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Milodelov looked at Nicholas I, who looked puzzled, and Duravievsky, who was slightly surprised on the side, so he said indifferently: "Why is the Chinese Empire delaying artillery coverage now, its purpose is to wait for all of our 70,000 people to enter its pocket, we can't carry out the attack on the outer fortresses in an ordinary mode, first of all, the Gozów fortress is the brainchild of the Germans, it is a large strategic defense point that can station hundreds of thousands of troops, and its location belongs to the traffic hub, we can't avoid it at all, For the enemy's outlying fortress group, I recommend that the one-way multi-way excavation be carried out, and the blasting method should be carried out by accumulation and burial. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Nicholas I did not understand what a one-way multi-way excavation or a stacked buried blasting was, but he already had a blind trust in Milodelov, and Nicholas I looked around at everyone and hesitated: "Then do as the Supreme Chief of Staff wants!" Withdraw the attacking troops in batches, so that our losses will be relatively light! ”

Milodelov could be said to be sincerely relieved, but Milodelov did not notice that a pair of fierce eyes in the corner were staring at his back.

Prince Enfiglo has hated Milodelov to the root of his teeth at this moment, because only Nicholas I's reckless behavior will completely arouse the serious dissatisfaction of the generals below, so that he will have a chance, but today Milodelov can be said to have ruined his good deeds and made Nicholas I restrain himself from the precipice.

Milodelov was an excellent staff officer, but the troops and commanders he commanded were not first-class, and the original retreat was to reduce the Chinese Empire's judgment of its intentions, and to withdraw its troops in batches to avoid heavy casualties due to the enemy's firepower.

However, the retreat of the follow-up troops caused the instability of the forward attack force, especially in the face of the dense fire blockade, although the Russian troops followed one after another, the casualties were very heavy, because the speed of the transmission of orders was faster than the retreat speed of the follow-up troops, so the attacking Russian troops had a serious inconsistency in the timing of the retreat, and the Russian troops attacking the No. 4 fortress group retreated part of the successively, so that the Russian army on its left flank also fell into inexplicable panic and panic, especially when the retreat order was issued, The Russian army fled in panic, and it can be said that the speed of the Russian army's escape is far greater than its offensive efficiency.

Xu Yaoting, who discovered this situation in time, immediately ordered the 75-mm artillery group assigned to the front line to open fire immediately! Block the retreat of the Russian army with firepower.

Even under the intensive shelling of the 75-mm artillery group, the Russian army still rushed to cross the fire blockade line at the risk of death, some threw away their rifles and threw off their coats and ran wildly, some crawled on the ground and jumped and rolled in the craters, and even some simply lay on the ground and pretended to be dead.

After a twenty-minute artillery blockade, the artillery fire in the direction of the Gozów fortress began to thin out, and the surviving Russian officers and soldiers jumped over the mountains of corpses and fled in panic, Xu Yaoting immediately sent two battalions of troops to start a simple cleaning of the battlefield, the weapons abandoned by the Russian army can be described as varied, Russian, British, French, and even Italian?

Duravievsky stood on a bare hill and looked at the remnants of the defeated army passing below, the troops of the entire five divisions of nearly 40,000 people, and they collapsed like this? The remnants of the Russian army as far as Duravievsky's eye could see were at most more than 5,000 people, and more than a dozen Orthodox priests stood on the side of the road praying for the remnants!

Duraviewski looked at Prince Enfiglo not far away, and he didn't know what to do in his heart. And if this method was to be used to dismount Nicholas I? Then the elite of the Russian army may no longer exist after the war, so what is the ultimate meaning of this nominal alternation of imperial power? The complete division of the great Russian Empire? Duraviewski took a deep breath and closed his eyes, apparently out of shape beyond his expectations.

In the early morning of the next day, the Russian army dispatched two divisions of troops and began to think of the No. 2 fortress group to dig Z-shaped roundabout trenches and tunnels, and after dawn, the movements of the Russian army were discovered by the artillery observation and command balloon of the Chinese Imperial side, although the Russian army felt that the entrance to its underground tunnel excavation was very secret, but the large amount of earth and stone excavated exposed its intention of underground civil engineering operations.

Looking at the artillery observation balloons raised by the other side, Nicholas I was immediately angry, because for several days in a row, more than ten British-provided artillery observation balloons of the Russian army were shot down by the artillery fire of the Chinese Empire, killing more than 20 valuable artillery observation officers.

Just when Nicholas I was enjoying his breakfast peacefully, Milodelov broke in like a gust of wind, and involuntarily ordered the guards to transfer Nicholas I immediately, and Milodelov's panicked behavior made Nicholas I's guards extremely nervous, and despite Nicholas I's objections, he put His Majesty in pajamas on top of a carriage, and the carriage quickly left.

When the carriage traveled six or seven miles, Milodelov slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and the whole person sat opposite Nicholas I as if he had lost his strength, and Nicholas I was a little annoyed by Milodelov, Nicholas I found that Milodelov seemed to be very abnormal in recent days? He hoped that his Supreme Chief of Staff would give him a very plausible explanation for what had allowed His Majesty the Tsar to escape in his own camp in his pajamas, since the location of the camp was outside the range of all the heavy artillery of the defenders of the Gorzów Fortress of the Chinese Empire? Is it just because the other side raised a particularly high scout balloon? This seems a bit too much of a fuss.

At this moment, an unusually sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded in the sky, which Milodelov had never heard before, that is, it was a shell fired from an oversized cannonball.

With a deafening explosion, the earth trembled, Nicholas I's carriage was immediately overturned by the frightened horse, and Milodelov, who was covered with blood from the door that was thrown open, helped Nicholas I hard, and the two looked at the high column of smoke in horror? Nearly 100 meters high pillars of smoke and fragments of large tents scattered on all sides.

There is an 800 mm caliber mortar in the core fortifications of the Gozów Fortress, which was specially made by the Krupp Artillery Factory for the Gozów Fortress, but although the range of this gun is long enough, the destructive power is also large enough, but the service life of the main parts of the whole is only about 50 rounds, and in addition to the almost non-existent shooting accuracy, it can be said that the tactical value of this super-large mortar named Sharp Axe is not even half of its strategic value.

The first hit is simply a miracle of miracles for a sharp axe, which can only be described as lucky and crooked, because the target aimed by the artillery is more than two miles away from the tent that was hit, I don't know if Nicholas I's big tent was too arrogant to attract shells, or his character was too bad? However, the loading time of the axe is two hours, so the Russians who have been hit by the cannon can relax calmly.

However, although the Russians knew that the reloading speed of this huge cannon was very slow, no one was willing to take the risk of breaking their bones, especially Nicholas I, who directly retreated his command camp fifty kilometers and moved to a small town of Aira.

The town, which had already been empty, still set a fire to all the buildings when the Germans retreated, so Nicholas I could only deign to wait for the sappers to repair the church that had not completely collapsed, and in the carriage Nicholas I looked at Milodelov, whose whole head was wrapped in it, and said gratefully: "Milodelov, today I saved me thanks to your vigilance, how do you want me to thank you and repay you!" ”

Milodelov just shook his head lightly and said: "Your Majesty, this time we have joined the camp of the Entente, if the battlefield can last, I believe that the Entente side will definitely win, but the Chinese Empire is one of the biggest changes, the Chinese Empire is the only country that can threaten the Empire from Siberia, and this country has great potential like the Russian Empire, we are now equal to fighting the Chinese Empire on two fronts, through several attacks, I dare to conclude that it was not the so-called volunteers of the Chinese Empire who were holding out in the fortress of Gozów, but well-trained professional soldiers, and in the event of any mistake on the part of Moscow, Britain and France would be the last ones to reap the benefits. ”

Nicholas I was a little puzzled and said: "The Chinese Empire is facing a big war with our army in the Far East, and the threat of the Entente in Indochina and Southeast Asia, and they can still draw such a large number of troops to support Germany?" It's hard to imagine. ”

Milodelov smiled helplessly and said: "It's not hard to imagine, I'm afraid that the Chinese Empire has been planning for this layout for a long time, and they have already made sufficient preparations both strategically and tactically, maybe they were secretly planning to deal with this war a few years ago!" It is likely that the Chinese Imperial Army stationed at the Gozów Fortress entered Germany a year or more in advance in the name of labor and technical personnel, but our intelligence system did not find out about it, and you must know that the alliance between Germany and the Chinese Empire is the real strategic resource sharing. ”

Nicholas I looked at Milodelov in surprise, hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and said: "This is impossible! That's impossible! No one could have predicted the outbreak of war, and if the arms expansion had been carried out blindly and indefinitely, the economy of the Chinese Empire would have collapsed long ago! ”

(To be continued)