On October 20 of the third year of the Qing Dynasty, the Junggar Ministry of Huntai Ji Arslen was called Khan, and he called himself Eri and Bilig Khan!

On October 24, Arslen personally led the 50,000 Dzungar regular soldiers and 100,000 servant troops of various ethnic groups who had been summoned in advance, and personally led the main force composed of 30,000 headquarters and 70,000 servant troops to the south of the Gobi to besiege Dihua, blocking the waist and cutting off the connection with northern Xinjiang.

On October 29, the Mengwu people who defected in the city should open the city gate, and the two thousand defenders in the city were weak to return to the sky, so they had no choice but to abandon the city and break through, but in the process of breaking through, the current Anxi capital Hu Yuwen was shot and killed by the condor archers in the chaos of the army, and the Qi army was in turmoil, and the two thousand defenders only had more than 600 horsemen to break through to Turpan in the east

After the fall of Zidihua, Arsleng did not stop, quickly attacked to the east, quickly conquered Turpan, Bingwei and other important towns in northern Xinjiang, after capturing Hami, Arsleng flashed a shot to bypass Yumen and go north to the grassland.

He sent 3,000 soldiers and horses and 20,000 servants to march westward, and met with the partial division that was preparing to go straight to Ili, preparing to conquer Ili in one fell swoop.

"On November 12 of the third year of the Qing Dynasty, the Junggar division and the westward division surrounded Ili. At this point, the cities in the northern part of the Anxi Prefecture have fallen, and only Ili remains.

Ili is the capital of my Anxi, and it is also an important town in the Western Regions, and it is also a witness to the hard work of our Anxi army for five years.

I will protect 12,461 colleagues and 50,000 people from all over the palace, and I will defend Ili to the death!

On November 12, the third year of Qingtai,

Anxi's deputy capital protects Xu Le's pen. ”

In the main hall of the Chinese army's capital palace, the little official sent this letter to the two Junggar troops before the encirclement, and then sent back to the customs along the southern Xinjiang cities, and respectfully put it back on the table between the seats of the two metropolitan governors.

The hall was silent, and the oppressive air even made the birds around the hall fly far away, not daring to approach.

All the military generals and nobles who were in Beijing and had made great achievements sat on several rows of seats on both sides with their heads bowed, waiting for the two governors to speak.

To everyone's surprise, the two Grand Governors did not show any angry expressions, but their faces were calm and frightening.

"Stupid!" Jia Hui squeezed out a word from between his teeth, although he didn't say who was stupid, everyone here knew it.

Yun Yu, who was already white, nodded in agreement: "It's really stupid, there is no need to defend Yili at this time, you should lead the troops to break through to protect the southern Xinjiang, keep the elite of Anxi, and prevent them from invading the plateau along the route you led the troops into the plateau."

Now it's good, it's dead!

But then again, when Xu Le took office, he patted his chest and promised to live and die with Yili, and if he didn't do it, it wouldn't be him Xu Le. ”

"Alas, I'd rather he didn't have a pleasure." Jia Hui sighed, "That's it, anyway, they have been surrounded, and it's too late to say anything now, I hope he Xu Le and Yili can support the imperial court." ”

Everyone in the hall nodded.

Xu Le's ability is still recognized by everyone, plus more than 12,000 Qi Zheng soldiers, even if it is a field battle in the Western Regions, it is invincible, not to mention the defense.

It's just that

It's just that there are too many people on the other side, even if the Qi army is not afraid of anyone with the same number, but the 25,000 Dzungar soldiers and the number of more than 70,000 servant troops have already exceeded 70,000, this number is really too much!

"I'm afraid they don't want to be attached to the ants to attack the city!" Some generals said with some concern.

"How is that possible?! The servant army does not have the determination of the army, even if there are soldiers and horses in the Dzungar headquarters, it is impossible to let them go, how many soldiers and horses are there in their headquarters? ”

"What about the grain? Ili is not big, and then stuff so many soldiers, this logistics."

"Oh, there's no way to do it! Now we can only hope that the southern Xinjiang line can send something a little. ”

"Exactly, but fortunately, Ili is a military city, and the stored armament and artillery gunpowder are sufficient, and they can still survive for a year and a half..."

The generals began to discuss.

Jia Hui and Yun Yu were not idle, and at this moment, they also opened the map face to face and deduced

"According to the information sent by Yumen Pass, Arslen did not directly attack Yumen, but went to the grassland along the Gobi Desert, I guess there is a Mughal tribe secretly colluding with Dzungaria, preparing to cause chaos on the grassland."

"Ozirtu?" Yun Yu stroked his beard and said uncertainly.

Jia Hui nodded and shook his head: "Most likely, but before the people on the grassland send a message back, everything is possible." ”

"That's right," Yun Yu gestured with a fan on the map, "In that case, the Western Regions are not the primary target." ”

Coming from the Western Regions, there are actually not many routes that can be chosen, as long as those nodes are guarded, it is actually difficult to attack from the Western Regions.

The grassland is different, how long the Great Wall is, how many places there are for the grassland to enter, it is nothing more than the degree of difficulty.

Therefore, the importance of the Western Regions is far less than that of the grassland.

And the most important thing is that compared with Daqi, who speak Chinese and look very similar, the Dzungar people who speak Mongolian language and look similar can be trusted by a considerable number of Mughals, and there will always be people who are not clear about the situation and follow the Dzungar trouble. If the entire grassland moves southward in a big way, it will not be a loss of the Western Regions at that time.

"Alas, just like this, it's bitter Xu Le and the more than 60,000 soldiers and civilians" Jia Hui sighed lightly, he knew that there had to be a trade-off for this war, but when he and Yun Yu immediately decided to put the Western Regions in second place, they would still feel guilty about the people who were sacrificed.

Especially since he had lived with these people for a few years

"There's no way, don't be too anxious, Ili City can be regarded as something you watched build, you also know how high his defense ability is, as long as Xu Le doesn't make stupid mistakes, even if there is no outside supply, he can protect Yili for more than a year.

And don't we still keep the line of southern Xinjiang? Although there are not many things to transport, and the loss is also large, after all, some things can still be transported, and there will be no increase in the number of people, and "

Yun Yu leaned towards Jia Hui: "The worst thing is that we still have a plateau!" ”

"Plateau? The road on the plateau is hard to walk. Jia Hui scratched the back of his head, "But what you said also reminded me that it was time for Asr to move."

After Asr, a Daru Huachi who was once in the uninhabited area of Shuote Aksai Chin, surrendered Jia Hui to become the leader of the party, he also obtained the fief of Nyingchi, and since then he has been stationed in Lhasa as one of the top military chiefs of Daqi on the plateau.

It can be said that in addition to the chief military officer of Wusizang, who is definitely the leader of the Han people, he is the chief military officer of Lhasa who speaks with a knife on the plateau.

Jia Hui's family added a few boxes of jewelry coral from time to time, and almost all of them were given by Asr.

It is still very necessary for him to lead his troops to the plateau to increase the number of troops in southern Xinjiang and prevent Junggar from going to the plateau.

After all, Dzungaria believe in the Yellow Religion, and the plateau happens to be rich in great lamas, and those great lamas are still very attractive to them. Moreover, if they get the plateau and get the honorific titles of the great lamas, it will also greatly improve the legitimacy of Arslen.

After deciding on the defensive strategy of southern Xinjiang and the plateau, the eyes of the two were once again focused on the grassland.

"I'm sure that the Tushetu Department will never mess with Arslen, and will even fight with Arslen desperately"

"Why?" Yun Yu was a little curious.

"Ah, that's what I found out from the file," Jia Hui changed his sitting posture and leaned towards Yunyu, "Do you know that Arslen used to be the son-in-law of the Tushetu Division?" ”

"What? And what's going on? Hurry up, talk to me about it! Yun Yu looked surprised, and hurriedly picked up the teacup and took a sip to listen to the gossip

There was also a commotion in the festival hall, and the generals and nobles who were still discussing with each other just now but had been listening to all directions turned their heads to face Jia Hui, their faces full of gossip

"Ahem." Jia Hui cleared his cough and didn't start talking immediately, and a few sensible generals hurriedly got up and crossed a few to Jia Hui's table, snatched the kettle held by the little official and served Jia Hui tea with a courteous face, and then stood on the side.

"Hmm" Jia Hui took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, and then spoke: "Actually, it's not a complicated matter, I saw it when I looked through the file some time ago."

Back then, Arslen's fourth uncle staged a coup d'état and usurped the position of Arslen's father's Huntaiji, and the old Huntaiji didn't know why, and the originally healthy person died with a bang.

According to the official statement of his fourth uncle, he drank day and night after being usurped and placed under house arrest, and finally died of depression. But in the eyes of the people below, Lao Huntaiji's death is unclear, so people's hearts are fluctuating.

As a last resort, his fourth uncle, who had planned to kill the nephews born to his eldest brother one by one, had no choice but to give up this idea and chose exile instead.

The concubines chose to exile the Turks, and the concubines also brought some dignity, so the twelve-year-old Arslen, the then nine-year-old Mandu Ratu, and the two-year-old Arongtana were exiled to the eastern steppe.

It can be regarded as returning them to their ancestral land.

The three siblings began their four-year wandering career.

Chase by wolves, driven by rival tribes, battled by traffickers, and racking your brains for survival

Eventually, after four years of wandering, when Arslen was sixteen years old, they came to the Tushetu tribe several times.

Although Tushetubu didn't have a good impression of Dzungar, he would not embarrass their little cubs, so the three siblings finally found a place where they could stay temporarily and grow up in peace.

And there, Arslen also met the man who influenced his life.

A girl who was curious about their Dzungar identity and ran over to see the strangeness

"Think about it, a little girl who is just beginning to fall in love, when she is most yearning for love, a handsome young man who pulls her younger brothers and sisters to grow up alone, her temperament and eyes reveal far beyond her sixteen-year-old peers, and even her face is a little bit of melancholy troubled by life, suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, that lethality"

"Huh? In this way, Alslen was still a soft rice eater back then? Niu Zhao cried out in surprise.

"How strange!" Shui Che said, "You're rare and weird, aren't you?" He looked at Niu Zhao with an expression, "It's not uncommon to borrow the soldiers of the father-in-law's family to restore the country, not to mention anything else, when Taikang lost the country, wasn't it his nephew Shaokang who got the land of the Yu family and five hundred people, so he had some capital and began to restore the country?" ”

"So, Arslen married this Tushetu Beji and got the capital to start a business?" A military general asked.

"Yes, this girl is none other than the daughter of Tushetu Hun Taiji at that time. After getting married, Alslen finally had a family business that allowed his younger brothers and sisters to grow up with peace of mind, and with this family background and his father's diehards in the Dzungar headquarters, he successfully overthrew his fourth uncle six years later and became the Huntaiji of Dzungaria. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Hui also had a little admiration for Alslen on his face.

At least he didn't have the courage to marry an ugly girl whose ugly name shocked the entire Khalkha and parts of southern Monan in order to restore his family business.

But there's no need to tell this group of people, after all. There is also a group of people who started out like this.

"And just when Arsleng recaptured Dzungaria and was about to start a drastic reform, the Tushetu Department jumped out and became a demon."

Say that this place can't be done, that place is not satisfied, and then say that if Lao Tzu didn't send troops to help you recapture the tribe, you would still be herding sheep on Lao Tzu's territory!

Even in the matter of the heir, his father-in-law wanted to intervene and stipulated that Alslen was not allowed to touch other women before his daughter's daughter gave birth to a boy

In the end, when the old man intervened and wanted to take the position of the prime minister of the Dzungar Ministry and replace it with a person from the Tushetu Ministry, Arsleng could no longer bear it, took out his scimitar and went home and cut down his wife and the people assigned to him by the old man, and announced that the Tushetu Ministry had been meddling in the internal affairs of Dzungaria, and since then he has been fighting with the Tushetu Ministry, and in the same year, he overturned the Ozirtu-Tushetu coalition army.

To be precise, it was just the Tushetu army, and Ozirtu stabbed Tushetu in battle, otherwise Tushetu would not have been defeated so badly, and then it was so easy for Saiyin Nuoyan to become the leader of the Khalkha League

"Now the leader of Tushetu is the poor woman's brother, and it just so happens that another of their own brothers also died in the war with the Dzungaria. This made him want to eat the flesh and skin of Dzungar."

"So the pressure on the grassland can be much easier?" Youxungui asked.

"How is it possible, the Dzungar soldiers are strong and strong, and there are many servant troops, what has his Tuxitu Department been in tatters for the past two years, and what can he do to stop others?" The nobles beside him retorted.

In recent years, the national dynasty has secretly investigated these tribes in the south and north of the desert, and a large tribe like Tuxietu is naturally the focus of attention.

"Now it's just the same goods, looking at the territory they occupy, but in fact, the knife they were stabbed by Ozirtu has not recovered so far!" A general who is particularly familiar with Mobei affairs said.

"Ahem!"

Seeing that everyone was about to discuss fiercely again, Jia Hui coughed twice and interrupted their train of thought.

"The battle against the Dzungar Department is imminent, and I think that the big guys are different in terms of what they are good at, and this time I am afraid that it will be the same as the fight against Timur for several years, so the Governor's Mansion will not name who to go.

In this way, if you want to go, you can hand over a slip to come up, and the children of each family who want to take the road of military merit can also be sent to the auxiliary barracks, and Yun Gong and I still need to go to the palace once, so we won't leave everyone behind, and the meeting will be dismissed! ”

"Only, I'll retire!"

Everyone stood up, saluted the two governors, and left the festival hall in an orderly manner.

Tsk, we still have quality, unlike that group of civil officials, we never fight when we hold meetings!

(End of chapter)