The next morning, Admiral Romanov, with dark circles under his eyes, saw a group of officers who, like him, lacked sleep, each yawning listlessly. Admiral Romanov said: "All the troops immediately make breakfast, and after the meal they will set off. ”

Chief of Staff Kulozov said: "Mr. General, our casualties in one day and one night have exceeded three hundred, and every soldier has not slept all night, how can we fight in such a state?" Romanov said angrily: "This is a trick of the Chinese, they are just stalling for time, if they want to make it difficult for us to move an inch, they will have time to mobilize troops to intercept us." We can't be fooled, we must move on. ”

The commander of the 1st Cossack Army, Akimiyevich, said: "Mr. General, if we continue to advance, we can hold out for a day or two, but after a long time, the soldiers will suffer a great blow to both their physical strength and morale. Romanov said: "I have a solution to this, how many cavalry do we have?" Kulozov reported: "Only the 3rd Cavalry Corps and a separate 9th Cavalry Brigade totaled more than 34,000 men. ”

Romanov nodded: "That's fine, let the cavalry spread out on both flanks of the team, search and advance, to prevent the enemy from firing black guns." "The army of the Cossack Empire is on the road again, this time with cavalry to cover the flanks, the effect is really good, several waves of goblin militia attacks were discovered by Cossack cavalry, and more than a dozen militiamen were hacked to death.

Wang Qiguang led his troops to hide on the flanks of the Cossack army, and when he saw the two goblin militiamen on the left being hacked to death by the cavalry of the Cossack army, he frowned: "These cavalry are really annoying, let's kill their prestige well, and the firepower squads behind will come to the front and use machine guns to deal with them." ”

In order to be able to exert more combat power, Wang Qiguang had more eyes and brought all the heavy weapons when he set out. At this time, the three fire squads of the whole company quickly found their positions and set up six heavy machine guns and nine mortars.

Wang Qiguang had two warriors lie in ambush on a small mound in front of them, and like the goblin militia, they shot black guns into the ranks of the Cossack infantry. After two shots, a large group of cavalry swarmed in, numbering more than thirty.

Wang Qiguang saw that the high-spirited Cossack cavalry had run to a place more than 300 meters away from him, and he waved his hand with a smile on his face. The six machine guns roared at the same time, and the cavalry running in front, along with their horses, were immediately 'danced' by the continuous force of the bullets. The cavalry behind did not know what was going on and continued to advance, only to be shot down.

Hearing the dense gunfire, Romanov was shocked, and without reconnaissance, he knew that there was a regular army, and as for how large a force could do such a dense gunfire, it was not within his consideration. He immediately ordered the infantry to spread out on the spot, and the cavalry to outflank it.

When they arrived at the small high ground where Wang Qiguang was blocked, they found that there was no one there, and the cavalry just wanted to disperse again, when suddenly a few mortar shells flew and blew down several cavalrymen, and the cavalry continued to follow the sound of artillery but was killed and wounded by machine gun fire again. Other companies also began to do the same, and the Cossack cavalry was helpless about this, and in order to reduce casualties, the Cossack cavalry only dared to fire their guns from a distance, and did not dare to rush over.

In this way, the Romanovs endured the casualties of the cavalry and completed the day's march with difficulty. Chita Province is a newly developed area, where most of the inhabitants are goblins, and the number is not too many, most of the population lives in the city, and there are very few rural towns in the wild, and the goblins implement the system of clearing the wilderness under the request of Xue Boling, they not only bury grain, but even close the wells, so the Cossacks can only sleep in the wilderness, but also spend a lot of time every night looking for water.

On this night, Romanov learned from the experience of the previous night, and he relied on his large number of men to order the troops to be divided into five parts, each of which guarded the camp for two hours, so that each soldier could get eight hours of sleep after one rotation. For this reason, outside the camp, the Cossacks erected a number of lookout posts and walls in order to separate the main forces from the attacking forces.

Romanov's decision did have a good effect, the Cossack soldiers got enough time to rest, but the raiding troops still inflicted heavy casualties on the alert troops with cold guns and mortars, but the Cossack soldiers, who knew that a large number of troops were keeping vigil at night, still slept peacefully, although their ears were not very clean.

Seeing that the other side did not react much, and later even the commanders of a dozen companies were assembled, and they united to make a large-scale raid on the outer guard posts of the Cossack army, causing the Cossack army to lose more than a thousand people.

It was already late at night, but Fang Xiaoyu was frowning and wandering around the room, the dispatch of the Cossack Empire's army was too sudden, although he was also a little prepared in advance, but it was still a little insufficient to deal with the invasion of 300,000 troops, so he had to mobilize all the forces that could be mobilized to support the front line.

At present, there are a total of five infantry divisions, one artillery division, and one infantry division of the Iron Blood Army, a total of seven divisions, and most of the troops of more than 100,000 people are deployed in the territory of Tongshan County. Fortunately, since its establishment, the Chinese Consulate has been committed to the construction of railways, relying on the fast railway system, and the armies of all walks of life have been assembled in Chita Province at a very fast speed.

At the same time as the army was massing, the trains transporting ammunition and supplies were also moving day and night, and even the transportation of many industrial products and raw materials was stopped, and all trains made way for the military trains.

Despite this, Fang Xiaoyu was still worried about Xue Boling, after all, there were only 15,000 troops stationed in Chita Mansion, plus 20,000 goblin militia, the strength was very weak, and he was not sure in his heart whether Xue Boling could support the arrival of reinforcements, and if Chita City was captured, the Chinese army would fall into an extremely passive situation.

"Young master, there's news." Elena walked in with a piece of paper. "Oh? Show me. Hearing the news of Xue Boling, Fang Xiaoyu was quite anxious.

Elena said with a smile while handing the paper to Fang Xiaoyu's hand, "Don't worry, it's good news." Fang Xiaoyu smiled at Elena and said, "That's good, you go and rest, I'll be here by myself." Elena knew that she couldn't disturb Fang Xiaoyu now, she nodded, turned around and walked out.

Fang Xiaoyu opened the piece of paper, this was a battle report sent by the Intelligence Bureau, on which were written the tactics used by Xue Boling and the casualty figures of the Cossack army. When Fang Xiaoyu saw that the Cossack army had suffered more than 10,000 casualties, he couldn't help but applaud excitedly.

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