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During the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's sphere of influence had extended to the Hezhong region, and all the small countries in the Hezhong region at that time were all vassal states of the Tang Dynasty.

The middle of the river is roughly the area between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers.

In the historical books of the Tang Dynasty, the Syr Darya is called medicine to kill water; Call the Amu Darya River the Wuhu River. Both rivers originate from the Green Ridge and employ into the Aral Sea in the south and north.

The Khanate of Bukhara is located in the Transoxiana region, named after its capital city of Bukhara, which was founded by the Uzbeks, originally set its capital in Samarkand and later moved its capital to Bukhara;

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Bukhara Khanate captured Huathornzim, captured Herat, and destroyed the Timurid Khanate.

When his leader Shaybani led his army against Khorasan, he was defeated by the combined forces of Babur of the Mughal dynasty of Ferghana ruler and the Safavid dynasty of the Persians, and was killed in the city of Mafu. After Shaybani's death, the country was on the verge of collapse.

To Aboud. During the reign of Allah II, the Bukhara Khanate was revived, reconquering Khorasan and Khorezm, capturing Ferghana and Tashkent, and invading the heart of the Kazakh steppe.

In 1598, Aboud. After the death of Allah II, civil turmoil, Khorasan and other places were lost, and the Bukhara Khanate was in a state of collapse, internal strife intensified, and the throne changed frequently.

The Safavid and Afshar dynasties of Iran, the Mughal dynasty of India, and the Khiva Khanate also took advantage of frequent invasions. The Bukhara Khanate was overwhelmed, and it relied on alliances with the Kazakh Khanate to the north and the Brut Khanate to the east, barely maintaining the situation.

Now the Great Khan Abdullah. Aziz was already the seventeenth Great Khan of the Bukhara Khanate.

Yang Jier's envoy Nu'er rushed to the city of Bukhara, thinking that he would be received by Aziz immediately, as before, but he did not expect that the officials who received him would be delayed and would not be introduced.

After it was delayed to the next day, the slaves couldn't stand it anymore, and the Qin army invaded like fire, and its momentum was like the wind. It's all burning in the ass.

In a fit of rage, the slave went straight to the palace and was stopped by the palace guards, who shouted outside the palace gate: "I am a messenger of Kazakhstan, you cannot do this to me!" ”

"Great Khan! Sweat! Don't you know the truth that your lips are dead and your teeth are cold? In the past, Bukhara was in trouble, when did my Kazakh and Burut send troops to help? How could the Great Khan reneg on the covenant between the three kingdoms? ”

"O Great Khan, those who speak faithfully will be helped by more people, and those who turn their backs on their faith will sooner or later be turned away from all. Great Khan, don't forget that Bukhara also has enemies"

The slave was screaming and making trouble outside the palace gate, and the palace guards did not dare to really hurt him, which attracted many people in the city to watch for a while, and people pointed and talked about it.

In the palace complex full of Islamic style, a group of people finally came out and introduced Nuergan into the palace.

Aziz was still very young, only in his twenties, and his cheeks were a little thin and pale. He was malnourished and had a turban on his head.

As soon as Nu'er Gan saw him, he immediately said unceremoniously: "Great Khan, if you don't want to see me. Just kill me, so why bother with that ridiculous excuse to avoid it?

Didn't the Great Khan know that the Qin people hated me Muslims? After seizing the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains from the hands of Weigar, the Qin state forbade anyone to believe in Allah, and even did not hesitate to let Dzungar take all the people who believed in Allah to Yarkand. Only the young women were left for the soldiers to play with.

This time the Qin army crossed the Broken Leaf River, and I, the Kazakhs, bore the brunt of it, but will they definitely let Bukhara go? Don't forget, Great Khan. I have a vast territory in Kazakhstan, backed by the mighty Ottomans, and our princess Agul is betrothed to the Ottoman caliphate;

If the Great Khan really does not send troops to resist the Qin army, if my Kazakh is defeated, it is a big deal to retreat far to the north, and Bukhara is only a few days away from my Turkestan, and then I don't know whether the Qin army will pursue our Great Khan for thousands of miles, or take advantage of the victory to attack Bukhara. ”

Nu'er's words were not only aggressive, but also made people feel chills in their hearts when they heard it.

I heard that the Qin army was very strong, and even the Dzungars were defeated, and since the invasion of Kazakhstan, it has been even more overwhelming, so Aziz and his ministers wanted to stay out of the matter and try not to provoke this strong enemy.

It is not difficult to understand the careful thinking of Aziz Junchen, after all, the attack power of the Qin army is indeed too shocking.

And Nuergan's words are equally shocking, indeed, Kazakhstan is a vast territory, and if defeated, you can flee to the north, or even go to the Ottoman Empire.

Bukhara was confined to a narrow strip of land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Daryas, and south of the Amu Darya River was the Shia Safavid Empire, which had been at war because of differences of faith.

If Kazakhstan really retreats to the north, there will be only two small Sunni states in the middle of the river, Bukhara and Brut, and in the predicament of isolation, I am afraid that even if the Qin army does not attack, sooner or later it will be destroyed by the Safavid Empire in the south.

After repeated weighing, Aziz sent the general Hami to lead 300 heavy cavalry and 5,000 light cavalry to participate in the battle.

Bukhara's heavy cavalry, both men and horses, were clad in chain armor and crafted by the most skilled Persian craftsmen, armed with axes or spears, and charged into battle to ravage the mountains.

Because the heavy cavalry armor was too heavy, each heavy cavalry was equipped with an auxiliary, and when marching, they used war horses to carry the armor, so they were quite fast on the march.

From the city of Bukhara all the way to the north, through the western shore of Lake Aydarkul, through the eastern edge of the Chaokylkum desert, and then across the Syr Darya River, it entered the territory of the Kazakh Khanate.

In the small city of Timur, Hami joined up with the cavalry of 3,000 Bruts led by the commander Usunri, and then continued north.

Let's say that after Su Jin came out of the Broken Leaf River, he went straight to the city of Turkestan until the Talas River, and was blocked by the Kazakh general Mu Yi with the wind.

Mu Yi Suifeng was one of Yang Ji'er's close generals, and he patrolled the west bank of the Talas River with an army of 10,000 troops, and had all the trees near the east bank of the Helan Ferry Pass cut down in advance, and the walls were cleared.

When Su Jin's army arrived at the Helan Ferry, he sent troops to look around, but he could not find a single plank nearby for boating to cross the river, and to the north of the Landu Port was the vast Moinkum Desert, and to the south was the bare stone mountain, which stretched for nearly two hundred miles.

Under the scorching sun, it is unlikely that it will cross the Moingum Desert, and it is estimated that it will take several more days to bypass the rocky mountains to the south. At present, the crossing of Helan is the only shortcut to the city of Turkestan.

Looking at the surface of the Taras River, which was twenty zhang wide, Su Jin wandered back and forth, thinking of countermeasures.

The Kazakh army on the opposite bank is stationed on the steppe by the river, the camp tent stretches for two miles, the flag is fluttering, thousands of troops and horses are waiting for it, Mu Yi himself set up a tent on a hillside three miles by the river, condescendingly, dispatching 10,000 troops.

After Su Jin took the telescope and carefully observed the enemy situation on the other side, he felt a little embarrassed.

Although he knew early on that with the rocket slips and 69-style flintlock rifles equipped by the Qin army, what could really stop their offensive might not be the enemy's soldiers and horses, but the climate, terrain, supplies, and even disease.

But when I was really hindered by this special terrain, I was still very unhappy.

After summoning all the generals over, Su Jin asked straight to the point: "Do the generals have a way to cross the river?" ”

Staff officer Chanda preemptively said: "General, it is said that when Kublai Khan crossed the Jinsha River when he conquered Dali, they did not cross the river by boat, but with a sheepskin bag.

The method of making this sheepskin bag is probably to slaughter the sheep, blow air into the sheepskin with a thin tube, so that the air flow between the skin and flesh is generated, and then beat the sheepskin hard, and the sheepskin will be separated from the mutton;

Then cut off the head and limbs of the sheep, tear the sheepskin down from the head, the sheepskin will be completely peeled off, and then as long as the holes in the head, limbs and tail are tightly tied, it becomes an air bag.

Finally, when you blow into the skin, the sheepskin expands into a bulging leather sac. This kind of leather bag can be used by one person to cross the river. General, there are a lot of cattle and sheep in our army, so why not try this method. ”

When Su Jin heard this, he was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly instructed Qian Dadao: "Staff Officer Qian, this matter will be handed over to you to handle, if you can really cross this river, you will be credited with your first credit." ”

"Thank you, General, I'll do it."

After Chanda left, General Chen Runan continued: "General, the width of this river is only 20 zhang, and our army's flintlock rifles can completely cover a range of dozens of zhang on the opposite bank, making it difficult for the enemy to lean on it and fire arrows to block when our army crosses the river. If such a method can be achieved, the general thinks that it will not necessarily be difficult to cross this river. ”

Su Jin said: "Don't take it lightly first, no one dares to guarantee that the enemy has no other backhand. ”

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(To be continued......)