Tan Peng put away his telescope. Nearly 20,000 troops of Quatu Khan were already laying siege to Xining City.
He waved his hand, indicating that the situation was clear and he could go back to study the next battle plan.
The Khalkha people have set up a camp outside the city wall. They are currently repairing it. After all, they are very tired after chasing them all the way.
Xining City is a small square city with a width of more than 1,100 meters. The city wall was covered with bricks during the Wanli Period. It is still very new and looks very strong.
After Wang Hao came, he made some reinforcements. So it doesn't look big, but it is very majestic.
This small city has a complete gate system consisting of four city gates, urns, and arrow towers. At the corners of the city wall, there are four turrets. In addition, there are nineteen watchtowers.
Watchtowers are towers built in ancient times on the enemy tower (horse-facing wall) of the city wall. Some are made of wood and serve as accommodation for the officers and soldiers guarding the city. Some are blockhouses with masonry structures. They are equivalent to small archery towers on the horse-facing wall.
The enemy towers are buildings built along the city wall. They are used for city defense during wartime. They can be used for the city defense troops in each section to command and look out and pass orders, place equipment and supplies, etc., and in peacetime they can be used as shelter for the city guard sergeants patrolling the city.
It is used to take shelter from rain and rest. It is a facility to enhance the defense of the city wall.
Taking the Xi'an City Wall as an example, the Xi'an City Wall has a total of ninety-eight enemy towers (horse faces) protruding outwards. Each enemy platform is equipped with a watchtower, a total of ninety-eight. They are all two-story buildings with double eaves in the Xieshan style.
style architecture.
The watchtowers in the Xi'an City Wall are all brick-wood structures with two stories on top and double eaves.
There is a platform downstairs with a side length of 11.65 meters, a width of 9.2 meters, and a height of 0.55 meters above the wall. The bottom floor of the stairs is 10.65 meters long, 3.5 meters wide, and 3.27 meters high. The second floor is 11.65 meters long, 5.45 meters wide, and 2.9 meters high.
The door on the ground floor faces inward, and there are three windows on the outer wall, surrounded by a corridor. The outer wall of the second floor has three arrow windows, and there are no windows on the left and right. The building is 9.22 meters high.
Therefore, the city of Xining in the late Ming Dynasty was not big, but its construction was very solid and beautiful. In addition, the bricks were only laid out a few decades ago, so it looked very new. But Tuhan squinted his eyes and looked at this place greedily.
He liked this city very much.
He only occupied it briefly for two months last year. He felt very reluctant to part with it.
"Go cut down trees tomorrow morning, build siege weapons as soon as possible, and capture Xining City. From now on, this Hehuang Valley will be ours."
There was a greedy expression on the faces of the Khalkha people. Mongolians love food the most. Every time they go south to thresh grass and valleys, they kill each other for food. The farming areas of these thirteen counties are close to the pastoral areas, which is simply a gift from God.
's treasure land.
The Us Tibetan Army currently has 45,000 people. It is divided into a military headquarters with a total of 600 people, plus a cavalry unit of 2,000 people. It is divided into four cavalry battalions and four infantry divisions of 10,800 people. Each
The infantry division has three infantry regiments with a strength of 3,600.
Yang Fan promoted 15,000 veterans and outstanding talents from the North and South Zhili who had experienced the war to become officers and cavalry, supervising the battle team. He commanded and supervised the prisoners of Alxa. After all, officers are the guarantee of combat effectiveness.
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The rest are placed in the military headquarters and the first division. The military headquarters is now the first division, and the second division has completed the immigration task of the northern half of Shaanxi and is on its way to Xining. The third and fourth divisions are the current counterattacks.
The troops surrounding Chhattu Khan.
Tan Peng, commander of the third division, and Tong Zhen, commander of the fourth division. They were both officers in the first batch of regiment training and were transferred here to serve as division commanders. The youngest of the first batch of servants is now a battalion commander. Basically, they have entered the school.
They have reached the officer level. A few have entered the general officer level.
Wang Hao presided over the meeting in a large tent behind a hillside three miles away.
"Everyone, I have conveyed all the wishes of the master. Our cavalry division will not participate in this battle, nor will the Lama soldiers. It is mainly for the brothers of the Us Tibetan Army to practice their skills. Although you have been training for a year, but
It won't work if you haven't experienced the test of the battlefield. This time, unless you mess up, we won't end. Are you sure?"
Here Wang Hao is the commander of Xining and has the highest status. As soon as he finished speaking, the headquarters of the Us Tibetan Army has not returned yet. Currently, the two divisions are under Wang Hao's control according to Yang Fan's order. The officers of the two divisions immediately stood up.
Yelled loudly: "No problem"
Tan Peng and Tong Zhen were also confident. Although these people had never been on the battlefield, they were all extremely vicious people and desperadoes. The felons among the 200,000 prisoners should all be beheaded. They all
I have seen blood and killed people. Some of them have been gangsters for many years and are notorious thieves.
Moreover, the officers were all veterans who had fought dozens of fierce battles with Yan Yingyuan. The supervising team and cavalry were also these people. These felons had trained hard for a year according to Yang Fan's infantry drill, and their combat effectiveness was far better than that of the Ming Dynasty at this time.
I don’t know how strong the camp soldiers are.
They all know that after this battle, the master will return to Linhe City. This is their chance to show off in front of the master. The opportunity is rare, and they must fight well and win. Xining is a place where nothing can happen.
The people in the egg position are all people with average level in group training.
The real talents are in the cavalry and infantry corps, and they are all in Jinshan City now.
Wang Hao looked at the confident people and said: "We will block their retreat. They can't even think about escaping from the Kunlun Pass. The current situation in the Hehuang Valley is like catching a turtle in a jar. Just let go of the fight. Anyway,
This is to give you an opportunity to learn. This place is completely left to you."
Early the next morning, people from Quatu Khan's tribe came out of the military camp and flocked to a valley east of Xining City. It was a low-altitude area with dense woods. They immediately began to cut down the trees.
Xining City is so strong that they have no siege weapons, but they are helpless.
At this time, the remaining military headquarters and the first and second divisions of the Us Tibetan Army, which had just completed their immigration mission, were rushing to the Hehuang Valley day and night.
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land.
At this time, the population of Shaanxi was more than 8 million, and the population of northern Shaanxi was about 2 million. After all, the natural conditions in northern Shaanxi were very poor. Survival was not easy, and it was an area hardest hit by famine.
The main population of Shaanxi is distributed in the central region, with about four million people. The Hanzhong area in the south has probably less than two million people. After all, the Wei River Valley in the central part is suitable for agricultural development.
This time, the army went south to the areas north and west of the Guanzhong Agricultural Zone, and relocated about 500,000 households with no land and little land, and transferred more than 2.5 million people. For a time, Guanzhong and northern Shaanxi
The idlers were cleared away.
Except for the core areas of Hanzhong and the Wei River Valley, which were not affected, the other areas were almost turned into barbaric places with no one else except the gentry and landlords.
This made the gentry landlords gnash their teeth with hatred. The larger gentry landlords were better off, and some small and medium-sized landlords could not even find their tenants. They were all captured by Yang Fan's soldiers, who were like wolves and tigers. However, this also completely solved the hidden dangers in Shaanxi.
.Now most of the refugees have been taken away.
The reason why the core areas of Shaanxi and Hanzhong were not completely evacuated was mainly because the impact would be too great. If this was done in Xi'an, it would definitely shock the imperial court. No one would take care of the poor and remote areas below. Moreover, Hanzhong has inconvenient transportation and location.
It was remote. Yang Fan was too lazy to spend that time.
Yan Yingyuan was hurrying on his way with more than 20,000 people. He knew that the army he had personally trained would soon be tested by war.