my days with tyrants

Ural River.

The Ming army lined up on the river.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Gaoxu to not even know about Timur's surprise attack on him.

He even brought more hot air balloons than his dad.

So in order to let Bergosarai know the news of the arrival of the reinforcements, he actually released a total of six hot air balloons, all of which were released when the wind was blowing there. One of the six hot air balloons would always arrive. How the soldiers return to Salechuk depends on their own abilities...

It never occurred to him that these people could return.

There are also a large number of tethered balloons on the periphery of Salechuk, which are carried by camels and constantly patrol and guard every day.

Although Timur also knew the hot air balloons of the Ming army, so his subordinates marched at night, but it was difficult for [-] cavalry to hide even at night.

Under the moonlight, they were still discovered by the sentry on the hot air balloon.

The latter immediately launched a warning rocket, which exploded hundreds of meters in the night sky, letting Zhu Gaoxu, who was thirty miles away, know the news of the enemy's attack, and quickly began to gather all the troops. Timur, who continued to advance at a normal horse speed, led [-] cavalry to arrive. It was already an hour later, and the sixteen camel cities scattered in camps on the coast of the Caspian Sea had completed their assembly and lined up on the open and flat grassland. wait……

"Tamerlane, you can be regarded as a person after all. Wouldn't it be ridiculous to be so sneaky? My father married your granddaughter, so you are also an elder. If you use the elders to sneak up on the younger generation and act like a thief, don't you rely on this?" Stolen land?"

In front of sixteen camel cities, Zhu Gaoxu, carrying a mace, showed off his power.

The sixteen camel cities behind him are divided into four brigades like a chessboard array. To put it simply, it is a group of four, and then the four groups form a giant square formation...

The main reason is that the Ural River is not deep behind.

This famous river on the boundary between Asia and Europe, because the downstream is desert grassland, the water volume is actually getting less and less.

After arriving at the mouth of the sea, there are basically tens of meters wide left. Timur's cavalry can completely bypass it, and then cross the river from behind to attack. However, the tactics of the Ming army's camel city were originally quagmire, that is, each camel city as a Independent combat units, and then the rest can be combined randomly according to the situation, but keep the distance between firepower.

But there is only one principle, which is to let the enemy fall into the trap of firepower.

If the enemy is not fooled, they can only attack the front, but reinforcements from other camel cities behind will continue to fill the front.

So the spectacular scene of the sixteen camel cities behind Zhu Gaoxu is actually a headache for Timur who is standing on a giant elephant.

Zhu Gaoxu burst into laughter immediately behind him.

"Timer, since your granddaughter is my father's concubine, we Han people all respect etiquette, so I'll let you attack first!"

Zhu Gaoxu shouted.

Then he turned his horse's head and retreated into the formation with his personal guards.

Timur just waved his hand forward silently, and then all the war elephants beside him moved forward...

This is the method he developed to break through the camel city, directly on the armored elephants, these elephants are protected by iron armor, like giant steel beasts, moving forward slowly with great momentum, and behind the elephants are Tie Mu'er's elite cavalry, once the armored war elephants stepped into the camel city of the enlightened army, they immediately dispersed with cavalry.The scene was so spectacular that Zhu Gaoxu, who had just arrived at the passage in the formation, turned his head and looked at these giant beasts in astonishment, and then the rapid-fire cannons on the giant elephants fired...

Well, it's still the Artillery War Elephant.

The Ming army on the front line also looked at these behemoths in astonishment.

But at the same time, Zhang Fu, who was actually in the middle of the command, waved the signal flag, and then the smoke of the mortars in the camel city rose from the front.

One after another, the flowering bombs with their small tails flew directly towards the war elephants, and exploded around them the next moment.

Amid the restlessness of the war elephants, the field artillery opened fire immediately, and the shells weighing two catties whizzed through the air, and instantly hit the war elephants with kinetic energy far exceeding that of the rapid-fire guns, even if the latter had enough Armor against shot is useless.The war elephants hit by the shells immediately let out a mournful wail, and then began to fall down in pain, while the mortar shells still exploded in the middle, and more war elephants fell into panic and chaos, and even tried to turn around.

However, Timur's long training is still very useful.

Those elephant slaves hurriedly tried their best to stabilize these war elephants and let them continue to advance towards the formation of the Ming army.

The field artillery continued to fire, and the war elephants kept falling, and the cavalry under Timur's men clearly saw the hope of victory.

They form an array and follow forward.

then……

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to the side.

A personal guard immediately handed over a glass bottle, but the mouth of the glass bottle was stuffed with a cloth strip that ignited the fire.

And at the same time, his personal guards all took out the same glass bottle.

"go!"

Zhu Gaoxu shouted.

At the same time he lit the strip of cloth.

Then all his personal guards also lit the cloth strips.

The five hundred personal guards led by King Gaoyang were like huge awls, stabbing straight at the war elephant, which was already somewhat uncontrollable...

This thing is not difficult to solve.

There was always a serious problem with artillery armored war elephants.

Animals like elephants are far more sensitive than war horses or even camels. After all, the higher the IQ, the more aware of dangers. When explosions, fire and even death keep happening around them, they will become more and more aware that what they need is to escape.At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu's personal guards delivered a decisive blow. Zhu Gaoxu, who was relying on his heavy armor and ignoring the opponent's attack, even ignoring the shotgun, rushed to the side of a war elephant, and cut the glass in his hand while turning. The bottle slammed down on the war elephant.The glass bottle, with the burning cloth strips and the gasoline inside, hit the war elephant's armor directly, then shattered and turned into a burst of flames...

The war elephant immediately stood up with a wail.

Then the soldier in the alcove on its back is thrown.

Immediately afterwards, one by one, relying on the full body armor on their bodies, facing the arrows and even the shotguns on the opposite side, they rushed directly to the war elephants, smashing the Molotov cocktails in their hands at their armor.

Then came the flames that continued to explode.

The battered war elephants wailed in the flames, struggled, and even turned around and ran violently, and they also used their own language to call for other war elephants to flee, and then all the war elephants fled. Hundreds of armored war elephants Turned around like crazy, and ran into the cavalry behind.The unlucky cavalry evaded in horror and were disturbed by these violent giant beasts. At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu led his personal guards, quickly regrouped, and then raised his spear on horseback.

"kill!"

The tyrannical King Gaoyang roared excitedly while holding a mace.

Then he rushed forward with his personal guards, taking advantage of the chaos caused by the war elephants, and stabbed the scattered river elites.

The mace in his hand swept across, and a cavalryman in the river was instantly thrown into the air.

Immediately afterwards, a two-foot-long spear swept across, picking off these almost powerless cavalry.

Formed cavalry is crushing non-formed cavalry, not to mention the essence of equipped cavalry against ordinary cavalry.

Zhu Gaoxu led his personal guards, just like Li Shimin led the Xuanjia Army on the battlefield, quickly pierced through the chaotic cavalry in the river, and repeatedly pierced through, and the cavalry in the formation behind him were also tight Then rushed out and used this opportunity to expand the results of the battle. When Timur finally controlled the chaos caused by the collision of the war elephants and put in the follow-up cavalry, thousands of dead cavalry in the river had been left on the battlefield.

"Timer, this is your real ability? With this little ability, you still dare to rebel against Daming? You can't even defeat a partial division of Daming.

Yang Feng is looking at you and smiling! "

Zhu Gaoxu shouted proudly.

Then he picked up the head of a general in the river on his mace, and led the cavalry to quickly retreat to the formation.

Full of anger, Timur's elite began to attack the formation of the Ming army, but they also knew that they could not foolishly fall into the trap of firepower, and they also carried part of the artillery and the three-eyed arquebus. After all, Timur sold tens of thousands of camels and war horses to Daming, and what he got in exchange was at least the weaponization of his main force.

The cavalrymen in the river, who had charged to a certain distance, instead bombarded the Ming army with artillery carried by camels, just like the Ming army.

But the effect is not good.

The camel city of the Ming army did not simply let the camels lie down. This thing is also a flesh and blood body. Even if the skin is rough and the flesh is thick, it will not be able to sustain continuous attacks. Therefore, the camel is only a carrier of firepower. It is protected. Not only is it covered with thick It is made of cotton armor and there is a leather iron wood board similar to my Qing shield car on the outside.Shotgun shells like rapid-fire guns basically do no harm to it. In fact, there are sandbags outside the preset battlefield like this. The sacks are abundant for the Ming army, and there are countless sands here. Pile sandbags is simply too simple.

There is even a simple trench in front of the preset formation, that is, there are no trees here, so it is not easy to reject horses.

But the caltrops are still there.

Few people can beat the Ming army with such firearms.

Timur is nothing more than buying some firearms, and then imitating some shoddy ones, especially the rapid-fire guns are not at the same level as the Ming army, and the formula of the gunpowder is not known, so it can only be old, and its power is not as good as those ten taels of silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty. One also presented six cartridges.

Of course, Timur is not in a hurry. This battle cannot be completed in a short time. He has not yet expected to form a devastating encirclement and annihilation of the [-] Ming army.

The camel city of the Ming army with sufficient ammunition is almost impossible to break through.

But he has an absolute numerical advantage.

Consuming the ammunition of the Bright Army, they will still be broken after all.

however……

In the sparse bushes by the river in the distance, a guy wearing a leather robe who looked like an ordinary herdsman nearby was looking at the battlefield with a telescope that looked like he was traveling through.

"Khan, how far is it from Beergosarai?"

One of my ancestors in the Qing Dynasty, Fan Cha, the current commander of the Zhaosheng Army, looked at Kun Timur who was holding a telescope.

The latter, as the commanding envoy of Yan Randu, personally led the Zhaosheng Army to the west to show his loyalty to the Empress Dowager of Ming Dynasty.

But mainly for the money.

As a marquis, he commanded Yanran and commanded the envoys, but he was young after all, and he was relatively loose in spending money, so he took all the things he robbed with Yang Feng during the Western Expedition last time, and enjoyed them all. Temples are being built everywhere, and eminent monks on the plateau are invited, and because they are young, they prefer women. Now they have collected more than 100 women, not to mention other people. A new dress is a huge sum of money.

Because following Yang Fengjiu, he also pursued those more fashionable things, such as the marquis Cidili glass mirrors he had in Hara and Lin.

So money is a little tight right now.

Knowing that the Zhao Sheng Army was going west, he wrote a letter willing to lead his subordinates to join the Zhao Sheng Army on the west expedition. Of course, he must support this kind of thing, so the Empress Dowager of the Ming Dynasty not only gave him the title of Duke, but also rewarded him a lot. As the commander-in-chief of the Zhaosheng Army personally appointed by the Queen Mother, he took five thousand nomadic cavalry from Yanran Dusi, and another [-] cavalry from Huining, and embarked on the journey of the Western Expedition together.But before they arrived in Beiping Prefecture, they already knew that King Yan was trapped in Beergesarai, and all the armies, including Guilichi and others, had gone west to rescue them. Kun Timur immediately ordered to go west.

But he was short of camels, so he couldn’t go south, and the north was too far away. Just in the middle of the road, a group of moon and others were brought together. In the end, they chose to go directly westward from the Irtysh River, across the Siberian steppe, all the way. Arrive at the Ural River, and then go down the Ural River.

Just in time.

"Riding for at least ten days."

Then the Chief Yue Jibie said.

"Then the current situation is that Timur is attacking the Tiantian soldiers, but the Kipchaks did not show up. They must be besieging King Yan in Beergosarai. Now we have two choices, join the war to help the Tianbing defeat Timur, but the siege Annihilation is impossible, Timur will still retreat and the Kipchak will make peace, and then at worst they will withdraw, let us take King Yan back, but we will not get any benefits. Another option is to bypass this and directly Go to Beergosarai to insert the back of the Kipchak people, and Guilichi in the north is also going south. As long as we defeat the Kipchak people, we can work with King Yan and Guilichi to trap Timur here until kill him.

Then we went to grab the river. "

With the calmness that a big business is about to be acquired, Fancha analyzed the crude map there.

He was the brother of Mengge Timur who was killed, but after the death of Mengge Timur, he surrendered to Ahachu or Li Jinzhong, and he has been Li Jinzhong's subordinate all these years.

But there is no future.

After all, his identity determines his future as a small boss.

However, this time the Zhaosheng Army's Western Expedition made him see hope, and immediately signed up to participate, and Li Jinzhong was somewhat wary of people like him, so he just sent it out now.

In the end, he took hundreds of remnants from Anduoli, and they all joined the Zhaosheng Army. If the records of later generations are correct, these hundreds of remnants should be the only ones left in my ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, but they only It can be said to be suspicious, after all, my ancestors in the Qing Dynasty are a bit mysterious, but the Mengge Timur family in the Udoli is the most likely.

Now, of course, they are working on their dreams on the far banks of the Urals.

They are all hardworking young people.

Kun Timur, who is actually only in his 20s, looks at the battlefield...

"Let's go to Belgosarai!"

He said.

Immediately afterwards, this group of unscrupulous guys abandoned Zhu Gaoxu, and quietly went north with their [-] cavalry to charge directly at Belgosarai.