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The Kazakh Khanate was divided into large yuz, middle yuz, and small yuz. It is also known as a big tent, a medium tent, and a small tent. The Middle Horde is in the Central Kazakh Highlands, the Small Horde is in the area from the Ural River to the Caspian Sea, and the Great Horde is in the area west of Lake Balkhash to Turkestan.

The khanate consisted mainly of Kazakhs, but also absorbed people from many other tribes, such as the Nogai and Uzbeks.

Its capital, Turkestan, is located on the plains on the right bank of the lower Syr Darya River and is the most important handicraft and commercial center in Central Asia.

The Kipchak steppes occupied by the Kazakh Khanate have a long handover line with the Moxi steppe, and the reason why it is called the handover line and not the border is because there is no actual border division between the two sides;

When Dzungaria was strong at the beginning, it continued to erode westward, and its power once expanded to the west of Lake Balkhash and entered the Kipchak steppe.

However, after Dzungaria was defeated by Great Qin and retreated to southern Xinjiang, the forces of the Kazakh Khanate took the opportunity to invade eastward and occupied a large steppe east of Lake Balkhash.

The line of influence between the two sides is so long, and Su Jin only has 30,000 troops, if he wants to defend it, he must be able to defend this side but not that side.

In view of this, Su Jin decided to take the initiative to attack to prevent the eastward invasion of the Kazakh Khanate.

But the area of the Kazakh Khanate was very large, equal to the area of all Western European countries combined.

Opposite such a sparsely populated country, Su Jin adopted almost the same strategic plan as Li Ding, putting aside the details and hitting its heart.

He gathered 20,000 troops (including 2,000 Qin troops armed with Type 69 rifles), each with three horsemen, and marched west from the Ili River valley to the west through Lake Issyk-Kul and the Shaye River to kill Turkestan, the Kazakh capital of Turkestan, located in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River.

An army of 20,000 and 60,000 horses galloped across the grassland. The iron hooves are like thunder, setting off a solemn and murderous aura that spreads into the sky.

As soon as they left the valley of the Ili River, they destroyed 800 enemies, and at Baiyu Mountain, east of Issyk-Kul Lake, they destroyed another 2,000 enemies, and when they reached the north of Issyk-Kul Lake, they broke through the city of Susr in half a day, and killed 3,200 enemies.

After breaking through the city of Susir, Su Jin's 20,000-strong army bypassed Issyk-Kul Lake and slaughtered the Broken Yechuan, and the mighty Qin wind swept towards Central Asia.

Over here. It used to be the territory of the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, and since the Tang Dynasty, the Jin Ge Iron Horse of the Han people has not come to this territory for too long.

As a pioneer of a new era, all the generals of the Qin army were inexplicably excited, and the war song of Great Qin echoed on the shore of Issyk-Kul Lake, and the wind was majestic:

Qin has sharp soldiers, and swords have edges.

Black-clothed Xuanjia swept through the Eight Desolations

This is no longer just an ideal, 20,000 Great Qin Iron Horsemen. is using action to interpret the legend of black-clothed Xuanjia and sweeping the Eight Desolations.

"Report, General, thirty miles ahead. It is the city of broken leaves, and it has been proved that there are 2,000 defenders in the city, and there are nearly 20,000 residents."

West of Issyk-Kul Lake. There is a river to the west, and this river is called the Broken Leaf River.

The valley of the Shiba River runs east-west and is about 400 miles long. One hundred and sixty miles at its widest point; The snow-capped peaks on both sides, towering into the clouds, many hot springs in the mountains, and pleasant climate in the river valley, are important passages connecting the east and west, and are known as another "Hexi Corridor" on the Silk Road.

Located at the eastern end of the valley of the Broken Leaf River, Shattered Leaf Castle guards the entrance to this important Silk Road passage.

The Broken Leaf City of the Tang Dynasty was built in imitation of the capital city of Chang'an at that time, and the scale was large, but it was destroyed by several wars, and now the Broken Leaf City has been rebuilt several times;

The nomadic tribes of Central Asia are difficult to have the courage of the financial resources of the Tang Dynasty, and the rebuilt Broken Leaf City is many times smaller, with a length and width of only one mile, and the city walls are mainly made of stone strips and adobe structures, and the city is no longer the pattern of the original Chang'an City.

It's just that outside the city, you can still see some ruins of the Tang Dynasty Broken Leaf City, and most of the city walls and buildings in the city are based on huge stones, which are still there.

Su Jin led his troops here, looking at the large-scale old site, the ruins of the broken walls stretched under the sky, the weeds were overgrown, and the birds and beasts were infested, which was desolate.

This is the birthplace of Shixian Li Bai, the softest place in the hearts of many Chinese children, can you imagine that Shixian Li Bai sat in front of the bed, looking at the moonlight full of frost and snow, and missed a city thousands of miles away?

This city, which the poet longed for, is now only ruined. Su Jin felt an inexplicable sense of disgust at the narrow, ugly new Broken Leaf City built by the nomads.

The ugly new Shattered Leaf City looked like a pile of growing on a huge scar. Su Jin could scarcely resist and ordered to immediately set foot on this ugly city.

"Huo Dongsheng listens to orders."

"The end will be."

"Ben Shuai will give you 5,000 men and horses, and you can't take Broken Leaf City within an hour, so come and see you."

"Whoa!"

Huo Dongsheng received the order, and immediately led the 5,000 army to the low Broken Leaf City, the sound of killing was like a wave, Jin Ge was like a forest, and the two thousand defenders at the head of the city, dressed in strange costumes, waited nervously with bows and arrows in their hands;

The main general Masulk saw that the Qin army was coming all the way to the west, and knew that it was difficult to deal with, so he urgently sent people to go to the broken leaf river and ask for help from the capital Turkestan. At the same time, the young people in the city were also organized to go to the city to participate in the defense of the city.

However, the pattern of this war has exceeded his imagination, but seeing the Qin army rushing in front of the array, a few chirps, and three dazzling flames rose into the air, like a comet shooting towards the Broken Leaf City Wall.

Rumble! Boom!

Three loud bangs, earth-shattering, violent explosions instantly let the east gate flame into a sea of fire, the wooden city gate disappeared in the explosion, the hole was opened in the smoke of gunpowder, and the city gate tower was completely blown down, and there was a lot of uproar.

Masulk, who was looking at the city gate tower, was pressed down by the collapsed city gate tower, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and the Kazakh soldiers at the head of the city screamed again and again, and they were so frightened that they ran around and became a mess.

The Qin army then surged in, shouting like a tide, wantonly chasing and slashing the rout soldiers in the city, the entire Broken Leaf City fell into a big chaos, the citizens fled everywhere to hide, one by one the doors were kicked open, and the war was cried out one after another, there was no civility and politeness, it was always cruel, and everything you could imagine would happen.

The mosque in the north of the city soon collapsed with a loud explosion, and this was the building that the Qin army had to destroy wherever it went, and there was nothing related to the Heavenly Fang Sect that could not be left

The Qin army hit the city of Broken Leaves at an astonishing speed, and the Kazakh Great Khan Sal Hamu in Turkestan was far away. Yang Jier has not received the news yet.

At this time, he was preparing for the wedding of his daughter Princess Aguli;

Princess Aguli is fifteen years old, and is known as the flower of Kazakhstan, and she looks as pure and beautiful as a snow lotus.

Yangir was ready to marry her to the Ottoman Empire and become the nineteenth caliph of the Ottoman Empire. Root. Ibrahim. Root. Queen of Ahmet.

This is a political marriage, Ahmed is only a nine-year-old child, Aguli is unwilling to accept such a marriage, Yang Jier is patiently persuading her: "Good daughter, Osman is the most powerful country, you go to be their queen, what an honor, others can't think of it"

"I don't marry, I don't marry, Father Khan, I don't want to marry a child." Aguli, who is as beautiful as a snow lotus flower, is covered with a light veil on her head, graceful and moving.

"Good daughter, now the tsar in the north is constantly expanding, encroaching on our territory, and the Qin state in the east is said to be stronger, they have defeated the Dzungars in a light way, and they have entered the Moxi grassland, and they are eyeing us, I am afraid that they will invade our territory soon."

"Father Khan, it was you who took advantage of the defeat of the Qin State in Dzungaria and sent troops to invade the Moxi Grassland first, Father Khan, our territory is already big enough, why do you want to invade the Moxi Zhaoruo Qin State again, can't you unite the Qin State and resist the Tsar together?

I heard that the Qin State has beautiful silk, exquisite porcelain, and fragrant tea, and if the Father Khan is friendly with the Qin State, first, he can have a strong ally, and second, he can open the trade routes of the Qin State, and bring a steady stream of wealth to the Kazakhs, so that the Father Khan does not have to send his daughter to the Ottomans? Why did Father Khan have to send troops to invade Moxi and provoke the anger of Qin? ”

Agul's words made Yang Ji'er stunned, to be honest, when he saw the emptiness of the Moxi grassland, he couldn't help but send troops to invade and occupy it, and he didn't think about making friends with the Qin State at all, after all, it was very far away;

But now the shape is a little different, after the summer, the Qin State sent 30,000 troops into the Moxi steppe nomadism, they can quickly defeat the powerful Dzungars, that must be stronger than the Dzungars.

If, as Aguli said, it would be an excellent choice to unite with the Qin state to resist the invasion of the tsar and open up trade routes to the east.

It's just that the troops that have entered the Moxi Grassland now have had many frictions with the Qin State, and the two sides have seen blood, can they still be repaired?

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(To be continued......)