Yangel Khan thought of the strength of this enemy army, but he did not expect that the enemy army behind the palace was so strong that almost all of them were composed of elite soldiers, which also made Yangel Khan somewhat regret provoking such a strong enemy, but in order to prevent the collapse and the devastating blow to morale, after retreating to a hundred and fifty paces away, Yangel Khan quickly ordered to start a defensive operation on the spot. In the case that the attack is simply unable to effectively break through the opponent's defenses, the most effective means of victory for the cavalry group is, of course, by besieging the opponent, in order to be able to deliver a decisive blow to a strong enemy at night.

In the impression of the Kazakhs, the opponent who is good at bow and arrow shooting is tough and difficult to deal with in defense, but often lacks the spirit of attack and the initiative to fight. In night battles, if properly organized, there is no doubt that the side with the advantage in numbers and melee combat will have the ability to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

"Tell the armies below that although the enemy soldiers look strong, the commander's mind does not seem to be very good. The fact that they did not take advantage of the situation to launch a counter-assault just now is proof of this. In the face of such a rigid opponent, as long as our army can deal a serious blow to one or two sides of those opponents, then their barely maintained formation can no longer be maintained... ”

Of course, this alone did not boost morale to a great extent, and after having to spend a lot of money and promise a lot of benefits, Yangel Khan finally relied on his past prestige to get the troops who had lost a lot in the previous battles to go on the offensive again at night.

The 2nd Division of the Volunteer Right Army spent a lot of time resting and reinforcing the fortifications after repelling the opponent's attack during the day, which made the strong enemy in the distance somewhat dismissive. It also increases the confidence of winning the night battle. Almost all examples in history of winning more with less often require not only strong troops that are significantly superior to the other side, but also the level of command is still very important, at least online. A strong and conservative army, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the grassroots is, it will only be the result of being trapped to death in the end.

In order to prevent accidents after the offensive began, the night attack of the main Kazakh forces began just after nightfall. Countless archers fired arrows into the front of the enemy by the river as it was getting dark, and lit torches.

In this night attack, the Kazakhs were also cautious not to make a desperate gamble as during the day, but to launch a tentative attack in turn with a relatively lean force of tens of thousands and a loose formation, in an attempt to find the obvious weakness of the defenders in terms of garrison and defense.

However, to the shock of the Kazakhs, not only were the strong opponents very skilled in long-range archery, but they also seemed to have the same experience in archery at night as experienced marksmen. Occasionally, when the heavy shield-wielding infantry broke through the enemy's arrow rain and approached closely, they were met with the same powerful firearms, and the attack seemed to have failed in almost every direction. The Kazakh attack after nightfall was only another three or four thousand dead corpses on the banks of the upper Erbi River.

Yangil Khan, who has experienced a lot of battles, does not have too many obsessions. The defeat of two large-scale attacks during the day and at night gave him a very bad premonition. This is not without the possibility of a trap. Even the thousands of besieged enemies seem to have a lot of spare strength from the previous battles.

Therefore, when the offensive obviously encountered difficulties and obstacles, Yang Jir Khan did not hesitate to order the whole army to prepare to organize a retreat and transfer at night to avoid long nights. However, at this moment, the sound of violent explosions sounded one after another from the direction of the previous enemy's position, as if the gunpowder hoarded by the enemy troops in the defense had been detonated, and the firelight almost illuminated the place within a radius of dozens of zhang, and the smoke almost completely enveloped the enemy formation.

Just when some Kazakh generals, including Yangir Khan, wondered if this was an opportunity for God's help to turn defeat into victory, lead bullets rained down from the sky. Tens of thousands of catties of black powder spouted out at hundreds of explosive points, and 800,000 light shotguns weighing around seven coins covered a wide area where the main forces of tens of thousands of Kazakh troops were located in a very short period of time.

Perhaps because of the limited amount of ammunition that thousands of people could carry, it was not possible to rely solely on the means of blasting attacks to inflict annihilating blows on enemy personnel. After all, those seven-coin projectiles with the speed of a strong crossbow are hardly a decent threat to soldiers with a little bit of decent protection. But it's a different story with horses.

Due to the changes of the times, there were not many real heavy cavalry in the main cavalry of the Kazakhs, and under such a rain-like barrage of blows, nearly half of the horses were injured to varying degrees, and they fell into complete chaos. And a third of the lightly armed auxiliaries suffered losses in such a rain of bullets.

Although the loss of tens of thousands of horses and even tens of thousands of people did not really hurt the main force of the Kazakhs, it also completely destroyed the confidence of the Kazakh generals, including Yangir Khan, to fight such a strong enemy. After gradually controlling the chaos caused by the enemy's blasting attack, Yangir Khan quickly ordered his troops to withdraw in three directions and regroup in the designated rear towns. However, not long after the army began to retreat, the fierce sound of guns and firefights began to rage not far from the original battlefield.

"What's going on? Is it the arrival of a large army of enemy reinforcements? Yang Jier Khan said with some trepidation.

"On all sides, miles away, are reinforcements from those formidable and formidable enemies... Some of the returning officers and generals also began to panic at this time.

"How is that possible? Those strong enemies who came from the Junggar steppe on an expedition from the east did not have sufficient logistical support, and even if our previous reconnaissance was wrong, it would not exceed 30,000 men at all, so how could there be enough troops to effectively organize a decent encirclement on such a large scale? One of the strategists beside Yang Jier Khan also said incredulously.

However, Yangir Khan, who was not bad at understanding the battlefield, quickly made up his mind: "Gather the team and concentrate forces to the northwest to break through." Those people are probably relying on the advantage of elite combat power, I don't believe that they can effectively organize such a large area of encirclement... ”

Yang Jir Khan's judgment was of course correct, and the Second Division of the Volunteer Right Army was indeed a trap to lure the enemy. It's just that no one could have imagined that the concealment and maneuver of the volunteer troops would be so perfect.

(End of chapter)