The fierce night battle of the pursuit did not begin until the third day, and the experienced Poles quickly chose to flee again after nightfall. Twice in a row, the main force of the volunteer army led by Xiao Xuan was swept away. The remnants of the Polish army also attempted to launch counter-pursuits and ambushes at night. However, because the archery technique of night combat is the focus of the training of the volunteer troops, it did not lead to too much crisis. However, it also made Xiao Xuan experience a terrifying night. In one battle, perhaps it was the distinctive combat effectiveness of the Guards Battalion and the sound of firearms that attracted the enemy's ideas, and the direct team of more than 1,000 people engaged in a fierce confrontation with thousands of remnants of the Polish army at night, and finally relied on the rescue of the officers and men of the Volunteer First Division, which was not too far away, to finally break the siege.

This battle also began to expose the fact that the combat effectiveness of the personal guard forces around Xiao Xuan did not seem to be so prominent. Xiao Xuan did not have such or such concerns as traditional emperors, and did not hesitate to remove a group of officers and generals.

After thinking about it, Xiao Xuan also believes that although the position of the Zhili guard force is very important, it should also follow the basic laws of modern military principles: only flowing water can ultimately not be corrupted. Unlike the feudal emperor, he was the head of an ideological regime. It's not hard to find someone who is truly loyal and reliable to you and who you love.

The advantage of sufficient troops and combat effectiveness, and even the advantage brought by the hot air balloon reconnaissance, made the Poles who fled at the beginning rely on equestrianism to have a great advantage in escape and maneuverability, but in the end they were still unable to escape the pursuit of the dream demon. After the initial confrontation, the main force of more than 10,000 waves of armies and even the 20,000 or so Poles that continued to converge were finally only about 10% of the force that escaped the siege by dispersing and breaking through.

In previous encounters with the Russian army or the Swedish army, the Polish army was not without defeats and defeats. However, the loss of about three-quarters of the elite main force at one time, or even nearly forty percent of the active main force, is a big defeat that has never been seen before. After Warsaw finally received the news of the defeat of the army in Smolensk, the whole Warsaw became a rumor.

Through the investigation of some news, the reaction of the Poles finally put Xiao Xuan's heart at ease a lot. At least at this time, the Polish army did not think that it was going to face an army that was fundamentally difficult to oppose. The total annihilation of the army or even the annihilation of the attack may be due to insufficient anticipation of the ability to threaten the enemy, or it may be due to a mistake in judgment before the battle. In short, in this era of cold weapons, which has not passed for too long, unlike many laws of warfare in the industrial age, the strength of the two sides is similar, and it is still possible to encounter complete defeat for various reasons.

Therefore, in the event that the main army was hit by annihilation, the natural reaction of both the Poles and the Russians was to concentrate as much as possible enough elite main forces to prepare for a strong enemy in the vicinity of the capital.

Xiao Xuan even imagined that if he was the head of these countries, or the "generals and kings" who were different from the emperors of the East, there would be nine times out of ten choices, right? In this way, although the main force of the 30,000 or 40,000 volunteers led by Xiao Xuan had also suffered casualties and losses of 1,000 or hundreds of casualties in a series of vicious pursuit battles with the Poles, they continued to attack in the direction of Warsaw as if they were chasing the temperature.

In order to avoid too many dreams at night, just as the main force of the volunteer army led by Xiao Xuan was moving westward in the direction of Warsaw, the remaining forces outside Moscow under the responsibility of Zhou Dayong also began to launch a fierce attack on the main force of 40,000 or 50,000 Russian troops gathered in Moscow.

The previous war of annihilation, which was relatively perfect for the main force of the Russian army, still had a slight effect, and the tens of thousands of Russian troops stationed in the Moscow area did not fully understand the combat methods of this large army from the east.

At the time of the blasting attack, a series of violent explosions even gave the defenders the illusion that this was the enemy's gunpowder had an accident in front of the formation, and the whole army should take this opportunity to attack. Although it was too late to make any decent tactical decisions and actions in a hurry, it also exposed many Russian troops more in this situation.

What followed was the moans and shouts of the hail-like barrage of bullets that obscured the moon in the dark night, and even the successive deaths and wounds. The remaining force of this round of blasting attacks also applied 1.5 million heavy shrapnel and even more than 200,000 catties of gunpowder, and during the day before the blasting, a reconnaissance hot air balloon was used to carry out careful reconnaissance and detailed deployment and arrangement in the distance.

Of course, the defenders around Moscow are not the Russian army group in the temporary field defense position after all, because there are still many reserves in the city that are too far away, so the effect of the blasting attack is not as good as the effect of the previous blasting attack against the Russian field group. Only about three or four percent of the defenders on the periphery of the city were killed, and although the reserves of about 20,000 people in the city were also subjected to fierce fire from hundreds of artillery, no one could say how good the first round of damage would be when the opponent could take refuge in the fortified construction area at any time. But even so, the general offensive of the three armies and nine divisions of the revolutionary army was quickly launched.

Although the First Army to the Third Army of the Revolutionary Army are the most prominent units in the revolutionary army system, their combat effectiveness still cannot be compared with that of the Volunteer Army. Therefore, Zhou Dayong did not expect to take the entire defenders of Moscow in the first round, but carried out a focused clean-up of the enemy's peripheral troops to weaken the enemy's vital forces to the greatest extent, and only began to launch an effective attack on Moscow City when it was close to dawn.

At this time, the expeditionary force, which had been winning consecutive battles against opponents, including the main force of Jianzhou, finally encountered strong resistance from the new Russian army in defense for the first time, and the offensive was also stuck in a stalemate in many directions.

However, taking advantage of this opportunity, hundreds of artillery units, mainly of improved general guns, also began to push forward to the vicinity of the enemy city to prepare for the shelling, and launched a continuous bombardment of the defenders' fortifications and buildings as the sky began to fully brighten. The rumbling cannon seemed to sound like rolling thunder in the sky. In this era, except for some Western European colonial countries, the source of gunpowder in Eastern European countries is still toilet nitrate, so they have never seen such a huge artillery bombardment before, and they were also shocked at the first time, and the operations in Eastern Europe have gradually entered the decisive stage. Zhou Dayong also understood that he could not delay too much time, and it was better to end the battle as soon as possible.

(End of chapter)