Hello everyone, Xiaobian has come to talk to you about history again, and today we will talk about the remote area of our country - Xinjiang. Xinjiang was originally a vassal state, but it was recovered later. People always like to compare the three generations of Emperor Kangqian with the reconquest of Zuo Zongtang, which is not fair. Because the three generations of Kangqian emperors suppressed the Dzungars, which was different from the Zhedesar Khanate that Zuo Zongtang recovered, we must not say that their thinking of first recovering Xinjiang was different, the point is that the latter is much weaker.
Our history books use the pacification of Dzungar to describe the war between the Qing Dynasty and Dzungar, which is like saying that Dzungar is a rebel army against thieves, and we in the Qing Dynasty are going to pacify the rebels, but in fact, the three emperors of Kangqian and Dzungar are considered to be wars between the two countries, which is very difficult.
When Kangxi Ye just ascended the throne, Tibet and Outer Mongolia were in a semi-independent state, because of their remote distance, terrain and climate, at that time, they were not as developed as transportation as they are now, the court was weak in control, and there were often wars in Guannei, before Kaldan launched an attack, we had just fought a big war, with countless deaths and injuries, and the soldiers were also slightly tired, and the pressure could be said to be very large.
But at that time, we were under a lot of pressure, the Dzungars were under little pressure, and their country was on the rise. It is very powerful, controlling more than four million square kilometers of territory. And their folk customs are also very tough, and they pay attention to the training and training of the army. They had to perform simulated plays twice a year, and their armed forces were also more advanced than those of the qing dynasty officers and soldiers.
Before the war at Ulan Butong began, the Qing army sent 20,000 elite soldiers to test Dzungar, but these 20,000 elite soldiers were beaten to the ground in the past, and the whole army was destroyed. The soldiers who had fled back were dissuaded and said not to go to war with them, and to make peace.
Unable to kill the Kangxi Emperor, under pressure, he gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to auxiliary and logistical, almost 50,000 elite soldiers to fight against the Dzungar 30,000 strong generals, shelling, muskets, large knives, all that can be used, both sides do not want to kill the weapons in their hands to swing at each other. This battle was fought for a whole day, and 50,000 Qing soldiers and 30,000 Dzungar soldiers were tied.
Later, after Kangxi personally presided over the campaign, he drew over the civil unrest of Kaldan's nephew and brought Gardan's lair to the end, and Gardan could not return to Dzungar, and later after the Zi'a War, Dzungar failed and committed suicide.
At that time, Kangxi did not intend to destroy the Dzungars, one was because the area was remote and difficult to manage, one was that he had a good relationship with his nephew of the Dzungars, and the third was that there were 30,000 people opposite the people who could fight against 100,000 of us, indicating that the people on their side were very strong.
After Kaldan's death, the Qing Dynasty and Dzungar entered a period of nearly twenty years of peace, until the late kangxi years, When Kaldan's nephew, Ala zambu, invaded Tibet, and the two tore through the packaging of peace and began another great war.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he was the first to have plans to destroy Dzungar. At that time, the Qing army was planning to build the city, occupy the land of the people's home, and occupy the past little by little, until it occupied the central city of the people's home, the two families began to fight again, and then the Qing soldiers killed the Dzungars, and the two sides had to make peace, until the Qianlong Emperor ascended the throne, and there was internal strife in the Dzungars, and Qianlong took the opportunity to eliminate them. It can be said that the difficulty of the Qing Dynasty government to eliminate the Dzungars was not less than that of the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Dzungars at that time were not so easy to be destroyed, and Qianlong was also able to take advantage of this time because his grandfather and father laid a good foundation. As for the Zhedshar Khanate, it was not a hierarchy at all, they were foreign regimes, and when they arrived in Xinjiang, there were only fifty guards around them, and they were occupied in Xinjiang during the turmoil because of the support of Britain and Russia, and their rule in Xinjiang was known for its brutality, and the local Xinjiang and Mongols hated them very much, let alone loyal to them.
Agubai's strength is also far inferior to that of Dzungar, they are in the most brilliant time, and they did not completely occupy the whole of Xinjiang, Kangqian and the three places in the confrontation against Dzungar are using the method of encroachment, little by little, taking it, Zuo Zongtang is directly sending troops, the difficulty is much smaller.
Moreover, Zuo Zongtang also solved the problem that had plagued the three generations of Kangqian emperors for a long time, that is, logistical support, and the three emperors of Kangqian gave up several times because of the problem of backward tilt, and Zuo Zongtang used logistics outsourcing to solve this problem and recover Xinjiang