The swansong of the swansong

Chapter 166 Victory
"Boom boom boom..." Hundreds of cannons fired at the same time. The solid iron bullets were like the scythe of the god of death, unscrupulously reaping the lives of the Dzungar people.

Dozens of iron bullets smashed into the Dzungar line, plowing out bloody paths, and broken arms and legs flew all over the sky.

"Ah..." A Junggar soldier was hit in the stomach and died with only time to scream.

A blindfolded warhorse was hit on the left leg by a red-hot iron ball, and it fell to the ground with a miserable wail.

The knight on the horse was thrown high into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground.

The power of the sub-cannon is far less than that of the red cannon. However, its characteristics are that it is easy to carry, quick to load, fast to fire, and its range is more than four times that of the matchlock gun.

An iron bullet weighing one and a half pounds cannot knock down a city wall, but it can break a wooden wall.

The Junggars were not good at building cities, and their camps were all made of wood. Therefore, Yinyu asked Kangxi for a hundred cannons according to local conditions.

After encountering 10,000 Dzungars, the two armies gradually drew closer and launched a decisive battle.

The cluster cannon can fire three to four rounds per minute, and its power is not particularly small, which confirms Yinwei's foresight.

After a quarter of an hour of indiscriminate bombing, the Junggars could no longer bear the frustration of having to endure the bombing and began to retreat.

Yinyou, who was riding on a horse, sighed secretly. Even with only a monocular telescope, he could see much more clearly than he could now!

"Yanxin, take 1000 light cavalry and pursue them. However, you must listen carefully. You are only allowed to pursue for ten miles and then retreat immediately. If you dare to be greedy for merit and linger in the battle, and ruin my plan, don't blame me for taking your wife and daughter as slaves!" Yinyu was worried that Yanxin would underestimate the enemy and advance rashly, and fall into an ambush by the Dzungars, so he deliberately threatened him.

Hey, who in the capital doesn’t know that Yinyou has a hobby of riding mature women?

Yan Xin felt a chill in his heart, and quickly bowed and said, "Please rest assured, Marshal, I will never dare to take any risks!"

"Well, go ahead, but remember to stop when you are ahead!" Yinyu once again reminded Yanxin not to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly.

"Whoo!"

If it was someone else's threat, Yan Xin would definitely turn a deaf ear to it.

You dare to threaten me?

But Yinyu was different. He really had the ability to raid Yanxin's house and take in his wife and daughter.

Yan Xin led a thousand light cavalrymen, wielding swords, and chased after them.

Yinyou led a large army, trotting on horseback, and arrived at the Dzungar line.

As the saying goes, a defeat is like a mountain collapsing.

The Dzungar flags, drums, horns, swords and guns were scattered all over the ground, and there were even more than a dozen carts of gold and silver.

Yinyou sent people to check the scene carefully, and found that not even a single musket was left behind!

There is indeed something fishy going on!

The Dzungars had many matchlock rifles, but because there was no iron produced in their territory, they did not have many cannons.

In addition, the Russians deliberately did not sell artillery to the Dzungars in order to avoid causing great trouble for their own invasion to the south.

Therefore, from a strategic point of view, as long as the two armies engage in a head-on battle, the Qing army with more artillery will inevitably have a great advantage.

The Qing-Zungarian War lasted for more than seventy years, during which the Qing army suffered the greatest losses in the disastrous defeat at Hetongpo.

The root cause of the annihilation of Hetongbo's army was that the commander, General Fuerdan, underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, resulting in the plunder of his food and grass by the Dzungars.

Although Yinyou only had 5,000 men, he brought four months' worth of food and fodder for 10,000 men.

The horse-drawn carriages pulled food and fodder, which could fill their stomachs during the day, and at night they formed a circle of defense convoys at the outermost edge of the camp to delay enemy cavalry raids.

Not only that, Yinyou also looted all the arrows from the Shaanxi Du Biao Central Army and the Fu Biao Central Army through Nian Gengyao and Yong Tai.

With elite soldiers, sufficient food, and plenty of gunpowder and artillery shells, the Dzungars will not be able to defeat Yinyou as long as they do not advance rashly.

Yinyou knew better than anyone that although the Dzungar Khanate had a vast territory and strong mobility, it had a small population of only one million.

Tsewang Arabtan was really reluctant to exchange tens of thousands of soldiers for Yinkui's five thousand men!
When Yanxin went to pursue, Yinyou commanded everyone to thoroughly clean up the battlefield.

Gold, silver, and cloth were all hard currencies. Yinyou did not take a penny and distributed them all to everyone.

Food and fodder must be centrally managed.

An hour later, Yan Xin obediently returned in time with more than a thousand heads.

The Ministry of War must count heads when verifying performance, which was learned from the Ming Dynasty and has been used until now.

The heads of the Dzungars are the heads of the Mongolians, which are very different from the hairstyles of the Han people. There is no way they can kill innocent people and take credit for it!
As for claiming credit for killing the Mongols, generally speaking, the Ministry of War would turn a blind eye when verifying the merits.

Sending princesses or county ladies to pacify the Mongols was a policy of appeasement towards the Mongols.

However, this did not affect the cruel and ruthless efforts to reduce the population of the Mongols. To put it bluntly, as the Qing Dynasty became increasingly stable, the fewer Mongols there were, the better.

The battlefield, which had been thoroughly cleaned, proved that the Dzungars were faking their defeat!

When the Mongols went to war, they liked to take sheep with them as food. They ate wherever they went.

However, the number of sheep seized at the scene did not exceed one hundred!

Yinyou had five thousand elite soldiers at his disposal, much stronger than the five thousand family servants scattered among the generals in the Guanning Iron Cavalry!

Among Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, there were only three thousand family servants.

However, Yinyou's five thousand men were a mixed army composed of multiple arms. No matter how you compared them, they were much more powerful than Wu Sangui's three thousand servants!
More importantly, if Yinyou doesn't retreat, who would dare to escape without permission?

According to the military law of the Eight Banners, if the commander-in-chief makes a mistake, all officers above the rank of lieutenant commander will be executed!
What would happen if the emperor’s own son was lost?
There is no doubt that the raging fire of the dragon's wrath is enough to burn all the deserters and their families to ashes without leaving any slag!
The early Qing Dynasty was not the late Qing Dynasty, the military law was extremely strict!

Only if the Eight Banners officers died in battle would their families not be implicated.

After Yinyou happily took the bait, he refused to advance rashly, which left Tsewang Arabtan at a loss!
After the Dzungars suffered heavy casualties, the Tartars refused to be fooled and actually stayed and set up camp where they were.

It’s really interesting to say that the Qing army and the Dzungar people cursed each other as barbaric dogs!

Tsewang Arabtan had no choice but to seek help from Daze Lingdun Dob to discuss countermeasures.

Da Ce Ling Dun Duo Bu, known as the "wise man", was a cunning man and a serious threat to the Qing Dynasty.

"Great Khan, please forgive me for being blunt, but the Tartar leader is a wise man, and I'm afraid he has seen through our plan of besieging the city and attacking the reinforcements." Daze Lingdun Dob sighed and said, "I'm afraid that no matter how many bones we give, the Tartar will not be fooled and advance rashly."

During the long Qing-Zunghar War, the glorious victories of the Dzungars all followed the same pattern: first lure the enemy deep into their territory, then cut off their food supply, and finally, annihilate the starving Qing army.

However, Yinwei just wouldn't fall for the Dzungars' tricks. He would eat the bait they gave him, wipe the oil off his mouth, and set up camp on the spot to rest.

The Qing army, with its well-trained soldiers and sufficient food, is like a big hedgehog. A frontal attack will surely result in heavy losses!
"Then what do you think we should do?" Tsewang Arabtan trusted Da Tseringdundub very much and almost obeyed his every word.

"Great Khan, the only solution now is to give up the siege of Barkol and try to lure the Tartars westward. The further we retreat westward, the less food and grass the Tartars will have. They may be forced to choose a decisive battle with us. At that time, our chance will come!"

At this moment in the Qing army camp, Yinyou sat in the middle, Yanxin sat on the left, and the other senior officers sat on both sides.

Outside the central army tent, several large pots had been set up and whole lambs were being cooked.

The Qing army and the Dzungar people had similar ways of eating a whole lamb. They only added salt and green onions to the big pot for cooking the lamb, with no other seasonings.

Yanxin liked to eat roasted whole lamb, while Yinyu liked to boil the whole lamb.

Before eating mutton, have a bowl of delicious mutton soup. Oh my, it tastes amazing!

"Everyone, the enemy is all around us, so each person can only have half a pot of wine, just to moisten your throat and satisfy your cravings, but no more drinking is allowed!"

To be honest, this is only Yinyou. If you change the commander to lead the troops to fight, he would not dare to give them wine.

"General Xian, in this bitter and cold place, as long as I can have wine to drink and mutton to eat, I am already very satisfied." The speaker was Ladong, the commander of the Firearm Battalion.

None of the princes had courtesy names, and Yinyou called himself Xianshusanren. Ladong then creatively invented the special title of Xianshuai.

After all, the title of Fifteenth Master is too far away in terms of status.

After going to the battlefield together, the closeness between everyone is completely incomparable to the past.

It should be understood that sharing the same mission is the most important of the four iron bonds in life.

He is handsome and friendly yet respectful, which is just right.

Yinyu smiled and said, "Ladong is right. Only when you are content can you be happy. Therefore, my subordinates are absolutely not allowed to drink too much and make mistakes!"

"Yes!" The generals understood the meaning of the reprimand and quickly stood up, bowed and accepted the order obediently.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, there was no other prince who led an army except Yinyou.

To put it bluntly, anyone who dares to disobey Yinyou's wishes will have his head chopped off and his death will be in vain!

This was also the real intention of Emperor Kangxi to appoint the Fourteenth Prince as the Great General when he launched a large-scale military campaign against the snowy plateau in his later years.

When a large army of more than 100,000 people is fighting, military discipline must be strict!

The root of strict compliance with orders is fear, which is inextricably linked to the identity of the head coach.

The next morning, Yinyu received a report from the vanguard scouts that the Dzungars had voluntarily withdrawn from the siege of Barkol and retreated to the west.

Yinyou knew very well that the Dzungars were plotting an open conspiracy. We are in the west. Will you chase them or not?

Haha, Yinyou chose not to pursue without hesitation!
He had only 5,000 men under his command, and it was impossible for him to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Dzungars.

After the army successfully arrived at the city of Barkol, Yinyu went into the city and was surprised to find that children and young women had become rare sights!
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