Yang Fan looked out from the top of the city tower, but Quitu Khan had gathered his troops and was already laying siege to the city.
This time, he was furious. He had more than 23,000 people and lost 3,000 in two battles.
In the first battle of the Kunlun Pass, more than a thousand were killed and injured, and the master was not captured. In the end, Wang Hao was allowed to break through and run away. Then during the pursuit, another carbine was killed, and more than a thousand people were lost.
Now he has less than 20,000 people left.
This loss was not small. He was furious. But considering that Wang Hao's people had fled to Hualong County in order to get rid of his pursuit. Xining was empty, and he felt much better. He decided to ignore the collapse.
Soldiers, attack Xining City first.
Because Xining City is the core city of the entire Hehuang Valley, as long as you occupy it, you can control the entire agricultural area. He has coveted this place for a long time. It used to be under the control of the Yongxie Bubu. The Haixi area is under Tumo
Qinghai is under the control of the Seven Tribes, and Haidong is under the control of the Dorothume Tribe.
He led his troops from the Tushetu Khan tribe in Khalkha to leave Qinghai. Because of his strong strength, he occupied the grassland belt of the Qaidam Basin. However, he did not have the ability to conquer the other four major ethnic groups. He was only superficially honored as
Just sweating profusely.
Now, Yang Fan has crippled the Mongolian forces in Qinghai. Because they are Khalkhas and have nothing to do with the Tumut people in Fengzhou, he did not participate in the Battle of Jiuyuan. As a result, he got a big advantage. Once
It once occupied Haidong, Haixi and Hehuang Valley.
Because the seven tribes of Yongxie Bu, Doro Tumote, and Haixi Tumote were all crippled and suffered huge losses, they physically resisted his annexation. For a time, he became the nominal co-owner of Qinghai. He reached the level of life.
the pinnacle of.
But the good times did not last long. Yang Fan quickly organized the Qinghai Cavalry Division and took a boat from Linhe City to directly attack Xining City.
The situation at that time shocked him. These cement ships had red cannons and Gatling cannons.
At that time, the red cannon on the bow of the ship fired one after another at the city wall. Suddenly, the sky was filled with gunfire and smoke covered the sun. The 32-pound solid iron ball was blasted at the city wall of Xining. Although it was covered with bricks, it was in front of the heavy artillery.
Still not enough to watch.
The solid bullets shattered the green bricks, and even some of the rammed earth collapsed.
Then a large number of machine guns and bullets were thrown over like a pouring rain, smashing all the crenellations on the city wall.
The 30mm solid bullets are very effective against blue bricks, directly shattering the crenellated brick walls on the city wall. They also smashed the officers and soldiers behind into a pile of rotten meat. It was so pulpy that it could only be collected with a broom and dustpan.
In one morning, Xining was completely destroyed.
He had no choice but to take the remaining defeated troops and evacuate the place he had occupied for less than two months.
This time, he brought his soldiers and horses back to fight again. Because he used altitude sickness to defeat the main force of the cavalry division at the Kunlun Pass, he once again ignited his determination to occupy the Hehuang Valley, the only fertile land in Qinghai.
The ancient city of Xining has been an important border fortress since the Han Dynasty.
In 1104 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty established Xining Prefecture with Qingtang City as the center, since the word "Xining" appeared.
The Xining Acropolis was rebuilt on the basis of Xining Prefecture City in the Yuan Dynasty in the 19th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1386). "Half of the old city of Xining in the Yuan Dynasty was cut off to build the Xining Acropolis." That is to say, the Xining City in the Yuan Dynasty was reduced in size.
Generally rebuilt.
The city wall that Yang Fan is standing on now is the Xining Acropolis built by Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing, in the northwest of the old city of Ningzhou in Yuan Dynasty in the 19th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1387). After the reduction, the new city was compact, taller and stronger, with
4 city gates and 4 turrets.
The city has a circumference of 4.5 kilometers, the base of the city wall is 17 meters wide and 17 meters high. The city wall is equipped with 19 watchtowers and has doors on all sides.
In the 21st year of Jiajing reign (1542), Yuecheng and Dongshaomen were added.
In the third year of Wanli (1575), Dong Ruhan, the commander of Xining's military preparations, led a large-scale reinforcement project of the city wall. The base of the wall was built with large strips of stone, and the wall was inlaid with strips of bricks.
Because time has passed, Xining City has a history of only sixty or seventy years since it was clad with bricks, so Xining City looks quite new.
In addition to the 2,000 cavalry divisions, Yang Fan now has 2,000 lama soldiers and his own regiment of 3,600 cavalry. In total, there are 7,600 people in the city. With the strong city walls, he is not afraid of Quetu Khan at all.
The 20,000 herdsmen without firearms and wearing fur coats recruited soldiers.
These people even have very little armor. Only captains of ten have leather armor, and only centurions have pierced armor. Those who can wear feather armor are all at the level of captains. If their archery skills had not had merit, in the world
In Yang Fan's eyes, they are just a bunch of rubbish.
The main reason is that Wang Hao and them fought a battle by Qinghai Lake before, and they were blinded by firearms. At that time, because the cavalry division was historically formed and was not equipped with flintlock guns, Yang Fan used the captured large and small Folang machine guns and a large number of swarm rockets.
, all given to them.
After regaining Xining, Wang Hao led a cavalry division of more than 10,000 people and had an unusual battle with Quetu Khan on the edge of Qinghai Lake. Five hundred rockets swarmed inflicted heavy damage on Quetu Khan's attacking cavalry. After all, this thing was a
One hundred rockets in one package.
Wang Hao placed a swarm of bees and a hundred tigers running with arrows at the front, then dug emplacements on the hillside to place various general cannons, three rows of steel crossbowmen, and then cavalry. As a result, in less than half an hour, the attack was carried out
The Khalkha cavalry was defeated.
They were all defeated soldiers who could not stand in the Mongolian region, so they were crowded here. They were not strong people to begin with, but they were instantly beaten back to their original shape after being hit in the face by tens of thousands of rockets.
Yang Fan looked at the Mongolian military camps outside the city and asked: "Are the two divisions of the Us Tibetan Army in place?"
Zhang Geda quickly reported: "Sir, we have arrived at the predetermined location. The Quatu Khan tribe will not be able to escape this time. It is impossible for them to run back to Hoh Xil."
Except for the earliest 40,000 fake civilians from Shanxi and South Zhili who were able to fight, the Us Tibetan Army only had over 10,000 left after the brutal Jiuyuan Battle. The other troops had never fought in actual combat.
They are the only ones who have actually experienced the entire Northwest War, and can be considered as soldiers who have fought hundreds of battles. Those prisoner soldiers in Alxa have never fought in a battle at all. They lack a chance of actual combat.
Yang Fan believed that the Khalkhas were weak enemies and could be used to train the prisoner soldiers.
This time, Yang Fan used Xining City as bait to attract Quatu Khan's army. Then, let the 20,000 Us Tibetan troops fight with the Khalkha people. It doesn't matter if he has never fought before. Yang Fan has plenty of time, so he can take his time.
Come. Fight a few times under Xining City and you'll get the training.
At this time, the two infantry divisions of the Us Tibetan Army were already lurking in battalion units on the periphery. They formed a vague encirclement situation towards Xining City as the center. At the same time, Yan Yingyuan led the two divisions that had immigrated to Shaanxi.