In front of the base camp of the Chinese Third Army, the Russian cavalry was constantly attacking the tanks, because they simply could not get close to the daunting line of fire.

The Tsarist Russian army, which was only more than 40,000, was less than the Chinese army in terms of numbers, and even though the Chinese army was not very well prepared, it had more time to prepare with the help of tanks.

The casualties of the Tsarist cavalry were too great, the power of the Chinese tanks was not something that these cavalry could withstand, and the ammunition of the Tsarist cavalry was not very large, but the ammunition was exhausted after just over an hour, and the number of grenades was not very large, so it could only carry out rotational attacks, and then let part of the cavalry replenish the ammunition.

The Huaxia tank is not without supplies, but its ammunition carrying capacity is obviously more than a star and a half greater than that of the cavalry, and with the help of the soldiers behind, supply is not a problem for the time being.

After some of the cavalry went down to replenish ammunition, the pressure on the Chinese tank troops and infantry was instantly reduced a lot, and they launched a more fierce offensive against the Russian army, and more and more infantry behind joined the battle.

The Chinese tanks were galloping tirelessly, and the Russian cavalry had begun to be tired, which made the Russian cavalry feel very bad, and some of the cavalry had already thought of retreating.

"Boom~~~"

A louder roar came from the Huaxia base camp, only to see more than 30 bright tanks rushed out of the Huaxia army base camp, the original battlefield with only 30 tanks increased to 60 taels, although the front 30 have more than a dozen lost the ability to fight, but more than 40 tanks are absolutely enough.

Heavy tanks rushed up from behind, and they went on a rampage on the battlefield, directly running over the horses and bodies of the Russian cavalry, leaving only stumps and blood in the ground.

With the increase of the Chinese tank force, the Russian cavalry completely fell into the upper hand, the cavalry without ammunition and grenades kept retreating, and the mobility of those infantry was not as good as that of the cavalry, and those who were a little slower were shot or crushed by the machine gunners on the tank.

The Russian cavalry that was retreating did not have a good time, because they were still within the range of the tanks, and a large number of shells were fired at them, and those who could not dodge were directly killed.

The previously arrogant Russian cavalry is now scurrying around like lost dogs, and they have finally seen the power of tanks, and it is a big joke that 20,000 cavalry is no match for dozens of tanks.

In fact, only dozens of Chinese tanks could not beat them around at such a fast speed, and the Russian cavalry ignored their own light enemy and the merits of the Chinese infantry, after all, the tank at this time was just born, and if you are serious, you can still find more weaknesses of the tank.

With the increase of Chinese infantry and tanks, the battlefield appeared one-sided, the Russian army was defeated and retreated, and the cavalry was almost half killed and wounded.

Soon they received an order to retreat, which made them all breathe a sigh of relief, and the army of 40,000 was now less than half of the people, although the losses of Huaxia were not small, but there were definitely not so many.

Soon the Russian army began to retreat, dragging their tired bodies under the threat of death and bursting out with terrifying momentum, fleeing no more slowly than they had attacked.

Looking at the retreating Russian army like a tide, Ma Qi just asked the army to symbolically pretend to chase it, the dog will jump over the wall when it is in a hurry, not to mention that the current Chinese army is also very tired.

The top brass of the Third Huaxia Group, who successfully prevented the sneak attack of Tsarist Russia, were not excited, but only felt ashamed and sad for a while. If it weren't for their dereliction of duty, they wouldn't have just built a rudimentary defensive line, in the end, they believed in their own strength and speculation too much. Sadly, this time they lost tens of thousands of troops, about 10,000 on the frontal battlefield, nearly 20 tanks were severely damaged, and nearly 20,000 on the flank battlefield, which is not a small loss.

This was the first time that Ma Qi had suffered such heavy losses since entering Outer Mongolia, and although they had annihilated more than half of the Tsarist army, their responsibility in it was indispensable.

The Huaxia cavalry was collecting their sacrificed comrades, and they were not happy about the victory, on the contrary, a sad aura was spreading, and they could not bear the departure of ten thousand comrades, and then they realized why His Majesty did not let them directly become the Imperial Royal Knights, because they were still too weak.

Rows of sacrificed soldiers are neatly lined up, and their bodies will be transported back to the Imperial Martyrs' Cemetery Cavalry Park for burial, and those dead war horses will also be buried in the Cavalry Park in a martyr's ceremony.

Major General Li Dong was naked, his wounds had been bandaged by the medical soldiers, and the blood had stopped, and he and the high-ranking cavalry who had not died looked at the rows of martyrs with great heartache.

Suddenly, a soldier walked up to Li Dong and whispered something in his ear, Li Dong was very excited to follow the soldier, and those high-level officials did not follow.

Li Dong and the soldier walked in front of a sacrificial cavalryman, he touched the soldier and said tremblingly: "Brother, thank you, if I am still alive after this war is over, your family will be family." ”

It turned out that this soldier was the soldier who blocked the fatal sword for Li Dong, and he had not forgotten his life-saving benefactor Li Dong, and when he was cleaning up the battlefield, he described the soldier's face and asked his men to look for it, and now he finally found it.

"After the identity of this warrior is confirmed, sue me, including his family situation, please!" Li Dong stood up and bowed deeply to the soldier who had just brought him.

"Yes, General!"

They will give considerable respect to the soldiers who have the courage to save the general with their lives, and when this warrior saved Li Dong, many cavalrymen saw it, so this warrior undoubtedly became a hero.

"Commander-in-chief, the Third Army was attacked by Tsarist Russia and has successfully resisted the enemy's sneak attack and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy." The communications corpsman said with a telegram from the Third Army.

Jiang Fangzhen took the telegram and read it, put down the telegram and said with a straight face: "I didn't even build a perfect defense in the base camp, and now I have caused such a big loss, let them all write a review, and then settle accounts with them after the war, I don't want such a thing to happen again, hum!" ”

After finishing speaking, Jiang Fangzhen circulated the telegram to the staff officers of the headquarters who were still discussing it just now, and after a while, everyone knew why the commander-in-chief was so angry. The Third Army actually had such a strict incident, which was an obvious dereliction of duty, but fortunately it did not cause a catastrophe, otherwise it would have been possible to send it directly back to the military tribunal in the imperial capital.

Seeing the telegram from the headquarters, the top brass of the Third Army were silent, after the war, they still had a chance to remedy, and the commander-in-chief's words could reflect His Majesty's opinion, and then they had to express themselves properly.

There are still about 40,000 Russian troops in this sneak attack, which can be described as a heavy loss, and Lieutenant General Mars is now very unhappy, it was originally a sneak attack, but he found that he lost his wife and broke his troops, which was terrible.

After the sneak attack, their army could only enter a full-scale defense, and Lieutenant General Mars could only pray that the second batch of reinforcements from the empire would arrive soon, and now Wulianghai could no longer spare any troops to support them.

"Grand Duke, Lieutenant General Mars called that the sneak attack was a failure, and the southwestern troops suffered heavy losses."

"What, failed?" Grand Duke Nikolai snatched the telegram in shock and read it, and after a while he understood the whole situation of the sneak attack.

"Alas, I didn't expect that the southwest army would fail, although the Chinese army suffered a certain amount of damage, but it didn't make them hurt at all, but put themselves in, it's just a bunch of waste! The southwest defense line is too weak, but I can't send troops to support it, damn it! Grand Duke Nicholas first scolded the incompetence of the southwestern troops, and then hated himself for not being able to fill this loophole in the southwest.

A cadre of officers looked at the angry Grand Duke Nicholas was also helpless, the failure of this sneak attack operation will have a great impact on the entire imperial army, the successive defeats are too embarrassing, and the decline in morale is inevitable.

He could only hope that the southwest troops would hold out until the arrival of the second batch of imperial reinforcements, but he still had a large number of grenades and mines shipped, and gave a death order for the southwest troops to hold the defensive line.

In fact, Grand Duke Nicholas also knew that the airship troops of the Chinese army would attack soon after they arrived, and the defense line was already in danger, so he could only defend it, and if even the Wulianghai area was captured, he would not have the face to see his nephew.

Just when Grand Duke Nikolai was thinking about the southwest defense line, three Chinese airships had already flown over the Third Army, and they were looking for a place to land.

After receiving the news, Lieutenant General Mars hurriedly asked people to continue to dig trenches and air-raid shelters, and also put food, ammunition and other materials in the air-raid shelters to hide, he didn't want the tragic situation of Kulen and Kyakhta to happen again.

However, what reassured Lieutenant General Mars a little was that there were not many airship troops coming to support the Huaxia army on the opposite side, otherwise they would be miserable.

The arrival of the airship force made Ma Qi very excited, with the help of the airship force, he could attack the defense line of Tsarist Russia, and he didn't have to watch here and couldn't move.

The airship troops of the three routes of the Chinese army have all arrived, and the number of airships of the three, five, and two is deployed, and the middle army will be the main force, so the airships will be deployed a little more.

After the airship troops arrived, Ma Qi's Third Army and the headquarters army in the center did not attack immediately, and they still had to find the most suitable area for airship bombing.