Ye Zhao kept holding the cavalry in the city and was waiting for this moment.

When the Russians had to put a group of reserve infantry regiments into the battlefield, the brave and charged Cossack cavalry were hit again, and their artillery positions with weak defense and accurate position had become a delicious meal for the cavalry division.

On the hills, the soldiers of the Third Battalion tried hard to shoot bullets from the steel guns, but the Russians who flocked to them were getting closer and closer. They knew that the last moment was coming!

At this time, the low horn suddenly rang out and rang out in all directions. The unique melody was very familiar, low and solemn, and it was the horn for the soldiers of Pingyuan Army to charge!

The Russian soldiers charging towards the hills suddenly retreated like a tide. On the hills, more than a dozen officers and soldiers who were covered in blood and mud suddenly cheered.

Zhang Qingyu pulled out the trumpet from the sacrificial trumpet's arms, warm and seemed to have the temperature of the trumpet's soldiers. With tears in his eyes, Zhang Qingyu blew it hard.

"Um-Um-" low and solemn.

People are there, positions are there!

The Third Battalion did not lose its position!

More than a dozen beggars raised their sharp bayonets and supported each other, staggeringly rushing down the hills.

...

When Besturgev heard the news that the artillery position was broken by the Chinese cavalry, he immediately ordered the First Infantry Regiment to stop attacking the hilly and highlands, and ordered the Third Infantry Regiment to defend the second line of defense, and the rest of the infantry gradually left the battlefield.

I don’t know how many new forces the Chinese have not yet entered the battlefield. The artillery regiment was destroyed and the news came to the army. I was afraid that it would immediately turn into a defeat. Gradually breaking away from contact with the Chinese team and avoiding being surrounded by Chinese infantry is the best choice now. Although I was reluctant, Besturev had to admit that he lost this war.

However, the Chinese seemed to have made an appointment with him. As soon as the order he issued was on the front line, the unique sound of charge horns of the Chinese sounded from all directions. In the ears of Russian soldiers, the sound of the horns was so sharp that it was a torture.

Countless Chinese infantry shouted enthusiastically, jumping up from the shallow trenches, and the sea of ​​snow-colored bayonets surged onto the Russian positions like waves.

The Russian soldiers who had just received the order to retreat were at a loss, and the time collapsed. Russian soldiers were chased and ran around everywhere. They were stabbed from behind by the enemy with bayonets. This was almost the most shameful way for soldiers to die, but the Russians no longer cared about it. The news that the artillery positions were occupied by the Chinese had spread throughout the battlefield like a plague.

The Chinese charge and massacre were not temporarily put aside until they encountered a fire-power attack from the Russian Third Infantry Regiment, which quickly built a second line of defense.

But the Third Infantry Regiment could only buy an hour of retreat for the defeated soldiers, and soon its defense line was broken through. In the fierce hand-to-hand combat, hundreds of people from the Third Regiment of the Russian Aral Sea Infantry Regiment surrendered, and most of them were annihilated.

Bestuzev gathered the remains and retreated north while resisting.

Obviously, the Russian army is essentially different from the Northern Dynasties soldiers. If the Northern Dynasties had suffered this series of blows, they would have fled all over the mountains and fields.

However, the Russians were still able to organize effective resistance. After leaving thousands of infantry to deploy defenses in a hill, the remnants of their corps quickly evacuated northward.

At this point, Ye Zhao had to admit that the neighbors in the north would be the strongest enemy he faced, or even a lifetime enemy.

But this time, Besturgev obviously could not escape Ye Zhao's net of heaven and earth. The Zhenghuang Banner Infantry Brigade, which had already set up a wooden bridge in the tributary of the Sir River, used the most violent firepower to block the Tsarist Russian Legion.

After half a day of fierce fighting, the Russians could not rush to the other side of the river bank, and defeated the border defense division that covered the defensive forces of the Tsarist Russian army, and the cavalry division arrived very quickly.

After a night of siege, at dawn on the second day, he leaned against the woods and hills to establish a defense line. However, under the fierce fire, the Russians, who suffered heavy casualties, finally hung up the white flag.

At this point, the "Battle of Turkestan", which took only four days, was over.

The Tsarist Russian Aral Sea Infantry Regiment was erased by the Chinese from the Tsarist Russian combat sequence. The entire legion was captured by more than 4,000 people and more than 5,000 people were shot dead. The Cossack cavalry and Kazakh mercenaries were injured and killed. Only a very small number of deserters escaped. Russian commander Besturzev was killed by stray bullets.

The casualties of Chinese officers and soldiers were more than 3,000 casualties, which was the heaviest loss in a small-scale battle carried out by the Pingyuan Army at the division level.

The battle lasted just four days and the casualties were so high that the battle was tragic.

Of course, if modern wars are equally magnificent opponents with a small gap, they will be more intense and cruel than later wars.

In the following days, Ye Zhao was preparing for war, waiting for the Russians to counterattack. A few days later, a fast horse from Anning City 800 miles was reported that a fast mule-horse-forming infantry division and engineer team of the Jinling Group Army had entered the grassland and was expected to arrive at Zhaixing City in 20 days.

At this time, there were busy labor scenes everywhere around Zhaixing City, digging trenches and building fortresses. There were nearly 8,000 prisoners of nearly 8,000 people, including more than 5,000 prisoners who were not injured or did not affect their labor. Naturally, they became coolies, and they lived by just soup every day under whipping.

The seriously injured Russian prisoners continued to die, buried on the spot, and finally developed inflammation and coma or screamed in pain all day long. They simply hanged in batches. In fact, it was considered euthanasia.

The limited "life fluid" (penicillin) of the military health team will naturally not be used on prisoners.

Building a trench fortress as soon as possible can further increase the chances of a large-scale war with Tsarist Russia.

In fact, the Chinese team is more well-equipped than the Russian army, and this battle can be said to have caught the Russians off guard, but why did such a high casualty rate occur, and even the number of casualties exceeds 2,000? This has to be mentioned the Cossack Cavalry.

The large number of reductions came from the charges of the Cossack cavalry. Although the Cossack cavalry suffered heavy losses every time they charged, once they broke through the infantry defense line, the infantry was slaughtered by them one after another.

The fortifications of trenches, barbed wire and fortifications were built, and the brave Cossack cavalry were no longer a threat in positional battles.

Shortly after the Second Division of the Jinling Army arrived in Turkestan, the newly constructed Second Cavalry Division also arrived in Anning City. Then two cavalry divisions were stripped of the army and their numbers were changed to the First Royal Cavalry Division and the Second Royal Cavalry Division.

In the *** and the borders, there are actually more cavalry divisions in preparation. Now in the Turkic land, if there is no strong cavalry force, it will be difficult to effectively rule it.

It was just that the Russian counterattack did not come, and several telegrams sent from Kashgar 800 miles in a hurry surprised Ye Zhao.

It turned out that the telegraph lines in the Suez area were finally connected. Although the canal has not been completed, the telegraph lines along the way were built, and the East-West telegraph networks were connected here, which means that from Beijing, the telegraphs can be sent directly to London.

Among these telegrams, there are telegrams sent by the empires in Britain, France and Prussia to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as private telegrams sent by Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck to Ye Zhao.

The East-West telegram lines are connected to the grid. The first amazing message sent back to the country by European envoys to the East is probably the news that a conflict broke out between China and Russia and China won a complete victory.

Although Moscow and St. Petersburg were connected to Europe, the news of Turkestan's miserable defeat must have been sent back to Russia. It is foreseeable that the Russians would definitely not spread the news.

However, in China's newsprint, the war report of the great emperor leading the Chinese team to defeat the Russian invaders has become the hottest topic. Almost all newspapers are conducting various analysis in succession, and there are also many stories about the fictional war process.

It was not until the China Times received the emperor's edict, which clearly listed the comparison of troops and losses between the two sides. Moreover, it focused on praising all the officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion of the Zhenghuang Banner Infantry Brigade who sacrificed their lives for the country in the "Emperor's Will" operation. It was accompanied by the emperor's eulogy. The eulogy was concise and clear, but from it, you can see the true feelings of the emperor towards the sacrificed officers and soldiers. At the end of the eulogy, the emperor wrote: "Soldiers are weapons, and the empire had to use them; the blue blood flew everywhere to protect the family and the country, and death was more important than Mount Tai. The warriors of the empire will be immortal!"

"For the equality and freedom of all the people in the world, our land of China is so sacrificed for the world!"

The newsprints that sing different ways to praise the great emperor's bravery in the battle were silent, and they all made apology statements. There is no doubt that after this, the emperor's prestige in the minds of the imperial citizens had reached a blowout point. Even if Ye Zhao went to war with the whole world, the fanatical people would follow him as enemies with the world.

Ye Zhao's last words clearly showed that he would send the Central Plains civilization to overseas, but the European powers naturally did not notice it.

The Chinese slaughtered the Russians' 20,000 troops with their equal forces. This battle, which Ye Zhao thought was a lot of regrets, shocked the whole of Europe.

The European powers finally began to face up to this huge Eastern empire and the unparalleled hegemony that it would gain in the Far East.

Generally speaking, later generations believed that China entered the club of the world's powers, and took this battle as the turning point.

Bismarck sent Ye Zhao a private telegram, asking the emperor to relieve his thunderous anger. He was willing to mediate for China and Russia to avoid a war that might weaken the entire civilized world.

In the telegrams of the two prime ministers of the State Council, it was also mentioned that the Russian minister, who had been violently announcing that he would declare war on China, had a much lower voice after frequent contact with the Prussian ministers.

Ye Zhao knew that Bismarck must have sent a telegram to the Russian Tsar. He also served as the Prussian ambassador to Russia and established a good friendship with the Russians.

Ye Zhao also knew Bismarck's thoughts. Now Prussia is accelerating its expansion and has begun the road to German unification. The year before yesterday, it defeated Denmark and this year it defeated Austria and gained leadership over the German Federation. At the same time, it directly prompted the merger of the Austrian Empire and the Hungarian Empire to become a "binary monarchy", that is, the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A unified German empire will appear within one or two years, and the French, who were extremely reluctant to see this result, had a conflict with Prussia gradually and wars broke out between the two countries.

Although the British suppressed the French ambition to dominate the European continent, they were even more reluctant to see the Germans who had established the Holy Roman Empire achieve unity. The emergence of a German empire obviously poses greater threat to it.

With the rise of Prussia, Bismarck was also worried that Britain and France would form an alliance. At the same time, in order to fight against France, he not only wooed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had just been defeated by him, but also lobbled Russia, hoping that the Russians with many old grudges with Britain and France could become the same camp with Prussia.

In the East, although China has limited support for the war in the European continent, he is unwilling to miss this extremely close ally. If the Chinese can expel British and French forces in the Far East, it will be a big blow to the British and French economy. Bismarck is even more unwilling to see the two potential allies fighting to the death and weaken the "Four Emperors Alliance" he imagined.

Ye Zhao, who was very clear about the history of European development, naturally knew that Bismarck's idea of ​​the Three Emperors Alliance must have become the Four Emperors Alliance because of the rise of China.

To form an alliance with the Russians? Ye Zhao never thought about it. That was impossible. Bismarck should also be clear that the situation of China-Russia competition for hegemony in the Far East is becoming more and more obvious, just like Prussia and France will eventually break out of war unless one side voluntarily gives up its hegemony in the Far East and Central Asia.

Bismarck probably hopes that the later the war, the better, right? So when Prussia is not yet full of strength, he has to choose one of two of China and Russia.

It’s good to have a temporary truce. Central Asia has never really touched the place that Central Plains civilization has really needed to be digested well. Now there are many wars, and I’m afraid the British in the south will take advantage of the loopholes.

But naturally, the military must not be relaxed for a moment. Ye Zhao did not believe that Bismarck could just use Bismarck to stop the Russians. If the Russians were to stop revenge, at least, Bismarck would definitely promise to help him ask for it back from the Chinese in the South Kazakh area, and perhaps even added various conditions.

OK, let's talk to the Russians.
Chapter completed!