After a day's observation, the Chinese army fought against the Russian army, but did not launch a large-scale campaign.

Grand Duke Nicholas divided the more than 400,000 Tsarist Russian troops into three major parts, which were to deal with the attacks of the Chinese army in three major directions, of which the largest number of troops were deployed in the direction from Kulen, because the Chinese army here was the largest, and it was also the army directly led by Jiang Fangzhen, so he had to be cautious.

This time Grand Duke Nicholas began to implement the method of semi-defense and semi-offensive, and it could not be just passively defended like the previous times, they also had to attack, but not now.

At present, the two sides can be said to be testing each other, after all, they have not done their best preparations, so they are controlling themselves, trying their best to find each other's flaws, and then using these flaws to kill the enemy.

First of all, Ma Qi's Third Army launched an attack on the Tsarist Russian army, the first echelon was not a tank force, but the infantry rushed forward in the rain of bullets, and the infantry used those uneven terrain from time to time to dodge the attacks of the Tsarist Russian army.

As for why the first echelon was not his tank unit, it was because Jiang Fangzhen had already written out the experience of the battle at Kulun and sent it to several group armies and reinforcements that came from behind, in order to prevent another situation similar to Kulen's heavy tank losses.

"Dada~~~"

The Russian machine gunners immediately launched a counterattack as soon as the Chinese army came up, and after the declaration of war, the Russian soldiers were very crazy, even more powerful than the Russian army of Ser Usu and Kulen before.

When there was no declaration of war, most of these Tsarist soldiers were war-weary, and none of them wanted to fight for an irrelevant Outer Mongolia, so it was pointless and they died in vain. But now that the Chinese Empire has stepped into the territory of the empire, this is simply a shame for the arrogant Tsarist soldiers, their predecessors were basically victorious in the battle with the Manchus, and now they are being bullied into the territory, can you not be angry?

Looking at the Chinese soldiers who were rushing forward, these Tsarist Russian soldiers had a breath of anger, grenades and bullets all greeted the Chinese soldiers to death.

"Why are these old Maozi's firepower so fierce, Da Niu, Lao Huang, your marksmanship is good, give me a hard call to the old Maozi machine gunner, there is no machine gun to see how fierce they are, ahh

"Yes, platoon commander!"

Hiding behind a small dirt slope, several Chinese soldiers who were talking while shooting began to block the Russian machine gunners.

"Bang! Bang! ”

The machine gunners of the two Russian machine guns were shot in the head with one shot, and Hua Xia Da Niu and Lao Huang aimed and fired in one go, and then quickly ducked back to the small dirt slope.

The machine gunners of the Tsarist Russia fell, and soon someone made up for it, and some of the Tsarist soldiers tried to find a hiding place for the Chinese soldiers who shot, but they did not find it.

After a while, the two machine gunners who had just been made up were killed again, and at this time, some Russian soldiers found Da Niu and Lao Huang hiding behind the small dirt slope, and the machine guns swept towards this place in an instant.

"Xiuxiu~~~"

A pile of bullets hit the small dirt slope, splashing a large amount of dust, and several Chinese soldiers held their guns and did not move.

"Platoon commander, it looks like we're going to move to another place to hide, this place has been discovered, and this dirt slope won't last long for machine gun fire. You go first, Lao Huang and I cover you, and move quickly while we take out those machine gunners. Da Niu gritted his teeth and said, because his shoulder was grazed by the bullet just now, but he didn't say anything.

The platoon commander looked at Da Niu and Lao Huang very embarrassed, and then patted Lao Huang on the shoulder and said, "Lao Huang, you must bring Da Niu back, and we will go back to our hometown together." After speaking, he looked at the other soldiers and nodded, and those soldiers subconsciously tightened their guns a little.

Da Niu and Lao Huang quickly fired at the machine gunner again, and the two Russian machine gunners fell down in response, and the platoon commander and others took advantage of this opportunity to shoot the machine gun and then quickly moved to another smaller dirt slope that was a little bigger.

The Russian troops, who had lost two machine gunners again, were furious, and five Maxim heavy machine guns fired frantically at the small dirt slope.

"Dadada~~~Dada~~~"

Under the fire of five heavy machine guns, I saw that the small dirt slope was covered with flying dust, and after a while, the sound of bullets entering the body was heard, and both of them were shot.

Lao Huang and Da Niu looked at each other and then stood up and shot at the machine gun that was breathing fire, and the tongue of fire stopped abruptly, but the two were also hit by countless bullets because of this, and then slowly fell.

The platoon commander on another small dirt slope bit his lip so hard that he didn't know it even though he was bleeding, and tears welled up in his eyes. Several other soldiers, like the platoon commander, watched Da Niu and Lao Huang fall like this, and one soldier wanted to rush out but was held down by the platoon commander.

"Bastard, do you want them to die in vain? Are you worthy of them? The platoon commander slapped the soldier who wanted to rush and hugged his head and said.

The soldier jerked away and the platoon commander hugged the gun tightly, then gritted his teeth and cried, because Da Niu was his own brother.

"Boom~~~"

The cannons of both China and Russia rang out, but it was obvious that the artillery accuracy of the Chinese army was relatively high, and it was accurate to the machine gunners who were firing wildly. The Russian artillery shelled those small dirt slopes, and a small part of them missed, and some of them fell directly in front of the dirt slopes.

"The machine gun in front was killed by the artillery, let's take advantage of this time to kill his old hairy man and avenge Da Niu and Lao Huang."

"Rush! Come on! ”

The platoon commander and a few men rushed out of the small dirt slope, which was hit and blown up by Russian shells shortly after they rushed out.

"Bang!"

"Boom!"

The platoon commander immediately threw grenades into the crowd of Russian soldiers, and five or six Russian soldiers were blown up, and then they rushed up to replenish their machine guns and eliminate these enemies.

Many Chinese soldiers easily approached the position of the Tsarist Russia without the machine gunners blocking them, but when they were about to fight the Tsarist Russia hand-to-hand with a hundred meters, the sound of explosions sounded one after another, and a large number of Chinese soldiers were blown to the ground motionless.

This encounter made the Third Army, which had never been exposed to mine warfare, a little flustered, but it quickly calmed down, because after the mine warfare in Kulen, Jiang Fangzhen ordered the major group armies to carry out mine education work, and this education was very effective.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Chinese soldiers were blown up by the mines, Tsarist Russia hurriedly replaced the machine guns that were blown up, and the new machine guns fired at the Chinese soldiers who were close in front of them, which made a large number of Chinese soldiers lie down.

As soon as the machine guns on the Tsarist side began to sound, the Chinese artillery shelled them at a fixed point, and the Chinese soldiers who were already close to the Tsarist positions hurriedly took the opportunity to retreat and keep a certain distance from the minefield.

The Chinese army did not believe that Tsarist Russia would have so many mines to lay out such a long front, so they tentatively advanced to other places.

A part of the Chinese soldiers lined up and threw large stones or whole pieces of earth into the minefields under the cover of artillery fire from the rear, but the result was an explosion.

This result made Ma Qi very depressed, Tsarist Russia would have so many mines, if you want to clear these mines, it is very troublesome, only use grenades to detonate those mines, and then open up several ways forward.

But if you consume a large number of grenades at the beginning, you will suffer a lot later, and it will also lead to a heavy logistical burden, God knows how many mines there are in Tsarist Russia?

Ma Qi was still a little glad in his heart, fortunately, he didn't directly send the tank troops to attack, otherwise this loss would make him very heartbroken, and even destroy the tank troops.

Knowing that it could not advance, the Chinese Third Army quickly retreated, and they did not want to fill the minefield with the lives of their soldiers.

The situation encountered by the Third Army was quickly fed back to Jiang Fangzhen, and after Jiang Fangzhen saw it, he frowned and thought for a while, and then ordered the airship troops to send a few ships to support the Third Army.

Jiang Fangzhen reported this matter to Qin Yu, hoping that Qin Yu would let the intelligence department find out how many mines there were in Tsarist Russia, and how many of them were used in the Far East, and at the same time urge the empire to produce and research new types of mines.

After the Battle of Kulen, Jiang Fangzhen found intact mines in the surrendered Russian army, and then had some airships quickly transport to the empire for research.

The tentative offensive of the Chinese Third Army and the Tsarist Russian army then stopped, because they had not yet found a good way to deal with the mines, and had to wait for the airship troops to come and let them blast out a few roads.

The Russian army was very excited to see that it had successfully blocked the attack of the Chinese army, and the Grand Duke Nikolai also urged the domestic production of mines to be accelerated, and then more used in the Far East. In addition to this, he was also preparing to launch an attack on the Third Army in China, and it was always not a good idea to defend.