readx; However, it is said that Timur, the "Qingshan Khan", returned defeated, and was sitting alone in the "Golden Horde", and his tears dripped into the bowl without realizing it, but he was extremely bitter when he poured it into his stomach. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Since killing his father with his own hands a few decades ago and sitting on this throne, Timur has been crisscrossing the steppe for decades, fighting no less than a hundred battles, and has never suffered such a big loss today. Li Dingguo's estimate of the number of Mongol casualties is still estimated to be small, and after this battle, more than 3,000 cavalry of the Ordos Department were killed in the battle, and countless people were wounded. Combined with the losses in the previous two wars, Timur now has less than 9,000 capable soldiers.

If the casualties alone are large, Timur can still accept it, after all, victory and defeat are commonplace, and the lost troops can be recovered sooner or later. However, the process of the battle was unbearable for him, seeing that the Han people only had 3,000 people, and the position was less than 100 zhang in circumference, but the Mongols just couldn't attack it! I don't know where these Han people got those powerful firearms, and he hasn't dealt with the Ming army in Yulin, so there is no such thing at all! Could it be that he has been too comfortable with wine over the years, he has not thought of making progress in Ordos, and he has to abandon himself in Changshengtian to make the Ming army so terrible?

After this battle, Timur already knew that it was impossible to destroy the Ming army by force alone, and if he continued to fight, he would only leave more corpses. The generals of the Six Banners also had a lot of opinions about him stubbornly attacking him, and as a result, he suffered heavy casualties, and he was no longer very respectful to him after returning to the camp. Isn't it time to get out of the siege? But if he just withdraws, what will happen to his family, slaves, and property in Baoketu? After so many soldiers died, what did he do to comfort his clansmen?

Timur was groggy and cranky when he heard a few crisp gunshots outside the camp. He now had a conditioned reflex to this sound, and the spirit jumped up, and the wine turned into a cold sweat.

Before he could ask, the attendant ran in in a panic and said, "Big... Great Khan, no, the Han people have come to rob the camp! ”

Timur was shocked and angry, thinking to himself that these hateful Han people, if they won a great victory during the day, should they still kill themselves! He hurriedly draped his sword in his hand and strode out of the tent.

At this time, the Mongol camp was in chaos. It had been a terrible battle during the day, and everyone was exhausted, demoralized, and in a particularly low spirit. But not long after falling asleep, he was awakened by the sound of gunfire outside the camp, how could he not panic?

Timur, as a chieftain, was still in control, shouting at the soldiers who were running around, and at the same time sending personal guards to find the generals.

It took him a long time to figure out the situation, and it turned out that the Han people did not rush into the camp, but only released birds and guns not far from the camp, and the number of people killed on his side was not large. It's just that most of the Mongols have become frightened birds, and instinctively run around when they hear the sound of gunfire, and as a result, more people die because they collide with each other and trample on each other than they are killed directly.

Timur was furious and slashed two soldiers who did not obey the order and ran away in succession, which frightened the Mongols who bombed the camp.

"What's the panic? Are you still the descendants of Genghis Khan? Timur roared towards the camp gate, and the other generals reluctantly restrained their men and followed Timur to look out.

"Great Khan, the Han people are attacking at night, and I can't see how many of them there are..." Before the general in charge of guarding the camp gate could speak, a row of bird guns came again, and everyone was so frightened that they hurriedly lay on the ground to hide.

Timur also hurriedly leaned down to observe the opposite side, only to see a few dozen steps away from the camp gate, there were many people and horses galloping back and forth, judging from the sound of horses' hooves and shouts, the number of people was not very large. But he still knew some art of war, and snorted coldly: "The Han people attacked at night and did not rush the camp, this is to lure us out, and there will be an ambush in the distance." How could Ben Khan be fooled, come, bow and arrow ready! The Han people relied on nothing more than birds, but lighting a fire rope in the middle of the night would immediately reveal their location. Wherever you see fire, shoot them first! ”

He was right, it took a few seconds for the bird to light the arquebus to the time it was fired. Hundreds of archers immediately drew their bows and arrows, staring intently at the dark curtain outside the camp, waiting for the fire to light up.

But what they were waiting for was a series of crisp gunshots! The fire did shine, but at the same time, buckshot also came, and the Mongols, who had wanted to aim at the fire, were swept away.

"Why!" Timur could hardly believe his eyes, and shouted angrily, "Why do the Han people shoot bird guns without lighting a fire rope!" Don't wait for the fire to shine, shoot me, shoot hard! ”

The Mongols were so frightened that they had no choice but to fire arrows aimlessly into the night.

In fact, the window paper was broken as soon as it was stabbed, and the reason why the Qin soldiers could shoot it without lighting the fire rope was because they used not an arquebus at all, but a flintlock pistol.

As early as more than a month ago, the arsenal developed the flintlock reluto. At that time, Zhu Youzhen decided to use the Lumi gun as a sniper rifle, and it was enough to produce it in small quantities, and the main energy of the arsenal should be on the transformation of the existing bird gun. Because the arquebus, also known as the arquebus, is exactly the same as the rest of the flintlock pistol, with the only difference being the firing. The arquebus had to be ignited, while the flintlock only had to pull the trigger. Don't look at it as such a small link, the time saved is only a few seconds, but on the battlefield, the significance is very significant.

Because it was very difficult to make the springs of the firing part, until the troops were dispatched, the arsenal had transformed a total of more than 100 flintlock pistols, and Zhu Youzhen handed them all over to Li Dingguo for use. The reason why Li Dingguo dared to harass the Mongol camp at close range was because of these 100 flintlock muskets.

It turned out that although the first and second battalions under Li Dingguo's command were both infantry battalions, the soldiers had also received cavalry training and could shoot on horses. It is not possible to use an arquebus when a horse is on the move, because even if you can reload the horse without having to control the horse by hand, it is too difficult to light the arquebus at a gallop.

This is not the case with flintlock pistols. At this moment, the 100 Qin soldiers were 80 paces away from the enemy camp, running parallel to the camp, while taking ammunition from the ammunition bag to reload, and then pulling the trigger and firing a shot. Although there was no accuracy at all during the march, Li Dingguo's purpose was to harass the enemy and cause chaos in the enemy camp, so this level was sufficient. Moreover, there are many Mongols, even if they shoot indiscriminately, they can always fight a few, and the results are unexpectedly good.

After a while, Timur saw some way. He gritted his teeth and said, "The Han people's bird guns can only fight eighty paces away, everyone take ten steps back and continue to fire arrows at me!" They are not in the middle of the formation, how much ammunition can they carry? After a while, when they have run out of ammunition, they will go out of the camp with me and break them into pieces! ”

When the Mongols heard this, they felt that their Great Khan was really experienced in warfare, and hurriedly followed the order.

Unfortunately, they were still a step slower to react. At the same time, Li Dingguo, who was galloping at the front of the team, also shouted: "Put away your gun and prepare to charge!" ”