I want to be emperor

The high-level ambitions of the Great Chu Empire for the Kazakh Khanate have always been transparent within the high-level, especially the army, which clamored every once in a while to continue westward, cross the Yibohai (Lake Balkhash), and kill Kazakhs The nomadic regime of the Khanate seized a large and fertile Kazakh grassland.

He even said that if the Kazakh Khanate is not to be attacked now, then in time, the Kazakh Khanate will become the next Zhungeer and become a threat to the western border of the Great Chu Empire.

After all, the Kazakh Khanate is a standard nomadic regime. In essence, it is no different from the Zhungeer regime. They are both typical grassland nomadic regimes. Even the Kazakh Khanate regime itself was part of the former Mongolian Empire.

It has been handed down to the present Kazakh Khanate, and its rulers are still descendants of the Mongolian Golden Family, and their ancestors are the sons of the last Khan of the White Horde Khanate.

The White Horde Khanate, also known as the Qincha Khanate, is one of the four major Khanates of the Mongol Empire.

Therefore, the rulers of the Kazakh Khanate are serious Mongolian nobles, descendants of the Golden Family, and their living habits are also the standard habits of grassland nomads.

Based on the thousands of years of historical conflict between the Central Plains and the nomads, many people and even some high-level officials in the Great Chu Empire did not have a good impression of these pure nomads, and even felt that they would be a threat sooner or later.

When the empire is strong, wipe out the surrounding nomads, make them good at singing and dancing, and prevent them from harming their descendants decades or even hundreds of years later. This is the common idea of ​​many people in Chu.

Now the Great Chu Empire has acquired the vast Northeast and even the whole of Siberia, wiped out the northern nomads, fishing and hunting regimes, etc. that had plagued the Central Dynasty for thousands of years, and wiped out the nomads in these areas, Fishermen and hunters were thoroughly integrated into the Han system through various enlightenment policies, large-scale migration and intermarriage.

More importantly, it established a fixed-grazing model, adopting a semi-nomadic and semi-settled lifestyle to establish towns, set up county and town governance institutions, and completely bring these populations into the rule.

In terms of people's livelihood economy, through the well-developed wool spinning industry, meat, leather processing and other industries in the Great Chu Empire, the herdsmen in grasslands and other areas are encouraged to raise cattle, sheep and other livestock, and sell the wool, meat and fur produced Get more income.

Through cultural customs, fixed herding, economic binding, as well as large-scale immigration and intermarriage, in the northern grasslands of the Great Chu Empire, pure nomads have become history and will never reappear.

Instead, there are numerous settlements, large and small, and even cities on the steppe.

Fengzhou City on Fengzhou Beach has a population of more than 5 people living together at this time, and Kulun further north has a population of more than [-].

The threat of border troubles in the north has completely disappeared, but the threat of nomads in the west still exists. They must be resolved now, so as not to leave future troubles for future generations.

Well, that's the opinion of many in the Army.

Of course, this is just their reason.

As for real thoughts?
What other ideas can there be, nothing more than to start a war, and then destroy a country, and gain military merit for them.

These army people are thinking about fighting and doing meritorious deeds...

As for the use of taking down the Kazakh Khanate... Alas, let the civil servants of the empire consider this issue. Their army only cares about fighting and conquering. Their army shit.

This situation is actually a common situation in the founding period of all dynasties.

The Central Plains dynasty is basically like this. After unifying the Central Plains, the national power became strong, and then began to target the surrounding areas for expansion... After decades of the heyday of the founding of the country, the national power began to decline, and then it will enter the conservative stage...

Generally can't keep it!
Then the north and the Western Regions will gradually be controlled by foreigners, threatening the Central Dynasty again and invading the Central Plains, and even taking over the Central Plains, such as the Wuhu Chaohua, the Mongolian invasion of the Central Plains and the establishment of Yuanchao, and the invasion of the Eastern Captives in the Central Plains, etc. .

Then wait until a new Central Plains dynasty rises, and expel the aliens to recover the lost land, and by the way, another wave of aliens.

For thousands of years, the peoples of the Central Plains have fought back and forth with nomadic, fishing and hunting peoples countless times.

Now that the Great Chu Empire is here, many people with lofty ideals generally believe that, taking advantage of the founding and prosperity of the country, first eliminate all threats or potential threats in the surrounding areas... Solve the threat of the North and the Western Regions once and for all, and end this continuation situation for thousands of years.

As for whether these problems can really be solved once and for all, this involves many means such as the subsequent ruling model... Again, it has nothing to do with the army.

What the Army has to do and can do is to kill these threats militarily.

Therefore, the army has always wanted to continue westward to kill the Kazakh Khanate, even if the current Kazakh Khanate does not pose any threat to the empire...

But in order to prevent problems before they happen, they must be killed first, and the Kazakh grasslands should be completely conquered and ruled.

Faced with these suggestions from the army, many people in the high-level empire, including civil servants, were actually a little moved.

Although the army dares to say anything for the sake of credit, the civil servants are actually very interested in expanding the territory...

Especially those ministers of affairs, who doesn't want to expand the territory of the empire and leave a name in history during their tenure.

Besides, the resources on the Haks grassland are also considered rich. In addition to the inherent livestock resources on the grassland, wool, leather, meat and various livestock can be obtained through large-scale grazing. Penetration detection.

It is found that there are still many mineral resources in this place.

In particular, the caravan of the Western Region Arms Trading Company of the Great Chu Empire discovered iron ore in the Kazakh Khanate, and it was also rich in iron ore, which attracted the attention of many domestic mining companies.

You must know that although there are a lot of iron ore in the Great Chu Empire and the total reserves are also large, the quality of the iron ore is basically not good, and the iron content is relatively low.

Therefore, the interest in the rich iron ore from the outside world is also relatively large.

In addition to iron ore, the Western Region Arms Trading Company also discovered high-quality coal mines in the Kazakh Khanate.

In fact, the arsenal of the Great Chu Empire in the Yining area has long been importing iron ore and coal from the Kazakh Khanate. It was discovered that there are a lot of iron ore and coal in the local area.

Once these two mineral resources are utilized, what will be produced?
Steel!

It is also the most important basic industrial product in the Great Chu Empire at present, because the industrial system of the Great Chu Empire is made of high-quality steel, whether it is various mechanical equipment, trains, ships, or even ordinary farm tools and cooking utensils in the folk, Daily tools and hardware, and even the steel bridges and concrete and steel buildings that have only emerged in recent years, ultimately require steel!
Steel is the basic industrial product that the Great Chu Empire values ​​most, and iron ore and coal are also the two basic mineral resources that the Great Chu Empire values ​​most.

Its emphasis is even far more than that of gold and silver.

The Kazakh Khanate is rich in coal and iron ore resources, and the iron ore resources are rich ore, which naturally attracted the attention of many people.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry also paid more attention to it. They believed that the arsenal in Yining Prefecture was even an important arsenal supporting the empire's western front strategy. At the same time, the Yining area had also become the most important industrial base of the empire on the western front.

However, this industrial area has always lacked a large amount of stable high-quality coal and iron ore resources.

If the Kazakh Khanate can be won and the local iron ore and coal resources can be exploited, then Yining's industrial development can usher in a new level and can strongly support the construction of the local defense industry.

Many reasons have led to the high level of the empire being more interested in winning the Kazakh Khanate, even Luo Zhixue.

Luo Zhixue didn't have any other ideas, he just simply thought that the empire would eventually move westward, and even eventually go all the way to the Ukrainian plains.

In the process of westward advancement, the advancement in the direction of Siberia in the north is one aspect, but the advancement in the direction of Central Asia is also indispensable and even more important.

After all, Siberia's latitude is relatively high, the climate is not good, and there are permafrost everywhere. It is relatively difficult to build railways, and subsequent development is not easy.

But if it is the Kazakh Khanate, it will be different. The climate there is good and the terrain is flat. It is easier to build railways, and subsequent development is also easier.

In the future, the Northwest Railway can be extended all the way to the Black Sea, allowing the Great Chu Empire to control the entire Central Asian region.

Then, relying on Central Asia, we can continue to build the railway to the plains of eastern Ukraine... As long as the railway is built, we are not afraid that we will not be able to control these places.

But the problem is that if you launch an attack on the Kazakh Khanate now, because the Northwest Railway has not yet been built, there will not be too many troops available.

For the supply of grain and grass, we can only rely on the grain produced in the oasis areas of Turpan Province and the reclamation in the Yining Valley area.

The supply of ammunition can only rely on the Yining Arsenal in the Yining Valley.

Therefore, the number of troops that can be dispatched is limited, basically [-] to [-] is the limit, and if there are more, it may be necessary to transport food, grass, and ammunition from the rear.

However, it is too difficult and costly to transport food, grass and ammunition from the rear. It is a road of two to three thousand kilometers from Guanzhong to Yining, which is not easy to travel.

After comprehensive consideration, Luo Zhixue approved the Central Asia strategic plan proposed by the army, but also put forward a requirement that the army must control the scale of the war and limit the dispatched troops to less than 5.

To put it simply, it is to let the army not expect to receive reinforcements from the rear, especially the reinforcements of food, grass and ammunition.

All logistical supplies can only be supplied locally by Turpan Province on the front line.

Regardless of whether the army has any objections to this, it can only accept it, but it is not a big problem... After all, the strength of the Kazakh Khanate on the opposite side is not good, even if the army dispatches 5 troops, it is enough.

The total population of the Kazakh Khanate is just over 100 million. Even if more troops can be mobilized from the nomads, the standing troops are at most a hundred thousand.

Moreover, the Kazakh Khanate itself is in turmoil. Several forces are independent khans, and they are fighting for power and profit. There is no way to gather all the hundreds of thousands of troops.

The combat effectiveness of the Kazakh army itself is not very good. It was beaten to death by the Zhungeer people before, and the Zhungeer side was beaten to death by the Chu army, and finally exterminated. Such a simple comparison shows that the Kazakh army is in terms of combat effectiveness. It is far inferior to the Chu army.

The only trouble is how to attract the main force of Kazakhs to gather, and then kill the opponents in a decisive battle... Otherwise, the war will be protracted and fragmented, and the Chu army is not willing to play with these nomads on the vast Kazakh grassland Hide and seek.

If it takes too long, military spending will double and triple.

Moreover, the protracted and scattered war mode will make the Chu army lose its absolute firepower advantage.

After all, the scattered troops of the Chu army can't drag a large number of artillery to run around the grassland. If there is no established combat target, it will be more difficult to fight.

In consideration of defeating the enemy's main force as soon as possible and then taking control of the Kazakh grassland, the Army decided to focus on the southern line, starting from the south of Yibohai (Balkhash Lake), heading west along the northern plains of the Tianshan Mountains, crossing the Chu River and then directly The city of Turkestan (now Turkestan) on the banks of the Syr Darya.

In one go, directly destroy the enemy's administrative center, and at the same time force the enemy to concentrate their forces in this direction as much as possible, and finally gather and annihilate them.

Even if the goal of gathering and annihilating them cannot be achieved, the morale of the enemy's army can be greatly destroyed, and even the unity of the people can be maintained, and then they can be divided and attacked, and finally conquer the nomadic peoples on the entire Central Asian grassland.

According to this strategic plan, the Army's First Army will mobilize [-] cavalry and [-] infantry artillery as auxiliary forces.

And advance in two directions, the main force advances along the northern plains of the Tianshan Mountains, and goes straight to the city of Turkestan. This route is actually a route of the ancient Silk Road, passing through Bishkek, Taraz, etc. Several towns, eventually reaching the city of Turkestan on the banks of the Syr Darya.

After capturing the city of Turkestan, it took advantage of the trend to control the entire Syr Darya valley and even Tashkent in the valley of the Chirchik River, a tributary.

The partial division marched west along the Chu River, captured several small towns along the Chu River, and recovered the Hax tribe in this area.

To put it simply, the first group army's marching route is based on the ancient Silk Road as a reference, focusing on capturing the Chu River Basin and the Syr River Basin.

Why is the focus on these two rivers... On the one hand, the existence of the rivers can make the Chu army mobilize its troops and logistics materials more easily, and more importantly, there is water to carry out reclamation!

Although nomadic countries like the Kazakh Khanate were nomads, the Great Chu Empire was not. The Great Chu Empire would not be nomadic when it entered Central Asia, but to build cities for reclamation.

Therefore, the areas that can be used for reclamation have become the key areas that the Chu army will enter and control in this Central Asia strategy.

The Chu River and the Syr Darya River Basin have become the top priorities.

Only by controlling the two rivers and the surrounding areas that can be developed and cultivated, the Great Chu Empire will be able to immigrate to these places, and implement a policy of enlightenment on the remaining local indigenous people, turning them from herdsmen into farmers, and then carry out large-scale land reclamation. Reclamation, and the establishment of cities, follow-up and even the establishment of railways and so on.

With water and land, there is food, and only with food can there be everything that follows.

If the local area cannot produce a large amount of food to supply the garrison and immigrants, there will be no long-term actual control of the local area.

In addition to the first army being responsible for the main attack, the second army in the upper reaches of the Ob River will also deploy about [-] troops to attack from north to south.

It is planned to conquer some tribes in northern Kazakhstan, and eventually select several places in this area to build city fortresses, but these city fortresses are also planned to be built near rivers, especially the left bank tributaries of the Irtysh River.

Now the Irtysh River is under the control of the Chu Army, and the Hetong Arsenal, one of the three arsenals of the Chu Army in Siberia, is located in the upper reaches of the Irtysh River.

Therefore, marching along the tributaries of the Irtysh River to the hinterland of the Kazakh grassland and finally controlling these places by building castles is a simple and trouble-free strategy.

Rivers are the most important condition for the Chu army to launch military operations, and even follow-up reclamation and city building. Therefore, it can be seen that whether the Chu army is in Siberia or Central Asia, its expansion operations are basically initiated along the river.

This kind of situation is also very common in overseas colonization. When the Great Chu Empire colonized and built cities in overseas regions, its favorite thing was to build cities at the mouth of rivers.

As long as the estuary is controlled, the follow-up can continue to advance and expand along the river to the inland area, which is very simple and trouble-free.

In the Nanyang Peninsula, in India, and even in the Great Chu Empire in the Americas, this is basically how it is played.

After the strategic plan is finalized above, the details will be handed over to the first and second armies on the front line for implementation.

The task of the Second Army is very simple. After all, it is just cooperation, and the difficulty is not high. It is to send troops along several tributaries on the left bank of the Irtysh River, clean up the Kazakh tribes that can be encountered along the way, and then choose some suitable places. Reclamation and city building.

The main battle is still concentrated on the First Army.

Relevant order documents were passed all the way to Baoji by train, and then passed westward through the traditional post station mode, and finally arrived in Yining City.

At this time, it was already the end of January of the 28th year of Chengshun.

The First Group Army Headquarters in Yining City began to mobilize logistics materials such as food and ammunition according to the order, and began to mobilize the main combat forces.

Among the many troops participating in the battle, there are naturally two important cavalry forces in the army on the western front, namely the Second Cavalry Army and the Fourth Cavalry Army.

These two cavalry armies are not only the core force of the Great Chu Empire to ensure the security of the Western Regions, but also an important force in the war against Central Asia.

In late February of the 28th year of Chengshun, the Second Cavalry Corps of the Great Chu Empire Army was ordered to take down and enter Sanshu County (Almaty).

Sanshu County, the city was originally called "Gurban Alimatu" by the local nomads, which means "the land of three fruit trees".

After the Great Chu Empire defeated Zhungeer, it occupied a large area from Yibohai to the Tianshan Mountains, and actually controlled the southeast area of ​​Yibohai. Naturally, it also controlled this small place and built a city for the border guards to garrison. At the same time, check the business trips.

And changed the meaning of the original messy name to Three Tree City.

Later, the city gradually had new immigrants. At the same time, because of the existence of Yining City, business travelers gradually increased, and the population and city scale gradually increased.

Up to now, Sanshu City has developed into a small frontier town with a permanent population of more than 2000.

However, this population is nothing compared to the army that is about to influx in large numbers.

There are more than 2 people in the second cavalry army stationed in the first batch alone!
In the future, there will be part of the Fourth Cavalry Army and the Second Infantry Division.

A total of about 5 troops will directly overwhelm this small frontier town!