Chapter 452: War in the Western Regions
In order to ensure that *** could arrive in Jiangning safe and sound, Su Yan ordered Lin Xingzhu to lead Long Xiang Zuowei to Qinghai to meet him.
Long Xiang's left guard is composed of guards cavalry, and its combat effectiveness is naturally reliable, coupled with Long Xiangwei's battle flag, Su Yan doesn't think that any thieves who don't have long eyes dare to target them.
As for the task of conquering the Hoshute Khanate again, it was naturally handed over to the Third Town, which was currently stationed in Qinghai, and over the years, the Third Town had also crossed the border and entered the Wusi-Tibet territory from time to time under the command of Liu Shixun to adapt to the climate in the mountains and the so-called "miasma", so the soldiers of the Third Town had gradually begun to get used to altitude sickness.
It was naturally not enough to rely on more than 40,000 soldiers in the third town, and after discussion, the governor's office wanted to transfer the sixth town from Burma from the ancient road into Tibet in Yunnan to enter the Usi-Tibet region, and attack the Heshute Khanate from the north and south of the third town in Qinghai.
At the same time, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, which border Wusi-Tibet, have all entered a state of war readiness, and materials from these three provinces have been directly supplied to the Tibetan army.
The country of abundance, under these years of operation, has once again become the third major grain-producing province in the imperial court in addition to Huguang and Jiaozhi.
With the order of the Governor's Office, the sixth town stationed in Burma began to be mobilized, and since the establishment of the Burmese Legation, the people of all parts of Burma have gradually returned to the center with the restrictions of the system, and there is no need for the imperial court to continue to maintain a large garrison here.
As a result, the Sixth Town was able to leave Burma without any problems, enter the borders of Yunnan, and prepare for war against the Hoshut Khanate.
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While the Xia army sharpened its knives in the north and south, preparing to jointly attack the Heshute Khanate, the war that broke out in the Western Regions had already entered a situation in full swing.
Time back to a year ago, the Dzungar Ministry began to mobilize troops and horses after Galdan returned, and a war broke out with their neighbor Oirat Mongols, Oirat, the Mongol alliance leader Ozirtu Khan did not expect that Galdan who married his granddaughter would actually turn to attack him, was caught off guard, and lost many clansmen and cattle and sheep.
But after the Ozirtu Khan reacted, he began to mobilize a large army to launch a counterattack against Kaldan, but he obviously did not expect that the Xia Dynasty would also send troops to intervene, and the army of the Zasaktu Khan, who had been ordered to attack the Dzungar Ministry, sent troops to attack the Ozirtu Khan together with the Dzungar Ministry.
It was a battle between the Mongols in full of authenticity.
The Mongol cavalry on both sides were like the wind, galloping across the wide steppe, with bows and arrows on horseback, and shooting deadly arrows at the enemy.
In particular, the army of the Dzungar tribe had only recently ended the war with the Yarkand Khanate, and its tribal army had rich combat experience and shone in the war with the Oirat Mongols.
Under the leadership of Galdan, the Dzungar army defeated the Oirat Mongol army one after another, and shot the second son of Ozirtu Khan in battle, and its front directly threatened the Khan of Oirat Mongol.
In order to preserve the ethnic group, Ozirtu Khan had no choice but to express his submission to the Xia Dynasty, and was willing to go to the Khan and become a loyal subject of the Xia Dynasty.
The imperial court naturally agreed to the request of the Ozirtu Khan, and removed his Khan name, renamed the Ozir Tutaiji, and his tribe was incorporated into the Oirat League together with the Dzungar Department, and for the time being, Galdan was the leader of the Oirat League.
This move is very insidious, the Dzungar tribe has just ended the war with Oirat, and the two sides hate each other, how can the latter obediently obey the leadership of Galdan, so even if Galdan gets his wish to become the leader of Oirat Mongolia, he must find ways to stabilize the stability within the alliance.
After pacifying the Oirat Mongols, the war once again ignited in the territory of the Yarkand Khanate, under the leadership of Galdan, the Dzungar army once again invaded the territory of the Yarkand Khanate, this time not only the Dzungar army fought alone, Daniel Zhang stationed in Shazhou Province was also ordered by the imperial court to lead the Gansu border army to the west and cooperate with the Dzungar army to attack Yarkand.
The war is on the verge of breaking out.
After hearing that the Dzungar tribe submitted to the Xia Dynasty, the Yarkand Khanate would not be attacked by the Dzungar tribe again after it was still there, but who would have thought that the Dzungar tribe would actually fight again.
This time, in addition to the old enemy of the Dzungar Ministry, there was also the behemoth of the Xia Dynasty, which suddenly filled the heart of Yaolebars Khan with fear, and he hurriedly gathered the domestic army to meet the battle, wanting to repel the Dzungar army first.
However, repeated defeats at the hands of the Dzungar tribe made the Yarkand army generally fear the Dzungar tribe, and after the two armies fought, the Yarkand people were quickly defeated and fled under the attack of the artillery and cavalry of the Dzungar army.
It was a disastrous battle, in which the right flank, which consisted of conscripts from various tribes in the Western Regions, was the first to be routed under the Western-style artillery bombardment of the Dzungar army.
The rout of these conscripts, who spoke various languages, was as if a Pandora's box had been opened, and the wave of defeat quickly spread throughout the entire front, and the front gradually became unstable.
Subsequently, the Mongol cavalry seized the opportunity in time and charged the Yarkand army under the cover of their own artillery fire.
The Mongol cavalry fell from their horses one after the other in a rain of arrows, and they mounted their bows and arrows on their horses, and fired a volley at the Yarkand infantry, and then raised their spears and sabers, and rushed into the infantry formation with a roar.
Under the fierce charge of the Mongol cavalry, the Yarkand army was almost crushed, many nobles were killed in the melee, and Yaolbars Khan was also wounded and captured.
After this battle, the main army of the Yarkand Khanate was almost completely annihilated, especially the capture of Yaolbars Khan, which caused a huge panic in the country.
Although Yaolbars Khan was in the prime of life, he did not have a son, so after he became a prisoner, the country suddenly fell into a whirlpool of power and profit, in order to be able to compete for the throne of the Yarkand Khanate, even if the enemy was present, the various factions still began to attack each other, trying to elect their favorite heirs.
Under these circumstances, a large part of the territory of the Yarkand Khanate was captured by the Dzungar army and the Xia army, and finally in March of the 11th year of Wu'an, the Dzungar army approached the capital of the Yarkand Khanate.
When the ministers of the Khanate in the city saw the besieging army outside, they were directly frightened, and their original desire to fight for power and profit suddenly dissipated, and they chose to open the city and surrender.