The wishes of the Cossack cavalry were good, but unfortunately the reality was quite cruel, and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Defense Forces today has been greatly improved compared to the time against the Japanese soldiers, and the heavy machine guns that have been fully equipped in place have been placed on the positions on both flanks by the commanders of the Defense Army.

When the Cossack cavalry rushed to a distance of five hundred meters from the frontal position, the heavy machine guns on both flanks began to roar, and under the cross-fire of the machine guns, the Cossack cavalry fell in rows, and their numbers began to plummet.

Seeing that the heavy machine guns began to exert their might, the mortars and Type 91 rifles in the hands of the infantrymen who had been holding back also began to speak, and the dense rain of bullets killed a large number of Cossack cavalry and their horses, and within ten minutes sixty percent of the cavalry fell, the casualties were too great, and the Cossack cavalry had to retreat.

Seeing the large number of casualties of the cavalry, the Romanovs' sweat is about to come down, these are all the elite of the empire. The reason why the Cossack Empire is so powerful and occupies such a vast territory depends on these Cossack cavalry to conquer the east and west, and now it has folded so much in this small place, if the news is transmitted back to China, there will be no good fruit for him to eat.

Seeing that the Chinese leading army was using a new weapon that could fire rapid-fire, the Romanov immediately began to mobilize artillery and bombarded the positions of the Chinese leading army indiscriminately.

Romanov's wishes were good, and his orders were absolutely decisive, but it was a pity that he had not met Yama County Youpeng, and if he did, Yama County Somemo would have told him that the shelling would not have much effect on the positions of the Chinese leading troops, especially when the artillery was insufficient.

Although the Cossack Empire was transporting supplies to the eastern front throughout the winter, due to the small capacity of the sleds, most of the transporters were soldiers, light weapons, food and ammunition, and heavy artillery could not be transported. Therefore, although the Cossack army had nearly ten corps, it had less than 200 guns, and the largest artillery caliber was only 76 mm.

For anti-artillery holes covered with thick layers of wood and soil, even if these small-caliber guns hit directly, it is difficult for these small-caliber guns to penetrate the roof compartment and produce sufficient lethality. This operation was only to speed up the transportation of troops, and all the artillery units of the Chinese Territorial Defense Army were left behind, and the range of the mortar fire of the platoon was insufficient, so that the Cossack army could fire unscrupulously to attack, and if the heavy artillery troops came up, the Cossack artillery would have been beaten down long ago.

The shells that were not dense fell on the positions of the defense troops, shaking the top of the anti-artillery holes and throwing the soldiers hiding inside into ashes.

Most of the lookouts who remained in their positions to monitor the enemy were veterans, and they dodged back and forth from the positions, jumping from crater to crater, nimbly dodging the shelling of the Cossacks.

The veterans have a lot of experience in anti-artillery defense, and they can even hear where the whistling shells are heading. What's more, even if they don't dodge, a small-caliber artillery bombardment like this, as long as it doesn't hit people, will not be of much use to the tortuous trench system of the defense forces.

After an hour of shelling, there was no sound on the positions of the Chinese Guards, and Admiral Romanov nodded with satisfaction and ordered the shelling to stop.

The Cossacks did not have many shells, and he did not dare to waste them too much, and then the 1st and 5th armies, the most elite of the Cossack army, began to charge.

When the Cossack soldiers rushed to two thousand meters in front of the position of the Wehrmacht, a large number of rapid-fire shells exploded in the crowd again, and the Cossack troops suddenly fell to the ground, which was the beginning of the mortars.

Seeing this, Romanov immediately ordered the artillery to suppress, but the mortars were light and easy to move, and by the time the Cossack artillery adjusted its muzzles and began to fire, these mortars had already been transferred.

The flexible maneuver of the mortars left the artillery of the Cossack corps helpless. The Cossack infantry had no choice but to charge forward with a dense range of shells, and when they approached 800 meters from the Wehrmacht's position, the machine guns began to roar again, and the dense bullets caused the Cossacks to fall to the ground one after another.

Seeing the raging machine guns, the enraged Admiral Romanov immediately ordered the artillery to aim at the machine guns to attack, for which the Chinese defense forces had already prepared, and the machine guns were placed in strong machine gun fortresses, and the small-caliber artillery had no way to do anything about it.

Although the machine guns were roaring all the time, the boiling cooling water in the sleeve did not allow them to fire indefinitely, and the large number of Cossack soldiers could not defeat them.

Seeing the Cossack soldiers approaching, Liu Qun, the deputy division commander who was directing the battle on the position, shouted: "Grenade." "Patches of grenades were thrown into the crowd of Cossack charges, setting off an explosion that slightly slowed down the attack.

Taking advantage of the other party's attack to slow down, Liu Qun shouted: "Get on the bayonet and drive them down." "At the same time, the commanders on the entire front gave almost the same orders. The soldiers of the Wehrmacht, armed with bayonet-mounted Type 91 rifles, rushed towards the Cossack corps' assault units.

The veterans were all from the regular army of the Lanfang Empire, and they were no strangers to white-knuckle warfare.

Since encountering the wolves in the Wild Continent and the Ulan City Blockade Battle, Fang Xiaoyu realized that the pistol is not omnipotent in close combat, so he asked Xiaofeng to study it and introduced a set of the most scientific bayonet fighting method into the army training, so that the level of white-knuckle combat of the Chinese defense army has been greatly improved.

Led by veterans, and having practiced the stabbing technique for a long time, although the recruits were a little nervous, they still rushed forward with bayonets.

The Cossack soldiers were tall and large, but they relied on brute force to wield bayonets indiscriminately, while the soldiers of the Wehrmacht Army, although they were shorter in stature, had superb knife skills, not to mention their tacit cooperation, they all acted in pairs and cooperated with each other, and for a time they were on par with the Cossack soldiers with superior physique.

Each dead Wehrmacht fighter was surrounded by the corpses of more than three Cossacks. However, after all, the defense force has few people, and if it continues to fight like this, it will be very disadvantageous.

At this time, the officers came up, and the officers of the defense forces, as long as they were officers above the platoon commander, could choose their own guns from the Browning pistol and the Beretta pistol, and the officers with pistols at this time were undoubtedly great weapons of death in the white-knuckle battle.

Liu Qun, who was armed with a Beretta automatic pistol, took a few steps and fired continuously from the pistol in his hand, knocking several Cossack soldiers to the ground and relieving the siege of two Wehrmacht soldiers.

At this moment, a series of pistols rang out on the battlefield, and the crisp sound pierced the sky and the dream of Admiral Romanov to settle the other side at once. The Cossack army, which suffered too many casualties, gradually fell into disarray, and finally the remnants of their army could not support it and were defeated.

Seeing the retreat of the other side, Liu Qun immediately called the soldiers to hide in the trenches, and sure enough, the retaliatory shelling of the Cossacks came soon, but the defense forces had already prepared, and most of the soldiers had already returned to the anti-artillery holes along the communication trenches, and the damage to them from this burst of shelling was minimal.

Seeing that a lot of shells were consumed, but the other side did not suffer much losses, seeing that it was getting late, the helpless Admiral Romanov had no choice but to order a temporary withdrawal, and the Cossack army retreated twenty miles back to camp.

At dusk, the 5th Division and the artillery division finally arrived, and the artillery units of the 6th Division, which had been repaired in the rear, also arrived, and they quickly entered the rear of the defensive line and began to build artillery positions, and after nightfall, the 2nd Division also arrived, along with the headquarters of the 2nd Army, and the commander of the 2nd Army, Su Zhizhen, was ordered to command this counterattack against the Cossack Empire.

At midnight, Romanov ordered the Cossack corps to begin a night attack. In Romanov's opinion, only night combat could limit the firepower of the Wehrmacht to the greatest extent.

The Romanov's decision was very correct, and at the beginning of the night attack, the Cossack corps did make some progress, the defenders suffered some losses, and the machine-gun fire could only strafe aimlessly forward, the hit rate was greatly reduced, and some Cossack corps even broke into the first line of trenches.

However, after the melee attack, the difference in the individual weapons of the two sides became apparent, the Wehrmacht's Type 91 rifle could fire ten rounds and reload, while the Cossack army's rifle had to be reloaded after firing one round, not to mention that the Wehrmacht still had grenades, and the officers had more convenient pistols.

In fact, they should already be thankful, if they had encountered not the defense army, but the iron-blooded army with a pistol, their casualties would have been several times greater.

Romanov launched three night raids overnight, and achieved some results, until Su Zhizhen ordered the mortars to fire some picric incendiary bombs at the front of the position, making the entire forward area as bright as day, and the Cossack troops stopped the night attack at the last time.

In this night's battle, the Cossack army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, and the Chinese defense army also paid nearly 5,000 casualties.

It is quite difficult to train internal medicine doctors who treat people in medicine, but it is much easier to train surgeons who specialize in serving in the army and operating on the wounded who have suffered trauma, especially after Fang Xiaoyu invented the alcohol disinfection method and chloroform anesthesia method, the success rate of surgery has skyrocketed, and now with the support of sulfonamide drugs, the survival rate of the wounded has greatly increased, so there are not many people who really sacrifice.

The next morning, the Cossack army, tired all night, planned to start attacking after breakfast, but just as these smug Cossack soldiers gathered in the camp to start breakfast, the more than 200 155 mm heavy howitzers of Xiao Jun's artillery division carried by train began to wield.