The Russian army is actually quite unlucky.

Although the two commanders of the Caucasian Corps and the Yergeny Corps knew that the invading Chinese Empire had a large number of troops and it would probably be difficult for them to defeat the other side, given the glory of the Russian Empire and their arrogance as corps commanders, they had to fight for it! In addition, the Russian Empire was in an eventful period, state affairs were rotten, not to mention the assassination of the tsar, and the new tsar was two as soon as he succeeded him, and even the two of them did not know whose orders they should listen to.

Emotionally speaking, they felt that they should support the three princes of the former tsar in Moscow and maintain the original tsar's rule, but legally speaking, the former tsar's younger brother in St. Petersburg, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, was the real tsar, he succeeded to the throne for the first time, and took control of St. Petersburg, after all, for hundreds of years, St. Petersburg was the capital and core of power in the Russian Empire.

And because of this, both of them are very distressed. But they believe that the more this time, the more resolute they must resist. The news of the assassination of the Tsar and the civil strife in Russia had spread throughout the Volga Valley, and the officers and soldiers of their Caucasian and Yerkny regiments had become well aware that the great Russian Empire was on the verge of falling apart. At this moment, the news came that the Eastern Empire on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea was leading a joint attack on Russia with the coercive armies of several forces, and there were as many as 200,000 enemy troops attacking!

Hearing this news, many Russian soldiers and even officers no longer had the heart to serve, and directly began to make up their minds to leave the Volga area, find a way to transfer or even openly flee to return to their hometown or St. Petersburg. In view of this situation, the commanders of the two regiments felt that this critical moment was a good opportunity for them to establish military merits, and as long as the officers and men of their regiments could show their normal combat standards, they might not be able to repel the enemy army. So, they came up with an excellent way to motivate their soldiers, which was to build fortifications directly on the east bank of the Volga, preparing to block the enemy army on the east bank of the Volga.

They thought that the fortifications were set up behind the Volga River, which could not only provide logistical support and fire support conveniently at any time through the ships escorted by the inland water division, but also let all the legionnaires know that there was no way to retreat behind them, and once they failed to escape, there would be the Volga River behind them, and the ships of the inland water division were limited after all, and the first to evacuate must be their officers, ordinary Russian soldiers, who were likely to be chased and slaughtered by the enemy, so they could not be defeated. That's why the two of them set up their fortifications on the east bank of the Volga. Perhaps the commanders of these two legions had not heard of the old saying in the East, called "Fighting on the Other", but they also understood this truth, and wanted to force their men to fight hard by virtue of the fact that there was no way back from the Volga River.

In fact, they did achieve this effect, and after stationing the Russian troops of the two corps on the east bank of the Volga, they began to build fortifications, and these soldiers, as soon as they heard that they were here as a battlefield to defend against the attacking invaders from the east, needless to say, they also understood their situation, and their positions were in the back of the Volga River, and there was no way to retreat. If they are defeated by the combined forces from the east, there is nowhere to escape unless they all jump into the Volga. And these Russian soldiers, either from the Caucasus mountains and forests, or from the Yergeny Heights, are not local soldiers in the Volga Valley, because of the terrain restrictions of their hometowns, many of them can't swim, if they really jump into the Volga River, although the water is gentle, but the river is wide and deep, I am afraid that most of them will be drowned before they can escape to the middle of the river. Therefore, under this threat, these Russian soldiers have worked hard to build fortifications, and they are willing to do their best when fighting.

Sadly, they were defeated. It's not that they don't work hard and don't die, it's not that their military training level is insufficient, but they are too unlucky, and they encounter the Chinese Imperial Field Army, which has weapons and equipment that are almost 10 years beyond this era, plus a large number of coerced servants to support them from the side, how can these Russian troops win.

Forty or fifty thousand fleeing Russian troops were drilling out of the trenches and preparing to retreat, while the wide Volga River was like a giant beast in front of them. After losing the cover of the fortifications and trenches, these fleeing Russian soldiers were immediately killed and injured by the howitzers and field shells that took advantage of the opportunity to pursue, and in desperation, seeing that the officers followed the regiment commander to board the boats docked by the river, these Russian soldiers also rushed to the ships like crazy, but were soon repelled by the commander's guard and the guards organized by other officers with muskets.

And these poor ships, which were few in number, had not had time to be stuffed, and at the urging of the Russian officers, they sailed to the opposite shore. The Russian troops, who had just escaped from the enemy's artillery fire, looked at the ships in despair and fired at the ships indiscriminately, venting their despair in their hearts.

The soldiers were faced with the choice of whether to force their way across the river at the risk of drowning, or to stand by and be either annihilated or captured, and it was likely that the result would be the same. As a result, these Russian troops fell into a frenzy, and some of them jumped directly into the Volga River and swam to the middle of the river, trying to catch up with the boats, but they were soon swept away by the undercurrent in the river; The other part of the Russian army shouted, and under the leadership of some officers who could not escape, they turned around with muskets and fled along the river bank to both sides, but they were greeted by field artillery that came with a well-adjusted angle, and bombarded them with a bang.

In this short stretch of land from the trench to the riverbank, more than 20,000 or 30,000 Russian troops were crowded. And because the angle of some field guns is not adjusted so quickly, and the howitzers are a little short of range, therefore, the number of field guns that hit the Russian army in time is not very large, but because of the density of the Russian army, many field artillery shells exploded in the enemy group, and the damage caused to the Russian army was very amazing, and a single shell could make dozens or hundreds of Russian troops lose their combat effectiveness or even die and be seriously injured.

In this way, in the time of several rounds of artillery, the Russian soldiers who escaped from the trench were reduced by nearly 10,000 people.

Fortunately, for the Russian army, the terrorist artillery group in the east moved slowly, and when they ran along the river to two or three kilometers upstream, they finally moved away from the elevation angle and range of the artillery. But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a black and oppressive dark cloud rushed along the river bank from the upper reaches of the Volga River, and the sharp-eyed Russian troops immediately recognized that it was the more than 10,000 infantry cavalry of the Eastern Field Army wearing light gray uniforms.

Those cavalry were not in a hurry to attack, and jumped off their horses at a kilometer away from the Russian army, forming a number of formations, completely blocking the direction of the Russian army's escape. After the field artillery not far away stopped firing, tens of thousands of Eastern Combined Army troops rushed from behind the artillery and rushed murderously, completely surrounding the fleeing Russian troops in a narrow area of two or three kilometers near the bank of the Volga River.

In desperation, the Russian army chose again, some chose to surrender, and the other half chose to break through to the upper reaches of the Volga River in the northwest, where the Eastern infantry cavalry was fierce but not many, and the total number of Russian troops they broke through exceeded 10,000. If you don't break through at this moment, and wait for the tens of thousands of soldiers approaching step by step in front of you to rush over, it will be completely finished.

But when they charged to a place where there were still four or five hundred meters away from the blockade line under the infantry cavalry, they opened fire fiercely, and the bullets were dense like rain, and the Russian troops who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another. Within a minute or two, the Russian army lost more than 3,000 men. This is simply a massacre, and at this moment, the Russian army is still one or two hundred meters away from the other side, and at this distance, the bullets are more dense, and the number of Russian troops is becoming more and more scarce, and they can't get close to the other party at all, and they can't enter their own range.

The Russian army collapsed in complete despair, and before they could make the choice to surrender, the Gurkha army and the Sikh army, which were the most active in the flank black pressure battle, had already rushed forward, and their eyes were firing at them greedily, as if they had a deep hatred for them. Even the four or five thousand Russian troops left behind threw away their weapons, raised their hands and cried in surrender, and no one paid attention to them at all, and they were greeted only by the sound of thumping muskets......