Chapter 384: Break
Five or six thousand men were killed or wounded in one charge, and the loss of more than 10,000 men in two charges, and the total population of the Tatars, the number of Tatar troops, and the number of vanguard troops, and the loss of more than 10,000 men in just two charges, was too great to be accepted by the generals.
Two thousand meters away from the Bohai Sea, the Tatar vanguard stopped, and most of the tribal leaders had angry faces on their faces.
"This is a conspiracy of the enemy!"
"Let the enemy's plot succeed, and we have killed thousands of warriors."
"The enemy ahead is not ordinary."
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Ignoring the angry words of the tribal leaders, he quickly said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy in front is very strong, and even if we can capture it with our strength, we will suffer heavy casualties. ”
Hearing the words of the quick commander, except for a few tribal leaders who thought that they would continue to wait for the enemy to have reinforcements, everyone else agreed, and now there were less than 50,000 horses left on their side, and with the casualties of the two charges, the enemy in front was really not ordinarily strong, and the vanguard army would only kill and wound more people if they attacked again.
While the Tatar vanguard continued to wait, the scouts of the 83rd Division of the People's Army re-completed the reconnaissance of the Tatar vanguard army, and Zhang Xinquan once again sent personnel out of the city to clean up the battlefield.
Zhang Xinquan and the Tatar cavalry were on the bar, and when the 83rd Division was cleaning up the battlefield, the Tatar cavalry could not beat it again, Zhang Xinquan did not believe that the Tatar cavalry dared to charge with so many casualties.
Just as Zhang Xinquan thought, the Tatar vanguard once again received the news that the People's Army had gone out of the city to clean up the battlefield, and this time none of the tribal leaders said that they would attack, whether it was a conspiracy or not, and now it was a conspiracy.
The KPA was cleaning up the battlefield, the Tatar vanguard was resting, and the Tatar contingent transporting the ladders was about to join the Tatar vanguard, and behind it was the Chinese army of up to 100,000 men led by Buyan Chechen Khan.
When the Tatar vanguard army was resting, he quickly sent his men to the Chinese army to report the battle situation to Buyan Chechen Khan, and when the People's Army had cleared half of the battlefield, the battle report was finally delivered to Buyan Chechen Khan.
"What?"
Listening to the report of the subordinates of the speedy general, Buyan Chechen Khan couldn't believe it, in Buyan Chechen Khan's opinion, the vanguard army of 60,000 people could easily capture the Bohai Sea as long as it relied on the ladder, but now, the vanguard army has not yet attacked the city, just launched two charges, and lost more than 10,000 people, which is one-sixth of the vanguard army, and one-twenty-second of the entire Tatar army.
Losing so many people at once, I quickly feel distressed, and Buyan Chechen Khan is also distressed, if the number of dead and injured is too large, I am afraid that some tribes will choose to withdraw.
Fortunately, he did not have the impulse to continue to attack the Bohai Institute, and when he led the Chinese army to join the vanguard army, 150,000 horses, no matter how strong the enemy of the Bohai Institute was, it could not be the opponent of the 150,000 Tatar warriors.
Buyan Chechen Khan ordered the Tatar army to accelerate its advance and join the vanguard army before dark.
The news of more than 10,000 casualties in the vanguard army has spread in the Chinese army, and only a small number of people are worried, and more people think that the commander of the vanguard army is too bad, and the vanguard army has lost so many people that it has not taken the Bohai Institute, and it should be withdrawn from the army.
On the other side, the communications corps of the 83rd Division had already arrived in Beiping City and reported to the headquarters of the First Group Army the news of the Tatar attack on the Bohai Institute.
In the battle between the People's Army and the Tatar cavalry, the musketeers did the most damage to the Tatar cavalry, if in the defensive battle, in the face of the Tatars besieging the city, the grenadiers could also give the Tatars great damage, the first soldiers could only be used for defensive operations, the killing effect of artillery on the enemy was far less than that of muskets, and more importantly, the heavy artillery regiment marched slowly.
There is only one division of the Bohai Institute, one regiment of musketeers and one grenadier regiment, and the Bohai Institute has enough grenades and one regiment of grenadiers, but there is a lack of musketeers, so Wang Shengrong decided to transfer two musket regiments to support the Bohai Institute.
Three musket regiments and more than 3,400 muskets can directly destroy tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry, and with the cooperation of other arms, even if 100,000 Tatars attack the Bohai Institute, they can block it.
By the time the two musket regiments left Beiping City, the 83rd Division had almost finished cleaning the battlefield 700 meters away from the city, harvesting thousands of war horses, of which more than 700 were intact, and the rest were slightly wounded.
Zhang Xinquan had already decided that after the Tatars were completely defeated, he must leave enough war horses, at least one cavalry battalion to the 83rd Division, and if he could, it would be best to add a cavalry regiment.
Of course, Zhang Xinquan also knew that the possibility of the 83rd Division forming a cavalry regiment was almost non-existent, not because of the shortage of war horses, but because the People's Army was relatively short of war horses, not to mention that the People's Army needed a large number of war horses to form a lancer division, and the 83rd Division could only be stationed at the border pass to defend against the Tatar attack, but the lancer division could enter the steppe and take the initiative to attack the Tatars.
In addition to the living horses, the KPA also harvested thousands of dead horses and nearly 11,000 Tatar corpses.
Every time a large-scale war breaks out, it is followed by epidemics, and the People's Army has strict control over the corpses produced by the war, which cannot be thrown on the battlefield, nor can they be disguised at will, and they can be burned as much as they can, and these corpses cannot be allowed to become the source of the epidemic.
As for the dead war horses, although horse meat is not as delicious as beef, pork, and chicken, it is also meat, and it is all shot by the People's Army with muskets and artillery.
In this era, there were no large-scale livestock farms, and the common people at the bottom even had a problem to eat by themselves, and they could not raise many poultry and livestock at all, especially in the border areas, and the People's Army could not buy much meat if they had money, probably only the navy ate more meat, and they could eat fish and meat at every meal.
As the People's Army distributed land to the common people, the common people had their own land and could eat enough, and they would also begin to raise more poultry and livestock, which they could eat by themselves or take them out, and poultry and livestock did not necessarily need to be fed with food.
In the evening, the soldiers of the People's Army and the soldiers of the border laughed and ate horse meat, which tasted average, but it was meat after all, and it was good to have meat to eat.
While happily eating horse meat, many people are thinking about this battlefield, the Tatars have not gone far, the war will continue, there have been two or three hundred dead and wounded in the daytime battle, the death of their comrades makes them uncomfortable, they must be beaten hard, so that they will never dare to invade the land of China again!