Wang Xipeng brandished a saber and hacked another Russian lieutenant officer to death. He had several colored spots on his body, and his arm was bitten by fragments from the rocket explosion, and the two double-barreled pistols that had been hanging from his waist were gone. I've long run out of bullets, and it's too late to reload! Why are you still hanging on your body like this? When cumbersome?

Hand-to-hand combat!

The sound of pistol and rifle fire quickly faded from the battlefield, and absolute white-knuckle fighting began to appear on the battlefield. This is like two furious beasts that collide together, fighting and colliding with each other, and there must be a winner and a winner, and there must be a life and death.

Although he was injured everywhere, Wang Xipeng didn't feel pain at all, and now all his attention was focused on fighting, and the tense situation didn't allow him to think about pain.

The Russian army rushed to the position of the third battalion, and the strength was not much more than that of the third battalion, but they were all new forces, and the momentum was very strong in the middle of the night, while the third battalion was tired after a long battle, and it was really a little unbearable.

Zheng Guohong, who was on the position of the second battalion, hurriedly organized the troops in his hands, gathered a team of troops or so, and went to the position of the third battalion to support. Wang Xipeng is one of them. At the same time, rockets and rockets were ordered to cut off the follow-up forces of the Russians in front of the positions of the three battalions with all their might. You can't let the Russians snowball, or they'll be in trouble.

Of course, at the same time as the commanders gave orders, Zheng Guohong also scolded the battalion officers of the third battalion in his heart.

A fully formed field regiment had five field battalions, fought fiercely for a day and night, and repelled four attacks by the Russian army, except for the first and fifth battalions as reserves, the remaining three main battle battalions all suffered losses of more than 20%. The three most serious battalions have now suffered two hundred casualties.

At this time, the rumbling cannon sound sounded in Wang Xipeng's ears again. The landing point of the shells is still in the middle of the positions of the two armies, which is to block the passage of the follow-up reinforcements of the Russian army! And reinforcements from the 5th Battalion also came up.

Therefore, this white-knuckle fight still ended with the Russians retreating on their own initiative.

The Russians probably did not expect that they would rush to the positions of the Wehrmacht in one go, and their follow-up troops were a beat slower in their movements. Of course, Zheng Guohong did not expect that the third battalion would be rushed to the position by the Russians so easily.

If you want to say tired, which of the second battalion or the fourth battalion is not tired? They didn't leak, and the chain fell off in the third battalion, which is a shame for the third battalion.

The Russian major who led the team very regrettably led the remnants of the army out of the battle. Years of battlefield intuition told him that the Chinese in front of him had a sudden change, which gave him an opportunity, otherwise he would not have rushed into the Chinese trenches so simply. But no matter what you say, this wave of offensive has come to an end, and it is time to retreat with your men.

To fight with the Chinese, one cannot think about a big victory with a wave of charges - in the case of storming into their trenches. The Chinese are not Ottomans!

However, this time the charge was able to successfully enter the opponent's trench and engage the Chinese in hand-to-hand combat, which was definitely a surprise for the major.

"Quick. Hide quickly and enter the defensive hole! ”

When Wang Xipeng saw the retreat of the Russian army, he did not have the slightest intention of pursuing, but loudly issued an order for the troops to hide. Prepare for the next round of shelling by the Russian army! This is the current positional warfare, where charges and artillery bombardments are staged in turn, except that the shells are not high-explosive shells, and there are no heavy machine guns, which is no different from the battles of the First World War in the original time and space.

Both sides are constantly consuming flesh and blood with shells, bullets and bayonets! Whoever sheds his blood first will lose the battle.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The Russian artillery group opened fire again, accompanied by rockets scurrying all over the sky! Now the Russians' artillery group is no longer fifty or sixty guns at the beginning, but hundreds of them. The second group of Russian troops converged in Tulinsk.

The muffled sound in the sky was as loud as if it were in a thunder pool.

Wang Xipeng was experiencing a sublimation of his life fate at this time, and he was appointed by Zheng Guohong as the acting officer of the three battalions and one team.

Why was the third battalion rushed to the position by the Russian army?

That's because all the deputy battalion officers of the three battalions were hung up, and the battalion staff officers were also seriously wounded. And their battalion officer was hit by a bullet during the third Russian attack, and he was lying in the hospital without knowing whether he was alive or dead.

In the fierce battle, the two main commanders were suddenly killed and wounded, and the time interval was so short, it was no wonder that the three battalions did not have confusion. The previous casualties caused the third battalion to fall a full 300 people, and in terms of its own strength, more than half of the casualties were inflicted. Several team officers are also few sound, and Wang Xipeng, a student who had performed very well before, was promoted by Zheng Guohong at this critical moment.

Looking at the positions of the Wehrmacht, which were flooded with hexagonal shells, Nikolai Nikolayevich Raevsky did not have a trace of expression on his face. The scene in front of him was completely expected by him, and the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great.

The Russian army has gathered two infantry divisions plus two artillery regiments and a cavalry regiment. The number of people reached 20,000, and there was a powerful artillery group to help the battle, which was not at all something that the Chinese army in front of them could withstand. It can even be said that the Chinese on the opposite side escaped last time, and it was already their luck.

God knows how happy Raevsky was after seeing the Russian troops rushing to the Chinese positions. He felt that he had a good chance of taking Tulinsk the day after the war and annihilating all the Chinese soldiers there. And he was even happier that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese was somewhat different from what Bagration described, which was certainly not that Bagration lied, but that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army had decreased. This greatly strengthened Raevsky's self-confidence in winning the war.

However, the performance of the Chinese proved that their will to fight is still unshakable. The superior Russian army broke into the Chinese position, but failed to defeat the Chinese soldiers guarding there in one fell swoop, but was eventually driven out by the Chinese.

Raevsky knew that it was the fault of Nevorovsky, the commander of the 55th Division, that his reserves were out of touch with the front-line attacking forces, and by the time Nevorovsky adjusted, the Chinese rockets and rockets had completely blocked the passage.

"Your Excellency, Major General Viktor Chernkov of the 58th Division asks for instructions on whether the division will organize the next attack. He thought that our army should continue the offensive, but the casualties of the 55th Division were too great......"

"Tell Cherkov, don't stop, don't stop, attack, attack, always keep attacking!"

Raevsky didn't seem to see Nevorovsky's complicated expression. In the previous battles, the 55th Division had done its best, and more than 2,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in the four attacks, which can be said to be broken. The Chinese army on the opposite side also spent a lot of energy in the onslaught of the 55th Division, and now it seems fair and just to line up the newly arrived 58th Division, but it is not to rob the 55th Division of the credit.

"Father, your order will surely please Major General Chherkov. The 58th Division will not let us down. Alexander was already seventeen years old, and this was already an adult, he looked at Nevorovsky with a complicated expression, and said with a little hesitation: "But the 55th division ......"

Nevorovsky was his father's old subordinate.

At the beginning of the fierce battle on the Borodino battlefield, Raevsky stayed with Nevorovsky's 27th Division almost all the time, holding the three fortresses of two large and one small together, resisting Napoleon's attack.

Isn't it a little unreasonable for his father to do this......

"Nevorovsky will understand." Raevsky said it very lightly, and at this time, everything is about the big picture. The interests of small private groups are to be subordinated to the national interests of Russia.

On the afternoon of the third day of the battle, Zheng Guohong's regiment completely withdrew from the Tulinsk position, and only about 1,1200 men remained of the 3,000-strong force. Among them, two to three hundred were seriously wounded who could not move on their own.

What a tragic word!

Wang Xipeng's right ear was cut off in half by shrapnel from the grenade explosion, but fortunately, Chen Han's army did not pay attention to the decency of officials. Zheng Guohong was also blown up by a grenade, half a catty of flesh was cut off from his thigh, and his head was like a blood gourd.

Zheng Guohong's regiment's deputy regiment was also killed in battle, five battalion officers were killed and one pair was wounded, one of the five deputy battalion officers was killed and seriously wounded, and the teaching and training in the regiment were also gone, and the lower officers at the platoon level below suffered many casualties.

The casualty ratio of junior officers in the Defence Force is consistently higher than that of soldiers.

Even the regimental chief of staff was bitten with a bayonet, and this was because he picked up his rifle only at the last moment, and the rest of the time he was coordinating the troops. The squad leader and sergeant major, the casualty rate exceeded 70%, and after the withdrawal, Zheng Guohong's regiment seemed to have lost the ability to continue fighting.

Because of this offensive and defensive battle, the Russian army used two divisions of troops, plus two artillery regiments.

They themselves have suffered heavy losses.

The strength of the 55th Division was seven or eight thousand men, but it was not used at all, and it could not be fought in one night. If Raevsky hadn't been immediately replaced with the 58th Division, he might not have been able to take Tulinsk so quickly.

The Russian army suffered more than 5,000 casualties, of which no less than 3,000 were killed.

Such a result gave both sides a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of their opponents. Chen Wei of Astrakhan is relatively satisfied with this. Although he didn't know how many casualties the Russian army had paid, the Russian army had so many artillery superiority after all, and it was already rare for Zheng Guohong's regiment to be able to support it until the third day.

This also shows that the combat effectiveness of the Russian reinforcements has decreased greatly compared with the previous team.

Moreover, when Zheng Guohong's regiment suffered so many casualties, it was able to maintain the most basic framework organization of the army, and Zheng Guohong was also very good.

Before Astrakhan could see it, most of the division was gone, which made the Grand Duke of Constantine, who had just arrived, feel a lot of pain. Although the Russian army is advancing at a fast pace. The capture of Tulinsk took only three days. This proves that the Russian reinforcement army, which is mainly composed of new recruits, still has combat effectiveness.

"Zheng Guohong's group is abolished, but can Lao Maozi get better? They are attacking in turn at the expense of casualties, and at least one to two casualties between the enemy and the enemy, what can't be done in this transaction? The use of Turinsk is not to put the blood of the old hairyman. "That's to 'see' the combat effectiveness of the Russian army. Facts have proved that the combat effectiveness of the Russian army has indeed decreased a lot compared to before, but their performance can still be considered heroic.

When the Volga River was already covered with thin ice, and the time was approaching the ninth lunar month, in a plain area thirty miles from Novo-Astrakhan, the armies of China and Russia finally ushered in a decisive duel.

Tom James also came to the front line at this time, and Great Britain not only needed to clearly grasp the victory or defeat of the Sino-Russian war, but also needed to observe the changes in the combat effectiveness of the two armies at all times.

Russia's reinforcements are a new army, while Chinese's army has endured hard fighting, and there is an old Chinese saying that "soldiers are tired after a long battle......