Chapter 357 Qing Dynasty, see me Qing Dynasty again
Ural River.
The Ming army arrayed behind the river.
Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Gaoxu not to even know about Timur's surprise attack.
He even brings more hot air balloons than his father.
So in order to let Belgosarai know the news of the arrival of reinforcements, he actually released a total of six hot air balloons. They were all released when the wind was blowing in that direction. One of the six hot air balloons could always reach them. As for the top
How the soldiers return to Salechuk depends on their own abilities...
He never considered that these people could return.
There are also a large number of tethered balloons outside Salechuk, carried by camels, which are continuously patrolled and guarded every day.
Although Timur also knew about the Ming army's hot air balloons, so his men marched at night, but it was difficult for 50,000 cavalry to remain concealed even at night.
Under the moonlight, they were discovered by the alert sentry on the hot air balloon.
The latter immediately fired warning rockets. The rockets exploded hundreds of meters high in the night sky, letting Zhu Gaoxu, who was thirty miles away, know the news of the enemy's attack, and quickly began to assemble the troops. When he could only maintain the physical strength of his war horses,
Timur, who continued to advance at a normal horse speed, led 50,000 cavalry when they arrived. It was already an hour later. The sixteen camel cities scattered in camps along the Caspian Sea had already completed their assembly and were arrayed on the open and flat grasslands.
wait……
"Timur, after all, you are considered a person. Isn't it ridiculous to be so sneaky? My father married your granddaughter, so you are also an elder. You attack the younger generation as an elder and act like a thief. Is this what you rely on?
Stolen territory?”
In front of the sixteen camel cities, Zhu Gaoxu, carrying a mace, showed off his power.
The sixteen camel cities behind him were divided into four brigades and arranged in a chessboard formation. To put it simply, they were groups of four, and then the four groups formed a giant square array...
The main reason is that the Ural River behind it is not deep.
This famous river that divides Asia and Europe has less and less water because the lower reaches are desert grasslands.
After arriving at the mouth of the sea, there are basically only a few dozen meters wide. Timur's cavalry can completely bypass it and then cross the river to attack from behind. The Ming army's camel city tactics are inherently quagmire, that is, each camel city acts as a
Independent combat units, and then the remaining units can be combined at will according to the situation, but the fire distance is maintained.
But there is only one principle: let the enemy fall into a fire trap.
If the enemy is not fooled, they can only attack the front, but reinforcements from other camel cities behind will continue to fill the front.
So the spectacular sight of the sixteen camel cities behind Zhu Gaoxu was actually a headache for Timur standing on a giant elephant.
There was laughter immediately behind Zhu Gaoxu.
"Timur, since your granddaughter is my father's concubine, we Han people follow etiquette, so I will let you attack first!"
Zhu Gaoxu shouted.
Then he turned his horse's head and retreated into the formation with his bodyguard.
Timur just waved his hand forward silently, and then the war elephants beside him moved forward...
This is the method he developed to break through the camel city. He goes directly to the armored war elephants. These elephants are protected by iron armor. They are like giant steel beasts. They move forward slowly and with great momentum. Behind the war elephants are people.
Once the armored war elephants of Mu'er's elite cavalry invaded the camel city of the Ming army, they immediately dispersed them with their cavalry. This scene was so spectacular that Zhu Gaoxu, who had just arrived at the center of the formation, turned around and looked at these giant beasts in amazement.
, and then the rapid-fire cannons on the backs of those giant elephants opened fire...
Okay, this is still an artillery war elephant.
The Ming army in front of the battle line also looked at these behemoths in astonishment.
But at the same time, the signal flag of Zhang Fu, who was actually commanding from the center, waved, and then the smoke of the mortars in the camel city rose up one by one on the front.
The explosive bombs with small tails flew directly towards the war elephants, and exploded around them the next moment.
In the restlessness of the war elephants, the field artillery opened fire immediately, and the two-kilogram shells roared through the air, and instantly hit the war elephants with the kinetic energy far beyond that of the rapid-fire cannons, even if the latter had enough
The armor that resisted the shotgun shells was useless. The war elephants hit by the shells immediately let out a shrill wail, and then began to fall down in pain, while the mortar shells still exploded in the middle, and more war elephants fell into panic and confusion.
, and even began to try to turn around.
However, Timur's long-term training is still very useful.
The elephant slaves quickly tried their best to stabilize these war elephants and let them continue to advance towards the Ming army's formation.
The field artillery continued to fire, the war elephants continued to fall, and Timur's cavalry behind clearly saw hope of victory.
They formed a formation behind and followed forward.
Then……
Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to the side.
A guard immediately handed over a glass bottle, but the mouth of the glass bottle had a fire-igniting cloth stuffed inside.
At the same time, his guards all took out the same glass bottles.
"Walk!"
Zhu Gaoxu shouted.
At the same time he lit the strip of cloth on fire.
Then his personal guards all set fire to the cloth.
The five hundred personal guards led by King Gaoyang himself were like huge awls, stabbing straight at the war elephant that was actually somewhat out of control...
This thing is not difficult to solve.
There has always been a serious problem with artillery and armored war elephants.
It's just that elephants are far more sensitive than war horses or even camels. After all, the higher the IQ, the more aware they are of danger. When explosions, fire, and even death continue to happen around them, they will become more and more aware that what they need is to escape. And just
At this time, the personal guards led by Zhu Gaoxu delivered a decisive blow. Zhu Gaoxu, who relied on his heavy armor to ignore the attacks from the opposite side and even ignored the shotguns, rushed to a war elephant. As he turned and cut across, he suddenly dropped the glass bottle in his hand.
Smashed at the war elephant. The glass bottle, with the burning cloth and the gasoline inside, hit the war elephant's armor directly, and then immediately shattered and turned into an explosion of flames...
The war elephant howled and stood up immediately.
Then it was thrown out with the soldiers in the niches on its back.
Immediately afterwards, each of the personal guards relied on their full-body armor to withstand the arrows and even shotguns from the opposite direction, and rushed directly towards the war elephants, smashing the incendiary bottles in their hands into their armor.
Then came the flames that kept exploding.
The hit war elephants wailed, struggled, and even turned around and ran violently in the flames. They also used their languages to send out escape calls to other war elephants, and then all the war elephants fled. Hundreds of armored war elephants
He turned around like crazy and bumped into the cavalry behind him. The unlucky cavalry evaded in horror and were disturbed by these violent beasts. At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu led his personal guards to quickly regroup, and then lifted up on horseback.
Spear.
"kill!"
The tyrannical King Gaoyang raised his mace and roared excitedly.
Then he rushed forward with his bodyguards, taking advantage of the chaos caused by the war elephants, to stab the scattered elites in the river.
He swept the mace in his hand, and a river cavalry was instantly knocked away.
Immediately afterwards, a spear of two feet and two swept across, knocking off these cavalry who were almost unable to resist.
The cavalry in formation will crush the cavalry without formation, not to mention the fact that it is essentially armored cavalry against ordinary cavalry.
Zhu Gaoxu and his personal guards, just like Li Shimin and the Xuanjia Army on the battlefield, quickly penetrated the chaotic river cavalry, and repeatedly penetrated it, while the cavalry in the formation behind him also followed closely.
Then he rushed out and used this opportunity to expand his victory. When Timur finally controlled the chaos caused by the collision of the war elephants and threw in the subsequent cavalry, thousands of dead cavalrymen in the river were left on the battlefield.
"Timur, is this your true ability? With this little ability, how dare you rebel against the Ming Dynasty? You can't even defeat a partial army of the Ming Dynasty.
Yang Feng is looking at you and smiling!"
Zhu Gaoxu shouted proudly.
Then he picked up the head of a river general on his mace and quickly retreated into formation with his cavalry.
Later, Timur's elites started to attack the Ming army's formation with full of anger. However, they obviously knew that they could not foolishly enter the fire trap, and they also carried some artillery and three-eyed muskets and matchlocks.
After all, Timur sold tens of thousands of camels and war horses to the Ming Dynasty, in exchange for at least the firearms of his main force.
The cavalrymen in the river who attacked to a certain distance, like the Ming army, used the artillery on the backs of camels to bombard the Ming army.
But the effect is not good.
The Ming Army's Camel City did not simply let the camels lie down. These things were still made of flesh and blood. Even if they were rough and thick, they would not be able to withstand continuous attacks. Therefore, the camels were just carriers of firepower. They were protected. Not only were they covered with thick
The cotton armor also has an iron-wood insert plate on the outside similar to that of my Qing Dynasty shield vehicle. Rapid-fire cannon shotshells are basically harmless to it. In fact, in a battle on a preset battlefield like this, there are sandbags outside, and sacks are very harmful to it.
The Ming army had plenty of it, and there was so much sand here that it was so easy to pile up sandbags.
There is even a simple trench in front of the preset formation, that is, there are no trees here, so it is not easy to resist the horse.
But there are still caltrops.
No one could defeat the Ming army in a confrontation with such firearms.
Timur just bought some firearms and then copied some of the crude ones. Especially the rapid-fire cannons were not at the same level as the Ming army. He didn't know the formula of the gunpowder. They could only be old ones, which were not as powerful as those ten taels of silver in the late Ming Dynasty.
One version also comes with six cartridges.
Of course, Timur was not in a hurry. This battle could not be completed in a short time, and he had not yet expected to form a devastating encirclement and annihilation of the 20,000 Ming army.
The Ming army's Camel City with sufficient ammunition was almost impossible to break.
But he has an absolute numerical advantage.
Even if the Guangming Army uses up their ammunition, they will eventually be defeated.
However……
In the sparse bushes by the river in the distance, a guy wearing a leather robe and looking like an ordinary herdsman nearby was looking at the battlefield with a telescope that looked like he had traveled back in time.
"Great Khan, how far is it from Biege Sarai?"
Fancha, one of my ancestors from the Qing Dynasty and currently the commander of the Zhaosheng Army, looked at Kun Timur who was holding up a telescope.
As the commander of Yanrandu, the latter personally led the Zhaosheng Army in the western expedition to show his loyalty to the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty.
But it's mainly just to get some money.
As a marquis, he commanded the Yanran City and the Envoy Department, but he was young after all and was relatively loose with money, so he used all the things he robbed with Yang Feng during the last Western Expedition to enjoy, not only in the Yanran City Department
Temples are being built in various places, and eminent monks from the plateau are invited. And because they are young and prefer women, they have collected more than a hundred women alone. Not to mention others, a new suit of clothes for each person is a huge sum of money.
Because following Yang Fengjiu, he also pursued those more fashionable things, such as the Marquis Cidili glass mirrors he had in Harrah and Lin.
So money is a bit tight now.
When he learned that the Zhaosheng Army was marching to the west, he wrote a letter willing to lead his men and join the Zhaosheng Army in the Western Expedition. Of course he wanted to support this kind of thing, so the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty not only promoted him to a dukedom, but also gave him a lot of rewards. Then he
As the commander-in-chief of the Zhaosheng Army, personally appointed by the Queen Mother, he took 5,000 nomadic cavalry from Yanran Dusi and 20,000 cavalry from Huining to embark on the Western Expedition. But they had not yet reached Beiping Prefecture.
, already knew the news that King Yan was trapped in Beergesalai, and that all the armies, including Guilichi and others, had gone westward for rescue. Kun Timur immediately ordered the westward journey.
But he lacked camels and could not take the southern route, and the northern route was too far. He happened to pick up a group of others along the way. In the end, they chose to go directly west from the Irtysh River, across the Siberian steppe, and continued all the way.
Arrive at the Ural River and then go south along the Ural River.
Arriving just in time.
"At least ten days on horseback."
Chief Yue Jibie followed and said.
"The situation now is that Timur is attacking the Heavenly Soldiers, but the Kipchaks did not show up. They must have surrounded King Yan in Beergosarai. We now have two choices. Join the war and help the Heavenly Soldiers defeat Timur, but the siege
Annihilation is impossible, Timur will still retreat and make peace with the Kipchak, and then at worst they will withdraw and let us take King Yan back, but we will not get much benefit. Another option is to bypass here and go directly
Go to Beergesarai to insert the back of the Kipchaks, and Guilichi from the north is also heading south. As long as we defeat the Kipchaks, we can, together with King Yan and Guilichi, trap Timur here until
Get rid of him.
Then let’s go grab the river.”
Fancha analyzed the simple map there with a calm attitude as if he was about to get a big deal.
He was the brother of the slain Mengge Timur, but after Mengge Timur's death he surrendered to Aha Chu or Li Jinzhong, and has been Li Jinzhong's subordinate for these years.
But there is no future.
After all, his status determines his future as a small boss.
However, this Zhaosheng Army's Western Expedition gave him hope and he immediately signed up to participate. Li Jinzhong was somewhat wary of people like him, so he just happened to send him out now.
In the end, he took hundreds of remnants from the Oduoli tribe and all joined the Zhaosheng Army. If the records of later generations are correct, these hundreds of remnants should be the only ones left among my ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, but they are only
It can be said that it is suspected. After all, my ancestors in the Qing Dynasty are a bit mysterious, but the lineage of Timur, the fierce brother in Oduo, is the most likely.
Of course, now they are working hard for their dreams on the far bank of the Ural River.
They are all very hardworking young people.
Kun Timur, who was also only in his twenties, looked at the battlefield...
"Let's go to Gosarai!"
he said.
Immediately afterwards, this group of unscrupulous guys abandoned Zhu Gaoxu and quietly went north with their 25,000 cavalry to attack Beer Gesarai.