating the trebuchet pulled the mechanism in the officer's order, and in the round of piercing squeaks, a thousand pounds of boulders were thrown into the air and flew towards the attacking Xia army.

When the attacking Xia soldiers saw the huge stones that crossed the city wall one by one and were thrown from the city, they all showed horror, and Daniel Zhang, who was supervising the formation behind, couldn't help but widen his eyes, his eyes were split, and under his gaze, the huge stones fell like terrible meteorites, although they did not all hit the Xia army's formation, but still caused heavy casualties to the Xia army.

Daniel Zhang saw with his own eyes that a whole phalanx of soldiers was directly smashed into flesh and mud by the boulder, and the boulder bounced up heavily along the inertia, and smashed many people forward before stopping, the boulder was already stained with crimson flesh and blood, and there was an extra pit where it landed, and there was a miserable mixture of flesh and metal in the pit.

Although the accuracy of the trebuchet of the Yarkand army is not high, once it hits the target, it will bring tens of casualties to the Xia army at one time, and the Xia army can only disperse the formation and speed up the attack.

With the help of trebuchets, the morale of the Yarkand army was greatly boosted, and the rain of arrows they shot was more dense than before, and the casualties caused by falling into the Xia army gradually increased.

After the first tentative round of exploratory firing, the trebuchets in the city began to replace them with boulders entangled in flammable materials, pouring the black viscous fire oil directly onto the boulders and lighting them with torches before firing.

Immediately, with the movement of the lever, a burning boulder was thrown into the sky, and those stones dragged a series of black slender tail flames in the air, flying towards the Xia army with a sound of breaking the air like a grim smile, this scene was as terrible as the end of the world, if a man surnamed Wang who was suspected of being a traverser stood here, he would definitely be reminded of the battle of Kunyang in the past.

Then, those burning boulders smashed heavily on the ground one after another, and several of them accurately hit the advancing Xia army formation, and the terrible burning boulders made several phalanxes fall into ashes, and the Xia army where the boulders landed before they could let out a scream, and the whole person was directly wiped out from this world.

After the boulder landed, the sparks splashed, and the flames that came out also ignited the surrounding Xia soldiers, and the flames were like the fire of death, entangling and devouring the Xia soldiers.

The Gansu border army under Daniel Zhang did not receive systematic training, so it was not like the systematic soldiers who could maintain high morale, and after these two rounds of terrible trebuchet projectiles, the Xia army's heart began to waver.

The soldiers of the Xia army all showed a frightened look, they began to hesitate, did not dare to continue the attack, afraid that the boulder would be thrown out of the city, Daniel Zhang found all this, although he wanted the army to enter the city to avenge the soldiers who died under the trebuchet, but also knew that the state of the soldiers at this time continued to be unsuitable for continuing the attack, so he could only helplessly order Mingjin to withdraw the troops.

The Xia army immediately retreated, lifted the siege of Kuyu City, and retreated to camp on the bank of the Shule River hundreds of miles away.

After their cheers, Turpan Aqimu hurriedly ordered to repair the collapsed city wall, rebuild a low wall on the basis of the ruins, and repair and strengthen the city wall that had been shelled to prepare for the next attack of the Xia army.

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Regardless of the defeat of the Xia army at Kuyu for the time being, on the other side, the anxious Abdul Raha Khan led his army to gallop towards the city of Turpan, intending to enter the city of Turpan before the army of the monks and prevent the army of the Dzungar tribe from seizing the capital of the Turpan region.

However, the Sangha did not seem to be aiming at Turpan, and after burning and looting the densely populated Bosten Lake, plundering a large number of people and supplies, the army moved westward, intending to leave the Turpan region and enter the native areas of the Yarkand Khanate.

However, the resistance of the Yarkand Khan *** team exceeded the expectations of the monks, and everywhere the Dzungar Department went, the Yarkand army resisted stubbornly, and in the end, the Dzungar Department was blocked in the western city of Tarbugul, a large city in the Turpan region, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were mobilized to bite the invading Mongol army to the death, preventing them from continuing to advance westward for half a step.

In the face of stubborn resistance in the city,

The Dzungar Ministry launched an artillery bombardment on the city of Talbugul with artillery donated by Tsarist Russia, and finally entered the city after half a month of fierce attack, and engaged in a fierce street battle with the soldiers and civilians in the city, and finally paid a large price to conquer Talbugul.

After conquering the city, the monk ordered a massacre of the city in a fit of rage, and the Dzungar army immediately brutally suppressed the citizens in the city, and a large number of citizens died under the butcher's knife of the Dzungar tribe, and most of the city was drowned in flames.

Talbugul's resistance gave Abdurraha Khan a chance to come back, and by the time the monk heard of Abdul Raha's return, the latter's army had already entered the area around Bosten Lake, and he looked at the devastated territory with such anger that he almost crushed a steel tooth.

Faced with the tragic death of his people under the butcher's knife of the Mongols, Abdul Rakha Khan swore to the Lord God of the Green Cult that he would kill all the Mongols who invaded his territory and sacrifice the souls of the dead with the blood of the Mongols.

Subsequently, Abdullah Khan led his army to the city of Talbugul, intending to besiege the Dzungar tribe in the city and close the door to fight dogs, but the monk had no intention of sticking to Talbugul, and the young and vigorous Taiji tried to directly defeat the army of the Yarkand Khanate in a frontal encounter, and the shame of defeat in the battle of the Gongnais steppe more than ten years ago.

Therefore, after receiving the news, the monk ordered the army to take the initiative to meet the Yarkand army that was coming towards them after repairing in Tarbugul for a few days.