As if to give guidance to the Cossacks, grass-green military uniforms were seen in several places. The men were carrying rifles and didn't know how to get to that position. Anyway, soon after the Cossacks appeared, the figures leaped into the unfinished ditches with skillful movements, and then disappeared from the Cossacks' view.

"Catch up. With our sabers, cut off the head of that Chinese coward! Rostov yelled.

Cossack cavalry in the early thousands, this is the number of soldiers under Rostov now. But before the Russian army crossed Mount Kulongkoy, Rostov-on-Don's Cossacks numbered 1,300 people.

The plains of the Ili River valley were empty, but the retreat routes of the Qin soldiers were carefully chosen, and they all stepped on them one after another. These men skillfully and fully used the topography and the unfinished water conservancy facilities to avoid the direct sight of the Cossacks.

But the wilderness doesn't have a continuous ditch to provide this kind of concealment all the time. It didn't take long for these people to be exposed again. Without saying a word, the Cossacks split up and chased after them. Some of these Cossacks also put down their guns. It's just that the soldiers of the Qin army don't run in a straight line when they run, they always run diagonally. The Cossack shots did not hit any of the targets. And after the Qin soldiers heard the sound of shooting, they fled even more desperately.

The Cossacks made half of the sorties. More than 500 Cossacks divided into eight lines of pursuit.

The horses' hooves trampled on the field, and the Cossacks were at their most rapid pace. Although the soldiers of the Qin army were not slow, and they were all vigorous, the wide ditch jumped over with one stride. But two legs can't be compared to four legs after all. It didn't take long for the distance between the two sides to be within 100 meters.

Skobelev was carefully examining the map. Fingers dotted on the map, scrutinizing again. I didn't even look at the coffee brought by the attendant next to me.

Wait until a few dull explosions come from outside Tuckertown. Skobelev jerked his head up.

When the Russian infantry began to attack, and a team of several hundred people cautiously came to the six battlefields, the Russian army saw extremely bloody scenes. Either it is a large crater formed after the explosion of the mine, centered on one explosion point after another, scattered with complete or incomplete Russian dead and wounded. Or the dead corpses in a place, in the pile of dead corpses, there are occasionally a few wounded soldiers and living war horses crying. This is obviously the result of being concentrated by bullets!

Eight pursuits, six battlefields, the results of Rostov are not known to be much, but the losses of the Cossacks have exceeded half of their overall number.

I haven't even touched the regular battlefield. For the first time in the history of Cossack warfare, a Cossack cavalry regiment lost half of its men. The enemy dispatched large forces, but these troops fled immediately after the first blow. Except for the footprints all over the ground, not even a single figure could be seen.

As far as the eye can see, the wilderness seems to be an endless sea, and the Russian army seems to be a small handful of sand. In the face of such a vast land, Skobelev's troops were not many. China is no better than the Three Khanates, and there are cities and towns here, if the Chinese wish. They only need to put a company of troops in a town, then they need to use at least one battalion of Russian troops to pull it out. How many cities are there in the entire Three Khanates?

Compared with taking a small city, which is equivalent to controlling Central Asia within a radius of 100 miles, Yili is another world.

……

"The Russians did not have many cavalry. This is Skobelev's biggest failure! ”

Wang Guosheng, who received the battle report, was very happy. Knocking out the Cossacks of the Russian army can turn the Russian army into a deaf and blind man. From Borohugir to Tucker. How many times have you been entangled? In total, two or three hundred Cossacks were killed. For this reason, the Qin army's infantry scouts also paid a lot of losses. As a result, Tucker just laid a trap and directly lassoed three or four hundred Cossacks. What made Wang Guosheng completely unexpected.

Compared with the morale of the Qin army's troops, the morale of the Russian army, which had shrunk slightly, was even lowered. The whole army seemed to be shrouded in a gloomy cloud. The advance of the large forces was temporarily halted in a defensive posture, and Skobelev also gave the order. It is forbidden to exchange words and spread news indiscriminately in the troops.

However, these bans are of little use. It should be known that the news of the defeat of the Cossacks soon became known. Knowing that most of the Cossack warriors who rushed to the forefront and chased the fleeing Chinese were ambushed, almost all the troops were wiped out on every road. This terrible fact was given to the Russian army like a blow to the head.

These Russian troops under Skobelev, in Turkey, in Central Asia, fought with countless enemies. The horse bandits and bandits of the latter did not dare to face the Russian army head-on, but constantly harassed, harassed, and harassed. But when has the Russian army ever suffered such a painful defeat?

My family knows my own business. The Cossacks who followed Skobelev eastward were all elite and experienced in combat, and when they found something wrong, they didn't even have a chance to turn back, which shows how fierce the Chinese's firepower was when they were ambushed.

The Chinese army so cleanly disposed of half of the Cossack cavalry regiment, which was not only unacceptable to the low-level soldiers of the Russian army, but also intolerable to Skobelev.

He then personally inspected the two ambush positions. The positions were mostly close to ditches, and a large number of individual bunker fortifications were hastily dug in the fields, and there were no trenches, and the number of bullet casings on the ground was negligible.

What do these traces indicate?

This shows that the Chinese soldiers are shooting accurately, and the commander is very confident. Dare to put the Cossacks at such a close distance from these individual bunker fortifications. The shortest of them does not even exceed fifty meters.

At such close distance, the Cossack cavalry was hit first by mines, and then suddenly the pursuing troops were attacked by a rain of bullets. More, the Chinese also used grenades in the battle, no wonder the duration was so short, and the Cossacks suffered so heavy casualties.

Several battles were not fought at the same time. Then after the other ambushes began, the pursuing Cossacks would definitely be vigilant, and two of the eight-way pursuers retreated, which is a clear proof. When the Cossack pursuing troops may have been alert, the Chinese soldiers could still fight so neatly, and Skobelev felt a chill in his back.

Even if you encounter such an encounter, it is just as bad.

……

At the most critical moment in the battle for Xinjiang.

The battle in Vladivostok is also coming to an end.

Although Vladivostok has a long history as a port, the history of Vladivostok as a fortress dates back only to 1875. In that year, the commander of the engineering forces of the East Siberian Military District, Colonel P.F. Winterberg, began to plan the construction of fortifications in this important port in the Far East, and his design was entrusted to Colonel V.P. Shirokov for implementation. A year later, the initial coastal defense works in Vladivostok were completed.

After that, the first commander of the engineering forces of the fortress, K.S. Chernok Nizhnikov, strengthened the coastal artillery positions, but the 10th Russian-Turkish war broke out when he was building the first permanent coastal fortifications in Vladivostok. All of Russia's energies were diverted to the Turkish battlefield, and the garrison in Vladivostok could not even be paid, let alone the permanent fortifications that Chernok Nizhnikov intended to build.

This stranding, the project has been stranded directly to the present.

Russia, exhausted from the Russian-Turkish war, threw its last bit of strength into Afghanistan, and simply could not raise funds for Vladivostok. The latter relied on a simple coastal artillery fortress to support their defenses.

When the war broke out, the Hengshan of the Beiyang Fleet of the Qin Army directly broke into the port of Vladivostok, and without much effort, the 239mm cannon swept away all the resistance of the Russian army. Then the Marines landed and took control of the port. The Russian army and militia units in Vladivostok confronted each other until the Qin army arrived by land.

Naval artillery is the biggest threat to the Russian army from the Qin army. Under the range of the 239mm heavy artillery, that is the territory where the Qin army can move freely.

No matter how strong a house is, it can't withstand the explosion of a 239 shell, and the same goes for cement fortifications. In the face of shells of this caliber, all the buildings in Vladivostok are as thin as paper paste, and the Russian army does not have the slightest strength to resist!

Therefore, in the face of the attack of the Qin army, just after three days, Vladivostok, a city that gathered eighty percent of the resistance forces in the entire Russian coastal area, became precarious.

It's dawn. The artillery position of the Qin army, thirty cannons aimed at the ruin-like Vladivostok and began to bombard again. Puffs of black smoke rose from the artillery positions.

With the column of smoke rising in all directions, the city of Vladivostok, where the shells fell, exploded with flames. Broken wooden beams were thrown straight into the air, and stones and bricks flew up all over the sky. The screams in the middle represent the blood of the Slavs, the Cossacks, the natives, the bannermen.

The entire Vladivostok was shattered in the explosion. The human flesh was extremely fragile in the face of the cannonballs, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the whole city was completely wrapped in dust and smoke.

The commander of the Siberian fleet, Statinovich, and the military governor of the Primorsky province, Tolbukhin, closed their eyes in agony. Now the two of them are the supreme commander of the city of Vladivostok, the governor of the Primorsky province and the mayor of Vladivostok. When the Chinese Navy captured the port of Vladivostok, Grigorievich was hit by artillery fire and left without bones. The first commander of the engineering forces of the Vladivostok fortress, K.S. Chernoknizhnikov, has also died at his post. Now the whole of Vladivostok is on Statinovich and Golovko. Tolbukhin had the final say.

But they would rather the one who died early be themselves.

In the face of an invincible opponent, in the face of an invincible enemy, what could be more depressing for a soldier than this? The two of them are just holding on to the death now, and if they don't have three meals a day, when the army and militia under their command can't hold on, they choose to surrender or die in battle with dignity.

The so-called conductor has long since ceased to exist. Vladivostok's current resistance is entirely spontaneous or mechanical.

Among them, the will to fight of Ding Zhuang, the banner man who came to settle in Vladivostok, is even more tenacious than that of the Russians. (To be continued......)