In the northern steppes, the Lancer Division of the People's Army, after destroying a Tatar Aul, continued to advance, and it is reasonable to say that it has moved away from the border pass, and more and more Tatars will be found, but before dark, no other Tatars were found grazing cattle, horses and sheep, but multiple squads of Tatar cavalry were found to explore the Lancer Division.

It was almost impossible to guess that it was the Lancer Division's fallen Aul escapees who brought the news of the Lancer Division to the other Tatars, so that the Tatar settlements close to the Lancer Division were quickly relocated, and it was impossible for them to run too far with a large herd of cattle, horses, and sheep, and the Lancer Division should be able to catch up tomorrow.

There is also the possibility that the Tatars gathered to drive the Lancer Division out of the steppes.

Tian Zhe was not afraid of the Tatars gathering to counterattack the Lancer Division, and more than 200,000 Tatar cavalry had been repelled when they attacked the border pass, which was the Tatar cavalry that most of the Tatar tribes participated in to gather in this way.

The steppes occupied by the Tatars are relatively vast, and there are not too many Tatar cavalry that can be gathered in the nearby area, and three thousand can survive the death.

For the Lancer Division, as long as the enemy did not exceed three times, the Lancer Division dared to fight.

Soon, the second night of the Lancer Division on the steppe passed, and the five regiments of the Lancer Division continued to disperse, advancing due north, northeast, and northwest.

Upwards due north, the three small tribes of the Tatars, with a total of more than 1,200 horsemen, were coming at them, and this was almost all the fighters that the three tribes could dispatch, the vast majority of whom were men, and a very small number were children and people who were close to adulthood.

If there were no clansmen who had lost their way through the border, the three small tribes would have been able to gather more than 1,500 horsemen, and the loss of 300 tribesmen would have made the leaders of the three small tribes very distressed, and the hatred in their hearts now had a chance for revenge.

According to the tribesmen of the destroyed Aul, and what was discovered, the leaders of the three small tribes thought that the enemy would not be too many, and that there should be only a thousand horsemen, and that the gathering of more than 1,200 horsemen by their three tribes should be enough to defeat the enemy, and that the Tatars were better at horse archery, and they were confident that they could defeat the infantry on horseback.

The scouts of the 1st Regiment of the Lancer Division discovered the traces of the Tatar cavalry force earlier, and determined that the number of Tatar cavalry was not too large, and the 1st Regiment of the Lancer Division under the command of Tian Zhe and the division headquarters had a total of 1,400 cavalry to meet the battle.

Fifteen hundred meters

One kilometer

Eight hundred meters

Tian Zhe gave an order, and all the lancers dismounted and came to the front of the war horses, standing in three horizontal columns, and quickly reloading their muskets with ammunition.

Six hundred meters

Four hundred meters

"Fire!"

More than 460 buckshot collided head-on with the Tatars shouting "Ula", one by one the horses fell on the battlefield, one by one the Tatars were weakly thrown off their horses, in the blink of an eye, 1,200 Tatar cavalry actually lost more than 300 horses, and more seriously, the three tribal leaders who led the charge were all shot.

With the loss of so many people at once, many Tatars were stunned, and some Tatars reacted.

"The enemy is fierce, retreat!"

Before the Tatar cavalry in the charge could make any other moves, a second wave of more than 460 buckshots struck, and more than 300 Tatar cavalry fell.

Wave after wave of lead bullets were fired at the Tatar cavalry, and after the third wave of lead bullets ended, the remaining more than 300 Tatar cavalry completed the turn, but the shooting of the lancers was not over, the fourth and fifth waves of lead bullets were fired, and only a few dozen Tatar cavalry were left on the run.

The lancers, who had loaded their muskets with ammunition, sat down on their horses again, and re-aimed their muskets at the dozens of Tatar cavalry who were desperately fleeing.

Under six waves of buckshot, 1,200 Tatar cavalry were wiped out!

This is the combat effectiveness of the lancers, even if the lancers are inferior to the Tatar cavalry in riding, slashing, and archery, the lancers can shoot all the Tatar cavalry far beyond the range of the bow and arrow.

"Leave one battalion to clean up the battlefield, and the others continue to march north!" Tian Zhe gave a new order.

With 1,200 cavalry gathered so quickly, there should be a larger Tatar settlement in the nearby area, and the goal of the lancers is to find out where the Tatars live.

Having eliminated 1,200 Tatar cavalry, the five regiments of the Lancer Division dispersed directly into battalions, and soon the traces of the Tatar camp were discovered.

In the face of the rushing lancers, some Tatars chose to fight, some Tatars chose to flee, but the adult males in the camp were basically gone, and how the rest of the people resisted the lancers, even if they wanted to escape, not many people could escape.

The battle of the Lancer Division continued from morning to afternoon, destroying one Tatar camp after another, capturing more than 3,000 Tatars and relieving more than 100 Chinese people, mainly women, less than a fifth of men.

Tian Zhe, the captured Tatar, did not pay much attention to it, but paid attention to the rescued Chinese people and the captured cattle, horses and sheep, and after a day of fighting, the lancers captured more than 40,000 sheep, more than 7,000 horses, and more than 4,000 cattle.

A man of more than 20 tents and a hundred people grazed more than 1,000 sheep, an average of 10 sheep per person, and the three Tatar tribes together exceeded 1,100 tents, and it was normal to seize so many cattle, horses and sheep, I am afraid that some cattle, horses and sheep were not found by the lancers.

In the famous battles of the steppes in history, the number of cattle, horses and sheep captured was calculated in units of 100,000, and the lancer division only destroyed three Tatar tribes and wiped out 1,200 Tatar cavalry, which was considered a skirmish, and if four or five more such battles were carried out, the sales of five or six thousand Tatar cavalry could be regarded as a major war, and hundreds of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep could be captured.

The 5,000 cavalry of the Lancer Division entered the steppe and destroyed three Tatar tribes in three days, killed 1,200 enemies, captured 3,000 prisoners, and captured more than 50,000 cattle, horses, sheep and a large number of animal skins.

Tian Zhe told the lancers to rest well for the night and leave for home early tomorrow morning.

The lancers were about to drool when they looked at the cows, horses and sheep, and the lancers were treated better, but they couldn't eat meat every day, and it was good to be able to drink broth every two days and eat meat once every week.

Drooling is drooling, the lancer division entered the prairie to fight, and the food they ate was mainly the dry food they carried, the captured cattle, horses and sheep, cattle and horses could not be eaten, and the sheep could be eaten but could not be eaten now, and they could only be eaten when they returned to the pass.

According to the internal regulations of the People's Army, one-fifth of the more than 40,000 sheep captured can be given to the lancer division, and it is no problem whether they eat or raise them or sell them, and even one-fifth of the number of cattle and horses that have been screened can be handed over to the lancer division for distribution, and cattle and horses are not allowed to be slaughtered at will.

If the soldiers of other units of the People's Army knew about the treatment of the lancers, I am afraid that they would all want to become lancers.