Chapter 355 Baicheng's Relief (Part 2)
Even though he had experienced defeating the Cossacks, everyone was still full of fear when talking about this cavalry. To be fair, after Ryanstein's training, no one dared to say that he would win and win. Especially, what he encountered this time was probably a complete Cossack cavalry division.
With four thousand iron cavalry, the two thousand infantry and cavalry mixed troops could not be an opponent at all. Even if the Fuso troops want to deal with a Cossack cavalry division, they have to mobilize cavalry twice the strength to meet them, so that they can be sure.
Huo Qiu was also a groom last night. When he was eating the marrow, he couldn't help but suggest: "Sir, it's better for us to stick to the spot and wait for the first-class reinforcements."
"Reinforcements, where do reinforcements come from? The flag soldiers stationed here and the soldiers from the Cultivation Bureau are not useful. It is a burden to come and can't help much." Li Zongyun is a martial arts master and believes in his identity. He doesn't take Huo Qiu, a personal soldier, seriously. He snorted coldly: "When thousands of master soldiers come, they can't fight with them, but instead will disrupt our team. Now there are two roads, either rush forward or go home."
Huo Qiu was robbed and his face looked a little ugly, "Li Zongyun, don't think you are great because you are in charge. If I hadn't been to be the captain of the guard for the adults, Biao Tong would have been able to sit down. If you don't want to live, don't implicate others and follow you to die. How can you fight a Cossack in a division?"
Zhang Huaizhi coughed twice and bowed to Zhao Guanhou, "Sir, we brought too few heavy artillery and not many shrapnel bullets on this expedition. If we really encounter the Cossack Cavalry Division, the artillery may not be able to suppress these cavalry. Besides, they also have artillery soldiers of the division, and even if the two families have artillery battles, we may not have the advantage."
Zhao Guanhou said: "I can understand the opinions of several people. You don't need to hide what you say. Meiyao, tell me, how many Cossacks have you met in total."
"Not many, no more, there are probably a hundred people. After a few conflicts between the two, we gained the upper hand. But the scouts were just trying to test each other, and they couldn't say they won or lost. These teams were quick and accurate, and they were born good riders, so they were not that easy to deal with them."
"That's right. I also had this feeling when I was fighting with them in Xuanhua. The Cossacks are difficult to catch up. If you want to chase them, you can't get rid of them. You can't get rid of them. The typical gods and ghosts are disgusted. But because they hate them so much, I'm a little strange this time. Their troops are only covering the battlefield and have no intention of attacking us. Don't you think this style is not like Cossacks at all?"
As soon as he said this, Li Zongyun nodded immediately, "Sir wise, it seems that the Cossacks are bluffing! If they really had a division, now it should be their attack and we defend, not what we want to do."
Huo Qiu said: "That's right, but if you just cover the battlefield, you will send a company's troops, which is indeed very similar to the confidence that only at the division level has. Maybe their cavalry are siegeing the city in front and cannot be mobilized for a while, so they didn't bite us. If you take this opportunity to not repair fortifications, it will be too late to repair when you want to repair it. If you don't repair artillery battalions now, you won't bury mines, and wait until the Cossack cavalry rushed up, it will be too late."
"You are raising your arms and waiting to get fists. It is equivalent to more than one hundred Cossacks, which blocked more than two thousand of our troops. Don't mention embarrassment or embarrassment. Isn't this delaying understanding?"
Zhao Guanhou nodded and said, "Zongyun's words are right. If we repair fortifications now, it would be equivalent to letting about one hundred people block us. No matter what, we have to see Zhenzhang before talking. We can't let a hundred people scare us. Minnie Rifle Hour is ready and follow me."
Sun Meiyao felt a little embarrassed, "You are in the presidential system, but you always have to face the battle. I'll give you more than 100 Cossacks."
"Of course you can get a bag, but I always have to go and see their quality. Besides, hit them, Minnie Rifle Post is opposite the road, come with me!"
The Minnie Riflemen were trained as snipers and had excellent marksmanship. Now they had a large amount of foot strength in their hands, so these soldiers became horse-riding infantrymen. After arriving at the battlefield, they immediately dispersed and expelled the Cossacks.
The range of the Cossacks' carbine was far from comparable to that of the Minnie gun, so they could only urge the horse to charge, but before they could rush into the range of the carbine gun, the Minnie gun had already opened fire. The sound of gunfire sounded, and the Cossack soldiers fell down and fell to the ground. Seeing this, the remaining Cossack scouts began to shrink their teams and retreat, while Zhao Guanhou's rifle mail began to pursue the two troops. One after another, they rushed and fled. After advancing for about a few kilometers, they found a large number of traces of the enemy.
Looking through a thousand miles away, Zhao Guanhou observed and found that these soldiers should be Rouran soldiers, and their clothes were completely different from those of Cossacks. However, these horse bandits were not riding on horses to prepare for the battle, but were nervously building fortifications. In front of them, there was a simple wooden fence, and behind them were horse-rejecting horses and short tree stumps.
At this time, Huo Qiu also discovered the problem and slapped his thigh, "Damn it, this is an empty city plan! It almost scared us over a hundred Cossacks. If this group of people really had a Cossack master, he would repair this fortification if he had eaten too much. He wanted to soak mushrooms with us. No, he couldn't follow their wishes. I'll let Lao Zhang pull up the cannon and hit him a few cannons first."
In the front line command post, Colonel Archo's brows were also frowned. Rouran's eyes were no longer very friendly. If he hadn't been thinking about the future rubles and rifles, he might not have been dismantled now.
Not to mention how many Rouran girls he has slept in these days, just to say that this time he told everyone that a Cossack cavalry division was dispatched together, which made these horse thieves fall for a huge fool.
In fact, it is very difficult to draw a Cossack cavalry regiment on the front line now, so where can a division come from to cooperate with the horse thieves? In other words, if there is really a wealthy force of a Cossack cavalry division, then the work of attacking Taonan County and even destroying the transportation line behind Fusang can be completed by Cossack himself, so why bother to send troops to Fusang?
In fact, Tiel tried his best to allocate only three Cossack cavalry companies. These three companies were the second- and third-tier troops with extremely weak combat power among the Cossacks. They were armed by second-rate men in the village, gangsters and even some criminals and deserters. The soldiers were all pulled by the whip and bayonets of the conscription office, and their combat power was completely incomparable to their Cossack fellow townsmen.
With the strength of these three companies, it is okay to pretend to be a Cossack regiment, but it is certainly impossible to pretend to be a Cossack division. Colonel Archo could only make up lies such as troops acting separately and meeting here to perfunctorily, but as the situation develops, his lies can no longer be maintained.
These three Cossack companies did not have the combat effectiveness of regular Cossacks at all. One of them fled without fighting, resulting in Naima being captured. The other two companies could neither show combat effectiveness in attacking Baicheng nor even the task of delaying the reinforcements of the Martial Guard Front Army could be completed, which was almost useless.
Among the bandits, the strong are the most respected. If the three genuine Cossacks are in it, they will probably be able to maintain the situation. Now even Rourans cannot suppress these defective products. Their actions before were very conflicted with Rourans, and now even Archo is in a passive position.
As Tiel's military adviser, he stayed on the front line without hesitation and observed the movements of the Jin soldiers with a telescope. Those who could use more than 100 people to expel a Cossack company would definitely not be an enemy that could deal with. His intimidation tactics failed. What he could count on now is this line of defense, which could delay the enemy's actions, or end the battle quickly in Baicheng.
He couldn't help but look at Baicheng. The agreed smoke had not yet lit up, proving that the battle there was not over yet. Now the army is facing an unfavorable situation of being attacked from both sides. If we cannot find a way out, we will probably have great trouble.
Just as he was thinking about whether to let the Rourans use their usual tactics to ride on horseback and rush to the formation of the Wuwei Front Army, or rely on the position to fight the attributable war with the Jin soldiers. The artillery battalion of the Wuwei Front Army had already come up, put the cannons away, and started shooting at the Rourans.
"Kill! Keep Baicheng, everyone will have a reward!" Li Xiushan didn't know how many times he called out this kind of reward declaration. The silver, banknotes, and even gold and silver jewelry in the city, in short, the property he could find had been astigmatized. But for the soldiers, it doesn't matter whether they have any property now. Even if they don't send anything, they have to fight for it, because for them, there is no way out.
A bandit under Feng Lin Pavilion rebelled and fled to the Rourans to surrender, but was pulled to the front of the formation and skinned in public. The whole process made the elderly bandits unable to help but feel sore in their stomachs. They understood that these Rourans were saying that they had nothing to talk to. In the battle today, they would either die or break the net, and there was no third way to go.
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At the beginning, the second division of the Rouran founding cavalry army was the second division under the Rouran founding country, led by Delige, the eldest son of Tao Ke and Tao Hai. The Rouran soldiers lacked heavy weapons, Baicheng had a wall, and there were several old general artillery in the city that the Tieler people were too lazy to destroy. Relying on troops and firepower, Delige had no good way to deal with Baicheng, and could only barely siege.
However, when Tao Ke and Tao Hai led the main force to arrive, the situation suddenly worsened. More than 10,000 Rouran bandits, plus more than 1,000 herders who had been driven out of the city before, the Rouran people, who had an absolute advantage in their military strength, simply used the most technical but simplest and most effective method, rope climbing ant to attach.
Li Xiushan almost didn't even have time to close his eyes, and he kept fighting with the offensive troops day and night. From gun battles to fighting to leaving bullets, to hand-to-hand assaults, his nerves have become numb, and the attack on the enemy is completely mechanical.
As for Feng Linge's subordinates fighting this kind of war, it was even worse. In the past few days, more than 30 minions who wanted to get away were cut off in the city. Fortunately, after the Rouran people publicly killed prisoners, these minions also knew that even if they surrendered, they would die, so they could only grit their teeth and nail them to the position.
The positions at the front of the city changed hands several times, and the young and strong Han people in the city had already carried out a general mobilization. Regardless of whether they had combat experience, they were driven to the front of the city to assist in defense. With the advantage of manpower, they barely resisted wave after wave of attacks. As the last Rouran was chopped to the ground, the enemy's attack was finally blocked again. But Li Xiushan understood that if there were no foreign aid, he would be dead this time.
There was not much ammunition left in the city, and the leftover bullets had been used up. Even those grandpa-level cannons dared to cast them again, for fear that the cannon would explode if it was not careful, but would save trouble for Rouran. Looking back on guns and hand-to-hand combat, it was difficult to control casualties. Now the fire head army has already gone to the battlefield in the army, and there is no idle person from top to bottom. If you fight again, you have to let the women in the city go into battle.
Li Xiushan even remembered Zhang Xun who he had read when he was reading. He had never thought about being a person, but if this continues, the situation in the city is not much better than that in Zhang Xun. If he wants to die, he will not be as stupid as Zhang Xun and cook his concubine. He will play all the most beautiful women in the city once before he dies, and then kill all the women, so that he cannot leave it to Rouran. Of course, that is the worst strategy, and now he has not given up on the hope of sticking to the support.
Boss Cao has no talent. He can defend Taonan, and it is all the smoke from the ancestral tomb. It is simply a delusion to expect him to come to save himself. The only point of fingers now is the fourth brother and his main force. But Tao Ke and Tao Hai have many tricks. If the fourth brother fell into his plan... Li Xiushan shook his head and spitted on the ground. How could the boy fall into his plan? What he really has to worry about is whether he will come.
Although he kowtowed to the fourth brother, his friendship was not deep. He calculated that there was a holiday at the beginning. He could help Meng Siyuan, but would he help him? At this moment, Li Xiushan even remembered some rumors about Zou Xiurong and the fourth brother. Damn, as long as he could come to save him this time, even if he had some gossip, he would admit it.
When I was in a place, I would definitely come to save the fourth brother, but only I knew how much effort I could do. After all, according to the confession of the prisoners, there were tens of thousands of people besieging him. The fourth brother's soldiers were all those who returned to the pile of them. If he couldn't rush in... he had to accept his fate.
Several thoughts came one after another, and Li Xiushan himself didn't know what to do. But with another sound of horns, he knew that Rouran should launch an attack again. He almost instinctively raised his revolver and shouted at the people around him: "Everything is ready, shoot when you get close! Add water to the iron pot and pour it on after it heats up!"
Under the city, Tao Ke Tao Hai, who was in charge of command, opened his pocket watch, glanced at the time, and said to his eldest son Delige, who was beside him: "You will personally lead the troops up this time. If you can't take Baicheng, don't come back. Our time is only three hours, and our brothers will delay the officers and soldiers for up to three hours. Whether we can build a country where Rourans decide on their own depends on these three hours. I have put the country on you, don't let me down, go! The eagle on the grassland uses your life to gain a great future for our compatriots!"
Delige nodded, and said nothing more. He only untied his gun, pulled out the sword from his waist, and rushed towards the city with shouts. Tao Ke and Tao Hai wiped the corners of his eyes. In order to realize the ideal of establishing a Rouran country, everyone was sacrificing, and his own son should not be exceptional. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!