Chapter 27: Revenge on Dzungaria
Regarding Dzungaria, a large number of words have been used to explain that the Qing court of the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties had victories and defeats, honors and disgraces for his conquests. After experiencing three generations of leaders, Kaldan, Arabutan, and Galdan Tsering, he gave the Qing court a lot of trouble. Galdan Tsering died in the tenth year of Qianlong, and the northern part of Xinjiang fell into chaos. Galdan Tsering's son-in-law was killed by his concubine, who in turn was killed by the minister of the Huite tribe, Amur Sana.
This Amur Sana supported a man named Dawazi and made him the minister of the Dzungar Ministry. Soon after the beginning, in the nineteenth year of Qianlong, the two had a stalemate, and Amur Sana led several subordinates to break into Qianlong's territory and surrender to Qianlong.
Qianlong was very happy with the surrender of Amur Sana, accepted him as a prince, and wanted to use him to attack the Dzungar base of Ili, to shame Yongzheng, and at the same time, he also wanted to eradicate the threat from the northwest since Kangxi. He mobilized 50,000 troops and 140,000 horses, and sent Amur Sana as the "left deputy general of Dingbian" and Salal as the "right deputy general of Dingbian", and drove to Dzungaria by two routes.
One branch of Amur Sana, starting from Uriya Sutai, was controlled by the "Dingbei General" Bandi; One of Salal's detachments departed from Balikun and came under the eternal control of the "Dingxi General". The people and horses of the two roads set out together in the 20th year of Qianlong, and everywhere they went was like a bamboo, and they were surrendered everywhere, which can be said to be like entering a no-man's land, and the two sides would learn from Ili in May.
Dawaqi was forced to flee to Wushi in southern Xinjiang, and was captured by the local Hui king and sent to the Qing army. Dawazi was pardoned by Qianlong, ordered him to be the imperial guard, and then made him a prince, rewarded a residence, and married the granddaughter of Yunzhi, the third son of Emperor Kangxi, to him as his wife.
Qianlong named him the "double prince" because of Amur Sana's exploits this time, but in order to prevent him, he was not given the territory of Dzungaria, let alone the power of Oirat, who commanded the four departments.
Qianlong also appointed a Dzungar "Taiji" Bosh Aksh as the "Prince of Dzungaria", and did not allow this Bosh Aksh to control the power of the four departments.
Qianlong's idea is actually quite simple, that is, when the four departments of Oirat, they are independent, not under each other, and only loyal to the Qing Dynasty.
But what I didn't take into account was that Amur Sana had in fact occupied Ili, and also used the seal of the "Dzungar Khan" left by Galdan Tsering, as if he was a "Dzungar Khan" himself. In June, there was a direct showdown, and he simply returned the seal of the "Dingbian Left Deputy General" rewarded by Qianlong, and was no longer a minister of the Qing Dynasty.
When Qianlong saw Amur Sana like this, he simply changed Dzungar to Zhuros (Qiuros is the surname of the ruler of Dzungaria), and also named a Kalezang Dorji as Qiuros Khan.
As for Huite, Amur Sana's own Oirat, Qianlong also named another Bayar Khan.
The other two Oirats, Heshut and Dulbert, also each set up a Khan, Shakdurmanji and Cheling.
In this way, it is back to the environment that Qianlong wants - the four Oirats are independent and do not belong to each other.
At this time, the Dingxi general Bandi remained in Nichugun, on the other side of Ili, with only about 300 Chahar soldiers and 200 Khalkha soldiers around him. And what about the tens of thousands of troops? He had already allowed Qianlong to retreat one after another, but Qianlong gave him a secret decree at this time, asking him to hunt and kill Amur Sana. Of course, he could not do such a difficult task in his present situation, and Amur Sana had already gone to the territory of Dulbert. He took a few hundred soldiers with him to fight against the men of 'Amur Sana, only to be besieged and committed suicide.
The general of Dingbei Yongchang, who was originally stationed in Mulei at this time, fled to Balikun in a hurry and asked for the protection of the counselor and minister Celeng. When Qianlong found out, he ordered Yongchang to be arrested and escorted back to Beijing, but Yongchang died in the middle of the road. In fact, he is not at fault, but he is cowardly, and Qianlong has to let him go to war, which can be described as a wrongful death.
After Yongchang's death, Qianlong asked Celeng to act as General Dingxi. This Celeng is a Manchurian and a descendant of Eyidu. Because Eyi is Nurhachi's good friend, confidant, and father, the Qing Dynasty also treats his children and grandchildren very favorably, even if the Neqin was killed by Qianlong with the knife of Kubilong, the title of the Neqin is still inherited by Celeng, a descendant of the same Eyidu. But what Qianlong shouldn't have been for him was that Celeng became a duke and let him fight as a general.
Fortunately, there were many Mongol cavalry under Ce Leng, and these Mongol cavalry immediately captured Ili and arrested a local "Zaisang" Keshmu, who happened to besiege Bandi at that time and forced Bandi to commit suicide.
Qianlong promoted Celeng to the general of Dingxi and asked him to capture Amur Sana alive, but Amur Sana had already run to Kazakhstan, and Celeng had no choice. There was no news for a long time, Qianlong ordered someone to arrest Celen, on the way back to Beijing, Celen was locked in a wooden cage and attacked by the Dzungars, but the poor Celeng died in the hands of the Dzungar soldiers.
The Dingxi general of Celeng, Qianlong in May and June, let Dahl Dang'a succeed him, he is also the great-grandson of Eyidu, but his father is the one who was refuted by Yongzheng as "not subordinate and not brother is violent and greedy".
The Dar party drove his army away, fought twice with the 5,000 cavalry of Amur Sana, killed more than 900 cavalrymen, and let Amur Sana slip away. Qianlong was furious, took back the dazzle of Dahl's party, summoned him back to Beijing, and took away the duke, but fortunately he was lucky, he did not meet the Dzungar soldiers on the road again, nor did he go to prison to behead, but was sent to Rehe to be a guard, and later he was promoted to a second-class guard.
He was sent to Rehe together with Dahl Dang Ah to wear armor, as well as the "Dingbian Left Deputy General" Hadaha, who was a descendant of another founding father, Fei Yingdong, who was later given by Qianlong to commit suicide because of his "ineffective fighting" in southern Xinjiang, but before the holy decree arrived, he had already "fought hard" and died.
Speaking of Amur Sana, after he fled to Kazakhstan, in the 22nd year of Qianlong, he stole a number of horses from Kazakhstan and plundered the pastureland of a Taijina Garb in Yuros.
During the Yongzheng period, Zhaohui, who had been the "governor of Shandong", was stationed in Jierharang City at this time in the name of "Dingbian Right Deputy General" (this Jierharang City is not necessarily to commemorate the Zheng Prince Jierharang, most likely because there is a Jiergalang River next to it, hence the name). When Zhaohui heard the news of Amur Sana's invasion, he hurriedly sent troops to chase after him, and he sat in the city of Jierharang to guard against the Hui leader Daxiao and Zhuo in southern Xinjiang.
After Qianlong received the report, he scolded Zhaohui for putting the cart before the horse, and Zhaohui received instructions and had to lead his troops north to attack Tarbagatai.
Qianlong originally wanted to give the Huite Khan to Amur Sana, but out of consideration, he was given to Bayar. As a result, this Bayar was not only not grateful to Qianlong, but was very loyal to Amur Sana, and when Amur Sana rebelled, this Bayar was the first to respond.
The second person to respond to Amur Sana was Khan Galzang Dorji of the Khwanros. In the first month of the 22nd year of Qianlong, he almost besieged Zhaohui to death, but the reinforcements of the Qing army arrived, so Zhaohui had to escape, and he himself was killed by one of his nephews, Zhana Garbu.
When Amur Sana returned from Kazakhstan and even plundered pastureland, most of it was for the revenge of Galzang Dorji, but the revenge was not repaid, and he also lost Huit Khan Bayar.
As for the other two Oirat, the most wronged can be said to be Heshute Khan Shakdurmanji, he has always been loyal to Qianlong, but on the contrary, he was attacked by the troops sent by Yar Hashan, the minister of Balikun, overnight, resulting in the death of himself and thousands of soldiers.
Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, this Yar Hashan later let Xiao Hezhuo escape because of the siege of Xiao Hezhuo, and Qianlong arrested him and returned to Beijing to behead him.
The luckiest of the four Oirats was Dulbert's Che Ling, whom Qianlong always trusted very much and approved him to lead the tribe and "settle the pasture" in Ulan Gumu.
Speaking of Amur Sana, who fled to the territory of Kazakhstan again, Zhaohui chased after him, and the Kazakh Khan hurriedly went to Qianlong, expressed his willingness to be a minister, and asked for an audience.
Seeing that Kazakhstan could not be accommodated, Amur Sana was about to flee to Siberia in Russia, Qianlong asked Russia for people, and wanted to extradite the "fugitives" according to the "Nebuchu Treaty", Russia ignored it at first, Qianlong had a good face and was ready to fight, Russia panicked, and immediately sent Amur Sana's body over, as for the cause of Amur Sana's death, it was said that he had smallpox.
Since the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties did not solve the problem of Dzungaria, Qianlong came up with an idea at this time - slaughter! Wanted to use this primitive and bloody method to eradicate the problem.
Qianlong instructed Zhaohui to slaughter all the people in the area of Ili and Tacheng, including any people in and outside the city, ravines and water pavilions, regardless of whether they were loyal to the Qing Dynasty or not, whether they had participated in the anti-Qing struggle or not, regardless of whether they were old or young, men and women. This killing can be described as extremely bloody at that time, and it can be said that it is more than the three massacres in Yangzhou and Jiading.
Later, Qianlong asked Zhaohui to pacify southern Xinjiang (also known as "Huijiang"), and in order to crusade against the leaders of Daxiao and Zhuo, he also slaughtered many Hui people, and as a result, the Hui people increased their hatred for Han and Manchus.