The sound of artillery in the Ili Valley shocked the entire Central Asia. Now the news of Dihua's victory has not only spread widely in Xinjiang, but has also caused a sensation in Central Asia.
The khanates in Central Asia began to wait and see neutrally. A victory of the Qing army directly dispelled their ambition to penetrate into the Western Regions!
But they still have something to wait and see in their minds, that is, the Tsarist Russian cavalry in the Ili Valley. These ferocious Cossacks are not that easy to deal with. They have suffered enough over the years!
These khanates in Central Asia were not obedient to Tsarist Russia from the beginning. After the Golden Horde withdrew from Russia, this group of Tsarist Russians approached step by step and accumulated hundreds of years of small-scale battles. Bad reputation!
The Chinese defeated Agub, which can only be a shock to these Central Asian khanates, but not to the point of fear. Only if the Chinese defeat the Cossacks will they admit that you are strong!
Many great Khans in Central Asia think that the Chinese have to wait until spring next year to send troops to Ili. It snows in Tianshan in August and the mountains are closed in October!
How can you take the initiative to start a war with just a few thousand vanguard troops?
But no one expected that this group of Chinese people went crazy. From the front line of Sailimu Lake, there were a total of 15,000 troops plus a hundred field artillery, and they directly killed them from a high position!
This place is only a hundred miles away from Yining City. There are more than 8,000 Cossack cavalry stationed there. These people never expected that the Chinese would launch an attack at such a time of year!
"Break Ningyuan City! Celebrate the New Year in the city for a few years..."
Fifteen thousand tigers and soldiers shared the same enemy and launched an attack on more than 8,000 Cossack cavalry in three camps!
The Qing army had no retreat, the post road leading to Jinghe County had been cut off, and heavy snow had blocked the narrow mountain roads on Tianshan Mountain. They had no choice but to fight with their backs against the wall!
Breaking Ningyuan City, allowing General Rongquan to return to the General's Yamen, and raise the general's flag again, this is the most effective way to stabilize the hearts of the people in the Ili Valley!
As long as Ningyuan City is captured, there will be no problem with food and fodder for the winter!
The cavalry of Tsarist Russia did not expect that the Qing army would attack at this time. They had no preparation at all, and the information was chaotic. To be honest, their information on the Dihua victory was the same as that of ordinary herdsmen!
They are all full of legends and stories about various gods and ghosts, which makes people confused!
Regardless of whether they understand this Qing army or not, as the Tsar's troops, when they encounter enemies...especially the defeated Qing army, these Cossacks have no reason not to fight!
Waves of Cossack cavalry shouted Ula slogans, rushed out of the military camp and charged at these bold enemies on the vast grassland!
Times have changed, and the industrial hammer will eventually teach these Rakshasa ghosts how to behave!
Once the God of War becomes angry, the experience of the Middle Ages will completely turn into ashes in the flames!
One hundred cannons are treasures, and there is no need to use them all. Forty-six eight-eight cannons, with just three volleys, blew up the Cossack vanguard to pieces!
In cavalry charges, the elite are always at the forefront. They are the men trapped in the battle, and their purpose is to tear apart the enemy's defense line! These are the fiercest and most experienced veterans, the soul of a cavalry unit!
However, no matter how fierce the soldiers were, they were useless when faced with the bombardment of shells. After three rounds of volleys, the leading troops were all in chaos!
The lucky ones were killed directly by the blast, the unlucky ones were left with missing arms and legs, their ears were deafened, and their eyes were blown blind!
Those who suffered the most damage were the war horses. Although the war horses had undergone adaptive artillery training, these animals were allowed to hear explosions and experience fire and sound.
However, in the grassland areas of Central Asia, there are very few opportunities for artillery battles. Most of the time, cavalry fights are fought. The small number of front-loading artillery are far inferior to the cross-era rear-loading guns in terms of shooting speed and explosion sound. gun!
These war horses simply could not adapt to such violent fire and sound, and they were suddenly shocked. Countless cavalry were knocked to the ground, and the subsequent shock wave was immediately stopped by their own people!
At this time, General Rongquan led the Northern Xinjiang cavalry, which had been suppressed for several years, and launched a charge from both wings. Taking advantage of your illness and killing you, he started to harvest heads at this moment!
On the one hand, he was full of momentum, and on the other hand, he was stunned. The battlefield suddenly turned into a one-sided massacre!
After a half-day bloody battle, these Tsarist Russian soldiers left behind more than a thousand corpses and more than a thousand disabled and unable to move soldiers, and turned around and retreated to Ningyuan City!
The Qing army seized this rare opportunity and rushed to catch up on the snowy night!
An exciting scene appeared. On a dark snowy night, the Rakshasa ghost army began to flee south. Rong Quan's army began to chase forward, and after a while they lost track of the enemy!
At that time, farming in the Ili Valley was not very developed and the population was small. Most of them were grasslands and pastures. As long as it snowed, it would be difficult to tell the difference between east, west, north and south!
Getting lost is not a problem, the general direction can still be found, but the goal now is to chase after these Cossacks and bite the tail of these Cossacks. What we want is to annihilate these enemies and seriously injure them!
Just when the Qing army was helpless, countless torches suddenly lit up in the dark wilderness in the distance, and soon another torch quickly approached!
The surviving Han people, Uighurs, Kazakhs, Mongols... those aboriginal people who had not had time to escape from the Ili River Valley finally stood up!
The young Kazakh herdsman shook the torch and shouted in unsophisticated Chinese, "Follow the light of the torch... The enemy is in the distance... Follow the light of the torch..."
There is always resistance to any oppression. The brutal Tsarist Russian army conquered the Ili Valley and oppressed the indigenous herdsmen and farmers. Countless innocent people died tragically!
Only today do these aboriginal people know how happy they were during the rule of the Qing Dynasty!
That's right, those servants of the Qing Dynasty government also accepted bribes and handled unjust cases, which is also hateful! But if you compare yourself to others, you will die, and if you compare goods, you will have to throw them away!
You have to see who you are competing with. After the Cossacks and the bandits came, the local rule of law completely collapsed and social order completely collapsed!
After all, the Qing Dynasty collects taxes, and these people will rob them when they come!
If an official of the Qing Dynasty fell in love with a beautiful girl, he would give her the status of a concubine, and later lead the girl's family to live a well-off life!
And these Tsarist beasts directly rob people and then rape them to death!
They forced the herdsmen to work as slaves to build military camps for them, and immediately massacred the slightest disobedience. Countless people were killed from exhaustion!
It's finally time to avenge hatred today!
Rongquan rode hard on horseback on the thin snow. He was getting closer and closer to the light of the torches. Only when he walked in did he see the suffering faces!
The old woman with wrinkles on her face, the old man with silver hair! Children aged eleven or twelve, and a young girl wrapped in gauze with only one pair of eyes exposed!
There were even disabled people with a broken leg and an arm missing. They all walked out of their homes and risked their lives to light the way for the army on the snowy night!
"Ahead...the escaped Rakshasa ghost is going forward...to take revenge!"
