The two groups of Mongolian cavalry collided like sparks hitting the earth, and the volleys of guns "crackled". The Ming army used firearms earlier. The soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division lay on their horses, with the muzzles of their guns extended vertically.

Galdan's men were tougher. They had guns in their hands. They didn't even aim, and they just shot out. Even though it was useless to aim, their accuracy was very frightening.

They gave full play to the tradition of shooting men first and shooting horses first, specializing in shooting war horses with relatively large targets. Even war horses with strong muscles and thick skin had to rest if they were hit by bullets.

Fortunately, the Ming cavalry did not charge with all their strength, their horses were just trotting. We have entered the age of firearms, who still plays cavalry hedging. The cavalry is fine at a trot, and even if the horse is shot to death, it will only be from the horse's neck.

It fell off. Dust yourself off and start shooting.

Unlike those Mongolians who charged with howling "Ouch" and "Ouch", the war horse was knocked down by a shot. Fortunately, it suffered a black nose and swollen face. Unfortunately, its neck and spine were directly broken. It lay on the ground and said "Ouch" and "Ouch"

Yo" is annoying.

When Mangui rushed to the battlefield, it happened to be the first wave of cavalry. The Mongols hung up their rifles and pulled out their sabers. They were still used to using sabers to attack!

The Ming army was different. The rifles were equipped with sharp bayonets. They were still shooting at the moment before charging. On this line, the Mongols suffered a big loss.

In the first cavalry collision, the Mongols fell off their horses one after another. Only a few unlucky ones fell off their horses in the 1st Cavalry Division of the Ming Army.

The cavalry fighting on the grassland is actually a bit like the navy. Both sides charge, then reorganize their formation and enter the next charge. The cavalry is constantly charging, fighting with the enemy.

Mangui's tactics are the same as those of the Mongols. He will not order a unit to charge all the time. Their charge is in a rotating pattern. Once a wave of people has finished charging, they will return to their own formation, and then another wave of people will follow.

Rush. In this way, the horse power can be maintained as much as possible. It is not like the Mongolians, whose horses are so tired that they are frothing at the white foam and are still being pushed desperately.

My physical strength is already close to its limit, no matter how hard I push it, it will be in vain.

The more Galdan fought, the more frightened he became. He was fighting with firearms, and his men seemed to have an advantage in accuracy. But among the people who died, many more of his men died than the Ming army. Usually two Mongolian soldiers were killed.

Only one person can kill a Ming army.

Now he regrets why he let Dorgon carry away the 5,000 men and loot. If he had these 5,000 men, he was sure that he could keep the Liao army here.

The intelligence was actually transparent to both sides. Galdan knew that the Liao army only had one cavalry division. As long as this cavalry division was destroyed at all costs, the Liao army would no longer have a large-scale organized cavalry. The war in the northwest would be very serious.

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As for how many of his own men died, this was not included in Galdan's calculation. As long as he killed the First Cavalry Division, he would be a hero of the Mongols when he returned to the Ili Valley. As long as he climbed up and shouted, his followers would immediately gather.

It would be wonderful if we could, by the way, squeeze out Alabutan and become the future heir of Jungar Mongolia.

Seeing that the battle situation was developing in his favor, Mangui immediately called for the artillery. Under the cover of a cavalry regiment, the artillery regiment moved forward, and the mortars hit the Mongolian position with a roaring whistle.

The Mongols, who were already in danger, were hit by a rain of artillery shells and immediately collapsed. Due to the lack of pack horses, Galdan did not carry a mortar. He believed that the rifles and grenades in his hand were enough to deal with poorly equipped troops.

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Once the army collapses, not even Daluo Jinxian can do anything about it. Everyone wants to escape, and no one is willing to be the scapegoat behind.

Galdan still wanted to hold on, but the guards pulled him onto the fastest horse and ran away. Even if you are Galdan, you can't gather the scattered Mongolian soldiers now.

"Haha! After chasing for thirty miles, retreat the troops. Don't pursue the enemy if you are desperate." Looking at the corpses all over the grassland, the Mongols lost at least 4,000 people this time. The Mongols still have a certain fighting strength. If they pursue too fiercely,

If you are ambushed by the Mongols, you will lose more than you gain.

After chasing for a while, they killed several hundred Mongolian soldiers. Man Gui immediately sent people back to the capital to report the victory, but it was a pity that not many prisoners were captured. Otherwise, a prisoner dedication ceremony would be more popular.

Look at these bastards, who dares to say that riding a division will eat more and occupy more.

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When the good news reached the capital, Li Xiao had just finished fighting Ao Canghai.

In the past few years, I have become accustomed to eating and occupying a lot. It is so easy to make Mr. Ao spit out the charming eyes of the white silver dollar.

However, when Master Ao saw a row of howitzers and a group of Maxim heavy machine guns, he quickly changed his mind. Master Ao is actually similar to Li Xiao. He can be regarded as a pure soldier. There is no soldier who doesn't like weapons.

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Thirty howitzers and one hundred heavy machine guns. This is the price Ao Ye paid for quitting the business world. Ao Canghai stroked the thick breech of the howitzer with his hand. It looked like he was touching a woman's buttocks. It was so disgusting!

After all, soldiers have to fight. Success on the battlefield depends on these weapons. I heard that the Mongols are pretty good now, with rocket launchers, mortars and everything in between.

Li Hu's regiment was relatively well-equipped, but it didn't survive even a day before it was crippled. Less than one-third of the entire regiment survived, and one Li Hu was seriously injured and is now lying in a hospital in the capital.

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Money is something that you have to live to spend. If you don’t have the life to spend it, no matter how much money you have, it will be of no use.

Li Hao has returned to Beijing. He rode a fast horse all the way back to Beijing from Tongguan. Although his third brother always bullied him when he was a child, he is still the third brother. Hearing that Li Hu was injured and about to die, Li Hao didn't care about anything.

Then he returned to Beijing.

When Li Xiao returned to Beijing, the first thing he did was to visit Li Hu in the hospital.

"Uncle!" Two children playing on the lawn outside the hospital immediately rushed over when they saw Li Xiao. The two old ladies next to them quickly bowed and saluted!

"Is your dad feeling better?" Li Xiao picked up Da Ya and glanced around but didn't see Yan Rong or Xiao Hong.

"Daddy is always sleeping when he is lying in bed. He doesn't wake up even if I call him. Fourth uncle is here and brought us some fun things. Look." Da Ya held up a little man made of white stone.

Li Xiao took it over and took a look. It was carved in the likeness of Da Ya. Although there were some differences between the eyebrows and eyes, Li Hao didn't see Da Ya a few times a year.

Blue sky jade, I don’t know where this kid found such a good blue sky jade. But the things in the world are for human use. Even if Li Hao carves a robot cat, Li Xiao will not feel that it is a waste of natural resources.

"Let's go! Follow your uncle to see your father." Li Xiao picked up the two children and walked into the hospital.

Li Hu's ward is very spacious. It's a bit exaggerated to say that he can play basketball, but there is absolutely no problem in playing badminton.

Li Hao sat in front of Li Hu's bed, and Xiao Hong stood beside him. Yan Rong held a small mirror in one hand and a thing in the other, painting on his mouth.

Lipstick was finally born, and it is said that it was Xie Youcai who tinkered with it. Because of lipstick, Xie Youcai made a fortune. If the big teapot in the brothel didn't tinker with women's things, what was it? Li Xiao felt that he was a bit of a waste of talent.

Seeing Li Xiao come in, Yanrong stood up quickly. The lipstick was applied crookedly in a hurry, which looked very funny on her face.

"Brother!" Li Hao stood up.

He is an eighteen-year-old young man, tall and strong, with a healthy buckwheat face.

"I'm back! My bones have grown stronger." Li Xiao held Li Hao's shoulders and looked at Li Hao up and down.

A tuft of down has grown out of his chin, and his shoulders are thick and strong.

"I rushed back from Tongguan in three days, and a horse was killed alive. I have been walking on two legs all these years, but I have never ridden a war horse." Li Xiao noticed that Li Hao was standing in a strange posture.

For a person without profound riding skills, riding a horse all the way from Tongguan to the capital, his buttocks would be broken into eight pieces.

"Third brother, he...!" Li Hao glanced at Li Hu, who was lying on the boat with his eyes closed.

"It depends on fate, maybe I will wake up soon, or maybe I will never wake up in my lifetime." Li Xiao looked a little lonely, and looked back at Yan Rong, who took a step back.

Li Hao rushed back in three days, but Xiaoyu hasn't come back yet. You know, there are airships on Changxing Island. There are also trains on the shore. Now the trains from Liaodong can go all the way to Lushun.

"The Mongolians are so miserable."

"Don't talk about it. The Mongols used a life-threatening strategy. Your third brother didn't expect that he suffered a big loss in the hasty encounter.

These peoples on the grasslands have no strategy but are very cunning, and they have no culture but are very brave. Sometimes, these two things can make up for the lack of equipment.

Okay! You just came back, don’t say that. Go home and rest first, and we two brothers will drink two cups together in the evening. You can drink two cups!"

"able!"

"Okay, I'm going to see Mr. Sun. I have something to discuss with him. You don't know yet, but Master Man won a great victory in the Horqin Grassland. He captured dozens of people alive and wiped out more than 4,000 enemies. Fat and thin Galdan was on the run.

The good news has reached the capital. In a few days, when the captives return, they will come to the Meridian Gate to present the prisoners to boost the morale of the people." There was excitement in Li Xiao's tone.

"What a great thing! Brother, I also have an idea to discuss with you, but I don't know what you mean." Li Hao suddenly became a little nervous.

Li Xiao was very surprised. Could it be that he had made some girl's belly bigger? Li Hu had done this before, and he and Li Xiu had no bad deeds.

"Say!" Li Xiao glanced at Li Hao playfully.

Li Hao put forward Wu Ciyou's suggestion, and finally said honestly that it was Wu Ciyou's suggestion and had nothing to do with him.

After saying this, Li Xiao's favor increased greatly, and his younger brother was afraid that he would not get any credit. Such a simple child needs to be well rewarded for being able to tell the truth.

"I'm going to see Mr. Sun in a while. He has the final say on internal affairs. You know your elder brother is a good fighter, but when it comes to managing internal affairs, he just catches the blind. When I think of such a mountain of memorials, I wonder what Mr. Sun is doing.

Living to this day." Li Xiao had a splitting headache when he thought of those memorials and official documents.

"That's good. I hope Mr. Sun can agree with Wu Ciyou's opinion. In this way, the new railway can not only be built quickly, but also save many lives. It is not easy to drill through the Luliang Mountains and Taihang Mountains from the capital."

"Let's talk to Mr. Sun later." Li Xiao put his arm around Li Hao's shoulders and glanced at Yan Rong.

"Take good care of me. It will be good for you when Hu Zi wakes up."

"Promise!" Yan Rong and Xiao Hong quickly bowed and agreed.

"Uncle, are you leaving? You didn't even play with me?" Da Ya pulled the corner of Li Xiao's clothes and looked at Li Xiao and Li Hao with big watery eyes, almost making it impossible for the two brothers to leave.

Arriving at Sun Chengzong's study, Sun Chengzong wore reading glasses and looked at Li Hao up and down. He said that he was a good young man. He would get a beautiful wife in the future!

"Mr. Sun, all your granddaughters are as beautiful as flowers. If my brother seduces you, you won't complain." Li Xiao said with a smile when it was a rare opportunity to make fun of the old man.

"If the Fourth Master falls in love with my daughter, I will never stop him."

The topic was a bit crooked, and Li Hao was embarrassed. But Li Xiao quickly changed the topic to railway construction!

"Leave Juyongguan from the capital, then cross the foot of Yinshan Mountain and go straight to the northwest. This is a good suggestion, but there are grasslands along the way. If there is a safety problem, our losses will be huge.

Besides, when building a railway, we must not only consider the war, but also consider the impact of the train on the economy along the way. Take the railways in Liaodong and Hebei as an example. When the train is built in a place, the flow of goods in that place will speed up. Local areas will soon

We will become rich. Counties that were so poor that they were so poor that they took medicine and received government subsidies have now begun to pay taxes after getting trains.

From the capital to Xi'an, and then from Xi'an to Gansu. Although this journey seems a bit difficult, once the railway is completed, the vast northwest will become our Han territory, and the remote Guanzhong will become rich again." Sun Chengzong

After hearing Li Hao's opinion, he immediately began to refute.

"Mr. Sun, you can't say this. Now that the military situation in the northwest is urgent and the transportation of food and wages is huge, the imperial court can build the northern railway first. Then slowly build the railway from the capital to Xi'an. This guy is in charge of surveying and mapping. What kind of railway should be built?

I don’t know at first, but surveying and mapping in the Taihang Mountains and Luliang Mountains is estimated to take two or three years, and this is still a situation where there are no variables.

Besides, this railway can still boost the economy along the way. It just can't boost Shanxi! As for safety, my eldest brother said that Man Ye's 1st Cavalry Division successfully defeated the invasion of the Mongolian Jungar tribe.

As long as we spread our informants widely in the border areas and conduct real-time patrols of airships in places that are not suitable for military garrison, there should be no big problem. This is just a little boy's opinion, please accept it, Mr. Sun."

"Well done to you, Li Hao. What you said was so reasonable and well-founded that I was speechless!

But you are right. The situation in the northwest is tense. The cost of transporting baggage is too high. After a kilogram of rice reaches the front line, it would be good if half a kilogram is left. I agree with this matter. You can go to Shi Kefa tomorrow and talk to him.

Your route plan.”
Chapter completed!