Lin Yuan looked at Yu Ming, the commander-in-chief of the Songhua River fleet, with an inquiring gaze, and asked, "Can your gunboats pass through the flood area?" ”

The speed of the river is very fast, and the gunboats are very affected by the impact of the current, so it is very likely that the gunboats will not be able to control it and will be hit by the waves on the reef, because the river has overflowed the channel, so the water is very shallow in some places, and the gunboats are very likely to run aground in those places.

In addition, the flood water will roll up a large amount of sand and gravel, which may also damage the propeller of the gunboat, so it is very dangerous for the gunboat to travel in the river at this time.

If the gunboats can break through the flood zone and reach the outside of the city of Rahassusu, then a great wall of steel will be built on the water, and it will be difficult for the Russian army without gunboats to surpass it.

Yu Ming thought for a while and said, "We can try." ”

Lin Yuan knew that Lu Dao could not hesitate at this time, he was willing to believe in the strength of Yu Ming's fleet, from the city of the three surnames to Lahasusu, the waterway was nearly three hundred kilometers, such a distance, with the speed of the Songhua River fleet, it would take about fifteen hours, so Lin Yuan said to Zhang Yao: "Your department will hold on for fifteen hours, our fleet will arrive, and if necessary, your department can request air support!" ”

Zhang Yao replied: "Understood! ”

Turning off the communicator, Zhang Yao thought helplessly: "It's useless to ask for air support, the Russian army's offensive formation is very scattered, and outside the city is a flat grassland, there is no danger to defend, fifteen hours, how easy it is to say." ”

Fifteen hours, about to decide the life and death of 30,000 people and two armies in the city!

Lahasusu is located under the nose of the Russian army, so the people in the city are full of urgency, as soon as they heard that the Russian army is pressing, they immediately came out of their homes to help the soldiers defend, Lin Yuan also knew that Lahasusu was easy to attack and difficult to defend, and could not draw enough troops to garrison, so he had already issued a part of the captured Russian Enfield rifles to the people of Lahasusu and trained them.

The rifles of the Russian army weighed ten pounds, so the young and strong men selected in the city were all young and strong young men, and a total of more than 800 people were gathered, and all of them had already climbed the city wall at this time.

Wherever the defense of the river depends, it is to establish defensive positions on both sides of the river, such a defense is the most flexible, if only on one side of the defensive position, then the river also becomes a barrier for the enemy, the first battalion on the south and north banks of the Songhua River to build defensive positions.

Since there were no mountains on the south bank, the first battalion built several trenches, but Zhang Yao did not have much hope for them, he knew that such trenches were not of much use, because the trenches were too long, their troops were too small, and the Russian army, which occupied the superior forces, was very likely to break through the defense line at the weakest point of defense.

Sure enough, the Russian army adopted the tactics of assault on the whole line, and they were almost lined up in front of the trench, so that they could always find a place where there was no defense of a battalion of soldiers, and the soldiers of the first battalion looked at the Russian army in the distance and felt that they were not the same as the previous Russian army, they were no longer stupidly rushing forward, but more than a dozen people lined up in a triangle, and the flanks were responsible for shooting and covering, and slowly advanced towards the trench.

Zhang Yao did not immediately give the order to shoot, until the Russian army was only fifty meters away from the position, he gave the order to shoot, almost at the same time as their guns, the rear of the Russian army came from the sound of "da-da", that is the sound of the Makqin machine gun, the position of the machine gun is on the flank of the impact formation, the bullet will not hit the Russian army in the impact, but it can suppress the defenders in the trench.

Zhang Yao and the others were so pressed by the machine guns of the Russian army that they couldn't raise their heads, and Zhang Yao hurriedly ordered: all withdraw to the bridgehead!

Zhang Yao and they just started to get up and run back, they were discovered by the sharp-eyed Russian army, they immediately began to charge, a distance of fifty meters, ordinary people only need seven seconds to run, the Russian army looked at the retreating Chinese army, and their hearts were full of pride, thinking that as long as they entered the trenches, they could easily shoot at their backs, just like fighting fat and stupid wild ducks on the shore of a beautiful lake.

As soon as the Russian soldiers entered the trench, they heard a muffled "bang", and then this sound sounded one after another, it turned out that Zhang Yao had planted the bomb before retreating!

There was only one company of this attacking Russian army, and the Russian company commander heard that the sound was not loud, and he knew that the explosion of the bomb was not very powerful, so he didn't care, and hurriedly ordered: "Shoot at the yellow-skinned monkeys!" ”

But what he didn't expect was that with the sound of explosions, there was a burst of red smoke in the trenches! The Russian soldiers in the smoke all let out a heart-rending coughing sound!

The commander of the Russian army company wondered in his heart and thought: "What is this red smoke?" Suddenly, a muffled sound came from his side, a burst of red smoke enveloped him, and he instantly felt that his eyes and nose hurt as if they had been pricked by a needle, and he suddenly understood that this was chili powder!

It turned out that the residents of Lahasusu City liked to eat chili peppers, so there were a lot of hoards in the city, and Zhang Yao and they adapted to local conditions and wrapped chili powder outside the explosives bag.

The Russian soldiers jumped out of the trenches screaming, they did not dare to run to their positions, because there were overseers with machine guns, and all deserters would be killed, so they rushed in the direction where Zhang Yao was, they did not want to attack Zhang Yao's troops, they just wanted to avoid the terrible red smoke.

Zhang Yao immediately ordered to shoot, and the bullets rained down, knocking down the Russian troops who rushed to the front, and when the Russian company commander saw it, he hurriedly ordered: Don't go out of the trenches, walk in the trenches, and detour from both sides!

The Russian army woke up like a dream, and then made a detour to Zhang Yao's department in the trenches, but there were also paprika explosive packs along the way, although the amount of these explosives was not large, but it blew up one of the people's feet, a calf was more than enough, and the broken leg was stained with paprika, and the pain was incomparable, and the wounded Russian soldiers were coughing and screaming, and the uninjured Russian soldiers were terrified!

The Russian troops behind saw that the forward troops had captured the trenches, swarming from behind, passing through those chili powders, and rushing towards the bridgehead position, the bridge was only a hundred meters long, if the Russian army occupied the bridgehead, it would be able to cross the river along the way, and the soldiers would be under the city of Lahassusu, and the Russian soldiers also knew this, so they were enthusiastic and rushed to the bridgehead.

When the Russian army was a hundred meters away from the bridgehead, Zhang Yao gave the order to open fire, the bridgehead was a semi-circular fortification, and the breastwork was built with thick sandbags, and the soldiers hid behind the breastwork, gave an order, and then shot at the charging Russian soldiers!

A large number of Russian soldiers were knocked down, if it was the previous Russian army, they would have turned around and ran away, but this time it was different, there was a team of warlords behind! So the Russian soldiers rushed to the bridgehead like crazy!

After leaving dozens of corpses, the Russian soldiers approached to a place forty meters away from the bridgehead, Zhang Yao picked up a grenade, everyone understood, and they all picked up the grenade at hand, at this time, the Russian army rushed to a place of twenty meters, Zhang Yao threw the grenade out of the box, and the others also threw out the grenade.

These people have undergone rigorous training, and all the grenades thrown out of the ground exploded in the air, and there were no dead spots on the ground, and the screams of the Russian army were continuous.

Zhang Yaozhi said that they had to retreat, because they were too close to the Russian army, and the smoke covered the Russian army, and their own people couldn't see where to shoot.

Zhang Yao then ordered: "Retreat, blow up the bridge!" ”

From Lin Yuan's order to hold on, just three hours have passed!