Ever since the attack on Chu Manzi’s transport convoy failed, Danba has been feeling very bad!

The firepower of the Chumanzi transport convoy was far beyond imagination, and the seemingly thin but hollow vehicle formation was like a fortress, all of which gave Danba a very bad feeling.

Perhaps, the actual combat effectiveness of Chu Manzi was different from what they expected.

Perhaps, the Chu barbarians were able to kill the Donglu neatly and swiftly in the first place, relying not only on the huge population, money and food in the Central Plains, but also on their unusual combat mode.

A combat mode that he couldn't understand.

It is not surprising to others that the Great Chu Empire was able to kill the Donglu. After all, the Great Chu Empire played a role in the prosperous hinterland of the Central Plains and had a population and huge amounts of money and food that could make surrounding countries desperate.

As long as the Central Plains Dynasty is not too desperate, it can destroy any surrounding country simply by relying on population, money and food.

Dongdu will not be an exception!

The reason why the Dongluo people were able to suppress the Ming Dynasty, which was also a dynasty in the Central Plains, was purely because of internal problems in the Ming Dynasty. It does not mean how powerful the Dongji people themselves are.

The population of Dongda's own tribe is only a few hundred thousand, and they are in the bitter cold land of the Northeast and lack money and food. These are the flaws of Dongji. Being able to win against the Ming Dynasty, which is at the end of the dynasty and has internal turmoil, does not mean that it will win against the Ming Dynasty, which is at the end of the dynasty.

In the early days of the founding of the country, the Chu Empire, which was in a stage of rapid rise in national power, could also win.

To put it bluntly, even if the Chu army relies solely on population, money and food, and a steady stream of armed warriors and five scum to line up to fight the Dong captives, they can still consume the Dong captives alive.

On this point, many people in Jungar hold the same view, and Danba is no exception.

Therefore, when facing conflicts and wars with the Dachu Empire, although there are many differences in opinions within Zhungeer, the general opinions can still be unified, that is, they must not face the Dachu Empire head-on, such as absolutely

You can't be stupid and take the initiative to attack Jiayuguan, and then do your Spring and Autumn Dream of entering the Central Plains.

The closer they get to the hinterland of the Dachu Empire, the less likely Jungar is to win this war.

At the same time, the war cannot be conducted in areas such as Monan Mongolia or Mobei Mongolia, because the Chu Empire already controls many of the above areas and controls a large number of cavalry troops.

These large numbers of cavalry troops are supported by money and food from the hinterland of the Central Plains of the Chu Empire, so they are also difficult to fight.

Therefore, it is best for the war to break out in the territory of the original Yarkand Khanate.

To fight here, the Chu army would have to cross the long Hexi Corridor, and then cross hundreds of kilometers of Gobi Desert and desert to fight on Hami and Jungar.

This long supply line alone can allow the Chu Empire to consume a lot of power on the road.

At that time, when fighting breaks out in the direction of Hami, the pressure on Zhungeer will be much less.

In this way, Zhungeer would accumulate troops in the direction of Hami, but gave up Chijin Town, Guazhou, Shazhou and other places, just to lengthen the Chu army's supply line.

Then look for opportunities!

For example, cutting off the Chu army's supply line, even if it cannot be completely cut off, can still have a great impact on the battle situation if it can be blocked.

In this way, Danba led his army to go on an expedition, bypassing the heavy Chu army group, and crossed the desert and Gobi Desert to fight all the way to the area near Guazhou.

Before the expedition, Danba was full of confidence. He believed that even if his thousand elite cavalry could not completely block and cut off the Chu army's supply line, they should still be able to pose a certain threat to the Chu army's logistics, such as forcing the main force of the Chu army to

Slow down or even stop the advance; another example is forcing the Chu army to mobilize more troops to protect the logistics line. If there are more troops to protect the logistics, there will naturally be less troops in the front to attack Hami.

Even if the Chu Empire claims to have more than one million troops, it can't change it.

Because how much troops the Great Chu Empire can invest in the Western Region does not depend on how many troops the Great Chu Empire has, but on how many people the Great Chu Empire can maintain as logistics.

To maintain a long supply line from the Shaanxi-Gansu region to Hami... countless grains, grass and ammunition have to be transported from the rear. Even deep into parts of the Gobi desert, even drinking water has to be transported from the oasis area in the rear...

I don’t know how the Dachu Empire views this supply line, but the top brass within Zhungeer just look at the map and feel that this supply line is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Therefore, the scale of troops that an empire as powerful as the Chu Empire could maintain in the Western Region was also limited, and more than 50,000 people was probably the conventional limit.

On this basis, every additional 10,000 troops will require more money, food, and more people.

And these are opportunities for Zhungeer.

It is impossible to defeat the Great Chu Empire. If you give the Jungar senior officials a hundred courages and spend the rest of their lives daydreaming, they will not even dare to expect to enter the Central Plains and completely eliminate the Great Chu Empire.

This is absolutely impossible.

What they want is very simple, that is, to promote peace through war. By causing a certain amount of losses to the Chu army in the direction of Hami, the Chu Empire will realize that it is impossible to defeat them accurately by just relying on small fights and sending tens of thousands of troops.

What actual threat does Geer pose?

If we really want to force the Jungar side to surrender through war, then we will need to pay a huge price.

In short, it is to make the Chu Empire feel that the Western Region is not theirs, the Chu Empire has the final say. If they want to be tough, they will have to pay a huge price and the gain will not be worth the loss.

At this time, Zhungeer made some concessions, such as officially ceding parts of Kansai to the Dachu Empire, recognizing the rule of the Dachu Empire in the Qingkang area, and allowing those who the Central Plains dynasty most wanted to surrender and pay tribute.

Things like that, and even sacrificing a daughter for peace can be discussed.

Through certain concessions, the Chu Empire will gain face, and then end the war smoothly, so that the Zhungeer side can have time and energy to further digest the Yarkand Khanate.

And accumulate strength to continue the conquest in other directions, such as Kazakhstan, and the Bukhara Khanate. Compared with the Donglu and the Dachu Empire, these two Khans are just little brothers. Zhungeer has an advantage against them.

Huge.

Given a certain amount of time to Zhungar, Zhungar dare not say that it will completely swallow up these two khanates, but it is very possible to achieve certain results and further increase its strength by plundering territory, population, cattle, sheep, and horses.

After all, although today's Zhungeer has not completed unification and established a formal political power, it is actually under heavy pressure from Russia and the Chu Empire. In order to protect themselves, Zhungeer and its various ministries have already abandoned their previous feuds and united. Internally,

It has relatively high cohesion.

I have to say that this is also the change that the Chu Empire brought to surrounding forces.

With the strong rise of the Chu Empire, the associated impact on neighboring countries was huge. Mongolian Mongolia led by Zhungeer was the most obvious example.

They completed unity earlier than in history.

If not for anything else, just because they continue to linger like this, the Dachu Empire will swallow them up. You must know that in the west of Monan Mongolia, many Monan Mongolian tribes that have surrendered to the Dachu Empire have already

The grazing areas began to gradually move westward, gradually encroaching on the pastures of the Mongolian tribes in the desert.

If the various tribes in the Western Desert continue to fight among themselves, the Chu Empire will not even need to launch a large-scale war, and can gradually erode the Mongolian Mongols by relying only on the nomadic tribes under its control.

Due to the strong pressure from the Chu Empire, the Zhungeer side completed the alliance and also received strong support from Russia.

Before the rise of the Great Chu Empire, the Russians' eastward expansion was relatively smooth. However, since the Great Chu Empire has risen strongly and adopted an extremely tough foreign policy, it has continuously expelled and intercepted Russians from heading to the East.

In fact, Russia and the Chu Empire have been in a state of long-term small-scale conflicts, not to mention that Russia and Mobei Mongolia, a vassal of the Chu Empire, fight every other day.

More importantly, the Russians are still at a huge disadvantage in this direction. In recent years, many of the colonial settlements they established in the area east of Lake Baikal, especially in the area north of Heilongjiang, have disappeared without a trace.

, or simply fell into the control of the Chu Empire.

Russia's expansion in the area east of Lake Baiga has encountered real and even unstoppable threats. If this continues, Russia will sooner or later lose everything east of Lake Baiga.

After all, Russia actually doesn’t have many troops in the East. Russia’s center of rule is still in Europe, let alone the Far East. Even in Central Asia, they don’t have many troops.

Under such circumstances, Zhungeer appeared in their sight.

There is no doubt that Zhungeer, who was also under the suppression of the Chu Empire, was a very good thug.

As a result, Russia began to support Zhungar. A large number of guns from Russia entered Zhungar's army. Not only guns, the Russians also brought a series of so-called new models from Europe to Zhungar.

Tactics.

For example, the cavalry used pistols instead of bows and arrows, and the infantry used a large number of muskets and lined up with spearmen.

With the support of Russia, the ambitions of the Jungar Khanate skyrocketed. Also for self-protection, they chose to send troops to the Yarkand Khanate, which eventually triggered a war with the Chu Empire.

A series of changes in the north and northwest are actually the chain effects brought about by the rise of the Chu Empire itself.

When the Chu Empire rose to power, it was inevitable that conflicts of interest would arise in neighboring countries. Then in the 17th century, when there were no nuclear bombs, wars would naturally occur when there were conflicts of interest.

War is a normal thing in this era.

For the Jungar people and the Danba people, fighting is just like eating and drinking. It is their daily life and they have become accustomed to it.

But... Danba has been fighting for a lifetime and has seen many enemies, but he has never encountered an enemy like the Chu army.

Danba didn't simply think that the Chu army was powerful, but he couldn't understand why the Chu army was so powerful.

This is even worse!

What's even more terrible is that Danba had clearly retreated in advance and was not delayed on the way, but he was still overtaken by the main force of Chu Manzi's cavalry!

These Chu barbarians are all crazy...

He actually continued to pursue him for more than ten days, and large groups of Chu Manzi's cavalry appeared in the north and east. You don't have to guess, it must be Chu Manzi's main cavalry who reacted and sent out the main cavalry to encircle and suppress him.<

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Danba had no choice but to lead his army to flee westward!

And the farther west you flee, the more desolate you become.

In these desolate areas, even horses cannot find grass to eat and drinking water to drink.

A few days ago, a large number of mules, horses and sheep under Danba’s command died in large numbers due to lack of water and food!

But, even so...these Chu barbarians actually dared to catch up, not to mention catching up, and they seemed to be more at home in the Gobi Desert than themselves, pressing every step, not even giving themselves time to breathe.

If they didn't do well in the Gobi Desert, how could these Chu barbarians catch up in just a few days... Not counting the early stage, even in the no-man's land deep in the desert, I would lead them around.

Go around, it’s been at least a few hundred miles.

However, they are still in hot pursuit!

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To be continued...