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"What? Can't retreat, what should we do if we retreat these cannons?" said the head of the regiment, touching the cannons like a baby.

"The headquarters said that these guns will not be used by the enemy." The soldier in charge of communication replied.

"It makes sense. Then inform and retreat in an orderly manner."

In Zenger's view, the Ming army's retreat was an irresistible performance, but in fact the Ming army gave up a semicircle to the Zhungeer people, and the two sides could relieve a larger battlefield.From a practical point of view, such a large area is very suitable for the Zhungeer people to attack.In fact, it is more convenient for the bombardment of Ming army artillery.

"Hahahaha, I didn't expect such a good thing to be captured by me." Zeng stood in the middle of the first position, stroking the cannon of the Ming army with both hands, and laughed wantonly.Of course Zhun Ge'er also knew about cannons, but they were cavalrymen and didn't bother to use them.This thing is too heavy to carry.And now, it happened to be used to bombard the positions of the Ming army.

"I'm sweating profusely! You don't know how to use this kind of cannon." A Zhuanger gunner was holding a cannonball and preparing to reload it from the muzzle, but he couldn't put it in so much, and was sweating profusely.

"Trash!" Zeng kicked away the soldier who knew how to fire a cannon, and looked at the pair of "scrap iron" helplessly.

Chapter 7 Fourteen: The End of an Era ([-])

Now that the battle has been fought, it is of course impossible for Zenger to capture the small positions of the Ming army one by one.From the layout, he is not allowed to do so.The best way is to use feints on both sides and the main attack in the middle.

This battle must be fought, even if he retreats halfway through the battle, Zeng will continue to fight.In fact, he already had the idea of ​​retreating, but before he left, he had to demonstrate to the Ming army.In what he said to Geerdan: the quasi-Gerdan people are not easy to mess with.

In fact, this is a way to boost morale. Before running away, hit the opponent hard to prevent the opponent from chasing you.

To fight such a battle, you must use your full strength and be able to deter your opponent, otherwise it will be useless.Therefore, Zenger was going to put all his troops on it.But because there were not enough battlefields, [-] soldiers were left in the end.

The sun on the battlefield is always blood red, that's because the hot battlefield has already burned the surrounding air red.When the sun was still two feet high from the top of the mountain in the west, Zhungeer's army began to attack.

This time, their attack density was slightly higher, but it was still loose and continuous, wave after wave.

"Is the rocket launcher in place?" Liu Tichun is finally still a commander, and giving orders can also reflect his prestige in the army.

"All the artillery positions have been moved, and the infantry has also moved up." Ma Bao was very strange, and it was the wisest choice to act well at this time.

"It's very dangerous! If the enemy uses the method of attacking for the first time at this time, all our artillery positions will be exposed in front of them." Zhu Youjian's heart was pounding in the back, this move is really dangerous, if not In order to eliminate the opponent as much as possible, it is absolutely impossible to gamble like this.

The normal way of playing is actually the safest according to Ma Bao's subordinates, but Zhu Youjian decided to take a gamble, and Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi also felt that they should block it.The bet is the fighting spirit of both sides, Zhu Youjian is betting that Zeng Ge is reluctant to leave all his family fortune here.Besides, the battle in the morning was indeed scary enough.

However, water is impermanent, and soldiers are impermanent!It takes courage to fight a war, and a general who will always fight according to the routine will never become a famous general.Just like Li Dingguo, he dared to take risks in war.

"Kill!" The cavalry in the west began the largest attack.Judging from the voices on the battlefield, the opponent had already put their main force on a Ming army position directly opposite them. The shouts of killing were weak on both sides and strong in the middle.

This was Zenger's plan. He made up his mind to mainly capture a position of the Ming army, and he had enough face to announce his retreat.

"Whoo~Boom!"

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny!

Even Zeng Ge didn't expect that the Ming army would not play cards according to common sense.A kind of bomb with a long flame tail flew over from the east and rained down on his men.

Immediately afterwards, explosions followed one after another.The smoke and dust raised by the explosion covered the entire battlefield, countless horses ran wildly, and countless cavalry fell down.All kinds of shells slammed into the entire battlefield desperately.

"It's over!" Zeng's eyes darkened, and he fell under the horse.

A small number of Zhunge'er soldiers hiding in the trench opened their mouths and watched the scene of the people behind them turning their backs on their backs, and they had already forgotten to shoot the arrows in their hands.Ge Erdan, who was not far behind Zenger, turned his horse around and ran away, regardless of Zenger.Zeng, who fell to the ground, could only watch helplessly as his younger brother left him.

"The whole army presses up! Chase." Liu Tichun was delighted, and he likes to beat the dog in the water most.

While steering the horse under his crotch, Zhu Cihong took off his gloves at any time to feel the horse's body temperature with his hands.Maybe it's the characteristics of Mongolian horses, maybe it's the temperature, maybe it's the horse's slow speed; the body temperature of the war horse is not too high.

But on their way, as long as they encounter a slightly larger river, everyone will dismount and rest, this is the rule set by Zhu Cihong.Moreover, thousands of men brought by him are responsible for supervising and caring for all the horses.

War horses will sweat when they are carrying heavy loads or running fast. This is because exercise accelerates the blood circulation in the horse's body, and it is necessary to sweat to cool down.Sweating can lead to severe dehydration in the horse, so hydration is a must.If the horse is too fast and sweating cannot cool down, the horse must be watered to help cool down.

Many messenger horses ran to death, not from exhaustion, but from dehydration or high body temperature, directly "burned" to death.But the ancients didn't understand this truth. Often after a big battle, the horses suffered a lot.In the racetracks of later generations, when a horse race is held, it is often necessary to prepare a special ice delivery truck.When the horses finished the race, the staff poured ice on the horses in large buckets.

Even the blood on the long-distance raiding horses is hot, and the temperature can reach 42 degrees, which is equivalent to a high fever.It can be understood by comparing the situation of people in a state of severe high fever.This is why Zhu Cihong said that Li Dingguo would definitely use the people he brought.

These people not only controlled the speed of the march along the way, helped to cool down the horses, but also supplemented all the horses with light salt water, and also carried a stimulant, giving each horse an injection every few hours.

These drugs are the latest research results of Daming, and even the syringes have only been successfully developed this year.

Li Dingguo knew what kind of potion Zhu Cihong's subordinates used to prick these war horses with the small transparent tubes. If he could clearly feel that these war horses were more powerful.So many war horses are always moving forward at a nearly uniform speed, which may be related to the thing in that small pipe.

"Prince, can someone prick that thing?" Li Dingguo asked curiously.

"That can't be done. With so many needles, after these horses are delivered to us, they can only be used as pack horses." Zhu Cihong said, gently stroking the horse's head.

"" After hearing this, Li Dingguo's scalp felt numb. He no longer dared to ask about the small transparent tube, so that he refused the doctor's injections.

"General Bai should have arrived at the scheduled location. After our turn, these horses will have completed their mission. At that time, we only need to let the soldiers take a rest and sleep, and after changing into our own horses, we can attack It's gone." Zhu Cihong said.

"Thanks to the eldest prince this time, otherwise our army might not be able to complete the set combat mission." Li Dingguo thanked him sincerely.

"Don't say that, I just tried my best to help you gain another day. If it weren't for me, I believe that Li Shuai would have the same way to kill Zhunge'er's rebels." Zhu Cihong said very sincerely, at least He knew that even without him, Li Dingguo's original battle plan should have been Zeng Ying's route, blocking Zenger in Hami.

Or this battle is easy for Li Dingguo to play no matter what.But joining Zhu Cihong, of course things have changed.

"Does the eldest prince want the third prince's battalion to guard the safety?" Li Dingguo asked.

"Of course, he will feel more at ease this way. I think he will come in person for this battle. Then everything will go according to plan." Zhu Cihong said seriously.

"Everything is going according to plan." Li Dingguo replied.

Chapter 7 Fifteen: Father and Son Soldiers in Battle

After all, Galdan is a famous figure in history, and he is really better than Zenger.

There are a total of [-] to [-] Zhungeer cavalry who escaped from the Ulanqab battlefield, including [-] soldiers who did not go to the battlefield.In the final analysis, it is impossible for the infantry to encircle and wipe out all the cavalry unless it is restricted by terrain.No matter what, two legs can't run with four legs.This also explains why China has been bullied by nomads for thousands of years.

Ge Erdan's cleverness lies in the fact that under such circumstances, he can quickly control all the routs, and then successfully escape with these people.His method was to escape overnight, and then at dawn, he took the main force and successfully hid in a mountain depression suitable for hiding in the south, avoiding the pursuit of a small number of cavalry from the Ming army.

Galdan understood very well that he and his men urgently wanted to rest at this moment, and they must rest their horses well, otherwise they would not be able to run very far.Therefore, after gathering the main force, he didn't care about the routs outside at all, and even sent a small part of the routs to flee north on purpose, creating the illusion of fleeing north for the Ming army.

During the day, waves of Ming army sentries ran back and forth between Guisui and Ulanqab. Except for sporadic broken soldiers who were found hiding in the mountains, they never found where Zhun Geer's main force was.Liu Tichun and Ma Bao even judged that Zhunge'er's rout must have gone north and entered the prairie.

But Zhu Youjian and Li Dingguo believed that Geerdan did not flee north, because anyone could guess that the Ming army would definitely let the main force go south if they were attacked by Zhun Geer, and fleeing north would be a trap for themselves.

The Ming army intensified their search efforts, and even began to send large-scale infantry to march along the road to the mountainous area to the north, but no one would have thought that Galdan would hide in the direction of Daming.

After hiding for two days and one night, the horses and soldiers also regained some strength. Gerdan looked up at the sun that was about to set, and made up his mind.If you don't run at this time, I'm afraid you have no chance; so, run quickly while it's dark.Where are you going?Grassland to the north.

But it’s not the north of Chahar, Galdan thinks about the north of Guisui, he must first pass through Guisui, and then go directly north.Because the main force of the Ming army's cavalry must have gone south, Galdan guessed that if the main force of the Ming army did not meet them from north to south, they would definitely chase west, so he had to go north.Moreover, no matter what results the Ming army achieved on the grassland, he, Galdan, could strengthen his own strength as long as he went to the grassland.That's what smart people do!

Sure enough, none of the historical figures are simple.

The fox is indeed very cunning. There are so many people moving, but they can't hear much movement. These people actually ate raw beef jerky for two days.Gerdan was more of a leader than Zenger.A total of [-] iron cavalry filed from the five valleys, and they walked westward along the valley, and they walked in a leisurely manner.

But no matter how cunning a fox is, it cannot escape the eagle's eyes.Galdan thought he was hiding very well, but he didn't expect that he had already been discovered by a special squad of the Ming army.It is impossible for Zhu Youjian, who traveled from later generations, to understand the importance of special forces, and as the most important line of defense in North China, there happens to be such a small special operations team.

"Send someone to report to the headquarters that the fox is dispatched tonight, and the target is to the south of Guisui." Wu Manyu led his small team, staring at the dark crowd at the foot of the mountain.