When Daisenbao saw hundreds of people running up from behind the North Navy, he knew that the remaining 2,500 people could only be dishes. In desperation, he could only withdraw the horse team to the west side of the first trench, and at the same time sent someone to report the situation to Mingliang, waiting for the next instructions.

The gang leader Shuoyun Bao and the gang leader of the Inlaid White Flag who were sent out to harass the gang leader Wan Ting were also beaten to run away with their heads. Although these two teams caused some trouble to the North Navy with the cover of dense forests, the dense machine gun bullet rain does not necessarily have to hit people to cause damage; the wood chips and jumping damage caused by bullets hitting trees, stones are sometimes more terrifying than the bullets hitting the human body directly.

In the Ningguta camp, Mingliang received war reports from the front one after another: "Report to the commander! There are only five or six thousand thieves, and those who rely on are fired fired fire and strong firearms to consolidate their best friends. No matter how they attack, they will never retreat."

After Mingliang discussed with the left and right, he decided to adjust the deployment and ordered Daisenbao's troops to move to the north bank of Hualan River to the northwest of Daying to set up defenses, and Shuoyunbao and Wanting's troops retreated to the village south of Daying to set up defenses.

The five thousand cavalrymen who returned to the west of the first trench on the north bank of the Hualan River lined up a huge camp with a radius of three kilometers. They were waiting for the opportunity. Once there was a disconnect between the various divisions of the North Navy marching, it was the best time for them to attack.

In the second trench on the east side of the Qing army camp, tens of thousands of Qing troops holding muskets were waiting for battle. Except for more than a thousand flag camp musketeers from Yili who used flintlock rifles, most of the Qing army still used combroach guns.

Later generations often say that the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty themselves used the world's most advanced muskets to hunt, but did not give the Manchu and Han soldiers.

But is this true? Many people confuse standard weapons and handicrafts.

The standard bird guns of the early Qing Dynasty were indeed passed down from the Ming army, but since Kangxi and Yongzheng conquered the Junggar, the main purpose of the Qing army's standard muskets was to imitate the "Zanbala muskets" of the Junggar, that is, Huihui guns, which are different in size.

The big one is the "return gun" mounted on the saddle-shaped base, and the small one is the "return gun".

The source of muskets in various divisions of Junggar Weitra, after repeated emphasis on some early views, made people mistakenly believe that they all came from the support of the Russians. Historically, when Tsarist Russia expanded into the inland Asian countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, for its own interests, it strictly prohibited the export of firearms to Kazakhstan, Weitra, and Khalkha Mongolian divisions. In 1620 and 1694, it even issued a ban on the export of firearms to Mongolia.

Tsarist Russia's flintlock muskets were only allowed to be exported as gifts, and the number was very small. Of course, sporadic smuggling also existed, but the scale was not large. When fighting against Kangxi, the number of firearm troops in Junggar was as high as 8,000 to 12,000. Smuggling alone would definitely not be able to form such a huge musket army.

In fact, the largest source of muskets in the Junggar at that time was the Muslim country in Central Asia, and the source was the Ottoman Empire. Don’t look down on the medley gun, the Ottomans fought four "Russia-Turkish Wars" with Tsarist Russia with this lightweight and suitable for cavalry tactics.

According to the memorial of Yue Zhongqi during the Yongzheng period, the "Huibu Hua Gun" imitated by the Qing army had an effective range of 270 steps (83~96 meters), with a maximum range of 500~600 steps (150~185 meters). The effective range of the flintlock rifle during the same period was only 100 yards-91 meters.

During the Yongzheng period, the Xi'an General's Office in the Qing Dynasty built a total of 4,800 shots. By the 51st year of Qianlong's reign, the inventory of the "Zanbala Musket" in the Military Preparatory Institute reached 10,000 shots.

Considering that the 18th century flintlock rifle's dumbness rate was obviously higher than that of a coercine, if you were the emperor, which one would you choose?

There are three trenches set up by the Qing army in Ningguta Camp. In order to prevent the soldiers from spending a lot of energy when transferring, Mingliang sets the distance between each trenches to two hundred steps. Some people think the distance is too far.

In the afternoon, after learning that the Northern Navy was stationed in a village ten miles southwest of Ningguta, Mingliang decided to launch a night attack.

The Eight Banners troops are not green camps in the pass. They rely on good food and a lot of meat, and there is no night blindness at all. If this is replaced by a bitter green camp, they will all become blind at night.

For this night attack, the Qing army also took great pains. In order to resist the weapons of the Northern Navy, Mingliang, as the commander, finally decided to use a reinforced "rolling quilt" - that is, a quilt stand.

The story is written in the "Miscellaneous Notes of Guangyang" during the Kangxi period. This incident was recorded: In the winter of the 23rd year of the Kangxi reign, Kangxi summoned Lin Xingzhu, the Marquis of Jianyi in Jingshan. When it came to the benefits of firearms, he asked what to use to resist.

Lin Xingzhu replied: "The best thing is to get out of the quilt."

Kangxi asked what is getting out of the quilt?

Lin Xingzhu said: "It's just a quilt used by ordinary people."

Kangxi felt strange and asked what the reason was. Lin Xingzhu said: "Softness can control hard ears." Then he introduced the rolling card - that is, rattan card.

Later, Kangxi recruited Fujian rattan soldiers to go north during the Battle of Jaxa. Because rattan soldiers put their shields on their heads when swimming across the river, they were exclaimed by the Russian army as "Big Hat Tartars".

In addition to rattan soldiers, the Qing army also set up a "quilt squad" to break Tsarist Russia's muskets. A team of fifty people was a leader, holding a quilt soaked in water and carrying two open corners with bamboo poles. It was called the "quilt slitting hand". Behind it was a single and double knife hand, a bird gunner, a spearman, a small bronze cannon, a gun lift, and a cannon, which can break the Russian army's bird gun, rocket, a hand dart, and a more useful tool than a rattan.

In fact, this thing was not available in the Qing Dynasty. Qi Jiguang had already used the bird guns when dealing with Japanese pirates. It was called "hard and soft card" at that time. It was made of raw cowhide, silkworm cotton cloth, and mulberry paper balls, but it could not be touched by water. When Tang Shunzhi heard that he and Qi Jiguang asked many times to imitate it, but Comrade Xiao Qi refused to give it to him, which made Comrade Tang more and more curious.

The bullets of the Northern Navy were naturally stronger than those of Tsarist Russia, so the bright way was to wet the two quilts with water, and then paste them with thick black and gray mud in the middle and outermost layer. Two soldiers acted as "flipped hands", followed by a team of fifty people, including knife hands, archers, bird gun soldiers, guns, cannons, and mountain-slashing cannons.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! With the order from Marshal Ming, the bank of the Huerha River quickly became very noisy at dusk. A large group of people rushed to drive the car, carried loads, and came with one bed of quilt after another.

In the Jaxa warship on the river, the sailors who were having supper heard the movement and ran to the deck to see the Western scenery. They thought to themselves that this was a great enemy, why are these guys still in the mood to wash the quilt? They are so heartless!

After watching for a while, the sailors realized that the quilt was fine. The people threw the quilt into the river and sucked it in full water. Then they were fished up and spread it on the shore and began to pour river mud on it one by one, making the sailors look at each other and even forgot to eat supper.

The troops that attacked at night were led by Shuoyun Bao, the lieutenant of the Inlaid White Banner Guardian, and Wanting, the lieutenant of the Guardian. In addition to the two thousand quilted troops, they transferred 3,000 people to form a night attack force of 5,000.

Bright Liang's intention was that once the sneak attack troops began to take action, the 5,000 cavalry troops on the north bank of the Hualan River would take advantage of the situation to attack in order to cause a major blow to the Northern Navy.

Success and failure are here! If you succeed in the sneak attack, everything will be fine tomorrow; if you fail... Madon! You can't fail!

The Qing army was a veteran in the night sneak attack. They attacked Jinchuan, Myanmar, and Junggar. The sneak attack tactics were tried and tested. The attack time was set at the end of Chou and the beginning of Yin the next day, which was the time when the night guards were most relaxed.

At midnight, he buried a pot to make rice, had enough food and drink, and checked his weapons. Mingliang also issued a reward for the sneak attack troops: for each Northern Navy to be killed, he would be rewarded with fifty taels of silver; for a continuous fired musket, he would be rewarded with eighty taels of silver; if he could be seized, he would be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver.

He estimated that the Northern Navy would only have seven or eight thousand people to die this time. Even if they were killed, they would only be rewarded with 400,000. Including the weapons seized, the total of them would only be three or five million. It was really cost-effective.

At the beginning of the Chou, five thousand night attack troops quietly dispatched. Daisenbao's cavalry troops also wrapped their horses and entered the departure position with their mouths. During this period, the Eight Banners troops had very good military discipline, and no one spoke except for the sound of footsteps during the marching of each unit.

The forty quilt mounts walking in front were camping step by step, like centipedes slowly advancing. In order to prevent the North Navy's artillery shells, the quilt mounts were more than fifty steps away from each team.

When they were two miles away from the Northern Navy headquarters, they stopped to rest. After waiting for the forward camp who was responsible for reconnaissance in front of them to report, they learned that the posts besides the village were still swimming, and the Northern Navy in the village was asleep.

The lieutenant leader Shuo Yunbao was overjoyed when he heard this. He asked the soldiers and generals to rest on the spot for a stick of incense, and then ordered the teams to continue moving forward.

At this time, no one in the Qing army discovered it. In the dark night sky, two drones that were only the size of a palm were floating from their heads to the village...

At the starting position of the Qing army on the north bank of the Hualan River, many war horses stood up and shook their heads with some anxiety.

Daisenbao, who was in the tent, heard the movement outside, and his opponent Goshha asked, "What's going on? Go and take a look."

Nagoshha went out for a while and came back to report: "Sir, there is a group of hornets in the sky outside, buzzing non-stop."

"Hornet?" Daisenbao and several generals walked out of the tent and looked up at the sky.

On a dark night, nothing was seen in the sky except the stars. Suddenly, a general pointed to a part of the air and said, "Sir, look!"

Everyone stared at the fingers of the general, and finally saw a very faint red dot flashing ten feet above his head.

What is this?! Daisenbao and the generals were shocked. After a stick of incense, the red dot seemed to rise a lot, becoming more obscure and difficult to distinguish, and then floated away to the southeast.

"Evil Art? Monster?" Everyone returned to the tent, with surprise and confusion on their faces.

At the second lunar month of the lunar calendar, the Qing army's "quilt army" finally arrived a mile outside the North Navy's garrison, and the village in the distance was still silent. At this time, the quilt columns had already spread out in fan shape and began to surround the village.

Just when the Qing army was still three hundred meters away from the village, a muffled sound of "bang" suddenly came from the village. A moment later, the sky was shining brightly, and the entire wilderness was illuminated like daytime, with five thousand attacks at night without any escape.

"The thief has magic!"

"It's over!" Daisenbao felt as if he had been frozen.

At this time, a shrill whistle began to sound, and the Northern Navy, who had been waiting for a long time, finally showed its fangs.

"Open fire!"

In an instant, gunfire sounded, and the originally quiet village instantly turned into a volcano; dense rain of bullets erupted from the north, west and south of the entire village, and the so-called "quilt army" were the first to be knocked down.

"You must lean on it! Otherwise everyone will be targeted! Brothers, kill!"

The first thing that came to his senses was Wan Ting, the lieutenant of the guards. He raised his sword and shouted, and some musketeers who had come back pulled the trigger at the North Navy 300 meters away. The Qing army holding bows and arrows took advantage of the smoke of gunpowder and bent down and ran forward desperately.

Be closer! Be closer, you can shoot them to death!

"Boom! Boom!..."

Balls of flames exploded among the Qing army, and the mortars of the North Navy opened fire.

"Bang! Bang!" Two more flares rose into the sky, and thousands of soldiers ran in the wilderness like headless flies. Wherever there were the most people, the most fell.

In the rain of bullets, the sound of the Qing army's muskets was still firing. After shooting, they bent over and advanced, rushed out more than ten steps and then stood up and started to charge the mesh gun. Although people kept falling down, others were still moving forward, shooting, and moving forward again.

The Qing army's bird gunners were almost a walking powder barrel. Once the gunpowder gourd on his waist was hit, a large ball of flame suddenly rose up and turned into a personal torch.

Gradually, the surviving Qing army was suppressed by the bullets and lying on the ground and did not dare to move around. The Qing army that dared to get up and shoot were all beaten into sieves.

Shuo Yunbao lay on the ground and cursed: "Why haven't that bastard Daisenbao come yet!"

Wanting, who was crawling forward, hid in a crater with severe pain injuring his legs. While tearing off his clothes and bandaging him, he shouted to the surroundings: "Continue to rush, don't stop!"

In the direction of Hualan River, the five thousand cavalry of the Qing army saw the flashing lights and roaring guns in the distant sky, and knew that there was a fire exchange.

Daisenbao was hesitating whether to go out. Goshha, sent by Mingliang, arrived with the token and ordered him to go out quickly to support him.

"Everyone! Get on the horse!"

The rumbling sound of horse hooves began to sound, and tens of thousands of horse hooves rushing on the field, and the earth rolled past like muffled thunder.

The Northern Navy, who was guarding the bunker, knew that the biggest test had come. If these cavalry could not be repelled, they would fall into melee combat.

The tactics of the Qing cavalry were still "slanted and cross-strikes", but the bows and arrows were replaced with muskets. When they arrived from the northwest of the village, the North Navy's shelling target had become them.

“Woo~~”

The dull conch sounded, and the Qing cavalry divided it into ten waves with five hundred people, intending to break through the defense line of the Northern Navy with this layered wave-like attack method.

The forwards raised the crest rope and fired, while pushing forward. Those who fired over the fire sat on the back of the galloping horse to load the musket. These are skills they have already mastered.

"Prepare~ listen to my command~"

"beat!"

The second regiment guarding the north side of the village raised muskets in front of the village, and ten light machine guns fired one after another. The rain of bullets mixed with tracer bullets was like a red whip, squeezing the Qing army that was galloping from the front of the formation.

At the same time, the Qing army artillery troops, who were fighting to the death in the rear, rushed to a location 200 meters away from the village under the fire and the rain of bullets. The seventh and eight second general artillery and return artillery hurriedly aimed at several bunkers, and then opened fire.

"Boom! Boom!..."

"Be careful! Leave down!" Hundreds of broad bean-sized shotguns swept across several positions of the Northern Navy like strong wind, and then a few screams came.

The Qing army artillery tried to load and fire again, but as the flares lighted up, a dense rain of bullets hit them, and there were suddenly casualties and injuries.

The machine guns on the North Navy's positions continued to fire, from the initial easy point shooting to continuous continuous shooting, and the barrels of the first machine guns were already red.

Although the Northern Navy's shooting caused huge damage, it failed to stop the Qing cavalry from advancing; they seemed to stand out from the ashes, and the dense rain of bullets was not enough to knock them down, and even approached only thirty meters away from the bunker.

The crazy shooting of machine guns forced the Qing army to continue to move south quickly. They kept shouting and screaming on the horses and continued to fire in vain until they advanced until they were around the left wing of the North Navy. At this time, the machine guns in the southwest also replaced the shooting targets with these cavalry, and the survivors' shouts gradually became silent in the continuous strafing.

Finally, the Qing cavalry could no longer bear the huge casualties and began to turn around and retreat. As the cavalry retreated, the Qing army, who were lying on the fields, began to collapse, and turned around and ran with the cavalry, while the others lay on the ground and cried and shouted to their parents. What's more, they grabbed the quilt covered with mud on the side and covered them, trying to get away with it.

Several flares rose again in the sky, and the whistle inside the North Navy's position sounded shrill, and the killing sounds sounded. The troops of two regiments rushed out of the bunker and began to pursue the escaped Qing army.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled with smoke and the light and shadow changed. Wanting, the guards' lieutenant who was injured by shrapnel on his legs, saw several Northern Navy troops rushing towards him and shouted, "Your Majesty, I am loyal!" After that, he immediately raised his sword and committed suicide.

Hundreds of meters away, Daisenbao, who was unconscious after a big hole in his cheek, was carried by several defeated soldiers and fled westward.

As the light of the flares on the battlefield gradually dimmed, the white white of fish in the east sky became clearer.
Chapter completed!