Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 386 Qing Secret Weapon: Huskies
"Big Khan, it's not good, our camp in the east was attacked by the Qing army." Cewang Allah Butan replied out of breath.

"Impossible." Galdan stood up abruptly: "There is thick snow everywhere, could it be that they flew over from the sky?"

"I don't know if it flew over, but there was an army that attacked the camp in the east, and they had a lot of cannons. It can only be the Qing army." Cewang Alabatan replied.

Galdan walked a few steps in the big tent with his hands behind his back and said, "Prepare the horse immediately, I want to go and see for myself."

"Khan, it's hard for war horses to pass on the ice, so how can we march?" Cewang Allah Butan reminded.

Galdan didn't care about his nephew's opinion at all: "Assemble five thousand elite soldiers immediately, and I will personally lead them to go to the east to see."

After a pause, he added two more words: "Marching on foot."

The Junggar Khanate has a population of more than 6 in the Yanqi Basin, but the five thousand elite soldiers have mobilized most of the defensive forces. Galdan led these people, stepping on the smooth ice, and walked towards the camp in the east.

From the central camp to the east camp, it is necessary to cross ten kilometers.

If it was just a short ride on a horse in normal times, now it requires soldiers to move forward in the waist-deep snow.

This cost Galdan's troops a lot of time, and they didn't arrive until evening.

When Galdan arrived at the eastern camp, the sight he saw was appalling.

The camp had been completely burnt down, and all the livestock were missing. Dead bodies were lying everywhere, and the surrounding white snow was dyed red.

Galdan immediately ordered the camp to be cleared, and more than 300 corpses were found, most of them young and middle-aged men.

Galdan knew that the camp in the east was not big, and there were more than 2 people stationed there, and the corpses of more than 4000 young men were almost equal to all the young men in that camp.

"I want revenge." Galdan was so angry that his teeth were itchy, but he couldn't do anything.

He didn't know where the enemy was, or how many people there were, and how he could take revenge.

Tseng Wang Alabutan was much calmer. He checked around the camp for a long time, and finally found something suspicious.

"Great Khan, look here." Tse Wang Alabatan pointed to the complicated paw prints and straight ice ruts on the ground and said.

"What is this? A pack of wolves?" Galdan asked with a frown.

Tsewang Allah Butan shook his head: "If I see it right, it should be dog sledding."

"Using dogs to pull sleds?" Galdan asked in surprise, "Is this possible?"

"Of course it's impossible for ordinary dogs, but if it's a specially bred big dog, there should be no problem. As far as I know, there are tribes in the far north who use dog sleds for activities." Tsewang Alabatan replied.

In fact, it was the Siberian Husky discovered by the Qing army in Siberia, commonly known as Husky.

Siberian Husky, known as Husky, is one of the oldest dog breeds in the world. There are two theories about the origin of their English name Siberian Husky. ), because the Siberian Husky has a deep and hoarse bark, so it got this name.

Another theory is that gold diggers in Alaska can make Husky sounds when driving sleds, so they took this name.

The ancestors of the Siberian Husky can be traced back to before the Neolithic Age, when a group of hunters from Central Asia migrated to the end of Siberia to live, and one of the tribes was the Chukchi who later bred the Siberian Husky.

It has to be said that the learning speed of the Qing army is a bit fast, and even the huskies have learned to march. No wonder they can penetrate Siberia.

"There will be such a thing." Galdan said with staring eyes: "I don't think there are many troops, otherwise they wouldn't have escaped."

"Escape? Judging from the corpses and wounds in the camp, these people have very strong combat effectiveness, and they don't need to escape at all."

Tse Wang Alabatan's face changed drastically when he said this: "Oh no, we have been tricked by Da Khan. Those people must have gone to attack the central camp."

"What?" Galdan's face changed greatly: "Go back immediately."

"Khan, it's very cold at night, and it's hard to tell the direction. It's easy to get lost when we go back on foot like this." Tsengwang Alabatan reminded.

"What should we do?" Galdan was very worried about the situation in the camp.

"No matter what, we need at least half a day to return to the camp. I think we should stay here first and go back tomorrow morning."

Tsewang Alabatan put forward his own suggestion. For the sake of his own safety, even if his camp was in danger, Galdan had no choice but to be patient and rest here for a night.

At dawn the next day, Galdan immediately urged everyone to go on the road.

After hastily eating some dried meat and kumiss, everyone set off with weapons and dry food on their backs.

The piercing cold wind forced the soldiers to tighten the skirts of their fur robes, shrink their necks and lower the brim of their hats, leaned down and walked forward slowly.

Tsewang Alabatan and a dozen tall personal guards protected Galdan. In order to avoid being blown down by the strong wind, each dozen of them were tied together with ropes, pulling and supporting each other, and trekking hard among the hills.

Due to the influence of the strong wind, they did not finally return to the central camp until the sun was setting to the west.

When he stood on the mound not far away and saw that the stable and peaceful camp was not in a mess, and the smoke from the cow dung was slowly rising, Galdan was relieved.

A smile appeared on Cewang Allah Butan's always tense face. The crisis he predicted did not appear, which made him feel much better.

Pulling Galdan, the two trudged through the snow, and did not return to the gate of the camp until more than ten minutes later.

Seeing Galdan and others returning, the soldiers in charge of guarding all cheered.

All the elite soldiers were transferred away, which also made them very nervous, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief until this time.

Galdan returned to the big tent surrounded by everyone, but the face of the oncoming concubine Anukedun was as sinking as water.

Galdan felt something was wrong, and frowned slightly: "What happened?"

The concubine Anukodun replied: "Our camp in the north was also attacked. It should be the same group of people. I have already sent someone to find out. I just got the news that all the young and strong there were killed. The old man Young women and livestock are all missing."

Galdan's face changed, and his fists creaked: "Who are these people? What exactly are they going to do?"

The concubine Anukodun replied: "I think the purpose of these people is very simple. They want to take advantage of the heavy snow and when we are weakest, to wipe out our population as much as possible and weaken our strength. The world in which the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming is the time for them to make a big attack."

"Only the Qing army can do this."

Daqing is really disgusting enough, obviously there is a wave of strength to take away, it is to grind slowly to reduce its own casualties.

Galdan gritted his teeth and said: "These cowards who dare not fight openly, this Khan must immediately lead his troops to kill these people, and let them know that the Junggar Khanate cannot be ignored."

"Think twice."

Cewang Allabtan, who had just entered the door, hurriedly dissuaded him: "Khan, now is definitely not the time to be impulsive. The enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light. What's more, they have dog sleds, but our horses are useless. It's too much to fight like this." It’s a loss, I think it’s better to send someone to investigate, maybe there will be unexpected gains.”

Just as they were researching countermeasures, the shells of the Qing Dynasty exploded on their heads!

(End of this chapter)