"Great Khan, this boat is the one that set fire to us. It came upstream from the lower reaches. It is probably the Jingying boat. There were originally five boats towed behind it. I don't know why those boats were left in the Yellow River at this time. We're in. Only this strange smoking ship chased us in." Tumen Taiji hurriedly came up to report.
Gushi Khan was a heroic figure with transcendent vision and decision-making ability. As early as this period, he saw that he should invest in Huang Taiji instead of Chongzhen and Lin Danhan.
After his Heshuote tribe occupied Qinghai-Tibet, it gained Manchu recognition for a long period of time. Notices on the plateau are impregnable.
"Hmph, that's too much to bully. We, the Oirat Alliance, have hundreds of thousands of troops here. Uncle Dingyuan actually sent a boat to burn all our food and grass. It's really intolerable." Gushi's mouth was filled with sweat.
The Dalai Lama also had a gloomy face, looking at the gunboats on the distant tributary that were blowing black smoke and chasing the Mongolian cavalry on the shore. He said doubtfully: "I don't see any sails on this boat, and no one is rowing it." , how can you walk by yourself?"
Hala Huqi also said doubtfully: "This boat seems to be on fire, emitting such thick black smoke. It's so hot in summer, what are you doing with the fire? Is it cooking?"
In fact, it’s not to blame people like Mongolia. They live inland. Ships are rarely seen. The boats used by the people here are all canoes. You have to go to the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea to see big ships. To them, the Ming Dynasty's canals were all big ships.
Although the Mongols were very familiar with sea ships when they ruled the Han Dynasty. Daxing sea transportation replaced water transportation. But more than two hundred years have passed, and they no longer remember what the ship looks like.
Gushi Khan looked into the distance, seeing the tongues of flame spurting from the Gatling gun and the S-shaped flame whip shooting back and forth. Wherever he went, people fell on their backs. The cavalry has absolutely nothing to do against this monster whose superstructure is covered with steel plates.
He thought that the camel cannon of the Oirat people was very powerful. These weapons introduced from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire made them invincible on the grasslands of Central Asia. Quite proud and complacent. At this time, when I saw the unknown firearms on the black ship spitting out deadly flaming sickles, I realized how big the gap was between my side and others.
In front of that unknown firearm, the riding bow that the Mongols were proud of was useless.
The riding bow can be thrown 150 meters and the direct shot can be 70 meters. The range of that firearm is ten times that of a mounted bow. The intensity was greater than that of a thousand-man volley.
His old face was twitching. Before coming here, he was the leader of the Oirat Alliance. Full of confidence. After breaking away from Tatar control in recent years, all four parts of Oirat have achieved great development. They successively conquered the Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Uzbeks and some Kazakhs.
This made him feel that he had the strength to intervene in Mongolia's affairs. Especially after the three Khalkha Khanates kept getting closer to themselves. He felt that after the Oara people also died first, they had another chance to compete with the Tatars.
This was his move to avenge King Shunyi and the Monan brothers. They came to expel the Ming Dynasty and restore Mongolian rule in Monan, but in fact they were controlling Monan and the Chahar people to compete for supremacy. This is the struggle between the Oaras and the Tatars.
At this time, a shadow cast over his heart. The Oara people have been away from the Central Plains for too long. At this time, he discovered that the world in the East may no longer be what they remembered.
Today, a single boat made the more than 50,000 Mongolians in Linhe City panic and burn the city. Not only did this damn black boat not escape, but it now drove arrogantly into the river fork in the Houtao Plain, chasing down the Mongolian cavalry and shelling the Mongolian camps.
The hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops must camp separately depending on water sources and herd cattle and sheep separately. This actually gave the broken ship an opportunity to take advantage of. It bombarded one camp after another, and when the camp was blown up, it fired with machine guns.
What's terrible is that this crescent-shaped fertile land has river branches as dense as a spider's web. This is also the reason why the water and grass here are abundant. This is a rare large wetland in Saibei. Migratory birds and wild animals are everywhere here. At the same time, it also gave this shallow-draft gunboat the convenience of moving vertically and horizontally.
The rivers in most areas here are more than two meters deep. The width is more than twenty or thirty meters. The shallow water heavy gunboat can completely enter. It can also come out.
"Hurry up and draw maps and waterways. Measure the water depth. Record everything." Yang Fan ordered as he watched another camp being set on fire and the Mongols fleeing in all directions.
At this time, driven away by the machine guns, there were no cavalry too close. Soldiers ran to the decks, measured water depths with plumb bobs, and drew maps and waterways.
The Gatling gun has an ultra-long range of 1,500 meters. Even if the Oirat cavalry runs far away, it is still within the fire coverage. Although the accuracy is greatly reduced, things like machine guns do not require accuracy for dense targets. . Just aim at the general range of spraying ammunition.
However, shotgun shells cannot be used beyond 300 meters. That thing has too much resistance and cannot fly far. Only single-head bullets can be used.
The power of such a large-caliber single-point bullet is even more terrifying, and it basically beats people to pieces. A shot hit the horse's butt, and instantly one of its legs flew away. Half of the horse's ass disappeared.
Just when Gushi Khan and others were watching with eyes wide open on a mound, the firearms on the boat finally stopped shooting.
Huang Hao walked into the cab and said: "Master, the barrel of the gun is overheated. It has been firing for an hour. You should take a rest."
Yang Fan nodded. From the Yellow River to here, he had indeed been shooting non-stop. It is normal for the barrel to overheat.
The sailors tied buckets with ropes and threw them over the side of the ship to fetch water. Then it was poured on the gun barrel wrapped in quilt, and a lot of water vapor came out of the red barrel.
"Stop shooting first. There is a battalion ahead of us by the river. Let's drive over and take a look."
"It looks like a camp of the Dulbert people. There are about three thousand people." Zhang Wudian said. He has done a lot of research on the Mongolian flags.
The shallow-water heavy gunboat turned its bow and entered another river covered with reeds. The reeds grow very tall. Blocking a large part of the view.
Yang Fan felt that it was a mistake to enter this river. The reeds here were too dense and it was difficult to see the surrounding situation clearly. And it's easy to catch fire. If the Mongols hide their boats here, they can launch a surprise attack.
However, he shook his head and smiled again. Where the Mongols had boats, the local aboriginals only had canoes.
The top of the ship's mast is fifteen meters high. There is an observation post above. In the open grassland, you can see far away.
Draftsmen draw pictures on it, and lookouts observe the enemy's situation on it. This is a hut with three millimeter armor plates and is not afraid of enemy bow and arrow fire.
Suddenly the ship shook and then stopped.
Some people died, but not completely...
