When Nikan personally led Xiao Alin's army appeared in the desert south of Mazong Mountain, Aldal, who was in the hinterland of Mazong Mountain, discovered it.

The 15,000 cavalry is not something that one of his own miscellaneous cavalry can compete with. Moreover, according to the marching regulations of the Hanhai Army, in such a place far away from the local area, the reconnaissance cavalry must be divided into fifty miles, thirty miles, ten miles and three layers, and fifty miles have already approached the southern foot of Mazong Mountain. Under such circumstances, Aldar could not even send someone to Gushihan.

Of course, he could also start from where he was stationed, and then go straight east, and go south when he approached near Suzhou. However, since his five thousand cavalry were mixed cavalry, they were pieced together by various tribes. It was not easy for them to run so far. Moreover, the last time Eqier Khan returned from Alaxa, he had spread throughout the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.

So, Nikan's army passed the only passage from Hami to Guazhou, and even reached Guazhou!

Nikan's army surrounded the five thousand cavalry guarding Gushikhan!

Guazhou was an important military town by Zhang Yichao, the governor of Guiyi Army, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and cast a dirt city, with a radius of eight miles and rammed earth. Hundreds of years later, the city had long been buried in the dead grass and loess, but its shape was still there, and later, the city was built on the original site again during the Yongzheng period.

After Gushikhan occupied this place, as a nomadic tribe, he definitely did not think about building a city, but he was just stationed on the original site.

So, on the broken walls with a circumference of about eight miles, hundreds of tents were scattered among them, and around them were herders following the cavalry and driving cattle and sheep.

At this time, Guazhou, including Suoyang City in the south, had an oasis area of ​​thousands of square kilometers. It would be no problem to temporarily support 5,000 cavalry.

Speaking of this cavalry, we need to talk about the composition of the cavalry of the Hoshoth Khanate.

When they were originally entrenched in the Tianshan area, the herdsmen under Tulubaihu were almost the same as the Choros tribe, and they were all around 30,000 tents. After the Tuohuit tribe was defeated, some of the Tuohuit tribes were defeated, and the Huohuit tribes were attached to them. Therefore, before Gushikhan went south to capture the Qinghai-Tibet land, the entire Heshuot tribe was estimated to have about 40,000 tents.

After Turubaihu occupied the Qinghai-Tibet land, he left about 20,000 tents for his nephew, took about 20,000 tents for himself, defeated Chahar, and after defeating Chahar, the Quetu Khan coalition forces, he harvested about 30,000 tents for the Chahar, Khalkha and Tumot (the first Mongolian tribe to enter Qinghai-Tibet land).

There were about 20,000 Tibetan troops who defected to Gushikhan.

Seventy thousand households are the total number of herders that the entire Khūt Khanate can control. If the farmers who farmed in large quantities would naturally be more, but at this time, Tulubaihu, who started out as a cavalry, would definitely not count them into his own military power.

There were 70,000 households, and Ezhe rebelled, and about 10,000 households were lost, thus only 60,000 households were left.

Sixty thousand households can mobilize at least 60,000 cavalry. Gu Shihan also did this. Now his military strength is arranged in this way:

Thirty thousand horses were in the Guasha area and twenty thousand horses were on the line of Haiyan-Dongke, all to guard against possible attacks by the Hanhai Army. If it were normal, there would naturally be no need to place such many troops.

Ten thousand riders were near Lhasa and needed to cover the entire Tibet.

Five thousand riders protect the Kangba area.

This is almost all his cavalry power. In order to deal with Han Hai's army, he has used all his energy to deal with it. For him, the war can only be decided quickly, and he can't afford to delay it.

The five thousand miscellaneous cavalry teams stationed in Guazhou cover Chahar, Khalkha and Tumot. His fifth son, Yileduzi, is the commander of this miscellaneous cavalry.

In the area of ​​Lop Nur (it was still an oasis at this time), his seventh son Hu Rumush took another five thousand cavalry to guard the possible troops of the Yarkand Khanate.

However, Shazhou (Dunhuang), which has a larger oasis, only 10,000 Han households who had just been forced to move here by Gushihan, and there are about 10,000 households near Guazhou.

There is Aldal to the north, and the army of his father to the east, and the fifth of Gushikhan, and Yileduqi, who is only twenty years old this year, completely lost his vigilance.

When Nikan's army suddenly emerged from the desert, almost all his five thousand cavalry were nestled in the abandoned city wall!

Among Gushikhan's sons, the eldest and second sons were very good. They were all trained by Turubaihu according to his own tricks of fighting. Although the third son Darante and the fourth son Bayan were a little worse, these four people were still somewhat capable at least in marching and fighting. Starting from the fifth son Ileduqi, Turubaihu gradually relaxed his cultivation of them due to the protection of his previous brothers. Coupled with his wife's arrogance, they were different - of course, except for Lao Shi, who was born last year.

Even so, Ileduchi still had the courage. He immediately sent people east to report the news to his father, and he was ready to take all the cavalry out of the "city" to fight.

However, the brave Xiao Alin would definitely not give him this opportunity. Since it was a ruined wall, there must be gaps everywhere. Just when Yileduqi was still gathering his troops in panic, Xiao Alin's three cavalry brigades all rushed in!

There is no suspense, not to mention that these tribal cavalry were all other tribes that were conquered by the Heshuo Special Forces before. Most of the cavalry, especially the Chahar, Khalkha and Tumot, had no intention of working for Gushikhan at all. Only about a thousand local cavalry in Qinghai resisted briefly.

The entire army was wiped out, and only a few cavalry rushed out of the gap that Han Hai Army had not taken care of.

Most of the cavalry, including Ilduzi, were captured!

After asking Gushikhan's troops at Chijin Fort, Nikan became more relieved. Lop Nur was too far away and he didn't want to occupy this place. After a short rest, he asked Wu Yinglong, a military brigade under Xiao Alin's army to jail the prisoners, and took Bomu Boguer's personal guard brigade. Xiao Alin's three cavalry brigades immediately galloped towards Chijin Fort.

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Back to near Jiayuguan.

As a descendant of the Sorens whom several emperors of the Qing Dynasty considered "the bravest Jurchens", the Sorens tribe, which was the most capable of confronting the Buryat Mongols near Ulan Ude, was the only son of the Harada of the Tuktana tribe and Dachun, who was a famous warrior in the clan. Although he was extremely tired, he had not yet retreated in his mind.

“Tiger and tiger…”

Amid the earth-shaking shouts, Dachun tightened his face, holding the tiger spear for one foot long, blue veins popped up with his right hand, and holding the short gun with his left hand while holding the reins.

The barb on the inner side of the back of the horse boot suddenly stimulated the horse. The yellow horse that had been with him for five years first neighed loudly, and then jumped out suddenly!

"receive!"

The moment he approached the enemy cavalry, Dachun couldn't help but shout again.

In fact, at this time, all the flying dragon cyclists in the front line subconsciously pulled the tiger gun backwards, and at the same time lifted the left hand holding the short gun!

"call out!!!"

However, the first thing that was fired at this time was the javelins of the enemy cavalry and a large number of arrows thrown out!

Everyone pulled down their masks. From time to time, knights were shot in the hands of the horse, and the horse was shot in the buttocks. The Hanhai Army had practiced this situation many times. At this time, only by continuing to endure can one not die. The horse's thick buttocks were also wrapped in cowhide armor with metal sounds. Apart from being frightened and rushing forward faster, there was not much strangeness.

Of course, although the war horses have masks, their eyes are exposed outside. They are not like knights. They know that there is danger in front of them and they are lying down. A few war horses have their eyes hit by javelins and arrows, and they run around in pain. At this time, experienced knights can only control it desperately and let it rush straight towards the enemy cavalry. Otherwise, they will be unable to protect themselves and will lead the brigade to chaos.

At the same time, the arrow branches and javelins hit the helmet, and the "dang" sound produced on the armor, and the unpleasant creaking sound made by passing across the surface of the smooth armor!

At this time, the power of the grassland cavalry can be reflected. The so-called bravery, on the one hand, they have a wild side in their bones for a long time, and on the other hand, they are not afraid of death, but there are also a large number of them.

If it is a soldier who is used to being stable in the Central Plains, if it is the first time that he encounters such a situation, it is certain that he is shocked and inexplicably in chaos. This is also the origin of the fact that famous generals have always strictly governed their army.

Of course, like the strong Han Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty, we have fully developed confidence. Ten thousand Han cavalry can also face off against 100,000 grassland cavalry, which is another level of matter.

In an instant, two heavy armored cavalry met!

"Bang!!!"

At this moment, the short gun in the flying dragon rider started!

At such a close distance, the Hargen Pioneer Cavalry, who had only one layer of vertical and small rectangular fish scale armor, could not resist it at all. When it comes to armor levels, they were still a little worse than the Manchu Bayala Guards who wore two layers of armor.

If Nikan had not appeared, the Eight Banners Essential Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty would still be the most powerful cavalry in the world, no doubt about it.

Seeing that they knocked down the strange cavalry in front of them, Dachun couldn't help but shake the tiger spear in his hand and shouted again. The tiger spear in his hand instantly turned into holding it with both hands, and met the other party's spear!

"Crill!" The spear tip of the spear was indeed very sharp, and it reflected silver light in the sunlight, but it was broken by the tiger spear!

Most flying dragon cavalry naturally do not have such superb spear techniques as Dachun, but they also have methods. They do not care about the sharp and terrifying sharp spear that they stabbed at the other party, and the tiger spear directly came to the other party's body!

At this time, the power of the whole body of plate armor can be reflected. After the opponent's spear tip (originally used to break armor) was completely useless after stabbing the plate armor, it was not only a nasty sound, but the spear tip (similar to horse spear, the armor-breaking weapon of Han cavalry) looked like a tiger spear (similar to horse spear, the sharp weapon of armor-breaking in Han cavalry) directly cut off the leather rope connecting the fish scale armor and stabbed into the body hard!

The spear tip, which is as sharp as an awl, was originally used to deal with armor like fish scale armor and mountain pattern armor, but unfortunately, it is now facing plate armor, which is a loss for Gushihan's heavy cavalry.

The second loss was the first to be hit by a sharp weapon like a short gun.

Even Genghis Khan praised, "Soren was the bravest among the forests", Nurhaci and Huang Taiji also praised them, and their riding skills and bravery were no less than those of Tawei Lat Mongols, this was the third loss.

Not long after, including the son-in-law of the Chirgis, who seemed to be "unreasonable to thousands of men", was easily shot down and dropped, the thousand heavy cavalry forwards he worked hard to build were broken.

Tulubaihu, who was watching the battle on a small hill in the back formation, was stunned.

"How is it possible? How are they?"

He was brave enough to win the three armies at the age of thirteen, and could pacify tens of thousands of nomadic tribes occupying the Balikun Lake area with a thousand cavalry. He was completely lost in the face of this situation in front of him.

When a large rumbling sound of horse hooves came from behind him, Tulubaihu, who appeared in the tribes of Vilat in a "brave" manner from his youth to his sixties, was frightened. For the first time, he ran away before the battle ended.

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Lop Nur.

A raid is also being staged. Aladi, the governor of Turpan of the Yarkand Khanate, led five thousand elite cavalry to raid the camp of Hurumish, the seventh son of Gushikhan, and defeated him.

But Aldal, who was uneasy in the hinterland of Mazong Mountain, did not wait for Aradi, but waited for many of the Heshuote defeated soldiers who had dispersed here.

Aladdie, who was able to start from Yanqi, crossed the northeastern edge of the Takramakan Desert and headed to Lop Nur.

This is the real oriole. After this battle, the southern territory that Gushikhan finally captured was gone, and the territory of the Yarkand Khanate was intact again.

During this period, Abdullah, the special envoy who had been frequently traveling through the desert recently, made great contributions - who made the Yarkand Khanate still an ally of the Great Xia Empire?

Gu Shihan escaped, but after this battle, he was really seriously injured. Not only that, he, who could have lived for another ten years, was worried and died early after returning to Qinghai. This could be regarded as a butterfly effect.

Nikan captured a large number of Mongolian generals, plus Turubaihu's second son Omubu and a large and large Taiji, the golden family of the Heshuote tribe. With these bargaining chips, the newly appointed Heshuote Khan and Gushikan's eldest son Dayan Khan fully agreed to Nikan's conditions to put all the captured families back to Gansu.

Nikan did not accept all these prisoners. He put all the Heshuot and Tibetan cavalry inside back, leaving only the three cavalrymen of Khalkha, Chahar and Tumot, with a total of nearly 15,000 cavalry, all arranged in the grassland on the eastern foot of the Qilian Mountains.

In Ganzhou and Suzhou people were moved to Gushikhan by Gushikhan. After Shazhou, Nikan did not intend to move them back, but instead placed them on the spot. At the same time, he ordered the Ministry of Works to rebuild the city on the ruins of the city walls of Guazhou and Shazhou and transformed Shazhou into Dunhuang.

At the same time, 30,000 households immigrated from Shanxi Province to fill the vacancies in Ganzhou and Suzhou.

The Hexi Corridor is completely under the control of the Daxia Kingdom! Guasha and the other states move in a standby manner!

The new Khan, Dayan, whose prestige, ability and ambition are far inferior to his father. In addition to him, there is also the Dalai Lama, who is second only to him, and the third-person, Diba (the noble of the secular Tibetan class, equivalent to the prime minister of the Tibetan regime) in charge of Tibetan politics, are all ambitious people. Dayan will have to spend a lot of energy to settle these people, let alone deal with the Daxia Kingdom.

This also led to his powerful brothers, such as Omubu, Bayan and others, coveting the Khan throne.
Chapter completed!