"Kill!" More than 3,000 white-hat soldiers carried improvised ladders and rushed to the city with shouts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The corpses under the city were almost piled up to the top of the city, and the remains of ladders and various weapons to defend the city were piled up, and the corpses of fallen soldiers and wounded soldiers were piled on top of each other, mixed with sacks full of sand, piled up more than a foot high. The city was in shambles, the defenders suffered heavy casualties, and the defending weapons were basically depleted. When the white-hat soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city, there was not much counterattack from the city.

Amid the earth-shattering shouts, the white-hatted soldiers set up a ladder between the piles of corpses and quickly climbed to the top of the city. The coalition musketeers and archers who followed constantly provided cover for fire.

Although there were still a few Turks at the head of the city who resisted stubbornly, the firepower of a thousand rear-loading guns under the city suffocated the defenders at the head of the city, and they could not raise their heads at all.

Ma Shouzhen's white-hat soldiers did not pay much price, and attacked the city.

The gates of Yarkand City were wide open, and thousands of allied troops poured into the city with shouts. After half an hour of fierce street fighting, the coalition forces annihilated the remnants of the enemy, and the Khan king Ismael, who refused to surrender, wiped his neck with a scimitar and reported to the true gods, and most of the Turkic soldiers in the city were killed, and only a few were captured.

The Khan king Ismayel committed suicide and led the coalition army to defeat the Apak and Zhuo of the Yarkand Khanate, and finally got his wish and became the Khan of the Yarkand Khanate.

Apak and Zhuo became the puppet khans of Kaldan, and Galdan had already paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, so that the Yarkand Khanate became a vassal state of the vassal states. During the more than a decade of Apak and Zhuo's rule over southern Xinjiang, his control over the Turks was even more ruthless than that of the Mongols and Han Chinese, and during his reign, countless Turks were killed. However, a few decades later, the Dzungar Khanate was completely incorporated into the Ming Dynasty and became a Mongol province, and the heirs of the Yarkand Khanate, the two sons of Apak and Zhuo, launched a rebellion, which was eventually suppressed by the Ming army, and the Da and Zhuo were also killed.

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Thousands of miles away, on the official road from Shaanxi to Gansu, an army of mules, horses and camels was marching westward. This army is the Second Western Expeditionary Army sent by Wang Yu, this Western Expeditionary Army and the Western Expeditionary Army composed of the Loyal Battalion have different destinations, although this army is used to cooperate with the Loyal Battalion to strengthen the control of Dzungaria and all parts of the Western Regions, but the final destination of this Western Expeditionary Army is the Middle Eastern Desert, and the destination of the Loyal Battalion is the periphery of the South Asian subcontinent.

Shang Zhixin, the commander of the Second Western Expeditionary Army, and his poor younger brother Shang Zhixiao were arranged to serve as deputies in the army. In fact, this is also the method of division and control after Wang Yu accepted Wang Yuyou's proposal.

Although Shang Zhixiao is nominally Shang Zhixin's deputy, he also has his own people, and he still has a certain ability to resist and can confront his eldest brother.

The Second Western Expeditionary Army had a total of 50,000 troops, of which Shang Zhixin controlled 25,000 troops, Shang Zhixiao controlled 20,000 troops, and the other 5,000 troops were soldiers and horses under the command of Li Tianzhi, who had been loyal to Wang Yu. This army has also almost implemented firearms, whether it is Shang Zhixin or Shang Zhixiao's army, they all use smoothbore flintlock pistols.

Shang Zhixin's team of monk Zhixiao was in front, and Li Tianzhi's 5,000 men were in charge of the palace, and they also played the role of supervising Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao.

Of Lee's 5,000 men, 1,000 were armed with rifled guns and equipped with mini rounds, and another 1,000 breezed rifled gunners used paper cartridges and rear-loading firing pistols. In addition to this, Lee's army was equipped with a brand new rifle, the metal cartridge single-shot rifle, which was equipped with a hundred of these new rifles.

At present, in Wang Yu's hands, a total of 300 metal cartridge rifles were allocated to Li Tianzhi, which made Li Tianzhi grateful and expressed his allegiance to Wang Yu.

Li Tianzhi, who rode a tall horse, took out the new revolver on his waist, he couldn't put down this gun, this is a new pistol that can be loaded with six metal cartridges, due to the use of metal cartridges, the gun is extremely fast, when loading bullets, you only need to flip a switch, the revolver magazine will pop out to the left, and the muzzle will fall down, and the empty cartridge in the magazine will fall to the ground. Then take out six bullets arranged in a cylinder, stuff them into the magazine, and then close the upper magazine, you can complete the reloading, and you can fire again continuously.

Compared to the original paper cartridge revolver, the metal cartridge revolver reloads extremely quickly. After the original paper cartridge revolver fired six rounds, it was very troublesome to load, and it was necessary to clean up the residue in the magazine and re-stuff the bullets one by one, so after one round, it was too late to reload, and could only be engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

Mass production of metal cartridge revolvers, the main difficulty was the production of bullets, and only a few generals were equipped with this new weapon.

In Li Tianzhi's ranks, there is also an artillery battalion of 500 people. Due to the limitations of the Western Expeditionary Army's transportation capacity to equip it with heavy artillery, the artillery battalion was armed with eight three-pounder field guns, four four-pounder field guns, four six-pounder howitzers, and eight twelve-pounder new mortars, all of which could be transported by camel. In addition to artillery, this artillery battalion was armed with two three-pounder breech-loading rifled guns and two four-barreled thump guns.

The so-called four-barreled bangbang cannon is actually a small-caliber artillery improved on the basis of the hand-cranked double-barreled gun created by Xue Fengzuo, the caliber of this gun is 25 mm, the four barrels are parallel, and the gunner can fire shells by shaking the handle, and the theoretical rate of fire can reach 100 rounds a minute.

The artillery that relied entirely on camel transport was limited, and the two four-barreled bangbang guns only carried 1,600 shells, which was not enough ammunition for a single battle, so this weapon was mainly used to scare people.

Two three-pounder breech-loading rifled guns were used to suppress enemy artillery.

The second Western Expeditionary Army Li Tianzhi Department is well-armed, which is not only used to supervise Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao, the most important role is that now Wang Yu's combat focus has begun to shift to the west, his purpose is to lay down the vast Western Regions, and finally control the Middle East, where the underground oil is not yet of great importance, in the distant future, the meaning of oil will be discovered, by that time, the Ming Dynasty has firmly controlled the world's largest oil-producing area in his hands.

In fact, the weapons that Wang Yu allocated to Shang Zhixin and Shang Zhixiao were not bad, and the main forces of these two men used smoothbore guns, but they were also equipped with 1,000 front-loading rifled guns, and they were also equipped with mini bullets. As for their artillery, the artillery used was also relatively new three-pounder field guns, four-pounder field guns, six-pounder howitzers and twelve-pounder mortars.