Chapter 196: Sharpening the Knife
"Alas! It's too late! ”
As soon as this premeditated and elaborate ambush battle ended, the cavalry brigade of the Third Division arrived at the battlefield quickly, and the brigade commander Huang Weiguo sighed loudly in pain.
He had previously led the soldiers to launch a frantic pursuit, but he didn't expect to be one step slower and miss an opportunity to make great contributions.
Although he had just killed hundreds of fish who had escaped to the rear, he had done a perfect job of sweeping the tail for this battle of annihilating the enemy.
However, the cavalry brigade officers and soldiers who led the Third Division this time were simply here to play a game of playing house, from the previous solitary ambush and ambush soldiers, to catching up with the Tartar army, only to find that the battle was almost completely over.
This...... It's just a sneak out to have fun!
He was now truly speechless.
It's not that you don't work hard, but because your own combat effectiveness is too strong, and the enemy is suddenly attacked, and you don't have the slightest ability to resist.
All in all, under all kinds of three-and-six combinations, his own Third Cavalry Brigade became the only team to play soy sauce in this big battle!
"Weiguo, don't sigh and complain or anything."
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng had just come to Huang Weiguo's side who came from the rear because of the pursuit of the last few hundred deserters, and comforted him with amusement and relief, "It is precisely because of you chasing behind that these Tartar armies will be careless." ”
"Otherwise, it will be a fierce battle."
Lu Xiangsheng was not wrong in this sentence.
Indeed, if the rear of the large Tartar army had not been pursued too closely by a large number of cavalry, with the vigilance of the Tartars, they would have already felt the situation on both sides of the river clearly before they began to cross the river.
"Huang Weiguo, this time's military achievements, your third cavalry brigade is the same as the first and second cavalry brigades, and this time the three cavalry brigades are all collective third-class merits."
Chen An, the chief of staff on the side, said in a serious and serious manner.
The battle had just ended, and Chen An, chief of staff of the Blue Dragon Legion, who was in charge of military merit statistics, had already completed the approximate military merit statistics.
Of course, the individual military exploits of the various soldiers will have to wait until tomorrow to be able to get the final results.
The top priority now is to gather those war horses.
These war horses, the worst of which are the best war horses, are rare treasures.
Therefore, not only the current war horses that are still running around must be gathered up and pacified, but even those war horses that are not seriously injured also have a medical team with the army, with some soldiers and soldiers in emergency rescue.
There are about 5,000 soldiers, but they are even busier.
They need to clean up the battlefield, especially digging a few huge pits to bury the corpses of Tartars and traitors, and they also need to recover the massive arrows that have just been fired.
Most of these steel pressed repeater arrows can still be used, and they are not so easily damaged.
There are also a lot of arrows that have been deformed and damaged, and these must be recycled and recast.
Otherwise, even if the scale of the Royal Military Equipment Department is doubled, the military supplies that are being built with all its strength at this time will not be enough for everyone to consume.
Fortunately, most of the weapons and equipment of the new army, most of the sophisticated steel armor, are driven by primary hydraulic equipment to drive mechanical power, supplemented by molds to suppress them, which are very durable.
Otherwise, the Ming Imperial Military Equipment Department, because the super-large steel plant in Goguryeo Iron Mountain, is under construction and has not yet been put into operation, and now it is no matter what, it will not be able to supply the consumption of the current nearly two million troops.
Three months later, the Goguryeo Tieshan Industrial Zone officially began to stabilize production, and the steel problem that currently plagued the Ming Empire could be completely remedied.
The Tieshan Industrial Zone, which is under construction, is dozens of times larger than the scale of the Royal Military Equipment Department opposite the eastern camp in the capital today.
"Metropolitan Governor, this time our Blue Dragon Legion has sent it!"
Among the team of staff secretaries of the army, who had already preliminarily obtained the results of the battle, a clerk in charge of data statistics came over to Lu Xiangsheng with a few manuscripts and said to Lu Xiangsheng.
"In this ambush battle, none of the Tartar soldiers and hardcore traitors escaped the net, and all of them were ambushed!"
"A total of 22,000 and 31 enemies were annihilated, and because our side was conducting a deliberate surprise attack, it was well planned, and none of them died, but because of carelessness, more than 100 soldiers were slightly wounded."
"Thirty-eight thousand six hundred and forty-eight undamaged war horses were harvested, 6,522 war horses were lightly wounded, and about 5,500 war horses were seriously injured and killed."
"All the lightly injured horses are being treated urgently, and the seriously injured and dead horses have been slaughtered on the spot by the soldiers, and then brought back to the camp, and the soldiers of the Huotou Army will make it into a jerky reserve."
In fact, the main harvest of this report is to get more than 45,000 good war horses, which relieves the crisis of war horses that the Blue Dragon Legion is still in desperate need.
In fact, even after getting so many good war horses, the Blue Dragon Legion still lacked a lot of horses, especially war horses.
After all, in the follow-up plan newly agreed upon by Zhu Youxiao and Sun Chuanting, after killing most of Huang Taiji and his Houjin clan, they would be forced to leave the Great Northeast Region.
Then the soldiers of the Ming New Army had to form three all-cavalry regiments to chase these Tatars and many Mongolian tribes until they all left the northern steppes of the Ming Empire.
It has been a national policy to let Huang Taiji and his Houjin, as well as the many Mongol tribes in the northern steppes, go to the west to plague those countries of all sizes.
Zhu Youxiao and Sun Chuanting have been officially announced, and these three all-cavalry legions will be selected from the five divine beast field legions.
Starting next month, the five major field corps will gather on the border of the Great Plain of Liaodong to start the selection competition.
After an average distribution of the number of existing war horses, everyone will split up, and no matter which of the three legions is the first to complete the equipping of two good war horses for the whole army, they can be selected for the three expeditionary corps.
This is an all-cavalry regiment! Or a legion that can participate in the expedition, how majestic would it be?
With the premise that the entire legion comes and goes like the wind, how happy will it be to fight in the future?
The officers and men of the five major field legions, naturally, everyone wants to win.
The official competition will begin at the beginning of next month.
After all, now Cao Wenzhao's Vermilion Bird Legion and Wang Qinian's Qilin Legion are now recovering and controlling the entire Shandong Peninsula, and it will take some time before they can return to the army to conquer the northern steppes.
At present, Cao Bianjiao's Xuanwu Legion has the most war horses.
Moreover, this guy has now just regained control of the entire Duoyan Sanwei region, and is gearing up, preparing to enter the northern and western steppes for a sweep.
Therefore, the least worrying thing is Cao Bianjiao.
Although the military department has an order, at the beginning of next month, all the number of war horses of the five major legions must be evenly distributed first, and then the large-scale competition selection operation will begin.
However, with Cao Bianjiao's temperament, it is estimated that he has basically picked out all those good horses a long time ago.
At this time, even if he didn't gather 200,000 war horses, it was almost the same.
And now Lu Xiangsheng's Blue Dragon Legion has got so many good war horses at once, and now the total number of war horses has reached nearly 90,000, how many top war horses can he choose first?
You must know that the gap between war horses and war horses is even a little bit, and when fighting, the gap is huge.
Such a big gain, not to mention that these staff secretaries of the army who were both prosperous and lost with their Blue Dragon Legion were ecstatic, but also made Lu Xiangsheng and the core generals overjoyed.
Next, it is estimated that there will be several major battles with the enemy chieftain Taiji, and it should not be a problem to gather 200,000 war horses.
When the time comes, under this open unspoken rule, he will definitely pick the best part of the war horses first.
Although these war horses, when the fair competition starts next month, they will be evenly distributed among the five major legions according to the total number of war horses of the five legions, so as to show fairness.
However, who wouldn't pick out those good horses first like Cao Bianjiao?
Wait for the fair start of next month, all the five major field legions, after the number of war horses is evenly distributed, everyone will go to the northern and western steppes to grab it, how can they get a place for the expedition of the whole cavalry corps.
Sharpen the knife to the grassland.
Presumably, since the various field corps received this order two days ago, everyone has been in a hurry, right??
The expedition of the whole cavalry regiment is enjoyable just thinking about it.
Come like the wind, go like electricity, it's really cool!