Chapter 51: The Retreat of Xiao Gaopo
Although the Jewish soldiers were new recruits and had not been trained for long, they were still bravely fighting back, carrying the hope of recovering the country and not wanting to be looked down upon by the Chinese soldiers.
The sneak attack of the Tsarist Russian army fell into a stalemate, although they already had a great advantage, but the Chinese soldiers were not slow to react, coupled with those torches thrown out, they had to attack cautiously.
The battle between the two sides entered a white heat, and the Russian soldiers hiding in the shadows changed positions after firing a shot, so that the Chinese machine gunners and soldiers had no target to strike at or the enemy had already run away when they struck.
"General, there seems to be a large number of torches coming to us at a rapid pace, I don't know if it's our reinforcements or the enemy's troops."
After the soldier next to him finished speaking, an officer quickly picked up the telescope hanging around his neck and looked in the direction the soldier was pointing, only to see rows of torches moving rapidly in the direction of the small high slope.
"It's cavalry, it should be the cavalry of Tsarist Russia, the cavalry of our army is in the base camp, it is impossible to come to support so quickly, go and tell General Jiang that the enemy has a large number of cavalry coming, about 20,000 cavalry."
A few soldiers next to him hurriedly ran to report to General Jiang Chongrui, the words of the cavalry were not at all something that they could deal with with the recruits who had only been trained for a few months, and the situation was very strict.
"Report to the general, I found that there are about 20,000 Russian cavalry in front of me, and they will arrive here soon, please let the general know!"
At this time, Jiang Chongrui was directing the soldiers to move the supplies to a relatively safe place so that they would not be inadvertently hit by Russian shells.
"What, and the cavalry, Niang Xipi, bullied me for not having a tank? How could such a new army withstand so many cavalry. All of them stopped for me, prepared to retreat, the supplies went first, and the materials were transported away while the enemy's cavalry was not yet there, and we resisted for a while to buy time for the retreat. After being surprised, Jiang Chongrui decisively gave the order to retreat, he didn't think that tens of thousands of recruits who had only been trained for a few months could withstand the sneak attack of the enemy and the attack of cavalry who were more than them.
After listening to General Chiang's words, the nearby officers hurriedly got busy, and the materials that had just been hidden were brought out and loaded into the car, while the other officers went to prepare for the retreat, and they all acted according to the steps that they did not know how many times they had exercised before.
There were not many tanks in the East Road Army, and there was not a single tank here in Xiaogaopo, no one would have imagined that the Russian army would come to carry out a night attack until they were afraid to come out, how did they know about the situation in Xiaogaopo, and sent cavalry?
In fact, this is also a coincidence, General Al Ray didn't know where to attack the Chinese army, and it just so happened that the scouts in the army discovered the Chinese army in Xiao Gaopo, and after hearing this, Al Rui and the others decided to attack Xiao Gaopo.
Airray and others thought that the night attack would definitely be fruitful, and it was also a Chinese army with the fewest tanks, and the cavalry raid should be able to tow the tanks, and then let the Russian soldiers in the shadows attack.
The speed of the cavalry is not fast, the speed of the night is definitely slower than the day, the Chinese artillery saw the cavalry torches and found the target, one after another cannonballs flew towards the cavalry, after the explosion those torches were obviously scattered, but soon gathered together.
The Russian cavalry did not disperse, although there was no forest on this section of the road, it was also potholed, and if one was not careful, people would turn on their backs, after all, it was night and not day. The cavalry followed the front, and during the day they had already mapped out their routes, and they could not be dispersed by the shelling of the Chinese.
The Tsarist cavalry that did not disperse made the Chinese artillery very excited, such a target did not hit anyone, one after another shells aimed at those cavalry and roared away, and after the explosion, a ball of light erupted.
After being hit by shells one after another, the Russian cavalry decisively extinguished some of the torches, leaving only the torches of the cavalry on both sides of the road, and even the ones behind were extinguished and followed the front.
Soon the cavalry of Tsarist Russia rushed to the vicinity of the Huaxia trenches and prepared to launch a brave attack, only to see them shouting one by one that Ula would rush to the weak place desperately.
"Dada...... Dadada......"
The Chinese machine gunners were firing frantically, and they didn't care whether they could hit the enemy or not, as long as they saw the enemy in a group, they fired, and a large number of Tsarist soldiers fell. Some of those cavalrymen were hit and fell off their horses, but the horses rushed forward directly, and then were torn apart by machine guns, some of the horses were hit and fell, and the soldiers who rode him were thrown out and fell half to death due to inertia, and some of the horses were scurrying around after losing their owners.
The impact of the cavalry was not without effect, some of the Chinese recruits had never seen such a nervous cavalry attack, and many of them were shot by the Russian soldiers in a moment, among which the Jewish soldiers were the most strict.
Many of the machine gunners in Huaxia were also knocked down, but soon other soldiers made up for it, and the Russian artillery frantically attacked the positions in Huaxia, and many machine guns were killed, which also led to the emergence of several weak points. The weak point of the Chinese soldiers endured the frantic attack of the Russian soldiers, but the Chinese soldiers with sufficient ammunition were not afraid, and threw grenades out one by one to wait for the enemy, and were stunned until the machine guns were replenished.
After the Russian cavalry rushed to the vicinity of the Chinese trenches, the Chinese artillery did not continue to attack them, but switched to attack the Russian artillery, and those targets were bigger and better to attack.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
After a round of shelling in China, the shelling of Tsarist Russia decreased significantly, and the Russian artillery began to attack the Chinese artillery frantically as if they were annoyed, and the pressure of the Chinese soldiers in the trenches suddenly decreased.
After the attack of the Russian cavalry, the casualty rate of the Chinese soldiers skyrocketed, and half an hour later, the retreat of Xiaogaopo was ready, and the troops transporting supplies also set off in advance, and the rest was the retreat of the whole army, and they could not wait for the arrival of reinforcements.
Under the orders of General Chiang Chongrui, the whole army began to retreat slowly and step by step, and some of the captured mines were also prepared to be used on the cavalry of Tsarist Russia in the same way as others.
The retreat of the Chinese army allowed the Russian army to successfully occupy Xiaogaopo, but unfortunately the Chinese army did not leave anything, they could only order the cavalry to pursue fiercely, trying to intercept the Chinese army.
The Russian cavalry cheered to pursue the soldiers of the Chinese army, which was a rare victory after the war with the Chinese Empire, and the Russian soldiers who had been holding their breath finally breathed a sigh of relief, can they not be excited.
Just as they were happily pursuing the Chinese soldiers, they entered the minefield arranged by the Chinese army to block them, and an explosion sounded, and the Russian cavalry, who had no time to "brake", were hit one after another.
The cavalry in front was basically hit, and some of the cavalry in the back even collided together, no way, it was too abrupt, only the cavalry with quite good riding skills ran to both sides in an instant, which avoided the possibility of rear-ending.
Because there was a minefield in front, these Russian cavalry were very hesitant, they didn't know how many mines there were, they didn't want to die, but they were afraid that there were not many mines and delayed the good opportunity to pursue the Chinese soldiers.
Soon these cavalry rushed to both sides under the orders of their superiors, and they did not believe that the minefield in Huaxia would be very long, so they ended up passing the minefield after a full 2,000-meter circle and dozens of cavalry.
But after a while, they encountered a minefield, and then they were afraid, they didn't know how many places there were, and they didn't know if the next one was to be blown up, and the panic made them hesitate, and after seeing that the Chinese soldiers had gone away, the officers of the cavalry also retreated.
They were not allowed to pursue the Huaxia army in depth, and they were afraid that these cavalry would not return, these cavalry were all temporarily formed, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Huaxia cavalry.
The Russian army that had occupied Xiaogaopo was soon withdrawn, because reinforcements from China would surely arrive, and their purpose had been achieved, and there was nothing to be nostalgic about.
The sneak attack on the Huaxia army left more than 10,000 corpses and retreated, and Airray and the others were already very satisfied, after all, they had only lost less than 5,000. However, Grand Duke Nikolai was very dissatisfied, because he knew that those were all Chinese recruits, and the people brought by Ari and the others were all veterans and elite soldiers, and the number was still twice that of others, and there was nothing to be excited about at all because of the night attack.
I have to say that this victory has greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers, it turns out that the Chinese army is not remarkable, it is not that it has been beaten and lost its armor and retreated, I believe that it will definitely be able to defeat the Chinese army in the future.
After this night attack, General Irry and the others felt that the Chinese army was not very good, it looked very weak, and it was not as terrifying as Grand Duke Nicholas said, and they were very suspicious of Grand Duke Nicholas's ability. It's a pity that they didn't encounter the Huaxia tanks, the Huaxia tanks have been installed with illuminated searchlights, even if the combat power at night is much less than during the day, it will not be weaker there, otherwise their cavalry does not know how much they can stay.
Xu Shuzheng immediately asked 30,000 soldiers to come to the rescue after receiving Xiao Gaopo's telegram for help, but the tank did not get support, but only sent the motorcycle troops who came from behind to rush quickly, because he also had to guard against whether the Tsarist Russian army was attacking the base camp in the east.
After he had sent his army, he received a telegram from General Chiang Chongrui, with an enemy cavalry force of 20,000 men, requesting a temporary retreat to reduce casualties.
He knew that Xiao Gaopo's army was basically recruits, and those Jewish soldiers could not lose too much, otherwise it would cause dissatisfaction among the Jews, and then he would suffer.
The next day, the reinforcements met the soldiers of Xiaogaopo who were retreating, and then rushed to Xiaogaopo together, and when they arrived, they found that the Russian army had withdrawn, leaving only the corpses in one place, including soldiers from Tsarist Russia and soldiers from China.
Last night, because they were afraid of the counterattack of the Chinese army, Al Ray and others did not collect the soldiers who died in the battle, but they just came and left in a hurry with their wounds, and many soldiers found Jewish soldiers, but they didn't think much about it, because they knew that there were many retired German officers serving in China.
The Chinese army, which rushed back to Xiaogaopo, soon began to clean up the battlefield and count the casualties, and finally found that it had lost 15,000 soldiers, of which 3,000 were Jewish soldiers, and the Jewish soldiers found on the battlefield were exactly 3,000 Jewish corpses.
Xu Shuzheng, who received the report, breathed a sigh of relief, if the news of the Jews in the Chinese army spread, it would be a bit troublesome, and if he didn't get it, he would have to be demoted, but fortunately, the chances of being discovered by the Tsarist army were not great.
In fact, Xu Shuzheng's worries were superfluous, since Qin Yu dared to let the Jewish soldiers play, he already had a countermeasure, even if he was discovered, it would be nothing, and the Jews would help him remedy it.