In the 17th century, the Dalai Lama V lived in the city of Lhasa, and the city of Shigatse, west of Lhasa, was inhabited by an opposing neighbor, the local Tuwang Tsangpa Khan, who still practiced red religion. Sangjie, the chief consul of the Dalai Lama's religious government, asked for help from Gushi Khan, the chief of the Mongol And Shuote clan (living in Qinghai), who was invited to send troops, killed Zangba Khan and returned to Qinghai, leaving a son to lead an army to garrison Lhasa.
When the Dalai Lama V died in 1682, Sangjie was secretly buried and secretly allied with the Kaldan Khan of the Mongol Dzungars (centered on the Ili of the Tianshan North Road). Kaldan fought against the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty for a long time, and finally committed suicide in 1697. It was only then that the Qing government learned the inside story and asked Sangjie where the Dalai Lama was. Sangjie hurriedly found a 15-year-old reincarnated child (because the Dalai Lama V had been dead for 15 years) and held a sitting ceremony, known as the Dalai Lama VI.
At this time, the person who presided over the military in Tibet was already Lazang Khan, the great-grandson of Gushi Khan. Razang Khan was extremely dissatisfied with Sangjie, because when Sangjie established the Spirit Child, he did not consult with him at all. Sangjie, on the other hand, thinks that you, the Mongols, have interfered in our affairs in Tibet and plotted to poison Lhazang Khan. Unexpectedly, the news leaked, and Lazang Khan launched a surprise attack in 1705, killing Sangjie and imprisoning the Dalai Lama VI.
Therefore, the Qing government and the Dzungar Khanate simultaneously asked Lazang Khan to greet the Dalai Lama VI, who chose to send the Dalai Lama VI to the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately the Dalai Lama VI died of illness on the way. At this time, the leader of the Dzungar Khanate was Gardan's nephew Tseyu Alabutan, who had long coveted Tibet, and this time The Khan of Lhasa refused to send the Dalai Lama, giving him the best reason to send troops.
In October of the fifty-fifth year of the Qing Dynasty (1716), Ceyu Alabutan ordered his general Da Ce Zero to lead an expeditionary army of 8,000 men from Ili (present-day Yining, Xinjiang) to raid Lazang Khan in Lhasa, thousands of miles away. The straight-line distance between the two places from the map is about 2000 kilometers. In fact, this army wants to circumvent the vast desert and cross the vast snowy mountains, and the actual marching distance is at least 3,000 kilometers, including the Tianshan Mountains at an altitude of 4,000 to 5,000 meters, the Kunlun Mountains at 6,700 meters, and the Taklamakan Desert of 340,000 square kilometers. It is also necessary to overcome the difficulties of lack of oxygen in the mountains, ice and snow, deserted people along the way, and no logistical support. This was undoubtedly the most arduous, fearless, and lengthy raid in the history of world war.
Ten months later, in July of the following year (1717), the army of Da Ce Zero unknowingly reached the outskirts of Lhasa and led his army to easily capture the Potala Palace and kill Lazang Khan. The adventure was a great success.
Alabutan won the military adventure, but underestimated the Qing court's reaction to it. The Qing government soon sent troops to attack, but was defeated by Da Ce Zero in the upper reaches of the Nu River. In the fifty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1720), the Qing government once again sent an expeditionary force to attack the headquarters of Dzungar on the north tianshan road, one to enter Tibet in the west of Sichuan, and one to enter Tibet through The Tanggula Mountains in Qinghai. Da Ce was defeated and had to withdraw from the Dzungars by the same route four years ago. However, they had lost their previous sharpness, and less than half of them had survived their homeland.
Although The Great Strategy Zero was short-lived and ultimately failed, his military operations had already created a miracle, perhaps only as difficult as the Red Army's Long March of the 1930s. With this battle alone, he is worthy of the title of a generation of famous generals.