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Chapter 402 The end of the cavalry era

The battle on the front battlefield ended. Within two minutes, the battle on the east and west battlefields also ended. Ten thousand Tatar cavalry attacked and fought against less than five thousand lances. In just a few minutes, a battle ended. No one was killed or injured in the Lancers, and less than two thousand Tatar cavalry fled.

Less than two thousand Tatar cavalry escaped, which does not mean that the lancers killed more than nine thousand enemies. There are still a large number of Tatar cavalry on the three battlefields and fell to the ground. They will not die in a short time. However, the Tatar army, which was defeated, cannot come back and rescue the injured. It is a matter of time before death.

It is really unimaginable that the Tatar cavalry across the grasslands were easily defeated by the lancers. You should know that the number of Tatar cavalry is more than twice that of the lancers.

Riding on the war horse, the Tatar cavalry that fled in panic in Tianzhe's telescope gradually faded away. He said with emotion: "The era of cavalry is coming to an end."

Yes, the era of cavalry is coming to an end. This cavalry refers to cavalry in the old era, which were equipped with only sabers or bows and sabers.

How can the range of bows and arrows be compared with the muskets equipped by the People's Army? Especially in the open terrain such as the grassland, the muskets of the People's Army can exert all their power.

It is the end of the cavalry era, and cavalry will still exist, but its status on the battlefield will continue to decline.

Of course, not all muskets can end the era of cavalry. At least it needs to start with the tiger-headed rifle of the People's Army. Before the People's Army, General Qi also formed a cavalry with about 3,000 people in a battalion, equipped with backward front-mounted smoothbore rifle, with a range of only 200 meters.

General Qi's lancers also need to dismount their war horses when fighting. People stand on the ground to load ammunition and shoot for muskets. Even the backward front-mounted smoothbore rifle must have a range of more than bows and arrows. With the same number of people, General Qi's lancers can easily defeat the Tatar cavalry.

However, almost all the Tatars were cavalry, and they could gather tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry after giving some time. General Qi's lancers were too small and the range of muskets was too close. The Tatar cavalry could approach the lancers after some casualties and injuries, and shoot the lancers one by one with bows and arrows.

The People's Army Lancers were able to eliminate the Tatar cavalry again and again with their ultra-long range of tiger-headed rifles.

The People's Army's lances are still a little short of that, they are the war horses under them. The war horses of the lances are somewhat inferior to those of the Tatar cavalry. If the lances are riding war horses that are no less than the Tatar cavalry, even if they only have a lancer division, they can cross the grasslands with guerrilla tactics.

The two most important points of guerrilla tactics are the physical strength and speed of people or mounts. If a lancer wants to perform guerrilla tactics on the grassland, he must be equipped with excellent war horses.

The battle was over, and the large team of the Lancer Division remained in place, and a regiment was divided up to continue to guard the prisoners and the captured cattle, horses and sheep. All other troops went to clean the battlefield, and only a lot of intact war horses were left on the battlefield.

When he returned to the pass, Tian Zhe was preparing to apply to the Ministry of War to equip each cavalry of his Lancer Division with one more war horse, one man and two horses, which could bring more supplies to evilly and allow the Lancer Division to leave the pass and fight on the prairie for a longer time.

Under Tian Zhe's order, the lances began to act and rode their horses to approach the battlefield area. Seeing Tatars lying on the ground in the distance, at least one hundred meters away to replenish the guns, Tian Zhe wanted to take all the lances alive out of the prairie as much as possible.

There were no war damage after entering the prairie from the Lancers. When attacking the residences of certain Tatars, many Tatars resisted stubbornly, causing some casualties to the Lancer Division.

Nearly 4,000 lancers cleaned the battlefield together, and after only half an hour, all the Tatars on the battlefield were finally killed. During this period, there was also a little accident. The injured Tatars hid very well and were not discovered by the lancers. When the lancers approached and launched an attack on the lancers, they caused one death or more injuries to the lancer division.

With thousands of newly captured intact war horses, the Lancer Division continued to advance, and the alert level had not decreased, and they were worried that Tatars would attack.

The Lancers destroyed nine thousand Tatar cavalry, nine thousand Tatar cavalry and nine thousand war horses. The number of undamaged war horses captured by the Lancer Division did not exceed two thousand, so outsiders would probably not believe it at all.

During the battle, some Tatar cavalry mounts were killed and injured, and at least more than four thousand war horses were seized.

However, this is the case. The Lancer Division eliminated nine thousand Tatar cavalry and seized only more than 1,800 intact war horses.

When reunion, the Tatar cavalry will not ride on war horses and charge straight. The Tatar cavalry does not know what air resistance is, but they will also find it out by themselves in daily life. When riding a horse to charge, the lower the body bends, the faster the horse can run, and without having to face the wind.

On the battlefield, the Tatar cavalry bent over and charged, but after the lancers opened fire and shot some lancers, the Tatar cavalry began to use horses to protect their bodies. Their upper body was almost pressed against the horse's back, and even the Tatar cavalry had their legs clamped with their horses and their bodies were pressed against the side of the horse.

Facing the Tatar cavalry riding like this, in order to win the battle, the lances directly aimed the muzzle at the mounts of the Tatar cavalry, and shooting the Tatar cavalry and seizing the war horses was secondary.

The 16mm large caliber of the tiger head spear brings strong lethality. Even if it does not hit the key parts of the war horse, the war horse will not be able to continue to gallop on the battlefield due to the pain of the body's distance. Especially when the Tatar cavalry group charges, the war horses in front suddenly slow down or even fall, and they will face the collision of the Tatar cavalry behind, and the consequences will be as bad as possible.

We walked and stopped, gave cattle, horses and sheep some time to eat grass, and the Lancer Division stopped to rest until it was almost dark.

Night is the time when the Lancer Division is most vigilant. In order to prevent the Tatars from attacking at night, Tian Zhe sent several groups of cavalry to stay away from the stationed area of ​​the large troops of the Lancer Division. Once an enemy attacks in the dark, the Lancer Division will know and react faster.

During the day, the 11,000 Tatar cavalry led by Buyanche Chen Khan had been defeated, and there were less than two thousand survivors, and only this little force was left. How could Buyanche Chen Khan not bring people to attack at night?

In fact, after escaping, except for the royal headquarters, all other Tatar cavalry left. They were not angry at Buyanchechen Khan, and their hearts were filled with sadness about their companions' death.

They were dead, all died. There were so many people when they came, but there were only so few left when they left. There were not many tribal leaders who could survive. They regretted that they and their companions participated in this battle of death only.
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