Chapter 269: Western Siberia (6)
More than 20,000 Ming troops and more than 30,000 Tsarist Russian troops began a bloody battle in this nameless town in Novosibirsk. If the Russian army wants to gain an advantage on the battlefield, it must first seize control of the town, and if the Ming army wants to gain an advantage, it must eat the divisional force of Major General Leonid of 10,000 people, which is the most basic combat intention, and both sides began to organize actions purposefully.
The battle began first on the south side of the town, where Leonid had already reported his battle plan to the military headquarters and concentrated half of the army's artillery in his own artillery positions. The battle has begun with nearly 100 artillery pieces bombarding the walls of the town, but these cannons are still those solid shells, not as powerful as the flowering shells of the Ming army, but these overwhelming shells still blew the wall open in a short time, after all, this town is not a strong castle. Fortunately, the Ming army was more experienced with this old-fashioned solid artillery, and after entering the town, it quickly built a position, which weakened the power of Leonid's division's artillery a lot, unless the more unlucky soldiers were directly smashed.
The mortars of the Ming army could not hit the opponent's artillery position, so they could only passively defend, patiently waiting for the soldiers of the Tsarist army to attack. Major General Leonid was still very patient, and it took half an hour to pour shells before he began a tentative attack on the town. A brigade of more than 3,000 soldiers began to attack the town under the cover of artillery fire, and there were three steps in formation.
Kong Youde patiently waited for the soldiers of the Tsarist army to approach in the town, this battle was a little aggrieved, it was always his own troops who pressed the enemy to fight, but he didn't expect that this time he would fight under the enemy's artillery suppression. After the Russian soldiers entered the firing range, the snipers of the Ming army began to roll out the Russian officers who led the team. The clothing of the current Tsarist soldiers and officers is somewhat different, they have not yet realized this shortcoming, the bright clothing of the officers can effectively remind the soldiers to pay attention, and obey the command of the officers at any time, but it also leaves the Ming army with a new target for sniping. The officers of the first echelon were quickly killed, and the soldiers began to be overwhelmed, and as the distance approached, a large number of Ming soldiers also began to shoot, and the first echelon gradually stopped advancing, and some began to try to escape, so as not to become the target of the century.
The Tsarist officers of the second echelon saw the situation in front of them, began to consciously hide their figures, ordered the soldiers to advance, hid behind themselves, and let the soldiers enter the shooting distance and shoot at the Ming army. The machine gun of the Ming army does not dare to put it out now, although the guy is powerful, but the target is too large, it is inconvenient to move, and it is easy to cause unnecessary casualties among the soldiers, but even so, the soldiers of the Tsarist army are still difficult to resist the firepower of the Ming army, they use flintlock guns, while the Ming army uses modern rifles, which not only shoot farther distance, but also have higher shooting accuracy.
Although the casualties were much greater than those of the Ming army, the tenacity of the soldiers of the Tsarist army, known as the steamrollers and gray cattle of Europe, was still very strong, and the soldiers of the third echelon slowly entered the front line, and the battlefield supervision team behind them aimed their guns at every soldier who tried to escape. The battle was fought in a fierce firefight, most of the bullets were suppressed, the soldiers hid themselves well, and the battle was in a stalemate.
On the east side of the town, Mao Wenlong rode on a group of sweaty horses, which were specially given by Batur to several officers, and were much more majestic than ordinary Mongolian horses. Looking at the scorching battle on the battlefield, Mao Wenlong is still very patient, the artillery of the Tsarist army is really good, the range is very long, almost the same as the Ming army's cannon firing distance, but they still use solid bullets, not as powerful as the Ming army, but Mao Wenlong has not thought about using cannons now, this thing is too laborious to transport from Beijing to here, even the transportation of shells is a big trouble, except for the use of siege when attacking, like this kind of positional field battle, Mao Wenlong does not plan to use this big killing weapon, What he intends is to use a different method.
During the fierce battle in the town, Mao Wenlong sent a thousand people led by Zheng Sanpao to set off, and each of these thousand people carried a light mortar, which was actually a strengthened version of the original two-kick small cannon, which was only two inches in caliber, two and a half feet in length, and weighed only more than eight catties, but the range was relatively close, only a short mile. It adopts the principle of two kicks, and the soldier can directly carry it on his shoulder when he fires, just like putting the second kicking cannon in his right hand, but he doesn't need to ignite, just pull the trigger directly, in order to prevent the ears from being deaf, all the soldiers plug their ears with thickened earplugs.
The cavalry team of 1,000 people quickly approached the artillery position of the Tsarist army from the east side of the battlefield, a total distance of less than five miles, and it did not take long for the cavalry to charge. The speed of the cavalry did not decrease, but the ranks turned into an arc movement, and the soldiers turned sideways, and the muzzles of the guns began to fire at the artillery positions of the Tsarist Russian troops. In an extreme time, each soldier only fired five shells, almost when the shells in front of him had not landed, Zheng Sancang's cavalry unit had completed the entire firing process, and then it was a rapid retreat, and the results of the shelling did not need to be considered, naturally there was Mao Wenlong They evaluated in the telescope, and their task was to run away after the fight.
Five thousand small mortars, but like a light swallow, flew in a beautiful arc towards the artillery positions of the Tsarist Russian troops. Half a mile in front of the artillery position of the Tsarist Russian army, a dragoon brigade of more than 3,000 people guarded it, and when they saw the cavalry unit of the Ming army of 1,000 people rushing over, the officer had already ordered the soldiers to prepare for shooting, just waiting for the cavalry to enter their range and slaughter, they knew very well the lethality of dense bullets to the cavalry, they thought that this cavalry was purely sent to death, and would not pose a threat to them at all.
But reality slapped them in the face, the cavalry of the Ming army did not enter their firing distance at all, they only saw a group of vigorous swallows flying overhead, this group of swallows all flew to their artillery position, just when the swallows landed, they saw a scene of shocking eyeballs, the entire artillery position fell into a sea of fire, the position of more than a hundred artillery pieces was covered by the raging fire in an instant, and then there was a continuous explosion of ammunition, and the entire artillery position was finished.
The commander of the dragoon brigade saw the artillery positions that had turned into a sea of fire, his eyes were full of despair, he was attacked by the enemy in his direction, and even if there was nothing he could do about such an attack, he was responsible. Without any hesitation, as soon as the order went down, a brigade of dragoons immediately mounted their horses and pursued the Zheng Sangun Cavalry Brigade that had just left, they had to destroy this force, only in this way could they alleviate the anger of Shangguan.
Zheng Sanpao's team has completely turned the horse's head, when the soldiers of the Russian army who shot were surprised to see the destruction of the artillery position, Zheng Sanpao already knew the result, the thick smoke, the sky-high fire, the deafening explosion has explained the result, his task now is to run back, the faster the better, not that he does not dare to fight with these Cossack dragoons, but Mao Wenlong does not allow him to fight to the death, minimizing casualties is Mao Wenlong's consistent style, can kill the enemy without damage, why there are casualties.
The Don hippopotamus is worthy of being a famous military war horse, with a strong physique, and a fierce explosive power, even if Zheng Sancang took the lead, the Cossack dragoons of the Tsarist army still did not hesitate to catch up from behind, the distance of more than half a mile was not too long, and the Cossack dragoons of more than 3,000 people approached within a hundred zhang after a quarter of an hour, and they could be killed in a quarter of an hour, and the Cossack dragoons shouted excitedly.
However, at this time, a trench suddenly appeared fifty zhang away in front, and a large number of Ming soldiers appeared in the trench, dozens of machine guns were erected on the edge of the trench, and Zheng Sancang's soldiers passed through the reserved route. Looking at the approaching Cossack dragoons, the cheerful fire dragon quickly devoured them, no matter how vigorous the war horses were, how good the soldiers were, in the face of absolute firepower, these were scum.
The soldiers in front kept falling from their horses, and the soldiers behind had not yet reacted, and by the time the brigade commander in the middle of the line found out that he had been ambushed, more than a thousand people had fallen in front. The dragoon brigade commander saw that the opportunity was not good, and immediately ordered the soldiers to dismount, which is also an advantage of the dragoon, not only can they charge when they get on their horses, but they are also very good infantry when they get off their horses, and they can fight in both modes of combat.