The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 519 Waiting for the rabbit
Just as the battle raged in Kucha, with cannons roaring and fighting in full swing, beacon towers stretching for dozens of miles outside the city were successively lit.

The Kansai army, however, turned a blind eye to all of this.

What the Hu people didn't know was that the other side already knew that these beacon towers left over from the Tang Dynasty were still well preserved.

In their words, they are not afraid of reinforcements coming, but they are afraid of reinforcements not coming.

It's much easier to have someone come to you proactively than to have them come to you and you have to fight them.

Isn't that more convenient!

Men from several nearby small towns who could ride horses all came.

However, their weaponry was inferior to that of the archer cavalry of Kucha, and most of them only had bows for hunting.

Facing firearms is a sure way to get yourself killed!
From firing the first shot to starting to clean up the battlefield, it only took one morning.

What terrified the captured Achim Beg was that these killing gods, after annihilating 20,000 archer cavalry and more than 30,000 strong herdsmen, did not rush westward.

They seemed to be waiting for someone.

What are you waiting for?

Are they waiting for the Yongtai court to send a high-ranking official to take over?

Or maybe.
Suddenly, Achimbek shouted:
"This is bad! These Kansai troops are waiting for reinforcements from the Dzungar Khanate! No wonder they ignored the beacon fires."

They wanted to be the hunters who waited by the tree stump for the rabbit to run into their heads!
Unfortunately, by the time he realized it, it was too late.

Hundreds of miles away, sentries from the Junggar tribe spotted the smoke signals coming from the city of Kucha, seeking help.

The tribal chief is already on his way to Kucha City with his troops.
Inside the Kansai Army's main tent.

The scout leader was recounting specific information about the Dzungar Tatar tribe in western Mongolia:

"The current leader of the Dzungar tribe is thirty-seven years old this year. Before the age of twenty-five, he was a monk in Ü-Tsang. When he was twenty-five, the original leader of the Dzungar tribe (his half-brother) was killed by his political enemies, and the Western Tatar forces were torn apart and plunged into chaos."

With the support of thousands of monks, he defeated all his political enemies and became the current leader of the Dzungar tribe.

It took him another ten years to unify dozens of tribes of the Western Tatars. The monks of Tibet called him Lama Khan and held him in high esteem.

Perhaps because we successively defeated the Tatars of the Northern and Southern Gobi Deserts, the Dzungar Khanate has purchased a considerable number of smoothbore muskets from the Russians to equip their cavalry. This Lama Khan currently commands approximately 80,000 cavalry and tens of thousands of firearms.” (The generals continued:)
"Tsk tsk, compared to Shache, which is thousands of miles away, the Junggar tribe is more suitable to be our formidable enemy in Kansai."

"Will they come? Knowing that the Angmen have destroyed the Tatars of the Southern and Northern Deserts, even if they had 180,000 cavalry, let alone 80,000, they would still be no match for the Angmen!"

"And the monasteries of Ü-Tsang! The monks' fighting prowess should not be underestimated! We must guard against a pincer attack from both the Tatars and the Tibetans!"

"Tsk, if those civil officials in the court find out, won't they scold us for stirring up a hornet's nest? Minister Xiong will have to take the blame for us again!"

"Old Gu, what you're saying is ridiculous. We didn't start the war with the Dzungar tribe. If they come to support the Hu people of Kucha, they're making an enemy of us!"

In recent years, friction between Kansai and the Western Tatars has never ceased.

However, the Tatars' entourages that came to plunder never returned, and their attempts to probe the enemy's territory all ended in failure.

Even worse, after each probing attempt, the herds of horses and sheep of some tribes deep in the grasslands would mysteriously disappear.

In short, none of the dozens of tribes of the Western Tatars ever gained an advantage over the Guanzhong Army.

I wonder if they will dare to come to the aid of Kucha this time.

Anyone who could cause such a commotion in Kucha must be the Kansai Army!

General Gan's expectations for his subordinates can be summarized in a powerful and authoritative way:

"Come on, it would be great if the Western Tatars and the Tibetans came! I, the general, will have plenty of ammunition to entertain them!"

Having our own weapons research and development and manufacturing capabilities makes all the difference.

When the Great General's Cannon and the Second General's Cannon went to war, it was as if they didn't care about money.

Despite the fact that the Jungar tribe's cavalry's mount configuration was based on "lightweight + multiple horses rotating," which fully utilized the mobility advantage of nomadic cavalry, they also used camels, firearms, and other special means.

However, they encountered the most powerful firearms suppression of the Yongtai Dynasty.

Within firing range, how can a horse outrun a cannonball?
Artillery shells, shotgun shells, and incendiary bombs were used in turn.

The leader of the Junggar tribe, who personally led the expedition to investigate, was so overwhelmed by the attack before he even got close to Kucha City that he was left bewildered and questioning his existence.