Katsuta Shimazaki's hands holding the rifle are shaking, really shaking! In the face of countless Cossack cavalrymen galloping with spears in hand, even samurai such as Katsuta Shimazaki (who was Isamu Kondo) were equally afraid.

"I'm going to die!"

All the people thought so, their bayonets and rifles would certainly not be able to withstand the onslaught of the Cossack cavalry, because there were so many Cossacks, shouting the slogan of Ula Ula, and rushing out of the darkness and fire with spears in hand, as if from hell.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Twelve 12-pounder steel cannons were also firing desperately at this time, and grenades loaded with starch explosives fell like meteor showers, exploding around the Cossack cavalry, and bursting into fireballs. However, the shooting accuracy of the smoothbore gun is very pathetic, and now it is used as a curved gun (due to the emergence and popularization of long-range rifles, the value of the cannon has greatly decreased, and its position on the battlefield is very embarrassing, so the armies of various countries are carrying out corresponding reforms to artillery, and the focus of the reform of the Ming Army is steel howitzers), so it did not cause fatal damage to the Cossacks in the charge.

"Rush over! Ulla! ”

Rosovsky didn't seem to see the fireballs rising to his right and left, but shouted to urge the horses. Regardless of whether or not he succeeded in crushing the Ming army this time, it was impossible to withdraw now, not only because it was difficult for a cavalry to tell the charge to turn around, but also because the noise on the battlefield was so loud that no one could hear his orders.

"Rush, don't rush, how do you know the real catties of the Ming Army?" Rosovsky knew that the troops that could withstand the cavalry rush were the real elite!

Boom! Boom! Boom......

The sound of a huge crash kept ringing out. The galloping horses and spears in the hands of the cavalry collided with the bayonet jungle of the Ming army.

"I'm flying!"

Katsuta Shimazaki collides with a Don hippopotamus. His spear was pierced into the horse's chest. But the inertia knocked him out of the way along with one of the soldiers behind him, and then slammed into the meadow.

"Breakthrough! But ......" Rosovsky was a little excited, but the excitement didn't last long. Because the Ming infantry was still desperately resisting, no one turned around and fled at all! Even those who had been knocked off by the Cossacks' horses struggled to get up, drew their long knives and pounced on them to fight with the Cossacks!

These guys are too violent, aren't they? Rosovsky sighed for a moment, and crackling gunshots rang in his ears. It turned out that the infantry formation that had just been formed began to shoot, but instead of platoon guns, it was free fire. Riding a Don hippopotamus. The Cossacks who stood high above became the best targets for shooting!

No more! Rosovsky knew that the onslaught of the Cossack cavalry had exhausted its sharpness, and although it barely broke through the enemy's first horizontal formation, it did not break the opponent's side, not to mention that there was a second horizontal formation blocking the way?

"Retreat! Cossacks, retreat! ”

Rosovsky did not want to throw all his troops at the foot of Yanran Mountain, and although today's battle was lost, the gains were still great. The first was the discovery that the Ming army had a strong cavalry infantry force...... What is happening here now should be just a part of it.

The second is to find out that the Ming army has a powerful breech gun! And also through real combat, the value of this breech rifle was confirmed, because the shock of the Cossack cavalry could not break through the horizontal formation of infantry with breech guns! This kind of breech gun is too powerful, and Russia has to equip it even if it smashes the pot and sells iron......

The third is to recognize that the Ming Empire is a great threat to the territorial security of the Russian Empire! And His Majesty the Tsar may well have ignored this threat!

The battlefield at this time was very chaotic. Rossovsky's roar did not reach far at all. But the Cossack cavalry nevertheless began to retreat, not because of the orders of Rosovsky. Rather, it is the pattern of cavalry warfare in this era - impact, retreat, and re-impact. The cavalry of the Europeans was not used to fight the infantry hand-to-hand, their way of fighting was to charge, to crush their opponents with constant charges.

Now, though, this combat mode is likely to be outdated.

The retreat of the Cossacks, like their offensive, did not drag on the ground. On the battlefield, the neighing of war horses, shouts of killing, scolding, boiling of gunfire, and screams were endless, but they did not have any effect on the Cossacks who were bent on retreating. After a slight period of confusion, they quickly disengaged from the Ming army, and then directly retreated from the battlefield and disappeared into the vast night.

"Cossacks...... Escaped! ”

On the other side of the battlefield, watching the Cossacks charge and flee as fast as the wind, Fu Fang held the binoculars and his mouth wide open, enough to stuff his own fist in.

"Master Du, let's run too!"

"The Russians have fled, we are defeated......"

There was a noisy and chaotic shout around him, and the Eight Banners soldiers, who had also suffered a setback in attack, and whose losses were several times greater than those of the Cossacks, had already completely lost their fighting spirit and retreated one after another, if it weren't for the fact that the Ming army's war horses were tired and dying, and they could only pursue on foot, these Eight Banners would have been completely defeated by now.

"Defeated, this is defeated...... Then run! Fu Fang smiled bitterly, turned around and left, ignoring the Eight Banners who were being chased by the counterattacking Ming infantry on the battlefield.

"Master Du, where are we going?"

Some of the bewildered Eight Banners asked. This is a sparsely populated Mongolian steppe! Although everyone has been in Mongolia for some years, they have been walking around Kulun, and they have been to the trading city as far as the city, this Yanran Mountain, no one is familiar with it!

"Go to Uriya Sutai, the people of Yixing (General Uriya Sutai) should still be there."

"And then?"

Fu Fang smiled bitterly: "Then? I don't know ......."

……

The hot season of 1853 is coming to an end, and the cool autumn is about to begin. In the Chengde Summer Resort, the great tomorrow is sitting in the Ten Thousand Pine Wind Palace, holding an ivory folding fan in his hand. In front of him, a group of civil and military ministers of the Ming Dynasty were standing respectfully.

Defeats at the front are coming one after another, with good news and bad news. The good news, of course, is the good news that I just received from the "Yanran Mountain Victory". About 6,500 Ming cavalry infantry and 7,000 Russian-Tatar troops fought in the steppe on the southern slope of Yanran Mountain. The Ming army won a landslide victory!

More than 3,500 enemy heads were cut off alone - including 1,200 Cossack heads, and they were definitely hairy bears! There are also 2300 pigtailed heads, all of whom are cheered up Eight Banner disciples, but they are also live targets in front of the Dresser firing gun! As for the casualties paid by the Ming army in this battle, 53 were killed, 122 were wounded, and 362 were missing. The so-called disappearances were all left behind during the rapid march, and I don't know if Lu Dao can be recovered?

The only regret is that the Japanese seem to have fewer casualties, hundreds of thousands of Japanese samurai, according to this method of death, 100 years will not be consumed! Knowing that Lu Dao would be like this, he should have let them go to the trading city.

"How's it going over there? Still digging trenches? Zhu Jishi opened his mouth and asked Liu Jiong, "Can you occupy the trading city before winter comes?" ”

"The parallel trenches around the city have not been dug yet." Liu Jiong said, "This project is very large. However, more than 100 cannons have been placed in artillery bunkers close to the city, and Hochsky grenades can be used to bombard the walls and targets in the city. ”

"Will persuasion be useful?" Zhu Jishi asked again, "As long as Yi Xin is willing to surrender, I will not investigate him for the crime of rebellion, and allow him to go into exile in the United Kingdom?" can ask Qiu Fatzi to come forward to vouch. ”

"You can try it, but will Mr. Churchill go to the City of Trading?"

"I'll go and tell him, no problem." Zhu Jishi had actually written to Tianjin to ask Robert. Churchill came to Chengde. "Also, has the Ryukyu battle plan been planned? When will it be implemented? ”

Wang Dehu, the secretary of the Admiralty, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the specific plan has been prepared by the navy's ironclad ship detachment, but in the past few days, strong winds have been blowing in the East China Sea, and the ironclad ship has poor seaworthiness and is not suitable for dispatch, so it is necessary to wait until the sea is calm before entering the Ryukyus." (To be continued......)