I want to be emperor

The resistance of the Kazakh Khanate was much weaker than expected by many generals on the front lines of the Great Chu Empire.

In other words, it was different from what they had expected at first!
No matter what kind of ideas these frontline generals have, many of them basically have an ambition, that is, they want to use this war to make military achievements and make further progress.

Therefore, many of them want to resist the Kazakhs... Well, of course, they can't resist too fiercely.

It's best to resist face to face, but the resistance is not good, so obediently give yourself military merit.

However, this is just the thinking of some specific leading generals on the front line. In fact, in the eyes of the senior leaders of the First Army, the imperial military, and even the ministers of the Great Chu Empire, the current scene is expected.

Why did the Great Chu Empire choose to launch an offensive against the Kazakhs now?
On the one hand, India's strategy has been initially completed. The Great Chu Empire does not need to conduct large-scale military operations overseas, and there is no large-scale consumption.

That is to say, after the Great Chu Empire entered Chengshun for 28 years, there were no large-scale wars...there was enough manpower and material resources to open up new fronts.

On the other hand, it is also because the Kazakh Khanate has fallen into chaos and division. Since the death of their previous generation of Khan, they have fallen into civil strife in order to fight for the position of Khan. After a few years of civil strife, the Kazakh Khanate has actually split into more than ten sizes There are tribes, and the leaders of these tribes all call themselves Khan, and no one obeys the other.

Of course, the provocation of the Great Chu Empire was also indispensable. The first tribe to rebel used all the weapons exported by the Great Chu Empire.

Without the instigation of the Great Chu Empire, it is impossible for them to become chaotic so quickly.

When the Kazakh Khanate fell into chaos, it also gave the Great Chu Empire a better chance.

It is not so easy even for the current Great Chu Empire to go to Central Asia to fight a unified nomadic people with a population of more than 100 million.

After all, the nomads all pursue the strategy of all the people as soldiers. They are young and strong who can ride horses and go to the battlefield with bows and arrows and scimitars.

If it is a farming nation, with a population of more than 100 million, it will arm a standing army of more than 1 people if it is exhausted. If it is mobilized for war, it can mobilize at most [-] to [-] troops.

However, for the nomads, the Kazakh Khanate with a population of more than 100 million has a standing army of 15 to 20. If the war is mobilized, it can completely pull out an army of [-] to [-].

This quantity is too much to a certain extent, then it will cause a qualitative change.

The main force deployed by the Chu Army on the front line of the Western Regions and in the Shaanxi-Gansu region behind is the First Group Army. Although the First Group Army has a large number of troops, it is limited by the local grain and grass supply capacity and the long supply line in Turpan. The long-term garrison force is less than 10, and a considerable part of the force will be stationed in many places inside Turpan, such as Turpan City, Hami, Guazhou, Shazhou, Kashgar and other places.

These garrison forces are suppressing the interior while the troops in the southern border are also responsible for guarding against the aborigines in the south. In addition, they are also carrying out military reclamation.

These internal garrison forces are actually difficult to mobilize on a large scale for operations in the direction of Central Asia. If the First Army wants to attack Central Asia, it can only mobilize 7 to [-] people.

In consideration of Central Asia's terrain and logistical supplies, there are only two cavalry armies that can actually be used for combat, namely the second cavalry army and the fourth cavalry army. As for the infantry and artillery units, they seem to be useful, but In fact, they are all used to clean the battlefield and garrison important places.

After all, the Kazakhs on the opposite side are all nomads, and their troops are mainly cavalry... If they fight, they will not play any urban offensive and defensive battles with the Chu army, but will play mainly cavalry on the vast grasslands and Gobi Desert. field battle.

Relying on only 20 cavalry, it is difficult to deal with a dozen or [-] Kazakh cavalry, even if the cavalry of the Chu army is well equipped and has strong combat effectiveness.

Therefore, in the past few years, the Great Chu Empire has carried out large-scale infiltration and even instigated rebellion against the Kazakhs, which finally caused Kazakhs internal turmoil.

After the Kazakh Khanate became turbulent, it would be easy to fight.

This is also the main reason why after the Chu army entered the territory of the Kazakh Khanate, the local indigenous resistance was so weak, because they were scattered...it was impossible to unite against the Chu army.

And those individual tribes with thousands of people, at most tens of thousands of people, are not the opponents of the Chu army.

Not to mention that many tribes voluntarily surrendered at the beginning of the war because of internal hatred and gaps, and also for self-protection reasons, and then stood on the side of the Chu army, and turned around to fight other Kazakh tribes.

The overall scene is very similar to that when the Great Chu Empire conquered Monan Mongolia.

This has led to the current situation. After the two cavalry corps of the First Army of the Great Chu Empire entered the Kazakh grassland, they did not encounter much resistance along the way, and even many Kazakh tribes took the initiative to seek refuge in the Great Chu Empire. , became the new thug of the Chu army.

In May of the 28th year of Chengshun, more than 2 cavalry from the Second Cavalry Army of the Chu Army and more than 1 cavalry sent by several Kazakh tribes who defected along the way came to the city of Turkestan.

The Kazakhs in the city panicked!
On May [-], the Chu army launched an attack on the city, but this time the attack was dominated by the Second Cavalry Army on the periphery and provided artillery support. The main force of the attack was the Kazakhs who had defected.

This is not because the Chu army was lazy and deliberately sent the vassal army to die, but the main force that the Chu army used to attack the city, that is, the second infantry division and an independent artillery regiment, were still on the way.

The generals of the Second Cavalry Army of the Chu Army never thought of forcibly attacking the city by relying on the 65mm field guns and [-]mm field guns they carried with the army.

It's not necessary!

It will not be too late to attack the city after ten days and a half months when the infantry troops arrive. As for the current attack, it is only a tentative attack. Once you arrive, fight to the death.

However, to the surprise of the generals of the Chu army, it is not known whether the fighting power of the Kazakhs who defected was too fierce, or the fighting power of the defenders in the city was too scumbag.

This siege actually took down the city of Turkestan.

To be honest, this made the generals of the Chu army very uncomfortable... because in their view, siege must be very serious, and their own side would have to pull hundreds of artillery pieces, at least ten of them Dozens of large-caliber artillery pieces.

In this way, when attacking the city, there will be sufficient firepower support, and it will be reasonable to fight!

However, these Kazakhs took down the city only with the fire support of more than 20 cavalry guns provided by their own side!

And the tactics and tactics also look very old... The Kazakhs on the attacking side actually used armored infantry, carrying long ladders to charge, and a group of people behind them provided support with bows and arrows, and finally relied on hand-to-hand combat to kill the top of the city , After a bloody battle, they occupied the top of the city.

To be honest, the Chu army has not played this kind of siege method with heavy armored infantry as the core to play close combat at the top of the city for at least 20 years, let alone think that in what age, someone would still play siege like this City, so that many generals of the Chu army were stunned when they watched the battle...

Unexpectedly, more than 1 Kazakhs who surrendered took the city of Turkestan cleanly... Major General He Jingshan, the commander of the [-]nd Infantry Division who was leading the [-]nd Infantry Division in the rear and braved the wind and sand, heard the news. Angrily, he cursed, saying that the second cavalry army in front didn't pay attention to martial arts, and dared to take credit from him!

Obviously, it was agreed before the battle... well, all kinds of benefits and combat achievements have been allocated, the two cavalry corps are in charge of field battles, and the second infantry division is responsible for the siege of the city.

As a result, the Second Cavalry Army didn't pay attention to martial arts, and directly attacked the city to grab credit. He Jingshan was naturally very upset.

He Jingshan, who was in a state of desperation, returned a handwritten letter and directly complained to the headquarters of the group army, saying that the second group army had violated the battle plan and disobeyed orders.

Lieutenant General Du Mao, the commander of the Second Cavalry Army, also felt wronged...I didn't attack the city...I just sent someone to test it lightly, in order to do fire reconnaissance for your Second Infantry Division.

I didn't even let the cavalry from the headquarters of the Second Cavalry Army dismount and attack the city on foot. I only provided about 1 cavalry cannons.

But the ghost knew that the opponent was so careless, it was just a wave of probing attacks, and the opponent directly knelt down.

Can this be my fault?

Because of this incident, the cavalry, infantry, and even the artillery had a lot of disputes. The war of words went all the way to the headquarters of the group army, and even caused the infantry and artillery generals in Jinling City to jointly launch a crusade against the cavalry generals.

The generals of the three major branches of the army had a lot of quarrels because of this matter.

However, these subsequent internal quarrels in the army did not affect the progress of the war in the direction of Kazakhstan.

After taking the city of Turkestan, the main force of the Chu army continued to march west along the Syr Darya, and at the same time divided part of the troops to go south to Tashkent.

This time, the Second Infantry Division didn't say anything about letting the cavalry take the lead, but did it by themselves.

Although there are thousands of Kazakh defenders in Tashkent, they will definitely not be the opponent of the Second Infantry Division. Therefore, on June 28, [-] Chengshun, the Second Infantry Division of the Chu Army captured Tashkent, and then quickly controlled the surrounding area. area.

On June 27, the Second Cavalry Army marching westward along the Syr Darya defeated the [-] cavalry coalition composed of more than a dozen large and small tribes in western Kazakhstan, annihilating the last large-scale organized resistance force in the Kazakh Khanate.

This battle can be regarded as completely smashing the resistance of the local aborigines. Immediately afterwards, many local aboriginal tribes either fled westward or surrendered on the spot.

In July, the Great Chu Empire formally established Lianghe Province, with the governor stationed in Turkistan (Turkestan, Turkestan); Ob River Province was also established together, with the governor stationed in Tuobo City (later Tyumen Prefecture) ), the original large steppes and southern regions ruled by the Kazakh Khanate, and the northern part joined the Ob River Province.

The eastern region of Kazakhstan has joined Turpan Province, and the remaining Mesopotamia and the southern Tashkent region, as well as parts of the western region, belong to the newly established Mesopotamia Province.

As the Kazakh grassland is divided into three, the Kazakh Khanate as a political power, and even history will be completely destroyed.

Immediately afterwards, the Great Chu Empire quickly organized a large number of immigrants from the Guannei area to Central Asia for reclamation, and gave various preferential policies, including granting large tracts of land for free, which attracted many landless and landless people living in poverty in Shaanxi and Gansu. .

Although the distance from Shaanxi, Gansu and even the Central Plains to Central Asia is far away, the interest of domestic civil affairs to go to immigration is greater than that of overseas countries, and they are more active.

After all, emigrating to the sea, even if it is just emigrating to Nanyang, will give people a sense of very far away, even separating the two places.

And if you go to Central Asia, even if the land is thousands of kilometers away, many people still feel that they are still under the same blue sky.

Of course, many people also know that the Northwest Railway is under construction... Now it takes a long time to go from Shaanxi, Gansu and the Central Plains to Central Asia, and the road is not easy to travel, but it will be much more convenient when the railway is opened.

According to the speed of the train, after the opening of the Northwest Railway, it will actually take about ten days to travel between Turkestan and Chang'an in Central Asia.

Therefore, compared with immigrating overseas, most people in China prefer to immigrate to Central Asia.

After all, although Central Asia is also the Western Region, it is only a long distance away. The local geographical conditions and climate are not too bad, especially the Mesopotamia in the south-central region of Central Asia, which is still very suitable for survival.

While the imperial officials organized immigrants to settle in the past, they also used the front-line garrisons to carry out military settlements, and at the same time began to build various fortress cities along the rivers and rivers.

From time to time, cavalry troops were sent to sweep up those tribes who refused to surrender and refused to follow the orders of the Great Chu Empire to establish herds and even cultivate them.

After a big battle, many indigenous tribes in Kazakhstan died in the war. In fact, the Chu army did not kill many people in the war. The main reason was that they killed more people. Some tribes who surrendered to the Chu army, and those There is a huge hatred between the tribes that have not surrendered, and this fight is very cruel.

When the city of Turkestan (Turkestan) was attacked, the Kazakhs who attacked the city did not hold back at all, and killed the remaining defenders, bureaucrats, nobles and even civilians in the city... If the Chu army did not stop them Then, it is estimated that they will burn the city with a fire.

The infighting between them caused a large reduction in the local population.

There are also many tribes who migrated and fled to the Russian-controlled area in the west, and some fled to the Khiva Khanate and Bukhara Khanate in the south.

All these have led to the rapid decline of the indigenous population in Kazakhstan from the previous 30 million to 80 million.

Regarding these indigenous populations, the policy of the Great Chu Empire is similar to that of the Mobei tribes and the remnants of the Zhungeer tribe.

First, disrupt the tribal system, establish systems such as state capitals, counties, and towns, and then split and integrate the tribes.

Then move some of the population to other places... In short, they are not allowed to stay on the original land. Anyway, the Great Chu Empire is large enough to easily move and resettle several 10 people.

And after this population is moved to other places, it will be submerged in the huge population of the Great Chu Empire in an instant, and will be completely integrated in the end.

As for the main population composition of Lianghe Province in the future, it will naturally be composed of new immigrants from Shaanxi, Gansu and even the Central Plains!

Accompanied by cross-immigrant resettlement, there are also a large number of integration and education policies such as changing customs and intermarriage.

During this process, not all the natives were willing to obey the empire's arrangements. Some people always felt that they were strong enough to fight against the empire, and even did not hesitate to fight with arms, just like the chieftains in the Southwest and Qingkang back then...

And now you look at the southwest and Qingkang areas... but there is no trace of the chieftain.

The same is true in Lianghe Province and other areas today. The Great Chu Empire has always had a very tough attitude towards this new controlled territory. If you honestly obey the arrangement and accept the integration, then you will be your own people in the future.

Dishonest or even armed resistance will not show any mercy.

With military suppression, cross immigration, and forced integration at the same time, the Great Chu Empire will be able to complete complete control of this area in a few years.

In another dozen or 20 years, the Kazakh grassland area has been an inseparable part of the Great Chu Empire since ancient times!