The Ming army's mortars and rockets were fired intensively. The rockets made countless streaks of fire and fell on Yarkand City. In an instant, there were bursts of explosions in the city.

The Yarkand people in the city suddenly went into chaos, and many people fled from their homes in terror...

"Kill, kill all the Yarkand people..."

The Ming army's shouts of killing were heard outside the city, making the people of the Yarkand Khanate even more panicked...

"Swish swish..."

"Rumble..."

Loud noises resounded in the city...

As soon as I ran out, I suddenly noticed countless flames appearing in the sky, followed by a series of violent explosions, and the sounds of crying and screams were endless...

About half a stick of incense, a catapult in Yarkant City was ignited by a rocket explosion, and a fire soon broke out...

Yaolevas took a group of soldiers to the street to check. Seeing the tragic situation in front of him, he asked sharply:

"what happened?"

A soldier said with a trembling voice:

"Report to Taiji that the Ming army threw thunder and lightning-like objects into the city one after another!"

The Yarkand people in the city have never seen a mortar, and they don't even know about the exploding mortar shells. They can only vividly call them thunder from the sky.

Another soldier trembled and said:

"Taiji, the Ming army's thunder was so powerful that it killed thousands of our soldiers in a short period of time..."

"Rumble..."

There was another continuous loud noise, and the Ming army mortars and rockets once again launched a larger-scale attack on the city. More people screamed and fled to the buildings to avoid being struck by lightning...

Yarkand's capital city was too small. The Ming army fired mortars and rockets from three directions. The entire city was within the attack range. Fires broke out in the buildings, lighting up the night sky...

Hearing the rumbling explosions and the shouts of the Ming army soldiers outside the city, Abdullah almost pissed himself with fear and hurriedly took people out to check.

There were many unidentified objects whizzing by with flames overhead. They exploded violently immediately after landing, and then burst into flames...

There are also cone-shaped objects that explode when they hit the ground with a whistle, sending the remaining limbs of the surrounding Yarkand soldiers flying around...

Abdullah had never seen such a scene before. To him, everything in front of him was like fighting with gods, and he had no resistance at all...

Even if the Ming army does not attack and keeps fighting like this, sooner or later all the Yerkang people in the city will be blown up and burned to death...

There is no use regretting now. The most urgent task is to find an opportunity to escape.

The Ming army is only surrounding the city gate now. If he can escape, he can go to his relatives in the Womore Empire. Although the relationship is not good, his life can be saved.

The idea was decided, and Abdullah immediately sent an order to gather all his most trusted elite cavalry.

Almost all of these thousands of people were warriors who followed him in the north and south, and they were a force that could not be ignored in the Yarkand Khanate!

…

After seeing how powerful the Ming army was, Yaolewas was also looking for opportunities to surrender, so he was unwilling to follow his father Khan to seek death.

The Ming army was firing rockets and mortars in three other directions, but only the west gate was silent. He quietly came to the west gate with his five hundred personal guards, preparing to surrender to Kaicheng.

"Open the city gate!"

Suddenly, a loud shout came,

Yaolewas was startled and looked back quickly, only to see a group of men and horses galloping towards him. The leader was none other than his father, Khan Abdullah.

At this time, the explosions in Yarkant City became more violent, screams were everywhere, and earth-shattering shouts came from the other three directions, as if the city could be breached at any time...

In fact, the Ming army did not storm Yarkand City, but kept bombarding it with mortars and rockets, and shouted in unison at the three gates outside the city to pretend to attack the city.

In the past, the young generals would have used explosives to blow open the city gate, but this time they did not plan to attack by force.

The purpose of the young generals is to cause panic among the Yarkand soldiers in the city, so that the Yarkand Khanate will surrender without a fight...

Seeing his father Khan coming in person, Yaolevas thought he was helping to defend the city, and his heart suddenly sank. It seemed that he would not be able to leave the city and surrender tonight.

With a slight sigh, Yaolevas raised his hands and saluted on the horse:

"Father, why are you here?"

Abdullah reined in his horse and said seriously:

"The Ming army dares to attack Yarkand City at night, do you think that our Yarkand warriors are just decorations? Father Khan is going to go out of the city to kill the enemy in person. You will guard the city gate here and wait for Father Khan to return victoriously..."

"Father Khan..."

Yaolevas's heart trembled and he didn't know what to say...

Abdullah looked at his son and said with determination:

"Remember, if Father Khan dies in battle! You can lead the army to surrender, but don't make fearless sacrifices. We can't compete with the Ming army!"

Abdullah's words moved the Yarkand soldiers around him. At this moment, in their minds, Abdullah was a great Khan!

The city gate slowly opened, and Abdullah breathed a sigh of relief. He could finally run away in good faith!

"Kill! Sui Benhan rushes!"

Under the admiring eyes of his subordinates, Abdullah led his troops and horses and quickly rushed out of the west gate of Yarkant City...

When besieging the capital of Yarkand, the generals deliberately left a loophole in the west gate to lure the people in the city to escape, making it easier to catch them than in the city.

Abdullah galloped on his horse, and countless Yarkand warriors followed him, bravely dying and fighting towards the Ming army!

…

The three commanders of the Ming Army's Central Army, Sun Yingyuan, Cao Bianjiao and Mao Yuanyi, are enjoying tea and playing chess leisurely.

Hearing the violent explosion outside, Cao Bianjiao couldn't help but smile:

"These guys have shot down all the rockets and mortar shells. Do they want to scare the Yarkand people in the city to death? Hahaha..."

Mao Yuanyi smiled slightly and said:

"Cao Shuai, it shows that the little guys are mature, otherwise they will definitely attack the city with all their strength. After the Western Expedition, they should be able to stand alone..."

Sun Yingyuan picked up the teacup and took a few sips, then slowly put down the teacup and said:

"This is the last battle of the Western Expedition. This is good. At least it can reduce the casualties of the Ming army as much as possible. Let them go!"

…

Outside Yarkant City, the Ming army was surrounded on three sides and kept using mortars to undermine the morale of the defenders in the city.

However, the Ming army did not leave any empty gate, but the west gate defenders were much smaller. Once the Yarkand soldiers attacked, they would immediately withdraw.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! When attacking a city, no matter whether you have the ability to completely wipe out the enemy, you must leave a way for the enemy to survive. This is mainly to prevent the enemy from escaping without hope, and finally jumping over the wall in a desperate attempt to die.

Resistance will cause unnecessary casualties to the siege army.

This tactic is psychological warfare, taking advantage of human survival psychology. It has been tried and tested in wars throughout the history. Even though the enemy knows it is a scam, it has repeatedly fallen into the trap.

The young generals did not want to act so fake, and not leaving the Ming army to guard was obviously a fraud, so they left more than a thousand troops behind.

Seeing a group of troops suddenly rushing out of Yarkand Khan's city, the Ming army turned around and ran away. This gave Abdullah the illusion that the Ming army was weak in combat, thinking that the war relied entirely on magical weapons...

The young generals thought that the Yarkand capital city would be attacked for several days, but they did not expect that after a fierce bombardment, some people had already escaped from the city.

Hearing that someone was running away, Li Er Newton laughed loudly:

"Why did they start running away as soon as the artillery fire started? How did they defeat the Yarkand Khanate, which is so big?"

Yang Bao chuckled:

"They used to fight with real swords and guns. They have never seen mortars. They should be frightened..."

Chen De nodded:

"The Ming army is well equipped and has experienced many years of war experience. It has fought against rogue bandits, slaves, and Tatars. To our army, the Yarkand soldiers are nothing more than a group of barbarians!"

…

Knowing that there was an ambush, Abdullah took a risk in order to escape. It was better than waiting to die in the city.

In a small forest about twenty miles west of Yarkant City, Zhang Jiayu and the others have already laid an ambush here.

He thought that it would take at least two days of ambush before anyone in Yarkand City would escape.

Despite this, Zhang Jiayu did not dare to relax, nor did he dare to leave the ambush point.

The guard handed him a military kettle and said:

"General, drink some water and take a rest. The battle has just started. No one will leave the city for the time being..."

Zhang Jiayu nodded, took a few big sips from the kettle, and was about to close his eyes and rest.

"Da da da……"

Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves in the distance, and soon he jumped off his horse in front of Zhang Jiayu:

"General, someone has left the city, thousands of troops..."

"What?"
To be continued...