Chapter Ninety-Three: Fierce Battle (1)
Guo Ye's strategy was very good at hiding the whereabouts of the Qing army, landing in Korea, and advancing rapidly from Korea, so that the Russians could not imagine that the Qing army could reach the Ussuri River valley so quickly, and second, they did not expect that the Qing army would actually pass through Korea.
Yachun is just a small city, with a population of tens of thousands of people, and the people living here are very complex, including people of various nationalities and even countries, Russians, Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese! Of course, the Chinese still make up the majority.
The commander of the 53rd Regiment of the Russian Army, Basha, led two battalions and a horse team with a total of 1,000 people, stationed in Aichun City, and the successive victories made Basha arrogant, in fact, it is not to blame Basha, Yishan's army is too wasteful, the battle of the Daliu River, Basha is with one of his own regiments, and launched an attack on Yishan's 4,000 troops, and as a result, Yishan was beaten to the ground, miserable, Basha really looked down on the Qing army with big pigtails, a group of scum to the waste.
When he received a message from the Russian intelligence officer that a Qing army was approaching Aichun, he laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? Isn't it 2,000? In the field battle, we killed 4,000 of them with more than 1,000 people, and now we are refusing to defend the city, a whole thousand people, they are only 2,000 Qing troops, can they still fly to the sky? Lao Tzu is going to take them all prisoners and dig coal for Lao Tzu! ”
As he spoke, Basha stood up and shouted: "Order the first battalion and the second battalion to all go into battle, order the cavalry to go out of the city from the north city and return to the flank of the Qing army, and in the fierce battle, surprise their positions, we will give them to a country!" ”
Soon, the Russian army and the Qing army met on the battlefield, and Basha looked at it from a distance, with some doubts in his heart, this is the Qing army? How come there is no broadsword and spear? What about those messy flags?
However, soon, Basha suppressed the doubts in his heart, what does he care? With these Qing troops in front of him, where is his opponent?
"Order, artillery preparation, attack!"
Boom Boom!
Unlucky Basha!
His order was like a talisman, his own artillery had not yet been launched, as soon as his words fell, on the position of the Qing army, the sound of artillery rang out, dozens of shells flew towards the Russian army, and landed on the position of the Russian army, a burst of gunpowder smoke rose, the unlucky Russian army was directly swept into the sky, and the wounded were screaming miserably!
The Russian army was numb when it landed, and Basha in the formation was even more dumbfounded, bastard! , Aren't the Qing army's artillery, but also solid bullets, why did the shotguns suddenly change their guns! This special artillery is even more powerful than our artillery!
"Shoot back, fight back, give me a shot back immediately!"
Basha no longer had that smugness, and roared angrily.
The artillery of both sides began to bombard each other, not only that, Zhang Yi directly ordered, the first battalion on the left flank, under the leadership of Zuo Guigui, launched a charge towards the flank of the Russian army, and the superior rate of fire made it possible for the Qing army to suppress the attack of the Russian army in terms of firepower, and the Qing army on the left flank rushed up towards the Russian army.
The arrogant soldiers will be defeated, the careless Basha finally tasted the bitter fruit, originally relying on the benefits of firearms, the Russians beat the Qing army in Yishan can not find the north, now the feng shui turns, the Qing army in Baoding Town has been replaced with American-style equipment, the artillery is an advanced Armstrong gun, rear-loading rifled guns, high precision, long range, and the power of the shells is quite large, for the Russian army, it is tightly half of the rifled guns, and half of the smoothbore guns, at the same time, the artillery is only twenty, the combat power is far inferior to the Qing army, if it is not for the Qing army's training time is still short, I'm afraid that the positions of the Russian army have long been **** overturned.
Even so, the Russian army has suffered a huge blow, the Russian army, which is not psychologically prepared, was completely stunned by the Qing army, only half a month ago, the Qing army that could still fight could not find the north, only half a month later, the Qing army could keep pace with them, or even surpass them!
Looking at the Qing army that rushed up from both wings, Basha finally had a trace of panic in his heart, after all, the Qing army had gathered two thousand people, according to the combat power of the Qing army, his thousand people were definitely not the opponent of others, and the current situation must be changed as soon as possible, now all hope can only be pressed on a team of cavalry in the roundabout past, one or two hundred cavalry, once charged, it is definitely a nightmare for the infantry!
This is also Basha's last reliance, if even the cavalry can't defeat the Qing army, then it's completely useless, hurry to Vladivostok for help is the right reason, Aichun's geographical location is important, and there is absolutely no room for loss!
It's just that Basha is cunning, Guo Ye is even more unforgiving, and the Cossack cavalry of Tsarist Russia is threatening the Eurasian continent, how can Guo Ye not guard against it?
In the absence of protection from heavy machine guns and light machine guns, the only way to stop the cavalry is to rationally allocate infantry firepower, and it is necessary to suppress the cavalry with dense firepower before it rushes to the front! As long as the cavalry can't get close, it's just an ornament! You must know that the firing distance of the carbine is only less than 400 meters, while the effective range of the rifle can hit 600 meters!
When the two sides were engaged in a fierce battle, the Cossack cavalry finally appeared, and the Cossack cavalry from the northern city finally reached the right flank of the Qing army after a wide range of detours, and launched a rapid attack on the Qing army from the right side!
Moving like thunder, fast as lightning, even He Qimou, who was born in the cavalry battalion, his eyes were condensed, such a powerful cavalry, such a cavalry is definitely not as good as the most elite cavalry under the command of the monk, plus the advanced horse gun, it is definitely not comparable to the cavalry of the monk king!
He Qimou, who was in charge of the flank defense, shouted: "Order, the soldiers on the right flank immediately prepare for battle, shoot in turns, and suppress the charge of the cavalry!" ”
He Qimou did not lead the cavalry to participate in real hot weapon battles, these tactics were instilled in them by Guo Ye during this time, He Qimou was extremely smart, and naturally firmly remembered what he had learned to put it into practice!
On the right flank of the Qing battalion, hundreds of Qing soldiers stood densely in five rows of horizontal formations, squatting down immediately after the front shot, and the rear row immediately made up for the shooting, making up for the shooting gap in the middle perfectly!
Five rows of two hundred people, shooting in turns, even if the Cossack cavalry is fierce and abnormal, it will not be able to easily rush to the front of the Qing army's position!
After two consecutive charges, all the cavalry were hit back by a dense number of bullets, and they returned in vain!
Not only that, two hundred cavalrymen, under the intensive fire of bullets, suffered many casualties, and the battalion commander of the major was also drilled by a bullet in his thigh, and the blood flowed, the battalion commander of the major trembled, the opponent's firepower was too dense, the rifle phalanx, this is the natural enemy of the cavalry, I didn't expect that there were people in ancient China who had mastered such advanced tactics!