Chapter 102: Pursuit
The two banks of the Volga are like heaven and hell, on one side are thousands of scattered Russian infantry, wantonly slaughtered by the Guards cavalry, and on the other side are only a small number of infantry cavalry and all artillery Russian crusading army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The generals of the Russian crusading army, who did not cross the river, quickly reached a consensus, quickly left the battlefield with their men and horses, and retreated to the fortress of Alatri, which is a logistics base established by the Russian crusading army, where there are few reserve soldiers, and the crusading army retreats there, can recover some strength, and with the help of fortifications, block Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin's men and horses, and buy time for the rear to reorganize the army!
After Li Liguo learned that the Russian Imperial Crusade Army had run away, he immediately threw off the slow ordinary soldiers of the rebel army, and personally led the independent regiment of the rebel army and the independent regiment of the guards to march in pursuit!
When Li Liguo came to the Volga with the elite infantry, the battle of the Guards cavalry to hunt down the Russian infantry was not even over!
It is obviously more convenient and faster for the infantry to cross the river than for the cavalry, Li Liguo gave up all heavy things, and the soldiers simply carried the marching backpack and followed Li Liguo with a bayonet and flintlock pistol!
Although the Russian Imperial Crusade Army left first, they reluctantly threw down their valuable artillery, and their marching speed was far inferior to Li Liguo's army, which was lightly armed!
When Li Liguo's vanguard encountered the last team of the Russian Imperial Crusade Army, the Russian soldiers were very surprised by the efficiency of the rebel army, and at this time, only a day and a night had passed before the battle of crossing the river, and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin's men caught up?!
This encounter was very sudden for the Russian soldiers, Li Liguo naturally knew his own situation, except for the muskets, his people did not have any heavy firepower, he only had the advantage of a quick advance, if the Russian crusaders were given time to deploy the artillery, they would not be able to defeat them at all!
Of course, Li Liguo's men immediately launched a column bayonet charge after encountering the Russian Crusade Army Brigade!
However, Li Liguo still had a selfish intention at this time, and he placed the elite infantry regiment, which was completely composed of peasant rebel troops, in the direction of the Russian cavalry troops, blocking the road between the Russian cavalry units and the artillery units!
And Li Liguo led the Guards Infantry Regiment and rushed straight to the Russian artillery units that were busy deploying the artillery!
After withstanding a hastily organized salvo of Russian infantry, the two sides slammed together with bayonets!
For the first time, the Guards Infantry Regiment outnumbered the enemy locally!
At this time, the Russian cavalry also raised their swords, drove their horses, and rushed to the phalanx of the elite infantry regiment of the peasant rebel army!
This Russian cavalry unit was very intact, morale-boosting, and much more numerous than the elite infantry regiment of the peasant rebel army!
However, this Li Liguo carefully selected an honorary infantry regiment composed of all veterans and with its own military flag is not a bad breed, and it fought with the Russian cavalry with bayonets!
In the end, the Russian cavalry is a step slower on the defense line formed by the Honor Infantry Regiment with flesh and blood!
The small number of Russian infantry could not hold back the outnumbered infantry regiments for long, and they were quickly crushed by the bayonet assault of the Guards infantry!
As soon as the Russian general saw that the undeployed artillery positions were exposed to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin's infantry, he gave an order to completely destroy all the artillery!
Never leave a single artillery piece for the rebels!
Modern smoothbore guns are almost always made as a whole gun mold, leaving a fire door, this kind of gun is very strong, but it is also very simple to destroy, as long as the fire door is welded to death, it will be scrapped!
A smoothbore gun without a fire door is just an iron can......
The Russian artillerymen, who were proficient in this way, quickly and completely destroyed all the artillery under the strict orders of the officers, and then left and fled!
By the time Li Liguo's men rushed over, all the artillery had been scrapped, and all the shells and gunpowder had been detonated and destroyed.
After Li Liguo divided several companies to continue to pursue and kill the fleeing artillerymen and Russian officers, he led most of the men and horses to form a neat phalanx and advance towards the Honor Infantry Regiment that was fighting hard!
It has to be said that these veterans of the peasant insurrectionary army, who had been groomed by Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, had a very stubborn will to resist, and only gradually collapsed after being killed and wounded by the cavalry more than two-thirds!
However, the Honorary Infantry Regiment has fulfilled its duty, and the Guards Infantry, who has suffered a lot of losses, is scattered in formation, and has no charge speed, and is no longer worthy of being called elite......
The Russian cavalry, whose morale had decreased a lot, collapsed on its own after resisting less than one and disappeared, and the peasant soldiers and guards infantry who were regrouped by Li Liguo could finally clean up the battlefield and expand the results!
Li Liguo looked at the Russian soldiers who were being chased and surrendered everywhere, and knew that after this battle, his army could get a period of time to tell the expansion period!
Li Liguo has learned how powerful the Russian Empire is through the crude intelligence system, don't look at the current Russian crusade army is almost completely annihilated, but if Li Liguo really advances to Moscow, in the face of the Russian Empire's Tsar Elite Guards Corps defending the city, it is difficult to quickly capture the capital of Moscow, as long as the rebel army cannot fight quickly, the main force of Russia in the fierce war with the Ottoman Empire will definitely come back quickly, even if it is to let the Ottoman Empire that is about to be defeated relieve its breath and turn defeat into victory, Catherine II will also not allow any misrepresentation in the Moscow capital!
At that time, the peasant rebel army, which was alone in depth, no matter how large and large in number, would be surrounded by the Tsarist Guards in Moscow and the main front-line forces defending from the front, it would inevitably be a defeat!
Therefore, Li Liguo's next military action will be mainly directed towards consolidating the foundation and expanding his strength, as long as Li Liguo takes advantage of this vacuum period to expand his power to the Oka River valley, he can talk to Catherine II in Moscow on an equal footing!
At that time, the rebel army with the foundation will not be a force that can be eliminated simply by only one or two battles!
Of course, there may be a little flaw in doing so, and when Li Liguo expands like that, I'm afraid the Russian-Turkish war will be over.
The Russian fleet had already achieved absolute superiority in the Mediterranean, and an uprising broke out within the Ottoman Empire back in 1771! (To be continued.) )