"Boom, boom, boom......"

The movement of the positions of the expeditionary army soon alarmed the Russian army. Not long after, the sound of artillery came, and in the midst of the rumbling, I saw a row of fires lit up in the distance in the position of the Russian army, which was the afterburner after the artillery fire was stimulated.

The shells were not accurate. But the bursting flames allowed the Russian side to see clearly the movements of the expeditionary army. Immediately, the Russian army fell into a state of war.

Their artillery was firing as fast as they could, and all the guns were aimed at the moving shield carts.

There was a loud bang. A cannonball slammed into the sandbag of a shield cart, and the shell was blocked by the floppy sandbag, but it still shattered the wheels with unimaginable force, causing the shield cart to fall to the ground with a pop.

Behind the shield cart, a squad of soldiers lay on the ground with their heads in their hands, and they raised their heads happily for a long time. It turned out to be a dud, otherwise, I am afraid that I will be reimbursed for this class.

The shield car is not afraid of solid bullets, but is afraid of flowering bullets.

Five of the soldiers who stood up took out shovels from behind the shield cart and dug in place to strengthen the shield cart. The other five soldiers raised their rifles and fired with all their might at the Russian positions, where the guns were ringing incessantly.

With a shield car that is stronger than the breastwork, not to mention the current Minne, even the heavy machine guns of a few decades will be difficult to penetrate. The bullets fired by the Russian army had no effect on the shield car at all, and the only thing they had to worry about was the flowering shells of the artillery.

A loud "boom ......" was heard, followed by heart-rending screams.

Liu Xian, who was in the back, couldn't help but tighten his hand holding the telescope. Blind cats can always run into dead rats. The Russian army has more than 20 artillery pieces, and it is not uncommon for the shield car to be hit in such a narrow position.

But every time a shield cart is hit, it means that a squad of soldiers will suffer heavy losses. The moment when the cannonball was furious. He could see that the entire shield cart had been blown to pieces, and the big sandbags were either scattered or scattered all over the ground. It is conceivable what will happen to the group of soldiers who follow the shield car.

As one Russian shell after another hit the shield car, knocking over some of them. Others burst out. Not only did the expression on Liu Xian's face gradually become solemn, but the entire expeditionary army position had a low-pressure and calm atmosphere.

Of the thirty shield carts, only twelve or thirteen can move on.

The only thing that can make Liu Xian and others happy is that the forward position of the expeditionary army is really not far from the main position. That's only fifty or sixty meters.

The Russian army is not only artillery, they also know that they can't let these shield vehicles move forward. So Chernyaev had to bite the bullet and launch a counterattack with the infantry at hand. With a cry of "Ula! Ulla! The Russian soldier with a rifle with a bayonet turned out of the trench. Rushing towards the shield cart.

The mortar artillery unit spoke. But they could not stop the charge of the Russian army.

The soldiers of the expeditionary army following the shield cart immediately opened fire, and one grenade after another was thrown, but the distance was too short, and before the subsequent expeditionary forces could keep up, the soldiers on both sides were mixed together on the battlefield. A fierce white-knuckle battle ensued.

"Kill—"

Liu Xian gave the order. It's just a white-knuckle fight. Hit and hit. Now that he has abundant troops, he is really not afraid to fight this.

Moreover, the pistols stepped forward and the grenades exploded one after another, Liu Xian didn't believe that he could really suffer a loss in white-knuckle combat.

Sure enough, after half an hour of fighting, the Russian army withdrew its troops.

The battlefield left the remains of more than 100 Russian soldiers and more than 30 seriously wounded Russian soldiers. Lodkin and several other surrendered Russian military doctors finally came into play.

But to be honest, the level of these military doctors is better than that of Burding. Stanford and Schubert. Duke comes. It's really not as good. Even those Chinese * doctors in the medical camp, some of them are not inferior to their standards.

Russian troops, rushing up and down. It's not bad for a 'rough' word.

The expeditionary army will certainly have more casualties. Only when the previous shield cart advanced, hundreds of people were killed and wounded, although most of them were wounded. There was a white-knuckle battle, but just a forward position was recovered, and Liu Xian paid no less than Chen Bo's losses in a few days of fighting.

The second line of defense laid out by the Russian army is less than 200 meters from the forward positions. After regaining the forward position, Liu Xian did not die down as the Russian army imagined. Instead, a new offensive was launched again before dawn.

The horse corps of the dawn period assaulted, and then the infantry followed.

There is no barbed wire. No machine guns, no grenades, no rockets. There are also no fortresses. There was only a simple curvilinear trench and a breastwork wall piled up with earth on the spot.

When half of the rifle's power disappeared into the darkness of dawn, Liu Xian's assault was in control.

Looking at the Russian infantry retreating in panic. Chernyaev's face was full of iron.

He found himself making a huge mistake - the second line of defense was too close to the forward position.

If it's five hundred meters!

The artillery will be able to react, at least one round, and it can also bombard the follow-up infantry of the Qing * team.

But at 200 meters, by the time the artillery reacted, the cavalry had already killed the position, and the infantry had approached the position. There are no five round forts in your own position!

The Russian army lost 100 people in this battle. Liu Xian also lost thirty or forty cavalry, mainly when he was charged by Russian rifles.

Without this line of defense, the Russian army could only retreat to its camp, but the combat infantry shrank to less than 1,000 people.

Cossack cavalry appeared on the positions. Liu's horse team also appeared in Chernyaev's telescope line of sight.

In the afternoon, the expeditionary troops who began the offensive were divided into two routes, the main force naturally attacking the defensive front of the Russian army, and the other side division attacking a stronghold deployed by the Russian army directly north of the camp.

This stronghold sheltered the Russian camp from a barren north, and further north was the Bezhentau Mountains and a desert for hundreds of miles. The reason why Liu Xian built a position in Korta and did not worry about the Russian army making a detour elsewhere was because as long as Tsarist Russia marched from Borohugil to Ili, Kolta would be the only way for them.

The sound of gunfire from the frontal battlefield was like a burst of gunfire, and soon merged into an uninterrupted roar.

The superior artillery of the Russian army bombarded fiercely, and the soldiers of a squadron of the expeditionary army that attacked first, even if they were completely scattered, were forced to retreat without even having a chance to fire a shot, and the squadron leader was also wounded.

The frontal flanks were flared, and the flanks were engaged.

The captain of the Volunteer Battalion who was deployed here to attack the Russian stronghold was a Manchu man named Le Shan, a deputy staff leader of the former Ili garrison. I've seen blood, and I've got a lot of guts. Taking advantage of the fact that the Russian artillery fire was completely concentrated on the front, a three-hundred-man skirmish line was thrown into the attack. He personally led the team, and under the cover of a group of rockets behind him, he directly attacked the positions of the Russian army.

Chernyaev immediately mobilized Cossack cavalry to support the counterattack, and the horse team on Liu Xianam's side also met it without showing weakness. It had been so many days since the battle began, and the cavalry forces on both sides could be regarded as truly fighting.

A cavalry brigade of the Qin army blocked the front of the Cossacks.

All three squadrons dismounted, and two horizontal columns were discharged. The cavalry in the rear guarded the horses while following the guard squadron to prepare for an attack.

This was a wide area, and if the Cossack cavalry was unwilling to charge, it was possible to bypass the cavalry of the expeditionary army. Only in this way, they had to guard against the downward impact of the first three hundred cavalry behind the two columns.

The sound of hooves was faint, and soon it was like thunder rolling from the ground, and from far and near, the Cossack cavalry appeared.

This formidable cavalry, which had traversed Eurasia for two hundred years, did not make a detour. They rushed straight towards the expeditionary army. The Cossacks were fierce and proud, clinging to their honor as if they were not willing to dismount and fight.

It seems that the sea is full of tides, and at first glance it can't see a line, but in an instant, the waves are raging.

Hundreds of Cossacks scattered in formation, brandishing sabers in their hands, roared. A voice shouted, "Brave Cossacks, for the sake of His Majesty the Tsar, for the honor of Russia, charge—"

"Charge—"

At least one battalion of Cossack cavalry. Gallop your horse!

"Ulla—"

The slogan "Ula-" was shouted among the Cossacks.

The cavalry of the expeditionary army on the opposite side was unmoved, Song Zuo stood in front of the side of the team first, and shouted: "Kneel down in the front row!" ”

The soldiers in the first row, Hura, fell to one knee on one knee. Holding the gun, he was shoulder-to-shoulder, and his fingers were on the trigger. The front row shoots in a kneeling position, and the back row shoots in a standing position.

"Put-"

When the Cossacks were already close to two hundred meters, gunfire rained out, and a dense stream of bullets swept out.

The charging Cossack cavalry seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and for a moment the man turned on his back.

It was as if the wounded beast had become more ferocious. The Cossack cavalry chanting Ulla, the horses galloped more quickly, and the swords were brandished faster.

At a distance of 100 paces, the two columns after the reload fired another volley. Although some of them were hit by the Cossack cavalry with rifles.

This time the Cossack cavalrymen flipped more on their backs. "Kill—"

At the right time, three hundred cavalrymen swung their sabers and leaped to the back.

After shooting, the two columns also dropped their rifles, quickly returned to the place where the horses stopped, turned over their horses, and rushed forward again with their sabers brandished.

The white blades are intertwined, and the blood of people is splashed. During the fierce fighting, the sound of pistols rang out from time to time......

……

On the frontal battlefield. Amid the roar of artillery, the soldiers of the expeditionary army, who had just jumped out of the trenches, shrank back.

Chernyaev frowned and looked at the same scene that had been repeated three times, the Qing * team was trying to attract their own attention, although the means were inferior, but because they were afraid that the opponent would make it true, the Russian army had to concentrate again and again.

The Qing generals on the opposite side should have pinned their hopes on the northern battlefield, but with a battalion of Cossack cavalry supporting the northern battlefield, how could they lose!?

ps: It's going to be the New Year, and Hanfeng really can't guarantee 5,000 more per day. But try not to break the update! Poor my full attendance Jin, just like that...... (To be continued) R655