The soldiers of the Russian Cossack cavalry and the shooting corps led by Mikhail were charging on horseback.

Dense gunfire rang out non-stop.

The rounds of gunfire made him not count the soldiers around him who had been shot and fell off their horses.

For a short period of time.

These thousands of cavalry led by him have already lost at least two or three hundred people.

And this is still in the case of poor visibility and great distances - in fact, until now, these Russians have not seen where their enemies are.

They can only charge in the direction where the bullets are coming.

It's so brave.

Brave enough to charge against bullets!

After finishing loading, Tong Wei raised the gun and pulled the trigger while thinking.

Bang bang bang.

Another round of intense gunfire.

"Charge! Charge!! ”

At this stage.

There is no way back.

"Rush up and trample those Chinese to death with their horses!!"

Mikhail said loudly with red eyes and gritted his teeth.

It was only the continuous sound of gunfire that frustrated the momentum of the charge, and the formation began to be confused, and Mikhail's wisdom was disturbed as a result.

As a last resort.

Mikhail could only keep asking the heralds around him to convey orders loudly, ready to regroup and charge.

'Move five hundred steps to the right!' ’

Fan Baoyi over there had already begun to shift his position in accordance with the operational order of the General Staff, and after firing four volleys.

The half-man-tall grass of the Kyakhta pasture gave them the best cover.

The soldiers bent over, carried their guns, and moved quickly in direction.

Fan Baoyi, on the other hand, took out the pistol on his waist after the transfer of the large army, and shot a bright flare into the sky.

Seeing the signal, the Ming artillery immediately began to fire more than a dozen grenades, and the range covered by the grenades was the area where Fan Baobao had sent the signal before.

Dozens of grenades exploded and did not kill anyone at all, but they attracted everyone's attention.

And under the cover of shells and night.

The Russians simply did not realize that their enemy had shifted direction.

Fan Baoyi's first battalion circled around the battlefield and lurked on the right side of the direction of the Russian attack.

"Rush! Keep charging! ”

Seeing that the shelling of the Ming army stopped.

Mikhail also completed the adjustment of the military formation.

The order to charge was given again.

The Russian cavalry, already ready, lined up in a neat queue.

Charge in the formation of a standard European shock cavalry.

Trot.

Hasten.

And then

Full speed charge!!

And right now.

The sound of crackling gunfire rang out again.

The bullets flying from the right side instantly shot the Russian soldiers and fell off their horses.

"These Rakshasa ghosts are really brave, but their fighting style is too backward, and even the Qing army is not as good."

In the Ming army.

Chen Liansheng grinned.

Of course, the Qing army knew that it could not just rush the Ming army who did not know the details of the ambush - this was a lesson in exchange for blood.

And the organization of the Russian army is not much better than that of the Qing army.

After the platoon gun was disrupted, it was also necessary to reorganize the platoon.

Now it's night fighting.

In general.

The most important test of night battles is the organizational ability of an army.

And it just so happens that the organizational ability of the Ming army is very strong.

To some extent

The organizational potential of this army to conquer the Western Capital is even higher than that of the ordinary Ming army.

Why?

Because now Chen Liansheng's brigade basically comes from the original Eight Banners stationed in Beijing.

Even if it's a poor Eight Banners like Tong Wei.

I also went to school, and I was more or less literate - this is very rare in this day and age.

Because the illiteracy rate in this era is too high.

Why did Lu Fuhai delay in mentioning officers?

Isn't it because you are old enough to go to literacy?

If it is simply than the literacy rate.

The literacy rate of the four brigades of the two armies of the front army and the rear army of the Western Capital Division must have ranked first in the Ming army sequence.

One of the benefits of literacy is that soldiers can understand orders from their superiors more quickly and execute them quickly.

If such a force is put on a swing to fight a dignified battle, it may not be able to take much advantage.

But if it's used for night battles.

Under the high organization of the Ming army, the advantage of a high literacy rate is very obvious.

Right now.

The artillery of the Ming army also locked on Mikhail in the dark to lead the Russian army.

Cannons roared.

Shells fell.

Horrific blasts of explosives and metal jets from artillery shell fragments swept through the charging cavalry like a torrential rain.

Immediately, there were bursts of screams of standing up.

At least hundreds of horsemen were killed. The cavalry behind also gasped when they saw this scene.

The Russians were also terrified.

Under the sound of the explosion of shells.

They couldn't tell in what direction the bullets were coming from.

Bullets whizzed across the battlefield.

There was a muffled sound on the human body.

The shells again blocked the roads in front of and behind them.

All of a sudden.

It's really hard to move forward.

can only be beaten passively in the chaos.

"Hell! What's going on? How many people were there in the Ming army? ”

In the rear, the Russian crown prince Paul, who had a reserve of 10,000, frowned.

His side.

Several Russian officers also had solemn faces.

These Russian officers are all tried and tested empress soldiers.

Their faces were quite solemn when they heard the sound of gunfire and artillery coming from all directions.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, maybe we are facing more than five thousand Ming troops!"

"This firepower density is too great!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I suggest retreating immediately!"

Paul shook his head when he heard this, "You can't retreat, you can't retreat!" We must at least figure out how the Chinese fight! ”

His face was solemn.

The thought of being a neighbor with the enemy in front of him made him feel palpitations.

If Russia cannot gain an advantage on the battlefield.

So how do they deal with such a huge neighbor?

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, this army is very terrifying, their quality is very high, the degree of organization is also very high, and they can command so flexibly at night, it can be seen that their command and organization skills are very strong, if this is just the remnants of the Qing army that was once defeated by the Ming army, then we must think. Is it worth fighting such an enemy. ”

An officer said.

Crown Prince Paul's face became even more solemn when he heard this.

But he did not give the order to retreat.

Instead, it was decided to send another 5,000 troops to press on and support Lepnin and Mikhail.

A regiment of Cossack cavalry straddled the Donhippo in separate feuds.

In the past long maneuver battles, they have tried to ride the Mongol horses assigned to them, not their beloved Don hippos, for the purpose of charging this evening!

The Cossacks of this regiment were not the Cossacks in the Far East.

Rather, the elite Cossack cavalry regiment that came with it from Moscow.

They were the sharp knives of the Russian Empire, the sharp blades of the tsar.

Participated in the Russian-Turkish war several times.

It is a true elite of a hundred battles.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard densely.

Attracted the attention of everyone on the battlefield.

Fukangan held a telescope and stared at the Cossack elite in the distance.

'This is a real elite dispatch! ’

He put down his binoculars and said.

(End of chapter)