"Report to the regiment commander, the Chinese army suddenly attacked Qinhuangdao, and the 75th Infantry Battalion was hit by Chinese artillery fire, suffered heavy losses, and the barracks were reduced to ruins. Battalion Commander Boris and more than a hundred soldiers resolutely resisted, buying time for the two of us to report the news, the situation is precarious! ”

Ivan was overjoyed, and being able to go to the battlefield was the greatest compliment to the Cossacks: "How many Chinese troops are there?" Where did it come from? Where is the direction of attack? ”

Two soldiers squeaked, and Ivan knew that he would not get any more information from them, these soldiers were recruited locally in the Far East, and they might have fled immediately after being attacked. It doesn't matter, as many Cossacks as there are sabers to kill, the more the better, there is no army that can hold back the onslaught of the Cossack cavalry!

Taking advantage of the strength of the wine, Ivan immediately ordered the cavalry regiment to assemble, and the dazed soldiers, hearing that there was a fight, began to assemble despite the shaking of their bodies. At this time, the quality of these soldiers can be seen, worthy of a fighting nation, and even in this state it can be orderly, and in thirty minutes the cavalry regiment was fully equipped and left for the front under the leadership of Colonel Ivan.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning of July 19, the scouts of the 3rd Infantry Regiment encountered the scouts of the Ivan Cavalry Regiment, and coincidentally, four scouts of the Chinese army entered from the right side of a village in a jeep, and ten cavalrymen of the Russian army entered from the left side of the village.

The Cossack cavalrymen, who did not know what the sound of the car engine was, followed the sound and found the jeep driving around the corner on the street in the center of the village, and at a distance of less than fifty meters, the Cossack cavalry recognized the military uniform of the Chinese scout, and the ten cavalrymen were still startled by the strange jeep and froze for a few seconds.

The Chinese scouts were prepared after hearing the sound of horses' hooves, and as soon as they drove around the corner, the soldiers in the passenger seat controlled the light machine guns and opened fire, and the two soldiers in the back seat also half-crouched and pulled the trigger of the rifles. In the first firefight, five cavalrymen were shot and fell off their horses. The remaining people immediately jumped off their horses and hid in the mud houses on both sides of the street, a few horses were hit and fell to the ground, and the rest of the horses ran away, perhaps they had not yet adapted to the battlefield full of machine guns!

The nameless hamlet was about ten kilometers away from the Changli defensive line, which meant that the Russian cavalry regiment in Tangshan was very likely to move towards this side, and Meng Fan, the leader of the reconnaissance team, immediately decided to destroy this group of enemies. Then find the exact location of the Russian cavalry regiment.

The two soldiers in the back seat jumped down and used the cover of the jeep to slowly approach the earthen house where the Russian army was hiding, and suddenly, there was a scream from the silent battlefield, Meng Fan reacted, it was the villagers in the earthen house, if the battle was resolved here, it would be easy to hurt civilians.

"Reverse!" Three minutes later, the jeep returned to the outside of the village, and the Russian horses had run away. Once the remaining five soldiers left the village, they could not escape the jeep.

As a result, five Russian soldiers escaped, and they escaped from the grove outside the village on the other side, using the cover of the village houses. The Chinese scouts had no choice but to abandon the five fleeing Russian soldiers and continue to move forward to find the main force of the cavalry regiment.

The war horse did not run far, and after getting out of the grove, the five Russian soldiers found the lonely war horse waiting outside the village, and half an hour later the scout found the cavalry regiment and reported to Ivan the intelligence of the discovery of the Chinese reconnaissance team.

The amount of information is not small. Machine guns, cars, scouts, and a look at the map. Ivan knew that the Chinese army had advanced from Qinhuangdao to a position of several tens of kilometers to the west. Shake your head vigorously, the damn alcohol hasn't evaporated yet, I knew I wouldn't drink so much! There are more and more scouts who come back to report, and more than 20 people were killed and wounded in fifteen reconnaissance squads, is this still an invincible Cossack cavalry? Could it be that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is so strong?

Changli. On the road to Qinhuangdao, the 3rd Infantry Regiment set up a defensive line, which was insufficient, and the defense line of more than 4,000 meters needed to be taken care of, and it was also necessary to guard against the Russian cavalry from detouring from both sides. However, barbed wire and mines were set up in front of the defensive line. It was helpful to lighten the burden on the soldiers, and the most important fifteen infantry guns were also placed on a small hill in the rear, and they would be the most powerful fire support of the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

The setting up of mortars and heavy machine guns carried by the heavy firepower squads of each platoon is also a discipline, and the level of the officers is vividly reflected in the setting up of heavy firepower positions. As for the soldiers, most of their energy was spent digging trenches for two days or so, and now a simple but solid defensive position was almost complete. After receiving the news of the imminent arrival of the Russian cavalry regiment, the soldiers were carrying ammunition and other supplies under the command of the officer, cleaning up their guns, checking ammunition, and waiting for the moment when the battle began after entering the position. (The last toilet before the war, this kind of description of the destructive atmosphere is rare, and the author Jun is not described in the text)

Colonel Ivan, who was completely free from alcohol, used a telescope to observe the Chinese army's position, a thin defensive line, believing that the cavalry who launched the charge could easily break through, but the barbed wire fence on the perimeter was a big problem. He had seen it during the Russo-Japanese War, and both Japan and Russia had used this kind of positional defensive weapon, which was the first of its kind in the Chinese army, and it would cause a great obstacle to the charging cavalry.

The cavalry regiment originally had ten field guns, but there were no shells, and most of the Allied troops were short of ammunition, but the Cossack cavalry did not rely on artillery to achieve victory, their killer weapon was indomitable courage, sharp sabers and the cry of Ula, ordering the eager cavalry to prepare for battle, Ivan rode to the front, drew his saber, and began to advance from a thousand meters outside the Chinese position.

The first attack on Ivan did not leave a backhand, and the whole army of 2,500 cavalry slowly advanced, and the camera had to be pulled to a height of several hundred meters to encompass all the attacking troops.

The artillery position on the small hill was given the order to open fire, and after fifteen infantry guns were tested for one round, Ivan was surprised by the lethality of the high-explosive shells and the accuracy of the Chinese artillery fire, but if you want to win, you must pay the price, and when you rush to the Chinese position, you can harvest the enemy's head at will.

When he was eight hundred meters away from the Chinese position, Ivan couldn't help it, and roughly estimated that more than a hundred cavalry had fallen under the fire of the Chinese army, how much could be left when he reached the charging distance?

"Spread out, spread out!" The smoke and dust from the nearby explosion made Ivan discouraged, and after ordering the cavalry to disperse to avoid the artillery fire, the cavalry regiment continued to advance in the face of falling shells.

Finally entering the distance of three hundred meters, the cavalry began to increase speed, and reached the speed of the charge at about one hundred and fifty meters, Ivan mastered the timing very sophisticated, with him as an arrow, the cavalry formation in a triangular charge gradually showed terrifying power. The soldiers on the Chinese position could clearly feel a slight tremor on the ground, and the officers ran back and forth, shouting to stabilize the morale of the soldiers.

"Fire!" At the sound of an order, the heavy machine gunner, who had already been prepared, pulled the bolt, and countless bullets burst out of the muzzle from the machine gun position and flew in front of the Cossack cavalry.

The war horse tried to jump over the barrier formed by the barbed wire, but was tripped by the barbed wire and fell on the battle line with the cavalry, a large number of cavalry were hit by bullets, and the firepower of the Chinese army reached its peak in an instant, and the results of the battle could be reaped by shooting with the eyes closed.

The cavalrymen blocked in front of the barbed wire could not contain their momentum, but let the fallen horses and cavalry crush the barbed wire defense, and countless Cossacks behind shouted "Ula" through the road paved by their comrades, and then fell into a minefield again.

Colonel Ivan was hit by a machine-gun bullet before he could reach the barbed wire, and although he missed the vital point, he was immediately trampled into meat sauce by the horses behind him after falling off his horse. The cavalry who lost their command acted according to their own instincts, and more than 300 cavalrymen fell in front of the Chinese position, and the dense bullets formed an impermeable fire net, and the cavalry behind finally gathered the momentum, turned the horse's head and divided it into two parts, trying to find the weak point of the Chinese army's defense along the barbed wire, and then attack from there.

Ten minutes later, the disappointed cavalry finally retreated, leaving thousands of lives in front of the Chinese army's wide position of more than 1,500 meters, and the lethality of heavy machine guns was not weaker than that of artillery clusters in this era. In particular, the heavy machine guns on the defending side can reap human lives in front of a crowd of people who are charging intensively, and their efficiency can surprise the Grim Reaper.

Leaving the range of artillery fire of the Chinese army, the cavalry selected a major battalion commander with the highest rank at present to be the commander, preliminary statistics, the remaining soldiers of the cavalry regiment were 905 people, of which 110 were wounded, and most of them were caused by artillery shrapnel, if they were hit by heavy machine gun or rifle bullets, they should have fallen off their horses at that time, instead of insisting on returning to the starting position.

After losing more than half of the first charge, the average unit will lose its combat effectiveness, either retreat, or surrender directly to the enemy. But having grown up in a harsh environment since childhood, and constantly sharpening on the battlefield as an adult, these Cossack cavalry have long not known what retreat or surrender is, and death in battle is the greatest glory for them. Especially with the death of so many comrades, the cavalry regiment quickly made the decision to launch a second charge.

The heavy machine gunner uses the gap between battles to cool down the hot barrel, and the secondary shooter transports ammunition for it, under the effect of the heat and gunpowder, the shooter's lips are dry and scary, take out the water bottle to moisturize, and then light a cigarette to soothe the mood after the slaughter, the smell of corpses and blood on the battlefield is endless, and will even continue to the second half of his life.

The stubborn Cossack cavalry did not learn their lesson, and the second charge was launched half an hour later, and this time they did not retreat, and all fell in front of the Chinese positions, not even fifty meters closer to the positions. (To be continued.) )