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Chapter 578

Boom boom boom!The sound of war drums sounded, and the soldiers of the frontier regiment entered the position holding muskets, and the atmosphere became tense.The war horse was kicking its hooves, and the restless knight looked towards the direction where the war drum sounded.On the western horizon, there is a black line that changes from thin to thick. Groups of Tsarist Russian soldiers swept from the west and stopped in front of the frontier regiment's position.

Grand Duke Dolgoluki, Yakovlev, Xinla and others boarded the hillside they had chosen as the command post, and were spying on the deployment of the Allied Forces of the Frontier Regiment.The aged Grand Duke Dolgoluki held a brass telescope in his hand, and looked through the telescope with a serious face.

"What is the origin of this Eastern Army? It's unimaginable that many fortifications have been built on the ground." Grand Duke Dolgoluki put down his binoculars and said with emotion.

"Yes, according to intelligence, it was a low-lying flat land a few days ago. It seems that they are ready to hold on." Yakovlev looked at the solid defense line opposite, and couldn't help but feel his head hurt.

Originally thought that the two sides could line up and shoot here, but now it has become a tough battle depending on the situation.This kind of difference is quite big, and when it comes to the situation of attacking the fortifications, no one wants to think about it.

"My lord, look at the hillside next to the birch forest." A Tsarist Russian general was also observing with a monocular, and he was pleasantly surprised to find a flaw on the opposite side.

Grand Duke Dolgoluki looked at the hillside next to the birch forest with a telescope in doubt, and saw some faint and sparse figures there.If ordinary people saw such a scene, they would just feel that the Allied Forces of the Frontier Regiment had deployed a small number of troops there.But in the eyes of veteran generals such as Grand Duke Dolgoluki, such terrain is likely to be an ideal place for enemy generals to observe and command battles.

"If the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army is on that high ground, I would like to lead my troops to meet him and see what the commander-in-chief who dares to fight with our 2 people here looks like." Yakovlev said.

"Yakovlev, get ready to raid that high ground. When our main force attacks their position, when all their attention is focused on the front line, you lead the most elite soldiers to take it there, in one fell swoop. Destroy their brains." Grand Duke Dolgoluki saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, so he couldn't help thinking of sneak attacking the enemy's command post.

"If they can capture their command post, then the army on the opposite side will collapse without fighting." Yakovlev also has no objection to this plan, because winning a tough battle at a relatively small cost will be included in textbooks classic case.

"After the battalions are ready, let's attack the positions guarded by the Eastern Army." Grand Duke Dolgoluki said.

After a brief preparation, the Tsarist Russian Far Eastern Corps began to push the artillery, forming a line and pressing towards the frontier regiment's position.

"Bombardment!" The gunner standing upright gave an order, and the gunner manipulated the artillery to block the attacking Tsarist Russian Far Eastern Corps!

The muzzles of twenty or thirty guns roared one after another, white smoke billowed, and the strong recoil made the ground slightly sunken!A round of solid shells swept straight into the Tsarist Russian army!

The Tsarist Russian soldier at the front of the queue hadn't reacted yet, a terrifying shell shot through his whole body, and the inertia dragged him into the back of his companions!The front three lines were penetrated by shells, revealing gaps!
"The artillery counterattack!" The Russian general who commanded the vanguard to attack held up his command knife, urging his own artillery to counterattack.

"You haven't entered the range yet, how can you fight back!" The artillery general shouted, he was also very desperate. Before his artillery could enter the range, the artillery on the opposite side began to shell.

This situation is not as simple as taking the initiative to be bombarded, and if the shell luckily hits the gunpowder carried by the Tsarist Russian artillery, the explosion will cause huge casualties to the nearby Tsarist Russian infantry.

"Keep going!" The Tsarist general had no choice but to command the infantry to forcibly press up, and use dense muskets to gain a firepower advantage after getting close!

When the Tsarist Russian army got closer, the infantry of the pioneer regiment began to shoot with Dreiser rifles.The battlefield was full of flames, and the sound of gunshots was everywhere.

"The artillery began to counterattack!!" After paying a certain price, the Tsarist Russian artillery was finally able to hit the fortifications built by the pioneer group.

A round of shells flew out of the formation of the Tsarist-Russian coalition forces. The terrible shells pierced through or collapsed some temporarily piled up stone walls, and the dust splashed everywhere, which affected the sight of the soldiers to a certain extent.

"Our artillery is finally useful!" A Tsarist Russian officer who was advancing at the forefront could not help complaining and excited when he saw the arc flying over his head and burst in the frontier regiment's position, causing the pioneer regiment to suffer casualties.

Under the shelling of the Pioneering Regiment, the frontline infantry was under the greatest pressure. Hundreds of people had already died from the shelling of the Pioneering Regiment, and several gaps had been punched into the neat line formation. What was more serious was the impact on the morale of the troops. If they can passively be bombarded, the trained line soldiers may also disperse.

Suddenly a stray bullet from the Pioneer Regiment's position pierced the Tsarist Russian officer's chest, and he fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.The Tsarist Russian soldiers on both sides had no time to care about whether their chief had been killed. Driven by the formation of the line, they could only continue to attack passively, and their companions fell from time to time.

There were stray bullets flying out of the frontier regiment's position, and they had already begun to snipe Tsarist Russian soldiers with rifles.The Tsarist Russian soldiers were dumbfounded again. Their artillery had just met the artillery of the Pioneer Regiment, but this time the infantry was weak!The range of the muskets used by the Tsarist Russian soldiers was not as good as that of the soldiers of the Frontier Regiment, so they could only watch helplessly as the soldiers of the Frontier Regiment used rifles to form a death blockade.

If the artillery is mainly used to shock the morale of the army and destroy the formation, then the muskets used by the soldiers of the frontier regiment are really sharp weapons for harvesting heads.After the Tsarist Russian soldiers entered the shooting range of the frontier regiment's muskets, the number of casualties rose sharply!

Grand Duke Dolgoluki, Yakovlev, Cossack Commander Xinla and others saw that the [-] soldiers who took the lead in attacking the frontier regiment suffered heavy casualties. Such a tragedy, the weapon was completely suppressed in range!
"General Xinla, you send 3000 Cossack cavalry, and I send [-] dragoon cavalry. Together, we send [-] troops to attack the command post of the suspected Eastern Army. Grand Duke Dolgoluki, send additional troops to attack the Eastern Army's position." Be sure to hold them back and not give them a chance to support the commander." Yakovlev couldn't bear to see the heavy losses of the soldiers, and planned to attack the command structure of the pioneer regiment in advance.

(End of this chapter)