lied to Kangxi

Chapter 294 The Rebellion
When sending troops to quell the rebellion, people must always stay in the city.

Wuweiying is the absolute main force for the expedition, and Yu Zhu must be taken away by all members.

The artillery armor of the firearms battalion is also the key point and must be taken out of the city.After all, although the child-mother cannon cannot be used to attack the city or bombard the temporary camp, it is just right.

The camel formation of the Junggar people is dealt with by the sub-cannon that is easy to carry and has a range far greater than that of muskets. It is a weapon made in heaven.

As for the flintlock guns equipped by the Wuwei Camp, they were the latest dog-lock flintlock guns imitated by the Netherlands. Regardless of the range or power, they completely crushed the matchlock guns used by the enemy in the entire Northwest.

Dog locker, the free translation of Doglock, means that in the bolt locking brake assembly, the firing hammer that locks the flint with a screw knob looks like a dog.

The guns and cannons are all alive, and only the cavalry troops are left to expand the results of the battle.

The problem is that at this juncture, the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Xining collectively lost the chain.

Zhang Sheng stammered and couldn't explain clearly, and Yuzhu didn't bother to force him, so he put forward conditions.

"Master Zhang, there should be no problem with sending out five hundred horses to guard the Eight Banners without troops, right?" Yuzhu called Master Zhang, not Zhang Sheng's name, which meant that he was talking about serious business.

Zhang Shengchang heaved a sigh of relief, quickly nodded and agreed, and explained: "I'm not going to lie to you, Yushuai, there are actually brave fighters in the camp. However, the journey back to the capital from Xining is too far away. Once you die in battle, But it’s hard for the family, wife and children.”

Yuzhu knew in his heart that this was the sophistry of a dead duck.

For a Manchurian Banner general, it would be impossible to bargain with Zhang Sheng, and just order the Eight Banners soldiers to go out.

However, Yuzhu had other plans, and the initiative of the Xining Eight Banners soldiers to back down just gave Yuzhu a great opportunity to use actual combat to train elite soldiers.

The previous attack on Yakutsk, to put it bluntly, was a sneak attack using extreme weather, not a regular battle between the two armies.

This kind of sneak attack only made the soldiers of the Wuwei camp have seen blood and killed people.

Yuzhu's true combat effectiveness in a head-to-head confrontation is still in doubt.

To be honest, in the future, after the collapse of the mountain, if Yuzhu wants to control the government with the army, he will definitely not be able to rely on the nobles of the banner, and the backbone force can only be the new army or the green battalion.

Therefore, the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Xining were afraid of death, so they were all persuaded.Yuzhu did not persecute them cruelly, but instead negotiated terms complementary.

After some bargaining, Yuzhu got [-] war horses and [-] sets of standard cotton armor for the Eight Banners.

Among the Eight Banners soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, they were generally equipped with cotton armor.

The so-called cotton armor is a armor made of silk fabrics, the inner lining is inlaid with iron sheets, and the outer layer is woven with cotton cloth, which plays the role of double-layer body protection.

The appearance of the matchlock gun made the traditional heavy armor vulnerable, and the iron armor was cumbersome to wear and extremely poor in comfort.

In a word, compared with iron armor, cotton armor has great advantages in preventing firearms and dealing with bad weather in the north and south.

Cotton armor is not just cotton cloth and iron sheets.Twenty years after Kangxi, in order to increase the defense of cotton armor, other materials such as fabrics, cowhide, and paper were added.

No one in Kangxi could fully believe that he allowed the military guards to equip the new dog-lock flintlock guns, but he never distributed the most defensive weaponry, the cotton armor, just kept one hand.

The dog lock flintlock is the first generation flintlock that replaced the matchlock gun in the true sense.

Where are the cavalry?

Hehe, Yu Zhu has been in Xining for nearly two months, and he is not just eating.

Because it is located in the northwest, Han and Hu live together, people are not ruthless, and they are bullied.Of the [-] soldiers in the Volunteer Camp, all of them can ride horses.

Zhang Sheng is willing to send out armor and horses, the Volunteer Battalion can serve as the cavalry unit for pursuit, and Yu Shuai's basic team for the expedition will all be alive.

This time, Little William recruited more than [-] craftsmen from Europe.

The gunsmiths and gunsmiths among them were all left in the general's mansion, and Liu Kan arranged for them to prepare equipment and tools, and imitate dog-lock flintlock guns and mother-in-law cannons on the spot.

The rest, especially the sailors who are proficient in navigation and positioning technology and the officers of the retired Royal Navy, followed Yuzhu into Qinghai.

The purpose of Yuzhu is also very clear, counterinsurgency followed by drawing a detailed marching map along the way, and then making a sand table, is the real big deal.

You know, in the first snowy battle between the Qing and Zhun, the Jingzhou Eight Banners soldiers were wiped out.

Now that Yuzhu has arrived in Xining, he must show his prestige to attract Kangxi to change the direction of entering the snowy area to Golmud in Qinghai.

The Sichuan-Tibet Highway in history was able to open to traffic smoothly, and the heroic road-builders paid a huge price.

Everything is ready, only the cart is owed.

Yuzhu was the local emperor of Xining. With one order, he requisitioned nearly a hundred Mongolian carts and more than 100 camels in the city.

These requisitioned Mongolian carts all have distinct characteristics: each Mongolian cart is like a moving yurt, and they all have four wheels.

The topography and landforms of Qinghai are characterized by plateaus, basins and valleys inlaid between mountains.Most of the mountains and valleys above 5000 meters above sea level are covered with snow all the year round, and glaciers are widely distributed.

The west of Qinghai is extremely high and steep, sloping down from west to east, and can be divided into three natural regions: Qilian Mountains, Qaidam Basin and Qingnan Plateau.

Learn from the barbarians to control barbarians!
According to Yuzhu's knowledge, the Heshuote Mongolian tribes in Qinghai all use this special four-wheeled Mongolian cart because of their survival characteristics of living by aquatic plants.

After the military order was issued, Yuzhu led the expedition this time, with more than [-] soldiers from the Wuwei Battalion, more than [-] soldiers from the Green Battalion, and more than [-] soldiers from the Volunteer Battalion, with a total strength of more than [-] troops.

Among them, the real main force of the soldiers is the Wuwei Battalion, and the Green Battalion is just an auxiliary soldier responsible for setting up the camp.

As for the Volunteer Battalion equipped with horses, it is a good helper for chasing the enemy.

In the war in the Northwest, killing people came second, mainly due to the delay in logistics and supplies.

100 people attacked, flexible, logistical support, and fully equipped.

Compared with the weapons of the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai, the weapons of the expedition soldiers and horses have a crushing generation difference.

The Raksha people sent a gang of Cossack bandits to invade the east. Regardless of the logistics supplies, weapons and equipment, or the total force, they were far inferior to Yuzhu, but they were able to conquer the whole of Siberia.

On the day of the expedition, all the soldiers lined up neatly on the playground, waiting for Yu Zhu to issue the military order to set off.

At the time of Maozheng, Yu Zhu wore a military cap with a large brim and a straight gray military uniform, riding on a tall horse, appearing on the playground flaunting his might.

Today's Yuzhu, on the cowhide belt around his waist, hangs a British army command knife on the left side, a flintlock pistol in the holster on the right side, and long riding boots on his feet. The whole person looks extremely airy!

"Stand at attention, salute!" Following Lu Wu's order, the soldiers of the military guard camp on the playground put their legs together and saluted with guns in both hands!

"Crack." Almost at the same time, the heels of more than a thousand military boots touched hard, making a dull knocking sound.

The green battalion soldiers and country soldiers who lined up together on the playground were all dumbfounded, with their mouths wide open, dumbfounded.

Is this still the army of the Qing Dynasty?
Who doesn't know what the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Xining look like?

It can be summed up in three words, dandy soldier!
Unexpectedly, the Wuwei camp brought by Yuzhu from the capital is so elite, it is really jaw-dropping!
Yuzhu urged the horse under his crotch, and slowly came to the front of the phalanx of the Wuwei camp, and said loudly: "This commander never likes to talk nonsense, just say a word, use the blood of the enemy to dye our army thorns red, the time has come !"

"Everyone has it, salute Yushuai!" Lu Wu cooperated very tacitly, and took the lead in saluting.

Yuzhu looked at the soldiers with high morale, nodded slightly, raised his right palm and pointed at his temple obliquely, and saluted everyone.

Everyone followed him, from the capital to North Korea, from North Korea to Heilongjiang, and then from Heilongjiang to attack Yakutsk thousands of miles away. Their tenacious willpower has been tempered.

"Let's go." Yuzhu turned to look at Lu Wu, and gave the order to advance.

So, according to the military order issued in advance, everyone boarded the Mongolian cart one file at a time.

On the third day of September in the 48th year of Kangxi, this day is destined to become a day that Yuzhu will never forget.

Enemies outside the city are not vegetarian either.

As soon as the army left the city, the spy mounted on a fast horse and quickly conveyed the urgent military situation back.

The South Right Banner of Khalkha has rebelled, and Xining will send troops to suppress the rebellion sooner or later, which is already a clear sign.

It's just that Yu Zhu's enemies didn't expect that the young Yu Zhu was very calm and kept his troops on hold.

To be honest, if it wasn't for Kangxi's strict decree to force Yuzhu to fight, Yuzhu wouldn't bother to pay attention to the internal strife in Qinghai and Mongolia.

It's not the civil uprising in Gansu Province, Yuzhu has no reason to meddle in his own business!
Although, Yuzhu shouldered the important task of coordinating and managing the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai.However, he knew better than anyone else that as long as the Junggar Khanate survived for a day, the Qinghai region would not be able to truly subside.

If the army of this era wants to maintain combat effectiveness anytime and anywhere, the marching speed cannot be too fast.

Yuzhu hung the sheep's head of going out to suppress the rebellion, and sold the business of drawing military maps along the way, so it was even more impossible to rush on the road.

In Yuzhu's central army, Alice was sitting on a Mongolian cart.

There is no way, the army is proficient in Western bird language, and there is someone Yu Zhu can trust, that is Alice.

Yuzhu was busy with military operations, and Alice was in charge of maintaining close contact with the foreign sailors and officers who drew the maps.

Outside the city, Yuzhu's enemies were under strict surveillance.However, they were all dumbfounded.

Yuzhu strictly followed the requirements of the Qing military law and only walked [-] miles a day.Then, near the water source, use Mongolian carts to form an iron barrel array and camp on the spot.

The enemies are all dumbfounded, are they here to suppress the rebellion, or are they here for an outing?
(End of this chapter)