Chapter 1130: The End
The arduous Kazakh campaign lasted for more than two months, and it was only after the Western Advance Corps of the Far Eastern Army gradually annihilated the enemy scattered in the eastern part of the Kazakh steppe. However, because of the vast area of the grassland, a large number of enemies still escaped the encirclement and suppression of the Western Advance Corps and fled to the west.
There were also large numbers of Kazakh routs that poured south into the territory of the Kokand Khanate. During the Great War between the Far Eastern Army and the Kazakh Khanate, the Kokand Khanate mobilized most of the Khanate's elite and deployed troops in the northern part of the border to closely observe the situation on the battlefield. However, the massive influx of countless Kazakh troops into the country immediately disrupted their deployment.
In order to survive, the crazy Kazakh rout could only plunder the territory of the Kokand Khanate, so that the Kokand Khanate could only mobilize elites to encircle and suppress the Cossacks who were raging in the territory.
The Western Advance Corps of the Far Eastern Army moved south, following the Kazakh rout into the northern part of the Kokand Khanate. A number of Mongolian reserve militia brigades and nomadic detachments of the Northwest Field Army deployed in the Kashgar region of southern Xinjiang also suddenly crossed the Pamir Plateau and entered the southern part of the Kokand Khanate, launching a surprise attack on the Kokand Khanate from both the north and the south.
In just over three months, the Kokand Khanate was also destroyed, becoming the second Central Asian country to be destroyed after the fall of the Kazakh Khanate.
The main forces of the Kazakh Khanate were annihilated in the east by the Far East one by one, but more Kazakhs fled to the west. Before the war, in response to the attack in the Far East, the Kazakh Khanate's Salkham. Jangar Khan carried out a large-scale migration of a large number of old and weak women, children, cattle, sheep and horses from the eastern and central steppe tribes to the west.
In this way, the elite and young of the tribes of the Kazakh Khanate were able to fight the Far Eastern Army on the steppe without burden. But what they did not expect was that the four Outer Northeast Indigenous Cavalry Divisions, two newly built cavalry divisions, and a large number of reserve militia brigades of the Far East Siberian Corps suddenly moved south and fought into the western region of the Kazakh steppe.
Behind the main forces of Siberia. There are also a large number of nomadic detachments, set up four-wheeled carriages, driving a large number of cattle and sheep, overwhelmingly pouring into the Kazakh steppe.
The fierce Outer Northeast Cavalry Division and the New Cavalry Division were brigade units, under the command of the airboat troops, and with the cooperation of a large number of reserve militia and nomadic detachments. A fierce attack was launched against the major tribes of the Kazakh Khanate, which were gathered in the western part of the steppe.
The unsuspecting Kazakhs did not expect that the Far Eastern Army would actually enter the steppe from the north, plunging the various tribes of the Kazakh Khanate into extreme chaos.
At this time, a large number of defeated troops in the eastern steppes of the Khanate also fled back, and the news of the Khanate's defeat quickly spread throughout the steppe, which also accelerated the collapse of the Kazakh Khanate.
At this time, the main force of the Western Advance Corps passed through the desert area in the middle of the vast Kazakh steppe and joined the Siberian Corps in the eastern part of the Kazakh steppe.
Countless tribes of the Kazakh Khanate abandoned cattle and sheep, old and weak women and children. Running frantically southward, they poured into the southern Bukhara and Khiva khanates. They had no cattle, sheep, women and children, and had to survive by plundering the tribes.
As a result, a large number of Kazakhs fled to the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, which caused great confusion in the territory of the two khanates. The Kazakhs, who had already lost their eyes, went crazy and killed and plundered in the territory of the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate.
As a result, both countries can only mobilize troops and horses to destroy the marauding Kazakh rout in various places. But there were too many defeated troops, and there were groups in the east and in the west, all over the grassland. It is very troublesome to exterminate.
While the Burakha Khanate and the Khiva Khanate were going around to wipe out the Kazakh rout, the airboat detachment of the Far Eastern Army organized two bombing detachments. Decapitation bombing was carried out using special weapons in the capitals of the two countries, Braha and Siva. Nadir of the Bukhara Khanate. Muhammad Khan and Abkhaqi Khan of the Siva Khanate were killed in the palace with special weapons.
There was very serious infighting between the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, and there was a fierce power struggle between the Uzbeks and the Turkmens.
Therefore, as soon as the two kings Khan died, the country suddenly became extremely chaotic, and the royal family, which was already full of contradictions. The contradiction has become more acute. Once the country is not a rope, even the most powerful empire will fall apart sooner or later.
When the main forces of the Far Eastern Army's Western Advance Corps and the Siberian Corps suddenly moved south and launched a fierce attack on both countries, Bukhara and Khiva realized the seriousness of the problem. The two countries quickly organized their forces to prepare for a counterattack, but it was too late, and it took only a few days for the main forces of the two corps of the Far Eastern Army to reach the city of the capital of both countries.
At the same time, more than 100,000 daring troops of the samurai army, which had long been in full array, also attacked and advanced from Persia to the north, and launched a fierce attack on the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate from the north and south with the Western Advance Corps and the Siberian Corps.
In the autumn of 1643, the Far East and Siberian Legions successfully joined forces with the Samurai Army in the territory of the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate. At this point, the two campaigns launched by the Far Eastern Army in the northwest and Siberian regions, as well as the Persian campaign launched by the samurai army, have come to a successful end.
The Far Eastern Army's more than 400,000 regular troops from the Westward Advance Corps, the Siberian Corps, and the Samurai Group Army, plus a large number of mobilized reserve militia units and herdsmen, brought the total strength of the troops participating in the war to nearly one million.
The Western Advance Corps launched an offensive from the area east of Lake Balkhash, crossed the vast Kazakh steppe, and then moved south to the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate, with a front of more than 2,000 kilometers.
The Siberian Corps fought from the area east of the Ural Mountains to the city of Moscow, a distance of nearly 2,000 kilometers, and the eight main divisions of the Corps took less than a month, and more than 100,000 horses were scrapped alone.
After the end of the Moscow Campaign, the six main Siberian divisions moved south to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea to support the Western Advance Corps to annihilate the Kazakh Khanate, and to the south to eliminate the Bukhara Khanate and the Khiva Khanate.
For six months, the officers and men of the two corps fought almost non-stop, made incomparably arduous efforts, overcame all kinds of unimaginable difficulties, and accomplished tasks that ordinary people could not accomplish.
In particular, the officers and men of the six newly built cavalry divisions, who were born in an agrarian nation, were not Mongols who grew up on horseback, nor were they natives from the Outer Northeast who climbed the army and lay in the snow all year round, but they still survived the six months of hard fighting, and they also successfully completed the combat tasks assigned by their superiors.
The Military Council was very satisfied with the performance of the newly built cavalry divisions and decided to form several new cavalry divisions in the coming years. Let the main cavalry units of the Han in the Far Eastern Army reach twelve divisions. (To be continued.) )