The accession of the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate made almost all the forces in the entire Central Asian region involved in this Russian crusade war.

Of course, these two khanates are not looking for trouble on their own for no reason. Bukhara is because of the trade with the Jin State, he occupies the trade node of Samarkand, and the taxes alone are very considerable, and in addition to paying taxes, he can also resell the goods of the Jin Kingdom and the Mughals, and become a two-way dealer who makes money lying down.

The smooth trade routes made the originally very poor Bukhara Khanate taste the sweetness, especially the royal family and nobles, which made huge profits, and the Russian army affected trade, and they were very dissatisfied.

The smooth trade routes were closely related to the interests of the Bukhara Khanate, so Abdullah Aziz Khan was willing to lead his troops after receiving a request for help.

As for the Khiva Khanate, he was in Central Asia, an object of oppression, and was once destroyed by Bukhara, and the Russians promised them benefits, promising to give them a piece of the pastures along the Syr Darya River after defeating Yuz and the Mongols.

The Russian proposal was in the hands of the Khiva Khanate, who decided to use the Russian army to defeat their rivals in Central Asia, so the Khiva Khanate led troops to help in the war.

Soon the forces in Central Asia were divided into two groups, one on the side of Yuz and the other on the side of Russia, but obviously Russia's national image was not very good, aggressive, and had fewer friends.

Fortunately, the Khiva Khanate led 20,000 people to help in the war, otherwise it would be a lonely family and a bad face.

After a fierce battle between the two sides near the city of Henglus, and the situation was clearly tilted in favor of the Russians, Sun Kewang finally returned to the Western Regions, accompanied by 30,000 cavalry led by Wu Sangui, the king of Shu.

Wu Sangui led 30,000 iron horsemen, did not go to the Dasan Pass into the pass, and then turned westward, but from Hanzhong to the west into Longyou, avoiding the eyes and ears of the Ming Dynasty, and detoured into the Western Regions.

Sun Kewang did not stay in Chang'an for a long time, nor did he show up at the court meeting, and after inviting soldiers and horses, he left Chang'an immediately.

June 2, in the city of Dundo.

The letter from Seng Ge and Yuzi asking for help was sent to Sun Kewang's case. After Sun Kewang finished reading it, he handed it to Wu Sangui and said, "The King of Shu can take a look." ”

Wu Sangui took the letter, unfolded it and read it for a while, full of words such as urgency and cold lips and teeth.

After reading it, Wu Sangui returned the letter to Sun Kewang and couldn't help asking: "The monk and Yuzi Khan said that the situation is very urgent, and it seems that if I don't send a rescue soldier with Dajin, they will be finished immediately." I think they have a lot of soldiers and horses, so are the Rakshasas really that powerful? ”

Wu Sangui's title is one level higher than Sun Kewang's, but the Western Regions are run by Sun Kewang, and the situation is much more familiar than him, and this matter was provoked by him, so this time the Jin State sent troops, and it was Sun Kewang who coordinated it instead of Wu Sangui.

Sun Kewang smiled: "It's impossible to finish it immediately, they just want us to send troops as soon as possible." However, the Rakshasa people are indeed a little powerful, and I am afraid that they will not lose to the Five Loyal Army, so the King of Shu must not be careless. ”

Hearing that it is as elite as the Wuzhong Army, Wu Sangui frowned, he has been training in Hanzhong for many years, just to guard against the Ming army, but he didn't expect that his first battle in Hanzhong was not to deal with the Ming army, but to deal with the irrelevant Rakshasa people.

However, since Sun Kewang said that the combat strength of the Rakshasa people can be comparable to that of the Ming army, then he can just practice his hands and see how the soldiers and horses he trained are, "Okay, when will we send troops?" ”

Although Sun Kewang reminded him not to be careless about the enemy, Wu Sangui still didn't put the Rakshasa people in his eyes, thinking that they were just a more powerful barbarian.

Moreover, he was a little worried about the Ming Dynasty in the east, and wanted to solve the matter in the west as soon as possible, so that he could feel at ease when he returned to Hanzhong.

Seeing his appearance, Sun Ke didn't say much, and said in a deep voice, "This king sent someone over to deliver a letter, saying that reinforcements were coming from Guanzhong, and let them hold on for a while." According to the observation of the scouts who sent the letter, Yuzi brought reinforcements from the Bukhara Khanate, they relied on the city of Henglus, relying on the terrain to form a zigzag formation, although the Rakshasas had the advantage, but for a while, they could not defeat them, and we could continue to rest for a few days. ”

Wu Sangui couldn't help but show a knowing smile on his face when he heard this, the icing on the cake is difficult for others to remember, sending carbon in the snow can make people think well for a lifetime, and the expansion of the Jin Kingdom to the west, Mongolia and Yuzi are too strong are not conducive to the control of the Jin Kingdom.

Sun Kewang does mean the same thing, he doesn't have many people in the Western Regions, and if he wants to control Central Asia, he still has to weaken Yuzi's strength.

Since being calculated by the Manchurian liquidation, Jin Guo has had this tradition of calculating people, but whether it is calculated to others, or like Haoge who lost Sichuan, it is also unknown.

The two were talking, but at this time, Li Qichen suddenly came in and reported: "Lord Wang, King Shu, the spies have reported that Yuzi has drawn all the men in Julan City who are fifteen years old and more than fifty years old to the front line. ”

Sun Kewang and Wu Sangui couldn't help but glance at each other, his eyes narrowed, and he said to Wu Sangui: "King Shu, the time has come!" The king of Shu was also invited to lead the cavalry first, and the king led the infantry army to arrive later. ”

The children and the old people were transferred, and Yuzi was really desperate. Sun Kewang wanted to make Yuzi weaker in order to control it, and it was best to accept them as a subject state like the Ming Dynasty, and then wait for the right opportunity to annex, but he didn't want them to be too weak, at least he could contribute to the Jin State.

On the same day, Wu Sangui led an army of 30,000 along the Silk Road and galloped forward, and Sun Kewang also led an army of 15,000 infantry, and then went west.

On the seventh day of the sixth month, at noon, the city of Henglus.

The earth-shattering shouts and rumbling cannons have been resounding in this land for a month, and the walls of Henglus City have been shattered by cannonballs, and the collapsed city walls have long since become dirt slopes.

The battle between the Russian army and the Mongol coalition army was centered on the city of Henglus, and there were battlefields in a radius of dozens of miles.

Among them, the Russian army intends to capture the city of Henglus in order to break through the camp arranged in the zigzag arrangement of the coalition army, and the coalition army, when suffering casualties, sends cavalry to bypass the desert in the north, or detour the flank and back of the Russian army from the south to attack.

It was only because of the Cossacks and the cavalry of the Khiva Khanate that the two flanks of the Russian army were protected to death, and the coalition army was not able to cause much confusion to the Russian army, on the contrary, the Russian army's attack on the city of Henglus continued to consume the strength of the coalition army.

In fact, the Russian army could have taken the city a long time ago, but Marshal Morozov deliberately used the advantage of range of artillery and flintlock pistols to shoot the coalition troops defending the city and consume their forces. He was afraid that if he quickly took Henglus City, the Yuzi people stationed outside the city would flee back to Kulan City, which was relatively well defended, so he resisted the urge to take the city.

He was waiting for the right moment to defeat the enemy in front of him with the most relaxed attitude.

In the past few days, the cavalry of the Yuz people has not gone around the flank of the Russian army from the desert to attack and harass the Russian army, and this is the time that Morozov has to wait, because the Yuz people have no strength to attack and harass him, which means that the enemy is almost unable to afford it, and he has given up the means of victory.

After a month of siege warfare, which had been dominated by artillery bombardment, the Russians finally launched a fierce attack, and the Russians tore down the fence erected by the defenders and charged frantically towards the city.

"Taiji, the gunpowder is gone, and the Rakshasas rush in." With the soldiers in the city being consumed and more than 10,000 killed and wounded, the monks returned to the city.

He listened to the report from his subordinates, and the monk took a fire gun and went to a high ground to watch, and the Russian infantry pushed the wall like the waves of the sea.

Their soldiers were arrayed, and in the gap between the spear phalanxes were flintlock musketeers, thirty-six men in front and six in depth, ninety-six musketeers on each side of the spear array, and thirty-two men in front of them in three teams.

The advantage of this is that the musketeers are sandwiched in the middle of the spear phalanx, and when they advance, they take advantage of the range of the muskets and bombard them in a row, and the range of the Mongols' bows and arrows is not half that of the flintlock muskets, so they can't shoot them at all, and when the Mongols rush up to close combat, their musketeers do not move, and the spears come forward, and the spears can crush any enemy who dares to collide.

The monk's expression was cold, knowing that the Rakshasa people were really moving, and this time I was afraid that they would not be able to hold it······