On September 17th, in Dujigensk, the weather was so cloudy that it seemed like I couldn’t even breathe. For both the offensive and defensive sides, the battles in the past few days were painful and frustrating.
Unable to bear it, they both realized that the other was a powerful enemy that they had never encountered before, and it seemed impossible to defeat the other.
After two consecutive days of strong attacks, the fierce fighting suddenly became quiet. The cavalry on both sides retreated repeatedly, and there was no longer the bloody fighting in the past. Southeast of Dujigensk
There was a narrow river. At this time, there were not many cavalrymen on both sides standing on both sides of the river. However, at this time, they did not raise their sabers and charge towards each other for a life-and-death fight. Instead, they both reined in their horses and kept their posture.
The utmost restraint was to just look at the other person so solemnly without saying a word.
The weather changes all the time. Although it is cloudy, there are no dark clouds in the sky. But now, the sky is suddenly filled with black clouds, and there is no longer any light. The wind has also picked up, and the strong wind is blowing leaves flying all over the sky, covering the face.
The faces of the cavalry on both sides of the river were slapped hard, and the smell of blood spread on both sides of the river and under the city wall in the distance also blew to everyone's nose with the strong wind. Smelling the smell of death, the knights felt as if the scythe of death had begun to wave.
Countless lives will be lost in the upcoming battle.
On the left bank of the river are 260 Cossack cavalry, and on the right bank of the river are also more than 200 Guanning Army cavalry. The strength of the two sides is about the same, and no one dares to say that they can definitely defeat the other side, so they can only fight on the river.
In the cross-strait confrontation, we hope that the other side will feel our strong intention to persevere and retreat.
Behind the cavalry, one side is the Russian army protected by the city wall, and the other side is the Guan Ning army who has pitched their tent in the woods. Looking at the dark clouds in the sky and the cavalry on both sides of the river, the infantry on both sides felt the so-called
The Russian army in the city was okay. They were protected by tall city walls and had just repelled the opponent's attack. There was no worry about life and death hanging on a thread. They were all watching on tiptoe, feeling for the Cossacks in their hearts.
Cheer up and come on.
The soldiers of Guan Ning Army felt fear. In several days of siege battles, they climbed onto the opponent's city wall several times and were in sight of victory several times. However, they were often driven out at the critical moment by the opponent's ghosts and gods.
.【Xia Miee】Xia Miee killed nearly a thousand of his brothers, but gained nothing. This made the soldiers extremely depressed. Now, the other side has received reinforcements. They could have openly cursed and shouted under the opponent's city wall. Now
But we have to worry about the sudden arrival of the opponent's cavalry. Fortunately, the opponent's cavalry drove the two brigades back to the river like rabbits. If the cavalry had not arrived in time, a lot of brothers would have died.
Brothers of the cavalry, drive these Rakshasa ghosts back to the city! Looking at the cavalry standing still and listening to the neighing of the horses, the infantry of the Guan Ning Army protected them, hoping that their side could regain the initiative.
As if feeling this oppressive atmosphere, the always clear river water began to become turbid, and the vigilance cavalry placed around began to frequently come into contact with the opponent's outposts. Several chases broke out, but before the real battle broke out.
, the pursuers all chose to retreat with restraint. They always turned around and returned to the formation in time when they were two to three hundred meters away from the opponent's cavalry group, so as not to go deep enough alone and be dumped by the opponent.
In Dujigensk now, apart from the city's defenders and residents, there is not a single non-soldier outside the city. Long before Guan Ning's army arrived in Dujigensk, all the residents who learned about the situation from the fleeing tribesmen had already fled.
Entering the city, or fleeing further into the mountains and forests, they do not want to become victims of the war, let alone participate in this war. For them, whether it is the Guan Ning Army or the Rakshasa people, they will kill mountains of corpses.
It has nothing to do with them that the sea of blood is unstoppable. What they care about is whether the winner will just ask them to do hard labor and pay taxes as before, instead of killing them as animals like cattle and horses.
There is a high slope three miles behind the cavalry of the Guan Ning Army. There used to be several wooden houses of the Xibo people on the high slope, but now it has become the headquarters of the second infantry regiment that was ordered to attack Dujigensk. It has the largest room.
Inside, a temporary table was set up for the Xibo people to eat, with a simple copy of the map spread out on it. Captain Zuo Mingnan was marking the map, and from time to time he anxiously headed outside the house, or called the guards outside the house.
, asked him when reinforcements would arrive.
Outside the house, there were several bonfires burning, with an iron pot on top of them, boiling hot water. Next to the fire sat two officers with frowning faces and worried faces. One of them was the deputy commander.
Captain Qian Lin, the other is the infantry battalion captain Zhang Cheng. Zhang Cheng is from Sichuan. In his early years, he served as a guerrilla under Sichuan General Zhao Zhi. Later, when Wu Sangui started his army, he and Zhao Zhi responded to Wu Sangui. After the defeat, he was sent to
Outside the Pass. Speaking of which, Zhang Cheng has the highest official position in the Guan Ning Army and the old Wu Army, but it is only for those who are capable. For Zhao Qiang, the bodyguard of Wang Ping Fan, who has now become his own commander, Zhang Cheng is not dissatisfied or resentful, and
Like many former members of the Wu Army, Zhang Cheng is still very grateful to Zhao Qiang for being able to have what he has today.
"The request for help has been sent to Qi Qianhu and the division commander. Our reinforcements will arrive in two days." Qian Lin said softly while stirring the fire.
Zhang Cheng glanced into the room and whispered: "We suffered such a big defeat this time and lost so many brothers. If the division commander knew about it, I don't know how he would punish us. Alas" After speaking, he sighed and concluded,
He felt very aggrieved that the battle had ended like this.
Qian Lin felt unhappy after hearing his sigh. After receiving the order from the division commander, he and Zuo Mingnan led the troops of four brigades towards Dujigensk. Once they arrived at Dujigensk,
The Second Infantry Regiment quickly attacked the city. But what was unexpected was that the defenders in the city actually had eight artillery pieces. Under the attack of the artillery, the first attack was hastily withdrawn after leaving two hundred corpses. The next step was to
In the past few days, they had exhausted all methods, but they could never capture Dujigensk. The defenders in the city seemed to have endless cannons. Every time Guan Ning's army came, they fired from a distance.
One hit was enough. The brigade participating in the attack suffered heavy losses, so they had no choice but to stop the attack and think about other things. I thought that there were not many Rakshasa cavalry in Dujigensk, and some had been killed by the 2nd Cavalry Regiment earlier, so
The remaining few dare not leave the city to fight, and the roads have been cut off for a long time. The city has contacted the Rakshasa strongholds in other places, and there will definitely be no reinforcements. Therefore, although they cannot break the city, Qian Lin and the others are not worried about being attacked.
The Rakshasa people attacked. However, what they did not expect was that yesterday evening, a group of Rakshasa reinforcements suddenly came from the northwest. The opponent had more than 300 cavalry, more than 400 musketeers, and hundreds of Evenki.
The puppet army did not expect that Rakshasa reinforcements would come, so they arranged only one team of troops in the northwest. As a result, under the attack of the opponent's cavalry, this team was completely wiped out, and nearly a thousand Rakshasa reinforcements were left like this.
They swaggered into Dujigensk. Today, the cavalry came out of the city to harass the 2nd Infantry Regiment. If it hadn't been for a team of the 1st Cavalry Regiment that bumped into Dujigensk while arresting several small tribes and stopped them in time.
Rakshasa Cavalry and the Second Infantry Regiment may suffer even greater losses.
"The Rakshasa people in the city have cannons and reinforcements. Two of our four brigades have been reduced. The remaining thousand people will definitely not be able to get in. Now we can only protect ourselves. Qian Qianhu, have you noticed?
It seems that the Rakshasa people in the city were not prepared for the arrival of the reinforcements?" Zhang Cheng suddenly thought of something, that is, when the Rakshasa reinforcements arrived at Dujigensk City, the Rakshasa people in the city almost
They regarded them as enemies. It can be seen that the Rakshasa people in the city did not expect reinforcements to arrive.
When Qian Lin heard this, his heart moved and he lost his voice: "You mean that the news of our attack on Dujigensk has spread, and now the Rakshasa people are mobilizing troops to support here?"
Zhang Cheng nodded: "That's probably true. Otherwise, the Rakshasa soldiers don't have many soldiers. They must have mobilized so many reinforcements from several places. Otherwise, why would there be so many Rakshasa soldiers around here at once?"
Come."
"If this is the case, it will be a bit troublesome." Qian Lin said a little worried: "The division commander is attacking Udisk and Tugursk. They will definitely not be able to send troops to reinforce us for a while. Qian Qian
We only have more than a thousand cavalry on hand, and we have no troops to send to us for the time being. If the Rakshasa people come to help in large numbers, won't we be driven back to Ergun by them? If one of them is not good, we can't say that the Second Infantry Regiment
The team was eaten by them."
Qian Lin's worries were also Zhang Cheng's worries. After thinking about it, he thought it would be better for him to talk to the captain about the situation so that he could quickly come up with a solution. He immediately pulled Qian Lin into the house.