On July 26, 1661 (different from the date of the Xia Dynasty in the lunar calendar), the Dzungar advance and the Yarkand Khanate advance encountered each other thirty miles northwest of Tiemen Pass.

The forwards of both sides were mainly cavalry, so on the wide Gobi Desert, the cavalry on both sides fought each other back and forth, and the arrows flew sideways, killing in the dark, and the corpses were all over the field.

In the end, the Mongols, who were famous for their horsemanship, won, they used the famous Mangu tactics to fly the Yarkand cavalry to fly kites to death, luring the Yarkand cavalry to pursue, and constantly turned back to shoot with bows on the way to their pursuit, the Mongolian cavalry was skilled in archery, shooting arrow clusters almost 100 shots, and the Yarkand cavalry fell to death one after another.

Seeing them turn and retreat, the Mongols turned their horses, brandished their sabers and launched a pursuit, rushing into the Yarkand cavalry formation, killing a large number of enemies, and the Yarkand advance was immediately defeated.

On the 27th, the main forces of the two armies engaged, although the Dzungar division was Mongol, but their army was still equipped with a large number of firearms, so the Dzungar army changed its tactics, they used the camel city tactics for the first time, the thousands of camels they had snatched were tied to the ground with hooves, carrying wooden boxes, covered with wet felt, and arranged as battalions, and the soldiers relied on the box stacks to fire bows and arrows.

It was the first time that the Yarkand army had encountered such a strange formation, and Abdullaha Khan watched it for a long time before he realized that the Dzungar tribe was using the body of a camel as a cover, intending to turn the encounter into a defensive battle.

He scoffed at this, the camel was timid, and where would he obediently act as a "battlement" for the Dzungar army in the battlefield where he shouted to kill the earth, so Abdurraha Khan did not take this to heart, he waved his hand and ordered the enemy to attack the enemy in batches and multiple directions with superior forces.

The battle then began with the sound of the trumpets of the two armies, and a small number of artillery in the Yarkand army were the first to open fire and shell the camel city of the Dzungar department, and the Dzungar gunners in the camel city immediately returned fire with artillery aided by Tsarist Russia.

The two armies went back and forth, and the shells fired from time to time brushed each other in mid-air, smashing heavily on the bare Gobi Desert, causing several small deep craters, but because of their inexperienced gunners, it was already thankful that two out of ten shells could hit.

Under these circumstances, the Yarkand army launched a fierce offensive against the camel city, but as soon as they approached the camel city, the Yarkand army once again felt the fear they had once fought against the Xia army.

The Dzungar army was dominated by musketeers, forming a steady stream of fire to fire at the enemy in front, which was mixed with sporadic archer fire, and in the dense network of muskets and bows and arrows, the Yarkand army suffered a large number of casualties on the way to the charge, and fell one after another.

At this time, the Dzungar gunners also turned their targets and used artillery to bombard the Yarkand army formation, scattering their formations, and the long-range infantry in the Yarkand army tried to return fire at first, but most of the arrows and projectiles they fired were blocked by camels that served as cover, and only a few were able to hit the target.

In this case, the morale of the Yarkand army began to waver, and the Yarkand general Abdullah, in order to motivate the wavering military spirit, personally led the army to storm the camel city, taking the lead, but he was soon killed by a smoothbore gun made by Tsarist Russia on the way to the charge, and fell on the way to the charge.

The death of the general brought an even greater blow to the morale of the Yarkand army, and its offensive momentum began to languish, and the soldiers hesitated and slowly retreated.

Seeing this, Abdullaha Khan could only order all his troops to gather their troops and horses and stop shooting.

After the front-line troops were withdrawn, Abdullaha Khan summoned all the generals in the army, and Zhou Taiji Wu Ying was naturally one of them.

After the generals gathered, the khan pointed to the immovable camel city and asked the generals how to break the camel city, and all the generals were at a loss, and they were also at a loss for what to do with the camel city, and they did not know how to break the formation.

The Khan's most trusted general, Mukhtar, was the first to speak, only to see him think for a while, and then saluted and said: "Khan, the last general is willing to personally lead the cavalry in the army to storm the camel city, the camel city is not high, the war horse can easily jump into the camel city formation, as long as the cavalry rushes into the camel city, the Mongols will begin to be confused, our infantry will follow the cavalry and attack the camel city, and the monks will be defeated."

With Mukhtar taking the lead

The other undecided generals also echoed the statement, and they expressed their hatred of the enemy, and expressed to the khan that they were willing to personally charge into battle and take the head of the damned monk for the khan.

At this time, Wu Yingqi also stood up and proposed to the Khan: "Khan, camels are timid by nature and are afraid of loud noises, we can concentrate artillery on shelling the camel city, frighten the camels, and let them scatter and flee on their own, as long as the camels escape, the Dzungar camel city tactics will naturally go bankrupt."

As soon as Wu Yingqi's words came out, he was immediately refuted by several other Yarkand generals who looked at him unpleasantly, and one of them said, "Although the camel is timid by nature, its limbs and hooves are bound and cannot move, even if it frightens the camel, what is the use?"

"That's it, I don't think you think about the actual situation at all, how dare you give advice to the Khan." Another accused.

Wu Yingqi opened his mouth, he wanted to refute something, but as soon as the words came out of his mouth, Abdul Rahahan turned pale and scolded, "At the moment of the great enemy, are you going to fight in front of me? It's the opposite!"

When the two generals who spoke saw that Khan was angry, they immediately closed their mouths, Nuo Nuo didn't dare to speak, and Wu Yingqi also closed his mouth, secretly writing down this resentment in his heart.

After seeing that several people were shocked by him, Abdul Raha Khan retracted his face with satisfaction and said, "It's not that Wu Yingqi's suggestion can't be used, it's just that as Dawut said, the camel's limbs are tied, and even if the camel is frightened, it can't move, so the idea of relying on loud noises to scare away the camel is impossible to realize at present."

Speaking of this, he changed his words and said, "However, Wu Yingqi's words also gave me an enlightenment, we can concentrate all the artillery and bombard the camel city, that camel is also flesh and blood, how can it be able to block the power of the cannonball?"

"Khan is wise." The generals complimented one after another.

Wu Yingqi is also one of them, but although he said flattering words on his lips, but in his heart he actually had a heart of disobedience, he once called the emperor He always thought that he could not forever submit to the knees of a foreign race, he was a son of destiny, a moment of surrender and religion is just for the convenience of the day to regret it, and when he finds the opportunity, the shame he has received over the years will be returned.

As a famous "escaped general", once the battle is lost, he will begin to think about whether to run away in advance and help the Dzungar Department kill Abdul Raha Khan, so that the internal unstable Yarkand Khanate will fall into endless civil strife.

After a short military meeting, the Yarkand army, which had been repaired for a while, launched another attack on the camel city, and Abdul Raha Khan ordered all the artillery of the generals, including the Zhou army, to be collected, and he did not hand over these cannons to Wu Yingqi, who was a foreigner, but to his loyal supporters, and ordered him to lead his troops to approach the camel city while the army attacked the camel city, and concentrated fire on the camel city at close range.

At the same time, Mukhtar's proposal was approved, and most of the Khan's cavalry was mobilized and handed over to him, and Mukhtar himself led the cavalry to attack from the flanks after the infantry had attracted most of the attention of the Dzungar army.

The movement of the Yarkand cavalry was quickly noticed by the Dzungar army, and the movement of the thousands of cavalry running at the same time was enough to make the ground tremble slightly, and the monk was keenly aware of the intention of the Yarkand army, and he hurriedly ordered to turn the artillery muzzle and fire at the incoming Yarkand cavalry.

In a deafening cannon sound, the cannonballs whistled from time to time and smashed into the army formation of the Yarkand cavalry, killing and wounding dozens of cavalrymen, disrupting the cavalry formation.

Although the Dzungar army concentrated its firepower to return fire, intending to stop the momentum of the cavalry charge and shoot many cavalrymen, the Yarkand cavalry still crossed the camel city under the leadership of Mukhtar, entered the Dzungar camp, and engaged the Dzungar infantry in the camel city.

Mukhtar knew that cavalry was easy to lose in close combat, so after charging for a while, he quickly pulled the cavalry out of the enemy camp, withdrew hundreds of meters away, and then turned back to charge, and sure enough, the Dzungar infantry was killed.

But the monk responded quickly, and he continued to move forward while mobilizing reserves to fill the vacant front line

The attacking Yarkand infantry fired, while personally leading the guards and the remaining reserves to wait for the Yarkand cavalry to storm the camp again.

When Mukhtar led the army to rush into the camel city again and rushed to kill everywhere, the monk seized the opportunity to block their retreat with heavy troops, and then personally led the troops to surround them, and besieged the brave Muhetar in the camel city.

Abdul Rahakhan outside also saw this scene, he was anxious, and sent many soldiers and horses to press up to save his henchmen from the enemy camp, but before the reinforcements he sent arrived at the front line, Mukhtar and the Yarkand cavalry who rushed into the enemy camp fell into a heavy encirclement, and was finally picked off the horseback by a spear and fell from the horse, and was immediately cut into pulp by the surrounding Mongol soldiers.

Generals were killed in battle one after another, and naturally there were also people who were timid, either hiding under the heavy protection of the soldiers, not daring to raise their heads, or turning over and dismounting in fear, unwilling to ride on horseback and become the target of the Dzungar army, because of the influence of these generals, the Yarkand army was repulsed several times in charge.

The soldiers and horses who were ordered to approach the bombardment of the camel city were also unsuccessful, and they only came to the general point with their heavy artillery, and when they saw that the other friendly troops were repulsed by the Dzungar army, they were afraid and did not dare to advance any longer.

Abdurraha Khan looked at this scene in despair, he couldn't have imagined that only more than ten years had passed, how the Yarkand army, which had defeated the Dzungar tribe in the Gongnaisi steppe, had degenerated into what it was now.