Emperor of the Red Chamber

Chapter 170 The Truth is Within Cannon Range

That day, Wang Ziteng learned that the Dragon Cavalry had won another victory, and he couldn't help but feel even more proud.

Wang Ziteng felt that the main credit for this victory was still due to his ability to foresee the enemy and command the troops with confidence.

Fortunately, he was not carried away by his composure, and still treated the battle between the Northern Zhou Army and the Dzungar Army with a steady attitude.

The Great Zhou army has captured a Dzungar messenger who quietly left Bokto Ridge. Under torture, they extracted important information.

The information was that the Dzungar troops besieged in Bokto Ridge would, together with 30,000 Dzungar troops led by Khan Tseren stationed elsewhere, launch a pincer attack on the Great Zhou army stationed at the main exit of Bokto Ridge on June 25th.

Great Tsereng Dundub sent three messengers to convey the matter to Great Khan Tsereng. The Great Zhou army only captured one person, which meant that the other two would successfully convey the matter to Great Khan Tsereng.

This means that the Great Zhou army gathered at the main exit from the mountain will soon face a difficult and brutal battle.

Great Khan Tseren personally led 30,000 Junggar troops, and the Junggar troops in Bokto Ridge originally had more than 20,000 troops. Even though the Dragon Cavalry Army had fought twice, causing the Junggar army to lose a total of nearly 4,000 cavalry, there were still nearly 20,000 troops.

There were a total of nearly 50,000 Junggar troops, who adopted a strategy of attacking from both inside and outside.

From this perspective, the war that Wang Ziteng and his army are about to face is indeed difficult and destined to be cruel.

The Great Zhou army stationed at the main exit of Bokto Mountain originally had only more than 30,000 people.

Wang Ziteng urgently transferred another 5,000 Great Zhou troops from other places.

Even so, there are only 40,000 people.

These 40,000 Great Zhou troops will have to face a pincer attack from nearly 50,000 Dzungar troops, and it will be a field battle, which is what the Dzungar troops are good at.

Fortunately, the Great Zhou army has three advantages.

First, the artillery of the Great Zhou army was powerful, and they had set up a terrifying artillery array at the main exit of Bokto Ridge.

Secondly, the Great Zhou army occupied the hills on both sides of the main mountain pass, and could use the high ground to attack the Dzungar army that was coming out of Bokto Ridge.

Thirdly, the 40,000 Great Zhou troops stationed at the main exit from the mountain included the Jianrui Battalion. Wang Ziteng was already very familiar with the Jianrui Battalion. In addition, the Dragon Cavalry Battalion had won twice, which made Wang Ziteng place high hopes on the Jianrui Battalion.

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The time came to June 25th.

It is a hot summer day, and the sun is shining brightly today. The area of ​​Bokto Ridge is particularly dry.

The 40,000-strong Great Zhou army, led by Wang Ziteng himself, was on high alert and ready for a great battle in such a hot and dry environment.

Fortunately, due to the various measures taken by Yuan Qingbai and the two victories of the Dragon Cavalry Battalion, the morale of the 40,000-strong Great Zhou army is now stable and strong.

The morale of this army was far superior to that of the nearly 20,000 Dzungar troops besieged in Bokto Ridge.

This Dzungar army was originally planning to ambush the Great Zhou army, but now it was forced to break out. It had already suffered two defeats at the hands of the Dragon Cavalry Battalion and was starving.

At this time, two hot air balloons were rising high in the sky together, with a Da Zhou scout standing in each basket, both holding telescopes to conduct careful reconnaissance.

One of the Great Zhou scouts was investigating Bokto Ridge.

Another Da Zhou scout was investigating the opposite direction of Bokto Ridge.

At this time, the scouts of the Great Zhou who were investigating in the opposite direction of Bokto Ridge suddenly discovered important military intelligence. Without waiting for the hot air balloon to land, they hurriedly passed the information on by dropping objects from the air.

The enemy has appeared!
The first enemy troops to appear came from the opposite direction of Bokto Ridge!

It was obviously the outer Dzungar army led by Khan Tseren himself.

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At this moment, Great Khan Tseren was personally leading 30,000 outer Junggar troops, rushing towards the main exit of Bokto Ridge.

The battle is magnificent.

Khan Tsereng was not in a very good mood.

Originally, facing this great war between Dzungar and Great Zhou, Great Khan Tseren was expectant and excited, and had little worries. He believed that the Dzungar army led by him would be able to defeat the Great Zhou's northern army.

However, he did not expect that his plan of luring the enemy and setting an ambush was discovered by the northern army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which led to the Dzungar ambush troops being trapped in Bokto Ridge.

He also knew about the existence of the Dragon Riders and their agility and dominance.

He knew that it was unwise for him to personally lead the army to attack the Great Zhou army stationed at the main exit of the mountain from both inside and outside together with the Dzungar army in Bokto Ridge.

Because this is not just a head-on clash. The Great Zhou army will certainly deploy a terrifying artillery array, and will occupy the hills on both sides of the main mountain pass and attack from high ground.

According to his prediction, there was a high chance that the Dzungars would be defeated in this battle.

However, he had no choice but to lead his army here.

If he did not lead his troops to come, the Dzungar army at Bokto Ridge would probably be wiped out.

He could not afford such a loss, and neither could Junggar.

If this happened, it would most likely mean that Dzungar would be destroyed by the Great Zhou.

Great Khan Tseren did not know that the Chinese have a multi-word idiom called "too clever by half".

He now has similar thoughts, thinking that his own cleverness has harmed himself.

However, he was the brave and warlike Khan Tsereng. Although he predicted that there was a high chance that the Dzungars would lose today's battle, he also felt that there was a high chance that the Dzungars would win.

Because the Dzungar soldiers were powerful.

Because today's Junggar main force was led by him personally. And because today they were attacking the Great Zhou army from both inside and outside.

Therefore, even though Khan Tsereng is not in a very good mood now, he still has great expectations for today's battle.

At this moment, the 30,000 outer Dzungar troops led by Khan Tseren were approaching the main exit of Bokto Ridge.

The Great Khan Tseren was riding on a magnificent warhorse, holding a telescope and looking at the hot air balloon in the distance. He could not help but curse in a low voice: "The people of the Great Zhou are insidious and cunning!"

He had long witnessed the wonders of the Great Zhou hot air balloon, and even asked the craftsmen to imitate it and make a hot air balloon after repeated experiments many times.

Now, when he saw the Great Zhou hot air balloon in the distance, he knew that the Great Zhou army stationed at the main exit from the mountain had detected the arrival of his Junggar army and would keep it under surveillance.

Under such circumstances, his Junggar army would not be able to launch any tricks or sneak attacks.

He did not lead his army to attack immediately.

"Raise the hot air balloon!"

At the command of Khan Tseren, a Junggar hot air balloon was launched into the air. It was used to scout both the Great Zhou army and the Junggar army in the Bokto Mountains.

About an hour later, the Junggar hot air balloon scouts discovered the signal sent by the Junggar army in Lilu.

It means we can attack from both inside and outside!
"March!"

Khan Tseren gave another order, and 30,000 outer Dzungar troops approached the main mountain pass.

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coming!

The hot air balloon scouts of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who were always monitoring the inner and outer Junggar armies, were the first to detect the military situation of the outer Junggar army's attack.

"Artillery array ready!"

Wang Ziteng deliberately shouted in a majestic manner.

Therefore, when the Great Khan Tseren led 30,000 outer Junggar troops to the main mountain pass, the first thing they faced was the artillery formation of the Great Zhou.

The artillery array consists of 300 artillery pieces of various types.

The muzzles of three hundred artillery pieces of various types were all pointed at the 30,000 outer Junggar troops.

Although Great Khan Tsereng had anticipated this situation, he still felt his scalp tingling when he saw the muzzles of the 300 artillery pieces through the telescope.

But now that things have come to this, he has no choice but to face the challenge.

"kill!"

The Great Khan Tsereng issued the order to attack.

Thirty thousand outer Junggar troops approached the Great Zhou army.

Boom boom boom...

Boom boom boom...

Boom boom boom...

The three hundred artillery pieces of various types of the Great Zhou fired one after another!
The artillery of the Great Zhou is the most powerful in the world today. One can imagine how spectacular and powerful the scene of these 300 artillery pieces firing at the same time is.

The Junggar army on the outside was suddenly in a tragic scene with people and horses falling to the ground and blood and flesh flying everywhere.

Group after group of Dzungar soldiers died tragically under the bombardment of artillery shells.

The truth is within cannon range!
Although the Dzungars also had artillery, most of them were light camel cannons, and the number of artillery capable of long-range bombardment was far less than that of the Great Zhou.

The Great Khan Tsereng had to force his troops to attack despite the Great Zhou's crazy artillery fire, and the pressure would only be relieved when the Zhou army was close enough to use camel cannons and bows and arrows to fight back.

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While the outer Junggar troops were attacking with difficulty under the artillery fire, in Bokto Ridge, Da Celeng Dundub and Xiao Celeng Dundub, leading nearly 20,000 miles of Junggar troops, also attacked the Great Zhou army stationed at the main exit of the mountain.

The first thing the Lilu Junggar army faced was not the artillery array of the Great Zhou army, but 10,000 Great Zhou soldiers who were ambushed on the hills on both sides of the main mountain exit.

Originally, the Junggar army in Lilu wanted to lure the Great Zhou army into an ambush at Bokto Ridge because they could attack from the high ground.

And now, ten thousand soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty launched a high-altitude attack on this Lilu Junggar army!
"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Ten thousand soldiers of the Great Zhou rushed down from the hills on both sides like a raging mudslide, rushing towards the Dzungar army in the valley that was nearly 20,000 miles away.

At the same time, another 10,000 Great Zhou soldiers rushed in from the main exit...

Therefore, the Dzungar strategy of attacking from both inside and outside has now changed.

It turned out that the Great Zhou army stationed at the main mountain pass was divided into two parts, each with 20,000 people. One part, relying on the power of artillery, attacked the outer Junggar army, while the other part, relying on the advantage of high ground, attacked the inner Junggar army.

The Dzungar armies on both the inner and outer routes were caught in a difficult and terrifying battle, losing soldiers at an alarming rate.

At this time, the mighty Jianrui Battalion, with its two thousand brave Jianrui soldiers, had not yet started to fight, but were gathering their strength and waiting for the first battle on the battlefield since the formation of the Jianrui Battalion.

The Dragon Riders Battalion has won twice, and the Jianrui Battalion is unwilling to fall behind...

(End of this chapter)