The moon on the fifteenth is very round and bright. The bright moonlight penetrates the grape trellis and sprinkles the spots all over the ground. Xu Jin sat under the grape trellis. The most real feeling at this moment is heat, as if the moonlight leaking to his body is also hot, and sweat cannot stop coming out.

Do you know where the Flaming Mountain is in Journey to the West?

That's right, it's in Turpan, surrounded by mountains and is almost the lowest basin in the world. It is dry and rainy all year round, and the hot days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius are as many as 100 days. The extreme high temperature in summer is 49.6 degrees Celsius, and the highest surface temperature is 82.3 degrees Celsius, which is a veritable Huozhou.

Unfortunately, it is the fifteenth day of the fifth lunar month, and the Turpan area is hot in the hot summer. Although it is already night, it is still very hot. Xu Jin has already changed into big shorts half a knee and a short-sleeved T-shirt embroidered with Peppa Pig pattern. He still feels stuffy and unbearable. He can only shake the folding fan while looking at the map under the candlelight.

It would be great if I could have a glass of iced wine at this time. Unfortunately, there are wines here, but there are no ice cubes. What can I do?

Xu Jin put down his pen, grabbed his handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his neck, and then continued to write and draw carefully on the map.

Although Anle City, the capital of Turpan, has been broken and Mansuer has also fled, it will take some time for the Ming army to completely control the entire territory of Turpan, because there are still many local armed forces and scattered soldiers and raiders to be cleared.

Xu Jin's eyes slowly moved from north to southwest, crossed the southern edge of the Turpan Basin, and turned to the Tarim River at the bottom left. After crossing the Tarim River, it was the Tarim Basin, which was the territory of Yerkand.

The Yarkand Khanate is a large area, much larger than Turpan, but most areas are deserts, and the Tarim Basin is almost full of sand. It is the largest desert in China and accounts for more than half of the land area of ​​the Yarkand Khanate. Therefore, the population of the Yarkand Khanate is similar to that of Turpan, less than one million, and the more famous towns can count ten fingers.

Xu Jin's eyes finally fell on a town called "Balimang", and he picked up his pen and circled it out of the map!

Balimang is located on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Tarim River, one of the six major towns of the Yarkand Khanate (now Aksu region, Xinjiang). The Yarkand River and the Tarim River converge here, which is an extremely important transportation node. Following the Tarim River westward, you can reach Dakash. Going southward along the Yarkand River is the capital of Yarkand, Shache.

Therefore, as long as you take down Balim, it is equivalent to going to the door and hanging your troops above the head of Shache, the capital of Yarkand. At that time, Yarkand Zasanhasmu would probably be unable to sleep or eat.

Brush...

Xu Jin casually drew two murderous arrows, one pointed from Balimang to Kashgar, and the other pointed from Balimang to Shache. These two places were the most important towns of the Yarkand Khanate, equivalent to the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty. If these two places were taken down, the entire Yarkand Khanate would be basically abolished.

Finally, Xu Jin's eyes fell on Yecheng on the east side of Shache again, his sword eyebrows frowned slightly, revealing a hint of worry. Qiaoer and Huang Dacan were trapped in Yecheng. More than half a year has passed. I wonder what they are now, is Yecheng still sticking to it?

Although he was very worried, but it was beyond reach. Even if Xu Jin had a 100,000 powerful soldier, he would not be able to fly to Yecheng to save people, so now he can only look at the map and worry about the beauty.

Xu Jin picked up his pen and drew a heavy bar under Yecheng, then put it down and thought to himself: "I wonder if Dayan and Guo Heizi have arrived in Yecheng at this moment?"

It turned out that on the first day of April, after Xu Jin led his troops to Hami, he ordered Song Dayan and Guo Heizi to secretly go south to Yecheng to inquire about the local situation. It has been a month and a half since then. If everything goes well, the two should have discovered the situation and are on the way back.

Song Dayan and Guo Heizi were able to escape from Yecheng back to Dunhuang during the coldest last year and reported that the weather conditions in summer were much better, so this task should be fine for them.

The moon shadow moved westward, and before I knew it, it was already past the early morning. The temperature finally cooled a little. Xu Jin stretched, closed the map, and ordered his personal soldiers to get water to take a comfortable cold shower, and then went to bed.

Early the next morning, Xu Jin began to promote the altar to order troops and assign tasks to the generals. The goal was to wipe out the entire territory of Turpan within one month and to clean up the Yarkand Khanate before the cold season came.

On that day, the generals who received the task led their subordinates to go out in full swing, rushing to the forefront, for fear that others would take the credit first.

It is no wonder that the regular army under Mansuer's command has been completely injured and killed in Hami. After the capital Anle City was captured, the Mansuer Khan regime in Turpan was destroyed in name only. The remaining local armed forces are all native chickens and dogs fighting on their own. How can they be a well-equipped Ming army rival? It can be seen only by looking at the Yu family army's unstoppable attacks to Anle City.

Therefore, the tasks received are almost the same as giving credit. Don’t be in vain. Whoever moves faster will make more credit!

However, what everyone envies the most is Yu Dayou. He was appointed as the deputy general by the Grand Marshal. He holds 30,000 troops and is fully responsible for pursuing Mansuer. He also has the right to act cheaply and use troops against the Oirats at any time. This shows that the Grand Marshal really values ​​Yu Dayou very much.

As the generals led their troops one after another, only the Shenji Camp and the Jinyiwei were left in Anle City to protect Xu Jin, the commander of the three armies. Although the number of people was a bit small, our Prince Beijing was very calm. With eight thousand Shenji Camps, you can walk sideways everywhere. It is really not possible. With the mobility of the Shenji Camp, if you need a "strategic transfer", there are probably not many cavalry that can catch up.

Therefore, after scattering 100,000 troops under his command, Xu Jin waited comfortably in Anle City. During the next period, all kinds of good news flew back to Xu Jin's desk like snowflakes.

First, the three thousand battalions of the entire cavalry first reported that they had captured Beshubali; then Yu Dayou reported that they had conquered Luntai, and Mansuer himself fled to Zhangbali; then Jing Dachu also reported that they had captured Yanqi.

Yanqi, which is now in Korla, Xinjiang, has been a military center since the Han and Tang Dynasties. The Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty was originally located here, and later moved to Kucha.

Immediately afterwards, Ordos General Mu Zixing and Hulanhushuwen General Bao Dashou also received good news. They worked together to capture Kuche, the Kucha region during the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, by early June, in just half a month, the Ming army had already controlled most of Turpan, and the progress was even smoother than Xu Jin expected.
Chapter completed!