【Chapter 302】All kinds of provocations, all kinds of bullying!
Of course, for the sake of the safety of the officers and soldiers of the carving cavalry, Xu Xingxia definitely did not advocate the practice of cutting off the head of the Tartar on the spot. The soldiers of the Eagle Cavalry do not need to prove their exploits in this way. They also have a set of methods for calculating their exploits, and that is to prove each other. Officers at all levels of the Eagle Cavalry Army, in line with the principle of seeking truth from facts, can report their combat exploits. The vast majority of the armies of later generations carried out this method.
As for whether there is water in it, and how much water there is, it depends on the internal supervision and implementation of his carving cavalry. If you want to have no moisture at all, that's impossible. Xu Xingxia himself must be strictly controlled. If they are all like Chang Kaishen's troops, they report their exploits indiscriminately, the people below report indiscriminately, and the people above also indiscriminately believe in this way, and as a result, an astronomical number of 100 million enemies is annihilated, then this army is not far from extinction.
As far as the current situation is concerned, the combat exploits reported by the Eagle Cavalry Army are still relatively solid. Even if there is moisture, it will not exceed five points, which is five percent. This kind of moisture, Xu Xingxia is completely acceptable. The fighting style of the Eagle Cavalry, after all, is somewhat special, and it cannot be too harsh in terms of checking the merits, otherwise, it will put the cart before the horse, resulting in unnecessary casualties among the Eagle Cavalry itself. That's more than worth the loss.
In fact, such a way of calculating combat exploits is equivalent to completely breaking the shackles on the Eagle Cavalry. They no longer need to go over and cut the head of the tartar themselves, so they can effectively avoid their own casualties. They can take a more flexible approach to exterminating the Tartars. For the Tartars, such an opponent is definitely more difficult to deal with.
To put it mildly, the Eagle Cavalry can kill the Tartars at a distance without direct contact with them. No matter how brave the Tartars are, there is nothing they can do in the face of an unreachable enemy. The effective range of the moon gun is more than 200 meters. The range of the Tartar's bow and arrow is only about fifty or sixty meters. The two are not on the same grade at all.
Why are flies harder to deal with than mosquitoes? It's because mosquitoes always land on top of the human body, and that's the best chance of shooting them. Mosquitoes are very slow to react when they suck blood. After sucking full blood, the flight speed is also very slow, and it is easy to hit. However, flies are different. Most flies don't fall on people. They don't come into contact with the human body at all. That's where they get the most out of them.
The skirmishers of the Eagle Cavalry are very free in combat missions. Their only purpose was to kill the Tartars. As for how to kill the Tartar, where to kill the Tartar, or when to kill the Tartar, Xu Xingxia did not prescribe. Everything depends on the Eagle Cavalry to figure it out by itself. On the Gobi Desert near Zhenyuan Pass, they are a swarm of poisonous scorpions, lurking in the dunes and ravines, quietly waiting for their prey to appear in front of them.
The terrain near Zhenyuan Pass is basically flat, with occasional undulating sand dunes or a few ravines, which have little obstacle to the passage of large cavalry troops. However, there is no problem at all to lurk a few people, or dozens of people. Due to the constant movement of wind and sand, the sand dunes on the Gobi Desert, or ravines, are constantly changing. Yesterday and today, there is the potential for dramatic change. No one can know exactly what is going on in every dune, or every ravine.
Such terrain, for a would-be sniper, is simply a paradise for assassinating enemies. The Eagle Cavalry soldiers, who practice shooting alone, can also be called the most primitive snipers in a sense. They are also snipers who move on horseback and change positions very quickly. However, when it comes to shooting, they basically dismount. After all, shooting on the back of a bumpy horse, the accurate surname of Yue Gong will be greatly discounted. Only by being down-to-earth can you have enough certainty to hit the target accurately.
The Tatar scouts, who did not know the details, met the warriors of the Eagle Cavalry, of course, they would suffer a big loss. The Tatar scouts were sent out for the purpose of pure intelligence needs, and the purpose was definitely not to kill people. The warriors of the Eagle Cavalry, on the other hand, were dispatched for the purpose of pure killing, and they did not need any intelligence at all. The misalignment of the two sides in terms of goals caught the Tatar scouts off guard and at a loss. In the Gobi Desert, from time to time, there was a dull sound of gunfire. And every time a gun is fired, a Tatar cavalryman may be shot and fall from his horse.
Under the suppression of the stragglers of the Eagle Cavalry, the Tatar scouts had to greatly reduce the scope of reconnaissance. In the end, they even had to retreat to less than a hundred feet in the vicinity of the large army. As a result, the stragglers of the Eagle Cavalry Army, gaining an inch, even approached the large army of the Tatars. They did not hesitate to shoot at the large army of the Tatars. The Tatar army of tens of thousands of people was nothing at all in the eyes of the stragglers of the Eagle Cavalry.
For Yueyue, the distance of 100 zhang (about 333 meters) is really not far. At such a distance, shooting at a separate target, it is certainly impossible. However, if a platoon gun shoots at a large target of the collective, it is possible to have a certain effect. Therefore, the stragglers of the Eagle Cavalry gathered in groups of three or five and shot at the Tatar cavalry team hundreds of feet away, in order to stimulate the nerves of the Tatars.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! ”
The sound of gunfire kept coming, as if it was a bean explosion, and it was very lively.
Most of the Minnie bullets that whizzed away missed, and only a few hit the Tatar cavalry. At such a distance, the chance of Minnie's bullet hitting may be less than one in ten. However, even a 10% hit rate is more than enough. Every now and then, a Tatar cavalryman, with a muffled grunt, staggered off his horse. Such an action is definitely a great thrill for other Tatars. Everyone knows what it's like to be beaten passively! Not to mention the Tatars who are holding their breath?
"Damn it!" Eyudun's face was pale, his eyes were on fire, and his expression was hideous, as if he was going to eat people. was provoked by someone like this, but there was no way to fight back, he was really unbearable. These damn Eagle Cavalry skirmishers are simply shaving his eyebrows unscrupulously! When had he ever been bullied like this?
"These bastards!" Hellergin's face was also quite unsightly, as if he was a dead man. In response to the provocation of the Eagle Cavalry, Hyllegin was more helpless than angry. He knows how powerful the white-clothed army is. However, he still didn't expect that these stragglers of the white-clothed army would be so annoying. They let the Tatar scouts, with a large number of casualties. In the end, they ran out under their noses to spread wild!
Both of them bit their lips and tried to control their inner emotions so that their emotions would not get out of control. If their emotions get out of control, the consequences can be big or small. After all, they are all tribal leaders, and when thinking about things, they must be as thoughtful as possible, and they can't be impulsive. They had to figure out how sure they could be of victory once they were hot-headed and ordered an all-out attack on the white-clothed army.
Judging from the information collected before, the guns of the white-clothed army are definitely not easy to deal with. If the Tatars launched a full-scale offensive, they would have to be prepared to suffer heavy casualties. Perhaps, the most conservative estimate, there were more than 3,000 casualties. Seriously, until this moment, Helkin and Eyudun are not mentally prepared for this. The total number of troops going south this time is only seven thousand people, and if three are annihilated, it is estimated that the future road of the two tribes is enough, and the two of them even have the heart to die.
Erdun and Helekin were still able to control their emotions, but the commanders below him were a little impatient. Among these Tartar commanders, there are not generalized limbs and simple-minded characters. Being provoked by the white-clothed army like this, the Tatars couldn't fight back, and such a feeling of grievance, as long as it was a human being, it was unbearable. The more developed the limbs and the simpler the mind, the more unbearable it is in the face of such an aggrieved situation.
Especially those Tatar cavalry ten-commanders, centurions and the like, they were even more angry to death. They're basically guys with unusually simple minds and unusually developed limbs. In addition, they are all high-minded and hard-hearted characters, where have they suffered such grievances? In the past, they had always bullied the Han people, but when was it the turn of the Han people to bully them like this? In the face of the provocation of the stragglers of the white-clothed army, they were eager to rush out immediately and directly tear up all the stragglers of the white-clothed army one by one.
However, the Tatar cavalry did not move. Their anger can only be suppressed in the bottom of their hearts for the time being. In fact, in the face of the provocation of the cavalry of the Eagle Cavalry, they were indeed helpless. If they chase them out, those bastards of the Eagle Cavalry will definitely retreat back to the barracks. When the time comes, what awaits them must be the guns of the white-clothed army. Perhaps, these stragglers of the Eagle Cavalry Army provoked and bullied them in every possible way in order to lure them to attack and fall into the range of the guns and artillery attacks of the white-clothed army. In other words, such a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, the Tatars usually don't use too much.
However, if they don't catch up, they can only suffer losses in vain. Although, the absolute number of losses, is not very much. The number of stragglers of the Eagle Cavalry Army active in Zhenyuan Pass was only a few dozen, and the losses they inflicted on the Tatar cavalry would certainly not be very large. However, the feeling of holding your breath is quite uncomfortable! Nobody likes to be beaten and can't fight back, right? The Tatars don't know how long it has been since they tasted such a feeling.
"Quack!"
There was a centurion of a Tartar, who could not bear it anymore, and in a fit of rage, he rushed out. Several brave Tartar cavalry under his command also chased after him fiercely. The centurion of this Tartar belongs to the Eyudun tribe. He had seen it, but he didn't stop it. He was also a little impatient, wanting to see if this centurion could create a miracle. It would be nice if he could take out those abominable Eagle Cavalry skirmishers.
(To be continued)