Emperor Kangxi: Yuyu Chengxiang

Chapter 106 Chen Jun's mighty bombardment of Camel City's fraudulent surrender (1)
Mingzhu's important military proposal Wu Dan did not have time to present it to Kangxi.In the early morning of the second day, Suo'etu hurried back from Feiyang's ancient army. As an internal minister, he convened a meeting of guards, conveyed Kangxi's decision at night, and ordered Wu Danli to go to Nanjing to write to Jackie Chan to urge the water transport to go north.Before leaving, Wu Dan only conveyed Mingzhu's words to Suo'etu, and then flew away.Kangxi's military affairs were complicated and he was ten times more busy than when he was in the capital. He ordered all the troops to tighten the siege and approach Jingfeng Huanggang Mountain, without thinking about blocking the escape route.Suo'etu was not willing to take credit for Mingzhu, so he naturally refused to mention it. He was also in charge of raising and adjusting various payment errands, and only urged Yu Chenglong from Nanjing, Tang Renhui from Henan, and Ge Li from Shaanxi to mobilize water boats and land vehicles day and night. The 14 troops assembled on the front line of Ulan Butong were transporting grain, meat, and vegetables.

Within half a month, under the command of Feiyanggu, the Qing soldiers successively conquered the cities of Linxi, Rehuitang, Shuichengzi, and Shanggongdi.Lang Shuang led the Harqin Left Banner to occupy the Huanggang Mountain Fortress.Galdan's 2 horses were all compressed in the valleys of Jingfeng and Ulan Butong peaks.Losing natural dangers again and again, Galdan was extremely panicked in his heart, but he knew in his heart that as long as he ordered to retreat, he would be defeated when the Qing army five times his size surrounded him with an iron wall and stood neutral.Fortunately, at this time, the Raksha Kingdom sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that Lieutenant General Zakharov and [-] Cossacks would be sent to reinforce within half a month, and the Tibetan soldiers of the Dalai Lama had also rushed to Khobdo, heading towards Ulan Butong day and night. March.These were two doses of stimulants. Ge Erdan felt courageous, so he ordered to temporarily build a "Camel City" in Jingfeng, vowing to fight to the death with the Qing soldiers here.

The so-called "Camel City" was used by the Mongols when they destroyed the Song Dynasty.That is to line up a large group of camels into a city circle to defend the encirclement.The camel is known as the "ship of the desert", and it will lie still when there is a strong wind. It is really wonderful to use this characteristic to form a temporary camel city in the battle.At Galdan's order, all the [-] camels used to transport the axle load gathered under the Jingfeng Peak, lying around the camp, with boxes stacked on their backs, and the blankets soaked in water were tightly covered. Three hundred musketeers were lying behind the camel array, while ten thousand archers stood on the high slope at the back and waited in full force. Looking from a distance, it was dark and black, just like an iron wall.

The three of Feiyanggu and Suo'etu rode horses to inspect the front of the camel formation, and it was already a very short time when they returned to the Bahrain camp.Suo'etu looked very excited. While drinking hot milk, he chatted and laughed with Tong Guogang, and said to Feiyang: "This kind of Luo formation is not to be feared. Today I ordered people to put all 43 red cannons on the front. In less than two hours, his camel formation will be torn apart, and his whole army will be in chaos without a fight!" Fei Yanggu listened but remained silent, closed his eyes and half reclined on the chair as if he had fallen asleep.Suo'etu smiled and said to Tong Guogang, "Look at our handsome man, he's fallen into sleepiness again!"

Tong Guogang smiled, and approached him and said, "Commander, today's battle is sure to win, and we have exhausted our plans. What are you still thinking about?"

"What the Holy Majesty wants is that no one slips through the net, not a sure chance of winning!" Fei Yang suddenly opened his eyes, and his expression became extremely serious, "Ge Eryue is not an idle person. I think he used camel formations to stop our army and cover him The Chinese army fled to the northwest! Otherwise, why is his most elite Musar camp not in the front, but set up to the west of Jingfeng? You must know that Musar is in charge of protecting him! Cannons cannot be used all in the front, at least Half of them are transferred to the northwest!"

Suo'etu also lowered his face, and said: "You are too worried! I also thought of this level. The road from the northwest to Kobduo is either a desert grassland, a swamp, or a desert sea. He really escaped. Go out, what do our light cavalry do? Are our horses running slower than them? There are fewer cannons. If you can't attack from the front, Galdan doesn't have to flee at all. This battle will be a confrontation Why do you report to the emperor?" Fei Yanggu muttered for a while, and said: "I only blame my incompetence in dispatching, and I didn't see it earlier. In the past few days, I can draw some troops from the Langfu Department to guard the northwest. Now At that time, I thought, the most important thing is not to let the tiger go back to the mountain, and it doesn’t matter if we fight here for a few more days.” Suo’etu sneered, “What are you talking about? It’s just stupid! Nights are long and dreams are many, as long as the Raksha Kingdom knows that Galdan If we draw with us, reinforcements will be sent immediately, and the flames of war will spread, which may destroy the new treaty signed by Nerchinsk. If it ruins the overall situation of the court, you will bear the responsibility?"

He assumed the status of being an assistant to the government in the study, which is full of bones and thorns, which weighs heavily.Feiyanggu deeply regretted that when Kangxi sent Suo'etu, he did not ask for an order to hand over the command of the entire army to him.Fortunately, Suo'etu took the credit for winning the battle, and Suo'etu was not at fault for the fault!After thinking for a long time, Fei Yanggu bit his lips and said: "Zhongtang, I'm not trying to discredit you. It's inappropriate to use all 43 cannons on the front. Ge Erdan also lost battles in the Western Regions. Behind this person is the Dalai Lama and Luo Sha. , recovery is extremely fast, escaping is a disaster!"

"Then send ten cannons over there." Suo'etu also thought about it carefully, after all, this debate cannot be hidden from Kangxi, if there is really negligence, Kangxi will not tolerate it, because he said, "Ten cannons are enough. "

Feiyang Zhan suffocated and ordered ten red cannons to be dispatched.After noon, he and Suo'etu put on their clothes, crossed the Xilamulun River, and came to the front of the battle.At this moment, Nian Gengyao, the general on the left wing, and Tong Guogang, who was on the right wing, each led [-] infantry and [-] cavalry, with their knives out of their sheaths and arrows on their bows, they were ready to go out just waiting for an order.Fei Yanggu called the two of them, and said with a smirk: "The camel formation first bombarded, opened a gap, rushed in immediately, and divided Ge Erdan's battalions. Guo Gang, you are the main one, capture Ge Erdan It is the first achievement! If there is escape, I will not care about your younger brother who is the minister of the study!" After finishing speaking, he waved the blood-red command flag in his hand.

The 33 cannons in red immediately roared, and the missiles carried thick smoke and flew towards the enemy's formation with flashes of fire. More than a thousand shotgunners stood in front of the formation and shot fiercely at Jingfeng's enemy formation.Almost at the same time, three hundred musketeers in Gerdan's formation also fired at the Qing army.Although they did not have cannons, the Russian-style muskets were indeed much better than those of the Qing army. They had a longer range and better accuracy, and concentrated their firepower on the gunners. More than forty gunners in the Qing army died after drinking bullets.Fortunately, Feiyanggu has more gunners for each gun, if it is equipped according to the routine of the system, at least ten guns will be dumb.At this moment, the battle of guns and guns was fierce. Under Jingfeng, the sound of guns rumbled along the banks of the Xilamulun River, shaking the ground violently. Several fires broke out under Jingfeng, crackling in the north wind, and the battlefield was thick with smoke and yellow. The dust rushed straight to the sky, and the sound of killing and drumming could be heard endlessly, which was very tense and terrifying.

But Gerdan's camel formation was not broken.The difficulty lies in the fact that the camel is alive, and the gap was blown open several times, the camel was blown to pieces, and the driver immediately readjusted and filled it up.until the end.Feiyang Guming focused his firepower on Xiji, and asked the bird gunners to concentrate on shooting the driver, and this worked.The opposite side of the left wing of the Qing army was finally torn open with a gap of thirty feet, and then the front was also opened.Fei Yanggu's eyes were red, and he yelled: "This is the moment when the seven-foot husband makes his achievements. Brothers, kill him!" gallop out.Tens of thousands of Qing soldiers immediately dismounted, shouting in unison and rushing forward.When the Geerdan camp was neutral, the horn blew sharply, and more than [-] cavalry rushed out in front of the formation, and a hand-to-hand bloody battle immediately appeared on the bank of the Xilamulun River!
Although Ge Erdan's cavalry is small, they are all selected Mongolian warriors from nomadic tribes in the Western Regions. All of them are good at riding and stabbing.The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty had been trained for many years, forming formations to charge and kill, advancing and retreating in a controlled manner, and the killing was indistinguishable.Cannons and shotguns were useless at this time, and everyone on the battlefield looked like blood gourds, only marked with braids or no braids.The war horses neighed and charged back and forth, sabers burst into each other, and sparks shot out.The severed heads were kicked back and forth by human feet and horseshoes, and the gurgling blood formed pools of blood, which gradually solidified and turned purple.This hand-to-hand combat has never let up from the beginning to the end of the year.Fei Yanggu looked back at Suo'etu, Suo'etu was a person who came from the sea of ​​blood, and at this moment he clenched his fists and his face was pale.Feiyanggu groaned for a while, then suddenly shouted:
"The emperor is here, long live to visit my warriors! Long live!"

Hearing this shout, the Qing soldiers became even more frantic, and swung their knives at the enemy to fight.While shouting "Long live", while chopping fiercely.Gerdan's soldiers were already outnumbered, stopped three times and folded twice, and now he became more and more discouraged. Seeing that he could not hold on, Gerdan shouted "return to the army" and let his horse flee to Musar's camp.On the battlefield, everyone saw each other clearly, and the Qing soldiers went all out to surround the remaining [-] enemy regiments in front of the formation, like chopping melons and chopping vegetables, killing all of them in less than half a meal, and then rushed into Geer. Dan's base camp, when the enemy camp was neutral, ignited a raging fire.

"The order is that Nian Gengyao go west to block his escape route, and order Tong Guogang to attack Musar's camp immediately!" Fei Yanggu said sharply, "If there is any delay, cut him off immediately!" As soon as it touched, the jujube horse galloped westward without waiting for the whip.Suo'etu and the guards of the Chinese army knew that he was going to personally command and capture Musar's stronghold, so they followed with a flick of the reins.

After Ge Erdan's camp was defeated, the remaining battles continued. The Mongols would rather die than submit. Although they lost their institutional system, they still fought on their own in the dark and stabbed their horses with knives in the dark. Countless people died.Galdan's [-] soldiers in the Chinese army risked their lives and managed to escape to the camp of his son-in-law Musar to protect him.Galdan originally hated Musar for watching the fire from the other side, but now he is lucky to have this temporary shelter.Seeing her father was slandered in the leg and came back dripping with blood, Xiaozhen didn't feel miserable, so she hurried up with her husband to help Gerdan, and rested on the chair. Gerdan woke up from the panic, thinking that the whole army would be wiped out in one day. , the fate of the year passed but nothing was accomplished, the bleak management of the past was in vain, and the sadness came from it, "huh", stood up and looked up to the sky and laughed wildly: "hahahaha... I can't think that I, Geerdan, have today!" Suddenly weeping loudly, Beat the table and beat the chest.Seeing him so sad, all the people in the tent shed tears.

"I heard my daughter's words earlier, so why are we here today?" Xiaozhen covered her face with tears and said, "Which one of those Raksha people is faithful? The Great Khan just listens to them! If you are like the kings of Mobei and Eastern Mongolia, you will be safe." For Bogda Khan guarding Xifan..."

(End of this chapter)