Due to the existence of the second minefield, the Chinese army temporarily stopped the attack on the Tsarist Russian army, and there are many reasons for this, and it is not known how many minefields are one of them.

Ma Qi and the others of the Third Huaxia Group are now discussing how to break through the opponent's minefield without causing too many casualties among the soldiers.

"Commander, I don't believe that Lao Maozi will have so many mines to bombard our artillery and airships on the entire distance to Lao Maozi's defense line, so that we can get a safe road, and with this road we can break through their defense line." A high-ranking officer built yì said.

After hearing this, everyone present began to think about the officer's construction, and after a while, Major General Li Dong shook his head and said, "No, do you know how much ammunition you need in your way?" If there is not enough ammunition, how can we carry out the war in the future, but there are still hundreds of thousands of old Maozi reinforcements behind. This is still Lao Maozi's first line of defense, and there are several lines of defense behind it, and it is really undesirable that the first line of defense uses so much ammunition. ”

"Lao Maozi's mines will definitely not be too many, after all, not only we have a second minefield here, but the headquarters has also encountered this situation, which means that Lao Maozi will definitely not be able to fully arrange the minefield.

So I sent a small part of the cavalry to test the length of the minefield and see where they were arranged. Where the mines are more sparse, so that you can start with their weak points. Ma Qi knocked on the table and said.

The officers were not surprised to hear that this was also happening in the middle army, and it was not surprising that the middle army, which was attacking as the main force, had also appeared here. However, they also heard what Ma Qi meant, Lao Maozi's mines are also on the middle side, even more than here, which means that Lao Maozi does not have more mines in a comprehensive layout, and it will definitely be short.

"This method is good, but if we try it comprehensively, it will definitely be discovered by Lao Maozi's army, so I suggest that we attack head-on while letting people test it, after all, their forces can't be fully monitored. I have another way, but I don't know if it's feasible, that is, let our old Maozi soldiers who were captured before go to the minefield, although this is inhumane, but it is also a good way. A senior officer said that many of the officer's fellow villagers were killed by Lao Maozi, so he hated Lao Maozi very much.

Ma Qi looked at the officer, and then said very sternly: "This will completely destroy the image of the empire, and I will not allow this." The people watching the war from all countries will arrive soon, and if such a thing spreads, it must be known to everyone that everyone must know that they must not do things that harm the interests of the underground palace for their own selfish interests.

The headquarters has just given us an order, let us do our best to break through the southwestern defense line of the Tsarist Russian army, and then flank the main force of Tsarist Russia with the headquarters. ”

Although it is good to use prisoners to fill in the minefields, there will be great hidden dangers, and many officers agree with the commander's words, this kind of thing is despicable, so it is best not to touch it.

In the end, we could only send cavalry to test around according to what Ma Qi said, and breaking through the defense line of the Tsarist army as soon as possible would also make our future a little brighter, and it would be difficult for the officers of the Third Army not to be in a hurry.

In order to support the cavalry's mine-detection operations, the Third Army launched an attack on the Tsarist Russian line, slacking off the enemy while trying to find a way.

The actions of the Chinese cavalry in detecting minefields could not be concealed from the Russian army, but those Russian soldiers who saw the movements of the Chinese cavalry did not pay too much attention, and occasionally laughed at the stupidity of the Chinese cavalry when they were bombed by mines.

In the end, after paying the lives of more than a dozen cavalrymen, he finally mastered the weak points of several Tsarist minefields, for which the entire Tsarist army did not know that it was about to be breached.

Lieutenant General Mars was now very anxious, because the offensive of the Chinese army was getting faster and faster, and he didn't know how long the mine array he had arranged could be blocked, so Grand Duke Nikolai gave him a death order to hold the southwest defense line, and said that more mines and grenades would be delivered.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The Chinese army began to attack again, and the frequency of attacks became faster and faster, which made the soldiers of the Tsarist army very tired, after all, their number was less than half of the Chinese army, and Lieutenant General Mars thought that this was a tactic used by the Chinese army, in order to make them not stop, to put it bluntly, they were tired to death.

"General, it's not good, the cavalry of Huaxia is attacking the weak places of our mines, and several weak places have been attacked, and our cavalry is blocking it, but the situation is not very good." An officer said in a panic as he ran up to Lieutenant General Mars.

"How is it possible, how can the Huaxia army know those weak points? Are you lying about the military? Lieutenant General Mars asked incredulously.

"General, it should have been detected by the Huaxia cavalry, yesterday our soldiers saw the Huaxia cavalry going to contact the minefield, thinking that the Huaxia cavalry was here to send them to death, but they didn't expect it to be a temptation. General, what should we do now, if we don't drive the Chinese cavalry out of those weak points, we will be defeated. ”

"Damn, where are the mines that the Grand Duke had brought in now? Let the soldiers bring grenades and prepare to die with the Chinese cavalry, and they must hold out until the Grand Duke's supplies are here. "Lieutenant General Mars can't care so much now, the Grand Duke has already given a death order, and if he can't keep it, he will definitely go to court martial.

"Yes, General!"

Lieutenant General Mars now finally knows why the Chinese army is attacking more and more frequently, too cunning.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The Chinese airship unit once again came to the sky above the Tsarist Russian army to bomb, and Lieutenant General Mars lay on the ground and did not move, because he was near a target that was being bombed, and if he was not careful, it would affect him.

After bombing for a while, the Huaxia airship troops flew away, Mars stood up and looked at the direction in which the airship flew and shouted: "Oh no, the Huaxia airship troops have gone to support those cavalry, come and prepare to retreat, we must withdraw from these lines of defense and enter the last high ground." ”

After hearing this, the tired Tsarist soldiers burst out with terrifying power, and they frantically ran towards the high ground in the rear, the Chinese army was so powerful that they had to run if they didn't want to die.

As expected by Lieutenant General Mars, the Huaxia cavalry, with the help of the airship troops, quickly killed the Russian cavalry and rushed into the defense line, and the defense lines were broken one by one, and the cavalry was followed by a large number of infantry.

The frontal Chinese army easily broke through the minefield after the retreat of the Russian army, and the Russian defense line was fully broken by the Third Army, and Lieutenant General Mars led less than 30,000 men to retreat on a high ground, which had been surrounded by the Chinese army.

The Russian army on the high ground was very panicked, because the materials on the high ground were very small, only more than 20,000 people could live for three days, and there was no water source. Lieutenant General Mars did not expect to be breached so quickly, so he did not store supplies on the high ground beforehand.

The airship troops had been bombarding the high ground, and the Huaxia army surrounded by the high ground had not attacked, and Ma Qi didn't want to waste their ammunition here again.

At this time, a fierce war of words was going on on the heights, and Lieutenant General Mars believed that he should not surrender, even if he died in battle, it did not matter, because Grand Duke Nicholas gave an order to die, and if he surrendered, he would definitely die if he was redeemed, and it was better to fight for the reputation of a hero. Others believe that they have to surrender, and that they will not survive only if they surrender, and that they will not be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive, and that it is impossible for them to fight to the death.

"Your Excellency, does your Excellency want all the warriors outside to die in battle? The Empire will surely understand our situation, is there any difference between us and the previous Coulomb form? After they surrendered, they heard that they were treated favorably by the Chinese army, and they were not abused, and the empire would definitely redeem us after the war, so why fight to the death? Mars's adjutant asked Lieutenant General Mars.

The adjutant didn't want to die, he still had a beautiful wife and children waiting for him at home, and this time he came to the Far East just because the family arranged for him to come to gild, so as to earn enough capital in this war, but he didn't expect to end up like this.

In the Tsarist Empire, there were very few officers without background, and this time there was more than one adjutant who came to the Far East to gild, and a third of the people present were gilded.

After the noble officers surrendered, the empire would definitely come forward to redeem them, after all, these people were all from those big families, as long as they put pressure on the empire together. As for the problem of punishment, there is no problem, as long as the family activities can basically be solved, after all, it is not only they who surrender.

Lieutenant General Mars also knows what these people have in mind, but he is just talking, it is not easy for him to get into this position, who would want to die. As for the death order of Grand Duke Nicholas, who cares, maybe he will have to go back to retire after the war, and the current war situation is enough for him to eat a pot, not to mention the fall of his old enemies.

"Okay, surrender, we surrendered for the lives of many soldiers, it was decided by everyone together, just sign this name." Lieutenant General Mars brought a pen and an envelope of paper from his own henchmen.

Everyone who heard this cursed the old fox in their hearts, but at this juncture, they didn't care anymore, and directly signed their names.

After a while, the white flag was raised on the high ground, and the Tsarist army on the southwestern defense line surrendered, and before the surrender, at the request of the Chinese army, no telegram was sent to Grand Duke Nicholas, and the radio was also handed over to the Chinese army, who wanted to use this to obtain preferential treatment from the Chinese Empire.

After the surrender of the Russian army on the high ground, Ma Qi immediately sent a telegram to Jiang Fangzhen to report the good news, and asked the Russian telegraph personnel to continue to send a telegram to the Grand Duke Nicholas as usual to report the situation. After contacting Mars, Ma Qi knew that a team of Tsarist Russia transporting supplies was about to arrive, so he immediately arranged for the Tsarist army to cooperate with them to kill this team to avoid exposing the matter.