Chapter 46: The Battle of the Steppe

"Quick, quick!" "Hurry, hurry!" The Horqin people pushed these red-clothed cannons to the front of the big array, in front of which were hundreds of carts set up by the Horqin people, although Man Zhu Xili was a reckless man, but he was not stupid, he knew very well in his heart that if he relied on hard encounters and forehead folds to fight in the field on the grassland, then only death would greet the Horqin people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Now all Zhu Xili can do is wait for rescue.

The Chahars kept urging their mounts under their crotches, raising their whips again and again, and soon entered the range of the red-coated cannons.

Man Zhu Xili shouted, "Quick, hurry up and fire the cannon to kill these Chahars." ”

More than a dozen guards hurriedly took torches to ignite the fuse on the red-coated cannon, the fuse was on point, and the sparks made a sizzling sound and quickly burned into the barrel, and the next moment, only a few loud "booms" were heard, and the Horqin people, who had never heard the red-coated cannon fired, were shocked by this sudden sound, and their ears roared.

The Chahar people were constantly charging to shorten the distance with the Korqin people, and suddenly heard a deafening sound, and in a moment more than a dozen huge fireballs fell from the sky, and finally fell in the dense Chahar army with a terrible whistling sound, and the unsuspecting Chahar people were blown up to the flesh and blood, broken arms and legs flew everywhere, and the horses that were charging were also frightened by this sudden sound and were uncontrollable.

"Fire, fire!" Seeing that the artillery had caused great damage to Chahar, Zhu Xili kept repeating the order to fire the artillery. The Horqin people's incessant ignition, reloading, and huge whistling sounds rang out from the Horqin people's large array from time to time.

"Disperse, disperse!" Although this is not the first time that Forehead has touched artillery, but this is the first time he has felt the power of artillery at such a close distance, he desperately waved the scimitar in his hand, shouting and ordering his subordinates to scatter and charge. He whipped his mount hard, and now the only thought in his heart was to rush through this distance of death, as long as he waited for the Korqin people who were inferior in melee numbers, they would definitely be defeated.

However, the forehead fold still underestimated the amount of damage caused by the artillery to the Chahar people, although the scattered formation reduced the casualties directly caused by the artillery, but the psychological damage caused by the artillery could not be reduced, even the horses that the Chahar people were most proud of began to become restless under the roar of the artillery, and many horses did not listen to the orders of the riders, scurrying around, without a sense of direction.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!" There was no way to deal with the artillery, so he could only give the order to retreat! Now a blind large-scale charge will only increase the casualties of the Chahars in vain.

When the Chahar cavalry heard the commander's order to retreat, they turned their horses and ran towards their own formation.

"Retreat, retreat! The Chahars have retreated!" As soon as the Chahars turned their horses' heads, the Korqin people raised their scimitars in celebration.

Man Zhu Xili frowned slightly, although he repelled the first wave of Chahar's attack, the situation on the battlefield did not improve at all. Although the Horqin reinforcements summoned by Wutai had arrived, bringing the strength of Manzhu Xili to 50,000 at once, it was still at a disadvantage compared to the large army of the forehead.

"I'm so angry!" Forehead, who had just withdrawn from the formation, jumped off his horse and took the water bag handed by the attendant, and drank several sips in one go.

"Great Khan, this Korqin man's red-clothed cannon is too powerful, what should we do?" asked Bake, the head of the guards under Ezu's men.

"Great Khan, why don't I lead my men to rush again!" the last general will not believe that this red-coated cannon has stopped the progress of our Chahars!" said Sojul, beating his chest.

"Hmph, I don't believe that Ben Khan can't break his red-clothed cannon full of Zhu Xili!" he threw down the water bag in his hand fiercely, "Sojur and Ban Bake, you each lead your headquarters to attack the Horqin Khanate in batches, remember, you must retreat every time you are ten miles away from the Horqin people!"

"Retreat?" asked Sojul and Banbak as if they didn't believe their ears.

"That's right, what Ben Khan wants is for you to consume the ammunition of their Korqin people, and Ben Khan doesn't believe that they Korqin people have enough ammunition!"

"Great Khan, what if Korqin's cavalry rushes out to fight us in the field, you must know that they also have 50,000 cavalry now!" Ban Bak was a little worried about the cavalry of the Korqin people.

"Don't worry! Man Zhu Xili will not send his cavalry, he still has a lot of subjects to protect, and he will be afraid that we will deliberately set a trap, so he will only bombard with artillery, and will not send cavalry, don't worry!" said with certainty.

"Minions take orders!" Ban Bak and Sojul, who had received the order, hurriedly mounted their horses and led their troops and horses to the test.

"Great Khan, you see that Chahar is attacking again!" Utai pointed to the Chahar cavalry who was rushing towards the main formation, and pleaded, "Great Khan, let the minions lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to teach these Chahars a lesson!"

"No! These Chahars are just trying to attack, there is no need to engage them in close combat, and the order is to continue to suppress the enemy with artillery!" Man Zhu Xili now only wants to wait for reinforcements from the Qing Dynasty.

In Shengjing City, Dolgon received a letter of help from Zhu Xili early, and now in the Chongzheng Palace of the Qing Dynasty, the ministers are arguing over whether to rescue the Horqin people.

"The emperor, the regent, the minister thinks that he should not send troops to rescue the Horqin people at this time!" Ao Bai of the two yellow flags stood up and said, "Although our army has suffered few casualties in this attack on North Korea, it is necessary to send a large army to garrison it if we want to occupy North Korea, and secondly, the 300,000 troops of Hong Chengchou of the Ming Dynasty are still cowering in Jinzhou City, once they know that the main force of our army rescues the Horqin people, then they will inevitably raise troops to attack our army, and then we will suffer from the enemy on our backs!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Aobai's words won the praise of the two yellow flags.

Dolgon stood aside and did not speak, but the Empress Dowager Zhezhe and Xiaozhuang behind the dragon bead curtain frowned, obviously they were very dissatisfied with Aobai's words.

"Your Majesty, Regent!" Seeing this situation, Duoduo stood up and said, "The Horqin Department has always been a staunch ally of my Great Qing Dynasty, and it is also the hometown of the two empress dowagers, and we have an inexplicable connection with the Great Qing Dynasty, if we do not rescue the catastrophe suffered by the Horqin Department this time, then who else will want to be my friend of the Great Qing Dynasty at that time? How can I convince the rest of the people in the Great Qing Dynasty? Besides, this ambition is not dead, if we let it unify the grassland this time, it will become a big trouble for my Great Qing Dynasty!"