Ten days later, Chucheng.

Chu City is located in the middle of the Suiye River. It was also built during the Western Han Dynasty. There are only broken walls left.

However, this was enough for the Truchens. They laid the excess bricks and stones in the gap, and still formed a low wall about one and a half meters high.

Chucheng was a transportation station and a commercial stronghold in the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty. At this time, the Suiye River did not stop flowing before it flowed to the Sir River like later generations. Instead, it was intermittent and continued, and it also merged into the latter when the snow-capped mountains melted in spring.

It's July.

The army of Qitad has been stationed here for several days. During these days, they used the salt obtained from Abrembart to make the horse meat into cured meat, and at the same time accepted the cattle and sheep of the Kyrgyzs who were still conquered from the Yamankara tribe, which was still moving eastward.

There are now more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, and a dragon cavalry regiment is rushing to stock by the Sailed Leaf River.

On this day, as new news came, Qitad quickly summoned the generals to discuss matters.

"King, everyone"

Nolb is reporting the latest situation.

"Let's talk about the battle situation in Amursana first"

"The Qing army has learned about our arrival, but now we have only fought with the Kazakhs and Kyrgyzstans. In their eyes, we are still coming to join them to encircle and suppress the Junggars"

"The Qing army was divided into three divisions"

"The first part is naturally the commander of the Qing Dynasty Zhengbai Banner who returned from Balikun Lake, and the army led by Yongchang, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. Its troops include Chahar, Ordos, Tumote, Korqin and other troops, plus the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers personally led by Yongchang, with the most powerful force, about 20,000 cavalry"

"Yongchang has occupied Urumqi City at present, leaving about 5,000 infantry and cavalrymen in the Tianshan Mountains near Urumqi to clear out the Junggar people there"

"The remaining 15,000 people are rushing towards Bortala, where Amursana is stationed. Since our army restrains the Kazakhs in Chucheng, Amursana can gather troops to fight there"

"According to the news that Amursana adopted son and Sanzai Sangbilige returned, when Amursana rebelled, there were not many tribes responding except for the Huit tribe and the Turkut tribe he personally took"

"Therefore, there are only about ten thousand cavalry around him. Amursana is just the grandson of Khan Cewang Albutan, the former Junggar Khanate, and was originally the posthumous son of Razang Khan of the Khsot Khanate, so few local Choros are willing to obey him"

"So, after defeating Dawaqi and attacking the Qin army's garrison left in Yili City, he almost massacred the Choros family, which caused bad consequences"

"Fortunately, there was a local Turkishites who supported him, and after our army arrived, the power of Sheling immediately became prosperous"

"The Turkuts who stayed in the local area originally had only about 10,000 tents, but at this time there were more people who defected to Sheling. Now they have expanded to about 20,000 tents, and they have all lost the herdsmen of Chorostaiji."

"But Sheren is still loyal to Amursana. Seeing this, the remaining herders did not pay much attention to Amursana's Junggars, the Hoshuots, and the Dulberts surrendered to him one after another, which made him finally gather 20,000 troops"

"However, during the period of civil strife in the Junggar people, they lost a large number of craftsmen and could not build muskets and artillery armor for their own side. Among the 20,000 people with excellent equipment will not exceed 5,000"

"But the Qing army was equipped with a large number of firearms. They were accompanied by camel caravans, carrying a large number of artillery, and also equipped with armor. It was somewhat similar to our army. They were all cavalrymen who could use firearms"

"If Ablai Khan marched behind him at this time, Amursana would definitely be defeated without fighting, but the current situation is different. The Ablai Khan Ministry of War does not know what the purpose of our army is. After the new defeat, it can only continue to wander on the west bank of Lake Balkash."

"The Khalkha people are the main commander of the Daqing North Road, but the commander is a surrendered general from the Junggar tribe. His name is Salar. Originally, the Dazaisang, part of the Junggar part, granted to the Dashidawa territory of Xiaocelingdunbuduo's grandson"

"After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he was assigned to the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner and was appointed as the Minister of the Interior. He is currently leading 20,000 Khalkhas and the Tohuits are passing through the mountain pass between Jinshan and Sayan Mountains"

"The west of the mountain pass is Jaisangbo. After the Qing Dynasty defeated Dawazi, it will stay near Jaisangbo with Tohwet's tribes Datai Jiqinggunzabu to monitor the various tribes of Junggar"

"I didn't expect that Qingguzhabu had known Amursana since he was a child and was quite friendly. When Amursana rebelled, he was the first to respond"

"When he stayed near Zhaisangbo, he also hosted many Junggar tribes who had lost Taiji. Now his herders have also reached about tens of thousands of households. When he learned that Salar was coming, he also gathered tens of thousands of people"

"But his direct descendants of Tohwet tribe were only about 3,000, and the rest were all mobs. For the Junggars who lost Taiji, there was no difference between accepting Amursana's rule or the Qing Dynasty's rule"

"Therefore, once Qinggunzabu is defeated, these people will surrender to the Qing Dynasty without hesitation"

"In Turpan, south of the Tianshan Mountains, a new army came, headed by Zhaohui, the deputy commander of the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner, who assisted in the military affairs of the Northern Road and the Prime Minister's food and salary affairs"

"Zhaohui is said to be the grandson of Uya, the mother of the former Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty. He is currently responsible for the food and grass logistics of the three armies."

"Originally he was stationed in Balikun Lake, but now he has advanced to Turpan. The ones who followed him were a Han army and an Eight Manchu Banners. The number was not large, and there were only two or three thousand. The leaders were Ningxia General Heqi and Yan Xiangshi, deputy general of Guazhou Camp in Gansu."

"This army is in charge of the food supply in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and is probably also responsible for the mission of encircling the people fleeing to the south, because when Amursana raised his army, he also incited the Yarkand people in southern Xinjiang to riot at the same time"

"When it comes to Huo Jizhan, he was originally a descendant of the head of the southern Xinjiang called Hezhuomu. He was previously detained in Yili City by the Junggars. After the Qing army captured this city, he asked his old subordinates to return to southern Xinjiang to recruit old subordinates"

"When Huo Jizhan was still in Yili, after Amursana started, he took the opportunity to escape back to Kashgar. Once Huo Jizhan returned, he was preparing to take advantage of Amursana's opportunity to take action and get rid of the shackles of the Junggar people and the Qing Dynasty. In order to deal with the Junggar people at the same time, Huo Jizhan set up a grain warehouse in Turpan."

"At present, two thousand green camp soldiers of Yan Xiangshi were stationed in Yanqi, southwest of Turpan, and controlled Huo Jizhan's route to rebellion in the north. Zhaohui, Heqi recruited a large number of rebels in the local area, including Uyghur soldiers, plus one thousand Manchu Eight Banners soldiers, about three thousand guarding Turpan"

"After the defeat of Kyrgyz Aidi, under the agitation of our army, killed the great lord Manap, and claimed to be the new great lord of North Kyrgyz, but not many people responded to him, so this guy could only completely surrender to our army"

"At present, the Kulissaray brigade of Yamankara has arrived in Bishkek to assist Edicki in defending the important place after the Broken Leaf River flows out of the mountain pass"

"During this period, they repelled several attacks from the Kyrgyzs people near Lake Isek, barely stabilizing the situation in the Saiye River Basin north of Alata Mountain"

Qitade nodded and asked, "This is the situation. For you, what should our army take next?"

This time, all the generals learned their lessons, and no one answered for a while.

Finally, Se Kesena took the lead and said: "Khan, since our purpose is to bring back the Weila people here, and most of the Taiji, Zaisang and other nobles gathered around Amursana, Shelen, and Qinggonzabu"

"It is not realistic to want them to take the lead in moving their tribesmen to the distant Caspian Sea. You might as well let them fight the Qing army again"

"Also, staying in Jinshan, the Weila people near Tianshan may be in danger, but a large number of tribes are still near the Yili River, the Sailye River, and the Ertzis River. There are no 100,000 tents, and there are still 70,000 to 80,000 tents"

"The city of Yili is empty at the moment, so we might as well drive straight into Yili City, and just wait and see what's going on."

Qitad asked, "What about the Kazakhs? Ablikhan was just a small defeat, and there were 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry beside him. Besides, Ablu Bandit Khan of Turkestan also had 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry beside him, and he could attack us at any time."

"Yili City is located in the valley. If the Kazakhs firmly guard the western exit of the valley, the Qing Dynasty will come from the other three sides, how should we deal with it?"

Color can be silly at that moment,

The momen said: "Khan, if we want to resolve our worries before the Qing Dynasty Amursana will decide the outcome, we must end the Kazakhs. However, this is the territory of others, and we cannot take the initiative to attack them."

"But they are obviously also preparing to watch from the wall, because they don't know what the purpose of our trip is, so it's difficult"

Qitad did not answer him immediately, but looked at Nolbu.

“What are the trends of Abrem Bandit recently?”

Nolbu replied: "On the surface he did not make any noise, but he still hid it from our spy. In the past half month, during our march, he had secretly transferred the 20,000 Turkestan army to Chimkent on a day and night."

"Chimkent is not far from Talas. According to the immature idea of ​​the ministry, once Abrbant believes that the fighter plane has arrived, he will definitely use the same trick again and move the army northward to the vicinity of Talas again"

"At that time, Ablai Khan will head south along the west bank of Lake Balkhash, besieging our troops from the north of the Saiye River, and Ablai Bandit will block it from the south, and the situation will not be ideal."

Qitad nodded, "It's right, so we also need fighter jets, and it's not all without fighter jets."

"Sheling's tribe in the Ayaguzi area north of Lake Balkhash, which confronts Ablai Khan is one of our opportunities. Nolbu, have you sent someone to visit him? What's the situation?"

Nolbu finally smiled at this time, "Khan, Sheling Dataiji was very happy to hear that Dahan was here in person. He promised to come here as soon as possible to pay homage, which should be in the next day or two"

Qitad said: "This man was very friendly to Bayar before, and now he is commanding 20,000 tribal cavalry. He plays an important role in the entire Junggar Khanate, but he cannot draw a conclusion early before seeing him in person."

"However, this is just one of our fighter jets. For Ben Khan, he will never put the initiative on others."
Chapter completed!