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Text 728 The Prelude to the Battle of Turkestan

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    Turkestan is originally a Persian word, and its original meaning is the place where Turks live. It was first called by the Arabs in the eighth century.  In a broad sense, Turkestan includes the vast Central Asian region starting from the Tianshan Mountains and Karakoram Mountains in the east, the Caspian Sea in the west, Afghanistan and eastern Iran in the south, and Western Siberia in the north.  In a narrow sense, it is the capital of the Kazakh Khanate, the city of Turkestan.  This ancient city originated from the Turkic people's westward migration. At the same time, it was the Chinese Tang Dynasty. It continuously absorbed technology, culture, and commodities from the East from the Western Regions Protectorate, and then transferred them to the West.  Since that time, Turkestan has been the most prosperous city in Central Asia, a prosperous place that brought together Eastern and Western cultural styles.  Today¡¯s Turkestan cannot be compared with what it was a thousand years ago.  Although the wheel of the times is moving forward, due to the limitations of its geographical environment, the Kazakh Khanate has not made significant progress in productivity. At most, it has limited promotion of iron tools.  As a trading city, they are now surrounded by the Ottomans to the west, the Oros to the north, the Mughal Empire to the south, and the Tianshan Mountains recently recovered by the Ming Dynasty to the west. There is no atmosphere of commercial existence at all.  As a result, the prosperous trading city naturally declined, but as the holy city of the Turks, this city still has an influence that cannot be underestimated.  If Turkestan is recovered by the Oros and Kazakhs, it means that the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Kazakhstan has completely failed, and the Kazakh Khanate and Dayuzi have once again returned to their kingdoms.  All the generals in the northwest face the stain of life: defeat and loss of territory.  Yes, no one will care that this land was recently conquered. They will just whistle easily and say: Look, Xiao Mo and Xiao Donglou are known as the famous generals of the empire. What is the result?  They lost Turkestan.  Yang Wei stood on the Turkestan Tower, a tower with a Thai-Western style.  It is not as beautiful as the Ming Dynasty Tower, and the arrow holes left make people feel depressed.  From here you can see the river flowing from the northwest of the city. Adhering to the habit of secrecy and arrogance, the Ming Army Staff Headquarters named it Xiliang River.  The river is only five feet wide at its widest point and only one foot long at its narrowest point. It can be crossed by wading.  It can only increase defense capability to a limited extent.  As the birthplace of the Xiliang River, it is a mountain range named Cuiping Mountain by the Ming Dynasty. The locals call it "Kalatau" Mountain. It is located northwest of the city and is a mountain range running northwest and southeast.  Because the mountains are too far away from the city, they only have strategic significance and have no tactical impact.  Similar to this is the Syr Darya River that meanders from the southwest of the city. The entire Turkestan city is on the right bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Syr Darya River.  The battlefield is thousands of miles away.  Because it is too far from the city.  Therefore, the Syr Darya River is not of much help to the Ming army's defense, but the agricultural reclamation areas along the river can become a food supply area for the Ming army.  Xiao Mo knew where to find Yang Wei. When he stood behind Yang Wei with his cloak on, he couldn't help but ask: "What are you looking at?" "We made a strategic mistake, but fortunately the enemy made a bigger mistake.  "Yang Wei turned around and said, "General, we shouldn't come to save Turkestan now." "The Western Region is too vast, and the number of soldiers is really insufficient," Xiao Mo said.  Although the Oara people do not speak Chinese, they speak Chinese compared to Chagatai people and Kazakhs.  At least they look closer to Han people.  For the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who had just begun to have the concept of nationality, those people with long, dark eyes and withered yellow hair were definitely aliens who could not communicate with each other. On the contrary, the Oara people could barely be regarded as compatriots.  "Let Tulubaihu and Sengge be completely defeated, and then we can attack the Oros, Kazakhs and Cossacks here. One of them will have greater tactical initiative. Furthermore, there is no need to give this place to the Oara people.  ." Through the arrow hole, Yang Wei could see the farmland in the Xiliang River Basin in the distance, exuding an alluring atmosphere.  "The cultivated land in the Syr Darya and Xiliang river basins is enough to support hundreds of thousands of people. If managed patiently, it will become an important town for China to completely rule the Western Regions." Yang Wei said: "In this way, the Ming Dynasty can radiate to the Far West from here. Without  Worried about losing our foundation." Xiao Mo admitted that this idea was more tempting, but "To the west of the Western Region, our strength is still too weak," Xiao Mo said helplessly.  "It might be better if we slow down for a while. The North Korean army and tank divisions may be dispatched." Yang Wei said: "And our country does not need to continue to retain the strength of the three armies in Nanyang. The Australian garrison alone is enough to deter  "Really?" Xiao Mo raised his eyebrows: "I heard that the northwest will not increase its combat power on a large scale before Longjing fifteen years." Yang Wei was a little surprised: "Is it reliable?"  The advice given to His Majesty the Emperor was not like this, and he felt that His Majesty the Emperor was almost obedient to him.The degree of compliance makes him feel more and more fulfilled in his work.  Based on the current geopolitical research results, the key to whether the Ming Dynasty can become a millennium empire that establishes world hegemony lies in the control of the vast territory west of the Western Regions.  Once the Ming Dynasty gained this frontier position, it would be impossible for a country in Europe and the West to challenge the Ming Dynasty in the next thousand years.  Xiao Mo said firmly: "Reliable." This was a hint from Youdu. There would definitely be no mistakes, but you couldn't tell others.  It is precisely because of this news that Xiao Mo cherishes the fighting power of the Wala people even more and does not want to see meaningless losses.  In the earliest strategic arrangements for the Northern Expedition, the Western Region was prepared to increase the size of the army to 500,000.  It's just that the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had not started the war with Spain, let alone wanted to intervene in the Americas.  Now that the Ming Dynasty has seen a rare opportunity in America, it has to stop moving towards the Western Regions if it wants to allocate its combat power.  Although the number of people who were separated seemed to be no more than 100,000 people, considering the supply lines on both sides, the people and material resources that needed to be used, the expansion of the Western Region could only slow down.  ¡°In the final analysis, the civil servants of the DPRK and China believed that America could bring more wealth to the Ming Dynasty, and the Far West was nothing more than a new place of exile.  This is also the reason why the new geographical theory has not yet become mainstream understanding.  "In this way, this battle will be the last battle before Longjing fifteen years." Yang Wei said: "If we can't cut off the arms of the Oros people, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to conquer the entire Kazakh Khanate in the future."  Today, Oros has ended its war with Sweden and is still continuing its war with Poland, hoping to preserve the annexed Ukraine.  This made it difficult for the Tsar to mobilize an army on the southern front. However, due to lack of intelligence, neither Xiao Mo nor Yang Wei could guarantee whether Oros would go crazy and send troops desperately to fight for Kazakhstan.  After all, they have already taken the small Kazakh Yuzi tribe into their pockets, and are coveting the big Yuzi and the middle Yuzi. They are like wild wolves in the process of eating and will never tolerate the interference of others.  "This battle is really a fool's errand. We don't even know who their general is." Xiao Mo sighed in a low voice after a brief silence.  "From the information received from Oara, the enemy is composed of three parts. Among them, the Cossacks have the strongest combat effectiveness, followed by the Oros' fire gun army. The Kazakhs can only fight with the wind." Yang Wei said: "As long as they can  Containing the Oros Fire Gun Army and concentrating superior forces to attack the Cossack cavalry, the Kazakhs have nothing to worry about. " "This time our troops are twice as many as the enemy. If we cannot win better, we really can't explain it to the Holy One.  ." Xiao Mo expressed the pressure in his heart.  From the first-hand intelligence collected by the Northwest Army before the battle, the staff department has analyzed the basic tactics of the Oros people.  In terms of equipment, they are already half an era behind the Ming army. Their firearms equipment rate is far lower than that of the Ming army, and they have no standard equipment.  The army was equipped with everything from axes to matchlocks and flintlocks. And because Oros lacked iron, many fireguns and artillery were made of bronze, and the number was far less than that of the Ming army.  As for the Cossack cavalry, they were still in the cold weapon age and used skirmish lines to charge. Except for the fact that their horses were better than those of the Ming army, they were basically behind this era.  The Ming army already has an advantage in terms of combat effectiveness and number of soldiers, and victory is a sure thing.  The key is to win beautifully.  Tulubaihu and Sengge were beaten to the point of despair by this enemy force. Tulubaihu even fell ill because of this. If the Ming army could easily deal with this force, it would naturally suppress the Oara people's psychology.  Making them more respectful to Ming Dynasty.  On the other hand, Jinshang has the habit of "hurrying up" and prefers to concentrate his advantages to create a greater advantage.  Therefore, in previous military expansions, in addition to the needs of the theater, what is more important is whether the generals can perform well.  As long as this battle is fought well, it may allow the imperial court to refocus its attention on the Far West and allocate some power from the American strategy.  In March of the 10th year of Longjing, when Turkestan was still a dripping water, Oros troops wearing gray, red, and green military uniforms appeared outside the city of Turkestan.  They had "defeated" the Oara and Ming troops that appeared in front of them and captured three cannons. This encouraged them greatly. They changed their previous habit of having the Cossacks take the lead, hoping to be the first to enter the city of Turkestan.  It is said that the city is filled with grain, gold and silver, as well as the centuries-old treasures of the Kazakh Khanate.  Just as Oros's artillery army crossed the Xiliang River during the dry season, the Ming army's artillery on the other side of the river roared.  This was not the three or five cannons they encountered before, but the continuous bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces.  Whenever the Oros people thought that the artillery had stopped and were preparing to march in formation, the artillery would always sound the battle horn again.    "Oh God, what kind of army is on the other side!" Colonel Alexander Craft watched his formation being torn apart by artillery. He roared and asked his lieutenants to pack up their troops and reorganize their battle formation.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. 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