"Only 10,000 people, dare to take the initiative? Akito is crazy? ”

Musayev paced across the country, a look of shock on his face.

"They are coming for Abakan, and if Russia is driven out of Abakan, our Asian territories will not be saved!" A colonel said with a cold face.

"I suggest that they take Abakan and let them wipe out this Ming army after hitting their scalps and bleeding on our defensive line!"

"Yes, we must let the Chinese know that the Russians are not sheep who can be bullied by them at will! If we don't give them another hard time, we won't have the face to stay in Asia! ”

"Losing the territory of the Asian part, the gains of more than a hundred years of expansion of the empire are all gone!"

A group of Russian officers shouted, their faces very aggrieved.

Last time.

They lost the battle of Irkutsk, lost Eastern Siberia.

But in these two years, the Russian Empire was also summing up the reasons for the defeat.

They believe that the key to failure is that "the instrument is not as good as the person".

Therefore, in the past two years, the Russian Empire has also been desperately replenishing rifled guns to front-line officers.

There are also not many technical barriers to the bottom expansion bomb.

Therefore, in terms of weapons, it can be regarded as leveling the gap.

Tactically, the Russian Imperial Army was also imitating the Ming army, carrying out reforms with new tactics.

Therefore, now, the "phobia" of the Russian army has basically disappeared.

As soon as they heard that the army was coming, they began to shout again that they were going to fight.

"The experience of the battlefield in the past two years tells us that the current military technology and tactics are advantageous to the defending side, and our troops are far more than the Ming army!"

"As long as they are on the defensive, if the Ming army dares to attack, they will hit their heads in front of our barbed wire and trenches!"

"But there is not much food in Abakan, and if the Chinese surround us, our military food will not be enough!"

"We don't have enough food, is it enough for the Chinese? They've traveled hundreds of kilometers! ”

"That's right, it's a big deal."

"Is there more food than anyone else in this war?"

"Isn't it? I don't think the Chinese have the guts to attack fortifications made of barbed wire and trenches! ”

"We can't compare to them, they have Mongols to help herd sheep and cattle, and they are equipped with a large number of Mongolian horses, and they can kill horses for food...... This is the best tactic for grassland warfare! In contrast, we are too dependent on logistics lines to ensure supply! ”

A group of Russian officers argued.

Let the commander Musayev's head be big.

"Enough! We can't be surrounded inside the position! They have the entire Mongolian steppe as a logistics supply base, and we can't consume them! ”

Musayev said coldly: "Hiding in the trenches is a safe approach, but this is not enough to win the war, nor is it enough to help the empire keep the territory of the Asian part, we must take the initiative!" We will inflict a heavy blow on the steppes of Abakan with superior forces! Interrupt the Chinese's greedy paws stretched to the west! ”

Musayev said loudly.

It is really hard to imagine that the time has come for the Russians to be anti-imperialist and anti-aggression

"Old Yang! Old Yang!! ”

Outside Yang Yuchun's military tent, the voice of Chen Dewang, chief of staff of the corps, came in from outside the tent.

The chief of staff has no right to speak in the newly formed Western Expeditionary Corps, and even Yang Yuchun does not dare to offend him.

Because this is one of the three hundred old brothers, he can be said to have a very stable position in the court.

This time he led the Western Army with Yang Yuchun, and the reason why Yang Yuchun became the commander was because considering that Yang Yuchun and some high-level officials in Manchu and Mongolia had old days, and they were passable.

"Old Yang! Discover the army of Rakshasa ghosts! ”

Yang Yuchun was studying the enemy situation among the staff officers, and when he heard this, he immediately stood up and asked, "How many people?" ”

"Tens of thousands! I don't know the exact number, but the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa is getting more and more difficult to deal with, and they won't let us get too close! ”

Yang Yuchun paced two steps.

"Actually put a turtle shell, and dare to take the initiative?"

"They're afraid that we will take the strategy of besieging and cutting off food!" Chen Dewang said with a smile.

"That's fine, no matter how many people they come, they can't go back!"

Yang Yuchun's hand clicked twice on the map.

"In that case, this place can't be left to them!"

He looked up at Li Sheng and Wang Dayong.

"Give you two days, can you take the Rakshasa Ghost's Kyzylorda?"

Kyzylorda, the frontier of Abakan, is a relatively old fortress consisting of several bastions.

"Isn't it just a few fortresses, why two days, one night is enough!"

Li Sheng said with a smile.

"Don't give the Rakshasa a thought?" Wang Dayong said with a smile.

With Kyzylorda in hand, the Russians probably won't have too desperate plans - it's a big deal to go into the fortress and defend it.

"It's the same whether you give it or not!" Chen Dewang said, "Lao Maozi doesn't have many Cossacks on hand, most of their Cossacks have been transferred to the western battlefield, they are all a group of foot soldiers, how can they outrun us!" ”

'Why not rely on trenches and barbed wire to fight positional warfare?' ’

Yang Yuchun shook his head again and again: "Our goal is to annihilate these tens of thousands of Rakshasa ghosts, as long as they leave their lives in Abakan, we can really get the Midwest Leahia in hand, otherwise there are tens of thousands of troops outside in trouble, and they are not fools, seeing our barbed wire take the initiative to collide!" I asked you to dig trenches and pull barbed wire fences on the periphery just to be invincible. I didn't expect them to hit me stupidly. ’

"Then it's a field battle!" Li Sheng clapped his hands and said.

The Ming army was never afraid of field battles.

"One day, take the fortress!" Chen Dewang said to Li Sheng.

Li Sheng immediately nodded: 'Obey! ’

Yang Yuchun said to Fukangan on the side.

'Mr. Fu, the camp will be handed over to you, and the cattle and sheep will be driven into the barbed wire. ’

He turned his head to look at the generals.

'It's June 3rd, and at sunrise on June 5th, we'll fight to the death with the Rakshasa in the Abakan grassland! ’

Boom Boom!!

The roar of artillery sounded in the Kyzylorda fortress, which the Russians painstakingly operated for more than half a century.

After half a night of fierce fighting.

At this point, the battle was nearing its end.

With the advent of high-explosive charges.

Gone are the days when bastions could not be breached.

At least for the Ming army.

The Ming Army, which had a general staff and an army officer school, had summed up a complete set of procedures for attacking the fortress.

Unlike traditional armies.

As long as the Ming army can sum up standard tactics and has a staff system and a military academy system, it will be able to quickly popularize tactics throughout the army.

However, the progress of traditional armies is very slow, and old tactics are often used for hundreds or even hundreds of years, and new tactics will not be developed according to changes in opponents and weapons.

For example, the Huai army in the First Sino-Japanese War was like this, and although their defeat was related to the backwardness and corruption of the feudal army, the backwardness of their tactics was indeed an important reason.

The tactics of the Huai army were learned from Western instructors during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In fact, it is the Western way of queuing and shooting.

When the gun was rear-loaded, this tactic had long been eliminated by the modern armies of the West and Japan, but the Huai army brought this style of play to the battlefield of the First Sino-Japanese War.

However, the organization, command, and officer training methods of the Ming army are all very advanced and standard modern military systems.

This is a modern army with a strong learning ability, so on this night, the Ming army easily solved the Kyzylorda fortress with textbook operations.

With the end of the fierce battle.

Outside the Kyzylorda fortress.

Bang Bang Bang!

A crisp sound rang out.

A large number of captives were tied up, kneeling on the ground, and then given a shot from the back of the head with muskets by soldiers of the Ming army.

In modern times, the execution of prisoners is very inhumane and a violation of the rules of war.

But in this day and age, especially in the steppe deserts.

Such behavior is commonplace.

It has nothing to do with being cruel or not.

In fact, if a Ming soldier was captured by the Russians, the same treatment would be given.

Because this place is too far away from the grain producing areas on both sides.

The logistical supply is very difficult!

To keep a captive is to add an unnecessary burden to oneself.

After a burst of gunfire.

Hundreds of Russian soldiers were all cleanly executed.

As soon as Guan Shanyong, the company commander of the 1st Dragoon Division of the Western Expeditionary Corps, waved his hand, some soldiers dragged those Russians with tall oxen and horses into the big pit dug up.

Frankly.

did not choose to be buried alive, but wasted a bullet to send the Russians back to the west, which is already considered a very civilized Ming army.

Guan Shanyong was originally a banner man, but now he is an inherited officer of the Ming army who worked hard for the great tomorrow.

"Lao Guan, after the prisoners are dealt with, arrange for the troops to rest, and continue to attack westward tomorrow morning!"

It was Lu Fuhai, a staff officer of the 1st Cavalry Division, who was speaking.

This Hakka hunter who joined the Ming army in the Battle of Nanxiong has now graduated from the military academy and has become a division staff officer.

He now holds the title of lord, and has 200 acres of paddy fields in his hometown and 500 acres of military fields in the northeast.

It can be said that this life is completely sold to the great tomorrow.

"Understood!" 、

Guan Shanyong nodded excitedly, and then said to his subordinates: "Hurry up, gather after collecting the loot in ten minutes!" ”

The loot, of course, is collected from the dead! Shoes, coats, watches, jewelry, gold teeth, purses, swords, etc., are all trophies that can belong to individuals.

However, all firearms must be returned to the public.

"Yang Shuai, Kyzylorda has been defeated."

At this time, Li Sheng was arrogant and reporting the results to Yang Yuchun.

"More than 1,000 enemies were killed, 211 of our army were killed, 436 were wounded, 22 cannons, 365 smoothbore guns, 155 rifled guns, more than 3,000 catties of gunpowder, and hundreds of thousands of catties of wheat were also captured, if it weren't for Lao Maozi's defenders, they burned down several large warehouses......"

As Li Sheng spoke, he handed Yang Yuchun a rifled gun.

"This should be an imitation of the Liberation 2-Year rifle, the workmanship is not bad, and the bottom expansion list is also equipped. The accuracy of the bullet processing is a little rougher, but it is not bad, this firearm has a longer range than the rear-loading gun we use, and our advantage is in the rate of fire and the design posture! Wang Dayong said.

In the middle of the night on June 4, the fierce fighting of the Kyzylorda fortress ignited a raging fire, reflecting half of the sky and faintly visible hundreds of miles away.

The Russian commander Musayev, who was riding on a Don hippo, looked at the night sky from afar, and his face was solemn.

"The Bastion is outdated"

He said.

It's not so much surprise as a repetition.

The era of the invincible defense of the fortress passed so quickly.

The experience of the past wars is no longer very useful.

The Chinese always have an endless stream of new weapons.

This time.

They took the initiative.

Is there something new coming out?

Musayev thought.

He reined in his horse and turned his head to look south.

"Map!!"

He said loudly.

The adjutant next to him hurriedly pulled out the military map, which was carefully stored in the copper tube, opened it and handed it to Musayev.

Musayev looked at it for a while.

Pointing to a river to the south.

"Syr Darya! We move towards the banks of the Syr Darya River! ”

Musayev was looking for a suitable battlefield for the battle.

But the commander of the 15th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General Andrei, beside him, asked the Orenburg Governor-General in confusion: "Your Excellency the Governor-General! The Kyzylorda fortress may still be saved, if we rush to ...... immediately"

Musayev snorted: "Lieutenant General, do you want the Chinese to taste another victory like in Irkutsk?" ”

The commander of the 11th Infantry Division, Khorkat, who had suffered in Irkutsk, echoed hatefully: "Even if the Kyzylorda fortress is not breached, it is useless...... Are we going to storm the barbed wire and trenches of the Chinese? ”

"You can't fight like that."

Holcart said, "It's going to cost us a lot!" The best thing to do now is to engage in a rendezvous on the steppe, and our rifles have twice as long range as their reloaded breech-loading guns. ”

Musayev nodded: "So a decisive battle in the open area is the most advantageous...... The order goes, we must hurry to the Syr Darya River as soon as possible, we are not far from the fortress of Kyzylorda, and the decisive battle may begin tomorrow night! We must establish a position one step ahead of the Chinese, rely on a solid position, and fight a dignified battle with the Chinese! We have an army of 30,000, the Chinese have only 10,000, 30,000 against 10,000, on the banks of the open Syr Darya, advantage, on our side! ”

This time, Lieutenant General Andrei finally nodded convincingly, "Great, Your Excellency General has already done a good job of looking at the cards." Tomorrow's victory will definitely belong to us, to Russia! ”

Holcart hesitated, "They might be position-for-position...... In the current western battlefield, such things are very common. ”

"Then let's go and retreat to the west shore of the Aral Sea!"

Musayev smiled helplessly, "If we want to keep the land of Asia, we must first keep this army." ”

"Without the army, the land would not have been kept in any case."

(End of chapter)