"The Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army ordered us to go to the Governor's Mansion in Anxi to fight against the Rakshasa Kingdom!"
"Now everyone, get in the car immediately and set off to the west!"
"yes!"
Outside Yongdingmen Railway Station, many Guards troops were gathering here one after another at this time.
This is a regiment-sized Guards force assembled here on standby.
And they will rush to the Anxi Protectorate under the leadership of Admiral Guo Mu.
Zhu Youxiao's imperial army is mainly divided into the Guards, the Brave Guards, and the Huben Army according to different types of arms.
Each army has now been expanded to consist of several corps.
Each corps has two divisions, each division has two towns, and each town has four battalions.
Below the battalion are the headquarters, division, team, and corps.
The highest commander of the corps is the admiral.
At this time, after Admiral Guo Mu gave an order, the seemingly endless guards in front of them, stretching into the sea, began to respond loudly.
The sound of people came like a tide, one after another from afar.
It's almost deafening to the eardrums.
Most of these Guards officers and soldiers were holding needle-fire breech-loading rifles, or a few were standing along the railway carrying multi-barreled muskets and various types of artillery.
Since other countries in the world still use muskets such as matchlocks and flintlocks, the bullets are still ordinary spherical bullets.
Even many hostile forces are still using cold weapons.
Therefore, Ming army soldiers still wear cloth face armor or cotton armor.
The iron output of the Ming Dynasty was already very high, so soldiers mainly wore cloth face armor.
Officers still wear armor.
However, there are also some branches of the military who uniformly wear woolen clothes as military uniforms.
This type of unit is the light cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, the Guards standing along the railway line were the elite of the Imperial Army. Naturally, ordinary soldiers and junior officers all wore cloth armor, mainly red and blue.
From a distance, it looks like a flame.
"Get aboard!"
As the middle and lower-level officers issued orders one after another, these Guards officers and soldiers quickly boarded the steam train.
This scene lasted for several days.
The train in front was already full of soldiers, and while it was heading away into the sunset with billowing white smoke, the soldiers behind it had just arrived and were about to get on the train.
The direct railway to Xi'an has therefore become extremely busy.
Of course, Ming Dynasty not only mobilized the garrison in the capital, but also mobilized the garrison in other places.
Many of the Huben troops stationed outside the fortress, which were mainly cavalry, were also mobilized and headed northwest.
Therefore, throughout the Great Wall, trains are constantly galloping, and outside the Great Wall, war horses are galloping.
The infantry who set off on the train and the cavalry who set off on horseback were like two giant dragons, running towards the northwest with the Great Wall as their coordinates.
Guo Mu, who was already the Imperial Admiral, naturally would not wait for all his troops to arrive at the Anxi Protectorate before setting off. At this time, he had already taken the same train to Xi'an with the Governor Sun Chuanting.
At this time, Sun Chuanting placed a new map in front of him: "This is the newly drawn map of the Western Regions led by His Highness the Fifth Highness at the Anxi Protectorate. Take a closer look. You have a great responsibility in fighting against the Rakshasa Kingdom this time. We need to set up a pocket formation between the Altai Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains to eat up all the troops sent by the Rakshasa Kingdom! And Duke He is only responsible for luring the Rakshasa Kingdom to send troops deep into the Luntai (Urumqi) area."
"clear!"
Guo Mu replied.
At this time, Li Ruolian, the commander-in-chief of the Jinyi Guards, came in and reported: "According to reports from our Jinyi Guards, the Rakshasa Kingdom is still increasing its troops. The entire west of Balkhash Lake is full of tents. It is estimated that the number of troops exceeds 200,000."
Sun Chuanting nodded after hearing this: "This is a good thing! Tell He Guogong that you might as well lure the enemy deeper, so that it can accommodate two to three hundred thousand people!"
…
The Duke of Heguo, Zhou Yuji, has already begun commanding the Western Expeditionary Army with Luntai as the center point, setting up military stations along the Altai Mountains and Tianshan Mountains, building solid fortifications, and organizing farming operations in the area east of Lake Balkhash. The soldiers and civilians withdrew in an orderly manner to the south of Luntai.
But Zhou Yuji did not clear the country because he was worried that it would alert the Rakshasa soldiers.
Even in order to paralyze the Rakshasa soldiers, Zhou Yuji also dispatched cavalry of different sizes to pretend to attack the Rakshasa Kingdom's military stations in the area west of Balkhash Lake, giving the Rakshasa Kingdom the illusion that he wanted to take its retreat.
On the recommendation of Zhou Yuji, Zhu Cizhuo had been promoted to a guerrilla general in the cavalry battalion directly under the Anxi Protectorate, and was responsible for leading the cavalry to attack these military stations.
This gave Zhu Cizhuo the opportunity to participate in actual combat command.
Zhu Cizhuo was also very good at commanding. He took advantage of the maneuverability of his cavalry and sent a small group of cavalry to harass a certain Rakshasa country's military station each time, and lured the Rakshasa Kingdom infantry out of the station. Then, he let this small group of cavalry attack. The cavalrymen pretended to be defeated, led them into a wide area, and defeated them with large cavalrymen.
The military station set up by the Rakshasa Kingdom east of Lake Balkhash was harassed by him and became impossible to defend against.
Arezzoro was also very depressed about this.
But Arezzoro was not fooled by the Ming army, and saw the clues through the frequent entry and exit of the Ming army cavalry at Lake Balkhash.
"Instruct the military stations along the Balkhash Lake not to fight if they are harassed by the Ming army's cavalry! The Ming army may still be waiting for us on the east side of the Tianshan Mountains, or they can only attack our Rakshasa country along the Syr Darya River! Such a blatant attack Many cavalry appeared to attack my military stations along the way, clearly to lure my army over! And leave a small number of troops to rely on the mountains for defense!"
At this point, Alezolo began to ponder again: "But what if the Ming army really wants to abandon its homeland and sneak attack along the Syr Darya River in the rear area where our Rakshasa Kingdom's troops have been depleted?"
"This is unlikely! The people of the Ming Dynasty mainly focus on farming. Unlike our nomadic people, they will not give up their territory easily!"
Burney said at this time.
Arezzoro nodded: "Even if the Ming army intends to do this, the retreat of our army is of little significance. It is better to take advantage of this opportunity to penetrate deep into the Tianshan Mountains and even penetrate into his hinterland! Send an order to the army to continue to advance towards Luntai. Sweep to the southwest side of the Altai Mountains and deploy cavalry along the way to detect the enemy's situation!"
…
"You bandits!"
In Arezzoro, a large number of Rakshasa soldiers continue to spread to the southern basin of the Irtysh River along the Altai Mountains, and there are many other nomadic tribes that migrated here.
These tribes now belong to the Anxi Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty in Jisu.
That is to say, nominally, these tribes are under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate, but they have great autonomy.
But this time the Rakshasa Kingdom sent troops, Zhou Yuji did not let anyone tell these tribes the news, but asked them to move away.
Zhou Yuji did this naturally under the orders of Sun Chuanting. His purpose was to reduce the population of these tribes through the help of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and to stimulate hatred between these tribes and the Rakshasa Kingdom, so that they would be more willing to actively cooperate with the Ming Dynasty in terms of national culture. Perform fusion.
Therefore, at this time, many nomadic tribes in the southern basin of the Irtysh River, that is, the area east of Lake Balkhash, were being burned, killed, and plundered by Rakshasa soldiers crazily.
In this era, the Rakshasa Kingdom was in a period of barbaric expansion, and there was no civilization at all. It mainly massacred the people in the occupied areas.
The herders of these tribes were therefore very angry.
A herdsman cursed angrily after watching these Rakshasa soldiers raping his wife.
But not long after he cursed, he was chopped off his horse by a Rakshasa soldier's sword, and died on the spot.
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