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The Mongolian cavalry chased after them, but were shot back by the defenders.

The leader of the reinforcements was angry at the head of the city: "Why don't you come out of the city to cooperate?"

Muhan Mai Tixia and Zhuo said: "The Mongols are very deceitful, I am afraid they will seize the city."

· Quickly open the city gate!shouted the leader of the reinforcements.

Muhan Mai Tixia and Zhuo Que said: "You are just outside the city. When fighting, you can cooperate inside and outside. It is not good if you all enter the city.

The leader of the reinforcements was furious, but he had no choice but to rest outside the city.

Muhanmaitisha and Zhuo were afraid, not only afraid of the Mongols taking the city,

I am also afraid that these Balikun fanatics will seize the city.He is genuine, but the ambitions of these Balikun troops from southern Xinjiang are growing more and more visible to the naked eye.

Hami and Barkol are more like a cooperative relationship.

Balikun helped Hami resist the Mongols in northern Xinjiang, and Hami provided Balikun with various material assistance.

Muhanmatisha and Zhuo looked to the west, and when Babai Khan's reinforcements arrived, he would lead his troops out of the city and launch a general attack.

Turpan.

Babai Khan is also under attack, and the enemy is the Heshuote Mongols from northern Xinjiang!

Under the leadership of Sengge, the Junggar tribe took advantage of the void and occupied Mobei.

However, the Heshuo Special Division went south to fight against Yarkand, and even went all the way to Hotan last year.

It stands to reason that it would be thankful not to be attacked by Yarkand by relying on the Heshuote Mongolia alone. It is impossible to take the initiative to attack.

However, something went wrong inside Yarkand!

After Abdullah Khan unified Yarkand, he began to centralize power and reform, sending his son and cronies to serve as governors in various provinces across the country to take away the power of local lords.

Six years ago, he pretended to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and then suddenly came back halfway to see which nobles would rebel.

As a result, the different secrets (lords) really rebelled and elected his eldest son as the lord of the country!

Abdullah Khan put down the rebellion easily and killed all the lords who opposed him.Then. ． ． ． ．What about the eldest son?What about those cronies who follow the eldest son?

He wanted to lead the snake out of the hole, but instead he led out his own son and many of his cronies.

In desperation, he threw his eldest son to be the local governor, and then killed those cronies who participated in the rebellion.

But the rift had already appeared, and it could no longer be repaired.

The eldest son, Yao Levas, was afraid day and night, for fear that his father would kill him.After becoming the local governor, he vigorously supported the Baishan faction and Zhuo, and secretly connected with other governors.

The other governors are the king's cronies and are tools to weaken the lord.

But they became governors, and they wanted more power, and they wanted to become lords themselves.

In addition, the king killed a group of cronies, and these governors became frightened,

flirting with the eldest prince like this.

Heshuote Mongolia encountered snow and went south to plunder cautiously, just wanting to grab some food, but found that the combat effectiveness of Yarkand had dropped sharply.

It's very simple. The governors of Yeer played the trick of raising the bandits' self-respect. The harder the Mongols robbed, the more power they could gain.The eldest prince and the governors of various places raised and suppressed the bandits at the same time, and their official positions and powers continued to grow.Then I really started to preserve my strength, always avoiding a big battle, for fear that my strength would be damaged, and the king would take the opportunity to take it off.

Such nonsense was retribution last year, and Heshuote Mongolia almost wiped out southern Xinjiang.

You can't rob southern Xinjiang every year. Turpan and Hami, because of doing business with China, have become fat in the past few years, so this year they will come to rob Turpan.

Babai Khan of Turpan is already old, and his son is not very successful.

I made a lot of money doing business with China again, so I just enjoyed it. Anyway, the Mongols are all robbing southern Xinjiang, and they have never visited his territory once.The small lords of Turpan are also keen on annexing land and keeping slaves, and have not fought the Mongols for more than ten years.

Now that the Mongols came to Turpan, it was like entering a land without people. The nobles all led their troops and shrank in the city, allowing the Mongols to loot the big bazaar outside the city.

"Hasn't Hami's reinforcements arrived yet?" Babai Khan was anxious.

The envoys from both sides met halfway.

They dismounted to say hello to each other and began to communicate.

"There are Mongols in Hami, please send troops to the rescue!"

"There are also Mongols in Turpan, and I went to Hami to rescue the soldiers.

The two groups of messengers looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

The Mongols couldn't attack the bigger city of Turpan, so they ransacked the bazaar and withdrew to northern Xinjiang.

On the other side of Hami, Ozir was also unable to capture it, so he simply led his troops to Balikun.

Seeing this, the Balikun reinforcements went crazy, and took the initiative to catch up to fight, because their tribe was still stationed, and they could not let the Mongols kill them.

Muhan bought Tixia and Zhuo and was forced to lead an army out of the city to help. If he didn't help, then he wouldn't be able to get along.

Chapter 912 [Zungar Split]

Around the city of Hami, there are ten fortresses, collectively known as Hami Ten Forts.

The Mongols from Qinghai came so suddenly that many Yarkand nobles fled into the castle and hid, scattered everywhere and unable to gather.

One or two hundred soldiers in this castle, and two or three hundred soldiers in that castle, how dare they come out to face the Mongolian army?

Similarly, tens of thousands of Mongolian troops have nothing to do with these castles.

Ozir pretended to march towards Balikun, just to lure the enemies in the city out.

Before Muhanmaitixia and Zhuo led their troops out of the city, Batur took 5000 cavalry and quietly turned eastward, defeating the noble reinforcements from Anxi and Yumen in one fell swoop.

In the end, the two sides fought a decisive battle twenty miles northwest of Hami.

On Oqier's side, there are more than [-] troops. In addition to the Qinghai Mongolian cavalry, there are also Tibetan and Yugu coalition forces.However, their equipment was relatively backward, and many teenagers participated in the battle.

On the other hand, Muhanmaitixia and Zhuo had less than [-] troops, but there were [-] elite troops.There are even [-] heavy musketeers with a full set of armor similar to heavy infantry, fully capable of close combat, and equipped with heavy muskets that require two or three people to operate.The three thousand Balikun fanatic cavalry were all Central Asian chain armor, long spears and scimitars.

"It's not easy to fight." Batur, who led the army back, observed the situation with binoculars.

The binoculars were bought from Sichuan, but unfortunately the imperial court was so strict that they could never buy muskets.

On the other hand, Hami's army was able to buy muskets from Central Asia—two traffickers were engaged in smuggling, and lost several hands on the way. These muskets actually came from Ottomans.

Historically, the Zhungeer tribe was able to rise because it fought against the Cossacks and Yarkands all year round, gradually realized the importance of firearms, and then frantically compiled and trained firearms troops.When the Zhungeer army raided the snow area, the proportion of musketeers was as high as 12%.

In the later Battle of Ulan Butong, the 2 Zhungeer army faced the 10 Qing army, and the proportion of Zhungeer's musketeers exceeded 50%!In the first battle, [-] against [-], the Qing army was beaten to almost annihilation, and Zhungeer's casualties were negligible.

Ozil, who was 60 years old, galloped in front of the battle on horseback and shouted: "Warriors, we have come here from Qinghai, and there is no way to retreat. Only by defeating the enemy in front of us can the grassland thrive..."

Some Mongolian soldiers were boosted in morale, but some were dissatisfied.

For example, Ozil's brothers, they thought they could win easily when they arrived in Hami, but they found it difficult to deal with them when they fought.It's better to stay in Qinghai and dedicate Kham to Emperor Zhao!

Batur led [-] Mongolian cavalry and went around to the left side of the battlefield.

He felt that he could fight, no matter how elite the Hami army was, it would be easier than fighting the Han army.He sent people to investigate the Datong Army, and both infantry and cavalry had a [-]% armored rate, which made Batur dare not fight at all.

The troops of both sides pressed forward, and the battle was imminent.

"Boom boom boom!"

Hami's artillery fired first, and the Mongolian army was divided into more than a dozen groups, forming a sparse formation and attacking in turn.It's still the traditional way of fighting, rushing to shoot arrows, one after another, trying to disrupt the enemy's formation with charge and cavalry, and then seize the opportunity to destroy them in one fell swoop.

The Hami army actually set up a car formation, and five hundred heavy musketeers fired at about [-] meters away.

This heavy musket can easily penetrate cotton armor.If the distance is a little closer, it can even penetrate the full body plate armor.However, the Hami army obviously lacked training and had some tactical problems. They didn't know how to fire salvos, and they didn't shoot close.

Mongolian cavalry continued to be hit by artillery and muskets.

Since the casualties were scattered, the morale of the Mongolian cavalry did not drop too much, and they continued to charge and shoot arrows in turn.

On the contrary, on Hami's side, more than 2000 infantry were temporarily recruited. Under the repeated baptism of the arrow rain, the formation has become chaotic.If it wasn't for the chariots and refusal horses to block it, the Mongolian cavalry would have taken the opportunity to overwhelm it.

Suddenly, Balikun's fanatic cavalry was dispatched.

These people held their bows and arrows and rushed straight to Ozil's home formation.Thousands of Mongolian elites came to resist, and the two sides shot arrows at each other, and the cavalry hedge began.

Due to the inferior equipment, the Balikun cavalry was desperate, and the battle was almost one-sided.More than [-] Balikun cavalry were killed and wounded, and thousands of Mongolian cavalry were defeated. Uzir took the opportunity to lead his troops around and shot arrows at the Balikun cavalry who had smashed through the battlefield.

Balikun fanaticly followed the cavalry, and rushed to the other side, chasing and killing those Mongolian routs.After chasing for a while, he suddenly killed the enemy next to him, which was the coalition of various ethnic groups newly recruited by the Mongols.

The equipment and morale of the coalition forces of various ethnic groups were even worse, and they collapsed before the battle, and were chased and attacked by the Balikun cavalry.

At this point in the battle, it turned out that the side with fewer soldiers had the upper hand, and the tens of thousands of Mongolian troops showed signs of collapse.

"kill!"

Uzier personally led the Mongolian cavalry to chase after the Balikun cavalry.

Batur took thousands of Mongolian soldiers and attacked the chariot formation regardless of the cost.His entry point was Hami's temporary recruitment of troops. The formation there was already chaotic. The Mongols shot with bows and arrows, dismounted and moved away the rejected horses and wooden carts.

There was a gap in the chariot formation, and Batur immediately led his troops to charge.

More than 2000 Hami infantry were defeated, and Muhan Maitisha and Zhuo were shocked, and asked their son to lead the elite infantry to the top.

These Hami elites are all heavy armored infantry, armed with long axes or spears.There are also a small number of shield hands, holding a large shield half a person's height in front of them.

Batur could only be forced to retreat, he had nothing to do with these heavy infantry.Archery can't penetrate armor, and close combat is even more blind. Within a few minutes of fighting, the Mongolian cavalry suffered nearly a thousand casualties.While retreating, the Mongolian cavalry was shot dead by dozens of heavy muskets.

"withdraw!"

"Woooooooo~~~~"

The horn sounded, and the Mongolian army retreated. At this time, there were only more than 6000 horses left.

"Come back, blow the trumpet quickly, let them come back!" Muhan Mai Tixia and Zhuo shouted.

However, I saw more than 3 Mongolian cavalry retreating, and less than [-] Balikun cavalry were killed, chasing and killing them alone like that.

Muhanmatisha and Zhuo blew their horns frantically, but the Balikun cavalry seemed unable to hear them.They were all from southern Xinjiang, and they were invited to fight jihad. When encountering heretics on the battlefield, they always wanted to drive them out.

And the more than 3 Mongolian cavalry, facing the pursuit of more than 3000 enemies, really ran for their lives in panic.

Especially among the Mongolian cavalry, there are a large number of children in their teens.Many of them have never been on the battlefield, and they have been killed to their wits at this moment, and they only know how to escape farther by whipping their horses.

The two brothers Ozil and Batur, one in his 60s and the other in his 50s, were not in the slightest panic at the moment.They have always maintained the organization of the headquarters, allowing the enemy to kill those who escaped slowly, and escaped for nearly ten miles all the way.

"Blow the horn!"

Ozil himself blew the horn.

When the horn sounded, Ozir and Batur each led their own cavalry to bypass the two sides.As for the other seven brothers, they really collapsed and continued to be chased and killed by the enemy to escape.

"Shoot the horse, shoot the horse!"

The cavalry under the command of Ozir and Batur shot arrows at the enemy from both sides, and shot indiscriminately together with the hunted people.

More and more Balikun cavalry fell due to injuries to their horses.These fanatics were not fools either, they quickly gave up hunting and rushed towards Ozil's troops.

Ozir did not fight at all, and led his troops to flee and shoot.

Further north of the battlefield, Galdan was also fleeing.But he soon realized that the enemy was no longer chasing him, so he reined in his horse and shouted: "Kill back, kill back!"

No one paid any attention to him, and the surrounding Mongolian cavalrymen were already scared out of their wits.

Galdan, who was only 12 years old, picked up a flag on horseback and waved it immediately: "I am Huo Buddha, follow me to kill the enemy! I am Huo Buddha, follow me to kill the enemy..."

This slogan really works, because the Mongols have long known that they have a little Huo Buddha in their army.

One after another, more than ten riders gathered around Galdan.They went upstream among the routs, shouting "God is here" along the way, and the routs stopped constantly to join their counter-charge ranks, and finally they gathered into a team of more than 4000 people.

The addition of this fresh force completely established the victory.

Balikun's fanatic cavalry could only break through the siege to the south, and when they fled to the city of Hami, there were only more than 1600 cavalry left.

Muhanmaitixia and Zhuo were furious: "Why didn't you obey the military order when you were asked to withdraw your troops?"

It's useless to say anything, the battle is like this, and the next step is to defend the city.

The Mongols also suffered heavy losses. After gathering the defeated troops, they did not dare to besiege Hami again.They took their troops and livestock and headed straight for Balikun, where the grassland of Heshuot Mongolia used to be, and now they can finally take it back.

On the way, Batur found his eldest brother: "Firearms, we need to get firearms, otherwise we will not be able to fight in the future. The firearms of the Han people are powerful, and the firearms returned by Hami are also powerful. We are still using bows and arrows, and we can shoot for a long time." Impenetrable armor!"

Ozil said unhappily, "I also know that firearms are powerful, but where can I buy them?"

Batur didn't speak, he could only feel anxious.

The battle was very fierce, but it was also anticlimactic.Thousands of Mongolian cavalry were killed and injured, and they finally recaptured Balikun and joined forces with the Heshuote troops in the north.

In the next few years, it will definitely be the war between Turpan and Hami by the Heshuo Special Forces, and repeated competitions around the Barkol area.

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