To the east of Wang Zezhi's camp, in the tent of Lin Dan Khan.

"In today's battle, our warriors suffered 37,624 casualties." Lin Dan Khan fell silent after saying this.

With so many dead, this battle is no longer fought.

Because, Lin Dan Khan's lineage, the elite of Chahar's headquarters, and the ironclad cavalry also lost a lot of people.

"Let's retreat north, take advantage of Khalkha, and then go to Qinghai Dacaotan."

Lin Danhan said helplessly.

"No, I don't agree, how can we just forget that we have died so many clansmen, blood must be paid for with blood, we must fight back." Chahar Garmajinong stood up and roared.

His people have suffered heavy casualties, and he wants to avenge them.

"Well, we Mongols don't have cowards." It turned out that Lin Dan Khan's frustration was pretended, and he still wanted to defeat Wang Zezhi through battle in his bones.

"The Ming people have firearms, we Mongolians have return artillery, our return cannon has been built, and tomorrow it will be time for us to show our might."

After listening to Lin Dan Khan's words, the leaders in the tent were shocked and looked forward to it.

Huihui cannon is also known as Western Regions cannon, boulder cannon, Xiangyang cannon.

It is a kind of stone throwing machine, used for the offensive and defensive weapons of war, this kind of stone throwing machine is just an improvement, improvement, innovation on the basis of the ancient stone throwing machine to be more advanced, more powerful.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there were two very famous artillery-making experts: Ah Lao Wading, a native of Mufali in the Western Regions, and Yisimayin, a native of Xulie in the Western Regions.

The Huihui cannon invented by them became a sharp weapon for the Mongols to attack the city, and it has always made great contributions to the Mongol invasion of the Central Plains and the unification of China.

They have made great contributions to the development of Mengyuan's weapons industry and have made brilliant achievements.

Ah Lao Wading and Yi Si Ma Yin, two superb artillery experts, were especially appreciated and encouraged by Yuan Shizu, and they and their descendants were highly rewarded and honored by the Yuan government.

In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Shizu attacked the Song Dynasty on a large scale, and was stubbornly resisted by the Song army in Xiangyang and Fancheng.

The Battle of Xiangfan began in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1268), and the Yuan army besieged the city for 5 years, but it was never overcome.

In the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1271), Shizu sent an envoy to Persia to transfer back the gunsmiths to the king of the sect. Ah Lao Wading and his disciple Yisima responded to the edict and galloped their families to Beijing.

In November of the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1272), Ah Lao Wading and Yi Si Ma were made into return cannons, and they were intended to be tested in front of the five gates of Dadu.

This is a boulder cannon that uses 150 kilograms of projectiles and is fired with a machine, saving force and having a long range.

The test firing was successful, and Shizu was very satisfied, and gave them clothes and silk, and ordered them to bring this cannon to the Xiangyang army to use it.

In the first month of the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1273), he attacked Fancheng with back artillery and won in one fell swoop.

Then, the Yuan army moved its artillery to Xiangyang.

Based on his careful observation of the terrain, Yismain placed a huge cannon in the southeast corner of Xiangyang City.

"The machine is launched, the sound shocks the heavens and the earth, and all the hits are destroyed, and they sink seven feet into the ground."

As a result, a shot hit the Xiangyang Tower, "the sound is like thunder, shaking the city." The city is raging, and the generals are many who descend from the city. ”

The Song general Lu Wenhuan knew that he was invincible, so he accepted the city and returned to the Yuan army.

The Battle of Xiangfan, which had lasted for six years, ended in a roar of returning artillery.

Then, the Yuan army used this powerful return cannon to continuously expand the results of the battle.

In the eleventh year of the Yuan Dynasty (1274), the Yuan army crossed the river, and the Song soldiers Chen were on the south bank of the river, supporting the boat division to meet the battle. 17

Buber, the son of Yismain, shelled it back on the north bank, and Song Zhou sank completely. In the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1276), the Yuan army first used artillery to Ketanzhou, followed by Kejingjiang, and expanded the results to Hunan and Guangxi.

Later, the Southern Song Dynasty also ordered the border counties to imitate the return cannon, but in the end, because the defeat was decided, the war situation could not be saved.

It can be said that the Hui Hui Cannon played a huge role in the process of the Yuan Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains.

The Yuan Dynasty attached great importance to the training, organization, and management of Hui gunners and military craftsmen. In the second year of the capture of Xiangyang, the Huihui Gunner's Governor's Office was established.

In March of the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty (1279), 600 new artillerymen and Mongolian, Huihui, Han and Xinfu artillerymen who could make cannons were dispatched to the capital of Beijing.

In the eighteenth year (1281), the Marshal Mansion was set up back to the gunners.

In the twenty-second year (1285), the marshal's mansion was changed to the mansion of tens of thousands of gunners and craftsmen, and the rank was three products.

In the third year of Zhizhi (1323), he sent Huihui gunners to Henan Runing, Xincai and other places to teach gunnery to the first year of Zhihe (1328), and also ordered the department to lead the Huihui gunners and craftsmen to Beijing Division, and merged with the Huihui gunners and gunsmiths of Mahamasha to jointly supervise the construction of Huihui artillery.

These facts fully show that the number of gunners and craftsmen returned to the Mengyuan Dynasty was considerable and the scale was huge, and there were records of returning gunners and craftsmen everywhere in Dadu (Beijing), Nanjing (Kaifeng), and Jiangnan.

This is also the reason why Wang Zezhi saw the dust in Lin Dan Khan's camp.

The craftsmen gathered by Lin Dan Khan were not purely crafted, but assembled from raw materials that had been built in advance.

Now, Lin Dan Khan's camp was lined with thousands of huge return cannons, as well as huge boulders transported from the rear, and he was waiting for the time for the return cannons to make a big contribution.

"This Ming army, the water source is cut off, we are in the upper reaches, we will not be poisoned, I dare to predict, this Ming army must be bluffing, it won't last long, as long as our return artillery gives them a thunderous blow tomorrow, this Ming army camp will be broken."

Lin Danhan struck while the iron was hot and said fiercely.

Lin Dan Khan stood up and glanced at everyone, his eyes were blank, and he said: "We have broken through the front army of the Ming army several times, and it can be seen from this that the sharpness of this Ming army has been lost, as long as we defeat this Ming army, we don't need to migrate." ”

As soon as Lin Dan Khan said this, the eyes of the leaders in his tent lit up, and they all decided to fight to the death.

This battle has been fought to this point, and the clansmen under their command have suffered heavy casualties, and they are all a little unwilling to retreat like this.

Now, the return cannon prepared by Lin Dan Khan gave them hope.

The most important point is that this large grassland occupied by the right-wing tribes is a place of abundant water and grass.

If they don't have to migrate to the big grass beach in Qinghai, it would be best to stay here for grazing, and no one wants to leave their homeland and be displaced.

On this day, after Lin Dan Khan's soldiers retreated, they never attacked again, and even at night, the battlefield became quiet.

Early the next morning, Lin Dan Khan moved.

The horn of the attack sounded, and Lin Dan Khan dispatched all the cavalry under his command.

They came out in dense numbers, gathered the whole team, divided into several phalanxes, and worked for half an hour.

Unlike the previous attacks, they rushed to the position of Erli and did not advance, but ran back and forth with horses dragging some dry branches.

Wang Zezhi's brows furrowed, and he faintly felt that something was wrong.

Wang Zezhi stood on the top of the city and raised a monocular, and faintly saw something huge in the flying dust.

Something like a catapult.

Wang Zezhi was shocked, in his understanding, there had never been any kind of trebuchet with a range of two miles.

"Order the artillery battalion, let them in a mile and then open fire."

"Order."

Wang Zezhi wanted to see what new weapons Lin Dan Khan had come up with.