It was past noon on April 23rd.
When Emperor Kangxi had a feast in his tent and returned to the front line, his army had completed its deployment and construction of field fortifications.
Long tubes capable of firing five kilograms of solid bullets were pushed to the front line, and the muzzles of the guns were all aimed at the Mongolian camel formation in front. The gunners were lined up on the left and right of the cannon, nervously waiting for the order to fire.
The five Gushan Eight Banners New Army were divided into three formations: left, right, and back. The left formation consisted of two Gushans, and a full twenty infantrymen formed a horizontal formation.
Two hundred steps behind the left formation is the rear formation, which is composed of a total of twenty infantrymen leading the longitudinal formation.
The right formation is composed of ten subordinate leaders of Gushan, forming a horizontal formation of water.
Fifty subordinates of the five Gushans led horizontal and vertical formations and lined up neatly on the battlefield. Most of the infantrymen were carrying flintlock guns with bayonets.
Regardless of the quality of those bayonets and flintlocks? Just talk about this formation and this momentum. The British soldiers during the Opium War saw this and probably said, "Bye bye..."
In addition to these, Emperor Kangxi also had two big cards in his hand. .
One of them is the four Mongolian cavalry Gushan - composed of 20,000 Mongolian light cavalry selected from the four Mongolian alliances of Emperor Kangxi. Although they are all light cavalry and are not equipped with iron armor (including cloth armor) and muskets, the carbines, sabers and bows and arrows in their hands are not just for free!
These Mongolian cavalry were carefully selected heroes, and they were trained by Kangxi for two or three years. Not only can it do the light cavalry's chores very quickly, but it can also make a cameo appearance as a shock cavalry.
The other trump card is the five thousand shock cavalry out of the ten thousand cavalry drawn from the fifty new Eight Banners leaders (the other five thousand are also light cavalry).
Historically, the Eight Banners cavalry soldiers were not very distinguished at first. They had to do all kinds of dirty and tiring chores, and from time to time they had to dismount to do heavy infantry work.
But later on, they had various Mongolian cavalry to drive, and they became more and more delicate, and finally they did some impact work. When all the fighting work is gone, all that's left is to carry a cage and smoke a cigarette.
But now Kang Mazi is working hard, and the infantry of the New Eight Banners are lining up to shoot. Naturally, the vests of the New Eight Banners have also improved.
The development route arranged by Kangxi for them was to follow the route of Western heavy cavalry, asking them to choose tall horses and two layers of heavy armor. Western instructors were also invited to teach them to form a dense assault formation and specialize in charge work.
And in order to allow the horsemen below to focus on the attack, Kangxi simply canceled their bows and arrows.
Although this group of old Eight Banners cavalry can still shoot arrows while riding on horseback, their archery skills are very bad and they basically cannot shoot. It is better to charge honestly.
The reason why they did not go out to attack during the last battle of Seoul was mainly because Liu Yan's hollow phalanx showed no signs of disintegration, and when Ling Zongjun led the team to rescue Liu Yan, it was already dark and he could not see the road clearly. .
This Western-style shock cavalry pays great attention to density, and it is best to be as dense as the infantry fusilier array!
In this way, when charging into battle, the rear team can hold the front team, and the knights in the front team have no room to turn their horses and run away, so they can only move forward. And such a dense formation is impossible to play in the dark.
So this time the 78,000 new banner troops who were dragged to the Qilbo battlefield by Kangxi were truly at their strongest!
Kang Mazi quickly climbed up to a newly built observation tower. This observation tower was located five hundred steps behind the Qing army's left rear formation, and six or seven miles away from the highland of Naobao Mountain occupied by the Mongols. There is no obstruction, and the entire battlefield can be seen without a telescope.
There were many guards waiting below the observation tower. The military flags, drums, and bugles used to issue orders were all ready, waiting for Emperor Kangxi to give the order.
However, Kangxi was not in a hurry to give orders. Instead, he held up his telescope and looked hard at the front of Wu Yingqi's position in the distance, as if he was looking for something?
Time passed like this bit by bit, while Kangxi stood on the observation tower, motionless, just looking attentively at Wu Yingqi's position.
Although both the Wu army and Burni's troops adopted the tactics of forming a stronghold and fighting a dull battle, Wu Yingqi's stronghold was really tough, while Burni's stronghold was just a Mongolian standard...
Therefore, what Kangxi is most worried about now is that Burney will run into Wu Yingqi's stronghold and continue to persevere. Although Wu Yingqi's stronghold still cannot withstand the attack of the "low-sugar" Eight Banners New Army, and will fall in a few days at most... But the losses of the Eight Banners New Army will also increase greatly.
Moreover, brothers Burni and Luobuzang may also take advantage of Wu Yingqi's car barrier to resist and slip away!
Now Burni has established a very high prestige on the grassland. If he is allowed to run away, Emperor Kangxi wants to rely on the support of the fifth great lama to obtain the Mongolian Khanate, so as to "collect dogs" in large numbers on the Mongolian grassland. It can only be a dream.
So this time Kangxi did not hesitate to betray himself as a villain, but also sent the Empress Dowager's adopted daughter, his cheap aunt Kong Sizhen to Wu Yingqi... He had no interest in Wu Yingqi's men, and those people calculated carefully All of a sudden, it was either the fifth minister or the sixth minister, who was no longer qualified to be a dog to the Qing Dynasty. So let the two brothers of the Wu family go dog-eat-dog!
It's just a pity that Kong Sizhen will have to find a piece of land for her in Beijing and build a beautiful princess tomb.
Just when he thought of the princess's tomb, Kangxi suddenly saw a waving red flag slowly moving from Wu Yingqi's military formation to the formations of the two armies.
That was the flag held by the lamas under Sangye Gyatso...
Kangxi immediately put down his telescope and shouted to the people in yellow jackets who had been waiting impatiently: "Beat the drum!"
The sound of drums is a military order!
A group of one hundred, fifty-sixty five-pound general cannons began to vibrate at the same time, followed by thunderous cannon fire, flames spewing out, and gunpowder smoke filling the air. In the blink of an eye, solid black iron balls fell around the Mongolian army's camel formation on the eastern slope of Naobao Mountain!
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As soon as the Qing army's artillery shells were fired, Burni knew something was wrong!
He knew that he still underestimated Kangxi's Eight Banners New Army... In fact, he had long known that it would be difficult for him to defeat the Eight Banners New Army in a head-on battle. So in the past few years, he has been hiding in Tibet on the prairie to avoid a decisive battle with Kangxi. He also placed his old camp on the Houtao Prairie at the foot of Yinshan Mountain to stay away from the Qing ruling center.
But this caution was thrown aside because of Wu Yingxiong's "Five Route Clearance" and the arrival of Wu Yingqi.
He originally thought that Kangxi would be unable to deal with Wu Yingxiong and Zhu Heji's three-pronged Qing army (in fact, they did not move), and it was impossible to draw the main force to deal with him.
As a result, Kangxi actually brought the main force over!
Although their numbers were not too large, their cannons were numerous and powerful, and they fired accurately!
And these more than a hundred cannons were all aimed at one place!
More than a hundred cannonballs were dropped on the head of a camel formation at once. No matter how strong the camels were, they were still full of flesh. How could they withstand such a beating? After a while, the camel formation that was being beaten turned into a "blood formation, flesh formation"... real flesh and blood flying everywhere!
Just one after another, the Qing army's cannons smashed Burni's camel formation one by one like a roll call! From the end of the day to the end of the day, there was no intention of stopping.
Burni, who was watching the battle on the top of Naobao Mountain, saw through the telescope that the camel formations on the hillside below were being beaten one by one. The Mongolian "warriors" guarding the camel formations either ran up the mountain crying or ran away quietly. The sound was gone. His heart felt like it was being cut by a knife!
When he was thinking about when the Qing army's cannons would stop, those endless cannons suddenly stopped.
The Qing army has no artillery shells?
Just when Burney was thinking of something good, the war drums of the Qing army started beating loudly, and the beating was quite rhythmic. At the sound of the drums, the Qing army musketeers originally placed behind the cannon came up in a neat line, carrying flintlock guns with knives inserted!
Burney knew that the camel formation that had just been shelled for an hour could not stop these musketeers at all, and his cavalry probably would not be able to defeat these Qing musketeers from the front. These musketeers were followed by pikemen!
And the cavalry of the Qing army also came up!
Burni Khan dared to shout to the Tieshan guards around him: "Quickly, fire the trumpet to Wu Yingqi and ask him to send troops to attack the right side of the Qinglu..."
With a bang, several signal rockets sent by Wu Yingqi to Burney were quickly blasted into the sky, but there was no movement on Wu Yingqi's car base.
Seeing the Qing army getting closer and closer, Burni became anxious: Wu Yingqi, what are you doing?
