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Two days later, Galdan brought more than [-] Junggar cavalry to the Great Wall of Datong Youwei Shahukou, and launched an attack on the city as planned.

Although he claims to have 30 soldiers, it is impossible for so many troops to stay in one pile all the time, so when there is a strong attack, one will always be divided.

Besides, even if 30 people get together and kill the positions outside the Hukou Great Wall, there will be no room for so many people to attack at the same time, and the troops will not be able to deploy at all.

And when Galdan arrived at Shahukou, there were indeed only less than [-] Ming troops defending on the opposite side.Because until Galdan made his move, the Ming army didn't know which weak point he would choose to attack.

This is normal, because the Ming army has more than one weak point, and the Junggar cavalry come and go like the wind, even if they seem to be maneuvering in a certain direction, in fact, if they gallop for an extra hour or two, they may be separated by three or five. Ten miles of attack points.

As for Zheng Chenggong, who sits in the center, he can only choose to sit in the main city of Datong first.After knowing where the situation is tight, he quickly sent reinforcements, and even went to supervise the battle in person.

Fortunately, the Junggar tribe is all cavalry, so they don't have the ability to attack directly. To break the city wall, in the final analysis, they have to rely on the artillery accompanying the army.However, the traction and deployment of the heavy artillery position will take a waste of half a day no matter what.

This led to the fact that when the Junggar heavy artillery officially opened fire, the Ming army's troops in Datong Youwei Shahukou Pass had increased to 6000.

It's not that Galdan didn't try to let the "Camel Light Cannon" accompanying the army step forward to suppress the fire, but he soon discovered that this decision was very wrong.

Because even if it was a remote and small pass like Youwei Killing Tiger Pass, the Ming army still deployed more than a dozen artillery pieces on the pass.Among them, there are about seven or eight Hongyi cannons, and there are also ten thousand-jin Flang machines.These guns should have been cast at least 40 to [-] years ago, and belonged to the inventory during the Qing Dynasty.

After all, the Great Wall is so long, even if Daming casts new cannons in these years, it can only be used to replace the important passes of the Great Wall, such as Yanmen Pass and Zhangjiakou.On the stretch of thousands of miles, it is normal for those weak and small passes to be assigned to the old guns from 50 to [-] years ago.

Rao, these less than [-] cannons, with the support of the rigorously designed cross-fire network and the new type of ammunition with ammunition, still blasted the Junggar camel artillery array to the ground.

Galdan's camel cannons can generally only tow light cannons weighing no more than [-] jin, or new-style Raksha light cannons that weigh [-] jin, similar to the Frangji.The firing efficiency of these cannons may be good, but the range is too short, and it is extremely disadvantageous to shoot against the city wall.

After losing hundreds of camels, Galdan didn't dare to face the firepower anymore, but obediently waited for the siege heavy artillery position with a range advantage to complete.

It was not easy for the Junggar army to establish a range and firepower advantage, but the fighting spirit of the Great Wall defenders remained undiminished. As time passed, reinforcements from the main city of Datong gradually arrived, and the Ming army in Shahukou also surpassed the 8000 people.

Galdan saw that the heavy artillery bombardment of the city was still not fast enough. Even if the city wall here had not been modified to prevent artillery, it would probably take several days to blast through.

In order to grab time, he had no choice but to choose a multi-pronged approach.While letting some heavy artillery continue to bombard accurately with new-style solid iron bullets with bullet holders, part of the light artillery was separated to cover the city with shotguns, suppressing the defenders and firing guns on the wall.

Then he urged the Khalkha Mongolian soldiers who had just been pulled by La Zhuang Ding to step forward with rattan shields and other temporary armor, frantically excavated the rammed earth inside the city wall after the outer layer had been shelled and collapsed, and then filled it with gunpowder in an attempt to blast it. .

After two full days of tossing and attacking in turn, without knowing how many city-digging cannon fodder and covering firepower were lost, Galdan finally traded his life for time, and crazily broke through many passes in the Great Wall of Shahukou.

During this process, the Ming army was not afraid of shotguns, and repeatedly went up to the wall with superior firepower to condescend and injure the Junggar army. The two sides played an exchange ratio of almost one to ten.However, considering the absolute quality advantage of the Ming army's weapons, it is completely appropriate to defend the city.

After the city wall was breached, Galdan found out that in the three days he was preparing for the siege and the official storm at any cost, the Ming army had rushed to repair the simple rammed earth parapet and casually scattered Simple anti-horse ditch of thistle antlers.

Although the fortifications were very simple and looked of poor quality and even the rammed earth was not firmed, the Ming army had more than one line of defense in depth.Countless soldiers with Wuchang-made muskets and rifled sniper rifles escaped inside the line of defense. They all wore shining bayonets and shining breastplates.

Facts have proved that in the face of a huge number of muskets equivalent to the level of the end of the 18th century, especially the convenient smoothbore guns that can be loaded with as many as five rounds per minute, or the rear-loading nozzles with fifteen rounds per minute, even if the cavalry breaks through Once the city wall is broken, it is absolutely impossible to make new rapid breakthroughs.

Galdan couldn't swallow it, vomited and couldn't bear it, so after breaking through the city wall of Shahukou, he fought fiercely for another day, frantically using Junggar cavalry to tear at the Ming army's trench and musket defense line, and occasionally faced the Ming army's rear The heavy artillery fire covered, and the casualties were terrible.

The antler pits in front of the trenches were gradually filled with corpses of Junggar cavalry and war horses.Although the Ming army continued to suffer casualties, the absolute advantage exchange ratio, and Zheng Chenggong's personal supervision of the battle, made the morale of the Ming army high, and they would not retreat in the deadly battle, dragging the Junggar tribe into this meat grinder.

And as the sun set, this kind of ground meat gradually subsided, and Galdan had no choice but to let the troops rest for a night, and then attack tomorrow.

Little did he know that it was this night of rest that made it impossible for him to take most of his children back home.

Because early the next morning, he discovered that Li Dingguo had surrounded a large circle of encircling and annihilating troops, and had already circled back to his side from the east and west wings. The loose enclosing circle of .

At first hearing that Li Dingguo outflanked the broken road, Galdan was still very inconceivable.Because he knew very well that if his hundreds of thousands of troops were twisted together to kill, the camp could stretch at least a hundred miles.

If the opponent wanted to outflank him, he would definitely not be able to pull the same number of troops to one point at the same time, then there would definitely be first come, first served, and it would be a refueling tactic—wouldn't that be a death for nothing?
And the facts seem to just prove Galdan's deduction, because after he sent scouts to investigate carefully, he got a report saying: Li Dingguo's first batch of outflanking troops rushed to the battlefield was only about 4 people in size. Only more than 2.

Perhaps the Ming army's rear team had more outflanking reinforcements, but obviously the Ming army could not equip an army of more than [-] orders with a single man and horse to quickly march around the back.The follow-up reinforcements of the Ming army will definitely be slightly less mobile and will be out of touch.

In this way, as long as I am decisive enough, wouldn't I be able to defeat the Ming army in every way, and swallow the remaining 1 Ming army defenders and the [-] cavalry that Li Dingguo first sent up for nothing?

Galdan immediately adjusted his tactics decisively. Anyway, he has a lot of troops, and he doesn't need too many people to kill the tiger's mouth to attack key points. He just needs to save some troops to spend in rounds.

And Galdan himself immediately called for the assembly of various ministries, and in just a few hours, he notified an army of 10,000+ nearly 20 cavalry, who were specially divided to meet Li Dingguo's intercepting cavalry.

Galdan thought very well: I have nearly 10 people each way to beat you Li Dingguo with [-], and you still have nothing to catch?

Even if you, Li Dingguo, still have a rear army, you can rush to the battlefield in a day or two, but after a day or two, your [-] vanguards on the left and right sides have been eaten and wiped out by me. It has become a refueling tactic.

Before the invention of the radio, the side that splits into a joint attack in outside battles will always bear the disadvantage of "all participating troops cannot arrive at the battlefield at the same time".

This point was proved as early as 10,000 years ago when [-]+ cavalry from the Fourth Route of the Ming Dynasty entered the final battle to destroy Hauge together.It's just that people like Zhu Wenzhen and Li Yu held back Hauge back then, and they didn't lose until the friendly army was in place to encircle him.And today is a repeat of that.

Galdan and Li Dingguo soon entered into a swarm of head-on and bloody fights.And Li Dingguo immediately used the new musketeers to teach Galdan, "Even if you buy the latest muskets from Raksha, your musketeers are still not the same as Daming's musketeers."

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When using small-scale musket light cavalry and one man with multiple horses to harass before, Li Dingguo was able to equip his subordinates with one man with two guns and cooperate with sniper spray.

But now that more than 4 cavalry are dispatched at every turn, it is impossible to achieve such a high level of deployment. Therefore, in today's battle, the main force of the Ming army's cavalry is still one person and one shot.

When the two armies were about to come into contact, Li Dingguo immediately commanded the dragoons of the Ming army to dismount and form a long and narrow array of muskets.

At the same time, let the melee cavalry of the Ming army with spray guns be arranged on the two wings to prevent the Junggar cavalry from making a circuitous charge after being close to the face.

After these years of training and actual combat, Li Dingguo has already mastered the application of various firearms like his fingers. He knows that the power of rifled guns lies in accurate shooting, so if he can stand still on the ground and shoot, he should not challenge the horseback to shoot indiscriminately. Otherwise, the probability advantage of killing the enemy three hundred steps away would be wasted.

After more than 30 years of development, it took a few minutes to reload the front-loading and breech-loading sniper rifles of the Ming army.After these years of improvement, the progress has been very rapid. At any rate, it has been compressed to 30 seconds to fire one shot, and 1 minute to fire two rounds——

Don't underestimate this number, it is already faster than the 1800 Baker rifled sniper rifle used by the British during the Napoleonic Wars. Because there is no smokeless gunpowder in the West, the new skirmisher guns invented during the Napoleonic Wars are only It can be done as fast as 1 rounds per minute.

The current rate of fire of the Daming Rifled Gun is already the result of the blessing of smokeless powder and fixed ammunition.After firing, there is no gunpowder solid residue in the barrel, which can save the cleaning process, which can save more than ten seconds than the 1800 Baker type.

It is only because of the cost and production limitations of nitrocellulose smokeless gunpowder that the Ming Dynasty rifles still cannot be popularized in the army.The biggest advantage of the cheap "Made in Wuchang" smoothbore gun is that it can always use old-fashioned black powder ammunition, and the logistics supply is cheap.

Li Dingguo's dragoon cavalry tactic quickly made Galdan's jaw drop.Because of the two rounds in one minute, and the terrifying range and rate of fire of the Chinese cavalry at a distance of three to five hundred steps, the Junggar cavalry became able to sing and dance before they even came into contact with the enemy, and they were harvested and killed row after row.

"How is it possible? The latest Rakshasa muskets I use can't even hit half the range of the Ming people! How can they shoot so far and be so accurate and so fast?"

Looking at the tragic situation of his subordinate Erlang, Galdan doubted his life at close range for the first time.

He finally saw the ironclad evidence with his own eyes, and saw the Rakshasa guns he relied on, so he bullied and bullied the natives of other Central Asian grassland countries and Qinghai-Tibet.

"Come on! Charge up and fight the Ming cavalry in close combat! Break down their spear array! The cavalry archers harass first to attract firepower! The cavalry musketeers charge directly, and when they reach the front, they fire a row of guns and kill them!" The middle-level cavalry officers of the Junggar Department, anyway He still knew how to fight, so he adjusted his tactics immediately.

"Kill! Rush forward to close combat with the Ming cavalry! Get closer and fire! Don't worry about reloading! After knocking out the bullets, charge directly with the saber!"

On the grassland outside the chaotic killing tiger's mouth, more than [-] cavalry soldiers fought thoroughly and made a chaotic mess.

The Junggar cavalry, whose morale was low and suspicious of life, was consumed by rifle guns from a long distance, completely lost their character, like a beast whose primitive bloodthirsty desire was ignited, rushing wildly regardless of the rules.

However, Li Dingguo had already ordered his tens of thousands of bayonet cavalry to prevent outflanking on the left and right flanks. When he saw the Junggar cavalry rushing, he did not show any weakness.

Compared with face-to-face confrontation, the Ming cavalry has never been cowardly!

The Junggar people would be killed with a weapon if they fired a single shot in the face at most, but we are double-barreled shotguns!And it can be reloaded five times in one minute on horseback!If it is a revolver, it will fire six shots in a row within ten seconds!

The Junggars did not prepare ammunition specially for today's special combat environment, so what they used was not shotgun but slugs.They have to take into account both long-range and close-combat firepower. If they prepare shotguns, they will be completely useless once the battle becomes a long-range confrontation.

This is like playing a chicken game. When you bring two guns, you can match the troll.But if you can only bring a gun and a sprayer, you will be making yourself uncomfortable, and the enemy can use the range advantage to lose damage in vain.

However, when someone with 98K and someone with S686 play charge face to face, what will be the scene?I can't even think about it.

"Bang bang bang—" the roar of the shotgun soon resounded throughout the battlefield.

The cavalry cavalry on the two wings of the Ming army were like crazy tigers, solid as a rock, and blasted several times or even ten times the invading and hedging enemies until they turned their backs and couldn't find the north.

After the first round of fire was fired on both sides, Li Dingguo's subordinates could even use circuitous kites similar to the Parthian tactics of the traditional cavalry era, quickly reload on horseback, keep the distance as much as possible, and spray a few more rounds.

Although the Junggar cavalry can charge desperately, the speed is slightly faster than the Ming cavalry, which needs to take into account the stability of loading.But both sides are in a galloping state of chasing and fleeing, and it will take a few minutes, at least a minute, to catch up with the distance of the last few dozen steps.

In this little time, the Ming army was able to reload five rounds and ten barrels of ammunition on horseback. How can this battle be fought?
Countless Junggar cavalrymen were sprayed and killed on the spot by flying kites back to their horses, bleeding profusely and laying down tens of thousands of corpses.