Chapter 922: Battle of Wudaogou (4)

"The last general!"

As soon as Chihe Maha's roar fell, a sturdy general flashed out from behind him and answered in a loud voice, this person was none other than Alda, the first brave general under Chihe Maha.

"You take two thousand, no, bring a thousand cavalry, pass through the right flank, and give Lao Tzu a direct smash into the enemy formation!"

Although his eyes were red because of the heavy casualties of his soldiers, Chihe Maha was a great general, but he never messed up his proportions, and keenly noticed the gap in a battlefield, that is, the combination of the left wing of the Qing army and the middle route army - the Qing army originally arranged more than a dozen machine guns here, but due to the fierce fighting on the left flank, nearly half of the machine guns have been transferred to the front, and now the defense is obviously not too sufficient, and only some cavalry are maneuvering behind to press the position, but such a gap is not too big, It is not too difficult for the Qing army to fill up, once the large army is mobilized, it is difficult to hide the observation of those lookout posts in the Qing army camp, and because of this, Chihe Maha only plans to send a small group of elite cavalry to sneak attack, in order to tear the Qing army's iron through the formation as much as possible.

"Yes."

In the face of the extremely powerful firepower projection ability of the Qing army, he really did not have the confidence to break into the enemy position alone with a thousand cavalry.

"Don't worry, the general will send a cavalry army to storm the left flank of Qinggou, so as to win a good opportunity for you to break the enemy, and go and prepare."

Chihe Maha can understand the worries in Alda's heart, not to mention Alda, even Chihe Maha himself was also shocked by the fierce firepower density of the Qing army, if it weren't for the big strategy of the big strategy of Dun Dobu to force the attack, I am afraid that Chihe Maha would have led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield - this has just started the war for more than an hour, and more than 6,000 soldiers have died on the spot, Chihe Maha has fought for half a lifetime, and he has really never had such a tragic battle. Even if he was unwilling, Chihe Maha could only fight hard, and because of this, Chihe Maha did not criticize Alda's cowardice, but patiently explained a sentence.

"Yes, the last general obeys!"

Hearing Chihe Maha's words, although the uneasiness in Alda's heart did not decrease slightly, he did not dare to delay it any longer, so he hurriedly responded, and went to the side to mobilize the troops and horses of the headquarters without mentioning it.

The bloody battle on the battlefield on the left flank is still continuing, although the Qing army has the upper hand, but as time goes by, the battle situation is gradually unfavorable, first of all, the light infantry artillery is fired too frequently, the barrel has been red, and it has to stop, a group of artillery are busy using cold water to cool down the cannon, and then, the medium-sized anti-aircraft artillery also encountered the same problem, but the old artillery of the Junggar army can still shoot a cannon from time to time because of the extremely slow rate of fire, although the Junggar army has only a dozen cannons left, But for the dense formation of the Qing army, the lethality is not small, coupled with the Dzungar infantry army at any cost of rounds of strong attacks, the casualties of the Qing army gradually increased, to the end of the battle, Xiao Zhenshan five regiments of the infantry army has been killed and wounded more than 1,500 people, although it has annihilated nearly 9,000 Dzungar army, but for the left wing of the Dzungar army with 45,000 troops, it is far from the end of the bones, the battle to such a point, the pressure has undoubtedly been transferred to the side of the Qing army.

"Go, ask the division commander for help, the left flank is in an emergency, at least one regiment of troops is needed, go quickly!"

Seeing that the artillery could not play a role in a short period of time, and his own infantry continued to fall on such a battlefield of flesh and blood, Xiao Zhenshan was a little unbearable, and he didn't care about the shamelessness, so he roared angrily.

"Go, let the division commander quickly send reinforcements from a regiment!"

Not only Xiao Zhenshan is complaining, Chang Shancheng on the right wing is also calling for reinforcements, no side, he also encountered the same trouble as Xiao Zhenshan - the artillery is out, there is no way, the rate of fire of the new artillery is super fast, and the fire projection is almost ten times more than that of the old artillery, but at the same time, the barrel is also easy to overheat, if the cannon is fired again at this time, there is a threat of exploding, and without the strong support of artillery, relying on the infantry phalanx alone, it is obviously not easy to block the desperate attack of the Dzungar army wave after wave, Fortunately, Chang Shancheng's department rushed to destroy more than 60 old and new artillery pieces of the Junggar Right Wing Army before the cannon was extinguished, but even so, the casualties of the Qing army were not small, and if the fight continued like this, the right wing was afraid that it would not be able to resist, and in desperation, Chang Shancheng could only send a herald with a black face to find Yue Zhongqi to ask for reserves.

"There are no reinforcements, you can't stop it, come and see you!"

In the face of the two heralds who rushed to ask for help almost front and back, Yue Zhongqi was unequivocal and gave a categorical answer - there is a reserve, but Yue Zhongqi does not plan to send it out at this time, there is nothing else, the war has been going on for more than an hour, but the front of the big strategy Lun Dun Duobu has never been put into the attack, even if more than 20 pontoon bridges have been built, but more than 70,000 Dzungar troops are just not over the river, just sent a small force of cavalry to provoke in front of the Qing army array, this situation is obviously a little wrong, Yue Zhongqi had to prepare for the worst, and he refused to send out the only remaining reserve of more than 7,000 at this time.

"What? There are no reinforcements, damn it, order a regiment of cavalry to fill the gap in the battle line! ”

Although the artillery of the Qing army has been doing their best to cool down the artillery, but at least for a quarter and a half hours, the artillery unit is categorically unable to provide support to the infantry army, during this interval, the Dzungar army took the opportunity to shoot close and unexpectedly, even if it was killed and wounded countless by the intensive fire of the Qing army, but still fought to the death, often the previous infantry team was exhausted, and the latter infantry team was made up, such a high-intensity fight down, the casualties of the Qing army on the left flank have unconsciously exceeded the warning line of two thousand, Although most of the soldiers were only wounded, and only seven or eight hundred people were killed in the battle, but this kind of strict attrition has already threatened the stability of the entire front, and when he heard the news that the herald had brought back no reinforcements, Xiao Zhenshan was anxiously red-eyed, and after scolding angrily, he could only reluctantly order that the cavalry used as a reserve be transferred to the front line and temporarily used as infantry.

The cavalry and machine guns in the hands of the Qing cavalry are special weapons, and the standard weapons used by the infantry army are not universal, and the power is obviously much smaller, of course, for the current almost melee shooting scene, the difference is not very big, with a thousand cavalry holding guns on the front line, the original crumbling battle line is temporarily stabilized, but this stability obviously has a lot of hidden dangers - the Qing army's counterattack force and mobile combat power have been significantly weakened a lot.

"Order, the cavalry on the left flank will attack, and you will not be allowed to retreat!"

Chihe Maha is a veteran of the battle, although he is not too familiar with the battle of this modern firearms unit, but the ability to grasp the fighter is not bad at all, since he found that the Qing army's artillery was extinguished, there was still some doubt, but when he saw that the Qing army transferred the cavalry standing behind the formation to the front line as an infantry, Chihe Maha's heart immediately settled down, and decided that the Qing army's artillery unit must have gone wrong, and refused to let go of such a good opportunity to break the enemy, and roared and gave the general order.

"Woo, woo, woo......"

General Chihe Maha gave an order, and several trumpeters who were waiting on his side blew the horn vigorously, and conveyed the order to the cavalry group that had been waiting on the left side of the battlefield for a long time, and in an instant, he saw 5,000 Dzungar cavalry roaring out of the main formation, and rushed wildly towards the Qing army position outside Lixu like a whirlwind.

"Ride a brigade to attack and block the thief cavalry!"

Just looking at the posture of the Dzungar cavalry rushing up, Xiao Zhenshan clearly knew that his infantry phalanx would inevitably be unable to block the impact of this wave of cavalry without effective artillery support, and in desperation, he could only order the remaining 2,000 cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Brigade to be sent up.

"Ride a brigade, all of them, get on the horse, follow me, kill the thief!"

The battle has been fought for an hour and a half, but except for one regiment of the first cavalry brigade that was sent to the infantry line, the rest of the soldiers have always been idle, and the brigade commander Ke Luntai has long been tired of waiting.

"Kill the thief, kill the thief, kill the thief!"

The 1st Cavalry Brigade is the most elite unit of the Qing Army's cavalry, although it was lost nearly half of the battle in the battle of the Sanchuan Battalion in Banun in early June, it was quickly replenished, all the recruits selected were selected from the two cavalry corps, and the combat effectiveness and fighting will were the crown of the whole army.

"Grenades, throw!"

In the case of such cavalry hedging, the rifle and even the revolver that all the officers and soldiers are equipped with is obviously not very applicable, but it is an occasion when such sharp weapons as grenades play a miraculous effect, and there is no need to command at all, all the soldiers who attack are holding knives in their right hands, as for the left hand, they have already held a grenade, and the rope is wrapped around the fingers. Like a downpour, it smashed into the surging Dzungar cavalry......