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Volume 4 Leviathan Chapter 37 First Battle

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    "The enemy is here!" Almost at the same time as the scream, Fuller's saber cut off the shouter's arm. This was the result of the opponent's instinctive blocking with his hands. Then Fuller urged his horse to hit him.  Falling down, heavy horse hoofs stepped on the opponent's chest, and blood and screams poured out of his mouth almost at the same time.  "Kill him, kill this Tatar!" The remaining rebels surrounded him angrily. One of them had already loaded a bullet and fired a shot at Fuller. Fuller instinctively tilted his head and shot  Feeling a burning sensation on his left shoulder, he roared angrily, slapped the horse's butt with his saber, and drove the horse over.  The rebel who fired the gun turned around and ran away, but Fuller slashed him in the back and threw him to the ground.  "Drive, kill!" At this time, the rest of the cavalry also rushed up, and immediately chopped down the remaining rebels to the ground, leaving only the last one alive. The cavalry tied his hands and feet and threw him into the ground.  On the back of the horse, he was brought to the leader, threw it on the ground and loudly reported: "Boss, we caught a alive man!" "Well!" The leader jumped off the horse and raised the prisoner's chin with his saber: "Say, Che Lin  Where are the rebels? "How many of you are there in the market town?" "Sir!" The rebel looked at the sharp saber in front of him and replied in a trembling voice: "Chelin Dorji is already here."  He escaped with his cavalry, leaving only forty or fifty people in the market town. I don¡¯t know about the others! "Please forgive me!" "Chelin Dorji fled with his cavalry.  ?" A puzzled look appeared on the leader's face. He twirled his beard and turned to Fuller: "Fuller, go back immediately and tell the Lord the news here." "Yes!" Fuller agreed.  He raised his hand, clamped the horse's belly violently, and drove the horse to gallop along the road it came from.  The leader looked at the retreating cavalry, suddenly pulled out his saber, cut off the prisoner's neck with one blow, raised the bloody saber and shouted loudly to his men who were waiting for orders: "As for us, rush into the market town now.  "Have fun!" "Have fun!" The momentum of the attack by more than a hundred cavalry was very shocking. A small group of rebel soldiers in the market town had just reacted. They relied on the houses on both sides of the street to resist the cavalry attack.  The leader of the Shun Army was very experienced. When he saw this, he asked half of the people to jump off their horses and shoot at the rebels. The remaining half of the people circled from outside the town to the rear of the rebels. Under attack from both sides, the rebels quickly put up resistance.  collapsed.  Most of them fell under the crossfire, and the rest fled in disgrace.  This kind of small-scale encounter would have been quickly forgotten, because this kind of thing is so common on the grassland.  However, due to the battle that occurred next, this encounter will be mentioned in many military textbooks, and it is used as an example to illustrate that even in the era of breech-loading guns, a capable and proactive cavalry can still  It has its place.  Twenty minutes after the encounter in Tulan Town, Major Sharif received news of the approaching Shun army, and he immediately made a decision.  First, he sent a battalion of infantry to move closer to the market town and drive the enemy's cavalry out of the market town.  At the same time, the main body of the rebels began to move towards the high ground on a branch overlooking the market town.  The rebel positions ranged from Chicken Head Hill on the left, along the highland ridge, to the "Dome" highland on the right.  On the ridge, Sharif established his own artillery position, from where rebel artillery fire could flank the enemy as they passed along the post road.  When they saw the rebel counterattack, the Xibo cavalry of the Shunjun army chose to retreat to avoid a meaningless battle. Before leaving, they set a fire to prevent this place from becoming a fortification held by the enemy.  Of course, these Xibo cavalrymen have more or less gadgets on their bodies, which are the trophies they got from the merchants in the town.  It was ten o'clock in the morning on June 17, 1886.  Sharif's rebels had already occupied the preset positions, and soon after, the rebel troops also spread out along the foothills of the highlands.  In order to wait for the heavy artillery troops behind, Gao Tingyu had to wait until two o'clock in the afternoon.  When the artillery units of the shun army arrived, the rebel strength on the highlands also increased, and there was even time to build parapets and trenches at important locations.  At 2:30 in the afternoon, Gao Tingyu finally decided to launch an attack. First, he launched a diversionary attack on Jitoushan on the left flank of the rebels, while his real target was the Dome Heights on the right.  Gao Tingyu planned to break through the opponent's right wing first, then rotate to the left, attack the rebels' central position, and finally outflank the rebels in a traditional way.  The Shun Army's attack on Dome Heights took about thirty minutes later than the attack on Jitoushan Heights. The attack began with an artillery bombardment. New cannons manufactured by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau fired shrapnel shells at the rebels.  On their position, the shock waves, projectiles and shrapnel generated by the explosion tore apart everything they encountered. If the rocks were concentrated, more fragments would be produced, greatly increasing the lethality of the artillery shells.  Although?The artillery fire from the Shun Army was fierce, but the casualties were very limited.  The reason is simple. Experienced Russian officers did not know that most of the rebel soldiers were on the back side of the ridgeline, and most of the shrapnel was blocked by the mountain itself.  However, the Shun army's diversionary attack on Jitoushan was effective. Sharif did not send more soldiers to reinforce the Xiaoyuanding high ground. The total number of rebels guarding the highlands did not exceed 600, but the Shun army they faced exceeded  Fifteen hundred people.  Yu Zhiheng squatted behind a low wall. Below him, groups of soldiers wearing gray or black uniforms were crossing a broken area, where many limestone rocks protruded from the ground and were white, as if many bones were scattered.  There, the locals nicknamed it "Skullland."  Under the sunlight, the bayonets on the rifles held by the Shun army soldiers reflected white light, which looked very impressive.  At this time, Yu Zhiheng suddenly remembered what the beautiful Russian officer said to him not long ago: "Yu, this is our rightmost position. I have placed you here. You must guard it. If  Once the Shun army passes here, they can attack the central position from behind, and then everything will be over. Do you understand? " "Master officer, unless I die here, no enemy will pass through here!" Yu  Zhiheng repeated in a low voice what he said in front of the Russian officer not long ago. Now he must use actions to fulfill his oath.  "Everyone, stand up and come to the low wall!" Yu Zhiheng turned around and shouted loudly. As he shouted, a soldier blew the horn, and groups of rebel soldiers stood up from behind the ridgeline. These  The ragged rebel soldiers lay down behind the low wall and began to use their various rifles to target the enemies who were climbing towards the ridgeline.  "Everyone take aim slowly. No one is allowed to shoot without my order!" Yu Zhiheng shouted loudly behind the soldiers. After months of training, he knew very well the impact of these rifles in the hands of the rebel soldiers.  Because of its power, he decided that it would be more effective to fire at a distance of about 80 to 100 meters.  At this time, the soldiers of the Shun Army had passed through the broken area, and their formation became orderly again, with sharp bayonets standing like a forest, and a flag embroidered with a white tiger fluttering in the wind.  Seeing this scene, Yu Zhiheng suddenly felt his throat being strangled by an invisible hand, and his breathing immediately became rapid.     boom!  At this moment, there was a sudden sound of gunfire, which seemed to be a signal. There was a sudden burst of gunfire on the high ground, and the white smoke emitted from the muzzle immediately blocked Yu Zhiheng's sight.  "Damn it, I haven't given the order yet, who fired the gun!" Yu Zhiheng roared angrily. He knew very well that he couldn't hit anything at this distance, and these escaped slaves who had just picked up their rifles not long ago were very slow to reload.  This wastes a valuable shooting opportunity.  "It's me, boss!" A weak voice came over. Yu Zhiheng turned around in the direction of the voice and saw an old man raising his right hand with a pale face, looking at him timidly: "Please  Forgive me, I was just too nervous, so¡ª¡ª" "Shut up, Tian Chao, you idiot!" Yu Zhiheng scolded angrily: "This is a battlefield, load your bullets quickly, I have to wait until you are alive to apologize.  And you idiots," Yu Zhiheng yelled at the other soldiers.  "Yes, boss!" The rebel soldiers on the highlands were busy loading bullets. Although the Russians provided Chelindorzi with 6,000 Russian-made rifles, less than half of these rifles were Berdan 1871 rifles (by  The famous American firearms expert and inventor Saigon Bodan made it in 1868 and was the standard equipment of the Russian army from 1869 to 1891). The rest are old-fashioned single-shot front-loading rifles that have been eliminated by the Russian army. Even these old-fashioned single-shot rifles.  Not all of these rebel infantry have muzzle-loading rifles. Many soldiers even use British brown bass muzzle-loading rifles and other older rifles. Naturally, these firearms cannot compete with the Tianjin machines used by the opposite army.  Compared with the imitation Mauser 1871 rifle produced by the Manufacturing Bureau.  At this time, the white smoke had gradually dissipated under the blow of the wind. Yu Zhiheng saw that the attacking troops of the Shun Army had advanced to a distance of only about two hundred meters from their own side. These troops were wearing gray woolen coats and black pointed hats.  , the infantrymen with white feathers on their hats walked forward slowly according to the rhythm of the drums. About forty meters behind them, there were seven or eight corpses lying scattered. This should be the corpse just now.  The result of a volley fired by the rebels. As a rifled rifle, the shooter's skills at this distance are not very good.  "Damn it, load the bullets quickly, hurry up!" Yu Zhiheng roared loudly, but his roar had the opposite effect. Almost all the rebel soldiers participated in the war for the first time. Under the terrifying pressure, many even  He couldn't even load the bullet, let alone aim and shoot.  At this moment, the marching drums on the hillside suddenly stopped. Before Yu Zhiheng could realize what was going on, a loud command sounded.    "Everyone is here, stand at attention - aim - shoot!" "Bang!"
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