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Jiayuguan Fortress has long built a palace for the arrival of the emperor. Although it is far less than as large as the Forbidden City, it also has ninety-nine rooms and halls. There are hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, and a dedicated team of imperial meals and imperial doctors to serve the emperor.

Liu Jun summoned several of his generals under a grape trellis.

The Right Privy Councilor, Chief of General Staff, Minister of War, Commander of the Army, Commander of the Left War Zone, Chief of Staff of the Left War Zone, General of Gansu and other generals knelt down and saluted in front of the emperor.

"You all have a good time," Liu Jun asked, "Can you have some iced bayberry soup?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The Right Privy Councilor Zhang Shan and others thanked him.

"Well, let's give all the generals a glass of iced bayberry soup." Liu Jun turned to the eunuch next to him and said, "I know they definitely want to drink iced wine under this grape trellis, but they are not allowed to drink alcohol in the army. Although it is not a war now, it is better not to make an exception in the army."

"Your Majesty, we are almost moldy. I really want to go to the battlefield early." Liu Yunsheng, Minister of War, said, "The current situation is very beneficial to us. The north and south are attacking each other. Now the Junggars are forced to divide their troops to fight, and Hami has only 100,000 troops left."

"The time has not come. Hami still has 100,000 troops, so we don't need to worry. The two north and south troops are still far from Hami. I can tell you directly. I plan to wait until the Yarkand and the Qinghai-Tibet army meet and advance into Tiemen Pass. After the Mobei cavalry rest in Altan, they continue to move south and approach Hami. Everyone, I still have a few good news to tell you now. The Bukhara Khanate and Shiva Khanate have sent troops. They will attack Kazakhs, and the backyard of the Junggars is about to catch fire. The Poles have also made a deal with us. The Don River Cossacks are sending troops to the Turkuts in the lower reaches of the Volga River. In addition, the Uzbeks in the valleys such as Kokhan have also reached a deal with us. They have sent troops to attack the Junggars' dog-legged Kyrgyzstans south of Yili Mountain."

Speaking of this, Liu Jun smiled. He picked up a cup made of Hetian jade and ate a mouthful of iced sour plum soup.

"The situation is very good, everyone." Liu Jun said with a smile, "We don't need to do anything now. Just sit here to restrain the Junggar army in Hami's way of moving. If we don't move, they dare not move. But if they don't move, they will be surrounded by all sides. If they dare to divide their troops to support various places, then we will take advantage of the situation to attack Hami. No matter what, the Junggar people are now in an extremely passive situation in this game of chess."

"When the Junggars formed an alliance with Tsarist Russia, will they send troops?" Fu Shan asked.

"Tsarist Russia has no regard for them. The Cossacks of the Don River have sent troops. Although they point to the Turgut Mongols in the lower reaches of the Volga River, they also directly threatened the middle and upper reaches of the Volga River in Tsarist Russia. Tsarist Russia could only stare at Poland at this time. According to our information, the Russians are not willing to be lonely. They have been secretly quarreling with the Ukrainian Cossacks and are planning the Cossacks to Tsarist Russia. According to the intelligence analysis from the Jinyiwei, the Ukrainian Cossacks are very likely to split. The Dnieper River is bounded, and the Cossacks on both sides of the Taiwan Straits will be one leader. How can the Poles tolerate it? It can only be said that the war between Poland and Tsarist Russia will begin. Tsarist Russia is powerless to interfere in the affairs of the ally of Junggar, and he will be exhausted."

Chief of General Staff Cai Yuan looked at the emperor, "Your Majesty, please allow me to ask, can the attacks of the three north and south routes meet expectations? Tiemen Pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although the North Road took down Altan and captured the Kongdao to Hami, it is still hundreds of miles away. As for the small countries in the west, it is probably difficult to play any role. If we wait, what if the Junggars defeated them one by one?"

"How easy is it to defeat each one?" Liu Jun did not care about it after hearing this. This was not his conceit, but had carefully studied the situation. "We have 50,000 troops in the north, mainly Mongolian cavalry in the north of the desert. Although this is not a regular army of the imperial court, their strength cannot be underestimated. They are not only good at riding and shooting, but also equipped with a lot of firearms and much more exquisite armor. Just from the fact that they seized thousands of people guarding Altan City with hundreds of casualties and wiped out the defenders in the city, they can see their combat effectiveness."

"The 50,000 troops on the northern road have the support of the castle of Altan. They can attack and retreat or defend. Even if the Junggars sent 50,000 troops, 50,000 to 50,000, do you think the Junggars can win?"

Cai Yuan nodded, "The two troops had an equal number, and it was better to equip the soldiers and horses of the princes in Mobei, especially with many muskets and artillery. In addition, after the Mobei Army captured Altan, there were time to rest and have cities to defend. On the contrary, the 50,000 people from Junggar had to travel hundreds of miles to reach Altan. The Mobei Army was waiting for work, and there was undoubtedly a higher chance of winning."

The generals also had this idea in their minds. No matter how they looked at it, the 50,000 people heading north of Junggar could not defeat the cavalry of the princes of Mobei. The biggest possibility was that the princes of Mobei were waiting for their leisure, defeated the Junggar army with their advantage of equipment, and then took advantage of the situation to move south.

Liu Jun continued, "The Jinyiwei spent a lot of effort to secretly contact the Kazakh nobles. Now many Kazakh nobles have taken the opportunity to rebel, pull up tribal troops and mount anti-flags, and attack the camps and tribes of the Junggar people everywhere. Although these Kazakhs are relatively scattered and their strength is relatively small, they are in the rear of the Junggar, and they are a confidant. As long as these people are in chaos for a long time, there will be big problems in the logistics supply of Junggar."

Yarkand, Shiva, Bukhara, Kokhan, Kazakhstan, Poland, all joined the camp of besieging the Junggar. In addition, the Qinghai-Tibet army in the south and the Mongolian army in the north, the Junggar people were all enemies on all sides.

The 100,000 main forces led by Liu Jun seemed to be still in Jiayuguan, but in fact they were already staring at the main army of Junggar.

With these 100,000 main forces of the Han army staring at them, Junggar is now unable to advance or retreat. As soon as he moves, the main forces of the Han army move.

"Wait a little longer, as long as the Hami Junggar army has not moved, we can continue to wait." Liu Jun was sure to win.

Southern Xinjiang, Kashgar.

This is Shule Town, the four towns of Anxi, the Tang Dynasty, which is Kashgar in later generations.

Sharuk, the leader of the Kokhan Mingge tribe, led a group of valley Uzbeks to cross the Turugart Pass, a mountain pass between the southern line of the Tianshan Mountains and the Pamir Mountains, and came to Kashgar City. This important town under the Yarkand Khanate, a large number of Han troops were stationed in this time.

A large number of ordnances were transported here through Uszang, and part of them were supplied to Yarkand, and the other part would be handed over to the Uzbeks in the valley, as well as Shiva, Bukhara, and the rebellious Haksa. In the future, ordnances would pass through the mountain pass, then enter the river, and then transport to Poland.

Zhang En stood in front of boxes of arms, smiled and said to Shah Rukh, "Five thousand muskets and fifty mountain howitzers are here as many as possible. Please send someone to count them."

Many Uzbeks were already eager to open the wooden box, and were lying inside with brand new muskets smelling of guns.

"New gun!"

"It's all new guns."

"It's still a flintlock gun."

Those surprises made Shah Rukh unable to calm down. He opened a box himself, which was filled with pistols, and also brand new pistols. He picked up one, and he skillfully checked and loaded the bullets, which was extremely smooth.

With a bang, Shah Ruk shook his hand and was very satisfied with the gun. Looking at the effect of his shot, he accurately hit the human-shaped head position on the wooden board at a distance of thirty steps. The bullet penetrated the wooden board, which was accurate and fierce.

"Good gun." Shah Rukh said to Zhang Endao with satisfaction.

"The great man has always been the same. If he says he will give five thousand guns, he will not give four thousand nine hundred and nine hundred. On the contrary, we gave five thousand muskets as much as possible, and five hundred pistols, and each gun also received two hundred fixed-loading bullets. How about it, it's so generous, right?"

Shah Rukh raised his thumbs up, "The big man is amazing."

"Hahaha, the big man has given what he promised. Now you should fulfill your promise, right?" Yuan En asked.

"Don't worry, our valley has formed a coalition force, and ninety-two Uzbeks have joined forces to join forces of 20,000. The first batch of 8,000 people have crossed the Kyrgyz Mountains and started working with the foreign Kyrgyzs. Now with this batch of ordnance, our remaining 12,000 people will march immediately and overthrow them."

"Happy cooperation!" Zhang En smiled.

Shah Ruk also smiled, "Mr. Zhang, we want to get some of these firearms. Don't worry, if you don't want them, we are willing to trade."

"Captain Shahruk, we have agreed in advance that when you capture the territory of the Kyrgyzs, we will exchange the land for you with arms."

"I know, it's just that I want to trade some arms now. We have the best war horses, and we trade horses."

"Our Han's Mongolian horses are actually not bad either." Zhang En smiled.

"How can Mongolian horses have our valley horses?"

"I heard that a famous horse, a sweat-blooded BMW is produced in your Valley. If you can trade with a sweat-blooded BMW, we are very willing. If you can trade a sweat-blooded BMW stallion, you are willing to pay a high price, and you will need as much as you can."

Shah Rukh did not hesitate at all. Although there are not many real sweat-blooded BMWs in the valley now, as long as he can trade a good price, he doesn't mind using it for trading.

After seeing the sharpness of Han arms, he could no longer stop wanting more firearms.

When Zhang En and Shah Rukh were bargaining, the Qinghai-Tibet coalition led by Zhang Huangyan and Ma Wannian had already left Kashgar.

This joint army consisted of the Qinghai Army, the Southern Tibetan Army, as well as the Hoshuot Mongols and the Wusi Tibetan Tibetans from Wusizang, came all the way west and finally arrived in southern Xinjiang.

After passing the northern Tibetan Plateau and crossing the Kunlun Mountains, the next road is much easier. They just need to go north along the Yarkand River.

Luntai.

During the Han Dynasty, one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions was destroyed by the Han general Li Guangli during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Later, the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Protectorate here and ruled the Western Regions for 72 years.

Located on the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and the northern edge of the Tarim Basin, this place has a large oasis and millions of arable land.

After a long journey, the Qinghai-Tibet coalition forces finally joined the Yarkand Army here.

Above the oasis, there are tents everywhere, and a total of 80,000 troops gathered here.

It is only two hundred miles away from Tiemen Pass.

Tens of miles away from the oasis, Sengge, the most beloved son of the Junggar Khan Batur, was pacing constantly in the tent.

He led 50,000 troops from Hami to Tiemen Pass for reinforcements, and then, as his father's wishes, took the cavalry out of the pass, preparing to attack the Yarkand people on the 800-mile road from Asu to Tiemen Pass and eliminate them halfway.

But until now, he has not found a chance to take action. He has forced his move several times and returned in a desperate situation, killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 of them.

Now, the Yarkand people merged with the 50,000 troops from Wusizang, and their troops reached 80,000, which was far more than him. Especially this Han army was very alert and alert, and had excellent defense, and had no chance at all.

"It's only two hundred miles away from Tiemen Pass. If we don't take action, we will have no chance." A general persuaded.

There are only 200 miles left from Luntai to Tiemen Pass, with three large oasis in the middle and many small oasis. So many oasis will make it easier for the Han army to march.

"Do it?" Sengge was upset.

"If you don't take action, you will have no chance. If only the Yarkand people come, maybe we can still defend it by the pass. But Taiji, you have also seen that the new Han army pulls many artillery and is equipped with a large number of muskets. Although those artillery seems not big, we have inquired about it. That kind of cannon is called mountain howitzers, which can be disassembled and assembled. Three mules or two horses can pull a disassembled mountain dungeon to run. After assembly, since solid bombs are fired, it can also fire bombs, which is extremely powerful. The Han army brought at least thousands of these cannons this time. Even if there are not those thousand kilograms of giant cannons, with only these thousands of mountain dungeons, a thousand cannons will be bombed together, and no matter how strong the iron gate is, it will not be able to withstand it."

"But they were in camp step by step, and they were all very defensive, whether they marched or set up camp." Sengge was now like a wolf catching a hedgehog, and he wanted to eat it but had no idea how to eat it.

"Taiji, it's better for us to attack now than when they are forced to the end of the lockdown."

Another general also said, "I see that there are many Tibetans and Heshuo Special tribes in the Han army. These people are definitely not really surrendering to the Han people. If we raid the Han army camp, these people are very likely to turn against each other. At that time, we will cooperate inside and outside, and defeating the Han army will not be a problem."

"Even if we cannot annihilate this coalition, we have to find a way to destroy the artillery of the Han army."

"Yes, as long as those artillery are destroyed, the Han army will not be able to break through the natural barrier iron gate."

Sengge smiled bitterly in his heart when he raided the Han army and destroyed their artillery. It was not easy. But what the generals said was right. If they didn't take action, the Han army would go straight to the Iron Gate Pass. At that time, thousands of cannons would be bombarded together, and the Iron Gate Pass would become a rotten wooden door, which would not be able to stop the Han army at all.

"Then let's do it." Sengge gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind. No matter what, he could only fight with all his back. (To be continued.)
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