The atmosphere in the tent was as calm as water, and everyone was cautious, even Dace Ling Dun Dobu did not dare to advise the Khan King at this time, and Chahan was even more cold sweating, because it was his deployment that carried out the guard task of the big battalion, but there was such a big leak, which really made Galdan Ce Ling extremely angry.

"Can any of you tell Ben Khan? How many people came to the camp yesterday? ”

There was a grim look on his face, and although he was young, his prestige in the Dzungar Khanate had already been established at this time.

Chahan suddenly lay on the ground and cautiously replied: "Qi Qi Great Khan, probably ...... There are about fifty horsemen......."

"How many riders did you kill? How many riders were captured alive? ”

"Thirty-two people were killed...... No live captures have been made. ”

"Smack-"

Galdan Tseling was immediately exposed, and he shouted loudly in Moxi Mongolian: "This is the royal court sweat tent that you usually boast about!" That's what you call solid! But when everyone else came to the camp, you realized that you hadn't left them all behind, and you were all a bunch of waste? ”

"The Great Khan spares his life! It's just too fast...... Our people can't catch up........ Lord Dundob, you know the truth! ”

Chahan's back was almost soaked with cold sweat, his gray hair trembled from time to time, and the whole person had a feeling of dizziness.

This time it's good, when he said this, Galdan Tse's face suddenly showed a hint of murderous intent, he relied on Da Ce Ling Dun Duobu as the internal should to get to the position, so he looked extremely taboo about internal and external collusion, and now Chahan, who is in charge of the royal court guard, is actually in contact with Dun Duobu, who is in charge of the campaign, this is simply the biggest provocation!

Da Ce Ling Dun Dobu, who was originally on the side, suddenly felt a sigh in his heart, he glanced at Chahan fiercely, immediately knelt on the ground, and said loudly: "Great Khan, the minister does know the truth, but the truth that the minister knows is by no means what Chahan said!" ”

Dace Lingdun Dobu understood that the most important thing at the moment was to dispel the suspicion of the Khan King, so he could not help Chahan in any case, but needed to stab him again, so that although it was impossible to completely eliminate the suspicion of the Khan King, he could avoid the knife in front of him.

Sure enough, when he finished saying this, Chahan's heart suddenly turned dead, and Galdan Tseling's brows soothed a little, he looked at Da Ce Ling Dun Dobu coldly, and said word by word: "Then you can tell me the truth you know." ”

Da Ce Lingdun Dobu breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and then said in a low voice: "Great Khan, the reason why I didn't leave all these enemy troops behind yesterday was purely because Chahan was drunk and greedy at night, so that he could not assemble and deploy the pursuit at the first time, so that he was much later in time, so that those enemy troops had a chance to escape. ”

This matter is clearly to give an explanation to the Khan, so for the sake of his own life, Da Ce Ling can't take care of much, and besides, he doesn't have a good impression of people like Chahan.

Galdan Tsering was immediately furious, looked at Chahan and said in a loud voice: "Chahan, what Dundobu said, is it true? ”

"True....... The Great Khan, the minister's loyalty to the Great Khan can be seen from the sun and the moon, and he also asked the Great Khan to spare the minister's life, and the minister was willing to go into the death camp to fight........ "Chahan knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

The so-called death camp refers to the place where the soldiers who committed capital crimes, or those deserters, who are in the middle of every battle, will push the shield cart and rush to the front to withstand the opponent's artillery fire, that is, the cannon fodder before the war.

Seeing Chahan's demeanor, everyone couldn't help but feel a little concerned, but now that the Great Khan didn't express his position, no one dared to intercede anymore, after all, the previous Da Ce Zero was almost mixed in.

Gardanze's cold eyes condensed slightly, and he waved his hand, "Xia Chahan is in the death camp, and today's battle depends on your life." ”

"Thank you, Great Khan!"

Chahan's face was suddenly relieved, as long as he could enter the death camp, he would have a chance to save his life, it was better than being beheaded with a knife now.

After dealing with this matter, Galdan Tseling took the generals out of the camp and came to the front of the formation, and when he saw the well-organized car formation, the horse whip in his hand pointed at the car formation, and said with a smile: "I thought they would choose to run away last night, but I didn't expect that they would dare to stay here, but I didn't want to live." ”

Da Ce Lingdun Dobu also stood aside, and he said softly: "Great Khan, they must have gained something from their visit to the camp yesterday, but they didn't run away, I think they have a bigger plan......

"They want to hold on and wait for reinforcements and fight Ben Khan here?"

Galdan Tseling himself was a smart man, so he quickly figured this out, but he didn't seem to believe it, and sneered: "Ben Khan has an army of 60,000 here, and he only needs to cut off the supply of the chariot array, what will he use to fight me at that time?" As for the reinforcements, it also depends on how many days they can hold out. ”

Dace Lingdun Dobu also shook his head, he also couldn't understand, although the Han people defended the city very strongly, but after all, it was a real city, and at the moment, just besieging the city with big carts, how could the camp withstand the constant bombardment of artillery? I'm afraid that these Han people are really dying.

"What the Great Khan said is, no matter what, let's fight and understand."

A cruel smile appeared at the corner of Galdanze's mouth, "Passing down the golden order of Ben Khan, the army will be encircled, and no one can escape!" ”

When the horn sounded, the entire 60,000 Jungar army divided into several roads and slowly approached the Ningchu car camp, boundless soldiers with muskets and swords, and hundreds of flags almost obscured the entire sky.

........

In the car camp, many soldiers of the Fu Han army were digging with the allocated sappers to shovel the soil, and then packed it with the sacks carried by the army, and piled it on top of the cart for reinforcement, which was also one of their daily training contents, so the process was very fast, and before the Jungger army began to operate, the Fu Han army had initially formed a barrier.

Dong Ce and Ergen Dun were inspecting the camp together, looking at the camp that was beginning to take shape, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, in fact, according to the original car battalion, they could also hold on, but if the Jungger military artillery continued to bombard, it was possible to destroy the cart and cause the car camp to be broken.

Now that it is reinforced by sand sacks, there is no need to worry about the artillery threat of the Jungar army, and it has the confidence to hold on for a long time.

Dong Ce looked at the Jungger army looming in the distance, and said in a low voice: "Their movements are very fast, at the latest in another hour, we will be completely surrounded here, and then we can only hold on until Your Majesty comes to help." ”

"Fortunately, our messengers for help set out three hours ago, they should be able to evade the pursuit of Jungar, and they can pass the news to the nearest military intelligence office in two days, and then the military intelligence department will transmit the information to the middle army in the fastest time, and the total time will not exceed three days."

After last night's incident, his heart was full of confidence, and he followed Dong Ce's words and laughed loudly: "Your Majesty's current position should be eight hundred to one thousand miles away from us, if you march with all your strength, you will arrive in Bala and Tun in five days at the earliest, and it will only take seven days at the slowest rate, which means that we only need to hold out for eight to ten days, and then we can wait for Your Majesty's reinforcements." ”

"That's right, if you calculate it in a normal time, it should be like this....... And this time they will cut off our supply lines, but fortunately we found a water source when we camped, and the water source was very abundant, and the whole army also brought enough dry food for ten days, and if there was any shortage, we could kill horses and get meat. ”

Dong Ce's expression was very resolute, he had experienced too many battles, and it was not uncommon for him to wait for reinforcements like this, and he had always been known for his resilience, so he was fully confident that he would be able to hold on to this place for ten days.

"Next, there is only one thing, hold the ........ for ten days at all costs"

After unifying their thinking, almost all the soldiers of the Fu Han Army understood the current situation, but they did not have much worry, after all, all the officers of the troops that constitute the current Eastern Route Army are veterans of the Northern Expedition, even a squad leader has been baptized by the war, and the other recruits have also undergone complete recruit training, so they will not be too inferior in combat effectiveness.

Especially in the current Fu Han Army, cultural courses and education will be carried out every night, and they will not be much lacking than veterans in terms of morale and fighting spirit, and what they really lack most at present is combat experience.

And this time, the firepower of the East Route Army of the Fu Han Army is also very good, all the soldiers of the Fu Han Army have a Hanyang flintlock pistol, and an artillery position is specially built in the center of the barracks, and eighty-five six-pound cavalry guns are divided into three positions, and they have already shown their swarthy muzzles, waiting for the order to fire.

By noon, the Dzungar army had finally formed a dignified division and began to advance in the direction of the Fu Han army, not very fast, but in a very neat formation, with the first men in armor, neck guards, helmets, sabers and Errut muskets, then archers, and then soldiers in armor and pointed helmets, armed with sabers and pikes.

These did not exceed Dong Ce's expectations, but what surprised him was that there were many artillery pieces behind the battle, and these cannons were all mounted on camels, although the caliber was not large, but the number was scattered more than 300 pieces, which was really surprising.

Xiao Er's expression was also a little solemn, and he said: "I'm afraid those are the legendary camel cannons, and you must not underestimate them." ”

When Dong Ce heard the word 'camel cannon', he suddenly remembered a piece of information from the Military Intelligence Department, that is, after Galdance succeeded to the throne, he spent his time building an army, which was called ' Bao Qin' seems to be an independent artillery unit, similar to the artillery regiment directly under the Fu Han Army, the firearms are quite advanced and powerful, and during the visit of the Swedish envoy to China, there was also a special talk about one thing, that is, some Swedish artillery technology was lost to the Jungar Khanate for some reason, and even a Swedish army lieutenant also served as a military adviser to the Swedish army to plot Alabutan.

It turned out that in the past Fifth Russian-Swedish War, Sweden suffered a miserable defeat, and at that time there was a Swedish army lieutenant named Renette who was captured by Lao Maozi in the Battle of Poltava and was forced to join the Russian army and came to Siberia.

At that time, Renate had already been tortured considerably, and in order to survive well, he relied on his knowledge of artillery and artillery skills to take refuge in the Dzungar Khanate, thus improving the artillery technology of the Dzungar Khanate by more than one level.

You know, even in Europe at that time, Swedish artillery was at the top level, like Gustav, known as the "Lion of the North". King Adolf and General Torstensen, who is known as the "father of field artillery", both attached great importance to the use of artillery and the improvement of artillery performance, so the Swedish artillery at that time was basically unique in the world.

Therefore, when Renette contributed his artillery knowledge, Arabutan immediately entrusted him with an important task, promoted him to the head of the artillery development and construction of the entire Dzungar Khanate, became a high-ranking member of the Dzungar Khanate, and also promised Renette that after the construction of the Dzungar artillery, he could be released back to Sweden in the future.

In this way, under the guidance of Renette, the Dzungars produced fifteen four-pounder guns, five small-caliber guns, and twenty ten-pounder guns, and had a certain military production capacity.

It is worth mentioning that since Renate was born in the Swedish artillery and placed more emphasis on the field aspect, the Zungar Khanate was forged with field guns that were perhaps not top-notch, but more mobile and flexible, rather than the bulky red-coated cannons, hence the formation of this camel cannon.

Dong Ce's expression was slightly solemn, according to the current artillery strength of the Jungger army, it was more powerful than he expected, and it was by no means comparable to the firepower of the Qing army, which was naturally a bad news for the current Fu Han army.

"It seems that these people are Bao Qin, our artillery should have an advantage in range and power, but it is far inferior to them in terms of quantity, especially they are not the kind of artillery team that has been temporarily assembled, but has been used together for a long time, which means that their training level is more highly consistent."

It has to be said that Galdan Tseling far surpassed his father Tse-Arabutan in his understanding of artillery, because in the past, most of the artillery was used by battalions, which would result in a lack of familiarity with each other, and the level of training was not the same, and then there would be a situation of different levels of artillery skills before the war.

At present, Galdantse has already made a 'Baoqin' army, that is, all the artillery is used together, and with the help of the Swedes, the level of artillery is by no means comparable to that of the Qing army.

"Ready, target enemy artillery, let's take them by surprise!"