It was called Xuanchi in the Tang Dynasty. The lake is 280 miles long from east to west and 60 miles wide from north to south. It is fed by the Irtysh River and flows out. It is an excellent natural freshwater lake.
This was once a treasure land that was repeatedly fought over by Durbot, Turgut, Junggar, Kazakhs and even Nogai, Khalkha, Chagatai and Yarkand.
At this time, this treasured land that had been assigned to Dulbert by the Emperor of Heaven, the lush grassland by the lake, was filled with Junggar cavalry.
Chu Hu'er was sitting in the big tent by the lake, holding a knife in her hand to cut meat, and eating deliciously.
"Bagabandi Huitaiji is very good at Burqin Fort now. My family, Zhu Changshi, treats him like a distinguished guest. This is his personal letter to Jinong. Jinong should consider it carefully."
Chu Hu'er picked off all the meat on the bones, and finally took the clean big bone and punched it a few times. The big bone broke into two pieces and the marrow inside was exposed. He picked it up and sucked it clean, wiping his mouth.
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"What you said, think carefully, are you asking me to betray my elder brother and betray the Junggar Khanate?"
Sitting opposite him was a young man, wearing a Mongolian robe, but his hair was not braided, but tied up. He did not touch the large pot of tender beef in front of him, and just drank a few sips of milk tea.
"No Yan is wrong. This is not about betraying Junggar, but saving Junggar. Heduo and Qin are your eldest brothers and Junggar Khan. He is very capable and ambitious. Your Majesty also admires him very much, but his
He is too ambitious and inappropriate for the time. Now he has taken the wrong path. If he continues to go further and further down the wrong path, the entire Junggar Khanate will be dragged down by him, and he may even follow in the footsteps of Jianlu or Yarkand.
Noyan is also a Junggar and a highly respected member of the Choros family. Do you want to watch Heduo and Qin bury the Junggars?"
Chu Huer bluntly said to the Ming envoy, "We in Junggar, even Oirat, and even the Mongolian tribes all admired Emperor Shaotian who was able to turn the tide and revive the Ming Dynasty. All tribes respected him as a holy man.
sweat,
But now our Junggar tribe has been treated unfairly, and the emperor has gone back on his promise, which makes all the Junggar people very angry. At the beginning, we respected the emperor and obeyed the emperor's arrangements. Not only did we allow Dulbert and Huite, who were dependent on us, to stand on their own, we also made Tal.
Everything north of Bahatai Mountain was given to the Dulbert people.
They even gave up a lot of territory east of Lake Balkash to Jorut Chechen Khan. These were agreed to exchange for Uzbekistan, Tu, and Kazakhstan in eastern Xinjiang, and they also agreed to destroy Yarkand and Aksu together in the future.
Many places also belong to our Junggar.
The emperor said that the Ming Dynasty would not enter the Western Regions as long as it had the old territory of the Seven Guards in Guanxi.
But the truth is, the emperor lied to us and treated us Junggar people like monkeys.
The emperor not only robbed Hami himself, but also made the governor of Turpan in Yarkand proclaim himself the Khan. Not only did he not allow us to attack Junggar, he also sent people and weapons to help them establish a static army and help them strengthen Manasburg. Now he has used this trick again
When it comes to Dulbert, let me ask, which Dzungar person can’t be angry?”
The young man remains calm.
"The Baishan faction in Hami rioted, and the situation suddenly changed. We, the Ming Dynasty, also changed the situation in order to stabilize the situation in Hami and surrounding areas. We quickly sent troops to Hami, calmed the Baishan faction in time, and recovered Hami. We defeated Hami, and we also sacrificed for it.
There were a lot of casualties, weren’t they?”
Chu Huer sneered twice. Everyone knew the specific details, but it was hard to put them on the table and explain them clearly. Now that Ming is saying this, he is pretending to be confused and disgusting.
But this matter was due to Junggar's lack of integrity and it violated the covenant, so it was difficult to explain clearly.
"As for Amulun Khan, we made it very clear during our alliance that we would join forces to destroy the Yarkand and stabilize the Western Regions. Amulun is the brother of Turpan Khan and the local governor with real power. Previously, the Ming Dynasty organized Oirat to join forces to defeat Utuha, and the Ming Dynasty
You provided not only intelligence but also guns, cannons, gunpowder, etc., so you did a great job, right? Afterwards, did you also take charge of various ministries and hand over these three places to you?"
"Did you take over the three places? In the end, they rioted and you were driven away. This is your failure, right?
Now that Amulun is willing to abandon Yerkang and join the Ming Dynasty, doesn't this also help the alliance to destroy Yerkang?"
Chu Hu'er didn't want to argue, "Of course Amulun can surrender, and the alliance can accept it, but he cannot establish himself as Khan. He can continue to be the governor, but after surrender, Eastern Xinjiang should still be ruled by the Junggar Khanate."
"We once handed over Eastern Xinjiang to you Junggar, but you lost it soon. Now the emperor is personally in charge of the Western Region, commanding the coalition forces to destroy Yarkand. When Amulun came to surrender, one of his conditions was that he would only surrender to the Ming Dynasty instead of
He surrendered to Junggar, and he asked to make himself Khan."
"Then you will betray us Dzungars?"
"This is not called selling out, it's about the overall situation."
"The overall situation is bullshit. This is just a deliberate attempt to suppress us Junggar people. Everyone can see it."
The young man smiled and was not worried.
But to remind Chu Huer that now is not the time to fight about these things, but to face reality. The reality is that Junggar is indeed in trouble now. Four khanates surround the Junggar Khanate, and the Ming Dynasty has also entered the Western Regions. The Junggar people find themselves surrounded by
They were deceived, and now they want to resist, but they can't break free. They couldn't capture Manas City from Turpan Khan, and now things are not going well for Dulbert.
Tens of thousands of men and horses were plundering everywhere, but Dulbert and Shuoqi Khan personally led the men and horses across the river. The two sides fought in chaos for hundreds of miles from Zhaisangbo to Fuhai on the south bank.
This time Junggar actually did not take advantage of anything.
Although the Han navy was stationed at Babuzin Fort and did not attack, the Durbots received a lot of equipment from the Ming army, such as muskets and artillery. Those small cannons that could be carried by camels and horses didn't seem big, but they
Under the command of the Ming army's instructors and staff, a camel artillery array and a cavalry artillery battalion were set up. Several thousand people from both sides fought against each other, but the Dzungar cavalry actually failed to win.
Previously, Bagabandi was attacked at the Gurun River, and almost all five thousand forwards were wiped out. Chu Huer suffered another setback in Fuhai. Although the losses were not large, the morale was greatly affected.
Instead, they headed north to plunder, only to suffer repeated defeats.
Now the princes and princes of Junggar, Taiji, cannot help but be shaken.
There are twelve Otoks in Junggar, who are subordinates of the Khan. Each Taiji also has its own subordinate Angji, and there is also a Saiji dedicated to lamas.
The Twelve Otok of Junggar, the Twenty-one Angji and the Nine Sai Collections.
There are also the new Twelve Otoks. The old and new Otoks add up to more than 88,000 tents. The Twenty-one Angji has one hundred and five thousand tents. The Jiuji Sai has more than 6,000 lamas and more than 10,000 subordinates.
The accounts belong to the people, and there are more than 200,000 accounts in total.
In terms of strength, it is still very strong. Although Dulbert and Whitt split off and lost a lot of people, the territory is still large and the population is large.
Once upon a time, after several generations of hard work, the Junggars became the dominant hegemon in the Tianshan Mountains. Although they were not the leader of the Oirat alliance, their strength was far superior to that of the other tribes. They forced the Turghuts to move westward, and the Heshuotes went to Qinghai-Tibet, and annexed most of the Turbets.
, that means punching the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and kicking the north of the western desert.
But this time they actually encountered a setback in Turpan first, and then failed to defeat Dulbert. Everyone couldn't understand.
They had to consider the reality that with the support of the Ming Dynasty, those former defeated generals were now growing in strength by leaps and bounds. If the Ming Dynasty directly sent troops to intervene, the consequences would be more serious.
Young people provide Chu Hu'er. Junggar's current road is impassable. Batur Khan and Duo Heqin are now burying Junggar. Chu Hu'er is Batur Khan's brother and the most powerful one outside of Junggar Batur Khan.
If he is willing to loyally submit to the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty is willing to give Junggar another way to go.
"As long as Jinong can be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, then the saint will canonize Jinong as the new Junggar Khan and give the Khan the title of Mergen. Only Heduo and Qin are guilty. After the war is over, Junggar can also restore peace and resume trade.
Why not?"
Chu Huer asked the young man directly, "It's tempting to let me do the sweating. What will it cost me? I believe there is no such thing as pie in the sky."
"The saints are all for the stability and unity of the Khanates in the Western Regions. We hope that the Junggar Khanate can still abide by the boundaries of the previous covenant and be able to keep up with the Turpan Khanate and Durbot Khanate in the future."
Chu Huer stared directly at the Han envoy, "That means that as long as I am willing to accept the reality, then the emperor will let me replace my brother as Junggar Khan? Do you want me to admit to giving up Eastern Xinjiang?"
"The Ming Dynasty will also give you compensation. The area north of Talbahatai Mountain was originally assigned to Dulbert, but now the sage intends to assign the west of Zhaisang Lake to the Junggar Khanate, and the Bugush River in the southwest of the lake is used as the east-west boundary.
The northwest part of the lake is bounded by the Irtysh River, with Dulbert in the north and the Junggar Khanate in the south.
The Aigus River Basin northeast of the Balkhash River is also assigned to you Junggar, and the Dagandile River is used as the boundary between the Junggar Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate.
Zhaisang Lake, west of the Bugush River, Balkash Lake, north of the Dagandile River, and south of the Irtysh River are all assigned to your Junggar Khanate. If you have the ability, you can follow the Irtysh River
The west bank of the Si River is expanding all the way downstream. If we can reach the city of Omsk controlled by Tsarist Russia, it will be your fault, and the land captured will belong to you."
Chu Huer's eyes were uncertain, he was thinking.
This time the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty opened an opening for the Junggars in the northwest corner and did not completely surround them. The original boundary drawn by the Junggars was to the west of the Aegos River and Lake Balkash, and to the west was the Kazakh Khanate.
The northern boundary is Talbachatai Mountain, and everything north of the mountain belongs to Dulbert.
These two khanates, one in the west and one in the north, blocked the west side of Junggar. Originally, Junggar was willing to give up expansion in the west and expand to the east. After all, the east was better and could develop into southern Xinjiang.
As a result, the emperor reneged on his promise and conferred the title of Turpan Khan, which blocked their way to the east, creating a deadlock situation where they were besieged on all sides.
Today, the northeastern border of Junggar is the Shatuoqi Desert, the southeastern border is the Manas River, and the southern border is the Talqi Mountain and the Erlinghabirga Mountain.
Now the emperor is opening up the fence and not allowing them to advance eastward. He is allowing them to expand northwest along the west bank of the Irtysh River and develop in colder and more backward places. He is even letting them compete for land with the Tsarist Russians.
A good move can divert disaster to the east.
But for the current Junggar, this seems to be a way out, and for Chu Huer, it seems very tempting to replace his brother Batur Khan and let him take charge of the Junggar.
"Is my son really alive?"
"Isn't Jinong not familiar with his handwritten letter, and he also gave you a personal letter of credit."
Chu Huer was moved, but she didn't agree immediately.
"It would be very difficult for me to kill each other and use weapons against each other."
The young man still smiled, but he didn't think so in his heart. When Chu Hu'er was young, his father was still alive, and he robbed his dead brother's inheritance. He also fought with another brother, and finally chopped that brother off. Dad and the eldest brother
He refused to listen to his advice, and finally forced his father and brother to lead an army to attack, so he went to bring in foreign aid. The father and son brothers fought a civil war for several years, until after his father died, Batur took the initiative to reconcile.
With this kind of experience, who would believe what he said.
But Chu Huer still said clearly: "At most, I can not intervene in the war between the emperor and Batur Khan, but I will not attack my brother. If the emperor can agree to this condition and return my son,
I can immediately withdraw with my troops."
The Han envoy smiled.
On the surface, Chu Hu'er was upright and righteous, and there was nothing wrong with killing each other, but at such a critical moment, she had to withdraw her troops and watch. This was still betrayal.
"I will go back and report immediately and strive for an early reply. However, I suggest that Jinong can lead his troops to withdraw to the west now to avoid harming innocent people. It would be bad if he was accidentally injured, right?"
