Turgolev looked down at the blood hole in his chest in disbelief, and stretched out his hand to block the flowing blood, but the blood eventually flowed out from between his fingers.
The body is gradually getting colder.
he knows.
I'm done for.
The bullet penetrated through the left chest.
The large blood vessel in his lungs was punctured. Let alone now, even if he is not sent to the ICU of the 21st century immediately, he may not be able to save his life.
Turgolev's fall was the straw that broke the camel's back.
A large number of Russian soldiers collapsed.
They turned around and ran away, leaving their backs to the Ming soldiers behind them.
This is really unwise.
Because if they can withstand casualties and continue to shoot against the Ming army, although their shooting record is inferior, they can still withstand it for a while.
After all, there were whizzing bullets suppressing them, and the soldiers of the Ming army were not immortals. They must have been nervous, and their aim would not be accurate.
But now they just turned and ran.
All the Ming soldiers were left with were their backs and no bullets to suppress them. Many Ming soldiers got up from the ground and shot from a kneeling position, shooting faster and more accurately!
"Let the 12th Infantry Division retreat! Hurry!"
Musayev’s back molars were almost broken.
He stood at a high place and could see clearly with a telescope.
What he originally wanted was to fake a defeat so that the Chinese would have more confidence in fighting in the field.
But the current battle situation made him realize
Perhaps it is the Russian army that should avoid field battles!
The Chinese developed a set of tactics that were very suitable for breech-loading guns. They defeated the Russian 12th Infantry Division with almost no casualties.
This is just great.
It was supposed to be a fraud.
The result was really defeated.
If the fight continues, a Russian infantry division may be directly annihilated!
The huge gap in combat power gave Musayev a chill down his back.
Two years have passed.
I thought I had caught up with my former rival.
Barbed wire is available, rifled guns are available, and bottom expansion sheets are available.
As a result, they changed their clothes and loaded the gun!
The pace of change in the military is too rapid.
It’s so fast that it’s dizzying.
"General! It seems that the field battle plan is going to be cancelled. We cannot fight with each other in the field under such circumstances!!"
The one who was speaking was Major General Holcutt, commander of the 8th Army of the Russian Imperial Army.
His eyes were bloodshot and his face was very ugly.
The division he had just dispatched was an elite force at his disposal. It could be said that it was also a very elite unit in the Russian army's combat sequence.
As a result, I was defeated by someone who was chopping melons and vegetables!
"We can only choose to use trenches and barbed wire to deal with them! This is also a method they invented, and now it's time for them to learn from it!"
Musayev was silent for a moment, then nodded.
Impromptu changes in plans.
This is really not very auspicious.
But this is war.
Musayev knew that the previous plan of "a decisive battle in the wild" was no longer feasible.
That being the case.
Then the Russian army can only rely on trenches and barbed wire to fight a trench war with the Ming army!
"Send the order, strengthen the construction of fortifications, and take out all the barbed wire!"
"yes!"
Barbed wire and trenches were invented by the Ming army.
And it soon spread throughout Europe,
in Western Europe.
After the French army defeated the anti-French alliance army, they immediately used barbed wire and trenches to withstand the counterattack from the east.
The battle between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans also shows that in the current war, the defender's advantage is huge!
so far.
No army had ever breached the fortifications of barbed wire and trenches.
Musayev used these fresh battlefield experiences from Eastern Europe to embolden himself.
But don't know why.
He always felt a little uneasy.
"Duelei Loumu, just retreated?"
Fang Yufang's brigade from Zhaoqing, Guangdong looked at the Russian troops retreating like a tide with a dark face.
If the other party had supported them for a while longer, he would have already directed the movement of the howitzer battalion in place. When the shells fell, these Russian soldiers would not be able to escape even if they wanted to.
Just a little bit closer!
"The commander of the Rakshasa Ghost seems to be quite good. As soon as they fought, they knew that they were no match. If they continue to fight, they will only increase casualties." Chen Dewang, who went to the front line to inspect, said.
"Have all the casualties been counted?" Fang Yu turned to look at the staff behind him.
A staff officer hurriedly said: "Brigade commander, our army has killed 58 people and injured 73 people, including 19 people who were seriously injured. It seems difficult to save them. 288 Rakshasa ghosts were killed and the number of injuries is unknown."
"One to five! One person for five ghosts!" Fang Yu sneered, "One Chinese is against five barbarians. It seems that as long as we are determined to sacrifice at this station, the Rakshasa ghosts are no match!"
Speaking of this, Fang Yu frowned.
"With such a huge disparity in the casualty ratio, they may not come out to fight with us again. Then they may attack the barbed wire fence!"
"It's no big deal, it's no use hiding inside the barbed wire!" Chen Dewang laughed.
He came from Zhongdu, and Fang Yu had been leading troops on the grasslands, so he didn't know much about some of the new tactics of the Ming Army.
"Oh? Chief of Staff, what can you do?" Fang Yu asked with interest.
"Same as this time, we just lie down on the ground and rush in, and we can also use howitzers to cover it. As long as we can rush into the enemy's trenches, with the rate of fire of the firearms and the number of grenades in our hands, we can definitely beat the Rakshasa ghost to pieces. "
Although the barbed wire fences and trenches are solid defenses, they are not impossible to break through.
In another time and space.
Barbed wire and trenches actually need to be added with machine guns to be complete.
After being equipped with machine guns, if you want to break through the defense system composed of barbed wire fences and trenches, other than laying siege and using human lives to pile them up.
We can only count on the emergence of new war machines.
For example, tanks.
The current Ming army definitely does not have tanks.
I don’t even know when the internal combustion engine will come out.
But the Russians on the opposite side don't have machine guns either.
Not to mention machine guns, the rifles they have on hand are even muzzle-loading rifles with a very slow rate of fire. Although the bottom expansion bullet increases the rate of fire of rifled guns by a level, muzzle-loading guns are muzzle-loading guns, and the rate of fire has already been It is unlikely that there will be a qualitative breakthrough.
This means.
Although it has a defense system of barbed wire and trenches.
But the firepower density is still not enough.
Therefore, after several military exercises, the Ming army had figured out how to break through such a defense system.
The defenses of barbed wire and trenches in the current time and space have indeed never been breached, but that was only when the firepower and numbers of people were almost the same. Both sides were filled with rifles and barbed wire, and there were no long-range cannons on either side. As a result, they can only use their flesh and blood to charge hard, and the result is naturally that the defensive side has the advantage.
The Ming army did not have long-range artillery, but their artillery range was still more advantageous than the Russian army.
Right now.
Several messengers rushed over.
"Chief of Staff, Brigade Commander, our main force has arrived, Marshal Yang's flag has arrived 20 miles away."
Chen Dewang and Fang Yu looked at each other.
"Chief of Staff, I won't go to Marshal Yang. I still have a lot of things to do here." Fang Yu said.
He does have something to do, but to say that he can't walk even twenty miles away is a bit unreasonable.
Chen Dewang shook his head.
Fang Yu enlisted in the Battle of Guangzhou, while Yang Yuchun surrendered in the Battle of Nanxiong.
He didn't go to see Yang Yuchun because he was arrogant as a "veteran".
However, Emperor Zhu asked Yang Yuchun to be the commander-in-chief because he was only considering giving some high-ranking Manchu and Mongolian honors.
He is here as the chief of staff.
I am not afraid that the brigade commanders below will be disobedient.
"Winning? Not bad, Fang Yu is also a great general!"
Yang Yuchun was in a good mood after receiving the news, and he didn't care that Fang Yu didn't put down his troops to see him as the commander.
"Now the Russians have surrounded themselves with barbed wire and trenches. Old Chen, do you think we should be besieging them or attacking them by force?"
"Of course we are going to attack by force. If we are to besiege, we will probably have to graze cattle and sheep here for a year or two, which is not in line with the emperor's plan." Chen Dewang shook his head and said.
This battle is to use thunder to defeat the Russian troops in Asia, and then assume a posture of entering Europe, forcing the other side to sign an alliance under the city and redraw the national boundaries between the two sides.
Yang Yuchun nodded: "Yes, our logistics pressure is also great, and the siege will not last long. Let's attack by force first. Just use the method of attacking the fortress, first push the howitzer forward and bombard it with direct fire."
"Let's do this first!" Chen Dewang said with a smile, "Build the fortifications tonight, rest the army during the day tomorrow, send engineers to explore and measure, and then start at night!"
Nowadays, tens of thousands of people are engaged in positional warfare. They don't just find a piece of flat land and play on the wall like before.
We must first take a defensive position, build departure positions, and build artillery positions. These things must be prepared at least day and night, otherwise they will not be completed at all.
At the earliest, we won't be able to fight again until tomorrow night, or even the morning after tomorrow.
The fighting continued intermittently.
Yang Yuchun hoped to launch an attack on June 9.
But actually it’s June 11th.
The Ming army's artillery positions have not yet been completed.
Of course, the Russian army also knew what threatened them the most, so they desperately attacked the positions where the Ming army tried to place artillery.
The battle was extremely fierce.
In order to cover the artillery, the howitzers were pushed far enough to reach the Russian base camp.
The Ming army used grain trucks to transform sandbag carts, and also captured many Kazakhs on the surrounding Kazakh grasslands to push the sandbag carts but cannon fodder.
Early morning on June 12th.
The fighting between the two sides continues.
The sandbag cart moved forward slowly, creating a long wave.
This time.
The Ming army invested more than 200 sandbag trucks, driving more than 3,000 Kazakh cannon fodder forward, like turtles moving slowly on the flat grassland.
But anyone who knows the situation of a great war can see it at a glance.
The function of these sandbag trucks is similar to that of tanks.
They can cover the infantry as close as possible to the opponent's trenches.
"For the howitzer shell to fall into the trench, it is best to design it at an elevation angle greater than 45 degrees to form a large curved trajectory. But in this way, the range will be shortened to six to seven hundred steps. In order to make the shell better If they fall into the trench, it’s best to advance a little further! Four hundred steps! Arrange the artillery position at a distance of four hundred steps, and we can use the howitzer fire to suppress the Rakshasa ghosts."
Yang Yuchun, who was watching the battle with a telescope from behind, couldn't help but nod his head when he heard what Chen Dewang said next to him.
"The Russian infantry can't match our rate of fire, and the firepower of their artillery can't match ours. They do have some artillery with a longer range, but they are all 12-gun cannons that fire solid shells. They can resist it as long as they rely on bunkers," Chen Dewang said here I couldn't help but feel a little proud.
In Zhongdu, the talented staff officers of the Ming Army's General Staff came up with various methods. In the end, this method of "shield vehicle + projectile grenade + infantry assault" was useful.
Although this is the crystallization of collective wisdom.
But this is the first time it has been used in actual combat.
The defense of barbed wire trenches was an invention of the Ming Army.
But how to solve it is a world-class problem.
If it works this time.
Then Chen Dewang's name may be spread all over the world.
Chen Dewang became a little excited when he thought of this.
Of course.
No matter what the tactics are.
Casualties are inevitable.
The Russian troops were more numerous.
Therefore, the Ming army had better reduce the casualty ratio to less than one to three.
If a Ming soldier falls, at least three Russian soldiers must be replaced to avoid suffering a loss.
As the shells hit the sandbag truck one after another.
There were many people who overturned their cars, people who were lying on their backs, and even those who were blown up.
Chen Dewang's expression also became serious.
As the number of sandbag trucks dwindles. The Russian artillery fire also became more and more concentrated.
And those Kazakhs who were driven to be cannon fodder were about to collapse.
Every time the gunfire rang out, they would lie on the ground and pretend to be dead.
The Ming soldiers at the back had to go up and stab a few to death with their bayonets before they would get up slowly and continue to push forward.
and.
The Russian army is also aware of the threat of sandbags.
So they don't just fire cannonballs.
They also launched infantry charges from time to time.
The roars of Ula'ula rippled across the battlefield.
When the Kazakh cannon fodder saw the ferocious-looking Maozi soldiers rushing over, they all turned around and fled wherever they dared to move forward.
But this is a battlefield, where can they be allowed to collide with the Ming army's skirmishing line?
So the crackling gunfire rang out!
The cannon fodder rushing in front were knocked down one by one!
Only later did I remember that the Ming army had taken care of them before the attack was launched.
Once the Russian soldiers counterattack, they will lie down on the spot and wait for the Ming army officers and soldiers to drive the Russian soldiers away. Anyone who retreats and collides with the Ming army troops will be killed without mercy!
"It's already four hundred steps!"
Chen Dewang breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Although this round of impact was not in place, it was still very effective.
Those sandbag carts that fell to the ground became bunkers for the Ming army infantry.
The infantry of the Ming army can move forward relying on the cover of the bunkers. When the sky darkens, engineers can be sent to expand and strengthen these bunkers to form a stable firepower point. They can even be directly transformed into artillery bunkers! ! (End of chapter)
