The 1,500 cavalrymen were like dragons, drawing an arc from the rear of the battlefield and beginning to circle towards the Amur Gulf. The entire marching route is to advance counterclockwise around the edge of the battlefield.
It is very clearly marked on the military map that the Amur Bay is actually a part of the Great Peter Bay. It is precisely because of the division of the narrow peninsula in Vladivostok that the Great Peter Bay turned into two connected small bays.
The offshore area protected by deep water and few islands in the east is the Amur Bay, and the bay with a wide opening directly facing the Sea of Japan in the west is called Ussuri Bay.
The Russian Navy has always been huddled in the relatively safe Amur Gulf, and its position has been close to the southern outlet. They are afraid of being covered by the army's artillery, and are ready to flee at any time.
Xiang Shaolong's plan is to completely annihilate the Russian army. Naturally, these warships cannot be allowed to escape, but how to lure them north into a deeper bay? How to keep them away from the sea?
The previous continuous shelling of the Tsarist Russian Army was one of the strategies to force the Tsarist Russian fleet to fight back.
After all, the Vladivostok garrison was commanded by Army General Diyachenko, and Navy General Aytolin was his deputy. At critical moments, Aytolin had to obey Diyachenko's orders.
The volunteers continued to bombard Diyachenko's troops frantically, forcing Diyachenko to issue an order to force Etolin's warships to join the battle.
As long as Aitorin joins the battle, his warships will have to move north and go deeper into the bay, otherwise the artillery ballistics will not be able to hit the Volunteer Army's front line.
But once the naval fleet heads north, the cavalry regiment that has been prepared long ago will come in handy!
"Now, right now, the opportunity is right in front of us... Ye Qiu! As long as you can quickly move troops to the west coast of the Amur Gulf and control the outlet, we will win this war!"
The horses were running wildly, the blood of the soldiers was boiling, the horse's hoofs as big as bowls were trampling on the remaining snow, and there were faint sprouts of green plants under the black humus soil.
Spring has arrived, and new life in the Far East is coming.
"There is an enemy checkpoint five hundred meters ahead. The second company rushes up... and pulls out this shabby stronghold!" Tian Erdan saw the enemy's eyes gleaming. He rushed forward immediately, holding on tightly with the strength of his legs. On horseback, there are two guns on the back, a Mauser and a Spencer.
The Mauser is equipped with a scope, which is used as a sniper rifle, and Spencer has a fast rate of fire, which is used in close combat. Tian Erdan took off the Mauser, and his single eye dropped three points. They formed a line, and without even a moment's hesitation, he fired a shot. The Russian sentry on the far sentry post was shot in the middle of his eyebrow, rolled over and fell down.
The sound of gunfire was a signal, and the defenders in the enemy's checkpoints fired back one after another. From time to time, horses in the cavalry company rolled and fell to the ground.
What the cavalry pursues is speed. Casualties are unavoidable during the charge. No one hesitated at all. Everyone squeezed out their horsepower. The grenade cord was put on their fingers, and the bullets of the rifle were loaded with the flat end on the horse's back.
Three hundred meters, two hundred, one hundred, fifty meters... Fifty meters is a signal. All the cavalrymen clicked with their short rifles almost at the same time... A stream of gunfire bloomed in the wave of cavalry, and there was a sudden scream in the checkpoint. The retaliatory gunfire was immediately suppressed.
The horse's speed did not slow down at all. It took an instant to rush from 50 meters to 20 meters. The grenades that had been prepared at this moment were thrown out like rain. More than a hundred grenades were billowing with white smoke and fell from the sky to the entire checkpoint. Suddenly it was a mess.
The second company did not slow down until the end. The cavalry began to rush and accelerate from 500 meters. Tian Erdan fired the first shot at 300 meters, concentrated fire at 50 meters, and grenades as dense as hailstones at 20 meters.
Just like a master's gladiatorial battle, there is only one charge and one move in the fight. The enemy has been beheaded before lightning can cover his ears.
The horse yelled in anger, "Leave one for me, there are only three guard posts, you have taken all the credit for my work...Are they all dead? Speed up, speed up the war horse..."
Bang... bang! There was a muffled sound in the sky, and a bright firework went off. Although it was daytime, this signal flare filled with gunpowder still woke up countless people on the battlefield.
The Russian checkpoint was not intended to block the Volunteer Army. Without a checkpoint, there was only a platoon of troops. It would definitely be impossible to defend against the Far East Volunteer Army.
The meaning of their existence is to report to Vladivostok the military situation on the mainland on the west side of the battlefield. When Tian Erdan pulled out the first checkpoint, the fireworks of the report finally took off.
At this time, the warships in the bay had just fired three rounds of salvos. The smoke rising from the Chinese artillery position opposite caused the sailors to roar excitedly again and again.
The entry of naval warships into the battle greatly eased the pressure on the army in Vladivostok. Those Tsarist Russian soldiers huddled in defensive bunkers could finally take time to repair fortifications and treat wounded soldiers.
Although the battlefield did not enter a close-quarters army strangulation battle at this moment, the cruelty of the artillery bombardment was undoubtedly highlighted. The spray of artillery shells rose into the sky in the sea, debris from the hit warships flew into the sky, and corpses were thrown on the sea with the waves.
The pressure on the Volunteer Army was also very high. Although the artillery position had fortifications, it could not protect all the personnel and weapons and equipment. Broken corpses and broken artillery parts flew everywhere in the explosions.
Some of the Far East volunteers could no longer bear such a blow. They covered their ears and screamed in the corner, completely forgetting the boast they had made last night.
The cruelty of modern war is beyond the imagination of those people who have hunted national bears and killed deer. It turns out that the bravery they thought they had in the past is nothing in the face of the demon of war.
While the tug-of-war of artillery fire continued, it was a test of the will of the generals and soldiers of both armies. Aitorin looked into the distance without saying a word, and the dead soldiers on his side seemed to have died as if they were not human beings.
The same goes for Xiang Shaolong. He held a telescope and looked around the battlefield. To him, the casualty reports he received were just a series of insignificant numbers.
Everyone is waiting for the other party to collapse mentally first, waiting for the other party to make a stupid move. The war is just a competition of ruthlessness, and whoever is the most ruthless will have the last laugh.
At this moment, the alarm signal bomb exploded in the sky, and Aitorin, who was originally calm as a mountain, suddenly felt a pain in his heart, "It's broken! The Chinese have bypassed it, they are going to sneak attack the outlet of the strait!"
That's right, the pioneers Tian Erdan and Ma Hui easily removed all the obstacles along the way. When they rushed to the mouth of the strait, the main cavalry force led by Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun had already caught up with them.
"Hahaha... Finally we're here... Let's take advantage of now, while the enemy warship doesn't look back, and throw our treasure down..."
The soldiers lifted up the oilcloth on the carriage, and huge wooden boxes were exposed. When they pried open a box and took a closer look, they found that it was a mine that was locked and secured. Each one was as huge as a big watermelon, with a dark murderous look. steaming.
