In early spring, the Western Regions is still as cold as winter, and the temperature difference is also large, even minus 20 degrees Celsius at night, and more than 20 degrees Celsius during the day.

The ambushes waited for many days, and the weather did not bother them too much, but there was no sign of Dagel's department.

Scouts were sent to inquire around, and news came from Irguchu, five hundred miles away, that most of the rebels gathered by Dagger had been disbanded, and only a few followers continued to follow Dager.

The generals from all walks of life have sent back the news, Xu Zhong's analysis of Dageer's submission to the imperial court may be true, if it is not a climate, he will either surrender or die, and the lone wolf will not be able to survive. After a long time, the military horses in ambush from all walks of life inevitably began to complain.

On 1 March, a team of more than 200 people galloped toward Kashgar, a wolf's head flag fluttering in the wind, and the word "descending" was particularly dazzling.

The tattered cavalry was running forward, bringing up a cloud of dust. Suddenly, a soldier and horse rushed in the distance to block the way, it was the long-awaited general Ha Shan, the leader of the Hui people from Qinghai.

Hashan's soldiers are all Arabic scimitars, helmets are wrapped with white cloth, some cavalry also ride camels, the armor is very colorful, like the traditional cavalry of the Middle East, these weapons and armor are from Persia.

The strength and invincibility of the Ming Dynasty made the Hui people in Qinghai enthusiastically loyal, which is also a common occurrence. The only way to make the people of all ethnic groups live in harmony is to make the Han nation strong.

General Hashan was ordered to lead the troops to ambush on the front line, and before leaving, the marshal Xu Zhong repeatedly explained that he should not be reckless, no matter whether Dager's surrender is true or not, as long as he comes, he must be caught alive.

With the deaths of hundreds of soldiers and the loss of thousands of civilians, it was impossible for Xu Zhong to let Da Geer go, otherwise he would not be able to give an account to the soldiers and civilians. How to deal with it depends on the will of God. According to the rules of the outside of the Saiwai, the blood debt is repaid by blood, and Dageer's men must be killed.

Ha Shan remembered his boss's instructions, and didn't dare to rashly lead his troops to rush over, but just blocked the way and snorted coldly: "Who is the other side?" Let the leader come and speak. ”

Before the words fell, the other party ran out of a black horse, and the thick beard of the person on the horse covered half of his face, and he couldn't see his age clearly, and hugged a fist. said: "Under is Da Geer and Zhuo, who have now reformed and want to return to the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Oh." Hashan looked at him hostilely and asked, "Who are these people?" ”

"These are my subordinates and herdsmen, and they all want to return to their hometowns." The visitor gestured as he spoke.

He Shan said: "In this case, all of you lay down your weapons and hand over your war horses, and I will take you to Kashgar." ”

"No way!" The person who was still amiable just now suddenly became tough. "Although we are here to surrender, we are surrendering to the Ming Emperor, not those of you who rely on the Han people to be powerful, I want to go directly to Kashgar to meet with General Xu. Get out of the way. ”

"Bold rebels, we are the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, don't get off the horse and be captured quickly." Hashan sneered.

"You devils who have betrayed Allah." The other party also sneered, "Raise the butcher knife and kill your brothers and sisters." You are not even as good as the Han Chinese. ”

Hashan was a little annoyed and scolded angrily: "Phew! What nonsense are you talking about? ”

"Am I talking nonsense? What you have done here, you should know very well in your hearts. How many innocent children did you help the Han people kill me? The other party said coldly: "Not long ago, how many fathers and sisters did your Batu slaughter for no reason? ”

Hashan was surprised and said, "What did you say?" Batu massacres civilians? Didn't you kill him? ”

"Pretending." The other party raised the gold-inlaid war knife in his hand and said sharply: "Keep telling us to lay down our weapons and horses, if we put down the weapons in our hands, won't we be slaughtered by you again like lambs?" Get out of the way, I'm going to have an interview with General Xu. ”

"No way!"

"Can't do it? Okay, let's go back. ”

Looking at Ha Shan on the opposite side, he was unmoved, more than 200 remnants of the army were defeated, if you dare to turn around, Lao Tzu will dare to chase and kill you for thousands of miles, what a big and Zhuo, it is obviously a brutal Mongol.

Sure enough, the other party did not leave, but continued to argue without giving an inch. Kindness is also willing to stall for time.

Suddenly, a detachment of men and horses came out from a distance and rushed towards Dager and these people.

In the blink of an eye, the formation of the rebels was dispersed by the incoming soldiers, and in the midst of the angry shouts, the two sides immediately fought each other, the riders rushed to kill each other, and the fallen ones shouted and cursed, and became a mess.

Without waiting for Hashan's order, his men couldn't help but roar and rush to kill, brandishing sharp scimitars. The order given from above was to capture Da Geer alive, so there was no need for the general to give an order, and the front and back flanks his side to win.

When the men and horses in the back saw the brothers in front rushing forward, they naturally thought that they had given an order, and they rushed up excitedly.

"You bastards." Ha Shan scolded angrily, lamenting that no matter how he trained, his subordinates would not be able to do the orders of the regular officers and soldiers.

Since the situation has changed abruptly, he can't control it, so he has to follow the past to catch a few live mouths while the chaos is in chaos, and then interrogate them carefully to understand the truth about the annihilation of Batu's entire army.

From the conversation just now, Ha Shan sensed that there was a hidden secret in this, not as reported by the locality, so it was even more necessary to capture Dager alive.

With a clamp on the horse's belly, he himself joined the melee.

Fighting on horseback is different from infantry fighting, unless both sides want to fight to the death, otherwise the side with a disadvantage in numbers cannot stop stupidly, but gallop on horseback, with superb riding skills and knife skills to rush back and forth to kill the enemy, and the side with a large number of people will also take the way of following and outflanking, a little bit of consumption of the enemy, repeatedly besieging one person with multiple people, and the big guy going around in circles in the open space.

In the melee, bows and arrows were of little use, and while fighting, suddenly two fast horses rushed over, and the knight immediately shouted: "General Ha, the rebels are besieging Kashgar City, and the marshal orders you to quickly withdraw your troops and gallop to help." ”

Hashan, who was chasing Da Geer from afar, was taken aback, Kashgar was almost an empty city at this moment, and the main force of the Ming army gathered in the northern tower city to prepare for a frontal battle with the frequently provocative Warat people, which is why Da Geer was allowed to go, Xu Zhong had already led his troops back to Ili City to sit in command.

All men and horses were sent to ambush in various places, and the adjutant general Chen Chong had no right to interfere with the general's orders, and the most elite 1,000 musketeers in his headquarters were also withdrawn.

"Oops!" Ha Shan understood that Da Geer clearly used the Han people's "Ming Xiu Plank Road". The strategy of "Darkness Chen Cang", on the surface, is to surrender, but in fact, it is secretly exploring the movement of troops, and for so long, as long as the convoy transporting grain and grass supplies can find the people and horses in ambush.

Dager dispatched most of his troops to bypass various ambushes and attack Kashgar, and the importance of the location of Kashgar City is self-evident, if it is broken by the rebels, the consequences are unimaginable.

Therefore, Hashan immediately ordered the retreat of the troops to rescue Kashgar, and the other group continued to pursue Dageer, leaving only about 100 rebels who could not do anything about it.

Hashan and his brothers ran for eighty miles in a row.

Thousands of people outside the city are fighting fiercely. Corpses and horse corpses littered the hills, and ambushes from all directions arrived.

Seeing that reinforcements from all walks of life had arrived, the rebels in the fierce battle had lost hope of capturing Kashgar, so they immediately retreated and fled. Hashan, who was sleepy and lacking horses, was afraid of being ambushed on the way to pursue, so he did not dare to order the pursuit, so he only let his subordinates shout loudly and let them escape.

After a scuffle, the next step was to clean up the battlefield, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers of all ethnic groups were far greater than those of the rebels. In order to prevent the rebels from sneaking up again. Hashan led his men to defend on the spot.

At the head of the city, Liu Shan sighed: "These are all loyal people, I can't bear to see them loyal to the country!" ”

Chen Chong said coldly: "I admit that they are all good men. But in the Han and Tang dynasties, why were their ancestors disloyal? Later, Lord Liu knew better than me, a rough man, that there was no kindness of women here, and that they would not be infected with blood feuds with Da Geer and other kinds. Reducing the population from time to time is, after all, a problem for our henchmen. ”

"But after all, it is against the way of righteousness, in case they will find out about it one day? And how? Liu Shan asked in a deep voice.

"No other." Chen Chong said softly: "Divide and pull together." For thousands of years, various ethnic groups have lived together. Even the Mongols and Hui are not monolithic, there are religious conflicts, there are feuds between tribes. The Tajik tribe of Aseti is sparsely populated and brave and good at fighting, and has been repeatedly killed by major tribes, so they are the most loyal to my Ming Dynasty. All in all, in this far away from the Central Plains, we trust nothing more than our own people, and the rest cannot be trusted. ”

"Alas!" Liu Shan sighed: "When is the time for retribution? Why can't we get along? Killing and killing is the end. In the past, there were 36 countries in the Western Regions, but now what is left? All that remains is the ruins and ruins buried by the weathered sand. ”

Chen Chong also sighed: "Where is the former Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and even Andong Metropolitan Protectorate?" ”

Thousands of miles away in the bustling capital.

In the era of Chengping, all dynasties and dynasties all felt a headache outside the war, and the scale of more than 100,000 people at every turn, and the various materials consumed were doubly shocking because of the distance of the road, and there was an unbearable burden.

Xu Hao didn't pay attention to this, first of all, he didn't know that firewood and rice were expensive, and secondly, the number of troops was only 50,000, and the rest of the servants of all ethnic groups ate horses and fed them and did not belong to the imperial court.

Who wants to fight, but can't fight if they don't! In the Ming Dynasty in history, the pressure from the north was so great that it was still inevitable that in a short period of peace, swords and guns entered Kuma and put Nanshan, and the combat effectiveness of the army plummeted.

Of course, Xu Hao's approach will not change the whole army, he is completely out of strategic considerations, as long as he has the ability, he will always continue to slowly expand outward, always maintain the strategic initiative, and oppress the living space of foreign races as much as possible, which may be different from the outcome of the Xuande Dynasty retreating in history.

While the current army can still fight, it is not extravagant to complete the battle in one battle, and it is enough to ensure that the minimum initiative to attack is sufficient.

History is no longer the same, for example, the letter that Xu Hao is holding now in his hand, in just thirty years, the population of Liaodong has grown to nearly five million.

"It's not enough." Xu Hao reminded Qiaoqiao not to be complacent in the letter, knowing that after the Manchu Qing Dynasty opened up to the customs, the population outside the customs reached a staggering 20 million in the past few decades.

The current population is naturally not comparable to that of the Qing Dynasty, but with the exploitation of oil, the development of chemical fertilizers, the increasing popularity of corn and other food crops, and the continued increase in productivity, Xu Hao does not believe that the population will not grow explosively.

As long as there is a lion to lead, more people are more powerful. (To be continued......) R1292