Shule City.

"These messes are quite rampant!"

Chen Qi, the captain of Shule garrison, looked outside the city and sneered.

At this time, on the snowy wasteland outside the city, there were countless cavalrymen galloping horses, holding muskets and roaring with their might. These guys wearing leather hats and dirty robes came from the Pamir Plateau, which was the other side of the Pamir Plateau. The Kokhan Khan State, with the Fernagan Basin as the core, originally belonged to part of the Bukhara Khan State. They just established themselves more than ten years ago, mainly Uzbeks.

They were only two hundred miles away from the Ming Dynasty, and they could be said to face the threat of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, this time they cooperated with the Russians, and almost all young and middle-aged people were armed to join the war.

"Why do we abandon the mountain pass after growing taller?"

The officer beside Chen Qi asked.

The Ming army was in the west, that is, in the modern Wucha County, but for some reason, Chen Qi suddenly ordered a battalion stationed there to withdraw, and finally opened the door and allowed the people of Haohan to cross this natural danger. Otherwise, relying on the terrain there, the Ming army could completely block the people of Haohan. The mountains and steep mountains of the Pamir Plateau were not so easy to open.

"Close the door and beat the dog, how can I close it if I don't open the door first?"

Chen Qi said calmly.

"Send the order, if the enemy does not attack the city, don't open fire. If they want to go to Kashi, just go. It's wind and snow in this winter. Let's just cook the fire and drink tea in the house."

Then he said lazily.

"Abide by the order!"

The officer immediately saluted and said.

Well, this is the strategy of the Ming army. Let the enemy enter and encircle and annihilate it. The entire Shannan Province is only 700,000 people, and it is all distributed in settlements with castles as the core. It is winter. All the people in the settlements retreated into the castles, leaving nothing outside. In fact, there was nothing outside this season. Except for the invaders who hunted yellow sheep, they could not find any supplies unless they attacked the castles to seize food, but the Ming-style castles and cannon breech guns will make their blood dry. If they don’t attack the city, just attack eastward. Even if they run to Yanqi, it doesn’t matter. At that time, lock the mountain pass here and seal it inside.

Here there are Tianshan Mountains in the north, the Pamir Mountains in the south, the vast deserts in the east, and the Gobi Wasteland in the east. It is completely a closed cage. They come to send slaves to them.

Like Chen Qi guessed, the people of Kokan did not attack Shule City. This defense system composed of barbed wire, trenches, flower-shaped bastions, and reinforced concrete walls was almost desperate, especially after being matched with the Ming Dynasty's long-range artillery, it was almost impossible to be conquered. The best way was to cut off the supply line and the Kokan people who arrived at Shule quickly divided thousands of cavalry to restrain the outside of Shule, and then the main force continued to attack eastward. Their next stop was Kashgar.

"Ma, do you think I'm easy to bully?"

On the wall of Kashi City, Wang Song, the newly established Kashi Gashi Gashi Gashi garrison captain, said in grief and anger.

Unlike in Shule, the 10,000 Kokan troops who braved the wind and snow and trekked a hundred miles to Kashi City chose to attack. In the white wilderness in the wind and snow, a large number of Kokan cavalry holding muskets roared wildly and launched a fierce charge towards this bastion less than two miles in diameter. The Kokan people had no choice but to obtain supplies. It was not reasonable to choose this season to attack, but only this season can prevent the Ming army from reinforcement, but they also had to have a headache about supply. After all, they could not carry much food, and their war horses also needed feed. These could not be found in the deserted fields in winter.

Of course it would be great if it were to conquer Shule.

The castle was filled with food, meat and even fruits, but Shule had more than 2,000 Ming troops, which were regular troops, equipped with the latest rifles and machine guns. The castle was taller and stronger, and the price of attacking there was too high.

Since this is the case, we can only choose the Kashi who is said to have no garrison at all.

However, the people of Kokhan didn't know that there was a garrison upgraded from the reserves, and there was also a garrison composed of reserve militias. In this small castle that could only accommodate 10,000 people, if even female soldiers were counted, it should be five thousand defenders. At this time, the five thousand defenders had five thousand rear-mounted firing needle rifles and front-mounted Minni rifles in their hands. They aimed at the charge of the Kokhan people behind the reinforced concrete wall. There were even more than a dozen old-fashioned front-mounted rifles and ready to fire.

"Calm down, fire later!"

Wang Song shouted loudly.

"Yinyin, don't tremble your hands!"

Then he looked at a girl under his feet and said in a teasing tone.

"Shut up!"

The latter said with disrespectful look on his face, and then continued to kneel there on one knee and stare at an old-fashioned front-loading Minnie rifle in his hand. The barrel of the rifle extended out of the cover hole, and the sight was steadily facing a Kohan cavalry fifty feet away.

The latter hit the first barbed wire in almost the blink of an eye.

The cavalry with superb riding skills, the very majestic red war horse neighed and jumped up...

"Open fire!"

Wang Song suddenly roared.

The girl named Yin Yin pulled the trigger without hesitation. The hammer that had been opened had fallen down and hit the fire cap in an instant. The flames of thunder gong immediately ignited the nitrified paper shell of the paper shell bullet. The high-speed burning black gunpowder pushed the bottom of the Minni bullet to expand, and it was embedded in the rifle while flying out, rotating and shooting out the muzzle with the rifle, instantly hitting the cavalry's chest. The latter's war horse had just crossed the barbed wire and had not yet fallen, and the cavalry fell on his back under the impact of the bullet. The moment the war horse landed, it was tripped by the second barbed wire mesh and then knelt forward heavily. Then another cavalry behind could not hold back the war horse and collided with it fiercely.

The girl on the city wall took out a bullet as quickly as possible, put it into the gun chamber, then used a pestle to the end, pulled out the stick and put it on a fire cap, aiming at the second cavalry who was climbing up from the ground. The gunshot sounded and half of the cavalry had disappeared.

The girl glared at Wang Song, who was already stupid, and continued to load at the fastest speed.

Lao Wang woke up and quickly aimed at the outside with his firing rifle. At this time, the city wall seemed to be like a volcano erupting, and blazing flames continued to spew out from the outside of the reinforced concrete guard wall. The dense bullets knocked the Kokan cavalry overturned. Because the wire mesh fixed with wooden stakes blocked, the latter quickly crowded into a piece, and almost no bullets shot on the city wall were empty, either hitting people or fighting horses. These Chinese immigrants from the Western Regions were different from those in the mainland. They were all like Americans when they advanced west, and they used guns as daily necessities. Even young men and women sneaked out of the wild with guns.

There is no way, there are more wolves than dogs here.

The life of the frontier has been around for many years, so almost everyone here can use guns. Now there are still many aunts on the city walls firing steadily!

But this is the invader's nightmare.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the corpses of the Haohan cavalry were piled up under the city. As time went by, the thickness of the corpses continued to increase. The cavalry that could not be held in a rush kept hitting the corpse wall in front, and then fell under the bullets shot from the city wall, increasing the thickness of the corpse wall.

Then the people of Kokan retreated without hesitation.

They were cavalrymen, and the reason they attacked the city was because according to the intelligence, there were no garrisons here, and they were nothing more than a small number of militias. In their eyes, this was not an opponent at all. The only obstacle was nothing more than a circle of barbed wire, and there was also a city wall that was not too high, a moat that was almost waterless. As long as they rushed over, they stepped on the war horse and threw hooks, they could climb directly. However, they did not expect to hit the iron plate directly. The terrifying firepower made them feel like they were in hell. If they didn't retreat at this time, they would be fools.

Unfortunately, it is not that easy to withdraw.

All the defenders and militias on the city walls were loading bullets at the fastest speed, and the bullets kept pouring outward at a speed of tens of thousands of rounds per minute. Even the Minni rifles that used a full load of paper-shell bullets could fire more than five rounds per minute, not to mention that half were rear-mounted firing rifles. At the same time, the cannons were also firing at the fastest speed. The grenade shots filled with lead bullets continued to explode above the heads of the cavalry, and the lead bullets inside poured down like rain of fire in the explosion. The corpses of the retreating Kokan people and war horses were covered with white snow fields, forming shocking reds.

All the Kokan cavalry were whipping their horses desperately, trying their best to escape from the fire net of death. Because the high-speed charge exhausted the power of the horses, their retreating speed was obviously much more full. It was not until two minutes later that they escaped from the range of the rifles on the city wall, but those terrifying grenade shots still ravaged the heads, and it was not until five minutes later that they completely got rid of this terrifying thing.

The battle lasted less than ten minutes.

Nearly 10,000 Haohan cavalry who launched the attack only returned less than 8,000. More than 2,000 people fell under the guns of the Ming Dynasty. They were unable to kill a militia. In fact, most of the cavalry didn't even have time to fire the guns. Even if they fired, they would not be able to hit the militias protected by half a meter-thick reinforced concrete wall. This result made their commander cry without tears, but what made him cry even more was that his supplies were not left. If they couldn't open the city of Kashi City, how could they attack the next station Weitou? Then the people of Kohan stopped attacking, and then found a leeward place nearby to set up camp. At the same time, they asked the messenger to ask the follow-up troops, especially the transportation troops, to come over quickly. If they didn't come again, they should cut off food and kill camels and eat it.

Fortunately, there are more than 60,000 troops behind them!

This time the attack was divided into two groups. The Kokhan Army and some Bukhara Army crossed the Pamir Mountains to attack Shannan. This route was mainly cavalry, and the goal was to attack various parts of Shannan and threaten the Luntai industrial base eastward at the fastest speed. They took advantage of the fact that there were not many Ming troops in Shannan defense empty. The Russian army, Shiva army, Xiaoyuz army, and some Bukhara Army attacked the two rivers head-on, with the targets being Longcheng and the two rivers industrial bases. This part was actually mainly restrained, and the real main force was the cavalry cluster of the South Road. After all, the northern road had to face the main force of the Ming army.

But now it's embarrassing.

They underestimated the Ming Dynasty's military mobilization ability, and also underestimated the Ming Dynasty's intelligence and information transmission speed. As soon as the Russian army landed on the Jinyiwei, they sent back secret reports by radio. Then Yang Feng and his generals understood their intentions. In the few months when their khans returned to the Khanate and assembled the army, the Ming army also completed the comprehensive mobilization in the three provinces, and even the corresponding deployment was completed within this period.

Shannan, which was originally defensive, has mobilized a total of 250,000 militias, but the reason for shrinking is to let them in and close the door and fight the dogs.

However, the people of Kokhan do not know this.

Compared with the Jinyiwei, their intelligence capabilities are completely at the level of kindergarten children. What's more, the Ming army blocked the mountain pass. Even if their spies knew about it, they would not be able to cross hundreds of miles of mountains and ridges and deliver the information to them in time. In fact, their spies were all shot at the target at this time, and it was not easy to move on the land of the Ming Dynasty where everyone was soldiers.

Kokhan Khan Rahman, who was in charge of the army, quickly led the main force to arrive. The food he brought temporarily solved the food problem. Although Shule is not warm, it is not really ice and snowy. Moreover, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the grassland is full of grasslands. Their war horses can barely maintain it. So they attacked again and even dragged the cannons up. However, the cannons were bombarded into parts in a blink of an eye, and more than a thousand people were killed or injured, Rahman wisely chose to give up the attack.

He left 10,000 cavalry to station nearby and restrain the logistics line while protecting the logistics line, and then personally led the main force to continue to go east.

At this time, he still firmly believed that there were not many Ming troops in Shannan, and Shule was special. It was close to the forefront. It was normal for the Ming army to defend mainly here. Originally, there were two of the four garrisons in Shannan in Shannan, each of Shule and Shache, and the other two were one of the provincial capital of Yutian, Wensu. In his opinion, this must have been because the Ming army transferred Shache and Yutian's garrisons after obtaining the information, which could explain the reasons why there were so many garrisons in Kashi City.

After all, there are only eight thousand Ming troops in the entire Shannan, but the defenders of Kashi City must be at least four thousand, and even if there are some militias, they must be a garrison.

He can only find this explanation.

He didn't believe that there were so many defenders in all counties in Shannan, especially in places that did not need garrisons at all, how could a few thousand people be stationed? Then wouldn't the entire Shannan have 200,000 to 300,000 Ming troops?

That's too exaggerated.

However, this is the fact. Moreover, among the five prefectures and twenty-eight counties in Shannan, the number of troops in Kashi City is absolutely small, with the largest number of troops stationed in Pishan, where there are 50,000 troops stationed there, which is used for counterattack. This huge legion is all cavalry, of course not professional cavalry, but there is absolutely no problem with shooting on horseback. They are waiting leisurely for orders on this oasis that can be said to be forgotten. Once the Xijing left-behind mansion arrives, they will surging out like a torrent to cut off the return of the people of Kokan.
Chapter completed!