Chapter 278: The Tsar’s Blade

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

Dense gunfire sounded continuously.

The rounds of gunfire meant that there were no soldiers around him who had been shot and fell from their horses.

within a short period of time.

The thousands of cavalry he led have lost at least two to three hundred people.

This is still when the visibility is very poor and the distance is very long-in fact, until now, these Russians have not seen where their enemies are.

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

How brave.

He was so brave that he charged in the face of bullets!

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

Bang bang bang.

There was another round of intensive gunfire.

"Charge! Charge!!"

At this stage.

There is no way out.

"Charge forward and trample those Chinese to death with your war horses!!!"

Mikhail said loudly through gritted teeth with red eyes.

However, the continuous sound of gunfire frustrated the momentum of the charge and caused chaos in the military formation, which disturbed Mikhail's wisdom.

As a last resort.

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

'Move five hundred steps to the right! '

Fan Baoyi over there had already begun to move his position in accordance with the combat orders of the staff. After firing four rounds of salvos, he began to move.

The half-human-high grass in the Kiaktu Ranch gave them the best cover.

The soldiers bent over, holding their guns, and moved quickly.

Fan Baoyi, on the other hand, led a platoon. After the large troops moved, he took out the pistol in his waist and shot a bright signal bomb into the sky.

The Ming artillerymen who saw the signal immediately began to fire more than a dozen grenades. The area covered by the grenades was the area where Fan Baobaoyi had sent the signal before.

The explosion of dozens of grenades killed no one at all, but it attracted everyone's attention.

And under the cover of shells and darkness.

The Russians did not realize that their enemy had changed direction.

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

"Charge! Keep charging!"

Seeing the Ming army's bombardment stop.

Mikhail also completed the adjustment of the military formation.

The order to charge was given again.

The prepared Russian cavalry formed a neat queue.

Charge in a standard European shock cavalry formation.

trot.

accelerate.

Then

Charge at full speed! !

And right now.

The crackling gunfire rang out again.

The bullets flying from the right side immediately killed the Russian soldiers.

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

The Ming army was in formation.

Chen Liansheng grinned.

Of course, the Qing army knew that they couldn't just charge into the ambush of the Ming army who didn't know the details - this was a lesson learned with blood.

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

After the gun volley is disrupted, the team must be reorganized and reorganized.

It's night time now.

In general.

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

And it just so happens that the Ming army's organizational capabilities are very strong.

to some extent

The organizational potential of this Xidusi army is higher than that of the general Ming army.

why?

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

Even a poor Eight Banner like Tong Wei.

He also went to school and was more or less literate - which was extraordinary in this day and age.

Because the illiteracy rate in this era is too high.

Why can't Lu Fuhai mention the officer for so long?

Isn't it because if you try to improve your literacy when you are older, you will get twice the result with half the effort?

If simply compared to literacy rate.

The literacy rate of the four brigades of the front army and the rear army that conquered Xidusi must be the first among the Ming army.

One of the benefits of literacy is that it allows soldiers to understand orders from the front more quickly and execute them quickly.

Such troops may not be able to gain much advantage if they are deployed to fight openly.

But if it is used for night fighting.

Under the high degree of organization of the Ming army, the advantages of high literacy rate became very obvious.

Right now.

The Ming army's artillery also targeted the Russian army led by Mikhail in the dark.

The cannon roared.

Shells fell.

The terrifying explosive shock wave and the metal jet formed by the shell fragments swept over the charging cavalry like a heavy rain.

Suddenly there were bursts of standing screams.

At least hundreds of riders were killed. The cavalrymen behind also took a breath when they saw this scene.

The Russian people are also scared.

Under the explosion of artillery shells.

They could no longer tell from which direction the bullets were fired.

Bullets flew across the battlefield.

It made a muffled sound when it hit the human body.

Shells again blocked the road in front and behind them.

All of a sudden.

There is really no way forward or backward.

He could only be beaten passively in the chaos.

"What the hell! What's going on? How many people are there in the Ming army?"

Tsarist Crown Prince Paul, who was leading a reserve force of 10,000 men in the rear, frowned.

His side.

Several Russian officers also looked solemn.

These Russian army officers are all time-tested warriors of the Queen.

They heard gunshots and cannon fire from all directions, and their faces were quite solemn.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, perhaps the Ming army we face is more than five thousand in number!"

"This firepower density is too high!"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, I suggest you retreat immediately!"

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

His face was serious.

The thought of being neighbors with the enemy in front of him made his heart palpitate.

If Russia cannot gain advantage on the battlefield.

So how do they deal with such a huge neighbor?

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, this army is very scary. Their quality and organization are very high. They can command so flexibly at night. It shows that their command and organization capabilities are very strong. If this is just a defeat to If there are remnants of the Ming Army and the Qing Army, then we must think about whether it is worth fighting against such an enemy."

an officer said.

Crown Prince Paul's expression became more solemn upon hearing this.

But he did not issue an order to retreat.

Instead, it was decided to send another five thousand troops to press forward to support Repnin and Mikhail.

A regiment of Cossack cavalry mounted on Don horses.

In the long-term mobile operations in the past, they tried their best to ride the Mongolian horses assigned to them instead of their beloved Don horses, just for the charge tonight!

The Cossacks of this regiment are not the Cossacks of the Far East.

It was an elite Cossack cavalry regiment that followed from Moscow.

They are the sharp knives of the Russian Empire, the sharp blades of the Tsar.

Participated in the Russo-Turkish War several times.

They are the true elites of all battles.

The sound of horse hooves came.

Attracting the attention of everyone on the battlefield.

Fukang'an held up his telescope and stared at the Cossack elite in the distance.

'This is when the real elite are dispatched! '

he said, putting down the binoculars.

(End of chapter)