After the construction of the Beijing-Xiaotong Railway was completed, Ming Dynasty's northern strategy could finally be carried out on a large scale.
Because of the railway, a large amount of food and manpower were transported to the Far North Military City.
The first thing to do is to build a military camp.
After the army was built, the two divisions of Xue Boling and Sun Fumin came to the Far North, so the Far North Military Region had four divisions.
Zhang Zongling and three division commanders held a meeting and decided that Xue Boling's division should march along the Yenisei River.
To explore the north, Sun Fumin's division explored north along the Ob River, while Wei Junru's division stationed in Zhenbei City, and then used the city as the center to clean up the area east of the Lena River.
Zhang Zongling himself led a division to first stabilize the situation near Xiaohai and ensure the smooth progress of railway exploration.
The Zhenbei City where Wei Junru went is located on the Lena River.
After coordinating with Cao Wenzhao's Eastern Military Region, the two armies divided their respective areas of responsibility and wanted to eliminate all Rakshasa forces in this area.
It is clean and rules effectively, and the most important symbols are two, one is the military base and the other is the tax collector.
This is a long-term process that requires time and effort.
Cao Wenzhao is actually very anxious, because there is no war to fight in the Eastern Military Region now, so he has reported to the emperor several times, hoping to transfer himself to the west to fight Rakshasa.
It doesn't matter whether you are a person or a person who is beating tiles and stabbing people.
It is really time to get sick here.
However, the emperor believed that stabilizing the East was a very important task, so a general must be in charge, at least until the area of the Eastern Military Region was surveyed, the administrative divisions of various places were divided, and the military camps and tax bureaus were repaired.
Cao Wen Only with an edict can he be transferred away.
Cao Wenzhao had no choice but to do the next best thing and asked the emperor to transfer his nephew Cao Bianjiao to the west.
He did not want his uncle and nephew to stay in the east with nothing to do.
Cao Bianjiao started fighting with Cao Wenzhao when he was only a teenager.
He fought bravely and strategically.
At the age of twenty-five, he had accumulated merit and was promoted to brigade commander.
Zhu Youxiao discussed with Lu Xiangsheng and promoted him to division commander, leading a division to live in Xiaohai.
Cao Bianjiao broke away from his uncle's control and was eager to prove himself when he came to Xiaohai.
As soon as he arrived, he asked Zhang Zongling to fight westward and conquer the Kazakh Khanate that split from the Golden Horde to the north of the Wasashi people.
Zhang Zongling did not dare to make his own decisions, so he asked Lu Xiangsheng for advice.
Lu Xiangsheng had already discussed it with the emperor and asked him to allow Cao Bianjiao to go to the Junggar tribe for support and take the opportunity to occupy a city in the north of the Junggar tribe that could march north and west.
It served as a base for the Ming army in future wars.
At this time, the Kazakh Khanate was in a war with Wasi.
This war started more than a hundred years ago and would continue for decades according to the original history.
At this time, the Kazakh Khanate was in an advantage and had occupied part of the western part of the Junggar region.
In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the leader of the Junggar Tribe, Harahu Lahu, died, and his son Batur became the new leader of the Junggar Tribe.
He was called Batur Hutai Jitai Ji is lower than the tribal khan, and the tribal khan is lower than the national khan.
He was ambitious and wanted to regain the land occupied by the Kazakh Khanate.
At this time, Cao Bianjiao sent someone to contact him.
Batur was raising troops and preparing for a showdown with the Kazakh Khanate.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty, to which the Wazi people nominally surrendered, sent someone to contact him and said that he would help him deal with the Kazakh Khanate.
Naturally, he would happily agree and promised , I only need the original territory of the Junggar tribe, and the rest of the territory can be handed over to the Ming army.
The Ming army's food and grass in the Junggar tribe will be covered by myself, and the captured land will be divided equally according to the strength of everyone.
Such conditions are considered very good.
Although sharing the captured goods equally seems unfair to the Ming army, which has strong combat capabilities, considering the supply of grain and grass and the ownership of Kazakh land, the Ming army can actually be regarded as taking advantage.
Cao Bianjiao led a reinforced division with a total of 11,000 people, which had three brigades, an artillery battalion, and a special bureau.
The Military Investigation Bureau specially sent 30 people to join Cao Bianjiao's troops to prepare to collect local intelligence.
The reinforced division brought a total of 15,000 horses.
In addition to each person's mount, there were draft horses responsible for transporting artillery, ammunition and food.
When they came to the Junggar tribe, they were warmly welcomed by Batur Hutaiji, who not only provided them with a large number of cowhide tents, but also provided them with enough food for a month.
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Cao Bianjiao had been idle in the Eastern Military Region for too long, so he was eager to fight.
After discussing with Batur Hutaiji, he decided to attack the Kazakh Khanate in three days, and first retake the territory stolen from the Junggar tribe.
The Kazakh Khanate was a khanate established after breaking away from the Golden Horde and had a large territory.
On one side it is the Rakshasa Kingdom, on the other side it is Wathorn.
They fought with the Rakshasa Kingdom and Wasi at the same time and occupied a large area of territory to the west of the Junggar tribe.
Batur Hutaiji led about 20,000 people from the Junggar tribe as the central army, and Cao Bianjiao led the Ming army as the left wing, marching toward the hot spring city occupied by the Kazakh Khanate.
The Kazakh Khanate had not occupied Hot Spring City for a long time.
Seeing the menacing Junggar army, Shaibani who was defending the city immediately sent people to ask for help from the Khanate and closed the city gates to prepare for the attack.
Batur Hutaiji ordered people to surround the city, and then the Junggar people began to cut down trees to make trebuchets.
They carried the key parts of the trebuchet, and felled trees to make the trebuchet's frame.
A day later, thirty huge trebuchets stood near the east gate.
Cao Bianjiao watched the Junggar people making trebuchets and immediately became interested.
He knew that the Ming army had to go on an expedition, and the supplies could be provided by fighting locally, but ammunition and the like might be a big problem.
Therefore, although this kind of trebuchet is looked down upon by the Ming army now, it can play a great role when there are no artillery shells.
So after talking to Batur Hutaiji, he asked several officers to bring the military craftsmen to observe the process of making trebuchets.
Then let everyone discuss what steps can be optimized in the process of manufacturing trebuchets by the Junggar people, and what can be improved if the Ming army is allowed to manufacture them.
On the third day of the siege, a dozen officers were specially sent to observe the use of trebuchets.
Although the thirty trebuchets may still have bark on the shelves and they don't look very beautiful, their huge bodies give people a heavy sense of oppression.
And when the trebuchet started to move, stones without regular polishing were thrown up high and hit the city wall of Hot Spring City hard.
After the test firing, the Dzungars adjusted the trebuchet, and the stones that flew up again hit the city head, and some even fell into the city.
The sound of collapsing houses kept ringing, mixed with shrill screams. .
Batur Hutaiji did not attack, but kept throwing stones.
If this continued, the east gate of Hot Spring City, which was not majestic, would be destroyed within an hour
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