Later generations have a lot of analysis and speculation about the battle of Jiangxin Island, but most historians have questioned Fadeev's command ability.
The situation on the battlefield was so unfavorable that they actually launched an intensive charge and even refused to repent after the volunteers showed off four Gatlings. This approach of playing with the lives of soldiers has been unanimously condemned by future generations.
However, historians and military researchers only look for answers in cold data. They can look at the heavy snow outside the window in a dry heated room, make themselves a cup of hot cocoa, and then search for history in words and data. s answer.
In the eyes of such people, war is like a game. Even in the computer age, you can command thousands of armies to rampage with just a move of the mouse.
But the real war is 10,000 times more cruel than they imagined. All the judgments Fadeev made were actually forced to that point by the general trend.
Who made him meet Xiao Letian? As a person who is most proficient in judging the general situation, the outcome is naturally doomed.
There was no choice. At this moment, only this sentence kept popping up in Fadeev's mind. The army had run out of food and grass, and could not get any supplies of weapons and ammunition. When the soldiers ran out of bullets, they could only rely on their sabers to rush forward and fight the enemy hand-to-hand.
Looking at the fires around them, you can imagine that the Chinese have fortified the walls and cleared the country for hundreds of miles. Now even if they want to rob, they can't find the target.
Want to retreat? That was impossible. The way we came had been taken away by them. If we wanted to go back now, we would be courting death.
Not only that, Vladivostok also has 20,000 vanguard troops trapped in it. The Qing State has closed the border. It would be delusional for Gogol and the others to enter the Qing State through the Ussuri River.
Coupled with the fact that the weather is getting warmer now, the upper reaches of the Ussuri River has a very low dimension and may have already opened the river by now.
The root cause of all mistakes was underestimating the enemy. Fadeyev should not have divided his troops. He believed from the beginning to the end that the volunteers were a group of thugs. He never believed that these Chinese would have such fighting power.
In his mind, he even felt that it would be enough for the more than 20,000 people from Gogol to join forces with the more than 10,000 people from Vladivostok. It would not be easy for an army of 30,000 to put down a riot.
It really shouldn't be the case. If Fadeyev had not divided his troops but had marched together with fifty thousand troops, pressing them down like Mount Tai, he wouldn't have been so passive. At least he would have been able to escape unscathed.
That would at least give His Majesty the Tsar an explanation. Although the battle was lost, the elite Cossack regiment was still intact. As long as supplies were sufficient, tens of thousands of infantry could be mobilized in the summer, and it would be easy to pacify the Far East with 70,000 to 80,000 troops.
However, Fadeev, who underestimated the enemy, divided his troops. The life and death of the 20,000 vanguard troops were unknown. He had to rescue these young men. If the political opponents and bureaucrats in Moscow knew that he had given up 20,000 lives, they would probably be shot directly. Own.
The situation has deteriorated to this point, and there is nothing left to say. We can only charge forward regardless of casualties. No matter how many people die in battle, we just need to rush over and join forces with Gogol and others. It will be whatever number of troops we have at that time.
Fight if you can, and move to the Qing territory if you can't. If it doesn't work, stationing troops at the border of North Korea through Changbai Mountain is also a way. I believe that as long as we can maintain our strength, the subsequent negotiations for diplomats will be easier.
It has to be said that this is the most correct choice Fadeyev made when faced with such a dilemma. In this dilemma, this is the only way to survive.
Break through to the south bank of the Amur River, use the rapid maneuverability of the cavalry to move south, join up with the leading troops, and then ignore everything and save as many people as possible.
After that, the remnants of the army quickly went south to kill the Qing Dynasty. It is impossible for such a large Qing Dynasty to be full of die-hard elements like Hunchun. As long as they encounter one or two soft-headed troops, they will be saved.
Steal a few of his rich and large counties, and then hide the supplies in the Changbai Mountains. If that doesn't work, hide in North Korea. That country is weaker than the Qing Dynasty.
As long as they stabilize their position, diplomats will have room for action. What they can't get on the battlefield can be taken from the negotiation table. This is the only way out in a certain dilemma.
Fadeev's eyes were blurred, and the tears in his eyes caused his vision to become distorted. The massacre ahead continued. Now it was the third wave of attacks. The brave boys were not afraid. Go forward bravely over the mountain of piles of corpses.
Ula's roar made the river roar, and the saber waved with cold light!
The Chinese on the opposite side are already in a bit of chaos, and they have become soft-handed with the killings. One of the four Gatlings has malfunctioned, and the vanguard of the cavalry has landed on the land of Jiangxin Island.
"Well done! The boys went up to them...disrupted their rhythm...the reserve team is here! Press on..."
As expected, the Cossacks lived up to their illustrious reputation in history, leaving two thousand lives on the ice, and the follow-up troops actually charged forward fearlessly.
Two thousand men and horses piled together formed a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, even higher than the Chinese trenches on the opposite side, blocking the rain of bullets.
The fallen Cossack dragged his wounded body and hid in the pile of corpses. The corpses of his comrades actually formed a trench to protect them and shoot them.
Pull the bolt, load the bullet, and pull the trigger... The Berdan rifle also has high accuracy within a hundred meters range, and the casualties on the opposing volunteer army's position began to rise rapidly.
"Fire, fire... Those without horses are hiding in the pile of corpses... Keep firing to suppress the Chinese..."
"The cavalry speed up, don't worry about us... pass over our heads! Quick, quick, quick..."
One after another, war horses leaped over the heads of these soldiers. "Ula! Ula..." The cavalrymen who shouted finally received close-range fire support. Finally, the vanguard broke through the volunteer army's fire net, and both men and horses directly collided. Climbed the barbed wire fence and rolled into the trench.
"Kill!" the Cossacks yelled, swung their sabers in the trench and caused a bloody storm. Even the struggling war horses kicked around and kicked over countless ammunition boxes.
Cossacks rushed into the trenches one after another, and the most brutal hand-to-hand combat began!
"Engineer's shovel! Everyone swing the engineer's shovel! Don't use damn bayonets, that's useless..."
In the narrow trench, a short engineering shovel was much more useful than a bayonet. The red-eyed volunteers could chop off the enemy's head with a round swing.
With a pop, half of the head was chopped off, and the blood and blood mixed together rolled out, but the dying Cossack also stabbed the saber into the chest of the volunteer. The two strong men fell to the ground with a crash, and the blood merged together.
"Fight! Suppress the enemy! Where are our snipers? Bastard Ma Hui, Ye Qiu... Why don't you just shoot!"
Bang bang bang... A muffled sound came from behind the battle line, and the snipers hidden in the canopy finally opened fire.
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