In July of the tenth year of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the king of Junger Khan, Gardan Tse Zero, with the younger Zer Zero Tun Dob as the main commander, led 30,000 Junger troops to march into the territory of Jebtsundamba II. Jebtsundampa was the leader of Tibetan Buddhism and wielded great political influence among the Mongol tribes. The purpose of Gardanze's trip was to kidnap Jebtsundamba II and also to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes to mentally control the Mongol tribes.
The previous commander-in-chief of the Junger Army was the Great Strategist Ling Dundob, this person was resourceful, and at the same time, only Yue Zhongqi could live with him, but he couldn't get cheap at all. According to historical records, once the Great Stratege Zero Dundob commanded the Junger army to attack Yue Zhongqi's castle, and Yue Zhongqi led the Qing army out of the city to face the battle. Yue Zhongqi commanded the Qing army to attack, and the Great Strategy Zero Dundob commanded the Junger army to retreat, the Qing army advanced 50 meters, the Junger army retreated 50 meters, the Qing army stopped, and the Junger army would also stop. However, the muskets used by the Junger army at that time had a range far greater than that of the Qing army. The Qing army suffered a large number of casualties, but the Junger army remained unscathed. Yue Zhongqi was so angry that he was going to death, but there was no way to do it, and in the end he could only retreat into the city and make a truce behind closed doors. It was precisely because of this that Yue Zhongqi wrote to the Yongzheng Emperor, asking for a large purchase of Russian muskets to equip the Qing army.
The most famous battle of Daze Lingdundob was to command the Junger soldiers to surround the 2,900 Russian troops in the castle, and finally only more than 700 Russian troops fled, and in terms of the level of combat at that time, the most elite troops of the Qing army were handed over to Yue Zhongqi, and Nian Xinyao commanded, and there was no such strength. However, because in the ninth year of the Yongzheng Dynasty, a part of the Junger army commanded by the Great Ce Zero Dundob was lured by Dolji and Celing to Edenchur to be eliminated, and the cautious Great Ce Ling Tun Dob thought that the Qing army might take advantage of the victory to attack his camp, so he led the Junger army to retreat west overnight, but the Qing army did not come.
This matter reached the ears of Gardan Tse Zero, and Gardan Tse Zero thought that Da Tse Zero Dundob was too cautious and too timid, and when the Junger army returned, he directly removed Da Tse Ling Dundob from his post. Compared with the big Ce Ling Dundob, the small Ce Zero Tun Dob fights more courageously. The two people are wise and courageous, and the big strategy Ling Dundob is a bit like Wei Qing, who likes to plan and fight. Xiaoce Zero Dundob is a bit like Huo Qubing, and is especially good at long-distance raids. Therefore, Gardan Tse Zero appointed Jr. Ce Zero Tun Dob as the commander, and it seems that there is no fault in it.
Tsedundob Jr. led the Junger army to the territory of Jebzundamba II, but it was empty. Jebtsundamba II had been taken to Beijing by the Qing court, and the angry and corrupted little Cejiedun Dob led the Junger army, did not rest, fought continuously, and attacked the old camp of King Celing of Doro County, captured Celing's little wife and two sons, stole his cattle, sheep and livestock, and killed Celing King Celing of Doro County.
Celing was born in the bitter cold desert north and grew up in Beijing, a direct descendant of the Golden family. From an early age, he and his younger brother Gongge Labtan followed his mother to the Qing court and were raised by the Kangxi Emperor in the inner court. Because when he was born, his family was already in decline, and when he became an adult, he married the daughter of the Kangxi Emperor, and Celing, who was taken care of by the Qing court everywhere, had a deep affection for the Manchu Qing. After his two sons were captured by the Junger soldiers, Celing was angry but calm, telling others that only the son he had with the princess was his son.
The Mongols had a problem with fighting wars, better than charging horses or luring enemies into preset encirclements. But once the two armies fought in formation, the Mongols, who were not good at arrays, soon collapsed, mainly because the discipline was too poor. Many people read history books and feel that the ancient military formations are of little use, or not very useful. This is actually very wrong, fighting a war is not a group fight, not a group fight, only the systematic organization can achieve the maximum potential. Of course, what gossip array is not so godly.
For this reason, the Kangxi Emperor and the Yongzheng Emperor looked down on the Khalkha Mongol soldiers, and compared to the Khalkha Mongol soldiers, the Dzungar Mongol soldiers were a little better. After becoming an adult, he returned to Mobei to inherit his ancestral business, and received the best military education at that time. For the shortcomings of these Mongol soldiers under his command, Celing was very clear, so when hunting and training in peacetime, Celing strictly required these people to do what was forbidden, and thus also trained a crack army.
The Qing army failed to fight continuously against the Zhenger army, and the elite Eight Banner soldiers of the Great Qing Dynasty were completely lost, and it was from this time that the Green Camp soldiers began to rise, replacing the Eight Banner soldiers as the core military force of the Qing Empire. Yongzheng commanded the Qing army to rely on the defense of the towns, so what to do with the vast grassland? Under the pressure of the situation, Yongzheng could only let the Mongol nobles solve the problem on their own.
When the Junger army attacked Celing's old camp, Celing was fighting against the Junger army with the brave and warlike Sauron Tardai on Benbotu Mountain, but was copied by the Junger army. There was simply no time to rescue their old camp, so they could only sulk themselves. This Taldai was also a fierce man, and after he and Delu were responsible for breaking off during the battle with Tongbo, Delu died in battle, and Tardai was seriously injured and passed out on the battlefield, and his war horse hovered by his side, driving the beasts for him, until he woke up, and carried a sober and confused Taldai for a while, and returned to the camp of the Qing army in Kobdo. This kind of legendary experience of escaping death is really few people in history. Later, this war horse was given a name by the Qianlong Emperor, and there was a servant, and there was a special person to support it, until the end of his life, natural death, which is also a legend.
When Lang Erduo, who was responsible for transporting grain and grass to the Celing army, went to the large camp to hand over military affairs, he advised Celing that it was not a way to be angry now, it was better to lead the Qing army to attack the back of the Junger army, maybe he could take revenge.
Tseling immediately sent people to contact the county king Danjin Dolji and other Mongol tribes, and he led his Qing army to attack the rear of the Junger army. The county king Tenzin Dolji did not send troops without taking care of himself, and Celing could only try to gather other Mongol tribes and look for combat opportunities on the back road of the Junger army.
In August, the Junger army began to retreat towards Erdenezhao, and Tseling led the Qing army to use tactics similar to guerrilla warfare, engaging the Junger army more than 10 times in a row, constantly harassing the Junger army. With the arrival of other Mongol troops, Tseling gathered about 30,000 soldiers and horses, which was basically comparable to the Junger army of Tsedundob in terms of overall strength.
On August 5, Xiao Cezhi Zhidundob led the Junger army to a formation in the foothills of the Hangai Mountains, in front of which was the Orkun River, and the battlefield was a river valley. The advantage of this is that you can attack, if the battle situation is unfavorable, you can go up the mountain and retreat, and in front of the battle is a large river, you can take advantage of the enemy's half-crossing to attack.
Celing asked more than 1,000 Manchurian soldiers carefully selected to line up on the south bank of the Orkun River to meet the enemy. These soldiers were old and weak, and their main task was to lure the Junger soldiers into being fooled. But it should be noted that in this case, none of the generals will tell them that they are bait, so just run if it doesn't work. So they also have to fight to the death, for as long as they can. To put it bluntly, the fake is just like the real thing. Tseling personally led 10,000 Khalkha Mongol cavalry to ambush behind the mountain, and the remaining Khalkha Mongol soldiers lined up on the north bank of the Orkhun River.
The Manchurian soldiers and the Khalkha Mongols were both defeated generals under the Junger soldiers, and even the most elite Eight Banners Brigade was defeated by the Junger soldiers at Hetongbo. Therefore, Xiaoce Zero Dundob did not care too much about this battle, and there was another reason, which also caused Xiaoce Zero Tun Dob's carelessness, the front-line commander of the Qing army, Celing, was a Khalkha Mongol. General analysis of whether an army has combat effectiveness, who is the first commander? Which force second? At that time, it was impossible for the elite of the Eight Banners of Manchuria to be commanded by the Mongols, but what he did not understand was that Yongzheng's current situation had left Yongzheng with no choice.
The two armies began to fight, and the Manchurian soldiers in the back of the water were desperately resisting, but still could not stop the attack of the Junger army, and a rain of muskets and bows and arrows came from three sides. These old and weak soldiers had to flee along the river. The Junger army commanded by Tsedundob Jr. Zerodundob, with the cavalry in front, the whole army followed closely behind, and the formation began to become chaotic. Taking advantage of the chaotic formation of the Junger army, Tseling led the ambushed Khalkha cavalry from behind the mountain to suddenly kill, the formation in front of the Junger army was already in chaos, and the command was not effective at all. 10,000 cavalry took advantage of the mountain situation and rushed down from a high place, you can think about how you can stop it?
The collapsed Dzungar army, led by Xiao Tseze Zero Tun Dob, wanted to cross the river and escape, and here it should be said that in a place where the water is gentle, the cavalry rides on horses, holding the neck of the horse and can quickly swim to the other side of the river. The Khalkha Mongol soldiers on the north bank of the river waited until the Junge soldiers swam to the middle of the river and began to release arrows, and the history books record that the Junger army died in the water, and the river was completely red. That is to say, the blood that flowed stained the river red. The remaining Junger army retreated along the Orkun River in the direction of Tui River, and Xiao Ce Zero Dundob ordered the Junger army to throw cattle, sheep and logistics materials halfway along the road to delay the pursuit of the Qing army, and then take advantage of the cover of night to escape overnight. The Qing army still had a checkpoint city in the west, but because the Qing general Marsay ignored the opposition of his generals and refused to send troops to intercept the Junger army, the Junger army fled smoothly. And the Sauron Tardai led the elite Sauron cavalry, who directly killed the enemy at the front, and it is said that he chased and killed more than 2,000 miles all the way until he led his army back to the camp in the territory of Junger.
Gardanze's zero attack on the Great Qing is a national conquest, and this defeat almost wiped out Junger's elite, there is no way, this is the gap in strength. And the Yongzheng Emperor, who had been fighting for many years, also felt that the national treasury expenditure was huge and needed to recuperate. So the Qing court and Junger began to negotiate peace again, and the two sides were bounded by the Altai Mountains, and Junger also turned the direction of attack to Kazakhs in the west. However, peace between the two sides did not last long, and after Gardanze's death, the Qianlong Emperor took advantage of the internal strife in Junger and launched a war of extermination against the Junger tribe. (To be continued)