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Chapter 560 The decisive battle against Samuji

After entering July, the sentries sent by the Junggars became more and more intensive.

Yuzhu knew in his heart that the internal pressure that Cewang Allah Butan was under must be getting bigger and bigger.

The truth is actually obvious, Yu Zhu is now Lian Po of the Battle of Changping, staying here in Luntai County, refusing to move his nest.

Moreover, since April, Yuzhu has not been idle.

Under his order, more than 1 Eight Banners soldiers continued to repair the old site of Luntai County.

Luntai County was originally small, with a circumference of only eight miles.

After repairing the city walls and gates of the county seat, a high platform was built in the city and all the grain was piled up on it.

Well, the benefits of doing this are extremely obvious. Even if the snow mountain suddenly melts and the snow water increases, it will not drown the vital food.

When August was approaching, Tseng Wang Alabatan obviously couldn't sit still, and he personally led an army of [-] to fight.

After Yuzhu heard the news, he smiled and said, "The Junggar people must have acquired a lot of artillery."

Starting from Galdan, the Qing and the Junggar people have fought intermittently for decades, and they have gotten to know each other very well.

In a word, the Qing Dynasty had more artillery, more infantry, and less cavalry.The Junggars have many muskets, many cavalry, and are very mobile.

"Reporting to Yushuai, the Junggars have arrived in Turpan."

"Very good, let's explore again!"

After waiting for the sentry to leave, Yuzhu got up with a smile and said, "Brother Zhusheng, a big battle is about to take place!"

Zhou Quan shook his folding fan and said with a smile: "Dong Weng, you are stuck in Luntai County, the prairie north of the Tianshan Mountains. The Junggar people can only stare blankly. The cattle and sheep can't graze. It's really a brilliant move." pole."

The geographical location of Urumqi is extremely important because if Junggar wants to come from the south to strike jade pillars, it must go north from the hilly area between the Tianshan Mountains and Bogda Mountains.

In combat in this era, the influence of topography is crucial.

Many modern people believe that the terrain of Xinjiang is the vast plain.

In fact, between the northern border and the southern border lies the Tianshan Mountains.

If the Junggars wanted to attack the Qing army in Luntai County, there were only two ways, either to take the hilly area of ​​​​the Turpan Basin.

Or, bypass the Tianshan Mountains from Yili, pass through the Kazakh Khanate, and pass through the present-day Karamay City to enter the Junggar Basin.

Most of the Junggars are cavalry, and while they are very mobile, their ability to climb mountains and ridges will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the Junggar people feel particularly uncomfortable when Yuzhu occupies the old county town of Luntai and does not leave.

To be honest, the uncomfortable situation in Junggar is purely self-inflicted.

Because, in the previous wars of the Qing Dynasty, as long as the Junggars adopted the tactics of luring the enemy to go deep and then cutting off the food road, they would achieve considerable results.

However, Yuzhu is a freak.To put it bluntly, Yuzhu is a ghost who is afraid of death.

After dispatching troops from Xi'an, Yuzhu only asked two questions every day, how much food was left?How many cattle and sheep are there?
As for whether he will be caught in an ambush, Yuzhu doesn't care at all.

Are you kidding me?
More than 6000 new troops who have been training for several years, more than 400 artillery pieces, plus [-] elite Eight Banners cavalry, and [-] Mongolian scattered cavalry.

With such a luxurious lineup, even the British army in the first Opium War was far inferior!
The Junggars fought against Yuzhu and knew the power of the flintlock formation. This is the fundamental factor for them to fortify the wall and clear the field and deliberately avoid the battle.

However, Junggar people are very patient, and Yuzhu is a master at fishing.

After the end of August, the weather gradually turned cold, and the cold wind became more and more bitter day by day.

Yuzhu ordered decisively to return to the Hutusi Pass.

On the return journey, the Qing army's herds of cattle and sheep not only did not decrease, but increased a lot.

After watching the children's shoes in "Animal World", you should have a certain impression of the scene of calves and lambs sticking to cows and ewes, right?
The army has food, cattle, and sheep. Except that there are no women around them, the soldiers seem to be on vacation on the western prairie for several months, and their small lives are extremely nourishing.

However, the withdrawal of Yuzhu made the Junggar people so angry that they couldn't sit still!

The reason is very simple. Once the Qing army has tasted the sweetness, after the spring of next year, if they continue to play like this, will the 10,000+ people in northern Xinjiang still have a way to survive?

Thus, in Samuji, east of the old city of Luntai County, [-] Junggars caught up with the Qing army led by Yuzhu.

In the morning, the Junggar people and the Qing army started to leave the camp one after another after they had had their fill of battle meals.

The decisive battle in this era is not a child's play. It will take a lot of time just for the army to go out of the camp.

At about eleven o'clock, the Qing army and the Zhun army each set up a decisive battle formation.

In Yu Zhu's binoculars, he suddenly discovered that there were obviously more camels than war horses in the Zhunjun's team.

Yuzhu nodded secretly, the armed forces of any country need to adopt strategies tailored to local conditions.

In the territory of the Junggar Khanate, there are not only prairie grasslands, but also many large deserts that stretch as far as the eye can see.

When marching in the desert, camels are obviously more practical than war horses.

To put it in modern terms, the Junggars have a very broad strategic depth, and the room for maneuver is astonishingly large.

If the Junggar people want to avoid the war, they only need to drill into the desert, and Yuzhu can only stare blankly.

Therefore, Yuzhu deliberately let the Junggar people see that there were cattle and sheep everywhere in the ranks of the Qing army.

Before the battle, Yuzhu's formation was actually very simple. His entire formation was divided into three parts: front, middle and back.

In the front row of the Qing army, more than [-] artillery pieces were lined up.

Behind the artillery, there are [-] new army soldiers lined up in four rows.

Behind the new army is Yuzhu.

Behind Yuzhu's horse is the infantry of more than 1 Eight Banners soldiers.Behind the infantry are more than 8000 Mongolian cavalry.

At the end of the entire team are the five thousand cavalry of the Eight Banners stationed in Xi'an.

Yuzhu has an extremely deep understanding of the use of cavalry.

Sending cavalry to attack the enemy's phalanx, that is a great layman!

The real role of cavalry is two points: strong mobility, and it is very cool when chasing and killing defeated troops!
Classical cold weapon wars require all kinds of conspiracies and tricks.

In modern warfare, in fact, after the artillery bombardment, the line infantry lined up and shot.

Objectively speaking, as long as the modern army is not accidentally ambushed, it is basically invincible!
The British Empire has grown from a small island country to an empire on which the sun never sets. In addition to the strength of the navy, the well-trained lobster soldiers also played a vital role.

Many people look down on the lobster soldiers with English.

But the problem is that during the first Opium War, the lobster soldiers with the British charged with bayonets, and the Qing army collapsed!

When the Japanese army invaded China, why they were reluctant to give up hand-to-hand combat was actually aimed at the fear of the Qing and Guo troops who were afraid of fighting bayonets.

In the hands of Cewang Allah Butan, there is also a single-eye telescope.

Speaking of which, this monocular has quite a history.

At the beginning of last year, Colonel Buhegoliz of the Raksha Kingdom led a 3000-strong Raksha army to invade the Junggar Yamesh region in the south.

As a result, Galdan Tseling, the eldest son of Cewang Allah Butan, led [-] soldiers and horses with only bows and arrows, and defeated the Raksha people.

Of the 3000 people brought by Buchgolitz, only 700 escaped back.

The binoculars in the hands of Cewang Allah Butan were the spoils that Buchgoliz dropped when he was escaping.

"The Houjin Tartars have so many cannons!" Tse Wang Alabatan looked around and asked Galdan Tse Ling with some concern.

Galdan Celing smiled slightly and said: "Father Khan, the artillery of the Houjin Tartars seems to be many, but they are all short-range artillery pieces, while our army's artillery is all brought from the west. Dutch 12-pound artillery. Although our artillery is small in number, its range is much farther than that of the later Golden Tartars."

"Haha, my son is right. Let the gold tartars show how powerful the Dutch cannons are, right? Come here, order the cannons to fire!"

Since all the direct bloodlines of the Golden family died out, the Khans of the Oirat Mongolian Junggar tribe in the Galdan line have always regarded themselves as the orthodox descendants of Genghis Khan, and still scornfully called the Qing Empire the post-Gold Tartars.

Both look down on each other, it's purely the saliva between the Qing Dynasty and the Junggar.

To put it bluntly, the Qing Dynasty has been unable to destroy the Junggar Khanate by force. The Junggar people are just unconvinced, do they have the ability to bite them?

This is the same as the island frogs clamoring wildly: come here if you have the ability, it is actually the same reason.

As long as it is impossible to approach the city, this kind of saliva can't be avoided.

The 12-pounder guns in the Netherlands were very difficult to obtain, and Galdan Ce zero tried his best to get ten of them.

"Boom..." Under the personal command of Galdan Celing, ten Dutch 12-pound guns fired at the same time.

At this time, the fronts of the Qing army and the quasi-army were about 500 meters apart.

However, after the Zhunjun fired, all ten solid iron bullets fell into the Eight Banners camp behind Yuzhu.

"Ah...it hurts..."

"ah……"

"Ene, it hurts to death..."

The fiery red iron bullets seemed to be the arrival of the god of death. In the phalanx of the Eight Banners soldiers, they recklessly harvested human lives.

Yuzhu couldn't help but gasped, good guy, the Junggar people, who were not good at artillery, actually got heavy artillery with a range of more than 1000 meters.

At this moment, in the camp of the Eight Banners soldiers behind Yu Zhu, cries of pain, cries for help, and yells intertwined together, forming an unusually chaotic noise.

Yuzhu clearly knew that there was chaos behind him, but he acted as if he didn't hear him. He ordered decisively: "Pass my order, the firearms battalion will push the artillery forward [-] feet. The new army line will follow closely to protect the artillery."

1.3 meters chi, three hundred feet, is about 100 meters.

Just after the official battle, the Qing army suffered from Kangxi's short-sightedness.

Ever since he pacified San Francisco and took over Taiwan, Kangxi has collected all the heavy artillery.

Even in the most elite Eight Banners Firearms Battalion in the Qing Dynasty, the artillery is flexible and mobile.

The characteristics of the mother and child artillery are that the range is between four and 500 meters, and the power is not very powerful, but it is easy to move and has strong mobility.

However, the Dutch 12-pounder army guns of this era had an effective range of 900 meters and a maximum range of 2000 meters.

Cannons are not good, if Yuzhu doesn't order the cannons to move forward, the Qing army will have to endure the bombardment.

(End of this chapter)