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Chapter 577 Strange Weapon
The place where the Pioneer Group chose to fight with the Tsarist Russian Far East Corps was on the bank of the birch forest ten miles east of Tomsk Castle. On the left was a swamp, on the right was a birch forest, and there was a dilapidated small village, only a dozen or so empty thatched cottage.

Busy soldiers were piling up fortifications, using shovels and shovels to dig up the soil, and then tamped it to form the fortifications.These soldiers have an orderly division of labor, some are repairing fortifications, some are on guard, and some are resting, living and cooking.

"You Kyushu Army use muskets, why don't you line up, what are you building these earthen walls for?" Batur followed Chen Xiaode and other officers of the Pioneering Regiment to inspect the Pioneering Regiment's positions, and found that the Pioneering Regiment seemed to be very keen on building fortifications.

Chen Xiaode smiled slightly, but did not answer Batur's question.

In the era of front-loading muskets, due to the lack of accuracy, range, and power of muskets, countries will generally use line tactics and use as dense a formation as possible to increase frontal firepower.The Zhungeer tribe led by Batur had just transitioned from the era of cold weapons to front-loading muskets, and naturally learned line tactics.However, just when they felt the shock brought by the matchlock gun, the Kyushu Army was already using the advanced generation of firearms and began to overshoot skirmish tactics.

"Our army has an advantage in the Zhungeer Basin. The Tsarist Russian army is eager to win. They will definitely find a way to eliminate our army, and then quickly enter the Jungar Basin to support their companions. So we have the initiative instead. We can pass Defense to wear down their will, and then beat them in one fell swoop." Chen Xiaode talked about the current situation of both sides to Batur.

"My lord, our command post has been properly set up, it's on the high ground in the birch forest." An officer of the frontier regiment who was in charge of setting up the defense came to report to Chen Xiaode.

"Let's go over and have a look." Chen Xiaode said to the crowd, "This area is low-lying, and there are few valuable highlands, so we can only make do with it."

The place where Chen Xiaode chose to deploy the command office is considered to be a rare highland in this flat area, and it is not too high to say the least, and he can barely observe the situation on the battlefield.

"The Pioneer Regiment will defend the frontal battlefield, and the Mobei Cavalry will divide troops to guard the left and right wings, leaving 1000 people as a reserve." Chen Xiaode simply arranged the troops. The frontal battlefield is mainly composed of reinforcements from the Pioneer Regiment and the First Corps.

Because Chen Xiaode did not think that the line infantry and cavalry of Tsarist Russia could break through the defense line he set up, so the depth set was not too deep.

"Batur, when the decisive battle begins, you stay here to watch our battle." Chen Xiaode turned his head and said to Batur.

"Chen Xiaode, the terrain here does have a wider field of view than other places, but there are no artillery deployed here, and there are no large numbers of troops stationed here. If the enemy sends troops to attack here, you and I will be taken away..." Batur looked Looking at this highland, there are only dozens of soldiers here and there.

There were only dozens of soldiers. If Batur was left here and attacked by the Tsarist Russian Corps, the entire command center would probably be wiped out.

"Ahem, deliberately exposing one's weaknesses is also a strategy." Chen Xiaode said pretentiously.

Batur's eyes lit up after hearing Chen Xiaode's words: "I understand, do you have other ambush soldiers? When the Tsarist Russian soldiers attack this high ground, the ambush soldiers will spread everywhere and wipe them out in one fell swoop!"

"No, we didn't have ambushes..." Chen Xiaode said, "As you can see, we have only so many soldiers."

"Then why..." Batur hesitated, wondering if the Kyushu army was playing with fire, and put themselves on the fire grill?
"At that time, we will send an additional brigade here to strengthen the defense of the headquarters." Chen Xiaode said.

"That's good, no, how many people do you have in a squadron?" Batur seemed to have thought of the establishment of the Kyushu Army. A regiment has 3000 people, and the infantry brigade below has about [-] people, and there are battalions, brigades, and squadrons below. , Squad.

"300 people, enough to guard this high ground." Chen Xiaode said.

"Not enough, not enough!" Batur protested, "300 people are only one-twentieth of all your troops here. With such a meager protection of the commander, it is easy to order the commander to be beheaded by the enemy. In the history books of the Han people, the Three Kingdoms The king of Wu was attacked by Wei general Zhang Liao in Xiaoyaojin, and his army of [-] was destroyed, you should take this as a warning!"

"We have only 6000 people here. If a large number of troops are used to protect us officers, the frontline combat power is insufficient. And how can the enemy take advantage of the tight defense?" Chen Xiaode said.

"But this place is too far away from the main force. I swear by my personality. If I were the commander-in-chief on the opposite side, I would definitely send a cavalry force of more than 2000 people to attack here!" Batur continued to argue and became angry, " 300 people can't defend at all, if something happens to the commander and the army's morale is in turmoil, they will collapse without fighting!"

"Batur, be safe and don't be impatient. If we are not sure of victory, it is impossible to take such an easy risk. What do you think this is?" Chen Xiaode pointed to dozens of large carriages approaching.

Below the high ground where Chen Xiaode and the others were, dozens of large carriages were being driven by the soldiers without haste, and the heavy carriages left ruts on the soil.There were more than a dozen large carriages pulling strange weapons on two wheels.

After these carriages arrived, the soldiers began to unload the ammunition on the carriages and place these weird weapons.

"What is this?" Batur walked to the side of the strange weapon and found that this weapon was very similar to the field artillery used by the Kyushu Army, especially the black cannon with a barrel similar to the artillery, but not as huge as the field artillery Instead, it has ten small holes like a lotus pod.

There is an iron plate on the top of the barrel, and two iron boxes on the bottom. Batur is really at a loss as to what is sacred about it.He swore he hadn't seen or heard of anything like it since he was born.

He touched the cold iron pipe and felt a chill, and his intuition told him that the power of this weird weapon was terrifying.

"This thing is the latest firearm developed by our Liaodong Ordnance Bureau. It is called a hand-cranked machine gun. With this thing, three hundred infantry can stop ten thousand cavalry. I hope they dare to take the initiative to attack our headquarters and let them be the We are a test product of a new type of weapon." Chen Xiaode patted the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun, which belongs to a weapon that has never appeared in this world, and was summoned by Chu Yun in this era and summoned talents He got it out in advance, and handed over the only dozen or so hand-cranked Gatling machine guns to the pioneer group.

(End of this chapter)