Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1291
The addition of the Khanate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva brought almost all the forces in the entire Central Asian region into the Russian army's Eastern Expedition War.

Of course, these two Khanates are not looking for trouble for no reason.Bukhara is because of the trade with the Kingdom of Jin. He occupies the trade node of Samarkand, and the taxes alone are very impressive. In addition to taxes, he can resell the goods of the Kingdom of Jin and the Mughals, and become a second-hand trafficker who makes money lying down. .

The unimpeded trade routes allowed the originally very poor Bukhara Khanate to taste the sweetness, especially the royal family and nobles, who made huge profits. The Russian army affected the trade, and they were very dissatisfied.

The smooth flow of trade routes is closely related to the interests of the Bukhara Khanate, so Abdullah Aziz Khan was willing to lead the army after receiving the request for help.

As for the Khiva Khanate, he was oppressed in Central Asia and was once destroyed by Bukhara. The Russians promised them benefits and promised to transfer the pastures along the Syr Darya after defeating Yuzi and Mongolia. , also give them a piece.

Russia's proposal was in the arms of the Khiva Khanate. They decided to use the Russian army to defeat their competitors in Central Asia, so the Khiva Khanate led troops to help.

Soon the forces in Central Asia were divided into two groups, one group stood on the side of Yuzi, and the other group fought on the side of Russia. However, it is clear that Russia's national image is not very good, it is aggressive and has fewer friends.

Fortunately, the Khiva Khanate led 2 people to help the war, otherwise it would be a shame to be alone.

When the two sides were fighting fiercely near the city of Hengluosi, and the situation was clearly leaning towards the Russian side, Sun Kewang finally returned to the Western Regions, accompanied by [-] cavalry led by King Wu Sangui of Shu.

The Kingdom of Jin used the soldiers of Xinmu to confuse the Ming Dynasty's elaboration. Wu Sangui led [-] cavalry, did not enter the Guanzhong through Dasan Pass, and then turned westward, but went west from Hanzhong to Longyou to avoid the Ming Dynasty. eyes and ears, detour into the Western Regions.

Sun Kewang didn't stay in Chang'an for a long time, and he didn't show up at the court meeting. After inviting soldiers and horses, he left Chang'an immediately.

On June [-], in the city of Dundo.

Sengge and Yuzi's letters asking for help were sent to Sun Kewang's case.After Sun Kewang finished reading it, he handed it to Wu Sangui and said, "The King of Shu can take a look."

Wu Sangui took the letter, unfolded it and read it for a while, it was full of words such as danger and emergency and cold lips and teeth.

After reading it, Wu Sangui returned the letter to Sun Kewang, and couldn't help asking: "In this letter, Seng Ge and Yuzi Khan said that the situation is very urgent. It seems that if I don't send reinforcements, they will die immediately. Quite a few, are the Rakshasa people really that powerful?"

Wu Sangui's title is one level higher than Sun Kewang's, but the Western Regions are run by Sun Kewang, and the situation is much more familiar than him, and he provoked this matter, so this time the Kingdom of Jin dispatched troops, it was Sun Kewang and not Wu Sangui who was in charge.

Sun Kewang smiled and said: "It's impossible to die immediately, they just want us to send troops as soon as possible. But the Raksha people are really powerful, and I'm afraid they won't lose to the Five Loyalty Army, so the King of Shu must not be careless."

Wu Sangui frowned when he heard that he was as elite as the Wuzhong Army. He had trained in Hanzhong for many years just to defend against the Ming army. Unexpectedly, his first battle in Hanzhong was not against the Ming army, but against the irrelevant Raksha people.

However, since Sun Kewang said that the combat power of the Raksha people is comparable to that of the Ming army, then he can just practice his hands and see how his soldiers and horses are. "Well, when shall we send troops?"

Although Sun Kewang reminded him not to underestimate the enemy carelessly, Wu Sangui still didn't take the Raksha people seriously in his heart, thinking that they were just stronger barbarians.

Furthermore, he was a little worried about the Ming Dynasty in the east, and wanted to quickly settle the matter in the west, so that he could feel at ease when he returned to Hanzhong.

Seeing his appearance, Sun Ke didn't want to say much. He pondered for a while and said, "I sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that reinforcements are coming from Guanzhong, and let them hold on for a while. According to the observation of the scout who delivered the letter, Yuzi moved here. Relying on the city of Hengluosi and relying on the terrain, they formed a character-shaped formation. Although the Raksha people have the upper hand, they will not be able to defeat them for a while. We You can continue to rest for a few days."

Wu Sangui couldn’t help showing a knowing smile on his face when he heard this. The icing on the cake is hard for others to remember. Only sending carbon in the snow can make people think well for a lifetime. Besides, the expansion of the Kingdom of Jin to the west, Mongolia and Yuzi being too strong are not conducive to the Kingdom of Jin control over them.

Sun Kewang really meant the same thing. He didn't have many people in the Western Regions. If he wanted to control Central Asia, his kindness would not be enough, so he had to weaken Yuzi's strength.

Ever since the Qing Dynasty was calculated, the Kingdom of Jin has had this tradition of calculating people, but it is still unknown whether it calculated others, or like Hauge calculated that Sichuan was lost.

The two were talking, when Li Qichen suddenly came in to report: "My lord, the king of Shu, the spies report that Yuzi has drawn all the 15-year-old and 50-year-old men in Julan City to the front line."

Sun Kewang and Wu Sangui couldn't help looking at each other, he narrowed his eyes, and said to Wu Sangui: "King of Shu, the time has come! Please also ask the King of Shu to lead the cavalry first, and I will lead the infantry to arrive later."

Both children and the elderly were transferred, so Yuzi was really desperate.Sun Kewang wants to make Yuzi weaker so that he can control it. It is best to first accept it as a vassal state like the Ming Dynasty, and then wait for the right opportunity to annex it, but he doesn't want them to be too weak, at least they must be able to contribute to the Jin Kingdom.

On that day, Wu Sangui led an army of [-] troops and galloped forward along the Silk Road, and Sun Kewang also led an army of [-] infantry, and then went west.

At noon on the seventh day of June, Hengluosi City.

Shocking shouts of killing and rumbling cannons have been resounding in this land for a month. The walls of Hengluosi City have been battered by shells, and the collapsed walls have long since become slopes.

The battle between the Russian army and the Mongolian coalition forces centered on the city of Hengluosi, surrounded by dozens of miles of battlefields.

Among them, the Russian army intends to capture the city of Hengluosi, so as to break through the camps arranged by the coalition army in the shape of a font. When the coalition army suffers casualties, they send cavalry to go around the desert in the north, or bypass the Russian army's flanks and backs from the south. Harassment.

Just because of the cavalry of the Cossacks and the Khiva Khanate, the two wings of the Russian army were tightly protected. The coalition forces did not cause much confusion to the Russian army. troops.

In fact, the Russian army could have taken the city long ago, but Marshal Morozov deliberately used the advantage of the range of artillery and flintlock guns to shoot and kill the coalition forces defending the city and consume their strength.He was afraid that the Yuzi people camped outside the city would flee back to Julan City, which was relatively well-defended, so he resisted the urge to take down the city.

He was waiting for the right time to defeat the enemy in front of him with the most relaxed posture.

In the past few days, the cavalry of the Yuzi people are not going around from the desert to the flanks of the Russian army to attack and harass the Russian army. This is the opportunity for Morozov to wait, because the Yuzi people have no power to attack him, which means that the enemy is exhausted. I'm sorry, I have given up the means to win.

The siege battle, which has been dominated by shelling, lasted for a month, and the Russians finally launched a fierce attack. The Russian army overturned the fence erected by the defenders and charged frantically towards the city.

"Taiji, the gunpowder is exhausted, and the Raksha people rushed in." As the soldiers in the city were consumed and more than [-] were killed or injured, Sengge returned to the city.

He listened to the report from his subordinates, and Seng Ge picked up a firecracker and came to a high ground to watch. The Russian infantry was pushing towards the city wall like waves.

Their soldiers lined up in a formation. In the gaps between the spear phalanxes were fusiliers. There were 36 people in the front of the spear phalanx and six people in the depth. There were 96 musketeers on each side of the spear formation. .

The advantage of this is that the musketeers are caught in the middle of the spear phalanx. When they advance, they take advantage of the range of the muskets to bombard them. The range of the bows and arrows of the Mongols is not half that of the flintlocks, and they cannot be shot at them at all. When people rush up to fight in close quarters, their musketeers don't move, and the spears come forward, and they can defeat any enemy who dares to bump into them.

Sengge's expression turned cold, he knew that the Rakshasa people were serious, and I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on this time...
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