The battle, which began at noon and has lasted almost five hours now, has been carried out by the Cossacks in two waves of attacks, all of which have been futile, and the direct combat attrition has reached four thousand people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Fadeyev's distressed liver trembled, he had never suffered such a big loss since he led the troops, and even if the Cossack cavalry met the Anglo-French army, there was no such a large casualty rate on the brutal Crimean battlefield.

Cavalry was originally the king of mobility, on the battlefield these Cossacks were as fierce as the wind, holding a cavalry gun to shoot harassment from a distance, and the saber in his hand could split the enemy's formation, and he could always find countless tactics to break through the enemy between flashes and movements.

Even if it was covered by dense fire from the artillery group, with the superb equestrian skills of these veterans of the Cossacks, it was impossible to have such large casualties.

But today, the Cossack cavalry, who were known for their mobility, flexibility and explosiveness, had to fight a tough battle against the enemy's strong defensive line.

Obviously a taboo for soldiers, Fadeev had no choice, because the situation on the battlefield had piled up here, and all external inducements forced him to make the lowest choice, because all other roads had been blocked.

In the military academy, Xiao Lotian once used this Far East battle to make a vivid analogy, saying that war is actually the accumulation of all kinds of potential energy, weapons and equipment, personnel training level, logistics and supply capabilities, and the belligerent atmosphere of the military and civilians...... And then there's the terrain, the weather, the diplomacy, and so on, all of which all require a little bit of energy.

There is only one goal, to make the energy accumulated by these factors on your side higher than that of the enemy, as long as you can do this, victory is actually very simple.

The Far East campaign was like this, the most difficult thing was actually when the war had just begun, but with the development of the war, one by one difficult dispatches, and after the volunteers fought for more and more partner forces, it was a matter of course to fight down.

From the preparation to the outbreak and then to the end, the war is actually a process of pushing the iron ball up the mountain, the enemy and us each push the heavy iron ball up the mountain from one side of the mountain, the beginning stage is undoubtedly the most difficult, just like a nation in a state of peace, you want them to enter a state of preparation for war, it is not easy.

You need the encouragement of the leader, you need the atrocities of the enemy, you need all kinds of events as the trigger, you need to open up a lot of joints, so that countless big powers recognize this war, and then you need to raise funds for armament.

Doing this well is only the first step, which is followed by the arrival of the troops, the training of new recruits, the adaptation training of veterans, the entry of personnel and equipment into the battlefield, and the long-term joint ...... of diplomats At this time, it is just pushing the iron ball into the middle of the mountain.

In the final sprint stage, the enemy and us began to engage in small-scale firefights, and local conflicts gradually led to large-scale disputes.

The two factors that determine the victory, one is who pushes the iron ball to the top of the mountain first, and then gently let go, the iron ball that has accumulated a huge amount of potential energy will be the first to roll down, crushing the enemy into pulp with an unbeatable domineering majesty.

The second factor, joining the enemy and the enemy almost at the same time to reach the top of the mountain, at this time it is necessary to fight whose iron ball is of greater quality, and the brutal war has entered the stage of fighting for national strength, which is something that many commanders try to avoid.

Xiao Lotian did it, the potential energy accumulated by the volunteers reached its peak first, Vladivostok has fallen under control, the dock has been safe, and the personnel and materials in the south can be continuously replenished.

In addition, the coup d'état in Hunchun blocked all the ferries along the entire Heilongjiang River, and the exhausted Cossack reinforcements could no longer get any supplies, and the northward interception force of the Volunteers also took the lead in building a strong position.

Everything has been prepared, the war has now reached the stage of unscrupulously releasing potential energy, all Xiao Lotian has to do is to enjoy all this quietly and enjoy the miserable wails of the enemy.

The battlefield was eerily silent, both sides could hear each other's preparations and the neighing of men and horses, but there was no exchange of fire and mutual provocations, and even the Volunteers sent a group of medics dressed in white robes to begin to search for survivors on the ice and heal them.

The Cossacks on the north shore watched with mixed expressions as these Chinese were treating their brothers, and the lightly and seriously wounded were carried away, knowing full well that these people were destined to become prisoners of the Chinese in the future and put pressure on Tsarist Russia at the negotiating table.

But they couldn't stop it, thinking that no one could bear to stop these medical soldiers, they couldn't watch their comrades die in agony in the screams.

Xiao Letian's order made Long Ye a little puzzled: "Why do you want to save these people? What we have to capture is enough, there is no shortage of this! The most important thing now is to prepare for battle, Fagiev will definitely not admit defeat, and the third attack is very likely to take place after nightfall......"

Xiao Letian, who was half-leaning on the chair, was covered with a thick bearskin coat, and he was closing his eyes to recuperate, "Master Long! Actually, this war is over now, we need to look backwards, and the farther we look, the better......"

"Negotiation is only one aspect...... I'm actually accumulating virtue when I save people!"

"Jide?" Xiang Shaolong was stunned, "Ah! So that's the case, forget it...... In that case, what else do I have to say!"

Both of them shut up at the same time, but they both tacitly agreed, and the time passed minute by minute, and what they were waiting for was the upcoming night battle.

There would be a bloody battle at night, it was the unanimous opinion of the accompanying staff officers, the two failed cavalry assaults had already made the Cossacks suffer, the fire network of the Volunteers completely exceeded the density of the cavalry assault, and all kinds of new weapons could deal with their various small schemes.

The grandiose attack is definitely no fun, and these Rakshasa ghosts are not fools, there is only one dangerous way to go for today's plan, and that is to fight at night.

After all, Jiangxin Island is surrounded by water on three sides, and the frontal firepower is high, but the flank firepower cannot be so strong, first use the main cavalry to attract the Chinese's firepower, and then let thousands of cavalry dismount and crawl over the dangerous ice bread to copy the Chinese's flank.

Beyond the two hundred meters of safe ice, there is the farmland carved by the Chinese with ravines, and the structure of those ice surfaces has been destroyed and cannot support the weight of the war horses, but the creeping individual advance should still be no problem.

"As long as our brave Cossacks can wipe the enemy closer, as long as they can engage in hand-to-hand combat, the large forces behind us will have a chance to break through, and only if we can safely rush through Jiangxin Island, as long as we can enter the south coast, we will not fail!"

"At the very least, we can force a draw with these Chinese, God bless us!