Aurangzeb is now the leader of the coalition - he has the largest number of soldiers, 80,000! The money was also the most, and everyone including Anusha Khan, General Khalifa, and Lev Golov received silver rupees. The holding hands are short, so naturally they have to give him some face now.
The great emperor of the Timurid Empire had an iron-blooded look on his face, but in his heart he was rapidly making calculations... In a coalition fighting, of course he had to consume friendly forces to save himself.
So what Aurangzeb had to calculate now was whether it would be more cost-effective to keep the Persian red-headed troops by his side, or let them follow the Turkmen to make a detour.
The Persian Red-headed Army was a firearms cavalry, equipped with matchlock guns and camel cannons. They also carried several 6-pound field guns imported from Britain, and they still had certain strength. If they were allowed to follow the Turkmens in a detour, the probability of success would be greater, but Aurangzeb would be in danger!
Although Aurangzeb did not intend to fight a decisive battle with the Senggar, but wanted to set up a camp under the city of Samarkand to confront the Senggar, the Dzhungar army had a very strong fighting capacity and had a strong ability to attack fortresses... .
"General Khalifa," Aurangzeb said to the famous general from Persia in fluent Persian, "I hope you and the Persian red-headed army can stay in Samarkand... We will fight side by side and defeat the incoming invaders. Zhungar people! In order to inspire the fighting spirit of the Red-Headed Army and all the soldiers who participated in the Battle of Samarkand, I have prepared 10 million rupees, and all the meritorious soldiers will receive heavy rewards!"
10 million rupees!
This Aurangzeb is really brave!
As soon as his huge reward came out, not to mention Khalifa was unwilling to leave Samarkand, even several tribal leaders of the Turkmen were a little unhappy.
Seeing their faces, Aurangzeb quickly spread the money generously. He said to the Turkmen: "The Turkmen who detour will also be heavily rewarded. Every Turkmen warrior who participates in the war will receive a reward of 50 rupees!"
The Turkmens pulled out 15,000 people this time, paying 50 rupees per person, which is 750,000!
Of course, the warriors below can't get that much. It's pretty good if each of them has 10 rupees, so several tribal leaders are now rich!
After appeasing the Turkmens, Aurangzeb ordered Shesta Khan: "Send military envoys to the north of the Jizzak Pass and invite the Sengge King to go south for a decisive battle! Tell him that we will withdraw to the south of the Jizzak Pass. The army...I, Alamgir of the Timur Empire, will fight him to the death under the city of Samarkand!"
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The camp of the Sengge army is composed of countless yurts. It is located in the oasis north of the Jizzak Pass and is huge. If you look down from the Turkic Mountains, you will definitely be frightened by the amazing momentum of so many yurts placed together.
With so many yurts, how many Mongolians should be in them? I'm afraid it's more than 100,000... 100,000 Mongolian warriors! When Genghis Khan went on his western expedition, there were probably only this few people.
Now that Genghis Khan's army is back, and they are carrying muskets and cannons, the Samarkand Oasis will suffer!
Seng Ge lives in a large golden-domed tent, which is similar in shape to the tent where Genghis Khan lived back then. However, instead of the nine-pin white flag hanging outside, there are the Ming Dynasty's Sun and Moon Tonghui Banner and the Zhungeer Kingdom's 10,000-character Flying Dragon Flag - —The dragon flag was awarded to the Kingdom of Jungar by the Ming Dynasty, symbolizing that King Jungar had the status of Prince of the Ming Dynasty. Seng Ge also asked people to embroider the ten thousand characters symbolizing Buddhism on the dragon flag, and it became the ten thousand character flying dragon flag of the Zhungeer Kingdom.
However, unlike what people in Samarkand imagined, the monk who lived in the golden-domed tent was not a rough and strong man wearing a dirty leather robe, with his hair shaved around the ring and a braid on each side of his head. . Instead, he was a high-ranking official from the Ming Dynasty wearing a python robe and black gauze and a bun on his head. He was neatly groomed and looked elegant.
In the big tent where he lives, there is a row of bookshelves filled with various thread-bound books - Seng Ge is now knowledgeable and can read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from beginning to end, although there are still many I can't recognize the words, but it doesn't affect my reading. So now he is a Confucian general, and he also asked people to find many thread-bound books to put in his big tent. This is not just for show, but he will really study knowledge whenever he has free time.
When the military envoys sent by Aurangzeb arrived at the Zhungar Army camp at the Jizhak Pass, Sengge was sitting behind the bookcase, holding a thread-bound book called "The Plum in the Golden Vase" and reading it carefully, looking at his focused You can tell he is knowledgeable by his appearance.
The Mingzhu Lama walked in quickly with Aurangzeb's letter of challenge. When he saw Sengge studying "The Plum in the Golden Vase", he came up and smiled and said, "Your Majesty, is this book okay?"
Sengge was reading it with interest. When asked by Mingzhu, he replied smoothly: "Yes, yes... Are there any such good books? I would like to read a few more."
"Yes, yes... I recently received a copy of "***" from a friend. It was written by Li Yu, a literary giant from the south of the Yangtze River. It has a lot of flavor. I will give it to the prince for tasting."
"Okay," Seng Ge chuckled, "Bring it to me quickly!"
At this time, Mingzhu happened to be holding Aurangzeb's letter of challenge and handed it over. Sengge took it and took a look: "Why is it in Persian? How can this Jiangnan literary giant write a book in Persian?"
"Your Majesty, this is not "The Communist Party", but a letter of challenge sent by Aurangzeb?"
"What? Another letter of war?" Seng Ge frowned. "He came all the way from Tianzhu. He has never fought a battle. He writes letters of war one after another. Don't you think it's troublesome?"
Mingzhu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, maybe Aurangzeb feels that he has literary talent and writes more so that others can know about it."
"Oh," Seng Ge nodded, "What will happen this time?"
"He said he would mobilize the troops blocking the south entrance of the Jizzak Pass and let us go south to Samarkand for a decisive battle."
"What?" Sengge was stunned, "He really wants us to go south?"
"Really!" Mingzhu smiled, "Your Majesty, this saves us a lot of trouble!"
Seng Ge laughed loudly and said: "It does save us trouble! But we are not afraid of trouble... We can go south, but we won't fight them decisively! We have few people, they have many people, and we can't afford to die. If they don’t just die, they should do less of the things they put out to fight.”
"Your Majesty is wise!" Mingzhu complimented.
“Don’t flatter me,” Seng Ge smiled, “First go and urge the Sanbao Lama to repair the Jizzak North Entrance Fortress quickly!
After building the fortress, we will go south to the south entrance of Jizhak and build another fort! When the two fortresses are repaired, we will go to build a third fortress outside Samarkand... When the fortress under Samarkand is repaired, we will be sure of victory! "
Yes, this is Sengge's tactic - build the fortress outside Samarkand!
Then use the fortress and the garrison in the fortress to contain the coalition forces in and below the city of Samarkand, and then use the Jungar cavalry to attack everywhere. The wheat fields in the Samarkand Oasis are about to be harvested, and then cut off Samarkand and the Amu Darya River. The traffic between the two countries made it impossible for food from Khwarezm to reach Samarkand.
After doing this, Sengge can quietly wait for victory under the city of Samarkand!
People in the city of Samarkand thought that a "Sengesh Khan" had arrived, but no one expected that a steady "Sengguofan" came.
On the third day after receiving Aurangzeb's declaration of war, the northern city of Jizhak Pass was completed under the supervision of Sanbao Lama. He left behind 3,000 defenders, and then dismissed half of the civilians (forcibly recruited from the bottom of the Fergana Valley). Then he led his main force of about 30,000 people and 15,000 Ferns who were responsible for transporting military supplies and doing coolies. The Gana civilians drove through the valley that had long been firmly controlled by the Jungar Army, entered the northeastern corner of the fertile Samarkand oasis, and began to build a second tower at the foot of the Turkic Mountains and on the banks of the Sanzar River. castle.
The prelude to the Battle of Samarkand, which was longer than the imagination of Aurangzeb, Anusha Khan and others, has just begun!
