Chapter 19: The Battle of Kulen (3)

The Russian army, which was digging trenches on the position, panicked when they received the arrival of the Chinese Empire's army, and hurriedly returned to the city to hide, and then after learning that the Chinese Empire's army was camped in the suburbs, they drove the soldiers and people of Outer Mongolia and began to dig trenches frantically.

The Russian army dug trenches and arranged positions while being vigilant against the attack of the Chinese army, and the 200,000 Chinese army had already arrived in the suburbs, although Hu Xia's army was camped in the suburbs, but they did not dare to attack rashly, it was a conspiracy.

Positions to the west and southeast of the city were under construction, and although it was impossible to set up positions when the Chinese army attacked, they still had a glimmer of hope. The positions to the north and south are in the process of being repaired, and they must hold out until reinforcements arrive anyway, otherwise they will definitely not have any good results.

Ma Qi, who received the order from the headquarters, quickly arrived at his predetermined location, but according to the reports of the cavalry scouts and the intelligence officers of Uriya Sutai, he could deduce that the Russian troops in Uriya Sutai did not pass through this place in advance, and the route of advance was not this. Then he spread out the map he was carrying and looked at it carefully, and at a glance, he felt that the Russian army in Uriya Sutai was very capable of rushing from Mulun to Kulen through guò, if this was really the case, the commander of the Russian army was not simple.

When the scout found no traces of the movement or life of a large army in the vicinity, he became more and more firm in his previous suspicions, and he immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters that the Russian troops in Uriya Sutai had probably avoided them and rushed to Kulen through Guò Mulun, so that the headquarters could pay attention to the matter.

After Ma Qi confirmed that the Russian army of Uriya Sutai had rushed to support Kulun, he immediately ordered the army to march to Uriya Sutai without stopping, and the empty Uriya Sutai believed that it would not take long to take it, and then rush to the Wulianghai area.

At dawn, the Chinese army, which had rested for a night, launched an attack, and Kulen's Russian army, although a little tired, did not damage the overall level, because last night it was Kulen's Outer Mongolian hits and part of the Outer Mongolian army that dug trenches, so the Russian army was basically fine except for some of the all-night sleepers.

"Boom~~~Boom~~~" The tanks of the two major armies attacked first, and one shell after another fell in the trenches of the Russian army, and then there was a rumbling sound, and some soldiers in the trenches were shot by shells and were immediately blown to pieces, and the nearby soldiers were also involved in the power of the shells.

There were also artillery shells shot into the open space of the trenches, leaving only huge craters and hundreds of tanks shelling at once, this power was very great, and the Russian army did not dare to raise its head.

The tanks of the Chinese Empire rushed towards the positions of the Russian army, and the Russian army immediately abandoned the first line of defense and began to retreat to the second line of defense.

Sure enough, when the tanks of the Chinese Empire came to these wide trenches, they stopped, and the machine gunners on the tanks in front immediately shouted to the tanks behind, but they quickly retreated, otherwise the tanks in front would not be able to retreat.

The Russian army took advantage of the sluggish retreat of the tanks of the Chinese Empire and immediately let the artillery and shell the tanks in front, and after a rumbling sound, dozens of shells flew towards the tanks of the Chinese Empire.

"Boom~~~" "Boom~~~" sounded, two tanks were hit by shells and exploded, and thick black smoke and sparks were emitted from the entire tank. Some of the other tanks were not hit, but they were also affected by the explosion of the shells, some of which were overturned by the huge wave of air, and some of the fragments of the shells created a huge depression from the impact, and the soldiers inside were very injured.

Seeing this situation, the tanks that had not yet turned back decisively shelled at the location of the Russian artillery, and the tanks on both sides took the opportunity to drive out, so that the tanks in front had enough space to move to the sides.

Even so, a few tanks were hit by shells and exploded, and of course the soldiers inside died honorably, and the Russian artillery on the opposite side also suffered a very big blow, after all, their artillery range was originally short, so it was not very far from the last line of defense, within the range of the tanks of the Chinese Empire.

With the suppression of the artillery fire of the tanks behind, the tanks in front were able to disperse, and then they withdrew from the range of the Russian artillery, taking advantage of the fact that their main guns were far longer than the Russian army to attack the Russian artillery.

The Chinese Imperial Army, which was behind, immediately began to shell the Russian artillery with its own artillery and mortars, and the sound of shell firing and landing explosions was deafening.

"Boom~~~"

One of the Russian artillery pieces was hit, and the power of the explosion made the huge barrel of the cannon fly into the sky, and the shells that were just about to be loaded nearby were also detonated, and the sound of "boom~~~" was endless, and the surrounding Russian soldiers were blown to pieces.

"Battalion commander, retreat, hurry up and transfer these cannons, the major general ordered us to preserve our strength and not to fight hard with the artillery of the Chinese Empire." A soldier ran in and shouted loudly at the major, who had just gotten up from the ground, because the roar of the shells was so loud that the soldier deliberately made it louder.

"Bastard, how come the cannon of the Huaxia Empire has such a long range, is God joking with me? What is going on with the fact that the weak cannon of the Chinese Empire is even greater than the range and power of the Empire? The major scolded while covering his head with his military cap where he had just been scratched, "Withdraw, leave a few of the remaining cannons here to fight back, and the rest move towards the high ground on the right, watch the movements, don't be detected, quick!" ”

The Russian artillerymen, at the urging of the major, quickly moved the artillery and shells behind the high ground on the right, but despite this, about a third of the Russian artillery was destroyed.

The tank troops of the Chinese Empire were also very helpless when they saw that trench, and it was the first time they had seen such a trench dug in this way, so they could only retreat to the back and let the infantry go.

With the help of tank fire, the troops of the Chinese Empire rushed quickly towards the Russian position, and the Russian machine gunners set up their machine guns and began to strafe when they saw the Chinese army rushing towards their positions, so they did not care whether the Chinese army entered the firing range or not.

"Da Da ~~~ Da Da ~~~" The sound of machine gun fire continued to sound in the Russian position, and the bullets whistled towards the Chinese soldiers.

"Commander Li, the enemy's firepower is too fierce, it can't go on like this!" A soldier of the Chinese army, prostrate on the ground to avoid machine gun fire, said to the regimental commander beside him.

"The commander will arrange it, just now I saw that the machine gun battalion is looking for a commanding height, and soon we will have machine gunners to suppress the enemy's machine gunners, so that the brothers pay attention to stray bullets......"

"Commander be careful...... the soldier pounced on Commander Li, and as soon as he pounced on the regiment commander's body, he was shot in the back by several bullets.

After a while, Regiment Commander Li felt that there was some hot liquid on his face, he reached out and touched it, and the bright red blood in his hand made him understand what and slapped the soldier's face with both hands, "Little dog, little dog, wake up, you wake me up!" ”

When the regimental commander saw that the soldier did not react, he reached out to the soldier's nose and probed it, only to find that the puppy was no longer breathing, and the regiment commander choked up, because the puppy was his cousin.

The regiment commander sat on the ground and looked at his cousin lying on the ground, very sad, but after he was silent for a while, he took the puppy's gun and crawled towards the Russian position.

At this moment, the sound of machine gun fire sounded behind the regiment commander, and the troops of the Huaxia Empire finally began to counterattack with machine guns, and the pressure of the Huaxia soldiers who were crawling forward suddenly decreased.

The range of the machine guns of the Chinese army is also much longer than that of the Russian army, which allows the Chinese Empire to suppress the machine gunners of the Russian army and the Russian army that is attacking back from a distance, and at the same time, the snipers of the Chinese army also began to aim at those machine gunners, and the guns and guns shot heads.

The Russian machine gunners were constantly knocked down, and soon other Russian soldiers were added to them, but they also attracted the attack of the Chinese Imperial artillery.

"Boom~~~" With a bang, several Russian troops and machine guns were blown away by shells, and other Russian troops nearby were also traumatized by different Cheng dù.

Commander Li soon arrived at the huge trench with a group of soldiers, and the grenades on their bodies were ignited, and then thrown towards the Russian troops in the distance, some of them exploded before they reached the second line of defense of the Russian army, and only a few were thrown into the trenches of the Russian army, and several Russian soldiers were injured by a few booms.

With the addition of machine gunners, more and more Chinese soldiers rushed to the trench where the tanks stopped, and as soon as they entered, they launched an attack on the Russian army, so that they could attract firepower to the army behind and let more comrades rush into the trenches.

Suddenly, there were several loud explosions in the trenches, and then several more explosions sounded, which made the soldiers in the trenches dare not move, they knew that it was a mine, and someone stepped on the mine, because the Chinese Empire made a large number of mines, and the soldiers used them in the training.

This should be the anti-infantry mine produced by Russia in 1903, I can't imagine that the Russian army actually buried mines in the trenches, no wonder there were so few Russian soldiers in this trench before, they didn't know how many mines there were, so they didn't dare to move.

The Huaxia soldiers who were about to jump into the trench behind were stunned, but they quickly reacted, and then continued to crawl on the edge of the trench.

"Hahaha, it's really useful, hit me hard, let them know how good we are, damn the Chinese people." A high-ranking officer of the Russian army shouted fiercely.

For a while, those Chinese soldiers who had not jumped out of the trenches became the first target of the Russian army's attack, and the Chinese soldiers who were prostrate on the ground were also using their guns to fight back against the Russian army.

A large number of Chinese soldiers were knocked down, and some ventured in, and after a while an explosion sounded, and the soldiers who jumped into the trench occasionally set off the bomb, and most of the soldiers were fine. This made the soldiers above jump into the trench one after another along the route of their former comrades, but after jumping in, they did not dare to run around casually, so they could only squat still or start to fight back in place.

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