Dalai Khan panicked and led troops to resist. He was the most outstanding military ability among the descendants of Gushi Khan. His battle of marching thousands of miles from Kham, overcoming difficulties and avenging his father, is a classic.
However, at this time, although the Heshuote Mongolian army showed a brave and tenacious fighting will, the Dashun army also performed unsatisfactory due to its long march and its inability to adapt to the climate of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
but.
At the critical moment of the battle between the two armies, a large number of rebellions by monks and lay nobles in the snowy area broke out behind the Dalai Khan.
Affected by this, the army of the Heshuote Khanate was in chaos. The Shun army, which had just been repulsed by the Mongolian army during the day, decided after discussion that Milayin and Ma Ke would personally lead the army. That night, they took advantage of the darkness to
Attack the Mongolian army camp with all their strength.
Ma Ke's deputy general, General Guo Yi, Zhang Guowu, led his troops into a fierce battle and broke through several camps of the Heshuote Army in the dark, causing the enemy troops to flee in droves.
Milayin repeated his old tricks and used the same tactics he used to defeat Gushi Khan, severely injuring the Dalai Khan again. The Hoshuote Mongolian army was attacked in the dark and was immediately defeated. Many of the remaining troops were intercepted and harassed by the Tibetan army along the way. Basically,
completely annihilated.
Only the Dalai Khan led more than ten cavalry to flee the Western Regions and defected to the leader of the Junggar Tribe, Sengge Taiji, and continued to be enemies of the Dashun Army.
After the demise of the Khoshot Khanate, the Shun Dynasty restored the ruling power of the Dalai system in the Snow Region. However, at the same time, in order to strengthen the power of the Dalai system and maintain the military intervention power of the Shun Army, Li Laiheng promoted the rule of the Snow Region of the Diba System.
The power of local nobles.
Dibaben was the steward of the Dalai Lama. He gradually evolved from the daily life manager of the religious leader in the snow area to the de facto head of the administrative system in the snow area.
At this time, after receiving the support of Shun Dynasty's military power, he even planned to become king.
However, Li Laiheng had no intention of supporting Diba's intention to replace the Dalai Lama. In addition to using military coercion to support several religious leaders in the snowy area, Dashun also established vassals within the Diba system, making people from all over the snowy area
Local nobles could enter Lhasa Diba to govern, which actually turned Diba into a system similar to that of the Shun Dynasty, which eliminated the possibility of one person holding power arbitrarily.
In addition, Li Laiheng also appointed Milayin as the governor of the Tibetan Dudufu, and left 3,000 elite Shun troops to temporarily station in the snow area to maintain Dashun's military presence.
However, Milayin was a Muslim and was not supported by monks and laymen from all walks of life in the snowy area. Later, when Dashun sent troops to attack Junggar, the leader of the Junggar tribe, Sengge Taiji, secretly instructed his younger brother Geerdan, who was studying Buddhism in the snowy area, to contact him.
The monks and laymen from all walks of life in the snow area raised troops to drive away the Shun army. After assassinating Milayin, they also killed more than 2,000 Shun army soldiers.
From then on, until the generals Li Maoheng and Zhang Guowu led their troops into Tibet to capture and kill Galdan, the Qinghai-Tibet area fell into the hands of the Junggar tribe, which once became a serious problem for the Shun Dynasty.
Li Laiheng also learned from the failure of setting up the Tibet Governor's Office, and instead adopted the method of stripping off the snowy areas to weaken Tibet. In addition to merging all of Qinghai into Gansu Province, he also merged all Kham areas into Sichuan Province.
The war that destroyed Dashun and the Heshuote Khanate also shocked the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. The old Heshuote tribe that had been left behind by Gushi Khan in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains were all shocked when they heard the bad news.
The leader of the Junggar Tribe, Nengge Taiji, also seized this opportunity to strengthen the relationship between the Oirat Alliance on the grounds of jointly resisting the expansion of the Shun Army. The Junggar Tribe and the remnants of the Heshuote tribe remaining in the Tianshan area, in order to compete for the Oirat Alliance
The struggle for supreme leadership has also reached a fever pitch.
In the end, the Junggar tribe and the remnants of the Heshuote tribe met with swords. After a great battle, the remnants of the Heshuote tribe were completely defeated. The Junggar tribe successfully integrated the Mongolian tribes, and its strength greatly increased.
However, some of the remaining Heshuote troops who were defeated by Sengge Taiji fled to Jiayuguan and defected to Shun Dynasty through the Hami area occupied by the Yarkand Khanate.
At that time, the general Guo Junzhen had returned to Beijing due to illness. Zhou Zuoding, who was then the Northwest Economic Envoy, decided to accept the defeated troops of Heshuo's special tribe, so he ordered generals Ma Ke and Zhao Zilao to lead troops out of Jiayuguan to meet Heshuo.
The special forces were defeated.
As a result, the Shun army was attacked by soldiers and horses of the Yarkand Khanate just after leaving Jiayuguan and entering the territory of Hami. Previously, when the defeated troops of Heshuote ran eastward through the Tarim Basin, they had already had many conflicts with the Yarkand Khanate.
Now the Yarkand Khanate was preparing to raise troops to destroy the remnants of the Heshuote tribe, and actually attacked together with the Shun Dynasty army.
Ma Ke and Zhao Zilao immediately fought back and fought hard day and night. Because they were not familiar with the geographical environment of the Western Regions, the Shun army suffered heavy losses. Thousands of people died of hunger and thirst along the way, and they paid a heavy price.
Only then did he successfully withdraw into the pass with the remaining Heshuote troops.
The defeat of Hami once again aroused public controversy in the court of Shun Dynasty.
Many ministers believed that the gains and losses in the Western Regions had nothing to do with the Central Plains, and that so much effort should not be wasted to compete with the Junggar Tribe and the Heshuote Tribe for the Western Regions. They even wrote a letter saying that the defeat of Hami was because God was tired of war and was a warning from God that Dashun could no longer do so.
The war continues.
But there are also many heroes who are concerned about the safety of Shaanxi. They all believe that Hami's gains and losses are related to the stability of the northwest, and the stability of the northwest is related to the safety of these heroes' hometowns.
The political energy of the honorable ministers was much stronger than those of the officials. Li Laiheng was endorsed and supported by many honorable ministers from Shaanxi. He was full of confidence. He immediately ordered Liu Fangliang to be the general of the expedition to replace the injured soldiers who returned to Beijing.
Guo Junzhen left Gansu and began to deploy operations to recapture Hami.
The Yarkand Khanate had already fallen into a serious sectarian struggle at this time. As early as the period of Abdul Kerim Khan, the "Hezhuo" faction of Tianfang Islam began to enter the Yarkand Khanate.
After Mahima Khan, the son of Abdul Kerim Khan, succeeded to the throne, Hezhuo, the Black Mountain sect, received strong support from the Khan. This sect developed rapidly in the Yarkand Khanate. Later, the White Mountain sect also entered the country and asked for a share.
The power of the Montenegrin faction. The conflicts between the two factions became increasingly acute, and even bloody fights broke out.
Later, the Black Mountain faction supported Ismayel as Yarkand Khan. Ismail Khan suppressed the White Mountain faction. The leaders of the White Mountain faction, Apak and Zhuo, fled to Tibet via Kashmir. The Dalai Lama then surrendered Apak and Zhuo to Shun.
towards.
After the conquest general Liu Fangliang found this rare commodity, he ordered the general Zhao Zilao. Kang Dayan led the army to escort Apak and Zhuo and marched into the Yarkand Khanate. Junggar also took advantage of the Yarkand Khanate to concentrate its forces to fight.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the army's western expedition, they launched a massive attack and captured the entire Ili Valley area.
Since the Shun army used the slogan of protecting Apak and Zhuo Jianzheng, many believers in the Baishan sect within the Yarkand Khanate raised troops to respond. The Khan's army was defeated and was captured by Zhao Zilao a few months later.
Dedicate the prison palace to Tokyo.
After the fall of Yarkand, a large power vacuum appeared in the Western Regions. The Junggar tribe took the opportunity to expand in all directions and clashed one after another with the Shun army temporarily stationed near Hami.
Li Laiheng, who originally intended to completely destroy the Junggar tribe and completely take over the Western Regions, immediately authorized Liu Fangliang to attack Zhun Quanquan and start a new and massive war.