"In terms of the rest of the muskets, because of the poverty of Tsarist Russia's national strength, the serious shortage of military spending, and its national policy some time ago was to vigorously develop the navy and carry out serfdom reform, it was simply unable to update the arms and weapons, so the soldiers of the army were generally equipped with the muskets used in the Crimean War a few years ago, and even one-fifth of the soldiers in the Yergeny Regiment still used the most old-fashioned flintlock muskets.

Therefore, the range and accuracy of the musket of the Russian army, and the frequency of firing are extremely limited, not to mention the huge gap with the latest Mauser rifles equipped by our soldiers, and even the new firing smoothbore guns used by those Sikh soldiers, Gurkha soldiers, and Bengali soldiers are somewhat inferior. ”

After listening to Tao Jintang's report, Shi Da was even more happy.

Indeed, these regular regiments of Tsarist Russia are reliable armed forces directly under Tsarist Russia, unlike the Cossack cavalry, which rely on individual force and ethnic strength, while an army like the Caucasus Corps is already a standing field army of Tsarist Russia, and the soldiers are all trained for many years.

However, this gap is not so obvious, especially in this large-scale battle, it is completely difficult to reflect the military quality of the individual, and more importantly, how the entire army can quickly and effectively kill and injure the enemy.

In this regard, the sophistication of the weapons, as well as the proficiency in their use, became the most important factor in restricting the outcome of the war. Therefore, in relation to this aspect, it may be that Tsarist Russia thought that their army was well-trained, even if poorly equipped, enough to deal with the rabble from the east. But as everyone knows, these commanders of theirs still do not know how the two fiascos in Siberia were caused. In this day and age, the gap in weapons is the most fatal gap.

These Mauser rifles of the Chinese Empire are easy to use, not only far surpassing the smoothbore guns used by the Russian army in terms of range and accuracy, but the most important thing is actually the rate of fire, which can kill the enemy quickly. In the understanding of the Tsarist Russian officers, the so-called military training of the soldiers is nothing more than the speed of loading bullets and the proficiency of the smoothbore gun fire, and even if they are trained skillfully, they can only shoot two bullets a minute, but now the new Mauser rifle of the Chinese Empire, with customized metal cartridge shells, even soldiers who have just trained for a few months can do 4-5 bullets a minute, and well-trained field soldiers can shoot 6-7 bullets per minute, What's more, the range and power of this Mauser rifle are not comparable to the smoothbore guns of Tsarist Russia.

"In this case, then we will use our numbers and excellent rifles to completely annihilate these two Tsarist Russian armies! This king wants to make a name for His Majesty and the Chinese Empire in this sea area, so that this Tsarist Russia, including other Western countries, will be afraid when they hear about our Chinese Empire! Shi Dakai waved his hand, and the matter was decided.

Immediately, Shi Dakai, as the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, issued an order to mobilize the cavalry division of the Fourth Field Corps as the backbone, bringing together 20,000 Sikh cavalry, 10,000 Gurkha cavalry, 10,000 Bengali cavalry and 10,000 Kazakh cavalry, a total of 60,000 cavalry, led by his general General Ji Qingyuan, to go up the Volga River and prepare to attack the city of Astrakhan by a detour.

At the same time, the rest of the 190,000 troops marching slowly and steadily, lined up, there was a front thirty or forty kilometers long, and they moved forward three or four kilometers every day, which made the Tsarist Russian reconnaissance cavalry who had been peeping a little inexplicable, and it could only be analyzed that although the eastern countries had a large number of troops, they were a little afraid of war. However, even so, they were surprised by the number of troops in the Eastern Empire, which was twice as large as theirs.

Because of this, the Russian commanders of the two legions were a little suspicious, and did not act too rashly, but just let the reconnaissance cavalry monitor around the clock. After all, there is a huge disparity in strength, even if the Chinese Imperial Army is pretending to be afraid of war, setting some trap and waiting for them to take the initiative to attack. They had built fortifications early in the morning, and their original plan was to use the fortifications and the army's ability to fight well, snipe at the invading enemy, kill and wound the enemy as much as possible, and let the enemy retreat!

In this way, after a week, the Russian army may have received news from the upper reaches of the Volga River, and learned that a cavalry of the Chinese Empire had made a detour to the north, and finally could not bear it anymore and began to move. They began to move their forces frequently, and finally, in one night, they drew 5,000 cavalry from the Yergeny Corps, plus two-thirds of the ships of the fleet of the Inland Water Division, and went north against the current, preparing to intercept the cavalry units of the Chinese Empire who wanted to cross the Volga River by a detour.

On the night of the third day after the departure of the main force of the enemy's naval division, Shi Dakai finally gave the order for the whole army to attack, and by this time, the western expeditionary army of the Chinese Empire itself was less than ten kilometers from the fortifications built by the two corps garrisoned by Tsarist Russia.

After a night's march, at dawn the next day, the two northern and southern fronts of the Chinese Empire, 30,000 Sikh troops and 30,000 Kazakh troops, confronted the Caucasus Army and the Yergeny Army of Tsarist Russia respectively across the fortifications.

Seeing the attack of the coalition forces of the Chinese Empire, the Yergeny Corps did not move and still held on to the fortifications, but the Russian troops of the Caucasian Corps probably thought that they were brave and good at fighting, and wanted to take advantage of the fact that the attacking 30,000 Sikh troops had not yet set up camp, and the army was unstable, so they took the initiative to launch an attack. Although it was only a tentative attack, the Caucasian Corps directly sent 35,000 men, leaving only 5,000 men in the fortifications, almost all the forces were pressed, thinking of defeating the newly arrived Sikh army in one fell swoop. They also wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Sikhs were marching overnight, tired and tired, and launched an attack.

Unexpectedly, the Sikhs could not guess with an ordinary army. These people with a high degree of Sikh faith are very simple and unusually united, and the 30,000 Sikh troops have been grinding and marching recently, and they can still endure it when they see the enemy army at this moment. He didn't think about setting up camp at all, but directly put the array together and launched an assault on the positions of the Caucasian Corps.

As a result, the two sides charged at each other almost simultaneously and invariably.

And for the Sikh army, it was extremely stupid for the Russian army on the opposite side to leave the fortifications and rush out of the position to attack, which made them even more overjoyed, and immediately seized the opportunity to press the whole line to attack frantically. But this scene, for the Caucasian Corps, was bitter. The commander of the Caucasian Corps also did not expect that this miscellaneous division of the Chinese Empire would be so sharp and as aggressive as them, and he had known that this would happen, so they would not have to take the initiative to break out of the fortifications to attack, but rely on the favorable conditions of the fortifications to wait for these madmen to attack. But now that they had broken out of their positions, it was impossible to retreat, otherwise their morale would have suffered a fatal blow, and they would have been defeated by the enemy.

Therefore, the two sides opened fire fiercely less than 2 km from the fortifications built by the Caucasian Corps, and the main forces of the armies of both sides used front-loading smoothbore guns, and the number of people was not much different, but the effect of the fire was completely different.

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