In August 1661, the news of a bad news from the western part of Turpan spread throughout the Yarkand Khanate, and shocked all the nobles, soldiers and civilians in the country.

On July 26, the army of the Khanate led by Abdurraha Khan crusaded against the invading Dzungar army, and the two armies fought in the Gobi Desert northwest of Tiemen Pass, the battle lasted for a day and a night, and finally the Yarkand army was defeated, and Abdurraha Khan was killed by random arrows in the pursuit of the Mongol cavalry.

In order to avenge the fiasco more than ten years ago, the Dzungar Taiji monk cut off the head of Abdullaha Khan, and brutally made his skull into a wine vessel, which was inlaid with silver, and used the Khan brand wine vessel to drink in public at the subsequent celebration banquet.

As the news spread, the entire Yarkand Khanate was in an uproar, and as more and more of the rout survived the battlefield and fled into nearby cities, more details of the disastrous battle began to emerge.

In this battle, the Dzungar Department broke the Yarkand Khanate with camel cities, and when the Yarkand army wavered, the Han army from the east, which had almost no casualties on the battlefield, was the first to withdraw from the battlefield, and with the withdrawal of the Han army, it was like a fuse, and the entire Yarkand army immediately produced a wave of rout.

Seeing the rout of the Yarkand army, the monk immediately ordered the cavalry to attack, rushing towards the chaotic Yarkand army like a sea of mountains, and the Yarkand army was immediately defeated, Abdul Rakha Khan cursed the Han Chinese who betrayed him, and withdrew with his guards, but he was quickly caught up by the Mongol cavalry and killed with random arrows.

After these details were revealed, the Han Chinese suddenly became the target of public criticism within the Yarkand Khanate, and the Zhou army, which was the first to evacuate from the battlefield, headed eastward, intending to return to Guazhou first and bring their relatives who had settled in that area with them.

However, their journey home was very difficult, and after the details of the battlefield were revealed, the Yarkand army along the way began to spontaneously attack and intercept the Zhou army, and the Zhou army did not want to waste their precious time fighting the Yarkand army, so they continued to advance after repelling the attacking enemy.

On the other hand, after the death of Abdurraha Khan, greater divisions began to emerge within the already unstable Yarkand Khanate, and the eldest son of Abdurraha Khan inherited the throne of the khan with the support of the Baishan faction and Zhuo, called Yulbars Khan, and the power of the Baishan faction swelled and grew.

The growth of the White Mountain faction caused the dissatisfaction of the Black Mountain faction, and after losing the balance of the Khan, the Black Mountain faction and Zhuo decided to use force to fight against the powerful White Mountain faction, led the Yarkand and Yecheng Black Mountain factions to revolt, and supported the brother of Abdul Raha Khan as Khan, called Isma Yele Khan.

Thus, in less than two months after the death of Abdurraha Khan, the Yarkand Khanate quickly split into two parts, ruled by Yulbars Khan and Ismaye Khan respectively.

Although the White Mountain faction and the Black Mountain faction were both green religions, they supported different doctrines and regarded each other as evil infidels, and their hatred could not be bridged, so the two sides did not take into account the Dzungar tribe that was still raging in Turpan and the Xia army that attacked Kuyu, and attacked each other, so that the strength of the Yarkand Khanate continued to be consumed in the civil war.

At the same time as the Yarkand Khanate was divided, the Dzungar Ministry also conquered the city of Turpan with a victorious army, and the prestige of the monk Huntai Taiji rose rapidly for a while, and at the front line, after learning that Abdurraha Khan was killed in battle, and the city of Turpan was broken by the Dzungar department, Turpan Aqimu ordered to stop resisting and Kaesong surrendered to the Xia army.

After the Xia army occupied Kuyu City, it did not immediately stop the offensive, but continued to advance westward, occupying Gua and Shazhou before the Zhou army arrived, subduing all the Han people who settled in this area, and capturing Wu Yingqi's wife and concubines and children.

When this news reached Wu Yingqi's ears, he almost went crazy, and the officers and men in the army were also shaken because their family members fell into the hands of the enemy.

If Wu Yingqi could have considered the overall situation at the beginning and did not continue to return to Guazhou to rescue his family, but after the soldiers in the army were in turmoil because of this, he had to be coerced by the soldiers to continue to move forward.

This time, it is naturally self-defeating.

Daniel Zhang was ready to wait for Wu Yingzhi to return, and Wu Yingji could only fight Daniel Zhang hard in order to save his family.

The two armies fought on a flat ground more than 100 miles northwest of the sandbank, and although the Zhou army was heavily armed with firearms,

However, their artillery had already been lost in the war with the Dzungars, so they could only attack under the artillery fire of the Xia army, and the two sides fought for several hours, and the Zhou army was undoubtedly defeated in the end.

Wu Yingqi seemed to have anticipated this result in advance, and in the face of an irretrievable defeat, he raised his head to the sky and roared, clenched his steel gun, and launched a final charge against the Xia army with his loyal guards.

However, the last monarch of Wu Zhou finally fell on the way to the charge, and a dense volley from the Xia army tore through his armor, and the projectiles went deep into the flesh and blood, stirring up in his body, and Wu Yingzhi only screamed miserably, and fell in a pool of blood.

His eyes were wide before he died, those eyes that had become godless staring at the blue sky, and the memories of him from as long as he could remember began to float before his eyes, and finally fixed on the majesty of his charge.

With the death of Wu Yingzhi, the Zhou army was completely defeated, and the criminal regime left by Wu Sangui was completely annihilated in the world.

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After the Battle of Shazhou, the Xia army was not in a hurry to continue advancing, and Daniel Zhang saw that the two countries after the division of the Dzungar Department and Yarkand fought each other, and the battle was bloodied, thinking that this was not a good time to attack, so he went to the imperial court, hoping to suspend the attack and first digest the eastern area of Turpan that he was currently occupying.

Naturally, the imperial court approved his proposal and decreed that Guazhou would be promoted to the prefecture, and the area west of Jiayuguan and east of Shazhou would be incorporated into the jurisdiction of Guazhou.

The fighting in the Western Regions ceased for a while, and in Mobei, the war with the Russian army was still going on, and the Xia army, with the assistance of the Buryats, annihilated most of the Cossack cavalry that crossed the Irtysh River, and counterattacked the stronghold posts set up by the Russian army in the Irtysh River valley.

Until October of the eighth year of Wu'an, the Xia army completely swept away all the strongholds of the Russian army east of the Irtysh River valley, and included the vast Siberian wasteland into the territory.

Therefore, the Xia army only took over southern Siberia, and the Xia army was beyond the reach of the Arctic Circle, so it could only send envoys to those nomadic tribes in the north under the guidance of local guides to take an oath and collect tribute.

At this point, many ministers began to think that it was time to cease war with the Russian army - with the Xia army entering Siberia, the lucrative fur trade, which was originally controlled by Tsarist Russia, also fell into the hands of the Han Chinese, and the huge profits also greatly increased the income of the imperial court.

Many of the ministers had additional family estates, and they accepted the benefits of the victory, believing that they only needed to maintain their territory in the current situation, and that they would no longer need to spend a lot of money to continue their expeditions to the west, so they began to propose an armistice and peace with Tsarist Russia.

However, since some people are satisfied with the immediate benefits, there are naturally some people who have tasted the sweetness, such as Ma Guozhu, the head of the household department, and the military generals and nobles led by the Governor's Office, the former is pleased with the increased income and thinks that continuing to move west may be able to achieve greater gains, and the latter wants to make a meritorious career and follow the footsteps of the Mongols hundreds of years ago and march west to the land of Taixi.

Therefore, there was a disagreement between the two factions of officials, and they all tried to persuade the emperor to support him, Su Yan was annoyed by the music they presented for several days, and he didn't want to see these junk documents anymore, so he asked the celebrant to stop them all and not present them to him again.

A few days later, the emperor's new decree made his intentions clear—the emperor ordered a large amount of supplies to be transported to Mobei, and ordered Li Laiheng to continue to lead the cavalry across the Irtysh River to the west, so that the banner of the Xia army could fly over the wider land.

At the same time, in order to stabilize the city in Siberia, the emperor requisitioned a group of people to tear down and rebuild on the original site of the Erkou city on Lake Baikal and build a new city as the capital of the Xia Dynasty in the southern Siberian region.

The city was eventually named after Lake Baikal – don't get me wrong, after the Han Chinese name for Lake Baikal Beihai, and the city was named Beihai Province, which is the capital of XJ and has an extremely vast territory.

The imperial court took the east of the Irtysh River all the way to Taiping

The vast territory of the ocean (the outer Xing'an Mountains are under the governance of the Heilongjiang Metropolitan Division) set up the Buryat Metropolitan Protectorate, whose capital is Beihai Prefecture (can also be called Buryat City according to the Buryats), and the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate also set up a large metropolitan protector, but considering the vast area, the deputy metropolitan protector increased to four.

In order to ensure that the Buryat Protectorate was firmly in the hands of the imperial court, it was restricted that the Grand Protector and at least two Deputy Protectors must be held by Han Chinese, and that the other two Vice-Protectors were of no nationality, but they had to be vetted to ensure that they were held by people loyal to the Xia Dynasty.

It is also worth mentioning that the Siberian snowfields further north were difficult to survive, and although they were not really ruled by the Xia army, they were still included in the jurisdiction of the Buryat Protectorate, so that the Buryat Protectorate could even go north as far as the Arctic Ocean.

In a sense, this can be regarded as a map opening, who let the only enemy in this area, the Russian army, have been defeated.

In addition, those former Russian strongholds have also been renamed, to be precise, they have been localized, for example, Irgensk has removed the Russian-style sksk, and all those with sk and tsk after the name will be removed from the last two words, and only the previous name will be retained.