Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

Chapter 672: Southern troops are not as strong as Northern troops (Part )
My son is my father's heartthrob. When he saw his four sons volunteering to go to war, the Great Khan of Lotus felt very proud. A tiger father has no sons. My son, my father is proud of you! But the Great Khan, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, knew very well that swords and guns were incompetent on the battlefield, and he would never show mercy just because they were the sons of the Great Khan. He was really reluctant to let his sons go to the battlefield. It's just that all the generals are here. If they don't agree with the prince to go, it will hurt morale. In desperation, he had no choice but to give an order: "Melas, Ergalang, you two lead Sonom Celing and Babai generals with 20,000 troops as the vanguard and attack Guihua City; Baoyin leads Bingtudalei The generals of Ubashi and Mamadale Ubashi sent 10,000 troops to the left wing to intercept the reinforcements of the right-wing banner of Khalkha, the three Ulat banners, and the Maoming'an banner to Guihua City; Biligenda came to lead the business capital of Batur, The Bagabandi generals will have 10,000 troops on the right wing to guard against reinforcements from the Eight Banners of Chahar to Guihua City; Erke and Erqin Batur will lead 10,000 troops on the rear wing to guard against the Qing army of the Xilin Gol League."

"Yes~" All the generals accepted the order in unison.

Sultan then looked at his four sons and shouted sternly: "There are no fathers and sons in the army. It is your first time to lead an army. Please do not violate military laws and lower the prestige of our army!"

"I don't dare!" The four princes were trembling in their hearts, and they all shouted, "I don't dare!"
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"Your Majesty, it's not good. There are herdsmen from the Siziwang Banner in the north who have fled back. They say that the guards are coming. The number of the vanguard is about 10,000." In the commander's mansion in Guihua City, Prince An Yue Le was discussing the northern guard lattice with the scholar Zhan Ba. As for the movement of people, Guruge, the commander of Tumote's left wing, rushed over in a panic to report.

"Bang!" Yue Le slammed his fingers on the case, "What is supposed to come will come after all! Pass the order and assemble the troops immediately."

"Your Majesty, we are outnumbered and the enemy is outnumbered. It is better to gather the troops to defend the city. Then send people to reinforce the Khalkha Right Banner, Urad Three Banners, Maoming'an, Chahar, and Sunit, and send others to reinforce the city. The court asks for help.”

"What you don't know is that Guihua City was burned before. Although it was rebuilt later, the treasury was empty. The newly built city was not as strong as the old city, and it was trapped in an isolated city. If the enemy was trapped in the city, the entire army would be wiped out. I heard that Nasuletan only brought 20,000 horses when he worshiped his ancestors. Even if he included the Mobei soldiers, there were only more than 30,000 people. Those Mobei soldiers were all equipped with armor and were far from the opponent of the Eight Banners soldiers. This time, I have brought 3,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, plus 20,000 Tumote warriors recruited. The strength of the troops is not much less than that of the enemy. It is better to give it a try and fight the enemy outside the city," Yue Le said firmly.

This is the harm caused by inaccurate intelligence. Until now, he thought that the enemy he faced only had 20,000 Guards soldiers plus some Mobei local troops. Yue Le was very confident. In the past few years, the Tuxie Tu tribe and the Chechen tribe invaded the country. He had come to Guihua City and led his army to repel the Khalkha people and won several small victories. In my impression, the Mobei soldiers were poorly equipped. Although they were brave, their formations were scattered and disorganized, so I felt contempt for them. He said with a smile: "Although the soldiers of Mobei are tough on the outside but weak on the inside, they are far inferior to the armor of the soldiers of Monan." Distinctive and well-trained. Our real enemy is only the 20,000 troops brought by Sultan."

Hearing what he said, Zhan Ba ​​felt something was wrong, but he couldn't find any reason to refute it, so he had to let him.

"Woo~wu~wu~"

The melodious horn sounded. Although Yue Le was young, he already had some combat experience and calmly commanded the formation. The array has three layers. The first layer has the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion and the Tumut Firearms Battalion shotgun infantry in the center. The gun positions are arranged on the left and right, and the shotgun and horse troops are arrayed at both ends of the gun positions. The second layer has the Eight Banners Infantry in the center, and the Tumut Infantry is arranged on both sides. ; The third layer has the Eight Banners cavalry in the center, and the Tumut cavalry is arranged on both sides; at the same time, there are a thousand Tumut cavalry on each wing of the military formation; and the front of the military formation is densely covered with antlers and spears.

During the long-term war with the Ming army, the Qing army suffered heavy losses from the firearms of the Ming army. The great development of the firearms level of Weiguo in the west and Oros in the north further stimulated their determination to build a firearms-based army. The 3,000 Eight Banners brought by Yue Le were the firearms battalions of the Eight Banners. There were 1,000 shotgun infantry, 1,000 shotgun horse troops, 300 artillery, and 700 light cavalry. The degree of firearms was very high. Including the firearms soldiers of the Tumut Department in Guihua City, there are more than 4,000 muskets and more than 100 large and small artillery pieces.

Yue Le is very confident in the formation he has set up. When defending, the dense antlers and spears at the front of the military formation can effectively slow down the enemy. When the enemy slows down, the muskets and artillery on the first floor will cause a lot of damage to them; the shields and spears of the infantry on the second floor can protect them. The musketeers on the first level; when the enemy attacks, the cavalry on the third level can dismount and fire on foot to strike at the enemy at medium range. This formation can also be changed. If you are attacking, you can swap the infantry on the second level with the cavalry on the third level. All the soldiers advanced together and stopped with a golden sound. Every five feet they advanced, they fired a salvo of guns and artillery. The firearms battalion and horse infantry fired shotguns in a circular manner without interruption. After shaking the enemy's position, the cavalry charged and the infantry covered them.

Knowing that the guardsmen outnumbered his own army, Yue Le decided to go on the defensive first, kill a large number of enemies, and then change the formation and switch from defense to offense.

"Ok?"

Yue Le's eyes narrowed and he found that the Tumut infantry at the top of several battalions on the second floor were in uneven formation, and the Tumut cavalry at the top of several battalions on the third floor were in a messy dismounted rifle formation. I sighed in my heart that the 20,000 Tumut soldiers had just been recruited, and the queues were not well trained and could not compare with the Eight Banners warriors I brought. However, he still felt confident when he thought that the enemies he faced were mainly the Mongols in Mobei and Moxi who did not pay attention to formations. So what about insufficient training? It is enough to deal with Xifan.

In fact, Yue Le has never fought against the elite Guard soldiers. The Guard soldiers he knows are the soldiers of the Khalkha tribe in Mobei who only value personal bravery and do not pay attention to the coordination of battle formations. He believed that the mighty troops of Monan were enough to defeat the weak Mobei.

The vanguard of the guard army, King Melas of Qi and King Ergalang of Jin, came with 20,000 troops.

"Form up," twenty-year-old Melas ordered calmly. Although it was the first time for him and his younger brother Ergalang to go on an expedition, Generals Sonomu Celing and Babai were veteran generals who had experienced battles and skillfully commanded their troops to form formations after hearing orders.

The array has five layers. The first two rows are heavily armored cavalry wearing double armor, wielding spears, battle axes, maces and other weapons, and carrying strong bows; the last three rows are heavy armored cavalry wearing light armor, equipped with scimitars, lances and strong bows. of light cavalry; a thousand cavalry roamed on each flank.

Seeing the strict formation and distinctive armor of the guards, Prince An Yue Le was shocked. The enemy was completely different from the poorly equipped and scattered Khalkha tribe soldiers he had seen before. They were not like soldiers, but more like soldiers. They are regular soldiers. In desperation, he called the scholar Zhan Ba ​​and said, "I originally thought that the troops in Mobei were not as numerous as those in Monan. But today it seems that we are really a formidable enemy."

(End of this chapter)