Hongshi narrowed his eyes slightly and said coldly: "It's not the other side. It's been snowing these past few days and the Sarik River has frozen. Walking on it is not a problem at all. No wonder there was no sneak attack last night. It turned out to be this." After saying this.
He raised his voice and said: "Immediately throw the torch to the river, then lie down, and then go and mobilize the sharpshooting battalion."
Ever since the war four years ago, Galdan had been aware of the threat of muskets and had been purchasing muskets from Tsarist Russia. After Hongshi came to Zhungar, he agreed with Galdan's approach and has been training this dog.
The musketry team, and named them the Sharpshooter Battalion, also had five artillery pieces.
Soon someone spread Hongshi's words, and torches were thrown to the river one by one, allowing them to see clearly the situation on the Sarik River in the dark. Just as Hongshi said, there were many people standing on the river.
, and these people move extremely fast, and the torches cannot completely illuminate the river, making these people disappear and appear.
"What's going on? Why are there muskets?" At this time, Alimo also ran over with a shield. Hongshi, who was squatting behind a boulder, looked back at him and said, "You haven't been waiting for the person sent by Yongzheng.
Well, here, where are they all?”
Alimo snorted coldly and said: "Now that these people have appeared, what are you still doing here? Why don't you hurry up and get rid of them?"
"They have muskets. If they go out now, they will die. If the general is not afraid of being wronged, he can go out. I have ordered the sharpshooting battalion to be brought in. They can't escape."
Although Alimo hated Hongshi very much, he did not dare to go out when faced with the muskets that fired from time to time. Not long after, the people from the Sharpshooter Battalion arrived. For fear of being injured by the muskets from the Qing Palace, they all crouched down.
And a shield half a man's height was erected in front.
Hongshi gave an order, and the sound of muskets rang out intensively, and the sound was louder than before. After several rounds of shooting, the effect was not satisfactory to Hongshi, because they were moving too fast, and coupled with the lighting problem, the muskets were unable to prepare to hit.
, so many guns only killed a few people, which is really unsatisfactory, not to mention that several people on their side also died.
The leader of the sharpshooting battalion used a new round of shooting cover to come to Hongshi and said: "Sir, these people are moving so fast, they must be wearing something like walking skates, and the subordinates cannot shoot accurately at all.
.And shooting like this consumes ammunition too quickly. If we do this for a long time, it may be detrimental to our subsequent operations."
Alimo said from the side: "Since the muskets are useless, just rush forward. Their muskets cannot fire continuously, and once they are close, the muskets cannot exert their true power."
In response to this, Hong Times sneered, "General, don't forget, there is a frozen river there. Not to mention that we don't have walking shoes, even if we do, how many people will play in the ice? There is nothing, just rush up and still...
Before I even got close, I fell so hard that I couldn’t get up."
Alimo really didn't expect this. His face turned blue and white when he said it. After a while, he said: "Then tell me, what can you do? King Khan has entrusted this matter to you. If you can't kill
If you kill these people, King Khan will not let you go."
Hongshi thought for a moment and said to the leader of the sharpshooting battalion: "From now on, you don't have to shoot anyone, just contain them within a certain range. In addition, immediately mobilize two artillery pieces."
After listening to Hongshi's words, the musketeers' shooting became regular, and soon more than two hundred people were surrounded within a radius of ten feet. Once anyone tried to leave this method, they would encounter fierce musketry attacks.
They teamed up with those who were not surrounded several times to open a gap, but were forced back. Because they did not bring much ammunition, they did not dare to use it too powerfully, so they could only try their best to flash fire from the shore.
bullets, and then look for opportunities to counterattack.
After a stalemate like this for a while, two artillery pieces were pushed over. Hiroshi immediately ordered people to load the cannons, and then aimed at those trapped on the ice.
Alimo frowned and said, "Within a range of ten feet, the damage range of two artillery pieces is probably not enough, right?"
In such a chaotic battle situation, Hongshi actually laughed. After laughing, he said solemnly: "General, just watch. Now that these people are here, none of them can even think of leaving."
In Ali's puzzled gaze, two artillery pieces were aimed at the people who were surrounded. The next moment, flames shot into the sky, and a huge explosion sounded in everyone's ears, almost knocking them unconscious.
The moment they saw the artillery, the Qing soldiers realized the crisis and frantically wanted to rush out. However, once the people were in chaos, they would become vulnerable. Not only did they fail to rush out, but they killed and injured many people, and when the artillery fell,
Finally, the ice surface was penetrated, and more than two hundred people were killed or injured, but this was not over yet. The fire
After the power of the cannon penetrated the ice, it caused a chain reaction on the ice. Pieces of ice shattered, causing people who were not surrounded in time to escape and fell into the river. In such weather, falling into the river
It must be death. When everything calmed down, there was no one left standing on the ice.
Alimo finally understood why Hongshi said that two artillery pieces were enough, because he had already calculated that the ice would break as a result, and that none of the Qing troops would survive.
After thinking about this, Alimo became more fearful of Hongshi than ever before. This man... was really terrible. After capturing the capital, he must be killed by King Khan, and he could not be allowed to stay.
If you want to walk on the ice, the easiest way is to tie straw to the soles of your shoes. Unfortunately, it is impossible to find this kind of place at this time of year, so Hongshi asked the soldiers to tie strips of cloth, and then slowly walked to the river with torches.
Search everywhere to see if there are any survivors. Anyone who is not dead will be killed immediately, leaving no one behind.
After searching around, the leader of the sharpshooting battalion walked up to Hongshi, cupped his hands and said, "Sir, we have checked everything nearby and killed them all. There are no survivors."
Before Hongshi could say anything, there was a sound of clapping behind him: "Okay, well done. I really did not misjudge the person."
Hearing this voice, Hongshi quickly turned around and saluted, "The King of Khan was frightened. Please punish the King of Khan."
Galdan laughed, patted Hongshi on the shoulder and said: "You wiped out this group of sneak attackers at the minimum cost, so why are you guilty? Yongzheng was indeed cunning. He took advantage of the freezing of the Sarik River and sent these people to sneak attack with muskets.
If you hadn't been prepared in advance in my king's military camp and thought of using muskets to block it and bombard it with artillery, I'm afraid the matter wouldn't have been resolved so quickly. So not only are you not guilty, I will also reward you."
"I just did my duty and I can't deserve such praise from King Khan." Hongshi kept frowning when he said this. These Qing soldiers did cause them great trouble tonight, but
In the final analysis, they only killed and injured a very limited number of people, not to mention the injuries to their muscles and bones, not even a small fight, but they themselves, hundreds of people did not survive, so it was a loss-making business anyway.