Chapter 785: The Blood of Juyan

Zhang Hanwan's gaze swept to the north and wider, but the terrain was vague and unclear, and it was completely a region, shaking his head and sighing: "Your Majesty, you are the most ambitious emperor since ancient times. Ordinary Chinese people are only afraid that they will treat you as Yang Guang and our red clothes as fighting for you, not for the country. All of Siberia, no, the North Garden, you want ......"

seemed distressed, but the corners of his mouth gradually curled, Zhang Hanwan said to himself with satisfaction: "With this goal, this life is enough." ”

Twenty miles northeast of Juyanbao, the felt tent by the lake of Suboqier [1] is like a cloud, this is the second day of the first month of October, the Mongol army will meet here, the soldiers plus the troops accompanying the expedition, here gathered nearly 100,000 horses, accounting for almost one-third of the population of the Khalkha Mongols.

It was a big gamble, more than two years of preparation, but even though the dice were gone, there was still unfinished bargaining in the big tent of the Khan King that was full of Hada.

"Honorable Khan, from the merchants of Amubar to the city of Erkou, counting the Cossacks, all the troops together are no more than three or four thousand men. In the vast and barren Siberia, so many soldiers are enough to conquer thousands of miles of territory, but to the south to Uriya Sutai, this number of men is far from enough. ”

The envoy of the Siberian governor, Cherrekh, the Overseer of Ergo, politely replied to Zasaktu Khangageyimpil, who wrung his eyebrows, snorted in displeasure and helplessness, and said no more.

"Empress Anna, isn't the sincerity of our governor enough? 10,000 flintlock guns, 40 guns, it took us a year and a half to pull these guns across the Urals. Originally, the governor wanted to send our most talented officers to teach the Mongol warriors under the Khan how to fight with muskets and artillery, but the Khans were too scruples to accept ......"

Cherrekh turned to Tushetu Khan, who coughed awkwardly and did not answer the topic.

Chechen Khan Drabubu said angrily: "No need to say it again! The thing is obvious, if we don't defeat the Han people, we have to serve the Han people! If you Rakshasas want Tangnu Ulianghai, you are taking food from the Han people, and they will never agree! ”

Cherrech laughed: "Han? Except for the Han and Tang dynasties, for more than a thousand years, which Han dynasty was willing to spend effort to fight for a deserted place like Tangnu and Wulianghai? Even the Qing Dynasty, which you respected before, didn't it first have the "Treaty of Nebuchu" and then the "Treaty of Kyakhta", and cede a large area of land to us, Russia? ”

His face was kind and his tone was respectful, but his words were full of sarcasm: "The Han people have always regarded you Mongols as their old enemies, and their policy towards foreign races has always been to support one faction to fight the other, and never let the alien races around the border become bigger. They have never regarded the land within the Great Wall as their territory, and they don't care at all who the wilderness and desert beyond the Great Wall belong to. The Han people only live in the Great Wall, and the climate in the Central Plains and the south is mild, and the land is fertile, and no one wants to go to the cold and barren north to earn a living. ”

This is obviously a Chinese expert, and it is difficult for the three Khan kings who want to use the power of the Han people to blackmail Russia to pay more effort to support them.

The momentum of the three Khan kings weakened, and the momentum of Cherrekh suddenly rose to the top: "Khawan kings, you have no way out!" The Han people will never give you a good life! Once defeated, maybe the Han people will still crown you as Zasak or Prince, but what you have lost is far more than Tangnu Wulianghai! Russia is already here, your warriors are holding Russian weapons in their hands, and Russian artillery behind them, if you can't resist the invasion of the Han people on your own, Russia will abandon you, and your people will abandon you! ”…,

He glanced at the Khan King with the attitude of a victor and said coldly: "You must win!" ”

After Cherrekh left, the three Khan kings, you look at me, I see you sigh in unison.

Since the separation of the north and south of the Central Plains, the three Khalkha Mongol tribes began to have the idea of getting rid of the control of the Manchus. Until Qianlong ascended the throne, the Manchu Qing still effectively governed them by relying on the Manchu and Mongolian marriages and the general Uriya Sutai, so that they did not dare to make any moves on the stage.

However, with the death of Fu Ning'an, the general of Uriya Sutai, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not filled the vacancy, and the Anglo-Chinese Han people have left Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the troops have reached Guazhou in the Western Regions.

When the Han people were north of Suzhou, marching north with military forts, and at the same time using cavalry to drive the Dzungar and Qinghai Mongols to attack Mobei, the Khalkha Mongols began to realize that the crisis had come and that the Manchus were no longer reliable.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was indeed unreliable, and removed the left deputy general of Dingbian, but added a Uriya Sutai affairs counselor, and the specific thing was to convey the news of the Manchu and Mongolian clan's in-laws, and gave up the intention of Uriya Sutai to cover up.

Now that the Manchus let go, they no longer had to pay attention to many control measures such as the forbidden boundaries set for the Ministries, and the Khalkha Mongols began to weigh their own futures between the Han Chinese and the Russians.

The Han Chinese gave early conditions for stricter control, which was to follow the Qinghai Mongol example. The Han Chinese wanted to divide them into smaller tribes, and at the same time restricted the rights of the Mongol princes with all kinds of cumbersome "laws" that made the scalp tingle, and the entire Mongolian upper class expressed their anger and rejection with extreme disdain.

Russia became the only option, but the Han Chinese spread the word through the Manchus that as long as they openly turned to Russia, the Han and Manchus, and even the Mongol tribes in southern Mo would join forces to clean them up. Therefore, the Khalkha Mongolian Third Department can only secretly communicate with Russia and strengthen its armaments. If they can thwart the Han attack in person, their chess game will be alive.

Of course, for this, they have to pay the price of Tangnu Ulianghai, and at the same time, after winning this battle, they have to "pay tribute" to the Russians and accept the title of the Russians.

Thinking that the Russians were still generous after all, 10,000 muskets and 40 cannons, which they couldn't buy even if they sold all their cattle, horses, and children, the three khans finally made up their minds again

When the order to besiege the city reached the camp of Celeng, he summoned his son and his generals and secretly ordered: "We will stand still and perform the ritual tomorrow for the dead of the previous battle." ”

The people were puzzled, but forty or fifty people died, and there were no leaders, so why bother? Duolunzhab tasted the experience of shallow contact with the Han people before, and then thought about the lama who suddenly appeared in the army the day before yesterday, and seemed to have an understanding.

"I think there is something missing in Juyan Fort, it turns out that there is a lack of the Heavenly Temple, if you die in battle, how can you do it without sacrifice!?"

Looking at the tents that surrounded the city, a large number of enemy troops came out, and from the binoculars, the artillery carriages could be vaguely seen moving towards the heights, and Cao Zhan's fellow was sick.

"yes, so we can't die!"

Cao Zhan screamed hard, but his voice was drowned out by the sound of cannons.

On the fifth day of October in the 14th year of the Holy Dao, the defense of Juyan Fort officially began.

Thousands of Mongol soldiers pushed ladder carts and gathered three or four miles away, waiting for their artillery to suppress the Han people, and even break a gap in the Han city.

But what I was waiting for was the thunderclap of cannon in front of me, which shook the earth and trembled slightly. Huge shells continued to fall in the crowd, and around the high ground where the artillery was placed, pillars of smoke and dust were raised.

The first day was entirely an artillery stage, although the Han artillery was not much, but it was accurate and ruthless, and the Mongol gunners fought hard, but they could not send many shells to the walls of Juyan Fort, but were bombed by the other side and destroyed eight cannons. …,

The next day, the Mongols moved their artillery positions back with interest, trying to compensate for the lack of long-range fire by relying on numbers. The artillery battle between the two sides continued for another whole day, and the Mongols finally made progress, with the shells smashing many holes in the walls of the fort and the damaged artillery reduced to six.

Cherrekh couldn't stand it anymore and found the three Khans to complain. Although the Mongols were not very good at counting, people of insight also knew that if they continued to bombard like this, their artillery would never collapse a section of the city wall or smash a corner tower.

The Han artillery fired 20 catties of projectiles, and they were also erected on the high tower in the city that was eight zhang high. Although the artillery given to them by Russia is also a cannon that can fight five or six miles, the projectile is no more than ten catties, and it is all bronze cannons, which cannot be continuously bombarded.

So on the third day, the Mongols adopted the tactic of "infantry and artillery coordination", bombarding with artillery on one side and charging with infantry on the other.

In view of the strange six-sided shape of Juyan Fort, the siege force was also divided into six routes, which were divided into pieces. The Mongols were not good at attacking cities, but they had artillery, sufficient siege equipment, and dozens of times the strength of the defenders, and the Khan and his generals were convinced that the city would be taken, and the only question was how much time it would take.

"Why is there such a hurry? Is this asking us to pile up corpses on the walls? ”

The royal court formed by the three khans gave Sanyin Noyan part of the city wall, and the time limit was ten days to take it, and Zabdolun angrily asked the royal court envoy. The fort was not a simple military fort, and the walls looked like they were made of stones. And even if it is an ordinary military fort, cut off the water flow of the city, fill in the ditches, and then attach ants to the siege, how can it take half a month and a month.

"The Han are deploying troops and horses, and their Anxi army, plus the Dzungar and Qinghai Mongol tribes, is estimated to have 20,000 or 30,000 reinforcements. If the reinforcements had not captured Juyan Fort before the reinforcements arrived, even if they retreated at that time, they would have to pay a great price. And if we really want to retreat, we Khalkha Mongols no longer have the courage to gather such a large army, and in the future, we can only watch the Han people use military forts one after another to build all the way to the hinterland of Mobei. ”

Celeng waved the envoy back and explained it to his son in person.

"Even if we capture the fort of Juyan, we have to allow time to retreat, and the three Khalkha kings will not dare to fight the red clothes in a decisive battle. After destroying Juyan Fort, the Han people want to rebuild it, at least another year, for them, a year is counted as a year. ”

Celeng said disdainfully, Duolunzab didn't know his father's thoughts very well, and he didn't dare to ask deeply, so he had to ask how to attack the city.

"Never come within half a mile of the city wall, and do a day of ritual ......"

Celeng smiled slightly, and Duolunzabu said in his heart, wouldn't this be too obvious?

The next day, Dorenzab realized that he was worrying about the sky.

Even with all their strength, not many people could rush within half a mile of the city wall. Within two miles, the small cannons of the Han people began to bombard, and within one mile, there were bullets like rain pouring head-on, and what was even more terrifying was that the shots outside this mile were very accurate.

A group of Tushetu Khan's troops, who had taken the brave Batel, rushed forward for a mile and a half, and the corpse was pulled for a mile and a half, like a long ellipsis. Kankan rushed half a mile away, and finally a dozen or so people were overwhelmed by a series of flowering bullets and platoon guns, pointing out a bright red and full period.

"Whew...... It's so cool......"

Cao Zhan retreated from the shooting hole on the corner tower and reloaded his thirteen-year-old rifled gun, the full stop just now, and a small point of his own contribution.

Not only did the corner tower have shooting holes, but the city walls were also of this design, and the whole day of "bloody battles" was full of Mongol blood, and the other side had at least five or six hundred dead and wounded under the city. The defenders of Juyanbao were killed and wounded three and eleven, one of whom was killed and three wounded or a four-pound cannon exploded, and for the British and Chinese officers and soldiers, the black-hearted gunsmiths of the Manufacturing Bureau were more hateful than the Mongols. Although the reason for the explosion was that the new gunner was nervous and filled with two parts of gunpowder, it could not withstand double the amount of gun, which was inferior! …,

"It shouldn't be......"

During the interval between battles, the officers and men defending the city also took turns to return to the camp for lunch, and continued to complain about their illness.

"Isn't the war supposed to be a straight neck, the blood in the whole body is like an oil pot churning, sizzling, a knife down, blood splashed on the face, and then you think that if you don't look up to the sky and howl in your throat, the whole person will explode?"

Hearing this scholarly anger that was more sour than himself, Cao Zhan smiled and sprayed a grain of rice on his face.

"It's only been a few days, what's the hurry?"

Cao Zhan had already been mentally prepared, because he had been by Gui Zhen's side for three months, and he was very clear about the details of the bloody battle of the Sixth Guard Division in Burma.

Dai Qu said while wiping his face: "Anxious, if you can't mix the dragon head chapter, you also have to mix a tiger and leopard chapter, otherwise how can you go back and marry your daughter-in-law?" ”

Cao Zhan almost sprayed again, why do you want to marry a wife?

Then there was a bang, the floor shook violently, debris splashed, smoke and dust, and screams. After a long time, the two people who were so shocked that their whole bodies were stiff saw that on the dinner table about two or three feet away, one had no head, and the other was missing a leg, and he was screaming and rolling on the ground. Looking at the roof again, there was a big hole, which turned out to be a Mongolian shell that had blasted into the canteen.

The two swallowed their saliva, and suddenly felt that before the blood was boiling, it began to get cold.