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Chapter 297 The First Battle
Yu Zhu was very cautious in using his troops.Everyone can afford to lose, but he can't afford to lose.

If he was defeated and died, the tragedy of allowing the great powers to bully him in the late Qing Dynasty would repeat itself.

Therefore, when the large troops marched, there were two rows of carriages outside and the soldiers inside.

This has a lot to do with the characteristics of the main force led by Yuzhu, the Wuwei Battalion.

The equipment of the Wuwei Battalion is all dog-locked flintlock guns.

This kind of flintlock, originally loaded with round lead bullets, has an effective range of 60 meters and a maximum range of 120 meters.

Temporarily not having the conditions to modify the guns, Yuzhu put his mind on modifying the loading methods of lead bullets and gunpowder.

After testing, the fixed lead bullet with pointed tip and round bottom greatly increased the airtightness of the gunpowder, increasing the effective range to 80 meters, and the maximum range exceeded 220 meters.

Moreover, the early appearance of fixed ammunition has increased the rate of fire of the soldiers to five rounds per minute.

Yuzhu once saw a nostalgic performance video.

In the video, two well-trained foreigners, after loading the ammunition from the front chamber, did not use metal cleaning rods to compact it, but hit the ground heavily with the butt of the gun.

The advantage of this is that, using the principle of reaction force, the ammunition is directly compacted, which greatly saves the firing time and increases the shooting speed.

When an advanced weapon appears, in fact, the technical conditions are already in place, but people still need to gradually find out a way to increase the shooting speed due to lack of knowledge.

Yuzhu has insight far beyond the crowd. Under his guidance, Wuweiying easily passed the slow process of groping, and let the dog-lock flintlock gun play a greater shooting efficiency in advance.

To put it bluntly, the gun is still the same gun.However, due to the difference in bullets, the fixed installation of gunpowder, and the difference in compaction methods, Yuzhu obtained a satisfactory range and rate of fire in advance.

You must know that in the British army of the same era, commanders generally required soldiers to put the enemy within [-] yards and then fire together to increase the power of killing.

Fifty yards, or about 45 meters.

In addition to the Wuwei camp, among the 150 green battalion soldiers who followed Yu Zhu, there were [-] archers, [-] pikemen, and [-] shotgun soldiers.

When Kangxi pacified the San Francisco, the Eight Banners soldiers were already unreliable, and their main force was the Green Battalion soldiers.

However, after the destruction of San Francisco, Kangxi was worried about the threat of the green camp soldiers, and forcibly reduced the number of shotguns and artillery in the green camps in each province.

The Green Battalion soldiers in Xining simply had no artillery.

Since it was the first frontal battle commanded by Yu Zhu, he thought that during hand-to-hand combat, the archers, pikemen and shotgunners of the Green Battalion could act as a temporary mobile stopper.

Yu Zhu had seen the practice of the green battalion shotgunners, and the shooting speed of at least one shot per minute was really useless, so he could only serve as a reserve force.

It should come, sooner or later it will come!
When Yuzhu's soldiers and horses were about to arrive at the small market town of Chahantuoluohai, a Mongolian cavalry team of nearly a thousand people blocked their way.

The Mongolian cavalry occupied a hill, just condescendingly taking advantage of the opportunity to attack the Qing army.

Following Yu Zhu's order, the soldiers of the Wuwei Camp quickly formed a row of five rows of 100 people.

Among them, three rows are in the front and two rows are in the back.The accompanying carriage spread out to the two wings, protecting the flanks of the entire team.

Yuzhu knew very well in his heart that the Mongols' best attack method was to attack from the front and outflank.

The carriage blocked the flanks, which is equivalent to restraining the offensive characteristics of the Mongols in a targeted manner.

Under normal circumstances, if there were no cavalry from the Green Battalion and the Volunteer Battalion to hold them back, the most reasonable way for the Wuwei Battalion to fight would be a square hollow spear array.

In the Battle of Waterloo, the elite French cavalry led by Marshal Ney was frustrated by the hollow guns of the British army.

This battle ended with Nahuang's disastrous defeat, and made Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington famous.

At this time, the ten sub-cannons of the artillery battalion of the firearms battalion were lined up in the entire front line.

The cannons brought out by Yuzhu are all made in the 29th year of Kangxi.

The mother gun is about 1.77 meters long, weighs 47.5 kg, and is equipped with 5 sub-cannons.This cannon is equipped on a four-legged wooden frame with iron wheels on the feet, which can be pushed and pulled.

When in use, put the sub-cannon into the opening of the rear abdomen of the mother cannon, fix it with an iron bolt, then light the sub-cannon, and the warhead will fly out from the mouth of the mother cannon.

The maximum range of this kind of sub-cannon with solid bullets is more than 300 meters.

However, it is enough to deal with the Mongols on horseback and bow.

The commander of these ten son-and-mother cannons is the assistant leader of the firearms camp, Ulanara Sheding.

She Ding commanded the artillery armors, and after a frantic loading, they were finally ready.

Yu Zhu, who was riding on the horse, could only shake his head and sigh secretly, but he couldn't take the initiative to do anything.

Because, before leaving Beijing, although Kangxi gave Yuzhu the command of the firearms battalion accompanying the army, he did not allow Yuzhu to interfere with the daily training of the artillerymen.

There is no way, after Kangxi's suspicion, he was amazingly stubborn, and it was difficult to correct.

Xiao CE Ling Dunduobu, holding the captured Raksha country monocular, carefully observed the formation of the Qing army.

Inside the Junggar Khanate, there has always been a saying that the big strategy is good at seeking, and the small strategy is tough and brave.

To be honest, in the past field battles between the two armies, the quasi-army won more than lost.

This is because the Junggar Khanate happened to be stuck at the throat of the land Silk Road, and could get a lot of firearms from the west.

Among the cavalry led by little Celing, there were two hundred arquebus soldiers, and the ratio of musketeers to cavalry reached an astonishing one to five.

Because of the existence of these two hundred Musketeers, facing Yuzhu's stop-and-go marching state, Xiao Celing couldn't wait, so he simply didn't set up an ambush and came to face the Qing army head-on.

In Celing's team, except for the [-] musketeers who were serious paramilitary soldiers, the rest of the [-] cavalry were rebels from the Kalkanan Right Banner.

The leader of the rebel army, Borjijin Yaku, looked at the neat formation of the Qing army, and felt a little guilty in his heart.

"Minhan Nayan, the distance between the Qing army is too far, how to fight this battle?" Yaku asked, because he didn't want to rush out to die first.

Minhan Nayan is also the head of a thousand households in the Zhunjun army.The head of a hundred households is Zawin Nayan.

Little Cering's elder brother, big Cering is Tumian Nayan, the head of ten thousand households.

Maybe because he didn't like Yaku's miser's appearance, Xiao Celing said arrogantly: "Habsun Khan, you are on the two wings, and we are in the middle. Let's go hand in hand, okay?"

What Yaku fears the most is being the cannon fodder for those who take the lead.Now, Little Celing is willing to lead the Musketeers as the main force of the attack, so he naturally has no objections.

All the khan kings on the grassland are martial arts.Yaku dared to call himself Khan, and he didn't care too much about the Qing army coming to beat him.

Because, even if the Qing army in Xining regained the Khalkha South Right Banner, it is impossible to stay on the grassland for too long.

So Celing took his 500 musketeers in the center, and Yaku's cavalry was divided into two. 300 people followed him and [-] people remained on the hills.

It is an inherent habit of the Mongols that the elite cavalry serving as the reserve team suddenly rushed out while the two armies were fighting, and caught the enemy by surprise.

Due to the wealth and wealth, in Yuzhu's team, the officers above the sentinel (platoon leader) have a single-eye telescope, a pistol, and a command saber.

All the officers under Yu Zhu could see the movement of the Mongols attacking menacingly.

This was the first time the soldiers of the Wuwei Battalion fought the enemy head-on.

As the saying goes, it is a mule or a horse, and you have to pull it out for a walk to know who is who?

The Mongols came forward, and the officers and soldiers of the Wuwei Battalion, who had seen blood, showed no signs of panic.

On the contrary, many of the Green Battalion Soldiers and Volunteer Soldiers turned pale and their bodies trembled slightly due to nervousness.

Yuzhu didn't talk to the green battalion soldiers and the town soldiers.These miscellaneous soldiers only play an auxiliary role, so there is no need to pay too much attention to them.

As the Mongols got closer, Yuzhu sent someone to order Sheding, as long as the enemy came within the range of the mother and son cannons, they could fire together.

However, what Ling Yuzhu didn't expect was that Xiao Celing was so cunning that he stopped advancing when the two armies were about 500 meters apart.

Yuzhu stroked his chin, thought for a while, and couldn't help but smile.

Obviously, the enemy had seen his artillery and deliberately stopped outside the range of the sub-cannon.

The rebel army has no artillery, and Yuzhu's men are all improved dog-lock flintlock guns. What's so scary?

"Pass my order, beat the military drum, the front army of the Wuwei battalion, spread out the line, and attack from all fronts."

"Yes." The messenger who had been on standby all the time, after receiving Yu Zhu's order, pulled his horse and galloped out.

The commander-in-chief of the former army is the battalion commander Lu Wu.

After receiving Yuzhu's order, Lu Wu immediately drew his sword out of its sheath, and ordered sharply: "Everyone has them, put their guns on their shoulders, form a battle formation, and advance at a uniform speed."

Seeing that the Qing army moved, Xiao Celing smiled triumphantly and said, "Hubxun Khan, the golden dog has been fooled."

"Hubson Khan, when the golden dog approaches, take all of your people and encircle the right wing of the golden dog, and the golden dog will lose."

After the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the Junggar Khanate never recognized that the Qing Dynasty was the lord of the entire Central Plains. Therefore, Xiao Celing deliberately called the Qing army a golden dog.

"That's good." Yaku smiled happily, and all fools know that facing the enemy head-on will cause the greatest loss.

The flank attack is different. It can advance or retreat, and it is extremely difficult to be wiped out.

After the discussion was settled, little Celing saw Yaku's secret joy, and couldn't help but secretly sneered like a donkey.

Only a fool can't see that Yaku wants to preserve his strength to the greatest extent.

However, Celing sneaked into the hinterland of Qinghai from Gasnur, and the supplies along the way were very difficult. He only brought [-] musketeers and needed Yaku's assistance.

The Mongols want to plot against Yuzhu, and Yuzhu also wants to kill them all. As the saying goes, tigers eat people, and people hurt tigers!
When the road meets, the brave wins.

This battle can be regarded as Yuzhu's first frontal battle!

(End of this chapter)