Chapter 387: The Bright Moon Rises from the Heavenly Mountains

"The bright moon rises out of the Tianshan Mountains, and the vast sea of clouds. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info long wind tens of thousands of miles, blowing across the Yumen Pass! ”

In the Ili River Valley, Huang Xin, the commander of the 18th Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, was like a chariot general in the Spring and Autumn Period, sitting on a special carriage, looking at the snow of the Tianshan Mountains in the distance.

Behind the rubber wheels of countless latest Wugang cars rolling forward, behind the parapet wall erected on the car, a soldier holding a breech gun was waiting in formation, this is the formation of a whole infantry brigade in front of the formation, four infantry battalions are divided into four corners, artillery and baggage troops are in the middle of the phalanx, the cavalry reconnaissance battalion patrols the periphery, five thousand Ming troops and one thousand Wugang vehicles of various purposes, plus nearly four thousand horses form a majestic huge phalanx, sweeping forward like a hunting lion at the foot of the empty and flat Tianshan Mountain in the late autumn.

This is the vehicle-mounted infantry brigade of the Ming Dynasty, the Han people for more than a thousand years, it is in this way to sweep the grassland to make the Huns surrender to their feet, more than a thousand years later, the Han people still have to sweep this land in the same way, but the ancient wooden chariots have been replaced by new chariots with steel and rubber wheels, and the crossbows have also been replaced with cannons and breech-loading rifled guns.

"Brigade Commander, there's no moon in the sky!"

The coachman in front of him looked at the sun above him and said blankly.

"Comprehend the artistic conception!"

Huang Xin said angrily.

As soon as he finished saying this, one of the cavalrymen rushed to the advancing convoy, stopped in front of him and said: "Brigade commander, the people of the Kazakh Khan refuse to withdraw from Luntai City. ”

"Refusal? There is personality and I like it! ”

Huang Xin said happily.

Then he stood up and pulled out a flare gun next to him and pulled the trigger in the sky, a red flare exploded in the air, and all the officers and soldiers in the marching convoy turned their heads to look at the Chinese army, and then saw their brigade commander standing on his throne, waving two enlarged signal flags in his hands, and his roar could even be heard from a close distance.

"Full speed ahead, break through the wheel without sealing the knife!"

His Excellency the Brigadier Commander shouted.

The huge battle formation immediately accelerated forward.

At the same time, the head of the Kazakh department, the remnant of the golden family, and the 30,000 cavalry personally led by the Kazakh Khan Touke Khan were also surrounding from all sides.

With almost all the young and middle-aged people of the Dzungar tribe buried in the pass, the Kazakh Khan tribe that had been eroded by them re-emerged, and even took advantage of the opportunity of no one to expand their sphere of influence to the hinterland of the Tianshan Mountains, but the arrival of the Ming army ended the good times of the Kazakhs. The two sides did not really fight before, Tou Ke Khan must gather enough troops, although the Ming army arrived in the Tianshan Mountains is only a cavalry brigade and two infantry brigades, but after all, the Ming army's reputation in these years is also far away, Tou Ke Khan must have enough advantages to make a move, and this time the advance of the 18th Infantry Brigade gave him an excellent chance of decisive battle.

30,000 elite cavalry of the Kazakh division hid in the valleys of the Tianshan Mountains for half a month, and finally waited for the opportunity to attack.

But unfortunately, as soon as they came out, they were discovered by the Ming army.

"Ma, I've finally seen someone!"

On a small airship in the sky, the Ming army observer said with a sense of relief while holding a telescope while pedaling something like a bicycle under his feet, and then he took out a flare gun and fired a striking red flare outward, adjusting the steering rudder behind him at the same time. This kind of single-man airship is the main reconnaissance means of the Ming army, the speed of manpower control is not fast, the only advantage is that it is not hindered by the terrain in the sky, and can see far enough, but in fact, in most cases it is just drifting with the wind, after all, the propeller driven by the pedal is very inefficient.

Just as he was about to complete his turn, a sudden gust of wind blew the small airship out of the small airship, which was not too big.

"The ghost of the Han people!"

Thirty miles below, Tou Kehan, who was holding a telescope, said disdainfully.

"Forward!"

Then he said with a wave of his hand.

Behind him, the huge cavalry swarm immediately moved forward like a torrent across the steppe.

At the same time, a group of Ming cavalry reconnoitring forty miles away from him, looking at the red smoke that exploded in the sky, immediately turned around and rushed towards the huge phalanx thirty miles away, and soon encountered the first battalion of infantry that was marching. After learning the news that the enemy was killing, with the order issued by the commander of a battalion, the carriages full of infantry quickly stopped, and those soldiers got out of the car one after another to use the Wugang car as a cover, forming a continuous defense line inside and outside the car, and even bundles of special Zhangba spears were untied from the transport vehicles, and then distributed to the soldiers on each cart, inserted into the special jack, and a stretch of thorny Great Wall was quickly established in the open grassland.

At this time, Huang Xin also got the news.

Immediately after his order was passed to all departments, the same stretch of thorny city walls was also extended at a very fast speed in this open grassland, and the muzzles of rifles poked out of the holes of the city walls, and even those cannons were erected in the middle, eighteen fifteen-pound and sixteen seven-and-a-half-pound rifled guns raised their muzzles high, and in the middle of the carriages that formed the city wall, a light rocket launcher also stretched out, and the Ming army, which was originally in a state of march, suddenly entered a combat state.

Similarly, a square castle was built in the steppe.

The castle composed of Wugang cars.

Three infantry posts on each side defended the first line, one infantry post was a reserve, four seven-and-a-half-pound rifled guns on each side plus sixteen single-barrel rocket launchers, and eighteen fifteen-pound rifled guns in the middle were shelled at any time in the direction that needed to be defended, while the baggage troops and the command system remained in the middle of the castle, and the horses pulling the carts were driven to the stables that were urgently enclosed in the castle.

As for the cavalry reconnaissance battalion, they were assembled and looked for an opportunity to attack outside the castle.

This is the steppe tactics of the Ming army.

"Let those Tartars die!"

Huang Xin brandished his saber and roared.

Then those Tartars really appeared in his field of vision, 30,000 Kazakh cavalry came from all sides, and the charge of thousands of troops and horses was magnificent.

Tou Ke Khan's tactics are very simple, that is, to pile up the Ming army with numerical superiority, the Ming army has only one cavalry brigade and two infantry brigades in the Tianshan Mountains, one of the infantry brigades must also guard Shanshan, only the cavalry brigade and this infantry brigade are mobile combat forces, as long as this brigade is killed, then the Ming army that was originally on the offensive can only turn back to the defensive, and the long supply line makes the Ming army unable to maintain more army operations, it can be said that at that time he was the master of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, so he had to break through the Ming defense line with the most ferocious attack.

However, then he suffered the most ferocious blow.

"Fire!"

Huang Xin sat on his throne and said with a teacup.

Saying that this is indeed the throne, this chair was copied from Yinyou's palace after he took down Lanzhou, the plundering system of the Ming army stipulates that everything is confiscated, but private individuals are allowed to keep private collections of different weights according to different military ranks, as a brigade commander, he is allowed to keep the weight of private collections up to three hundred catties, and then he asked for this chair that should be a short couch, anyway, those pseudo-kings of the Tartars are all jokes, and there is no need to avoid anything at all.

As his order was given, the fifteen-pound rifled guns neatly arranged in the annular gun emplacements next to him suddenly let out an angry roar.

Eighteen flowering bullets filled with wet cotton gunpowder whizzed out.

The 18 regiments of flames above the Kazakh cavalry that attacked immediately afterwards exploded, and countless shrapnel and projectiles poured down like a rain of steel, immediately knocking people down on their backs.

"Well done!"

Huang Xin said with satisfaction.

The officer in charge of punching the fuse on the artillery position next to him smiled proudly, and then the same shells flew seven miles away in batches, exploding above the heads of the Kazakh cavalry, pouring down a rain of steel fire composed of shrapnel and projectiles, reaping the lives of the Kazakh cavalry and their horses. The terrifying power of the air-burst grenade bomb against the classical battle array was fully displayed, and the Kazakhs, who were desperately charging forward, kept dropping corpses one after another. Soon the seven-and-a-half-pound guns also joined the ranks of the shelling, and then the rockets that triggered the fuse also began to fall, and the intensity of the shelling increased suddenly.

In the light of the fire that continued to explode above and around them, the Kazakh cavalry flogged their horses desperately, trying to keep them from being startled by the explosion.

Fortunately, they had been prepared for this point for a long time, and they had strengthened the training of war horses in this area before.

You must know that the flowering bullets of the Ming army are well known.

With bravery and tenacity, of course, the main thing is to show the power of the Zhen, you must know that the head Khan is a devout believer, relying on the support of the power of faith, after leaving countless corpses, the Kazakh cavalry finally rushed to the distance where the Ming line could be seen with the naked eye, and also to the distance to launch the final charge, all the cavalry raised their spears, let out a strange roar on horseback, and launched the most ferocious attack on their target.

"Fire!"

Behind the steel carriages, those Ming army officers gave orders almost at the same time, and then all the Ming soldiers who were lying in the car, kneeling beside the car, or even lying under the car, pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the bullets were immediately fired out like a storm. The Kazakh cavalry at the front fell to the ground in an instant, and then was trampled directly under the hooves of their companions' war horses, but this was only the beginning of their nightmare, as if the soldiers of the opposite side were not a brigade, but a whole army of soldiers shooting, the bullets frantically sprayed out from the wall formed by the Wugang car, and the charging Kazakh cavalry kept falling off their horses as if they had hit an invisible wall.

"Attack, keep attacking!"

Touk Khan, who was watching the battle from afar, ignored the pleading gazes of his subordinates, and continued to urge the attack with a grim face.

"Great Khan, don't forget that our enemies are not only Han Chinese."

One of his generals shouted.

At this time, the pattern of the three Yuz of the Kazakh Department is forming, originally in history it was officially divided into three Yuz after the death of Touke Khan, and the real subordinate of Touke Khan is only the Great Yuz, if his people die too much, then the other two Yuz will inevitably take advantage of the fire to rob, as well as Kokand, Buhar These neighboring countries will not stab in the back because of their belief in a god, and the Russian Cossacks are also eyeing each other.

"But now our enemies are only Han Chinese!"

Touk Khan roared.

Indeed, his current enemy is only the Ming army, who told the Kazakh department to bear the brunt of the Ming army on the way out of the Tianshan Mountains? It is impossible for the Ming army to march into Central Asia to take the southern road, the Pamir Plateau is a towering natural city wall, and out of the Ili River Valley is an inevitable choice, he does not fight now, sooner or later he has to wait for the Ming army to come to the door on his own land, in this case, why not resist the enemy abroad? The strength of the Ming army is dependent on firearms, and the long supply line of more than 4,000 miles weakens this advantage to the extreme, and the distance of more than 4,000 miles also makes it impossible for the Ming army reinforcements to arrive in a short time.

As long as he defeats the Ming army, he can deter all careerists, and he is a well-deserved king of the Western Regions.

He had to stick with it no matter what.

The main warriors on the battlefield are still desperately charging forward, and then fall on the golden grassland one by one, watering the grass next year with their own flesh and blood, and in front of them, the Ming army is still methodically repeating the simplest actions, spraying bullets outward like a storm, flesh and steel collide with the horror of war, and faith and technology also collide with the decline of an era.

The era of the Warriors has fallen.

The era of technology is rising.

But when they finally rushed to the point where they could shoot sharp arrows with their bows and bows, the Kazakh cavalry found that there were three strange obstacles on the ground in front of them, and three of them were like a huge snake around the circular barbed wire fence that surrounded the entire Ming army car city. The Kazakh warriors who didn't have time to stop the war horses bumped into them one after another, and then their war horses screamed and were pulled hard, and then their companions behind them continued to crash into their bodies, and the people and war horses instantly piled up a wall of flesh and blood on the periphery of the Ming army.

Their tremendous strength even caused the entire barbed wire belt to break free from the shackles of wooden stakes and move a large piece towards the front of the Ming army.

Of course, this doesn't help.

Because they were still blocked.

The 30,000 charging cavalry was blocked by a serpentine barbed wire fence three lanes and one man high, fixed with wooden stakes.

Although the Kazakh cavalry horses at the front were covered with barbed wire, rushed to a distance of less than ten zhang from the Ming army, and then fell to their knees with a mournful scream, the flexible wire and the vicious spikes on it still made the ancient masters of the land battlefield stop at a distance from their enemies, and then looked at the chaos around them one by one in a daze, watching the terrifying scene of the man turning on his back, and falling in pieces in the bullets fired from the opposite side.

"Put!"

Then behind the Ming army car city opposite them, beside the huge iron oil drums half-buried in the ground, those Ming army officers gave orders with satisfaction, and then a soldier quickly lit the fuse, and with a not too loud tom, a thirty-pound wet cotton powder bag suddenly flew out, with the burning fuse to the densely gathered Kazakh cavalry. (To be continued.) )