After waiting for three days outside the city of Kokand, Zhang Shusun finally received a report from the cavalry. A reinforcement force of more than 10,000 people from the Kokand Khanate came from the direction of Margilan.
Most of these 10,000 reinforcements are infantry.
Margilan did not have much of an army, and the entire city had less than 5,000 defenders.
It didn't take them three days to reach Kokand City. However, Bek Amam of Malgilan believed that bringing thousands of troops to support Kokand City would not be effective at all.
So he temporarily recruited a large army in Margilan. This army was recruited from the local nobles. Originally, Amam asked them to send the family's private soldiers and family children.
But these nobles had their own little ideas. They used the serfs of the manor to pretend to be their own private soldiers, and then gave them crude weapons and asked them to serve under Amam.
Faced with the obsessive behavior of these nobles, Amam had nothing to do.
He could only take his men and the army assembled by these serfs, forming a total army of ten thousand people and slowly kill towards the city of Haokand.
It's not that Amam doesn't want to go fast, it's just that the rabble under his command seriously affects their marching speed.
He was able to lead this army on the road after defeating the boss' efforts.
In the camp of the Fuxing Army.
"Damn it, it's finally here. Are all the people from the Kokand Khanate like turtles? Their speed is really slow." Zhang Shushun said cursingly. After the reinforcements were dispatched, the battle would basically end.
it's over.
He didn't want to delay it too long. There were other forces in Central Asia! Tsarist Russia and the British had already been staring at this.
"Old Zhang, how are you going to fight this battle? Should you send cavalry to kill them, or send them outside the city?" Wang Xun, commander of the 12th Division, asked.
He is relatively taciturn, and Zhang Shushun is the dominant one among the two, so under normal circumstances, Wang Xun does not express his opinions.
His temperament is very popular in the army. Soldiers hate generals who talk like mother-in-law. Generals who are taciturn are the easiest to gain the respect of soldiers.
Colleagues also like such people because they don’t want anyone to make decisions with them.
At this time, Wang Xun was just following Zhang Shushun's words.
"Of course they will be placed under the city. I am going to assemble a cavalry regiment and an infantry regiment, and use 4,000 men to annihilate them."
"So few people? We still have enough troops in hand, and we can definitely recruit more troops." Wang Xun said.
"Old Wang, you are too cautious. Although there are more than 10,000 reinforcements coming this time, only less than 3,000 are their regular troops. Most of them are temporarily recruited troops, and they don't even have military uniforms.
It would be a waste if we send out too many people for such an army."
"Besides, we need to call the high-ranking officials and nobles in Haohan City to see how it will act as a deterrent if there are too many people." Zhang Shushun explained patiently.
He knew Wang Xun's character, so he patiently explained to Wang Xun.
"Okay, Lao Wang, I agree with your suggestion. The infantry will be drawn from our 12th Division, and the cavalry will be from your division?" Although Zhang Shushun is the decision-maker, Wang Xun should not let his men lose the credit they deserve.
"Okay, no problem, Lao Wang, don't worry! I won't miss the opportunity for your twelve divisions to make meritorious deeds." This Lao Wang doesn't talk much and is easy to get along with, but he is very serious about fighting.
After the two people discussed it, they started to deploy.
Killing enemy reinforcements outside the city is an extremely risky approach.
If one operation is not done well, it is very likely that the enemy will cooperate with you from both inside and outside.
However, based on Zhang Shushun's judgment of the opponent's strength, he felt that this would not happen.
The reason why a battle must be fought outside the city is to quickly break the fighting spirit of the enemies inside the city.
Nothing demoralizes the enemy more than defeating their reinforcements in front of their eyes.
Of course, Zhang Shushun was not careless. He and Wang Xun deployed the siege positions together. Now they had part of the servant army in their hands.
Zhang Shushun asked these people to cooperate with the soldiers of the Renaissance Army to strengthen the trench fortifications outside the city.
Now, all exits of the entire Kokand City have been blocked by trenches used by the Renaissance Army.
Now it is almost impossible for Ali Khan to concentrate on one point and break out.
Zhang Shushun had already selected the battlefield outside the city for the supporting army.
Southeast of Kokand City, Amam kept sending people to urge his soldiers to move forward.
Those conscripted armies were all led by officers sent by the nobles themselves. These people were unruly and did not obey management at all.
Now that a war is imminent, it is not convenient for Amam to deal with these people.
We can only stabilize them first and then bring them to Haohan City.
As they were marching, a small force of cavalry approached them.
Amam had never seen such an army before, wearing floral green military uniforms and wide-brimmed helmets on their heads. It seemed that only the helmets on their heads had a certain protective effect.
These men carried an obviously much shorter musket on their backs.
Amam could see that such a musket seemed to be very suitable for immediate use.
These people approached their army and kept circling, seemingly observing.
Amam had a cavalry team of 500 people in his hands. At this time, he sent them all out to try to drive away the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry.
Those enemies really retreated.
Amam's cavalry continued to pursue, hoping to drive these people away completely.
He had no confidence at all in the conscripts under his command. If these ragtag groups faced a cavalry attack, they would probably break into chaos without contact.
Their only role is to be used as cannon fodder on the city walls.
Not long after the cavalry chased away, intensive gunshots were heard in the distance. Amam knew that this was definitely not coming from his own bodyguard cavalry who used bows, arrows and spears.
May Allah bless them!
There were only a few dozen cavalrymen operating on the periphery of his large army just now. So Amam thought that the other party was just a scout.
The gunfire seems to be very intensive now. Could it be that there is a large group of enemy cavalry around?
"Speed up the march and get out of here quickly." Amam felt that the situation seemed to be bad and shouted to his soldiers to hurry up and get on their way.
He could already see the top of the city of Haokand from a distance. He didn't know if any troops were sent out to meet them.
"Da da da..." Several fast horses ran towards the direction of the large army.
Amam could feel their embarrassment from a distance. These were the elite cavalry guards around him. At this time, they looked worse than those conscripted serfs.
"What's going on?" Amam asked, grabbing the collar of a cavalryman.
"General, a large group of enemy cavalry is here. Their muskets can easily hit us from a few hundred yards away. But we are helpless. At least two thousand cavalry are surrounding us. The general quickly leads everyone into the city.
Bar."
"It would be a nightmare to encounter such cavalry in the wild."
Amam felt helpless. He had never wanted to take these people faster. But now, let alone taking them into the city, it was hard to say whether he could enter the city.
Before the enemy's cavalry arrived, Amam accelerated again. This time he did not care about the recruited soldiers. Instead, he gathered more than 2,000 direct troops under his command.
It seems that the five hundred cavalry who were killed just now will never come back.
There was no sound of gunfire in the distance, indicating that the battle was over.
But at this time, we could already hear the cavalry approaching.
From a distance, Amam saw that the originally tall and majestic gate tower on the east city gate had collapsed.
So they did not choose the east gate, but headed for the south gate.
At this time, the cavalry team approached.
Sure enough, they shot from a distance.
However, these bullets were accurately shot into the crowd. The sudden shooting immediately caused the conscripts behind to become confused.
At this time, Amam could feel the opponent's cavalry using the rifles in their hands as whips to drive the conscripts to his side.
They seemed not to want this wave of troops to disperse.
In the royal palace inside the city, Ali Khan received a reward from the city wall, and Ali Khan knew that a supporting force had arrived from outside the city.
Unable to suppress his excitement, Ali Khan changed into casual clothes and followed a group of generals to the south city. They found a tall building near the city wall that could see the outside of the city.
Even if he changed into civilian clothes, Ali Khan did not dare to go up to the city wall now.
From a distance, he could see an army of nearly ten thousand moving towards the city.
"General Sardarze, do we want to go out of the city to respond?" Ali Khan asked.
"Your Majesty, this is very difficult. The enemy has dug fortifications outside our city. If we rush out now, our soldiers will inevitably be blocked by the enemy. You also know that the enemy's artillery is powerful. The artillery on our city wall cannot
Soldiers take appropriate cover."
"What should we do?" Ali Khan asked.
"Your Majesty, unless the reinforcements can attack outside the south gate and cooperate with us inside and outside, I will send troops to prepare inside the city gate. As soon as the reinforcements come, our soldiers in the city will attack and attack." General Salda gave.
A compromise was found.
Everyone has been watching the situation outside the city.
The support army is indeed heading towards the south gate.
At this moment, a Chinese cavalry force of 2,000 people appeared in everyone's sight. Although their number was not large, they seemed to surround these 10,000 people after they dispersed.
At this time, a strange scene happened. These ten thousand people were really driven by two thousand enemy cavalry.
The cavalrymen kept shooting from the outside. In order to avoid the shooting, this man could only keep dodging.
They were like a flock of sheep being driven forward by wolves.
No one dared to go out and fight back.
Amam was also in trouble and couldn't express his feelings at this time. He wanted to go out and fight back, but his direct army had been trapped by the panicked conscripts.
Fortunately, their large army is still slowly approaching Nancheng.
On the position of the Third Regiment of the Twelfth Division of the Renaissance Army, regiment leader Hu Daming looked at the crowd that was gradually approaching and ordered: "Fight!"
Suddenly, the regiment's mortars opened fire together, and the shells arced into the enemy's formation.
At the same time, the infantry also started shooting. Amam walked at the front of the team with his direct subordinates.
He saw many trenches ahead, but no one was there.
There was another trench outside the southern city behind the trench. He could see the soldiers there, but the two sides were still far away.
At this moment, rows of military green helmets suddenly appeared in the trench in front of them, and then they saw the black muzzles of guns appearing on the edge of the trench facing them.
Suddenly there was loud gunfire, and the soldiers around Amam fell down one after another. He fell to the ground and hid in a pit on the roadside.
"Bang bang bang..." A dull sound of shelling came. Then, he saw black dots falling from the sky and landing among the soldiers.
Then there were explosions one after another.
Those recruited soldiers, who had never seen such a battle before, were running around here and there.
However, the enemy cavalry on the periphery was like a chain, locking the entire team tightly, and no one could escape from this chain.
At this time, some of the cavalry in the peripheral blockade were asking for surrender in Turkic language. These were the Tajik cavalry who had surrendered before.
As these sounds rang out, a large number of conscripts immediately lay down on the ground. The shelling also stopped.
The direct soldiers around Amam suffered the most serious losses because they were at the front.
Now only he and the soldiers around him are still resisting.
"General, let's surrender. If we can't get through, the soldiers in the city won't dare to come out to meet us." An officer advised.
This was Amam's most trusted subordinate. He did not blame this subordinate because he knew that this person was not afraid of death, but did not want to see him die.
"No, I, Amam, will only die on the way to charge and will never surrender." As he said this, he crawled out of the pit.
Amam took out his saber and rushed forward with it held high. The surrounding soldiers, including the officer just now, all charged with him.
With the commander dead, most of the remaining people chose to surrender.
The Renaissance Army gathered the prisoners in front of the defenders at the top of the city. The conscripted serf soldiers lay on the ground in fear.
Under the command of the Tajik surrender troops, these people threw the weapons in their hands into a pile, and then walked together holding their heads.
On the high-rise building in the city, Ali Khan was dumbfounded. His reinforcements, 10,000 reinforcements, were like lambs. First they were rushed to others, and then a burst of artillery shelling completely caused them to lose their fighters.
There were only a few thousand enemies around them, and these idiots didn't even have the ability to escape.
Everyone has seen this process. Everyone has different thoughts.
Some people regret Amanmu's final charge, some are worried about the fate of the Kokand Khanate, and some are considering whether to find a new owner.
The Kokand Khanate itself was a country formed by the gathering of religious and feudal aristocratic forces.
They originally belonged to the Bukhara Khanate, but later took advantage of the weakness of the Bukhara Khanate to become independent and formed the Kokand Khanate.
The Kokand Khanate still retains many remnants of slavery and feudalism. Therefore, it is easy to fall apart when it encounters a crisis.
The first consideration of the nobles below is the continuation of their own family.
Ali Khan sat blankly in his chair, his eyes no longer as wise as before.
The battle outside the city hit him hard.
The weapons, equipment and combat tactics of the Chinese army are so impeccable.
Ali Khan had never seen such an enemy.
"The Prime Minister and General Sardarze will return to the palace with me. The others should go back first!" Ali Khan said in a depressed tone.
Ali Khan seemed to have made some important decision.