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Chapter 572 Situation Reversal
The Kuqa city guard put on his helmet, only showing a pair of sharp eyes.In front of him, thousands of soldiers of the Yarkand Khanate gathered at the city gate.Some of them held spears, some held bows and arrows, and there were hundreds of cavalry, but there were very few Yarkand soldiers with muskets in their hands.

"Soldiers and soldiers, the Central Plains people support the hateful Jungar tribe. They want to help them destroy our Yarkand Khanate, plunder our food and population, and turn us into their pasture. Do you think we can agree?!" The guard of Kuqa City, wearing western-style armor, gave a speech to a group of soldiers below.

"No!" Thousands of soldiers of the Yarkand Khanate shouted loudly holding up various weapons.For them, the Zhungeer tribe and the Central Plains army are evil heretics, foreign invaders!
"There are a thousand Central Plains cavalry outside the city. They bully us with backward weapons, show off their power outside the city, trample on our crops, rob our cattle and sheep, and run amok. They really think we have a good temper!!" The Kuqa city guard drew out the long sword at his waist, raised it high and shouted.

"Go out of the city and drive the Central Plains army out of the Tarim!" Several Yarkand officers took the lead in shouting at the right time.

"Drive the Central Plains army out of Tarim!" The Yarkand soldiers were mobilized and waved their weapons.

"Open the city gate!" The Kuqa defender personally commanded thousands of defenders to fight out of Kuqa City. This was the first counterattack since the Yarkand Khanate suffered an attack!
In the southwest direction of Kuqa City, the vanguard of five thousand Yarkand cavalry had already appeared, otherwise the Kuqa defender would not dare to bring the defenders in the city out at this time.

The two Yarkand troops together numbered tens of thousands.

"They really want to take the opportunity to destroy us." Wu Keshan was also ready, and when he saw the Yarkand army launching a counterattack, he responded accordingly, "We will retreat while fighting."

The more than 1000 Monan cavalry gathered quickly, and shot back from time to time in front of Yarkand who was chasing them.

Two or 300 years ago, the Mongolian cavalry used the tactics of flying kites, bows and arrows and the flexible mobility of the cavalry to drag down many powerful enemies. Now Wu Keshan took out the old tactics of his ancestors to deal with the Yarkands, but replaced the bows and arrows with A new rifle with a longer range.Moreover, the Dreiser rifle is a breech-loading rifle, and the Monan cavalry has learned to load on horseback after training.

This time it was the turn of the Yarkand cavalry and the Yarkand defenders to suffer. They were eating bullets behind the Monan cavalry!The Monan cavalry kept a certain distance from them to prevent them from catching up, but this distance was within the range of the Monan cavalry's rifles, which could completely kill the Yarkand cavalry behind them.

Seeing Yarkand knights falling from their horses in front of him from time to time, the Kuqa guard felt terrified, and couldn't help slowing down, letting the soldiers who were cannon fodder go up and take the bullets.The stray bullets of the Monan cavalry are frightening, and they will fly from somewhere from time to time, taking away a fresh life.

Wu Keshan led more than 1000 cavalry to fight and retreat. When they retreated to the Luntai area, the speed of the Monan cavalry gradually slowed down.

Seeing the slowing down of the enemy's speed, the Yarkand generals thought that the Monan cavalry was exhausted and the distance between the two sides was shortening!If the two sides turned into a hand-to-hand battle, then the Yarkand army, which has ten times the strength, has absolute confidence that it can defeat the Monan cavalry.

"They are exhausted, rush up and finish them all!" The Kuqa guard pointed his long sword at the gradually enlarged Monan cavalry.

Thousands of Yarkand cavalry shouted in their mouths, urging their horses to roar, and wanted to wipe out the annoying cavalry outside the city at this critical moment.

However, when they gradually approached, they found that the number of Monan cavalry they were chasing was increasing, and the Monan cavalry was turning around...

"Damn it, their reinforcements are here!" the Kuqa guard noticed this terrible fact, and hurriedly shouted to his subordinates.

The commander of the Yarkand cavalry who led the Khan cavalry was also pale, and hurriedly ordered the cavalry to retreat.

The Yarkand cavalry, which was in the pursuit formation, suddenly fell into chaos and retreated in disgrace.

The infantry in Kuqa City farther back looked bewildered. They didn't see the reinforcements from the Monan cavalry arriving, they only saw their cavalry companions retreating for some reason.

"What happened?!" The infantry general stood up and shouted.

"The main force of the Central Plains cavalry has arrived, retreat to Kuqa City!" The galloping cavalry roared past the group of infantry on both sides, bringing bad news.

"Retreat...retreat!" The infantry general wanted to die at this moment, feeling that he had been betrayed, how could the infantry outrun the enemy's four-legged cavalry after leaving the city!
"Kill!" The members of the Monan Cavalry Regiment who came to reinforce in time shouted loudly and launched a charge, and [-] elite cavalry roared past like a torrent of steel.

This cavalry circled around the flustered Yarkand infantry on both sides, forming a large siege on the Yarkand infantry. The Yarkand infantry could only watch helplessly as they were surrounded by tens of thousands of cavalry.But their allies, the high cavalry, fled before the battle.

The general of the Yarkand infantry was about to cry at this time, the battle was impossible, only the infantry he led did not run out, and the situation reversed too quickly!
No one expected the reversal of the situation in Kuche City, even Xu Shi and Sun Chuanting did not expect that they would get such a result by urging the Monan Cavalry Regiment to go south to support Wu Keshan, and Wu Keshan did not expect that his subordinates really arrived in time The wheel platform was defeated, and this unexpected counterattack was achieved.

"Strike Kuqa City!" Xu Shi saw that the timing was rare, so he gave up his usual conservative approach and ordered the Seventh Corps to storm Kuqa City after the Monan cavalry raided!
The panicked Yarkand cavalry didn't even have time to enter Kuqa City, and was driven southwest by the Monan cavalry.

The infantry annexed city of Kuqa lost its last remaining force, and the [-]th Corps entered the city without even firing its cannon.

In just half a day, Kuqa City was declared to have fallen.

Yarkand Khan Abdullah, who led the remaining main force of Yarkand, heard the defeat ahead, and after a while of silence, he returned to the city of Yarkand with the main force and the defeated cavalry, and then sent envoys to the Kyushu Army to visit him. Xu style.

In Siberia in the north, the main force of the pioneering regiment who took the grassland route from Lake Baikal has successively conquered Yenisesk and other fortresses arranged by Tsarist Russia in Siberia, and approached Tomsk in the upper reaches of the Ob River.This fortress built by the Cossacks, the original Zhungeer tribe tried to destroy it more than once, but failed.Now it has become a fortress that must be captured by the Kyushu Army's westward expedition.

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