After entering July, the sentinels sent by the Junggar people became more and more intensive.
Yuzhu knew in his heart that the internal pressure on Cewang Alabutan was definitely getting bigger and bigger.
The truth is actually obvious. Yuzhu is now Lian Po in the Changping War. He stays here in Luntai County and refuses to move.
Moreover, since April, Yuzhu has not been idle.
Under his order, more than 10,000 Eight Banners soldiers continued to repair the old site of Luntai County.
Luntai County was originally not a big city, with a circumference of only eight miles.
After repairing the city walls and gates of the county town, a high platform was built in the city and all the grain was piled on it.
Well, the benefits of doing this are extremely obvious. Even if the snowy mountains suddenly melt and the snow water increases, the vital food will not be drowned.
As August approached, it became clear that Cewang Alabutan could no longer sit still and led an army of 60,000 to fight.
After Yuzhu learned the news, he immediately smiled and said: "The Junggar people must have obtained a lot of artillery."
Starting from Galdan, the Qing Dynasty and the Junggar people fought on and off for decades, and they got to know each other very well.
In a nutshell, the Qing Dynasty had more artillery, more infantry, and less cavalry. The Dzungars had more muskets, more cavalry, and were very mobile.
"Thank you, Marshal Yu, the Junggar people have arrived in Turpan."
"Very good, let's explore again!"
After the sentinels left*, Yuzhu stood up with a smile and said: "Brother Zhusheng, there is going to be a big battle!"
Zhou Quan shook his folding fan and said with a smile: "Dong Weng, you have blocked Luntai County and the prairie north of the Tianshan Mountains. The Junggar people can only stare at it, and the cattle and sheep cannot graze. It is really a clever move."
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The geographical location of Urumqi is extremely important because if the Junggar people want to come from the south to build jade pillars, they must go north from the hilly area between the Tianshan Mountains and the Bogda Mountains.
In battles in this era, the impact of topography is crucial.
Many modern people think that the terrain of Xinjiang is the vast plains.
In fact, the Tianshan Mountains lie between northern Xinjiang and southern Xinjiang.
If the Junggar people want to attack the Qing army in Luntai County, they have only two ways, either through the hilly areas of the Turpan Basin.
Or. Only by bypassing the Tianshan Mountains from Ili, passing through the Kazakh Khanate, and passing through the present-day Karamay City can we enter the Junggar Basin.
The Junggar people are mostly cavalry, and while their mobility is very strong, their ability to cross mountains is greatly reduced.
Therefore, Yuzhu occupied the old county seat of Luntai and refused to leave, which made the Junggar people feel particularly uncomfortable.
To be honest, Junggar is in such an uncomfortable situation because it is purely self-inflicted.
Because, in the previous Qingzhun wars, the Junggar people would have achieved considerable results as long as they adopted the tactics of luring the enemy deep and then cutting off the food routes.
However, Yuzhu is a freak. To put it bluntly, Yuzhu is afraid of death.
After dispatching troops from Xi'an, Yuzhu only asked two things every day: How much food is left? How many cattle and sheep are there?
As for whether he would be ambushed, Yuzhu didn't care at all.
Are you kidding me?
More than 6,000 new troops who have been trained for several years, more than 400 artillery pieces, plus 5,000 elite Eight Banners cavalry, and 8,000 Mongolian cavalry...
With such a luxurious lineup, even the British army during the First Opium War was far inferior!
The Junggars and Yuzhu had fought against each other before, and they knew how powerful the fusilier formation was. This was the fundamental reason why they fortified their walls and cleared the country and deliberately avoided fighting.
However, the Junggar people are very patient, and Yuzhu is an expert at fishing.
After late August, the weather gradually turned colder, and the cold wind became more and more biting day by day.
Yuzhu decisively gave the order to return to Hutus Pass.
On the return journey, the Qing army's herds of cattle and sheep not only did not decrease, but actually increased a lot.
If you have watched "Animal World", you should have a certain impression of the scenes of calves and lambs clinging to cows and ewes, right?
The army had food, cattle, and sheep. Except for the fact that there were no women around them, the soldiers felt as if they were on the western prairie. They had been on vacation for several months, and their lives were extremely nourishing.
However, the withdrawal of Yuzhu made the Junggar people furious and couldn't sit still any longer!
The reason is very simple. Once the Qing army tastes the sweetness, if they continue to play like this after next spring, will the hundreds of thousands of people in northern Xinjiang still have a way to survive?
As a result, 60,000 Junggar people caught up with the Qing army led by Yuzhu at Samuji, east of the old city of Luntai County.
In the morning, after the Junggar people and the Qing army had eaten their fill of war food, they began to leave the camp one after another.
Decisive battles in this era are no child's play. Just getting the army out of camp will take a lot of time.
At about eleven o'clock*, the Qing army and the Quasi army each set up their decisive battle formations.
In Yuzhu's monocular telescope, he suddenly discovered that there were obviously more camels than horses in the quasi-military team.
Yuzhu nodded secretly. The armed forces of any country need to adopt strategies that adapt to local conditions.
Within the territory of the Junggar Khanate, there are not only prairie areas, but also many vast deserts stretching as far as the eye can see.
When marching in the desert, camels are obviously more practical than war horses.
To paraphrase modern discourse, the Dzungars have an extremely broad strategic depth and an astonishingly large room for maneuver.
If the Junggar people deliberately wanted to avoid the war, they could just go into the desert and Yuzhu would just stare.
Therefore, Yuzhu deliberately let the Junggar people see that there were cattle and sheep everywhere in the Qing army.
Before the battle, Yuzhu's formation was actually very simple. His entire formation was divided into three parts: front, middle and back.
In the front row of the Qing army, more than four hundred artillery pieces were lined up.
Behind the artillery were six thousand New Army soldiers lined up in four rows.
Behind the new army is Yuzhu.
Behind Yuzhu's horse are more than 12,000 infantry soldiers of the Eight Banners. Behind the infantry are more than 8,000 Mongolian cavalry.
At the end of the entire team were the five thousand cavalry belonging to the Eight Banners garrisoned in Xi'an.
Yuzhu has an extremely deep understanding of the use of cavalry.
Sending cavalry to attack the enemy's phalanx is a great amateur!
The real role of cavalry is twofold: strong mobility and great fun when chasing down defeated troops!
Classical cold weapon warfare requires all kinds of conspiracies and intrigues.
Modern warfare, in fact, consists of line infantry lining up and shooting after an artillery bombardment.
Objectively speaking, modern armies are basically invincible as long as they are not carelessly ambushed!…