Chapter Thirty-Five: Talos
Talas, 500 miles west to Turkestan, the capital of the Kazakh Khanate, and 500 miles east to the Chu River, the current boundary between the Kazakh Khanate and the Junggar Khanate. It is the actual ruler of the Kazakh Khanate, the eldest son of Yesmukhan, the controller of the Khanate Eastern Legion, and the location of Jiangge Khan's tent.
This Talas is closer to the west than the famous ancient city of Talas in history, and the city in history is closer to the Tus Pond (Isek Lake).
The so-called big tent, as a place where Chinese and Western civilizations meet, naturally cannot be built in the wild. There is also a city here, with an earthen wall of two miles in a radius, three meters high and four feet wide. The Tianfang Sect Temple in the middle of the city is the most spectacular and obvious building.
Jianger was able to take power in advance (although he did not officially ascend the throne of the Khanate) due to a tragic civil strife in the Khanate a few years ago.
During that civil strife, the Southern Army was in charge of the Governor of Tashkent, and the leader of the legion set up by the Mughal Empire (part of Afghanistan), Jianger's uncle launched a rebellion. The rebellion lasted for several years and would turn the area from Turkestan to Tashkent into white land.
Yesmukhan eventually suppressed the rebellion, but the originally powerful Southern Legion with 50,000 permanent troops disappeared from then on, and it was difficult to reorganize.
The Central Army and the Eastern Army were also heavily damaged, which was also an important reason why Jianger was defeated and captured when the jugugar Khanate first launched a large-scale attack on the Kazakh Khanate a few years ago.
During that rebellion, the main tribes that supported the rebel leaders were finally almost destroyed by Yesmukhan. A few people ran to parts of the southern border. They had a resounding name in later generations - Daolang.
After the rebellion, Yesmuhan was exhausted and had no intention of national affairs. He finally hid in Turkestan and recited scriptures every day. Since then, the major domestic events were actually controlled by his eldest son Jianger.
After the rebellion, the Yeh Qiang Khanate in the east was the era of the most famous rule of Abdulah. He took advantage of the situation to rob and seize the place between the Fergana Basin and Lake Isek, and sent troops to defeat Batur and regain the Ili River Valley.
After a few years, the strength of the three major Kazakh Khanate legions has recovered slightly. However, due to the fact that Yesmu Khan and Jianger Khan are the two Khans, they have also had some impacts within the Khan. At this time, the three major Yuzis, which were originally just geographical location and historical origins, began to have a vague political trend of "competence" in politics.
Originally, when the Ergut tribe moved westward, Yesmukhan let them go there to let the Mongols go to the Attila River Basin (Volga River). The Saridge River Basin (Ural River) blocked the Russians as a buffer between them. However, the tribe was once stuck in the Kazakh grasslands and was driven away by Jianger a few years ago. Unexpectedly, the tribe not only gained a firm foothold there, but also had a vague tendency to grow bigger.
The three major khanates fought against each other, and the Turkut tribe, the Russians, and the Mughal Empire, how could they be so chaotic?
Talas City, Khan's Mansion.
He is tall, has a hooked nose, deep sockets, thin face, and the terrifying light emitted from his eyes from time to time is heart-wrenching.
A tall pointed hat, a golden silk watch, a robe with camel velvet base, a red cloak with gold edges, and a one-meter-long Damascus scimitar around her waist. The hilt of the scimitar is covered with red, blue and white gems.
Jianger, the actual ruler of the Kazakh Khanate, was the governor of Talas and commander of the Eastern Legion.
A man was kneeling in front of him.
It was Ismir Ya'an!
Ya'an was five years ago when Jianger bought a Tatar slave from the Orenburg slave market on the north bank of the Sazedge River (Ural River) in the Khanate five years ago. He bought it from the Russians. It is said that he was from a small tribe east of the Siberian Khanate. After the tribe was destroyed, all the Russians were captured and sold.
Because Ya'an can speak Turkic, Mongolian, and a little Russian, and with a beautiful face, Jianger fell in love with him at a glance.
As for the origin of Ya'an, Jianger believed it very much.
Since the Russians crossed Mount Sazedge, a large number of Turkic tribes either surrendered to them or fled south to the Kazakh Khanate. Of course, some tribes that resisted to the end also became slaves.
Orenburg, Atlau and Astrakhan are three large slave markets.
"Why did you hand over Xiao Chenghan to Tuoyin?"
"Khan, this is what I think. Since the chaos in the Khanate, the Eastern Legion and Southern Legion have been severely damaged, and the tribes in the central, northern and eastern parts of the Khanate have also been greatly damaged, but some tribes in the western and northwest of the Khanate have not been greatly affected."
"Do you want Mizar to join forces with Toynhuo to weaken his strength?"
Ya'an nodded, "God Khan forgives his sins. He takes the position of the Khan and acts randomly. Please punish him."
He lowered his head and saw that Jiang Geer had not spoken for a long time, he continued with courage: "The Nakala Khitan tribe is one of the few tribes in the northwest of the Khanate that do not believe in the state religion, and is also preparing to defect to the Mongols. As a tribe, Xiao Chenghan's crimes are unforgivable, but according to the Khanate Code, such matters should be exercised by the sultan of the Khan Alliance."
"Xiao Siye and others are preparing to kill Xiao Chenghan without authorization, which completely violates the Khanate Code"
"Then why don't you hand him over to Mizar?"
"There are two reasons for the Khan. One is that my caravan is going to go to the tribe of Toyin. The other is, it is the reason I said at the beginning."
"Hmph, you did a good thing!"
Jianger suddenly became stern, and Ya'an quickly lowered his head.
"Originally, it is right to take Xiao Chenghan from those people, but you should immediately hand him over to Mizar. Now, the Mongols attacked Karakhitan, Mizar rescued, and finally led out three tribes!"
Ya'an understood that the reason why Jiang Geer was angry was not because he acted without authorization, but because the three Zhongyuzi tribes sent troops without Yes Muhan or his orders.
In other words, these three tribes obey Mizar Khan's orders vaguely more than their own nominal supreme leader of the Khanate.
This is the biggest distress of the actual controller of the Khanate - he is not the only and supreme master of the Khanate.
"Forget it, repeat what you just said."
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After a while, after Ya'an repeated it, Jianger closed his eyes.
He already knew that the Qing Dynasty colluded with the caravans that Ger Khanate massacred Alati and was preparing to blame the Daxia Empire. In the current situation of the Khanate, even if Manhai and his friends succeeded in their calculations, he would not have more energy to fight the Daxia Empire.
At present, the Fergana Basin and the Ili River Valley were recaptured from the Yeli Qiang Khanate (the prototype of the later Kyrgyzstan state, which belonged to the Yeli Qiang Khanate at this time, and was also the main source of troops of the Yeli Qiang Khanate), and the most important thing was to recapture the Chu River Basin from the Junggar Khanate.
Otherwise, what is the purpose of the existence of such a large Eastern Legion?
But what is the newly rising Daxia Empire so powerful? According to the caravan news, this empire defeated the invading Batur and Gushikhan, but they were still far away at the time, so he didn't take it seriously. In just a few years, this empire had actually arrived in the Ezis River Basin!
However, when Jianger thought of the fierce and fierce nation attacking more than the north, he felt a little better.
In this time and space, due to the rise of Nikan, Batuer did not have the opportunity to tie all the Dulbert tribes together and fight with the Russians in the north.
In the original history, Batur fought against Cossacks several times in Tara and Tomsk, and they all defeated them, but eventually stopped under the castle - siege, which was not the specialty of the nomadic tribe.
Fights between the Russians and Kazakh tribes also occurred frequently. At this time, the Russians focused on the west and south, and their life-and-death enemy was still the Swedes, the Poles, the Crimean Khanate, and even the Ottoman Turkish Empire behind the Crimean Khanate, had very few troops deployed in the east.
Therefore, like the Juggar Khanate, the Kazakhs prevailed in the fight on the grasslands at the beginning. However, the Russians' ketchup tactics still allowed Jianger to understand. The Kazakh territory originally reached the edge of the northern forest, but now it is gradually migrating deep into the grasslands.
Is it better to have such a country separated by Russia?
But his eyes suddenly opened.
"You say it again, their people are only three thousand riders in total?!"
"Yes, three thousand cavalry, but they all have armor and a large number of muskets, and their combat power is also very impressive. They ignored Mizar Khan and tried their best to deal with the three Zhongyuzi tribes coming from the south bank of the Ui River. After more than an hour, they completely drove them back to the south bank. Afterwards, the younger ones also took a detour to these three tribes."
"How about it?"
"They dispatched a total of 8,000 cavalry and returned to the garrison safely for up to half."
Jianger couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning.
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A few days later, Jianger learned from Turkestan that the three tribes of Zhongyuz sent troops without authorization had reported their fathers. Now, his father Khan, who was obsessed with reciting and copying scriptures, naturally ignored them, but sent them to him. When he received this news, Zhongyuz's messenger was on the way.
After learning about this, Jianger's hands were clenched white.
Ya'an came to Jianger's mansion again.
"Khan, report important things"
"oh?"
"In the big tent of Batur, there are many Mongolian tribes with Dataiji appearing!"
"for example?"
"Oruk, who moved westward, Turubahur, who went to Qinghai-Tibet, Khan of the three Khalkhas, and Omubudaiqing of Dulbert are all there!"
"Oh? Where is Tuoyin? Where is Su Dukui, where is Zabu?"
"They were not seen, but the monk they respected the most was also among them."
"oh?"
"It's that Yabandida"
"How did Turubahur come from Orluk?"
"This, the small one, didn't know, probably came here as a businessman or a herdsman."
"Do you know what they are doing?"
"I don't know for the time being"
"Okay, Ya'an, you did a good job. This news is very important to Ben Khan. By the way, you go and call the Russian caravan manager over."
"Is it that Ivan Hilgai?"
Chapter completed!