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Chapter 261 The Battle of Hailanpao (8)
Hailanpao, the time went back to the early morning of the night, and the heavy rain was falling hard!
Jiang Dengxuan took a division of troops to pretend to be the 21st Division of the Russian Army who came to support, and deceived Babkov and the soldiers defending the city. When Babkov woke up, Jiang Dengxuan's cavalry regiment had already broken through to the in town.

Annoyed, Babkov hurriedly retreated to the temporary headquarters in the city under the protection of a team of guards.what to do!The Chinese have poured into the city uncontrollably, and at the same time, the east and west positions were almost razed to the ground by the artillery of the Northeast Army in just ten minutes. Babkov can fully imagine that the Russian troops on the east and west positions Facing the crazy massacre of the Chinese.

The sound of the guns at the city gate became louder and louder. Amidst the roar of the cannons, the building in the headquarters trembled. The dust shaken from the beams shook everyone in the house.The people in the room looked at each other, and no one dared to speak for a while, they just quietly listened to the more and more intensive explosions at the city gate.

The heavy artillery on the top of the city let out a roar that shook the sky, and thick mushroom-like smoke rose from the overwhelming Northeast Army below the city.The Russian sentry was watching carefully with a binocular on the tower. In the storm, a black crowd emerged from the edge of the distance, and the hand of the sentry holding the binoculars began to tremble.

On the artillery position, the 15 75mm infantry guns of the Russian army had no time to adjust the elevation angle. Majikov, who had just woken up, looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help shouting "fire" as the guns rang like beads, but the gunfire from the Chinese army.Markikov's vision gradually blurred, shell shrapnel roared and flew around, and soldiers around him were hit by shells and fell to the ground from time to time.

"General be careful!"

A company commander under Markikov screamed and jumped on him, and he hurriedly shrank to the ground holding his head.After a loud bang, Majikov felt that the company commander's body temperature was slowly dropping, blood was gushing from his neck, and a large area of ​​the plaster-colored clothes was dyed red in an instant, and slowly softened to the ground. .

Zhang Zuolin looked at Hai Lanpao with a binoculars on a high ground not far away, and said with a grinning smile, "I have a scar, what the fuck is the Far Eastern Army, shit!"

He put down the binoculars and turned to Zhang Kai and said, "Tell Zhang Zongchang, I will give him 10 minutes to take down the east and west positions. Order Zhang Zuoxiang to lead his 54th brigade to rush into Hailanpao City to support Jiang Dengxuan's troops, Be sure to take the Hailanpao before dawn!"

"Yes!"

The area around Hailanpao was still flat yesterday, but now it is densely covered with craters. These craters are connected together like a huge spider web, and Hailanpao is the death node of this spiderweb.

Regardless of everyone's dissuasion, Babkov insisted on coming outside the headquarters.After a loud noise, the ground trembled suddenly, like an earthquake. Babkov almost fell to the ground, but fortunately the adjutant supported him.

Just as Babkov was about to speak, there was another loud bang, and a shell hit a church not far away.The tall cross fell down with a bang, the crowd on the ground fled in all directions, the injured howled from time to time, and the unlucky ones were smashed to pieces.

The artillerymen under the command of Zou Zuohua really put their eyes on the cannons. The shells whizzed past and accurately landed on the Russian barracks and grain depots at the back of the city.This bombardment, regardless of ammunition, caused the Houcheng to withstand nearly 800 shells, and soon blew up that area into a depression.The Russian barracks in the back city were dilapidated, and the gap in the back city wall was wider than the city gate. The shells almost plowed the ground three feet, and even many people in the buildings were buried alive inside.

Compared with the dense horizontal formation and retreat of the Russian army, the offensive formation chosen by Jiang Deng is relatively scattered.They were in a group of 12, and there was a distance of several meters between each group. This formation made Babkov think that he had found an appropriate offensive opportunity.He sent his Cossack cavalry to attempt a charge to launch a counterattack against the Northeast Army that had already charged into the city.

The Cossack coldly wiped the slightly bent saber in his hand, while the horse beside him neighed impatiently.

According to Zhang Zuolin's prior deployment, the 11th Regiment of the Northeast Army was responsible for advancing to the south of Hailanpao City.The head of this regiment is Liao Zhong, who is a capable general under Feng Linge. I think Feng Linge was the leader of the bandits in western Liaoning. Together, Peng became the "Twilight Sky" and "Dark Earth" (bandit numbers) that frightened the officers and soldiers.

At this moment, he is leading two thousand soldiers under his command to rush towards the east of the city.Liao Zhong ordered to disperse the formation and let a battalion follow behind.If there is no Russian military fortification, let the bombardier throw a grenade in front first, and let the troops outflank the two wings. The battalion in the back is responsible for launching a frontal attack with the Russian army to attract the opponent's firepower.This tactic caused the 11th regiment to pull out several fortifications one after another, and entered the hinterland of Hailanpao's inner city relatively smoothly.

At this time, the sound of artillery inside and outside the city gradually became quieter, dilapidated buildings and raging fires were everywhere, and the pungent gunpowder smoke was almost suffocating.When a group of Cossack cavalry who were about to charge out suddenly rushed from the flank, they aimed directly at the right flank of the attacking 11th regiment.

Liao Zhong was startled at first, and then shouted loudly: "Get the bayonet, gather immediately, and move closer to the right wing."

This is the experience that Liao Zhong gained during his studies in the Imperial Continent. Once the cavalry rushed into the scattered infantry group, huge casualties would be inevitable.

Even so, the response of the 11th Regiment was still a bit slow. The speed of the Cossack cavalry was very fast, and they rushed to the front of the crowd in a short while.

I heard "bang", "bang", "bang" and "bang" one after another, and the fronts of the two sides began to confront each other. The infantry had already mounted their bayonets when they charged, but the advantage of the cavalry was the impact brought by their speed.The scattered infantry did not have time to pull the bolts after the bullets in the chambers had been fired.Experienced soldiers fired bullets at the cavalry at the most dangerous time, and then leaned against the people around them, aiming their bayonets at the cavalry.However, some inexperienced people frantically fired the six bullets in the chamber, then lowered their heads and hurriedly loaded the bullets.This gave the cavalry a chance to draw their knives, slipping through them, making them invincible in front of them.

This Cossack cavalry was the last ace unit Babkov could muster.These people roared into Liao Zhong's army like a whirlwind. The speed of the cavalry was too fast, and the sound of the horses hitting the ground formed a torrent, which shocked some recruits who had never seen the world for the first time. Shooting the bullets in their hands, blocking with a rifle when the saber strikes, few people can remember the teachings of the military instructors in their usual training at this time: whether they can survive on the battlefield depends on calmness.

(End of this chapter)