For a whole day and night, the Heta, who was fighting the "strange carriages of the Rakshasas" outside, was harassed and exhausted, and every Mongolian cavalryman was out of breath and his horses snorted. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, the opponent spent most of the time sitting in the car, greeting the Mongols with guns and cannons from afar, and taking turns to drive the car. It can be said that Xiao Gongchen and them are taking turns to rest in the battle, and they have spent a whole day with the Mongols, the people are not tired, and the war horses still retain their horsepower.

More than 1,000 catties of sleigh is pulled by two horses of the Don River, in fact, as long as it runs, it is very labor-saving, the Don Hippo does not need to bear much weight, almost equivalent to running without load, but it takes a little strength to start.

After the Mongols adopted a strategy of dividing their troops, Xiao Gongchen also changed his tactics. After all, the sled started too slowly, and the Ming army had already suffered casualties in the battle between the two sides, with six killed and twenty-three wounded. In view of the weakness of the slow start of the sled, Xiao Gongchen simply distanced himself from the Mongols, and only sent a few lightly armed sleds to harass the Mongols with three horse-ton hippos.

Many of the Ming soldiers who rode horses and fought with the Mongols were the cavalrymen of the old department of Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, and because they were older, their children took over and served as cavalrymen in the old department of Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, and these veterans joined the Nanyang Company and became mercenaries of the company's escort team. With the development of the Trans-Khingan Mountains and Sakhalin, some mercenaries came to Sakhalin and taught equestrianism there.

These veterans were originally horse thieves, and their riding skills were comparable to those of the Mongols, and they had fought in the southwestern mountains for many years, so they were very familiar with mountain horseback combat.

The Ming army rode around with the Mongols, using the same Mongol horses. However, the strength of the Ming army lies in the long range of muskets, and the musketeers on horseback only wear a down jacket, remove their heavy armor, and take advantage of the flexibility of their horses to fight the Mongols from a long distance.

Liu Lao Liu is a veteran of horse thieves, twenty-seven years ago, at the age of fifteen, he followed Zhang Xianzhong and served as a soldier under Li Dingguo. Three years ago, Liu Laoliu, who was nearly forty years old, asked his son to replace him as a soldier for the King of Jin, leaving his horses, armor and weapons to his son, while he himself went to Nanyang Company to join the escort team as a mercenary.

Later, because Sakhalin Island and Jeju Island needed riding instructors, Liu Laoliu followed the company to the north and became a cavalry instructor under Zheng Xi.

With Liu Laoliu, there were more than 100 veterans who had been horse thieves, and more than 100 of them were separated by Xiao Gongchen and were responsible for riding horses to contain the Mongols. More than 100 light cavalry, each carrying a Rakshasa musket on their backs, two double-barreled short guns, four grenades and their own cold weapons.

This is already the edge of the Horqin steppe, with hills and mountains nearby. The dense jungle in the middle of the mountains is a terrain that is like a fish in water for these horse-thief-turned-veterans.

There were also fifty light cavalrymen of Oroqen and Evenki origin, who were also good at fighting in the mountains and were very familiar with the local terrain.

Liu Laoliu aimed at a Mongol about seventy paces away and pulled the trigger.

A "bang" shot rang out, and a cloud of blood mist erupted from the Mongol's body, and he fell off his horse.

Because of the slender barrel and long range of the Rakshasa musket, a gunner with good marksmanship can hit the target in about 70 steps, which is longer than the range of the bird gun or the ordinary flintlock gun, and the accuracy is also high, and the projectile power is greater than that of the Rumi gun.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Lumi gun projectile used by the Ming army was too small, and although the accuracy was high, the power was somewhat insufficient. The Rakshasa muskets used by the Rakshasas a few decades later were also improved from the Turkish muskets, which were first used by the Rakshasas and gradually changed to flintlock muskets.

The Rakshasa muskets captured by the Zheng raid department had both arquebuses and flintlock muskets, but the arquebuses were changed to flintlock muskets.

The Rakshasa musket, which was also improved from the Turkish musket, was born decades later than the Rumi gun, and its technology has also improved a lot, and its power is not comparable to the Mongol bow and arrow.

Liu Lao Liu fired a shot, immediately jumped on his horse, waved his whip, and galloped into the depths of the jungle.

More than a dozen Mongolian cavalry chased after them, and when they were halfway through, a large stone suddenly fell from a tree, and the two Mongolian cavalrymen could not dodge and were smashed into pulp by men and horses.

The Mongols continued their pursuit, chasing for a distance, and the ground in front of them suddenly fell, and the three Mongol cavalrymen did not have time to restrain their horses, and even the men and horses fell into the trap, and the wood with sharpened heads in the trap was tied into a hornet's nest.

The jungle was full of traps, and the pursuing Mongols suffered heavy losses.

Veterans from horse thieves like Liu Laoliu, as well as cavalry from Orion such as Mo Rigen, are all masters of arranging traps. They used one or two people to lure the Mongols, and the rest set traps.

The Mongols lost their troops and suffered several heavy losses, and after suffering several heavy losses, they could only scold: "Despicable and shameless savages! Actually used as a lackey for the Rakshasas! If you have the ability, come out and fight face to face! What a good man to calculate with intrigue and trickery! ”

The Korqin people didn't know that it was the Ming army who fought against them, and they thought that the opposite side was the birth of the Rakshasa people.

Under the tactical harassment of the Ming army with light cavalry and sleighs, he lost his troops with the tower.

After dark, the Mongols set up camp. The Ming army all rode on sleighs, shelled at night, and sniped from a distance, causing the cavalry of Heta to be uneasy.

Early the next morning, Heta received a message from someone: "Great Khan, our headquarters has been attacked!" Hundreds of Rakshasas attacked us last night! Killed hundreds of our women, children, old and weak! ”

"Damn Rakshasas! He actually attacked our sweat tent! And the tower was furious.

On the opposite side, the Ming army sled soldiers, the Mongols wanted to fight, but the initiative was completely in the hands of the other party, and the opponent's weapons had a long range and could hit them, but the Mongols could not beat the opponent. In pursuit, the Mongols could not catch up. Such a battle is really impossible to fight.

In desperation, Heta had no choice but to order the troops to be collected and return to his tribe with more than 4,000 Mongolian cavalry. At this time, what He Ta wanted was not how to destroy his opponent, but to protect his tribe as much as possible from being attacked by the Ming army.

"I don't know when Prince Rictu's people will come to help! Let's go back first! In addition, send someone to the capital to report the news, so that the Empress Dowager knows what is happening on the grassland! Tell the Empress Dowager that the Rakshasas are attacking our people! Our people are suffering heavy casualties! Let the Empress Dowager send troops to destroy the Rakshasas! And the tower said viciously.

The Mongols retreated and left, and Xiao Gongchen ordered light cavalry to follow from afar to reconnoitre.

Liu Laoliu led two hundred light cavalry to reconnoiter on Mongolian horses, and met Cao Lei and them who were retreating.

"General! The Tartars have retreated! Our people harassed them for a night! Now our people have all gone, and they are all back. "Liu Laoliu, who was sent to reconnoitre, came back to report.

Xiao Gongchen asked, "What about General Cao and their people?" Nothing, right? ”

Liu Lao Liu replied: "It's all fine, only three people were slightly injured, and no one was killed, but they were busy all night, and the brothers were tired to death." ”

"Let them have a good rest for the day! Let's go and watch outside the Tartar camp! In the evening, we will go to give a big gift to Bumu Butai's mother's house! Xiao Gongchen looked up to the sky and laughed.

The Mongol camp and the tower returned to their tribe, only to hear the tribe crying, more than 300 women, children, old and weak corpses placed at the door of the tent, the women and children in the tribe cried loudly, the old man and the middle-aged man stared at the blood-red eyes, let out an angry roar.

Seeing that Heta had returned with the army, the tribesmen of the tribe surrounded him, and everyone was indignant and wanted to kill the hateful Rakshasa people with Heta and avenge the tribesmen.

When Heta saw the corpses of all kinds of women and children who died tragically in the tribe, his eyes were red, but he was helpless.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Immortal Heaven will not abandon us! This king has borrowed help from Prince Rictu! I also sent someone to ask the court for help! I believe that these hateful Rakshasas will not be arrogant for a few days! As soon as the army of our court arrives, the hateful Rakshasas will be wiped out! And the tower yelled angrily.

"King Khan! There's a Rakshasa light cavalry outside! "A Mongolian came to report.

He Ta turned his head and walked out of the camp, only to see more than a dozen cavalrymen standing on the snow more than two hundred paces away, holding a cylindrical object in their hands and looking at their camp.

"Damn Rakshasas! They're just haunted! Go and a few people to chase them away! Don't chase too far! Drive them away and come back! And the tower gave the order.

More than a hundred Mongol cavalry rushed out of the camp and rushed towards the Ming reconnaissance cavalry.

Seeing the Mongolian cavalry rushing out from a distance, more than a dozen reconnaissance cavalry immediately turned their horses' heads and galloped away.

The Korqin people pursued for a while, but were shot and killed by the Ming army, and lost five more cavalrymen.

Seeing his warriors returning with five corpses, he reprimanded: "It's all said, just drive the damned Rakshasa away, don't chase too far!" You chased so far and lost five brothers in vain! ”

But the matter did not end like this, the Ming army changed a group of people to reconnoitre, standing far outside the camp of the Horqin people, using binoculars to observe the movement inside.

Heta, who was angry, ordered to send people to set up an ambush two hundred steps outside the camp, just waiting for the arrival of the Ming reconnaissance cavalry, and then suddenly attacked.

The Mongols were found to be ambushing outside the camp, and the Ming army dispatched sharpshooters, carrying rifled guns with scopes, to shoot the Mongols in ambush in the snow from a distance. This time the Mongols were ambushed in the snow, and the rifled bullets fired from a long distance mercilessly pierced their bodies, sending them back to the embrace of immortality.

He Ta was furious and sent a large cavalry to pursue and kill the Ming light cavalry riding Mongolian horses.

As a result, the Mongols were introduced into the mountains and forests, where they were plotted by various traps.

After dark, the Ming army came to the camp of the central banner of the left wing of Horqin, and when they saw the Mongol sentries, they sniped them with rifled guns from a distance, and then bombarded them with their cannons. When the Mongols chased them out, the Ming army flew kites on sleds, and sniped the Mongols who were chasing them one by one.

The Korqin people never had the chance of catching up with the sledders, so they had to turn around and return to the camp.

But the sled men turned around again, approached the Mongol camp again, and shot the Mongols at a long distance.

Once again, Heta came up with a countermeasure, and had people ambush in the snow three hundred steps outside the camp, waiting for the "Rakshasa people" to come to the door, and then launch an attack. It's a pity that this ploy of his was discovered again.

The sled men stopped their advance when they were still a mile from the Korqin camp, fired shotguns and fired several rounds of shelling into the snow where the Mongols had laid an ambush......

For three days in a row, the gunfire around the Mongol camp did not stop. During the day, the light cavalry of the Ming army harassed them, and when they encountered a large group of Mongols chasing them, they led the Mongols to the mountains and hunted them with traps; If the Mongols divided a small number of troops to pursue, the Ming light cavalry lured the Mongols to their main body of sled soldiers and annihilated.

If the Mongols took the initiative to pursue the sled soldiers, but the range and speed were not as good as the people, they could not hit, they could not catch up, and they were shot in vain as if they were hunting.

After nightfall, the Ming army rode on a sleigh, wearing white camouflage uniforms exactly the same color as the snow, and they were elusive, shooting here and there, and from time to time a few shells were released. The Mongolian cavalry, which was already demoralized to the extreme, only felt that the wind was loud and the grass and trees were all soldiers.

"Great Khan! One of our warriors was caught by them and put back! They also bring you a letter. A Goshha hurried into the sweat tent.

"Bring someone up!" And the tower said loudly.

Goshha arched his hand and retreated, and soon came in with a Mongol soldier covering his ears.

"The man brought it up, and the Rakshasa cut off one of his ears." Goshha arched.

The Mongol soldier trembled and pulled out a letter from his bosom: "Great Khan, this is a letter from the Rakshasa people. ”

Annoyed, Kazuta snatched the letter and tore the envelope open almost with bitter hatred.

The letter reads in Mongolian: "Dear Lord Darhan, a few days ago was the Spring Festival of your Great Qing Kingdom, and it is also the White Festival of your Mongolians, which is equivalent to our New Year. How can we, the Russian Empire, not present you with a New Year's gift on such a grand holiday? Your Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is young, so we decided to give the New Year's gift to your aunt, the King of Khan, who is the empress dowager respected by your Great Qing Dynasty, and this is the purpose of our coming to the Horqin Grassland! Our gifts to you, of course, are precious bullets and shells! In the past few days, we have sent you a lot of bullets and cannonballs, and performed a wonderful hunting show for you, I wonder if the king of Khan was surprised? We sincerely hope that your Empress Dowager will be satisfied with our gifts! ”

The last signature was, Major Varentin, of the Russian Expeditionary Force. (To be continued.) )