"Newspaper~~! Enemy attack, enemy attack. ”

A scout rushed to convey a warning message to the 18th Division, which had just entered the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and belonged to an infantry division that had entered the theater relatively late, but had just run into the enemy's situation.

The commander of the 18th Division, Luo Yicheng, was originally a general in Liaodong Town, and he was also the first batch of officers to be promoted after the abolition of Liaodong Town.

"What kind of enemy is it?" Luo asked the detective.

"The number of enemy cavalry is unknown, no less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, attacking twenty miles to the northwest." The scout reported.

"The whole army is in formation and ready to fight." Luo Cheng immediately gave the order, and the 18th Division immediately spread out in formation in the flat basin.

Although the 18th Division has not been on the battlefield since its formation, veterans still account for one-third, and the 18th Division belongs to the establishment of the Central Field Army, and its training is extremely strict.

With an order, it took less than ten minutes for the 18th Division to set up the formation.

After waiting for nearly three quarters of an hour, there was a rumbling sound in the earth, and a black line appeared in the distance, and a huge cavalry force was rapidly attacking.

There was no brewing in the battle, and the attacking Dzungar cavalry was like a sharp knife, plunging straight into the 18th Division.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

A large number of artillery pieces roared at the attacking cavalry, and one shell after another shot out, and in an instant white smoke rose up.

Cannonballs were fired into the cavalry, and a Dzungar cavalryman was beaten to pulp on the spot by solid bullets. However, the 18th Division was only equipped with infantry guns, and the power was not so great, and many shells lost their potential energy after penetrating two or three people.

The real tragedy was when the cavalry entered the five hundred meters. The infantry guns of the 18th Division were replaced with shotguns. Shotguns formed a dense storm of metal amid the sound of the cannons. Hit the cavalry in the head. The Dzungar cavalry screamed and fell off their horses, and one by one the horses fell to the ground and neighed in pain.

The sound of artillery was incessant, and the entire formation of the 18th Division was shrouded in gunsmoke, as if it was in a cloud and mist fairyland, and it was impossible to see things in the distance at all.

The fierce artillery fire almost broke the will of the Dzungar cavalry to fight.

But the Dzungar nobles had no way to retreat but to continue to lead the cavalry charge. And yet such a charge. Doomed to have become suicidal. The Ming infantry in front of them had already stuck their bayonets in the muzzle of their guns and lined up in a hollow phalanx.

When those Dzungar nobles risked being killed by artillery bombardment and led the Dzungar cavalry to rush in front of the 18th Division, they were directly desperate in the face of this wall of swords.

There was no room for anything, and they crashed into it.

A massacre unfolded, not by cavalry against infantry, but by infantry against cavalry. These well-trained infantry of the Ming Empire, bayonet hand-to-hand combat skills are not three-legged cats. The cavalry that rushed forward was confronted by a wall of bayonets like hedgehogs. The war horse involuntarily slowed down, and then there was a burst of stabbing.

But a cavalryman on horseback. Where to stab the infantry. And it was still a dense infantry, and the sabers in the hands of these cavalrymen had already been pierced by several bayonets before they could cut these infantry.

Some Dzungar cavalry equipped with maces, the only way to hurt the Ming infantry was to throw the maces, and some Ming soldiers were indeed smashed.

And those Dzungar cavalry equipped with spears had the ability to stab the Ming infantry, at most, they replaced a Ming soldier, and then they were stabbed off the horse by the Ming army.

These Ming soldiers are well-trained, they are not panicked in battle, and they also know how to cooperate with each other, and the formation of the Dzungar cavalry who have been hit by artillery has long been sparse, and rushing in front of them is simply delivering food.

The officers and men of the 18th Division stabbed to death the cavalry that rushed to the front as if they were slaughtering cattle and sheep.

More and more cavalry rushed to the front of the 18th Division, and the battle immediately became fierce, and the Ming army continued to kill and wound the Dzungar cavalry, while the casualties also began to increase.

However, both sides were one after the other, the neighing of the horses was accompanied by the shouts of battle, and most of the soldiers did not let out any screams when they died, and the secretion of adrenaline shielded them from the pain of the flesh.

The scene began to be chaotic, on the battlefield with crowds, the Ming army was in chaos and orderly, and the hollow phalanxes huddled together were like reefs submerged by huge waves, but the tide receded, and the reefs still existed tenaciously.

However, the Dzungars were still fighting frantically, they had no way out, as if they had forgotten about life and death, even though they knew that rushing to the bayonet wall was a dead end, but they still rode their horses up.

The fierce battle lasted for nearly two hours, blood stained the earth red, and corpses were stacked on the ground, both human and horse. The Dzungar cavalry became even more frenzied, but the more frantic they became, the more desperate they became.

Finally, the last Dzungar cavalry fell under the bayonets of the Ming army. The scene was immersed in more than ten seconds, and then the officers and men of the 18th Division broke out into a cry of victory.

Won, they won!

While cheering for victory, he also had in his heart the admiration of these Dzungar cavalrymen, who fought with their lives.

This also subverted the impression of Zhengduo officers and soldiers on these nomads, in their impression that even Jiannu was a group of bandits with a weak will to fight. These bandit gangs are all like wolves when they fight against the wind, but once they fight against the wind, they flee in panic like lost dogs.

But these Dzungar cavalry were different, they fought to the end.

Admiration is admiration, but they are still enemies. The only thing to pay tribute to is to do the best of humanity and treat the wounded Dzungar cavalry who are not dead on the battlefield.

It was not only the 18th Division that encountered the fierce Dzungar cavalry, but fierce battles continued to break out in the Dzungar Basin.

The battle between the cavalry of the two sides continued to break out, and although these Dzungar cavalry were very heroic, they still inevitably hated the battlefield in the face of the Ming cavalry, which was armed to the teeth and had strict discipline, and was defeated by the Ming cavalry.

None of the Dzungar cavalry took the initiative to surrender, and after Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the Ming army, found that the cohesion of Dzungaria was relatively strong, he accelerated the pace of the war, mobilized superior forces, and pressed on the Dzungar troops step by step.

The Dzungar nobles tried to force the Ming army to retreat with a deadly fighting style, and the Dzungars, after finding that they could not defeat it, stepped up their strategic retreat while trying to bypass the rear of the Ming army.

It's just that after Lu Xiangsheng accelerated the pace of the war, the marching speed of the Ming army increased greatly, attacking cities and villages along the way, destroying one Dzungar city and camp after another.

For those Dzungar cavalry who fought bravely, the Ming army did not have any mercy, and they all - killed! Kill! Kill!

After a month of war, the Ming army had killed not a single yurt at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the war was still going on.

Although this war killed the Dzungar Basin to a river of blood, the Ming army did not carry out any massacre of the Dzungar department. The killings were all Dzungar cavalry who had gone to the battlefield, and the old and weak women and children had been evacuated by the Dzungar troops. In order to speed up the retreat, the Dzungar Department killed all the cattle and sheep that were too slow to retreat, leaving no supplies for the Ming army.

After a month-long battle, the main force of the Dzungar Department has been forced by the Ming army to the Altai Mountains, and at this time the Dzungaria has no way to retreat, and a large number of old and weak women and children are concentrated in Altai. (To be continued.) )