The sound of war drums came from afar, and the division commander Zhang Xinquan walked out of the house solemnly, preparing to go to the city wall to personally direct the battle, and before Zhang Xinquan could go far, Luo San and Xiao Zhao came to Zhang Xinquan under the leadership of the commander of the guard battalion and reported to Zhang Xinquan the enemy situation found on the prairie.

Listening to Luo San and Xiao Zhao's words, Zhang Xin's comprehensive expression became more serious, tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry or even more, this is the Tatars want to invade the land of China on a large scale, the target of the Tatar cavalry is basically the Bohai Station where the 83rd Division is stationed, and the next big battle is inevitable.

Zhang Xinquan immediately ordered to send a signal corps to send the news of the Tatar attack to the headquarters of the First Army in Beiping City, asking the headquarters to send reinforcements.

It was a normal step to report to the headquarters and ask for reinforcements, but Zhang Xinquan was more confident that he could resist the attacking Tatar cavalry with the strength of a division, even if there were 100,000 Tatar cavalry attacking, Zhang Xinquan was not afraid.

There are many reasons for this, the Tatars are good at horsemanship, archery, horsemanship, and slashing, not good at siege warfare, the walls of the Bohai Sea are tall and strong, if only 10,000 Ming troops are stationed here, I am afraid they will not be able to hold it, but the People's Army is not the Ming Army, the People's Army is equipped with a large number of firearms, and can beat the enemy at a relatively long distance.

Zhang Xinquan had already come to the city wall, holding a telescope in his hand and looking north, three of his own cavalry were about to return, and in the distance was the Tatar cavalry that could not be seen at a glance.

"How many Tatar cavalry are there? Thirty thousand or fifty thousand? ”

Compared with the infantry, the galloping cavalry occupies a larger area and seems to be more powerful, and it is difficult to determine the number of cavalry in a short time, and by this time the Tatar cavalry has let go of the other horse and only controls one war horse towards the Bohai Sea.

"Warriors, let's give those southerners some awesome looks, Ula!"

"Ulla!"

Quickly shouted, and the other Tatar cavalry followed suit.

When the Tatar cavalry was less than 1,600 meters away from the city wall, Zhang Xinquan calmly gave the battle order.

"Beat the drums, fire the cannon!"

The 83rd Division, like other integrated divisions of the People's Army, was mainly equipped with three types of artillery: light artillery tiger head guns, with a maximum firing range of 700 meters, medium artillery howitzers, with a maximum firing range of more than 1,000 meters, heavy Franc machine guns, with a maximum firing range of 2,000 meters, and only Franc machine guns that could fire at a distance of 1,500 meters.

Hearing the sound of war drums on behalf of the artillery, the commanders of the heavy artillery regiment gave the order to open the artillery one after another, the ammunition has been loaded, ignited, and the artillery is fired!

In just a few seconds, dozens of Franc cannons fired solid shells at the Tatar cavalry more than 1,500 meters away, and dozens of solid shells pierced the sky and plunged directly into the dense Tatar cavalry ranks, when at least twenty Tatar cavalrymen and horses were pierced by solid shells.

The death of more than 20 Tatar cavalry did not have much impact on the vanguard led by Su Jianghai, which had 60,000 Tatar cavalry, many of whom followed the attack through the border passes, fought with the Ming army, and came into contact with artillery, and were not afraid of this weapon, which could not cause much damage to their own side.

The rate of fire of the Franc cannons was very fast, each of them was equipped with six sub-cannons, and almost when the Tatar cavalry was still a thousand meters from the city wall, the Fran cannons had to empty all the sub-cannons, but they brought less than 200 casualties to the Tatars.

Seeing that the Franc cannon did not have much impact on the Tatars, Zhang Xinquan shook his head speechlessly, and then looked at the howitzer.

A group of Tatar cavalry rushed from the north, and the legs of the border sergeants were trembling, it was the first time they had seen so many Tatar cavalry, and the soldiers of the People's Army also had solemn expressions, they thought that their own strength was stronger, but in the face of so many enemies, no one could laugh.

At a distance of a thousand meters, howitzers, which were more numerous than the Franco's cannons, began to fire, and more than fifty grenades smashed into the ranks of the Tatar cavalry in the charge.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

In a series of explosions, hundreds of horsemen were affected, and more than 100 of them completely lost their combat effectiveness, either the people on the war horses were seriously injured or the war horses were severely damaged.

Hearing the sound, he was very surprised, it was the first time he had seen this kind of cannonball that could explode, and he vaguely had some bad feelings in his heart, and he didn't continue to rush forward.

The howitzer has a better killing effect on the enemy than the Franc cannon, but the shortcomings of the howitzer are also obvious, that is, the slow rate of fire, just when the Tiger Head Gun is about to reach the range, the howitzer is only the second time, and in the sound of explosions, hundreds of Tatar cavalry are affected.

The 60,000 Tatar cavalry were still 700 meters from the city wall, and the battle was reduced to about 350 men, and another hundred horsemen were slightly wounded but could still participate in the battle.

The team transporting the ladder has not yet kept up, and the Tatar cavalry continues to lead the Tatar cavalry forward, and the idea of the horse is very simple, the cavalry cannot rush to the city wall, but when they rush not far from the city wall, they can throw arrows on the city wall, kill and injure the enemy on the city wall, give the enemy some powerful looks, and at the same time test the enemy's combat effectiveness.

Seven hundred meters, tiger head gun, tiger head cannon power!

Suddenly, more than 350 tiger spears opened fire on the city wall, and more than 350 buckshots collided directly with the Tatar cavalry, burrowing into the flesh and blood.

The power of lead bullet is too great, whether it is a person or a horse, as long as it is hit by a lead bullet, it will soon die if it hits the vital part, and the hands and feet will not be able to continue to participate in the battle because of the pain.

A volley of musketeers of the People's Army on the city wall directly led to the loss of nearly three hundred Tatar cavalry in battle, which was not over, in just a few seconds, the musket regiment was divided into three waves to complete three rounds of salvo, which directly reduced the Tatar cavalry by more than eight hundred, which was greater than the losses brought by howitzers and Fran cannons to the Tatar cavalry before.

Rushing to the front position, there were Tatar cavalry who were shot by lead bullets in a few positions, even if he had the courage to do so, he was scared at the moment, he was the leader of the tribe, he was the commander of the vanguard army, and it was not worth dying like this.

In his thoughts, he slowed down the march of his war horses and allowed more people to rush in front of him, and now the combat attrition in the position was less than 1,200, accounting for one-fiftieth of the total number of the vanguard army, which was almost negligible, and continued to attack.

"Ulla!"

With a shout, the Tatar cavalry rushed towards the city walls at a faster speed.

But just then, another wave of buckshot hit!

The musketeers of the People's Army have already used fixed charges, and skilled musketeers can fire four times a minute, three-stage shooting, almost every five or six seconds, the Tatar cavalry will usher in a wave of more than 350 buckshot baptisms, and there are three types of light, medium and heavy artillery guns constantly firing, and more and more people are falling on the Tatar cavalry charging road!