The Kobdo River Ferry.

Crossing the river is a traditional craft of nomadic peoples. If you kill the sheep, carefully peel off the entire skin, tie the hole with a rope, blow the air into an airbag, and then tie it with a rope and a wooden frame to make a floating raft, and then hook it up. You can set up a floating bridge in a gentle and smooth place. The floating bridge has been set up, but because spring comes, the snow melts, the cold river water rises, and the flow rate is very fast. Even if the selected location is good, the entire tribe is slowly crossing the river, especially cattle and sheep are easily scared, and there will always be people falling into the water, and many people and animals will never get up again after falling into the cold river water.

When the yellow smoke rose from the horizon in the east, the Qing army knew that the enemy had arrived, but the Qing army had prepared in advance, and the army had already lined up along the river and was waiting for the battle.

Because the Qing army's primary task was to cover the Eight Banners' divisions to cross the river, and due to long-distance migration and several bloody battles, there were not many soldiers under his command and weak horsepower, Xuanye and Fei Yanggu discussed and decided to place the troops on both sides of the ferry and form an array to defeat the enemy's prestige first, and then set up the military strategy after the troops stayed away from the battlefield.

When the army arrived in the west, they saw a large group of hedgehog formations. The Qing army formed a ring camp with fences and vehicles, protecting the ferry and the Manchus who were not in time. Because the Qing army had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, and had already formed a formation and was waiting for work. Even though they still had some advantage in military strength, Li Junhua did not attack rashly, but summoned the generals and the school to discuss the military.

"Sit down, there is no need to be polite in the army. In this tent, everyone can speak freely." Li Junhua asked the generals to sit down and said warmly.

Although he led his troops to the west, Li Junhua never did two things: one was to lead his troops to fight with hands and hands. The other was to intervene in the formation. The former not only required courage, but also did not sacrifice his life. As the crown prince of the empire, not standing under the dangerous wall, he was responsible for himself and made people around him relieved. As for the latter, there were too many generals and schools around him, some of whom had experienced many battles, and some graduated from professional schools, and all of them were more suitable than himself.

"The prince will sit down, just sit down, it's all quick." Chen Ping saw several vassal generals hesitating, scolded in a deep voice, and then said first: "Seeing the situation of the Qing army, you won't be ready to fight before the animals and herdsmen cross the river. It seems that we will take the initiative to attack. Bei Zhi just sent people to look upstream and downstream. Now they have already melted, the water flows fast, and the water is not suitable for swimming. Originally, he thought of making a few rafts upstream, covering oil and firewood, and burning the Qing army's floating bridge, but the Qing army smashed wooden stakes more than 200 steps upstream of the floating bridge, and the things that went downstream must be stopped. It seems that head-on conflict is inevitable. The Qing army's turtle shell is very thick, and with these guys in our hands, it is probably difficult to fight."

Chen Ping threw bricks and attracted jade, and all the generals expressed their opinions, and their meaning was similar and difficult to fight.

The reason why it is difficult to fight is that there are not enough firearms. The heaviest artillery in the army is a pound cannon that can be carried by camels. The effective range is not farther than that of muskets, and it is difficult to break the enemy fortifications. The second is that the soldiers of the Westward Advance Corps are complex and the combat power is mixed. Among the Westward Advance Corps, there are two most elite ones. One is the cavalry brought by Li Junhua when he set out from the camp. The formation is skillful and it is most suitable to break the enemy's rushing formation. However, after losses, the troops are less than 1,000. The other is the appeased vassal soldiers brought by Chen Ping from Hami. They are brave and arduous in fighting, but they can only be considered mobile infantry and cavalry warfare. The rest are the scattered soldiers collected by the Zasaktu people and Helin. Inspired by revenge and generous rewards, they have a bloody courage, but they are too loose and can only be used as clutches.

"Do you want to block dams upstream and destroy the enemy camp?" someone asked.

"By that time, the Manchus had already run away. Besides, if we turn this section of the river into a mud pond, how can we cross the river and chase it?" Li Junhua directly rejected the proposal.

"Then fight directly. No matter what, we still have an advantage." Chen Ping simply asked for the fight directly, and his eyes quietly communicated with Wu Yifeng. The two discussed in private and did not let the prince take risks.

"How to fight?" Li Junhua asked.

Chen Ping said: "The frontier of the enemy is flat, but I sent people to investigate. There is a large sludge in the middle. It is difficult to spread the troops and horses. The attack requires the troops to be divided into two parts. Obviously, the enemy has carefully selected the battlefield. We must divide the troops, but if it is divided equally, it is difficult to fight on both sides. I think it is better to choose a focus to break through. I am willing to serve as the main attacker."

Li Junhua nodded in agreement. The enemy had formed a camp, and the attack was a tough battle. The only thing that could carry out the tough battle was the vassal soldiers brought by Chen Ping of the West Appeasing Area. Chen Ping led the headquarters, which was the most suitable one.

"Okay, just do what you said, you will take the main attack, Babatu's troops will strengthen you, you will hand over the cavalry and artillery battalion to me, I will take people to guard the right side of the mud, and appropriately feint attack and put pressure on it, how about?" Li Junhua asked.

The so-called cavalry and artillery battalion is actually a camel equipped with a pound of cannons. This trick used by the enemy during the Western Expedition was simple and easy to use, and was already in charge of the Guanxi Appeasement Zone because it was just a light cannon, and some were simply large combs, which required camels to carry and were difficult to attack. It was the best place to form a camel city for defense.

"So good!" Chen Ping responded.

"Okay, then let the soldiers have a hot meal and attack tomorrow morning." Li Junhua ordered.

The next day, Li Junhua came to the front line. The right wing he commanded had been deployed. The camels from the cavalry and artillery battalions and the baggage team had formed a camel city. In order to facilitate attack, there was a gap between the camel city. Wu Yifeng had filled the arranged Mongolian archers and built a fortification overnight to avoid horses, while the cavalry were placed behind the side to prepare for the enemy's attack.

"Which is the fake emperor Kangxi?" Li Junhua asked on the horse, holding a telescope.

Wu Yifeng spread his telescope and searched carefully in the enemy formation. He soon found Kangxi, who was guarded by a group of elite cavalry, and said, "Your Highness, the person riding the dark horse is that pockmarked face."

Li Junhua looked in the direction pointed by Wu Yifeng, and indeed saw a young man galloping behind the formation, shouting from time to time, and laughing: "It is said that he is the same age as me."

Wu Yifeng smiled: "It's just that I have different fates in the same age."

"You are right, you are good. I heard that many Manchus believe that he is the lord of the revival and his strategy is far better than his father and grandfather. So I want to see, he has impatiently held the temptation. Come, raise my banner." Li Junhua ordered.

When the sun rose in the early morning and emitted a dazzling light, the left wing commanded by Chen Ping had already begun to attack. The first one was a light cavalry commanded by Babatul. They swept across the front of the Qing army and shot arrows into the air. Because their eyes were directly towards the sun, the people could not open their eyes. The Qing army only heard the sound of hooves like thunder and rolling in. Just as they were about to fight back, the first wave of arrows had already fallen, shooting people who could not dodge on the spot. The Qing army immediately counterattacked, and all kinds of long-range weapons kept firing back, most of which were shot were arrows and few lead bullets. For the Qing army today, firearms and ammunition were already very scarce weapons and were in a state of exhaustion.

Fortunately, the infantry bows used by infantry were much harder than those of the cavalry bows, and the two sides suffered more damage in the shooting. The second wave of offensive sent by Chen Ping was already under pressure. This wave was the infantry of the Pacification Brigade. The Pacification Brigade in the Guanxi Pacification Zone mixed with soldiers of all races, and unified the use of flintlock rifles produced by the empire to form infantry lines and advance forward with the cover of cavalry. However, it did not enter the range of the Qing army's bows and arrows. Instead, it stopped at about two hundred meters away from the front and quickly formed a heavy infantry formation in battalions. When the Zasaktu people were still shooting against the Qing army, they fired battalion-level volleys, using transcendence shooting.

The transcendent shooting of line infantry is based on battalions, with muzzles pointing to the sky. The elevation angles of each battalion are different. The purpose is to allow the lead bullets emitted from the volley to cover the larger area as much as possible when they land. This shooting is very effective for the gathered large army targets, and the Qing army is very familiar with this. The archers at the front are evaded by signs and fences, while the infantry and cavalry who are warding behind are hiding under wooden sheds or vehicles that have been built long ago. However, the target of the Appeasement Brigade is not these soldiers who have been prepared.

The muzzle angle of the line infantry hiding between 35 and 45 degrees, which means that after the lead bullet is fired, it covers a sheet-shaped area between 600 meters and 1 thousand meters. Even if the line infantry is still 200 meters away from the front, the nearest coverage area is far beyond the thickness of the Qing army's front line. The line infantry attacked people and animals hiding behind the formation and preparing to cross the river!

These people and animals had no protection. When the lead bullets fell like a storm, blood splashed in the depths of the Qing army camp. The kinetic energy of the lead bullets beyond the shooting was not that great, but the remaining energy was still enough to hurt the animals. Fortunately, the injured cattle, sheep, horses and mules immediately became riots. The animals that had not been enclosed ran around because of pain and fright, knocked over the tent and tearing the crowd. Not only did they make the dock mess, but they even hit the Qing army's array from behind, causing more and more chaos, which was exactly what Chen Ping needed.

When the melee occurred, the Zasaktu cavalry, who had already left the front line due to firearm shooting, turned back again, but this time they did not freely rush, but instead rushed forward, and did not dismount. They threw out the rope with a hook tied to the front of the Qing army's front, hung it on the fence and the horses dragged the horses and fences in front of the Qing army's front. The horses were torn to the ground, and a big hole appeared in the Qing army's front line. The cavalry team led by Chen Ping himself surpassed the gap between the infantry formations in the line, and quickly formed a formation to charge. At the front were the elite cavalry of the imperial army. They formed two cavalry lines as usual, slowly accelerated on the wide grass, rushed directly through the gap opened by the Zasaktu people, and smashed the Qing army's defense line to pieces.

The infantry in the line behind slowly pressed up and spread to both sides at the same time, surpassing the middle, and the two wings directly pushed the muzzle to the Qing army's forehead.

"Why did the right wing lose so quickly? A Ling, that idiot!" Xuanye saw the right wing first burst out with firearms, and then the right wing exploded, followed by dust rising from the war horses. The soldiers and horses deployed on the right wing suffered heavy casualties and were no longer in the form of formation.

"Your Majesty, you can't let the right wing be defeated like this. If the enemy rushed straight to the floating bridge, everything would be over!" Fei Yanggu said.

Xuanye couldn't help but hesitate: "Fei Yanggu, give you the two yellow flag cavalry, support you immediately, and hand over the right wing to you. A Ling's idiot is unreliable!"

"Yes, the emperor." Fei Yanggu responded and turned over and left.

Xuanye stretched his neck to see that not only the enemy's cavalry had entered the formation, but the subsequent infantry also entered, maintaining the formation and constantly tearing and impacting. He knew that the power of the imperial infantry phalanx, Fei Yanggu's cavalry could use counter-shock to block the enemy's cavalry, but if the enemy's infantry formation was unable to break, it would still be difficult to protect the right wing, but the infantry phalanx on the imperial side was the most difficult to break.

"Let's attack on the left wing." Xuanye finally issued another order. He could not pin his hopes on things that the Eight Banners soldiers had never done before. Now he also saw that the right wing was attacked by the enemy's main force. Instead of fighting with the enemy, it would be better to take the initiative to attack on the left wing and break it in one fell swoop. The danger of the right wing would be solved.

Unlike the left wing's inability to fight, the right wing commanded by Li Junhua became much quieter, because the most honorable line infantry and regular cavalry were handed over to Chen Ping. In addition to a few of the guards, Li Junhua commanded mostly vassal soldiers. Therefore, when the left wing attacked, he just sent cavalry to form teams to harass the frontier of the Qing army. When the two sides exchanged fire, they moved Camel City forward and about 300 meters in front of the enemy's fortifications.

Xuanye made up his mind to attack in full swing, and immediately suppressed the entire army. More than 2,000 cavalrymen came out of the camp and directly attacked the side of the right wing army. However, on the side, Li Junhua specially arranged Camel City and infantry phalanx. The infantry were newly joined by Mongols, mostly from Helin. These people had an irreconcilable hatred against the Manchus, and were not afraid of death, so they did not have to worry about defeat. Therefore, most of these phalanxes were equipped with spears of more than one meter. Hundreds of soldiers formed a circle, with long spears pointing to the sky, stepping on the tail of the spear with their feet to prevent the impact of war horses. In the center, there were archers, constantly shooting arrows at the cavalry moving outside. This could no longer be said to be an infantry phalanx, but it should be a spear hedgehog or porcupine.

Such a phalanx will not be broken as long as it does not collapse. Not to mention the cavalry of the Qing army, even the former cavalry of the Thai countries covered with heavy armor, were helpless in the face of such formations, but Xuanye did not give his subordinates the power to test or choose...
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