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A thunderous explosion sounded in his ears, and before Mrs. Ivanovich Leonor could react, she was shaken to the ground by a trembling crack under her feet, and the huge explosion accompanied the wrestling and made him dizzy.

It took him a long time to get up, and the roaring explosions outside the fortress still resounded through the heavens and the earth, and rockets like meteors falling resounded across the earth. But Ivanovich Leonov's mind was blank, and his ears were buzzing, as if there were a hundred bees constantly stirring in his ears, and nothing could be heard outside.

The lieutenant colonel of artillery, who came back to his senses after half a day, pulled his neck and shouted, and he shouted in a stern tone: "Fire, fire, hurry up and shoot me!" Hit, hit hard! Fight back hard—"

The attitude is extremely firm. As the artillery commander of the Russian army in Orenburg during the half year when it was surrounded by rebels, Ivanovich Leonov's war experience and fighting spirit are worthy of recognition. But now there was a panic in his voice that he didn't even notice.

The Chinese rockets are too much of a threat to the Russian army.

The Russians have organized several groups to study rockets, and there has been no progress for so long.

The men in the fortress were busy with the roars of Ivanovich Leonov, following the trenches that the Russians had worked so hard to dig, passing the commander's orders to every artillery position.

The huge explosions on the position and the terrifying and terrifying dense artillery fire have frightened the Russian army! Such a heavy artillery fire covering the European battlefield was unheard of, as if it were about to be turned upside down. From the battle with one firepower to the battlefield with three or four firepower, who can bear it?

Ivanovich Leonov bravely rushed out of the bunker with a group of guards, and looked at the Russian soldiers running around like headless flies on the position, and was furious, and suddenly drew his knife, and cut off the head of a panicked Russian soldier with a single sword. Carrying the blood stains and quickly frozen on the blade like a bloody saber, he shouted viciously around him: "Who dares to run away again?!" ”

"Get back to your places and shoot me back. Shoot back at me with the cannons in your hands, and then there are people running around in the position, kill them all, kill them all! ”

Ivanovich Leonov is like a ghost, but he is not a real ghost, the area that his saber can cover is too small and too small, and the surrounding Russian routs have to disperse as if they have seen the devil, avoid him and then continue to flee to the rear, and then Ivanovich Leonov can do nothing. Ivanovich Leonov was anxious and angry, and just as he didn't know what to do, a shell fell beside him.

There was a bang, and the sand flew away, and the mighty Ivanovich Leonov flew away like a dead leaf......

The powerful force of the gunpowder explosion tore the entire thin-skinned shell to shreds in an instant, and there were still a few iron filings inside. In the blink of an eye, each flowering bomb will produce countless small fragments (fine iron filings) that shoot through the crowd......

As thousands of shrapnel and iron filings burrowed into the bodies of the Russian soldiers, countless people screamed in heart-rending screams, and their terrible cries resounded over the frozen banks of the Agus River.

The screams came and went, and the screams were endless.

Flesh and blood flew on the battlefield, and the snow-covered earth was dyed black by explosions again and again, like tofu falling to the ground.

The battlefield was littered with corpses and many wounded soldiers in agony.

A captured Russian officer wrote in his later memoirs: "...... Our soldiers left the safety of the Chulik River, where they could live comfortably and safely, and came to this brutal battlefield. Many people died in brutal battles almost from the very first moment of the war because they could not adapt to it immediately......"

Compared with the battle mode in Europe, which is mainly based on line formations and phalanxes, the Russian army is really a bit unsuitable for the Fu Han Army's artillery fire-centered combat mode. The Russian infantry from Orenburg had 13,400 cavalry, plus 5,000 Qing troops and the surrounding Kazakh cavalry that chose Russians, bringing the total strength to more than 20,000. This number was far more numerous than the number of Chinese troops near Lake Balkhash, so the Russians chose to attack aggressively and violently, and did not follow the advice of the Qing army, and as a result, they were hit in front of the line of the Chinese defenders. It was Potemkin who, hearing the news, hurried to the front to dissuade the Orenburg governor-general, Major General Khvablov.

But the Chinese army has always maintained a defensive posture, and even their occasional cavalry units rely on their defensive positions on the Egus River as a dot. The Chinese have counterattacked, allowing the Russians to see the sharpness of their attacks, but the theme is still defense-oriented. Until today!

The Russian infantry of a regiment placed by the Russians on the front line collapsed in the sudden fire attack, and even the artillery on the second line of defense with many running positions fled all the way back with the defeat of the Russian infantry. This time, the defenders' counterattack, which began at dusk, gave the Russian army a painful lesson.

A war correspondent who accompanied the army wrote in a transcript he sent back:

"The soldiers were given harsh orders that they must hold on to the Egus River and hold the Chinese army at the front line.

The follow-up troops were gathering, and beyond the range of the Chinese's meteor-like super-explosive bombs, groups of soldiers lined up in a phalanx, and then launched a neat attack to the east, they wanted to push the Chinese back to the opposite side of the battle line. Otherwise, the entire position will collapse. In turn, the entire coalition will disintegrate.

…… The brave Russian soldiers launched a counterattack along the white snow against the attacking Chinese and the army, and the Grim Reaper was always with them, and people were constantly hit by shells. The super-explosive bombs were commanded by the devil to be so powerful that they only needed one to sweep away half of the phalanx. Countless people were injured and countless people died. The wounded lay on the spot in the cold snow and wailed in a low voice, and they could not wait for the dawn of the day.

Lake Balkhash in winter is shrouded in cold, and death reigns here, and few of the wounded who are injured at night hold out until dawn......

After the baptism of artillery fire and explosions, in less than half an hour, the Chinese troops defeated the defenders of the first two lines of defense. Their mortar fire was intensive, and their grenades were powerful at close range, and this weapon, which had been eliminated by Europe, was given a new lease of life in the hands of the Chinese.

Countless defeated soldiers were forced to retreat deeper into the defensive line, scolding their artillery units and complaining about the unimaginable firepower of the Chinese. The morale of the troops was terrible, and the soldiers had lost confidence in victory, even if it was only a victory in this small battle.

I noticed that none of the brave officers who had been at the front of the line seemed to have been able to pull down, not knowing where they are now, and if they did not surrender, may God bless them......

…… The Chinese shelled the third line of defense for ten minutes, armed with a large number of mortars, light and fast-moving artillery that inflicted unimaginable damage on the Russian army in the battle on the Egus. After a long shelling of ten minutes, yes, ten minutes, this is a long, long time. Those who do not experience the torment of helplessness on the battlefield cannot understand the long time of time.

The 13th Regiment of Kennar in Orenburg went on the offensive again. Because the Chinese opposite them divided a force to attack from the flank, and the enemy forces on their front were weakened, Major Sergei hoped to use the attack to disrupt the enemy on the front, and then the large force calmly dealt with the enemy coming up from the flank. This time his tone was harsh, and the attacking force became even more numerous. The soldiers who participated were not only from the 13th Regiment, but also the defeated soldiers who ran to the positions of the 13th Regiment, so this time the battle lasted for a long time, the soldiers held out for a long time, and although they kept losing money, they did not withdraw, they always held on......

May God bless those who have sacrificed and let those noble souls ascend to the heavenly kingdom of the Lord.

…… I saw Lieutenant Mikhail, whom I had interviewed earlier, being carried down, his throat being pierced from the side, and blood constantly rushing into his trachea, which made his mouth constantly spray blood. It wasn't until the military doctor intubated his larynx that he finally calmed down temporarily. I didn't see a hint of fear in his face, he raised his eyes to look at me, and drew a cross with his right hand. His face showed a sense of calmness in his fate and devotion to God's will. His look was as if to say, "If you don't understand how they feel, then you're terrible." ”

Everything is at the mercy of God: you lie on the stove and die; Or God bless in battle.

…… This brutal battle continues, and brave, loyal Russian servicemen are dying.

Our dear General Potemkin himself came to the front, and it was speculated that His Excellency the Lieutenant General would supervise the battle together with the Orenburg Governor-General, General Khvablo, putting precious lives at risk in a war......

May God forbid, Almighty God protect His Lamb and appoint a brave and wise angel to be our commander in chief to defeat the evil Chinese. ”

Chen Ming did not know about the counterattack at Lake Balkhash, nor did he know how much attention Europe had about the fighting taking place in the steppes of Central Asia.

The Russians committed more than 10,000 regular troops, as well as a small number of vassals, more than 20,000 people, which is not a small number.

This war was also different from the previous series of Sino-Russian contests in the Outer Northeast, Great Northwest and Siberia, this time it was a frontal war dominated by infantry. Although the ranks of the Russian army had a large percentage of cavalry.

Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and, of course, Sweden and Russia. Every country that has a stake in China is convinced of this.

With a combined army of more than 20,000 and more than 10,000 Russian troops as the main force, the Russians will certainly be able to test the true combat effectiveness of China's increasingly large infantry troops.

Chen Han has been established for three years. Normal diplomatic relations have been established between China and Europe, and more and more information about China is being transmitted to China through these diplomats. These diplomats are more observant and perceptive than the 'merchants' of the past, and they can find something valuable in a thick stack of cumbersome texts, not to mention facts that have been circulated but not believed by Europeans.

For example, China's huge standing army of one million, for example, China's population of up to 200 million, and among the two hundred million people, the Chinese soil ethnic group, the Chinese Han people, occupies at least 98 percent of the share.

In the past, these messages were regarded by Europeans as a fantasy 'call'. They really can't imagine what a country with a population of 200 million people and a nation of almost 200 million people is like.

And as China's land area is larger than that of the whole of Europe, the words flowed out of the mouth of a certain Chinese official, and then quickly spread to Europe through various channels, one China vs one Europe, the proposition of which is better is noisy.

After being ravaged by the Mongols, the Europeans' greatest enemies were the invincible Ottomans. The Ottomans at the time of their strength really achieved the legend of beating the whole of Europe with their own strength, which was even more brilliant than the glory of the heavenly world at the beginning.

However, such a powerful empire that had threatened the world of one god for hundreds of years also declined in the flickering of time and sects.

Since the discovery of the New World by Europeans, a steady stream of gold and silver has been sent to Europe, and then a large part of the silver has flowed into China, but after the Europeans defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna more than a hundred years ago, there was no longer any threat to Christian civilization in the whole of Europe.

They conquered the whole of America, they broke into India, they easily captured the whole of the South Seas. Far East, except for China, to their surprise, the whole earth is the world of the white race.

The idea of white supremacy has been widely derived in Europe and the United States, which is like China's dream of 'heaven and heaven', which is blinded by the strength and invincibility.

Every European who looked at the Far East did not expect that the Tatar Empire would collapse so quickly, and the Chinese who rose from the ruins of the old Tatar Empire replaced the Ottomans in the blink of an eye and became the biggest threat in the eyes of many Europeans.

The Chinese took the initiative to open up trade, they introduced a large number of European knowledge and machinery, they devoured the strengths of the Europeans, and those places where the West was better than the East in the past were quickly made up by the Chinese and dared to pursue.

And the Chinese Empire, which has risen from the ruins of the old Tatar Empire, has its eyes fixed on the fertile land beyond their territory.

Because of Sulu, the Dutch and the Spaniards had already fought the Chinese once, and the Chinese army burst out with great combat effectiveness, including their backward naval divisions, under a strange and powerful weapon.

In several naval battles, it was clear that the West Dutch fleet had the upper hand, but it did not lose its troops.

When a country is not only rich, but also has a large population, and their army has a strong fighting force, how can such a country not be wary of Europeans who occupy half the world? No one wants to spit out the fat that they put in their mouth.

Therefore, at a time when bilateral trade between the East and the West is increasing, vigilance has been generated against each other's backs.

And when a country becomes wary of another country, what is the first thing it wants to know? It has to be military prowess.

The Dutch are rich, right? The Dutch state was financially much stronger than Prussia. But when did you see when Prussia was afraid of the Netherlands?

A country that is rich but not strong is not feared, and a country that is rich and strong is truly invincible. This is the gap between the two Song Dynasty and the Han and Tang Dynasties. When Chen Ming didn't realize it, the battle of the Russians at Lake Balkhash had been given other meanings in the eyes of European countries...... (To be continued.) )