Chapter 1299: Towards Perdition
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"General, the Cossack cavalry is so fierce that we can't resist it!" A lieutenant colonel officer, covered in blood, reported to the commander of the 1st Tajik Cavalry Brigade! Those Cossack cavalrymen brandished the Cossack cavalry knives in their hands, and almost every time they were beheaded, they were able to bring up a human head. The 1st Tajik Cavalry Brigade suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Cossack cavalry. In just half an hour after the start of the battle, the 1st Tajik Cavalry Brigade lost more than 2,000 people, and the rest of the people were shocked by the bravery of the Cossack cavalry, their morale was low, and their combat strength was greatly affected!
"Bastard! Resist! Can't go back! Everybody's on top! Reinforcements are coming soon! The commander of the 1st Tajik Cavalry Brigade shouted and ordered! If the formation is chiseled through by the Cossack cavalry, they will no longer be able to form a powerful formation, and once they are dispersed, they will only be slaughtered by the Cossack cavalry!
"Yes, General!" The lieutenant colonel officer had no choice but to turn around with his subordinates and rush into the battlefield again! Thousands of cavalry of the 1st Tajik Cavalry Brigade desperately resisted the attack of the Cossack cavalry! However, their resistance seemed so fragile, as if they were mantis arms as a chariot, and they could not stop the advance of the Cossack cavalry at all!
"General, the Tajiks are almost unable to resist, and if they are gouged through, our flanks and rear will be attacked by Cossack cavalry!" Brigadier General Dmikri looked at the attack of those Cossack cavalry and said with some concern!
"Order the 4th Brigade to go up at once, no matter what. Be sure to fend off the attack of the Cossack cavalry! Victory or defeat is here! Major General Kasimov said with a stern face. He found that he seemed to underestimate the strength of the Cossack cavalry. Originally, it was thought that there was a double advantage in troops. Even if it can't defeat the Russian 7th Cavalry Army, it can at least be on par. But I didn't expect that those Cossacks were so strong, even if they were at a disadvantage, they could still fight the cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes and retreated.
When the 1st Tajik Cavalry Brigade was about to be routed by the Cossack cavalry, the 4th Kazakh Cavalry Brigade made up in time to resist the attack of the Cossack cavalry. At the same time, 3 other Kazakh cavalry brigades and the 2nd Kyrgyz cavalry brigade also began a fierce attack on the flanks of the Russian 7th Cavalry Corps! The battle was fierce. The two sides fought fiercely on the plain, the corpses were covered in a thick layer, and the black dirt on the plain was soaked with blood. Although the cavalry of the five tribes in Central Asia had an advantage in strength, in the face of the fierce Cossack cavalry, they still seemed to have only the material of being defeated and retreating!
"Haha! Good job! Chisel through! Chisel through! Let those lowly traitors know how good we are! "Seeing that the cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia could not withstand the attack of the Cossack cavalry, Lieutenant General Sergei shouted excitedly! As long as the Cossack cavalry can cut through the cavalry formation of the five Central Asian tribes and disperse them, then the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes will only have the material to be slaughtered!
The strength of the Cossack cavalry shocked the countries of Europe for a long time. Even when Napoleon dominated Europe, he praised the Russian Cossack cavalry. You can see the strength of these Cossack cavalry!
The fierce fighting continues. The Cossack cavalry was still advancing, and the cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia was trying to resist the attack of the Cossack cavalry. It's been filling it with human lives. However, even if the armies of the five Central Asian tribes paid a heavy price, they still could not stop the attack of the Cossack cavalry. The 1st Tajik Cavalry Brigade has already lost more than half of it, and the 4th Kazakh Cavalry Brigade, which went up later, has also suffered heavy losses! But even then they could not delay the advance of the Cossack cavalry!
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the battle was still going on, and the soldiers on both sides desperately slashed at the enemy with their sabers, whether it was the Cossack cavalry or the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes, they all desperately waved the sabers in their hands. In the melee, the cavalry guns have lost their effectiveness, and the saber in their hands is the most advantageous weapon.
Constantly people were cut to the ground, some were killed on the spot, and some fell off their horses. However, in such a scuffle, once you fall off the horse, there is almost no chance of survival. The trampling of the war horse is enough to kill them!
"General, the 4th Cavalry Brigade will almost be unable to hold on, if there are no reinforcements, they are likely to collapse!" Brigadier General Dmikri turned pale. The bravery of the Cossack cavalry shattered the pride in his heart! As nomads, cavalry has always been their most powerful weapon. Originally, they thought that with the help of the Chinese, they were already very powerful, and after being equipped with Chinese weapons, they were already world-class cavalry. But now, they really see the gap with the world's first-class cavalry!
"Let them resist! Reinforcements are coming! The Cossack cavalry, although brave, was not invincible! We have enough troops to consume them, even if we use human lives, the final victory will be ours! Major General Kasimov insisted! The only thing he can rely on now is the military superiority of the five tribes in Central Asia! In addition to the 6 cavalry brigades that are now on the battlefield, there are several other cavalry brigades on their way, as long as they hold on until reinforcements arrive, the final victory will definitely be theirs! After all, no matter how brave the Cossack cavalry was, its strength was always limited. Moreover, although the cavalry of the five tribes in Central Asia cannot catch up with the Cossack cavalry, the gap will not be very large! Although the Cossack cavalry defeated the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes and retreated, it also caused a lot of casualties to the Cossack cavalry. Once the strength of these Cossack cavalry is exhausted, and the Cossack cavalry swords in their hands can no longer be wielded, it is time for the cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia to destroy them! Therefore, even if the tide of battle is not in their favor now, Major General Kasimov is still convinced that they can win the final victory!
"Order the Cossack warriors, step up your efforts and defeat those lowly traitors!" Over time, Lieutenant General Sergei also felt the danger. The brave Cossack cavalry, despite its great success, was never able to defeat the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes. If the stalemate continues, once the vigor of the troops is consumed, I am afraid that it will be the end of the Cossack cavalry!
At half past nine in the morning, the 5th Kazakh Cavalry Brigade arrived at the battlefield. This cavalry brigade did not even have time to rest, and was thrown directly into the battlefield by Major General Kasimov to resist the advance of the Cossack cavalry!
The addition of the new force has further strengthened the defense line of the five Central Asian tribes, and it has become very difficult for the Cossack cavalry to break through the defense line of the five Central Asian tribes! And over time, the consumption of the body also began to intensify, and the combat power of these Cossack cavalry was greatly affected.
With the arrival of the 5th Cossack Cavalry Brigade, the cavalry units of the other five Central Asian tribes also rushed to the battlefield one after another! The scales of victory began to tilt in favor of the five Central Asian tribes!
At half past 10 in the morning, after several hours of fighting, the Russian 7th Cavalry Corps was no longer able to defeat the cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes. Because the cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes rushed to the battlefield! 1st Uzbek Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Kurman Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Tajik Cavalry Brigade, 6th Kazakh Cavalry Brigade. The addition of these new forces completely shattered the Cossack cavalry's hope of victory!
Lieutenant General Sergei saw no hope of victory and had to order a retreat. By this time, the Russian 7th Cavalry Corps had already lost tens of thousands of people. The remaining Cossack cavalry was also exhausted from hours of fierce fighting! Many brave Cossack cavalrymen even rolled up their swords in their hands!
The Cossack cavalry wanted to escape, how could the cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes let them do so, and under the orders of Major General Kasimov, the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes launched a pursuit of the Cossack cavalry!
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the Kazakh 7th Cavalry Brigade and the Uzbek 2nd Cavalry Brigade rushed to the battlefield, and more than 16,000 people from the two brigades blocked the retreat of the Russian 7th Cavalry Army, a total of 13 cavalry brigades, surrounded the remaining 10,000 people of the Russian 7th Cavalry Army. Even in the midst of their predicament, these brave Cossack cavalry did not surrender, but fought desperately!
The fierce battle continued until the afternoon, when the Russian 7th Cavalry Corps was completely annihilated, and except for a few Cossack cavalry who escaped, the rest were killed by the cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes, including Lieutenant General Sergei. The 7th Cavalry Corps of the Russian army also surrendered, but the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes refused their surrender, and all Russians would be killed by them! Under such circumstances, the Cossack cavalry knew that there was no hope of survival, and fought desperately one after another, causing a lot of casualties to the cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes!
In this battle, the Russian 7th Cavalry Corps was completely annihilated, and the only rapid mobile unit in the hands of Grand Duke Nikolai was eliminated. The losses of the five Central Asian tribes were not small, in this battle, a total of more than 20,000 cavalry were killed, and tens of thousands were seriously wounded. This is still the situation that they occupy almost 4 times the advantage of troops, if the forces of the two sides are equal, the cavalry troops of the five tribes in Central Asia have absolutely no hope of victory! Among them, the Kazakh cavalry and the Tajik cavalry suffered the heaviest losses. However, even so, the final victory still belonged to the five Central Asian tribes. After the 7th Cavalry Corps of the Russian Army was wiped out, the Russian army had no way to stop the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes from wreaking havoc on the Siberian Plain!
Similarly, this battle also became a turning point in the Battle of Siberia, and the Russian troops in the Siberian Plain, and even the whole of Russia, were wiped out step by step after this battle! (To be continued......)