Just when Empress Dowager Cixi ordered Han Rong to investigate the numbers captured, the battle here for Zhao Guanhou had already begun. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAndrei used a very traditional tactic, bombarding the Armed Guards with artillery, while ordering the infantry battalion to attack. His hussar battalion and Merekhov's Cossack cavalry regiment began to plunder from both flanks and advanced to the flanks and flanks of the right army of the Wuwei.

Information on the failure of the Cossack night raid was confirmed from some of the cavalrymen who escaped by chance. Including Mairekhov's old friend and in-law Lobanov, the Cossacks lost more than ninety good lads in this night battle. And the result they got was only to kill a big official of the Jin State, and no one has made a fuss about who this official is.

According to Merekhov's suggestion, today it is necessary to continue yesterday's tactics, to mobilize the formation of the enemy's infantry with frequent cavalry runs, and to deal a fatal blow when a flaw is found. At the same time, he sent a division to chase down the emperor's chariot, and tried to rob and kill the enemy outside the city gate before he entered the city.

It's just that Andrei, after hearing the report from the front, immediately rejected the proposal, which, in his opinion, was too dangerous. It is tantamount to dispersing one's limited troops again, resulting in the strength of a single battlefield being too thin to form a numerical superiority over the golden soldiers, and only stupid barbarians will use this method of warfare.

Merekhov understood that Andrei was afraid. When he learned that the Cossacks had been repelled by the white-knuckle combat of the Guards after breaking through the infantry line, he had a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of the enemy on the opposite side. If it weren't for the court-martial's deterrence, he would have ordered his troops to begin to retreat and flee back to the capital.

This time, his attack used almost a quarter of Tiele's combat troops in Beijing, resulting in Tiele's mobile forces being thrown here, and there were no troops to send to other areas of Zhili. If he can't achieve results, the fate that awaits him will not be too optimistic.

His only hope was to defeat the officers and soldiers in front of him by concentrating his forces, and then break through Xuanhua. Even if the two palaces can't be captured at this time, at least there is a credit for the capture of the city, plus the elimination of a main field force of the Jin State, the merit can be discounted, and the crime can always be exonerated.

For this plan, Merekhov did not support it, he looked down on Andrei as much as he looked down on his guards. But now the problem is that the strength of the Cossack cavalry is determined by its force, and in the face of the current balance of strength, Merekhov has no choice but to obey orders.

The Cossack cavalry regiment, which originally had nearly 1,000 subordinates, now has less than 600 men and horses after yesterday's fierce fighting. More than half of the artillery companies were killed or wounded, and they basically lost their combat effectiveness. The Guards were a new force with a battalion of hussars, a battalion of cuirassiers, a company of lancers, and a company of grenadiers and artillery. Fully organized and better equipped than the Cossacks, Andrei controlled more than two thousand troops, and indeed had enough capital to give orders to his own Cossack troops.

As an elite cuirassier battalion, Andrey stayed by his side as a guard, and the lancer company was regarded by him as a treasure and would not be thrown into battle casually.

The hussar battalions and Cossack regiments were constantly running on both sides, putting pressure on the Guards so that they could not put their troops on the frontal front. And on the prominent front, the artillery of three companies was concentrated in one place and began to bombard the battlefield.

The god of war began their contest, the shrapnel whistling in the air, and the shrapnel exploded in the air, throwing death to the earth like a goddess scattering flowers. Individual skill and strength are often less important than luck.

Wang Xiaochuan, one of the artillery of the Wuwei Right Army, is a genius recognized as having an unlimited future, relying on the ancestral Han Xin's golden hand to calculate kung fu, and is admired by many veterans. Calculating the angle of ballistic fire is very familiar, and the future prospects are at least a standard. But in the first round of shelling, he was sliced in the chest by a shrapnel and was pronounced dead half an hour later.

Mikhaev, a veteran of more than twenty years of service in the artillery of the Tiele Guards, could command the artillery to hit the target with his eyes closed, and he could tell whether the gunpowder was properly loaded by smelling the smell. In the grenade attack of the Armed Guards, it turned into a pool of flesh and blood.

The soldiers of the two countries, who never knew each other, did their best to send each other into another world. At this time, the comparison is often between which of the two armies is more well-trained and which unit has more endurance.

According to Andrei's idea, the artillery battalion of the Wuwei Army must have suffered heavy casualties after a bloody battle with the Cossacks, and in today's artillery battle, it should be their own side that has the advantage.

However, the reality was contrary to what he imagined, and the artillery battalion had regained its combat effectiveness after overnight reorganization. And the benefits of the artillery standard in popularizing mathematics and strengthening training in the troops in peacetime are reflected at this time. The speed of loading and resetting was slightly better than that of the right army, and in the mastery of the landing point of the shells, the iron soldiers were far inferior to the artillery of the right army, which had mastered the elementary mathematics and the officers could calculate the blue caster equation by hand.

Another problem was that the equipment of the Right Army was more advanced than that of the Tiele soldiers, and because the Wuwei Army had actually emptied the Xigu arsenal, the Tiele soldiers could not be reorganized in Jinmen, and the ammunition was actually very tight. The number of shrapnel is limited and requires planned launches. On the contrary, on the right side, the number of artillery pieces was the same as that of the Tiele soldiers, but they were all heavy artillery, and they were greeted with howitzer shrapnel when the artillery was fired, and one shell exploded over the position, sweeping the Tiele soldiers to the ground.

Tieler's artillery had already changed, and the experienced artillery commanders and artillery commanders were almost all killed in the first few rounds of fire. Now Andrei could only push the recruits to the artillery positions, and at the same time gave the order to attack the infantry battalion.

When these Tiele infantry entered the battlefield beating war drums, their own artillery was already in a suppressed state, and the artillery fire of the right army could directly cover the infantry. But these gray animals do not have the slightest cowardice, or rather, they have lost the ability to have thoughts. In the midst of the artillery fire, they just did as the commander commanded, leaned down, clutched their rifles, and ran forward.

When the person next to him falls, his companion will not take a second look, and even if he is not dead for a while, the person behind him will mercilessly step on his companion's body with his boots and continue to move forward. The firepower of a battalion of artillery was not enough to suppress a huge unit of nine hundred men.

An infantry battalion in Tiele is almost as strong as two battalions of the Guards, and even though the artillery has drawn more than half of the artillery to support it, these infantry still stubbornly appear on the battlefield.

Of course, the more important reason is that the artillery fire of the right army cannot all be poured on them. After all, there are cavalry units on both sides, and they must always be ready to teach these cavalry a profound lesson with shells.

Andrei played with the telescope in his hand, so he said calmly: "Merekhov, look at it, this is the battle that belongs to the nobles in the true sense." Our infantry arrived at the battlefield, and the enemy's infantry had to fight to see whose marksmanship was better, whose soldiers were good men, and whose soldiers were bad breeds. Are your cavalry ready, I think soon, it's time for them to go into battle. ”

"Always at your service, Andre? Master Andreevevich. All Cossacks can be on the battlefield when you need them. ”

Merekhov replied with a blank face, but he also had to admit that Andrei's tactics did have a chance of success. This possibility is not based on a wise command, but on a strong capital. He has enough troops at his disposal to fight a war of attrition with the enemy. But if you follow your own tactics, then you don't need to fight at all, as long as you pull a few pulls, and then make a breakthrough, relying on the advantage of troops, you can eat this army.

He urged his mount angrily, and the snow horse was irritable and snorted with its hooves, and all the Cossacks clenched their spears, knowing that the time for their charge was near.

In the formation of the right army, the officials who stayed behind and the palace maids and eunuchs who were abandoned as cannon fodder were crying or screaming, and they had already made a mess. Although the shells did not fall on their heads, just listening to the deafening sound of the cannonballs, and watching the soldiers fall on the ground in a blur of flesh and blood, was enough to frighten them. Even among the officials, few have actually been on the battlefield, let alone look at such dead people.

A Hanlin old man seemed to have thought of some clever plan and wanted to remind Zhao Guanhou in front of him, but as soon as he was halfway through, something in the sky hit his shoulder. He subconsciously touched it and took a look, but found that it was actually a piece of human intestines, and the old scholar fell to the ground with his eyes rolled over, becoming the only civilian official who died in the entire battle.

The eunuchs and palace maids didn't have such courage, they could only cry, and one of the young eunuchs, who was very heroic, kept reprimanding them, "What are you crying about?" Can the Foreigner be retired now? If General Zhao's heart is messed up, he will slaughter your sacrificial flag first! ”

This eunuch is not very old, but he is very bold, and he actually braved the artillery fire to come to Zhao Guanhou's horse, "General, can you reward the small one with a knife or a gun, and let the small one help you kill the enemy." ”

Zhao Guanhou stood on his horse, holding a telescope and watching the battlefield, the infantry in the vanguard had already begun to compete with Tiele's infantry. Cao Zhongkun and Li Xiushan are not excellent generals, but they have no problems in completing their tasks, and the command of the troops is futile.

The advantage of the right army is that the guns are better than those of the Tiele soldiers, and they are faster to reload. By the time the Tielers fired two rows of guns, the right army could already fire three rows of bullets. On the battlefield situation, it is still in a state of stalemate, and there is no way to see the winner or loser. However, when the cavalry of the Tiele people is dispatched, I am afraid that they will have to see the real chapter.

He looked at the little eunuch and saw that he was extremely handsome, his appearance was quite prominent, and he was very heroic between his eyebrows. He knew this person, he had helped the eunuch talk about his head in the past few days, and he had dealt with him a few times, and he knew that it was the eunuch Xiaode Zhang, who was a newly rising celebrity beside the Queen Mother, and asked: "Father-in-law Zhang, what, are you not afraid of foreigners?" ”

"It's useless to be afraid. If you are afraid or not, he will shoot you with a gun, and if you understand this, you will not be afraid. I learned kung fu in the Shengping Theater Department, and three or five people can't get to the front of me, so I can help you. ”

"Okay, I'll ask Grandpa Zhang to give him a gun and a knife, but I have to hand it back after the battle. Don't worry, I won't let the foreign soldiers hurt your father-in-law and palace maids, you tell them not to be afraid. ”

"Don't worry, no one in the palace dares to bring a knife, that's the sin of killing the head. I took this knife to prevent them from running around, and whoever dared to run around, I cut whomever I slashed. ”

Xiao Dezhang took the knife and pistol, walked towards the eunuch team, and pulled his waist straighter, "Look at this gun, this knife, it was all given by Lord Zhao." Let me tell you, that Lord Zhao is our good friend. Don't embarrass your good friends, if you want to be bad friends, don't blame me for being unkind. ”

If the eunuchs and palace maids are not chaotic, the ministers will not be able to run around, and Zhao Guanhou's heart will be quieter. On the front line, in the battle of the artillery team, Tiele was already at a complete disadvantage. A grenade of the Armed Guards hit the ammunition position of the Tiele Army, and the artillery position of the Tiele Army fell into a sea of fire, most of the gunners were killed and wounded, and the remaining artillery could only occasionally fire one or two cannons, which was not a threat. More and more shells were being smashed on the heads of the gray cattle, and if the artillery of the right army was allowed to continue to play its role, the Tiele soldiers would be completely defeated.

Andrei waved his hand, "Cavalry, it's time to advance." Let their artillery be ineffective, expel their artillery. ”

The cavalrymen of the Guards Cavalry Regiment, most of whom came from aristocratic families or squire families, wore luxurious dresses and stood out on the battlefield. The horses ridden are tall and strong, with distinct capillaries, and these horses are a beautiful sight to behold every time Emperor Tiele is paraded. They believed that with their horses and spears, a single assault would drive the artillery out of the battlefield.

"Ulla!"

With a shout, the entire hussar battalion began to move, the sun shone on their clothes, reflecting a colorful light, and the tips of the spears, carrying small flags, each soldier shouted, they were eager to seize a cannon, which would make them the protagonists of the drinking party in St. Petersburg, gaining the favor of countless beauties.

When the Cossacks of Merekhov charged, they did not like this kind of shouting, and their horses did not run away at first, but in the process of running, they began to gradually accelerate, making them run faster than the hussars.

The right army did not have cavalry to confront it, and the battalion responsible for artillery defense was Duan Xiangyan and another battalion of the right army with Zhang Yuan, and the strength of the two battalions was not advantageous compared with the attacking cavalry, and from the perspective of the battlefield situation, its formation was even more thin, and it was easy to be stabbed through under the arrow charge of this kind of cavalry.

At this moment, Zhao Guanhou's banner began to move, and he and a sentry of his subordinates began to move forward, shouting as they ran: "The standard is up, the gun is up!" ”

The meaning of this voice is understood only by those who mark themselves, just before the Cossack cavalry rushed into the range of the rifles, only to see a burst of excited shouts erupted from the position of the right army, almost all the soldiers shouted, and the charging Cossacks even had an illusion: their emperor, did he personally go to the front? (To be continued.) )