Chapter 688: Cornered
In the face of changes, in the face of heavy casualties of colleagues.
The Tartars who are attacking, although full of shock. However, the speed of their charge still did not slow down at all.
Compared with the danger, the enormous benefits and seizures that may be brought to them after the victory of the offensive are obviously more tempting.
Therefore, the Tartars, who were almost crazy, as if they had taken stimulants, faced the continuous stream of lead bullets fired from the front, and continued to attack without the slightest hesitation or fear.
Compared with the fanaticism of ordinary soldiers, Ao Bai is much calmer.
As soon as the battle situation changed, Ao Bai's heart couldn't help but chuckle, and a trace of bad premonition quickly surged into his heart.
Sure enough, the dense gunfire that followed the flowering bullets directly proved to Ao Bai that the Tiger and Par Army defending the tribe in front of him was not a battalion, but a regiment......
Ao Bai, who has fought with the Tiger and Leopard Army many times, knows......
One of the key reasons for the success of the two raids on the base of the Tiger and Leopard Army is that there are too few Tiger and Leopard troops defending these tribes, and the sparse lead bullets cannot stop the cavalry attack at all.
Once the Haw Par Army defending the tribe has enough troops, and it is intercepted by the strong firearms of the Haw Par Army, and then attacks the tribe, it is a death and suicide......
And the strength of the Tiger and Leopard Army exposed in the tribe in front of him is definitely capable of giving a devastating blow to the soldiers who are attacking under his command......
Therefore, without thinking about it, Ao Bai opened his mouth and ordered: "Withdraw the troops, order the warriors to withdraw immediately...... We have been fooled, and continuing to attack is no different from sending us to death......"
Tartars on the offensive. Although covered by fanaticism. But. As a military man. It is still very sensitive to military orders.
Therefore, after the sound of the withdrawal of the army sounded on the battlefield, although the fanatical Tartars were full of unwillingness, they still did not hesitate to take the order to retreat.
However, the Tartar cavalry, charging at their own speed, wanted to retreat in a short time, it was obviously impossible to do so.
Thousands of Tartar iron horses. Although successfully exited the battlefield.
However, no less than 2,000 corpses were left on the battlefield, densely spread around the tribe.
Looking at the subordinates who had suffered heavy losses in front of him, the worry on Ao Bai's face was quickly covered by gloom.
After glancing a few hundred paces away again the tranquility of the tribe, but full of murderous intent. He commanded in a cold tone......
"Retreat...... Immediately retreat, scout team, immediately reconnoiter all the surrounding enemies, will know, this tribe's tiger and leopard army. When did it increase to so many ......"
"Not surprisingly, the Haw Par Army already knows how we fight. And according to the way we fight, a new layout was made...... Only after we have a clear understanding of the new layout of the Haw Par Army can we start a new operation......"
When hundreds of Tartar scouts were sent out by Ao Baisa, after a day and a night of more than 5,000 soldiers of the cavalry division, they successfully caught up with a Tartar tribe that was moving to the rear......
In order to stay alive and save the future of the tribe.
As soon as the sound of horses' hooves galloping together with thousands of iron horsemen of the cavalry division reached the ears of the tribal Tartars, tens of thousands of Tartars led by the patriarch took more than 20,000 war horses that could gallop, gave up cattle, sheep, livestock and finances, and began to flee for their lives......
Faced with this situation, the cavalry division did not pursue it.
In the words of the commander of the cavalry division, there was no cattle and sheep finance. In the bitter cold, even if these Tartars escaped their lives, they would starve to death and even freeze to death......
Therefore, the cavalry division directly aimed the butcher's knife at the cattle, sheep and livestock that had just been abandoned by the Tartars......
Even if the cavalry division had more than 5,000 soldiers, facing more than 100,000 cattle, sheep and livestock, and wanted to turn them all into corpses, in terms of body and strength, it was no less than a battle.
It took two hours for all the cattle and sheep to turn into corpses.
In order to prevent these beef and mutton from being reused by the fleeing tartars, except for the beef and mutton needed by the cavalry division, all the other corpses were piled up by the cavalry division and burned to ashes.
After finishing, the cavalry division did not stop at all, took the beef and mutton, left behind a messy and bloody slaughterhouse, and pursued the next Tartar tribe......
The cavalry division came in a mighty way, and after a few hours, it was gone again.
More than 5,000 iron horsemen, less than an hour after leaving, scattered and fleeing Tartars, regrouped together in the light of fire.
When they stepped on the ground that had been completely stained red by the blood of cattle and sheep, they smelled the smell of blood and burnt smell that had already spread in the air, and looked at the corpses of cattle and sheep piled up in front of them that were burning with raging fire.
The Tartars, who hurried back, knew that they would not be able to save much edible beef and mutton when they threw themselves into the fire. They still rushed into the fire without hesitation.
Despite the scorching heat around him, he began to extinguish the fire with weapons, furs, and even clothes.
But how could a fire with a lot of grease be extinguished so easily.
Many times, not only is there no way to extinguish the fire in front of you. Because of the grease on their bodies, the raging fire skewered directly on them, burning them from time to time to let out a miserable scream.
It took tens of thousands of Tartars a whole night to extinguish the fire.
However, during this night, at least two thousand Tartars, old and weak, died in the process of extinguishing the fire because of the cold.
Some were burned to death by the fire, some were frozen to death, and some were exhausted to death......
The price paid by the tribe as a whole was great, but the results of one night's hard work were very small......
More than ninety percent of the more than 100,000 cattle and sheep were burned to ashes or charred, and there was no way to eat them.
As for the remaining beef and mutton, it seems to be a lot, and after it is really distributed to each tartar, it will not be enough to eat even for a month.
What's more, because of the haste of fleeing, the cattle and horses that the tribe had prepared for a year of forage for cattle and horses were all burned to ashes by the Haw Par Army.
The bitterly cold winter is full of grass and no grass. The lack of fodder meant that their only remaining 20,000 or so war horses would be at risk of starvation.
In the case of losing cattle, sheep and livestock, if you lose these war horses again, scolding the entire tribe will really be over.
Therefore, the remaining 10,000 Tartars of the entire tribe, regardless of age or age, showed a look of despair on their faces.
What's more, he fell directly to the ground, letting out one cry after another full of despair, which was extremely tragic......
The tribal patriarch, though not as desperate as his people. However, with a gloomy face, he is not much better.
In his eyes, what the Haw Par Army did was even more painful than killing them.
Kill them, and the pain is temporary. However, the current situation is to make them wait for death, watching their own people being starved to death and freezing to death......
The whole process was undoubtedly full of despair and very painful. (To be continued......) R1292