Chapter One Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Four Timur Empire
Although the Oara tribe suffered huge losses in the first battle, it did not shake Ugqi Hashha's will at all.
On the battlefield, as soon as a fight begins, both sides will have no way out. Unless Ugqi Hashiha wants to abandon all his troops, he will not take a step back unless absolutely necessary.
Coincidentally, the Ora people also adopted the wall-mounted warfare method. After the first batch of cavalry was defeated, the second group of Ora cavalry arrived.
However, the experience of this second batch was no different from the previous batch. Facing the artillery, they had no way to keep their charge formation in chaos. And once their formation was in chaos, they would not be the Uliangha Cavalry at all.
opponent.
This led to an endless loop. The second batch didn't last a few breaths longer than the previous batch before being wiped out.
The key point is that this tactic is like a meat grinder. Once it is started, in addition to constantly filling it, it will even stop. Moreover, Wala has to continue to fill it. If Wala dares to withdraw his troops at this time,
, then the Ming army would take the opportunity to charge and take away all the Wala camp.
Han Du saw that Oarabu's energy was frustrated and his own morale was high, so he immediately ordered, "Move the cannon forward five hundred steps and continue firing."
This has been replaced by the current light cannon, and with wheels, four people can push the cannon very fast, and it can be reached in less than a cup of tea in five hundred steps.
Without the support of artillery, the Walas cavalry could finally compete with the Ulyanha cavalry in an upright mounted shooting, which made Azashi feel a sudden increase in pressure.
Fortunately, the vigor of the Wala cavalry had been weakened, but the morale of Wu Liangha was at its peak, so it didn't take much effort to kill all these groups of cavalry.
The Wala cavalry did not hear the movement of the cannons, and thought that the Ming Dynasty's cannons had finished firing, so they quickly regrouped and boosted their morale to charge forward.
The roar of the cannon was like the death knell of the Walas, and it suddenly rang in their ears again.
The brutal fighting started when the sun rose and lasted until the sun was about to set.
The wide and flat plain provided an excellent fighting place, or cemetery, for both sides.
In wall charges again and again, the Ora cavalry were beaten back steadily. However, the Ming army moved their cannons forward again and again, constantly bombarding the Ora cavalry.
Seeing that the Ming army's advantage was getting bigger and bigger, even the cavalry on both wings began to outflank the Wala camp.
Although Uge Qiha Shiha was unwilling, he had to admit that this battle was defeated. The defeat was extremely tragic, it was a complete defeat!
The army was defeated like a mountain. After a whole day of fighting, the Wala people had long been against the Ming army.
A deep-seated fear.
Seeing that the situation was over, Uge Qiha Shiha, escorted by a group of soldiers, hurriedly escaped with the remaining soldiers under the cover of night.
Seeing that the King of Wala had fled, the other Wara cavalry naturally took advantage of the cover of night and scattered directly.
On the second day, when the Ming army came to check again, they found that there was only an empty camp left here. Or it was not even a camp, but there were some yurts that had not been dismantled in time, showing that there had been
Someone has lived here.
"I didn't expect that Uge Qiha Shiha would escape overnight. It was my miscalculation." Han Du looked at the empty camp with regret on his face.
He fought hard, but gained nothing. It seemed that he had suffered some losses in this battle. Azashili clasped his fists and smiled and said, "Master Marquis, Ugqi Hashha can escape, but he brought
We can’t take those cows and alpacas with us. There aren’t any cows or sheep here now. They must have escaped because they were left unattended. As long as we look around here, we will definitely gain something.”
Handu thought about it. Even if Ugeqiha Shiha could take away the war horses, he would definitely not be able to take away the cattle and alpacas. The speed of these three animals was far inferior to that of horses. Even Ugeqiha Shiha could not take away the cattle and alpacas.
Shihadu may not take away the war horse. Since he is running for his life, he can't take much with him even if he wants to.
"You are right, Xu Chengfei, Azashili, you should immediately send people to search the nearby area carefully, and at the same time, beware of the Walas."
"Yes!" Both of them bowed to Han Du.
Han Du looked at the empty camp and sighed again, "This battle has spent most of the gunpowder and shells. If nothing is captured, it will be a huge loss. I hope it will be like Azashi."
As mentioned in the article, let’s recover some of the losses!”
Xu Chengfei watched Azashi turn around and leave, but he did not move. Instead, his expression became solemn and he said to Han Du, "I wonder if you are willing to hand over all the command from behind to me?"
"Oh? What do you want to do?" Han Du asked with interest.
If ordinary people heard Xu Chengfei speak so directly, they would definitely think that he wanted to seize power. But Handu's own family knew his own affairs. If it were a naval battle, Handu would not be afraid of any opponent, but for a land battle, he still had no confidence.
Even if he won consecutive victories, Han Du knew very well that it was not because of how awesome his command was, but because he was bullying others with the huge power of firearms.
Therefore, Han Du did not have the slightest objection to Xu Chengfei's request.
Just want to know the reason.
"I have an idea," Xu Chengfei said after pondering for a while, "When we were fighting yesterday, I noticed that artillery can easily disrupt the formation of the cavalry charge. Not only can it dampen the spirit, but it can even easily tear apart the cavalry formation.
, it is of great help to the cavalry in front-line combat. So I was thinking, can we use this method of artillery to overcome difficulties and break the formation of the cavalry in the future, while the cavalry is responsible for assisting in killing and chasing the enemy?"
Damn it today, isn’t this a coordinated effort with cavalry and artillery? How could Xu Chengfei have such an idea?
Yesterday, Han Du didn't think so much, he just tried his best to bring out the power of the cannon.
Unexpectedly, it would become a tactic in Xu Chengfei's mouth.
Seeing Han Du pondering without saying a word, Xu Chengfei thought Han Du disagreed and quickly asked, "What do you think of my idea?"
"Okay! Very good! Very good!" Han Du kept nodding,
Then he laughed, "Hahaha, use the firepower of the cannon to smash the opponent's defense, and then use the cavalry to rush in and kill them. The division of labor is clear and they complement each other. There is no better way than this."
Seeing Han Du's high praise, Xu Chengfei suddenly felt weak and whispered, "I just want to give it a try, but I don't know if it will work or not!"
Han Du immediately clapped his hands and said, "You are right, you will know if it works or not. Then it is up to you. You will be the one to command the army from now on."
"Thank you very much!" Xu Chengfei smiled and cupped his fists at Han Du.
The facts were just as Azashili expected. The cavalry only searched the nearby areas and captured a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and camels, but they did not even see a single living Wala man. With these 80,000 to 90,000 head
With the addition of livestock, the Ming army once again had enough food.
And Han Du knew very well the truth that "if you kill a tiger, you will be troubled later". Since he has already started a war with Ugeqi Hashiha, he should take advantage of his illness to kill him and not give Ugeqi Hashiha the slightest respite.
machine.
Therefore, Handu ordered the army to continue westward, chasing Ugeqi Hashha all the way.
Of course, Ugeqi Hashha was not willing to fail. After escaping, as soon as he settled down, he summoned tens of thousands of cavalry to prepare for a decisive battle with the Ming army to avenge his hatred!
In order to verify what he had in mind, Xu Chengfei commanded the army to fight against Ugeqi Hashha three times.
Three battles and three victories!
The last time he even captured Ugeqi Hashha alive.
After these successive defeats of the Oara tribe, it can be said that they suffered heavy casualties. Even Mahamu died on the battlefield. The entire Oara tribe suffered heavy casualties.
The tribe was beaten to pieces, losing its original unified tribe and turning into hundreds of scattered small tribes again.
Originally, I just thought about conquering the Tatar tribe, but I didn't expect that I would kill Oara casually.
The Tatars and the Walas have been the two largest tribes on the grassland since the imperial court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was defeated. If these two tribes are destroyed, there will no longer be anyone in the entire grassland who can unify the grassland with a single call.
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It can be said that since then, the threat of the Ming Dynasty in the north has completely disappeared.
With such great news, Han Du naturally couldn't wait to tell Zhu Biao the good news.
After all, before he went on the expedition, Zhu Biao had personally promised that as long as he could get some credit for his expedition, he would make himself the Duke of the country. But now that he has given him two such big surprises, not to mention rewarding himself more.
Well, there shouldn’t be any chance of running away from the position of Duke, right?
Just when Han Du wanted to return to the court, Xu Chengfei walked in.
Han Du raised his head and glanced at him, then smiled and said, "Are you all ready? If you are, let's go back quickly. Speaking of which, it has been almost a year since we came out."
Xu Chengfei nodded and said, "Everything is ready. However, I got a piece of news."
"What news?" Han Du was a little surprised. He didn't know what kind of news could make Xu Chengfei's expression solemn when he won a big victory.
"The news I just got is that Ugqi Hashiha didn't catch Benya Shili at all." Xu Chengfei followed.
Han Du was surprised and asked, "Where did Benya go?"
Xu Chengfei calmly replied, "He went west to join the Timur Empire."
"Went to the Timur Empire? Is the news reliable?" Han Du's face instantly turned ugly.
Handu has always been aware of Timur's empire's ambitions.
Originally, Handu wanted to use Tianfang and Horumos to light a few fires on the back of the Timur Empire. He did not expect that the people there were so poor in fighting ability and were no match for the Timur Empire. Carrying Timur's back
The Timur Empire was frightened by its successive achievements and did not dare to offend the Timurid Empire.
The Timurid Empire was originally blocked on the Silk Road. While intercepting various goods from the Ming Dynasty at very low prices, it also sold them to Khrumos and Byzantium at extremely high prices.
Buy low, sell high, and make a lot of money.
However, since the Ming Dynasty opened maritime trade routes, countless Ming Dynasty goods have arrived at Khrumos by sea. Since the sea route saves time and transportation costs are lower than the land route, merchants who originally took the Silk Road have tried to