Chapter 481 Firearms VS Cultivators

"How is this possible? Morakoff actually failed... Could there be a Heavenly Realm expert in the Great Xia army?"

"General, aren't Morakov and the others supposed to be immortal?"

Yakup and Somov watched in disbelief as hundreds of undead knights were devoured by the large army. They had never been defeated since the undead legion appeared, let alone hundreds of knights being killed.

"General, what do we do now?"

"Let's retreat! Hopefully, at least a few tens of thousands can be left behind..."

Somov closed his eyes in anguish. Unlike the Great Xia, the Rakshasa did not have an abundant source of soldiers. The Rakshasa was a harsh and cold land, and did not have enough people to squander.

If he still has tens of thousands of men, he will still have the ability to harass and attack the Great Xia army, and the resources to deal with the Great Xia army. He can also get more troops to make a comeback in the future. If he has too few men, then the Seventh Cavalry Legion of the Empire will be split up and merged into other legions as supplementary troops.

The retreat went more smoothly than Somov had imagined. The Xia army on the other side did not send out their elite cavalry to pursue them, allowing them to retreat in disarray.

"Your Highness, let me give chase! Aren't we cavalrymen here to prey on those who are down on their luck? This is a golden opportunity..."

Huo Enyu, the commander of the Da Yuan Army cavalry, watched as the Rakshasa cavalry slowly adjusted their formation and retreated layer by layer, but were not allowed to pursue them. He was so anxious that he jumped around Qin Mo.

"Don't rush them. People downstream should be crossing the river now. Don't hurry them. Let them rest and catch their breath, and walk slowly."

Downstream? Which downstream?

Huo Enyu hesitated for a moment, then suddenly pointed to the Zirchik River to the west and said, "Are our people crossing this river? And then blocking the retreat of these Russians?"

"If things go smoothly, that's how it will be," Qin Mo said mysteriously.

"No wonder I haven't seen our engineering battalion! Your Highness is truly a master strategist, unfathomable..."

"What kind of lousy flattery is that? Go back and read more books!"

Hehe...hehe...

In summer, the Zirchik River is very deep, with only a few wide sections where cavalry can wade across directly; the rest can only be crossed by boat or pontoon bridge.

At this time, to the north of the Da Yuan army, a group of people were building a pontoon bridge.

"Governor, the pontoon bridge will be open to traffic in another quarter of an hour. So far, it seems that no enemy spies have discovered that we are preparing to cross the river here."

“We’ve taken such a long detour, and if we’re still discovered by those barbarians and Russians, then it’s heaven’s will not be on our side, and all the sacrifices made by Prince Heng will have been in vain.”

King Qin Ce of Anyang gazed at the battlefield to the south, listening intently to the gradually fading cannon fire, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

"Your Excellency, the pontoon bridge has been completed, and news has also come from the south that the Pingwu Army and Kaiwu Army have begun crossing the river."

"Good! Start crossing the river immediately. While the enemy is still unaware, we must trap them in this narrow corridor."

The Western Regions are a vast area with a sparse population. If tens of thousands of cavalry were to break into smaller units and play hide-and-seek with the Great Xia army, it would be a major headache.

Therefore, Qin Mo and Qin Ce discussed that Qin Mo would go out as bait to lure the main force of the Russian army to the corridor by the river, while the Great Xia army would circle back from the west, build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, cut off Somov's retreat routes while he was fighting the Da Yuan army, and then surround and annihilate him.

At this moment, it was finally time to close the net. A large number of Xia cavalrymen crossed the river and poured into the narrow corridor, which also alerted the Rakshasa reconnaissance team that had been on guard nearby.

"General Somov, smoke signals are rising in the north!"

"The north? Quickly send someone over to check!"

Somov had just calmed down his various cavalry regiments and was preparing to leave this blood-soaked land when he received the bad news that the enemy had appeared in the north.

"General Somov... there's smoke rising from the south too..."

Seeing the smoke rising continuously from both the north and south, Somov closed his eyes in anguish. Despite his utmost caution, he had still fallen into the trap set by the Daxia people.

"Yakfu, immediately send men to find a suitable crossing point along the river, and also have our men prepare to swim across."

"General, this section of the river has no shallows; we can only swim across... Let's break out!"

"Spread everyone out... each find the most suitable place... and swim across!"

Somov suddenly lost all fighting spirit. He now only wanted to enter the vast steppe west of the Chirchik River and was unwilling to fight the Great Xia army face to face again.

Although the crossing was somewhat dangerous and chaotic, it only took a few moments for tens of thousands of people to quickly separate and swim across the river, which was only a few miles wide. Once they entered the wilderness, the Xia people would no longer be able to surround them.

"Rumble... Rumble..."

The sound of heavy hooves came from the west bank of the Zirchik River. A cavalry force of about 10,000 men appeared on the riverbank, facing the Russians across the river, thus crushing Somov's hopes of swimming away and escaping.

It's true that warhorses can swim, and the Zirchik River isn't wide, but what would happen if a group of cavalrymen swam ashore and faced a line of cavalrymen charging towards them?

"We...we'll break through!"

Somov reluctantly drew his sword; the situation left him with only one option: to break out.

Ultimately, the Russians chose to break out to the north. Many nomadic tribes in Kangju are currently grazing their livestock in the north, and Somov is preparing to go there to join them.

This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!