694 Artillery chariots fierce cavalry
The Russian cavalry wanted to attack Beijing and cross the Great Wall, which was not difficult for the Russian army, because after the Qing court fled to Xi'an, the defenders of the Great Wall withdrew, and the Huaxia Army did not occupy the Great Wall, and the Great Wall was not garrisoned at all.
The reason why Lin Fei did not order the troops to occupy the Great Wall was because the Great Wall was too long, the Huaxia Army was insufficient and unable to garrison it, and there was no need to garrison the Great Wall.
On 5 July, Japanese envoy Gentaro Kodama and Qing envoy Li Jingfang came to Ulabaatar, the capital of the Mongol Empire, to meet with the Russian envoy to the Mongol Empire, Isinlovsky.
The three of them sat together and discussed the matter of marching into China, Li Jingfang first said: "At this time, the situation in our Qing Dynasty is already precarious, Henan, Jiangsu and other provinces have fallen into the hands of the Chinese State, and I hope that Russia's friends will help as soon as possible, and our Qing Dynasty is willing to send guides to assist the Russian Empire in sending troops." ”
Isinlovsky nodded slightly, "Mr. Li Jingfang, please rest assured, our Emperor His Majesty has issued an order for us to dispatch a large number of elites to aid the Qing Dynasty. ”
"What troops do you plan to send?"
"Since our Russian Empire is relatively far away from the Qing Dynasty, all our cavalry this time is cavalry, and the cavalry consists of two parts, one is our Russian Cossack cavalry, and the other is the Mongolian cavalry of the Mongol Empire."
"The Cossack cavalry is also going to be dispatched?" Li Jingfang's eyes widened, and he was pleasantly surprised.
Isinlovsky smiled smugly, "Of course, it is the responsibility of the Cossack cavalry to rescue friendly countries. ”
"Great, I have long heard that the Cossack cavalry is one of the strongest in the Russian Empire, and as soon as this cavalry comes out, the ghosts of the snitches will definitely die without a place to be buried." Li Jingfang's face was full of flattering smiles, and Isinlovsky was very proud.
At this time, Kodama Gentaro asked on the side: "May I ask Mr. Isinlovsky, how many Cossack cavalry and how many Mongol cavalry does your country plan to send?" ”
"We plan to send 20,000 Cossack cavalry and 50,000 Mongolian cavalry, so many troops should be enough to defeat the Huaxia army."
Gentaro Kodama shook his head lightly, "Mr. Isinlovsky, the Huaxia Army now has a brand new weaponry, and it is not afraid of bullets, since it is not afraid of bullets, it must not be afraid of cavalry bows and arrows and sabers." ”
When Isinlovsky heard Gentaro Kodama say this, his heart was immediately quite unhappy, although Japan and Russia had ceased war, but the hatred forged by more than a year of war had not yet dissipated, and he did not have a good impression of the Japanese.
Isinlovsky's voice was cold, "We already know about this brand new weapon, isn't it an armored truck?" The Qing army's operations have proven that this kind of thing is defenseless against our grenades, and we can destroy them with grenades. ”
Gentaro Kodama smiled and shook his head, "You think the Huaxia Army is too simple, their brand new weapon is not an armored truck, and we don't know what that weapon is, but we know one thing very well, that is, this kind of thing is not afraid of grenades at all, otherwise our first division will not suffer a fiasco." ”
Isinlovsky snorted disdainfully, "That's the first division of your army, if it were our cavalry, it would definitely not have suffered a crushing defeat." ”
Gentaro Kodama knew that Isinlovsky was a proud and arrogant guy, so he didn't argue with him, just nodded slightly, but secretly sneered in his heart, waiting to see the tragic situation of the Russian cavalry being abused by the Chinese army.
Next, Isinlovsky asked Li Jingfang and Kodama Gentaro to explain the situation of the Huaxia Army to the Russian army, and then ordered the Russian Lieutenant General Madrahsky, led the Russian cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry, to kill the city of Beijing.
Madrahsky, a cavalry officer, was extremely superstitious about the fighting power of the Cossack cavalry, and he believed that as soon as the Cossack cavalry was dispatched, the Chinese army would be heavily damaged, and Beijing would be theirs at that time.
Madrahsky also promised his subordinates that when the city of Beijing was breached, he would rob it for three days and three nights, and then he could kill people and rob things when he saw them.
On July 10, the Russian army arrived at the front line of the Great Wall, and under the leadership of the Qing army guides, crossed the Great Wall and marched towards the city of Beijing.
Although Lin Fei did not send troops to garrison the Great Wall, he deployed a large number of scouts and militia on the front line of the Great Wall to closely monitor the Great Wall.
At this time, the headquarters of the Northern Front Army of China was located in Beijing, and Li Mingming also personally sat in Beijing to command, and Lei Guang also led the 1st Armored Division back to Beijing.
After the 1st Armored Division solved Li Yuanhong, it was not stationed at Shanhaiguan, because the area around Shanhaiguan was mountainous and the terrain was dangerous, and it was enough to have infantry defense, and there was no need for invading artillery and chariots to assist in defense.
When Li Ming heard that tens of thousands of Russian cavalry were attacking Beijing, he immediately ordered the 1st Panzer Division and the 901st Division to resist.
On the morning of 11 July, the First Armored Division was stationed in a small city called "Mingyuan," and when he learned that the Russian cavalry was still more than 50 kilometers away from the small city of Mingyuan, Lei Guang immediately decided to meet the Russian cavalry outside the small city of Mingyuan.
Because the artillery chariot of invasion has an absolute advantage in the face of cavalry, Lei Guang did not plan to use any strategy to win, he just wanted to use the troops to push over and directly confront the cavalry.
At three o'clock in the afternoon of 11 July, 200 invading artillery and combat vehicles of the 1st Panzer Division lined up on the plain, waiting for the attack of the Russian cavalry, and soon the Russian cavalry appeared in front of them.
Madrahsky was not afraid of the plundering artillery chariots, he raised his saber in the air, and slashed at the predatory artillery chariots, and the first group of Mongol cavalry rushed out, directly on the left and right flanks of the 1st Panzer Division, as if to surround the 200 predatory artillery chariots.
Lei Guang's plundering artillery chariot fired a red signal flare, which was the signal for all the plundering artillery chariots to fire cannonballs, and the two hundred predatory artillery chariots immediately fired cannonballs, and the smoke of the cannonballs directly enveloped the cavalry.
The wind blew away the smoke, and at the same time blew bursts of strong bloody gas onto the positions of the Russian army, and then looked at the Mongolian cavalry in the smoke, which was extremely miserable.
The first group of Mongolian cavalry had a total of 1,000 people, and these 1,000 people could not see anyone standing at all, not only could they not see anyone standing, but they could not even see the living horses standing, and the whole open space was full of bloody corpses, and the corpses had been piled up into piles of flesh and blood, and from time to time there were dying people or horses wriggling in the pile of corpses, which was terrifying.
Maderahsky was stunned, he didn't expect the brand-new weapons of the Huaxia Army to be so powerful, it seems that the Japanese envoy Gentaro Kodama is right, these new weapons of the Huaxia Army are indeed not easy to deal with, no, impossible, what the Japanese look difficult to deal with, in the eyes of our Russian Empire, is nothing at all.
The arrogant Madrahusky ordered the second and third Mongol cavalry to outflank the left and right flanks of the marauding artillery chariots, and the two Mongol cavalry teams divided to the left and right, and directly outflanked the 1st Panzer Division.
Lei Guang saw that the enemy army used the tactics of outflanking left and right, and did not divide the troops to fight according to common sense, but fired two red signal flares and one green signal flare, which was the signal of the first armored division to "launch an attack", and two hundred invading artillery and combat vehicles actually rushed directly to the Russian army formation with more than 70,000 cavalry.
The artillery chariots of the invasion roared, kicking up the dust, like a tiger descending the mountain, pounced on the Russian army formation, and the opposite side of Madrahsky saw this scene, and couldn't help but tremble all over, just two hundred strange guys, dare to attack our army of tens of thousands of people, these people are crazy.
There are two forces under the command of Madrahsky, one is the Mongolian cavalry, the other is the Cossack cavalry, of which the Mongolian cavalry is good at cavalry shooting, they use compound bows, the range is as high as more than 400 meters, a rain of arrows is enough to scatter the enemy, the Cossack cavalry is good at charging with sabers, they rely on the knife fast horses, like to directly impact the opponent's military formation, after a period of slashing, the opponent's military formation will be wiped out.
So Madrahsky ordered the Mongol cavalry to outflank the left and right and fire at the plundering artillery chariots with feathered arrows, while the Cossack cavalry charged head-on and killed the predatory artillery chariots with sabers and grenades.
As soon as Madrahsky's order came out, the Russian cavalry immediately moved and quickly surrounded two hundred plundering artillery chariots, but Lei Guang had no fear and led the invading artillery chariots to rush directly to the high slope where Madrahsky's headquarters was located.
The feathered arrows of the Mongol cavalry clanged down on the plundering artillery chariots, but they could not hurt the predatory artillery chariots in the slightest, and the Cossack cavalry rushed to the predatory artillery chariots with their sabers raised.
Every plundering artillery chariot fired a machine gun, and the first thing they attacked was the Cossack cavalry that attacked head-on, and countless bullets hit the horses, and the scene of these deformation bullets hitting the horses was even more terrifying, because the horse's body was very long, so the bullets would explode very wide, and the horse's back and stomach were full of small holes, and blood mixed with broken internal organs flowed out of these small holes......
The fragments produced by the explosion of the bullet also shot the cavalry on horseback, and the fragments were shot under the crotch of the cavalry, from the back or back, and some even broke people in two......