Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

"Your Highness, our army has reached Sandiaojian Village. A few dozen miles northwest is Baideng Mountain. According to scouts, Tong Yangliang, the pseudo-Qing Xuanda governor, is stationed at Baideng Mountain with more than 10,000 remnants. It is now Shenshi (4 pm). Please give your instructions on whether we should set up camp," said the head of ten thousand households, Ebodui Wulanghai, respectfully asking the Crown Prince Zhuoligetu.

"Send the order to camp ten miles from the foot of Baideng Mountain. I want to give the enemy a surprise," Zhuo Ligetu said excitedly. In the Battle of Tiancheng, he annihilated more than 10,000 Qing troops at the cost of only 1,000 casualties. It was natural that he felt a little proud of such a beautiful first battle.

The military order was as firm as a mountain. The 29,000 guards rode their horses to Baideng Mountain and set up camp ten miles southeast of the foot of the mountain. It was already evening, and the fog in the mountains obscured the whereabouts of the guards. The swift and well-trained light cavalry searched everywhere for Qing scouts, resulting in the Qing army being completely unaware of the arrival of the guards.

The next morning, the fog gradually dissipated, and the Qing troops on the mountain were surprised to find that there was a guard camp at the foot of the mountain, densely packed like an iron wall.

"How come the Wei army is here so quickly~" Looking at the enemy camps all over the mountain at the foot of the mountain, Tong Yangliang's face changed color.

"They are all cavalry, coming and going like the wind, how can they not be fast?" Kede on the side also sighed, and suddenly said: "Governor, most of our army's food and supplies were lost in the battle of Tiancheng. The existing food and supplies are only enough to last for more than a month."

Tong Yangliang understood what he meant and used the excuse of insufficient food to pretend to hold out for a month before withdrawing. Kede was a brave general, but even he was afraid, which showed that the army had lost its morale. He sighed and said, "Since the food is insufficient, we should resist and defend Baideng Mountain first. If reinforcements do not arrive after a month, we can retreat."
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"Father, the Wei~Wei Army is here," guerrilla general Ke Jian stumbled to the front of Jiaozhou Town General Ke Yongsheng.

Looking at the overwhelming Wei army formation, Ke Yongsheng's face turned pale and he angrily scolded his son: "A general should be as steady as a rock. Why are you panicking? Why don't you return to the camp?"

"Hmm", after being scolded by his father, Ke Jian hurried back to his camp to prepare to command the battle.

Right in front of Jiaozhou Town was a 20,000-man guard led by the Crown Prince Zhuo Ligetu. Zhuo Ligetu ordered the head of the army, Er Luosi, to lead 9,000 troops to contain the Qing troops on Mount Baideng, while he led the main force to attack the Qing troops of Ke Yongsheng stationed at the foot of Mount Baideng.

"Your Highness, I'm ready. Let the meat shields charge first," said Wan Hu Chang Ebo Dui Wulanghai proudly. The so-called "meat shields" refer to the 6,000 Qing prisoners captured in Tiancheng. In order to consume the Qing army's arrows and bullets and reduce their own casualties, he suggested to the crown prince that these prisoners be organized into six teams of 1,000 people to serve as the vanguard of the battle, which was approved by the crown prince.

"Well, attack, tell the supervisory team, anyone who dares to retreat will be killed!" Zhuoligetu said coldly. After the test of war, the character of the crown prince has become more calm and resolute.

"Yes," the central army raised the signal flag.

Driven by the supervising team, a thousand prisoners pushed carts filled with earth and slowly ran towards the trench in front of the Qing army camp. The braids behind their heads had been cut off, and their battle robes were worn inside out, with a big word "Wei" written on them in red ink.

"Ready~shoot~" Ke Yongsheng calmly gave the order. With his experience, he could tell at a glance that the enemy in front of him was a little strange, but he still gave the order to shoot. War was like this. Even if they were former comrades, once they became the vanguard of the enemy, in order to prevent them from destroying their own defenses, they would be shot first, whether they were willing or not.

“Boom~Boom~Boom~” “Swoosh~Swoosh~Swoosh~”

Cannonballs and arrows flew at the captives like snowflakes, knocking them over and shooting them down. In order to survive, the captives sped up the filling process. After two thousand-man teams were crippled, the trench in front of the Qing army camp was finally filled.

"Pass the order, continue the attack," Zhuo Ligetu put down the telescope in his hand with satisfaction. He could not see the corpses lying all over the place, only the filled trenches.

With the command flag flying, Obodu Wulanghai shouted at the captives, "If you want to live, charge into the Qing army camp, otherwise you will be shot by the Qing army." Then he ordered the third thousand-man team to attack. Bullets and arrows continued to blast at the captives, but within half an hour, half of them fell down, and the rest struggled to move the barricades in front of the camp and hacked at the fence with knives.

Zhuoligetu didn't care about the casualties of the meat shields, and immediately sent out the fourth thousand-man team, the fifth, and the sixth. Soon, most of the prisoners were killed or wounded, but they finally broke through several gaps in the Qing army camp and engaged the Qing army guarding the camp.

"Brothers from Jiaozhou Town, don't do it, we are one. I am from Tianjin Town, and I was captured by the Wei army." A captive who was unwilling to surrender to the Wei army wanted to turn against them. "Puff~" The sharp spear pierced his chest. When two armies are fighting, once blood is seen, it is not easy to turn against them.

"Your Highness, those captives have disrupted the Qing army camp. You can order the warriors to attack," Junior Secretary Ma La said excitedly to Zhuo Ligetu.

"Cavalry attack," Zhuo Ligetu nodded and gave the order, and suddenly another sentence popped up, "Count the prisoners after the battle, and if there are any alive, give them the treatment of combat soldiers."

"Da~da~da~"

A full 20,000 David cavalrymen rushed towards the gap where the captives had rushed out with the force of a whirlwind. Without the protection of the fortress, the Jiaozhou Green Camp was no match for the guards and was killed in pieces.

Ebodui Wulanghai charged in the front. Not long ago, this head of a thousand households was promoted from earl to marquis, and he was in high spirits. He wanted to show off in front of his nephew when he was accompanying the crown prince on the expedition, so he charged in particularly far. Qing general Ke Yongsheng tried to stop him, but he was cut in half by him.

"Second brother~" Seeing this, Ke Yonglong who was nearby rushed over with a gun, wanting to avenge his brother, but unexpectedly his horse stumbled and was trampled into a pulp by the guards' horses' hooves.

"Father, I will protect you and fight your way out." Ke Jian found Ke Yongsheng in the chaos and tried his best to protect him and escape. But the father and son were unlucky and were caught up by a hundred-man team of the guards. After several fights, the heads of the two became the military merits of the centurion.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Chengluan, the lieutenant general of the Ke army, simply led more than a hundred of his men to kneel down and surrender, thus saving his life.

In just one day, the "Ke" flag at the foot of the mountain fell down. On Mount Baideng, the governor of Xuanda, Tong Yangliang, was dismayed and said to Generals Kede and Lin Guoliang: "The Wei army is too powerful to be stopped by our remaining troops. Let's retreat at night while it's dark."

"Hmm~" The two generals were so happy to hear the order that they escorted Tong Yangliang down the mountain and retreated overnight. Fortunately, they were lucky. The fog was very heavy the next day. It was not until noon that the guards discovered that the Qing army on the mountain had already fled.
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"Is this Baideng Terrace?" Crown Prince Zhuoligtu asked as he climbed up the small platform on the north side of Baideng Mountain.

"It is this place. Don't look at the small size of the stand, but it is famous because of the great battle between Emperor Gaozu of Han and Chanyu Morton," laughed Ma La, the Junior Secretary.

"The deserted terrace still bears the name of Baideng, and the view of Longsha is bright for thousands of miles. I still want to encircle the Han emperor with elite troops, but I am moved by the ingenious plan of Chen Ping. Maodun once fired arrows in the clouds, and there is an abandoned city of Yanshi at the frontier. Looking at our border planning with many ancient ideas, who will ride the iron cavalry to the west again?" Zhuo Ligetu suddenly recited "Reminiscence of Baideng Terrace" written by Zhai Peng, the governor-general of Ming Xuan, and sighed, "People say that the Han people are cowardly, but I think the poems they wrote are still quite heroic."

"Zhai Peng lived through the Zhengde and Jiajing dynasties. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was still strong, so his poems were naturally heroic, and he would often conquer the north and the west. But in the later period, when the country weakened, the only thing left was to defend the territory!" Ma La also sighed.

"Since ancient times, there has been no dynasty that has lasted forever. I must remember the lessons of the previous dynasty and protect David's vast mountains and rivers. I will not let the country established by my father Khan decline in my hands!" Zhuo Ligetu sighed. (End of this chapter)