Chapter 101: Under the First Decisive Battle
Don't look at the rebel army that was transformed by Li Liguo, it looks pretty good, but after all, these peasant armies have been in the army for too short a time, and they have too little real combat experience!
When Li Liguo was expanding, he was faced with places where the local elite was emptied, the military strength was very weak, and the rebel army almost pushed it over with a sea of people to win, and those difficult places were all bone-buried, Li Liguo didn't want to fight at all, and those places were not Orenburg, there was a complete arsenal!
Defeat a peasant rebel army with thousands of well-trained soldiers?
In that case, Li Liguo would not have been able to save up 30,000 firearms for a trained rebel army!
In the face of the 25,000 elite Russian regular army, the 100-meter bayonet charge was obviously not so useful, and the second-line troops of the peasant rebel army, which lacked training and weapons, even Li Liguo doubted that they could break through the Russian Empire's musket salvo blockade......
After the comparative analysis of the professional officers of the military council, if the infantry duel, it would be difficult for the peasant rebel army to defeat the Russian Imperial crusading army, and if they wanted to win, they would have to pay a great price for the cavalry corps!
In this case, Li Liguo simply didn't do anything, and took advantage of the inaccuracy of the Russian Empire's crusading army's intelligence on his own cavalry corps, and led the cavalry troops to attack in a half!
As long as the defense line of the Russian crusaders placed on the banks of the river is broken, the cavalry units can massacre the Russian crusaders who are crossing the river!
By that time, the peasant rebel army would face the crusading army with heavy losses, and victory would be almost a certainty!
After the cavalry set off, the main infantry of the rebel army also opened the camp, and these infantry wanted to continue to pursue the Russian crusading army after the victory of the cavalry, and strive to completely annihilate this elite of the Russian Empire!
The cavalry of the rebel army, which forced its march to the river, surprised the Russian crusaders a little, they did not expect that this mud-legged cavalry unit would really dare to attack themselves alone!
The order in which the Russian crusading army crossed the river was that the infantry who were easy to swim across the river crossed the river first, and after the defensive line was set, the cavalry troops, and finally the artillery that crossed the river was the most difficult!
So, the Guards cavalry was faced with a line of infantry lined up!
At this time, Napoleon had not yet risen, and the famous hollow approach had not yet become popular in Europe, so the Russian infantry did not list the hollow phalanx facing the invincible cavalry, but only lined up in a simple horizontal column in depth. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The depth of the horizontal column has been increased, making it more difficult for the cavalry to break through, and the column is much stronger than the horizontal team in the face of roundabout attacks on the flanks!
When the Russian raiders saw the arrival of the rebel cavalry, they did not slow down the progress of crossing the river, as if they were very confident that their defensive line would be able to hold the troops crossing the river behind!
Next, it's time for the Spartan cavalry to charge to the death!
This charge caused an uproar in the upper echelons of the Russian Empire, and the bravery of the Cossack cavalry was officially recognized by the world!
Later generations were rumored about the bravery of the Cossack cavalry, in fact, the Cossack cavalry was not famous in the European theater, the disciplined and scattered Cossack cavalry composed of tribal cavalry was completely at the bottom of the cavalry ranks in Europe, and the Cossack cavalry was more similar to the cavalry tactics of Genghis Khan's era, and in the wall charge of the European cavalry, the Cossack cavalry charge was very fragile!
There have been many battles in history in which the French cuirassiers and the cavalry units of other powers crushed the huge and scattered cavalry units of the Cossacks!
The Cossacks became famous mainly in the Eastern world!
As a minority, the Cossacks were driven by the Russian Empire to expand their territory in the East, and the Qing Dynasty at that time, everyone knows that the Cossack cavalry of the European battlefield was rubbish, and when it came to the Qing Dynasty, it was an inexplicable existence......
The Cossacks were barbaric and backward, fighting by blood, and naturally not in the European battlefield where overall discipline was emphasized, and in the Qing Dynasty, which also fought by blood, it was a real warrior!
So, in the expansion of the territory of the East, the tsar of the Russian Empire was surprised to find, hey, the results of the Cossack cavalry are so brilliant, and the Cossacks are quite capable!
Then he was pulled to the European battlefield and was beaten by the cavalry of the great powers......
Then the tsar of the Russian Empire came to his senses, and the Cossacks had won many battles against the Easterners, but not against the Westerners, so it was better to go to the East to expand their territory!
It was not until the Russo-Japanese War that the myth of the invincibility of the Cossack cavalry in the East was shattered by Little Japan......
Shame on you!
The well-trained Russian infantry, starting a salvo from a distance of 50 paces, and after two rounds of volleys, the Spartan cavalry showed no signs of breaking up!
However, the Russian soldiers were not afraid, they put up the bayonet jungle and stared at the Spartan cavalry in front of them, as if to say, if there is a kind of come to hurt each other, who is afraid of whom!
This battle to break through the infantry line was not easy for the Guards cavalry, these elite soldiers of the Russian crusading army were very tenacious, were broken through a layer of defense, quickly regrouped, and continued to resist in the back!
The Spartan cavalry fell in pieces, but the Russian infantry never collapsed!
It's just that, after all, the Volga is not far from here, and when the Spartan cavalry broke through to the banks of the Volga at the cost of nearly 10,000 people, the Russian infantry was finally unable to organize effective resistance!
And the Russian soldiers, who were crossing the river, could not resist the slaughter of the Guards cavalry!
The generals of the Russian Empire standing on the other side of the river, after watching the tragic battle, looked at each other, this kind of cavalry corps that can withstand one-third of the casualties, placed in the front-line troops, is also elite!
How did the peasant rebel army train such an iron horseman?
What kind of character was that Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin!
With this cavalry, how else could the regular army of the Russian Empire fight against the peasant rebel army with a numerical advantage?!
If you can't fight the peasant rebel army in the field, it means that you can't effectively curb the advance of the peasant rebel army, and the Russian Imperial officers and soldiers hiding in the fortress will make those mud-legged people completely burst out into a frenzy to join the army!
Even, in the end, the soldiers of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin will be under the city of Moscow!
The Russian generals are already afraid to imagine the consequences that will follow!
Could it be that Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin really had a chance to become the new Tsar?!
The Russian crusaders have stopped crossing the river, and those Guards cavalry naturally can't fly across the river to slaughter the few Russian crusaders on the opposite side, and the large number of Russian infantry on this side of the river is enough for the Guards cavalry to be busy for a while! (To be continued.) )