At one o'clock in the morning on October 4, Lin Yuan ordered the minesweeping tank to enter the predetermined mine-sweeping position and began to carry out the minefield, after the first few defeats, the Russian army also knew that Lin Yuan's troops would definitely attack them, so they strengthened the reconnaissance work before the war, Lin Yuan's tank target was very large, and made a loud sound, these sounds came out in the empty and quiet night for a long time, so that the Russian army knew the news of the arrival of Lin Yuan's troops very early.

Lin Yuan's judgment was not wrong, Adkins, the commander of the 15th Cossack Cavalry Division of the Russian Army, did intend to hold on to Mount Kent and prepare for the construction of fortifications for the follow-up troops.

The reason why Nicholas II personally intervened in the command was very simple, that is, although the Russian army deployed three Cossack cavalry divisions on the border, totaling more than 60,000 people, these three cavalry divisions did not have a unified command structure, and if they went to war, they could only do it on their own.

The command structure is unknown, which is originally a taboo for soldiers, but the Russian army doesn't care about it at all, because first: they don't think that war will break out, the reason is the same as Yuan Shikai's analysis, Mongolia's winter is coming, and the Qing court does not dare to send troops; Second: They felt that even if the Qing court sent troops, it would not need the Russian army to do it himself, because the combat effectiveness of the Qing court army would allow Zhebu Zundamba's troops to fight.

But the Russians didn't calculate it, Lin Yuan really sent troops, and the speed was so fast, their intelligence officers didn't even find out that Lin Yuan had made preparations, and Nicholas II didn't have anything to do with Lin Yuan's troops at the beginning, until Lin Yuan sent that telegram, Nicholas II knew that it was too late to do anything, Gilles had been shot, Zhebuzun Danba fell into Lin Yuan's hands and became Lin Yuan's puppet, and the Heavenly Imperial Legion they paid for the instructor to build actually surrendered to Lin Yuan.

But Nicholas II was not willing to fail, he immediately took the command of the three divisions in his own hands, and then ordered to send troops, wanting to rush to Kulen, defeat Lin Yuan, and re-divide Mongolia, Nicholas II was very relieved about the Russian troops participating in the war, because they were all elite Cossack cavalry, but the first news he got was: a battalion of the 102nd Brigade of the 15th Division was missing when it was reconnaissance!

The subsequent news was: The 102nd Brigade of the 15th Division was defeated by the whole formation in the battle on the evening of September 28, and the five thousand people only came back less than five hundred, and fought with Lin Yuan a few times, Nicholas II was no longer as arrogant as before, he knew that Lin Yuan was terrifying, so he began to speculate about Lin Yuan's strategic intentions, did Lin Yuan just want to keep Mongolia and not let ****?

When Lin Yuan was in Russia, he once said that he wanted to take the Lena River as the border between the two countries, and Gilles told Lin Yuan's point of view to the Tsar, and the Tsar opened the map and began to worry: Lin Yuan should not be going directly into Siberia, right? The Tsar finally began to fear that if Lin Yuan's troops took all of Siberia for themselves, the fruits of Russia's frenzied foreign aggression since the 16th century would be in vain!

So Nicholas II no longer thought about dividing Mongolia, he felt that it would be a good thing to keep Siberia! That's why he ordered his troops to set up positions along the Sesuge River to stop Lin Yuan's attack.

Will Lin Yuan attack Siberia? The answer is yes!

Lin Yuan sat in the armored command car, looked at the map in front of him, and thought silently: "If our troops take Mount Kent, they can conquer Kyakhta, an important city on the border between Russia and Mongolia, in one fell swoop, and if they capture here, they can bypass the Russian army's defense line of the Sejingge River and encircle them from behind!" What's more: from Kyakhta to the whole of Siberia are plains, and there is no danger to defend!

So the focus of the entire battlefield is focused on Kent Mountain, which may be a battle that will determine the fate of the two countries, and the key to the victory or defeat of this battle is whether Lin Yuan's troops can break through the minefield in front of them!

The crew of the hedgehog-like minesweeper tank would not realize that on their shoulders, they actually carried the fate of two countries, and the minesweeper tank slowly drove towards the minefield, although the Russian army defending inside found the tank, but did not order to shoot, because they did not know about Lin Yuan's modification of the minesweeper tank, they thought that Lin Yuan knew nothing about the minefield, waiting for Lin Yuan's armored troops to drill into the minefield.

The mine-sweeping tank then arrived at the edge of the minefield in tacit tranquility, and the commander Zhang Yaowu reported to Lin Yuan: "Report to Lin Shuai, the big hedgehog has arrived at the edge of the minefield!" Has the clearing of mined areas begun? Please instruct! Since Zhang Yaowu was inspired by Lin Yuan, he immediately regarded the ridicule of others as glory, and even changed the name of his tank to "big hedgehog".

Lin Yuan decisively ordered: Start minesweeping! Zhang Yaowu immediately connected the grenade launch circuit, and as soon as he pressed the button, a grenade was fired, and the grenade launcher was located in different positions of the turret, some shot far, and some shot close, so how to choose depends on the commander.

In order to determine whether there is an artillery mine at the front of the minefield, Zhang Yaowu used the grenade with the closest range, the grenade fell in the minefield, and the grenade was equipped with a short-delay fuse, and it exploded only when it was shot into the soil at a certain distance, so that a large area of soil could be lifted apart with a single explosion, and of course, the artillery mine buried below would also be detonated.

The first grenade fell into the soil and kicked up a piece of dirt, but it did not cause a large-scale explosion, indicating that there were no shell mines here, Zhang Yaowu calculated the range, and fired a second grenade, this grenade fell relatively far away, this time it just hit the underground artillery mine, only to hear a loud "boom", and the whole sky was red by the firelight!

At this time, the Russian army finally understood that the big things of the Chinese were here to clear mines, not to be bombed, and the commander on the periphery of the minefield shouted heartbreakingly: "Fire!" Beat back the big stuff of the Chinese! The term "tank" appeared in the first world war in the Lin Yuan era, so the Russian army at this time did not know the word "tank", so it was called a "big thing", and for a time the Russian bullets drew a messy curve in the dark night sky and shot at the minesweeping tank.

Lin Yuan decisively ordered: Accompanied by the minesweeping tanks to open artillery cover, order, the five tanks behind the minesweeping tanks immediately opened fire, the shells roared out, and landed on the enemy's position, the tanks picked up the firepower, where the flames sprayed out were the fiercest, they fired at the gun, and the Russian gunfire weakened in an instant.

The length of the entire minefield is three kilometers, and the range of the modified grenade is only three hundred meters, so if the minesweeper tank wants to open a passage, it must move forward, and then fire the grenade in the front position.

Zheng Qiang did not dare to let the tank deflect to another place, because he did not know if there were shell mines buried elsewhere, so he carefully drove the tank to the edge of the crater, and then drove the tank down, his action made the Russian officers and soldiers on the opposite side cheer excitedly, and they all said: "The big thing of the Chinese fell into the pit!" They're finished! ”