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The cluster artillery of the Ming Army Infantry Group began to pour artillery towards Burqin City, thousands of miles away.
Burqin was a castle built by the Ming Dynasty himself. The Ming army naturally knew the coordinates here very well. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's artillery fired particularly accurately.
Hundreds of rifled guns fired the grenades, directly and accurately bombing the city of Burqin, causing the city of Burqin to suddenly fall into a sea of smoke and fire.
There were blooming bombs early in the morning.
In recent years, Ming Dynasty's chemical industry has made many achievements, and gunpowder has naturally risen to the point where nitrating gunpowder has begun to be used.
Therefore, it is not a problem to blow up the city of Burqin into a sea of flames.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty's artillery shells not only included bombs made of nitrate-chemical gunpowder, but also white phosphorus bombs, which can burn at a temperature of 34 degrees to a temperature of 800 degrees, and also exploded at this time. In Burqin City, there were not many Rakshasa soldiers left in Burqin City after a round of artillery bombardment.
Soon after, the Ming army successfully recaptured Burqin City.
No coincidence.
Beitun, Fuhai, and Fuyun were also quickly recovered in this way.
Before Oslov arrived at Fuyun with tens of thousands of Rakshasa Kingdom's elite cavalry, he learned the news that Fuyun had been lost.
And he was very shocked by this: "How did it fall so quickly? So, places like Burqin and Beitun have also fallen, and our way back has been cut off?"
"The Ming army's artillery is very fast and powerful. The shells are so powerful that they can spit fire. It's like they have eyes. They hit accurately! We really can't defend."
Lukahui, a mid-level Rakshasa officer who came to report the incident reported.
"Is there a cannonball that can spit fire in this world?"
Oslov felt incredible after hearing this, but before he could ask more questions, he heard the sound of intensive horse hooves coming from ahead.
"They are the cavalry of the Ming Army. There are so many yellow-skinned cavalry! They are responsible for intercepting us cavalry who are going to report to the Duke!"
Luka replied at this time.
Not long after, Oslov saw a large number of Ming army cavalry appearing in front of him.
But Oslov did not want to fight with the Ming army cavalry, although the number of Ming army cavalry that suddenly appeared was not more than his cavalry.
"Withdraw first! Tell the situation to His Excellency the Duke!"
Oslov knew that the most important thing he needed to do now was to inform Arezzoro that the Ming army had cut off the retreat of his Rakshasa army.
The Ming army cavalry saw the Rakshasa cavalry heading south with wisps of smoke, but they did not continue to pursue it.
Moreover, some Ming soldiers dismounted, set up pots, and started cooking.
Some Ming troops began to set up horse-repelling stakes and dig trenches.
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"We lost control so quickly?!"
Arezzoro was shocked when he heard the news from Oslov.
"Yes!"
Luka replied.
Oslov also nodded: "What he said is not a lie, Your Excellency the Duke, I also encountered a large number of Ming army cavalry on the way to Fuyun!"
"Report! Our sentry cavalry discovered that a large number of Ming army cavalry appeared on the side of Bei'ai Mountain!"
At this time, a Rakshasa cavalry officer came in and reported.
After hearing this, Arezzoro sat back in his chair and said: "We are surrounded! The Ming army has been trying to eat us from the beginning, but I didn't expect that they would be so fast!"
Alezolo said and glanced at Ye Chuchun.
Ye Chuchun suppressed the excitement in his heart and showed a worried look, saying: "Now the only way is to fight to the death with the Ming army and break through to the north."
"Then you and Burni will lead the Chahars and Turghuts as the vanguard of the breakout! The Cossacks will follow, and finally we will be the Rakshasa soldiers!"
Arezzoro next delivered new orders.
He had to adopt Ye Chuchun's suggestion and lead an army to break out.
Because he is cautious, he knows that if the Ming army dares to surround him, he must be confident of eating him. What's more, all the water sources have been occupied by the Ming army, and he cannot die here.
Burni and the Turgut noble Hakba, who was recruited by the Rakshasa Kingdom to attack the Ming Dynasty, both showed hesitation.
None of them were willing to take their own people to be cannon fodder for the Rakshasa Kingdom's army to break out.
"Excuting an order!"
Arezzoro pulled out the knife directly, and he had the intention of getting rid of Burni and others if they were unwilling.
"As you command!"
Burni and Hakba know obedience,
Arezzoro didn't say anything. His dry lips reminded him that he needed to drink water, but he did not choose to drink water. He knew that his entire army, including himself, must save water before breaking out.
Arezzoro was in a depressed mood at the moment.
He originally thought that he could lead more than 200,000 Rakshasa soldiers to successfully occupy the Anxi Protectorate and even enter the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom, and then enslave these Easterners.
However, Arezzoro did not expect that these Easterners would take the initiative to surround them and have the ambition to annihilate them or enslave them!
Arezzoro could not imagine how humiliating it would be for his noble white people to be enslaved by yellow people.
He swore that he would rather commit suicide than accept such a result.
The yellow Mongols who he drove to the forefront of the army to serve as the vanguard of the breakout had already begun to set off.
When these Mongols arrived at the front line of the Ming army's camp, they saw that these Ming troops had deployed horse-proof stakes and various bunkers at various strategic points, and even dug trenches. Moreover, these Ming troops had dismounted and hid in the bunkers. inside or in the trenches, pointing guns at them.
Burni and Habak looked at these Ming people who were waiting for them and had the same skin color as themselves, and then looked at the white Rakshasa people who were supervising the battle team behind the Mongols, and they felt quite complicated.
Burni couldn't help but think of the past glory of his Mongolian people. At that time, they were the overlords of this land, instead of being driven as cannon fodder by the white people as they are now.
But Burni had no choice now. He had to give the order to attack.
As a result, a large number of Mongolian cavalry rushed towards the Ming army camp.
These Mongolian cavalry did not charge quickly at first, but accelerated slowly. It was not until the Ming army camp was very close that they started galloping, raised their scimitars, and rolled up yellow sand all the way, covering the sky and the sun. The horses' hooves trampled on the ground quickly, like heavy drums beating intensively, which made people feel nervous.
As for the Ming army, all those in the forward positions were cavalry.
Because the infantry has not yet arrived after occupying the corresponding Rakshasa soldiers station, and the cavalry directly gave up attacking the stations along the way, and directly took advantage of its mobility to rush to the front and tighten the pockets surrounding the Rakshasa soldiers. Therefore, the cavalry here now The Ming army was all cavalry.
Therefore, when these Mongolian cavalry charged, the Ming army's war horses also began to raise their hoofs and snort. Like their masters, adrenaline was rising, as if they wanted to rush forward and chop with these Mongolian cavalry.
But the commander of these cavalry did not let them do so.
The Ming army's current aim was to prevent these breakouts.
In fact, most of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Army were also Sinicized Mongols.
Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would not have been able to train so many cavalry in twenty or thirty years.
What's more, there are already more Mongolians than Han people outside the Pass. Even though Zhu Youxiao encouraged Han people to migrate outside the Pass, these places are still dominated by Mongolians.
Zhu Youxiao's expanded cavalry outside the Pass was basically Mongolian.
Of course, the prerequisite for Mongolians to join the army is that their degree of Chineseization reaches a certain level.
At this time, the Mongolian cavalry that was attacking the Ming army could be considered to be of the same race as the Ming army that was intercepting them at this time, but they were fighting because they belonged to different camps.
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The mines laid in advance by the Ming army caused the Mongolian cavalry to overturn their horses, forcing them to use a more roundabout way and take a longer route to charge towards the two wings of the main road controlled by the Ming army.
But in this way, the Mongolian cavalry horses had to run longer and would tire faster.
These experienced Mongolian cavalry had to slow down.
"beat!"
Gunak, the Ming guerrilla general on the flank, gave the order to fire when the Mongolian cavalry rushed towards them.
So, the Ming army hiding in the trench pulled the trigger, and the dense conical bullets swept over, like a strong wind, mowing down a large number of the Mongolian cavalry who rushed forward.
Burni was very sad to see this scene.
But now he has no other choice but to accept the fate of his Chahar Mongols serving as cannon fodder.
The Ming army, which is also of Mongolian origin, is naturally immune to the sense of oppression caused by these Mongolian cavalry rushing into the battle, so it calmly shoots these Mongolian cavalry with rifled guns.
Seeing this, Burni had to send more Mongolian cavalry to charge.
"The second battalion mounts and rushes over!"
Niu Yong, the commander-in-chief of the cavalry unit, therefore issued a new order.
Therefore, the Ming cavalry from a battalion resting behind the Ming army camp immediately mounted their horses, loaded their lances, and then slowly advanced towards the Mongolian cavalry to attack.
The first battalion of the Ming army in the trench immediately placed wooden boards on top and installed wooden stakes underneath, allowing the three thousand cavalry of the second battalion to rush out.
As soon as these cavalry rushed out, they speeded up and spared the Mongolian cavalry who were being shot in front, and instead went back behind and came to the second group of Mongolian cavalry that rushed over.
The second batch of Mongolian cavalry attacking the Ming army had to speed up and prepare to fight the second battalion of the Ming army cavalry.
But what they didn't expect was that the second battalion of Ming cavalry in front of them all dismounted and raised their lances to shoot at them.
Before these Mongolian cavalry could react, a large number of them were lined up and shot on the spot, forcing them to go around and sprint in a wider arc.
The Ming army mounted their horses, chased them from both sides, and fired directly on their horses.
For a time, these Mongolian cavalry were constantly being shot off their horses. Compared with the rifled guns of the Ming army cavalry, their backward bows and arrows had no advantage in range or even accuracy, so they could only be beaten passively. .
Seeing this, Burni once again sent more Mongolian cavalry.
Niu Yong also sent an additional battalion of cavalry to rush over.
The ending remains the same.
A large number of Mongolian cavalry were shot and killed in groups on the grassland. Many war horses grazed leisurely in the center of the battlefield, indifferent to their masters who had fallen to the ground.
Seeing this, Burni shook his fist in frustration: "These Ming troops are really difficult to deal with."
"We can't charge any more. If we charge any more, it will completely collapse. Many of our people are already fleeing back."
Ye Chuchun couldn't help but say to Burni at this time.
"But those nasty Rakshasa soldiers are looking at us with firearms!"
Burney replied.
"You can always take a break first. We all have the same skin color, and the Ming troops across from us all seem to be Mongolian in appearance. There is no need to be so serious about killing people of the same race for the Rakshasa people."
Ye Chuchun continued to persuade.
"Forget it! Order the troops to retreat! Take a rest first."
After hearing what Ye Chuchun said, Burni gave up his plan to continue the attack when he thought that the Ming army on the opposite side was indeed difficult to deal with.
The Mongolian cavalry who were still persisting in the attack were amnesty after receiving the order to withdraw their troops!
They all withdrew immediately.
The Ming army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it, and they all retreated.
As the chief military officer, Niu Yong knew that their purpose was to eliminate the main Rakshasa army of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and his mission was to surround them and prevent them from breaking out. There was no need to hunt down more Mongols. Disrupted his own position.
"Why don't you attack?! Oslov, take your people to ask, damn, these cowardly Mongolians!"
Seeing that all the Mongols in front had retreated, Arezzoro was quite angry and gave orders.
Not long after, Oslov rushed back and said: "Burni said that they will suffer a lot of damage from the attack and need to renegotiate the offensive tactics before they can continue the attack."
"Then go to the Torguts! Don't give the Ming army a chance to exchange infantry for cavalry! In that case, it will be even more difficult to break through. Hurry up and transport the artillery!"
Arezzoro gave orders.
Therefore, Hakba had no choice but to bring his people from the Turgut tribe to attack the Ming army.
On the Ming army's side, Sun Chuanting learned that the Rakshasa Army was here through a makeshift wired telegraph, so he rushed here and asked Niu Yong: "How many attacks did they launch?"
"Only once."
Niu Yong replied.
Sun Chuanting nodded after hearing this, and then looked ahead with a telescope. Seeing a large number of iron weapons appearing in front of him again, he frowned: "The opponent's commander is not that easy to deal with! Let the artillerymen push up all the artillery first, then directly Use white phosphorus bombs, and when the wind direction is suitable, add hydrogen sulfide! Delay the enemy's attack, and then your cavalry will immediately change positions with the oncoming infantry as planned!"
Following Sun Chuanting were the Ming infantry groups that had previously attacked various Rakshasa military stations and the artillery to which these infantry groups belonged.
Therefore, after Sun Chuanting issued the order, Guo Mu, who came with these infantrymen, conveyed Sun Chuanting's order.
Not long after, thousands of artillery pieces on Daming's side were pushed up, and all were replaced with white phosphorus bombs.
Here, Hakba didn't know that the Ming army had prepared very powerful artillery shells, but he still rushed towards the front of the Ming army camp in groups. In order to be like the cavalry of the Chahar tribe, the Ming army cavalry attacked from both sides. Defeated, this time they drove many Dzungars captured in the Balkhash Lake area to serve as cannon fodder and walk through mines in front, while they themselves followed behind and did not divide their forces to attack the two wings.
But this just gave the Ming army artillery the opportunity to concentrate their bombardment.
Because in this era, only the Ming Dynasty had such military strength and applied chemical theory knowledge to the military.
Therefore, there is no international ban.
Zhu Youxiao will not prohibit his army from using any weapons in foreign wars.
Of course, Zhu Youxiao did require that domestic security maintenance should not use weapons of mass destruction to accidentally injure innocent people and destroy people's property.
But in foreign wars, naturally whatever works best will be achieved.
So, with the sound of cannons, countless white phosphorus bombs roared in and exploded among these Turhut cavalry and Junggar people. A large amount of white smoke suddenly exploded, turning the explosion place into a sea of fire, and countless Turhuts The Tes and Dzungars thus became fuel.
When Habak saw this, his whole body was trembling and he shouted three times: "Withdraw! Withdraw! Withdraw!"
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