Chapter 1238: The Fall of Yarkand
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Just as Wang Yan had predicted, the Jin State was indeed ready to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's characteristics of having many troops in the south and few troops in the north, and launch a surprise attack on Yarkand when winter was about to fall.
Han Chaoxuan, the prime minister of the Jin State who sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty, brought back the news that Wang Yan did not usurp the throne after his victory, but entered the throne and brought the emperor to Beijing, and there was no internal turmoil in the Ming Dynasty.
The whole Jin State was looking forward to Wang Yan usurping the throne, learning from Sima Dai Wei, waiting for the internal chaos of the Ming Dynasty, and preparing to support the Ming Dynasty's Biqiu Jian, Wen Qin, and Zhuge Dan to fight against Wang Yan, so that the Ming Dynasty would fall into civil strife and have no time to look west.
Unexpectedly, Wang Yan's house, as stable as an old dog, actually held his breath, Haoge was amazed in his heart after hearing it, and he had to admire Wang Yan, and said to everyone that Wang Shiheng was dominating the world, relying on the word "stability".
While lamenting Wang Yan's inadoption, the people of the Jin Kingdom also became anxious and began to hurry up preparations for the Western Expedition.
By August, the preparations for the Jin State had been completed, and the weather had already entered autumn, but there was no sign of an attack on the Jin State on the side of the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, the Jin State was going to wait until October to enter winter before sending troops to the west, but at this time, news came from the south, and the attention of the Ming Dynasty was attracted to the South Seas, and the Jin State decided to take advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty did not attack the Jin State and immediately went west.
This time, the Jin State gathered 60,000 troops, with Sun Kewang as the northern route army, out of Hami Wei to attack Huozhou and Turpan, this road army of 40,000 people, half of which are the tun army with worrying combat strength, and mainly the infantry army, responsible for the frontal assault attraction.
There were also 20,000 elite cavalry for the Southern Route Army, led by Wu Sangui, responsible for smashing Huanglong.
In mid-August, Sun Kewang of Hexi led an army of 40,000 troops, first out of Xingxing Gorge, and after arriving in Huozhou, he used artillery to collapse the severely weathered sandstone city wall of Huozhou, and the army rushed into Huozhou City, and then the army approached Turpan, the important town of Yarkand.
When Yarkand Abdullah Khan heard the news, he had to leave his eldest son Yaolvasi to stay in the national capital Shache and personally lead 20,000 troops to Turpan to defend against the enemy.
In order to quickly solve Yarkand and avoid falling into a long-term confrontation, Jin Guo even transferred Wu Sangui, who was guarding Hanzhong, and the whole strategy, Jin formulated a strategy of feint attack on the north road and Huanglong on the south road.
Under the attack of the Northern Route Army, Yarkand Khan had to personally lead an army of 20,000 to defend against Sun Kewang, which successfully weakened the military strength of Shache, the capital of Yarkand.
At the same time, Jin's ally to the west, Zhongyuz Khan, led an army of 7,000 to attack the front line of the Green Ridge from the west in mid-September, and Yaolevas, who remained behind in Shache, sent more than 5,000 men to the west to defend against the enemy.
As a result, Shache's power was further weakened, and there were less than 10,000 people left.
At this time, the 20,000 Jin cavalry that had already assembled in the north of Qinghai, under the leadership of Wu Sangui, followed the northern foot of Kunlun Mountain, passed through the border of the ancient Khotanese State and a large desert, and directly killed under the city of Shache, and received the response of the Montenegrin forces in the city, and avoided the capital of Yarkand in one fell swoop.
Wu Sangui and the Montenegrin forces in the city wantonly killed the White Mountain faction, and then non-stop, outflanking Abdullah Khan's back road.
On October 20 of the seventh year of Jin Yongzhang, the Jin army defeated Abdullah Khan's 20,000 army in Turpan, Abdullah Khan led the remnants of the army to defend Ya'er City, and on November 25, Ya'er City was captured by the Jin army, and the Jin army escorted Abdullah to Shache and let the Montenegrin faction execute Abdullah.
Haoge immediately issued a decree to set up the Anxi Protectorate, renamed Sun Kewang as the king of Anxi, responsible for the management of the Western Regions, and the Hexi prefectures were handed over to the imperial court.
In this way, Sun Kewang became the pioneer of the Jin State, although he was a little unwilling, but after the recovery of the Western Regions, the Han gentry within the Jin State needed benefits, so he could only hand over Hexi and lead 500,000 soldiers and civilians to move to the Western Regions.
Sun Kewang used Yachecheng as the capital and the residence of the king of Anxi, but Yarkand had been completely greened, and the rule of the Jin State was very weak, and after the Montenegrin faction helped the Jin State defeat Abdullah Khan, the power grew rapidly and was somewhat difficult to control.
After Sun Kewang took control of Shache, only a month later, he took advantage of the anger of the White Mountain Party against the Black Mountain Faction and instigated the White Mountain Faction to kill all the Black Mountain Factions in Shache City.
By the end of December, the strength of the Baishan faction and the Black Mountain faction in Yarkand was greatly damaged, and the contradictions between the two sides were further expanded in the vendetta.
This war, which began in August and ended in December, took only more than four months. The reason why the Jin army took Yarkand so smoothly, in addition to its strategic success, was mainly because of the internal contradictions in Yarkand, and the fact that this khanate had long been decaying.
In history, it will not be long before it will be easily destroyed by Jungger because of the internal struggle between the Black Mountain faction and the White Mountain faction, and the attack of the Jin State only advances history.
At the time when the Jin Kingdom launched its Western Expedition, the war in Nanyang was also expanding.
The war between the Ming Dynasty and Liangyi was originally only on the sea, but as the Dutch organized a coalition army to attack the Zhenla border, the entire Nanyang immediately became chaotic.
After receiving the order of the Ming Dynasty, the three kingdoms of Quang Nam, the Cao Ping Mo clan had the smallest power, sending 2,000 troops, the Annam Zheng clan sent 10,000 troops, and the Quang Nam Nguyen clan sent 10,000 troops, and immediately went south to support the Zhenla Kingdom.
The next time, because of the distance, the Ming army was still assembled in Guangzhou, but the three kingdoms of Guangnan had already entered the Zhenla country at the end of September, and together with the Zhenla army, they met the Dutch at a hundred miles west of Phnom Penh.
The two sides fought a big battle, the battle was extremely fierce, just because the three countries of Quang Nam were unsupportable, the command was different, the Dutch noticed that there was little cooperation between them, so that the forces of Masaka and other small Sudanese countries, the front to contain the front Zheng army and the left wing of the Chenla army, so that Malacca two hundred war statues, impact the left flank of the Nguyen clan, and then the Dutch musketeers platoon guns pressed, the front of the Zheng lord did not give Nguyen support, the left wing was defeated by the Dutch, 30,000 horses and horses were defeated, and the rush to Phnom Penh, and the Dutch formed a coalition of 20,000 troops, Wait for the help of the overlord.
In addition to the battles between the Ming Dynasty and the Liangyi, the king of Donghu, Ping Dali, ordered his younger brother Bai Mang, that is, the one who launched the "curse water difficulty" in history to kill the officials accompanying Yongli and handed over Yongli to the Qing court, he led 60,000 Burmese troops, taking advantage of the defeat of Siam by the Dutch, to defeat the Siamese army in a row, and was about to approach the capital of Siam.
Nanyang, which was originally in a balanced situation, because of the arrival of reinforcements from the Spaniards, the Netherlands broke the treaty again, breaking the original balance and immediately smashed into a boulder like calm water, startling waves.
At present, on the Indochina Peninsula, two battlefields have been formed, one is the contest between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, and the other is the Donghu Kingdom fishing in troubled waters and taking the opportunity to attack Siam.
As Siam between the Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands, and the three forces of Donghu is undoubtedly a blood mold, and in history, he was only attacked by the Burmese army after a hundred years, but because of the change in the situation, Siam sandwiched between the three major forces is now a fight between the gods and the pond fish, and there is a danger of being wiped out.
However, at this time, neither the Dutch nor the Ming Dynasty had the time to pay attention to the war between Siam and Donghu, which was a-stirring stick, and both sides spent their energy on the offensive and defensive aspects of Phnom Penh.
At this time, the main force of the Ming army of 30,000 was still assembled in Guangzhou, but the Dutch had already defeated the army of the Ming vassal and entered the city of Phnom Penh.
The Dutch, who had achieved victory, did not take the Ming Dynasty into account, intending to break the city all the way and drive the Ming Dynasty sailors back to Guangdong.
The Dutch burned and looted all the way, but in terms of military discipline, in fact, the army of the Sultan gathered by the Dutch was a little better than the Dutch, and it was more hygienic.
In Guangzhou Prefecture and at the mouth of the Pearl River, hundreds of warships were moored in Huangpu Harbor, including three three-masted cannon ships, which were particularly conspicuous.
This time, the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as moving, the main warships of the East China Sea Division were all transferred, and the other ships were also transferred to the south to help the war.
The Ming Dynasty had assembled 25 three-masted gunboats in the South Seas, more than 200 large Fu ships, and nearly 1,000 other ships.
In terms of Xiyi, the Netherlands has 40 armed merchant ships, and Spain has 30 large ships, because they are traveling in the ocean, so they are all big ships, and the Ming Dynasty plus Luzon has about 35 large ships, which is less than Xiyi, but the Ming Dynasty has hundreds of inferior ships, and the number of artillery is not less than that of Xiyi.
At this time, in the port, there were many masts and sails, but their current task was not to go to a decisive battle with the Xiyi Naval Division, but to send more than 30,000 elite Ming troops to Zhancheng to relieve the siege of Phnom Penh.
On the east side of the Pearl River, there are more than 1,500 military tents, and the big camp stretches for more than 10 miles, with flags like clouds, and the camp tents are neat, which is very magnificent.
The 30,000 elites who came from Yunnan and Guizhou and retired after the end of the Northern Expedition were stationed here, commanded by Li Dingguo, with Chen Youlong and Liu Wenxiu as deputy generals, preparing for this southern expedition.
At this time, Li Dingguo stood on the dock, looking at the crane tower in the distance carrying military rations and materials onto the ship, Chen Zilong, who was standing next to him, said, "Guogong has not fought with Heyi, do you know the situation in Nanyang?" β
Li Dingguo turned his head to look at him, and said with a faint smile: "Governor, don't worry, I thought I had done some understanding when I came, that the Netherlands has less than 10,000 people in Nanyang, and only more than 2,000 in Phnom Penh, no matter how powerful they are, how can they be my opponent of 30,000 tigers and wolves!" β
Chen Zilong was still a little worried, "Guogong, in addition to the Dutch, this time there are also people and horses from Malacca and other countries, especially there are war elephants in Nanyang, it is a behemoth, rushing up and shaking the mountains, the people and horses of the three countries of Guangnan are defeated in the elephant array of Malacca, Guogong must not underestimate the enemy!" β
Li Dingguo laughed, "Although I have not seen this war elephant, but it is not unrecorded in history, when our dynasty was at war with Donghu, I met many times, and Chen Youlong and Liu Wenxiu both fought in Yunnan, and saw the war elephants of Tusi. In addition, when the prison country was leaving, he also explained, saying that one is to prevent war elephants, the second is to prevent miasma, and the last is to pay attention to the Dutch. β
Chen Zilong suddenly realized, and couldn't help but smile, "It turns out that the prison country has already made arrangements, it seems that I can rest assured." β
At this time, a subordinate general hurriedly came to report: "Commander, all the supplies, grain and grass have been put on the ship!" β
Li Dingguo nodded, clasped his fists with both hands and said to Chen Zilong: "Governor, then Dingguo will set off!" β
"Good! The Governor awaits the good news of the LordΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
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