.On May 26, 19o5, the first year of Huaxing of the Chinese Empire.

Southwest of the Yarlung River in Mongolia.

The commander of the Third Army, Jiang Linyong, looked at the blood-covered colonel in front of him, and said coldly: "Take me off his epaulette, put a gun on it, and send it to the Military Law Department."

The military police battalion commander beside him waved his hand, and several expressionless military police surrounded him, tore off the man's epaulette in a few strokes, put out the gun, and tied it up.

The man seemed to have woken up at this time and cried heart-wrenchingly: "My brigade, I'm sorry, brothers, why don't you let me die and let me die?"

"Don't redeem your sins for a hundred deaths." Chief of Staff Liu Ning shook his head,

"It's my fault to defeat the war. I didn't expect the Russians to ambush. They still had so many cavalry to surround them." The colonel knelt on the ground, tried hard to raise his head, and burst into tears. "The Chief of Staff of the Military Chief gives me a chance. I only have a rifle, let me go to the discipline battalion, let me go to the suicide squad. I don't want to die under my own guns, let me die on the battlefield. Let me die on the battlefield."

"Brig Commander Deng, your mistake is not to defeat the war, but to act without obeying the command." Liu Ning shook his head, "You have destroyed the entire defense plan of the Front Army, and the troops of the Fourth Division and the Thirteenth Division also followed you to fight back; they connected in private and acted rashly, resulting in the destruction of the empire's defense plan, and you are already unforgivable."

"Chief of Staff, when did our National Welfare Army fight such a coward?" The colonel yelled, "Retreat, retreat, retreat, what is the Russian? Even if we die, we cannot be shot behind the back, let alone die. Being stabbed by someone, we are called a soft boy."

"Don't worry about him now, these people's brains have been burned out by blood." Jiang Linyong sighed, "Chief of Staff, has the reserve team been transferred?"

Liu Ning nodded. Before he could speak, he saw a consultant running over in a panic, his face full of fear.

"What's going on?"

"The Russians, when the Russians broke through, they were in the 10th Regiment of the 4th Division, the cavalry of the 1st Caval Brigade and the 13th Division surrounded the left wing and the central government was almost unable to withstand it."

"What"

The west of the Yarlu River and the west bank of the Orkhon River are six kilometers away from the railway line.

Cai E, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 10th National Defense Regiment, stood on a small earthbag, holding a six-fold military telescope, and watching the yellow khaki figures flying in the distance, falling into chaos and falling down, with a blue face.

"Preparing for the battle commander, they must have fallen into the trap of the Russians." Cai E turned his head and roared angrily, "Send a signal to let the defeated soldiers go around the wings and don't rush to the position."

He himself rushed to the alert position with an automatic pistol, and the military police platoon from the battalion behind him followed closely.

Cai E and the military police rushed out of the position directly, behind him was the black-bottomed fire dragon battle flag of the National Defense Forces flying.

Cai E fired several shots into the air, and the defeated soldiers of the 10th National Defense Regiment of the Chinese Army, who were already dizzy, finally stopped.

"Stop it all for me. I am Cai E, who are you from? Where are the regiment commanders?"

"Are you...Battleman Commander Cai?" A second lieutenant looked pale, one arm was hanging, and blood was still leaking from the bandage. "I am Lu Feng, the second platoon leader of the first company. Our battalion commander asked us to remove..."

Several non-commissioned officers next to him were already shouting, full of indignation: "I don't know how to fight this fucking battle. The instructor was killed when he finally organized resistance. The battalion commander took us to withdraw and fight, and he was defeated and confused, and he was dizzy."

At this time, a major sweating profusely ran over: "Songpo quickly retreated. The commander of the Maozi brigade came up and commanded the commander of the regiment. He violated the order and attacked without authorization. If he was defeated, he would also be defeated. Please retreat quickly. It would be too late to not walk."

Cai E looked at the battalion commander of the first battalion and looked calm: "Captain Xiao, where are the regiment commanders and others?"

"They?" Xiao Haiping, the battalion commander of the first battalion, was stunned. "Who knows how they are? The Russians have at least three cavalry divisions. It's already burning Gao Xiang to escape. I have long suspected that they falsely passed the order and attacked without authorization. Now, I have told so many brothers, Lao Cai, hurry up..."

Cai E's pupils shrank, staring at the other party: "You retreat without authorization? Throw the regiment commander and the third battalion there?"

"Songpo" Xiao Haiping stomped his feet and raised his half-hanging left arm, "Look at the fact that the Russians had ambushed and Lao Deng (the political instructor of the first battalion) died. Even the cavalry and cannons were brought up. How to fight this battle? The Russians slammed our flanks. If I had retreated early, and if I had the cover of the First Regiment of Independent Cavalry, we would have to explain."

"I just ask you if you haven't disobeyed the commander's order."

"Songpo, please stop making trouble, okay?" Xiao Haiping roared. "A new official named Ma took office as a blind commander. He was obsessed with staining his head with the blood of his brothers. He disobeyed the command of the division headquarters and attacked without authorization. You go to the division headquarters to ask, you can tell that the Maozi brigade has arrived. When will you make trouble?"

"It seems that you are retreating without authorization." Cai E raised his eyebrows, "Top the regiment commander behind his back and took the people back. Even if the regiment commander disobeys the order, his command position has not been removed, you still have to obey. In any case, you cannot escape for a crime of disobeying military orders and escaping without authorization."

Cai E looked left and right and saw that many of the defeated soldiers were ashamed at this moment, and many people looked at Xiao Haiping with contempt.

"Get his gun."

The military police behind Cai E rushed over and pressed Xiao Haiping.

"Cai E, I am the battalion commander of the first battalion. According to the command sequence, I am the acting regiment commander now." Xiao Haiping shouted, "**Mother's people are watching the fun? The Cai is a lie to seize military power and plot against the kang, hurry up..."

At this time, the second lieutenant Lu Feng had already come over and grabbed Xiao Haiping's collar, and said in a stern tone: "Battlefield Commander Xiao, I'll call you the last battalion commander... Are you falsely passing the military order? Leave the regiment commander behind, are you still a member of the National Defense Forces?"

Xiao Haiping wanted to say something, but his face was covered in blood by Lu Feng's punch.

"This is what I gave to you for the leader and the dead brother."

Lu Feng spitted, turned around and yelled at the soldiers who were staring blankly: "Brothers of the Second Company, the company commander was also killed. Xiao Haiping gave a break to order. Instructor Deng died. Instructor Deng died. Instructor Lin died. Deputy Instructor Lin died. Now the Second Company obeyed the command of Battalion Cai and came to me immediately to gather."

Cai E nodded: "You should hurry up and go from the left wing to the back, sort out the equipment and structure, and those with weapons and ammunition should quickly make up for the left wing defense zone. If you lack anything, go to the battalion headquarters' armed officer..."

The Chinese army was defeated. Seeing the defensive line in front of them, Cai E, a powerful general who had made a name for himself on the left wing of the Made and Selling City, finally settled down and began to organize the team, following the orders, from the flank to the rear of the position to start the whole team.

Cai E didn't get much time.

The Chinese cavalry behind the hall appeared in Cai E's telescope, fighting and retreating, and from time to time, cavalry fell down horses. In order to cover the retreat of friendly troops, these Chinese cavalry units made up of Han and Mongols bought time with their greatest efforts and sacrifices. In the end, the surviving Chinese cavalry drew an arc in front of the position and whistled past the flanks.

The brigade of the Cossacks had appeared in Cai E's telescope.

The battle flag of the double-headed eagle emblem, the soldiers were wearing feather-decorated bear-wool hats, black breeches were inlaid with yellow edges, white cavalry tops, and double rows of copper buckles. The officers were oblique cross straps, and the big-brimmed military caps on their heads were covered with golden eagle emblem. The officers leading the team seemed to have also seen the Chinese military defense position in front of them, stopped and observed for a while, turned around the horse head and led the troops backwards.

The ground began to tremble rhythmically, and the sound of millions of horse hooves treading on the ground together.

A shrill scream came from the warning position: "The Russians are here"

At the end of the horizon, a black line that could not be seen rolled in. The Buryat Mongolian cavalry came towards us like a turbid giant *, and dense sabers reflected cold light under the sunlight. These Russianized Mongolian tribes emitted all kinds of strange roars, like rolling waves, as if they were about to submerge this thin field position in one fell swoop.

On the alert position, Lu Zixiong held his light machine gun and swallowed with difficulty. Peng Liang, the supplementary soldier next to him, looked nervous and couldn't help asking: "Brother Lu, look at how many Russians are there... 10,000? 20,000? Can we withstand it?"

"Fuck, I can't stand what you want? Run? The supervisory team behind me hit you directly, and even your family has no shame to go on." Lu Zixiong spitted, "Don't think about anything, give me the bullets and help me stare at the flanks. If you can't do this well, we will definitely die."

Peng Liang grinned, smiling even worse than crying: "Brother Lu, you are so brave."

The waves of people in the distance began to run. Lu Zixiong squinted his eyes, and the elongated umbrella sound became clearer and clearer. Finally, the platoon leader's grenade launcher started, and the dense gunshots also immediately sounded. The Russian cavalry in front immediately fell down as if they were pushed hard by someone.

Lu Zixiong's machine gun was whipping on the Russian army like a fire dragon. He also discovered that the soldiers on the other side seemed to be rookies, not all the veterans who had been killed in the business city before, and they had no much experience.

He didn't care too much about it. Now he either defeated the enemy troops on the other side or was defeated by himself.

The firepower of the grenade launcher of the Chinese army was also started, and the battalion's 81mm mortar also fired dense firepower. The flying shrapnel and dense rain of bullets turned the open land into Shura hell. The body of the Buryat cavalry was pillowed, and the sound of Ula turned into a painful moan.

The Russian army's support firepower was not strong, and the sparse artillery shells could not track the Chinese army's curved firepower that was constantly changing in the launch positions. Although the Chinese army's bunker was simple, it still seemed extremely solid in the face of the enemy's not strong firepower.

Cai E breathed a sigh of relief.

Although this was just a tentative offensive, he finally defended it and won some more time. He first went to the right wing, checked the situation of the entire defeated third battalion, asked about the reconstruction of the command system, personnel and firepower arrangements, made arrangements for defense, and dispatched some personnel to strengthen the reserve team, and ran to the first battalion on the left wing without stopping.

Finally, the positions were set up, and the three battalions of artillery battalions and regiments had two thousand troops. Most of the troops that attacked rashly finally returned to the positions. Although some ammunition and supplies were lost, fortunately, most of them were still in the regiment's defense zone and have gradually recovered their combat effectiveness.

Cai E didn't have much time to mourn the dead colleagues and soldiers. The regiment commander Geng Liang insisted on attacking alone, and Cai E was not sure whether the division headquarters issued an order. Now it seems that it is Geng Liang's own decision. However, he has given his life, and what he has to do now is to defend the position and save the remaining soldiers.

On the hill in the distance, Major General Merezhtov, who succeeded Kampf as the commander of the cavalry group for many years, slowly lowered his telescope and said in a little depressed manner: "The raid failed. The firepower of the Chinese monkey on the opposite side was too strong."

"Just lost some indigenous soldiers." Chief of Staff Rostov shrugged, "Let these overly enthusiastic Briats retreat, their mission has been completed."

A shrill war horn sounded, and the remaining Russian troops quickly fled the battlefield, leaving behind dead bodies everywhere.

"Organize the artillery fire, and this time we must completely destroy the simple fortifications of the Chinese," Lieutenant General Merezhtov turned his head and said to the messenger. "Notify the Ninth Division to dismount and fight in a staircase manner to attract these damn yellow monkeys, so that they believe that we can do nothing to them... The Cossacks will soon be detoured, and these yellow monkeys will definitely go to hell."

"Bombardment concealed"

The smoke of gunpowder was everywhere on the Chinese military positions, and there were columns of smoke and dust everywhere, and the sand was flying all over the sky. The Russian army intensively attacked the Chinese military positions with the 57mm cavalry artillery and the 75mm field artillery of the Marathon. The hasty-built defensive positions gradually became beyond recognition under the fierce artillery fire.

The sound of artillery gradually stopped, and the surviving Chinese officers and soldiers drilled out of the anti-aircraft artillery hole, quickly sorted out their combat preparations, rescued the wounded, and dug up the collapsed bunker. The entire position was busy and orderly, but from the distance, it looked messy.

A large number of Russian cavalry dismounted, holding short-barrels of Mosinnagan 1891 carriage rifles, carrying sabers, and in an unstandard infantry formation, they pulled rows of horizontal lines towards the Chinese military positions. The heavy machine gun team pushed the heavy Russian version of the Maxin heavy machine guns to find a suitable launching position at the forefront of the Chinese military positions.

Many of these dismounted cavalry have experienced the previous battles, and they only started to charge in front of the Chinese army's position 400 meters, and then began to lie down and shoot at the Chinese army at a position 200 meters, suffocating the opponent's firepower. The Chinese army's countermeasure is to ruthlessly sweep all living things on the battlefield with dense and accurate firepower.

After repeated recurrence, these tenacious Russian cavalry did not make much progress, while the number of casualties increased sharply.

The third battalion commander of the third battalion in the left wing was killed, and the newly transferred political instructor was unknown. Deputy battalion commander Ma Liang took over the command with a lottery and was checking the defense line. The defeated Chinese army returned to the field fortifications and finally restored order. Many people looked at each other and couldn't help but feel ashamed.

"Songpo" Ma Liang saw Cai E and his group of people coming in a hurry and hurriedly met him.

"I'm worried that the Russians will make a knife on your side." Cai E said bluntly, "Their attack on the front position has failed. Our right wing is the Orhun River. What are the Russian cavalry doing? With the experience of night battles in the left wing of the city, the Russians should know that it is difficult to use cavalry to attack our main position head-on. It is very likely to use infantry to attack your front, and then use cavalry to detour on the flank, press us to the Orhun River on the right wing, and then annihilate us in one fell swoop. I'm really worried, and I must come over and discuss with you."

Ma Liang stood attentively and saluted: "Cai... Acting Commander, just give orders."

Cai E nodded: "Old Ma, I'm not worried about the front, I'll re-arrange the flanks. You hand over the reserve team to me, and I brought a machine gun platoon, plus a company of the reserve team to build a defense line on the flanks to resist the first wave of the Russians."

He said worriedly: "The central defense line is fighting more fiercely. Not only is the left wing ambush, but the central government may also be in danger. I think we may be ready to retreat. Don't talk to the troops first. The division headquarters has issued an order through the telephone line set up by the floating buoy on the river. We have to carry it until night, and then evacuate at night. The front defense line has been broken through many places, and the situation is very critical. If we are entangled by the Russian infantry here and then attacked by the cavalry from the flank and back, the troops will sooner or later collapse."

"It's six o'clock in the afternoon, and it will be dark in two hours." Ma Liang looked at his watch, "Songpo, I have discussed with my brothers just now. Then we will cover your retreat."

Seeing what Cai E wanted to say, he waved his hand: "Songpo, don't argue with me about this. The regiment commander and instructor retreated for us, and he was bleeding behind him. The battalion deputy was knocked down by the Russians when we were low in our eyes and retreated from the business city. Now he has simply turned into a defeated escape. As a soldier, I am really shameless to meet people."

"Let us die without regrets." Ma Liang nodded to his side. The guards brought a large package, heavy. "These are all suicide notes and personal belongings of the brothers. Songpo, bring them back for us. Please send a message to my parents and my wife, Ma Liang, I die like a man."

Cai E stared at him for a while, stood attentively and saluted in awe.

Six o'clock.

Cai E held the Six-fold military telescope and looked at the fierce battle in the center from afar. Seeing the Russian dismounted cavalry launching a strong attack against the rain of bullets, he couldn't help but curse: "The damn Russians are really worthy of being a cattle in gray uniforms. Why do they look like they don't know how to die?"

Ning Guoqiang, the commander of the fourth company next to him, couldn't help but say, "Battalion Commander, you should think carefully before you. The Russian cavalry will hear the sound soon, so don't have any problems here."

Cai E patted his shoulder: "Guoqiang, don't worry, we haven't beaten Cossacks before. This thing is a fool."

Ning Guoqiang grinned.

Something began to appear on the small hills in the distance...
Chapter completed!