Chapter 70: The Duel of Elite Divisions

When night fell, the artillery position of the Chinese suddenly appeared scarlet, and the position defended by the 1st Division of the Russian 2nd Corps, known as Hill 2 a few miles away, immediately flew with sand and stones, like fireworks spilling flowering shells above the heads of the Russians, brilliant and shocking, looking beautiful from a distance, but every little fireworks Mars fell, can harvest human lives.

The sound of killing is everywhere, and the night is always the best cover to break the defensive position.

The Russian High Command, the emperor's brother Mikhail? Nikolanavich was restless and in extreme contradictions, he wanted to order the entire army to retreat, and he wanted to hold on until reinforcements arrived. Retreat means that the troops surrounded by the Chinese will inevitably be destroyed; Waiting for reinforcements, if the tide of the war cannot be turned around, the entire Mongolian theater of war will suffer a crushing defeat in just a few days? If it is transmitted back to China, the blow to the people will be fatal, and even seriously affect the progress of the war on the Western Front.

Suddenly, there was a loud "coaxing" outside, and the earth trembled a few times.

Mikhail? Nikolanavich was stunned, and the loud noises of "boom boom" came one after another, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! There was a jumble of shouts outside.

The guards rushed in and shouted: "Grand Duke, the Chinese artillery has discovered us!" On the other hand, Nikolanavich, the chief of staff, and several staff officers ran out of the way.

Shells from the camp of the guards hundreds of paces away in the dense forest fell from time to time, and occasionally on the four sides of the high command, and some of the guards who were closely behind Nikolanavich were slashed by the shells, clutching their legs and screaming to the ground.

The guards were so frightened that their faces turned white, and they set up Nikolanavich to rush north, although Nikolanavich was terrified, but it was also strange that the Chinese artillery fire could not be so far, and it was 10 miles away from the Chinese artillery positions, to say the least.

Nikolanavich turned his head to look south, and gradually saw the clue, a precipitous hill in the south, occasionally shining brightly.

Nikolanavich felt even more incredible, he had explored this mountain on the spot, the mountain was extremely steep, artillery, how could it be possible?

At this time, Nikolanavich looked back at the small peak, and more than a dozen artillery pieces were placed in a relatively flat area, firing at targets in the dense forest.

Although it is difficult to go up the mountain, there is an open field on the peak, which is enough to place an 80mm mountain cannon made in China.

Wu Changqing, the commander of the artillery company, stood on a boulder, twisting his beard and looking at the fires rising everywhere in the dense forest in the distance, although he could not see the figure, but the scouts had already discovered that there were ambushes in this dense forest, but the battle line had not been able to push to this vicinity.

Wu Changqing is a native of Anhui, his father Wu Tingxiang 20 years ago to run a regiment to practice against the Boxers, as a result of the battle died in Lujiang, Wu Changqing was rewarded with the cloud cavalry lieutenant post, and later joined the Pingyuan Army, brave in battle, skilled in command, but also has an unrelenting preference for artillery, when the imperial 80mm mountain artillery is installed in the mountain battalions, he is extremely interested in this magical detachable artillery, willing to give up the opportunity to be promoted to deputy commander, and chose to enter the mountain battalion as the commander of the artillery company.

Of course, the mountain battalions of the Xiangshan Group Army are directly subordinate to the division headquarters, and in terms of treatment, his company commander is equivalent to the commander of the infantry battalion, but after all, the rank is one level worse, and he doesn't care at all.

The 80mm mountain cannons that the Empire was equipped with in the mountain battalions could be disassembled into barrels, wheels, and the rest of the gun carriages, and could be carried by infantry without horsepower or without horses.

The total weight of the artillery and the extension section is 300 kilograms, the firing range is nearly 4000 meters, of course, maintaining a distance of about two or three thousand meters can make its accuracy higher, the rate of fire is 3-4 rounds per minute, but the muzzle velocity is relatively low.

The birth of the detachable light mountain cannon further promoted the development of the imperial mountain arms, and Ye Zhao was pleased that the prototype of the artillery was made by several junior officers, which was also a microcosm of the invention and creation of the whole people of the empire.

Wu Changqing didn't know that the Russians in his range were actually the personal soldiers of the Russian commander, and the Russian headquarters was close to the left. I have long rolled up my sleeves and taken the "little ones" to arrest the Russian marshal.

…… In the northern city of Kizil, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the 1st Division of the 7th Army launched a final charge against the remnants of Dragomirov.

Amid the sound of machine guns, groups of Chinese soldiers rushed forward.

The bearded company commander's firepower squad was erected on the roof of a small house, desperately suppressing the fire point of the window of the small building opposite, looking at the corpses of the gray uniformed soldiers in the streets and alleys, the bearded company commander's eyes were red.

The Russian soldiers in this small building were extremely fierce, and the second infantry battalion to which he belonged was responsible for the main attack, and the attack of the third company just suffered heavy losses and had to withdraw from the battle.

Carrying a steel knife, in a dilapidated courtyard wall, the bearded company commander had red eyes and shouted loudly: "Don't rob, fuck Lao Tzu to pick!" ”

He was organizing a charging death squad, almost all the soldiers in the courtyard raised their hands, the bearded company commander walked in front of them one by one, and the first one to be punched in the chest was Cha Ganba, which meant that he was selected as a member of the death squad.

Then the bearded company commander selected more than a dozen soldiers, all of whom were strong men with strong bodies and knotted muscles, and those who were slightly short and thin were eliminated.

Chaganba said that he picked up a light machine gun that was left for support when the three companies retreated, he was a famous strong man in the clan, and the machine gun of about 40 pounds was as light as a rifle in his hand.

The bearded company commander gave a thumbs up and praised sincerely: "Good job!" ”

Cha Ganba smiled honestly and said, "It's just a handful of strength." ”

The bearded company commander smiled and said: "When this battle is over, we will all live, our brothers must kowtow and bow down, don't say that I am high." The bearded company commander already knew that Chaganba was the battalion commander, and his rank was higher than him, but Chaganba repeatedly asked him not to be polite, and when he arrived in his company, he was a small soldier, and the bearded company commander was also responsible. Really use him as a minion for the time being. On the battlefield, it was already vigorous and resolute, and there were not so many politenesses, and there was even such an example, because the division commander expressed concern for his subordinates on the phone, and the division headquarters signal corps knew that it was not easy to connect the telephone line, and it might be cut off every minute and second, so he told the division commander to "stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get to the point", and he was not punished.

The bearded company commander appointed himself as the captain of the death squad, and when he saw Arjuna lifting the rifle and also going to act with the death squad, this time the bearded man said that he would not do anything, and said repeatedly: "No, no, no!" Absolutely not! ”

Arjuna said, "I'm good marksmanship, I can help!" Besides, even if I die, I will die with Chaganba and my eldest brother! ”

The bearded company commander glared and said, "That's your business, that is, our brother saw the king of Hades, and you committed suicide and martyrdom, then no one stopped you!" But you can't die right under my nose! ”

Seeing Chaganba shaking his head at her again and again, Arjuna knew that time was precious, sighed, and stepped aside.

The machine-gun squad went up to the roof near the left, and fired at the small building at a new point of fire, at this time all the windows of the two-story small building were shattered, and from time to time the barrel of the gun came out and fired a shot.

Behind a broken wall in front of the open area of the small building, the bearded company commander made a gesture, dozens of steps away from the small building in front, and there were flower walls on both sides, which made it difficult to launch a large-scale charge, and the narrow corridor was built by the Russian crossfire to build a death zone for the charge, and the mortar platoon of the battalion was helpless against it.

"Toot toot! Toot toot! When the high-pitched trumpet sounded, gunfire erupted, and Chinese soldiers fired heavily at the small building in bunkers and even on tree branches.

The bearded man made gestures to prevent everyone from moving, although this agitated horn of the charge made people's blood boil, impacting the marrow of every imperial soldier, and the unstoppable charge in the charge number, sacrificing life and death for the emperor to win one victory after another, is the most noble creed of all emperors.

The Russian soldiers poked their heads out of the windows of the "bang, bang, bang" and shot, but immediately found that there was no one in the corridor, but several soldiers fell to the ground under the fierce fire of the Chinese, wailing and groaning.

The bearded man waved his hand violently, and the daredevils who had long been unable to hold back jumped into the corridor one by one like tigers.

When the Russians realized that in the second volley, although several daredevils who rushed behind had fallen, the bearded man and Chaganba rushed to the closed wooden door, and a soldier kicked the door open, and then seven or eight grenades were thrown in, and the bearded man and others quickly stuck to the back of the wall.

"Boom, boom, boom", the room immediately screamed again and again, Cha Ganba said that he appeared at the door with a machine gun, and shot inside, his divine power was amazing, he could suppress the random jump of the barrel, and a box of bullets was almost swept out flatly.

The daredevils quickly pounced in, and the six-thunder cannon of "bang bang bang" fired at close range, and the chaotic Russian soldiers fell to the ground one after another.

The Russian soldiers who rushed out of the window room on the first floor and the stairs on the second floor were all shot and killed without exception, and the trumpet sounded again, and in the sound of killing, the Chinese soldiers poured in one after another, and the bearded man and Chaganba and others had already rushed to the second floor.

Seeing that the epaulettes of the Russian officers who were killed were getting higher and higher, the bearded man was full of excitement and said with a smile: "Damn, the big man of the Rakshasa ghost." ”

When the bearded man and Chagan Bayu and others rushed into a windowless room on the south side, they saw several guards and officers slowly raising their hands, and behind the desk, there was a Russian [***] officer with deep brown eyes who was writing something in a quill pen, and his thick eyebrows showed his tough surname.

Chaganba suddenly had a sour nose and said, "This is Uncle Suhe's house." "Even this study he once came in, Uncle Sukh died at the hands of the Russians, but his house was spared by Russian fire.

The bearded man walked over quickly, and pulled over the letterhead written by the Russian [***] official, and the crooked letters, he naturally didn't recognize.

The Russian [***] officer looked at him coldly and did not speak.

The bearded man scratched his head and scolded: "Damn, why don't you kill them all?" ”

Seeing the bearded man pull the bolt, a Russian staff officer showed a look of horror on his face and stammered: "He, yes, Dragomirov, general......"

I tried to spit out every word, but I knew the important Chinese words.

The bearded man was stunned for a moment, and laughed: "There are also rakshasa ghosts who can't speak bird language, it's rare!" Checkmate? The bearded man was stunned, looked at the Russian [***] official with a cold face, and nodded: "There is such a look!" ”

It was Mikhail, the commander of the 3rd Division of the 2nd Army Corps, who was captured? Ivanovic? Dragomirov, bayonet supremacist.

He didn't know Chinese, but when he heard the staff officer saying his name, he knew that the staff officer was begging for mercy, and angrily turned his head to reprimand him.

The bearded man asked the staff officer a few more words, but the staff officer obviously did not understand very well, and his face was at a loss.

At this moment, Arjuna walked in behind the door and looked curiously at the gasping Russians.

The bearded man smiled and said, "Brother and sister, this is a Russian general, take a good look, baby!" He turned around and shouted, "Come on, tie them up for me!" Send it to the division! Catch a Rakshasa ghost general, and the military gate may be able to give a commendation order! ”

Several Chinese soldiers rushed up like wolves, and Dragomirov wanted to resist, but he was already overturned to the ground and tied up solidly.

…… Emperor brother Mikhail? Nikolanavich and dozens of cavalry guards galloped on horseback, and although he gave orders to his subordinates to retreat and deployed troops to cover the retreat, he really did not know whether these orders could be effectively conveyed to the commanders of the various corps.

But the reality is that if he does not retreat as soon as possible, he will most likely become a prisoner of the Chinese.

Riding the horse, Nikolanavich was extremely irritable, because this battle was too nesty, and even he could not react at all, he was defeated by the dazzling performance of the Chinese, and the Chinese seemed to be magically full of tricks, now think about it, but there are traces to follow.

Although the remnants of the border guards do not know whether it was in the plan of the Chinese, there is no doubt that they played the role of nails, so that their own troop deployment always had to take into account such a small number of threats in the heart of their own corps.

The large-scale penetration of forcible positions shows that the Chinese are extremely familiar with the terrain in this area, and the reconnaissance balloons are even denser on the battlefield.

The command and coordination of the Chinese is even more alarming, according to the reports of front-line soldiers, they have cut no less than three telegraph wires, but Nikolanavich is more convinced that this wire is connected to the kind of talking machine invented and built by the Chinese - the "telephone".

On the other hand, even the proposal to set up a telegraph corps has been repeatedly rejected by military conservatives.

When the Chinese steel monster caused a fatal psychological shadow on the Cossacks, and their elite regiments took the opportunity to break through their own infantry defense lines and seize their own artillery positions, their own defeat was already doomed, but they did not want to admit it.

And when the Chinese fired a salvo of powerful artillery, and their dense infantry sea launched a general attack, they should have known that this battle was extremely defeated.

It is not so much that the Chinese are magical, but that the Chinese's tactics are several times better than their own, which is also eye-opening.

Although the cost is very high, at least, he already knows how to deal with the Chinese, return to Abakan as soon as possible, reorganize the army and horses, and then fight a decisive battle with the Chinese, he believes that next time, the Chinese will definitely not be so lucky.

On the way back to Kizil, the sappers had carved out an easy path, of course, just leveling weeds or cutting down trees, erecting pontoon bridges over several streams and marking the location of the swamps.

Now Nikolanavich and the deputy chief of the General Staff Joseph and several staff officers are running through the half-man-high weeds, but this frantically growing grassy slope has been cut by the sappers on a path two horses wide.

The dozens of horsemen who followed Nikolanavich were the Imperial Guard, and the Guards Cavalry Regiment was the cuirassiers defending His Majesty the Tsar, with ornate feathered helmets, black enamel lacquered cuirasses, dark green single-breasted overtones trimmed with black trim, silver buttons and epaulettes, and dark green breeches; Each of the Guards cavalry was tall and strong, handsome and dashing, and had an extraordinary temperament.

But in Nikolanavich's eyes, the royal guards were silver-like wax spearheads, which were useless, and they were far from the French Guards cavalry.

These cavalry, composed entirely of the sons of the nobility, were not even as effective as the Cossacks, let alone the elite hussar regiments of the Russian cavalry.

It is a great irony to look at their gorgeous clothes in the run.

Ahead, there is the Sayan Ridge Pass, and behind the Sayan Ridge is the vast Siberia.

Before invading Mongolia, Nikolanavich chose the western foot of the Sayan Mountains as the entry point, from which the Yenisei River went north, and the dense forest became sparse at the mountain pass, and a road had been paved under the cutting down of sappers.

Although he saw that he was about to flee from the Chinese territory, Nikolanovich was somewhat uneasy, because during the two escapes, he could not see the messenger in the rear and any of his own troops, and the chief of the general staff in command of the rear army, Seruch, was a very cautious person, and it was impossible for him to receive urgent letters from him one after another without any information coming.

The closer to the pass, the more this unease permeated Nikolanavich's heart.

Suddenly dense gunfire rang out in front, Nikolanavich immediately cold, his infantry battalion stationed in the mountain pass was only afraid that it had been surrounded by the Chinese, moreover, the Chinese came extremely fast, indicating that the war had not started, they already had a comprehensive strategy, a little hesitation, "Follow me." As he rode westward, fleeing back to Russia through dense forests and barren mountains, Joseph and the cavalry hurriedly followed.

…… In fact, the development of the situation in the western foothills of the Sayan Mountains far exceeded Nikolanavich's imagination.

Amid rolling mountains, hills and woods, the Russian 17th Division was surrounded by two infantry divisions of the First Army of the Royal Chinese Army, and the battle had just begun.

The Russian infantry battalion stationed in the valley had been annihilated two days earlier, most of them had been captured, and all the messengers of both sides had been intercepted by the Chinese infantry on this day, including Nikolanavich's urgent letter to the chief of the General Staff Seruchi to inform them of the military situation.

And the 17th Division of the Russian Army, which did not know the situation on the battlefield, still received the order to march to the battlefield in a hurry.

At the western foot of the Sayan Ridge Pass, the Russian division entered the encirclement of the Chinese, but before the Chinese infantry regiments could complete the strategic encirclement, the Russians discovered the Chinese moving between the peaks on the left, and the battle began, at this time the two Chinese infantry regiments responsible for closing the gate were far from reaching the combat site, and if the 17th Division wanted to evacuate, it was completely too late.

But this division and regiment with outstanding military achievements were too conceited, and the glorious traditions of the division and regiment did not allow it to retreat without a fight.

The 17th Division, formerly known as the Moscow Infantry Regiment in the 18th century, was successful in several Russian-Turkish wars, and during the Napoleonic Wars, it cooperated with the Maupol Hussar Regiment to give the French Fourth Dragoon Regiment a fatal blow, and defeated the French commander MacDonald at Catsbach in Silesia, annihilating more than 15,000 French troops, for which the Tsar awarded the regiment 31 silver trophies in recognition of their outstanding performance.

After the Crimean War, the importance of infantry firearms gradually overtook the cavalry, and the Moscow Infantry Regiment was expanded to the 17th Division, which has always been one of the most well-equipped ace divisions in Tsarist Russia.

A year earlier, the 17th Division had been equipped with British-made Enfield 1866 rifles, a repeating rifle similar to those made in Guangzhou, China, and several British-made repeaters.

Although there is no arms embargo except during the war, the British prefer to sell weapons to the Turkish Ottoman Empire rather than his opponents, the Russians, and the Russians were able to buy these armaments, also because the relationship between the Chinese and the British fell to freezing point after the Indian turmoil, and the Russians seized the opportunity to buy more than 30,000 various British firearms, and at the same time, they also began to develop imitations, but their lame industrial level seriously restricted the development of military science and technology. The quality of the imitation repeating pistol was far from being comparable to that of Enfield 1866, not to mention the series of technical problems involved in the production of bullets and smokeless gunpowder, which were difficult for the Russians to solve in a short time.

In recent years, the development of science and technology in China is naturally making rapid progress, the latest Guangzhou made 1870 has been fully matured, the surname can be reliable is the most picky soldier can not say its faults, from the appearance, the fourth type of Guangzhou made is very slender and compact, clean and neat, more suitable for Asians to use, rotary rear pull bolt, 5 rounds of magazine feeding, 8mm caliber bullets are enough to cause huge damage to the enemy, not like 7mm below the small caliber is easy to "hurt" and not easy to "kill".

The fourth type of Guangzhou made a shortened barrel, the effective range of 510 meters, in fact, if the barrel is not shortened, the effective range will be greatly improved, but according to the imperial combat theory, the infantry line real confrontation 90% of the battle is concentrated within 400 meters, with the wide application of trench and other tactics, this will also be the future trend, not to mention the farther the distance, the shooting accuracy will be much worse, in the era of individual combat on the skirmisher line, keeping too long a barrel to increase the effective range in addition to wasting bullets, there is not much benefit.

And the special rifle with a long barrel is also within the scope of the empire's research and development, and Ye Zhao calls it a sniper rifle.

The fourth type of Guangzhou, in Ye Zhao's view, can be used to mature semi-automatic weapons were born, in fact, the empire is now based on some characteristics of the principle of light and heavy machine gun conduction, has been developing semi-automatic rifles, but even if it is born, if you want to equip a large number of troops is not very realistic, has not entered the age of automobiles, because of supply lines and other problems, the automation of the rifle has encountered a bottleneck, on the current structure made in Guangzhou, and the officer proposed to make a small tool called a bullet blocker, so as not to waste bullets by recruits.

The number of the fourth type made in Guangzhou is not much for the military to purchase temporarily, and the three models of Guangzhou have fully met the needs of modern warfare; Second, it is necessary to wait for the company to give complete feedback before making a decision; Third, it is natural that the purchase of weapons should be appropriate when the army is expanded.

The First Army of the Imperial Army, which ambushed the 17th Division of the Russian Army, was the most elite unit of the Empire with light machine guns set up in the squad, equipped with the Type 3 rifle made in Guangzhou.

Song Qing, the commander of the First Group Army, was the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, although he was once a general of Han Jinchun, and when he was in the Pingyuan Army, he was the second battalion of Han Jinchun, the chief officer of the third town, but he was proud of his talents, and the relationship with Han Jinchun gradually deteriorated.

Although people's character is largely acquired, this general who was killed by a cannonball in the First Sino-Japanese War, changed his horse, and continued to command the generals to "meet the cannon and above, and the voice of the earth is moving, and all of them are ten", and the general who shouted "willing to sacrifice his life to serve the country with the world's elite soldiers" will not become bad in the education of the empire.

The Battle of Sayanling was personally commanded by Song Qing.

His opponent was Mikhail, commander of the Russian 17th Division? Dmitrievich? Last year, he was appointed commander of the 17th Division of the Russian ace infantry regiment and was promoted to major general.

Skobelev was one of the hard-line exponents of the conquest of Asia, and he famously said: "In Asia, the longevity or shortness of peace is directly proportional to the slaughter of your enemies, and I think this is indeed a theorem." The harder they are hit, the longer they will be at peace. ”

This is a naked genocidalist, but it is clear that his troops were slaughtered.

When he first discovered the traces of the Chinese, he was riding a tall horse walking in the sparse woods, and the large forest became sparse to the edge of the mountain pass and river valley, about 1,000 meters from north to south, and a road had long been cut down by sappers, and even the stumps were sawn flat on the ground.

Although the sudden arrival of the Chinese at the Sayan Ridge Pass surprised Skobelev, the frenzy of the jump in his heart made him extremely excited, and the extremely unfamiliar army met in a narrow way, defeating the Chinese, making the 17th Division a lingering nightmare for the Chinese, and this goal was so tempting.

Moreover, a sudden retreat during a rapid march would inevitably result in heavy losses for their own divisions and regiments seized by the Chinese commanders.

What's more, after the 17th Division, there was the Omsk Corps, and Skobelev did not believe that the Chinese could surround themselves, even if they were several times their own troops, and they were pinned down in the dense forests of the mountain cols, and when the Omsk Corps arrived, they could defeat the Chinese by a north-south pinch.

It was Skobelev who did not think much about it, and immediately ordered the whole division to prepare for battle depending on the terrain, and at this time, Skobelev did not know whether the Chinese had a premeditated encirclement or an unexpected encounter with his own troops, but still gave the most cautious order. Although he is proud, he never takes any opponent lightly.

The Russians, who received the order, soon assembled in infantry battalions in concealed positions on hillsides and in dense forests.

The 17th Division of Tsarist Russia was also the first corps of the Russian army to pay attention to the skirmish line and make good use of the terrain, and even in the war between Prussia and France, it is not uncommon for the platoon of densely packed soldiers to charge in a compact formation.

On the one hand, surprised by the rapid reaction of the Russians, Song Qing quickly gave the order to attack, and when the signal flares and horns sounded, the first to be hit were naturally some Russian infantry battalions and baggage units that had not yet had time to hide.

The guns rained down, the dense shells of mortars exploded behind the jungles, mountain passes, and boulders, and in the grass by the riverside, the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Division, which had been in ambush for several hours, jumped up and charged like straw men, cutting off the Russian battle line very quickly, and just now Skobelev rode a tall horse and walked by dozens of paces away from them, a soldier recognized his rank, and almost pulled out his gun to shoot, but was stopped by the platoon commander frowning and looking at him.

In fact, the most unbearable thing is not to watch the enemy swagger under his nose, but the large mosquitoes and poisonous ants in the Tangnu Wulianghai area, if it were not for the soldiers who were coated with the special insect repellent oil of the Central Plains, I am afraid that no one would be able to endure it, despite this, with the passage of time, the deterrent effect of the insect repellent oil on insects and ants gradually faded, almost every soldier was bitten a few times, the more the itch that drilled into the heart can not be scratched, the more uncomfortable it is from the heart out.

When the charge was finally launched, the bravery of the soldiers who were relieved can be imagined.

"Bang bang", on the rolling dirt hills, heavy machine guns formed several firing points, ruthlessly strafing the dense forest.

If the Imperial rifle has been difficult to change in a short period of time, the research on the bead gun and various types of artillery has been advancing by leaps and bounds.

The latest heavy machine gun in the Empire, the weight has been greatly reduced, at least, can not be attributed to the type of artillery, no longer need to rely on horsepower pulling, soldiers can use a special bracket to lift it to carry, the weight has been reduced to about 60 catties, using the Imperial standard 8mm caliber bullets, the rate of fire per minute has reached 600 rounds, it is really a big killer weapon against the charge of the legion on the battlefield today.

Although the Russians did not launch a charge on the Chinese position, they were also beaten into a sieve by this sudden rain of bullets, the screams in the dense forest continued, and the mortar shells exploded intensively in between, even if the 17th Division, which was known for its toughness, encountered this unprecedented fierce firepower, it could not help but be stunned, and there was an extremely chaotic situation everywhere, the regimental and battalion orders were completely paralyzed, and the squadron or even a dozen soldiers spontaneously formed a squad fought separately, either desperately shooting and resisting, or retreating to the depths of the dense forest, There were even several incidents of shooting and killing each other by mistakenly believing that they were enemy troops.

The heavy detachment, completely exposed to Chinese fire, was routed in less than half an hour, and there were Russian soldiers fleeing everywhere.

Skobelev and his battalion of guards retreated to a high slope deep in the forest, and looked through binoculars at the wolf-surging Russian soldiers on the smoke-filled battlefield.

The Imperial Ace Division turned into a third-rate unit under the heavy fire of the Chinese, and Skobelev was depressed and his proud self-esteem was fatally hit, making it difficult for him to accept this reality for a while.

Yes, he can find a lot of excuses for himself, the Chinese are deliberately ambushing, making full use of the terrain to form an excellent cross-fire network, the number of people is absolutely superior, and just after the battle resolutely implemented the division and encirclement.

His troops were in a state of rapid marching, hastily responding to the battle, and had no understanding of the enemy.

But no matter how many excuses he had, he had to admit that the entire division had been routed in just two hours of fighting, which was still difficult for him to accept.

"General, we can break through from the west to Sabinai Daba." The adjutant cautiously reminded him.

Skobelev shook his head, slowly pulled out his pistol, and said coldly: "Prepare to gather troops!" ”

…… At the same time, in the yurt temporarily set up by the Central China Theater Command, the bearded company commander, Cha Ganbayu, Aruna, and the company's soldier Xiaoshi were all staring at each other and did not dare to speak.

The sound of footsteps, the curtain of the yurt door was lifted, and a beautiful woman general walked in, with a double-breasted red tweed marshal uniform, gorgeous and dazzling, and a cold temperament, which made people dare not force their eyes.

The bearded company commander, Cha Ganba, Aruna, and Xiaoshi almost all stood up at once, although they were too frightened to look at them anymore just by glancing at a few people, and their hearts were pounding, but the power of the handsome woman had already let them know who was coming.

Who else could there be besides Su Niangniang?

The four of them were terrified and didn't know what to do, and just as they were about to bow down, the female guards who followed Su Niangniang in strode in had already shouted in a high-pitched voice: "Respect-salute!" ”

Only then did the four of them react, and hurriedly stood up and saluted, Su Niangniang raised her hand to return the salute, and then smiled: "Okay, amazing!" ”

It was only a few hours ago that the four of them learned that they had captured a well-known general of the Russians, and Su Niangniang was very curious and wanted to personally meet the company commander of the "Heroic Company".

Xiao Shi is the representative of the warrior, and Chaganba and Arjuna, Su Niangniang want to meet this couple by name.

Listening to Su Niangniang's praise, the bearded company commander grinned and smirked, and he didn't know what to say for a while. Ben hopes to be rewarded by the Admiral, who knows if it is the mother who receives it, this honor, how many people can envy and die?

At this time, Su Niangniang looked at Chaganba and Arjuna, sighed softly, and said, "It's not easy to be born and die!" It's hard for you! ”

Chaganba and Arjuna glanced at each other, and their hearts were extremely sweet.

Su Niangniang said: "Ming said that you will go back to the rear to rest." ”

Cha Ganba stood up and said loudly: "Report!" Subordinates request to return to the team! ”

Su Niangniang smiled and was about to speak, when outside the yurt, a staff officer hurriedly entered, and when he saw a few people in the room, he hesitated slightly.

Su Niangniang had already stretched out her hand and said, "Give it to me." He took a piece of paper from his hand, a press release to be sent back to Yanjing.

In the Kizil area, the fighting has gradually subsided, and only sporadic fighting continues.

In the five-day intermittent battle, the emperor's [***] team invested more than 250,000 people to participate in the battle, and suffered more than 15,000 casualties (including the losses of the border defense regiment).

Tsarist Russia took part in the battle with a total of more than 150,000 troops, of which more than 100,000 were annihilated or captured, and more than 20,000 people were missing or fleeing in the stubborn resistance of two divisions.

Staring at the statistics, the matchmaker couldn't help frowning slightly, obviously a little dissatisfied, after all, it was not an encounter, but an ambush that had been planned for a long time.

The matchmaker was not satisfied, but Ye Zhao was quite relieved when he saw the battle report, the strong emperor [***] team, after the results were published in the newspaper, the whole world should exclaim the Chinese evil dragon, right? When the Russians annihilate the emperor [***] team, a battalion or even a company have to cheer in the newspapers, xxx victory, gnaw the hard bones of the Chinese, what does this feel?

(To be continued)