The cavalry of the entire Gansu town was all assembled and dispatched by Wang Yuan, and the size of the cavalry under Wang Yuan's command reached 3,000.

There were also 3,000 musketeers, as well as hundreds of craftsmen and nearly 7,000 troops, who were already able to gain a foothold in the Western Regions.

Unfortunately, even with such troops, they could not defeat any of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the Warat Mongols, and the Yarkand Khanate. Fortunately, these three forces attacked and killed each other, and did not unite to invade the Ming Dynasty for the time being.

By the time the cavalry had assembled and the sick and wounded were almost well, it was already mid-September.

Autumn soldiers on the battlefield!

Wang Yuan rode up to the general's platform and said to the soldiers below, "Some of you know my details. There are also some brothers in Gansu Town who have not heard of the name of my second king. My surname is Wang Mingyuan, and if the word is empty, I am twenty years old......"

"Ho~~~~"

The 2,000 cavalry from all over Gansu suddenly broke out into a commotion, and the yin and yang weirdness knew that it was a mockery when they heard it.

Wang Yuan didn't stop them, but just bent his bow and arrows, and shot an arrow on the flagpole more than a hundred paces away.

The taunt immediately disappeared, and they all looked at the arrows stupidly.

Wang Yuan continued: "You must think that when I became a governor at the age of twenty, I was probably the son of a great official. Let me tell you, Lao Tzu grew up in the mountains of Guizhou, and he had to hunt by himself to eat meat. Lao Tzu went to Yunnan to take the exam, and encountered hundreds of bandits robbing the road, and Lao Tzu killed the bandits with one man and one horse. In the year when Lao Tzu took the top prize, he took 200 elite horsemen to attack more than 10,000 thieves head-on and won a complete victory. Lao Tzu led 2,000 escort troops to pursue and intercept the main force of the thieves, and beheaded the thieves Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi. Lao Tzu took 6,000 weak brigades that had been trained for two months, defeated more than 10,000 elite thieves head-on, chased and killed dozens of miles on a single horse, and captured the thief leader Qi Yanming! ”

Wang Yuan pointed down: "Lao Tzu, the governor, was killed with one knife and one shot!" If any of you are not convinced, you can come up and fight it alone. Strength, sword, archery, horsemanship, the choice is yours! ”

No one spoke, and there may be those who don't believe it, but they don't dare to come to the stage to call out.

"Lift it up!"

Li Ying, Li Zhong, Yuan Da, and Bao Chaozhen came to Jiangtai with a thin-skinned coffin.

Wang Yuan kicked the coffin board open, lay down and tried it, then stood up again and said, "I just let the craftsman build it, and it fits quite well." This is the coffin I prepared for myself, if I die in battle, I will be buried outside Jiayu Pass, and I promise to accompany you in Guanxi. Lao Tzu is planning to die here, if anyone makes me die unhappily, who will not want to have a good life! ”

The whole army was solemn.

Including Zhu Ying, Zhang Wei, Zhu Dangshu and other generals, they all listened to the instructions seriously, and no one dared to touch Wang Yuan's moldy head.

"From today onwards, all soldiers are not allowed to take half a step out of the barracks, and I will be trained strictly every day! If you feel bored, you can bow and have fun every day, but you can't drink and feast," Wang Yuan looked at Zhu Ying, Zhang Wei and the others, "Do you understand?" ”

"Understood!" Zhu Ying and Zhang Weiwei shouted.

In addition to training formation changes, cavalry is also important to cultivate discipline and courage.

Because the cavalry of both sides hedged against each other, it would inevitably cause a tragic car accident scene, and neither men nor horses were willing to engage in direct confrontation.

Experienced cavalry troops, often rushing to a certain distance, will spontaneously slow down to wait for an opportunity to change formation. And the cavalry who are not disciplined will some rush fast, some will rush slowly, and some will run away after rushing.

If both sides are in good formation, it will depend on who has more guts. Those who dare not slow down, do not change the formation, and can still charge with all their might, as long as the difference in numbers is not large, basically belongs to the side that wins steadily.

If both sides are hard at the head, it will be extremely miserable, and the winner will be divided in a short time (the cavalry formation at this time is not tight, leaving a gap space for each other to hedge).

And after the appearance of the musketeers, the Western cavalry fought an ugly battle.

Often, when the firing range was near, the cavalry of both sides stopped their advance, and it was useless to let the generals urge them, and they took their muskets and fired at each other - the Cossack cavalry liked to do this most of the time, they were mostly mercenaries, and they did not want to die for their employers.

Saying so much, it is because Turpan has a large number of cavalry, and Wang Yuan is likely to face the charge of tens of thousands of cavalry.

Of course, Wang Yuan could not hit a stone with an egg and lead 3,000 cavalry into a team of tens of thousands of cavalry, but he must take precautions and prepare in advance to deal with all possible situations.

These cavalrymen only train for half an hour a day in horse warfare, mainly for fear that they will lose weight if they train too many horses. The rest of the time, discipline and courage are trained, and training in formation is a must anyway.

As for the firecrackers, the three-eyed guns, all of them, have a range of more than 160 meters, but the effective range is less than 100 meters, and the best range is only 50 meters.

In the Zhengde Dynasty, the bird gun (front-loading arquebus) had not yet been transmitted to China, and the main game of the Da Ming Shen Machine Battalion was the three-eyed gun.

Qi Jiguang in history is really awesome, he improved Western musket technology, and invented the "Five Thunder God Machine" against the Mongolian cavalry. The five barrels rotate to shoot in rotation, the equivalent of a rifle version of the revolver, and can also be used as a mace when engaging enemies.

Later, Zhao Shizhen invented the thunderbolt, which is a bit difficult to explain. The improved Thunderbolt can fire eighteen rounds in a row, and can also throw fireballs at close range after the bullets are fired. The barrel is equipped with a round shield, and the body holder is an axe, which can be picked up by the enemy when he comes.

This thing already belongs to the multi-barreled rifled gun, which seems to have many advantages, but the disadvantages are more deadly: it is expensive and heavy, there are many parts, it is not easy to march, it is not easy to operate, it is not easy to maintain, and it has never been able to be used on the battlefield.

Wang Yuan has not studied firearms, and he has not had time to do so.

The only thing he could do was to take his disciples and craftsmen and make granulated gunpowder. This thing is very simple, when making gunpowder, a liquid is added to make a paste, which is dried and solidified into particulate matter.

As for the power, it has to be slowly experimented, depending on the materials and processes.

At this time, Europe already had heavy granule gunpowder, which was dried and granulated by adding urine, just because the urine contained nitrate, but it has not been widely promoted for the time being.

On the Chinese side, probably during the Jiajing and Wanli periods, the technology for making granular gunpowder began to be acquired: it was to add spirits and plant ash, which was much more elegant than adding urine directly.

Wang Yuan asked his disciples and craftsmen to continue to improve granular gunpowder, and planned to build a factory to make arquebuses.

"Gansu in the northwest, Quanjun in the southeast, are all ingots of iron; Yanjing Zunhua and Shanxi Pingyang, both sand and iron are also applied - "Heavenly Creation". ”

The ingot iron produced in Gansu can be ranked in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yuan threw his troops to Li Ying for drills, and he himself took his disciples and craftsmen to take over the largest government-run iron factory in Gansu. As a novice in firearms, Wang Yuan could only use his modern knowledge to design arquebuses with his disciples and craftsmen. Design the arquebus first, and then improve it into a flintlock pistol, after all, the meal has to be eaten one bite at a time.

At this time, Chen Jiuchou, the deputy envoy of the Suzhou military garrison, sent a side report: The Wara army invaded Hami, and the puppet king of Turpan Mansuer led the army to defeat it. Man Su'er asked for a reward from the Ming Dynasty, hoping to reopen the tribute (trade).

This news was particularly nonsense, and Wang Yuan was directly stunned.

In fact, it was the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, which continued to invade the Ming Dynasty eastward after occupying Hami. Halfway through, the Warat Mongol army went south, also intending to invade the Ming Dynasty, but did not expect to collide with the army of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

Mansuer repelled the Warat army and suffered damage himself, so he withdrew his army back to Turpan, and by the way, asked the Ming to give him a reward and reopen trade.

Wang Yuan was very lucky, if it weren't for the southern invasion of Wara, Man Su'er would probably have killed all the way to Jiayu Pass, leaving no time for Wang Yuan to make any preparations.

This guy is obviously the Great Khan of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, but he has been disguised as the king of the Turpan State. While invading the Ming Dynasty, he bowed down to the Ming Dynasty and played the Ming monarchs and ministers around.

Wang Yuan didn't even know the history of the Ming Dynasty, let alone the history of the Western Regions, he couldn't understand it at all now when he saw the flowers in the fog.

It wasn't until October that one of the three governors of the Hami Kingdom (Prince vassal State) fled back to Suzhou from Hami and was sent to Wang Yuan that Wang Erlang finally figured out who his enemy was.

"What, Mansu'er is the Great Khan of Don't Lose the Eight Mile Kingdom? And what is going on in Turpan? Wang Yuan exclaimed.

He replied, "Master Wang, as early as a hundred years ago, the Kingdom of Don't Lose Bali continued to invade the cities of Turpan. They waged a holy war and slaughtered Buddhists, and now they have completely occupied the cities of Turpan, Liucheng, and Huozhou. Because of the rebellion of Man Suer's own brother Said, Aksu was occupied, and Man Suer now lives in Turpan for a long time, and Turpan is close to losing the capital of the Bali Kingdom. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "How many soldiers and horses does Man Su'er have?" ”

"He can muster at least twenty or thirty thousand cavalry, but he will definitely not dare to invade the east with all his might. On the one hand, we had to guard against Warat in the north, and on the other hand, we had to guard against Sayed in the west and south. In particular, the two brothers had been vying for the throne of the Khanate, and now that Sayed had conquered a large territory to the south, he had just established the Yarkand Khanate this year. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "Can you contact Ye'er Qiang Khan and fight Man Su'er together?" ”

"Yes, but the Ming army must prove its strength, otherwise Ye'er Qiang Khan will at most verbally agree," said the Emperor, "Master Wang, there is one thing you must be clear. ”

Wang Yuan said: "You speak." ”

"Don't lose the Bali Kingdom, they have been invading Hami for decades, just to control the trade between the Western Regions and the Ming Dynasty, and they want wealth rather than land. But now, with the establishment of the Yarkand Khanate and the blocking of the west and south of the Beshbali Kingdom, Mansuer can only expand his territory to the east, and he will inevitably invade the east in the future. ”

"I see." Wang Yuan nodded.

The Eastern Chagatai Khanate, which used to attack Hami for wealth, always fought petty, and it was easy for the Ming Dynasty to regain lost territory.

But since the beginning of this year, it has gradually turned to territory expansion, and it will inevitably move the people in the future. With the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to fight a big war in the Western Regions, and it is very likely to lose all the land west of Jiayuguan!

The situation Wang Yuan faced was very bad, a hundred times more severe than the situation that Wang Yue encountered at the beginning!

Wang Yuan said to Xiang Kexiao: "You are very good, not only do you speak Chinese well, but also have a very strategic vision, would you like to go with me to recover Hami?" ”

Instead of bowing his head, he reminded: "Master Wang, Hami is easy to recover, but it is difficult to block Full Speed's counterattack next year." Even if it blocks next year, it can't stop next year, and next year, how many years can Master Wang stay in Hami? ”

Wang Yuan squinted, was silent for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "Then destroy the Bali Country!" ”