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Chapter 1375 Car City
Yesimu Batuer originally planned to go to the Bukhara Khanate to consolidate the alliance between the two sides, but now that the Ming army and the Oirats entered Dayuz and expanded aggressively in Mughalstan, he had to follow his brother's order and cooperate with the Ming army. contact.

He once fought for the Bukhara Khanate, and followed his brother's troops to make great contributions to the Kazakh Khanate. He fought against the Oirats many times with more victories than defeats, but he had never seen such an orderly camp.

On the western lakeside of Balkhash, a city of chariots spliced ​​together stands proudly. The rebellious Oara Mongols are driving oxen and horses to drag carts, laying wooden piles outside the city of cars, and building a tall and thick wall. wooden wall.

On the edge of the felt tents outside the wooden wall, an extremely deep trench is being dug, leading to the lake. On the river bank extending eastward in the distance, the huge log with the wooden pole inserted in the center of the cows and horses is dragged by horses for many years. on the way out.

The people of Dayuzi used wooden farm tools to reclaim the land, and the blacksmiths of the Wala tribe were handing out brand new iron hoes to the people.

Under those banners with Ming characters waving, they built roads, built cities, and reclaimed land.

The people gathered here are no less than any town or tribe in Kazakhstan.

By Kazakh standards, all the men Yasmubadur saw here were fighters.

Although most of them look similar and use similar weapons, it is still easy for him to distinguish who is a Kazakh and who is an Oirat.

Kazakhs often wear furry hats and cone-topped Qichak helmets. They all like to tie a few feathers and wreaths, and men have Turkic-style beards that are raised upwards.

The composition of troops with a strong tribal color and self-equipped armament also make soldiers equipped with various equipment, which is directly proportional to personal family wealth. After all, there are very few small landlords who wear plate chain armor and Yingluo Chichak helmets. Mail armor is a rare item.

It would be nice if more people had copper-nailed leather armor and fur half-helmets, at least they didn't degenerate to the battlefield in shabby leather clothes and felt hats, the latter is actually the norm for tribal armed forces.

In the eyes of Yasmu Batuer, the Wala people who belonged to the Ming army were even more distinct.

After Qi Jiguang's military reorganization in Yili, all those who lacked protective equipment such as cotton-padded jackets and leather jackets were classified as horse archers and infantry archers, and those who wore mail armor were unified as auxiliary soldiers of heavy cavalry.

As for the heavy cavalry, they all wore armor. It was completely outrageous for such an armed group composed entirely of giants to appear in Mughalstan.

The Oirats are so poor, as long as they have a little money, they will not be beaten by the tribes separated from the Golden Horde Khanate. The last time the cavalry appeared among them, the grand master was still alive.

But now, outside the yurt, you can see three or four men in costumes sitting on small horses, and the auxiliary soldiers in mail next to them are carefully cleaning the gravel in the gaps in the horse's armor.

Sitting there with four mounted cavalry means that two of them have small flags on their backs and at least six auxiliary soldiers around them, forming the most basic combat unit.

Yesimu Batuer, who was escorted, continued to walk towards Checheng, the more he walked away, the more he felt cold.

It seems that they are digging a wide moat, and in the future they will draw water from Lake Balkhash around the city. The city can accommodate at least 4000 people.

But before the moat was dug, they seemed to use these trenches for other purposes. One after another, narrow and long trenches were arranged in parallel, so wide that the horses could almost cross them.

And on the road more than once, he saw gun carriages dragged by horses and wheels pushed by soldiers, as well as odd-shaped carriages with only one side of the carriage carrying artillery passing by on both sides of the road.

Huge reserves of artillery.

The Kazakhs also know how to camp in carts. In fact, many countries at the same time as Zeng Mi have used this method of warfare. After all, this method of warfare has great advantages compared to riding on foot.

Regardless of whether it is against cavalry or infantry, the car camp has only one shortcoming that is not a shortcoming-it cannot fight against opponents with stronger firepower than itself.

It is difficult to describe the mixed feelings that Yesimu Batu felt when he saw these cannons.

In the past, Tashkent, which inherited the weapons manufacturing center of the Golden Horde Khanate, could produce thousands of exquisitely crafted Turkic sabers a year, and grassland craftsmen from all over the country could also produce tens of thousands of relatively inferior imitations.

But they could not make a single gun other than the mule and the catapult.

There is no doubt that this is an opponent with more powerful firepower.

Yesimu Batuer has even simulated the battle scene in his mind. A large number of Oirats will hide on the grassland, and they will be confronted by the Ming army's chariot battalion.

At least in this place, they could not cut off the water source of the Ming army. Although the Kazakh fighters were good at attrition and siege warfare, they were not good at attacking fortifications. Even infantry and cavalry would be helpless against the camp, and they would be the first to run out of water and food.

Next, the Oirats lurking on the side will launch an attack. Even if they mobilize 5 people to fight this battle, it will be difficult to win.

Although Kazakhs have 30 armored control strings, the newly conquered Nogai people need to be suppressed, and the tribes bordering the Bukhara Khanate must not move lightly. The direction of Xiaoyuzi in the north must defend against the ulterior motives of the Raksha Kingdom. Only [-] troops were mobilized.

This is still an algorithm that includes Dayuzi.

If you don't count Da Yuzi, the opponent may have 3 more troops, and they will reduce their troops by [-].

The disadvantage is even greater.

So until entering Checheng, Yesimu Batu'er's complexion was not very good-looking.

After entering the car camp, it doesn't matter whether it looks good or not—it's like entering another world.

He saw that the patrolling troops in the car camp did not have the faces of the grassland people who are used to the wind and sand, and he couldn't see a piece of chain armor. Although some people wore armor, the armor was different from the armor he imagined.

It was a piercing armor only worn by high-ranking generals. It was so exquisite that if someone was willing to give him a set, he would exchange a few villages for it.

There were more people, wearing a one-piece breastplate with fine patterns on the chest, no one had a knife on the waist, and each of them carried a long stick, Yasmubadu didn't know what it was.

I just feel that it is vaguely like the weapon used by Ivan the Terrible's shooting army in the mouth of the merchants who experienced the siege of Kazan.

But isn't this weird thing called a musket meant to be used with an axe?
Where are their axes?

But soon, the ax could no longer attract his attention, because on the avenue in the middle of Checheng, Kang Liji, the King of Yuzi, who was conferred by the Ming Dynasty, walked out under the protection of the Long Live Army soldiers with helmets and armor carrying bird guns.

Wearing a silver hairpin and scarlet robe, Kang Liji opened his arms under the fine silk official robe with a proud smile, and smiled at him, "Uncle, you came to see me by the order of the Great Khan." Is it?"

　Good afternoon, I slept through today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)