Chapter 1266: Crossing the Ussuri River
Now that the Chinese People's Army is approaching the Ussuri River, where can the officers and men of the Russian army sleep, it is completely a pillow and a waiting.
As soon as the Chinese People's Army launched a charge from the opposite bank, the Russian army on the opposite side had already noticed!
Thousands of cavalry charged together!
The Russian troops were horrified!
Especially on the other side of Dongning Town, the Russian army now has less than two infantry regiments on the entire position, plus four artillery pieces, such a small number of troops, facing the charge of three cavalry battalions, has long been frightened!
The Russian brigade commander Moninlov was terrified, so many cavalry, once they crossed the Ussuri River, it would be the end of the Russian army!
"Order the artillery company to open fire with all its strength and block the Chinese People's Army! Infantry regiments, both infantry regiments all pressed to the first line, shoot with all your might! ”
The Russian army acted quickly, and the artillery began to exert its power first, constantly shelling towards the river, and a loud noise was transmitted from the river, and the violent explosion blew up a huge crater in the ice, and cracks appeared on the ice! The advancing cavalry was bombarded by artillery fire, the war horses screamed, and the horses fell to the ground continuously, but the shells did not kill many cavalrymen, but they were not lightly fallen, and they fell from the horses to the hard ice, and they were definitely going to be smashed, and the nose and face were the lightest, and some even fell directly and fainted.
However, only four artillery pieces can fire five shells in three minutes, and only fifty shells in half an hour, and the combined artillery fire power cannot exceed two hundred shells, and on the river five or six miles long and four or five miles wide, such firepower is simply not enough to cover all the areas! One by one, the cavalry scattered and charged, quickly advancing the battle line!
In less than half an hour, the cavalry who made meritorious contributions had already approached the east bank of the Ussuri River, and the rapid advance made the cavalry quickly highlight the scope of artillery bombardment, and then advanced, ushered in the intensive musket fire of the Russian army.
On the Russian position, the muskets of the infantry rang like bursting beans, constantly shooting, blocking the charge of the cavalry, the cavalry clamped the war horses with their legs, and some directly leaned down, covering themselves with the size of the war horses, and assaulted forward!
After all, the scope of the cavalry breakthrough is too wide, the entire river is full of cavalry figures, the two infantry regiments of the Russian army can not cover the river at all, as for the artillery, now it is bombing, the effect is already very small, the cavalry that broke forward alone has reached two or three thousand people!
"Sigh ......"
With the neighing of war horses, the cavalry jumped straight from the river to the land, to the land, the soldiers' minds were all stable, now even if you don't care about the reins of the horse, on the land, the war horse will not have any ties, the cavalry who have free their hands picked up their pistols and began to shoot continuously, and some cavalry even brandished a bright saber and launched a surprise attack on the infantry position of the Russian army!
Bang bang bang......
The firepower of the Chinese cavalry became more and more intense, and the extremely fast rate of fire of the carbine beat the Russian army to the point that it could not raise its head, and when the Russian army reacted badly, the troops of the two cavalry battalions had already landed on land and began to launch a surprise attack on the Russian army!
The two infantry regiments of the Russian army were trying their best to block the cavalry in front of them, but they didn't expect that any cavalry had already broken through the defense of the river and pounced on their positions from the front right!
At this time, it was completely too late for the Russian army to mobilize troops to block it, and the two cavalry battalions, which were nearly a thousand troops, rushed straight to the position like a raging storm! How can the Russian infantry withstand it, after all, the two infantry regiments together are only two thousand people, but they are facing a surprise attack from two or three thousand cavalry from two directions, even if the Russian infantry has two heads, they can't take care of it!
Moninlov stomped his feet in a hurry, constantly directing the Russian infantry to move forward, and began to suppress the cavalry charge with rifle fire, but it was too late, more and more cavalry landed on the opposite bank, and a huge arc had formed at the front of the Russian army's position, and began to launch a siege towards the Russian position.
One by one, the cavalry brandished their sabers and rushed straight into the positions of the Russian army, and slashed towards the Russian army!
Then the impact of the war horses, the cavalry was as fast as lightning, and the sabers in their hands were even more flickering, how could the Russian infantry withstand the charge of the cavalry just by relying on the muskets in their hands?
A terrible scream continued to sound on the position, severed limbs and stumps flew everywhere, blood burst out, a surprise attack of the Chinese cavalry, the two thousand Russian troops in front of them collapsed, the cavalry wantonly assaulted on the position, not at all the Russian army can be blocked with flesh and blood. As for the four artillery pieces of the Russian army, now it is like a pile of broken copper and iron, the cavalry is on the river, the artillery still has some threats to the cavalry, and now the cavalry has rushed to the position of the Russian army, the artillery of the Russian army can't bombard its own position, not to mention that its position is close at hand, and the artillery shells can't bombard, even if it can be covered, it is an action that injures eight hundred enemies and loses one thousand, after all, there are more Russian troops on the position!
Without the help of artillery, the Russian army is not the opponent of the cavalry, and even more than 100 cavalry have rushed towards the artillery position of the Russian army, and more than 100 Russian artillery on the artillery position do not even dare to resist, and they run away without a trace, and the fool will fight with the Chinese cavalry without the protection of the musket, then it will be dead and can not die again!
Monenlov is now completely desperate, thousands of Chinese cavalry, don't say that he is only two dissatisfied infantry regiments, even if he is four dissatisfied infantry regiments, he will definitely not take any advantage in front of so many cavalry!
"Quick, immediately report to General Jangovich that thousands of cavalry of the Chinese People's Army launched a surprise attack on our army's position from Dongning Town, the offensive is fierce, and our army's position is already crumbling, please General Jangovich make plans early!"
Moninlov did not forget to warn Jangovic at this time, from here to Jangovich's garrison, nearly forty miles away, if you don't warn Jangovich, next, the cavalry of the Chinese People's Army will sweep in, and Jangovich's main position will be snatched in one go!
The scouts of the Russian army did not dare to slack off, and urged the war horses to run towards the main position.
The position of the Russian army still collapsed, and it could not withstand the assault of the cavalry at all, and the two infantry regiments were defeated like a mountain, and they were quickly defeated in the direction of the main position.
The three cavalry regiments all rushed across the Ussuri River, and the number of soldiers killed in the battle was only more than 100, and almost half of the remaining hundreds of wounded were actually caused by themselves on the river, not by the firepower of the Russian army, which is really laughable!
(To be continued.) )
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