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Chapter 578 Snowy Land, Lord Zhu is Coming!
From Xining to Tanggula Pass, the terrain is relatively flat, and grain transportation is quite convenient.

However, after entering the Tanggula Pass, the mountain is steep and the mountain road becomes rough and difficult, which is not suitable for large troops to enter.

Since Galdan Celing didn't dare to come, Yuzhu boarded the Tanggula Pass with only [-] new troops, [-] firearm battalion and [-] Eight Banner cavalry.

The coordinated combat of infantry, cavalry and artillery is the most important strategy of Yuzhu, and both are indispensable.

We must rely on the new army and the firearms battalion to attack the fortifications.To pursue the enemy's defeated army, cavalry is needed.There can be only two thousand cavalry, but they must never be absent.

Climbing the mountain with a 12-pound heavy gun was indeed very difficult, but Yuzhu insisted on taking the Dutch gun captured last time to Nagqu.

When fighting in the mountains, the artillery of the Zhun army is condescending. If the Qing army's artillery team does not have heavy artillery to press the formation, it will obviously suffer a big loss.

After Yuzhu entered the mountain, Yanxin took the remaining tens of thousands of Qing troops back to Hexi Youzhong Banner, which is Golmud.

The advantage of doing this is to reduce the pressure on logistics.

You know, the longer the food transportation line, the greater the logistical pressure.

When Yu Zhu rushed to the north bank of the Kara Wusu River, Nian Gengyao and the old fourteen had been standing by the river, unable to move!
Yuzhu leaped on the bank of the Kara Wusu River, and his heart was ups and downs.

The Nire Mountain where the Nagqu Mountain Pass is located is composed of two hills in the north and the south. The southern mountain occupied by the Zhun army is higher, and the northern mountain on the Qing army side is lower. The relative height difference is about 50 meters.

The famous Kara Wusu River runs through the middle of the two hills.

The camp location of Lao Shisi and Nian Gengyao is near the lower Beishan Mountain.Anyone who knows a little bit of military common sense can see that there are enemies on all sides.

Well, the ancients were sincere and did not deceive themselves.

Objectively speaking, Old Fourteen and Nian Gengyao would not fight without Yue Zhongqi.

In fact, Yue Zhongqi's combat experience was also in Songpan Town, where he and the chieftain soldiers fought against each other almost every day, and this was the real skill he developed.

"Dong Mei, how do you think our army should attack?" Yu Zhu looked down at Yue Zhongqi who was leading the horse.

Yue Zhongqi was secretly delighted, and hurried down, and replied respectfully: "Commander, I thought that the Karawusu River is not wide, and our army can build a few more pontoon bridges, and then go under the Nagqu mountain pass. , Set up a solid camp, put up heavy artillery..."

Well, there is a saying in the art of war, attack halfway across the river.

Da Ce Ling Dunduobu, who is well versed in the art of war, deliberately placed the Zhunjun at the foot of the Naqu Mountain Pass.

As long as the Qing army planned to use boats to cross the river, the quasi-army used artillery and rockets to harass.

Old Fourteen and Nian Gengyao, in fact, are both military rookies and don't know how to adapt at all.

Yue Zhongqi was different.Every day, this kid would hack each other with chieftain soldiers, drill ravines, and build single-plank bridges, which was commonplace.

Yuzhu nodded, intending to give Yue Zhongqi a taste of the sweetness, and then ordered: "Well, I will leave the matter of building the pontoon bridge to you. I will let Niu Tai hold the Baihong knife to hold the place for you. Who would dare not?" Listen to your call, and Fa-rectification on the spot!"

"Thank you, Marshal, for your love!" Yue Zhongqi was extremely emotional, and blurted out, "Biao Xia is willing to die for Marshal!"

Yu Zhu nodded with a smile on the surface, but he was sneering in his heart, rebellious, Lao Zi believes you a ghost?

In the era of cold weapons, if you want to cross the river without paying the price for attacking one side, it is simply a dream.

Yuzhu is different, he has complete command experience in modern warfare.

Under the hands of the old fourteen and Nian Gengyao, Yuzhu forced Yue Zhongqi to allocate [-] soldiers and horses, so that he could concentrate on cutting wood, building rafts, and building pontoon bridges on the river.

As for Yu Zhu himself, he personally commanded the Eight Banners soldiers of the Firearms Battalion to pile up the ten seized 12-pound heavy guns and nearly a hundred sub-cannons to the riverside.

On the road, after testing, the effective range of the 12-pound heavy gun is about 900 meters, and the maximum range exceeds 2000 meters.

Even the son-and-mother cannon that the old emperor loved very much can have a range of more than 400 meters.

And the widest part of the Kara Wusu River is tens of meters, hehe, it is enough.

More people means more strength. Ten days later, Yue Zhongqi prepared all the materials for erecting ten pontoon bridges.

Yuzhu was very satisfied, and not only praised him greatly, but also promoted Yue Zhongqi as the acting lieutenant general of the Shuaibiao Zhongjun on the spot.

The deputy general of the Green Battalion is roughly equivalent to the brigade commander.The acting lieutenant is the acting lieutenant, who fills in first when there is a vacancy.

In the green battalion, officers at the level of guerrillas are already the ceiling of ordinary warriors.

Without the support of a big backer, guerrilla for one day, guerrilla for life is definitely not an empty talk.

Originally, Yue Zhongqi, who was only the deputy head of the regiment, climbed to the sky in one step, crossed the natural moat of ordinary people, and officially entered the ranks of middle and high-level green camp generals.

In the morning of the second day, after having a full meal, Yuzhu led his troops out of the camp, preparing to forcibly cross the Karawu River.

Old Fourteen couldn't understand what kind of trick Yu Zhu was playing, so he muttered intentionally: "The enemy army happened to attack halfway through, so the chances of losing are huge!"

Nian Gengyao also couldn't understand Yuzhu's battle intention, but he didn't cross the river after attacking for more than a month, so he didn't dare to say more.

Yuzhu obviously heard the old fourteen's complaints, but acted as if he didn't hear them.

After the heavy artillery of the Firearms Battalion took their positions, Yuzhu smiled and said to the old fourteenth brother: "Brother fourteenth, I'm not as good as you. But, for war, hehe, you still have to follow my little brother and learn more." !"

The old fourteen was so choked that he rolled his eyes, but there was nothing he could do with the jade pillar.

Before Yuzhu arrived, he gave the old fourteen such a long time, but he kept his troops on the north bank of the Kara Wusu River.

Alas, it's not that Yuzhu didn't give him a chance. If you can't catch the old fourteen yourself, who can you blame?
In modern warfare, the method of queuing up and shooting with muskets is still secondary.

Large-caliber land warfare artillery is the real king of land warfare.

Before the official battle started, Yuzhu had already figured it out, this battle must be won!

No way, who is called Junggar, who lost the 12-pound army gun bought in the Netherlands?
It is not an exaggeration to say that Yuzhu deliberately walked slowly on the road, waiting for these ten heavy artillery.

Da Ce Ling Dunduobu is by no means an incompetent person who eats dry food. He has long seen that the Qing army is going to launch a general offensive today.

There is nothing to say, Dace Ling Dunduobu gathered more than [-] quasi-army musketeers and dozens of cannons, hiding behind the earth barrier, and planned to let some Qing troops cross the river first, and then blasted away Annihilate it.

No matter how powerful the Qing army's muskets were, they still couldn't shoot the quasi-army hiding behind the earth barrier. This was the wishful thinking of the master plan Ling Dunduobu.

According to the logic of using troops, the deployment of Dace Lingdun Duobu can be described as seamless and in line with the art of war.

However, the famous general of a generation of Junggar, Dace Lingdunduobu had bad luck to meet this freak Yuzhu.

Yuzhu stationed his horse not far from the heavy artillery position, and carefully observed the arrangement of the quasi-army with the binoculars in his hand.

Well, everything was as expected.

Therefore, Yu Zhu issued an order to attack, "Send Yue Zhongqi to start erecting the pontoon bridge."

"Hey." The messenger officer and cavalry quickly went to find Yue Zhongqi.

After Yue Zhongqi received the order, he directed his subordinates to come to the river and began to build piles and bridges.

Da Ce Ling Dunduobu was very calm, because the distance was too far, he did not order to fire immediately.

It is reasonable to bring the Qing army closer and then bombard them.

Yue Zhongqi did have a few brushes. Under his command, ten simple pontoon bridges were built in just over two hours.

Just when Dace Lingdunduobu thought that the Qing army was about to launch a general offensive, an astonishing change occurred.

Not only did Yuzhu not order a general attack, but instead gave a strange order, "Send the order, the heavy artillery fires!"

In order to prevent the gun barrel from overheating and take into account the frequency of firing, the ten heavy guns were divided into two groups by Yuzhu, and each salvo was five guns.

"Boom..." With the huge roar, the 12-pound Dutch heavy artillery let out a dull roar.

Five solid shells weighing more than ten kilograms roared across the sky and smashed into the Junggar army camp.

"Boom."

Due to the failure to calibrate the shooting angle, only two of the five shells smashed into the army's earth barrier.

One of the solid shells, mixed with howling wind and thunder, coincidentally hit the artillery position of the Zhun army.

The huge cannonball smashed viciously on the earth barrier.Almost in an instant, the seemingly extremely solid earth barrier collapsed.

After the fiery red projectile penetrated the earth barrier, it smashed into the artillerymen's crowd.

"Ah... Mother..."

"Mom..."

"help me……"

Wherever the flaming projectile passed, the gunners of the quasi-army were either killed or injured.

However, solid shells are different from blooming shells. As long as there is still kinetic energy to exit the chamber, it is impossible for the projectile to stop and rotate.

"Boom." Several of the army's cannons were smashed.

Where the projectile passed, people turned on their backs, ghosts cried and wolves howled.

Those with missing arms, broken legs, cracked brains, and those lying on the ground crying, intertwined into a demonized scene of hell on earth.

Da Ce Ling Dunduobu, after seeing the terrible scene, instantly understood Yuzhu's mind.

Not good, fooled!

But, it's too late!
After the Qing army erected ten pontoon bridges, the mother-child cannons of the Huoqi Battalion were placed by the river.

The Kara Wusu River is only tens of meters wide in total.

No matter how short the shooting range of the sub-basic cannon is, it can also take advantage of the extremely fast rate of fire to block the counterattack channel of the quasi-army.

If the Qing army did not have heavy artillery, Da Ce Ling Dunduobu would not need to worry too much.

However, the problem now is that, facing the continuous bombardment of heavy artillery, the quasi-army can only endure the bombardment, but cannot fight back.

This is too damaging to morale and morale.

However, as the accuracy of the heavy artillery became more and more accurate, the losses suffered by the Junggars due to the bombardment gradually increased.

The artillery of the Junggar people is mostly earthen artillery, and the range is generally very short!

The main enemy's artillery is not good, which is one of the fundamental factors why the old emperor did not pay attention to heavy artillery.

The mother-child artillery equipped by the Qing army can generally suppress the artillery of the Junggars. The old emperor felt that there was no need to study and equip heavy artillery.

In modern warfare, the intensive killing radius of a 155mm artillery shell is 60 meters, and the maximum killing radius can reach 360 meters.If the air blast method is adopted, the killing range can cover an area as large as a football field.

In modern warfare, as long as a 12-pound solid shell hits the enemy's camp, due to the blessing of huge kinetic energy, all defensive measures within a radius of 10 meters will be almost destroyed.

The two armies confronted each other across the river. After a long time, the Junggar people couldn't stand it!
(End of this chapter)