Chapter 402: The End of the Cavalry Era

The battle on the frontal battlefield was over, and in less than two minutes the battles on the eastern and western flanks were over, with eleven Tatar cavalry attacking against less than five thousand lancers, and in just a few minutes a great battle was over, with not a single lancer killed or wounded, and less than two thousand Tatar cavalry escaped.

Only less than 2,000 Tatar cavalry escaped, which does not mean that the lancers killed more than 9,000 enemies, and there are still a large number of Tatar cavalry wounded and fallen to the ground on the battlefield on three sides, and they will not die in a short time, but it is impossible for the Tatar army that has been defeated to come back and rescue the wounded, and it is a matter of time before they die.

It is inconceivable that the Tatar cavalry that crisscrossed the steppes could be so easily routed by the lancers, who were more than twice as numerous as the lancers.

Riding on a war horse, the Tatar cavalry that fled from the desert in Tian Zhe's telescope vision gradually moved away, and he said with emotion: "The era of cavalry is coming to an end." ”

Yes, the era of cavalry is coming to an end, and this cavalry refers to the cavalry of the old times, cavalry armed only with sabers or armed with bows and sabers.

How is it possible that the range of the bow and arrow can be compared with the musket equipped by the KPA, especially in the open terrain of the steppe, the KPA's musket can exert its full power.

It was the musket that brought the age of cavalry to an end, and the cavalry would still exist, but its status on the battlefield would continue to decline.

Of course, not all muskets can end the cavalry era, at least we need to start with the tiger head guns of the People's Army, before the People's Army, General Qi also formed a cavalry, a battalion of about 3,000 people, equipped with backward front-loading smoothbore guns, the firing range is only 200 meters.

General Qi's lancers also need to dismount their horses when fighting, and people stand on the ground to reload the musket with ammunition and shoot, even if it is a backward front-loading smoothbore gun, it is better than the bow and arrow in range, and under the same number, General Qi's lancers can easily defeat the Tatar cavalry.

However, the Tatars were almost all cavalry, and given some time to gather tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry, General Qi's lancers were too few in number, and the musket range was too close, and the Tatar cavalry could get close to the lancers with some casualties and shoot the lancers one by one with bows and arrows.

The KPA lancers, with their tiger head guns, were able to wipe out the attacking Tatar cavalry again and again with almost no damage.

The lancers of the People's Army are still a little worse, that is, the war horses under them, the war horses of the lancers are somewhat inferior to the war horses of the Tatar cavalry, if the lancers are all riding horses that are not inferior to the Tatar cavalry, even if there is only one lancer division, with guerrilla tactics, they can also cross the steppe.

The two most important points of guerrilla tactics are the physical strength and speed of a man or mount, and if the lancers want to carry out guerrilla tactics on the steppe, they must be equipped with good horses.

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

When he returned to the pass, Tian Zhe was ready to apply to the Ministry of War to equip each cavalry of his lancer division with one more war horse, one person and two horses, which could bring more supplies and allow the lancer division to go out of the customs once and fight on the prairie for a longer time.

Under Tian Zhe's order, the lancers began to move, riding horses to approach the battlefield area, seeing Tatars lying on the ground in the distance, at least a hundred meters away from the guns to replenish the guns, Tian Zhe wanted to take all the lancers out of the steppe alive as much as possible.

The entry of the lancers into the steppes was not without battle damage, and during the attack on some Tatar settlements, many Tatars put up a stubborn resistance, inflicting a few casualties on the Lancer Division.

Nearly 4,000 lancers cleaned the battlefield together, and after only half an hour, all the Tatars on the battlefield were mended, and there was a little accident during the period, the wounded Tatars hid well, and were not discovered by the lancers, and waited until the lancers approached to launch an attack on the lancers, bringing a total of one dead and many wounds to the lancer division.

With thousands of newly captured horses intact, the Lancer Division continued to advance without losing its alert level, fearing that the Tatars would attack.

The lancers wiped out 9,000 Tatar cavalry, 9,000 Tatar cavalry and 9,000 horses, but the number of intact horses captured by the lancer division did not exceed 2,000.

During the battle, some Tatar cavalry mounts were killed and wounded, and at least 4,000 horses were captured.

However, this was the case, and the Lancer Division wiped out 9,000 Tatar cavalry and captured only more than 1,800 intact horses.

The Tatar cavalry does not know what air resistance is, but they will figure it out in their daily life, and when charging on horseback, the lower the body is bent, it seems that the horse can run a little faster, and it does not have to face the wind.

On the battlefield, the Tatar cavalry bent over and charged, but after the lancers opened fire and killed some of the lancers, the Tatar cavalry began to use their horses to protect their bodies, their upper bodies almost attached to the horse's back, and even the Tatar cavalry with their legs between their horses and their bodies attached to the sides of the horse.

In the face of such a mounted Tatar cavalry, in order to win the battle, the lancers aimed their guns directly at the mounts of the Tatar cavalry, and it was secondary to shoot the Tatar cavalry and capture the horses.

Tiger head gun 16 mm large caliber brings strong lethality, even if it does not hit the vital parts of the war horse, the war horse will not be able to continue to gallop on the battlefield because of the pain of the distance of the body, especially when the Tatar cavalry group charges, the war horse in front suddenly slows down or even falls, and it will face the collision of the Tatar cavalry behind, and the end will be miserable and miserable.

Stop-and-go, give the cows, horses, and sheep a little time to graze, until it was almost dark, and the Lancer Division stopped to rest.

In order to prevent the Tatars from attacking at night, Tian Zhe sent multiple groups of cavalry away from the area where the large army of the Lancer Division was stationed, and once the enemy attacked in the night, the Lancer Division could know and react faster.

During the day, the 11,000 Tatar cavalry led by Buyan Chechen Khan had been routed, and there were less than 2,000 survivors, and only this little force remained, and it was impossible for Buyan Chechen Khan to bring people to attack at night.

In fact, after fleeing, except for the royal court headquarters, the other Tatar cavalry left, and they were not angry with Buyan Chechen Khan, and their hearts were full of grief for the death of their comrades in battle.

Dead, all dead, so many people came, but when they left, there were only so few tribal leaders left, and there were few tribal leaders who survived, and they regretted that they and their companions had participated in this battle where there was only death.