Kashgar means: the place where jade is concentrated.
There is an old saying that goes well, if Kashgar is safe, southern Xinjiang will be safe.
However, after Yuzhu led his army to Kashgar, the place turned out to be an empty city.
All the Junggar people moved away.
After Yuzhu sent out sentries everywhere, he discovered that all the Junggar people had migrated to the Hohan Kingdom in the west.
In this way, Junggar's plan to save people and lose territory was exposed to Yuzhu's eyes.
Save people and lose land, but save people and land!
The land is lost and people are lost, and both people and land are lost!
Now that I'm here, it's definitely not Yuzhu's character to go back without charging some interest.
Besides, if more than 50,000 Mongolian cavalry follow Yuzhu to grab things, we can't let them return empty-handed, right?
How can we be good friends next time?
Therefore, Yuzhu did not hesitate at all, and directly ordered the three armies to turn around and head west, charging into the Hohan Khanate.
Hohan, also known as Haohan or Aohan, is a khanate built by the Mingge tribe of the Uzbek tribe. Its capital is the city of Hohan.
During the heyday of the Khokhan Khanate, its territory bordered the Aral Sea in the northwest, including the Kazakh grasslands near the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River, extended to the area south of Lake Balkhash in the northeast, and reached mountainous territories such as Karatijin in the south.
The famous Aguba is the commander of the Akmejit Fortress of the Hohan Kingdom.
This guy, relying on the support of the Rakshasa people, claimed to be Khan without authorization and attempted to annex the entire Western Region. As a result, he was destroyed by Zuo Gong Ji Gao.
With the Mongolian cattle, sheep and horses, Yuzhu simply threw a right hook and killed Huohan first.
Cewang Alabutan's plan has been made clear, and he will never confront Yuzhu head-on. When Yuzhu comes, he will leave; if Yuzhu leaves, he will come back.
Although Yuzhu's ancestors were Han Chinese, they were still Han people who carried the banner of the Qing Dynasty.
If the Huohan Kingdom is annexed, it will be a victory in the national war. It will obviously succeed in usurping the throne of Yuzhu and increase its legitimacy.
As for the Junggar people who fled from the Khyber Mountain Pass into the Sanguo area, Yuzhu didn't mind at all. He conscripted the people of the Hohan Kingdom and built a military fortress at the mountain pass and stationed heavy troops to frighten the entire southern Xinjiang.
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As a result, more than 30,000 new troops and 50,000 Mongolians, driving cattle and sheep, marched toward the west in a mighty manner.
The terrain of the entire Western Region is composed of three mountains and two basins.
If you want to go to the Hohan Kingdom from Kashgar, you must pass through the Wakhan Corridor before crossing the Congling Mountains (Karakoram Mountains).
Agubai can come, but Yuzhu can’t go?
After the army entered the Wakhan Corridor, the mountains on both sides turned out to be extremely steep.
When Yuzhu commanded operations, he always despised the enemy strategically and valued the enemy tactically.
Worried about being ambushed, Yuzhu sent a large number of sentinels as a guide, and it took four days to pass through the Wakhan Corridor.
After crossing the Congling Mountains, the mountains in Afghanistan are no longer a big problem.
Along the way, the jade pillars encircled a large number of herdsmen from the Hohan Khanate, asking them to drive their cattle and sheep and follow the large team.
When you go abroad to fight, you also talk about benevolence and morality, and everything is aimed at winning.
As for the issue of appeasement, it was a matter after the annexation of the Hohan Kingdom.
After crossing the Wanzhi River, Hensuwu River and Kezile River in succession, Yuzhu led 30,000 new troops, 50,000 Mongolians and 20,000 Hohan herdsmen, and entered the Margalang Plain.
At this time, Hohan City, the capital of the Hohan Kingdom, was besieged by the Junggar people.
Hearing that Yuzhu was chasing him, Cewang Alabutan was in danger of being attacked from two sides.
At this time, Cewang Arabtan quickly withdrew his troops and moved toward the Khyber Pass with hundreds of thousands of his troops.
However, what Ling Cewang Alabutan never expected was that the Khyber Pass area had already been occupied by two signs from the first town of the Yuzhu Sect, armed with more than thirty 6-pound artillery pieces.
When there was no way to retreat, Cewang Alabutan could only choose to fight Yuzhu decisively.
The place where the decisive battle took place was a very inconspicuous place, Bar Penchi.
In the early morning, after the thick fog dissipated, Yuzhu led more than 20,000 new troops and 50,000 Mongolians out of the camp and formed a formation.
These Mongolian cavalry had cooperated with Yuzhu many times, and they all knew Yuzhu's rules, so they took the initiative to line up on the two wings of the new army.
Cewang Alabutan personally commanded the main elite troops of the Dzungars, totaling 120,000 people, and started a confrontation with Yuzhu's army.
The more than 20,000 New Army officers and soldiers were still in the formation of three columns of infantry, with artillery positions placed at the forefront of the entire army.
During this western expedition, Yuzhu brought more than 300 artillery pieces, including 200 6-pounder cannons and more than 100 8-pounder cannons.
Yuzhu was riding a horse, holding up a monocular telescope, and scanned the artillery position. He couldn't help but heard the commentary line: Dongye gathered thousands of cannons under Jinzhou City. The density of the artillery array exceeded the regulations of artillery drills.
This is also the first time in the history of Chinese war that thousands of artillery pieces roar at the same target at the same time.
In the lens, there is a large-caliber howitzer with a very majestic momentum.
Well, Yuzhu can proudly say: "More than two hundred years ago, I commanded hundreds of artillery pieces in the battle to destroy the country."
With so many artillery pieces to help, Yuzhu didn't need to be polite to the Dzungars. He immediately issued an order to Liu Shenghong, the commander of the Artillery Association: "One hundred cannons are divided into groups and fire one after another!"
Loading front-loaded artillery requires a lot of time, which requires all artillery to fire in echelons to avoid a vacuum of firepower.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The 8-pound army gun fired first.
The artillery position was immediately enveloped in choking white smoke.
I saw more than a hundred flaming iron balls, carrying huge kinetic energy, viciously smashing into the Dzungarian camp.
"Ah...my legs...my legs..."
"Ah...help..."
"Wow……"
"Boom, boom, boom..." One hundred 6-pound cannons fired almost simultaneously.
As a result, more than two hundred scalding iron projectiles were fired into the Junggar camp without restraint.
Before the war, the great strategist Ling Dunduobu was worried about the power of Yuzhu's artillery, so he deliberately stretched the confrontation line to about one thousand meters.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Unexpectedly, the British-made 8-pound army cannon has a maximum range of 2,200 meters and an effective range of about 1,500.
Even a 6-pounder can shoot at targets within 1,300 meters.
Dace Lingdunduobu made a serious mistake in his judgment, and Junggar suffered a big loss on the spot.
The forward camp of the Junggar people was turned upside down by hundreds of flaming iron balls, causing heavy casualties.
Before the Junggar people could react, a third group of nearly a hundred artillery pieces roared again.
At this moment, both Cewang Alabutan and Dace Lingdunduobu saw the situation clearly: Yuzhu had mastered many artillery pieces that they could not resist, and the Dzungars were losing their power.
"Great Khan, you take your elite warriors and retreat first. I will lead my men to attack."
At the critical moment, Dace Lingdun Dobu stood up bravely and tried hard to persuade Cewang Alabutan: "Great Khan, you can't hesitate any longer. You hurry up and leave before it's too late. If the army is defeated, we will all leave.
It won’t work.”
Cewang Alabutan knew very well that if he retreated, the entire glorious history of Junggar dominance in the Western Region would be completely over.
Both the Mongols and the Hohan people have the bad habit of chasing water dogs in the road.
With 120,000 against 20,000, as long as they are willing to fight tooth and nail, the Junggar people may still have hope of victory?
Besides, after gathering hundreds of thousands of troops and running away without fighting a single battle, how could Cewang Alabutan have the dignity to sit on the throne of Jungar Khan in the future?
"Grandpa Ce Ling, you lead the charge first, and I will hold the battle formation for you." Cewang Alabutan is a tycoon after all. He wanted to see the battle between Grand Ce Lingdunduobu and Yuzhu before making a conclusion.
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"Khan, please take care of yourself!" The loyal Ce Lingdun Dobu looked deeply at Cewang Alabutan, then pulled out his sword and shouted sternly, "All the warriors of the forward battalion, follow me.
Rush over and kill Yuzhu."
"Kill Yuzhu!"
"Kill Yuzhu!"
"Oh ho, kill Yuzhu!"
For a moment, the roar of killing Yuzhu resounded throughout the battlefield.
Yuzhu could understand Mongolian, so he couldn't help but smile. He used his cavalry to charge into the rigorous infantry formation, and he didn't hesitate to use eggs to hit rocks!
The disastrous defeat of Senggelinqin's Baliqiao has proved that the medieval cavalry charge is simply vulnerable to a modern army!
Now that the Junggar people were rushing over, Yuzhu gave the order in time: "The infantry lines up forward to cover the artillery positions."
In today's new army, all new recruits have received at least three years of training.
Moreover, they all have at least one practical experience.
It is no exaggeration to say that the New Army is at its peak in military power and combat effectiveness.
Following Yuzhu's order, the soldiers of the new army crossed the artillery position with neat steps, accompanied by the rhythmic military drums.
When the great strategist Lingdun Dobu led the elite Junggar cavalry to charge fiercely.
The soldiers of the New Army, under the command of loud bugles, raised their guns one after another, waiting to shoot.
If it is an infantry shooting, the New Army's shooting standards are the same as those of the British. They are only allowed to fire within 50 meters. They strive to defeat the enemy's will to fight within three shots.
Facing the charging Junggar cavalry, it was not until they rushed into the 100-meter shooting zone that Yuzhu gave the order: "Fire."
Under the command of a loud military bugle, "Pah, pah, pah, pah..." an unusually dense amount of gunshots suddenly rang out.
"Herodus..." The wounded war horse fell heavily to the grass and slid forward dozens of meters.
"Ah..." The Dzungarian knight who was shot in the chest screamed and fell off his horse. He was instantly trampled to pieces by his own horse.
"Ah..." The Dzungar man who was shot in the leg had his left foot still in the stirrup when he dismounted from the horse. As a result, his entire upper body was rubbing against the ground.
The bugle sounds, load the gun. The bugle sounds, raise the gun. The bugle sounds, fire. The cycle starts over and over again.
As long as the enemy does not retreat, the shooting cannot stop!