Chapter 255 On the battlefield, there are no ifs, only certainties
On all the high grounds on the north side of the avenue, there were storm-like bullets pouring towards the Tsarist Russian team in the middle of the road. On several hills near the avenue, there were rows of grenades thrown down like locusts, and burning tanks that were rare for Tsarist Russians. In an instant, the Tsarist Russians were rushing around as if they were poured into a pot of boiling water.
"It's really incredible that our battalion was walking in the middle of the brigade. The troops that had gone past the front had searched the high ground near the north side of the main road. When the Taiping Red Army went up, the dense guns and cannons just now, I felt like I was almost covered with the book by the minced meat and broken limbs and broken arms falling like raindrops on my head. What was most terrifying was that I didn't know what illusion these Orientals had done. Some of the things they threw down could ignite a sea of fire when they landed on the ground. If they touched them, they would not try to extinguish them."
A soldier from the Second Battalion of the Fifth Regiment of Tsarist Russia later recalled, "I quickly woke up from my confusion and quickly rolled into a ditch on the south side of the avenue, and crowded tightly with a few soldiers who also rolled down. Because of the heavy rain on the first day, the ditch was filled with water, and no one cared about it, and they just lay down and were spasming. Looking at many companions who were still playing various vulgar jokes not long ago, they seemed to have not taken war seriously, and now they have become fire people, running around and rolling around,
Only here can bring us more security. The awakened commanders began to shout for a counterattack, but none of us moved. The gunshots and the explosions of explosives thrown by the Red Army on the hill, and the wailings of our soldiers, they kept intertwining, and the echoes echoed in the valley. It was an indescribable, suffocating and maddening sound, which shocked the whole earth, trembling, impacting, and shaking. It should be said that it was definitely like a summoning of hell..."
Many of the survivors of the Tsarist Russian soldiers in this battle, apart from being inexplicably ambushed, were the "bombs" that would fall to the ground and catch fire.
"......... With a bang, everything burst out immediately, followed by thick smoke, and a pungent smell spread. Just a few yards away, the whole area turned into a sea of fire. Soldiers whose faces became distorted and terrifying, first they danced and roared, then they rolled around, struggling and crying, and the screams were even more terrifying than gunfire and explosions..."
"... Our team was crowded on the side of the road. It was a protruding area to the south, making way for the artillery team coming up behind us. A row of black things suddenly flew down from the hills north of the road above us. With a series of loud noises, fires splashed everywhere and black smoke rushed. It was so terrible. At that moment, it was like sitting on a huge stove book. It felt like the heat wave was about to suck away the water in your body, and the splashing sparks were even more sticking to wherever you were. People, plants and trees
Even the cannon that was blown upside down... I was rushed to the bottom of the road by the explosion and luckily saved my life. At that time, time seemed to have stopped suddenly, and everything seemed like a dream. I didn't dare to look up at anything, but just held my head tightly and buried my body behind a not-so-big stone. I really realized what it means to be a broken heart. There was only one thought in my head, which was to want to get into the ground..."
Minabjesky, who had just left the west bank of the White Horse River, also experienced a process from confusion to shock. The artillery shells flying like raindrops in the mountains to the north hit his marching column fiercely. Some of the officers and soldiers and animals of the artillery team that were not far ahead of him watched as they were blown up and fell, shaking around, and gravel and dust splashed his head and face. The sudden power of the artillery fire not only made the war horse he sat down jump wildly, but even the old army who had been through the battle formation couldn't help but tremble all over and almost fell off the horse.
"What's going on?" Minabjeski yelled at the adjutant.
"Wow..." The book bullets shot like wind on the hill dozens of yards away made the guards around him go over and over, which was considered to be answering him.
"Sir, go away, we are ambushed!" Liao Liusha grabbed Minabjesky's horse's head and wanted to rush down the already extremely dangerous road along the overgrown slope.
"Bastard!" Minabjesky raised the horse whip book in his hand, slapped it hard on the adjutant's hand, stubbornly turned around the horse's head, and stood upright. He was hit with a planned ambush. When he looked up, he saw bullets from all the high grounds in the north. When he looked down, he saw that he was beaten to the point of being beaten in a mess. Without anyone saying anything, Minabjesky knew it. He just didn't understand that the ambush came too strange. What did the bastards in front of him do at the beginning?
"Empty order, Pokka Battalion quickly deployed its defenses. Ordered the 8th Regiment's artillery team to support the 1st Battalion of the Eighth Regiment with artillery fire and immediately launched an attack on the enemy on the high ground in front of the face, first consolidated our rear wings to support the counterattacks of the battalions along the way..." Minabjesky is worthy of being an old soldier. After a brief confusion and surprise, he immediately regained his previous calmness. When giving this series of orders, he looked at the panicked crowd on both sides and left and right, and even subconsciously looked behind him.
"The colonel is a standard soldier, and it is also the only best commander among the Weihai garrison troops. If the entire army in Weihai could adopt the colonel's opinion, at least it would not have lost so quickly." As the adjutant of Colonel Minabjeski, Liao Liusha seemed to have a comprehensive view of this war. "The unexpected enemy appeared, and that absolutely cruel blow, did not panic in the colonel. He wanted to immediately organize an effective counterattack against the enemy on the northern high ground. Because the colonel attached great importance to the training of the army, after a brief panic, the battalions were indeed striving to win the initiative on the battlefield and fight for their respective commanding heights. However,
, This was just wishful thinking. Not long after the first round of attacks, sharp trumpets were blown on the high ground to the west, and people were also rushing down to the numb and screaming sounds of scalp. I once noticed that before this, the colonel glanced at the south side, which was still quiet, and there seemed to be doubts and concerns. Sure enough, something even more terrible happened. On the south side, the Taiping Red Army troops appeared in the valley, especially along the river bank, with a large group of cavalry protruding... In fact, I still believe that if there were no one behind us at that time, the colonel could at least bring us back to the east bank of the river..."
On the battlefield, there is no if, only inevitable. In this narrow area where the east and west are only five miles away, and the north and south are compressed into less than one mile, it is destined to become a huge tomb for burying these more than three thousand Tsarist Russian ghosts.
When the soldiers of the Red Army of the Celestial Dynasty, covered the ridges on the north, picked up the rifle with bright bayonets on them, and accompanied by the roar of more than two thousand thunders, "For the Celestial Dynasty, advance!" shouts like a tiger pounced on food, rushing towards the Tsarist Russian soldiers who also used bayonets as sacred blades, they took the initiative to give up the Jinji Mountain defense line, and most of them had retreated across the Red Fourth Division's special camp on the west bank of the Xiaoyao River, and then turned over and killed the river again.
Chapter completed!