Gou was a member of the imperial family in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 866: Battle of Tuomuhewei
The war was imminent and the enemy troops were coming very quickly. In just a few days, the two enemy forces advanced to the Kaolangwuwei and Tuomuhewei areas respectively.

The Kaolangwu Guard in the south was the main force of the Eight Banners, while the Tuomuhe Guard in the west was mostly composed of Mongols plus some of the Eight Banners. After learning this information, Dulal Bomubogor decisively adopted the tactic of attacking the Mongols in Tuomuhe Guard first, and then turning south to fight the main force of the Eight Banners after solving the enemy from the west. This decision was recognized by the leaders of the Solon tribe. As for Liu Bo, he did not express any objection. After all, this was a battle of the Solon tribe. As a Ming Dynasty official who followed in auxiliary combat, he had no reason to comment on Dulal Bomubogor's tactics. Moreover, it was in line with the art of war to pick the soft persimmon and attack the weak army first on the battlefield.

In this regard, Dular Bomubogor, except for leaving some troops to garrison, led the main force directly westward to fight against the enemy coming from the Tumuhewei area.

The news of Dular Bomubogor's dispatch of troops was soon discovered by enemy scouts in the Tumuhewei area. After learning that the Solon tribe was coming towards them, the leaders Samushka and Sohai were not panicked but very happy. Originally, they divided their troops into two groups to attract the Solon tribe to attack. No matter which army the Solon tribe attacked, they were sure to delay the main force of the Solon tribe. In their opinion, although the Solon tribe was strong, its combat effectiveness was not as good as their own because of its ordnance. As long as they could entangle the opponent's main force and wait for the arrival of their other troops, then the battle would be completely won. Once the main force of the Solon tribe was defeated and the Solon leader Dular Bomubogor was captured, there would be no suspense on the battlefield against the Solon tribe.

Samushka and Suohai each led a part of the Eight Banners and the Mongolian army to set up the battlefield in advance, waiting for the Solon tribe to attack. But they never expected that the battle they thought would be easy to win would be beyond their expectations. When the Solon tribe arrived at the battlefield and the battle began, the two were shocked to find that the Solon tribe on the opposite side was different from what they had originally imagined.

It turned out that although the Sauron tribe was fierce and capable of fighting, their military equipment was very poor. The arrowheads of their bows and arrows were all made of stone, and the proportion of iron weapons in their combat weapons was extremely small. Most of them could only wield blunt weapons made of wood or tied with stones. As for their bodies, they had no protection at all. It was considered good to have a simple leather armor to protect the chest. Most of them wore tattered leather robes and fought with their bravery.

On the other hand, there is no need to mention the elite Eight Banners. Their equipment is no different from that of the Ming Army. If they are white-armored soldiers, they are even stronger. They are fully armed almost to the teeth. No matter how powerful the Soldiers of the Sauron Tribe are, they cannot break their defenses and can only passively take the beating.

As for the Mongolian cavalry, they were much stronger than the beggar-like Solon warriors. Although they lacked armor, they were well-equipped with bows and swords. Moreover, the Mongolians were good at horse fighting, and their riding skills were no less than those of the Solon people. They had the upper hand in a fight. Once they started fighting, they could easily inflict casualties on the Solon people, while the Solon warriors could not break through their defenses. How could they not win this battle?

But this time it was completely different. The Solon tribe that appeared before them was not as tattered as they remembered. Instead, they were fully armed like themselves. Most of them wore Ming Dynasty cotton armor, which was no different from the equipment of the Eight Banners elite, and even looked much newer. Some generals even wore iron armor, which provided even stronger protection.

As for the weapons in their hands, they are no longer the simple weapons as before. Not to mention swords and knives, the bows they use are truly strong bows, and the arrowheads are all made of fine steel. In addition, the Sauron warriors are extremely strong and good at using heavy bows. Their horse archery is better than that of the Eight Banners. The bows they use are not only powerful, but also can shoot farther and more accurately. At the same distance, the Sauron warriors can easily shoot at them, but they cannot shoot at the opponent.

Not long after the war began, they were shocked by the sharpness of the Solon tribe's attack. In just a blink of an eye, a large number of the elite Eight Banners and Mongolian cavalry fell, while the Solon tribe, as the attacking party, suffered very few losses.

Faced with this situation, the leading troops, Samushka and Suohai, panicked instantly. They had never expected such a change. When did the beggar-like Sauron people actually have such equipment? After resolving the equipment difference, the Sauron people, who were born warriors, were so fierce that no one could match them. Seeing that the vanguard was about to collapse, the two men hurriedly mobilized other troops under their command in an attempt to stabilize the situation.

"Kill! Kill! Kill all these Jiannu!" Dulal Bomubogor shouted, brandishing his sword, and riding his horse with hundreds of the most capable men in the tribe, he plunged directly into the enemy's line like a hot knife cutting into butter, and rushed forward.

For many years, the Saurons have been suppressed and beaten by the Jiannu. Every time, it was not that the Saurons were not good at fighting, but that their weapons and protection were not good enough.

Obviously, the Saurons were much better than the Jiannu in terms of horseback archery and combat capability, but the weapons they used were much worse than the Jiannu. On the battlefield, they could not break the Jiannu's armor with a sword, and their stone arrows could not penetrate the Jiannu's armor. At most, they could only cause some skin damage. Only by hitting the face or throat, such as the vital points, could they cause damage to the enemy, otherwise it would be like tickling.

The weapons in the hands of the enemy were very sharp. Only one knife or one arrow could make the brave Sauron warrior fall down. How could such a war be won? As the leader of the Sauron tribe, Dular. Bomubogor had used many methods over the years and had won battles by chance, but the gap in strength between the two sides could not be made up. He could only retreat northward under the pressure of Jiannu. It was really frustrating for a long time.

Now, with the equipment sent by the Ming Dynasty, the warriors of the Solon tribe finally have the capital to fight the enemy face to face. After upgrading their muskets to cannons, the Solon warriors have played to their strengths. Not only can they fight the enemy head-on, but they can also beat the enemy into a bad state with their own abilities, and even chase the enemy and beat them up.

This situation had never happened before, and it made Dular. Bomubogor vent his anger that he had been holding back for many years. When he saw that the enemy's vanguard was shaken by his troops, Dular. Bomubogor could no longer hold back, and immediately led his elite troops to rush over. With the charge of Dular. Bomubogor's elite troops, the enemy's vanguard, which had been unable to stop, finally collapsed. Dular. Bomubogor led his men to charge directly into the enemy's formation, and the gap became larger and larger. At this moment, the Sauron people became more and more courageous. The years of humiliation were washed away today. One by one, they were unstoppable, waving their weapons and making strange noises, wantonly harvesting the lives of the enemy.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Samushka and Sohai no longer cared about the collapsed vanguard. Having fought many battles, they knew that further reinforcements would be of no avail. There was only one way to turn defeat into victory, which was to build another line of defense on the one hand to stop the Sauron people from continuing to charge, and at the same time send a troop to attack in a roundabout way. As long as they blocked the enemy head-on and waited for the roundabout troop to cut in from the side, there was still a possibility of victory.

They immediately made up their minds. Samushka led his troops to block the enemy from the front, while Suohai led his eight banners and elite Mongolian cavalry to make a detour from the south. But when Samushka, who was in the front, had just barely stopped the charge of the Suolong army and had not had time to reorganize the defeated troops who had retreated to the sides, they suddenly heard several rumbling cannons. Samushka was stunned at first, then he was stunned, and then he looked to the south, only to see several plumes of smoke rising from Suohai's troops who were fighting in a detour, and the galloping cavalry instantly fell off their horses one by one.

"Fire...cannon...how is this possible! How is this possible!" Samushka was stunned. It was unexpected that the poor Sauron tribe had sophisticated equipment, but how could they also have cannons? This was too outrageous. Where did the Sauron people get the cannons? Where did these equipment come from? Could it be that they fell from the sky?

"Hahaha! Great cannons! Great cannons!" Dulal Bomubogor turned his head and saw that the Jiannu army, which was making a detour from the south, was being knocked to the ground by several cannons from his own central army. He instantly burst into laughter.

Needless to say, this artillery is the artillery team led by Liu Bo. Although the large cannons on the ship cannot be carried due to combat reasons, small cannons such as the tiger squat cannon and the Portuguese cannon are of no problem. If these cannons were not numerous and difficult to carry over long distances, the artillery fire would be much more intense.

But even so, it was enough. Liu Bo brought more than 30 tiger squat cannons and Portuguese cannons. Even if the power of these cannons was not as strong as that of real cannons, it was enough to deal a heavy blow to the Jiannu. With the continuous firing of the cannons, the Jiannu army was caught off guard. Although not many people were killed by the cannons, the fact that the enemy had such a powerful weapon as cannons in the battle with the Solon tribe was a huge psychological blow to the Jiannu and Mongolian coalition forces.

The attack of the Solon tribe had already made it difficult for the Jiannu army to resist. Now that so many artillery pieces had appeared, the Mongols in the coalition army panicked. Most of these Mongolian cavalrymen came from Khorchin. Although they were friendly forces with the Jiannu, they did not belong to the Eight Banners. Moreover, the Mongolian tribes were relatively independent. The power of the leaders was basically the force in their hands. If their troops were wiped out, they would not be able to guarantee their status in the tribe at all, and it was common for them to be replaced by others.

It was no problem for them to follow the Eight Banners to fight and gain some advantage, but if the losses were too great, these Mongols would definitely not really resist to the end like the Eight Banners. If their lives were lost here, what was the point? So when the situation changed in another direction, these Mongols immediately began to make their most sensible choice - escape.

When the Mongols began to flee from the battlefield, the Eight Banners, which had been able to hold off the Solons' crazy attack, were immediately overwhelmed. The Mongolian friendly troops on their side had fled, and the remaining Eight Banners soldiers were not even as strong as the Solons in terms of manpower.

As this happened, the various Eight Banners showed signs of collapse. When one of the Eight Banners could no longer stop the Solons and began to flee with the Mongols, the Jiannu army could no longer hold its ground and was defeated in an instant.

"Don't run! Don't run! Stop him! Bastard! Stop him! I'll take the head of anyone who runs again!" Samushka was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. There were deserters riding their horses everywhere around him. His army was in complete chaos. With the appearance of deserters, he could no longer command them. He could only wave his sword and shout, trying to stop the rout.

"Master... we have been defeated... let's go! It will be too late if we don't leave now..." Just as he was shouting, the personal guard beside him could not help but persuade him. Samushka glared at him and was about to yell at him for disrupting the morale of our army and seeking his own death.

But before he could curse out loud, an arrow suddenly shot from nowhere and hit Samushka in the right chest. The arrow was so fierce that Samushka screamed and fell off his horse. But before his guards could come forward to rescue him, Samushka was struggling to get up when a galloping warhorse rushed towards him. With a scream, Samushka was knocked a long distance away by the warhorse, and his body rolled on the ground like a broken sack, and then he was silent.

(End of this chapter)