"Bastard! Why didn't those bastards blow up the bridge, didn't I strictly order them to blow up the bridge if they couldn't hold it? Grand Duke Nikolai said angrily. If the 2nd Cossack Regiment and the 5th Cossack Regiment cut off the channel of the Selenga River at most, so that the logistical supply line of the Ulan-Ude Russian army is interrupted, then the Russian army will still be able to support it, and the blow will not be fatal. The Russian army in Ulan-Ude has already stockpiled a lot of strategic materials, which is enough for the Russian army to support it for three months or more. In comparison, with the continuous casualties of the Russian army, the materials consumed are getting less and less, and the materials that could only last for three months can last for half a year, or even longer, in the end.

"Your Excellency, what should we do now? If the back road is cut off, there will be no way out for Ulan-Ude! The adjutant reminded.

"Let the 9th Cossack Regiment find a way to blow up the bridge!" Grand Duke Nikolai said. Now, the battle for Ulan-Ude has reached the most critical juncture, and there is simply no surplus troops, and the only troops that can be used are the 9th Cossack Regiment, which was despised before.

"Your Excellency, the 9th Cossack Regiment has already suffered heavy losses in the battle of Kyakhta. Now the entire army is less than 10,000 people, and it may not be easy for them to seize the bridge heavily defended by the Chinese! The adjutant said. In addition, the attitude of Grand Duke Nikolai towards the 9th Cossack Regiment before may have also made the people of the 9th Cossack Regiment dissatisfied, and now let them fight hard, how is this possible!

"Send a telegram to Major General Anatoly that if he succeeds in blowing up the bridge, the past will be written off. In addition, I will ask His Majesty the Tsar for his promotion to lieutenant general. After waiting for the war to end, it is not a problem to be promoted to general! Grand Duke Nikolai said. If the crisis in Ulan-Ude can be resolved, even if he is now an official and makes a wish, what does it matter?

"Okay! Your Excellency! The adjutant nodded, there was no way out.

"In addition, the 2nd Cossack Regiment and the 5th Cossack Regiment were completely annihilated, try to block the news as much as possible, so as not to be known by the troops at the front. Otherwise, this will inevitably have a very big impact on the morale of the army. When the time comes, if we want to hold Ulan-Ude, it will be even more impossible! Grand Duke Nikolai admonished. Originally, Ulan-Ude's defense was already playing very hard. It would have been even worse if the soldiers had known that the back road had been cut off.

"Yes, Your Excellency!" The adjutant commanded.

Soon, a telegram from Grand Duke Nikolai reached the commander of the 9th Cossack Corps of the Russian Army, Major General Anatoly. After receiving the telegram, Major General Anatoly was also shocked. Although he expected that the 2nd Cossack Regiment and the 5th Cossack Regiment were no match for the Chinese cavalry, in only half a day, more than 40,000 people of the two corps were wiped out. And now, how is it possible that Grand Duke Nicholas actually asked his broken 9th Cossack Regiment to blow up the heavily defended bridge of the Chinese? It's just to send him to death!

Major General Anatoly, who soon summoned the three division commanders of the 9th Cossack Corps, informed them of the news. The three division commanders immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.

"How can Grand Duke Nicholas do this? We suffered heavy losses, but he did not replenish us, but now he is asking us to attack the Chinese, and we are now less than 10,000 troops, and go to the Chinese, isn't that looking for death? ”

"That's right! The 2nd Cossack Regiment and the 5th Cossack Regiment, those guys were so arrogant, they were wiped out in less than half a day, and if we went, there was only a dead end. Commander, you can't send us to our deaths! ”

"So what do you want me to do? Grand Duke Nicholas has already given an order, will I be able to disobey it? Major General Anatoly said helplessly. If he disobeyed, Grand Duke Nicholas would definitely have sent him directly to a court-martial, or even shot him directly.

"Your Excellency Commander, how do you think the current situation in Ulan-Ude will develop?" A division commander asked.

"Does that need to be said? The Chinese are already cutting off the back road of Ulan-Ude. The entire defenders of Ulan-Ude are about to be surrounded. Now hundreds of thousands of Chinese are fighting around Ulan-Ude, and we simply can't hold out for long. I can guarantee that in a week at most, Ulan-Ude will fall! Major General Anatoly said.

"Isn't that the end of it? Since Ulan-Ude is bound to fall, we don't need to stay here and die. We immediately headed north, bypassing the Verkhniogyabaikal region and returning to Irkutsk! "That division commander said in a row.

"What? Isn't this an unauthorized escape? If you investigate it, it will be killed! Major General Anatoly's eyes widened.

"General, how could we run away without permission? The Chinese sent a large number of troops to attack us, and we were outbeat, only to retreat to the north! The division commander said with a smile. Everyone understands the meaning of his words. On the pretext of being attacked by the squadron, he fled and left the battlefield. In this way, their safety is guaranteed.

"What do you think?" Major General Anatoly asked. Such a flagrant disobedience to military orders, he would not dare to do it alone. If you want to do it, you can do it together.

"Commander, we agree. Instead of staying here and waiting to die, you might as well retreat immediately! The other two division commanders agreed.

"Okay, then we'll straighten out the ranks and evacuate Xiang. I will send a telegram to Grand Duke Nicholas, claiming that we have been attacked by the Chinese! Major General Anatoly said.

Soon, the 9th Cossack Regiment withdrew to the north, and before retreating, they sent a telegram to Grand Duke Nikolai, claiming that they had been fiercely attacked by the 3rd Cavalry Corps of the Chinese Army, and that they had no choice but to retreat north.

When Grand Duke Nikolai received the telegram, he was even more furious. How could he not know what the hell was going on? Obviously, that Anatoly guy fled in fear of the enemy! However, he has no evidence. This made Grand Duke Nikolai very angry, and secretly swore that after this battle, he would not let go of Anatoly and those of the 9th Cossack Regiment.

The 3rd Cavalry Corps annihilated the 2nd Cossack Regiment and the 5th Cossack Regiment of the Russian Army and achieved a great victory, which made the Chinese Army very excited and morale! The First Army and the Third Army, which were responsible for the attack on Ulan-Ude, attacked even more fiercely. Although the Russian army in Ulan-Ude is still resisting, now that the back road is cut off, everyone believes that it will not be long before the squadron will be able to achieve the final victory. At the same time, after cutting off the retreat of the Russian army in Ulan-Ude, there is no need to worry about the Russian army escaping. If you eat these 200,000 Russian troops in one bite, it will inevitably hurt the Russian army again. Even if the Russian army has enough soldiers, it can't be lost like this! The Russian army has millions of troops, and if it loses 200,000 each time, how many such battles can it experience!

Wang Yuze, who was far away in Beijing, was also very happy after receiving the battle report sent back from the northern battlefield. The Russian army in Ulan-Ude was later copied, and the Russian army has become a turtle in an urn. The ** team will once again achieve a big victory. Wang Yuze specially launched a telegram to the front line to reward the soldiers who fought the front line.

The most tragic battle in Ulan-Ude is still the street fighting in the city of Ulan-Ude. Although, every time before the attack, the artillery of the squadron will carry out a large-scale artillery bombardment of Ulan-Ude, and the entire Ulan-Ude has become a ruin under the fierce shelling, but the lives of these Russian soldiers, like rats, still stubbornly persisted.

In the West, many families used to dig a basement under their house to store food or other things. The same is true of Ulan-Ude, where almost every home has a basement. Even if the houses above collapsed, the passage reserved before Guò allowed the Russians to burrow into the basement like rats during the heavy shelling of Ulan-Ude by Chinese artillery. Wait until the shelling is over, then get out of the basement and fight the squadron. It is not even possible to infiltrate the rear of the squadron and attack the baggage troops in the rear and even the field hospital. These Russians are ruthless, even those wounded soldiers, if they find them, they will not hesitate to kill them. This forced the squadron to withdraw all the field hospitals to the rear.

After the end of the fighting in April, thanks to the efforts of the First Army and the Third Army, a fifth of the main city of Ulan-Ude was already in the hands of the squadron. At this pace, another three or five days of fighting may be able to end the battle. Of course, the casualties have always been a big trouble for the squadron. In addition to casualties, there are also logistical supplies. Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Ulan-Ude, and the amount of food consumed every day was an astronomical amount. Coupled with the artillery shelling at any cost, the ammunition is consumed very quickly. The battle has only been going on for two days, and most of the ammunition stored near Zài Ulan-Ude has already been consumed. If this continues, it will be able to last for two or three days at most. If the Russian army has a stronger will to fight and the battle drags on longer, then there will be a big problem.

All kinds of supplies, weapons and ammunition brought from the country can only be transported to the trading city. Then it had to be transported by guò car and mule and horse to the Ulan-Ude front. Although the logistics department concentrated a few hundred vehicles, it was still somewhat unsustainable. (To be continued.) Please search, the novel is better and faster!)