After a long journey of nearly a year, the Second Western Expeditionary Army arrived in Ili in the autumn of 1672 and joined forces with the loyal battalion, which had been in the Western Regions for almost a year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Laiheng, Galdan and others went out of the city to greet them, and they saw from a distance that a black army appeared on the Gobi Desert in the distance, the army was approaching, the fiery red banner was hunting in the wind, and the square teams were accompanied by rumbling drums, taking neat steps, looking like a person.

As the team got closer, Galdan could see from a distance that this army was brightly armoured, and the red uniform was covered with silver shining armor, which looked like a whole piece of Western-style armor. Looking at the cavalry at the forefront of the ranks, they all rode tall horses, and both men and war horses were dressed in fine armor.

Dorzizab exclaimed, "The equipment of the Loyalty Battalion is already well-equipped!" I didn't expect this army to be even better armed than the loyal battalion! They are all invulnerable steel armor! ”

Erluqin lowered his voice and whispered in Dorzizab's ear: "The loyalty camp is just a thief recruiting An, how can the Ming court give them the best weapons?" This Western Expeditionary Army is the elite of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Nonsense!" "I heard that the commander of this new army is also a general! How much better could it be than Camp Loyalist? ”

He sneered: "Although they are generals, they are official officers and soldiers after all. ”

It's just that the Mongols such as Eluqin and Dorzizabu don't know that whether it is the loyal battalion or the main force of the Second Western Expeditionary Army, the weapons used are all eliminated by the Qiongzhou army. Only Li Guangdi, who supervised the loyal battalion, and Li Tianzhi, who supervised the Second Western Expeditionary Army, used the active weapons of the Qiongzhou Army.

The team gradually approached Ili, and Shang Zhixin shouted: "Get on the bayonet!" Gun on the shoulder! ”

With a neat sound, all the officers and soldiers put their bayonets into the card slots, put their guns on their shoulders, and walked towards Ili City with neat steps. Tens of thousands of bayonets glittered in the sun, forming a forest of bayonets, and the cold light pierced the eyes of the Mongols who greeted them.

The heavy cavalry in the front slowly passed, and the light cavalry in the back rode through the Mongolian horses, carrying double-barreled firearms on their backs and two double-barreled short guns and sabers hanging from their waists. Behind them were herds of infantry, and camel soldiers on camels, infantry on camels, and baggage soldiers on camels.

Although this army had no heavy artillery, only light artillery carried on camels, the Mongols could see that the guns had thin walls and were well worked, and they could be seen to be a new type of artillery.

Li Tianzhi's troops, which came from the back, were small in number, but they gave Galdan and others a great shock, and they saw that this team was equipped with a large number of new rifles, just like the rear-loading guns that Li Guangdi gave to the Mongols, and there were as many as 1,000 cavalrymen equipped with such sophisticated weapons. There were also mini-riflemen on camels, smoothbore gunners on camels, and a new musketeer that had never been seen before.

Li Tianzhi's troops all had war horses or camels, which is enough to see the sophistication of this army. The price of a camel is not cheap, and it is not necessarily cheaper than a war horse.

Galdan secretly rejoiced in his heart: fortunately, he did not choose to be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, but was very discerning to the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, once such an elite division arrives, I'm afraid even the Rakshasa people will not be opponents! Destroying us is not easy!

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In the steppes of Central Asia, two armies are clashing. One of the armies used mainly British-made artillery, with a small number of British-made muskets, as well as Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish firearms, though mostly cold; The firearms used by the other army are mainly Russian-style firearms, but there are also firearms found by other countries, and the main weapons are also cold weapons. The two sides of the war were the armies of the Mughal Empire on one side and the combined forces of the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate on the other.

The Mughal Empire on the South Asian subcontinent was still a powerful empire in this era, the imperial emperor Aurangzeb was known as the greatest emperor in the history of India, and the territory of the Mughal Empire at this time expanded to the extreme, most of the South Asian subcontinent, as well as Afghanistan and other territories fell into the pocket of the Mughal Empire, and the Mughal Empire also got Western weapons to attack the Central Asian khanates in the north.

At this time, although the British East India Company had been established, the British sphere of influence was limited to a small area by the sea, and the mighty Mughal Empire still existed, and the British could not swallow all of India.

The Mughal Empire's armies crossed the mountains of Afghanistan into Central Asia, and for the local celestial cultists, the Mughal Empire was of course an aggressor. In order to deal with the invasion of the Mughal Empire, the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, which had been at war with each other for many years and had been old enemies for many years, united to deal with the invasion of the infidels.

"Boom" The cannons on the grassland rumbled, and the army of Hinduism and the army of Tianfang Religion collided fiercely on the vast grassland, and the cannonballs flew and smashed and fell in each other's formation.

The cavalry of the Celestial Sect rushed out with a shout and launched an attack on the Hindu artillery.

The dull sound of the horn sounded, and the elephant soldiers of the Mughal Empire slaughtered, the thick elephant legs stepped on the ground, making a drum-like sound, and the huge elephant slowly advanced, walking towards the cavalry of the Heavenly Sect.

Finding the hordes of behemoths coming towards him, the war horses under the crotch of the Heavenly Sect felt fear, and no matter how the knight waved his whip, the war horses also stopped one after another, not daring to think about those behemoths to charge. War horses are spiritual animals, knowing that they collide with those huge animals, and the other party is unscathed, they will definitely be killed or injured. Some of the horses even raised their front hooves, almost knocking off the cavalry on horseback, some of the horses turned their heads and ran backwards, and some of the horses jumped on the spot, in short, they refused to move forward.

The Hindu elephant soldiers stepped up step by step, and the cavalry of the Celestial Sect turned around and ran.

"Kill!" The cavalry general of the Mughal Empire pointed forward with a scimitar in his hand, and the hordes of cavalry rushed out and launched a pursuit behind the defeated Celestial Cultists.

Although the soldiers of the combined forces of the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, who believed in the Celestial Religion, were not afraid of death, the Hindus, under the leadership of the main general of the Celestial Sect, were too strong, and the Mughal Empire army first bombarded it with cannons, then trampled it with elephant soldiers, and finally the cavalry killed it, and no one could stop it. What's more, the infantry of the Mughal Empire was also very well equipped.

However, the Mughal Empire's army did not continue to penetrate deep into the steppe, and their logistical supply lines needed to cross the rugged and complex Afghan plateau, which was extremely inconvenient for transportation.