Chapter 427: The Death of the Saxoar (2)

Don't look at the Cossack cavalry is the elite unit of Tsarist Russia, but they are equipped with very few horse rifles, generally only the Royal Cavalry Division can have a layer of appearance, and most of the autonomous armed Cossacks use sabers and javelins.

When the Second Cavalry Division rushed towards the 2nd Brigade, they also wanted to gather troops to fight with the 2nd Cavalry Division in a dignified manner, telling the Chinese army what cavalry was.

However, after wearing a pair, there have been three or four thousand casualties, which is simply a shame.

"Infantry attack, rush up and beat me hard!" After Yang Dongfang saw the Second Brigade fighting with the Cossacks, he immediately asked the infantry under the city to rush forward, because he found that the Second Cavalry Division had taken advantage of it, but it had already suffered a lot of wounds.

These casualties were caused by the close combat after the bullets were fired, which shows that the Cossacks were very capable of close combat.

It is worthy of being a grassland hegemon.

So he immediately ordered the infantry to rush forward and inflicted with muskets on the Cossack cavalry, who had not had time to withdraw several miles from the heavy formation.

Generally speaking, the infantry took the initiative to attack the cavalry and was a bit of a taste of death, but at this time, most of the Cossack cavalry were scattered, and the Chinese army was all muskets.

After all, muskets can be fired at a distance of two hundred meters, and the Cossack cavalry can only pose a threat to the infantry within 50 meters, so naturally a large number of them are dismounted.

In addition, the 2nd Cavalry Division was in an attack, and the 20,000 Cossack cavalry were beaten to the point of losing their temper and suffering heavy casualties, and when Mentorev regrouped his troops, he found that there were only 6,000 men left in the 20,000-strong army, and two-thirds of the casualties were lost, while the other side seemed to have only wounded about 200 cavalry, and the infantry was unharmed.

This was claimed in the history of the Cossack cavalry, and for a moment the heart ached and angry.

"We were fooled, the damn Chinese army actually counted us and set up an ambush here, but how did their cavalry get here." Seeing that the number of cavalry on the other side was no less than his own, Mentorev no longer had the courage to fight.

Even for the glory of the Cossacks, he didn't dare to fight, without it there were too many muskets in the Chinese army, and there were a large number of infantry to cover and respond, and he would be wiped out if he fought it.

"Withdraw!" Mentorev glared resentfully at the city of Steiner and urged his horse to the north.

"If this makes you run away, will I still be called Yang Dongfang?" Seeing that the Cossack cavalry was frightened, Yang Dongfang asked people to blow the charge horn and play signal flares.

The cavalry brigade of the 2nd Division immediately launched a pursuit of the Cossacks, loading and pressing bullets as they pursued, constantly tearing from behind.

Mentorev saw that the 6,000 army was only more than 4,600 people, and the losses were not small, but he found that the Chinese cavalry had pulled out a long distance, and he did not chase so tightly, and he was glad that he did not have to suffer bullets in his back.

As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, unfortunately, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded on the side of the mountain bag in front of him, and then the Chinese cavalry appeared on the mountain bag, and then rushed along the mountain.

"Then there is an enemy in the face, meet it!" The Chinese cavalry that simply appeared was only the number of regiments, and when they met on a narrow road, the brave won, Mentorev showed his saber, and the generals knew that this was a battle of life and death, and they raised their bids one after another.

A regiment, with more than twice as many troops as the previous side, has a hard anus on the front, and the enemy is looking for death, just a bad breath.

But they were wrong again, the Chinese army of this regiment did not raise bows and arrows, nor sabers, but horse rifles.

"Bang bang bang ......!"

"Puff puff ......!"

"Hell! Muskets again! Turn around and head east! ”

"Shameless! What about the honor of the cavalry! The Chinese army is shameless! It's all a bunch of cowards, they don't deserve to be cavalry ......" Mentorev scolded, his nose burning with anger, and he really couldn't figure out where Huaguo got so many horse rifles.

One thousand eighteen against four thousand six finished the abuse, and one of the Cossacks fled in a rout, for fear that he would be thrown off his horse by a shot if he fled slowly, and finally threw the weapon directly, reducing weight and increasing speed.

However, most of them were still bitten by this regiment, and 3,000 were killed and wounded, and Mentorev, with more than 1,000 lost dogs, was almost incapacitated, and ran for more than a dozen miles, and was overtaken from behind by another regiment of the 2nd Brigade.

The reason why these two brigades did not pursue just now was because there were their own people in ambush in front, deliberately slowed down to give the horses a rest, so as to accumulate horsepower, and then divided into two, one regiment to the east and one regiment to the west, ready to block the Cossack cavalry that broke up again, and as a result, the regiment to the east picked up the advantage.

He directly captured Mentorev and more than 700 of his subordinates, killed as many as 600 enemies, won the first merit, and completely annihilated 20,000 Cossack cavalry from the north.

After dark, the battle was completely over, and Yang Dongfang celebrated the achievements of all the departments and appreciated the wine......

Cliff was still waiting for news of Mentolev's arrival in Omsk, when the general came in and said: "General! The Chinese army suddenly advanced rapidly towards our side, changing the original turtle speed. ”

"What! The Chinese army moved! Cliff was taken aback, as soon as 20,000 cavalry were transferred from his side, the Chinese army attacked, and it was moving rapidly in three directions at the same time, and there was a possibility of a real fight.

Nine times out of ten, the matter of going north in the dark road is the ghost of the Chinese army, and there must be spies of the Chinese army nearby, so they immediately ordered to go down, the whole territory is on alert, fight at any time, and look for the spies of the Chinese army.

Of course, surprised to surprised, Cliff is not worried, he still has tens of thousands of cavalry here, as well as 20,000 infantry, there is no problem in fighting a defensive battle.

But this time the Chinese army did not only operate here, Liu Jintang on the Kokand side led the Chinese army to attack Tashkent, and advanced to Bukhara with the army of Kokand, blocking the connection of Cliff to the Caspian Sea.

At the same time, seeing that the situation in the country of Hara, which was about to be stabilized by Tsarist Russia's great efforts, had opened up a chaotic situation, and the anti-Russian forces were supported by the Chinese army, and they attacked everywhere to establish their own forces, and the Russian troops stationed in this country were exhausted and unable to withdraw.

Two days later, the Chinese army appeared in the lower reaches of the Erie River, the Central Route Army and the Southern Route Army converged to advance to Erie, the Northern Route Army went out of Bortala and continued to move south, the strategic intentions of the Chinese army were fully exposed, Cliff increased the military strength from all over the place to Erie, and also personally went into battle, with 10,000 Cossack cavalry and 10,000 infantry over, and lost Almaty to his deputy.

After walking for less than half a day, a few horsemen chasing behind him looked embarrassed, wheezing and shouting: "General! The general is not good! Chinese troops attacked Almaty. ”

"What!" Only then did Cliff realize that he had been fooled, and hurriedly asked: "Is it the Chinese army that turned over from the border of Kokand!" ”

Cliff felt that the Chinese army in Kashgar wanted to attack Almaty in the north, and it was impossible to cross the snow-capped mountains in winter, and even if they could come, they would be discovered, and if they were not discovered, they could only be a few hundred and ten people, and it would not work if there were more.

How do you know the humanity of the messenger: "No! They conjured up out of thin air, and suddenly appeared in the city again, so we were caught off guard, and if we hadn't run fast, I am afraid we would not have been able to report to the general! ”

"General, we can't go to Yili, the Chinese army is determined to get there, we can't go!"

Hiss! Cliff took a deep breath, Almaty was lost, his back road was cut off half, and he was going to Yili, even if he held there, he would be surrounded by Chinese troops, and then he would have to rely on others to rescue.

"The Chinese army really has a good calculation." Cliff was really in a dilemma, and finally asked how many Chinese troops there were, roughly judged, and came up with a vague concept.

There shouldn't be many attacks on the city, it should be spies lurking around, just infiltrating the troops, and then ordered a general, leading 4,000 cavalry back to recapture the city.

The brigade continued to send reinforcements to Erie.

(End of chapter)