The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 469 The Russians Go Crazy

"Boom boom boom", a series of violent explosions came from the bottom of the mountain.

This was the unscrupulous cannon deployed on the northern mountain showing its power again, but Teng Yuzhao could no longer see the spectacular scene of the violent explosion of the unscrupulous cannon.

After two rounds of intensive and fierce bombardment by nearly 800 large and small artillery pieces, the three major Russian troop regiments gathered in the valley near Longhu Village, Gunao Village and Shipo Village suffered heavy losses from the fierce artillery fire, with nearly half of the troops killed or injured.

That’s not all. Although the fierce and intensive covering bombardment stopped after only two rounds, it does not mean that the vanguard army has no shells or is running out of shells and dares not carry out such intensive covering bombardment again.

It was because the three major regiments of the Russian army were blown away and fled in all directions, like boiling water poured into an ant nest. The remaining Russian troops in the valley were completely scattered and in chaos. If they were covered with artillery bombardment, it could only be said that the vanguard army was destroying the shells, not bombarding the enemy.

Although the intensive and fierce large-scale artillery bombardment stopped, giving the remaining Russian troops a chance to catch their breath, it was only a brief respite.

Small-scale intensive artillery bombardment then began.

All the mortars of the vanguard army on the north side of the valley were changed to concentrated bombardment in company and platoon units. Wherever there were Russian officers trying to gather the remaining troops to try to meet the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town rushing towards them from the foot of the mountain in the south, these small-scale mortar artillery groups in a commanding position would begin to show their power.

In just a moment, dozens or even dozens of mortar shells will fall on their heads, and they will not defend until the Russian troops who have just gathered like frightened birds are blown away again.

Even where heavy machine guns were used to block the rushing vanguard officers and soldiers, several mortar shells would soon fall, which would not only blow the Russian army to pieces, but also often blow the heavy machine guns into pieces.

Soon, the remaining Russian troops discovered that when they were at the foot of the steep mountain on the north side, they would not be subjected to concentrated mortar fire. This made the participating Russian troops overjoyed, and they began to flee desperately to the area about 200 meters wide below the northern peak, braving the dense heavy machine gun fire from the mountain.

Once they enter this area, not only will there be no shells falling from the sky, but even the heavy machine guns on the mountain will not be able to hit them.

The northern mountain peak will not be bombarded, not because the vanguard army did it intentionally, but because the mortars also have blind spots.

Although in theory mortars have no blind spots and can even blow themselves up with their own shells, this is only in theory because anyone operating the mortar, as long as they are normal, will not do so.

Moreover, the gunners also have blind spots. This is the case with the mortar gunners of the vanguard army on the mountain, not to mention the heavy machine gunners.

Due to the visual angle, they were unable to effectively bombard the remaining Russian troops near the foot of the mountain. Although the mountain on the north side was steeper and they were not worried that the remaining Russian troops would rush up from here, the mortars were powerless against the Russian troops.

However, Liu Changfa had been prepared for this. Just as more than 20,000 remaining Russian troops gathered at the foot of the mountain on the north side and the surviving Russian officers began to desperately organize the Russian troops that had been completely disorganized and began to block the troops of the Fourth and Fifth Towns that were gradually pressing in from the south and east, the most terrifying scene appeared for the Russian army.

A series of "bang bang" sounds rang out on the steep mountain behind the remaining Russian troops, and then a large number of participating Russian troops, ignoring the white bayonets of the vanguard army approaching from the south, and even the hot rain of bullets from the heavy machine guns on the mountain behind them that began to fiercely fire due to the shooting angle, spread their legs and fled from the foot of the mountain as if they were risking their lives.

As the deafening and continuous explosions rang out, the remaining Russian troops who had no time to escape were either blown to pieces or completely destroyed, leaving behind pieces of empty space among the densely packed remaining Russian troops at the foot of the mountain.

Even the large group of Russian troops hiding under the stone walls at the foot of the mountain were no longer safe. Although this place was a blind spot for the Unscrupulous Cannons, groups of Teng grenades emitting green smoke soon fell from the sky, mixed with the Unscrupulous Cannon shells that also emitted green smoke and were shaped like small millstones.

Then, a strong flash of light flashed at the foot of the mountain, and fierce and dense explosions came one after another, even as loud as the artillery bombardment. Among the remaining Russian soldiers who had nowhere to hide, some soon threw away their weapons and began to flee madly along the foot of the mountain in the direction of Lishupo. This quickly triggered a chain reaction among the remaining Russian soldiers. As more and more Russian soldiers who seemed to have lost their rationality began to join the crazy fleeing crowd, a yellowish torrent formed at the foot of the mountain, quickly rushing towards the direction of Lishupo.

It was probably such a scene that made Liu Shijiu, who was commanding the ambush troops on the south side, dumbfounded. The officers and soldiers of the Fourth and Fifth Towns who rushed over from the south stopped where they were and no longer charged forward, because it was impossible to kill the Russian troops and fight with bayonets.

However, the vanguard troops hesitated for only a moment, and then raised their guns on the spot and shot at the madly fleeing Russian troops only a hundred meters or even dozens of meters away, killing and wounding the fleeing Russian soldiers one after another.

Soon, dozens of heavy machine guns that had just arrived were also set up, and the sound of intensive heavy machine gun fire echoed throughout the valley.

The dense rain of heavy machine gun bullets swept down the fleeing Russian troops in large numbers, but the gaps they left behind were almost instantly filled by the crazy Russian officers and soldiers rushing up from behind. After being knocked down, there would be others who would rush up madly, regardless of their lives.

Such a scene was almost a massacre. If Teng Yuzhao were here, he would not be able to bear to watch it.

Although most of the frantically fleeing Russian remnants were intercepted by firepower from officers and soldiers of the two towns commanded by Liu Shijiu, there were still seven or eight thousand Russian remnants that rushed to the blocking position of Li Jinyu's Eighth Town between Shipo Village and Lishupo.

Although the artillery fire from the three mountain artillery battalions deployed by Liu Changfa has never stopped, the fierce and intensive artillery fire has been continuously bombarding Lishupo since the beginning of the ambush.

The artillery fire of these three mountain artillery battalions was not only intended to kill and injure the Russian troops in the Russian camp at Lishupo, but also to use their artillery fire to intercept the Russian troops from rescuing the Russian troops in the valley.

Although the intercepting artillery fire was very fierce, the Russian army continued to rush forward under the dense and fierce artillery fire.

Even afterwards, the Russian artillery bombardment began.

Although the Russian troops west of Lishupo did not dare to bombard the valley with their artillery for fear of accidentally injuring their own people, and were even unable to suppress the artillery of the vanguard army in the mountains north of the valley, there was no problem of shooting angle and viewing angle when bombarding Li Jinyu's blocking position.

Although the Russian army's intensive artillery fire was launched hastily, it still caused heavy casualties to the Eighth Regiment.

Fortunately, the Eighth Regiment's blocking position was not on the mountain road, but on the mountains on both sides. However, the Russian artillery fire was too dense and fierce.

Despite this, the troops of the Eighth Regiment braved the artillery fire and resolutely withstood the double-sided attack from the Russian troops who fled from the vicinity of Shipo Village as soon as the bombardment began, and the Russian rescue troops who rushed over from Lishupo under the artillery fire and hail of bullets.

However, Li Jinyu was still frightened when he suddenly saw a large group of Russian remnants who had no weapons and were rushing towards him madly and disregarding their lives.

Just when he was at a loss, Liu Changfa's mountain artillery group and the mortar groups of the four battalions began to show their power in time. The intensive artillery fire completely blocked the road from Shipo Village to Lishupo.

Soon after resisting the Russian attack from Lishupo, the gunfire in the valley finally began to sparse.

As the deafening shouts of killing rang out in the valley, Liu Changfa stopped the artillery bombardment on the mountain road in time.
(End of this chapter)