Chapter 221: The Prairie is Vast
Among the Taiji who strongly supported the entry of Jiannu into the customs were Karaqin, Tatars, Burgadu, and Zhuoerbi.
These two boys became the leading party of Jiannu, and took more than 2,000 Karaqin cavalry to burn and loot in Daming Pass, while transporting money, population, and livestock to Qingcheng.
The poor and frightened Tartar made a windfall, and in this cold winter, he should enjoy the fruits of victory in Qingcheng and enjoy the body of a fragrant Han woman.
They would not have imagined that the target of an army would be the heart of the Karaqin Tartars, Qingcheng.
The Mongols, who live in the grass, actually settle down, isn't it looking for death? It's not that the Han people can't beat the Tartars, but they can't.
Now it is known that the Karaqin Tartars are in Qingcheng, more than 300 miles northeast of Da'ankou, and of course Huang Han will take Han'er to kill the Tartars there.
The "Red Banner Army" was given a definite task and immediately went out of the customs, and they were ready to spend more than 300 miles marching in four days to attack Qingcheng, and with the mobility of the "Red Banner Army," they were able to complete an average march of 60 kilometers a day.
Because the cavalry soldiers all had three war horses to ride, all the infantry and military servants carried a total of more than 800 wheelbarrows, and the food, forage and concentrate on the carts were sufficient, ensuring that both men and horses could eat well and eat well for half a month.
In fact, people have more endurance, two people change the wheelbarrow with a load of less than 300 catties, which is about one-third of the full load, and you can really walk more than 100 miles in the morning and late in one day, and it is not a problem to insist on it for a month or two.
However, the cavalry assault maintained a speed of one or two hundred miles per day, without strong logistical support and horse transfer, without the support of concentrate feed, and it was very likely that a small half of the war horses would die of exhaustion for ten days.
Because war horses need too much time to eat uninterruptedly, it is impossible to gallop for more than two hours a day.
War horse gallop must also be divided into time periods, it is best to rest and eat forage after less than half an hour of running and then go on the road, can not run for two hours in a row at once, of course, if it is a jogging time can be extended.
Running long distances, in fact, people are much stronger than war horses, and people can complete five hours of uninterrupted walking by eating three meals in half an hour every day.
Although a person can walk about five or six kilometers in half an hour, the results of the whole day will not be worse than that of a war horse.
Besides, it is no problem for people to persist in such a lot of exercise for dozens of days, and the war horse is not satisfactory.
The advantage of war horses is actually that the sprint speed is completely explosive to humans, due to the large physique and explosive power, no one can match, but compared with horsepower and manpower, the weight is calculated according to the weight ratio, and the horse is not as good as human at all.
Because a person can carry more weight than nearly twice his body weight in a short period of time, horses simply can't do it.
Huang Han knew that the soldiers under his command were also familiar with the characteristics of war horses, so he arranged four days to calmly walk more than 300 miles.
When they arrived at the Qingcheng of Karaqin, the manpower and horsepower were sufficient, and the cavalry soldiers could intercept and kill more Karaqin Tartars who fled in a hurry.
The "Red Banner Army" took all the reserve horses with them when they left the customs, and a total of 860 wheelbarrows including the gun-carrying loading carts, but in fact there was not much food to carry, and there was no need for so many wheelbarrows and horses.
Huang Han deliberately did this, because the wheelbarrow quickly formed a formation in the steppe, and in a short time it would form a simple fortification enough to enclose all the men and horses of the "Red Banner Army", and a bird-sturgeon could easily shoot and kill many hard-trained cavalrymen by hiding behind the wheelbarrow.
With nearly 3,000 spare horses and more than 800 wheelbarrows, it would have been much easier to defeat the Tartars and transport the captures, for it was unknown how many horses and carts would be captured from the Tartars.
I carried as many transports as I could, so as to be prepared, so as not to have to give up many good things when I won the battle and captured the Tartar transport.
Huang Han estimated that there were at least 3,000 Tartars in Qingcheng, and the total number of men and horses and the "Red Banner Army" was almost the same.
But Huang Han did not think that the Karaqin Tatars would be able to withstand the attack of the "Red Banner Army".
Because the knight veterans of the "Red Banner Army" who have been trained in many battlefields are well-equipped, they are too advantageous to shoot at the Tartars, and it is very likely that they will be able to fight three enemies with one enemy.
Even if there are too many recruits, it doesn't hurt, after all, half of the veterans will take it in their stride, these people will become the mainstay, and the recruits will be infected.
As long as the recruits give full play to the skills they usually train, it is natural that the poorly equipped Tartars will be defeated and lost in a state of sudden attack.
Moreover, the firearms unit of the "Red Banner Army" has grown up, and 120 vehicles carrying guns like small cannons are not a problem in fighting the Tartars. More than 500 bird-stricken-hands will also shoot Tartar corpses all over the ground like cutting wheat.
The "Red Banner Army" is all-powerful with cold weapons and hot weapons, and it is also a mix of cold and hot weapons, and the short-sighted Tartars must be very unsuitable for such new tactics.
The cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" may be inferior to the Tartars in equestrianism and cavalry archery, but the equipment is enough to make up for this gap.
Huang Han came prepared, the logistics support was naturally comprehensive, and the transfer of fat and strong war horses would allow the "Red Banner Army" to narrow the gap with the Tartar equestrian.
The confident "Red Flag Army" was out of the customs, and the heroes walked on the road of raiding the Karaqin Qingcheng, although the snow-capped world was vast, but the men had fire-like enthusiasm in their chests.
Huang Han was even more proud, he touched the scene and sang a song: "True love is like a vast grassland, layers of wind and snow cannot be blocked, there is always a cloud open and sunrise, and the sun illuminates you and me...... The snowflakes are fluttering, the north wind is howling, and the sky and the earth are vast......"
The man next to him felt it and said: "Brother Han, you sing so well, why didn't I see you singing when I was a child?" ”
It turned out that the former master didn't seem to like singing, Huang Han explained: "No one taught me at home before!" Later, I often sang military songs when I went to the army outside the border, and gradually improved my level. ”
Hanzi scratched his head and said: "It's not a problem for me to yell a few words behind everyone, but I can't sing alone, the key is that I can't remember the lyrics." ”
Song Pengfei has a good voice, he has learned a sentence at this time, and he is singing this sentence over and over again: "The snowflakes are fluttering in the north and the wind is howling, and the world is vast." ”
Xiao Song was still pretending to be Sven, shaking his head and boasting to the official Zuo next to him that his teacher was really talented, and such words were really appropriate.
It didn't take long for the "Red Flag Army" to go out of the customs and march forward, they all learned to cut plums, and they sang well.
After all, the "Red Banner Army" is the unit with the highest level of education in this era, and there are no illiterate people, and the most illiterate soldiers can at least read and write the names of themselves and their comrades-in-arms, and can write down the rules and regulations of the "Red Banner Army" and the regulations on rewards and punishments.