"Report to the Great Khan that the Ming army is attacking the royal court!"
"Oh? How many cavalry are there?"
"There are only a few hundred cavalry, and there are dozens of vehicles!"
"The Ming Man are not good at horse fighting, and all vehicles are ridiculous. Warriors, follow me and destroy this Ming Man!"
"yes!"
Sengge, who ran to the Yarkand territory, heard that the Qing army had gone west, so he brought the remaining defeated generals collected from various channels and a thousand borrowed Yarkand cavalry to kill them back.
Indeed, as the intelligence report said, not even a single Qing army could be seen in the Junggar Khanate. Only then did Sengge feel relieved and discuss future matters with his younger brother Galdan.
Unexpectedly, the reconnaissance cavalry reported that the Ming army had left the pass and marched westward. They still passed through the territory of their old enemy Elinqin Luobuzang and invaded their own khanate.
Is this okay?
As the lord of the Western Region, how could he be bullied by the Ming Man who had lived in the pass for a long time?
They must be given a taste of their own power in order to frighten the enemy, and at the same time gain some benefits so that they can quickly recover their strength.
"Kill the barbarian!"
"Warriors, charge!"
It is understandable that they cannot defeat the Qing army. After all, they are also good at horse fighting.
This time, Seng Ge wants his soldiers to trample on the body of Gou Barbarian to regain his own glory.
More than two thousand cavalrymen came out in an attempt to annihilate the enemy in front of them with absolute superiority.
"Battal Commander! There are so many Western Region Dog Tartars on the other side!"
"Hahahahaha! It's really hard to find anywhere without wearing iron shoes. It takes no effort to get here! Pass my order and the whole battalion will defend in place immediately!"
As the bugle sounded, everyone saw the enemy troops rushing in the distance and knew the tactics and intentions of their superiors.
This battalion is under the command of Wang Zhilun, the Sixth Brigade of the East Palace Guards.
Since being included in the Western Expedition troops, Zhou Yuji upgraded the three battalions of the brigade responsible for the front station to a mixed brigade.
That is, each battalion has one tank company and two cavalry companies. The tank company is responsible for the frontal assault, and the cavalry company is responsible for outflanking the two flanks.
As for the battalion commanded by the battalion commander He Dazhuang, they actually came to reconnoiter the enemy's situation and had no hope of discovering Shenzi's prey.
But when luck comes, there is no way to stop it, but fat comes to the door, so there is no reason to turn it away.
A tank company has four platoons, but only 16 tanks. There are also 14 baggage trucks (also modified from steam chassis) responsible for transporting supplies. A cavalry company only has 150 people.
The entire battalion only had 300 cavalry plus 30 tanks and non-combat vehicles. Facing the enemy cavalry swarm coming in like a tide, it was indeed outnumbered.
However, sixteen tanks were lined up in a row, with two cavalry companies and baggage trains responsible for the two wings, which showed a determination and courage that was not afraid of death.
This arrangement allows the tank guns to fire all shotgun shells when the opponent charges, thereby exerting maximum lethality and obtaining the most results.
The cavalry under Beiting's jurisdiction are all heavily armored cavalry. The war horses wear leather armor with low defensive power. However, the cavalry are all like infantry and are heavily armored protective combat units.
Zhou Yuji received the words and deeds of a certain new emperor, and adopted inherent routines in response to the erratic tactics implemented by the cavalry of various tribes in the Western Regions.
That is to say, we will continue to adopt the previous strategy of dealing with the Donglu cavalry. You fight yours, and I fight mine. Let’s see who can’t stand it first!
The Ming army's maneuverability with the tribal cavalry from the Western Regions who were familiar with the terrain was of course thankless and easy to be ambushed.
Rather than being beaten passively like this, it is better to stick to your own advantages and use heavy cavalry to push forward.
The opponent can ride his horse and run away, but the monk cannot escape from the temple.
No matter how fast the family members of many gangs in the Western Regions ran, they would never be able to outrun the Ming Army cavalry.
Zhou Yuji's strategy is very simple. If you can defeat the enemy's cavalry, then defeat the enemy's cavalry. Otherwise, you will deal with the enemy's family members.
Rather than chop them into pieces when they see them, they will be raised in captivity first and then transported to the Monan mining area...
I will capture all your family members, and you will become the local rootless water!
As for livestock, that's easier to solve without even thinking about it.
There were 300,000 people in the Western Expedition army, and there were as many as 200,000 people under Zhou Yuji's command.
These heavy manual laborers are worried about having animals to give them teeth!
If an army of 200,000 people stays in the northern part of the Western Region for a year, even if one million sheep are captured, they will be able to eat them all!
Maybe these sheep don't even get enough of Zhou Yuji's main course for half a year...
A certain new emperor has given permission to conquer various tribes in the west, so he can eat from the enemy. Once he gets there, he can eat whatever he wants.
Since the Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions have been separated from the control of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Now that the Ming Dynasty's army is marching westward, it is certain that the other party will not buy it.
A certain new emperor has no other choice, so he will send an army of 300,000 to eat you until you kneel down and be sure!
All members of the East Palace Guards have long been equipped with revolvers and rifles, and the cavalry units have been given priority to install magazine-type rifles.
Therefore, at this time, 300 well-trained cavalry are used as infantry, and their combat effectiveness is equivalent to more than 3,000 prairie cavalry, maybe more...
As for the sixteen or so tanks, they were completely the protagonists on the battlefield.
But the enemy cavalry rushing over is undoubtedly a fool who has never seen the world!
After charging through several tank formations, the Donglu Braided Army had no choice but to bow their heads and admit defeat.
There is no comment on the outcome of using flesh and blood to hit steel machinery, but the process should be quite painful!
The Western Region has many Gobi deserts and very few rivers, making it one of the best places for steam tanks to exert their performance.
None of the tank soldiers expected that they would be lucky enough to face so many enemy cavalry.
We are all veterans of the war for many years, and we will not be afraid even if we are outnumbered.
With the experience of dealing with braided cavalry, no matter how powerful the enemy cavalry in front of you is, they are nothing more than barbecue under the muzzle!
It is no exaggeration at all. Even without the cooperation of his own cavalry, He Dazhuang could kill and wound thousands of enemy cavalry with just the sixteen tanks in his hand!
A tank gun is equipped with ten muskets, and the total of sixteen tanks is one hundred and sixty.
When the opponent reached a distance of 300 steps, He Dazhuang ordered to fire.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
As a dense rain of bullets flew past, Sengge's troops were caught off guard and suddenly lost no less than a hundred riders.
When they come to the Western Regions, it doesn't matter if the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty don't understand the language. They can use the tools in their hands to reason with the stubborn locals!
This is the current scene. Since the opponent's assault formation is relatively dense, it is a very good target in the eyes of the cavalry.
If you are lucky, you can hit the target as long as you hold the rifle level, aim the muzzle at the target, and close your eyes.
"Brothers, fight hard, all these results belong to our camp!"
He Dazhuang is very good at encouraging his brothers. Now, he doesn't have to worry about sharing money among his brothers.
There are also rewards for the Western Expedition. Killing an enemy cavalry can get 20 silver coins, and infantry can get 10 silver coins.
If Mu Min could be captured, a man of appropriate age would be worth five silver coins and a woman of appropriate age would be worth two silver coins.
The price of the Western Regions cavalry is only less than one-seventh of that of the Donglu cavalry. The reason is that the gap in combat effectiveness is too big.
In the later stages, the Donglu cavalry also turned into heavy cavalry, which had extremely strong impact at short distances.
But in the Western Regions, the tanks of the Ming Dynasty King's Division were on the ground, and the opponents were still light cavalry.
That advantage in quantity and mobility was completely offset by tanks and advanced rifles during wartime.
The willpower and tenacity of the enemies in the Western Regions are far inferior to those of the Donglu, so there are basically no valuable varieties...
It was better than nothing, two thousand enemy cavalry were worth forty thousand silver coins, and the whole battalion could receive an average of one hundred silver coins, plus a lot of war horses.
According to the above, the entire Western Region has a population of less than three million and a military strength of at most 300,000.
This goes too far. In wartime, if a battalion can kill a thousand enemies, it is considered lucky.
He Dazhuang suddenly realized that today was the auspicious day for him to fight on the battlefield!
Not only did he think so, but so did his brothers.
In this rough place, letting an enemy rider run away is tantamount to a crime!
I saw twenty silver coins flying away...
How painful this must be!
If it were at Beidu Restaurant, this amount of money could buy a large table of delicious food.
Since the Wang Division soldiers used rear-loading light weapons, ammunition could not be replenished locally.
Before Zhou Yuji left, he equipped each person with 500 rounds of ammunition.
As long as you don't fire it every day, it should be enough for a year.
At this time, the whole battalion is open to fighting. As long as there are very impressive results, they can confidently apply to their superiors for ammunition replenishment.
In the Western Region, Sengge had never seen an enemy with such fierce firepower. It could be described as bloody.
Before he could rush into the enemy's formation, he lost no less than five hundred horses, which was equivalent to the loss of three men and horses.
But now that the matter has come to this, we must move forward without hesitation and use our superior strength to directly overwhelm the enemy in front of us in order to win.
As a result, they suffered greater losses. The closer they got to the enemy's position, the faster they felt they were losing warriors.
Both Sengge and Galdan discovered more than once that the other party could actually knock out five or six of their own cavalry with one shot.
Not only that, the barbarian's artillery fire rate is extremely high, and visually it is much faster than our own muskets.
As a last resort, Sengge ordered a frontal breakthrough and outflanking tactics.
Three hundred cavalry on each side circled past, trying to penetrate the opponent's defense line from the flanks.
Except that Donglu is not good at roasting whole sheep, in other aspects, he is far ahead of his peers outside the customs.
He Dazhuang had long been accustomed to this, and if he couldn't be attacked head-on, he would use roundabouts to outflank him.
Wouldn't that still be a beating?
Do you think the Ming soldiers will not turn around?
Or do you think you can avoid being beaten to death by running to both sides?
One of the key points of training for the East Palace Guards' cavalry is to outflank the enemy while preventing them from being outflanked by the enemy.
He Dazhuang could block an outflank of 300 people with only 50 people, especially the baggage trucks that could cooperate in the battle.
Hundreds of Dzungar cavalry took an extra minute to circle a mile, and then died on the way to outflank them.
Naturally, the rest had no intention of fighting and chose to flee on horseback. Dozens of people were killed and wounded in the process.
"Give it to Ben Khan... uh..."
Sengge wanted to continue urging his men to charge into the battle, but he suddenly felt something strange. When he touched his chest and saw a bright red hand, he knew he had been shot.
Before he could react, he fell from his horse. It was too late for the surrounding soldiers to try to rescue him. The Junggar Khan broke his neck and died immediately.
"ah……"
Galdan couldn't help shouting, but to no avail. He had to order his soldiers to collect Sengge's body and then ordered to retreat.
Judging from the losses, we are determined not to fight anymore this time.
If we continue to fight, if we can't protect this precious force, we will lose it here.
After withdrawing their troops and retreating, they ran to a place where the barbarians could not catch up. After counting, Galdan's men were less than three hundred.
This is equivalent to killing as many as 2,000 people in one battle!
As for the results of the battle, due to the extremely fierce barbarian artillery fire, there was no time to see them.
Galdan was hit hard by the fact that he had never fought against the Qing army or the barbarians, and he also lost his brother.
After much deliberation, I had no choice but to go ahead and then go to Yarkant to borrow troops.
Unexpectedly, Ye Erqiang's situation was not much better. He was unexpectedly attacked by Li Zicheng. Now the possibility of borrowing troops was gone.
Because Dulbert, Heshuote, and Huite were either attacked by the Qing army before, or they also left.
Therefore, Galdan went around in circles but failed to find a chance to make a comeback. In the end, he had no choice but to try his luck in Dayuzi.
As the Qing army swept through all the tribes in the northern part of the Western Region, and Zhou Yuji brought his troops over, things became much easier.
The most powerful Junggar tribe was defeated by the Braid Army, and Zhasak Tuhan Chenggun was missing.
Elinqin Luobuzang and Chukul Ubas defected to Shunji. After this battle, the three tribes of Heshuote, Duerbot and Huite have become in vain.
In other words, Zhou Yuji easily regained the Junggar Basin and surrounding areas without much effort and with less than a thousand casualties.
There are airships in the sky, tanks on the ground, and a large number of heavy cavalry. It is really not difficult to defeat the tribal armed forces in the Western Region.
There is a huge gap in the combat effectiveness, equipment, and tactics of the two sides. The Ming army is almost thirty to fifty years ahead of the other side.
Rather than fighting, it is better to teach the other party how to be a good Mu Min...
Because if you don't graze honestly, you will become a target!
When the Ming Dynasty's army entered the Tianshan area, it was as if they were entering an uninhabited land. It was extremely rare to be defeated here.
Next, Zhou Yuji's goal is to lead his troops to the Balkhash Lake area, and then use the captured trophies to spend the winter in the lake area.
We’ll talk about other things after spring.
It only took half a year to recover half of the Western Region, which was much faster than the recovery of Liaodong.
Presumably the situation at Sun Chuanting's side was similar. Li Ni's troops were definitely no match for the well-equipped and well-trained Wang Division.
If he really dared to open up his posture and fight with Sun Chuanting's troops, Li Ni would be stupid for eating mutton these years...
Zhou Yuji thought that with Li Zicheng's virtue, he could run faster than a shun chicken!
He has been operating in the Western Region for more than 20 years. If he doesn't run away, Sun Chuanting will have his house "ransacked"!
I heard from merchants that Li Zicheng had reclaimed millions of acres of fertile land in the lake area, and now it was all owned by the Ming Dynasty.
Zhou Yuji couldn't help but feel that the emperor's strategy was extremely clever. It would be delicious to come and eat the ready-made food!
Livestock are readily available here, and fertile farmland is also readily available.
The emperor is indeed the god of war now, and he can still make wise plans thousands of miles away.
The task of Zhou Yuji's troops before arriving at Lake Balkhash was to catch sheep. The more sheep, the better.
After arriving at the lake area, there is one more task - fishing!
The more quantity, the better. This is a must-have item for winter.
