Turpan, Gaochang in ancient times.

Manggarik gave up his mansion to Zhaohui and moved into an ordinary house.

The autumn in Turpan is golden, with city walls, leaves, distant mountains and deserts all yellow. Some people say that golden indicates pleasure, but this is not the case for Manggarik.

It turns out that the hereditary Hezhuo here is not him, but Emin. He can only make a name for himself after Emin moved to Gansu.

If Emin doesn't come back, he will definitely follow the Qing Dynasty wholeheartedly.

For a hundred years, his family either followed the Governor of Kyrgyzs or the Junggars. Now the Junggars are no longer able to do so, and they are obviously stronger and will not fall for a while. That is natural.

Gaochang, because he lives in a critical situation, has been a place of right and wrong from ancient times to the present. It is impossible to be able to keep himself alone. He is either controlled by the nomadic tribe or actually occupied by the Central Plains dynasty.

Finding a reliable master and then following it is the best choice.

But looking at the newly picked grapes and the snow-white cotton piled in the yard, Manggarik was not in a mood of joy at all.

There is only one reason.

Emin is back.

In the past, he was just Emin's subordinate, but now when Emin comes back, he has to think further about his situation.

Not only did Emin come back, he was also named Prince Zasakdoro by the Qing Dynasty. Although he still lives in his hometown Shanshan, since Gao is the prince, he will sooner or later move to the city.

"I, the Manggarik family, have been the clerk of the Emin family for generations. Do you want to move to Tokson's hometown again?"

"No! Never! The Qing people only had three thousand people here, and they were divided into two thousand to Yanqi. There were only one thousand people here. Although they were the most elite Eight Banners of Manchuria, I had three thousand people under my command!"

"But the Qing Dynasty defeated the powerful Junggars, so what can I do here?"

The autumn noon in Turpan is still very hot. After thinking about it, Manggarik couldn't help but sweat.

"Ata!"

(Ata, father)

Just as I was thinking, my son Bai Hezhuo's voice came from outside the door.

Bai and Zhuo Kongwu are powerful, but rude and rude. Manggarik is annoyed. When he sees him, he can't help but yell in anger: "What's the matter?"

Seeing this, Bai Hezhuo knew that his father was still irritated by the arrival of Prince Emin. He closed the door and whispered: "Ata, you haven't gone out these days. Is there a big thing that happened in Turpan City?"

"Open the door quickly, it's so hot!"

Bai Hezhuo ignored him and sat next to his father.

"Ata, when is it? You are still thinking about those irrelevant things!"

"What do you know? Open the door quickly!"

Bai Hezhuo said: "There is a saying circulating in the city these days. Do you really don't know?"

"What's the saying?"

"Oh, I'll kill the butler who is in charge of daily purchasing when I go out. Didn't he tell you this? In the past few days, it is said that Yan Xiangshi, a veteran general who is guarding Yanqi, has heard news, saying that Ata, you are ready to rebel!"

"Ah?!"

Now Manggarik's body turns from hot sweat to cold sweat.

"How could this happen?"

Of course, he was not dedicated to serving the Qing Dynasty, but at least in front of him, the Yongchang army and Amursana, north of the Tianshan Mountains, would not initiate it before the victory or defeat. However, he kept these thoughts in his heart and would not say them even if he was beaten to death. How did the Yan Xiangshi know?

After a while, he finally came to his senses.

"Zhaohui, what's the news about the two generals?"

"Since yesterday, I have selected 2,000 people from the civil servants outside the city and sent them weapons. Also, I happened to go to Dabancheng these days. It is said that General A of the Daer Party, who stayed in Urumqi, is also sending a thousand Mongolian cavalry to Turpan."

"I was a little surprised at that time, so I quickly put down what I was doing and rushed back. When I returned to the city, I saw that the Baiyi people who often met us were all hiding. I asked a grocery store and found out that there was this rumor."

"When you came back, you didn't see the butler?"

"No, when I entered the door, I asked the girl who served you. She said that the housekeeper went out yesterday and said that he went to his hometown Toksun to do business. However, he usually did things, as long as he was in Turpan, he would travel back and forth on the same day. Why haven't he come back yet?!"

Manggarik knew that things were more serious than expected.

"How did Yan Xiangshi know that he was going to rebel? Or was it a trap set by the Qing people? No, their troops in Turpan were weak, and they were just relying on me vigorously. Could it be that they had to rely on Emin? When he came back from Gansu, he only brought 300 people?"

"No," he shouted and stood up, "I must go to the General's Mansion"

"Ata..."

Manggarik stopped, "You go back to the military camp immediately, and secretly send someone to Jiaohe, telling the second child not to leave the military camp"

It turned out that Manggarik was ordered by Heqi to recruit three thousand soldiers and left two thousand in the city. The other thousand were still controlling Jiaohe Town, which led to the main road of Urumqi, and was controlled by his second son.

After Manggarik surrendered to the Qing people, the Qing court also granted him the title of Duke of the State. In their eyes, Manggarik was just an ordinary bay, but the Emin family was a great nobleman in Turpan. I believe Manggarik would not care about this arrangement.

Unexpectedly, Manggarik is holding three thousand heavy troops at the moment. After Emin returned, Manggarik had already changed the officials in Turpan, and Emin did not have the prestige of responding to all the calls.

I originally wanted to use Emin to balance Manggarik, but I didn't expect that I would backfire.

....

Turpan General's Mansion.

Two middle-aged Manchu men are also worried.

A slightly older general was the Ningxia general, and the Thousand Eight Banners of Manchus in the city were brought from his Yinchuan City, while the younger one was Zhaohui.

They were also half-believing after receiving the Pegasus letter from Master Yan Xiang, but they had no choice but to believe what he said in the letter.

Although the three thousand soldiers inside and outside the city were all weak and not worth the attack of one thousand Manchu Eight Banners, this place was the rear of the Tianshan Mountains to encircle the Junggar people in the north and south. The food and grass originally placed in Hami had been transported here, so it should not be ignored.

Fortunately, there are 20,000 farmers in Gansu and Ningxia who are escorting food and grass here outside the city, and there are also strong people among them. The people in these two places are fierce and there are ordinary swords and guns. Since they are in the rear, there are also reserved weapons, so they picked up two thousand people from it.

Of course, these two thousand people were used to deal with the return troops from He Town, the city's return troops were reconciled with the Eight Banners of Manchuria, not to mention that Zhao Hui had five hundred Soron soldiers around him.

And the leader of the Sorens army was Yichanga, who was unfortunately captured by the Russians after he was sent to Dulbert last time.

"What's going on with Lao Yuan? Also, this is a secret letter, why is it so turmoil all over the city now?"

He Qi suddenly said loudly.

Zhao Hui waved his hand and asked him to sit down, and said in a deep voice: "What's the hurry? In the past few days, I sent someone to Yanqi City secretly and met Master Yan Xiang. According to him, the Huite people on the northwest prairie of Yanqi have basically been eliminated"

"A large number of women, children and noble prisoners were imprisoned in the camp outside the city. The leader Bayar was beaten half to death by them, and his legs were lame. He had a high fever after being transported back to Turpan overnight. He was still unconscious now, but since he had been captured, it can be seen that the Huit tribe is over."

"The guy named Xiao He Zhuo Huo Jizhan who we put back was not honest. When he saw that most of Yan Xiangshi and other troops had dispatched to Huite's troops, he was ready to attack Tiemen Pass, but was defeated by Yan Xiangshi and has now retreated to the Yarkand area."

"Did you see A Yuxi?"

"Unfortunately, although Yan Xiangshi defeated Huo Jizhan, A Yuxi and Chou Da were killed by cold guns while chasing them."

"Ah?!", He Qi was about to get up and was pressed by Zhao Hui.

He Qi sat down with disbelief, "How is it possible? These two men are all invincible. Although firearms are popular now, they as officers cannot rush forward."

"This is the doubt. At that time, the people I sent to check the prisoners of Huo Jizhan's troops and interrogate them. There was no doubt."

"Huo Jizhan gathered five thousand men, two thousand cavalry, three thousand infantry, and the infantry had muskets. The captured ones were naturally all infantry. I heard from the captives that the artillery at the Tiemenguan city was very powerful. After firing a few guns, their infantry could not stay."

"At this time, Chou Da, who was ambushing nearby, and A Yuxi and his two men led some cavalry in. Perhaps the return combat power was too weak, or A Yuxi was too brave and rushed to the front on a whim."

"The Chou Da's troops rushed towards the infantry. Although these return troops were not good at hand-to-hand combat, they could still set fire guns. Chou Da was unfortunately hit, but our army suffered minor losses, which was only one or two hundred people in total. The overall situation of Yanqi

Still in the hands of the Qing Dynasty”

After getting to the ground, I sat down and stopped moving.

"Did Master Yan get the news from Huo Jizhan's prisoners? But before my people came back, Master Yan's letter had not been sent over"

He Qi said, "Then send someone to Yanqi and mention the prisoners who know the details here for interrogation"

Zhao Hui shook her head, "It's not easy to talk about it. It's been several days. There must be spies in our mansion. Most of them were the women whom Mangkarik gave us, and they actually revealed the content of this letter..."

"Impossible. These women who are not familiar with Manchu and Chinese. We have never talked in Mongolian. How could they know?"

Zhao Hui nodded, "I also asked Yichanga to inquire about this section. One of the women was born in a noble family and had been to Beijing as the maid of Emin's daughter, and stayed there for a year."

"So, Manggarik has been linked with the Baishan and Zhuo brothers? Where is that woman?"

"I tortured her, but she refused to admit that it was her who revealed it, and she was beaten to death by a stick."

He Qi couldn't help but feel regretful. The woman was the best-looking girl's middle school student, but Manggarik gave her to Zhaohui. He originally thought about asking Zhaohui for a few days, but he didn't expect...

"Then now we..."

"With calmness, Turpan was originally the territory of the Yarkand Khanate in the past, and the Yarkand Khanate has always been led by Hezhu. The current situation is unclear, and there are also some connections with Huo Jizhan and others in advance"
Chapter completed!