The landscape of Tulinsk is uneventful, with no high mountains, no forests, and no numerous and meandering rivers on the other side of the Volga, just like countless ordinary towns in the interior of Russia.

Tens of thousands of Russians have lived in the city and its surroundings, many of whom have lived here for generations and are familiar with the geography of Turinsk. This is an advantage of the Russian army.

The hydrological environment on the left and right banks of the Volga is completely different, with only a few tributaries on the left and a large number of meandering rivers and ponds and lakes of various sizes on the right bank, and almost no connected land within 20 kilometers.

So why did Tulinsk become a hub for land and water transport in the lower Volga basin? This is because the Volga River in front of Tulinsk has a flat flow - the Volga channel through Tulinsk suddenly widens, from less than a kilometer upstream to four kilometers, and on the other side of the river, on the right bank of the Volga, there is one of the few places where there are no puddles of small rivers, tributaries and lakes.

It is a pity that the Chinese blocked the river in many narrow places of the Volga River, they broke through the thick ice, immersed themselves in the cold river water, and arranged the sunken ships, dark piles, and wooden rows one by one under the surface of the Volga River, and all kinds of means emerged one after another, directly abolishing the water transportation of the Volga River. So much so that when the Russian army marched to Astrakhan, it could only transfer supplies by muddy land. At the beginning, many warships of the Caspian flotilla passed through the Volga River and moved to the area west of Tsaritsyn, and now they are all blind.

Dmitry Sergeyevich Dokhturov, who led the troops first, led 30,000 Russian troops directly here, and there were 4,000 or 5,000 Russian civilians who transported materials for these 30,000 Russian troops alone.

Spring in Russia is a world of silt, melting snow and ice that makes traffic a mess. Four or five thousand Russian civilians carried most of the material was munitions, and the food was only enough for the Russian vanguard for about a month.

The 100-kilometer road was a five-day walk, and by the time General Tie led a large number of Russian troops to Tulinsk, the defensive positions of the Wehrmacht had been trimmed. Chen Han's position was in the north through the town of Puri on the banks of the Erga River, passing through the village of Blisk in the middle and the village of Meligino in the south, and almost the entire line could be covered by the Volga.

A flat Tulinsk cannot effectively limit the Russian army's ability to maneuver at will like the village of Borodino, and the Wehrmacht's arrangement on the two flanks is weaker, but it is difficult for the Russian army to outflank, and if they want to outflank, they can only risk a large in-depth detour - that is, without pulling out Tulinsk, send troops to continue to operate along the Volga River to the southeast, and completely encircle the Chen-Han Wehrmacht in Tulinsk, but this will inevitably use more troops and lengthen the battle line.

You know, although the Chinese blocked Tsaritsyn and the Volga River under it, since Tulinsk, the Chinese have not done anything on the Volga River.

Therefore, the Russian army cannot use the advantages of water transportation on the Volga River, but Chen Han can. The Russian army thinks about it carefully, and it is very hurt.

There are quite a few boats on the docks in Turinsk, and if things go wrong, they can slip up the Volga. After crossing Tulinsk, the Russian army must always be on guard against attacks from the river and the opposite bank. Whoever made Bagration unwilling to divide his troops on the right bank of the Volga, then they could only endure it like this.

Therefore, the Russians were not considered to be the former landlords here, but they were forced to march to the east on unfavorable conditions for them, and St. Petersburg could not tolerate the loss of Astrakhan and the Caucasus.

Dokhturov had to make a frontal assault on a narrow front in order to break through the defense line of Chen Han's army.

Pull out the nail from Turinsk.

"Our position is in the town of Tara, about 10 versts northwest of Turinsk, and this is the best position that can be found in the periphery." The distance is right, and you can always control the dynamics of the battlefield without danger. Because there was a shipwreck three kilometers north of Turinsk, it was impossible for the Chinese army to attack the town of Tara by water, but from the right bank, but the rivers and endless puddles and lakes could keep the artillery away from the war.

The Chinese have no heavy weapons, and even the number of rockets they can carry is limited, which poses no threat to the town of Tara.

"I hope we can easily defeat the Chinese [in Thurinsk], then we will have a very good hope of winning this war."

Dokhturov's brain is very clear. He is well aware of the power of Russia, the army has to deal with Ukraine, the Ottoman Empire in the Black Sea, and the army used in the East seems to be powerful, but in fact it is rootless.

These 140,000 men were almost all the troops that Russia could come up with, and the rest of the reserves and second-line troops were against the Ottomans.

Just when Russia defeated Napoleon, the Ottomans added another 100,000 troops to Ukraine, plus the Ottoman army on the Crimean Peninsula, there were already nearly 300,000 Ottoman troops fighting on the Russian battlefield.

The Ottomans put a lot of pressure on Russia, and Ukraine cannot be lost for Russia. The only explanation for why Alexander I focused more on the East than on Ukraine is that Chen Han was more of a threat than the Ottoman Empire.

The huge China can really eat Russia in one bite, and although the Ottoman Empire has revived a lot militarily in recent years, the Russians look at Istanbul like looking at a pile of dry bones in a grave.

In a word, Alexander I was more optimistic about the future of China than about Istanbul.

Mighty China will only get stronger, and no one is optimistic about the future of the Ottoman Empire, which now looks quite strong.

In the process of preparing for the war, Chen Han's Pan Chang, who was stationed in Turinsk, deployed the army in a formatted manner, forming a deep battle formation. The formation basically consisted of four groups: the right wing, the center, the left wing and the reserve.

The main task of the Left Sector Army was to firmly 'protect' the land passage to Astrakhan. The task of the Central Army was to defend the city of Tulinsk and the line of artillery positions. The right flank was guarded by troops under the command of the deputy king of the Turgat Khanate, Tserindelek, and the number of troops deployed was relatively small, but the right flank was defended by the Volga River, and the pressure on the town of Puri was the lightest. At the same time, they are also used as a reserve mobile force, which can reinforce the central and left flank forces to carry out counter-assaults.

As for the last reserves, they were placed in the large rear of the position, that is, where the Tulinsk dock was located.

The role of the reserve is very important, it is the first opportunity, and the commander has a reserve in his hands, which is equivalent to holding the first opportunity in the battle.

It is also with reserves that the enemy can carry out a long struggle and constantly weaken the offensive.

Chen Han's military textbook clearly points out: "...... Reserves should be retained for as long as possible. Because a general, as long as he has reserves in his hands, he can be invincible. ”

Before the start of the war, Pan Chang personally inspected the left flank position, and the left flank was under the greatest pressure on the entire battlefield.

The Russian army rushed violently, and Pan Chang was worried that the left flank position would be lost, so he temporarily decided to build a temporary position on three small mounds between the village of Meligino on the first line and the position on the second line. However, in order to buy time to build the fortress, Pan Chang ordered the defenders of Meligino to hold the forward position and play the role of a support point for the battle line of Meligino Village.

In the evening of the same day, the Russian army launched an attack on Meligino with 13,000 infantry, 2,000 cavalry, and more than 50 artillery pieces, and the Wehrmacht stationed there responded with a regiment of infantry and a cavalry battalion, as well as 30 artillery pieces.

After 1 hour of fierce fire, the Russian army stopped the offensive. Night began to fall, and as the moon rose in the sky, an even more brutal night battle began. First artillery fire against bombardment, then rocket after bombardment, and finally brutal white-knuckle warfare.

The fighting began at 8:10 p.m. and lasted until 1 a.m., when the Russians captured the outlying positions in the village of Meligino at great cost. The Russian army, with a large number of soldiers, began to attack the village of Meligino, but at the critical moment, Jiang Kui arrived with a regiment of reinforcements and killed the Russians again.

By dawn the next day, Meligino had changed hands twice, and the fierce battle continued until the sun rose. The Russians suffered many more casualties than the Wehrmacht, and they paid the price of 4,000 men, but they also severely damaged the vitality of the Wehrmacht 086 Brigade stationed in the village of Meligino. And the fortifications on the positions were completely destroyed. According to Pan Chang's order, Jiang Kui withdrew his troops to the second line.

The fighting in the village of Meligino is of great significance to both sides. The Russians showed their high fighting spirit, and Chen's Wehrmacht showed its tenacity.

On that day, Dokhturov asked for the capture of the Chinese Wehrmacht, but the answer he received was that the Chinese would rather die in battle than be taken prisoner. General Surkov on the side said: "It seems that they have not been killed enough, and they should be punished mercilessly!" ”

Dokhturov said with a smile: "I will teach them a lesson with a cannon!" ”

The battle for the village of Meligino was just an appetizer for the battle, but Dokhturov saw from the middle that the Wehrmacht was not in a certain way, and their artillery power was not as strong as the Russian army.

Combined with the actions of the Chinese to repair fortresses and fortresses in places such as Astrakhan and Guryev, Dokhturov has reason to believe that the Chinese have placed their cannons in Astrakhan and Guryev.

Dokhturov put half of his army in the village of Meligino, on the left flank of Turinsk, then their center and right flank would naturally be weak.

Pan Chang didn't care about the loss of the village of Merrigino, which gave the Wehrmacht time to strengthen the fortifications of the main position and build a new defensive line.

Civil fortifications are not obvious for rockets and hexagonal guns to defend themselves, but the power of the Russian army's hexagonal guns is not the same as China's hexagonal guns, and the power of the Russian army's rockets is not the same as that of China's rockets.

The data on the test site is not as accurate as the real data on the battlefield, and in the battle of Meligino Village, Chen Han experienced the high morale of the Russian army at the same time, and also experienced a test of the firepower of the Russian army.

The role of the latter was able to return directly to the central main position, which was helpful to both the town of Puri and the Sanqiu defensive line.

The newly added defensive line behind the village of Merrigino was named the Three Hills Line, and the height of the three mounds was limited, and the relative height did not exceed 20 meters, so it was named the 'Three Hills Defense Line'.

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