Chapter 649: The Killing of the Jungar Cavalry
Ubusu, which was the westernmost part of the Mongolian steppe under the control of the Ming Dynasty, was adjacent to the Dzungar Khanate.
There were also hundreds of thousands of captives who were building the last ten castles in the Mongolian steppe.
Nalambra is the closest city to Dzungar because it is built very large and second to none in terms of fortification.
A regiment of the First Army and a garrison of 20,000 were responsible for the defense of the Nalambra area.
"Boom" is thirty miles away from Nalambra in the Jungar grassland, about 50,000 Jungar is galloping towards the city of Nalambra under construction, and the leader of this Jungar cavalry is the general Taili under the command of King Junggar Khan.
"Lord Terry, thirty miles to Nalambla City!" A Dzungar scout returned and reported to Terry.
"Good! Kill all the Ming people in Nalambla City, rob all the food there, kill! Terry laughed and roared as he rode his horse and galloped.
The 50,000 Jungar cavalry also learned to howl like wolves one by one, and accelerated and galloped murderously.
Last winter, Dzungar suffered the worst cold disaster in ten years, a large number of cattle and sheep were frozen to death, although they survived this winter by eating frozen cattle and sheep, but when those frozen cattle and sheep were eaten on their backs, the Dzungar people immediately fell into a serious famine.
In fact, if adult cattle and sheep are frozen to death, the most important thing is the calf and lamb, without the calf and lamb to succeed, the adult cattle and sheep who have not been frozen to death will not be killed, otherwise once all killed, Jungar will have no cattle and sheep to live, which is unimaginable.
If you don't kill your own cattle and sheep, you can only snatch food from other places around Zungar.
Therefore, the Jungar cavalry attacked from all sides, plundering and plundering all the forces around Jungar.
Originally, the Dzungar people did not dare to provoke the Ming Dynasty, after all, they had heard of the strength of the Ming army, and even the Manchus and the Mongols were defeated, which was not so easy to deal with, but the Ming Dynasty built a large number of cities in the Mongolian steppe and also touched the Dzungar people, and they were afraid that in the future, the Ming Dynasty would also build cities on the Zhunger steppe, so in order to warn the Ming Dynasty, the King of Dzungar Khan decided to plunder the Nalambra City closest to the Dzungar, and kill all the people inside to let the Ming know that the Dzungar also has its own bottom line, and the more the Ming can not cross the line.
The Ming army may be strong, but the king of Dzungar is not so afraid, no matter what, they are all cavalry, and they have no fixed place in the vast grassland, no matter how powerful the Ming army is, it is not so easy to completely defeat Zhunger.
"Boom" The rumbling sound of horses' hooves alarmed the guarding Ming troops.
"Enemy attack! Enemy Attack"
"The enemy has at least tens of thousands of cavalry, and the force is not weak!" The commander of a garrison said with a very ugly face.
"Organize your defense!" Ming soldiers urgently blocked the defense.
"Go and tell the regular army to come to the rescue!" It has to be said that the place chosen by the Jungar cavalry was just right, only a very small number of regular army guards, and more garrisons and prisoners were already people.
The garrison not only had no firearms, but also no horses, so it was difficult to resist the charge of the Jungar cavalry.
"Kill" A group of Jungar cavalry rushed out of the horizon first, and then countless Jungar cavalry rushed out, rushing towards the place where the Nalambra had the most people.
The three machine guns deployed at the forefront opened fire at the same time, killing a large number of Jungar cavalry, but there were too many Jungar cavalry, and the attack range was very large, and not a few regular troops could stop it.
Finally, the Dzungar cavalry broke through the defenses of the garrison behind and slaughtered the prisoners and people who served as coolies.
"Poof! Burst! Poof"
There were constantly captives and people slashing on their backs, and the smell of blood permeated the entire land.
There are garrison generals to organize thousands of garrison soldiers to block the killing of the Jungar cavalry, but unfortunately, the garrison army is just an ordinary army of cold weapons, if you talk about cold weapons combat, the cavalry is the king, not to mention the number of Jungger cavalry is more than the garrison, although the garrison fought bravely, but it was not the enemy of the Jungar cavalry, was killed and retreated, and suffered heavy casualties.
"Kill!" A garrison division commander personally led the charge.
There is no way, seeing that the garrison under his command was killed by the Jungar cavalry and retreated, the garrison division commander had a gloomy face, although the number of Jungar cavalry was more than his garrison, but this was not a reason, although they were not regular troops, but they were also affected by the spirit of the regular army, the regular army has always won more with less, he was not convinced, he also wanted to upgrade to the regular army, even if it was not a regular army, just the Jungar cavalry, he would not want to defeat him so easily.
There was a division commander who took the lead, and the morale of the soldiers of the garrison was greatly boosted, and in this direction they even resisted the attack of the Jungar cavalry, which can be described as extraordinary bravery.
However, the Jungar cavalry was outnumbered after all, and although it could not force its way in from this direction, it could choose other directions.
"Hahahaha" rushed into the crowd of captives and people, and the Jungar cavalry frantically slashed and slashed.
More and more captives and civilians are dying.
The commander of the garrison was about to crush his teeth, but unfortunately the regular army had not yet come to support, and the garrison under his command was too small to take care of the overall situation.
"Hmph, the Ming army is nothing more than that!" The commander of the Jungar cavalry, Telly, sneered.
Although the bravery of the Ming garrison is commendable, it is not taken into account by him.
At this time, in the other direction, the sound of a large number of war horses galloping came.
"Bang! Bang! "Sporadic gunfire.
The gunfire was getting more and more intense, and it was a regiment of thousands of regular troops stationed in Nalambla who came to support.
"Kill" Daming rode a war horse and a regular army soldier with a rifle rushed out, and kept shooting at the Jungger cavalry along the way, and a large number of Jungger cavalry killed and fell from the horse on their backs.
On a high slope a kilometer away, more than a dozen field artillery pieces were erected.
"Boom boom" artillery fired at the densest concentration of Jungar cavalry.
A large number of Dzungar horsemen were killed, with stumps and broken arms, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, such is the power of the cannonballs.
It should be said that the Jungger people were bombarded by dozens of imitation Shenwu field cannons carried by the Manchus when they moved westward a few years ago, but the power of the new 90-millimeter cannon of the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly more powerful, and it is more powerful than the dozens of imitation Shenwu field cannons of the Manchu people at the beginning.
With the support of 4,000 regular troops, although the Ming army was still at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, the regular army had strong combat effectiveness and was supported by more than a dozen cannons, and the Jungar cavalry could not take any advantage.
The Ming army was not worried, the Ming Dynasty had enough 40,000 regular troops and more than 100,000 garrisons in the grassland, and as time went by, there would inevitably be a Ming army to come to support, and it would be a comprehensive counterattack on the Jungger cavalry.