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"Rush across the river! Kill all the Han Chinese! ”

After breaking through the left flank defense line of the Ming army, Bagen did not hesitate, and immediately led the Dzungar cavalry to cross Weishui and rush towards the north bank.

At this time, although it was said that the Mongol coalition army still needed to break through the Ming army's defense line on the north bank of Weishui again, Bagen believed that the Mongol coalition army's breakthrough operation was in sight.

From the beginning of the war, the battle between the two armies seemed fierce, but Bagen knew that the most important task of the Mongol coalition now was to preserve their vitality and flee back to the steppe, so he had been directing the battle to minimize the damage of the Mongol coalition army as much as possible.

Previously, when Bagen commanded the Mongolian coalition army to attack the Ming army's Chinese army and the right flank defense line, he only saw that the Ming army's defense line was stable after a little temptation, so he quickly changed the direction of the main attack, so the Dzungar cavalry under Bagan did not suffer too many casualties, and then when Bagen found a flaw in the Ming army's defense line and began to concentrate his forces to attack the left flank of the Ming army's defense line, and because the opponents were all weak and vulnerable, the Dzungar cavalry was still not bad.

By this time, the two armies had been fighting for more than an hour, but the proportion of battle losses of the Dzungar cavalry under Bagan's command still did not exceed 30%, and the number of troops was still nearly 10,000.

At the same time, Qi Bin's new army, which was stationed on the north bank of Weishui, only had more than 3,000 troops, and most of them were infantry.

Therefore, Bagen naturally did not take Qi Bin's new army in his eyes, thinking that the Ming army on the north bank of Weishui was only two or three thousand people, and it would definitely not be able to resist the impact of nearly 10,000 Junggar cavalry, and it would inevitably collapse at the first touch!

When he led the Dzungar cavalry into Weishui, Bagan seemed to have seen the instant rout of the Ming army on the north bank.

"After the Dzungar warriors dispersed the garrison on the north bank of the Han people, they should immediately leave the Weishui battlefield and return to the grassland as quickly as possible, at that time, if the Mongolian right wing cavalry of the rear army can keep up in time, it is naturally the best, but if they can't get rid of the entanglement of the Han cavalry for a long time and can't keep up in time, then I won't deliberately stay here and wait for them! After all, the Han army has an advantage in strength, and it will change later! The Dzungar warriors have broken through the Han defense line and completed their mission, if the Mongolian right cavalry has been unable to repel the Han cavalry, it is their own incompetence, and I can't blame me for abandoning them! …… In fact, if all the Mongol right-wing cavalry of the rear army were lost here, it would be easier for the Great Khan of Geldan to conquer the steppe in the future! ”

As he led the charge, Bagen secretly made a decision in his heart, as if the Dzungar cavalry had routed the Ming army on the northern bank.

However, Bagen didn't know that the Ming army deployed on the north bank of Weishui was the "Qi Bin New Army", and the commander of this army, Qi Bin, was the descendant of Qi Shaobao, who made the Mongolian tribes frightened, and Qi Bin trained this army completely according to the methods of the Qi family army back then.

When Qi Jiguang was alive, the strength of the Mongolian Duoyan Department was not inferior to today's Dzungar Khanate, and the Duoyan chieftain Dong Fox led 30,000 Mongolian iron cavalry into the Kou in the second year of Longqing, but was defeated by Qi Jiguang with 8,000 cavalry in one fell swoop, broke through Dong Fox's tooth tent, captured Dong Fox's nephew Changang, Dong Fox was only spared, forcing Dong Fox to detain and ask for guilt, and Duoyan was also slumped from then on; In the third year of Wanli, the Mongolian Uliangha tribe rose rapidly, 50,000 iron cavalry entered the territory of the Kou Ming Dynasty, and Qi Jiguang led the Qi army out of the fortress to outflank, not only defeated 50,000 Mongolian cavalry in one go, but also captured the commander of the Uliangha tribe alive, Changbald, and the Uliangha tribe also declined because of this.

The "Qi Bin New Army" was still established for a short time, and its strength was naturally far inferior to the "Qi Family Army" in its heyday, but now that it has the advantage of the terrain and the advantage of waiting for work, it is not too difficult to block the impact of nearly 10,000 Junggar cavalry crossing the river!

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At the same time, the north shore of Weishui.

Qi Bin watched the Mongolian cavalry rush in his direction, but his expression was extremely calm!

During this period of time, Qi Bin's new army has been stationed on the north bank of Weishui, and has not participated in any battles, but it has never been idle, not only diligent in training day and night, more and more well-trained, Qi Bin has also prepared some special means to restrain the charging tactics of the Mongolian cavalry.

Seeing that the Mongolian coalition army was getting closer and closer, and soon ran to the middle of Weishui, Qi Bin suddenly raised his hand and ordered: "The whole army listens to the order, the baggage battalion comes forward, and the cart formation is arranged!" ”

The so-called chariot formation, is Qi Jiguang according to the northern nomads are good at cavalry combat characteristics of the creation of tactics, when the formation of every four people push a chariot, the chariot is placed in the chariot and firearms, wartime the chariot into a phalanx, the horse infantry army to the chariot as a cover, first use firearms to carry out long-distance attacks, the enemy's cavalry approached the infantry to use the horse rejecting device in front of the formation, with a spear to assassinate, after the enemy is defeated, and then send cavalry to pursue it.

With Qi Bin's order, the baggage battalion of Qi Bin's new army quickly pushed more than 300 chariots to the front of the formation, and all kinds of troops of Qi Bin's new army quickly set up a defensive formation with each chariot as the core.

Qi Bin's new army was well-trained, and it only took a stick of incense to prepare all this, and the Mongol coalition troops who were crossing the river and charging did not react at all.

After the car formation was arranged, seeing that the Mongolian cavalry was only about five hundred steps away from the north bank of Weishui, Qi Bin calmly ordered again: "Send the order to the rear army, and the tiger squat cannon is aimed at the place where the Mongolian Tatar forces are most densely populated!" After the Mongol Tartars entered the range of 100 paces in front of the formation, all the musketeers immediately began to shoot in three stages! The Mongol Tartars must not be allowed ashore! ”

The tiger squat cannon is also the invention of Qi Jiguang back then, which is improved by the bowl mouth cannon, which has the advantages of easy to carry and quick to fire, and the ammunition used is mainly stones and lead balls, which is slightly insufficient, but the killing range is very large, and it played a huge role when the Qi family army suppressed the Japanese and destroyed the Mongolian army.

Today, this kind of artillery has been suspected of being outdated in the world, but the East Asian armies of this era are all inferior to each other, and the Mongolian cavalry is still the same old tactics of a hundred years ago, and the Dzungar Khanate has purchased some guns from Tsarist Russia in recent years, but these modern guns are only widely equipped in Geldan's guards, and the army under the command of Bagen is only allocated to a very small part, so the tiger squat cannon is still among the big killers on the Weishui battlefield.

When Qi Bin had not yet turned against Zhao Junchen, Zhao Junchen's support for Qi Bin's new army could be said to have spared no effort, so Qi Bin's new army was equipped with more than 30 tiger squat cannons.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

With Qi Bin's order, more than 30 tiger squatting cannons fired in unison, the sound of the cannons shook the earth, and the lead stones in the sky were fired towards the Junggar cavalry!

The vanguard of the Dzungar cavalry was suddenly overturned on their backs, with a large number of casualties, and the originally clear Weishui was soon flooded with blood, and only one round of artillery fire caused more than 200 casualties, and all the Dzungar cavalry within the range of artillery fire were full of body wounds and died tragically.

"Damn! The Han army on the north bank was only two or three thousand people, why would it be equipped with such a large number of cannons! ”

After seeing that the cavalry under his command was bombarded by artillery fire, Bagen was suddenly anxious, and urged urgently: "The whole army should speed up the horses!" The firing range of the Han artillery is fixed, as long as it rushes within the range of the artillery, the Han artillery cannot pose any threat! ”

With a loud roar, Bagan led the way towards the north shore.

It's a pity that the Junggar cavalry is now forcibly crossing the Weishui, where the Weishui is of course shallow, but also has the depth of the horse's belly, coupled with the rapid current, which greatly slows down the speed of the Junggar cavalry.

Therefore, although the Junggar cavalry kept waving their horsewhips, their speed of crossing the river could not be increased too much, and finally they still withstood three rounds of continuous artillery bombardment by Qi Bin's new army, and caused nearly 1,000 casualties.

However, when the Dzungar cavalry finally rushed to the 100-step range on the north bank of Weishui and hid in the dead end of the tiger squat cannon, they were greeted by Qi Bin's new army's three-stage shots!

I saw that the bird-gunners of Qi Bin's new army were neatly lined up in three rows, and the first-row bird-gunners would retreat to the rear to reload the gunpowder and lead after shooting, and at the same time, the second-row bird-gunners would fill their positions in time to continue shooting, and after the second-row bird-gunners finished shooting, the third-row bird-gunners would also shoot in time, and at this time, the first-row bird-gunners had already loaded gunpowder and lead, and they could carry out the second round of firing at any time!

After this period of hard training, Qi Bin's new army has become more and more well-trained, although the gunners are a little nervous about the first battle, but there is not the slightest chaos when shooting and advancing and retreating, and the cooperation is extremely tacit!

But for the Dzungar cavalry, Qi Bin's well-trained shooting of the new army was simply a hellish sight! The bird-gun shooting in front of me was like raindrops continuously, without any signs of stopping, and each round of shooting would bring a head-on blow to the Dzungar cavalry!

At this time, the distance between the Dzungar cavalry and the north bank of Weishui was only about 100 paces, if it was an ordinary time, such a distance was just a charge for the Dzungar cavalry, but under the continuous shooting of Qi Bin's new army, the 100 steps distance in front of him was as difficult to cross as a moat! The Dzungar cavalry that rushed to the forefront were killed and wounded by the birds, and their corpses would block the road of the follow-up army, and the entire Dzungar cavalry was a scene of people turning over on their backs, even if occasionally a small number of Dzungar cavalry rushed to the north bank of Weishui in the face of bullets and rain, but they were helpless under the blocking of Qi Bin's new army's vehicle formation, and they would soon be besieged and killed by Qi Bin's new army's pikemen.

In this way, in just a quarter of an hour, the Dzungar cavalry had suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses of knights and horses soon blocked the river, and all the Weishui from the east of the battlefield turned red.

If it weren't for the fact that the battle was on their back, the Dzungar cavalry would probably have collapsed at this time!

"Damn! Where did this Han army come from! It turned out to be equipped with so many guns, even the guards of the Great Khan of Geldan were nothing more than that!

If it were an ordinary time, I would not be afraid of them, and I only needed to divide the troops and outflank them to easily resolve them, but at present, all the Dzungar warriors were blocked in the Weishui, not only the marching speed was slow, but the left and right sides were also all deep in the river and could not march, wouldn't it be a situation where they could only be beaten and could not fight back?

Is it possible to endure casualties all the time, and only wait until the Han army is short of artillery fire to continue to break through? If this is the case, even if they finally succeed in breaking through, how many Dzungar warriors will be left? ”

Bagen hid in the rear under the protection of the guards, stretched out his hand to cover his shoulders tightly, looked at everything in front of him with a pale face, and his expression was a little desperate, but he no longer dared to underestimate Qi Bin's new army on the north bank of Weishui.

However, even with Bagan's clever command and rich combat experience, he could not think of a better way to deal with such a situation for a while.

In fact, such a situation was already doomed when the Dzungar cavalry forcibly crossed the Weishui.

When the Dzungar cavalry began to force their way across the Weishui, they had already lost their mobility advantage and could not disperse their formation, and the enemy they faced was Qi Bin's new army, which had a large number of bird guns and artillery, and had completed the transformation of the modern army!

There have been countless cases in later generations to prove that when a dense charge encounters a burst of guns, even if the number of people is large, it is just a death.

In short, it was a typical crushing victory of the modern army over the ancient army!

And just when Bagen was helpless, suddenly a cavalryman ran to Bagen's side and reported loudly: "Lord Bagen, the Mongolian right-wing cavalry of the rear army has begun to enter Weishui!" ”

After hearing the report, Bagen hurriedly turned his head to look, and soon found the scene of the Mongolian right-wing cavalry beginning to force the Weishui one after another, and immediately felt overjoyed, completely forgetting his previous intention to abandon the Mongolian right-wing cavalry, and hurriedly ordered: "Send someone to inform the leader of Sigmu as soon as possible, and let him lead the Mongolian right-wing warriors to attack the Han people's defense line on the north bank of Weishui!" With a burst of guns like this, the Han people will definitely not be able to hold out for too long, and their bird guns will soon be unusable due to overheating, as long as we hold on for a while, we will definitely be able to break through the defense line of the Han army! ”

With Bagen's order, it didn't take long for the Mongolian right wing cavalry in the rear to speed up their march and quickly pounce in the direction of the north bank of Weishui.

After seeing this scene, Bagan was happy again.

At this point in the battle, the damage of the Mongolian right-wing cavalry was extremely light, and it still maintained a scale of tens of thousands, and Bagen believed that as long as the Mongolian right-wing cavalry joined the battlefield, it would definitely be able to withstand the bird guns of the Han army on the north bank of Weishui.

However, when the Mongolian cavalry on the right flank rushed to the rear of the Dzungar cavalry, a scene that stunned Bagen happened!

The Mongolian cavalry on the right flank did not attack the Han defense line on the north bank of Weishui with the Dzungar cavalry, but swung the saber in their hands at the Dzungar cavalry in front of them!

Unprepared, the Dzungar cavalry suddenly suffered heavy casualties and became a mess! Many of the Dzungar cavalry were dying with their eyes open and looking incredulous, still not understanding what had happened.

At this time, the front of the Dzungar cavalry is the Han army's ironclad defense line, the rear is the Mongolian right flank of the rebellion, fierce pursuit, left and right sides are the deep water area of the Weishui River can not be set foot in, it can be said that the Dzungar cavalry has fallen into a desperate situation, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is difficult to fly!

Looking at such a scene, Bagan was not only angry, but also desperate.

For a moment, many thoughts turned in Bagan's heart.

"Damn! The Mongolian right wing dared to betray his fellow people!

"When did they collude with the Han Chinese?"

"Could it be that more than 10,000 Dzungar warriors will all be buried here today?"

"After this battle, the Dzungar Khanate will inevitably be greatly damaged! Doesn't it delay the ambition of the Great Khan of Geldan? ”

"With so many Dzungar warriors killed and wounded, even if I can safely escape back to Mobei, what kind of face do I have to meet Geldan Khan?"

The thoughts in his heart turned around, and Bagen's face became more and more pale, and his right hand held the handle of the knife, but he gradually wiped the blade towards his neck, but he already had the idea of self-punishment and apology.

However, at the moment when the blade touched his neck, Bagan suddenly stopped moving, and the despair in his expression gradually turned into madness and hatred!

I saw that Bagen turned the horse's head, waved the saber in his hand, and roared loudly: "All Dzungar warriors obey the order!" The Mongolian right wing betrayed us, they bowed their knees to the Han and begged, they are a disgrace to all Mongolian people! Kill them all! ”

After speaking, with a kind of momentum of jade broken tiles, Bagen led the Dzungar knights around him to rush towards the Mongolian right wing cavalry in the rear!

At the same time, Bagen completely gave up the attack on the Han army's defense line on the north bank of Weishui!

Compared with the Han army, Bagen could not forgive the betrayal of the Mongol right wing!

Bagen had already planned to apologize for his crimes, but before he died, he blamed all the blame for this defeat on the Mongolian right wing!

If it weren't for the fact that the Mongolian right wing had been disobeying the yang and the yin, the Mongolian coalition army would not have repeatedly hit the wall this time!

If it weren't for the secret retention of strength on the right wing of the Mongols, the Mongol coalition forces would have already broken through the city of Jiezhou!

If it weren't for the defection of the Mongol right flank, the last chance of victory for the Mongol coalition would not have disappeared!

Whatever the facts, that's what Bagan thinks at this time!

Bagen knows very well that the war has developed to this point, and the Dzungar cavalry has been unable to escape the end of the entire army, and the huge sense of guilt has completely crushed the originally determined Bagan, so Bagen must find an outlet, and he must also transfer the responsibility to the Mongolian right wing, otherwise he will go completely crazy, even if he dies, he can't turn a blind eye!

Therefore, at the last moment, Bagan no longer continued to attack the Han people's defense line on the north bank of Weishui, but instead ordered the whole army to attack the Mongol right flank!

As a result, on the surface of the Weishui River, the Dzungar cavalry and the Mongolian right-wing cavalry fought together, and the battle became more chaotic and more tragic!

The corpses of the Mongol knights were piled up so that they blocked the river, and the entire Weishui was stained red with blood.

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On the north bank of Weishui, seeing such a change in the war, Qi Bin was a little dumbfounded.

He had long known the news that the Mongolian right wing might defect, but he didn't expect that this decisive battle would eventually turn into a fight between the Dzungar and the Mongolian right wing, and Qi Bin's new army could only watch from the sidelines at this time.

For this situation, Qi Bin was actually a little dissatisfied in his heart, because Qi Bin thought that Qi Bin's new army still had spare strength, and there was no need for the Mongolian right flank to defect at all, and Qi Bin's new army could completely annihilate the Dzungar cavalry!

In fact, Qi Bin also prepared a lot of catapults and oil cans, Qi Bin originally planned to wait until the battle was fierce, and then use fire to block the Dzungar cavalry, but this trick is obviously useless now.

But in this way, Qi Bin's new army has received more than half of the military merits! If there is no sudden defection of the Mongolian right wing, Qi Bin can annihilate the Dzungar cavalry with his own strength, and then Qi Bin will become famous in a battle, and his military achievements will be second only to Zhao Junchen, even Zhao Junchen will not dare to target Qi Bin easily after the war, but now because of the sudden defection of the Mongolian right wing, Qi Bin's original total annihilation work that is enough to pass on to the world has become an ordinary credit for blocking the enemy, and most of the credit is attributed to Zhao Junchen's rebellion against the Mongolian right wing, and the situation is naturally completely different.

Just when Qi Bin was secretly dissatisfied, a chief flag officer beside him suddenly opened his mouth and suggested: "Qi Shoubei, are we just looking at the Mongolian right wing and the Dzungar inner bar?" ”

Qi Bin turned his head to look at this person, his expression was slightly complicated, and asked, "What do you think it should be?" ”

This flag officer was only in his early teens, fair-skinned, handsome, and seemingly modest and arrogant.

This person claimed to be named Wang He, a small landlord in Yiwu, and was a talent that Qi Bin found when recruiting soldiers in Yiwu some time ago, Qi Bin once attached great importance to him, and soon promoted him to the military position of the chief flag officer, but then Qi Bin gradually noticed the strangeness, and found that Wang He's name, origin, and origin were all disguised!

Under secret investigation, Qi Bin found that this person's real name was Zhao He, and he was not from Yiwu, but a descendant of the Zhao family of the Yangzhou clan, and a distant cousin of Zhao Junchen!

Then, Qi Bin soon discovered that Zhao He had been secretly funded by Zhao Junchen all along, buying people's hearts and forming gangs within the New Army! And there are several people in Qi Bin's new army who are related to the Zhao family in Yangzhou, or Zhao He's relatives and brothers, or the generations of long-term workers of the Zhao family in Yangzhou.

It was precisely because of this Zhao He that Qi Bin discovered Zhao Junchen's ambition to meddle in military power, and since then he has gradually distanced himself from Zhao Junchen.

Therefore, after seeing Zhao He speak, Qi Bin's mood was naturally a little complicated, but on the surface, he was silent, as if he didn't know Zhao He's true identity at all.

On the other side, Zhao He didn't seem to notice Qi Bin's abnormal attitude at all, and still suggested: "According to the humble position, the Dzungar cavalry is now invincible, and our army should take the initiative to attack...... After all, the military merits of our dynasty are calculated according to the head, and now our army has killed and injured a large number of Mongolian Tatars, but if there is no enemy's head as proof, it will be difficult to be convincing when evaluating merit and rewarding it in the future...... Qi garrison, is not despicable and greedy, but this Weishui decisive battle is the only battle of our army for a period of time, seeing that this year's fire is about to settle down, if you miss this opportunity, I am afraid it will be difficult to harvest military merits in the future! ”

Although he didn't like Zhao He's ill intentions, Qi Bin also had to admit that Zhao He's statement was indeed reasonable.

After pondering for a while, Qi Bin raised his hand and gave the order: "Pass the order, all the firecrackers will stay on the shore and continue to deploy, and all the remaining soldiers will follow me to attack and kill the enemy!" ”

However, when Qi Bin gave the order, he didn't notice the ecstasy and murderous intent that flashed in Zhao He's eyes, nor did he find that Zhao He secretly glanced at several guards behind him.

After receiving Zhao He's eye signal, several guards behind Qi Bin also changed their expressions slightly, and they all looked gloomy.

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At the same time, on the high platform of the Chinese army on the south bank of Weishui, Zhao Junchen looked at the progress of the war on Weishui, and after seeing that the Mongolian right wing and Dzungaria began to kill each other, he was also secretly relieved, and said: "This war is finally over, and this year's fire is also settled...... However, at the last moment, the Dzungar cavalry actually abandoned Qi Bin's new army on the north bank and turned to attack the Mongolian cavalry on the right flank with all their might, which was an accident, and it also made me see a good scene of cannibalism......"

After hearing Zhao Junchen's muttering, Fang Zhenshan's mind was the most active, and he hurriedly congratulated: "The victory in this battle is all due to the strategic skills of Lord Qincha, and it is precisely because of the wise command of Lord Qincha that there will be today's brilliant victory!" In this battle, 100,000 Mongol coalition troops were annihilated in one fell swoop, and the great achievements of Lord Qincha will surely be remembered in history! ”

As Fang Zhenshan's words fell, all the officials also said in unison: "Congratulations to Lord Qincha for his great achievements, this battle will definitely shock the government and the opposition and spread through the ages!" ”

Hearing the congratulatory voices of the officials, even though Zhao Junchen has always been introverted and deep, he couldn't help but laugh a few times, only to feel that he had begun to gradually break free from the invisible shackles on his body at this moment, and he was about to enter a new stage from now on.

After Zhao Junchen's laughter fell, Fang Zhenshan asked cautiously: "However, Lord Qincha, this time the Mongolian right wing is certainly defective, but is it really impossible to let them go after the war?" I always feel ...... It's a pity that the fat on the side of the mouth is lost like this! ”

Zhao Junchen seemed to be smiling, and asked rhetorically: "What do you say?" ”

Without waiting for Fang Zhenshan to answer, Zhao Junchen said meaningfully: "Ben Qincha naturally wants to keep his promise, after all, this is related to the credibility of the imperial court, but how to fulfill the promise is another matter!" ”

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