At dawn, the Ming army did not attack the city. Instead, they retreated another ten miles based on their original position.

This made Luobuzangdanjin, whose eyes were red after working all night, ecstatic.

In his opinion, the Han people consumed a lot of ammunition yesterday. Today's retreat was due to lack of ammunition.

So, he sent 10,000 cavalry and rushed out of Tashkent. These cavalry carried a large amount of explosives, ready to blow up the iron guys of the Ming army.

It's a pity that ten thousand cavalry are still like a stone in the water. They just made some ripples, and then turned into corpses lying on the ground in a mess, including humans and horses.

Seeing the vultures and crows descending from the sky again, pecking at the bodies of his men who were still howling, Luo Bu Zang Danjin felt a chill running down his spine.

That kind of steel chariot is indeed invincible, at least the cavalry is invincible. Because his men have never rushed within a thousand meters of that kind of chariot!

You can't even get within a thousand meters, let alone throw explosives on the chariot and blow it up.

As for the ammunition issue...!

At three o'clock in the day, Luobuzangdanjin saw the huge figure of the airship.

Those airships, which were much larger than those seen in the past, had no intention of approaching Tashkent. They landed in the Ming army's position and began to unload cargo downwards.

Luobuzangdanjin was even horrified to discover that the Ming people's airship also brought an iron cart with a shovel.

Not only can this thing pull heavy materials, it can also quickly push up mountains of earth on the ground!

On the first day, Luobuzangdanjin was very happy because although the Ming army had received supplies, it had no intention of attacking.

On the second day, Luobuzangdanjin was still very happy because the Ming army also did not launch an attack!

In any case, it still takes some time to arrange street battles. The longer the time, the more complete the preparations for street battles, and the greater the damage caused to the Ming army.

After waiting to cause enough damage to the Ming army, Luobuzangdanjin decided to escape with his men on the fastest horses.

With these few days, Talihutai must have escorted his followers a long way. Beregutai can almost control Ashgabat.

Cutting off one's tail to survive is the saddest and most helpless choice for Mongolians.

When he woke up on the third morning, Luobuzangdanjin couldn't laugh anymore. Because those bulldozers emitting black smoke actually connected the disconnected mountains overnight.

Under the hill, groups of soldiers were driving stakes into the ground. Soon, long barbed wire fences were erected in front of the hill.

Moreover, three lines were erected in a row.

What is even more eye-opening is that...there are actually engineers laying mines in front of the Mongols with great fanfare.

I really wanted to send someone out to kill those damn engineers more than ten miles away. But I moved the telescope back a little, and I saw the black muzzle and the machine guns set up every one or two hundred meters.

The airship kept transporting things all day long, and even at night there was no sign of stopping.

When Tashkent was surrounded by high mountains of earth and barbed wire blocking the way, Luobuzangdanjin felt that he would never be able to escape unless he grew wings.

The Ming army had no intention of letting him leave Tashkent.

Now coming off the airship were groups of fully armed Ming soldiers. Standing at the top of the dilapidated city of Tashkent, Luobuzangdanjin could even see that the airship even brought a kind of house that could be assembled in the distance.

Groups of soldiers were assembling these houses like building blocks. Soon, brand-new barracks were built one after another.

Before nightfall, Luobuzangdanjin even smelled the aroma of the Ming army's stew.

Now the only place where we can rush out is that there is a gap in the west mountain. Luo Bu Zangdanjin thinks that is the slaughterhouse prepared by the Ming army.

As long as the Mongolian cavalry dares to break out from here, the machine guns will tear their men apart like wheat.

On the fifth day, Luobuzangdanjin was no longer prepared to climb the city. He knew that he was dead and there was no point in rushing towards the gap.

There is no need to use the corpses of men and horses to build a new mountain of corpses.

"Great Khan! Great Khan! Go and have a look." The soldiers rushed into the house where he was sleeping rudely.

These days, he has been sleeping in a residence under the city wall.

"What's the fuss about?" Luo Bu Zangdanjin hadn't slept much in the past few days. He had just slept for two hours and was very dissatisfied with being woken up by soldiers.

"Talihutai! Talihutai...!" The soldier was so anxious that he stuttered and pointed at the broken city wall with one hand.

Luo Bu Zang Dan Jin immediately jumped up and ran up the city wall in three steps and two steps at a time.

The situation in front of him made his liver and gallbladder split.

From the mountain pass left by the Ming Dynasty, Mongolians were constantly being driven in. The one at the front was Talihutai who was ordered by him to protect the transfer of his troops.

It’s over! It’s all over!

Behind Talihutai, aren't they the same tribesmen he wants to protect...!

Many people were injured and were being supported by people around them.

Teams are pouring in from the gap in a steady stream, and it's endless and I don't know how many more are behind.

Talihutai, with disheveled hair and blood-stained face, walked to the bottom of the city. When he saw Luobuzangdanjin at the top of the city, he sadly shouted: "Great sweat...!"

Then he knelt on the ground, sobbing and speechless.

"Where is Bielie Gutai...!" Just after asking half a sentence, Luobuzangdanjin shut his mouth.

Because he discovered that a Huns next to him was carrying a cage. What was in the cage was the head of Belegutai.

"Great Khan...! We were ambushed by the Ming cavalry. Except for those who died in the battle, the remaining tribesmen and soldiers are here. The livestock and belongings are all lost...!"

Luobuzangdanjin wanted to jump down and strangle Talihutai to death with his own hands.

He was smart enough to understand the Han people's intentions. It was spring now. After a winter, there was not much food in Tashkent.

A hundred thousand troops might be able to feed themselves for three or two months, but now there are hundreds of thousands more mouths. This will greatly consume the city's stored food!

But it's useless to say anything now. Many Mongolians have already begun to climb the gap opened yesterday. They climbed into the city of Tashkent from the broken bricks and rubble!

These are all Mongolian herdsmen of Jungar, and they are relatives and relatives of the soldiers guarding the city. As soon as they entered the city, Luobuzangdanjin heard loud cries that shook the sky.

There was no need to open the city gate, all the Mongols just climbed in from the ruins of the city wall. Although the speed was a bit slow, fortunately the gaps were big enough and there were enough.

We climbed like this from morning to afternoon, and until dark, no one came out of the gap.

The bulldozers roared again, and the only gap outside Tashkent was blocked.

Since then, the city of Tashkent and the city outside have become two worlds.

The people inside could only think about evolving wings quickly. The people outside..., the Ming army had no plans to enter the city yet.

The days passed day by day, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Mangui stood on the mountain in boredom, looking at the city of Tashkent more than ten miles away with a telescope.

During this month, the Ming army was not idle.

The able-bodied prisoners of war who were left behind were armed with shovels and pickaxes. They forced themselves in front of the mountain and dug a trench thirty meters wide and five meters deep around the city of Tashkent.

Tashkent is very dry, but has abundant underground water resources. Soon, water began to come up from the trenches dug deeper and deeper. Finally, a moat was formed in front of the earth mountain.

In front of the trench, there were many rusty triangular nails that had been stored in the warehouse for who knows how many years.

This thing used to be Li Xiao's unique skill against cavalry, but the emergence of machine guns made these things no longer useful.

After the prisoners dug the trench, they thought they would be killed by one shot and left the trench. Unexpectedly, Mangui released them with a wave of his hand.

Before leaving, I even gave them a nice meal.

The prisoners turned back in three steps and left reluctantly. Because the place they were going to was the city of Tashkent, which was more than ten miles away. They knew with their butts that even if it wasn't there now, it would soon turn into a hell on earth.

"Hey...!" Man Gui sighed, he felt that fighting like this was really fucking pointless.

After running for thousands of miles, more people died on the road than in battle. In the end, one fell behind and, together with the Army's Fourth Division, surrounded Tashkent and waited for the Mongols inside to starve to death.

Although he was reluctant, he couldn't question it because this was Li Xiao's order, and he wanted the Mongols to starve to death in Tashkent.

This is the most vicious punishment that Li Xiao could think of.

"Commander! This is inhumane. After all, it means hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be good to capture those prisoners alive and send them to the mines to work as coolies. This can save a lot of money."

From an economic perspective, Zhang Huangyan believed that Li Xiao's actions were a serious waste of human resources.

"Zu Dashou cannot die in vain, the Mongols have to pay the price. The price is that there will no longer be a nation of Zhungeer Mongols!

If they still exist in the world, then we can only leave them with a place name." Li Xiao flipped through the newspaper, as if he was chatting.

"But hundreds of thousands of people are crowded together and have no food to eat. They will eat people." For Zhang Huangyan, it is absolutely unacceptable for people to eat people. According to him, this is harmful to the harmony of heaven and earth.

"Don't worry, they will eat quickly. It is already early summer in the capital, and it will be very hot in Tashkent. Even if they eat people, they won't be able to survive for long after killing one person.

Rotting corpses in the city will quickly form a plague. You know, once the plague breaks out, people will not live long."

"But the plague can also infect the Ming army. The Ming army is also a human being. They can also be infected!

If the plague is brought back to the mainland, the consequences will be disastrous."

"You don't have to worry about this. Doctor Li has already gone to the front line. He will handle this kind of matter. In fact, it is difficult for the air to spread germs as far as more than ten miles.

Things that can spread bacteria are actually mice.

That's why I had people dig the trench. First, the underground water veins were cut off, so the people in the city could no longer drink clean water, and it was more likely to breed all kinds of strange diseases.

Second, the emergence of a moat can isolate rats. Although not all of them can be isolated, most of them can be isolated. Coupled with the health regulations strictly implemented by our army, the epidemic will have little impact on our army.

I think in two months there will be no one in Tashkent. By then, even if we lift the siege, the people inside will not be able to get out."
To be continued...