Dominate the Country

On the Khiva Oasis in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya River, a magnificent ancient city stands on the ground. This is Khiva, the capital of the Khiva Khanate.

Because the city is located near the Karakum Desert, the climate here is extremely dry. If it weren't for the Amu Darya River, it would be hard to imagine that there would be such a large oasis here.

Khiva was the last stop on the route from Central Asia to Persia and controlled the Central Asian trade route from the Volga River to Persia.

Sixty-five years ago, Nader Shah of Persia conquered this place, but after Nader Shah was assassinated, the whole of Persia was in chaos. Naturally, Vasi, who was conquered by Nader Shah, also rebelled. The Khiva Khanate, which was barely breathing, was revived.

However, the Khanate's royal family, which had lost its authority, fell into chaos anyway. After decades of internal fighting, Iltuzer of the Konggre tribe abolished the old "puppet khan" and established the Konggre dynasty. If time and space had not changed, the Kongler Dynasty would have had a rather glorious period until it was conquered by Tsarist Russia in the second half of the 19th century.

The reign of Mohammad Rahim Khan, the son of Iltozer, would be the golden moment of the Kongal dynasty.

But there is an extra Chen Ming in this time and space, which is like a fulcrum that changes the trajectory of the earth, causing the rolling wheels of history to deviate far from the established direction. The newly established Kongel Dynasty has not yet cleaned up everything from the ruins of the old Khiva Khanate, and now everything is gone. Mohammad Rahim Khan fled to Tsarist Russia in embarrassment, and the entire Khiva knelt before the Northern Allied Forces. The soldiers are under attack.

Among the ranks of the Kazakh and Mongolian armies, there are a few Chinese, but they have a lofty status that many Kazakh nobles and Mongolian nobles do not have. In name, they are a field observation group, or military advisers to the Northern Alliance, but in fact they are the emperors of the alliance, with a very special status.

It's just that these people have received special training before they came to the coalition. Their daily behavior will not violate the life, beliefs and customs of Mongolia and Kazakhs at all, nor will they be domineering, let alone misbehave. Therefore, although these people have a high status, their evaluation in the team is also extremely high.

The inner city of Ichin, the last fortress of the Khiva Khanate - the inner city of the royal palace of Khiva, is now silent. The only sound that can be heard is the waving of flags on the city wall that are very different from the star and moon flag of Khiva.

Starting from Bashar Assad Emir of Khiva Khanate and down, the remaining ministers, generals, royal family members, religious order elders and other leaders of this defeated country all gathered in the square outside the north gate of the inner city. The defenders of Khiva have surrendered, and six to seven thousand people have lined up to enter the multiple prisoner of war camps established by the coalition forces outside the city.

The captured guns, artillery and rockets were piled high and high outside the north gate.

The remaining people were the upper echelons of Shiva. Hundreds of people stood in silence, bowing and waiting in fear. At the same time, a large number of Northern Alliance soldiers had entered the inner city and occupied many key military locations such as fortresses and forts. There were also two rows of soldiers with live ammunition standing in formation on the city wall. Each one of them was looking down with great nervousness. There were also sharpshooters holding rifled guns on the commanding heights everywhere on guard.

Outside the city of Yichen and in the city of Khiva, the people and businessmen from the outer city crowded to both sides of the street, squeezing and looking at the coalition soldiers standing on both sides of the street. Extending straight from the city gate, like two parallel lines that never intersect, a black seven-star flag hangs in the center of the city gate. This is the military flag of the Allied Forces of the Seven Northern Khanates, marked by the Big Dipper. Under that flag, a group of coalition cavalry riding tall horses, wearing breastplates, hanging sabers and carrying muskets filed in!

This is a small part of the city dedication ceremony before the coming of the Gaohu Dynasty. The cavalry riding tall horses went straight from the outer city to the north gate of the inner city, and then showed an outer figure of eight, including the north gate of the inner city. They stared at the hundreds of Khivas outside the gate. Noble person.

The person who led the coalition forces to march on Khiva was not Obasi or Seleng, but Tsebok Dorji, who was nearly sixty years old. The Wobasi people were still on the battlefield in Kokand, together with the Kazakhs, suppressing local resistance forces. Because of well-known reasons, the Kazakh people's faith is not pure. It is already mixed with a lot of miscellaneous things. Now that Buddhism and Tantra have mixed it in, it becomes even more muddy and lively. .

Seleng had died of illness for six months.

He was getting older, and the siege of Samarkand sapped the last of his strength, and he ultimately failed to survive the harsh winter.

Sheleng died, but it did not affect the overall situation.

The siege of Samarkand was still won. When Tsebekdorzi led his troops into Khiva, Obasiya led his troops into Bukhara as a conqueror.

There were three major battlefields in the First World War in Central Asia. One was controlled by Chen Han personally, one was controlled by Obasi himself, and the third was jointly controlled by Zhongyuzi and the Torgut Khanate. This was the foundation laid by Abu Ben Khan for Zhongyuzi. Although he had died of illness for several years, he still left several generals with war experience in the Zhongyuzi tribe, allowing Zhongyuzi to succeed in this war. Obtained a more important position.

The advantages of the Torgut Khanate need no introduction.

Not all of Wobasi himself and his generals are good at fighting, but at least they have good war experience. This is what the other three Mongol Khanates lack. The remaining three Mongol khanates only had the experience of beating up drowned dogs, and Torgut's advantage was too great.

Tsebekdorji rode a black and shiny Ferghana horse and walked to the south gate of the inner city of Ichin.

The Western Regions are rich in good horses. The origin of Ferghana horses is in the Akhal Oasis of the Khiva Khanate, located between the Kopet Mountains and the Karakum Desert. This is an ancient horse breed, an excellent horse breed, with a history of 3,000 years. This is also the purest horse breed in the world, which has been thriving from ancient times to the present, and has never been cut off. As an excellent horse breed, Ferghana horses have always been the most precious wealth of the Khiva Khanate. Before this, Chen Han used all means to introduce only 100 Ferghana horses from Khiva.

When Muhammad Rahim Khan fled to Russia, he only took away 100 or 200 Ferghana horses in Khiva City. More Ferghana horses still lived in the hands of nobles in the Akhal Oasis and the three Khanates.

Later Turkmenistan used it as a national gift, and there were only 3,000 in the world. So what about the Ferghana horses now? There are not many of them.

Compared with the millions of Kazakh and Mongolian horses, the total number of Ferghana horses is only about 10,000. As a horse race, this number is very small. But there is no way!

In ancient times, most of the horses used for war were castrated, which made some excellent war horses lose the ability to reproduce offspring, thus causing the degeneration of the quality of the horse breed. Ferghana horses suffered from this, and because of their reputation, they have experienced countless wars since ancient times.

Most of the citizens in Khiva have experience in raising and riding horses. In Central Asia, not being able to ride a horse is like not being able to drive or ride a motorcycle in later generations. They still remember clearly what their own cavalry looks like. The citizens of Khiva have seen many cavalrymen, and they have a concept of what cavalrymen should be like in their hearts.

Those Khiva cavalrymen were also dressed in bright armor before the war. Did Khiva also have breastplate cavalry? But compared with the cavalry in front of them, they feel a little far apart. It's like a silver-plated spear head and a real sharp spear. This is not about whether the formations of each other are as neat as if they were cut by knives and axes, but more about the breathtaking murderous aura!

Some Khivans who have seen the Russian Cossack cavalry can't help but compare the cavalry of the Northern Alliance with the Russian cavalry, and finally come to a unified understanding that this is as powerful cavalry as the Russians!

As the Tsarist Russia that sent troops to invade Khiva a hundred years ago, Peter I once sent a duke to lead six or seven thousand people to Khiva, but the whole army was annihilated. The reputation of the Russian cavalry is known to every Khivan since childhood.

All Khivans know that "Tsarist Russia" is a powerful country. Even Persia, which broke through Khiva, and the Ottoman Empire, which is more powerful than Persia, were oppressed and bullied by Russia. The power of this "Tsarist Russia" can be imagined.

The powerful cavalry owned by that powerful country is called Cossack, and its combat effectiveness is naturally much higher than that of Khiva's nomadic cavalry.

With this preconceived notion, the Khivans, when seeing the elite Cossack cavalry sent by St. Petersburg to the three southern khanates in Central Asia, will naturally come to the conclusion that the Cossacks are really powerful, far more powerful than the Khivan cavalry. Now, under the fear of being conquered, the Khivans saw the Northern Allied cavalry fighting to death on the battlefield for three years. Looking at the murderous Northern Allied cavalry, they naturally came to such a conclusion that makes real discerning people feel ridiculous.

The cavalry of the Northern Seven Khanates has indeed grown a lot after three years of actual combat. It can be said that Chen Ming can now use them boldly to fight against the Russian Cossacks, but to say that they are completely comparable to the Cossacks is a layman's talk.

The Cossacks are barbarians with calm brains. Their essence is barbarians. From the bones, hundreds of thousands of Cossacks exude an indescribable wildness. This is the character they have developed in the two or three hundred years of fighting for the Tsar, which has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of every Cossack.

The cavalry of the Seven Khanates of the North are essentially nomads.

Nomads are also wild, but their wildness is only compared to farming peoples, and is much different from that of Cossacks.

This is like the difference between the Mongols who naturalized in the Ming Dynasty and the Eight Banners Tartars. That is an essential difference!

How could such cavalry of the Seven Khanates of the North be exactly the same as Cossacks?

But calm barbarians are not necessarily stronger than well-trained ordinary people. The individual strength of the Cossacks is very strong, but what about the group comparison? Today's Cossacks are not a huge war group with a population of over 10 million in a hundred years. Today's Cossack population, all added together, is at most one million. How can such a population be compared with the Seven Khanates of the North, whose population is several times that of the Seven Khanates?

But in the eyes of today's Khivans, this is: the Northern Army has such elites, no wonder it can defeat the Allied Forces and become the master of Central Asia!

Jimmy Martin, a reporter for the British Daily News in China, also entered Khiva with the coalition forces.

He lived in a fairly comfortable place, and his neighbors were all war correspondents accompanying the army.

Jimmy Martin closed the window, and the sound of celebration continued to reach his ears, but the sound was much quieter.

"...Today, the coalition forces successfully entered the city of Khiva. More than 6,000 Khiva soldiers laid down their weapons and walked into the prisoner-of-war camp prepared for them by the coalition forces. The gunfire in Central Asia has not completely subsided, and Central Asia has not completely calmed down, but the Central Asian war can be said to be over.

The Chinese won a glorious victory, and the whole of Central Asia knelt at the feet of the Chinese. Yes, the Chinese. They are the masters of Central Asia, and the seven northern khanates are just seven vicious dogs guarding the pasture for their masters! "