When Zhu Cihong was thinking about sending his younger brother Zhu Cibing to India to study Princess Nisha's mathematics and philosophy, Princess Nisha was still in Samarkand, Central Asia, with her father Aurangzeb!
Aurangzeb was still playing the role of emperor during this period, and also declared war on the Dzhungar Kingdom. The declaration of war on Dzhungarh also caused a little twists and turns, because the Dzhungarh Kingdom did not know the rules of India. I didn’t throw away my slippers (I didn’t dare), and I didn’t kill the elephant. Instead, the slippers were "expressed" to Yingtian, and the elephant was taken to the Lamasery in Shibao Royal City to be raised.
When Shasta Khan reported back, Aurangzeb was also confused. What did this mean? The slippers and the elephant have been taken away. Is this a fight or not? So he sent someone to ask again, and it was only at the end of the summer of 1665 that he found out the situation. It turned out that the Jungar people were already clearing the country, preparing to face the attack of Timur's empire.
After learning the news, Aurangzeb finally breathed a sigh of relief.
What he was least afraid of was that the Kingdom of Junger was fortified and clear - although he also knew that the fortresses of Junger were difficult to defeat, he had no intention of attacking them at all!
Sengge defends the city, and he, Aurangzeb, also defends the city. If you don't move, I won't move. How wonderful it would be for everyone to engage in a sit-down war!
Therefore, Aurangzeb did not go south to Termez, but continued to train his army in Samarkand and waited for the arrival of the Persian, Turkmen and Khiva Khanate armies.
According to the march route negotiated by Aurangzeb and envoys from Persia, Khiva, Rakshasa, Turkmen and Kazakhs, the six-party coalition forces will be divided into two routes, the north and the south. The northern route will be led by the Rakshasa-Kazakh coalition. The targets are Zhongyuzi and Dayuzi.
The Southern Route Army is a four-party coalition of Timur, Persia, Khiva, and Turkmen. It will first complete the assembly in the Samarkand Oasis, and then send troops after the autumn harvest to advance to the Syr Darya River Basin in the north.
The reason for choosing to send troops after the autumn harvest was, of course, to raise enough food in the Samarkand Oasis and Khwarezm Oasis to support hundreds of thousands of troops in the war.
Since the important grain-producing areas in the Hezhong area are in the hands of the Jungar Kingdom, the first difficulty encountered by the anti-Zungar coalition forces was insufficient food.
Although the Khwarezm oasis owned by the Khiva Khanate is very large, it can also produce a lot of food. However, it is not easy to transport food from the Khwarezm Oasis to the Samarkand Oasis. You must first take the Amu Darya waterway and then take the land route.
In order to transport grain smoothly, the shipbuilders of the Khiva Khanate were busy building ships throughout the summer, but not all the ships needed to transport grain were completed until early autumn.
When autumn came, King Anusha Khan of the Khiva Khanate, who personally led his troops to the Samarkand Oasis, and Aurangzeb had a quarrel over the timing of sending troops. Anusha Khan hopes to advance his troops as soon as possible. As long as his army can occupy the Fergana Basin (the Sengge did not clear the basin), he can completely solve the problem of food shortage.
Aurangzeb, on the other hand, believed that it would be safer to wait for the food from the Khwarezm Oasis to arrive before entering the army steadily.
However, on September 10th in the Western calendar, the dispute between the two kings ended because of news that was beyond their expectations - the Jungar Kingdom sent troops!
According to the intelligence sent back, Zhungeer launched a large-scale attack this time, led by their king Sengge himself, heading towards the Samarkand Oasis!
In the magnificent palace of Samarkand, the great emperor of the Timur Empire wore a white robe and a white turban on his head. He sat on a throne that was said to have been occupied by Timur himself. Expressionless, he was listening to the most courageous general of the Timurid Empire, the bearded Mircha Rajjai Singh, reporting on the military situation on the front line.
King Anusha Khan of the Khiva Khanate and his son Prince Alim, General Khalifa of the Persian Empire, Lev Golovin, the envoy of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and several leaders of the Turkmen tribes looked at Everyone frowned a little at the scene before them.
An emperor of a huge Tianfang Sect empire, the most capable general under his command was actually a Hindu!
This Hindu spoke a highly Persianized Urdu. Except for the civil servants and military officers brought by Aurangzeb from India, only Khalifa of the Persian Empire could understand it. However, Aurangzeb arranged translators for all visitors so that they could understand the situation of the Jungar army moving south.
"...According to the reconnaissance of the New Army cavalry, the Jungar army set out from the guard city on the left bank of the Syr Darya River, carrying a large amount of baggage and artillery, and had passed through the Hungry Grassland and stationed at the Jizzak Pass. The oasis to the north. There are many of them, estimated to be around 10 people.
Our army deployed defenses south of the Jizzak Pass, blocking the only way for the Jungar army to go south. Now the armies of both sides are facing each other across the Turkic Mountains, and the front line remains calm for the time being. "
The Turkic Mountains are an east-west mountain range that lies to the north of the Samarkand Oasis and separates Samarkand from the Hungry Steppe. However, this mountain range that is five to six hundred miles long is not an insurmountable natural danger. There are many mountain passes along the route. If the troops are to be divided, the coalition forces concentrated in Samarkand will be dispersed. Without guarding so many mountain passes, Zhungar's cavalry would rush into the Samarkand Oasis from there... Now the autumn harvest is coming, and the fields of the Samarkand Oasis are full of wheat that is about to mature! If this were to be wasted by the Jungar people, where would the hundreds of thousands of coalition troops concentrated in Samarkand, two to three hundred thousand large livestock, as many as one million refugees, and countless oasis residents find food? Go?
Emperor Aurangzeb's sharp gaze turned around the hall and caught the anxious expressions of the two Uzbeks, Anusha Khan and Prince Alim.
Among the coalition leaders gathered in the palace of Samarkand, they were the two most impatient.
The battlefields of the Rakshasa and Kazakhs are in Siberia and Zhongyuzi - they hope that the main force of Jungar will penetrate deep into the oases of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khwarezm!
The Persians and Turkmen were not very anxious. The reason why Abbas II sent troops to the river was because he was worried about the recurrence of Hulagu's conquest. But after a period of observation, the Persians have discovered that the Jungar people are not traditional Mongolians, but semi-settled and semi-nomadic Mongolians, and they have also absorbed Western military technology passed down from the Ming Dynasty... Their military power was similar to that of the Persian Golamy and the Rakshasa's Cossacks.
Although such an army is powerful, it is not a particularly big threat to the Persian Safi Dynasty with its new army of Gulam.
So if we can't fight here in Samarkand, we'll have to retreat through the Black Desert.
The Turkmens who came from the oases in the southern part of the Black Desert only care about Aurangzeb's silver rupees. If there is a chance, they would also like to rob the Samarkand Oasis...
Aurangzeb was even less anxious... Retiring the troops after running out of food was a good step! As long as hundreds of thousands of people are brought back to India from Samarkand, unifying India will no longer be a dream!
"We should put the Jungar people into the Samarkand Oasis to fight!" Anusha Khan of the Khiva Khanate really couldn't calm down. Before Mircha Rajjai Singh could finish his words, , started shouting, "There are as many as 150,000 soldiers concentrated in Samarkand now, while the enemy only has 100,000 at most. Our strength advantage is obvious, so we should fight immediately!"
Moreover, we still have the solid city of Samarkand behind us to rely on. Even if the decisive battle is unfavorable, we can retreat to the castle, and then send cavalry to detour back to the hungry grasslands to cut off the Jungar people's food routes and force them to retreat. "
Khalifa, the general of the Persian Empire, also agreed to introduce the Dzungars to the Samarkand Oasis. However, he did not want to fight to the death, but wanted to fight skillfully. He said: "I suggest that the Dzungars be introduced to the Samarkand Oasis. , and then confront them, and then use the elite red-headed army and Turkmen cavalry to cross the Turkic Mountains from a small road, kill them behind the Jungar people, and then use a pincer attack to defeat King Sengge's army in one fell swoop!"
Aurangzeb looked at Anusha Khan again. The Khan of Khiva Khanate thought for a while and said: "General Khalifa's method is feasible... but there is no need to use it to detour through the hungry grasslands. For the red-headed army, Turkmens are enough. Your Majesty Alamgir, what do you think?"
