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546 Blizzard

"Idiots, why did you lose Dunhuang? Do you know that our road to the north will be cut off like this! If we bypass the Dunhuang city, we will need to send troops to hold back the people in Dunhuang city!" Yang Jierhan's face turned pale. livid.

"Your Highness Khan, we had more than 2000 cavalry in Dunhuang at that time, while the Han cavalry was only a few hundred. At first, the general thought that he would be sure... But he didn't want the Chinese cavalry's firearms to have a very long range. We were defeated by them before we fought against them. They were shot and killed one after another. Even the general himself was shot by the opponent's muskets..." The Kazakh cavalry officer who escaped from Dunhuang City said with lingering fear, "It's about two or three hundred steps away, and their firearms can kill our soldiers!"

"Don't make excuses for your failure and incompetence, and kill them all!" Yang Jierhan said with a straight face.

"Khan!" The escaped Kazakh cavalry officers saw that Yang Jier Khan was furious and that he was about to be beheaded, so they hurriedly begged Yang Jier Khan for mercy.

At this time, Dorgon, who was watching coldly, stopped Yang Jierhan, "Khan, it's not their fault. The Kyushu Army's firearms are more powerful than they were a few years ago. They didn't flee to Turpan after the defeat." , but went south to follow you, which is enough to show their loyalty."

"Yes, Khan, we are all loyal to His Highness Khan!" Kazakh cavalry generals expressed their loyalty one after another.

Seeing Dorgon pleading for them, Yang Jierhan snorted coldly: "Since an outsider pleaded for you, I will let you go for now."

"Thank you Khan!" The Kazakh cavalry general was overjoyed, and he couldn't help but feel a little more grateful when he looked at Dorgon.

If it wasn't for the Jurchen general, who is usually indifferent to fighting but extremely brave and wise, to intercede for them, maybe they would be dead now.

"Dorgon, the enemy you are most worried about intervened in our war with the Jungar tribe in advance, and made us miss the best time to completely wipe out the Jungar tribe." Tsarist Russian General Yakovlev rode an Eastern European horse The horses come.

"Isn't this what we have already thought of? In our plan, we have already made preparations for the Kyushu Army to intervene in the war. It's just that they came too early." Dorgon's eyes flickered, and he looked to the east, feeling a little scared .

A few years ago, they crossed the Siberian Plain and fled thousands of miles to the Volga River. In a conflict with the Cossacks, Dorgon, Brother Hao and others led the Jurchens to beat hundreds of Cossacks to pieces, and they soon caught the attention of the Tsarist Russian authorities. Arrived, and recruited this Jurchen into the army, and participated in the war with the Poles and Swedes.Now Dorgon is valued by Tsarist Russian General Yakovlev, and he earned it all the way.Dorgon had to lose his life several times in the past few years, in order to be able to use the national power of Tsarist Russia to avenge his hatred.But now it seems... It seems that the Kyushu Army is still so invincible, which makes people feel desperate.

"If the opponent is only [-] cavalry, if we kill all tens of thousands of people, we will definitely be able to kill them. No matter how far their muskets can shoot, they can't stop our crowd!" Yang Jierhan said.

"No, when you see the cavalry of the Han people, their infantry is usually coming. I guess that the infantry of the Kyushu Army has already been stationed in Dunhuang at this time." They fight."

"Originally, when we returned to Hami, we had to pass through Dunhuang. This time, I also want to see whether the regular infantry in the east is stronger or our Cossack cavalry is stronger." Cossack Commander XX said.

The Tsarist-Russian coalition forces, Kazakhs have more than 2 cavalry, Cossacks and Tsarist Russian cavalry, in addition to the 3 troops, there are also 4 cavalry requested by Dorgon from the Yarkant Khanate, a total of more than [-] mighty The ground rolled up the smoke and dust, and rushed to Dunhuang City.

A deserted mound on the outskirts of Dunhuang City was originally a fortress used by the Ming army to station small troops. Now there are several soldiers of the Kyushu Army standing on the mound to watch the situation in the south.

"The enemy has been spotted!" A soldier looked into the distance and saw a black cavalry unit appearing in the south.

The scale of this cavalry unit is extremely large and endless, like a dense black cloud pressing down, making people breathless.

"Go back and inform the general..." Several soldiers standing on the mound hurriedly got off the mound, mounted their horses and galloped towards Dunhuang City.

The news that the Tsarist-Russian coalition forces had gone north reached Dunhuang City, and the [-]rd Infantry Brigade deployed in the ancient city of Dunhuang began to speed up their preparations.Because the city wall has not been repaired for too long, it is impossible to deploy artillery on the dangerous wall, so they pushed the smoothbore cannon to the break between the city walls, forming a target for an open area outside the city wall.

"Is that the cavalry from the west? It's the first time I've seen it." Sun Chuanting stood on the city wall, and through the binoculars he could roughly see the outlines of the Cossack and Kazakh cavalry.

"Our army, except for the Siberian Frontier Regiment, seems to have never fought against Western troops." The middle and lower rank officers of the [-]rd Infantry Brigade were very excited, and did not have the slightest fear because there were enemies ten times their size outside the city. .

"However..." an officer said, "Looking to the north, the sky seems a bit wrong."

Sun Chuanting and the others looked to the north, and there was a group of black clouds that stretched for dozens of miles from east to west and were brewing.The north wind became hasty, and the flag of the Kyushu Army planted on the wall was blown up and down by the wind.

"What's the situation?" Sun Chuanting had never experienced the abnormal weather in Suzhou's cold winter, but he was a little worried just looking at the dark clouds brewing in the north.

The Jiayuguan guerrilla general who followed Sun Chuanting to Dunhuang City turned pale and seemed a little frightened.

"Do you know what kind of weather this is?" Sun Chuanting looked at him and asked.

"This is the precursor of a blizzard... and the scale is very large. I have guarded Jiayuguan for more than ten years and have not seen such a big blizzard. The biggest one I have ever seen was smaller than this..." General Guerrilla said hurriedly, " Let the soldiers quickly find a place to hide, and when the snowstorm comes, everyone may suffer!"

"Blizzard?!" Sun Chuanting also realized the seriousness of the problem, and hastily ordered, "Except for the soldiers who are preparing to fight, the other soldiers should first find a shelter in the ancient city!"

Just when the two sides were about to fight, a rare blizzard in a century swept across the land.The howling north wind mixed with snowflakes whizzed in, blocking everyone's sight.The sky became dark, the wind howled between the stone houses and the valleys, and the snow fell heavily.

(End of this chapter)