The next day passed. "Under the stubborn resistance of the Russian army, the volunteer battalion killed and wounded hundreds of people, and failed to take the two mountains in a night battle.

"Will this kind of thing work?"

In the early morning mist, Le Shan looked at the earthen tank in front of him with a questioning face. Leshan, who had lived and raised in Ili since childhood, did not understand this mobile bunker, which was invented during the brutal civil war. For the cover of two layers of quilt and one layer of felt blanket, after soaking in water, to resist the gun, it is a hundred people who do not believe it.

"Bang ......"

Liu Xian took a rifle and fired a shot at the Turkish tank. The first layer of felt carpet on the outside was unsurprisingly a small hole drilled by the gun, but the quilt inside only penetrated the first layer.

"This thing is commonly used by long-haired and twisted bandits, and it was also useful when I was fighting bandits."

Liu Xian looked at the rather bare high ground not far away, and regretted that he had not come to see the terrain in person. Otherwise, this trick should have been used in the attack last night.

But it's not too late. When the Russian soldiers on the hill kept hitting the earthen tanks one after another, but they didn't have the slightest effect, the panic and panic of the Russian army made their morale drop rapidly.

When more than 20 earthen tanks moved to a distance of less than 30 meters from the hill, a Russian officer jumped up, swung his saber and slashed downward, and all the Russian defenders charged down with bayonets.

The sound of the grenade explosion of "boom, ......boom, boom" grenade directly annihilated the shouts of nearly 100 Russian troops.

Behind the earthen tank, a squadron of volunteer battalion soldiers, after emptying the bullets, did not shy away from killing the Russian soldiers. In the following squad of pistolmen. Behind the fighters of the Follower Volunteer Battalion rushed into the ranks of the Russian army!

A fierce but not long-lasting battle. Pulling down more than 30 wounded and corpses, the frustrated Russian army abandoned the hilltop position and retreated to the bottom of the mountain.

I wonder if Gochoev, the commander of the Southern Front of the Russian army at this time, will regret it? I regret that I have abandoned my martial arts - because of the killing and wounding of the volunteer battalion at the same time. The powder keg also killed and wounded a lot of the Russian army's own people. Gochoyev forbade the use of such tactics in the army again!

Liu Xian commanded the team and separated the two mountains. On the easternmost hill, the Russian army rained down bullets, but they couldn't 'trap' the soldiers of the volunteer battalion who were moving slowly with earthen tanks. The defeated Russian soldiers on the middle hill were blocked by the volunteer battalion and could not merge into the bullet train hill, but could only turn back to the Russian camp.

Two of the three highlands have been occupied. Liu Xian is sure that the Russian army camp will be short of water this afternoon!

Non-stop, the two teams of Xu Dongshan and Leshan charged towards the high ground on the east side. Although there are still a lot of vegetation and abrupt rocks in this highland, it is not as bare and smooth as the middle highland. But the soldiers are in a team of two or three people, draped in felt blankets and quilts, and they are also 'dirt tanks'!

The defenders on the eastern high ground did not lose their fighting spirit because of the defeat of the friendly forces on the hill in the middle lane!

The Russian army fought very tenaciously from top to bottom.

Before. The volunteer battalion fought on the high ground in the middle, not counting the previous night battle, but only suffered thirty or forty casualties. And when they hit the high ground on the east side, no less than forty soldiers died on the hill just fighting with bayonets. The bloodshed of this battle. Compared with Xu Dongshan's previous battle to kill the prisoners, he didn't give up a cent.

If. If it weren't for Liu Xian who brought a squadron of personal guard pistols and threw them into battle, the battle on the high ground on the east side, the casualties of Xu Dongshan's brigade would never be smaller than the battle before.

And with the end of this battle as a sign, a series of offensive battles on the southern front were completed, and the hardest Xu Dongshan brigade of more than 400 people, only Qiang Qiang 134 could still stand and enter the battle at any time.

The situation of the Leshan brigade is better than that of Xu Dongshan, and the number of people does not exceed two hundred.

Thankfully, the battle between the two teams was only part of the battle. And a large number of the injured are the sick and wounded, not all of whom died. Otherwise. The two brigades of the Volunteer Battalion have long been out of combat. Like now, the remaining two or three hundred people are still full of fighting spirit. Because they know that the Russians are doomed!

The sniper unit was immediately thrown into the southern front, and some soldiers with better marksmanship in the volunteer battalion also moved with the snipers. A mini-rifle aimed at the water source of the Russian army. Chernyaev was ten years old in one day.

Throughout the afternoon, the Russian army failed to get a single water tanker, and lost ten water trucks and five or six lives in vain. At night, the watermill still could not succeed, it was too large and moving too much to hide from the snipers. The Russian army only relies on manpower to carry water, but this is purely a drop in the bucket. There were still about 1,000 people in the entire Russian army, three or four hundred wounded soldiers, and 800 war horses and pack horses facing upward, and the little water that was painstakingly obtained at night was simply not enough.

A person can go three days without food, but not three days without water. War horses can be wasted if they don't have water to drink for three days.

Chernyaev knew that he had failed. The Qing army didn't have to fight anymore at all, it only needed to trap itself for two or three days, and then it could easily march into the city and capture the prisoners.

There was only one possibility that could save the military careers of himself and others - and that was that the reinforcements sent by Governor Kaufman would arrive here in two days. But this is obviously extremely slim!

It had only been a few days since Chernyaev's troops arrived in Kolta, and they were in danger of total annihilation. The follow-up forces mobilized by Governor Kaufman may have just now entered the Seven Rivers State.

Liu Xian had already returned to the headquarters from the southern front. The order was handed down, and all the cavalry units were to be on combat alert and ready to attack.

He felt that the Russian army would definitely let the Cossack cavalry break through when it was forced to do so.

After all, the Cossacks stayed in the camp and waited for death, and if there was a lack of water for two or three days, the horses would not be able to run, and it would be difficult to break through when they poured. And the Cossack breakout would also reduce the need for drinking water in the camp. Therefore, the possibility of a Cossack breakthrough is extremely high, and the time of the breakthrough is today.

In the afternoon, the Cossack cavalry in the Russian camp began to assemble. Liu Xian could clearly see the direction of the Cossack assembly from the virtual map - to the north.

So a big net opened its 'mind' in the north, waiting for more than 600 Russian troops to break through to the door.

Chernyaev glanced at the cavalry in front of him, these Russian troops were not all Cossacks, and there were not so many Cossacks in the Russian army. Instead, a group of cavalry infantry joined in. Now the shape of the Russian army, that is, if you can highlight some, you can highlight some, and break through as much as possible!

The corners of Chernyaev's mouth were full of bubbles, and he couldn't sleep all night, and his eyes were bloodshot. Looking at the army in front of him, he didn't know how many people could finally escape from the encirclement of the Qing ** team. He wanted to say a few words to boost the morale of the soldiers, but when he opened his mouth, it was difficult for his throat to produce a syllable.

"Let's go—"

Half-loud, a dry word burst out of his mouth. A thousand words were combined into one sentence: "May the Lord bless you—"

Hundreds of snow-bright riding knives converged into a dazzling silver sea. Cossack Lieutenant Colonel Ilyich slashed towards the north and shouted loudly, "Brave Cossacks, brave soldiers, warriors of His Majesty the Tsar, for our own sake, charge—"

"Charge—"

Five hundred Cossack cavalry rushed to the forefront. One by one, they all raised their horses as fast as they could, and rushed towards the road that was destined to be a journey of death.

"Ulla—"

"Ulla—"

Slogans were shouted in the middle of the charging Russian cavalry group.

It seems that he was caught off guard by the sudden attack of the Russian army. The resistance of the expeditionary army on the northern front was not very fierce, and the guns and grenades left only less than fifty Russian cavalry.

Of course, the expeditionary armies that took the initiative to split both sides from the Russian army's impact point were also very slight.

The morale of the Cossacks soared, and their confidence grew. The northern front, which they thought would bleed heavily, came out so lightly, so what else could stand in front of them? Wielding their swords, they eagerly brought a touch of ease, urging the horses under their crotches to sprint quickly.

Therefore, when the rockets suddenly fell into the Cossack cavalry group, when the fierce two wings killed the cavalry of the expeditionary army, when the rows of expeditionary soldiers jumped out of the shallow tunnels, when the dense bullets continued to hit the cavalry ranks, the Russian army was in chaos.

One by one, the Cossack cavalry fell off their horses. Bullets, rockets, and a cavalry group threatened on both flanks, and Ilyich didn't know what to do for a while. Do you want to continue to lunge forward regardless of it? Or do you divide your forces to resist the enemy cavalry on both wings? Or send someone to clear the enemy's small artillery not far away.

"Whoosh-" In the sharp whistle, a deafening explosion of rockets sounded one after another in the Russian cavalry group. That's just too fast. Ilyich hated it in his heart. It's just that I've never seen such a thing as rockets, and I thought that the rocket team firing from hiding in the tunnel was a small cannon.

A "whoosh" sounded in his ears, and a projectile grazed Ilyich's cheek, shattering the head of one of his guards.

"Don't stop, don't stop, the Tatars are right in front of us. Let's rush up and tear them all to shreds, and send them all to hell—"

The most feared of indecision in battle. Every second of Ilyich's slow decision at this time will result in one or even several Russian casualties. Ilyich understood this, so he hesitated for only a few moments before deciding to continue the charge. Rushing away from the Qing infantry not far away--

The sound of gunfire rang out like fried beans, and under the strong resistance of the entire Qin infantry brigade, the Cossacks under the constant bombardment of rockets, wanted to break through the infantry line, how easy was it?

The gunfire did not stop for a moment. The Cossack cavalry, who rushed to the front, fell in rows, and bloody corpses fell to the ground. (To be continued......) R527