Chapter 359: Holy War Order
The Cossack corps, having suffered heavy losses, had to stop and reorganize their troops, they needed to maintain weapons and equipment, replenish ammunition, and at the same time replenish some new recruits. Due to the poor logistical system of the Cossack Empire, their replenishment was unusually slow, and it was not until more than half a month later that the Cossack army was drawn again. The re-energized Cossack army quickly crossed Karazar, Karaganda and Aralsk, and headed straight for Askana.
Seeing that there were not many guards and residents along the way, Kurkin couldn't help but feel a little complacent, believing that his bloody battle had frightened the Stanya people and lost all confidence in resisting, so the defenders and local civilians would sneak away before his army arrived.
It is a pity that the arrogant Admiral Kurkin did not send cavalry to reconnoitre, and since the planes were lost, it was impossible to conduct aerial reconnaissance, and if a reconnaissance plane flew over Askana, the pilot would have seen a shocking scene.
The black crowd is converging into Ascana from all directions, and the scale of its scale is so grand that King Agbayi, who issued the holy war order, is also dumbfounded. All the members of the Coalition Parliament are to be in charge of directing the crowd and putting together these unorganized people, who have come with their own rations, otherwise the whole of Ascan will have to be eaten.
Loyal believers from all over the country rode their horses towards Askana, where more than two million people had gathered in just over half a month, and the number was increasing. King Agbayi knew very well that the gathering of so many people here would not help the victory of the war, so after consulting with several kings, he decided to divide his troops into several parts and enter the battle in echelons.
The Stanya are nomadic people, and their people are naturally good knights, so the reintegration of these people proceeds very smoothly and quickly. After the reorganization of the army, the city of Ascan was marched out in batches, and they were to be divided into various points to prepare for a decisive battle with the Cossacks near the city of Askana.
Kurkin's army did not move very fast, because they had to drag a large number of heavy artillery forward, and since Alexander III believed that trucks and tractors were ineffective and purely cost money, the Cossack army only had tanks, and it was very inappropriate to use tanks to tow heavy artillery.
Although the chariot was powerful enough to tow heavy artillery, it was easy to wear out the tracks during long drives, a problem that the Cossack military did not anticipate before the war. The tracks of the Jazz chariots purchased by the Cossack Empire were all hard-connected, and they wore out very quickly, usually as long as they traveled more than eighty kilometers, the tracks would wear and break, so often changing the tracks annoyed the Cossacks, and there was no railway line in the territory of the Stanya Union to be transported by rail.
In desperation, Kurkin ordered the troops to disassemble all the tracks, and drag the heavy artillery and chariots forward on horses, this way of marching of the Cossacks is wonderful, but it is very useful, at least the tracks of the chariots can not be worn out, and because of this, they have been marching for half a month before approaching the city of Askana.
"Oh my God." Seeing the black cavalry group under Ascana City in the distance, Kurkin couldn't help but gasp, the number of Stanya was too much, and he realized the reason why there were not many Stanya people on the road, they were preparing for a decisive battle.
Seeing the large number of enemy troops, Kurkin did not dare to slack off, and he immediately ordered 400,000 Cossack infantry to set up a position to cover the infantry flanks, while all the light and heavy machine guns of the infantry were in place, the artillery was lowered to reload ammunition, and the remaining 100,000 Cossack cavalry were placed behind and used as mobile support.
"Allah is with us." King Agbayi, who had lost his beloved son Prince Kaim, shouted loudly with his scimitar in his hand, and was the first to rush out, and then all the Stanya cavalry waved their scimitars and charged at the army of the Cossacks.
"Crazy, they're all crazy." Kurkin was also shocked by what he saw, and he immediately asked the herald to issue an order, and all the light and heavy weapons in the army began to attack freely. The artillery bombardment began first, and since there were no railway lines and no heavy tractors, the Cossacks left all the guns of too large caliber in the border areas, and this time the largest caliber howitzers they brought were only one hundred and five millimeters.
If it was a shrapnel of the Chinese Empire, a hundred and five mm caliber shell alone could also deal a devastating blow to the densely charged Stanya cavalry. It's a pity that the military of various countries is staring at the various advanced weapons of the Chinese Empire, and they don't pay any attention to their various artillery shells, and the Cossack Empire at this moment is still using the old explosive bombs that trigger the fuse.
Every shell that fell into the cavalry team could clear a three-meter diameter clearing, a kind of cannonball with a much difference in power from the air-detonated fuse shrapnel used by the Chinese Empire, and the lethality of the Stanya people who had no right to dodge was still amazing.
The Cossack artillerymen were shirtless, desperately firing shells, they knew very well that once they let the opposing cavalry get close, their own side would suffer heavy losses, seeing that the other side was already close to within a thousand meters, the machine guns of the Cossack army opened fire, and the dense bullets thinned the cavalry ranks of the Stanya people layer by layer, but they still brandished scimitars and rushed forward without hesitation.
"Shoot, shoot fast." The junior officers of the Cossack corps shouted loudly, causing all the riflemen to join in the shooting, and it was clear from their somewhat out-of-tune voices that they were also very nervous. With all the fire fired, the cavalry of the Stanya was stopped six hundred meters away, and they kept charging but they kept dying, but they were never able to cross the line of death.
Seeing that the other horse's charge was contained, Kurkin breathed a long sigh of relief, but at this moment a low horn sound came from the cavalry formation, followed by the sound of horns one after another in all directions, and the earth rumbled and trembled, as if a huge herd of elephants was approaching.
Kulkin quickly climbed to a small hill, picked up the binoculars and looked around, and he was shocked to find that from all directions, countless cavalry seemed to jump out from under the horizon, and the raised scimitar flashed a silver light, almost dazzling Kulkin's eyes.
Seeing this scene, Kulkin's face changed greatly, and he ordered loudly: "The Stanya are rushing up from all directions, quickly change formation, the Cossack cavalry rushes up and entangles them, hurry." ”
The extreme panic made Kurkin's voice change a little, and the heralds on standby nearby immediately urged the horses to go in all directions, and the order was quickly conveyed, and there was some commotion in the Cossack army, but these were also veterans of a series of bloody battles, and their mental quality was still good, under the dispatch of officers at all levels, the infantry began to change formations, and the 100,000 Cossack cavalry rushed forward as soon as possible, and they wanted to buy time for the infantry to change formations.