: Burning the camp

"Grandma, the grandpas are trembling here, but the turtle grandsons of the Ming army are lying in bed and enjoying you. If the general does not send an order to attack, we will all be frozen to death..."

Seeing that the general was reluctant to order an attack, the Kazakh soldiers who were trembling in the cold wind began to worry. They had been here for several days, worried that the Ming army would not dare to make a fire. They could not eat well and sleep well. Qianhu Lausanne couldn't help complaining.

The Sakhak leader Shadr, who led his army to attack, stared at the time:

"Shut up to me. Didn't I be frozen like you? What do you want when I take down the Yili River Valley? We just have to wait for the Ming army to sleep and act. Only in this way can we kill the Ming army more..."

"Yes, the general is wrong. At that time, take down the Yili River Valley. The general wants his brothers to find a few Yarkand girls to vent the fire..."

Shadell nodded:

"As long as you are brave, after you take down the Ili River Valley, you will find ten Yarkand girls."

"Okay, General, let's see how the last general kills the enemy. If you don't kill the twenty-seven Ming army, you will not be a hero..."

Shadr was not paying attention to Losangk, and he didn't want to undermine his morale, but he knew very well that the Ming army was definitely not easy to deal with, otherwise how could he easily destroy the Yarkand Khanate?

Looking up at the night sky, Shadell sent a command:

"I passed the order of the general, and the troops were divided into two groups and set out immediately. After attacking the Ming army's camp, the two groups of people rushed to the Ming army's central army, and tried to kill the Ming army's chief general as quickly as possible, and control the Yili River Valley before the Ming army reinforcements were brought."

"yes"

When they heard that they were about to go to war, the Kazakh cavalry immediately opened their mouths and smiled happily. They had been waiting for this day for a long time and immediately rushed out of the woods to find out the military camp.

The distance of twenty kilometers is not far for the cavalry. In one stick of incense, we arrived five miles outside the Ming army camp, and we could clearly see the lights reflected in the Ming army camp.

The Yili River Valley is not a canyon, it is a beautiful prairie. The Lalati Grassland that is often heard is in the Yili River Valley.

The beautiful and vast grassland, herds of cattle and sheep, the Nalati grassland is one of the most famous pastures in the Yili River Valley.

Nalati Grassland is also known as Xigongnais Grassland. It means "green valley" in Ola Mongolian, and it means "white sunpo" in Kazakh.

During the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, this was the pastoral area of ​​the Walahuit tribe. It was located in the eastern part of Nalati Town, Xinyuan County, Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang, on the northern slope of Nalati Mountain. It is the Zhongshan grassland developed on the ancient flood strata of the Tertiary Period.

Nalati Grassland is a subalpine meadow flora area, one of the four major prairie in the world. It has been a famous pasture since ancient times.

The Han people were one of the ethnic groups that entered Xinjiang earlier. The Western Han Dynasty conquered the Western Regions with the attack on the Huns. The Huns were a powerful nomadic people who operated in the northern grasslands of China during the Qin and Han Dynasties. They were weak at first, but strong later.

In the second year of Yuanshou (121 BC), the Han army defeated the Xiongnu army stationed in the Hexi Corridor area. The Han Dynasty successively established four counties, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang.

Wusun, who occupied the Yili River Basin, became a strategic ally that the Han and the Hungarian empires wanted to strive for cooperation.

The Wusun people, who were established in the Yili River Basin, were established because of their superior geographical conditions and strong military existence.

He was awarded the honor of marrying a princess twice in the Han Dynasty, which shows the excellent strategic position in the Yili River Basin.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Tuqi Shi tribes of the five Western Turkic tribes emerged in the Ili River Basin and became the most active tribe after the Western Turkic tribes were dispersed.

It even unified the Western Turkic tribes for a time and established the Turkish Khanate, which could compete with the Arab Empire and the Tang Empire.

At that time, the Yili River Basin, which was the rise of the Tuqi Shi tribe, the abundant resources in the area were undoubtedly an important basis for the early power accumulation of the Tuqi Shi tribe.

By the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Yili area was always regarded as the capital of Xinjiang.

In the 20th year of Qianlong's reign (1755), Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty pacified the Junggar tribe and unified the Western Regions. The Qing court set up the "Ili General's Mansion" here, which was in charge of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the Balkash Lake and the Pamirs.

Later, this treasure land also became a place that imperialists with wolfish ambitions wanted to occupy.

In the mid-19th century, under the attack of the two Opium Wars and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, the Qing Dynasty gradually declined and its control over Xinjiang decreased. At that time, there were two forces who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to invade the Ili River Valley area.

The first is Tsarist Russia, which began to move forward with the two treaties signed during the Second Opium War.

The second one was Agubo, the military general of the Kokhan Khanate. He was supported by Britain and other countries to invade Xinjiang and ruled the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains with Kashgar as the center.

In the tenth year of Tongzhi (1870), Tsarist Russia took advantage of the invasion of Xinjiang by Agubo and also occupied Yili, Xinjiang, and the entire Yili River Basin was about to fall.

With the unremitting efforts of Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Jize and others, China barely saved half of the Ili River Valley through the "Ili Treaty", so that the western Chinese community members would not be completely open to the gun of Tsarist Russia.

Today, China and Kazakhstan each occupy the Yili River Basin, and China controls the upper reaches of the Yili River Valley, with an area of ​​56,400 square kilometers.

Another part of the Ili River Basin occupied by Tsarist Russia back then, the Russians established Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan.

Such a good place has long been remembered by the Kazakh Khanate. They are also ambitious people who attempt to fully occupy the Ili River Valley.

Two kilometers away from the Ming army camp, Shadar ordered his troops to attack the Ming army camp in three groups.

"A man came, I sent the order from the general to attack the Ming army camp in three groups. When approaching the Ming army camp, I threw the torch into the Ming army camp, and I wanted to burn the camp."

"yes"

At Shadar's order, 20,000 cavalry divided into three groups to raid the Ming army's barracks.

The Ming army camp was stationed on a large highland, and a small river flowed through behind the highland, which was also the source of the Ming army.

There were two hundred Ming troops on duty in front of the military camp. When they saw a sudden fire not far away, the hundreds of households on duty immediately grabbed the telescope and looked at it.

When he saw the Kazakh cavalry rushing in, he immediately ordered his subordinates:

"No, a large number of cavalry attacked, fire your guns to warn..."

"Bang bang bang..."

Several Ming army flag generals immediately fired guns into the sky to warn, and then prepared for battle.

"Dadada..."

The Ming army on duty was just ready and immediately saw a large number of cavalry appearing five hundred meters away from them.

Although the Kazakh Khanate cavalry came in full force, the Ming army was not at all confused, and the black muzzle was aimed at the Kazakh Khanate cavalry.

Suddenly, a thousand households in the Kazakh Khanate laughed:

"General, the Ming army is dreaming! You see, there are only two hundred people on duty in front of their camp."

While speaking, they had already entered the Ming army's rifled gun range.

"shot"

"Bang bang..."

Suddenly, a gunshot sounded, and the Ming army pulled the trigger at the Kazakh cavalry rushing towards them.
Chapter completed!