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Chapter 1368 Major Events
The attack on the Qianhu Department of the former army under the command of the fourth commander of the Western Expedition Army took place in the evening on the west bank of the Jing River by Lake Aibi.

Lake Aibi is a huge salt lake. The salt lake produces salt and thenardite, and there are large oases around it for livestock farming.

It used to be the land of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. Later, the Oirats were squeezed by the rise of Eastern Mongolia and migrated westward. This became the starting point for the outbreak of conflicts between the Oirats and the Kazakh Khanate.

Wala is very poor and the tribal organization is very loose, but people respect the leader.

Their lord, Hanino Khan, was frightened by the airship during the battle.

Due to his background in the surrendered army, his status was not comparable to that of Chechen Khan of the Jin Kingdom who was ordered to go to war, and Dong Changang who joined on his own initiative after hesitation.

The seniority of surrender is not as good as that of Chaohua and Huada who surrendered earlier, and even their bloodlines are not as good as them. Which tribal leader from the east is not a Boer?
Therefore, there is no advantage in the work of military reorganization. Now he is only the commander of the Zhengxi Army. He is under the command of Chechen Khan.

Qi Jiguang promised to command the Tongzhi to show his merits to the emperor after gathering the troops, and planned to add four commanders to the Heshuo Department to make him work extra hard.

With one order, fourteen thousand households of the Ming army marched into all the grazing lands on the east bank of the Jing River that Wala had previously faced directly across the river from the Kazakh Khanate.

As for the pastoral land, no one can have too much, the generals of the Ming army are seldom timid, and the fourth commander Zhu Jue is such a person.

In the early years, the Qi family army had a trio of prison bullies, Wang Rulong was the eldest brother, the second brother Jin Ke was no longer alive, and the third child was Zhu Jue.

In the Huajie battle, a Japanese pirate leader held a big gun in his left hand and held a long knife to block the offensive of all the teams. Everyone was afraid and dared not go forward. Qi Jiguang was wearing a silver armor worth two hundred gold at that time. Japanese pirates, reward this silver armor, and the first victory in this battle.

Zhu Yu, the bird gunner at that time, came out in response, broke the spear with one gun, and broke the long knife with another gun, and then took the head of the Japanese pirate leader, and then killed seven more people. He was called a warrior of the Qi family army. Zhu Yu.

Originally, he was going to follow Qi Jiguang to Jizhen to serve as a commander, but he was impeached and involved a power struggle. Under strict investigation, he was caught and finally dismissed.

This time the Western Expedition was launched again, after all, because of previous events, Qi Jiguang did not dare to reward high positions without making great contributions, and now he is only a commander.

Oala and the Kazakh Khanate have fought for two or three generations. This is a feud. For those who bear the feud, they may not know the truth of the matter or know the right or wrong of the matter, only hatred.

Today, every thousand households of the Ming army have Wala tribes. The people stationed on both sides of the Jinghe River complained to the Ming army about the tragedy of you coming and going during the war. It is the common people who suffer. Only peace can make people happy.

But many times the beginning of peace often comes from the victory of war.

Leading them out of the sea of ​​suffering is what people want, but Zhu Yu is also very clear that Qi Jiguang does not want to continue to attack west for the time being. After all, the Kazakh Khanate is very strong. According to the information they know, the entire Khanate is divided into three tents, Dayuzi, Zhongyuzi, Xiao Yuzi, the leaders of each of them called Khan, has 30 strings and armor.

He sent troops only to protect the people and set up a buffer zone on the west bank of the Jinghe River, but he did not expect that the former army Qianhu led his troops to cross the Jinghe River and was attacked the next day.

They were attacked by a force from the Dayuzi Tuqishi tribe of the Kazakh Khanate. They were ordered to monitor the movement of the Oirats in the east for the Great Khan Tavukal, and Zhu Yu’s former army of thousands of households seemed—too much Like the Oirats.

A large number of light cavalry, a few heavy cavalry, although they have two more cannons, but they march like Mongolians, cross rivers like Mongolians, and set up tents like Mongolians, then they are Mongolians.

For the Kazakh Khanate, seeing the Oirats on the east side of the Jing River, crossing the river was too dangerous, so they did not fight, but once the opponent crossed the Jing River, they had to respond immediately.

As a result, this response made Ming Jun install it.

Tuqishi is an ancient nation, the descendants of the Wusun people, known as the Yellow-headed Wusun. They also lived in the Sui and Tang Dynasties in their early years and established their own khanate.

But then it gradually lost its sense of existence. The last time it affected the development of history was in the early Song Dynasty, when a group of Tuqishi looted the Geluolu camp and captured a Geluolu named Sebuk Teqin.

In the slave market in Tashkent, Sebuk Teqin was sold to the Samanid Dynasty as a slave soldier of the Gulam. As a result, the slave of the Gulam became the founding sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty.

But this time, for the brothers of Huangtou Wusun - the opportunity to do something big has come!

It has been a long time since the [-] men in fur hats, iron helmets and chain mail have wandered in the Crystal River Valley in small groups, and they have been stalking them for a long time since Zhu Yu's former army Qianhu crossed the river. .

Each of them had one or two feathers on their helmets. They originally planned to launch an attack when the Ming army crossed the river, but at that time the Ming army's livestock were still on the east bank.

Measuring the strength of both sides, in the end they believed that a small group of troops gathered for a short time could not defeat the army before the enemy on the other side supported them.

So they waited patiently for a whole day, until the next day, the Qianhu Department of the Ming Army's former army tied up the felt tents, surrounded the livestock pens, and drove the cattle, sheep and horses to the river.

They thought there was an opportunity for wealth.

This 'Wala' tribe seems to be much richer than other tribes, with nearly [-] cattle and sheep, thousands of horses, and countless food.

Hungry, the tuqishi riders watched the smoke rising from the tent camp not far away, and watched the 'wara people' take the baked pancakes and cut them into stuffing made of minced meat and wild vegetables. , The food was delicious, and I couldn't bear the excitement anymore.

The howling riders shouted "Arash" and ran down the grassy slope. The cavalry was divided into three groups, one group rushed directly to the camp, and the remaining two groups swam from left to right, waiting for opportunities.

This was their best chance, because the few heavy cavalry in the camp didn't wear armor during the meal, and the light cavalry only had leather jackets and no armor.

We all know that the infantry's instinct is to see the cavalry rushing towards them, either to be at a loss or to run to the nearest horse. The untrained herdsmen on the steppe usually react in this way when they are attacked by surprise.

Just like the troops of the Kazakh Khanate attacked the Oala tribe in the past.

This time was no exception. A large number of herdsmen on horseback and infantry fled in all directions. A few were able to hold their bows and prepare to fight back, but there was another force in the camp.

On the way they assembled and charged, a group of infantry gathered abnormally, and dared to raise their muskets to shoot at them, and what was unexpected was that their muskets had a dagger on them, and the horses galloped towards them after shooting Standing up obliquely.

At this moment, the yellow-headed Wusun cavalry didn't know that they were doing a great thing, pushing their group to the forefront of changing history once again!

(End of this chapter)