Chapter 469: Counterattack
"Retreat! Retreat!"
On the battlefield of Karayuda, Galdan let out a loud cry to lead his subordinates to evacuate the battlefield.
But the Kazakh army pursued relentlessly, all the way to the outside of the camp, and after approaching the camp, it was met with stubborn resistance from the Dzungar army, and a round of arrows rained out of the camp, which temporarily contained the offensive of the Kazakh army.
After Galdan returned to the camp, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to evacuate with the necessary things, he did not dare to hold on to the camp, if the Great Yuz army really betrayed Great Xia, then he would be under siege.
In Galdan's view, the army of the Great Yuz was immobile in the rear, and from beginning to end it did not show any intention of joining the war, which was a precursor to betraying him.
Therefore, after ordering his subordinates to bring the necessary supplies, he ordered to leave part of the army behind the palace to hold back the Kazakh army, and he himself led the main army to continue the breakthrough to the east.
Knowing that now was not the time to be indecisive, Galdan tearfully agreed to the nobleman's offer for a few seconds, leaving some of his soldiers and horses to continue to hold the camp to resist the attack of the Kazakh army, while he himself led the rest of the soldiers and horses to break out from the other end of the camp.
When Galdan led the army to break through, the Great Yuz Khan finally made a decision, he knew that he could not afford to offend the Xia Dynasty, so seeing that Galdan intended to break through, he immediately ordered the army to press, and the target was directly aimed at the Dzungar army.
The Kazakh Khanate Dayuz was at the forefront of the war with the Dzungar Ministry, and the sergeants under his command were naturally full of hatred and disgust for the Dzungar Mongols.
Galdan did not completely let down his guard against the Great Yuz army, but ordered his soldiers and horses to continue to maintain a posture of readiness, his order saved many soldiers of the Dzungar Division, when the Quasi-Breakthrough Army was about to approach the Great Yuz Army, the Great Yuz Army suddenly opened a formation, and the Kazakh cavalry in its army roared towards the two wings of the Zhun Army, and at the same time took bows and arrows to shoot at the Mongols.
Even though the quasi-army was prepared in advance, it was still killed and wounded by the sudden attack of the "friendly army", and when Galdan saw this, he was so angry that he almost gritted a mouthful of steel teeth, he slapped his thigh and said angrily: "Damn Da Yuzi, he really betrayed us!"
The words fell, without the slightest hesitation, he loudly ordered the whole army to launch a counterattack, he personally raised his saber, led the army to launch a fierce attack on the high flying banner of the Great Yuz Khan, the soldiers and horses of the Dzungar Department were inspired by Taiji, and at the same time, with the blessing of the anger of betrayal, they killed the Great Yuzi army on their backs with a single look.
Immediately, the two sides were caught in a scuffle, and the Kazakh cavalry quickly passed through the flanks, killing and wounding the Mongols with cavalry in the distance, and after the attack, they switched to spears and sabers, and roared towards the quasi-army formation, crashing into the quasi-army formation like a flood of mountains and seas.
There was only a deafening loud noise, the two armies collided head-on, the Kazakh cavalry turned on their backs, and suffered heavy losses, but the Dzungar Mongol infantry also suffered many casualties, they were knocked down and knocked over under the impact of the cavalry, fell to the ground several meters away, and their lives were uncertain, or they were directly caught under the horse's hooves and trampled into a pool of unknown flesh and metal.
Under the desperate charge of the Kazakh cavalry, although the Dzungar infantry resisted desperately, they still quickly collapsed in the rising casualties, screaming and scattering in all directions, Galdan saw all this shattered, he wanted to do something to save his people, but he was desperate to find that he could not do anything, he could only watch his people die one by one under the siege of the Kazakh army.
As the number of casualties of their own army skyrocketed, the Dzungar soldiers finally could not bear the terrible casualties, and the morale of the army became more and more shaken, and the nobles around Galdan shouted loudly at this time: "Taiji, please lead the guards to break out!" You can't die here together, only if you get out alive can you avenge us!"
"No!" Galdan shouted angrily, "I want to be with me
The people of the clan fought together until the last moment!"
The nobles saw that Galdan was obsessed, so they could only order the guards to forcibly seize Galdan and escort him to break out in the direction of the enemy's weak numbers.
Subsequently, the elite hundreds of Dzungar cavalry escorted Galdan to launch a breakthrough in the direction of weak troops, and did not follow the departing nobles to roar, leading his subordinates to launch a desperate charge against the Kazakh army, intending to attract the Kazakh firepower to win the opportunity for Taiji's breakthrough.
Facts have proved that their sacrifices were not in vain, under the desperate counterattack of the Dzungar army, the Dayuzi army suffered heavy losses, and the Dzungar cavalry also broke out of the encirclement after paying nearly half of the casualties, and fled frantically towards the east.
Seeing this, Dayuz Khan was afraid that the Mongols who had escaped would report the matter to the Xia Dynasty, so he hurriedly sent more cavalry to launch a pursuit, intending to wipe out the Dzungar cavalry that broke through in the territory of the Kazakh Khanate.
The battle continued until dusk, when the battle that broke out around Karayuda finally ended, and the more than 18,000 Dzungar Mongols brought here by Galdan were almost completely wiped out, and only a small number of troops broke through, but they were struggling in this strange Kazakh hill, and they had no idea where to flee next.
Therefore, these troops who were lucky enough to break out did not survive for long, and they were gradually eliminated and eliminated under the pressure of the Kazakh army.
After eliminating the Dzungar army that intended to break through, he began to retreat towards the eastern sphere of influence because he was worried that he would be stabbed in the back by the small and medium-sized Yuz, and only had time to hastily clear the battlefield.
After withdrawing to the east, the Great Yuz Khan also made two preparations, and he began to frequently send envoys to liaise with the small and medium-sized Yuzi to enhance exchanges between the two sides, and at the same time entered a state of full combat readiness to prevent attacks from the Xia Dynasty.
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Desperately guarded by the guards, Galdan fled back to the territory of Ili Dusi in disarray, and he asked for help from the Xia army post on the border, and tragically recounted his defeat in Kazakhstan.
After listening to Galdan's story, the Xia army post did not dare to relax, and hurriedly sent fast horses to Ili City to report the matter, and lit wolf smoke to rule the other posts.
After the wolf smoke slowly rose, the various summer army posts set up on the border were put into a state of combat readiness, and the sergeants in the posts stood at their respective posts every day in armor and armed weapons, and stared day and night in the direction of the Kazakh Khanate.
Although the Xia Dynasty quickly got the information, they did not take countermeasures because of this - although the Xia army launched a western expedition, in fact, the main force of the western expedition was still marching in the territory of the Anxi Bu Political Envoy, and the Dzungar Department led by Galdan was just a forward force.
The real main force of the western expedition still depends on the sixth town transferred from Uszang, the latter is strong and strong, and has advanced firearms, and it is just a piece of cake to deal with the small Kazakh Khanate, and the task of the Dzungar army to enter the Kazakh Khanate first is to find out the enemy's military situation and prepare for the follow-up operations of the sixth town, and the second is to set up a forward stronghold in Kazakhstan to facilitate the delivery of supplies from the country to the front line.
However, after the defeat of the Dzungar army, these ideas came to naught, and the rebellion of the Great Yuz army was also known to the Xia army, and the Xia army immediately included the Great Yuzi in the target of the attack.
As soon as the Sixth Town passed through the vast Ansib Legate, the Kazakhs would surely pay a terrible price.
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The impact of the Battle of Karayuda continued to ferment, and after the news reached the territory of Tsarist Russia and was sent to the Tsar's table as soon as possible, Tsar Alexei I did not open champagne in half of the time to celebrate after reading the news, but calmly analyzed the entire process of the Battle of Karayuda.
In the end, he came to a result - the Xia army should not be underestimated because of this, the defeat in the battle of Karayuda was nothing more than the servant army of the Xia army, the real main force of the Xia army has not yet appeared, and only after the main force of the Xia army appeared and fought with the Kazakhs, the real strength of the main force of the Xia army can be seen.
However, the Kazakhs proved their usefulness in this battle, and the tsar immediately ordered the transfer of more stocks of weapons from the country's armory to the Kazakh Khanate to arm the Kazakh army.
If today's people knew the vocabulary of more than 400 years later, they would have thought of proxy wars for granted—the early proxy wars in which Tsarist Russia did not personally intervene and contributed money and efforts to finance the Kazakhs to resist the expansion of the Xia Dynasty.
However, this method has been used by Tsarist Russia for a long time, and in the bloody and cruel expansion, Tsarist Russia has used similar methods many times, but don't look at the Slavs who are tall and give people the impression that they are simple-minded and well-limbed, they are actually shrewd and ruthless, and if they are not shrewd, they cannot have such a vast land.
To get back to the point, since then, a large number of Russian-made weapons have been sent to the territory of the Kazakh Khanate through various channels and have been armed to the Kazakh army, accompanied by experienced Tsarist instructors. Considering Da Yuzi's betrayal, Xiao Xiaoyuzi did not tell Da Yuzi about it, but divided it equally between them.
Subsequently, the army of Xiaoyuzi was equipped with a large number of Russian-made weapons, and a large number of arquebusiers and artillery were trained with the assistance of Tsarist instructors, although the Russian army did not directly participate in the war between the Xia Dynasty and Kazakhstan, but the figure of the Russians was still not uncommon in the Kazakh army.
All this was seen by the mission in Moscow, to be precise, the mission in Moscow discovered the behavior of Tsarist Russia in supplying weapons to Kazakhstan, and the minister immediately asked to meet the Tsar, and after seeing Tsar Alexei I, he expressed a solemn protest to the latter, demanding that the Russian side strictly abide by the content of the "Jiangning Treaty" and stop providing assistance to the enemies of the Xia Dynasty.
Alexey I was a little embarrassed after being found out about his small actions in private, but he still pretended to be calm, pretended that he didn't know anything, patted his chest and told the Xia envoy that he didn't know anything about it, and it was very likely that some mercenary arms dealers were secretly smuggling weapons to the Kazakh Khanate.
He assured the minister that he would order a thorough investigation of the matter and prevent some people with ulterior motives from taking the opportunity to undermine the hard-won peace between the two countries.
After returning to the mission, he immediately wrote a letter and ordered someone to send it back to China to report the matter to the country, so that the country could see the true face of Tsarist Russia, and if it could be countered, it would be a very happy move.
It would take a long time for the mission's letters to be sent back from Moscow, and on the other hand, the Protectorate of Simberia in the north of the Kazakh Khanate also began to deploy troops and horses in the south, making a gesture of moving a large army southward, preparing to cooperate with the friendly forces sent from Ansi to pacify the Kazakh Khanate.
In October of the twelfth year of Wu'an, the sixth town finally crossed the entire Anxi Bu political envoy under the leadership of Mu Tianbo and entered the Ili Dusi, and then they stepped into the border of the Kazakh Khanate under the leadership of the guide, and at the same time brought the edict of the crusade against the Great Yuzi - the Great Yuzi was treacherous, defected to the battle, and killed the Great Xia soldiers, and the Son of Heaven was furious, so that the king crusaded against him and razed the rebellion.
As the Sixth Town embarked on the road to the west, the Xia army stationed in the northern part of the Kazakh Khanate also began to move, and the three cavalry brigades of the Xia Army, under the leadership of Li Laiheng, the protector of the Xianbei Metropolitan Protectorate, brazenly moved south, attacked the Kazakh hills, and engaged the army of Xiaoxiao Yuzi.
The army of the little and small Yuzi took advantage of the respite of these months to train some musketeers and artillerymen, and they were confident that they wanted to rely on these trained new troops to drive the invading Xia army from the south out of the country.
But after the start of the war, the Kazakhs were desperate to find that their calculations had completely failed, and the Xia cavalry still did not lose their combat effectiveness and courage even in the face of an enemy several times their size, and they were able to shoot Kazakh soldiers with firearms at a distance, and even when they were charging, they could use firearms to fire a thunderous volley when the two armies were about to collide, killing and wounding a large number of Kazakhs.
Not only that, but the light artillery used by the Xia cavalry came and went like the wind like the wind with their high mobility, and they could quickly complete the deployment and shell the Kazakh army from a distance, and when the Kazakh cavalry tried to catch up and destroy the annoying Xia cavalry artillery, the latter could withdraw first and avoid the pursuit of the Kazakh cavalry, like flying a kite, which annoyed the Kazakhs.
As the number of battles between the Kazakh army and the Xia army under the Protectorate of Xianbeilia increased, the Kazakh army was afraid and hated these damned cavalry, they hated the fierce firepower of the Xia cavalry, and they were afraid that the other side would not be weaker in close combat.
For a time, the prestige of the Xia cavalry spread more and more widely among the Kazakh army.