H2> outside the trading city, the tragic artillery battle between the Dingbei Army and the Russian army lasted for at least one and a half hours, because the Russian artillery lost Yan zhòng and the bombardment intensity weakened, the remaining artillery of the Russian army took the initiative to withdraw from the artillery position close to the direction of the trading city, and retreated back, only to end the first round of exchanges between the artillery of the Dingbei Army and the Russian artillery.

In the artillery battle of one and a half hours, the heavy artillery brigade of the 3rd division lost 4 155-mm heavy howitzers, and the 31st brigade lost 6 105-mm howitzers, 11 75-mm field guns and mountain guns.

If the artillery of the 3rd Division is considered to have suffered heavy casualties, then the artillery of the Russian army is almost wiped out.

Thanks to the measuring artillery scope brought by Lin Daxin from modern time and space, it was easier for the artillery of the Dingbei Army to find out the position of the enemy's artillery. It was the Russian artillery that shifted its position in time, and without firing a few shots at the new position, it would be bombarded by the artillery of the Dingbei Army.

The one-and-a-half-hour artillery battle cost the Russian artillery at least a small part of its artillery, including 12 of the 30 152-mm howitzers of the heavy artillery division and 15 of the 40 127-mm field guns.

The commander of the First Siberian Front, Lieutenant General Ivanov of the Russian Army, looked very bad after the artillery battle, and did not expect that just after the battle, his artillery would lose a small half, which was very different from the scenario he expected before the war.

However, the battle must continue, and the loss of a small part of the artillery should not be allowed to withdraw to the city of Haktu. In any case, the Russian artillery also bombarded the forward positions of the Dingbei Army, so Ivanov immediately ordered 1 division of the 19th Army to attack the positions of the Dingbei Army.

The 19-year-old leper held the Type 96 rifle in his hand and stayed in the underground anti-artillery hole of the first position, counting the shells that fell on his head.

The soil on the top of the anti-artillery cave was shaken down by the explosion of the shells, and the leper head was covered in ashes, and the other officers and men in the anti-artillery pit were also like a leper head, like a native man.

Suddenly, the leper heard that the sound of artillery outside had stopped, and the soil on his head had not fallen, and then the platoon commander in the anti-artillery hole shouted: "Quick! Enter the position, Lao Maozi is coming up! ”

The leper immediately stood up and patted the ashes on his body, followed the other soldiers in his squad, walked out of the anti-artillery hole, and entered the trench on the position. The leper let out a long breath, lay down on the trench, and then stretched his rifle out of the trench, old Maozi come, the opportunity to avenge his clan and wife has finally arrived.

The leper is a Yakut ethnic group of Asian origin in Siberia, his tribe was massacred by the Russians because of their resistance to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway for Russia, nearly 1,000 women and children of the entire tribe were killed, the men were taken away to build the railway, and the leper escaped because he hunted with 5 fellow tribesmen.

After the tribe was slaughtered for a day, the leper and his five companions happily returned to the tribe with the prey they had hit, and the tragic scene immediately made them heartbroken and angry. The leper head ran frantically to his felt bag, and as soon as he entered the felt bag, the leper let out a wolf-like cry.

The mother of the leper in the felt bag was lying on the ground, with several blood holes in her back, and the newlywed wife of the leper was lying naked in the felt bag, and there was hardly a good place on the whole body, and the female features on the chest were dug down with a knife, and a pair of eyes looked at the top of the felt bag in a daze, and she was dead.

After burying the tribesmen, the leper and his five companions began to take revenge on the Russians, arriving near the Russians' town and attacking a Russian soldier they saw. At first, 6 people killed 5 lone Russian soldiers at a time, but unfortunately they were rounded up by the Russians, and the other 5 partners of the leper were all killed by the Russian soldiers, only the leper jumped into the river and escaped, and then the leper fled to another tribe of the Yakuts.

In this tribe, he heard that the Russians were building a railway to attack the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, where there was now a very powerful Han Chinese, and even the Russians were a little afraid of him. Since the Russians want to fight the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, it is better for him to go to the northeast of the Qing Dynasty to join the army, and when the northeast of the Qing Dynasty fights with the Russians, he can avenge his clansmen and his wife.

At this time, because of the cruel oppression of the Russians, many of the Asian ethnic tribes in Siberia wanted to imitate the Turkut tribe more than 200 years ago and returned to the Qing Dynasty, and even some tribes had already put it into action, but because of the Russians' obstruction and the long distance, they were unsuccessful.

With the belief of avenging his relatives and clansmen, he trekked through mountains and rivers alone, overcame all kinds of difficulties, and walked for more than half a year before he came to Mohe in Heilongjiang, after which he stayed in Mohe for 5 months and learned some commonly used Chinese words, he came to Qiqihar City in Heilongjiang and signed up for the Dingbei Army.

As a result, because the leper did not have an identity certificate, the personnel of the recruitment office of the Dingbei Army did not accept him at all, and the leper grinded in the recruitment office for 2 days, and when the leper was discouraged, fortunately, Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the 12th Division stationed in Qiqihar at that time, understood the situation of the leper and specially approved the leper to join the Dingbei Army.

After the recruitment assessment of the Dingbei Army, together with other recruits, he went to the recruit training camp of the Dingbei Army in Songyuan City, Jilin Province, and after 3 months of recruit training, the leper was assigned to the third division, and now the leper has been in the third division for more than half a year, and finally he waited until Lin Dashuai and the Russians went to war, and the third division where he was located came to the front line of the war between Outer Mongolia and the Russians, which made the leper even more excited.

A large number of Russian soldiers held Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles, straightened their waists, shouted Ulla, lined up in a relatively dense formation, and quickly rushed to the position of the Dingbei Army. At this time, the artillery of the Northern Army began to bombard the crowd of Russian infantry charges, and every shell falling would bring a lot of casualties to the Russian army, and some of the Russian artillery also began to bombard the direction of the artillery positions of the Northern Army, leading the artillery of the Northern Army to bombard the Russian infantry.

The Russian army, which was advancing under artillery fire, soon entered the range of the first fortification of the 306 heights, and the leper was holding a rifle, and he kept aiming at the Russian soldiers who were rushing to the position, and heard his company commander shouting: "Fight!" Immediately, machine guns and mortars from the positions began to fire heavily at the charging Russian soldiers.

The leper hooked the trigger of the rifle, and a Russian soldier who was nearly 100 meters away had a bloody hole in his head and fell to the ground, being shot in the head by the leper head.

After that, the leper action was not very fast and fired 7 shots, and killed 6 Russian soldiers in the head, only 1 bullet was missed, and the leper quickly withdrew the rifle magazine and replaced it with a new one. The magazine of this Type 96 rifle is a double-row semi-leak type, and the only major disadvantage is that only when all 8 rounds of ammunition are used up, the magazine can be ejected and replaced with a new magazine.

After changing to a new magazine, 8 bullets exploded the heads of 8 Russian soldiers, and then the third magazine was quickly replaced by the leprosy, and 7 more Russian soldiers were mercilessly headshot. It can almost be called a gun-gun headshot, and there is no missing bullet.

Leper head has been hunting in the steppes and forests of Siberia since he was a child, and has cultivated a good marksmanship, and after joining the Dingbei Army, after professional training, his marksmanship has become more and more accurate. The marksmanship of the leper was famous throughout the 3rd Division.

When the leper was replaced with the fourth magazine, it was found that the first attack of the Russian army had been repulsed, and a layer of Russian corpses was laid in front of the position of the Dingbei Army. Next to the leper head was his squad leader, and when the squad leader saw that the Russian army was retreating, he immediately dragged the leper back to the anti-artillery hole in the platoon. I am afraid that the Russian artillery will take advantage of the retreat of the Russian infantry to take the opportunity to shell the positions of the Dingbei Army.

The squad leader breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there were no casualties among the soldiers in his squad, and then looked at the leper and said with a smile: "Leper, your marksmanship is really good, I watched by your side, almost a gun headshot!" You blew up a couple of old hairy heads. ”

The leper smiled innocently, scratched his hair and said, "I didn't kill a few, it seems that I killed 22 old hairy people." ”

After a year of living in the Northeast, coupled with his own language talent, ordinary dialogue is no longer a problem.

The squad leader said in surprise: "22! Oh my God, leper head, this is called not killing a few! How long has it been! Your squad leader, I may have killed 2 or 3 old hairymen. I don't think you will be called a leper in the future, but a headshot! ”

More than 30 officers and soldiers in the anti-artillery cave laughed out loud, and the platoon commander of the leper walked up to him, patted the leper on the shoulder and said: "Good job, leprosy, just fight like this, and when this battle is over, I will ask you for credit from above!" Maybe you can be recruited into the special forces brigade of the Guards Division! Haha, then you will be developed, and then you will be a second lieutenant with the same rank as me! ”

The soldiers in the special forces brigade can be described as the most elite soldiers in the entire Dingbei Army, each of them has unique skills, and the lowest soldier is the rank of second lieutenant.

The leper smiled honestly, he felt very comfortable in the company and the class, the commanders were very good to him, so that the leper who had lost his family and tribe felt the warmth of home, he regarded the company as his home, and he didn't want to leave here, hoping to stay in this company all the time is the best.

The platoon commander then said: "Leper head, be careful when fighting, I also hope that there will be a special soldier in my platoon!" ”

The leper nodded and said: "Platoon commander, don't worry, I want to avenge thousands of clansmen in our tribe, and if I don't kill enough 1,000 old Maozi, I won't die!" ”

The platoon commander, who knew the situation of the leprosy, patted the leprosy head on the shoulder vigorously.

Ivanov, the commander of the 6th Army, the commander of the 6th Army, who was responsible for attacking the city, saw that the 1st division of the 19th Army attacked for the first time and was repelled by the Dingbei Army very lightly, and was immediately very angry, and the dignified Russian Army not only fell into disadvantage in the artillery battle, this division sent at least half of its troops, and nearly 5,000 Russian troops launched a charge, but the attack took less than 5 minutes, and it completely retreated, which really damaged the prestige of the Russian Army.

Ivanov called the division commander of the 19th Army to the headquarters in the temporary command headquarters and reprimanded him fiercely, which made Chekryv, the commander of the Russian 19th Army sitting on the side, look very bad, and glared at Ivanov who was reprimanding people from time to time.

After Ivanov finished training the division commander, he said coldly to Chekryv: "The attack just now can be regarded as a tentative attack, and the following attack will be handed over to the 3 divisions of your 19th Army, I don't want to see the situation just now, don't embarrass our Russian army again!" ”

Chekryv, who is also a lieutenant general, snorted coldly and said: "I will take down the enemy's forward positions, and the commander will stay honestly at the command headquarters and wait for my good news." After saying that, he left the headquarters without looking back.

Ivanov looked at Chekryv's back, pouted and said to the other three commanders in the commander: "This arrogant Chekryv, after so many years, his temper has not changed at all. I hope he can take the forward position of the Dingbei Army, otherwise I will see what face he has to see me. ”

None of the other 3 division commanders spoke, they all knew that Ivanov and Chekryv were not against each other, and when they were young, they pursued a count's daughter at the same time, which made both of them almost have a life-and-death duel, and in the end, neither of them won the beauty, but the grudge was settled.

I don't know why the commander Kuropatkin let these two rivals come to Haktu City together.

The commander of the 12th Cavalry Corps, Mark Kosha Jinjian, said: "Commander, our cavalry does not need to bypass the enemy's frontal position, attack the flank position of the city, and contain the enemy's forces. ”

Ivanov thought for a moment and said: "Let's take a look at Chekriv's results first!" ”

In a hidden high place in the city, Ni Fantong saw that the first attack of the Russian army was repulsed, put down the telescope, and said to the commander of the 33rd Brigade beside him: "It seems that the Russian army's attack method is still to adopt an intensive group charge, our fortifications are well repaired, and I think it is difficult for the Russian army to break through the forward positions outside our city." ”

The brigade commander of the 33rd Brigade said with some concern: "The Russian army sees that it is very difficult to attack our position, and if it is not good, it will take a charge under artillery bombardment, I heard that this is a more commonly used attack method of the Russian army!" ”

The charge under artillery bombardment means that when the attacking force of the own side is close to the opponent's position, the artillery of the own side does not stop bombarding, and continues to fire at the opponent's position, although it will make the attacking force of the enemy suffer their own artillery fire, but it can achieve the purpose of increasing the number of casualties in the opponent's position and seize the opponent's position.

In many previous battlefields in Europe, the Russian army often used artillery bombardment to charge, regardless of casualties, to capture a piece of position, so that the name of the Russian steamroller spread in Europe. R1152