Chapter Fifty-Four: The Narrow Road of Armageddon Meets the Brave, and the Brave Win
After nightfall, the Russian army was slightly relieved, and Grand Duke Nicholas originally wanted to use his army to take turns to fight the Chinese army in wheel warfare, but the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Chinese army really played a charge role of less than 100,000, and most of them were just guns in the back, so the role of wheel warfare was not very large. What's more, he also had to let the soldiers keep their bodies to deal with the attack of the Huaxia army at night, and the situation at night was not like the daytime, at that time they were completely in the light and the Huaxia army was in the dark, so they had to deal with it carefully.
People are iron rice and steel, if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic, the Tsarist Russian army can also take turns to eat, and the attacking Chinese army has to relax the attack and let some of the soldiers eat, so the attack of the Chinese army at dinner time has weakened significantly, and the whole day has been attacking, and it is strange that you are not hungry. The tanks that were sprinting at the front also began to slowly retreat, and on the top of the back, they had to replenish ammunition and fuel, so the engines that had been working all day had to stop and rest, after all, Huaxia's engine technology was not very advanced.
"The report, an urgent telegram was sent from above, asking us to take advantage of the opportunity of the all-out offensive of the Chinese army to achieve victory as much as possible, and we must not let go of any opportunity, and also said that we must trust the intelligence ...... intelligence of the intelligence officers."
"Nonsense, what do they know, don't command blindly if you don't understand the situation on the battlefield, the Chinese army will be stupid enough to leave an empty rear for us to sneak attack? Do you really think that the success of the first few sneak attacks came so easily? Grand Duke Nikolai interrupted directly without waiting for the correspondent to finish, he also knew that there was a meaning of his nephew in it, but was it really as they said, obviously not.
"But how to get back to the country, it seems that the country is already very dissatisfied with the defeat of the first trench, if we don't achieve a partial victory......" Archduke Nicholas's henchman frowned and did not say, although he only said half of it, but he knew that his commander would understand.
Nikolai said with a straight face: "Hmph! I am not a politician, now I am just a soldier, just do my duty, I can't be greedy for small things. If this war fails, who will come out to intercede for me, and I am not the one who bears the black pot! ”
The nearby officers didn't dare to speak, they all came to Outer Mongolia with Grand Duke Nicholas, and they knew much more about the Huaxia army than the reinforcement generals behind, and the more this happened, the more they felt the same way as the Grand Duke's words. Fortunately, all the people present were the henchmen of Grand Duke Nicholas, otherwise there would be no shortage of such people anywhere.
"To put it bluntly, isn't it just going to attack the base camp of Huaxia, I'll give it to the soldiers, maybe they can really achieve some victories, alas!" Grand Duke Nikolai thought for a moment and sighed. He thought that it might not be a good thing for Irry and other people who didn't deal with him or didn't cooperate with him to get out, better than if they kept talking about it in the base camp and ruining the unity of the army, without whom he could command the battle without worry.
Then Grand Duke Nicholas directly ordered an army of 100,000 to attack the base camp of Tsarist Russia that night, sending troops from the left and right, Airray and others led a team of 50,000 people to set off from the left, and the Grand Duke's henchmen also led 50,000 troops to set off from the right.
Admiral Irry wanted to go, but when he saw that it was 50,000 men, he didn't want to go, but he didn't dare to disobey the order of Grand Duke Nicholas, so he had to pick half of the old and new soldiers in the army and set off. As for Nikolai dividing the army into two parts and arranging for his henchmen to lead a team, he did not believe that there would be any results, and only wanted them to test the Chinese army.
The two teams that attacked the Chinese army set off in the starry night when the Chinese airship troops could not reconnoitre, because they were afraid that they would be discovered, so neither army had torches, and the semi-circular moon was enough for them to see the road, fortunately, the people of the Tsarist army here had long been familiar with the road, otherwise they really couldn't find the direction.
The large army of the Chinese army launched a strong attack again immediately after replenishing, although the moonlight in the sky was a little bright, but after all, the Chinese army in the dark had the advantage, wave after wave of attacks came like a tide, and the casualties of the Tsarist army rose in a straight line.
During the day, part of the passages were already bombed out, and when the bombardment was repeated at night, the Tsarist army was a little struggling, because more and more passages were bombed out, and they needed a large number of soldiers to block these passages, and the supplies of ammunition and so on in the back could not keep up with the consumption at all.
After a night of fighting, the Chinese army still couldn't break through the minefield to occupy the trenches, but it was not too late to break through, the minefields had been bombarded everywhere, and the soldiers of the Tsarist Russian army couldn't keep up, too many people were crowded in the trenches, and there was very little room for the guide to move.
Admiral Irry walked reluctantly all night with more than 50,000 men and horses, and they had already walked a long way at dawn, and the soldiers who had been on the road all night were very tired and were resting at this time.
Although the number of people is a bit small, it is already very suitable for Al Rui, as long as he runs away with this army and detours around the territory of the empire to rush back to the base camp, he will not really attack the base camp in Huaxia, he doesn't want to joke with his life. Last night, he secretly let the soldiers who led the way deliberately deviate from the route and made a long detour, but fortunately he brought his own veterans and some recruits, which did not cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers.
"Report to the general, there is a Chinese army in front, the number is equal to ours, the enemy has also discovered us, please make it clear to the general!" A scout shouted as he rode up to Ari on his horse.
"What, Huaxia Army, how is it possible? Hurry up and get the soldiers ready, the time has come for meritorious service, hahaha! "Admiral Irry was surprised at first, he had already deviated so much that he would encounter the Huaxia army, and it was obvious that the Huaxia army also wanted to sneak attack their rear. But soon he laughed, the Huaxia army with the same number as his own army was simply arranged by God for himself, as long as this army was annihilated, no one would blame him even if he didn't sneak attack the base camp, he really sent whatever he wanted, his luck was really great!
The Russian soldiers, who had just been very tired, were very alarmed when they heard that there was an enemy in front of them, especially the recruits, but when the officers said that it was a Chinese army about the same number as theirs, they were not so afraid, as the general said, now is the time for them to earn military merits.
Both the recruits and the veterans were very excited, and the Chinese army without tanks and airships had nothing to fear, after all, their physical qualities were much higher than those of the Chinese army.
Just when the Russian army was about to move, the Chinese army was very depressed, because they didn't expect to be discovered so quickly, and it seemed that they would not be able to complete the task.
"Don't telegraph the headquarters first, wait until the other party is annihilated, Niang Xipi, I can't imagine that Lao Maozi has the same plan as us, needless to say, we will kill them. Let the soldiers get ready, this time you must avenge Xiao Gaopo's revenge, Niang Xipi! Although Xiao Gaopo was lost, Jiang Fangzhen did not punish him very much, and let him lead the army to attack the base camp of the Tsarist Russian army.
Originally, Jiang Chongrui wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to redeem his merits, otherwise how could he go to see Jiangdong's father, but he didn't expect to meet the army of Tsarist Russia halfway, obviously he had deliberately detoured a little further according to the plan of the headquarters.
"Report to the general, the scouts found that several officers of the enemy army in front of them were actually involved in the sneak attack on the small high slope...... one of the soldiers ran over and said. Although it was very dark that night, under the light of torches, a large number of Chinese troops still saw those Tsarist Russian officers who had invaded Tsarist Russia, and Jiang Chongrui was one of them.
"Really? Niang Xipi, seeing that I didn't clean them up, I dared to appear in front of Lao Tzu. Jiang Chongrui picked up his binoculars and looked at the enemy troops opposite, and sure enough, he saw a few Russian officers who had attacked that night ordering the soldiers under him to do something.
This time, because it was to sneak attack the rear of the enemy army, the matter was very important, so it was basically veterans and no new recruits, so there was not much pressure in the face of the same Tsarist Russian soldiers, they were not only leading in tanks and airships, but also the weapons were not comparable to the Tsarist Russian army.
The two armies soon fought, and both sides were in a state of exhaustion, but the Chinese army had a cavalry of 5,000 men on the side, while the Russian army had no cavalry, and Grand Duke Nicholas would not send the cavalry Irry to death.
One is crazy to fight for the merits of the war, and the other is holding back the strength to avenge the comrades-in-arms who sacrificed for Xiao Gaopo.
"Bang! Bang! "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Gunfire rang out at the same time as agreed, and both sides were working hard to kill the other.
The Chinese army, which had a cavalry force, soon gained the upper hand, only to see that the Russian soldiers were defeated and retreated under the onslaught of the cavalry. General Irry couldn't have imagined that the Chinese army would be so powerful, and blamed the damned Nikolai for not giving him the cavalry, he already had the idea of retreating.
The Chinese army, which was all veterans, was obviously much better than the half-old and half-new Tsarist army, and the recruits of Tsarist Russia were all temporarily conscripted, and they had not undergone very systematic training at all, and some of them had not even killed anyone.
The recruits' faults were all exposed after the war began, and poor reflexes, poor psychological acceptance, and fear of war became the recruits' fatal shortcomings. After the start of the war, the Tsarist Russian soldiers did not have the consciousness of being knighted before, and some just had the mentality of leaving here quickly, and most of the recruits vomited out of bitterness when they saw the miserable battlefield conditions, let alone fight.
The Chinese army soon had a complete advantage, and the Russian army began to crumble, and General Airry and others were going crazy, shouting at the soldiers to attack or resist, but the soldiers retreated regardless of it.
"General, let's withdraw quickly, we won't be able to stop it!" Ari's henchmen tried to persuade each other.
Irry waited for the officers to speak, and he knew that the defeat had already been presented, and he regretted that he should not have only half new and half old soldiers, but all veterans, otherwise he would not be so wolfish.
Soon Airray and the others began to flee with a cadre of officers and soldiers, and the whole war only lasted for one morning, and the Russian army fled in a wolf.
Jiang Chongrui did not let the soldiers vigorously pursue, but stopped after chasing for a few miles, he still had important things to do, let them go first.
In the end, Airray and others rushed to the border with the remaining more than 20,000 people, their telegraph machine had been lost on the battlefield, and Airray wanted to reply to Grand Duke Nikolai after the war, so the news of Jiang Chongrui's army was not exposed.