"Alas... the Xia people, with just over ten thousand people... have stirred up the entire Kangju River..." Somov sighed, saying helplessly.
"What do we do then? Those barbarians are about to lose their temper... Are these idiots really willing to go and die?"
“Yakfu, summon the leaders of all tribes and the nobles of our Rakshasa people. We must resolve this battle quickly, and then... distribute the spoils equally.”
Yakup gathered all the tribal chiefs, Russian nobles, and officers together and announced Somov's decision. The Hu chiefs shouted excitedly, and Yakup barely managed to suppress the Russians' discontent.
Somov eventually went to the "Legion of the Dead" and spent a long time talking with their leader before reaching an agreement.
The Russian and Hu cavalry finally began to deploy their formations, overwhelmingly surrounding the Da Yuan army.
"Your Highness, they're closing in! We might not have time to set up camp!"
"Stand in formation! Move all the ammunition boxes over and open them. Don't make any silly mistakes."
Qin Mo knew from the enemy's posture that there was no time to set up a camp. He immediately ordered his men to deploy on the spot and to ensure that they had a sufficient supply of ammunition.
Qin Mo knew that when the English Red Shirts were first equipped with Martini rifles, two similar units achieved completely opposite results: one held off an attack by tens of thousands of natives with only two hundred men, while the other two hundred men had their heads cut off by eight thousand natives.
The root cause was that the Martini rifle's ammunition box was too sturdy. A whole cartload of bullets was left unopened, and the rifle misfired, which is why he was killed by someone throwing spears.
"Your Highness... I don't understand... Why are all these Rakshasa and Hu people rushing up like this?"
"I don't understand either. They're probably trying to crush us all at once!"
Cavalry offensive tactics also require a lot of layering. They would probe the weaknesses of the enemy formation before making a breakthrough. However, Qin Mo and Wu Shengze were dumbfounded when they saw the Russian coalition army launching an attack with 50,000 to 60,000 men at once.
The commotion of tens of thousands of warhorses galloping was even more astonishing than the rumbling thunder. The entire corridor trembled violently from the impact of the horses' hooves, and the tens of thousands of rifles in the army formation also shook and shuddered along with them.
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