The Caucasian Corps of the Russian Army is a field army directly under it, and the smoothbore guns equipped with are quite sophisticated in the Russian army, and the training of the soldiers is obviously much stronger than that of the Sikh army, but the problem is that only half of the smoothbore guns of the Russian army are the firing smoothbore guns that Tsarist Russia reequipped after the defeat of the Crimean War, and half of them are still the old-fashioned flintlock smoothbore guns of decades ago, with an effective range of only a pitiful distance of fifty or sixty meters.

Nearly two-fifths of the Sikh army used Type 1853 Enfield rifles, which had been captured from British arsenals throughout India and inherited from Sikh troops who had previously served in the British colonial government in India. This front-loading rifled rifle uses a relatively rudimentary Mini bullet, which can crawl on the ground for reloading, and has an effective firing range of more than four or five hundred meters, which is almost several times or even ** times that of the smoothbore gun in the hands of the opposing Russian army. And in terms of the frequency of shooting, it far exceeds the original reloading speed of the Russian army.

The rifles used by the other three-fifths of the Sikh army were half-sold and half-given firing muskets and a small number of Dresser M1841 needle guns or Sharps M1852 carbines, etc., which were all weapons of mixed brands and performance defects, which were gradually eliminated by the Chinese Empire, but for the Sikh army, they were already very good. After all, after the overthrow of British rule, although the Sikh Kingdom had two small arsenals, it could not be opened without professional and technical personnel, and the Sikh army, which could not produce its own guns, could only rely on the suzerain, the Chinese Empire, to provide arms.

But at this moment, the already brave Sikh army, with the blessing of obviously much better rifles, output firepower to defeat the Caucasian army that charged on the opposite side!

More than 30,000 Caucasian legionnaires, forming a slightly dense formation, charged at the Sikh army, and at a distance of 500 meters, they began to fall to the ground in large numbers, like wheat waves blown by a strong wind, and as soon as they rushed to this distance, they fell to the ground with the sound of intensive and violent gunfire.

However, the commander of the corps who supervised the battle in the rear did not know the tragic situation of the first two platoons, but followed the usual tactics of their Caucasian regiments, and bravely charged forward one after another. It has always been like this, no matter how many battles have been experienced, even if there are fewer enemies, as long as you rush through the enemy's fire blockade line and enter the effective range of your own muskets, you will crouch down and fire, and then the rear line will press up and continue to make up the fire, and most of the battle will be settled. All that's left is how many soldiers die and how many rounds of fire are fired.

But a few minutes later, the commander of the Caucasian Corps suddenly realized that something was not quite right!

The commander of the Caucasian Corps saw that on the front line of the front line of firefighting, thick smoke did not rise as usual, but only some thin smoke wafted in. It was clear that the soldiers on the front line of our side did not open fire at all, but only a small number of sporadic shots, and the smoke was mainly drifting from the enemy positions that were firing on the opposite side.

The commander climbed to the top again, and suddenly understood! The front lines of the two sides are still two hundred meters apart, and at this distance, their own firepower, even the best firing smoothbore muskets, is beyond the reach of dust. He suddenly thought of the terrible Crimean War that plunged the Russian Empire into the abyss, when the rifle range of the Anglo-French army was two or three times the range of the Russian army, but now half of his army has been replaced by a newer type of firing smoothbore gun, and the range has increased a lot.

At this moment, the commander of the Caucasian Corps was ruthless, ordered the follow-up reserves to be pressed together, and sounded the horn of the charge, ordering the warriors of the corps to charge forward for the glory of the empire and the glory of the Caucasian Corps, regardless of their lives.

Finally, ten minutes later, under the charge of the brave Caucasian warriors, after losing three or four thousand soldiers, the Caucasian corps finally approached within 150 meters of the Sikh army on the opposite side, this distance was not at all the effective range of the rifles in their hands, and even for those old-fashioned flintlock muskets, it was not even the longest range, but Tsarist Russia still braved the rain of bullets fired from the opposite side, the soldiers of the old flintlock muskets continued to rush forward, and the soldiers of the new muskets immediately began to shoot back.

But this delay, the firepower of the soldiers on the opposite side seemed to be a little stronger, and the lives of the Caucasian legionnaires were quickly reaped.

The Sikh army on the opposite side finally suffered casualties, but for such a large-scale battle on a two-kilometre front, the hundreds of casualties were simply negligible.

It has to be said that the Caucasian Corps is worthy of being a field regiment directly under the Tsarist Russian Empire, which suffered losses of more than six or seven thousand men under the huge casualties, and finally rushed to within 70 meters of the forward line of the Sikh army on the opposite side. This distance, while not the best range for some flintlock muskets, is a small part of it can damage the Sikh soldiers.

Just when the commander of the Caucasian Corps was a little excited, and was about to personally lead the pro-battalion forward to launch the final charge and even use the bayonet for hand-to-hand combat, from the flank, a cavalry rushed forward, but it was a group of Chinese Imperial Field Army wearing gray uniform uniforms, small in number and not skilled in horsemanship, but well-trained. At a distance of six or seven hundred meters, the cavalry slowed down, and finally all of them jumped off their horses, and it was not a cavalry, but a group of infantry on horseback.

Although these infantry were still four or five hundred meters away from the left and right flanks of the Caucasian Corps, these soldiers actually shot directly half-crouched on the ground and fired in this direction. And this shot, like a floodgate being opened, rolling bullets flew horizontally, and after the noisy gunfire rang out, it actually overshadowed the fire of the Sikh army in front, which continued and intensified.

What made the commander of the Caucasian Corps even more frightened was that although there was still a distance of four or five hundred meters, the Chinese troops who could jump off the horses fired directly at their own side, causing the left and right flanks of the regiment to begin to fall in rows.

Moreover, as the two Chinese soldiers continued to advance, the troops on the left and right flanks of his legion were like cutting wheat, and they fell to the ground one after another, with a speed that was more terrifying and direct than the Sikh soldiers pressing on them, and even the smoke in the opposing army's formation was not much, as if the legendary devil had cast a magic.

The dense formation of the Caucasian corps became chaotic and finally collapsed!

.......... ps: I recommend a history book "The Great Merchant of Red Mansions", you can take a look if you like it.