One day, two days, three days, four days, when the positions outside the city that had been won with great difficulty were again easily recaptured by the expeditionary army with skillful artillery and bayonet grenades, Agubo stopped fighting. He couldn't fight anymore.

After four days of fighting, the Agubo army left thousands of lives outside the city, used up all the shells, and paid a small 2,000 casualties, but they couldn't gnaw on Guman at all.

Forsaiat. At the end of the first day, Colonel Sayif made a detour to the desert to Aguberti. Blow up the artillery and other unbearable baggage and burdens, march lightly, and take advantage of the food in the army to rush back to Yecheng as much as possible. But Aguba didn't listen. Thirty new guns were all the heavy firepower that the British supported him this time, and he was reluctant to blow them up.

It's just that now the shape is pressing, and Aguba must immediately retreat from Guman. If he does not withdraw, there will not be enough food in his army.

Liu Xian did not attack, Agu Bai still had tens of thousands of troops, and he couldn't gnaw on the castle and gnaw on the thousands of expeditionary troops, but in the field battle outside the city, Liu Xianam's troops were not enough. On the virtual map, Liu Xian watched the Agubai army retreating into the desert until it stopped somewhere on the banks of the Alziling River for more than two hours, and the marching speed was relatively slow. And after that, the pace of the march, which had been relatively slow, suddenly rose sharply. After confirming that Agubai Zhenzhen led the army across the Arqiling River and bypassed Guman City, Liu Xian led the only twenty or thirty personal guards cavalry in the city to explore the traces along the old road of Agubai's army, and unexpectedly found an anomaly that was not abnormal, and then unexpectedly excavated artillery from it.

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Beira is a small town, originally inhabited by dozens of families, half farming and half grazing, and there was a dirt fence to enclose the village in case of horse bandits. It's just that when the horse bandits who left with a handful of arms turned into an army of thousands, the insignificant resistance of the whole town seemed to be indestructible. Since being bloodbathed last year, Bella has been completely desolate. It wasn't until today, when the army of Aguba, who had made a detour to the edge of the desert, came back to life that the deserted town became lively again.

Of course, the little Bella can't hold Aguba's army of tens of thousands. The entire Aqub army was scattered into more than a dozen camps, large and small, and surrounded Beira.

In one of the small camps, Ma Yuan knelt on the ground solemnly, facing the west, and bowed quietly. This is the rule of the True God Church - worship.

In the midst of the war, the original complicated rituals have long been simplified. Ma Yuan was able to complete his ritual with just a spare time.

Just as he buried his head on the ground again, a faint feeling came from his forehead that made his heart beat suddenly. He didn't care that his ritual was not yet complete, so he turned his face sideways, pressed his ear to the ground, and held his breath.

It was the sound of the hooves of war horses, the hooves of hundreds of horses.

Ma Yuan's eyes rolled for a moment, and there was wariness in his eyes, he raised his head and glanced in the east direction where the sound of hooves came, although it was across the tent.

That direction was a place where Aguba had suffered enough. It is uncertain how many of the wounded soldiers in the army will survive in the end.

"Is the patrol team back?" Ma Yuan thought to himself, but felt that something was wrong.

If it had been changed to Gu Man, Ma Yuan would never have been so vigilant before, but now he is different, he is full of vigilance in the east.

"Get up, get up, beware of Lao Tzu!" Thinking of this, Ma Yuan jumped up, shouted and scolded after walking out of the tent, and drove up all the soldiers who were worshipping at this time or simply resting in the tent.

However, when Ma Yuan adjusted the team and listened to the sound of the horse's hooves, the sound of hooves disappeared. No matter how much he listened, he couldn't feel any sound.

Ma Yuan was a little stunned, he didn't believe that there was something wrong with his ears.

"That's amazing!" Ma Yuan got up from the ground: "Could it be that my ears are wrong?" No way, I'm too old to hear! ”

It's a pity that there is not even a fence in this humble camp, so there will be no hope building. In the twilight haze, the surroundings are vast, although the sky is gloomy, but there has been no rain and snow, and the surrounding is a barren yellow sand world.

"I'm careful...... I think...... Something isn't right. Ma Yuan shouted loudly. The more than 500 people in his camp were all the old people he had accumulated when he had raised troops with Kirgiz Bokesidil (Sidik) three years ago and became the marshal of the Kashgar soldiers and horses. Sidil (Sidirk) was defeated very badly, and the golden seal that invited Busuluk and Agubai into Xinjiang has long been missing, and only Ma Yuan, the No. 3 person in the Sidier regime, saw the opportunity early and threw himself into Agubai, and now he still has a breath of vitality.

There was nothing wrong with his feelings. Less than five miles from Bella, behind a sand dune, three hundred soldiers were waiting quietly.

The more than 300 men were dressed in yellow-brown clothes, with sabers around their waists and carbines on their backs, and 100 of them were equipped with short guns.

If it weren't for too many cavalry being matched into the westward sequence, Liu Xian would still be able to gather more men and horses. At the same time, because of the urgency of time, he only gathered more than 300 horsemen and rushed into the desert.

Liu Xian raised the monocular in his hand to carefully observe the movements of the enemy in front of him, focusing on the camp of Ma Yuan. There were a total of four military camps to the east of Beira, and the other three were not moving, so Ma Yuan became very vigilant here.

But there's no high ground over there, huh?

He didn't know why what happened in that rebel camp made the upper and lower levels suddenly alert, but he was not in a hurry, this gang of rebels was still a little vigilant. There are too few people on your own, and it is not feasible to fight hard. Obviously harassed, then it will have to wait until he bites a piece of meat first.

It soon darkened. The camp that had been clearly visible before was hidden in the darkness, and only the light of a small fire still showed their existence.

Liu Xian's small team is no longer where it used to be. Ten miles away, on the top of a sand dune, he was looking at the darkness of the south in the night, and he smiled meaningfully. "Want to trap me? It's beautiful! "With a virtual map in hand, not to mention the small changes in Agubai's army, the big moves will never be hidden from Liu Xian.

This game has just begun!

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Pish on the side of the Yulong Kashgar River [two major tributaries of the Hotan River along with the Harahash River].

After more than a month of hard work, the coolie camp finally dredged the section of the river from Pish to the Yulong Kashgar River. The three-zhang wide river and the five-foot deep river channel can be described as remarkable achievements. After successfully carrying 3,000 pounds of coal from Pish Wharf to the Yulong Kashgar River by boat, the Chinese book of the expeditionary army who came and went for inspection was happily signed his name on the quality inspection documents.

After the two sources of munitions, sulfur and saltpeter, were resolved, coal, a necessity of life, finally made decisive progress.

Although the output value of this small coal mine in Pish is not high, the daily supply of 30,000 catties of coal in Khotan is still sufficient under the labor of the 300 coolie battalions.

This is the solution to the big problem of the expeditionary army. You must know that since entering Qinghai, the changes in food have not been counted, and the source of firewood has become a headache. In the desolate Gobi Desert and the alpine meadows where only grass grows and no trees grow, it is completely impossible to find enough firewood for the whole army to make fires and cook meals. The whole expeditionary army is calm about the horse and sheep manure for cooking, from the initial diaphragm to the final frankness, which is all tears!

After entering Xinjiang, this situation has been somewhat alleviated. The vegetation in Xinjiang is stronger than in Qinghai. However, when the whole army hoarded one place, it was also difficult to use dry firewood to solve the problem of eating. The manure of cattle, sheep and horses was always accompanied by the expeditionary army.

It wasn't until the people in the logistics office inquired in many ways that they learned from the local population that there was a small place called Pish that there was a small place called Pish that produced coal from the city of Khotan, a small hundred miles south along the Yulong Kashgar River.

The logistics department immediately sent people to look for Pish, and it turned out that a village was indeed found on the bank of the Yulong Kashgar River, which was hundreds of miles south of the river. But the village had long since been deserted, and the coal mine was located to the east of the village, which was not destroyed.

The rest doesn't take much. The logistics office sent 300 coolies, together with the 50 families who had been relocated from Yarkand, to Pish. He was accompanied by more than two dozen wounded soldiers who had recovered from their wounds.

The coolie battalion consisted of five teams of 50 people. Among these captured soldiers, some are local natives of Xinjiang, and some of them are divided into white mountains and black mountains. As long as one group is slightly promoted, another group is suppressed, and the contradictions between the indigenous soldiers and the Kokand soldiers are slightly provoked, more than 20 soldiers of the expeditionary army plus 50 indigenous families can take care of 300 coolies, which is more than enough.

More than a month has passed, and the investment that has been put in has finally yielded output. With this continuous supply of coal, as long as sufficient iron materials were found, even if the thirty new Western cannons buried by Agubai were not found, Liu Xian would also be able to build the Han Yuan 1 and Han Yuan 2 styles in Xinjiang.

It is said that there is no shortage of iron ore in Xinjiang. In later generations, Liu Xian, a large iron ore mine in southern Xinjiang, has never heard of it, but there are definitely a lot of small iron mines. Anyway, the expeditionary army has coolies on hand, and they only need to respond to emergencies, and they can't lose much if they don't pay attention to the cost problem.

Pish is so quiet here that it's going to be cut off from the rest of the world.

Liu Xian's ambush battle at the Kara Pass, and then the battle to lure the enemy deep and cut off the enemy's transportation routes, did not affect Pish's 'steady development' in the slightest. Just when Liu Xian led a small force of cavalry to constantly harass the retreating Aguba army, the Pish River was dredged. A steady stream of coal has been transported into Eliqi City since today!

Cao Huailiang stood at the head of Qi City, and the whole person was tasteless. He is a member of Liu Xian's henchmen's team, otherwise Liu Xian would not let him take charge of the secret Rocket team. However, this secrecy has been kept secret from the beginning of the army to the present. Team Rocket has not been seen on the battlefield for several years, except for a little benefit from the early war?

Although on the surface, he is Huo Guangcheng's deputy, the second leader of the military garrison! R1152