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Chapter 255 The Battle of Hailanpao (2)
At night, it was pitch black, and the heat of the day turned into an extraordinarily peaceful night. There was not a trace of white cloud in the sky, and the earth was thickly covered with darkness. Hailanpao hadn't calmed down yet. Facing China's forward positions.

Tang Yulin, commander of the 54th Brigade under Zhang Zuolin, led a battalion of soldiers, lying on the sand and walking slowly one after another, closely watching the movement on the pass.A few Russian soldiers with big noses walked back and forth at the pass, chatting with each other with ease from time to time.Tang Yulin was very depressed at this time, because he didn't get the order from his superiors, otherwise he really wanted to rush up and shoot those people now.He urged his men to quickly bury the explosives under the pass.In order to break through the pass this time, Tang Yulin was asked to bring more explosives and open the city gate as quickly as possible to occupy Hailanpao's outpost pass.

"Who is that! It's not good, the Chinese are going to sneak attack!" A Russian patrol team first discovered Tang Yulin's troops, and then the Russian three-line rifles fired like popping beans and shot down the pass together.Although Tang Yulin and his officers and soldiers were careful, they were discovered by the highly vigilant Russians.He immediately ordered his subordinates to line up in a horizontal line and lean close to the corner. The feeling of being shot randomly and not daring to fight back is really uncomfortable.

As soon as Babkov received the news, he immediately ordered the general mobilization of all the troops. All the garrison officers and soldiers went to the city wall to prepare for battle. He also sent a company of troops to burn the fire in a cauldron and boil the oil. Once the enemy attacked with ladders, If so, prepare to pour oil on it, and burn the enemy's ladder by the way.The artillery on the pass was also ready early, and even the artillery was loaded, waiting for orders at any time.

Seeing that Tang Yulin's troops who were attacking under the city were in danger, Zhang Zuolin immediately ordered two artillery regiments to be dispatched, ten large-caliber cannons, seven flat-firing guns, fourteen howitzers, and several mortars spouting flames together, covering the entire land. The guards on the pass were blown to fragments, and as the impact point advanced, the weak pass was blown to pieces. Some shells landed in the pass, and the artillery fire ignited the Russian camp. Rising ragingly, the unstoppable trend spread rapidly.Shouts, screams, and gunfire all joined together, and Babkov was a little scared, but this was not the time for timidity. He yelled at the still stupid artillerymen, "Fire!"

The well-preserved cannons on the city wall resisted weakly and hit the marching Chinese army from time to time, but this did not affect their speed.Soon the first two battalions charging past had entered the range of their rifles. They raised their German-made Type 95 Mauser rifles and aimed them at the pass and fired a burst of fire.Majikov, the Russian adjutant who was in charge of the command at the pass, shouted: "Shoot me. Don't let them approach the city wall!" Shooting back and forth on the wall, some people were shot to the ground from time to time, and some Russian troops came from the pass He fell from the ground and fell into the Chinese army, causing a wave of people.

"Mom Scarlet, did Big Tang's head bury the explosives? If it drags on, I'll have to explain to my subordinates here." Zhang Zuolin has a fiery temper, not to mention watching his soldiers fall down row by row, I was angry and anxious.

On the one hand, Tang Yulin and his sneak attacking troops had to avoid the bullets constantly shooting down from the pass, and on the other hand, they had to organize engineers to dig deep pits in the corners. With hundreds of kilograms of explosives, if a bullet with no eyes hits the explosives, it will be a big trouble.

"Dig quickly, he works like an old woman, don't forget that this is desperate! I have issued a military order to the division commander. If we can't complete the task, none of us want to go back alive." Tang Yulin urged, while pulling out the The brand-new German large mirror, when you draw your hand out to face the enemy soldiers on the pass, there is a shuttle of bullets, almost a bullet hit, and the bullets never fail.

"Report to the brigade commander, the tunnel has been dug." An engineer said.

"If you can't wait to report a fart, quickly bury the explosives." Tang Yulin's eyes were red.

After a while, all the explosives were buried. As soon as the fuze was ignited, Tang Yulin waved to his brothers: "Quick retreat!" These people went along the pass to a safer area on the left.

Just when Adjutant Majikov and others were desperately defending the city, a loud explosion sounded from the city gate, and the entire earthen city wall was raised by a section, and then collapsed.The guards at the pass were sent flying into the sky by the huge shock wave generated by the explosion.Markikov's eyes went dark, and he fainted on the spot. If the guards hadn't moved him to a safe place in time, he might have seen God right now.

Like the wind, the Chinese soldiers charging outside the pass rushed through the collapsed pass, stepping on the ruins of the city wall and the corpses of Russian soldiers pouring in like a tide.The Chinese and Russian armies engaged in brutal close combat in the pass formed by two mountain ridges.Both sides are looking for a powerful shooting point. Fortunately, the military uniforms of the two sides are completely different, so that there will be no cannibalism. If they are far away, they will shoot with guns, and when they are close, they will use bayonets.Facing the ferocious Chinese soldiers, Admiral Babkov had no good way to defend at all, and the Russian army in the pass was completely unable to fight back after being beaten by the Chinese.From time to time, someone rushed towards the Chinese army wielding a saber from behind the rock bunker, and was beaten into a sieve before they reached the front.

This pass was originally built temporarily. Although the depth inside is relatively narrow and long, it lacks the protection of bunkers. Zhang Zuolin divided the two divisions responsible for the attack into several small combat units, including engineers, infantry, cavalry, and bombardiers. The various combat units cooperated closely to form a larger combat group, advancing layer by layer, suppressing the Russian army everywhere.Moreover, due to the adoption of more Western-style training methods in recent years, the individual combat strength of Chinese soldiers has been greatly enhanced, and the ability of self-protection and coordinated operations has been greatly improved.In front of such an army, the Russians can only sigh.Seeing that the situation was over, Babkov and his adjutant Majikov fled into the city of Hailanpao with the remnants of their defeated generals.

The battle lasted from 9 o'clock in the evening to the early morning of the next day, annihilating more than 5000 Russian troops, capturing more than [-] people, and obtaining countless Russian mobile artillery fire and three-line rifles.After the battle, only the broken bricks and the enemy's corpses remained in the pass. The speed and efficiency of the Chinese army's attack was astonishing.

"Master, what should we do with the captured Russians?" Zhang Kai, the chief of the combat department, asked Zhang Zuolin for instructions.

"Damn the scar, the big nose killed so many Chinese, and now they have to pay with their blood. Gather all these captives in the pass, shoot them to death, and leave no one alive." Zhang Zuolin held the command knife Said eeriely.

"Yes!"

A burst of gunfire resounded through the valley, and more than 5000 undead were imprisoned here forever.

(End of this chapter)