Chapter 280: Jilin Victory
The Russians were destined to pay the heaviest price for their light enemies, but the Russians did not know this.
The attack of the Tsarist Russians was very sharp, and the Cossack cavalry, as an important force of Tsarist Russia, served as the vanguard of this offensive. Tens of thousands of sharp sabers glittered in the sunlight, tens of thousands of war horses neighed and galloped across the vast snowfield, and the horse's hooves hit the ground heavily, making the whole land tremble slightly, and the deafening sound of horses' hooves and shouting of killing was shocking.
But it's a pity that they encountered an opponent like the Tiger Ben Army this time, and such a shocking scene could only become the most heroic scene in the history of cavalry warfare in the end.
When the heroic and ferocious Cossack cavalry rushed to the position of the Tiger Army, they were greeted by overwhelming artillery fire.
The Tiger Army, which had long been ready for battle, gave the Cossacks the fiercest counterattack at the very beginning of the battle. As soon as the Cossack cavalry attacked, a burst of roars sounded from the artillery positions of the Tiger Army. More than 200 artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, and the dense shells with a piercing whistling sound, carrying the power of destroying the world, smashed into the charging ranks of the Cossack cavalry, setting off bursts of bloody storms.
In the violent explosion, the murderous Cossack cavalrymen were flipped on their backs, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere. But this qiē did not stop the heroic Cossack cavalry, but completely angered these Cossacks, aroused the most ferocious side in their hearts. The eyes of the Cossack cavalrymen immediately turned blood-red, and they continued to charge forward with loud shouts as if they were berserkers in a bloodthirsty state. Rushing through the enemy fire blockade and cutting off the heads of those yellow-skinned monkeys on the opposite side was the only thought on the minds of these Cossacks.
However, the Tiger Army did not give these Cossacks any chance, although many Cossack cavalry successfully broke through the artillery blockade of the Tiger Army, but when they approached the position of the Tiger Army, they were greeted by hot tongues of fire and a rain of bullets like splashing water.
When the Cossack cavalry rushed to a distance of several hundred meters from the position of the Tiger Army. The guns on the position of the Tiger Army were loud, light and heavy machine guns, and rifles were fired at the same time, and the bullets rained down on the Cossack cavalry, wantonly harvesting the lives of the Cossack cavalry.
Ren Chao, who was standing on the head of Jilin City to watch the battle, slowly put down the binoculars and sighed helplessly, "Hmph!" When artillery and machine guns were used on a large scale, the cavalry, which once swept the world, was doomed to the end of the road, and the cavalry was doomed to be eliminated by history. This has been proven on the Korean battlefield for a long time, but it has not yet attracted the attention of the world! ”
The outcome of the battle was already sealed, and the first round of the offensive launched by the Russian army ended in a crushing defeat. Of the tens of thousands of Cossack cavalry involved in the attack, less than 1,000 were successfully withdrawn in the end, and the rest all became cold corpses on the battlefield. With only a few hundred losses, the Tiger Army broke the once invincible Cossack cavalry and killed more than 10,000 Cossack cavalry.
After the battle. Looking at the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, Ren Chao said with a stern face, "Sue those reporters with the army, let them take a few photos." Let the people of the whole country take a good look at how our Tiger Ben Army broke the Tsarist Russian army, the old Mao Zi of Tsarist Russia is not as terrible as they imagined, and our Tiger Ben Army has enough strength to ensure the safety of every Chinese person's life. More capable of defending the country from bullying by any foreign enemy. Our people need such a hearty victory to boost their self-confidence that they don't know where to lose. At the same time, it also allows the people of the world to take a good look. We Huaxia are not the sick men of Dongye, and from today onwards, no one can imagine wantonly bullying Huaxia as in the past. This time, Ren Chao came to the Northeast and specially brought a few reporters with the army, not only reporters from several newspapers that Ren Chao had run successively, but also specially invited several foreign reporters from Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries to accompany him.
First of all, several newspapers in Shandong, Beijing, and Tianjin took the lead in publishing reports that the Tiger Ben Army had broken the Russian cavalry outside the city of Jilin. The first reaction of everyone who saw this report or heard about it was to widen their eyes and look in disbelief, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!" But the photos of the mountains of corpses have become ironclad evidence. In this era, there is no photoshop technology, and photos are the most convincing evidence, looking at the bloody photos, even those who don't want to believe it are forced to accept this fact.
Originally, there were some ill-intentioned people who wanted to take advantage of the war between the Tiger Ben Army and Tsarist Russia to make some small moves, but after getting the news again, all those who had such thoughts were forced to temporarily cancel the operation, and instead continue to hibernate and see the situation.
At the same time, some foreign newspapers also published this blockbuster news as quickly as possible, and this battle not only made the foreign powers have a fuller understanding of the strength of the Tiger Army, but also greatly affected the world's military reform. It was because of this war that countries around the world fully realized the important role of machine guns in modern warfare and began to vigorously promote machine guns in their armies. At the same time, the number of cavalry was gradually reduced, because it has been proved that this ancient branch of the army has gradually lost its original power and has begun to fall behind, and falling behind naturally means being eliminated. Not only these, but the criss-crossing trenches of the Tiger Ben Army have also aroused great interest from foreign military experts, and laymen naturally cannot see the vital role played by these inconspicuous trenches in the battle, but it is impossible for these military experts not to see this. It was also from this battle that trench warfare began to attract the attention of various countries.
"How is this possible?" In the yamen of the governor of Guangzhou, Li Hongzhang's result after seeing the telegram was the same as that of most people, and such a result was indeed a little unbelievable. According to Li Hongzhang's previous opinion, Ren Chao rashly started a war against Tsarist Russia, which was bound to be defeated. Even if you can get some small victories by luck, you can't escape the fate of final defeat, but this big victory outside Jilin City is not a fluke that can be said to be in the past. Breaking through the most elite Cossack cavalry of Tsarist Russia, killing tens of thousands of enemies, and his own losses were only a few hundred, Li Hongzhang was very suspicious of whether there was something wrong with his eyes. (To be continued......)