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Chapter 910 – 906【Asymmetric Combat】

Chapter 910 906【Asymmetric Combat】

“Do you know the leader?” Ma Hongjie asked.

Zhang Wenchang took the binoculars, observed carefully and said: “Yes, he is Zongdui Nanse in Qamdo. Nanse means the son of the gods, and he can also be called the Son of Heaven.”

Ma Hongjie sneered: “A mere chieftain dares to pretend to be the emperor!”

Zhang Wenchang was not only an army guide, but also worked as a secret worker in Tibet for several years, and usually worked as a buddy in the tea-horse caravan.

Kangzang also has an ancient tea-horse road. One starts from Dali and Lijiang, goes to Nyingchi, Lhasa, and Gyantse, and then goes south to India. One is to start from Chengdu, pass through Ya’an and Kangding, and go to Qamdo to Lhasa, or turn north to sell goods to northern Tibet.

The imperial court has been collecting information about Tibet through caravans and espionage.

While the two of them were talking, Nan Se had ordered the Tibetan soldiers to surround him.

Hundreds of armored Tibetan soldiers, holding melee weapons in front. There were more than 2,000 Tibetan soldiers in leather armor, some with long spears, and some with bows and arrows. There are still a large number of unarmored pikemen on the two wings, some of the pikemen circled to the north, and only a few hundred cavalry followed.

“Boom boom boom!”

Suddenly, the cannon sounded.

The artillery shells were fired at the armored troops. These so-called iron armored troops were not even as good as the patrol soldiers of the imperial court. Moreover, they have not seen firearms for hundreds of years, and the big iron **** that fell from the sky made those Tibetan soldiers at a loss.

“What is that?” Nan Se was horrified.

No one can answer.

Because of the five great religious kings in Tibet, only two are allowed to pay tribute to trade. Moreover, since the end of Ming Dynasty, the tribute trade has been completely cut off, and the Tibetans here have never even been to Sichuan.

Seeing that his elite was showing signs of collapse, he led his personal guards and rushed forward, drawing his sword to supervise the battle himself: “Rush over, rush over, charge at full speed!”

Although he didn’t know what artillery was, Nan Se knew very well that he could no longer slowly advance to block the target, nor could he retreat to cause the troops to collapse. The only way is to rush over to fight!

Tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers rushed forward in a swarm, and the formation was chaotic when they ran.

“Boom boom boom!”

Another round of shelling, hundreds of Tibetan soldiers in leather armor were smashed by shells and fled.

“Don’t run away, kill back!” Nan Se personally slashed and killed the defeated soldiers on horseback, and the guards around him also started killing.

After hacking and killing hundreds of people, Nanse finally stopped the collapse.

It stopped, but morale had already plummeted. The Tibetan soldiers regarded the artillery as the anger of the Buddha, and they did not want to fight with the Han soldiers at all, but Nanse killed people behind them again, so they could only bite the bullet and charge forward.

“Pull it closer before hitting.”

The Southwest Datong Army used a set of equipment to fight in Myanmar and Vietnam, and wore cotton armor when fighting in Kham and Tibet.

When marching, let mules and horses carry it, and wear it when fighting.

After wearing it for only 20 or 30 minutes, I was already sweating because the temperature at this time exceeded 30 degrees.

Seeing that the troops were approaching, Nan Se said to the herald, “Archers, stop shooting.”

The herald rushed out immediately on horseback. These Tibetan troops in Kham did not even have a flag order system, and the combat orders were all yelled by their mouths.

In fact, they don’t need flag orders.

An ordinary battle involving thousands of people is already a big battle, and can be commanded verbally.

This time more than 10,000 Tibetans went to battle, and Nanse gathered troops with great effort, pulling all the Tibetan nobles around Qamdo. The noble armies of Qiongbu, Leiwuqi, Luolongzong and other places have all been brought to the battlefield at this moment, and there are only so few people in total. If you want to expand the army, you must also count the slaves.

Moreover, the Mongols have ruled for many years and repeatedly suppressed rebellions.

Not only were many Tibetan nobles killed, they were also ordered to pay tribute to war horses, which prevented the Tibetans in Kham from forming a large-scale cavalry.

The herald rode out and came to the noble officer, who immediately beat the drum. The archers stopped one after another, but after advancing quickly, there was no formation at all, and they stood there in a mess.

It was too late to form a team, so they pulled the bowstring and shot randomly.

The Datong army carried the rain of arrows hard, and the formation remained motionless.

A full set of cotton armor, even a helmet, they can shoot standing up, it doesn’t matter if they are **** like a hedgehog, anyway, there will be no heavy arrows in Tibet.

“kill!”

The officer who leads the elite troops is the eldest son of Nan Se. Also, the whole team didn’t stop, rushing forward with a messy army formation.

With this kind of military discipline, it is no wonder that Handu only had a few thousand Mongolian soldiers, but he was able to re-strike Kham and suppress all the rebellious local nobles. The combat effectiveness of the Tibetan soldiers in Kham was similar to that of the Southwest Chieftains, and even worse than those Southwest Chieftains.

“Raise the gun.”

“Bang bang bang bang!”

The Tibetan soldiers rushing forward were only about ten meters away. Most of the Tibetan soldiers are at a distance of twenty or thirty meters.

With a volley of guns, the whole world is clean.

Before the gunpowder smoke dissipated, hundreds of grenadiers came out, passed the fusiliers, threw bombs at the remaining Tibetan soldiers, and then charged forward with their warhammers.

On the north side, 800 southwest cavalry also rushed out when the gunfire soldiers raised their guns. They went straight to the outflanking Tibetan soldiers on the north side, just charging intimidatingly, then bypassed these enemies, and charged directly at the central army in the south from the side.

Nan Se only heard a burst of gunshots, followed by a series of explosions. The place where the battle was fought was filled with gunpowder smoke, and it was impossible to see clearly what was going on. More and more rout soldiers escaped from the smoke, and another 800 cavalrymen were killed diagonally, which made Nan Se feel a little dazed.

what’s up?

The only one hundred Tibetan cavalry were assembled by several nobles.

Seeing the infantry collapse, these nobles immediately fled with the cavalry, and no one was stupid enough to intercept the eight hundred Han cavalry.

Eight hundred southwest cavalry charged in this way, and the outflanking Tibetan soldiers in the north began to collapse. On the flanks of the former Tibetan soldiers nearby, they saw the friendly army on the left fleeing, the friendly army on the right also fleeing, and hundreds of cavalry passing by, and they also dispersed in an instant.

“Stop the enemy!”

Nan Se slipped away when he gave the order, and let his elite personal guards cover the retreat.

The so-called elite personal guards are only two or three hundred people, and most of them are infantry. Seeing the 800 Han cavalry approaching, nearly half of them fled in fright, and the remaining half fought foolishly.

“Bang bang bang bang!”

Eight hundred southwestern cavalry, while charging on horseback, raised their guns to shoot.

After chasing for several miles, the river valley became narrower and narrower.

Between the river and the cliff, only the ancient tea-horse road left by the caravan. In this kind of broken terrain, one has to be careful when traveling alone, but the Tibetan nobles and cavalry rushed over and fled in a swarm.

From time to time, nobles or cavalry fell down, some were careless, and some were simply pushed off their horses.

Nan Se stumbled, fell down and fell into a mess.

“Get out of the way, get out of the way!” A nobleman shouted on horseback.

Nan Se struggled to get up and shouted angrily: “I am Zongdui, give me your horse!”

The nobleman was forced to slow down his horse, seeing Nan Se approaching to ask for a mount, the guy drew his sword and slashed out angrily. He didn’t want to come to fight at first, the Han people and the Mongols were on fire, what’s the matter with them Tibetan nobles? The nobles were forced to participate in the war when Nanse forced the order to gather troops. It’s okay to say that they won the battle, but Nanse was responsible for the loss.

Still want to ask for a horse to escape?

Good idea!

The nobleman chopped Nan Se down with one knife, but was afraid that he would not be killed, so he got off his horse and went to repair it twice. Immediately, he dragged Nan Se’s body away, mounted his horse again, and galloped wildly with his whip.

“Stop, stop chasing!”

The Datong cavalry stopped one after another, and they were also furious.

Although one cavalryman did not die, more than a dozen horses fell to the ground during the pursuit.

These war horses come from several provinces in the southwest, and they are all selected from the best southwest horses. Although he has been running on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau for a long time and has gradually adapted to the environment in Kham, the sudden and violent running and pursuit still caused the horse to suffer from altitude sickness.

Of the dozens of horses that fell to the ground, eight of them stood up one after another, and their movements were somewhat inconvenient. The remaining five might never stand up again.

In comparison, humans are more adaptable than horses.

“Lei Wu Qi Zongdui Xianba, bow down to the noble general!”

A nobleman who fell off his horse on the battlefield is now prostrate in front of Ma Hongjie, and even crawled over to kiss his boots.

Zhang Wenchang explained in a low voice: “This man named Xianba is one of the four nobles around Qamdo. Although they also support monks, they wholeheartedly go to Handu. All monks and lay officials sent from Lhasa will be expelled by them. What they believe in The sect is different from that in Lhasa.”

“Understood,” Ma Hongjie said to Xianba with a smile, “The Tibetan soldiers here are temporarily under your command. As long as they are loyal and obedient, the imperial court will definitely not treat them lightly.”

Xianba looked around, except for those who jumped into the river and escaped, except for those who were killed on the battlefield, the Datong Army captured more than 4,000 Tibetan soldiers.

All these soldiers belong to you?

Even if it’s just a temporary command of troops, it’s worth it. Xianba has never led so many soldiers.

Moreover, entrusting such an important task shows that the Han people are supporting themselves. Go to **** Handu, go to **** Nanse, from now on you will mix with the Han people, you will definitely be able to become a bigger official, and you will definitely be able to own a bigger territory!

Xian Ba immediately dropped his body to the ground, and bowed three times to Ma Hongjie: “Don’t worry, General, from now on, I will be born as a member of the Celestial Dynasty, and when I die, I will be a member of the Celestial Dynasty.”

Ma Hongjie asked Xianba to rectify the troops, and then told the adjutant: “The whole army drinks saffron tea, and the war horses also drink saffron water.”

Taking saffron can prevent altitude sickness, this is information provided by caravan businessmen.

In order to go to Qinghai-Tibet, the Datong Army has been purchasing and storing saffron for several years. The troops in Shaanxi were purchased from the Yarkand Khanate. The troops on the southwest side were bought from Tibet through caravans.

The troops continued to advance and came to Qamdo mightily.

The remaining local nobles had packed up their belongings and fled, but the monks in the temple came out to welcome them warmly.

There are several ancient city ruins near Qamdo, and ruins can still be seen. However, the Mongolian and Tibetan nobles only raised money to build temples, and never thought about building cities.

Ma Hongjie came to a place where two rivers meet: “This is suitable for building a city, and there are ruins of the ancient city. Qamdo is located in an important place, and we will definitely build a city and garrison here in the future.”

Xianba, who has defected here, is now very active. From among the captives, he selected guys who were landlords, and let these people bring a small number of Tibetan soldiers to return to their hometowns to declare the rule of the Chinese dynasty, while he stayed in the army and continued to be a hostage.

Those nobles who escaped from the battlefield were ordered to come back to pay a visit. If they came, they would be exonerated.

With a radius of two or three hundred miles, there is no need to fight anymore.

Lhasa, according to intelligence, there is no need to fight, because there is no Mongolian garrison at all. Next, you can go north to join Huang Yao’s troops, or look for an opportunity to fight alone.

(end of this chapter)