Chapter 202: Marching into the Monte Empire

During this year's locust plague, although the Monte Empire did not have much cultivated land, most of which was mainly based on animal husbandry, but grazing also needed grass, and the locusts even ate the grass when they crossed the border, causing a large number of livestock to starve to death, and the domestic situation began to be turbulent.

With such an opportunity, Bayanger's family took the opportunity to accuse the royal family of not caring about the people's livelihood and causing such consequences, and then incited the herdsmen to rebel against the royal family.

Although the royal family controlled a large part of the army and suppressed the rebellious herdsmen, the Bayange family was a military family and had high prestige in Montedi**, so they also controlled a part of the country's army, and they declared their rebellion against the royal tyranny in the name of protecting the herdsmen, and demanded that the emperor abdicate and choose a meritorious.

The royal family was naturally unwilling, and the armies of both sides began to fight in the country, and the battle was extremely fierce. The war attracted the surrounding powers, especially the Cossack Empire, to get a piece of the pie.

The Cossack Empire's wishes were good, but unfortunately their railway line running through the entire continent was never completed due to financial constraints, resulting in a slow transfer of supplies, so they could only watch dryly, while speeding up the mobilization of supplies and troops, while claiming to mediate the contradictions between the two sides.

The Lanfang Empire has never been interested in such a thing, and Xiahou Ying is still busy with disaster relief at home, and has no idea of interfering in the internal affairs of the Monte Empire. The fact that the two empires did not make a move does not mean that the other powerful Chinese leader does not want to do it.

Since the last time he fought against the Cossack Empire and obtained a large number of new territories, the Chinese Territory has already had a border with the Monte Empire, and now that the other party is in civil strife, Fang Xiaoyu is very worried that the Cossack Empire will intervene and build up its own power in Montegro, or simply occupy it directly, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to attack first.

The transportation of the Chinese Empire is convenient, and the railway line can go directly to the border of the Monte Empire, but there are priorities, although the interests of the Monte Empire are important, the San Martin Empire cannot be ignored either.

Supporting the St. Martin Empire and fighting against the Boston Empire has always been Fang Xiaoyu's established strategy, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to let Qiu Yu'an, who was familiar with the situation there, lead the newly formed Fourth Army of the Guards and the Second Army of the Defense Army to rush to the St. Martin Empire to help the empire quell the chaos.

At the same time, in order to support Qiu Yu'an's operation, the main force of the Chinese naval fleet will be sent to the Oahu Kingdom to deter the Boston Empire and prevent them from interfering, and two marine divisions have also arrived on Honolulu Island, ready to provide Qiu Yu'an with backup at any time.

Leaving the help to the St. Martin Empire completely in the hands of Qiu Yu'an, Fang Xiaoyu began to ponder the intervention of the Monte Empire. In order to be on the safe side, Fang Xiaoyu asked Xue Boling to lead the Third Army of the Guards, and cooperate with the First Army and the Third Army of the Defense Army to garrison the Eastern Siberian County to monitor the movements of the Cossack Empire, and the rest of the troops began to assemble in Yanmen County, which borders the Monte Empire.

At present, the Chinese Territorial Army has a large number of troops, with a total of four corps of the Guards Corps, ten corps of the Defense Corps, in addition to an artillery division of the Guards, a special operations division, a cavalry division, and a newly formed internal guard division under the responsibility of Elena.

In addition, the new conscription period is coming again, and when the training of the newly recruited soldiers is completed, the Chinese generals will have 450,000 more troops, which of course will take several months.

Fang Xiaoyu's personal guard unit, the First Army of the Iron Blood Army, is also in Vladivostok, where the new lord is currently stationed, specifically responsible for protecting Fang Xiaoyu, and the Iron Blood Army also has three armies stationed on the Savage Continent.

Fang Xiaoyu did not intend to use all his forces in this battle, after all, there was a Cossack Empire behind him, and he always had to leave enough reserves. Therefore, he transferred the First Army and the Cavalry Division of the Guards Army and the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Armies of the Defense Army to Yanmen County, so that Fang Xiaoyu could use four armies and thirteen divisions at a time, with a total of 195,000 troops.

In addition, there is a corps of the Guards Army, an artillery division, a special operations division, four armies of the Defense Army, plus nearly 400,000 troops of the Iron and Blood Army as a reserve, with sufficient preparations, this time Fang Xiaoyu is ready to do a big job.

In September 895, the Chinese Territory suddenly issued a proclamation claiming that the civil war in the Monte Empire had threatened the commercial security of the Chinese Domain, and that the Chinese Territory had an obligation to maintain regional security and peace. Three days after this proclamation was issued, 180,000 Chinese-led troops crossed the border and marched into the territory of the Monte Empire under the pretext of helping the royal family of the Monte Empire suppress the rebels.

At this time, the situation in the territory of the Monte Empire was very delicate, and Marshal Bayanga's troops, with the support of many herders, controlled about 60% of the eastern part of the Monte Empire.

Although the actual control area of the Monte royal family is only 40%, the capital of the Monte Empire is still in the hands of the royal family, and the royal family controls the most elite troops in the country, and the combat effectiveness is higher than that of the troops controlled by Marshal Bayange. Due to the large number of herdsmen in the army, Bayang's army exceeded the royal army by a large number, and the two sides were currently evenly matched.

The border between the Chinese Empire and the Monte Empire is exactly to the east of the Monte Empire, and the Chinese army can directly attack Marshal Bayange's rebels when they enter the territory of the Monte Empire.

Most of the rebels were concentrated on the front line to attack the government army, and the defense in the rear was very weak, and there were only some reserve troops composed of ordinary herdsmen.

The cavalry division was well-armed, and they used Fang Xiaoyu's Type 91 rifle, which was redesigned from the Type 91 rifle, which had a shorter body and made it easier to shoot with one hand on horseback. In addition, the cavalry was each armed with a new Beretta Type 92 pistol, a saber supported by an alloy steel stamp. Also made by stamping was a steel helmet and a steel half-body plate armor weighing only fifteen kilograms, which greatly improved the cavalry's defenses.

In addition to these necessary equipment, the cavalry was armed with a large number of light machine guns, grenadiers, grenades, and even recoilless guns specifically for cavalry and mountain troops, and its equipment was among the most sophisticated in the world. Such a powerful cavalry division, with brigades at a distance of five miles, quickly rushed towards the city of Kruren with three attack arrows.

Kruren is an important border city in the northeast of the Monte Empire, guarding the communication artery for the Chinese Territory to enter the Monte Empire, so when the Chinese Territory enters the Monte Empire, this is the first target.

The vast grassland of the Monte Empire is sparsely populated, because there are no obstacles, the reconnaissance range is also much larger, although the Monters do not have a telescope like the cavalry division, can not see the distant target, but the cavalry division has just entered the territory of the Monte Empire or was discovered by the other party.

The Montemen were known for their cavalry, and when they learned that the cavalry troops of the Chinese Territory had entered their territory, the 30,000 cavalry stationed in the city of Kruren immediately rushed towards the cavalry division.

The gallop of the cavalry was very eye-catching, even if there was no dust covering the sky and sun when marching on the grassland, but the tremor of the earth could not deceive the experienced veterans, and the two sides had already discovered each other before they reached the visual distance.

"Inform the other two brigades to move closer to our side and form a battle formation." After discovering the other party, Wang Zhen, the commander of the cavalry division, immediately issued an order. There was rapid radio communication, and the other two brigades quickly got the news, and they immediately leaned in to the center.

The cavalry attack was unskillful, and when the two sides had achieved visual distance, the Monte army drew its sabers and rushed towards the Chinese cavalry division in a dense wedge formation. Wang Zhen rode on the horse and smiled slightly and ordered loudly: "Speed up, prepare, release." ”

Under Wang Zhen's order, the cavalry division soldiers divided into three loose conical formations gave up the position of the first row to the machine gunners, and hundreds of burly cavalrymen with 94-type light machine guns on their horses flattened their machine guns and fired at the Monte cavalry on the opposite side, and many cavalrymen behind took out the special grenadiers on the horses and began to fire.

A dense rain of bullets and explosions erupted among the Monte cavalry, slicing away a layer of the dense wedge-shaped formation. How could these newly converted herdsmen-turned-warriors have not even gathered their rifles, and how can they resist the dense machine-gun fire, and the knights who ran at the front, waving their sabers, were shot through the chest before they could get close to the enemy.

The fall of a large number of men and horses caused some minor problems for the Monte cavalry behind, but the Monte people were worthy of being a people who grew on horseback, and relied on their superb horsemanship to quickly adjust and continue to charge forward, without slowing down in the slightest.

The light machine guns used by the cavalry had only thirty rounds of ammunition mounted on them, which was to reduce the weight of the horses and not to use a hundred rounds of drums. Thirty rounds were not much, they were quickly exhausted under the intensive fire of the machine guns, and the enemy cavalry was already close at hand, and it was no longer realistic to change the magazine.

The cavalry began to slow down, and the cavalry behind them, with their sabers, began to rush forward, charging towards the Monte cavalry on the opposite side.

The torrent of the two cavalry gradually approached, and then it was like two ancient beasts slammed together, the two sides collided with each other, and the cavalry in front was knocked off the horse by the huge impact force, and was trampled into meat by the horses' hooves behind, but the impact of the cavalry was limited after all, and after the two sides of the front were fully contacted, the speed of the horses finally slowed down, and a melee belonging to the cavalry began.

The Monte cavalry, who were skilled in playing with swords, brandished their shining sabers and slashed at the enemy, they suffered a lot of losses under the strafing and artillery bombardment of the other party just now, and now hand-to-hand combat is already their strong point, they want to get this loss back, but how could Fang Xiaoyu ignore such an obvious loophole.

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