As soon as Yuzhu arrived at the Zhangjiakou Hall, eight clan guards wearing yellow mantles and yellow belts came to report on flying horses, saying they were protecting Yuzhu's safety.
As soon as these yellow-strap guards appeared, Yuzhu immediately thought of the incident in the old TV series where Yongzheng sent people to monitor Nian Gengyao.
In the past, the old emperor had absolute confidence and could control Yuzhu.
Now, the old emperor is old after all, and he is far less confident than before.
The jade pillar is not Nian Gengyao.
Nian Gengyao was just rampant and had no intention of rebellion.
As the saying goes, a dog that bites never barks.
Yuzhu just pretended that he had not seen these clan guards, gathered all the generals in the camp in Zhangjiakou, and announced in public that he would send troops to the Khalkha Mongolia.
According to Yuzhu's deployment, Eren Celeng led the personal guard as the vanguard of the large force, followed closely by Sauron's cavalry from the Xishan Camp.
After Hongxi heard Yuzhu's arrangement, she was secretly happy, thinking that Yuzhu wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, so she volunteered to join the Xishan camp.
Of course Yuzhu couldn't agree.
Are you kidding me? If Hong Xi died in battle, no matter how outstanding his military achievements were, it would be a light sentence for Ge Jue to be imprisoned.
This person can do a lot of evil, and he can also be greedy for money and lust, but he can't be confused in matters of life and death!
If you stand in the wrong team, you will be struck by lightning!
After the army sets off, everything else is easy to say, except that the heavy artillery is more troublesome.
Once it rains, the wheels of the heavy artillery will get stuck in the mud and become unable to move.
However, this small difficulty cannot trouble Yuzhu at all.
Physical principles tell Yuzhu that the heavier the object, the larger the friction area needs to be.
On the way westward, the craftsmen accompanying the army built hundreds of large crowbars.
When it rained, the heavy artillery was placed on the crowbar and slid in the mud.
With Ce Leng, a Mongolian who knew the way, leading the way, the entire army did not need to worry about getting water.
Along the way, Yuzhu continued to take out gold and silver, exchanging high-wheel Lele carts, cattle, sheep, and pack horses with the grassland herdsmen.
Yuzhu is already very familiar with the situation on the prairie. Objectively speaking, if you want to speed up the march, you must equip all the green battalion soldiers of the infantry with the high-wheel Lele vehicles commonly used by the Mongols.
On the Mongolian steppe, the wheels of the carriage are not high enough to pass through various ditches and ridges.
In the capital city, a high-quality Mongolian horse is worth a lot of money, starting from a hundred taels of silver.
However, economic laws dictate that the closer a product is to its origin, the less valuable it is.
The horses exchanged along the way cost only a dozen taels of silver each at most.
As for the pack horses, they were even less valuable, only a few taels of silver.
According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, when the army is on an expedition, it has the right to expropriate any belongings of the herdsmen.
However, Yuzhu doesn't like to do this kind of bad thing of grabbing for nothing. He is more willing to exchange at equal value.
On the prairie, there are herds of cattle and sheep. As long as you are willing to give money, the herdsmen are willing to take the initiative to make deals with you.
Ten oxen pulled the heavy artillery forward together. Every ten miles, a group of strong oxen were used to pull it, and it was not difficult at all.
The only drawback is that every night when we camp, there are groups of Mongolian girls riding horses to provoke Yuzhu's men.
Mongolian women like to seduce passing merchants or soldiers. The main reason is that they need simple genetic optimization.
As we all know, children born from continuous inbreeding have a high chance of being born with disabilities or a short life.
In serious cases, the clan may even be exterminated due to divine punishment.
Yuzhu also knew how to adapt. Except for restraining the soldiers of the New Army and the Firearms Battalion, the rest of the troops were left to their own devices.
After the army had left for a month, Fortress Hutus was already in sight from a distance.
At this time, all the pack oxen in the army were replaced by camels.
Camels are very durable. Each camel can carry 300 to 400 kilograms of cargo. They also eat grass and drink less water during the journey. They are most suitable for the arid climate in the north and the transportation needs of the Mongolian Plateau.
When fighting on the Mongolian prairie, Yuzhu still followed the old rules. He spread hero posts along the way and invited the Mongolian warriors who were short of money to bring their own dry food, horses, and weapons to participate in legal robbery activities.
If you are an ordinary person, your appeal is obviously not good.
Yuzhu was different. He had recruited Mongolian cavalry several times and led them to rob, and his reputation was really good.
After entering Ce Leng's territory, I carefully counted them and found that, my dear, these skirmishers actually exceeded the five thousand mark.
In the last years of Kangxi, the life of ordinary Mongolian herdsmen was actually not easy.
The reason is actually very simple. After the old emperor divided the pastures for each of them, he strictly prohibited the tribes from annexing each other.
In a word, whoever dared to initiate a war of annexation would be killed by the Qing Dynasty along with all the nearby Mongolian tribes.
A few days later, Celeng's outpost soldiers had discovered traces of the Rakshasa people, and the Hutus Fortress was still in the hands of the Qing Dynasty.
Well, on the endless prairie, the two armies were fighting. There was no extraneous work, the main thing was a head-on confrontation.
The weather was beautiful and the sky was clear and cloudless, which was perfect for the decisive battle.
Major General Oscar Viktorovich Stark, holding a telescope in his hand, observed carefully for a while.
Stark obviously found that the Qing army's formation on the opposite side was extremely dense, but no trace of artillery was found.
"Haha, these yellow-skinned monkeys from the Far East are really overestimating their abilities!" Stark spoke arrogantly.
Stark is the governor of Kuznetsk in the Far East of the Rakshasa Kingdom. This time he mobilized most of the Rakshasa people in Tomsk, Bratsk and Yeniseysk to invade southward.
His purpose was actually strategic. To occupy parts of Khalkha Mongolia, open a passage south to Junggar, and finally advance to the Indian Ocean.
From the successive tsars of the Rakshasa Kingdom to the successive leaders of the Soviet Union, they all hope to have the coveted excellent ice-free port in the Indian Ocean region.
This strategic goal was passed down from generation to generation, and it came to an abrupt end only after the implosion of the Soviet Union.
While Stark was observing the Qing army's formation, Yuzhu was also holding a telescope and carefully studying the Rakshasa army's formation.
Since modern times, the army's combat model has undergone earth-shaking changes.
In layman's terms, an army battle means that after the artillery bombardment, the cavalry charges. When the cavalry can't charge, the artillery bombardment resumes. Finally, the infantry engages in hand-to-hand combat and cleans the battlefield.
According to Yuzhu's observation, although there are dozens of artillery pieces in Stark's army, they are all small cannons that are easy to move.
This is mainly due to the fact that the industrial hinterland of Eastern Europe in the Rakshasa Kingdom is really far away from the Khalkha Mongolian region.
In the absence of the Trans-Siberian Railway, material transportation in the Far East of the Rakshasa Kingdom is extremely difficult.
"Order the firearms battalion and prepare heavy artillery!" Yuzhu decisively issued the combat order.