The fact that the Chief of General Staff is personally in charge will definitely stabilize the morale of the military.

Shi Dewei was not a nobody. The only ones who could fight Li Xiao's Liao army were Shi Dewei's troops.

If Shi Kefa hadn't defected before the battle, the original operation to capture Nanjing would have been much more difficult.

In order to give Shi Kefa some confidence, Li Xiao allocated him a special force.

Six hundred students from Jinzhou Sniper School!

The Ming Dynasty was in full swing planning the defense battle for Tsaritsyn, and trains were continuously transporting materials, personnel, and weapons one car after another to Tsaritsyn.

The Russians once again proved the power of the Ming Dynasty. Only the Ming Empire in the world could dispatch 300 large airships to transport supplies at one time.

But Li Yuan, who was at the front, couldn't feel this power.

"Shh...!" In the darkness, Li Yuan put his hand on his lips and made a shushing gesture to the people behind him.

While evacuating from Karkov, their tractor broke down halfway.

They had no choice but to blow up the tractor and use their own legs to walk on the muddy and cold ground and retreat to Tsaritsyn, more than 500 kilometers away.

Fortunately, there was some food and ammunition on the tractor, which kept them from going hungry for three to five days.

However, a distance of more than 500 kilometers can never be covered in three to five days by relying on legs.

There were only twenty-three men left, half of whom were wounded.

A few of them had to be helped to walk. Fortunately, none of them needed to be carried on a stretcher.

It was getting dark, and the mud on the ground began to freeze.

It's freezing cold!

Li Yuan felt that his hands and feet were numb from the cold!

There is a village ahead, and occasionally you can hear dogs barking.

Li Yuan looked through the telescope. It was too dark and he could only see some lights as big as broad beans.

Except for some people in Kiev who have access to electricity, other cities in Ukraine have no electricity at all.

Not to mention such a remote rural area!

Moreover, Ukrainians do not have the habit of using lanterns. Especially this kind of glass lantern!

Glass is so expensive, why would it be used in lanterns?

The one who can use these things must be the French army.

Li Yuan glanced at his tired and hungry men and thought it would be a good idea to go around them.

"Company Commander! Company Commander!" Bayan stabbed Li Yuan in the back from behind.

"Don't make a sound!" Li Yuan glanced at Bayan angrily.

"horse!"

Regardless of Li Yuan's anger, Bayan still said one word.

"What kind of horse?" Li Yuan looked at Bayan in confusion.

"There are more than one horses in the village." Bayan tried to lower his voice.

"Horse? Why didn't I see it?" Li Yuan's eyes suddenly widened.

"I heard the sound of horses and smelled horses."

Li Yuan sniffed like a dog: "Why didn't I smell it?"

"You are not a Mongolian."

"...!" Li Yuan couldn't refute this time.

"Company commander, let's fight. Without horses, we can't get back alive! We'll freeze to death!"

To the Mongolians, horses mean everything.

The temptation of horses is unparalleled to the Mongols.

It's hundreds of kilometers away from here to Tsaritsyn, and it's definitely impossible to walk back with just your legs.

Not only that, they don't have enough food.

"Did you hear clearly?" Although he couldn't believe it, Li Yuan still asked.

"Listen clearly, there is more than one. It must be dozens of horses anyway." Bayan said firmly.

"How many dozens? How many are they? Twenty? Thirty?"

"I can't tell, but it must be more than twenty horses." Bayan answered with the same certainty.

Since there are more than twenty horses, it will be much easier to handle.

There are only twenty-three of his men left in total.

With each person having a horse, the chance of returning to Tsaritsyn is greatly increased.

"Stay the injured ones, and the rest will follow me into the village." Li Yuan decided to fight for these horses.

It was very dark inside the village, so Li Yuan tiptoed outside the courtyard where the lanterns were hung.

It was very noisy in the house, but it was certainly not Ukrainian.

A woman's screams could be heard, and there were shadows of people outside the window.

Li Yuan and Bayan looked at each other. It was probably that the Frenchman was having sex with a Ukrainian woman inside.

In addition to the Ming Dynasty's army, this kind of thing is very common in the armies of other countries.

Their officers seemed to turn a blind eye to such things, believing that this was an indispensable adjustment in the war.

Li Yuan carefully leaned under the courtyard wall. The dogs in the courtyard kept barking.

"Bang"

The door was forced open, and a blond woman stumbled out.

Under the dim light, it can be seen that the blonde woman is not wearing any clothes and is completely naked.

The snow-white buttocks were illuminated golden yellow by the light.

Faintly, you can even see golden hair.

A group of French soldiers ran out laughing, two of them were shirtless and wearing shorts, and one was even naked.

God!

It's such a cold weather to run outside naked.

Li Yuan, who was almost freezing to death, maintained deep respect for these two guys.

A Ukrainian man followed behind, mumbling something with a painful expression on his face.

A French soldier took out something and stuffed it into the woman's private parts!

All the French soldiers dispersed in a hurry, but they didn't run very far, like a group of children watching the fireworks that were about to be lit.

The woman tried hard to pull it out under her body, but she couldn't take it out because of the angle.

The fire came out of the woman's lower body, and the woman's howling sound sounded like that of a bobcat whose tail had been chopped off.

The flames quickly burned through her belly and her entire body began to burn.

The burning man was howling wildly in the yard, jumping and running.

The French soldiers were surrounding her five or six meters away, clapping their hands, laughing, and whistling.

The Ukrainian man knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

Li Yuan knew that this was an incendiary bomb made in France.

Specially designed to deal with bunkers and bunkers, this thing is about the same size as a grenade, but it is still a bit difficult to stuff it into a woman's lower body.

While the French were laughing and shouting.

Li Yuan waved his hand, and he and his twelve men jumped into the yard.

Holding a rifle with a bayonet, he pounced on the French soldiers like a hungry wolf.

When the French came out, they were not armed at all.

In the darkness, it was too late to notice the Ming soldiers rushing over.

There were constant sounds of "pop" and "pop" as the bayonet penetrated the body.

Some were so quick that they wanted to run, but they encountered Bayan coming with people outflanking him.

With one bayonet blow, eight French soldiers in the yard were killed.

Eight people are exactly the number of people in a French class.

The Ukrainian man who was kneeling on the ground crying just now jumped up from the ground when he saw someone coming to help.

He found an ax from nowhere and split open a French soldier's head.
To be continued...