Chapter 672: Annihilation of the Tsarist Russian Army (4)
The musketeers were wiped out, the ordinary infantry were defeated and retreated, and the 4,000 cavalry could be said to be the last fight of Marshal Petrotsov, and even for this reason, he could not even care about the 8,000 cavalry of the Ming Army, which had been cruising around the periphery.
Four thousand Russian cavalry, originally in the rear, bypassed the retreating infantry from both sides and rushed towards the Ming army.
This is an infantry battle, and the task of the 8,000 retained Ming cavalry is only to prevent some Tsarist soldiers from escaping after being defeated, so the 8,000 Ming cavalry did not care about the 4,000 Tsarist Russian cavalry who originally stayed in the rear to guard against them to attack the infantry formation, but most of the cavalry soldiers had a playful expression on their faces.
As expected, the 4,000 Russian cavalry rushed to a distance of 200 meters from the Ming infantry formation and suffered a dense fire attack from the Ming army.
In the rear of the Ming army, Zhungar put down the telescope in his hand in shock.
Ji Feng also smiled and put down the telescope in his hand.
Just now I saw that the Tsarist Russian cavalry was hit by a dense number of bullets in an instant, and the people were turned on their backs, and they suffered heavy casualties, and the Duke of Zhunger thought of the fate of the Jungar cavalry under his command when they fought with the Ming army.
At that time, he felt that the Ming army was powerful and difficult to defeat, and now he witnessed a battle of the Ming army as a bystander, and he had a deeper understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.
The Zungar dukes thought not only of them, but also of the Cossacks and the current Tsarist Russia.
From the first time the Ming army entered Zungar, it was an army of 40,000, and it was still these 40,000 troops to the third time it entered the Zungar steppe, and it was also these 40,000 Ming troops who completely annihilated the Cossack cavalry in the first two days, and in the face of the current Tsarist Russian army, it was still these 40,000 Ming troops.
That is to say, the Ming army only relied on 40,000 troops, and successively annihilated no less than 200,000 Jungar cavalry, 60,000 Cossack cavalry, and the 60,000 Tsarist Russian army that was about to be defeated.
The 40,000 Ming army is so powerful, and the Ming has 2.5 million Ming troops, once it breaks out with all its strength, how terrifying it will be!
"Commander Ji, I don't think this is the strongest combat power of the Ming army under your command." Zhungeer said to Ji Feng quietly.
"Naturally, pure defense is the strongest time of our army, even if there are only 20,000 troops, as long as it is pure defense, even if it is a million enemy troops, they will not want to break through the defense of our army!" Ji Feng said with a proud smile.
The Ming army had four treasures, artillery, machine guns, rifles and grenades. Cavalry attacks, cannons and rifles can not exert great power, more still use swords and grenades, as for machine guns, cavalry attacks can not use machine guns at all.
Infantry attack, artillery and rifles can play the greatest effect, but machine guns are almost useless, because machine guns also weigh hundreds of pounds, it is not easy to use when the infantry is attacking on a large scale, and it is not even necessary to throw grenades for tens of meters.
Only by defending, the four weapons of the Ming army can really play their full role, especially the machine gun, under the dense fire defense network of the machine gun, as long as the bullets are enough, no matter how many enemy soldiers come, it is impossible to break through the defense of the Ming army.
The Duke of Zhunger sighed weakly, at this moment, the Duke of Zhunger was completely convinced, and he did not dare to have the slightest disobedience and hatred towards Da Ming in his heart.
The 4,000 Russian cavalry soon suffered most casualties, and when the whole army was about to be destroyed, the Russian cavalry began to retreat in fear.
The musketeers were completely annihilated, most of the cavalry were killed and wounded, and the infantry was also killed and wounded, plus the heavy artillery shelling for so long, the casualties of the Tsarist Russian army were close to 20,000, and only 40,000 ordinary infantry and a few hundred cavalry remained.
"Don't quit! No refund! Although Marshal Petrotsov roared, in fact, he was already desperate in his heart.
Could this be the legendary Eastern Empire's combat power, that ancient, glorious civilization, as mysterious and powerful as the legend, God, you bless us!
At this moment, the Tsarist army no longer obeyed the orders of Marshal Petrotsov, and the Ming army took a step forward, and they took a step back.
The artillery fire of the "boom boom" artillery battalion also continued to extend with the defeat of the Russian army.
Under the threat of infinite fear, the defeat of the Tsarist army gradually evolved into a total rout.
More and more Russian soldiers threw down their weapons and fled.
Some people took the lead, and some followed, and all the Tsarist soldiers turned around and fled, and the defeat finally turned into a rout.
The defeat was like a mountain, and Marshal Petrotsov could not change this situation no matter how much he roared.
"No" Marshal Petrotsov also followed the Tsarist soldiers in a constant retreat.
"Bang bang bang" suddenly, there was chaos ahead, it turned out that the Ming cavalry who had been cruising around the periphery found that the Tsarist soldiers were defeated, and in order to prevent the Tsarist soldiers from escaping, they intercepted the retreat of the Tsarist army.
In this vast Gobi steppe, it is almost impossible for the Tsarist soldiers to escape the pursuit of the Ming army even if they are defeated all over the mountains.
Desperate situation, no way back!
The Russian soldiers were huddled together, many soldiers' weapons had been lost, even if there was no way back, the Russian soldiers did not have the courage to continue to fight to the death with the Ming army, the Ming army gave them too much blow, in the face of the Ming army's attack, they could not rush to the Ming army to fight face to face with the Ming army, they faced almost the Ming army's unilateral slaughter of them, it is conceivable how the Russian army still has the courage to continue the war.
The infantry and cavalry of the Ming army combined, approached in all directions, and surrounded about 40,000 Tsarist Russian troops.
The 40,000 Tsarist Russian army became denser and denser, and at this moment, the power of the Ming army's artillery was maximized.
"Boom Boom" shells continued to explode in the dense Tsarist army, and almost every shell explosion could kill and injure nearly ten Tsarist soldiers.
Infinite fear and despair tormented the Tsarist soldiers.
There was no hope of retreating, let alone defeating the Ming army, and in the face of such a desperate situation from which there was no way out, all the Tsarists, including Marshal Petrotsov, were desperate, and surrender was already the only way to live.
Eventually, under the threat of death, Marshal Petrotsov chose to lead the remnants of the Tsarist army to surrender to the Ming army.
Knowing that the Tsarist Russian army was about to surrender, Chang Shunhou and Ji Feng both laughed, while Duke Zhunger was silent.
Soon, the artillery battalion stopped shelling, and the Russian soldiers finally threw away all their weapons and surrendered to the Ming army in line at the behest of the Ming army.