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Chapter 250: Recovering Ili (please subscribe for monthly tickets)

Li Xianzhong was not surprised that Li Shizu's partial division took over Tianshan South Road.

After all, Li Zicheng had lost his support a long time ago, and the guide sent by Abdullah and Song Xiance acted as internal agents.

Not only is the capture of Yarkand a sure thing, it is basically a sure thing!

If you don't count the adventurous attack on Qinghai Lake, this was actually the first time Li Shizu led troops on an expedition.

Coupled with the fact that it was another adventurous surprise attack, Li Xianzhong naturally wanted to do everything possible to protect his son.

The next generation of the Chinese royal family must also have someone who can command the army.

Although these current military governors are loyal to themselves, conquests cannot be completely left to others.

No matter how trustworthy your subordinates are, they are never as reliable as your own son.

The next generation of the royal family is full of talents, which is not a bad thing for these founding heroes.

If the imperial power was not under great threat, which founding king would be willing to kill the heroes and attack the old brothers who conquered the world with him?

Fortunately, the second child did not disappoint him. He achieved such a feat at the age of 14, which can be regarded as a good start.

This path was chosen by Li Xianzhong for him, but it was up to him to decide how to go next.

Although he now controls Tianshan South Road, the situation Li Shizu faces is still not easy.

First, Li Xianzhong's main Chinese force still has not conquered Turpan and cannot immediately enter Tianshan South Road.

Second, after Li Zicheng learned that his lair had been taken away, he would probably give up his entanglement with the Junggar Mongols and come back directly.

Li Shizu understood that his current situation was similar to that of Dashun before. Although more than 3000 Yerqiang troops were willing to accept his dispatch, he only had core troops in his hands.

Once Li Zicheng comes back, there is a high probability that these "grassroots" will return to Li Zicheng's arms.

However, fortunately, Song Xiance, Dashun's military advisor, was helping him organize his internal affairs, and the Yarkand people were relatively stable at present.

Although Li Shizu is not very old, he has received a lot of systematic education since he was a child.

While he sent people to protect the Yarkand royal family in Yarkand City, he also hosted a banquet for the surrounding tribal leaders, promising them that China would come to restore the country on behalf of Abdullah this time.

The Yarkand Khanate will become the protectorate of China in the future, and the Yarkand people still have the final say here.

In addition, he sent people to open the treasury in Yarkand and distributed the gold and silver in the treasury to the leaders of the Yarkand tribe who sent troops to help him capture Yarkand.

This not only won over people's hearts, but also convinced these Yarkand people that China had no intention of directly ruling Yarkand.

Although Li Zicheng also vowed to do so at the beginning, he regarded the materials and money in the treasury as more important than anything else.

If China really intended to directly rule the Yarkand Khanate, Li Shizu would definitely not give them the money and grain in the warehouse.

The leaders of the ministries who had obtained the money, food and supplies naturally had to work with Li Shizu to prevent Li Zicheng's counterattack and liquidation.

This series of operations really impressed Song Xiance around him.

The second prince's political skills were indeed outstanding. He used some of the treasures from the treasury to tightly tie these Yarkand people to him.

Originally, he thought that this raid was just to pave the way for his son to become famous.

Now it seems that even without his secret help, Li Shizu can win Yarkand with his own abilities!

At this time Li Shizu said: "Song Military Advisor, do you know why Chuangni has been unable to swallow the Yarkand Khanate?"

Song Xiance said: "The Yerkang people are not from the same ethnic group as we are in China, and have very different customs. Although Li Zicheng could conquer this place in a short time with force, it would be difficult for the Yerkang people to truly surrender!"

Li Shizu shook his head and said with a smile: "The Mongols and the Yarkands are not the same race, but they can rule here very well."

"Ethnicity is certainly a major obstacle, but Li Zicheng's biggest failure was his failure to integrate into Yarkand's religious beliefs."

"At this time, Yarkand was a khanate dominated by Uighurs who believed in Islam."

“Although Li Zicheng Dashun’s stuff that deceives farmers is not entirely without market, it is far less effective than religion in deceiving people.”

"The reason why the Mongolian Chagatai Khanate, including the previous Ilkhanate, was able to rule these areas for a relatively long time is because they all accepted the religion there, and both sides had a common belief!"

Although he has been in the Western Regions for several years, Song Xiance himself still strongly rejects these religions in Yarkant, let alone Li Zicheng.

Although the religion of the Yarkand Khanate is divided into the White Mountain Sect and the Black Mountain Sect, they all belong to the Islamic Sufi sect.

The founder of the White Mountain Sect is the eldest son of the leader Mahatumu Azam, while the founder of the Black Mountain Sect is the youngest son of Azam. It can be said that this is a sect derived from within the family, but their essences are the same of.

The fight between the two factions is actually a dispute within the family.

Now they have their own supporters, and most of them on Tianshang South Road near the capital Yarkand believe in the Black Mountain sect.

The Kashgar area in the northwest is dominated by the Baishan sect.

This time Li Shizu gave large rewards to tribal leaders who believed in the Black Mountain Sect.

This naturally caused dissatisfaction with the Baishan Sect in the north.

The two sides were originally full of contradictions and fought constantly.

Li Zicheng's invasion made them temporarily put aside their Chen Jian. Now that Li Shizu was provoking it, the Baishan Sect was naturally unwilling to accept it.

Originally, the Black Mountain Faction occupied the Yarkand area of ​​the capital and was stronger than the White Mountain Faction. The White Mountain Faction naturally had to rely on external forces to change this situation.

Li Zicheng, who has become a lost dog, is certainly not their target. The external force they want to rely on is the more powerful Junggar tribe.

As the head of the four Oirat tribes, Junggar now occupies the fertile Ili River Basin, which naturally arouses the jealousy of many people.

That's why they were attacked by the Kazakh Khanate and Li Zicheng.

However, this time Junggar was a blessing in disguise. The joint invasion of Kazakhstan and Li Zicheng not only failed to defeat Junggar, but they completely captured the Ili Valley with the help of Mobei Mongolia.

Due to the tip-off from the Baishan faction in the Yarkand territory, Batur, the leader of the Junggar tribe, received the news that the Chinese had occupied Yarkand and that the Yarkand tribes had announced their defection to the Chinese almost at the same time as Li Zicheng.

The cunning Batur quickly realized that this was a good opportunity to capture Yarkant.

But he was not stupid. He knew that Li Zicheng was more anxious than him at this time.

Li Zicheng, who saw Li Yan at this time, was extremely angry.

Niu Jinxing was already at odds with Li Yan. At this time, he deliberately tried to get angry and said: "Song Xiance was recommended to Your Majesty by Young Master Li. Now that Song Xiance has rebelled, how do you know that Young Master Li is not his accomplice?"

Li Yan glared at Niu Jinxing, and then said: "Although Wei Chen accidentally allowed the Chinese army to kill Shache City, if someone hadn't encouraged your majesty to let Wei Chen send troops north to support, he wouldn't have given Song Xiance, who dedicated the city Chance?"

After hearing this, Niu Jinxing knew that Li Yan had been angered by his success, so he said: "It is His Majesty's order to move Shasha's chariots and horses to the north. You can't stop China's 3 people with horses. How can you blame it?" Your Majesty?"

When he was in Guanzhong before, Li Zicheng was stabbed in the back by Prime Minister Zhong Guangdao and lost Xi'an; now he was sacrificed to Yarkand by Song Xiance, a confidant who had been with him for many years.

To be honest, he also had doubts about Li Yan.

Although Li Yan has been making suggestions since he followed him, he will never give up.

But Zhong Guangdao has been following him for a longer time, and he also has great trust in Song Xiance.

However, he still said: "Master Li will never abandon me and will never betray me; Commander Niu must not make random guesses!" Even though Li Zicheng said this, Niu Jinxing could still see that he had already doubted Li Yan.

However, without conclusive evidence, it is unrealistic for Li Zicheng to kill Li Yan.

So he said: "The morale of the Junggar tribe is now strong. If we withdraw southward like this, Batur will definitely become suspicious; once he gets the news, he will take the opportunity to attack Yarkand, and then we will face a situation where we are attacked from both sides."

"We must send an eloquent envoy to negotiate with Batur to hold back the Junggar cavalry and prevent them from covering up the enemy!"

"Master Li is an eloquent speaker. I think he will be able to complete this arduous task."

Niu Jinxing's move can indeed temporarily prevent the Junggar tribe from pursuing directly south, but if this envoy goes to deceive the Junggar tribe, he will probably be killed by him after the Dongchuang incident.

It was obvious that he wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

Li Zicheng hesitated for a moment, and finally said to Li Yan: "After much thought, I have no choice but to trouble Mr. Li about this matter!"

At this moment, Li Yan felt a little desolate in his heart. He never left Li Zicheng, but he chose to abandon him without hesitation.

No matter what, after all, it is a battle between the king and his ministers.

Li Yan took the red lady to the Junggar camp.

Batur knew the purpose of Li Yan's trip very clearly and knew that he was just here to delay time.

However, he did not expose Li Yan. He also needed Li Zicheng to play the front line for him.

Li Zicheng originally brought 2 troops with the Kazakh Khanate to attack Junggar. After increasing their troops in Mobei Mongolia, they suffered heavy casualties. Now there are only more than troops left.

After returning to Yarkant, he actually had two choices.

One is to support Turpan along the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and join forces with Li Guo's troops there.

The second is to go all the way south to recapture Yarkand City.

Turpan was thousands of miles away, and he might encounter Li Xianzhong's main force, so he naturally did not dare to go.

Soon he led the army south to Yarkand.

Although the Baishan sect in the northern Yarkant region declared their allegiance on the surface, they had long been dissatisfied with Li Shizu's reward and heavy use of the Blackshan sect.

Facing Li Zicheng going south, they naturally gave the green light all the way.

Although he did not "open the city gate to welcome King Chuang", he did not stop Li Zicheng from going south.

At this time, Li Zicheng was not in the mood to get entangled with these Baishan faction. He only wanted to quickly go south to regain Shache City.

In just over twenty days, his troops arrived at the foot of Shache City.

At this time, in Yarkand City, in addition to the 2 Chinese troops, there were also 5 Yarkand Allied Forces led by the Black Mountain Sect.

Originally, Li Shizu wanted to take the initiative to go out of the city to ambush Li Zicheng, but Song Xiance and Zheng Sen disagreed.

Yarkand City has sufficient food and grass, and the people in the city are stable. All they have to do is hold on.

Although Li Shizu was eager to make contributions, he finally followed their suggestions.

Facing the fortified Yarkand City, the Dashun Army, which advanced lightly, had no choice but to build a simple siege ladder on the spot.

They did not have the upper hand in terms of military strength and suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the Chinese army's Lumi gun!

Morale, which was originally low, quickly fell to the extreme.

But Li Zicheng never expected that shortly after he went south, 30,000 elite Junggar troops entered the Yarkand Khanate with the support of the Baishan Sect.

Batur has been stationed north of Li Zicheng's camp for more than ten days.

Although his original plan was to wait until both the offensive and defensive sides were exhausted before suddenly appearing.

But now Li Zicheng has no fighting spirit. If he doesn't take action, he will probably collapse without fighting.

So Batur attacked Li Zicheng directly, which was considered revenge for Li Zicheng's attack on him.

Of course, Li Zicheng knew that the morale of his own army was unstable at this time, and the Chinese army in the city was likely to attack him, so he placed many sentries and dug several trenches in front of the camp.

But he didn't expect that the enemy would come from behind him.

Facing the sneak attack by the Junggar tribe, the Dashun army was almost defeated and soon collapsed completely.

In the end, Li Zicheng only led 800 horses and escaped under the cover of night. With no way out, he had to cross the Congling Mountains and reach the Pamir Plateau.

At this time, Batur, the leader of the Junggar tribe who had defeated Li Zicheng, was in high spirits.

In addition to the 3 Junggar troops, he also has 2 Baishan faction coalition troops.

In his opinion, it would be easy for you to capture Yarkand with an army of 5 people.

5 troops in the Western Region is definitely not a small number.

Even China, which has abundant financial resources, can hardly use more than 5 troops in the Western Regions.

However, Li Shizu was not panicked, and the market in the city was still trading every day.

Except for food, which is controlled, other commodities can still be traded freely.

Although they had the numerical advantage, the Junggar people, who were not good at attacking cities, performed no better than the Dashun army.

Out of religious hatred, the "White Mountain Faction" wearing white hats even personally participated in the siege.

To untie the bell, one must tie the bell. At this time, Li Shizu naturally handed over the important task of resisting the "White Mountain Sect" to the "Black Mountain Sect".

The Chinese soldiers only provided some long-range firepower assistance.

The war has been in a stalemate, but more than two months have passed, and Shache City is still under the control of the Chinese army.

Li Shizu is still waiting, although at this time, Yarkand City cannot get information from the outside world.

But he knew that if the main force of China had not appeared in Shache City at this time, then it must have appeared in the hometown of Junggar.

He didn't believe that Li Guo's mere 2 troops in Turpan could hold off China's main force for so long.

He even suspected that his father deliberately did not advance in time as a test for himself.

In the end, Li Guo of Turpan was no match for China's heavy artillery and led more than 10,000 people to surrender to Li Xianzhong.

Li Shizu had a tacit understanding to attract Li Zicheng and the main force of Junggar to Shache City. Naturally, Li Xianzhong would not miss this opportunity to defeat Junggar in one fell swoop.

When Mobei Mongolia supported the Zhungeer tribe, they had already made their military deployment clear.

Now the main force of Junggar is out.

Li Xianzhong personally led 3 Chinese main forces and 5 Mobei Mongolian coalition forces and soon occupied the North Tianshan Road, taking into account the Junggar Basin and the Ili Valley that he cherished.

When Batur received the news that Yilibaili (today's Ili) had been lost, he fainted with anger.

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