The Qing soldiers on the mountain rushed down the hillside, and some Cossack cavalry in the valley hid under the corpses, not being hit by bullets, and at this time saw the Qing soldiers rushing down and jumping out of the pile of corpses, ready to fight to the death.

The Qing soldiers did not like to fight, either firing their guns or fighting with bayonets, and the remnants of the Cossack cavalry were quickly wiped out.

Lin Yuan immediately ordered the third battalion as a reserve to march towards the Russian military camp in Changtu, and the empty military camp was quickly captured, without the protection of the military camp, the Russian army in Changtu City did not resist, so they retreated to the rear, and the Qing army immediately occupied Changtu.

On 10 May, the resting Dingwu Army and the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 1st Ryukyu Division assembled in Changtu, and in order to hide people's eyes, the 1st Ryukyu Division was called the New 1st Division to distinguish it from the previous troops, while Lin Yuan recruited new recruits in Panjin to form the 1st Brigade and continue to use the title of the 1st Brigade.

At this time, there were more than 10,000 troops assembled in Changtu, and although the Russian army had more than 30,000 people, the Russian troops were all deployed at the stations of the railway line, and the strength of two or three battalions was deployed at each station, and there were only two or three thousand troops.

Tsar Nicholas II, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in northeastern China, only sent a brief telegram to the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, the governor of the Amur Military District, Lieutenant General Grodecoko, asking how the investigation of the cause of the sinkhole was.

Lieutenant General Grodjieko simply ordered his subordinates to reply with a briefer "under investigation" and continued to plunge into the ball in Blagoveshchensk, which is now the seat of the highest command body of the Amur Military District, whose Chinese name is Hailan Pao, and Lieutenant General Grodzhko felt that since killing a large number of yellow-skinned monkeys here, the others were much more honest.

The telegram of the loss of Changtu and the annihilation of the Cossack cavalry battalion was pressed under a large number of invitations, and Grogerko knew nothing about the opponent he was about to face, Lin Yuan, in his impression, Lin Yuan was just a charlatan who could do tricks, and Lin Yuan's repeated "summoning gods" created plenty of jokes and talking points for his after-dinner chat, which could not be blamed on him, in the eyes of people who did not know how to do it, there was no difference between high-tech magic and magic.

War never knows mercy, and as long as mistakes are made, they will pay the price of blood. Lin Yuan ordered the 1st Brigade of the New 1st Division to attack Sanchakou to the north, while the 2nd Brigade of the New 1st Division to the east and along the railway line to attack the provincial capital of Jilin, which has the same name as her province, and its name is derived from the Manchu word "Jilin Ula", which means city on the Songhua River, and was the provincial capital of Jilin Province in the Qing Dynasty.

From Changtu to Jilin, due to the existence of post roads, several small cities arose along the line, used for trade and trade, when the Russians built railways, they built railway stations in these small cities, built coal bunkers in the city, used to supply trains, and built military camps and fortifications outside the city, nominally to protect the railway from bandits, but in fact to permanently occupy Northeast China. At the front is a small town called Cotton Town, which is also the terminus of the Russian Railway, which was originally a gathering place for cotton merchants, hence the name, and the Russians built fortifications differently from the Japanese, they did not build barbed wire outside the barracks, but built a wall more than a meter high with stones and earth, and there were firing ports in the wall for soldiers to shoot.

After the arrival of the second brigade of the new 1st Division, they did not attack directly, but found the locals who worked in the barracks, and asked the Russian troops inside about their work and rest habits and machine gun positions. When the weakest point of the Russian defense was determined, they concentrated the eight sampan guns they carried there, directly blasted through the wall, rushed into the barracks, and fought in close quarters inside, the Russian army was equipped with Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles, which are still manual rifles, and each shot needs to be re-pulled once, while the new division is equipped with semi-automatic rifles, and the rate of fire of the two is not at all on the same order of magnitude.

The Russian army suffers even more: their rifles are loaded with five-round magazines, while the new 1st Division uses a magazine of 20 rounds, that is, the soldiers of the new 1st Division have four times as many bullets as the Russian army for one change of ammunition! And on the battlefield, the soldier is most afraid of nothing more than the gun in his hand running out of bullets.

At this time, the grenades equipped by the new first division will be powerful, the distance between the concealed objects is usually no more than 30 meters, 30 meters is the passing standard for the bomb throwing distance of the soldiers of the new first division, so the bunker became a morgue for Russian soldiers, and the battle ended in less than 20 minutes, and 1,000 defenders, except for 147 killed, all surrendered.

The 2nd Brigade of the New 1st Division has experience in fighting with the Japanese army, and they are deeply impressed by the Japanese army's temperament of preferring to die rather than surrender, they instinctively think that the Russian army is the same, and the fierce battle between the two sides is in full swing, and the Russian army does not seem to have to surrender, so when the Russian army wants to surrender, they still think that the Russian army has some conspiracy! They didn't believe it until the Russian army held up their guns and put them in a row in the open space.

It turns out that the Russian army is very different from the Japanese army, that is: in Japan, it is glorious to be a soldier; In Russia, it's shameful to be a soldier! In Russia, soldiers are not allowed to enter parks, theaters, and they can freely enter and exit those places before they become soldiers, in contrast, the high-ranking officials of the Russian army are all nobles, and everywhere they go are beautiful women, brocade clothes and jade food, to borrow an ancient Chinese poem, "The soldiers are half dead in front of the army, and the beauties are still singing and dancing under the tent", so the combat effectiveness of the Russian army can be imagined. Just after the 2nd Brigade of the New 1st Division knocked down Cotton Town, the next stop was Fenghua County, 30 kilometers away, which was originally intended to run a long distance, but at this time, a military train happened to be coming from Fenghua, and the brigade commander had an idea and ordered everyone to get on the train and take the train to Fenghua.

This military train is pulling supplies, the driver on the car, the stoker are all Chinese, see the troops who hit the ****, don't say a word, pull them and leave, in fact, this practice is very dangerous, because the train cannot be sent randomly, there needs to be a unified scheduling, otherwise the two trains may collide together.

However, the 2nd Brigade of the New 1st Division was fortunate that they reached Fenghua without any incident, and the defenders were disarmed in a daze.

In one day, they broke through almost eighty kilometers!

In Changtu in the rear, Liu Dart said: "Lin Shuai, do you want them to retreat, it's taboo for soldiers to go deep alone!" ”

It is very dangerous to go deep alone, without friendly troops to protect your flanks, the enemy can easily surround you, in history, there are many troops that go deep alone, without exception, they end in fiasco.

However, Lin Yuan did not care, but ordered the new 1st Division and 2nd Brigade to continue to advance, and the Russian troops along the line were caught off guard, and under their blows, they were crushed, and on 12 May, they captured the Great Black Mountain, which was only 70 kilometers away from Jilin.

The commander of the First Army of the Russian Army stationed in Jilin, Major General Alekov, was in a trance and found that an enemy unit had emerged under his nose!