"Help me up!" Fadeyev struggled to stand up and began to look around the battlefield with a telescope. The two division commanders beside him were holding maps and explaining to the general what had just happened on the battlefield.
Those who are experienced in fighting can understand the opponent's intentions by looking at the battlefield situation. Fadeev knew that he was encountering a ruthless character as soon as he looked at the battlefield.
"There is an expert on the opposite side! It's not a tactician, but a strategy expert! I don't know who it is! Such a fierce formation... cough cough cough!" The emotional Fadeev coughed violently.
"Those fireworks are the enemy's signal flares to clear the country! The fires in the distance must be burning villages. These Chinese people are crazy. They are burning their own villages..."
You are absolutely right. The most resolute way to fight against the invaders is to fortify the walls and clear the country. On this land, the volunteer army has won the newcomers of countless ethnic minorities. In one winter, they and the local Oroqen people, wild Jurchens, Hezhe people, and Mongolians ...all developed a very close relationship.
For these foreign Tsarist Russian troops, the ethnic groups in the Far East have long been simmering with anger and harboring countless hatreds in their hearts. Each of their tribes and villages has experienced tsarist plunder and even atrocities such as massacres and insults to women.
The contradiction is irreconcilable, because the current Far East has not established a very stable rule, and the communication channels for personnel and materials between the east and the west of Tsarist Russia have not been established. These Far East garrison can only rely on their own strength to solve the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
The economic foundation of the Far East is very weak and cannot provide too much tax revenue. These Tsarist Russian troops can only rely on robbery and smuggling to survive.
On the one hand, you can't live without being robbed, and on the other hand, you can't live if you are robbed. In the past few years, the hatred between the Russian army and the local indigenous people has become deeper and deeper.
In real history, Tsarist Russia really solved this problem through strong suppression, which lasted until after the Trans-Siberian Railway was opened to traffic. A railway changed the economic structure of the entire Far East, and the road triggered rapid economic growth. Only then could the conflict between the garrison and the indigenous people be completely resolved.
But now, Tsarist Russia has no time. Their tactics of delaying by suppressing were broken by the volunteers. An independence war sweeping the Far East completely detonated the powder keg in the hearts of the people.
When the signal bomb flew into the sky, all the areas north of the Amur River took action. The mountaineers and villagers, shouting with tears, put the last wealth of their families on horseback and sledges. Women and children evacuated quickly under the protection of CIA officials and guerrillas. .
The men set fire to their homes with their own hands. Food, horse feed, dried meat... everything that was edible and usable was set on fire. Villages were burning, and black smoke shot straight into the sky.
"Burn it, burn it! Don't leave a grain of food for them! Starve these Rakshasa ghosts to death... Wuwuwu... I have hands and feet, and I can build a new home in the future!"
The volunteer soldier next to him comforted him, "Don't worry! If the old ones don't go, the new ones won't come. You will know when you follow the Prime Minister in the future. You can eat white rice from Nanyang and white noodles from the United States as long as you want. Beef and canned fruits are enough for you!"
"As long as there is peace, we will build our own schools. The Prime Minister said that we will set up free schools. Children will not have to pay for school!"
Hatred coupled with the longing for a better life in the future stimulated these men outside the customs to be extremely excited, and the entire task of clearing the country went smoothly.
Within an hour after the signal bomb exploded, more than a hundred villages on the north bank of the Amur River were all turned into a sea of flames. Thousands of people bypassed the main battlefield and crossed the river from the east into the south bank.
This move was cruel enough, hitting the Cossack army seven inches away with a stick. Fadeyev was a little at a loss at this moment.
The army relies on robbery along the way. Now that the enemy has built strong walls and cleared the country without leaving a grain of food, this battle will not be easy to fight.
"Now we can no longer go eastward. Even if there is a safe ferry in the east, we can't make it there. We don't have time, and we don't have that much supplies!"
"Besides, the fact that the opponent can come up with such a desperate strategy means that there must be an ambush at the ferry in the east. It is impossible for a commander like this to make a stupid mistake!"
Fadeyev pointed at the river, "Look, the ice on the east and west sides of Jiangxin Island has also been destroyed. Only the 200 meters of ice facing us in the north is open!"
"The enemy's purpose is obvious, which is to force us to attack from here, the only breakthrough point... there must be heavy troops deployed there, they are going to fight us decisively!"
"Fight! General!" The generals of the Cossack army have already understood the situation in front of them. The enemy on the opposite side had time to destroy the last 200 meters of safe ice, but they did not. This made it clear that they would fight the Cossacks decisively.
Everyone knows that cavalry will suffer casualties when attacking the enemy's position head-on, but there is no choice! The food and fodder have been exhausted, and the army can no longer move forward. There is not enough time to expand the scope of the robbery.
"General! According to past experience, even if the Chinese don't destroy the ice in more than ten days, the Amur River will be ready to open! We don't have time to raise food and grass..."
"Isn't it just a decisive battle? Isn't it just dead people? When have the Cossacks ever been afraid of casualties?"
"Yes, we have no retreat! Do we need to return home without firing a shot? His Majesty the Tsar will not let us go! When the time comes, we will either die or be exiled to the Far East..."
"In that case, we might as well stay here and fight!"
This is a dead end set by Xiao Letian. He puts the trap here openly and clearly tells you that this is a dead end, but it is also the only way to survive. It depends on whether you dare to enter the game.
The sound of horns began to reverberate in the Cossack army, and each unit finally received the order to prepare for battle. The entire army began to distribute the few remaining grains and horse feed. The first wave of charging soldiers and horses had priority to eat.
The hungry war horse greedily gnawed on the alfalfa, and its owner held the horse's head affectionately at the side. "My brother, maybe we will die on the way to charge in a while. Don't abandon me. Even if we die, we will rush into the enemy." The military formation!"
The army chaplains are busiest at the moment, and they are suffering from long-distance marches, but they still have to cheer up and pray for every cavalryman. Beside them are countless soldiers who are the first batch of attackers to kneel down, reciting the Bible in their mouths, and holding the The cross kisses their foreheads.
"Fight, go fight! Come and spread the gospel of the Lord. Come and ignite the flames that will burn the infidels. The souls of those who died in battle are destined to ascend to heaven!"
"The Third Division is preparing to attack. It will be divided into three waves, with two thousand soldiers in each wave... Gather, gather now!"
"The Fourth Division is preparing to fight...distribute food and grass...slaughter the spare horses immediately! Prepare meat..."
Fadeyev, standing on the river embankment, looked at the island in the center of the river opposite, "Using infantry against cavalry? How confident are you? Do you think you can resist it by digging so many trenches and building so many fortifications?" Are you staying with us?"
"Give it a try! Let me see how much arrogance you are capable of!"
At the same time, Xiao Letian was also staring at the crowd of cavalry on the opposite bank of the river: "Come on, let's fight! Don't worry, I don't have any explosives hidden on this 200-meter ice surface. I will give you a place for a decisive battle. It depends on how much you have." Human life was filled in!"
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