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Chernyaev had more than twenty artillery pieces with his army. Shells rained down on Cortasi. The five round forts there are like five red-hot iron ingots, constantly being smashed by heavy hammers. Every time the shell landed, there was a loud bang.

"Fire-" The face of the artillery squadron leader did not move at all, and his voice was as calm as a mountain, and the shells seemed to have hit his heart at all.

"Whoosh-" A dazzling bright light slanted up from Corta, illuminating the entire battlefield. It was already night, and Chen had given an order -- it was necessary to ensure that flares were lifted into the air every quarter of an hour.

This old-fashioned fireworks are the product of a combination of thunder mercury and chemistry!

Looking at the flares shining in the sky, a trace of solemnity flashed in Chernyaev's eyes, such things are ......, the Qing people actually have them, the Russian army, at least the Russian army in Central Asia is not equipped with it, is the Qing country really so decadent and backward? That's what he expected.

The five round forts were bombarded by artillery fire for a day, and I don't know how many shells hit them, but the thick stones, wooden stakes, and cement still kept them immobile in the flames of the explosion.

For the Russian army to take them, it will have to pay the price of blood.

A battalion of Russian infantry began to attack.

Another flare was fired, and a black patch of Russian soldiers appeared under the blue-white light.

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"Boom-"

There is no need for Chen Bo to give another order. The mortars in the five round forts began to be fired. And there are rockets in the position who are ready.

The darkness of the night was immediately illuminated by violent flames, and the heavy figures were already rushing to the front line.

"Boom, boom, boom......" was intense. But the sound of the explosion, which was much weaker than the power and sound of the shells, exploded in front of the position.

Chernyaev was again surprised, grenadiers. Really grenadiers!

He had heard the remnants of the defeated soldiers talk about this as early as when he was marching, but he didn't believe it, or thought that the remnants were exaggerating. The grenadier system has been obsolete in Europe for many years. Now with the continuous development of gun technology, grenades have almost disappeared from the European armies. It was not until the Russo-Japanese War in history that it re-emerged in positional warfare.

And now Chernyaev saw the power of the grenade and its effect.

Although now the grenade is bulky. And it's not powerful. But it's really good for positional trench warfare.

The Russian soldiers who rushed to the front immediately suffered heavy losses, and hundreds of grenades were thrown together, and the power of the explosion was enough for the Russian army to be caught off guard and write off their vanguard company.

Muskets followed.

But the Russian soldiers, who had been killed and wounded, still shouted 'Ula'. Assault on the forward positions. They are like magnets, attracting all the firepower. Rockets thundered and thundered down in their midst, stumps and severed arms stained the battlefield with blood, and shattered corpses accompanied by shattered rifles. Spilled everywhere.

Chernyaev crushed the telescope in his hand. The explosion of the grenade only made him turn blue. But the explosion of the rocket made his heart bleed.

"Every life of a Russian soldier is precious and cannot be wasted needlessly."

With a wave of his hand, Chernyaev ordered: "The follow-up troops will follow." Take the positions of the Qing army for me. ”

Man, already dead. Then let their deaths make more meaningful.

So Chernyaev did not withdraw his troops, but increased them.

Another infantry battalion was added, and not surprisingly, the Russians took the forward positions in Corta during the night. But because of the grenade and rocket attacks. The two battalions of the attacking Russian army suffered more than 200 casualties, while the losses of the expeditionary army in the defensive posture did not exceed one squad.

More than 200 people. One-tenth of the entire Russian army. However, they only took a small forward position, and there were five central positions with the core of the round fort waiting for their attack.

The Russian army has a pain in the head.

After the invention of the Mini rifle, it was not uncommon for the attacker to suffer more than four or five times more casualties than the defender in the tunnels. As long as the defending side is determined to fight, the attacker will bleed before the battle line.

In the middle and late stages of the civil war in the United States, there were more than one tragic battles to prove this. Although the current trench warfare is only a few straight lines.

After dawn, Chernyaev ventured into the forward position. After looking at the front left behind by the expeditionary army, a feeling of 'his hero and my enemy' arose.

The trenches in front of you are too advanced.

Compared with the straight tunnel trenches that the Russian army will also have, the effectiveness of facilities such as curved trenches and anti-artillery holes of the expeditionary army is definitely beyond the Russian army for an era.

Chernyaev suddenly realized at the anti-artillery hole, no wonder he couldn't knock out many people in the expeditionary army after a day of shelling. With this kind of curved trench and anti-artillery hole, even if the shells are just right into the trench, they will not cause much damage at all. Compared with the straight line trenches that were blown up one by one, the curved trenches and anti-artillery holes made the resistance of the expeditionary army to artillery fire simply doubled.

"Is this what the general of the Qing Empire on the other side came up with? That's amazing! ”

Chernyaev ordered the staff officers accompanying the army to draw out the layout of the entire forward position. Compared with the 'results' of the current war, this layout and what he learned from the war do not seem to be inferior to the land of Ili.

This is something that can change the combat effectiveness of the entire Imperial Army!

As a major general, Chernyaev knew very well that Tsarist Russia's own breech-loading gun had been finalized. Maybe next year, maybe the year after next, maybe the year after next, the year after that, all the millions of troops in Tsarist Russia will be replaced with the latest breech rifles. At that time, the power of the grenade and the effect of the curved trench will be extremely useful to the entire Imperial army.

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More than a dozen wounded people are lying in the medical camp behind Corta. Lodkin walked around the bed area for the seriously wounded, near the outer edge of the tabernacle that could catch up in the sun—the three men lying here were unlucky people who had just had an amputation and were missing a leg or an arm.

Two of the three were groaning crookedly, and one was silently weeping.

Lodkin doesn't pity them, and he doesn't feel like they're really pitiful.

First of all, he was a Russian military doctor, he was a Russian, he was captured in the previous battle of Guangren, and of course he would not pity these Qing soldiers who defeated them. If it weren't for Liu Xianying's promise that when he encountered a wounded Russian army, Lodkin and other Russian military doctors could do their best to treat him, he would not have appeared in Kolta at all.

Besides, Lodkin felt that their luck was good enough—if this was a European battlefield, even if an officer was not at the rank of colonel, and was so badly wounded, it was still a matter of two questions. The soldiers of the moment are definitely lucky enough! (To be continued......) R1292