"This cow is good, pull it away!" Ma Shouzhen is leading a group of white-hat soldiers to collect taxes in the village.

Wearing white hats, white battle jackets, a piece of armor on the outside, and a scimitar hanging from their waists, the white-hat soldiers collected taxes in the local villages, and took away the cattle and sheep as long as they saw satisfactory ones, and when they saw heavy grapes, melons and fruits, they shouted to the local Turkic soldiers to help them collect them.

"Master Jun, I can't help it, this cow is about to give birth, Master Jun must not take it away!" A local villager in a flowered hat hugged the thigh of a white-hat soldier and pleaded.

"Get out of here!" The white-hatted soldier kicked the villager away, "We are here to protect your country on the orders of the Great Khan, so what about collecting a little tax?" Without us, your Khiva Khanate would have been wiped out by the Mughal Empire long ago! ”

The local villagers could only watch as the wolf-like white-hat soldiers led the cattle away, and some muttered: "The Mughal soldiers are much better than these people!" Not only did they never rob our cattle, but they also treated our cattle with respect. ”

Although the man's voice was small, it was heard by the white-hat soldier, who turned his head and sneered: "Don't rob your cattle? And the intruder doesn't grab something? Who believes this? ”

The villagers hurriedly defended: "That's right! They only rob sheep, never cattle. It is said that Hindus regard the cow as a god and respect the cow. ”

The white-hat soldier didn't take this sentence to heart, snorted coldly, and drove the stolen oxen away.

Ma Shouzhen, who was riding a Mongolian horse, immediately stood at the entrance of the village, watching the white-hat soldiers carrying bags of grain and baskets of melons and fruits, driving cattle and sheep out of the village. Ma Shouzhen smiled and said, "Sons, work hard!" They have all said that let's protect them from the bullying of the Mughal Empire, and it makes sense for us to collect some taxes! ”

Just as the white-hat soldier was "fed up with taxes" and was about to leave, someone outside suddenly came to report: "Oh no! Cavalry! The cavalry of the Tianzhu people is coming! ”

"How many enemies are coming?" Ma Shouzhen was taken aback. The more than 500 white-hat soldiers under his command are used to deal with civilians, or to act as auxiliaries when fighting, but if they really encounter Mughal cavalry, they will not have to fight at all.

"Lord Hui, there are more than a thousand Tianzhu cavalry!" Scout Soldier Report.

Ma Shouzhen yelled and ordered: "Quick, all retreat into the village!" Use the terrain to maneuver with the Tianzhu people! ”

"What about the ox cart?" A soldier asked.

"All into the village! That's the tax we collect! Not a grain of grain can fall into the hands of the Tianzhu people! Ma Shouzhen shouted.

The white-hatted soldiers drove the ox-carts back into the village, and some people beat gongs and drums and shouted, "The heretics are coming!" O godly people of Allahu, take up your weapons and fight! There is no God but God! If you give up the fight, your souls will go to hell of fire! ”

To be honest, in the eyes of the local Turks, these white hats were not much better than the infidels, and in the eyes of some they were even more hateful than the infidels. But their Great Khan spoke, and the armies of Dzungar and Ming came to protect them, and to deal with the infidels from Tianzhu, who were the most odious of the heretics. Because of the fear of the Great Khan, the villagers had no choice but to take up arms and fight side by side with those who had just robbed them of their cattle and sheep, and of the grain, melons and fruits that they had so easily harvested.

"Shut up the doors and windows in the village! Archers climb up to the roof! The musketeers are hiding inside the house! Knife Player Protection! Ma Shouzhen shouted, and let the order go down.

The Mughal cavalry arrived so fast that the white hats and the local villagers did not have time to set up the fortifications, and the Mughal cavalry had already rushed to the entrance of the village.

"Whoosh" The crab short bow in the hands of the Mughal cavalry shot rows of arrows. This crab bow was originally invented by the Mongols of the Timurid Empire as a riding bow, which was short and had a fast rate of fire, but it was not small in strength and suitable for cavalry. Now this bow is standard equipment for Mughal hussars.

More than a dozen Turkic villagers who had not had time to retract into their houses were shot one after another by arrows and fell to the door as hedgehogs.

The musketeers of the Mughal cavalry dismounted, muskets in hand, and moved forward step by step. A quarter of the Mughal cavalry were musketeers, but their arquebuses and flintlock muskets could not be loaded on horseback and had to dismount to fight, so they were pure dragoons. The Ming army, on the other hand, used the dragoons with rear-loading guns, which were a cavalry that could fight on horseback or dismount.

Puffs of white smoke rose from outside the village, and Mughal musketeers opened fire, a dense stream of bullets hitting the walls, spraying sparks, leaving bullet holes in the earthen walls.

Among Ma Shouzhen's white hat soldiers, there were only a few archers and musketeers, and the rest were melee troops such as sword players and pikemen, who were suppressed by the fire of the Mughal soldiers, and could only retreat into their houses, with little chance to fight back. Ma Shouzhen himself is only more than 500 people, and the number is only half of the opponent.

Suppressed by the Mughal soldiers, Ma Shouzhen secretly complained in his heart, the nearest town here is also more than thirty miles away from his side, and the fireworks signal is issued, and the reinforcements can't be seen, and it is impossible for anyone to come to reinforce it. Fortunately, they were confined to buildings, and the buildings in Central Asia were hardly made of wood, the buildings of the common people were made of mud and mud bricks, the buildings of the rich were made of stone, and the Mughal soldiers could not use fire against the horses.

The Tianzhu soldiers attacked, and dozens of sword players, under the cover of archers and musketeers, stormed the village.

"Put!" The musketeers who were hiding in the house gave the order.

Dozens of muskets protruded from behind the shooting holes, and with the sound of a row of gunfire, the Tianzhu soldiers who rushed into the village screamed and fell down more than a dozen people. The Tianzhu soldiers who served as fire cover in the back shot with muskets and bows and arrows, but for the white-hat soldiers hiding in the building, the attack effect of the Tianzhu soldiers was extremely poor.

"Be careful, don't let people bang on the door!" A white-hat soldier shouted.

Six Tianzhu soldiers were carrying a large log, ready to slam the door of a house. At this moment, more than a dozen Turks appeared on the roof, bows and arrows mixed with stones fell, two Tianzhu soldiers fell, and the remaining four turned and ran.

In the small village, fierce street battles broke out, the white hat soldiers and the local Turks took advantage of the favorable terrain to block the attacks of the Mughal soldiers again and again, and after paying the price of more than 50 casualties, they repelled more than 10 attacks of the Tianzhu soldiers, and the Tianzhu soldiers who failed to attack suffered more than 100 casualties.

At this moment, Ma Shouzhen was desperate to find that another reinforcement from the Tianzhu soldiers had arrived, with more than 500 people, but the most important thing was that those Mughal soldiers came with cannons! ...