Se Kese's departure with a thousand personal guards.

There is obviously a reason why he has this confidence.

Now everyone in the personal guard regiment has changed into a new type of rifle that can fill in three copper shell bullets at one time, but the pistol is still the same as before.

Each person carried three hairpin-type wooden handle grenades.

Also, since the steam engine was available, it was possible to use it to efficiently draw at low cost. Qitad also equipped each of his guard team with a chain mail that could only cover his chest and back.

The chain mail weighs only ten kilograms in total, and it doesn't get in the way after wearing it in summer.

There is a camel seeker who follows him.

"Taiji, not far ahead is the Aka Forest. If you want to get close to Talas, you must pass through there. There is a road inside. There is an old castle in the middle of the forest, which is said to have been built by the former Han Dynasty"

Se Kese nodded, "So the Kyrgyzs wanted to ambush me, is the first to be affected by the Aka Forest?"

"Yes, the Aka Forest has almost a hundred miles. In addition to the abandoned castle, it is also the burial place of the nobles who have always ruled over the city of Talas. Therefore, the nearby trees are forbidden from herders to cut down."

"The Kazakhs would rather give up the pasture east of Talas than guard this forest..."

"Stop it? So, the Kazakhs also have garrisons inside?"

"Some, Ablikhan set up three hundred horses there. In addition to guarding the forest, he also had the intention of levying taxes from past merchants"

Se Kese frowned.

"It's okay for the Kyrgyzs to be alone, what should I do if Ablai Khan also united with the Kyrgyzs?"

Then he asked, "Can you bypass this forest?"

The man replied: "Of course it is OK, but the north and south sides are deserted, and the surrounding environment is exactly the same. It is easy to get lost after entering"

Se Kese looked at the sky, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, "It's four o'clock in the afternoon, and it's evening when I arrived in the Aka Forest..."

Then he ordered: "Start up, you must arrive at the Aka Forest before dusk!"

When a huge sunset hung at the end of the horizon in the west, the guard group finally arrived at the Aka Forest.

Se Kese Na Jian immediately approached a bare hillside.

In the twilight, the Aka Forest lies alone on a large deserted yellow-brown land, which looks very abrupt.

"Since there are so many forests, it means there are a large amount of water sources nearby. Why does this happen?"

"Taiji, near Talas, there is a Talas River originating from the Alata Mountains. Although it does not flow through the Aka Forest, for thousands of years, people here have led the water of the Talas River to the surroundings."

"And to the west of Talas, the Aka Forest is the lowest terrain. It is estimated that the rivers that lead to seep into the underground gather here in the end"

"The Talas River? So if we want to continue going east, we have to cross this river?"

"Yes, but when this river passes through the city of Talas, it is diverted a lot, resulting in many tributaries. Each river is very shallow, and the deepest main stream does not exceed one meter, so it is easy to pass"

"That is, there is a lot of river water in spring, and there are no obstacles in the rest of the seasons"

Se Kesena stood on the mountain and thought for a while, and then issued another order.

“Camp at the entrance to the Aka Forest!”

Each of the soldiers of the personal guard regiment carried an engineer shovel with him. Not long after, the camp was built with straw bags and soil and stones about one mile from the entrance of the Aka Forest.

At this time, the color of Tiantian was completely dimmed.

The man from the camel asked, "Taiji, there is a stream not far away. Why don't you camp at the stream, but stay in this desert?"

Se Kesena said: "The terrain here is level with the forest. There is water in the forest. There must be some digging here. I have ordered people to call the stream, which can be used for one day."

"It is because of this that all the enemies around me can be attracted. I am General Xianyamankara set out in one day. If the Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhs want to deal with me, they must launch an attack immediately, otherwise they will miscalculate when the army behind us arrives."

"Then we will still pass through the Aka Forest tomorrow morning. If the enemy is really ambushed there, we still can't escape it."

"Hahaha", Se Kese laughed loudly, "Who said I'm going to pass through the Aka Forest?"

"Taiji means going around from its north?"

"No"

"Then..."

Se Kese did not answer him immediately, but called a few people.

"Distinguish the direction of the wind?"

"General, the south wind is still the main wind during the day, but at night it turns into the north wind again"

"Okay, set fire to this forest for me! At the same time, order others to prepare for battle!"

When those people went out, the Huohuo Man asked again: "Taiji, I still have two questions"

"Ask"

"Since you are about to burn the Aka Forest, there are two problems. First, are you not afraid of angering the Kazakhs? Second, once the fire starts, it may affect the farmland and cottages south of the forest."

"I can't care about so much. The Khan judged that the Kyrgyzs here must have received the promise from Ablikhan. Moreover, once the forest fire ignites, the ambush inside can be forced out to fight with me in advance."

"If there are Ablikhan's men inside, it would be even better. If it is really like what you said, this is one of their holy places, and they are forced out together in anger"

Not long after, a raging fire broke out in the Aka Forest!

In the summer of Kazakhstan, the north wind is strong at night, and the fire quickly burns a large area of ​​forest!

By midnight, the forest had burned about half.

As expected, a large group of people appeared from the north and west of the forest!

The fire illuminated the sky near the Aka Forest. The Se Kese on the lookout stand in the camp held a telescope and showed a gratified smile on her face.

He said to the camel-seeking man beside him: "Did you see it? It is obvious that the Kazakhs coming from the north, with about three thousand cavalrymen"

"The costumes on the south are somewhat different from those on the north, and their appearance is close to those of the Mongols, so they must be the Kyrgyzs."

The Huohunter is completely impressed.

"Taiji, I used to know that the Khan used to be a god, but I didn't expect that his personal guard commander was so powerful!"

Se, but she shook her head.

"How dare I compare with Da Khan, but I think that our army will pass here sooner or later. Since there are Kazakhs in the enemy, they have obviously known the size of our army. If they put our regiment over and focus on the army behind, it will be troublesome"

"Also, the holy land you mentioned is completely unreliable. As far as I know, the holy lands of the Kazakhs are all in Turkestan. After their deaths, their important figures are buried under the Islamic temples. How could they be buried in the forest?"

"It is probably because they had not converted to the nobles before the Islamic Church, but these will not be taken into consideration by the nobles today."

"Then why didn't the Kazakhs let nearby herders come and cut down?"

Se Kese smiled and said, "You are the camel hunter who has been lingering around, I should be asking you."

The man looking for a camel blushed, "I have also inquired before. It is said that it is the private territory of Baiyi, a nobleman in Talas City, and no one is allowed to cut down at will."

Se Kesena shook his head, "I don't think so. To the east of Talas City is the Aktao Mountain that stretches for hundreds of miles. There are many trees on the mountain. If the Bayi in the city thinks that the trees are precious, it will protect it."

"Then..."

Se Kesena looked at him: "Adil, it's not your fault. You are only fifteen years old, learn slowly. Have you seen it? The trees here look ordinary from the outside, and the outermost one is a birch forest, but there are a large number of ash trees inside"

Adir understood as soon as he heard this, "I understand that ash trees are good materials for making guns and arrows. Most of them are the materials used by Kazakhs to make ordnances in Talas City, and are specially planted."

Se Kese nodded, "I heard from Nolbu that in the Mesopotamia, this kind of tree is planted in front and behind the doors of every household, and their furniture, guns and arrows all come from here."

As he was talking, the enemies on both sides had gradually surrounded him, and five or six thousand troops soon surrounded the camp of the personal guard regiment.

According to the conventional practice of the Truqin Army, because of its advantage in artillery, it would only build a low wall about one and a half meters high and a half meters thick when camping, which was naturally to cause: after seeing such a simple low wall, the enemy would definitely develop the lucky mentality of "a war horse leaping past" and would immediately start the attack.

Sure enough, the enemy on the opposite side circled around the camp and immediately launched an attack from all directions at the same time!

As Qitade's personal guard group, naturally, they would not carry camels, but one person and two horses. Ten people and one cannon is usually placed on another empty horse.

The short wall that is tied is a square, with about one hundred and fifty meters on each side, and it just so happens to be filled with a thousand people. It is neither empty nor crowded.

Each side is covered with fifteen short-barrel cannons weighing 100 kilograms and 150-meter soldiers.

Although I have heard of the Truqins' firearm advantages, in the eyes of the Kyrgyzs who took the lead this time, due to the "reloading", some people were killed, and the people behind could still easily break this short wall.

That's what Adikei thinks.

However, he is obviously very experienced.

Although everyone was still riding on horses, the front was some old, weak, sick and disabled empty horses. Their tails were ignited, and all the horses ran towards the camp like crazy under the pain!

Thirty meters!

Although the horses saw the low wall in front of them, they still did not stop under the command of the cavalry behind and the pain of their tails!

"Boom..."

Five cannons on each side of the low wall were fired at the same time!

A 100-pound short-barrel cannon can load a pack of fifty shotguns. When it is sprayed out, a barrage of about thirty meters horizontally can be formed within the thirty meters in front!

"Hiss..."

Large pieces of horses fell down, but some of them continued to rush forward!

"Boom..."

The second round of artillery fired, and there was another scene of horses coming to the ground and whine!

At this time, the horses were finally scared. They forgot that there were cavalry and their tails behind them. Except for a few horses, they were still rushing forward with rashness, the rest turned their heads and ran backwards, but there were not many horses at this time.

Adikyi couldn't arrange too many horses at the front.

Another whine of horses, which was caused by Edicki's cavalry shooting horses with sabers, guns, and bows.
Chapter completed!