Time Travel to 1859: The Iron-Blooded Soldier King

Liu Ye's strategy effectively concealed the Qing army's tracks. He landed in Korea and advanced rapidly from Korea, making the Russians firstly unaware that the Qing army could reach the Ussuri River basin so quickly, and secondly unaware that the Qing army would actually pass through Korea.

Aichun is just a small city with a population of tens of thousands. The people living here are very complex, with people of all nationalities and even countries, including Russians, Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese! Of course, Chinese still make up the majority.

Basha, commander of the 53rd Russian Regiment, led two battalions and a cavalry unit, a total of one thousand people, and stationed in Aichun City. Successive victories made Basha arrogant. In fact, it was not Basha's fault. Yishan's army was too useless. In the Battle of Dalui River, Basha led one of his regiments to attack Yishan's 4,000 troops. As a result, Yishan was defeated miserably. Basha really looked down on the Qing army with long braids, a bunch of useless scum.

When he received a tip from Russian intelligence officers about a Qing army approaching Aichun, he laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? It's just two thousand people. We killed four thousand of them in the field battle with just over a thousand of us. Now we're defending the city with a full thousand of us, and they only have two thousand Qing troops. How can they possibly fly into the sky? I'm going to capture them all and make them dig coal for me!"

As he spoke, Basha stood up and shouted, "Order the first and second battalions to go into battle. Order the cavalry to leave the north city and circumvent the Qing army's flanks. During the fierce fighting, assault their positions. We are going to wipe them out completely!"

Soon, the Russian and Qing armies met on the battlefield. Basha watched from afar, puzzled. Are these Qing troops? Why aren't they armed with swords or spears? Where are all those messy flags?

However, Basha quickly suppressed his doubts. Who cares? With these Qing troops in front of him, how could they be his opponents?

"Order, artillery ready, attack!"

Boom boom boom!

Poor Basha!

His order was like a death warrant. Before their own artillery shells were fired, as soon as he finished speaking, artillery fire rang out from the Qing army's position. Dozens of artillery shells flew towards the Russian army and landed on the Russian position. A cloud of smoke rose up, and the unfortunate Russian soldiers were swept directly into the sky, while the injured were howling miserably!

The Russian army was immediately stunned. Basha in the formation was even more stunned. "Asshole! Wow! Damn it! Didn't the Qing army use old-fashioned artillery, and they used solid bullets? How did they suddenly upgrade to cannons? This cannon is even more powerful than ours!

"Fight back, fight back, fight back now!"

Basha no longer had that sense of pride and roared in frustration.

The artillery of both sides began to bombard each other. Not only that, Zhang Yi directly ordered the left wing battalion, led by Zuo Baogui, to launch a charge towards the flank of the Russian army. The superior firing rate enabled the Qing army to suppress the Russian attack with firepower, and the left wing Qing army rushed towards the Russian army.

Arrogant soldiers will surely be defeated. The careless Basha finally tasted the bitter fruit. Originally relying on the advantage of firearms, the Russians beat the Qing army in Yishan so badly that they had no direction. Now the situation has changed. The Qing army in Baoding Town has replaced its equipment with American equipment. The artillery is the advanced Armstrong gun, a breech-loading rifled gun with high accuracy, long range, and powerful shells. For the Russian army, it only has half rifled guns and half smoothbore guns. At the same time, there are only 20 artillery pieces, and the combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the Qing army. If the Qing army had not been trained for a short time, I am afraid that the Russian position would have been overturned long ago.

Even so, the Russian army suffered a huge blow. The Russian army, which was unprepared, was completely stunned by the Qing army. Just half a month ago, they were able to defeat the Qing army, but just half a month later, the Qing army could keep pace with them and even surpass them!

Looking at the Qing troops charging from both wings, Basha finally felt a little panic in his heart. After all, the Qing army had assembled two thousand people. According to the combat effectiveness of this Qing army, his thousand people were definitely no match for them. He had to change the current situation as soon as possible. Now all his hopes could only be placed on a team of cavalry that had bypassed. Once the cavalry of one or two hundred people charged, it would definitely be a nightmare for the infantry!

This is also Basha's last resort. If even the cavalry cannot defeat the Qing army, then there is no hope at all. It is right to quickly ask for help from Vladivostok. Aichun has an important geographical location and must not be lost!

However, Basha is cunning, and Guo Ye is even more ruthless. The Cossack cavalry of Tsarist Russia is feared throughout Europe and Asia, so how could Liu Ye not be on guard?

In the absence of heavy and light machine guns, the only way to stop the cavalry was to rationally deploy infantry firepower. They had to be suppressed with concentrated firepower before they could reach them! As long as the cavalry couldn't get close, they were nothing more than a decoration! The carbine's firing range was less than 400 meters, while the rifle's effective range was 600 meters!

While the two sides were fighting fiercely, the Cossack cavalry finally appeared. After a large-scale detour, the Cossack cavalry finally reached the right wing of the Qing army and launched a rapid attack on the Qing army from the right!

They moved like thunder and were as fast as lightning. Even He Qimou, who was a lieutenant commander of the cavalry battalion, was stunned. What a powerful cavalry! Such cavalry was definitely not inferior to the most elite cavalry under the command of the Monk King. Coupled with the advanced carbine, they were definitely not comparable to the Monk King's cavalry!

He Qimou, who was in charge of the flank defense, shouted, "Orders, the soldiers on the right wing immediately prepare for battle, fire in turns, and suppress the cavalry charge!"

He Qimou had never led cavalry in a real hot weapons battle. These tactics were instilled in them by Liu Ye during this period. He Qimou was extremely smart, so he naturally remembered what he had learned and put it into practice!

In the Qing camp on the right wing, hundreds of Qing soldiers stood densely in five horizontal rows. After the front row finished shooting, they immediately squatted down, and the row behind them immediately followed up with shooting, perfectly filling the shooting gap in the middle!

Two hundred people in five rows took turns shooting. Even if the Cossack cavalry was extremely ferocious, they could not easily rush to the front of the Qing army's position!

After two consecutive charges, all the cavalry were beaten back by dense bullets and returned empty-handed!

Not only that, the two hundred cavalrymen suffered heavy casualties under the intensive firepower of bullets. A bullet also pierced a hole in the thigh of the battalion major, and blood was flowing. The battalion major was trembling in his heart. The opponent's firepower was too intensive. The rifle phalanx was the natural enemy of the cavalry. Unexpectedly, in ancient China, there were people who mastered such advanced tactics!