This mercenary force numbered more than 3,000 men, and their mission was to stop the Austro-Hungarian infantry regiment on the spot.

A third of them are former soldiers who were thrown into the East Siberian wilderness, the younger generation of civil officials, and some of them are Gurkha infantrymen, which are the indigenous people of the Nepalese generation, which have been occupied by the Chinese Empire, and are temporarily garrisons, and there are some immigrants who serve the garrison, from Yunnan, Guizhou and Yunnan prefectures, and Southeast Asian states, who are accustomed to high mountains and mountains, used to large river valleys, accustomed to jungles, accustomed to transporting supplies by mules and horses, and have a pair of feet that can never be worn out.

It is extremely difficult to make these people who live in lofty mountains, superstitious about various gods, look a little gray and yellow, and whose faces are different from those of the Chinese have been transformed and assimilated into Han people by the Han descendants of the Indian race, it is extremely difficult, their hearts are more focused on the side of India, no longer consider themselves to be descendants of the Han people, and at the same time, because they have been fighting with the Han government for many years, they have been purged, their hatred for the Han people, there is no need for the Chinese after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations to treat the Japanese less, Of course, many Han people in later generations no longer hated the Japanese, but felt that they should move closer to Japan, and had become yellow-skinned, white-hearted or black-hearted banana people or Japanese.

There are other people who have fled into the mountains who do not think that they are from any country, but only recognize the indigenous primitive people of their own tribe, as well as the indigenous people who were captured in Central Asia, as well as Russian serfs, all kinds of mixed people, which makes the organization of the entire mercenary group chaotic, and the level of combat effectiveness is uneven, not to look at the number of people, the Hungarian infantry regiment is only about 1,000 people, but it is still very easy to defeat such a mercenary group.

Mercenary regiments were originally cannon fodder for the Russians. At this time, Hungary belonged to the Habs Dynasty, but the civil war continued, but their culture, art, medicine, and extravagant aristocratic style was more prevalent, and they increasingly accepted the cultural influence of Western Europe, the nobility was gorgeous, the commoners or soldiers were simple but the jewelry was expensive and luxurious, very fashionable, influenced by the era of firearms, their weapons and equipment also changed from scimitars to arquebuses and flintlock pistols, as for the firing pin rifle, it was unique to the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire has been to Western Europe, Russia, Turkey imported a lot of outdated old models of such weapons, so Russia has quite a few of them, and Great Britain and Spain are also improving theirs.

At this moment, wearing a white military uniform like a robe, with a red ribbon like a ribbon on his chest, and attacking with flintlock pistols were the Hungarian infantry, who were a horse people, of course, there were also cavalry, and artillery was also there, but it was an old-style bronze artillery, although it fired solid bullets, but it also caused a lot of damage to the mercenaries who did not have artillery.

Under the influence of the Chinese Empire, their way of fighting was not the kind of shooting in a queue, but a piece of black pressure, holding a spear with a bayonet to charge the whole company, the fan of the whole company, the soldiers in the front row knelt on the ground from time to time to shoot, and the back ran from the side, constantly pushing forward, and then knelt down and continued to shoot.

The mercenary group, which occupies a geographical advantage, enjoys the threat of indirect fire artillery fired by the enemy from the rear, while hiding in the woods and shooting, or lying on the rocks to shoot at the enemy, and there is no formation, anyway, it is a blocking battle, crackling a few shots, and then turning back with a gun.

For such a battle, Li Ya is extremely tired of disgust, so except for wasting bullets, there is really no effect, but he has no right to stop them, he can only do his best, protect himself, the enemy's solid bullets fall from time to time, bounce a few times, and then harvest the lives of a few unlucky ghosts lying on the ground.

They were commanded by several Russian officers, riding tall horses, watching the battle from the hill behind.

The chaotic blocking and indiscriminate shooting made it possible not to kill a few enemies, but they were killed and wounded by the enemy's artillery, and the casualties of the mercenaries on the front line had reached a terrifying number of more than 300 people, almost equivalent to one-tenth of the troops.

And the enemy fell, wounded, absolutely not fifty people.

After only half an hour, the mercenaries had retreated for about three miles, no less than 200 people had fled, no less than 400 people had been killed or wounded, and the chaotic ranks ran over a hill one after another, and then several people were killed by the guards of the Russian officers, regrouped, and lay on the hill to block the enemy.

Russia will not feel sorry for these people, and the Chinese Empire will not feel guilty either, because this is the person they want to get rid of, and so far 200,000 people have been eliminated, and Russia does not need to pay, they only need to offset their debt to the Chinese Empire.

It's not a lot to offset, but Russia owes too much money now, and it's good for them, although their population has grown to 100 million, but a lot of people are not their population, it's the population of the newly occupied places, that is to say, not the Russian Slavs.

Seeing the sacrifice of these people, the Russians were very happy, because they learned a little, and they remembered that when they fought with the Great Qing Kingdom, the kind of cannon fodder that the Great Qing Kingdom did not care about human life and could hardly kill anything, it was these cannon fodder that made Russia lose 18 million people, kill and wound 3 or 4 million troops, and even catch up with 100,000 troops and 200,000 people in Sweden, 300,000 troops and 300,000 people in Turkey, 100,000 cavalry and 180,000 infantry in Poland, Britain and France, Italy and other countries found 2 million vagrants and poor people and adventurers from their countries, as well as 100,000 regular troops from Britain, 30,000 regular troops from France, and 10,000 regular troops from Italy, so many people and soldiers were defeated in the cold climate and food shortage of Siberia, as well as the endless cannon fodder soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.

Now Russia has been fighting for another ten years, although it has conquered Ukraine, most of Poland's lands, small countries and tribes on the Baltic coast, as well as various small countries on the Caspian coast such as La Menia, the battle with Turkey has not ended, but they have also lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and now their forces are also stretched thin, and they can no longer expand the results of the war, and now they have entered the territory of Hungary, in the face of the surging Habs army, they can no longer resist, at this time, the Chinese Empire promised to support them nearly a million cannon fodder soldiers, of course they were happy.

They should have thought of a way of fighting in such a way as to organize the young men of the countries they had conquered, and all those who could pick up their guns, and to send a few junior officers in each of them, with a heavily armed guard, to drive thousands of people to work for them.

It's just that this makes those mercenaries suffer, not only exploited, but also consumed meaninglessly, life and death are not something they can control.

(End of chapter)