Lin Dan Khan is the 23rd grandson of Genghis Khan, the 8th grandson of Dayan Khan, the lord of the Mongol Zhongxing, and a descendant of the Golden Family.

However, at this moment, he is only the nominal co-owner of Monan, and the Korqin, Nekhalkha, Tumut, and Ordos departments in Monan are in charge of their own affairs.

Lin Dan Khan could only dominate the Chahar tribe of the Liao River and the Hetao region, which was divided into eight Etoks, namely Haozit, Naiman, Keshiketeng, Uzhumuqin, Sunit, Aohan, Alakzhuot, and Zhuxiti.

Originally, the Inner Khalkha Five Alliance, led by Fried Flowers, had already obeyed the dispatch of Lin Dan Khan, but Zai Sai's strength continued to expand, making Fried Flowers gradually lose control of Inner Khalkha.

So even if he didn't have Nurhachi's three thousand taels of gold, he would have to do it to Zaisai.

According to the intelligence, the ironclad cavalry that Zai Sai relied on the most was no longer in the camp.

Although he still has 8,000 horsemen, his strength should not be underestimated.

But at this time, Lin Dan Khan had 20,000 coalition troops in his hands, and he still had an overwhelming advantage over Zaisai.

Chahar and the cavalry of the Fried Flower Department attacked the Zaisai Department overwhelmingly.

20,000 cavalry galloped on the grassland, making the whole land tremble slightly, and there was no end in sight to the cavalry oppression.

The dust raised by the horses' hooves covered the sky and the sun, and there was a momentum of "black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy it".

In the face of such an attack, the Zai Saibu was already a little weaker in terms of momentum.

Soon, the 20,000 Chahar coalition troops attacked Zaisa's camp in three directions.

Among them, the front is the main force of the 10,000 Chahar Division, and the left and right flanks are respectively the 5,000 cavalry of the Fried Flower Division and the other 5,000 cavalry of the Chahar Division.

By this time the cavalry of Zaisai was already in front of the battalion, although they were outnumbered by the enemy. However, they did not panic and waited quietly for the arrival of the enemy.

Lin Dan Khan, who was watching the battle from a distance, had not yet noticed anything unusual, but was a little surprised by the "immovable mountain" of the Zaisai cavalry!

Zaisai was able to be so calm, and at this time, the forty Franc machine guns hidden in the camp were ready.

John Tong helped improve the wheeled gun carriage of the Franc gun, making it much lighter to be dragged by horses and propelled by infantry.

This batch of Furlong machine guns is a specially designed field gun by Han Gonggong, which is an iron breech-loading smoothbore cannon.

The whole gun is composed of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-gun.

When firing the cannon, the gunpowder projectile is first filled into the sub-cannon, and then the sub-cannon is loaded into the belly of the cannon, and the sub-cannon fire door is ignited for firing.

Each Furlong gun is equipped with 3 subguns, so this is a rapid-fire gun that can fire 3 shells in a row in a very short time.

In order to meet the needs of field warfare, Han Gonggong redesigned the length of the gun body to make it more convenient to transport.

In addition, the weight of this batch of Franc machine guns is only 600 catties, but the firing range still reaches about 750 meters.

Due to the appearance of flowering shells, this rapid-fire gun also has a place in actual combat.

This is the first time that the Kaiyuan Ming Army used artillery to cooperate with cavalry in field combat, and it was also the first time that flowering shells were used in actual combat.

Everyone was looking forward to the effect of this artillery shot,

Mao Wenlong personally commanded the artillery firing as a staff general.

With his order, the Ming army's rear runner quickly lit the fuse of the rear runner.

Then with a deafening roar, 40 Franc machine guns simultaneously roared at the Chahar cavalry in front!

The Chahar cavalry, who had launched the charge, were waving sabers and shouting slogans and rushing forward.

At the forefront were 2,000 heavy cavalry wearing iron armor, which was also Lin Dan Khan's trump card, and he followed the example of the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" to concentrate the heavy cavalry.

Most of the 2,000 men wore heavy cloth armor, and some even wore armor.

He believed that this elite heavy cavalry would definitely be able to crush the cavalry of the Zaisai Division in one fell swoop.

However, as the Ming army's cannonballs fell into the formation, Lin Dan Khan's facial expression instantly became distorted.

When the cannonball fell into the middle of the marching cavalry, it burst out with amazing power in an instant.

The strong shock wave knocked the surrounding soldiers to the ground, and only one shell brought down more than a dozen horsemen in the vicinity.

Dust tossed in the air waves, and the battlefield was filled with the screams of knights and the neighing of horses.

Even these Chahar cavalry, heavily armoured, still did not resist the attack of the cannonballs, and dozens of shells fell, causing nearly 300 casualties in an instant, causing the entire cavalry team to be confused.

Not only Lin Dan Khan, but everyone except Li Xianzhong looked stupid, is this the power of the flowering bomb? A moment later, the second round of shelling came as scheduled, and soon the third was repeated.

After being baptized by three rounds of artillery, the 10,000 Chahar cavalry, who were responsible for the frontal attack, were completely disorganized.

Although the actual casualties caused by the three rounds of artillery were only eight or nine hundred, less than one-tenth of their total.

But the panic caused by the flowering shells and the continuous shelling has thrown them into complete confusion.

In particular, the 2,000 ironclad cavalry who were the head of the attack suffered heavy casualties.

Zaisai seized the opportunity and hurriedly commanded his tens of thousands of cavalry to charge the enemy.

As the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, waves of arrows rained down into the formations of both sides, and from time to time a cavalry was shot by feathered arrows and fell off their horses.

Zaisai's front was also composed of 1,000 heavy armored cavalry, and thanks to the 500 pieces of armor he had received from Fan Yongdou, Zaisai's iron cavalry became famous among the Mongol army.

At this time, the Chahar army was in turmoil, and naturally it was not the opponent of the Zaisai cavalry, and it didn't take long for the Chahar cavalry to show signs of defeat.

The shelling of the Chahar troops on the front naturally caused some panic on the left and right flanks.

In charge of outflanking the left flank was the 5,000 Khalkha cavalry led by Fried Flowers, although the sudden appearance of artillery made him feel that the situation was not good, and it must have been the Ming army that supported Zai Sai.

However, at present, Li Xianzhong's main force is fighting a decisive battle with Nurhachi in Jianzhou, presumably supporting a batch of artillery.

Although the Chahar cavalry attacking head-on suffered many casualties, as long as they could penetrate the enemy's camp from the left and right flanks, they could destroy the artillery of the Ming army and win this victory.

As they got closer to the camp, they became more confident that the final victory would be their own.

Artillery can only attack targets from a distance, and they are only five hundred paces away from the Zaisai camp, which is long past the minimum firing distance of artillery.

At this time, a smug smile appeared on his face, and his mind had even begun to think of the scene of the victory and the re-unification of the Inner Khalkha tribes.

But soon the scene in front of him made his smile come to an abrupt end.

I saw thousands of Ming soldiers suddenly emerge from behind the tent in the Zaisai camp, they wore masks and armor, and the spears and steel knives in the hands of the Ming army were even more cold under the sunlight, which made people shudder.

He couldn't be more familiar with this cavalry, it must be the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry"?

At this moment, his heart collapsed, and he was tricked by Li Xianzhong again?

Could it be that he made such a big move in Jianzhou, and the ultimate purpose was just to lure himself and Lin Danhan to make a move?

But how can there be such fishing in the world?

He scattered the bait in Gule Village, thousands of miles away, but put the hook in the camp of Zaisai.

If he chooses to retreat at this moment, at most he will be bitten by a small tail by the Ming army, and the main force will definitely be able to retreat safely.

Heavy cavalry like the Liaodong Iron Cavalry could not catch up with his Mongolian light cavalry.

But in this way, the Chahar cavalry, which was still in a stalemate, will be completely wiped out.

He could not leave his Mongol Khan behind and survive alone.

More than 20 years ago, he participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Li family's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and he wanted to see how good this "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" was?

For the galloping cavalry, the distance of a few hundred paces was instantaneous, and soon the Mongol arrows rained down on the Liaodong iron cavalry.

For the Liaodong Iron Cavalry who were equipped with armor, it was difficult for ordinary bows and arrows to inflict substantial damage on them unless they could shoot through their face armor.

Even the armor-piercing heavy arrows could only inflict some damage on them within twenty or thirty steps, and this kind of long-range projectile was not much of a threat!

Soon the two sides entered into a hand-to-hand link.

Although the cavalry under the command of Fried Flower also had a wealth of combat experience, the Mongols were not known for their heavy cavalry.

Soon after the battle, the Mongols were at a disadvantage, and hundreds of Mongol knights were killed by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry in just one face, while there were very few Ming troops who fell.

Just as the Ming army was preparing to continue to expand their gains, they found that the Mongols had retreated.

The fried flowers used the cavalry tactics that the Mongols were best at.

Take advantage of the speed advantage of the light cavalry to constantly attract the opponent's heavy cavalry to pursue, and when the opponent's heavy cavalry is exhausted, then attract them to their own ambush circle, and use the iron cavalry to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

In Europe, the Mongols relied on this kind of cavalry tactics to slowly drag down and annihilate the heavy cavalry in Europe.

With the current strength of the fried flower department, even if they can attract the Liaodong Iron Cavalry like their ancestors, they don't have the strength to destroy them.

Zha Zhongwen knew very well that the reason why Fried Flower did not choose to withdraw directly from the battlefield was to drag himself and buy time for Lin Dan Khan on the frontal battlefield.

But he ignored that it was now the age of firearms, and although the Liaodong Iron Cavalry had given up the previous inefficient Three-Eyed Gun, one-third of the three thousand cavalry still carried the Lumi Gun.

The original Lu Mi gun was an arquebus, and it was too troublesome for the cavalry to light the fire on the horse, so the previous Liaodong iron cavalry did not carry Lu Mi gun.

However, as the arquebus was transformed from an arquebus to a rifle, the cavalry was re-equipped with the Lumi.

And in order to facilitate their aim and fire on the move, these Lumi guns were also equipped with a wooden butt.

Of course, these cavalry carrying the Rumi guns were not "dragoons".

Because although they can shoot while on the move, they can't reload their horses on horseback.

If they are in motion, they can only shoot once, and then they still rely on the sabers they carry to fight.

However, this is where the Rumi guns come into play, and the Mongol ranger tactics are designed to attract the enemy to pursue, and even if the opponent stops, they will repeatedly attack them.

"Bang, bang, bang"

As a puff of white smoke rose, the Mongol light horsemen who came to tease soon paid a heavy price.

The range of 120 steps of Lu Mi Gong made the Mongolian cavalry fall under the fire of the Ming army before they had time to bend their bows and arrows!

This was also the first time that the Mongol cavalry had seen the ultra-long range of the Lumi gun.

When the Ming army's firearms punched blood holes in the chests of the Mongolian cavalry who went to tease, Fried Flower understood that the era of Mongolian light cavalry was gone.

At this time, he hurriedly ordered a retreat, if they continued to entangle with the Ming army, they would have to be annihilated.

And this sacrifice does not buy much time for Lin Dan Khan.

Zha Zhongwen did not choose to continue to pursue the fried flowers, he understood that the Liaodong Iron Cavalry could not catch up with the Mongolian light cavalry, and Lu Migong's hit rate on the horse was really low.

So he ordered the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to turn to flank the main force of the Chahar cavalry, which was entangled with the Zai Sai Department.

On the right flank, the 5,000 Chahar cavalry in charge of the attack were not so lucky.

They faced a 3,000-strong assault battalion led by Zhao Shujiao, although the assault battalion was not as famous as the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

However, they were also dressed in heavy cloth armor, which was far more protective than these Mongolian cavalrymen in leather armor.

Nowadays, heavy cloth armor has become the main armor of the Kaiyuan Ming army, and the cloth armor can also reach about 8 percent of the defense of the armor, but the weight will be much lighter.

The weight of a set of armor is forty or fifty catties, and the weight of heavy cloth armor is usually about 26 to 30 catties.

Moreover, the cost and manufacturing cycle of cloth face armor are only half of that of Zajia, which is obviously at a disadvantage for Zajia.

The protection is not as good as the armor, and it is only for cold weapons, and the protection of the armor in the face of fire is significantly better than that of the armor.

Now, in addition to the heavy cavalry of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the Kaiyuan Ming Army is no longer equipped with armor.

The main forces of Chahar were concentrated on the front, and the cavalry responsible for the attack on the right flank was not strong.

Once the two sides fought, the Chahar cavalry quickly retreated.

When the Liaodong Iron Cavalry turned to the frontal battlefield, the assault battalion had already routed the enemy on the right flank and pounced on the front.

Lin Dan Khan saw that the general trend had gone, and hurriedly slipped away.

In this way, this large-scale cavalry battle that took place in the hometown of Fuyuwei ended in a crushing defeat for the Chahar coalition army.

The main force of the 10,000 Chahar cavalry, who was responsible for the frontal attack, suffered the greatest casualties, and was almost completely wiped out due to the encirclement and suppression of the enemy's three-way army, and only a few hundred cavalry escaped in the end.

In this battle, Lin Dan Khan suffered heavy losses, Chahar sent 15,000 cavalry, and finally lost nearly 13,000 cavalry, while Fried Flower only suffered more than 800 cavalry casualties due to timely retreat.

The main force of the Zaisai Division, which carried Chahar in front, also lost nearly 3,000 cavalry, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry only suffered dozens of casualties, and the assault battalion defeated the 5,000 Chahar cavalry on the right flank and only suffered more than 300 casualties.

For this "Fu Yuwei War", Zai Sai seemed very excited, because his biggest enemy Lin Dan Khan has now been completely defeated.

He almost became the strongest force in Monan.

He said excitedly: "Now that Lin Dan Khan's vitality is greatly damaged, please ask Ning Yuanbo to help me again." The artillery of the Ming army is huge, as long as I conquer Lin Dan Khan's Chahanhot City, I can dominate Monan. ”

"Once I become the Great Khan, I will definitely do my best to help you exterminate Jianzhou!"

Li Xianzhong thought to himself: This Zai Sai is really inflated, but after winning a battle, he tried in vain to inherit the position of Lin Dan Khan and the Mongolian Great Khan.

Lin Dan Khan had no less than 30,000 horsemen in his hands, and even if he was defeated this time, there were still more than 17,000 horsemen.

Although Zai Sai won a big victory, he also lost 3,000 horsemen, and although some equipment was captured, only 7,000 horsemen were left in his hand. also wants to use his own artillery to take down Lin Dan Khan's nest for him.

How dare he think about it!

Li Xianzhong meddled in the affairs of the steppe, one was to make money, and the most important thing was to curb Lin Dan Khan from further expanding, so that Monan Mongolia would continue to be in a state of fragmentation, not to create a new Mongolian Great Khan to replace Lin Dan Khan.

He said: "Although Lin Dan Khan has been defeated now, he still has nearly 20,000 horses in his hands, and it is not the best strategy to storm Hanhot City at this time. ”

"What I brought this time is only the Franco machine gun for field use, and the 6-pound light artillery can't hit the city."

"Besides, if Nurhachi knows that my main force is now on the grassland, he will definitely attack the Ming army in Gulezhai on a large scale, and I will not be able to take care of both ends at that time."

Zai Sai was a little embarrassed by Li Xianzhong, so he said: "It was my thoughtlessness that delayed Ning Yuanbo's expedition to Jianzhou. The grace of this help is remembered by Zaisai. ”

"After all, Lin Dan Khan is the Great Khan of Mongolia, and his strength is strong, and the so-called 'hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen', I am afraid that I will not be able to eat him for a while."

"However, there are not many soldiers and horses left this time, and I want to replace them and officially become the lord of Inner Khalkha. Ning Yuanbo rest assured, your Liaodong Iron Cavalry can return to Gule Village. Now I have obtained a lot of iron armor, and after a little rectification, I will levy the camp of fried flowers, and when the time comes, I will directly send people to Kaiyuan. ”

At this time, Master Liu on the side said: "The leader of Zai Sai is really far-sighted, and it is true that with your strength, you can't eat Lin Dan Khan now, after all, he still has the name of the Golden Family." ”

"But Uncle Ning Yuan's trip to the grassland so far and wide can't let him go back empty-handed."

Seeing that Master Liu had something to say, Zai Sai said: "Uncle Ning Yuan is not an outsider, you have any bad ideas, hurry up and say it." ”

Master Liu smiled evilly and said: "We can besiege Chahanhot City, Chahar is newly defeated, and morale will definitely not be high; Although it is still difficult to capture this city. ”

"However, it is not difficult to bombard the city to scare Lin Dan Khan, force him to sign an alliance under the city, and hand over some money."

"Once Lin Dan Khan signs an alliance with us, he will not dare to send troops to rescue us if we attack the fried flowers again."

Master Liu is now the person in charge of the grassland station of the Intelligence Division, and this idea was naturally thought up by Li Xianzhong.

How could he work in vain with such effort?

This is not in line with his consistent thinking that "thieves do not go empty".

However, it is not good for him to say this himself, and if he says it through the mouth of Master Liu, Zai Sai will not doubt it.

Sure enough, Zai Sai said: "It's really me who is confused, how can I let Ning Yuanbo go home empty-handed, I must knock Lin Danhan well, rest assured that all the income this time belongs to Ning Yuanbo!" ”

The city of Chahanhot is located on the plain of the mountain of the Abagan Mountain, and is also known as the White City.

It used to be the capital of the Liao Kingdom, Shangjing Linhuang Mansion, and it is said that the city of Chahanhot was built on the site of the fortress of the Liao Dynasty.

The ruins of the ancient city of Chahanhot are composed of inner and outer double walls, and the height of the city is about 4 meters.

The length of the east and west city walls of the outer city of Chahanhot is about 500 meters, and the length of the north and south city walls is about 980 meters; The inner castle is square, about 250 meters in circumference, with gates on the south and east sides, adobe on the inner side of the wall, and blue bricks on the outer wall.

In fact, it is not difficult to storm here with the strength of the Ming army, but it is not in the interests of Li Xianzhong that Lin Dan Khan collapsed instantly.

Five days later, the 10,000 Ming army and the allied forces of the Zaisai Department surrounded the place.

Lin Dan Khan had not had time to gather all the Chahar defenders from all over the country to his capital, so there were only more than 10,000 people in the city.

In the face of the menacing coalition forces, he was instantly intimidated.

Soon, the Ming army tried its skills and directly used the Franc machine artillery to bombard the northern city, killing hundreds of defenders in the city.

Soon after, Master Liu entered the city as an envoy to negotiate.

Lin Dan Khan took the initiative to attack the Zaisai Department, causing them huge personnel and economic losses.

Now he demands that Lin Dan Khan pay compensation of 150,000 taels of silver, 5,000 cattle and horses, and 20,000 sheep.

Master Liu was not in a hurry, and gave Lin Danhan 3 days to think about it.

Although Lin Danhan begged hard, Master Liu was only one or two pieces of silver, and he did not give in to a sheep.

In the end, Lin Dan Khan reluctantly signed this alliance under the city.

And officially canonized Zaisai in the name of the Great Khan of Mongolia as the Khan of the Inner Khalkha Five-Tribes League, called "Taier Khan"!

Zaisai soon ordered the fried flowers to offer cattle and sheep in the name of the Khan of the Inner Khalkha Five Tribes, and the people.

The fried flowers did not comply, and the two sides immediately fought.

And the big battle that took place on the grassland at this time also affected Nurhachi's heart.

They had been delayed by several days in getting the information, but they got the news quickly.

Although they knew that the Chahar Department was attacking the Zaisai Department on a large scale, Li Xianzhong would definitely send the Ming army from Gule Village to help in the battle.

But who would have thought that Li Xianzhong would directly transfer all the main cavalry of the Ming army to participate in the war?

The "Battle of Fuyuwei" was the largest cavalry battle that took place this year, with a total of 36,000 cavalry on both sides.

Huang Taiji said regretfully: "Li Xianzhong's courage is too great, he actually threw all the Liaodong iron cavalry to the grassland thousands of miles away, but unfortunately Lin Dan Khan was defeated in one day, we know too late, at this time, the main force of the Ming army must have rushed back to Gule Village day and night." ”

Just when everyone was still annoyed that they had missed this good opportunity for the Ming army to be empty, they saw Fan Wenhuan running over and saying, "Good news, great news!" ”

"The Ming army besieged Chahanhot City, the capital of Lin Dan Khan!"

Nurhachi couldn't believe his ears, because Chahanhot City was even farther away from Gule Village, so Li Xianzhong's main force would definitely not be able to come back!

The Jianzhou army had at least several days to drive the Ming army out of Gule Village.

Nurhachi said: "Li Xianzhong is not greedy enough, this is really a godsend, we just went all out to relieve the siege of Gule Village." ”

In the end, Nurhachi left Azig's blue flag to guard Hetuala, and led more than 30,000 main forces with two yellow flags and the same white flag to Gule Village!

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