Chapter 390 Familiar Scenes
Four days have passed since the Tatars invaded the border, and the war report has not been sent to Wuchang City, let alone to Guangzhou City, the southernmost part of China. In an era of backward communication technology, untimely transmission of information is the biggest problem, which is also the reason why Fang Nan put the capital in Wuchang City.
If the People's Army now develops wired telegrams to facilitate communication, it is appropriate to place the People's Army's capital everywhere.
On the morning of the sixth day after the Tatars invaded the border, a new battle finally broke out. The Tatars divided into three groups to attack three areas: Zhangjiakou Fort, Songshu Fort and Dushi Fort.
Zhangjiakou Fort was the main attack direction of the Tatars. Buyanchechen Khan personally led a 100,000 Tatar army to launch an attack. Songshu Fort and Dushi Fort were the feint attack directions. Suobahai and Baahua each led 30,000 Tatar troops to launch an attack. The young and older Tatars were divided into the feint attack.
Earlier, Wang Shengrong had sent a correspondent to order the troops stationed in the border areas to be careful of the Tatars attack. Faced with the sudden attack of the Tatars, the People's Army stationed at the three borders was not too surprised and actively prepared for the battle.
When the three Tatar army entered within 1,500 meters, the People's Army defending three borders began to fight back, and the heavy Folang machine cannons continued to spit out solid artillery shells at the Tatar army.
Seeing this scene, Buyanche Chen Khan quickly felt that most of the tribal leaders of the three Tatar army were not good immediately. They were so familiar with this scene. Isn’t this the scene when attacking the Bohai Sea?
"No, no, there can't be too many enemies in that kind of elite troops. I don't believe that all the enemy troops are so strong! Attack! Ula!" Buyanchechen roared angrily.
Facing the solid artillery shells of the People's Army, the three Tatar army continued to attack.
As far as one thousand meters, the People's Army's medium-sized howitzer began to show its power!
When the grenade exploded in the Tatar army, this was another scene that Buyanche Chen Khan, Subahai and others were very familiar with.
"I don't believe it, I don't believe that I will encounter such a strong enemy!" Buyanchechen Khan was almost crazy.
If Buyanche Chen Khan knew that the two Tatar troops who were feinting attacking had also encountered this, I am afraid that Buyanche Chen Khan would have chosen to order a retreat immediately instead of charging forward like now. Buyanche Chen Khan would not have the enemy ahead as strong as the enemy in the Bohai Institute.
At 700 meters, the People's Army's muskets and light tiger-head cannons began to show their power!
As a wave of lead bounced down, nearly 300 cavalry fell down under the Tatar army led by Buyanchechen Khan. Three consecutive waves of lead bounces hit, and nearly 900 cavalry lost.
Seeing that his side had lost nearly 900 cavalry, Buyanchechen Khan not only did not get angry, but instead laughed.
"That's right. It's impossible that all enemies are as strong as those in the Bohai Sea. When you attack, you must break the barrier! Ula!"
"Ula!"
The Tatar army led by Buyanchechen Khan faced the People's Army's lead bullets, and the shells continued to charge forward. Buyanchechen Khan had already seen the opportunity to break through the pass.
Although this time the enemy was still able to fire solid artillery shells between five hundred feet apart, and exploded artillery shells between more than three hundred feet apart, and attacked with muskets between more than two hundred feet apart, this time the enemy had very few musketeers, about one-third of the number of musketeers in the Bohai Sea.
The enemy's muskets are the biggest culprits that caused the heavy casualties on their own. Since there are so few musket soldiers here, we must conquer here. Even if tens of thousands of people die, we will be willing to do so. Buyanche Chen Khan can no longer bear more failures.
Compared with Buyanchechen Khan's excitement, after leading a 30,000 Tatar army into a range of 700 meters, he ushered in three waves of musket shooting and lost nearly 900 cavalry, he immediately issued a retreat order.
This scene is so familiar to Hai. Just like when he led 60,000 cavalry to charge towards Bohai for the first time, even 60,000 cavalry could not cause much damage to the enemies stationed in Bohai. He lost more than 5,000 cavalry once, and now he only led 30,000 cavalry, and his strength was even weaker and he lost another 5,000 people in one charge. Huo Hai was also unbearable.
Anyway, he was just a feint attack along the way, and Suba Hai did not want to see more Tatar warriors sacrificed in vain, so he issued a retreat order as soon as possible. However, it was more troublesome to retreat in the Charge Tatar cavalry that rushed forward and rushed to nearly 500 meters away from the city wall. When Suba Hai led his Tatar army along the way out of the attack range of the People's Army, he had lost nearly 2,500 cavalry.
He quickly stopped the losses of the Tatar army, but the Tatar army continued to charge against the People's Army's lead bullets. The tribal leaders who participated in the battle in the Bohai Sea were around him, and they persuaded the Tatar army to retreat as soon as possible.
However, Baaohua had not really experienced the battle to attack the Bohai Institute and did not feel much about the firepower of the People's Army. After many tribal leaders said Baaohua ordered a retreat, and the Tatar army lost more than 1,500 people but was still hundreds of meters away from the city wall. Baaohua finally issued a retreat order.
At the cost of losing more than 3,000 people, the Tatar army finally retreated outside the attack range of the People's Army.
The two feint attack troops led by Baaohua and Subahai retreated. What should we do next? The two led the army to continue westward and joined the Tatar army with Buyanche Chenkhan who was attacking Zhangjiakou Fort. The encounter between their two armies made them feel very bad. The enemy who was guarding Zhangjiakou Fort may not be weak.
Outside the wall of Zhangjiakou Fort, at the cost of losing more than 3,000 cavalry, Buyanche Chenhan and the Tatar cavalry finally rushed to a few dozen meters away from the city wall. With thousands of cavalry as a team, they took turns to shoot arrows at the city wall, suppressing the People's Army musketeers on the city wall. The Tatar infantry continued to charge with a ladder.
On the city wall, the musketeers hiding under the shield have been replaced by grenadiers. The grenadier holds a fire sack in one hand and holds a grenade in the other, preparing to launch an attack.
Finally, the Tatar infantry rushed to the front. Just as the Tatar infantry set up a ladder to prepare to get on the ladder, dozens or hundreds of grenades that ignited the fuse were thrown directly from the city wall by the grenadiers.
Some Tatar infantry had participated in the battle to attack the Bohai Institute before. They saw with their own eyes that the explosion had blown many people to death. They watched such stones fall down on the city wall again, and immediately turned around and fled north frantically.
But their reaction was too slow, and the grenades fell down one after another. Before they could run a few steps, the grenades exploded one after another, and countless pieces of the explosion flew among the Tatar infantry group.
Amid the series of explosions, soon the land under the city wall was stained with Tatar blood.
"No!"
Buyanchechen Khan roared in disbelief, why, why did he see such a scene again?
Chapter completed!