Chapter 1272 The afterglow of the cavalry era
The chief of the Great Protectorate of the Western Frontier was recommended by the cabinet and was designated as the governor of Hanzhong County, the province of Shu.
Fu Bi was a famous prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was appointed as the Chief of Supervisor, Zhijixianyuan, Zhijianyuan and other positions. When he was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, he jointly implemented the Qingli New Policy with Fan Zhongyan and others.
After the failure of the new policy, Fu Bi was appointed as the governor of Yunzhou, Qingzhou and other places, and helped hundreds of thousands of victims during his tenure.
He was the second year of the He Dynasty to pay homage to the ministers.
In history, Fu Bi has been on missions to Liao Kingdom many times and is also very concerned about the situation in the Western Xia.
The cabinet recommended Fu Bi, a civil servant who had both internal affairs and military affairs, to serve as the chief of the Protectorate of the Western Xinjiang. It was obviously a matter of effort, which was very consistent with Ouyang Shuo's intention.
He also served as the governor of Hanzhong County for a long time and was very familiar with the situation in Shu. His promotion to the chief of the Protectorate of the Western Xinjiang will also help promote the construction of the two official roads, namely the Sichuan-Tibet Line and the Qinghai-Tibet Line.
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The Mongolian War that broke out in November is regarded as the last battle within the Huaxia region.
The Mongolian Empire had a huge army of 1.3 million. Although it could not be as good as Daxia, it seemed to the outside world that it would inevitably be a time-consuming battle.
Even if Daxia can win, it will have to be severely damaged.
The progress of the war was beyond everyone's expectations. In this war, the Daxia army was destroyed and basically did not give the Mongolian army a chance.
Especially the war at the headquarters of the Mongol Empire, there is a huge difference.
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On November 17, the southeastern border of the Mongol Empire.
The one stationed here is the Borhu tribe, one of the four Mongolian heroes. They and the Chagatai tribe stationed on the northeast border echoed north and south to jointly guard the eastern border of the Mongolian Empire.
The opponents faced by the two groups are the North Frontier Army of Daxia and the Fengxiang Army.
Under the command of Deputy Commander Chen Yucheng, the Northern Frontier Army advanced from the Northern Frontier Province and prepared to compete with the Borhu tribe; under the command of the famous general Guo Ziyi, the Fengxiang Army advanced westward from the Liao and Jin province and rushed towards the Chagatai tribe.
At around 9 a.m., Zhang He, the commander of the First Corps of the Northern Frontier Army, led 20,000 elite cavalry, as the vanguard of the Northern Frontier Army, met the main force of the Mongolian Borhu tribe on the vast grassland.
As one of the four Mongolian masters, Boerhu was an expert in cavalry warfare. When he learned that the Daxia vanguard sent all kinds of cavalry troops, he immediately rushed forward without saying a word.
"Kill them all!"
Bork took the lead and led his troops to rush in.
As a powerful general of the Three Kingdoms, how could Zhang He be a timid? Without a word, he immediately led his troops to face the enemy.
In fact, whether it is war horses, cavalry equipment, or even cavalry tactics, the Daxia cavalry had long left the Mongolian cavalry behind. The poor Mongolians still didn't know that they still regarded themselves as the world's number one cavalry.
This battle completely proves this.
Faced with the 40,000 Mongolian cavalry, Zhang He's troops were not at all inferior, and they were hard to part with the enemy's battle, and they evenly divided the beauty, which made Boer's face suddenly turn red.
This is a naked-naked slap in the face.
The so-called Mongolian Iron Cavalry has no pride in front of the Daxia cavalry.
Boerhu, who was beaten out of his temper, had a gloomy face, and in order to save a trace of face, he had completely become murderous towards Zhang He's army. While commanding the main force to kill the enemy, he also sent orders the left and right wings to join the main force and surround Zhang He's army together.
Strictly speaking, this is the first battle between the Mongolian Iron Cavalry and the Daxia Cavalry.
The enemy's strength was completely beyond Borhu's expectations. This is exactly the case. In order to restore morale, Borhu did not hesitate to fight less, but also wanted to annihilate the enemy in front of him and restore a little dignity.
Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Bor suddenly wanted to play big things, but Zhang He didn't accompany him at all, and he was responsible for heavy responsibilities.
Seeing the secret spy coming to report that the enemy's left and right wings were moving towards the battlefield, Zhang He showed a smile on his lips. He did not expect that this mission would be completed so easily.
"withdraw!"
Zhang He did not hesitate and immediately ordered a retreat.
"Chasing me!"
Seeing that the enemy was about to retreat, Borhu quickly guessed that the enemy might have detected the movements of the left and right wings. The more this happens, Borhu will be unable to let the enemy escape.
Otherwise, he would not have the face of Bork.
"Let the left and right wings accelerate the march and come directly to join the main force!"
Boerhu originally planned to make the left and right wings detour slightly and encircle the enemy's retreat. Now that the enemy is evacuating, the roundabout tactics can no longer work, so it is better to pursue them directly.
Two armies chased and fled, galloping on the Mongolian grasslands, which was very spectacular.
It was noon in a blink of an eye, and the two armies had already galloped for more than a hundred kilometers, which was very fast. The speed of this marching was beyond the reach of the infantry.
At this point, the cavalry does have their pride.
A little leaning, a hilly area appeared in front of Zhang He's army, with hills one after another, rising and falling one after another, just like green bubbles emerging from the grassland, very spectacular.
Without hesitation, Zhang He's troops directly entered the hilly area and disappeared from the sight of Boerhu's troops.
Bor suddenly did not think about it, and directly commanded the army to chase and kill. On the vast grassland, even the hills were only thirty or fifty meters high, and there were no trees, so they could not set up an ambush at all.
Therefore, Boerhu was not afraid of anything.
After leading his troops into the hills, Boerhu realized something was different, but he saw that there were shadows on each hill, and the Daxia army was stationed on it, and simple fortifications were built on the top of the mountain.
Obviously, this is a place of decisive battle carefully arranged by the enemy.
When Boer suddenly saw it, he was not afraid at all, but laughed loudly: "I didn't expect that the Great Xia army was so stupid. Do you think that with such a small mountain bag, you can block our attack? It's so naive."
According to the conventional idea, a hill bag that is thirty or fifty meters high is indeed not an ideal ambush place. Not only can it be ambushed, but once you are trapped on the top of the mountain and have no water source, you are simply seeking death.
Boer suddenly did not hesitate and ordered the army to scatter and launch a strong attack on the mountain bags.
The slopes of the hills on the grassland are roughly very flat. With the superb riding skills of Mongolian cavalry, they can rush up directly without dismounting to fight.
The fear of the enemy in the morning was suddenly thrown out of the sky by Bor.
"kill!"
Boerhu personally led his troops to continue chasing Zhang He's troops in front, and at the same time ordered the left and right wings to start removing the nails on the top of the mountain.
There are more than a hundred hills in the entire hilly area, densely packed.
At the foot of one of the hills, a thousand Mongolian cavalry launched a charge. The cavalry's scimitar burst out with a dazzling cold light under the reflection of the noon sun.
On the top of the mountain, the commander saw it and calmly ordered: "Fire the cannon!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The cannons arranged on the top of the mountain in advance opened with a loud bang.
The cavalry that charged forward immediately turned over and stumbled over, delaying the charge of the entire team. The Mongolian cavalry was also fierce and continued to charge in the fire of artillery.
With such a short hillside, they probably rushed to the top of the mountain before the second round of enemy artillery bombardment was completed.
When the commander of the mountain top saw it, he calmly ordered: "The musketeer is ready."
"shooting!"
"Ba!Ba!Ba!"
The dense and rapid gunfire sounded, and bullets poured out unscrupulously.
The fierce Mongolian cavalry was too fragile in the face of the Daxia army's guns and bullets. Rows of cavalry fell down like wheat, and could not splash a trace of waves.
In front of firearms, the Mongolian cavalry, who were still in the age of cold weapons, were destined to be slaughtered.
Yes, it's massacre.
The Daxia musket evolved from the most primitive musket to the relatively advanced musket. To this day, the third generation musket, that is, the new generation of flintlock rifles, have been equipped with the entire army.
Compared with the difficult colloid gun, the flintlock gun is designed with a spring-driven rotating arm with flint at the head. When the rotating arm rotates downward, the flint rubs against the steel plate on the gunpowder plate to produce sparks, and the spark falls into the medicine plate to ignite the gunpowder.
Because it relies on flint to ignite, it is called flintlock rifle.
Compared with the combing gun, the flintlock gun is safer and more reliable, with a simple structure and convenient ammunition filling. In addition, a piece of flint can be used for 30 rounds of ammunition, making continuous shooting possible.
These advantages have made the flintlock rifle popular for three hundred years.
It was not until the birth of a more advanced firing gun that the flintlock rifle was allowed to withdraw from the stage of history. In fact, Daxia's research on firing guns has entered the critical stage, and even experimental products have been born.
The lack of military service is mainly because the production cost is too high and mass production cannot be achieved.
In the final analysis, it is still limited by Daxia's own industrialization level. It has been less than two years since Daxia fully promoted industrialization, so naturally it has not reached the level of mass production firing guns.
Even so, the power of the flintlock rifle is enough to make the enemy frightened.
With the cooperation of artillery and musket teams, the Mongolian cavalry wearing leather and even cloth armor, with the help of condescending favorable terrain, was like a fragile baby, and was simply vulnerable.
Even if elite cavalry rushed to the top of the mountain and in front of the musketeers, there was a row of the most elite sword and shield soldiers guarding them, making it impossible for the Mongolian cavalry to step beyond the line.
The small mountain has become an indelible nightmare for Mongolian cavalry.
At this time, Borhu had already led his troops into the depths of the hills and waited for the messengers to report that the army on the left and right wings suffered heavy losses in encirclement and suppression of the hills, their expressions were so complicated and complicated.
"How could this happen?" Bork was puzzled.
The messenger replied with lingering fear: "Report to General, the enemy has arranged artillery on the top of the mountain, and there are also a large number of musketeers. Their lethality is amazing, and we can't rush up at all."
Boer suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and then he realized that the enemy's envisioned trap was extraordinary.
"General, withdraw!" the deputy general suggested.
Boer's face was gloomy and he said after a long time, "No, we cannot retreat." For the Mongolian Empire, this was a war without a way out, and he would die if he could not win.
The deputy general said anxiously: "Then rush out of this hill first, so that the men can't die in vain."
"Okay!" Boerhu was not stubborn this time.
Chapter completed!