At this moment, the commander of the Caucasian Corps finally collapsed! He immediately reacted that the other party's rifles were not of ordinary range, but were like his own small artillery. This battle could not be fought, so we could only retreat quickly, and if we didn't do it, not only could we not defeat the oncoming enemy army, but we could not even hold the defensive line that had been built long ago.

He immediately gave the order to retreat. In fact, at this time, even the brave Caucasian legionnaires who were not afraid of death were looking forward to retreating for a long time. This was not a fair war at all, and what made them most angry and desperate was why these Caucasian soldiers of noble blood used muskets worse than those rabble Sikh soldiers, let alone the Chinese army in the East.

At the sound of the order, the soldiers in the back immediately turned and retreated. And they retreated easily and conveniently, but the Caucasian soldiers on the front line and in the middle rows were miserable, and in the crowded battle team, it was difficult to move their steps at all, and the sound of musket shooting behind them kept coming, followed by a cry of life-seeking Yama, and countless people were shot.

The entire Caucasian corps had no intention of fighting and turned and fled. Seeing this, the 30,000 Sikh troops, who had already had the upper hand all the way, jumped up and directly charged the retreating Caucasian regiment under the leadership of the main general who was good at seizing fighters. This group of Sikh troops is also a desperate and brave character, directly behind the last row of Caucasian legionnaires who have not yet reacted, and there is a burst of crazy fire and shooting.

And in the few minutes of this retreat, the Russian Caucasian Corps lost more than four or five thousand people. At the same time, in the process of retreating more than 1.5 kilometers back into the fortifications, the Sikh soldiers, who were good at running barefoot, chased fiercely, shot down the water dogs, and killed the Russian army along the way.

The infantry divisions of the Fourth Field Army Corps on the left and right flanked frantically shot the fleeing enemy troops with the range of the rifles in their hands. Moreover, before the Russian army exceeded the firing range, some soldiers of the Fourth Field Army in the rear stepped on their horses and pursued forward at a rapid pace, at this moment, showing the well-trained side of these infantry soldiers on horseback, they tightened the horse's belly with their legs, quickly loaded the bullets, closed the bolt, and did not aim, then pulled the trigger and shot the Russian troops who fled in panic in front of them.

It was not until it was six or seven hundred meters away from the fortifications, when the artillery in the fortifications opened fire violently, killing and wounding dozens of Sikh soldiers who were pursuing them head-on, that the pursuit stopped. In fact, the belligerent Sikh army could not hold back and wanted to continue the pursuit, if it were not for the herald cavalry sent by Shi Dakai behind him to order a ban on attacking the enemy's fortifications alone, maybe these red-eyed Sikh troops would have rushed forward to attack the Russian defensive positions.

In fact, as early as the moment when the Caucasian Corps attacked, Shi Dakai understood that defeating the two Russian legions in front of him this time would not be as difficult as he imagined. After all, although the number of Caucasian legionnaires was smaller, it was the most powerful one, and it was precisely because of their self-confidence that they dared to take the initiative to attack, and were seized by the army of the Chinese Empire, on the one hand, let 30,000 Sikh troops come forward to meet the battle, and on the other hand, they gathered all the remaining war horses after sending cavalry, and selected more than 12,000 infantry with some horsemanship in the infantry division to form infantry cavalry, and sent an attack on the two wings of the Caucasian army to help the Sikh army defeat the enemy.

At the same time, Shi Dakai personally led the remaining troops and began to launch a full-scale attack on the enemy's position.

The offensive did not begin with the charge of soldiers, but pushed out the artillery division of the 4th Field Corps. This was the first time that the artillery division opened fire in front of the United Western Expeditionary Army, and I saw that more than 300 artillery pieces were lifted out, whether they were pushed by people or carried by people on their shoulders, and 9,000 officers and men of the artillery division were busy in front of the Russian army's position, and began to erect large and small artillery.

This posture alone immediately made the Sikh army, the Gurkha army, the Bengali army, and the Kazakh soldiers who followed Shi Dakai on the expedition become strange. Looking at the swarthy barrels of the cannons and the busy artillery soldiers, these soldiers began to look forward to seeing the majesty of the artillery waiting for them.

And the artillery division did not let them wait long, that is, after half an hour's effort, although there are still many cannons that have not yet been erected, and even some artillery pieces have not yet begun to be erected, but after Shi Dakai gave the order to the commander of the artillery division, two signal flares were launched into the air, and the attack officially began! The 96 Krupp 75mm field guns of the first two field artillery regiments were the first to open fire, and although only more than 100 guns were fired at once, those who had not experienced this kind of powerful artillery fire could never imagine how terrible it was.

Although it was the first shell, some of which were not very accurate, nearly half of the shells still fell within 50 meters of the front and rear of the Russian fortifications, and even a quarter of the shells fell directly on the fortifications built by the Russian army. And this is only the first round of shells, and what follows is to plunge the Russian army behind the fortifications into a cruel nightmare.

From the second round of artillery firing, dozens of artillery pieces were added in each round, and finally a total of 312 guns of 6 field running regiments began to bombard at the same time, especially 24 of them are large-caliber Krupp 105mm rear-loading rifled field guns, the power is even more amazing, the roar of these 300 artillery pieces is like a shocking thunder from the sky, and the shells in the sky fall on the enemy's positions, such a powerful artillery fire directly blew the Russian army's three-kilometer-long defense line into pieces, seemingly solid fortifications, It was blown to pieces.

Seeing this kind of majesty, not only the officers of the Sikh army, the Gurkha army, the Bengali army, and the Kazakh coercive army who were watching the vigilance behind the artillery division changed color, but even the chief general Shi Dakai's face changed greatly. It's terrifying. The defensive positions of the Russian army that were bombarded by these artillery pieces were as if they had experienced the end of the world, and everything seemed to have been destroyed.

At the same time, 2 howitzer regiments also began to join the bombardment queue one after another, 40 Krupp 115mm howitzers and 8 Krupp 150mm howitzers, under the cover of the field artillery regiment, advanced until they were only nearly 1,800 meters away from the enemy fortifications.

At this distance, it stands to reason that the Russian artillery can already threaten the howitzer regiment and enter their maximum range. However, under the continuous brutal and terrifying bombardment of more than 300 field guns, the enemy troops hiding behind the fortifications could not raise their heads at all, and they hid in all directions, and it was difficult to find even the opportunity to fire back from the artillery.

And the next moment, these Russian positions, which had fired shells, were immediately bombarded and became silent.

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