Two days later, Galdan took more than 100,000 Junggar iron horsemen to the Great Wall of Datong Right Guard to kill the tiger's mouth, and launched the siege as planned.

Although he claims to have 300,000 male soldiers, it is impossible for so many troops to be in a pile all the time, so when encountering a strong attack, there will always be a first come, first come.

Besides, even if 300,000 people gathered in a heap and killed the position outside the Great Wall of Hukou, it would not allow so many people to attack at the same time, and the troops would not be able to deploy at all.

And when Galdan arrived at the mouth of the killing tiger, there were indeed less than 4,000 Ming troops on the opposite side defending. Because until Galdan made his move, the Ming army did not know which weak point he would choose to attack.

This is normal, because the Ming army has more than one weak point, and the Dzungar iron cavalry comes and goes like the wind, even if it seems that it is already maneuvering in a certain direction, but in fact, if it gallops for an hour or two, it may open up an attack point of thirty or fifty miles.

And Zheng Chenggong, who is in the center, can only choose to sit in the main city of Datong first. After learning where to go, he quickly sent reinforcements, and even went over to supervise the battle in person.

Fortunately, the Dzungar troops are all cavalry, so they have no ability to directly attack the fortifications, and if they want to break the city wall, in the final analysis, they have to rely on the artillery of the army. And the traction and deployment of heavy artillery positions will have to waste most of the day's time.

This led to the fact that when the Dzungar heavy artillery officially opened fire, the Ming army's troops in the right guard of Datong to kill the Hukou Pass had increased to 6,000 people.

It was not that Galdan did not try to let the "camel light artillery" of the army come forward to suppress it first, but he soon found that this decision was very wrong.

Because even if it was a remote small checkpoint such as the right guard killing the tiger's mouth, the Ming army still deployed more than a dozen artillery pieces on the wall. Among them, there are about seven or eight Hongyi cannons, and ten thousand pound Buddha Lang machines. These cannons should have been cast at least thirty or forty years ago, and belonged to the inventory of the Qing Dynasty.

After all, the Great Wall is so long, even if the Ming Dynasty casts new cannons over the years, it can only redress important passes of the Great Wall such as Yanmen Pass and Zhangjiakou. And above the thousands of miles, those weak small passes, it is normal to divide the old cannons from thirty or fifty years ago.

Rao's less than 20 guns, with the blessing of a tightly designed cross-fire network and a new type of flowering shell with a cartridge, still bombarded the Dzungar camel artillery array.

Kaldan's camel cannon can generally only tow a light cannon with a weight of no more than 1,000 catties, or a new type of Rakshasa light cannon similar to a Franc machine that carries a weight of 300 catties. These guns may have been able to fire at an acceptable rate, but the range was too close, and firing at the city walls was extremely disadvantageous.

After losing hundreds of camels, Galdan did not dare to resist the fire like this, but obediently waited for the siege heavy artillery position with range advantage to be completed.

Finally hit the Dzungar army to establish a range and firepower advantage, but the Great Wall defenders still have the will to fight to the death, with the passage of time, the reinforcements of the main city of Datong gradually arrived, killing the Ming army in the mouth of the tiger also exceeded 8,000 people.

Galdan saw that the heavy artillery bombardment of the city was still not fast enough, even if the city wall here was not remodeled to prevent artillery, it was estimated that it would take several days to break through.

In order to rush for time, he had to choose a multi-pronged approach. While allowing some of the heavy artillery to continue to bombard accurately with the new solid iron bullets with bullet stocks, a part of the light artillery was separated to cover the city with shotguns, suppress the defenders, and fire their guns on the wall.

Then he urged the Khalkha Mongols who had just arrived in Zhuangding, and stepped forward with rattan shields and other temporary armor, frantically digging the rammed earth inside the city wall after the shelling and falling on the outer layer, and then stuffing it with gunpowder in an attempt to blast it.

After tossing and turning for two whole days, attacking in turns, and not knowing how many digging cannon fodder soldiers and covering firepower were lost, Galdan finally exchanged his life for time and frantically broke through many passes of the Great Wall of Killing Tiger's Mouth.

In this process, the Ming army was not afraid of shotguns, repeatedly went to the wall and condescended to kill and injure the Dzungar army with superior firepower, and the two sides played an exchange ratio of almost more than 1 to 10. However, considering that the Ming army had an absolute quality advantage in firearms, it was still defending the city, which was also completely deserved.

After the city wall was breached, Galdan was shocked to find that in the three days that he was preparing for the siege and officially storming at any cost, the Ming army had already rushed to build a simple rammed earth breastwork wall and a horse defense trench that casually sowed simple tribulus terrestris antlers within the wall of the Killing Tiger Pass Pass.

Although the fortifications were very rudimentary, they looked of poor quality and did not even have rammed the earth, but the Ming army had more than one line of defense in depth. Inside the defensive line, there were countless soldiers with Wuchang-made smoothbore guns and rifled sniper rifles, all of whom were wearing bright bayonets and bright cuirasses.

It turned out that in the face of a huge number of muskets equivalent to the level of the end of the 18th century, especially the kind of convenient smoothbore guns that could be loaded as many as five rounds a minute, or a rear-loading trolls of fifteen rounds per minute, even if the cavalry broke through the city walls, it was absolutely impossible to make a new rapid breakthrough.

Galdan couldn't swallow it, vomited and reluctantly, so after breaking through the city wall of killing the tiger's mouth, he attacked fiercely for a day, frantically tore the Ming army's trench musket defense line with the Dzungar iron cavalry, and occasionally had to face the artillery fire cover the rear of the Ming army, and the casualties were miserable.

The antler pits in front of the trenches were even gradually filled with the corpses of the Dzungar cavalry and the corpses of their horses. Although the Ming army also continued to suffer casualties, the absolute superiority exchange ratio, and Zheng Chenggong's personal presence to supervise the battle, made the Ming army's morale high, and they did not retreat from the battle, dragging the Dzungar department into this meat grinder.

And as the twilight came, this grinding meat gradually subsided, and Galdan had no choice but to put the troops in a dilemma and let the troops rest for the night, and then attack again tomorrow.

As everyone knows, it was this night's rest that made him unable to return to his hometown with most of his sons.

Because early the next morning, he found that Li Dingguo had outflanked a large circle of encirclement and annihilation troops behind him, and had detoured back to his flank from the east and west flanks, and pulled out a very large loose encirclement on the grassland that was a hundred miles away before killing the tiger.

At first glance, when he heard that Li Dingguo was outflanking and cutting off the road, Galdan was still very incredible in his heart. Because he knew very well that his hundreds of thousands of troops were twisted into a force to kill, and the camp could stretch for at least a hundred miles.

If the other party wants to outflank him, he will definitely not be able to pull the same number of troops to a point at the same time, then there will definitely be a first-come-first-come, first-served tactic - won't that be a waste of death?

And the facts seem to prove this deduction of Galdan, because after he sent scouts to reconnoiter carefully, he was rewarded with the fact that the first outflanking troops of Li Dingguo to the battlefield were only about 40,000 people, and the east and west flanks were only about 20,000 each.

Perhaps there were more outflanking reinforcements in the rear of the Ming army, but it was obvious that the Ming army could not equip a large army of more than 100,000 orders of magnitude with a number of horses to march quickly and quickly around the rear. The follow-up Ming army reinforcements will definitely be slightly worse in power and will be disjointed.

In this way, as long as he is decisive enough, wouldn't he be able to break through the Ming army in every way, and swallow the remaining remnants of the more than 10,000 defenders of the Ming army, plus the 40,000 cavalry that Li Dingguo sent for free first?

Galdan immediately and decisively adjusted his tactics, anyway, he has a lot of troops, and it doesn't take too many people to kill the tiger's mouth, so he can just leave some troops to fight in turns.

Galdan himself immediately sent a message to all the troops to assemble, and in just a few hours, he notified an army of more than 100,000 and nearly 200,000 iron cavalry to meet Li Dingguo's interception cavalry.

Galdan thought very well: I have nearly 100,000 people every way to beat you Li Dingguo 20,000, and you still can't catch it?

Even if you Li Dingguo still have a rear army, you can rush to the battlefield in a day or two, but a day or two later, your vanguard of 20,000 on the left and right has been eaten and annihilated by me.

Before the invention of radio, the side of the external line of warfare and the combined attack would always have to bear the disadvantage that "all the troops participating in the battle could not arrive at the battlefield at the same time."

This was proved as early as more than 30 years ago, when more than 100,000 cavalry from the Ming Dynasty marched together to destroy Haoge. It's just that Zhu Wenzhen and Li Yu dragged Haoge back then, and they were not defeated until the friendly troops were in place and encircled. And today is a repetition of that situation.

Galdan and Li Dingguo soon entered into a swarming frontal hard-hitting bloody battle. And Li Dingguo immediately used the new musketeers to teach Galdan, "Even if you buy the latest musket of the Rakshasa Kingdom, your musketeers are still not the same thing as the musketeers of the Ming Dynasty."

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In the past, when he used small-scale musket light cavalry and one person with many horses to harass, Li Dingguo was able to equip his subordinates with one person with two guns and sniper spray.

But now more than 40,000 cavalry are dispatched at every turn, and it is impossible to do such a high match, so in today's battle, the main force of the Ming cavalry is still one person and one gun, either sniper or spray, choose one of the two.

When the two armies were about to make contact, Li Dingguo immediately commanded the Ming dragoons with snipers to dismount and line up, set up a narrow musket array, and fired at the Dzungar iron cavalry, which was at least three or five hundred paces away.

At the same time, let the Ming melee cavalry with trolls be arranged on both flanks to prevent the Dzungar cavalry from charging in a roundabout way after sticking to their faces.

After all these years of training and actual combat, Li Dingguo has long been able to apply all kinds of firearms like an arm and finger, and he knows that the power of rifled guns lies in accurate shooting, so if he can stand still on the ground and shoot, he should not challenge the horseback to shoot indiscriminately, otherwise the probability advantage of killing the enemy 300 steps away will be wasted.

After more than 30 years of development, it took a few minutes for the Ming army's front-loading breech sniper rifle to be reloaded. After all these years of improvement, the progress is also very rapid, and it has been compressed to thirty seconds to be able to fire one shot, and one minute can fire two shots-

Don't underestimate this number, this is already faster than the 1800 Baker rifled sniper rifle used by the British in the Napoleonic Wars, because there is no smokeless gunpowder in the West, until the new skirmish rifle invented during the Napoleonic Wars, it can only be achieved as fast as one minute and five rounds.

The current rate of fire of the Daming rifled gun is already the result of smokeless gunpowder and fixed ammunition. After firing, there is no solid residue of gunpowder in the chamber, which can save the process of cleaning the chamber, which can save more than ten seconds compared with the 1800 Baker type.

It is only because of the cost and production limitations of nitrocellulose smokeless gunpowder that the Daming rifled gun still cannot be popularized in the whole army. The biggest advantage of the cheap "Wuchang-made" smoothbore gun is that it can always use old-fashioned black powder ammunition, and the logistics supply is cheap.

Li Dingguo's dragoon dismount gun formation tactics quickly made Galdan's jaw drop. Because of the terrifying range rate of fire of the cavalry at a distance of up to three or five hundred paces in this minute, the Dzungar cavalry became good at singing and dancing before they could meet the enemy, and the rows were harvested and killed.

"How is that possible? The latest Rakshasa musket I use can't even hit half the range of the Ming people! How did they shoot so far, so accurately, and so fast? ”

Looking at the tragic situation of his son, Galdan doubted life at close range for the first time.

He finally saw the ironclad evidence with his own eyes, saw the Rakshasa guns he relied on, and bullied the natives of other Central Asian steppe countries and Qinghai-Tibet.

"Rush! Charge up and engage the Ming cavalry in close combat! Crush their guns! Archer cavalry harass first to attract fire! The musketeers charge straight ahead, put a platoon of guns in front of them and slash and kill! "The middle-level cavalry officers of the Dzungar Department still know how to fight, and they immediately adjusted their tactics.

"Kill! Rush up and engage the Ming cavalry in close combat! Get close and fire! Don't worry about reloading! After knocking out the bullets, you can kill them directly with a saber! ”

On the grassland outside the chaotic slaughtering tiger's mouth, more than 100,000 iron cavalry soldiers completely fought and made a mess.

The Dzungar cavalry, who had been remotely consumed by rifled guns to the point of demoralization and doubtful life, completely lost their character, like a beast whose primitive bloodthirsty desires were ignited, rushing with a frenzied killing regardless of the rules.

However, Li Dingguo had already let his tens of thousands of troll bayonet cavalry on the left and right flanks to prevent outflanking, and when he saw the Dzungar cavalry rushing towards him, he also did not show weakness in a-for-tat.

Compared with the face bombardment, the Ming cavalry has never been intimidated!

The Dzungars will draw their blades and kill them with one shot in the face at most, but we are double-barreled shotguns! And it can be reloaded five times a minute on horseback! If it's a revolver, that's six shots in a row in ten seconds!

The Dzungars, on the other hand, did not prepare ammunition specifically for today's special combat environment, so they used not shotguns, but single-headed shells. They had to juggle both long-range and melee firepower, and if they were to prepare shotguns, they would be completely useless once the battle was fought at a distance.

It's like playing a game of chicken, where you can snipe trolls when you have two guns with you. But if you can only bring a gun and a troll, you will be uncomfortable with yourself, and the enemy can take advantage of the range advantage to deal white bleaching damage.

However, when the person who takes the 98K and the person who takes the S686 plays the charge and sticks to the face, what will be the scene? I can't think about it.

"Bang bang bang-" The roar of the shotgun quickly resounded throughout the battlefield.

The troll cavalry on both wings of the Ming army was as strong as a mad tiger, as solid as a rock, and the enemy who came to attack and hedged several times or even ten times was so bombarded that people could not find the north on their backs.

After each side fired the first round of fire, Li Dingguo's men were even able to use a roundabout kite similar to the Parthian tactics of the traditional cavalry archers, quickly reloading on horseback, keeping as far distance as possible, and spraying a few more rounds.

Although the Dzungar cavalry could charge in a desperate way, it was slightly faster than the Ming cavalry, which needed to take into account the stability of the load. But both sides are in a state of chasing and fleeing, and it will take a few minutes, at least a minute, to catch up with the last few dozen steps.

At this time, the Ming army was able to reload the trolls with five rounds and ten rounds of bullets on horseback, how could this battle be fought?

Countless Dzungar cavalry were killed on the spot by flying kites and returning to their horses, bleeding and drifting, and more than 10,000 corpses were ambushed.