Bowangpo is located 30 kilometers northeast of Nanyang, and two hours later, all 50,000 Russian troops were assembled and marched towards Bowangpo.

In fact, the Russian army is not as unbearable as Yang Changjun said, 30,000 infantry with nearly 300 light artillery, neat clothes, black leather whip trampling on the ground, 20,000 Cossack cavalry wearing golden military hats, holding tall horses, carrying rifles, waist swords, no one spoke along the way, obviously with a very high combat quality.

Originally, Zuo Zongtang saw the Russian army burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, and took it for granted that like the riotous army in Chinese history, they were all sloppy military discipline and a one-shot person, but he really saw it, even if he knew that the Democratic Alliance Army had laid an ambush with 50,000 people, he couldn't help beating the drum in his heart, which was completely different from what he thought.

It's just that things have developed to this point, and he has to go up, and he has to go up!

Zuo Zongtang's slightly heavy expression made Murajoviv misunderstood, and he couldn't help but ask proudly: "Lord Zuo, how does our Russian army compare with the Democratic Alliance Army?" ”

Zuo Zongtang said honestly: "Zuo has never fought with short hair, so he doesn't dare to say anything, but your army is at its peak, and the soldiers are full of spirit, and I am far from being able to do so much in the Qing Dynasty. ”

"Hahahaha~~" Yue Fu, the Russian general of Eastern Sibil on the side, laughed and said: "We Russians were born in the ice and snow, born to fight against the cruel natural environment, and when we grow up, we enter military academies to study, and dare to go to the battlefield when we are teenagers, I can say without exaggeration that we Russians are born to fight, and our life is a life of fighting." Those weak Europeans call us fighting peoples!

And you Chinese, born in a warm environment, are naturally cowardly, light and martial, timid and fearful, your combat effectiveness. That's it! ”

Yue Fu stretched out his little finger and pressed it down!

In an instant, Zuo Zongtang and his entourage's faces were extremely difficult to see, this is Chiguoguo's insult, even if he knew that there was an ambush waiting for the Russian army in front of him, he was angry and rushed straight to the top of his head!

"That's it!" Mulayoviv still took care of Zuo Zongtang's face and waved his hand: "It's not that the Chinese have no combat effectiveness at all, didn't that Democratic Alliance army even defeat the East India Company?" Or don't be too careless. ”

Yue Fu smiled lightly and stopped squeaking.

The team continued to move forward in silence. After a short break in the middle of the way, we entered the boundary of Bowangpo at about 4 p.m.

When Liu Bei burned Bowangpo, there were dense forests, so the fire was successful, and after more than a thousand years, Nanyang as the hinterland of the Central Plains was repeatedly developed, and the forests have been replaced by patches of farmland, but the two sides are separated by a kilometer and surrounded by low and continuous hills. It's about five kilometers from the exit.

Tao Wei couldn't help but lower his voice and said, "Father-in-law, this kind of terrain is good." At least the troops can be fully deployed, otherwise the forest trails like in ancient times, with the 50,000 people of the Russian army, I am afraid that the head and tail teams have not yet come in. ”

Zuo Zongtang nodded, looked around, and saw only lush greenery on the hillside. I couldn't see half of the figure, and I couldn't help but admire the hidden kung fu of the Democratic Alliance Army.

"It's almost time to get started." Zuo Zongtang muttered.

"Ahhh~~" Sure enough, behind a small hill more than two hundred meters not far away, a woman's scream suddenly came.

This voice was very harsh, and Zuo Zongtang immediately arched his hand: "It is unknown to suddenly meet a woman of unknown origin during the march. Zuo is willing to go and arrest the woman for Your Excellency and ask what is going on. As he spoke, he waved his hand violently: "Let's go over with this official to have a look." ”

Several entourages hurriedly pulled the reins of their horses and followed Zuo Zongtang to gallop away, this was their only chance to break away from the Russian army, taking advantage of the suddenness of the incident, the Russian army was caught off guard, although Murajoviv did not stop it, but everyone's palms were tightly pinched with sweat, because there was a pair of suspicious and sharp eyes staring at it behind them.

Fortunately, more than 200 meters is not far away, and in less than half a minute, Zuo Zongtang and the others went around to the other side of the hillside, which was really relieved.

"Ladies and gentlemen, dismount quickly, and go back when the battle begins." Several female warriors wearing grass-green military uniforms and hats with tree branches stepped forward and enthusiastically reined in the reins of their horses for Zuo Zongtang and them.

"It's hard work!" Several people jumped off their horses and lay on the back of the hillside, looking out.

"Knock knock~~" Suddenly, on the top of the low hill on both sides, there were several shells hitting the Russian brigade, and I saw that as the light fell to the ground, starting from a few falling points, the ground rumbled and exploded a large area around, and the fire and black smoke covered the sun, and countless corpses and horses were blown away.

This is obviously a mine array buried underground, and when he thought that he was still walking on it, Zuo Zongtang suddenly felt terrified.

Seeing their expressions, a female soldier smiled strangely: "Our mines have been tested thousands of times, and there is full quality assurance, if we don't let him blow up, he will definitely not blow up." ”

Zuo Zongtang pretended to be calm and nodded, but his face was still a little unnatural.

Judging from the scope of the explosion, there were about 1,000 mines, thousands of people were killed on the spot, and many people were drenched in blood, wailing and rolling, and the Russian army was stunned.

It wasn't until a few seconds later that Yue Fu came back to his senses and said angrily: "It's Zuo Zongtang, it was he who led us into a trap, we were betrayed, he must have betrayed the Qing State and joined the Democratic Alliance, we have fallen into the scheme, Your Excellency the Governor, please quickly order to return from the original way." ”

"No!" Murajoviv roared: "We can't retreat, the enemy must have laid out their pockets and is waiting for us, the whole army listens to the order, the artillery deploys, bombards indiscriminately in all directions, and the Cossack cavalry rushes forward, and there are five kilometers ahead of the mountain pass!" ”

Yue Fu gritted his teeth and said: "Zuo Zongtang, this son of a bitch, let Lao Tzu catch him and pick his skin, he hid behind that mountain bag, and he didn't come out, who wants to go over and arrest him back?" ”

These words have just fallen, "Dong Dong ~~" Suddenly, the sound of artillery was loud, this time it was not a few cannons, but all the artillery of the Democratic Alliance Army fired together, because the distance between the two sides of the mangang was only one kilometer, so the cannon and the small mountain artillery were all deployed in the distance and in front of the back of the mangang, the target of the bombardment was the Russian artillery team, and dozens of others were detouring to the rear of the Russian army with the cooperation of more than 100 mortars, so as to annihilate them all.

What is really the main force of destruction is the mortars distributed on both sides!

The 14th Army was not fully equipped due to the fact that it had not been in army for a long time, and there were only more than 100 mortars in the whole army, which were used to cooperate with the artillery units to block one end and the other, while the Fourth Army was different, this was an old ace unit, and the mortars were fully equipped to the platoon, with a total of 729 guns, and the shells were constantly freed up from the left and right.

The Russian positions are blooming one after another, and artillery is the focus of heavy artillery strikes, because they have lost the opportunity and have no shelter, they cannot deploy their artillery positions at all, and one artillery company after another has been blown up, and sometimes ammunition is detonated, and fireballs bloom on the spot.

The infantry and cavalry were under intensive mortar care, and although the mortar shells were less powerful and the scene was not as spectacular as the heavy artillery bombardment, the individual soldiers were killed and wounded.

In the entire valley, the sound of explosions, cannons, neighing horses, and deafening, Zuo Zongtang was stunned, his eyes were full of horror, and there was a deep envy, and then he sighed deeply as if he had lost his strength.

From this moment on, he was no longer optimistic about Daqing.

"Blow up, blow up those Russian devils, good, blow up!" Tao Huan and the other entourage were flushed with red faces, and shouted hoarsely, but unfortunately the explosion was so violent that only they could hear their shouts.

At such a time, the female soldiers could only pull one by one, pointed back again, signaled to hurry back, and made a demonstration action.

Zuo Zongtang and the others did the same, running back with their waists on their waists.

And Muraviviv waved his arms vigorously and roared loudly, no one could hear what he was shouting, but he could see the desperate expression on his face, and the deep fear in his eyes, the whole battlefield was a mess, it was impossible to count the actual casualties, and in the continuous explosions, the command system was completely paralyzed, and no orders could be conveyed, and the Russian soldiers spontaneously fled in all directions, and the whole army collapsed.

Murajoviv has taken up arms to fight since he was a teenager, and now he has fought dozens of battles, large and small, and has suffered defeats from time to time, but none of them have been so completely defeated, and he even dares to guarantee that it is the first time in Russia's history that the entire army has collapsed in less than ten minutes, as it is today.

The reason why this is the case is that there is both the arrogance of underestimating the enemy and the unfamiliarity with the terrain, but the root cause is that a Qing official named Zuo Zongtang led himself into a trap!

At this moment, Murajoviv's bowels were blue, but what is the use of regret, time cannot be reversed.

"Your Excellency the Governor." Seeing Murajoviv lying on the ground in a daze, Yue Fu leaned into his ear and shouted: "Run, it's getting dark, run out while it's dark, you can surrender if you can't run away, I heard that the Democratic Alliance Army treats foreigner prisoners well, as long as you surrender, you won't die, aren't we foreigners?"

Only by living can there be hope, even if he is released and returned to China and punished by His Majesty the Tsar, but the main responsibility for this defeat does not lie with us, but the traitors within the Qing Dynasty, and we were lured into the encirclement by the traitors, I think His Majesty the Tsar will understand, the Russian people will also understand, and in a few years, you can still bring a large army to China to take revenge. ”

Yue Fu said a lot, although Murajoviv didn't fully hear it, he also understood the general meaning, yes, he is a foreigner, and foreigners have a gold medal in China to avoid death!

At the moment, he waved his arm to the surroundings: "Rush up the hillside, as long as we enter the woods, we may not be able to break through!" And he took the lead and rushed out. (To be continued......)