Emperor Kangxi sent me to marry

Chapter 186 Camel City

The heavy artillery barrage began.

Fuquan dared to resist, which surprised Galdan and his army, but they reacted quickly and immediately fought back.The most feared thing on the entire battlefield may be Ulan Butong Mountain.If it goes on like this, it will be riddled with shells.

In the rain of bullets, Tong Guogang set off with 1 people to perform a roundabout mission.

the weather is too hot.The heavy, humid air clings to his skin, disturbing.There is no doubt about Tong Guogang's courage to serve the country, but he is the uncle of the country who has been pampered in the capital for decades. His body is cared for by ginseng soup and bird's nest. Under the torture of the Mongolian sun, he quickly confessed that he was about to enter a state of dehydration.He still couldn't take off the forty to fifty catties of heavy armor, and his hair was already soaked in sweat.

Perhaps fate was moved by him at this time.Galdan has a favorable location, so the time of day gave the Qing army a chance.

Galdan, who was supposed to be at the back of the team, suddenly stepped on his horse and rushed to the side of Tong Guogang, the team leader.

"Uncle Guo, it's going to rain!"

"What? Are you sure?"

"I've lived on the grassland all my life, I can't go wrong! It just won't last long, after a drizzle, it will clear up soon."

This is a real opportunity.Tong Guogang immediately sent someone to warn Prince Yu to carefully protect the firearm from getting wet.He took his men and horses, and found a grove where he could temporarily enjoy the coolness outside the range of the army's cannons, waiting for the rain.

Prince Yu was overjoyed after receiving the report.

In this way, the two sides must use bows and arrows to decide the outcome.The eldest brother asked someone to send an oiled paper umbrella to Tong Guogang to cover the sun, and then took the initiative to ask Fuquan to be a vanguard to attack the frontal position in the north.

"I just counted that I was close, so I looked carefully."

"Okay. Then you go. As soon as the rain stops, they will take out the muskets again. Don't be brave, and withdraw immediately. As long as Uncle Tong Guo leads people to the south of the mountain, we will win [-]%."

Fuquan's forecast is too optimistic.

Galdan is also a child of the grassland, so of course he knows that it is going to rain.The action of the Zhunjun to protect firearms was even earlier than Tong Guogang's letter.

Moreover, he saw that Tong Guogang led the army to try to flank his intentions back and forth, and immediately issued an order to his subordinates to take the initiative to fight back.

"I'll go in person, none of you want to fight. I guess this group of Manchus must feel that if the guns are misfired, they can win. I want to let them personally see what it means to be a warrior on horseback .”

Both sides are waiting nervously for the thunderstorm that will determine life and death.

It's noon.

Finally, there was a dull thunder in the sky.

A strong southerly wind came as soon as it was said.It swept across the battlefield indiscriminately, and a bloody smell filled the dark clouds and green fields.

The rain falls softly on the grass.It was so thin that it was absorbed by the thirsty earth for several days before it even merged.

Tong Guogang did not expect Galdan to sit still and wait for death.He only secretly hoped how far he could go before encountering resistance.Coming out of the grove, he ordered that no one should make any unnecessary noise, and made a huge circle, never entering the range of the cannon.The execution effect is acceptable, and the army is gradually moving to a position parallel to the Junggar position.

At this moment, Galdan swooped down from the northern hillside with ten thousand cavalry.

The elder brother saw it from a distance and immediately asked Fuquan to attack, but was severely stopped.

"Go out immediately. If you are discovered, Galdan will probably retreat to the hillside again. You must wait until Uncle Tong Guo fights with him and can't be separated easily before you can seize the opportunity to go out. Yu can't say what Time stops. There will never be a better chance!"

"But, what if..."

"No case!"

Fuquan stared at Big Brother excitedly with his only healthy eye.

"The fighter plane that the old man risked his life to find for us must not be missed in vain! Wait for the order, the king is the coach!"

The elder brother left angrily.After Fuquan calmed down, he raised his binoculars again to observe the battle situation in the distance.

In just a few minutes of their dispute, Tong Guogang had already encountered Galdan.

Contact quickly turned into a vicious battle.

When Galdan led the team to dive down, he pre-emptively launched a wave of bow and arrow offensive.The Qing army did not foolishly target their arrows, and immediately fought back.The difference lies in the shooting percentage of both sides.The Erut people either fight or hunt in a year, and they can count the days without touching the bowstring with ten fingers.The Eight Banners soldiers only have regular drills, which is far behind.

Tong Guogang didn't have heavy armor to protect his body, and he would probably be shot right under the ribs.

A Zhengbaiqi deputy commander, seeing the chief general injured, fell off his horse in fright, and started talking nonsense uncontrollably.

"I said earlier that I couldn't come. If I have sunstroke, I have to go back, so I will go back!"

Tong Guogang endured the arrow wound, spat heavily on the man's face, whipped him with a horsewhip, and cursed loudly.

"The country of the Qing Dynasty will sooner or later be defeated by you bastards. It would be better for the old man to kill you first! To save you from going back to spoil the food and producing a lot of bastards, you are also bastards! Get on my horse!"

The subordinates of the deputy capital were so ashamed that they all went to drag their chief to force him to continue fighting.

"Your Excellency is a member of the second rank. He fled the battle. How can he return to the capital to meet people in the future? Get on the horse!"

"No, I'm dizzy! Why are you so cold that you force a patient?"

It is too fatal for Tong Guogang to focus on such a small person at this time.

This made him ignore two facts.

One, Big Brother finally received the order to attack and rushed out with 2 people;
Two, the rain stopped.

Galdan decided not to fight any more, and returned to the mountain as soon as possible.But it's not that easy.After all, the ridiculous deputy capital commander was one of the few in the Qing army, and most of them were actively attacking.The Mongolian cavalry who were deprived of their wives and children's property were also much more vicious than last time.The Qing army risked their lives, ignored the oncoming arrows, and rode their horses to shorten the distance between the two sides.Both sides drew their knives and slashed at each other.Some even flew to knock the enemy off the horse, and wrestled on the grass for hand-to-hand combat.

He needs to find a way to create a momentary opportunity for himself to escape.

"Come on, get the musket."

The guards shook off the felt wraps on their backs, and took out the musket inside for inspection.Five were brought out, two were damaged by the rain, and three were still able to launch.Galdan picked one that was convenient for him.

An old man in heavy armor who is qualified to whip other generals must be the chief general.

Aim the gun and pull the trigger.

"Uncle Guo, be careful!"

Galdan kept watching the movement on the other side.After a roar, he threw himself on Tong Guogang, and the two rolled off the horse together.

The bullet grazed Kankan Galdan's shoulder, probably hitting a bone, and the bleeding was less than expected.Tong Guogang simply tore off the armor of the deputy capital commander and put it on Galdan's back.

"Taiji, when the battle is over, we must drink a pot before sworn brothers!"

"Then, isn't it a generation difference?"

"Oh, yes! Look at my brain, you want to marry the emperor! When your son marries the fourth princess, I will definitely give you a big gift, and then..."

Tong Guogang suddenly stopped talking.

Time seemed to stand still for a few seconds, and then began to run frantically forward again.

A column of bright red blood gushed out from his neck.

Galdan's second shot hit the faintly visible flesh between the helmet and the armor, and exploded the carotid artery.

"Uncle Guo, Uncle Guo!"

Calls came from all directions, Tong Guogang wanted to say something, but his mouth couldn't be controlled, so he tried his best to shift his gaze to the direction where Galdan was escaping, and with his fingers on his right hand, he firmly gave the last order.

Chase.

Big brother finally arrived on the battlefield.

Galdan was attacked halfway and had to stop and fight back.Danzila saw that the situation was not good on the hillside, and urgently ordered Alabutan to lead 5000 people with muskets to rush down to meet him.The effect that the artillery could not reach such a close point and three thousand muskets could not be transported finally appeared.

Galdan tightly guarded the body and moved from the center of the battlefield to the edge, for fear that Uncle Tong Guo would be disturbed again.Everyone is rushing towards the center, only a few people are withdrawing, which is too conspicuous.Alabutan, who was rushing around, soon found that the enemy who killed his father-in-law was right in front of him.

He called for a freshly loaded gun, aimed carefully, and pulled the trigger.

Fortunately in misfortune, the distance was too far, and Galdan was wearing the armor of the Deputy Commander, so the bullet only caused skin trauma.

Enduring the severe pain, Galdan finally managed to withdraw from the battlefield with Tong Guogang's body.

Under the suppression of the firepower of the Junggar army, the eldest brother lost almost half of the army.He had no choice but to order someone to protect Uncle Tong Guo's body, and then divided the remaining troops into three, took turns to cover them, and withdrew back according to the previous instructions.

Fuquan couldn't accept such a tragic result.

How can he explain to the emperor?

The position was not taken down, nearly half of the men and horses were lost, Guojiu was killed in battle, and Taiji was seriously injured.

Handing over such a memorial, with my younger brother's weak body now, I'm afraid he can't bear it.

Prince Yu urgently summoned all the generals to discuss in the commander's tent, but the elder brother didn't come, so he sent a personal entourage to plead guilty.

"His Royal Highness just changed his clothes and found out that his back was injured and asked the military doctor to bandage it."

"Then let him rest quickly. This king has good wound medicine here, and ask someone to send it immediately."

The flustered Fuquan just thought that the uncle of the country is gone, and he will kill the eldest son of the emperor again. Winning the battle will be half a battle, and all the work will be wasted; The memorial.

"My son begged many times, but Prince Yu, as the commander, was timid and exhausted. He was not allowed... Uncle Tong Guo fought alone, with extraordinary bravery, but he was unable to support himself, and was eventually surrounded by thieves..."

Eloquently, he pushed all the faults on his uncle, while he himself was portrayed as a young hero who had no intention of killing the enemy but was ruthlessly suppressed.

After writing the secret book, the injuries on his body didn't seem to hurt as before, so the elder brother turned his attention to the battle outside.

"Come on!"

"Your Majesty, the little one is here."

"How did the coach decide in the end?"

"Returning to Your Highness, the prince said, since you can't rush up, then you can simply bombard it. There is no surplus left, and all gunpowder boxes are opened without stopping for a moment."

"Hmph, what's the solution? The Junggar army is hiding in the woods. Go and find out."

"Yes."

Big brother's comment has some truth.As long as Galdan cunningly hides in the fortifications and does not come out, Prince Yu's clumsy method will probably have little effect.But he didn't understand the character of his opponent, not at all.Moreover, he did not know the dialectical relationship between quantity and quality, which was not summed up by the German classical philosopher Hegel until the nineteenth century.

Qualitative change is the inevitable result of quantitative change.

In Galdan's eyes, he is sure of victory.The Qing army shrank in the position and could not come out, only dared to attack with artillery.If he didn't do anything and just hid in the camel city like a coward, it would demoralize the warriors under him.So he ordered the artillery to fight back, and they fired as many cannons as they fired on the other side, or even more.

The artillery battle lasted from noon to dark.

Fuquan still had one-third of the ammunition in hand, but Galdan ran out of stock.

The camel city he was proud of existed in name only.The camels had nowhere to escape but were bound by the limbs, and could only stay where they were, being beaten by shells.At the end of the day, eight out of ten died.After the adrenaline soared, the Errut soldiers who had been unable to breathe and relieve, began to suffer from vomiting, headache, sweating and chills in large numbers. Even if the Qing army rushed to the position at this moment, they could not draw their bows or raise their guns to fight back. .

The shells fell more densely on the hillside.

The qualitative change of the artillery of the Qing army came very late, but it was not absent at all.When Galdan had no more shells to fight back, Fuquan ordered all the cannons to get on the car and move forward.The artillerymen finally found their hand, and the number of hits on Camel City gradually increased.

Galdan didn't want to admit defeat, didn't want to run away.At least not so inexplicably.In his imagination, the two sides should fight to the last soldier, and they are willing to bet and admit defeat.How could he lose against his most confident firearm?
However, there are sober counselors beside him: Danzila and Urzhanzabu.The two of them tried their best to persuade Galdan to give up the idea of ​​fighting the Qing army to the death, and accept it as soon as it is good.

"We still have property and prisoners in our hands. As long as we can successfully escape and return to Moxi, and buy gunpowder shotguns from Nerchinsk again, we can come back in less than a year or two. Khan, if you continue to fight like this, wait They rushed up in the dark, and they lost it all!"

"I won't go! Never go! If any of you are afraid, get out of here! Listen..."

But no one could hear him.

A cannonball landed precisely at their feet.Alabatan risked his life to throw Galdan away. The calf-like strength and courage aroused from despair finally took Galdan a few meters away, barely avoiding the impact of the explosion.

Galdan shook off the mixture of blood and mud that splashed on his face, and called out the name of Alabutan, but there was no response for a long time.

He finally gave the order to retreat, and personally carried the unconscious Alabutan onto his horse.

"Come on, let's go home."

Tong Guogang's sacrifice seemed a bit of a pity at the moment.The Junggar army broke through from the northern battlefield generously.

Prince Yu didn't chase after him relentlessly, he was afraid of a trap, so he just ordered people to pursue him closely and not lose him.

His mental endurance had already reached its limit, and he didn't have many combat-capable teams under him.

The hope of victory shines on General Sabsu, who has not yet arrived, and the [-] fresh troops behind him.

(End of this chapter)