Li Zicheng stood on the high slope outside the city of Turkestan and used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the situation inside and outside the city.

The smoke of the outer city of Turkestan has not yet cleared, and many walls have already collapsed.

It is clear that the Huaxia army has broken through the outer city, but fortunately, the inner city wall still has the royal flag of NurAli Khan planted.

The two sides are engaged in a fierce siege battle, and it seems that they have entered the most critical moment.

Outside the city, the Huaxia army had also noticed the arrival of their own troops.

They dug trenches on the north, south, and south sides of Turkestan and prepared them for battle.

The reason why the Huaxia people did not take the initiative to attack themselves was, on the one hand, because they were attacking the city, and it was not appropriate to disperse their forces.

In addition, they hoped that the Cossack corps under their command would take the initiative to attack, and they would use the trenches they had dug and the rifles to kill and injure a large number of Cossack cavalry.

Li Zicheng experienced the recent Battle of Bukhara and had a clear understanding of the firepower of Chinese rifles and artillery.

It is wishful thinking for the Chinese people to want to be planted twice in the same pit.

At this time, Adrian, the general of the Cossacks, said impatiently: "The Huaxia have not yet conquered the city, and we are just taking them by surprise when we attack, what are you still hesitating about?" ”

Li Zicheng explained: "General Adrian did not know that the muskets of the Chinese could fire quickly, and if they charged head-on, even the Cossack cavalry would suffer heavy casualties. ”

"Our vanguard battalion only has more than 10,000 people, it is still too risky to attack rashly, it is better to wait for the main force of Governor Potemkin to arrive before acting together, and then I will naturally have a way to break through the defense line of the Huaxia."

Wu Sangui saw that Li Zicheng would not take the bait, so he asked the artillery battalion to adjust the artillery position and shell the area where the Cossacks were assembled.

However, they were cavalry, and they were very scattered, so the results of the artillery bombardment were not great.

Although at this time, it was possible to use cavalry to defeat Li Zicheng's more than 10,000 people before the enemy's main force converged.

But the Cossack light cavalry was very mobile, and it was difficult to annihilate the enemy's main forces, at best, not to mention the casualties of cavalry sorties.

Anyway, there is the bait of Nurali Khan, and he is not afraid that the Cossacks will not bite the hook.

More than two hours later, the main Cossack force led by Potemkin also came outside the city of Turkestan.

After discovering that the Chinese had invaded the outer city, Potemkin decided to immediately launch an attack to relieve the Kazakhs.

Li Zicheng knew that his opportunity to perform had come, and he hurriedly said: "The Huaxia people have arranged positions on the southeast, north, and south sides, waiting for us to charge. ”

"There is the Salo River in the west of the city, so their defense is relatively weak, I know that there are a few places where the water flow is not so turbulent, our cavalry can cross the river directly, and when the time comes, we will definitely be able to kill the Huaxia people by surprise."

Although the surface of the Salo River is not particularly wide, its current is very turbulent, and Li Zicheng really found a few relatively gentle places before he reached it.

In order to contain the surrounding Chinese, Potemkin sent thousands of Cossacks to attract the attention of the Chinese army on the north and south sides.

Then, Adrian led 15,000 cavalry to cross the Salo River, enter the city of Turkestan from the west of the city, and join forces with the Kazakhs in the inner city to defeat the Chinese army.

At this time the soldiers reported that the Cossacks had already begun to cross the river.

The Chinese generals present all smiled, and the fish finally bit the hook after waiting for so long.

Although Huaxia had only a small number of rangers in the west of the city, their artillery had long been aimed at the Salo River.

A large number of shells fell in the middle of the cavalry, inflicting huge casualties on them.

But in the end, they still came to the city after paying the price of nearly a thousand people.

There was no Chinese army in the city, and the western city was blown up in many places, and the Cossacks quickly entered the city through these gaps.

After entering the city, Adrian found that the Chinese had occupied many commanding heights in the city.

Through these strongholds, they formed crossfire points and shot the Cossack knights continuously.

Moreover, the ambush of the Huaxia was very hidden, and it was difficult for the Cossacks' muskets to hit them.

At this time, Li Zicheng said: "Don't entangle with them here, let's hurry to the inner city to join the Kazakhs." ”

Li Zicheng, who was familiar with the terrain, quickly led them around the streets where the Chinese people's firepower was most ferocious, and finally came to the inner city.

The Kazakhs in the city saw that someone was coming to answer them, and they also hurriedly opened the gates of the inner city.

Adrian led the Cossacks into the inner city.

Li Zicheng just wanted to follow up but was pulled by Niu Jinxing.

Niu Jinxing said: "Your Majesty, something is wrong. ”

"It stands to reason that we came to meet us, and Nurali Khan should have taken the initiative to kill us to meet us, but they only opened the city gates, I'm afraid there is a deception in it!"

After all, Li Zicheng has been fighting for many years and has a keen sense of danger.

Niu Venus is right, there can indeed be problems with the inner city.

Are the Chinese really so cunning that they don't ambush us in the outer city, but choose to ambush us in the inner city? However, this kind of thing is better to believe in it than to believe in it.

So Li Zicheng hurriedly gathered his henchmen and rushed out of the city.

Adrian who entered the inner city was not so lucky.

Where are the Kazakhs?

The city walls were full of Chinese soldiers with loaded guns.

"Bang, bang, bang"

With the sound of gunfire, a large number of Cossacks fell in pools of blood.

Adrian himself was shot several times.

With the sound of tiger squatting cannons, the Kazakhs in the city were even more bombed on their backs.

The Chinese soldiers threw a large number of thunderbolts into the city, cutting off the Cossacks' escape routes, and the gates of the inner city were full of Cossack corpses.

The sound of artillery in the city was a signal to the Chinese army in the city to completely encircle and suppress the Cossacks in the city.

The Chinese army on the north and south walls immediately marched towards the west city.

After hearing the sound of cannons inside the city, Potemkin outside the city soon realized that something was wrong.

When he was about to gather his men and horses to enter the city to respond, he found that the Chinese cavalry outside the city had blocked the west of the city.

An even more unfortunate news was that a large number of Mongol cavalry were found behind them, as many as sixty or seventy thousand.

He knew that he had been fooled, and it was obvious that this was a trap for the Huaxia people.

Now the life and death of these 25,000 Cossack cavalry is in his own thoughts.

If they don't pick up Ad Li Yang who has entered the city, then they will have only a dead end in front of them.

But if you send troops to meet you, the Mongolian cavalry behind you will quickly complete the encirclement of you, and it is likely that even your own 10,000 horses will have to ride in.

While Potemkin was hesitating, a Cossack soldier pointed to the west of the city and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, look, our men are rushing out. ”

Fortunately, Niu Venus kept an eye and let his hundreds of people control a section of the walls of the West City, and they were able to fight their way out of the city.

However, the outside of Xicheng has been blocked by the cavalry of Huaxia, and even if they rush out of Xicheng, they still can't break through the blockade of the Huaxia.

Just when Li Zicheng was in despair, Potemkin outside the city actually sent someone to meet them.

At this time, the Huaxia cavalry in the west of the city had just arrived, and the formation was still somewhat loose under the front and rear attacks of Li Zicheng and Bo Jiangjin.

Li Zicheng seized the opportunity and hurriedly rushed out of the city with some Cossack cavalry.

Driven by the desire to escape, these Cossacks also burst out with amazing combat power, and they actually rushed out.

When he saw Li Zicheng, Potemkin's heart was cold.

He originally came to pick up Adrian, but he didn't expect it to be Li Zicheng who ran out.

Under questioning, it was about the same as they expected, and they really fell into the ambush of the Chinese people.

Although Li Zicheng did not enter the inner city, according to his description, the Cossack cavalry who entered the inner city should have been more than lucky.

Potemkin regretted a little, he knew that Adrian could not come out, he should have broken through decisively.

Now that he rescued a Li Zicheng but trapped himself in the encirclement of the Chinese people, it is really worth the loss.

At this time, even the way he looked at Li Zicheng was a little disgusted, and he really couldn't believe these Orientals.

But now that Li Zicheng is familiar with the terrain here in Turkestan, it is not easy for him to turn his face.

Potemkin said: "The Mongols have completely blocked the retreat to the west, where should we break through now?" ”

Li Zicheng said: "It is already dusk, we must cross the Salo River first, if we are trapped on the east bank of the river, there is only a dead end." ”

"The fighting ability of the Mongols is not as good as that of the Chinese cavalry, and after crossing the Salo River, we will tear a hole from the Mongols."

At this time, Potemkin could only hand over his life and death to Li Zicheng.

So he left 3,000 men to drag the Chinese cavalry outside the city, and led the rest of the men and horses to cross the river quickly.

At this time, Wu Sangui, who was watching the battle from a distance, said: "Not good, the Cossacks wanted to rush into the woods in the northwest and order the artillery battalion to block the Saro River; In addition, he ordered Tushetu Khan to make sure that the Mongols must block the Cossacks. ”

After issuing the order, he personally led the remaining Chinese cavalry to join the battlefield.

Although the Cossack cavalry could cross the Salo River directly, there were only a few narrow places suitable for crossing.

At this moment, the artillery of the Chinese people blocked the river, causing the Cossack cavalry on the river to be in a mess, and many people could not wait to cross the river from the ferry.

In a panic, they entered the Salo River and were swept downstream by the rushing water.

At this time, Niu Jinxing followed Li Zicheng to the death, and his years of fugitive career made him practice a good riding skill.

Although there were people around him who were constantly killed by Huaxia's artillery and swept away by the current, Niu Venus miraculously crossed the river.

Although at this time Potemkin and others had less than 3,000 horsemen left on their side, they still charged the Mongols.

Thousands of Mongol cavalry on the front did not stop three thousand Cossack cavalry.

Driven by the desire to survive, the Cossack cavalry burst out with amazing combat power and forced to break out.

In the end, almost all the 25,000 Cossacks who came to attack were annihilated, but they did not find the bodies of Li Zicheng and Potemkin.

When the news of Turkestan's victory came, Li Shizu was preparing to leave for Istanbul.

After getting the battle report, he also sighed a lot, this Li Zicheng is really fateful.

There were 50,000 Chinese troops and nearly 80,000 Mongol cavalry under the city of Turkestan, but 130,000 people still could not leave them.

It seems that he really looks like a tenacious "little strong".

But that's okay, without Li Zicheng's "help", they couldn't have wiped out nearly 30,000 Cossack cavalry twice.

Although these losses could not be called "broken bones", Tsarist Russia was certainly unable to expand eastward in a short period of time.

But he did not intend to let this Tsarist Russia go, in the words of his father, it was called "taking advantage of his illness and asking for his life"!

I have to say that the Ottoman Empire is really a good ally, not only carved up Persia with itself, leased the port of Suez, but now can also flank Tsarist Russia with itself.

Not only that, but the Ottomans were also an "evil force" in the eyes of Western European countries, and they shared their attention well for the Chinese Empire.

Judging from the current situation, the Ottoman Empire is slightly stronger, and it is advantageous to compete for hegemony with China.

The purpose of his visit to Istanbul was to persuade the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV to join him in the fight against Tsarist Russia.

Of course, the Ottoman Empire had just experienced the "Battle of Baghdad", and the casualties were not small, especially the Star and Moon Legion, which they were proud of, almost lost 2/3.

After all, the Ottomans did not have the economic strength of the Huaxia Empire, and it was indeed difficult for some strongmen to launch two wars of annihilation within a year, and the opponents were all powerful empires.

However, this time Li Shizu brought him a large number of Lu Mi Gong.

Now that the Chinese Empire has basically completed the rifle rearmament, the front-line troops no longer use the Lumi gun.

It's a pity that so many arms are wasted, of course, to find a way to find a next home to take over.

Speaking of which, this Lu Mi Gong was first 40 years ago, and the Ming Dynasty imitated the Ottoman Empire.

However, after many improvements in the Liaodong Arsenal, these Lumi guns have long surpassed the original in terms of performance.

Sure enough, when Murad IV saw this batch of munitions, he immediately made a decision.

The Europeans did not say that there were no such advanced firearms, and even if they did, they could not have sold them to the Ottoman Empire.

The fact that the Chinese people are willing to sell these firearms to themselves is enough to show that they really regard themselves as allies.

King Władysław IV, the Grand Duchy of Poland and Lithuania, happened to be in Istanbul at this time.

In the early years, the Poles also fought according to the Rus' countries, and the Polish cavalry often went to the vicinity of Moscow to loot.

But with the rise of Tsarist Russia, these were a thing of the past.

Now the Cossack cavalry turned against the Russians and helped them fight themselves, resulting in the invasion of Poland by the Russians.

Władysław IV had come to Istanbul to sue for peace, hoping to stop the conflict with the Ottoman Empire so that he could go all out against Tsarist Russia.

Hearing that Li Shizu was preparing to invite the Ottoman Empire to attack Tsarist Russia, Władysław IV immediately said that the Grand Duchy of Poland and Lithuania would also join.

Not only did the Poles join themselves, but they even brought in Sweden, a powerful Nordic powerhouse.

Sweden, under the leadership of Gustav II, won wars with Tsarist Russia, Poland and Prussia, and became one of the leading European powers.

The Chinese Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Grand Duchy of Poland and Lithuania, and the Swedish Empire were located in the four directions of Tsarist Russia.

They were at odds with Tsarist Russia, so these countries with completely different religious beliefs actually held an alliance in Vilnius (present-day Lithuania), the capital of Poland, to prepare to jointly use troops against Tsarist Russia.

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