Chapter 320: White Phosphorus Bomb Launched
Bentar returned to the Khalkha Ministry with ten carts of broken glass, and selected ten pieces of relatively intact glass, wrapped them in woolen cloth, and ordered his subordinates to take these ten pieces of broken glass to the Horqin Department and give them to Hailanzhu of the Horqin Department. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
It turns out that this Tar, like Wu Sangui, is also the head of the young Mu Ai, and he also has a crush on this pearl of the grassland, plus they all belong to Southern Mongolia, and they have always had a close relationship with the Horqin Ministry, so they are more emotionally biased towards the Horqin Ministry, and alienated from the Ming Court.
Of course, the Chechen Khan of the Khalkha Department chose to be close to the Korqin Department and also despised the Ming Court, believing that the Ming Court did not have the ability to raise heavy troops to crusade against the steppe tribes, after all, it was not the Yongle period, and Nurhachi was only a thirteenth army at the beginning, so it also made the Ming Court lose the land outside the Guan.
But the sound of hurried horses' hooves and deafening shouts broke the silence and isolation of the Khalkha tribe, and the cavalry of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard led by Ao Bai slashed towards the tribes of the Khalkha tribe like a lightning speed.
Although the cavalry of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard are all recruits, the intensity of training is not less than that of the cavalry who has been fighting for a year, and Aobai seems to be able to teach the cavalry and horses to establish a tacit understanding between them almost as one, and with the latest cavalry scimitar of the Ming Dynasty made of the latest alloy steel, its sharpness is no less than that of the Damascus knife, so it can also make up for the shortcomings caused by the unskilled movements of the recruits in the first battle.
In the face of the sudden cavalry raid, the Khalkha troops also immediately organized their forces after encountering a head-on attack, among which Mutar took the lead in organizing 10,000 elite cavalry to a settlement where the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard was slaughtering the Khalkha Department.
The Khalkha Department is also a coalition composed of a number of large and small tribes, and its various tribes will also migrate because of the depletion and abundance of water and pasture, therefore, the settlement areas between the tribes within it will sometimes be different, and the location of the royal court is not fixed, so it is unrealistic for the Janissary cavalry to completely annihilate the Khalkha Department in a surprise attack, which is also the reason why the Central Plains Dynasty in the past dynasties could not eliminate the border troubles at one time, and it is also the reason why the nomads are not afraid of the Han hundreds of thousands of troops to attack.
But that doesn't mean you can't fight if you can't annihilate them all, you can't swallow them all in your mouth, and you have to bite a piece of meat on you!
Therefore, Ao Bai chose to use the scouts to a tribal settlement in the Khalkha Department, so he decisively rushed up with his cavalry, he did not have the patience to care whether this tribe was the location of the king's tent, anyway, kill it for a while, and then say, the horse's hooves are over, as long as they see people, they will directly slash with a knife, whether it is a man or a woman, whether it is old or young.
Seeing his subordinates being slaughtered by this Ming cavalry like chopping melons and vegetables, Mutal seemed to be dripping blood in his heart, but he did not choose to attack immediately, but waited for all the cavalry of his tribes to gather before starting to attack.
Ao Bai also noticed that the Khalkha cavalry in front of him was faintly beginning to gather more and more, so he took out his whistle and blew it, and suddenly the soldiers of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard quickly withdrew with bloody scimitars as if they had received an order.
All that was left for the Khalkha cavalry were overturned tents and wailing people, as well as dying and fallen cattle and sheep.
The hula-la wind blew vigorously, and the locust-like Khalkha cavalry rushed towards the Praetorian Guards with full of anger, just as they had rushed towards the Ming mission.
However, at this moment, Ao Bai does not seem to have any intention of fighting against these elite cavalry of the Khalkha Ministry, perhaps his purpose is to bring his cavalry to practice killing rather than really fighting against the strongest cavalry in the world.
Zhu Youzhen is now a staff general of the First Brigade of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard (equivalent to a brigade commander, the establishment of the new army of the Praetorian Guard created by Zhu Youxiao is based on town brigades, etc., but the official position is still based on the official system of the Ming Dynasty, since the battalion level is the commander, and the brigade level is a general, this level is not low, it stands to reason that the authority of the general in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to the commander of a modern military division).
And in terms of his ruthless and decisive decision in the history of daring to Ling Chi Yuan Chonghuan and giving Zhou Yanru to death, he is not soft when he slaughters the Khalkha Tartars, and he doesn't know how many Khalkha Tartars fell under the butcher's knife, anyway, now that he is covered in blood, his will to fight has not weakened in the slightest, but because he saw most of the Khalkha cavalry rushing towards him, he wanted to fight even more.
However, seeing that Ao Bai gave the order to retreat, he had to follow back, and asked: "Chief Ao, the morale of our army is high, why do you want to be a turtle with a shrunken head, as soon as you see the elite cavalry coming, you will run back." ”
"Is it possible that His Royal Highness the King of Faith do you really think that Ao is really a god, and he can make his cavalry an invincible elite in just one year, this is simply a joke, in the face of this cavalry in front of us who grew up on horseback and is proficient in various tactics, we will only suffer heavy losses in direct combat, this is the only cavalry of my Praetorian Guard, we can't just lose it, Ao wants to have a horse race with them, let the Fourth Army deal with them, as long as their offensive formation is disrupted, morale is suppressed, Only then can my Third Army give him a slam blow! ”
Ao Bai said and continued to ride his horse backwards, Zhu Youzhen had nothing to say about it, and he had to admit in his heart that this Jiannu was not as reckless as he imagined, but he was also coarse and detailed, knew his own strength, and was good at dealing with it in a better way.
How to retreat quickly without confusion is a demanding item in sports warfare, and it is also an important ability for cavalry, and Ao Bai has trained the Third Army in this regard.
Therefore, it was also in an orderly manner, and quickly retreated, and Ao Bai at the same time ordered his guards to send a signal cannon, this signal cannon is a white phosphorus bomb developed by the Royal Academy of Engineering, he used the short-handled firing pistol of the firing device to fire for the bolt, but because the white phosphorus bullet is relatively large, and requires high-speed upward rotation, so the diameter of the gun barrel is relatively large, and the rifling thread is also pulled inside, so as to reduce air resistance and ensure that the white phosphorus bomb can fly stably upward, so as to reach the maximum height.
White phosphorus ignition point is low, so it is easy to burn, after a slight shot of the spark, it can easily detonate the white phosphorus bomb, so that it can fly into the sky at high speed and produce a large amount of white smoke due to burning, so it can play a good role in signal propagation, after all, the speed of sound propagation alone is not enough to meet the signal propagation.
However, this kind of rifled gun and white phosphorus bullets can only be used to send signals, and like the Minnie gun, it cannot be used on a large scale.
As for how the original white phosphorus came from, in fact, the Royal Academy of Engineering was able to develop it successfully, which also benefited from the excavation of the ancestral graves of Fan Wencheng and Wu Sangui.