The Turkic cavalry wanted to escape, but where could they escape! The Mongols, who were skilled in horsemanship and had sophisticated breech-loading rifled guns, chased after the Turkic cavalry and fired a series of shots on the galloping horses, knocking all the Turks off their horses. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Azmat was shocked to see that the thirty-six Turkic cavalrymen who rushed out to hunt down the Mongols without even a single hair of the Mongols could not hurt a single Mongol hair, and all of them went to heaven to meet the true God.

"Damn! Did the Mongols get help from the devil? How could their firearms have hit so fast and so far? And to reload bullets on bumpy horseback? One of the soldiers next to Azmat asked, dumbfounded.

"It must be the devil!" Another soldier said, "The Mongols must have made a deal with the devil!" They get magic from the devil to deal with us! ”

Azmat stood up and yelled with a righteous face: "Don't be afraid, sons! God is above and will bless us! The damned Mongols must have sold their souls to the devil! When they die, their souls will go to a hell of fire from which they will never recover! And all of our warriors who die in battle will be blessed by the true God and enter heaven! Death in the Holy War is the gateway to heaven! ”

The Mongol scout cavalry turned back and reported to Galdan: "Enlightened Great Khan, the Turks have occupied the oasis lake, controlled the water source, and built an earthen city near the water source. About 10,000 Turks were guarding the city. ”

Galdan nodded: "Our Mongolian cavalry does not need supplies to go out, we can set off at any time, and mare's milk and dried meat are our food." However, both horses and men cannot do without water, and water sources are scarce in the desert, and the Turks control the water source, which is to force us to fight a tough battle. ”

Li Laiheng rode on a camel, and most of the loyal battalions that fought with the Mongols were camel soldiers. Riding on the back of a Bactrian camel, you can reload the front loading bullets, the camel is much larger and heavier than the war horse, and it is not afraid of cavalry when it collides. However, the disadvantage of camel soldiers is that they are slower than horses, and their agility is not as good as that of horses, and they are easy to suffer when encountering the opposing infantry.

"Just storm it!" After listening to the report of the Mongolian scout cavalry, Li Laiheng said, "Although our loyal battalion is a camel cavalry, it is an infantry when it gets off the camel. The Turks are nothing more than a rabble, not our opponents at all. ”

The battalion did not carry much artillery, except for small field guns, light howitzers, tiger squat guns, and small Franc machine guns carried by camels, it was some light mortars, and the main firepower still relied on muskets and bows and arrows. In terms of siege weapons, the Mongols and the Loyal Battalion only had simple ladders, did not carry large siege weapons, and there were no nearby woods to cut down to provide wood for building siege weapons.

Li Laiheng did not order the bombardment of Tucheng with mortars, because gunpowder was very valuable due to the limited transportation capacity, and Li Laiheng did not intend to waste precious gunpowder against an earthen city.

"Gather all the musketeers and archers, strike at a distance with skirmishers, and the smoothbore gunners and archers approach the city to cover the death battalion to attack the city." Lee Rae-hyung gave the order.

The Loyal Battalion dispatched 1,000 rifled gunners, Lee Kwang-di's 500 breezed riflemen, Galdan's 500 breezed riflemen, and 300 minni riflemen, and 2,300 long-range marksmen pulled out the line of skirmishers, slowly approaching about 150 paces from the city wall. Five thousand smoothbore gunners, three thousand archers, five thousand Dzungar smoothbore gunners and ten thousand archers lined up in a neat formation and walked up step by step towards the city wall.

Seeing the posture of the Mongols and the loyal battalion, Azmat was a little frightened, and he shouted hoarsely: "The heretics are going to attack the city!" Get ready to fire! ”

The Turks at the head of the city launched artillery, with a total of two Russian-made six-pounder guns and four Russian-made three-pounder guns.

The Turks lit the artillery, the muzzles of the guns spewed fire, and six shells smashed into the formation of the loyal battalion and the Mongols. The shells fell in the crowd, pulling out six crooked lines of blood, and more than 20 Loyal Battalion musketeers and more than a dozen Mongolian musketeers flew in a scream.

"On the skirmishers, shoot the enemy gunners!" Li Laiheng roared.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Turks to load their shells, the 1,000 rifled gunners and 300 Mongol skirmishers of the Loyal Battalion spread their legs and ran towards the city wall, and when they were about a hundred paces away from the wall, the skirmishers raised their rifled guns and aimed them at the Turkic gunners who were nervously reloading behind the wooden fence at the head of Tucheng.

"Bang bang bang" a thousand rifled guns and three hundred mini rifles emitted a burst of gunfire like fried beans, and the dense bullets penetrated the gaps in the wooden fence, burrowed into the back, and hit the Turkic gunners who were loading.

This kind of simple earthen city did not have a female wall and battlements, but a wooden fence was inserted at the head of the city to serve as a female wall. This improvised fortification could hold out smoothbore guns and bows, but when it came to highly accurate rifled guns, the sharpshooters fired bullets that easily pierced the gaps between the logs and hit the Turks behind.

The Turkic gunners, who were loading the shells, sprayed a mist of blood and fell one after another. The Turkic gunners in the back came up to replenish them, and then they were beaten into a hornet's nest by a volley of random bullets.

The Turkic artillery was left unmanned and lost its effectiveness.

Li Laiheng roared: "Siege!" ”

The Mongol musketeers and archers, the Loyal Battalion musketeers and archers took the opportunity to press forward. The drums of the loyal battalion rumbled in the formation, and the returning soldiers wearing white hats on their heads and wearing black military uniforms shouted the slogan "Long live the true god" and rushed towards the city wall with simple ladders on their backs.

"Damn! He actually used the heresy of our Heavenly Sect to attack the city! The Turks at the head of the city cursed.

You must know that when the Turks rebelled in later generations, the slogan they shouted was to kill the Han Hui, and the Hui was even more hateful than the infidels in their eyes.

In the blink of an eye, the Hui soldiers had already rushed to the bottom of the earth city and set up a ladder.

The Turks' bows, arrows, muskets, rolling wood, stones, oil cans, and lime bottles on the city fell down like rain, and many returning soldiers fell from the ladders with screams, and the ladders ignited and broke one after another. At the same time, the Mongol archers and the archers of the loyal battalion below the city fired rows of arrows, and the Turks who desperately resisted at the head of the city were shot into hedgehogs. Immediately afterwards, more than 10,000 smoothbore gunners also opened fire, and the bullets like a torrential rain hit the city, causing the Turks to scream and splash blood, and the firepower of the city's resistance was also weakened.

Under the cover of the archers and musketeers under the city, the Hui soldiers quickly climbed to the top of the city and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Turks at the head of the city.

The machetes of the Hui soldiers cut off the heads of the Turks, and the spears of the Turks pierced the bodies of the Hui soldiers, and the two sides fought fiercely, and for every one of the opponents killed, one of them also fell.