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The horsemen of the Chamun coalition who rushed towards the enemy cavalry carefully steered their beloved horses, and under their drive, the horses that gradually moved their veins quickly changed from slow to fast, and fast stride to trot, and trot to gallop again. In this way, when the Cossack soldiers on both flanks finally broke through the obstacle area formed by the heavy wagons of the Xia army loaded with earth and stones, and were ready to re-raise the rear to kill the generals, the combined forces of the Chamon troops on both flanks had already collided with each other.

To say that the Cossacks did live up to their reputation, although they suffered great losses in horses and formations, they were still extremely brave. The spears in the front row of his army were even more desperate, and before being knocked down by the Xia cavalry with a three-eyed gun, they also stabbed fiercely, bringing the opponent who had just changed to a riding knife into hell together.

It was precisely because of the fighting and sacrifice of these Cossack riders who used spears that the momentum of the Xia army's charge was stopped.

However, in the ensuing battle, the Cossacks on the left and right flanks were different.

Of course, the difference in the table is due to the different opponents: the Xia army on the left flank adopted a group combat mode, which made the Cossack soldiers very unaccustomed - in another time and space, the Cossack cavalry that had been fierce in Central and Eastern Europe had been defeated by the French cavalry who pursued group combat in the Napoleonic Wars - and was therefore defeated and retreated, and when the heavy cavalry of the Xia army, which was slower, entered the battle, the Cossacks, who could not break the defense, could not parry, so they had to fight and retreat to the rear under the deliberate pressure of the Xia army; The Khalkha cavalry, the main force on the right flank, was at best an archer, and in hand-to-hand combat, it was no match for the Cossacks in terms of soldiers' physical fitness, suzhì or sense of battle, so they were suppressed by their weaker opponents, and it was not until the heavy cavalry of the Xia army put in that they barely stabilized their positions, and exchanged casualties with the Cossacks one-to-one or even two-to-one.

When the cavalry of the two sides began to fight, the main force of the Russian army on the central line continued to advance firmly after the Xia army's artillery retreated.

At this time, the Xia artillery had retreated to its own front and regrouped, and the local Mongol cavalry, which was responsible for maintaining the central front, also began to slowly increase their charge against the Russian front.

Seeing that the Mongol cavalry began to charge, the Russian army immediately stopped, regrouped into a dense horizontal formation in regimental units, and in the middle of the horizontal formation, the Russian artillery began to shell at the Mongols.

The local Mongol cavalry, who had been watching the battle, finally felt the power of the artillery, and under the threat of death, these Buryats and Maomingans, who had been frightened by the Russians, began to become confused - some tried to break through the Russian artillery blockade, others tried to evade, but the rear charge was interfered with.

"These people are embarrassed to say that they are the descendants of Genghis Khan." Although the central battlefield shrouded in gunpowder smoke could not see the battle situation clearly, they heard the continuous sound of the Russian army's guns and artillery never stopped, and the staff officers of the Xia army could naturally judge the result. "Marshal, are you going to put it in the reserves right away?"

Kuching looked coldly at the few Mongolian princes around him who were not looking good, and then ordered: "There is no need to put in reserves for the time being, and let the artillery army line up in the middle line, if the local Mongolian soldiers dare to flee back, they will be bombarded on the spot." ”

Kuching's order was quickly implemented, and dozens of local Mongol soldiers who had fled from the front line were blocked and shelled by the Xia army before they could escape back to their camp. At this time, there were wolves in front and tigers in the back, and the overwhelmed Buryat cavalry had to disperse to both flanks, so a surprising scene appeared, on the one hand, the Russian army was fighting with the local Mongol soldiers, and on the other hand, the Xia army on the left flank beat the Cossack soldiers to defeat and retreat, and both sides had a chance to win, so it was up to them to see who could defeat the enemy in front of them first.

"Order the Korqin people to attack immediately." Kuching, who personally boarded the command car and looked into the distance, gritted his teeth and said that he had no idea that the local Mongolian soldiers did not even have the courage to turn around and go back to fight, and fled to the battlefield on both flanks regardless of it, so that his overseer team became a joke. "Be sure not to let the Rakshasas turn to the wings." After that, Kuching, who was a little anxious, looked at the sky. "Why hasn't King Su taken action yet?"

Kuching refers to the strange soldier responsible for outflanking the rear of the Russian army, this unit escaped into the mountains and forests to the north on the day of the battle, according to Kuching's judgment should have been detoured to its position early in the morning, but unfortunately there is no response so far, and I don't know if it is lost or has another calculation. If you get lost, it will naturally be providential, but if you have another calculation, then it will be a big trouble.

When Kuching felt that the battle situation had deviated from his grasp, Rayong, who commanded the left flank operation, observed the anomaly of the central front, but all the troops at his hands had been put into the operation of chasing and killing the Cossacks, and it was not easy to gather enough troops to strike a blow to the back of the Russian army on the central front. Fortunately, the command of the Xia army, which had the advantage on the left flank, did not fail, and after some efforts, Rayong drew more than 300 horsemen from the front little by little. Immediately, these more than 300 horsemen, under the leadership of Guan Xiaotian, the general of Qian, covered the past behind the back of the central Russian army like a tiger descending from a mountain.

When Rayong gathered his forces to raid the back of the Russian army, the Russian army did touch the skirt of the goddess of victory, but Kiriyenko did not order his subordinates to turn around and attack the Chamon coalition forces on both flanks. Was it his mistake? Of course not. In the final analysis, the forces of the Chamon coalition were too strong, and Kiriyenko was afraid that after he turned around, the enemy's reserves rushed up.

So why doesn't the Russian army half turn and half continue to face the possible enemy reserves?

War is not a game of one plus one equals two, and if the firepower is reduced by half, it may not be able to withstand the opponent's attack at all, not to mention that if it is not for the poor fighting spirit of the local Mongol soldiers, the cavalry of 5,000 people may not really be able to rush to the front of the Russian army. As a result, Kiriyenko chose a more conservative tactic, believing that the Cossacks could entangle the cavalry on the left flank of the Xia army, and he would first defeat the reserves of the Chamen-Mongol coalition army, and then turn around and go back to encircle and annihilate him.

Kiriyenko's calculations were good, but he never wanted to give up the victory to his opponent - the sound of guns and cannons in the sky drowned out the sound of the horses' hooves of the Xia cavalry in the rear, and it was not until the Xia cavalry broke into the Russian array on a rampage that the sluggish Russian officers and soldiers realized that something was wrong - no matter which unit, when the enemy had already appeared behind them, the first thought was that their side was surrounded by the opponent and had failed.

Although the Russian officers also tried their best to organize a counterattack on the spot, they pressed the gourd and lifted the scoop, and when the Horqin people who appeared as a reserve saw that the cheap and quick kill was coming, the defeat of the Russian army was inevitable.

To add insult to injury for the Russians, Sutubazi's roundabout troops suddenly appeared, and nearly a thousand Korqin cavalry quickly destroyed the camp in the rear of the Russians and set fire to the wooden houses of the farmstead and the grass roof of the stable. The black smoke that soared into the sky unmistakably told the Russians who were fighting that you were finished.

Whether it was the right flank front that was still entangled, or the central battlefield that was already one-sided, or the Cossack remnants on the right flank, they all fled backwards in despair, and the Russian army soon collapsed on the battlefield. Even if a small number of Russian troops were still resisting stubbornly, they were helplessly seen by the Xia Army artillery team that had re-attacked, and they set up cannons to beat them up, and finally had to throw away their armor and flee for their lives.

"You can't go back." Bloody Alamodo Korninov panted and reined in his horse, and there were already less than twenty Cossack cavalrymen left around him. "Didn't you see that the barracks have been burned, the Chinese have already occupied there." But the only way to escape back to Irkutsk was to follow the Selenga River, so this farm northeast of Selengsk was the only way to go, otherwise it would have to escape into the mountains and forests in a big circle. "Let's go east, into the mountains!"

It cannot be said that Korniov's decision was wrong, he did escape from the Xia army, but no one has seen any trace of this Cossack leader since then. In addition to the clever Korninov, many more Russian troops were forced to try to swim across the Selenga River in the process of being chased by the Chamon coalition forces, but they either fell into the mud and died, or they were frostbitten by the ice-piercing water and fell to the ground on the way back.

Only a very small number of Russian troops were able to escape the pursuit of the Xia army, and finally escaped back to Irkutsk before the arrival of winter, which brought great terror and worry to the local Russian ** people and brought the courage to resist to the indigenous people west of Lake Baikal.

"Marshal, the results and casualty figures are out." Before the celebration banquet, the military commander in charge of statistics submitted a report. "Our army killed and captured 6,000 people under the commander of the Rakshasa Army, more than 4,000 horses of various colors, 21 cannons, more than 3,000 guns, 11,000 catties of gunpowder, 17 carts of grain and grass, and more than 1,500 dead horses, swords and spears. As for our army, 627 were killed and 525 wounded. "The casualties of the Xia army were mainly caused by fighting with the Cossacks." Five hundred and two people were killed and 328 wounded in the Korqin battle, more than 1,400 were killed or wounded among the Khalkhas, and 447 were killed or wounded among the local Buryats and Maomingans. ”

This figure is ugly, with the strength of the Chamon coalition army several times the strength of the Russian army, the result of the casualty number is still larger than the Russian army, it can be seen how the combat strength of the Mongolian soldiers in this battle is, for this reason, Kuching is quite annoyed and responded: "This officer knows, and the prisoners and other good people are in good care." ”

As soon as Kuching's words fell, several local Mongolian princes had already come out and knelt on the ground, but before they could speak, Kuching said with a smile: "There is no need to say more about the princes, the official knows that you don't mean to do this, but are just afraid of the Rakshasa people's prestige." ”

The Mongols kneeling on the spot did not dare to get up, and Kuching also ignored it, but said: "Now that the snow is about to fall, there will be no reinforcements from the Rakshasas in a short time, so you can go back and rest." ”

Speaking of this, Kuching said: "Because of the long distance, the reward of the imperial court could not be delivered for a while, and the official trespassed once, and the Zasaktu Khan and Sanyin Noyan were rewarded with 2,000 slaves and 600 war horses. ”

The shepherd slaves, of course, were the captured Cossacks, and as for the war horses, they could not be captured Don hippos, but replaced by the Mongolian horses of the Xia army, but this was enough to compensate for the losses of the Khalkhas.

"The Horqin ministries have also worked hard this time. The official temporarily divided the six banners of pasture land to you, and the herdsmen also divided one thousand, and the swords and spears left in the battlefield were all returned. "It doesn't matter what the shepherd slaves and the knives and spears are, they can solve the pasture land problem that they are most concerned about, which makes the people of Horqin overjoyed." As for the Buryatia and Maomingan departments, the merits and demerits are offset by each other, and there is no reward or punishment, so how to arrange them in the future will be dealt with by the imperial court. "That being said, dividing the pasture for the Horqin people is already a punishment." Ladies and gentlemen, the court has always rewarded meritorious service and punishment, so you should be a good student and understand it??????"