Two generals, Abaha and Mahan, were ordered by Sengge to lead 10,000 troops to capture Hami. They were both experienced generals and knew the importance of military strength and speed. Each man had two horses and five thousand camels.
Kill Hami quickly.
The desert is full of sand,
Where can I find a home in the vastness?
There is no grass on the ground and the springs are exhausted,
Cutting off neighboring roads is too much.
Heifengchuan is the most dangerous place to the west of the Hami Guard. There are strong winds that make people's faces hurt. The Junggar army jumped over the vast sea and pressed directly under the Heifengchuan.
Seeing the steep mountains, rugged rocks, barren grass, and no trees, Abaha couldn't help but take a breath of cold air even though he had experienced hundreds of battles. He called Ma Han and said, "General Ma Han, this place is very dangerous and we must be careful.
The Hami people are setting up an ambush. Why don't you and I set up camp first and find out the military situation before marching?"
Mahan was originally a soldier of the Junggar tribe. Because of his bravery in battle, he was appreciated by the monks and promoted to general step by step. He was famous for not being afraid of death in battles. Hearing this, he said angrily: "It is precisely because this place is extremely dangerous and it is close to the desert.
The Hami people never expected that our army would come from here. If we delay and the enemy detects the news of our army's arrival, the battle will be difficult to fight. The general will be willing to lead 500 warriors to climb up the rock, please.
Lead the army to suppress the last general."
Seeing that he spoke so boldly, Abaha blushed. He was getting old, and he no longer had the arrogance of young people! He ordered someone to bring a bowl of kumiss and offered Mahan a bowl of kumiss, saying: "General, please drink a full portion of this wine.
After the success, I congratulate the general!"
"Gululu", Ma Han drank the wine in one gulp and led five hundred agile warriors to climb up the rock.
The person guarding Heifengchuan is Banhetiyar, a close confidant of Hami King Muhanmaitixia. This name is good, and it means: immeasurable blessings in Uyghur.
He was indeed blessed. He led two thousand soldiers and horses to guard this dangerous place for two years, and he did not encounter a single Junggar soldier. He did not have to fight, what a blessing it was!
At the beginning, Banhetiyar patrolled every day, guarding the Dzungars like wolves. But as time went by, the wolves never came, and they forgot that wolves existed.
On this day, he was having fun in the military tent on the top of the mountain with the slave girl he had bought, when he suddenly heard a noise, no, it was a shout of killing.
A quickie dressed quickly, and just half-way through, a lean and capable man broke in. The man had a cold expression, without a trace of kindness, and the scimitar in his hand was blood red.
"Who are you?" Banhetiar asked tremblingly.
"A small soldier in Senggehuntaiji's tent," Mahan responded. The sword followed the sound and chopped off Banhe Tiar's head with just one blow.
"Haorui!"
"Haorui!"
"Haorui!"
Cheers sounded from the top of the Black Wind River.
After taking this dangerous area, the Junggar army continued to advance eastward, reaching Keha Ci Tie Zha, Ci Mu, Yuan Mu Hara Hui, Weiwu Er Jia Li and other places, approaching the city of Hami.
The king of Hami, Muhammetisha, did not expect that Heifengchuan would be lost so quickly, and was caught off guard. He had no time to recruit the army from across the country, so in a hurry he could only assemble the five thousand soldiers and horses in the city and the young and strong guards in the city. .
Muhammetisha, Ebedulla and his son climbed up the city wall and looked from a distance, but they saw that there were not many Junggar troops under the city, only about ten thousand people, but they were extremely elite and well-trained.
In addition to cavalry, there are also a large number of infantry. The emphasis on infantry and cavalry coordination is the biggest difference between the Junggar tribe and other Mongolian tribes.
Infantry squads marched in formation. At the front were twenty sergeants wearing armor and pointed helmets, holding sabers and spears; followed by fifteen sergeants wearing armor and neck protectors. Sergeants armed with bows and arrows and matchlocks. Each team of thirty-five people has several to a dozen muskets, as well as a large number of light artillery.
At the beginning, the Junggar tribe, like other Mongolian tribes, was extremely backward in terms of firearms. Their cannons did not even have mounts. However, they had a good geographical location, located in Central Asia, close to Russia and the Kazakh Khanate. A large number of Russian and Bukhara Businessmen, even some Swedish businessmen, came to Junggar and taught them how to produce muskets, artillery and gunpowder.
The military formation is like a mountain, the invasion is like fire, and ten thousand elite soldiers are slowly walking towards the city wall.
I don’t know what happened, but Muhammetisha had the illusion that instead of 10,000 enemies coming to the city, there was an army of 100,000.
"Boom~boom~boom~"
The Junggar people's light artillery fired. Although they have learned how to cast light artillery, their ability to cast heavy artillery is still insufficient, so that they are better at field battles and weaker at siege. However, who should this score be compared to? Compared with the Hami army, the Junggar army Whether it is field combat or siege, the ability is much stronger.
Hearing the rumble of cannons, Hami King Muhammetisha turned pale and suddenly staggered.
"Father, what's wrong with you?" Ebedulla quickly helped his father up.
"Hurry, send people on fast horses to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty," Muhanmatixia calmed down and said leisurely.
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In Xi'an City, Yang Qiaoran, the governor of the three sides of the Ming Dynasty, was entertaining Cheng Yuan, the governor of Gansu, with Xifeng wine and a large plate of chicken. After receiving a letter asking for help from Hami King Muhanmatixia, Cheng Yuan was deeply aware of the seriousness of the matter and rushed straight from Ganzhou in a hurry. Xi'an, I went to Yang Qiaoran to discuss countermeasures. Unexpectedly, Yang Qiaoran showed the demeanor of a general, was not in a hurry, and happily hosted a banquet to entertain old friends.
"Oh, brother Tongruo, what time has it been? Are you still in the mood to drink and have fun? I regretted losing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Cheng Yuan jumped anxiously.
"Haha, brother Jin Yixian, you can just drink to your heart's content. We have made arrangements for sending troops." Yang Qiaoran smiled slightly and was confident.
"Oh, Tongruo, have you ordered Ren Liang to leave Jiayuguan and march to the Hami Acropolis?" Cheng Yuan perked up.
"Yes, yesterday I gave a secret order to Ren Liang to send troops. But instead of going to the Hami Acropolis, we sent the Chijin Mongolian Guard, Shazhou Guard, Handong Guard, Handong Left Guard, Anding Guard, and Quxian Guard in the middle and south of Hami.
, the Aduan Guards have all taken possession of them. As for the Hami Guards in the north, let’s just sit back and watch the Junggar Army and the Hami Army fight with each other, and we will just be the fishermen."
"Hahaha, brother Tongruo, you really don't take action, but once you do it, you are as fast as lightning, but it's so hard to hide it from my little brother!" Cheng Yuan laughed heartily.
"Brother Jin Yixian, I dare not be unhappy with my action! Hami is adjacent to Duogan, Gansu, and Inner and Outer Mongolia. The Governor of Qinghai and Tibet, Hu Zhigong, and the Governor of Mongolia, Chen Bangyan, both have their eyes on this place. If I had been slow to act, I would have received all the credit.
Let others rob them all!"
"Yes," Cheng Yuan agreed. "Especially Hu Zhigong, who had already captured Duogan, Uzang, and the three provinces of Tiannan for the Ming Dynasty. He was not satisfied. He also wanted to capture Hami and Turpan. If all the credit was given to him,
If he established it, wouldn't it mean that we are incompetent?"
Hearing Cheng Yuan mention Hu Zhigong, Yang Qiaoran snorted coldly and suddenly looked worried, "Most of the main forces in Shaanxi and Gansu have been transferred to Qinghai and Tibet, and now they can only rely on Ren Liang's department. I don't know the combat strength of this 'thief army'"
How, is it reliable or not?”
Cheng Yuan thought for a while and said: "That Ren Liang was once a big thief in Jiaocheng. He had been in power for twenty years. Even the officers and soldiers could not do anything to him. He must still have fighting strength. It's just that his troops only had 7,000 people, so his strength was a little less.
We must urge the Chongqing Commander-in-Chief General Wang Guoxun to provide reinforcements as soon as possible."
"Well, what my dear brother said makes sense," Yang Qiaoran thought for a while and said, "It's not enough to adjust the Guoxun Department. Zhang Guozhu, the former degraded general of the Guan Ning Army, was recently appointed as the deputy general of Maozhou. This man has always wanted to be promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief.
Since he is capable of fighting, we will give him a chance and send him to Hami together."
This chapter has been completed!