Chapter 35 The Sneak Attack of the Tsarist Russian Army
Grand Duke Nikolai didn't want to send all the cavalry, but he thought that the goal this time was to get all the 50,000 cavalry if there were more than 30,000 cavalry.
He didn't think that the cavalry units of the Chinese Empire were the opponents of the most elite Cossack cavalry of the Empire, and the most important thing was that he didn't know if the cavalry would have an effect on the Chinese tank troops, so he sent more more just in case.
"Let's go!"
With an order, the 100,000 Tsarist Russian army headed towards the base camp of the Third Army in China, with the infantry going first and the cavalry slowly following behind.
Grand Duke Nicholas is going to take advantage of the fact that the Huaxia airship troops have not arrived to let them attack quickly, otherwise there will be basically no chance to attack in the future, and with the reconnaissance of the air reconnaissance team, it will be difficult to sneak attack.
Lieutenant General Mars was the commander of the Third Army in charge of attacking China, and the army that came this time had the strength of three armies, and the main purpose was to destroy the living forces in China.
The Russian army is continuing to advance, but the Chinese Third Army is still training without knowing anything, and they are figuring out the method of guò Russian minefield, the method used by Kulen before is good, but it is only suitable for trenches, it is impossible to spread a lot of grass on flat ground and then pass guò, because everyone does not know how wide and long the minefield is, and it is useless for tanks to press on such weeds.
The base camp of the Third Army in China was built with military defense facilities, but it was not perfect, but it was only about two trenches and part of the commanding heights, although they thought that the Tsarist army would attack, but they all thought that the probability of a Tsarist attack was very small, and it would hardly appear.
This is also a recognition of their own strength, but unfortunately things will not be as good as they think. However, it did a good job of guarding and defending, and there were secret outposts arranged by the Third Army all over a five-kilometer radius of the base camp.
Lieutenant General Mars divided the army into two parts to attack, one with the idea of using cavalry to attract the Chinese army in the front and pin down the main force of the Chinese army, and then the other attacked from a small hill on the left after the cavalry had attracted the main force.
When the Russian army was still six kilometers away from the Chinese base camp, it was divided into two routes, one was attacked from the front by 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. In order to prevent being discovered by the scouts of the Chinese army in advance, all the cavalry slowed down, but fortunately, the grass of the grassland was growing luxuriantly at this time, and the sound of horses stepping on the grass was very small.
When the Russian Cossack cavalry entered the Huaxia base camp for five kilometers, they did not find the Chinese outposts hidden in the grass.
A Chinese soldier was boredly counting ants in the grass when he suddenly noticed a slight sound of horses' hooves in front of him, which would have been difficult to spot if he had not grown in the grassland all year round and was familiar with horses.
He hurriedly lay on the ground and put one ear to the ground to hear whether it was a herd of wild horses, and soon his brow furrowed, because these sounds were very dense, and there were a lot of footsteps, and these horses' hooves were not wild horses, and the sound of horseshoes and those without horseshoes was not difficult to distinguish as a person who has been with horses all year round.
There is a case! The Chinese soldiers quickly realized that it was the arrival of the enemy, because their northwest cavalry did not come here to train today, and it seemed that there was only one possibility.
The Huaxia soldiers lying on the ground were covered with weeds all over their bodies, and the surrounding grass was also very lush, and it was impossible to notice that there were people here if they didn't walk in and take a closer look. Sure enough, a moment later, he saw through the gaps in the grass that groups of Russian cavalry with a large number of infantry were heading in the direction of the base camp.
In order not to be discovered by the Tsarist people, he could only wait motionless for the Russian army to pass Guò, he had already prepared a signal flare, and as soon as it was discovered, he would fire a signal flare. His horse was behind a small hill fifty meters away, and as soon as the Russian army had gotten through guò, he was able to fire a flare and retreat.
Suddenly, a Russian soldier looked left and right, and then said a few words to a few soldiers around him, and then ran to a very lush bush, took off his pants and squatted, the sound of clattering sounded instantly, and the stench began to spread everywhere.
The Huaxia soldier was desperately covering his mouth and nose at this time, because the Russian soldier who was pulling was less than a meter away from him, and his head was facing the white ass, and he saw all the process.
After a while, the Tsarist soldier left briskly, the Chinese soldier's face was purple and purple, his eyes were tightly closed, and he hurriedly moved back after hearing that the Tsarist soldier was gone, but he didn't think that the Tsarist soldier ran back again, because he forgot to take his gun back and took it.
The Russian soldier happened to see the moving Chinese soldier, he thought it was a rabbit or other small animal, and directly picked up the gun and stabbed it with a bayonet.
The Chinese soldier, who heard that the Russian soldiers had returned again, immediately stopped moving, but a bayonet stabbed him in the shoulder fiercely, and then quickly pulled out.
Just when the Tsarist soldier thought he had succeeded, a bayonet was abruptly inserted into his heart, and the twitching Tsarist soldier reflexively pulled the trigger, and a "bang" of a gunshot alarmed the Tsarist troops in front, and several Tsarist soldiers quickly ran over.
After knowing that he had been exposed, the Huaxia soldier immediately sent out the signal flare in his hand, and a red smoke rose straight up.
The Russian soldiers who arrived didn't care so much and shot the Chinese soldier directly.
After the gunfire rang out, the nearby Chinese army outpost had already sensed that something was wrong, and then they saw the enemy's signal flare rising into the air, and without saying a word, they secretly sneaked towards the place where the flare was fired.
The Chinese army in the base camp also saw this signal flare, a whining horn sounded, all the soldiers of the Third Army stopped training and ran to prepare for battle, the engines of one tank after another sounded, and the whole army entered a state of alert.
At first, Ma Qi and the others thought that something had happened, but when they saw the red flares that were continuously lifted into the air, they knew that it was true. They didn't expect the Tsarist army to really attack, it was they who were too careless and proud.
When the Russian army saw the exposure, they immediately advanced quickly, and the cavalry rushed to the front, and they wanted to take the Chinese army by surprise.
Although the Huaxia army was notified of the signal flare, the preparations were still not completely completed, so the army was not sent to block and intercept.
There was a burst of "Boom! Bang! As soon as the sound sounded, the Chinese army saw a cavalry contingent of Tsarist Russia rushing towards them.
Just when these cavalry were still about a thousand meters away from the Chinese army, the artillery on the side of the Chinese army began to wield, and a large number of shells roared towards the Russian cavalry.
"Boom~~~"
The shell exploded in the Russian cavalry, and several cavalrymen in the center of the explosion were directly blown to pieces along with the men and horses, and the nearby cavalry were also overturned to the ground, and those unrestrained war horses were rammed around.
When the cannonball exploded, the horse that wrote the cavalry was also frightened, but soon continued to attack under the control of the Russian cavalry, this cavalry and the cavalry of the previous Ma Jiajun were simply heaven and earth, and they could pacify the war horse and continue to advance in such a short time, and it really deserved to be the most elite cavalry in Tsarist Russia.
"Dada~~~"
The machine gunners of Huaxia also began to shoot at the approaching Russian cavalry, and the dense bullets rushed towards the Russian cavalry with wind marks.
The Russian cavalry wriggled their bodies and clinged to their horses to try to dodge the bullets, and from time to time they fired back with their superb marksmanship.
The Chinese machine gunners and the soldiers who shot were immediately replaced after being hit and fell, and the firepower was too fierce, but the Russian soldiers who were not afraid of sacrifice kept closing the distance between them and the Chinese army.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Suddenly, the fallen horses threw their owners at the front of the Chinese army in front, and the Chinese soldiers took advantage of the situation to kill these Tsarist cavalry.
Seeing that the Russian cavalry was getting closer and closer, Huaxia finally got their tanks on the field, and one after another tanks poured out of the Huaxia base camp, and the collision between the most elite cavalry of Tsarist Russia and the Huaxia Iron Demon Tank was about to break out.
I saw tanks dragging huge bodies like steel fortresses, not afraid of the bullets of the Russian cavalry, rushing forward.
The Russian cavalry immediately attacked their target tanks as soon as they saw them coming out, but their attack only sparked a little spark or a dent in the tanks and fell.
"Dadada~~~Dada~~~"
As soon as the machine gunners on the tank encountered the Russian cavalry, they opened fire directly, and a large number of Russian cavalry were hit and fell, and the Russian cavalry immediately shifted their targets and fired at the tank gunners after realizing that there was no way to take the tank.
"Boom~~~"
The tank opened fire on the Russian cavalry in front, and directly blew up these Russian cavalry, and even the war horses were killed without exception.
The tanks opened fire one after another, and a large number of Russian cavalry were killed and wounded, but this did not deter the Russian cavalry.
The Russian cavalry quickly threw the grenades on their bodies at the tanks in China, some of them blew up the tracks of the tanks, and the tanks could not advance, some were just blackened or dented in a large piece, but it did not affect walking, and some were thrown by grenades from the machine gunners above, and the whole tank was finished.
The Russian cavalry were thrilled to see the grenade effective, especially after they found out that the tank would lose its walk after the track was blown up, but the machine gunners on the tank were their hindrance.
Due to the presence of tank machine gunners, the Russian cavalry did not dare to get too close and kept a certain distance. Under the attack of Chinese tanks, machine gunners and artillery, the losses of the Tsarist cavalry have been rising rapidly, which makes their leaders very heartbroken, this is the most elite Cossack cavalry in the empire, it is not so easy to cultivate.
"Boom! Rumble! ”
A burst of artillery rang out from the rear of the Russian cavalry, and the Russian infantry finally arrived, and they launched a fierce attack on the tanks and positions in China, and the confidence of the Russian cavalry suddenly increased.
After seeing the arrival of Russian reinforcements, the Chinese army also decisively sent infantry to counterattack, they are not the masters to be bullied.