Chapter 400: The Long Way Home

1,200 Tatar warriors were killed in battle, or all of them were killed in battle with the Chinese cavalry, and their influence was beyond imagination.

There has been no such scene for many years, at least for 20 years of Wanli, the Ming court did not dare to send a large army deep into the grassland, and the Tatars and Warats relied on the Great Wall to resist.

It is unimaginable that there are enemy horsemen who have penetrated deep into the steppes and killed 1,200 Tatar warriors and exterminated three tribes.

Under the spread of the Tatars who escaped from the three tribes, more and more Tatar tribes knew about the Chinese people's penetration into the steppes, and after dawn, the Chinese people's penetration into the steppes was even sent to the Tatar royal court in Chahar, where it was known by Buyan Chechen Khan.

It was less than a month before Buyan Chechen Khan led more than 200,000 Tatar cavalry to break through the border pass, and Buyan Chechen Khan was immersed in the frustration of defeat and could not extricate himself, more than 50,000 Tatar warriors were killed in battle, and the Tatar warriors in the royal court headquarters also died a lot, and his heart hurts!

"They dare to go deep into the prairie and take revenge! Revenge! ”

Without thinking much about it, Buyan Chechen Khan immediately issued an order to the Tatar tribes in the royal court headquarters and the area around Chahar, asking all tribes to lead their clansmen to gather and destroy the enemy together.

In the opinion of Buyan Chechen Khan, the enemy's cavalry is far inferior to the Tatars, the same number of Tatars can easily defeat the enemy, the enemy in order to kill 1,200 Tatar warriors, must have 2,000 or even 3,000 dead and wounded, the enemy has already suffered so many dead and wounded, as long as another 10,000 are mobilized, no, 5,000 is enough, 5,000 Tatar warriors are enough to destroy all the remaining enemies!

At least one-third of the tribes around Chahar obeyed the order of Buyan Chechen Khan, and the leaders of these tribes wanted revenge as Buyan Chechen Khan, and the enemy was far inferior to the Tatar cavalry, and the Tatar cavalry was invincible without the city walls.

However, more Tatar tribes still gave up fighting, and they also had a deep hatred for their enemies, but many of them had already died in the last border pass, and even if this battle seemed relatively easy, there would be casualties, and even if the battle was won, there would not be much loot.

The Tatar cavalry is gathering, Tian Zhe has led the lancer division to escort the captives to drive cattle, horses and sheep on the return journey, deep into the steppe for three days, if you want to return to the Bohai Institute, I am afraid it will take eight or nine days, with these cattle, horses and sheep, the speed of the lancer division can not be fast.

The Lancer Division entered the steppe, and the night was the most dangerous time for the Lancer Division, and now there was one more, the time to return.

The Lancer Division wiped out three Tatar tribes in a row on the steppe, and the Tatars would certainly not let go of the Lancer Division easily, perhaps now the Tatar cavalry is assembling and preparing to intercept the Lancer Division before the Lancer Division returns to the pass.

Now Tian Zhe can only hope that there will not be too many Tatar cavalry gathered, with the current combat effectiveness of the Lancer Division, in the daytime, the enemy cavalry can be almost completely wiped out if it does not exceed 15,000, and the enemy cavalry can be defeated if it does not exceed 25,000, and once the enemy cavalry exceeds 25,000, the Lancer Division needs to give up the spoils of war and retreat.

The lancers could not engage in guerrilla warfare with the Tatar cavalry in the steppes, the Tatar horses were better and faster than the lancers, and the Tatars were better at riding than the lancers.

In this case, in guerrilla warfare, the Tatar cavalry would be able to approach the lancers with some casualties and attack the lancers with bows and arrows, and the lancers could no longer reload their muskets while galloping.

If the lancers could reload the muskets while galloping, the lancers would be truly invincible in the steppes, but the muskets currently equipped by the People's Army cannot do this, and they will have to wait until more advanced breech-loading guns can be manufactured in the future.

As for night battles, the lancers are not good at night battles, and the Tatars are also not good at night battles, and the battles can be fought during the day, and both the lancers and the Tatars will choose to fight during the day.

Until the end of the fourth day of the Lancer Division's entry into the steppes, and the first day of its return, the Lancer Division did not encounter a single enemy, only some Tatar cavalry stared at the Lancer Division from a distance.

On this day, with the order of Buyan Chechen Khan, the Tatar cavalry was rapidly assembled, and the royal court headquarters alone dispatched 5,000 horsemen, and the leaders of other tribes quickly gathered with their tribesmen.

In the early morning of the fifth day when the Lancer Division entered the steppe, Buyan Chechen Khan already had 8,000 Tatar cavalry in his hands, and time was running out, Buyan Chechen Khan led 8,000 Tatar cavalry to set off first, and thousands of Tatar cavalry would come to converge later.

It took almost two days for the 8,000 Tatar cavalry led by Buyan Chechen Khan to catch up with the returning Lancer Division.

On the afternoon of the fifth day, outside the Bohai Institute, scouts of the 83rd Division of the People's Army were reconnoitring in the nearby grasslands, and a leader of a reconnaissance group saw a target in the north from a distance through a telescope.

"There is a situation!"

The team leader shouted, and all four team members looked north, but none of them had binoculars and could not see distant targets.

"Let's go, let's go up and take a look, it's too far away to see anything."

The five members of the reconnaissance team rode their horses to the north, and as the distance from the target continued to get closer, they were already able to see some things clearly in the field of vision of the team leader's telescope, such as about 30 people on the opposite side, moving slowly, driving cattle, horses and sheep, and most importantly, their clothes were grass green.

"Allies? Lancer division? ”

Wu Zhiyang's platoon, which drove cattle, horses and sheep in the distance, also found traces of the scouts of the 83rd Division in the distance, and the people encountered in this place were very likely to be friendly troops.

Although it was determined that the two sides were friendly forces through clothing and equipment, the two sides did not approach immediately, but first used flags to confirm that one side was the 83rd Division and the other was the Lancer Division, and the two sides continued to approach.

"Brother, we are the second platoon of the first battalion of the second regiment of the Lancer Division, what about you?"

"We are from the cavalry battalion of the 83rd Division, why did you come back?"

"The hundreds of cattle, horses and sheep in the back are the first trophies of our lancer division to enter the prairie, and it is too troublesome to move with them, so the division commander ordered us to come back with this batch of trophies first."

"Oh, brother, your lancer division is going to make a fortune."

"Hehe, small harvest, small harvest, I hope the division commander can lead the large army to fight a few more big battles and capture some more loot back."

"I don't know if our cavalry battalion of the 83rd Division will have the opportunity to go deep into the prairie in the future."

"There's definitely a chance."

The two sides chatted briefly, and Wu Zhiyang's platoon continued to drive cattle, horses, and sheep to the Bohai Institute, and the investigation team sent two members to return to the Bohai Institute one step ahead to report to the superiors that Wu Zhiyang's platoon had returned.