Chapter 1088: Strategy

"Yes, Khan!"

Ulanba's voice fell, and the Beidi generals shouted.

"Huh?" Ulanba heard the generals call him Khan, not only was he not happy, but frowned.

"Yes, General." The generals reacted and corrected the name.

After this period of reform, not only Ulanba's title is General, they are no longer Langlu and Qianfuzhang, but have changed to Colonel, Major and so on.

After emphasizing some rules in war, Ulanba asked the generals to leave.

Although they were guided by the officers of the Russian State, the discipline of their Beidi army was still not as good as that of the Russian State Army and the Dasong Army, which was also a headache for him.

So before the battle, he summoned the generals to instruct on this matter. .

For him, the era when the Beidi cavalry relied on personal bravery and was invincible in the world has ended.

In the future, they must integrate into the Russian State, become part of the Russian State Army, and fight according to the Russian State Army's way of fighting.

For the next six days, the battlefield was particularly quiet.

Both armies were doing their own things and did not interfere with each other.

But everyone knew that this was just the calm before the storm.

And this calm did not last long. On the seventh day, the roar of artillery ended.

In the morning of that day, the Central Army artillery gathered 320 howitzers and 42 rifled guns to bombard the trench fortifications of the Northern Di.

"Swoosh... Boom..."

One by one, the shells flew into the air, fell into the trench and exploded, raising mud and grass leaves all over the sky.

At the moment the bombardment began, the Northern Di soldiers squatted in the trench, wishing they could get into the ground for fear of being hit by the shells.

At the moment the cannon sounded, Ulanba and Ivan rushed out of the tent.

In their field of vision, the entire trench position was covered by artillery fire.

The shells were like raindrops falling on dry dust, raising clouds of dust.

Mixed with the dust was the smoke produced by gunpowder, making the entire battlefield look foggy.

"Damn Dasong people!" Looking at the battlefield full of artillery fire, Ulanba almost bit his teeth.

The enemy's artillery range was too far, and they didn't even have the ability to fight back in the face of artillery fire.

But in order to hold on, they had to endure it.

For a general, this situation of being beaten but not being able to fight back can drive people crazy.

Ivan also looked embarrassed.

They couldn't see the position of the enemy's artillery at all, which meant that their artillery was far away from the battlefield.

Seeing this scene, he finally understood why their Russian army would flee in embarrassment on the battlefield of Yongzhou.

"War is always like this." Ivan said to Ulanba at this time.

In fact, even if the artillery ranges of both sides are similar, they have to bear the artillery fire of the other side.

The only difference is that now they are bearing casualties alone, while the latter will have casualties on both sides.

But their advantage is that they have more manpower and material resources relying on the Khan Court.

At present, in order to reduce the casualties of soldiers, some Beidi herdsmen have been asked to enter the trenches.

Each soldier will have a herdsman on both sides, acting as a human shield for the Beidi soldiers.

For them, as long as they lose, these old, weak, sick and disabled people will either be killed by the Dasong soldiers or become prisoners of the Dasong people.

Rather than this, it is better to be a human shield on the battlefield to resist the bombardment.

You can even use their bodies as sandbags directly as a shield.

"Yeah." Ulanba nodded, pursing his lips tightly.

The purpose of the Dasong army to kill a large number of their soldiers through bombardment will eventually be discounted.

This is his determination. In this war, he will use all means.

"Boom boom boom..." The bombardment is still going on.

But the two of them no longer pay attention and return to their tents.

At the same time.

In the central army camp, Chang Wei and Bai Shang and other generals are discussing the details of the night attack.

Originally, he planned to launch a night attack three days after the bombardment.

But in the past few days, the Lancers who were searching for other royal tents on the grassland suddenly captured the Beidi herdsmen of Dasong.

So Chang Wei had an idea and ordered the Lancers to leave only the cattle and sheep, but put the Northern Di herdsmen into the Khan's Court.

As for the bombardment, they will continue, but it will last longer.

He has his own purpose.

After arranging the direction of attack for Bai Shang and the other two, Chang Wei picked up the telescope and observed the battlefield for a while.

In the telescope, there was only the picture of the shells raising dust on the trenches, and the rest was very calm.

"The Northern Di must be very uncomfortable with this bombardment." Bai Shang laughed at this time, "When in Yongzhou, facing the bombardment, Muller Hongzhen dared to charge with cavalry, but now they can only shrink."

"That's right, they know that they can't do anything after understanding the power of machine guns and Lancers." Chen Hu pinched his waist.

No one was nervous about this war.

Because they knew that this was just a war to suppress bandits, and the Northern Di couldn't make a big fuss in Yongzhou, nor in the Khan's Court.

The only thing they needed to do was to take down the Khan's Court while minimizing casualties.

"But these bastards are really cruel to themselves, driving a lot of people into the trenches, I'm afraid they are using them as human shields." Lu Chang snorted at this time.

The actions of the Beidi people were clear to them, and they naturally saw the scene of the Beidi people being driven into the trenches.

"The madness before destruction." Chang Wei snorted coldly.

Ulanba's actions can certainly reduce the casualties of his soldiers, but the Beidi soldiers are also the sons of the Beidi people.

They are cruel to the Dasong people, but they love and protect their relatives.

I am afraid that some Beidi generals will be disappointed.

Even if they are intimidated by Ulanba's authority, they will not say anything.

But if the war is not going well, they will lose their will to fight first.

As everyone chatted, the sun rose step by step.

At noon, the bombardment stopped, and the smell of gunpowder on the battlefield was suddenly replaced by the rich aroma of rice.

Each army began to eat alternately.

In addition to the steamed buns out of the pot, there are also canned food.

The cooks in the army opened the cans and poured them into the big pot to heat them.

The smell of braised horse meat immediately drifted far away.

In addition, there were canned potatoes, canned yellow peaches, etc.

The soldiers of the Central Army ate hot steamed buns and delicious dishes, and they ate them very fragrantly.

It is these abundant supplies that have allowed them to maintain sufficient physical strength until now.

The rich aroma of these meals drifted to the trenches of the Beidi people, and many Beidi soldiers immediately swallowed their saliva.

In fact, since the Dasong Lancers besieged the Khan Court for a month, their situation has become increasingly difficult.

Especially a few days ago, the Dasong Lancers only took away cattle and sheep, but let the herdsmen in.

This caused the Khan Court's supplies to be consumed at an alarming rate, and their food was getting worse day by day.

So, when they suddenly smelled such an attractive aroma, they couldn't control their saliva at all.

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