Seeing the western tribal coalition forces gathering outside the city, Sun Chuanting quickly changed his mind.
Previously, in order to prevent the enemy cavalry from having the opportunity to cause harm to Jiangnan, his plan was to rely on the city and piers to kill the enemy as much as possible, and generally focus on defense.
With this kind of tactics, once the enemy realizes that the situation is not good, they are likely to turn their horses around and run away.
With the terrain of the grassland, it is not easy to hunt them down and keep them!
However, in order not to destroy the fortress south of the Yangtze River, Sun Chuanting thought it was worthwhile to adopt this conservative approach.
But now, after he saw with his own eyes the strength of the Western Tribe Alliance, the most important thing was that the people in Guihua City spontaneously participated in the war, with more than 200,000 people in total, which gave him confidence.
At this time, Sun Chuanting's key consideration was how to retain more enemies and reduce the pressure on his subsequent counterattack in the west.
This does not mean that the counterattack in the west will be difficult in the future, but that the west is different from the Central Plains in that it is vast and sparsely populated. It is no problem to defeat the enemy, but it will be more difficult to eliminate the enemy. If people avoid fighting, they will just hide and seek.
Cats would consume a lot of manpower and material resources from the court.
Therefore, Sun Chuanting decided to take the initiative to launch an attack before the western tribal coalition forces discovered the strength of the imperial army. Although this would cause greater losses than consuming the enemy first, it would allow more of the enemy to be retained.
"Woooooooo..."
The sound of the horn sounded for a long time on the endless grassland.
Whether it was the Jungar tribe, the Heshuote tribe, or the Tsarist Russian army, they all began to mount their horses and drive towards the Ming army.
According to Gushi Khan's arrangement, the entire army was far away from the Ming Dynasty city and charged near certain piers. In this way, even if the Ming army inside the piers caused damage to them, they would not suffer much loss.
After the cavalry counterattack, they did not stop and continued to fight forward, disrupting the rear of the Ming army and attracting reinforcements from the Ming army. Then the second wave of cavalry attacked again and won the battle under attack from both front and rear.
If the Ming army does not return reinforcements, then take advantage of the strength of the troops and rush the cavalry to destroy the rear of the Ming army. After disrupting the morale of the Ming army, kill a carbine. It can also attack from the front and back, and at least eliminate the Ming cavalry in the wild!
The first wave of offensive by the western tribal coalition was threatened by several large tribes and led by those small tribes.
There is no doubt that this first wave of offensive is to counter the Ming army, and there is no doubt that the casualties will be the highest. No matter which tribe, in fact, they do not want to be the first wave.
At this time, strength determines everything.
Those from weak tribes can only become cannon fodder!
In the second wave of offensive against the Ming army, the Jungar tribe and the Tsarist Russian army are about to attack. As the main force of the coalition, these two cavalry armies have the strength to organize the next battle after rushing over.
The remaining army, mainly composed of Gushi Khan's Heshuote tribe and the Yarkand Khanate's army, numbered about 40,000 men and was responsible for cutting off the rear and attacking from both front and rear.
On the grassland, there are actually not so many means for a war of this scale. When two armies meet, the brave one usually wins!
Facing the red sea in front of them, the soldiers of the small tribe all had sad faces, and many even had despair on their faces.
They have already imagined their fate before they attack. However, their tribe is too weak and they have no say at all!
On the grassland, only the strong have their say!
Most of the soldiers of the Jungar tribe and the soldiers of Tsarist Russia were excited. Deaths and injuries on the battlefield were inevitable. However, the victory of the war was predictable.
After winning this battle, they, as those who contributed the most to the charge, will also have more power to obtain more in terms of distribution of spoils after the war!
Except for the steam train which needs to be discussed after the war, they give priority to other good things.
If you block Jiangnan, you can definitely make a fortune!
"Woooooooo..."
The melodious sound of the horn echoed over the grassland again.
Gushi Khan, who was paying attention to the entire war, suddenly discovered that the Ming army seemed to be reorganizing its army as well, as if they wanted to hedge?
Think about it, there are not many defensive fortifications on the grassland. When the two armies meet, they must either escape or hedge, and it depends on who can have the last laugh!
The Ming army is obviously very taboo about the prosperity behind them being destroyed by the army. The so-called monks who can escape cannot escape the temple, so they only have one battle?
Even though he was thinking this, Gushi Khan still had a serious expression on his face and was not careless at all.
There are too many factors that affect the outcome of the war. Even if he has tried his best to improve the odds of winning, the final outcome of the war will still have to wait for the result to be known. Before that, he must deal with it with caution!
"Woooooooo..."
At the sound of the horn, countless war horses began to advance slowly, and began to slowly increase their speed.
The Ming Army was no exception. Under flags fluttering in the wind, the Ming Army soldiers also drove their horses to slowly increase their speed and rushed out of the protection range of the city and the pier.
At this time, the cavalry on both sides were like waves, rushing forward wave after wave. Whether the gray waves washed out the red waves or the red waves washed out the gray waves was the outcome of the war.
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At this time, when you are in the charging formation, no matter whether you are afraid or brave, you have no other choice but to charge forward.
"Rumble..."
The sound of rolling horse hooves seemed to shake the entire grassland.
The cavalry forwards on both sides are getting closer and closer...
At this time, as the coach, Gushi Khan's expression suddenly changed and became very ugly.
Because he discovered that in the wave after wave of cavalry charges by the Ming army, those who he thought were empty soldiers were actually moving in formation, and they were following behind in a charging formation.
In other words, to put it simply, they are not empty soldiers at all, but soldiers of the Ming army who can also go to the battlefield!
In other words, if these are not empty troops, the strength of the Ming army will definitely not be less than that of the tribal alliance! Or even more?
After reaching this conclusion, Gushi Khan was a little confused.
Where did so many Ming cavalry troops come from in Guihua City?
Could it be that the Ming Kingdom knew in advance that it would lead the main force of the tribal coalition to attack Guihua City, so it had already dispatched troops and generals to wait here?
This is absolutely impossible!
Gushi Khan can be sure of this. The layout before the war absolutely concealed the intention of the main force to attack Guihua City. There was no reason for the Ming Dynasty to know this in advance!
If this is the case, does it mean that the Ming Dynasty just happened to have accumulated so many cavalry troops in Guihua City?
However, if this is really the case, wouldn't these troops be wasted?
On the battlefield on the Eastern Front of the Ming Dynasty, if so many cavalry troops were invested, they would definitely be a very critical force that affects the outcome of the war!
However, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not transfer the cavalry here. Why?
Suddenly, Gushi Khan's face turned pale again.
Because he thought of a possibility. The reason why the Ming Emperor did not send so many cavalry troops was not because he did not move, but because it was unnecessary. On the Eastern Front, it is estimated that the Ming Kingdom had defeated the coalition forces of the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Kingdom.
, and even destroyed the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese allied forces, so there is no need!
But, how is this possible!
Isn’t the Qing army very strong? They rose up in Liaodong and not only occupied the entire Liaodong, they even defeated Lin Dan Khan and commanded the entire grassland!
How many years have passed now, even if the strength is not as strong as before, it will not be defeated so quickly! Not to mention, aren't there still hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops?
At this moment, Gushi Khan really couldn't understand what was going on?
At this moment, the two armies were seen clashing.
Without any surprise, the Ming cavalry crushed the tribal coalition's vanguard to pieces, and the red waves continued to surge forward, hitting the second gray wave.
"kill……"
The loud shouts of killing and the rumble of horse hooves resounded throughout the grassland.
Another charging array of tribal coalition forces was smashed into pieces by the Ming Dynasty cavalry, and it had little impact. It faced the next wave of enemies, like an overwhelming force, unstoppable!
In just a short period of time, all the small tribal cavalry that served as cannon fodder for the tribal coalition were defeated, and the vanguard of the Ming cavalry had already appeared in front of the Zhungeer army.
At this time, Baturhun Khan was in the battle formation and could not see into the distance like Gushi Khan, but this did not prevent him from seeing the Ming cavalry appearing in front of him. It did not suffer much loss and continued to move forward.
He charged towards him and saw through the gap that there were waves of Ming cavalry behind him.
Generally speaking, when the cavalry charges, the queue in front will become sparse due to the confrontation, and one team after another will be wasted.
But the Ming cavalry in front of them did not fit this situation at all.
Just like what the Jungar tribe faced was the Ming cavalry that had not been consumed. Or in other words, the tribal coalition in front did not consume any Ming cavalry at all.
Needless to say, this is the reason why the difference between strength and weakness is huge.
At this moment, Batur Huihan couldn't help but feel very bitter in his heart. Facing the Ming army like this was definitely not what he wanted. Even if he could win, he would suffer heavy losses. Not to mention, when he saw the Ming cavalry in front of him,
Seems endless!
Can you win?
It's impossible to win!
However, no matter what he thought, at this time, there was no other choice but to charge with despair!
Baturhun Khan was like this, and so was the Tsarist Russian army led by Bakharov.
They were really dumbfounded when they saw that the Ming army in front of them had not suffered much loss after overwhelming the front lines. Wave after wave of red troops rushed toward them.
They came all the way to the East, not to die, but to rob. If there were casualties during the robbery, but the robbery was successful in the end, then it didn't matter to them.
However, if they are facing a certain death situation, this is definitely not the result they want.