Yan Yingyuan knew in his heart that the Us Tibetan army was in an awkward position.
Whose army this army belongs to? This is a question.
On the surface, it seems to be the army of the imperial court. After all, the imperial court gave it a name. The name of the Us Tibetan Army was personally approved by the emperor. However, the establishment is not listed in the Ministry of War.
The Ministry of War has never paid them any salary, and the emperor seems to have forgotten about it. So far, grain, yaks, and various materials are materials captured by Wang Hao in Qinghai and materials allocated by Yang Fan.
No one knows whether this is a regular army or a regiment-training army.
Yang Fan also wouldn't think that this was the Yang family's army.
Because their backbone were gentry from the North and South Zhili, sent to cause trouble in the name of civilian husbands. This source destined that the Us Tibetan Army would not receive enough trust.
They all hoped to disrupt the war in the northwest. Unfortunately, they did not expect that Yang Fan and Zhang Shize would be so courageous. They immediately struck first and surrounded them with a large army. They suddenly attacked and rushed into their camp, disarmed them, and captured the leader they sent.
, and then broke up and reorganized it.
There are only a small number of people from Yang Fan's family here who maintain basic control and supervision over this army. The other officers are veterans who were left over from hundreds of battles in the early regiment formed after 40,000 civilians joined the army.
Therefore, their equipment was all provided by Yang Fan, including leather armor, iron armor, and cold weapons captured from the Mongolians in Monan. There were also some Folang machine guns and No. 34 general cannons that Yang Fan had eliminated.
However, Yang Fan still provided a large number of cotton coats, felt boots, Lei Feng hats, neck warmers, gloves and other cold-proof materials.
After all, this is a snowy area, and if you don’t keep warm enough, everyone will freeze to death.
Just when Yan Yingyuan led more than 20,000 people, they took a shortcut from Gansu and went straight to the Hehuang Valley. Baili Tusi's 30,000 troops also set off from Kham District and were rushing to the northeast of Qinghai. Their target was also Hehuang Valley.
Valley. This is the fertile land that Baili Toast has coveted for a long time.
He was very anxious. After he heard the news that Quitu Khan had used altitude sickness to defeat the cavalry division at the Kunlun Pass, he was very worried that he had conquered the Hehuang Valley first. So he hurried northward.
If he occupied this place, he could push his territory northward from the western Sichuan area and control northeastern Qinghai. The army in Kham region meandered for dozens of miles, marching hard among the snowy mountains and grasslands, heading north.
This incident had a chain reaction. As soon as Baili Toast left, Zangba Khan became anxious.
Zangba Khan had already received the news that Chieftain Baili was heading north. He immediately realized that this was an opportunity for the three parties to jointly attack Yang Fan's forces. As long as Yang Fan's people were driven out of Qinghai, the master would definitely not be able to come back.
The opportunity was too good to miss, and he quickly figured out the stakes.
He gathered more than 30,000 people and prepared to go north. He knew that Baili Tusi's target was Xining City and Hehuang Valley. He took the opportunity to defeat the master's lama army and the army that escorted him into the snowy area. The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole.
At the back, when the people they beat are brainless, they suddenly attack to defeat them.
At this time, Yang Fan was always keeping an eye on the movements of the Heshuo Special Department.
He didn't pay much attention to Baili Tusi and Zangba Khan, because Yang Fan knew that there was no chance of them. The real rival was Gushi Khan.
In the morning, Chotu Khan began to attack the city. They demolished the scattered houses and villages outside the city, cut down the woods outside the city, and built some temporary ladders. Carrying the ladders, they launched the attack.
There are still more than 7,000 troops in the city. How can we defeat 20,000 people?
Chotu Khan did not know the news that the Us Tibetan army had entered Xining. He thought that there were only two thousand people in the city. Only ten times the strength would dare to attack the city like this.
Yang Fan sat firmly on the tower, making tea leisurely. While sipping the tea, he watched them swarm in carrying simple ladders.
The first three rows are all shield soldiers holding wooden planks to block arrows, and then there are two vertical rows carrying ladders. They are two rows of more than a dozen siege soldiers.
In the middle of the rows of ladders are archers holding large bows. They are running and shooting arrows.
The arrowheads of these light arrows were stuck with a ball of sticky oil and sticky hair, which was lit with fire. The rockets were used to burn the city walls and towers.
The Khalkhas are only good archers.
The big bow uses light arrows to shoot, and the shooting speed is very fast.
In one minute, a pot of thirty arrows was shot out. In an instant, a rain of arrows formed, suppressing the 2,000 Lama troops on the city wall and the 2,000 Us Tibetan troops who had not left the city.
They did not dare to open the hanging door and stick their heads out. They could only huddle behind the crenellations of the city wall.
After a swishing sound, the dense rockets fell down in a parabola. Some were inserted into the city wall and bounced off, some fell into the city, and some simply landed on the city tower.
Water was also poured on the tower, and it couldn't be ignited for a while. However, there were some areas where the water was not poured and smoke emitted. After all, the arrows were also very angled.
Each crenel is hung with a hanging quilt, which is a quilt hung from a bamboo pole or wooden frame. The top is also wetted with water.
This thing floats around without any force, and it is difficult for rockets to penetrate it, and many of them are bounced to the ground.
Occasionally, some of them penetrated the quilt, and it was difficult for the flame to ignite the soaked quilt. These quilts were still dripping, so it was impossible to ignite them.
There is no moat outside the city wall of Xining. The moats are all dry and not deep. It is a ditch on a gentle slope, less than two meters deep. A large number of Khalkhas rushed to the base of the city wall.
Ladders were put up on the crenels one after another, and the Khalkhas started to climb the city with their knives in their teeth and both hands together.
Yang Fan uses the Jia Ding Regiment as a reserve force. Currently, there are 2,000 lama soldiers and 2,000 cavalry division officers and soldiers on the city wall. The cavalry division is a regular force that has received complete training in siege and defense. Moreover, it has experienced actual combat and exercises.
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They were very familiar with it. They used steel spoons to scoop out the boiling iron juice from the crucible on the city wall, pulled up a corner of the hanging door, and poured it down.
The red-hot iron liquid suddenly turned into scorching fire rain and splashed down. The base of the city wall and the ladders were densely packed with Khalkha people climbing up.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Ah!" A centurion was poured on the face, and the iron juice as big as a soybean burned through the face instantly, and fell from the cheek into the mouth.
, it burned until it was smoking.
He covered his face with both hands and screamed in pain. As soon as he let go of his mouth, he dropped the scimitar he was holding. He rolled over and fell down. It hit the ground heavily.
The densely packed crowd under the city wall was instantly covered by the rain of fire. They raised all the objects they could to block it, trying to block the blazing rain of fire.
However, everything was in vain. Although the wooden plywood he held could block the fire rain, the iron juice falling on it instantly ignited the wooden board. It immediately burned into a torch.
Others wear greasy leather armor. Mongolia lacks iron, so iron armor is very rare. Most first-class and low-level officers wear leather armor. These leather armors made of rawhide are very dry. And they like to catch cattle with their hands.
Eat the mutton, and then apply the grease on your hands to your chest, using it as a towel to wipe your hands.
Over time, the leather armor became covered with patches soaked in grease, which looked shiny. Now, once the fire droplets of iron liquid fall on it, it will quickly ignite the leather armor.
The armor must be fastened before going into battle. They couldn't take it off for a while, so they could only scream in vain and be burned into torches.
A captain of a cavalry division poured a large spoonful of iron juice directly on the Khalkha people who were climbing up a line on the ladder. Suddenly, the Khalkha people who were climbing up a line diagonally were all over their backs.
Drenched with iron juice.
A burst of green smoke rose, and the red iron juice was sprinkled on the back, emitting the smell of green smoke and cooked meat.
No matter how many layers of leather robes there were, they could not block the non-redundant flowing iron juice. This season was extremely dry, so the leather robes immediately caught fire. Everyone on the ladder, from top to bottom, was on fire.
Some of the iron juice fell on the ladder, and the iron juice of more than a thousand degrees directly set the ladder on fire.
The officers and soldiers of the cavalry division didn't even look at the results of the battle. They just kept pouring iron juice until the crucible was empty. Then they called for people to refill the crucible with scrap iron.
After they stopped, the sound of wailing could be heard from below the city wall.
This kind of people, holding steel knives in their teeth, desperately climbed to the crenel, and were about to open the hanging door. Seeing victory in sight, when they jumped in to fight hand-to-hand, who would have thought that what greeted them was not swords and guns, but a large spoonful of hot water splashing down on them.
Iron juice.
This thing is irresistible at all. It will burn if it gets even a little bit.
Their cavalry's small round shields will fly in all directions if blocked. The small cowhide round shields will also burn violently.
Thick smoke rose into the sky, carrying the smell of roasted meat. It made people want to vomit. The Khalkha people were stunned. They gathered together and swarmed around like headless flies. People were crowded.
People, people stepping on each other, all want to get out of here as soon as possible.
Quetu Khan watched in surprise. These people rushed to the city wall very smoothly without being attacked or suffering any major losses. He originally thought that Xining City was within easy reach. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, his soldiers and horses
He collapsed after being splashed with red-hot iron juice.
In front of them were groups of defeated soldiers who were all on fire and running back.
"That's what happened to the Khalkha people." Yang Fan said with waning interest.
He watched for a while. During the attack, the team had no formation and swarmed forward. The command and coordination were terrible. People were crowded under the city wall. They were so crowded that they could not move away at all.
There are too many people here, which is not conducive to operations such as setting up ladders.
It just became a live target for the iron juice to be poured on it. This thing cannot be blocked with weapons.
