Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Boom boom boom.

The rumbling artillery fire opened up the barren land on the Central Asian Plain.

On the steppe belt of the Eurasian continent, in this area, wars have almost run through for thousands of years.

All the powers that you sing and I appear on the stage will fight in this area.

And now.

More powerful weapons brought power that made the entire grassland tremble.

This is the barbarism born of civilization.

This is the sad song of nomadic tribes.

In the distance of the battlefield, there were scouts from the Kazakh Khanate roaming around. They opened their mouths wide open and looked at the battlefield engulfed in flames, and the shock on their faces could not be concealed.

Many people know.

The era of the steppe warrior with adept bow and horse was over.

Either the Chinese win, or the Russians win.

The tribes on the grasslands will be forced to submit to these world-renowned barbaric forces.

And now it looks.

It is the Chinese who will win.

Dozens of howitzers are constantly swallowing flames.

The Chinese gunners had already taken off their shirts, shirtless, and pushed a round of grenades into the barrel, and then fired the deadly shell.

The infantry of the Ming army was also ready for the final assault at this time.

Infantry are organized into companies.

Formed a skirmish assault group one by one, the shouters charged towards the Russian trenches ahead.

The three barbed wire fences have been broken through by the forwards of the Ming army.

Now there are only a few trenches that can stop the infantry of the Ming army from advancing.

The officers of the Ming army held a command knife in one hand and a revolver in the other, led their soldiers, opened the way with grenades, and rushed into the trenches of the Russian army.

The Russian army launched a desperate resistance.

Holding a bayonet-mounted rifle and braving dense pistol bullets, he rushed to the Ming army and fought fiercely with them.

Such hand-to-hand combat did not last long.

Human beings have limited physical capabilities.

After about ten minutes, on most of the battlefields, the infantry of the Ming army was able to take the positions and plant the sun and moon flags on the positions.

However, some of the wrongdoers who suffered heavy losses retreated, but even so, the follow-up Ming army assault group would immediately step up to prevent the Russian army from counterattacking.

The short combat between the two sides revolved around the defensive positions of the Russian army.

The Ming army fought hard to attack.

The Russian army did not retreat.

They actually have no way out.

Great battles are breaking out on their various fronts, and they have gradually been divided from each other.

And their counterattack didn't work.

No matter what method they use.

Skirmishers, horizontal formations, columns, and square formations.

In the face of the absolute superiority of the firepower of the Ming army.

The Russians who are not afraid of death can't break through at all.

They lost a lot.

The commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Musayev, watched helplessly as the forward position was turned into a pot of porridge.

An expected war in which the Russian army relied on superior fortifications to cause huge damage to the Ming army did not appear.

On the contrary, the Chinese used new weapons and new tactics to gain an absolute advantage on the battlefield with far fewer numbers than the Russian army.

It has been three days since the Ming army began to attack!

these three days.

The fighting didn't stop for almost a moment.

The Ming army took turns to attack, while the Russian army could only fight desperately on all fronts!

Even if there are more of them, the opponent's firepower is too strong. In order to offset the opponent's superior firepower, they must gather more people.

This caused the Ming army to attack in three shifts.

Most of the soldiers on the Russian side have not closed their eyes for several days.

After days of fierce fighting, the Russian army fell into extreme exhaustion.

Although the Russian army is still maintaining its basic front, the casualties are too great!
The Ming army lasted for three days, under almost uninterrupted shelling.

The death toll of the Russian army has exceeded 1!

A temporary field hospital not far from Musayev's command post.

Soldiers with limbs broken by bombs can be seen everywhere.

In addition to tying the aorta with a rope to prevent further bleeding.

They don't actually get any medical assistance.

Let alone here, even if they are in Moscow now, most of them will die in pain.

The doctors are vainly disinfecting the wounded with alcohol and the like.

Priests are doing their last prayers and consolations.

Because of Zhu Daohua's contribution.

The medical treatment of this era is much more advanced than that of another time and space.

European armies have imitated the Ming army and established a basic battlefield first aid system, as well as the basic antibacterial drug allicin, and the concept of disinfection with alcohol.

These things have saved at least 10,000+ lives.

And in those battles in Europe where 10,000+ troops gathered, there were no epidemics such as plague and cholera, which was also due to Zhu Daohua's promotion of medical progress.

However, for Russia.

First of all, their economic strength cannot allow them to buy a large amount of allicin produced in Guangdong. Although imitations have appeared in Europe, they are not affordable by Russia on a large scale.

As for the battlefield rescue system.

It is also completely inferior to the Ming army on the opposite side.

It is also inferior to countries such as Britain and France.

So a large number of wounded can only cry, and now most people no longer count on God.

A young soldier murmured for his mother.

When he was dying, he smiled involuntarily as if he was lying in his mother's warm embrace.

Pain can make people hallucinate.

But some people can die.

Those who are still alive will suffer more.

Desperation spread among the Russian army.

All Russian soldiers believed.

This is where they are buried.

Musayev closed his eyes in pain.

Then he turned and walked into his command post.

As soon as he opened the curtain and went in, he heard a heated argument.

The argument was so heated that even Musayev saw the two officers confronting each other with swords drawn.

"We can't wait here to die! We want to break out! Break out!!!"

"Where is the breakout? Where can we go?"

"We're going back to Europe! Damn, we Russia is a European country! Asia shouldn't be where we came from!"

"Lost! The war has been lost! Continuing to fight will only cause unnecessary casualties! We still have more than 2 Russian soldiers here, and their lives should not continue to be consumed in this doomed war!"

"You are surrendering!"

"No! I'm saving my vitality for the empire! Daming is an opponent we can't beat! We shouldn't look east!!"

"Don't look at the east? Have you forgotten the double-headed eagle on the national emblem?"

"The Rome of the double-headed eagle is just coveting Asia Minor. Can Rome defeat the contemporary Han Dynasty?"

The extremely fierce debate made the atmosphere in the command post a bit tense.

Those who advocate breaking out of the siege, and those who fight to the death to the end, have it all.

But no one advocated surrender—because everyone is a smart person and knows that surrender must be death.

Because it is impossible for the Ming army on the opposite side to consume its own military rations to support tens of thousands of Russians.

A cheaper way is to reward every Russian soldier with a bullet.
A fight to the death or a breakout, Musayev
"...Let's break through, we've already lost, and it doesn't make any sense to continue fighting. Even according to the most optimistic estimate, the opponent's casualties are only 40.00% of ours! But you and I both know that the opponent's casualties are likely to be less than our army's. 20.00%! Five to one ratio! Gentlemen, we are going to exchange the lives of five Russian soldiers for one ex-Qing soldier who was deported to the border by the Chinese emperor! Is it worth it? Does it make sense?"

Speaking was Major General Holcart, commander of the 12th Army.

He is a veteran of the Russian Empire.

He has fought for the empire for more than 30 years.

His gray hair is a testament to his extensive resume.

It's just that at this moment, the eyes of the czar's loyal wolfhound are full of grayness.

His spirit was on the verge of collapse.

The exhaustion from not closing my eyes for three days hit me.

At the same time, there was also the psychological impact brought about by the huge casualty exchange ratio, which made the veteran almost unable to hold on.

Now he is just holding on to work.

he knows.

The Russian Empire is over—not that it will perish, but the ambition of the empire to dominate no longer exists. Although the territory in Asia is not as valuable as that in Europe, it is basically frozen soil.

But the fur trade in Siberia, the colonial plunder of Central Asia, and the trade with China have always been important supplements to the Russian Empire's finances—otherwise, how much tax can be collected on the land cultivated by serfs on the Eastern European Plains? .

After losing Siberia, the tsar may have to compromise with the big landowners in the country. At that time, there will be no tsar with absolute authority in the Russian Empire, and it will become a loose feudal country.

This is the impact of the loss of the Asian territory on the political system of the Russian Empire. Holcart does not dare to guess what the weakening of the tsar's power will bring to the entire empire.

But now there is another acute problem that the Russian Empire cannot solve.

As an elite officer of the Russian Army, how could he fail to see the crisis in Russia as a whole!
The mode of war has undergone earth-shaking changes!
Under the bombardment of howitzers and the super high rate of fire of the rear-loading guns, the number advantage of the Tsar's gray cattle is no longer an advantage! !
The Russians can't win wars with bayonets, Russia doesn't have breech-loading guns, and it doesn't have much explosives!
And these things do not need tens of millions of serfs.

But industry!

Need millions of industrial workers and a lot of factories!
these things.

Is it something that the Russian Empire can have?

"Now we can only break through the siege! We need to break through!" Several senior military officers also spoke out in favor of breaking out and escaping.

"The Ming army did not deploy defenses on the other side of the Syr Darya, we can retreat at night under the cover of darkness!"

"These Chinese have been attacking for three days in a row, they must be tired too, they can't chase far!!"

At this time, Musayev knew that he had to come forward.

Breaking out will kill most of the Russian soldiers.

"The Chinese are just waiting for us to break through! Their purpose of not deploying defenses on the other side is to give us an illusion that we can break through. There is a saying in the Chinese art of war that "surround three sides and let go of one side." Musayev said coldly Said, "The Ming army has tens of thousands of horses, and each of their soldiers has at least two horses, and their mobility far exceeds ours! So we can't go far at all..."

"Those who can go far... We still have [-] Cossack cavalry intact. The maneuvering speed is not lower than that of the Ming cavalry!"

A Russian cavalry general in the headquarters proposed the only possible breakout plan.

Abandon the infantry and take away only [-] Cossack cavalry!
Musayev looked at the man with a dark face and said in a deep voice, "Abandoning more than 1 infantrymen, do you want me to go to court-martial?"

"A court-martial? Your Excellency, do you think going to a court-martial is the most terrible thing? A court-martial will deprive you of your military rank at most. Send you home. But if you leave all the main forces of the Russian Empire in Central Asia in Syr By the river, then what strength should we use to defend the West Kazakh grassland and West Siberia?"

Musayev was stunned when he heard this.

What the officer said also made sense.

There are 2 Cossack cavalry, plus the Russian defenders on the fortresses in Central Asia and West Siberia, then Russia still has at least [-] soldiers to protect West Siberia!

"If we can keep 10000 cavalry, then we can at least use Orenburg as our base camp and continue to circle with the Ming army on the Kazakh grassland!"

exclaimed the officer!

"If we have [-] troops in hand, and then coerce the Kazakhs to submit to us and deal with the Chinese, at least we will keep the land west of the Yenisei River!"

After hearing this analysis, everyone in the headquarters turned their attention to Musayev.

The decision to abandon more than 1 infantry may not have been made by them. They do not need to take responsibility. It is Musayev who takes responsibility, but although most of them are not cavalry officers, as senior officers, they also have horses. At least Life can be saved.

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Musayev was silent. After a long time, he raised his head and looked at the officers who were looking forward to him, with a wry smile on his face: "You are right, the Russian Empire needs these [-] cavalry, but as Commander, I will not abandon my subordinates, I have made a decision now, [-] cavalry will cross the Syr Darya tonight to break out to the west, and I will stay in command after the end, so...is there anyone willing to join me?"

A group of Russian officers looked at me and I looked at you, but no one spoke...

"The Russians have shrunk to the last line of defense. What are they going to do?"

"There are at least 2 guns in the trenches. If you rush up with such a dense vitality, you may suffer heavy casualties. It is better to bombard them with artillery!!!"

"They are going to break through? Can they run?"

"Run and run! Running out of the trenches is courting death!"

Inside the Ming Army Command Post.

The staff officers are analyzing the battle situation just obtained.

"After fighting for so many days, the Raksha ghosts should not be able to fight anymore. They can't resist for too long. In the end, they will either surrender or break through." Yang Yuchun said to Chen Dewang who was beside him.

"Surrender is impossible, we can't afford to support so many people, and they know it!" Chen Dewang stared at the map: "They will definitely break through!"

"Breakthrough? They still have [-] infantry, can they run away?" Yang Yuchun shook his head.

"But they still have ten thousand Cossacks!"

"Abandon the infantry and run with the cavalry? Does the Russian general dare to make such a decision?"

"I don't know, but if these more than 1 cavalry run away, I'm afraid it will be a lot of trouble!"

Just when the two were talking.

A staff officer hurried in to report: "Commander, Chief of Staff, the Raksha ghosts have broken through! Their cavalry are crossing the Syr Darya!" (End of this chapter)