Reversing the time for a few hours, when the French artillery fire destroyed the Russian artillery, Roplov immediately found Karbayev: "General, the situation is very critical now. In a short while, our artillery will be completely destroyed." Losses, the French artillery is really powerful, we probably won’t last long, you should retreat before the French army enters the city.”
"What did you say? You want me to withdraw first? General Roplov, my soldiers are fighting **** battles ahead, but you want me, the commander, to run away?" Karbayev stared at his reddened eyes like an angry lion. His eyes looked straight at Roplov.
"General, according to the current situation, it is impossible for us to block the French attack. If we don't leave now, it will be too late." Roplov persuaded anxiously.
"Stop talking, I won't leave, I can't leave my soldiers behind." Karbayev said stubbornly.
"General, now is not the time to talk about these things. The French are too powerful for us to deal with now. Rather than staying here with everyone and waiting to die, it is better to break out and think of a way later." Roplov persuaded.
"General Ivan's order to me is to defend Vape. I should live and die with Vape. How can I abandon the city and flee? How do you tell me to face General Ivan in the future."
"General, the French are powerful, and we have nothing to do about it. I believe General Ivan can understand." Roplov tried to persuade Karbayev. But this is obviously difficult. Karbayev has been in the army for ten years and has fought dozens of battles, big and small. He has not won a big victory every time, but now he has suffered such a big loss at the hands of the French. How can you let him swallow this breath. If he accepts Roplov's suggestion and escapes today, he will no longer be able to gain a foothold in the Russian military circle in the future.
"Roplov, we haven't failed yet, and the French haven't taken Vape yet. Even if they do, my soldiers and I will resist to the end." Karbayev said firmly. .
But when he had just finished speaking, a young officer ran in and said: "General, the French have blasted the city gate, and they have rushed in now, and we are intercepting it."
Upon hearing the news, Karbayev sat down on the chair as if he had aged ten years.
"General, make a decision quickly, it will be too late if you don't leave." Roplov urged even more anxiously.
"The French have already entered the city, do you think we can still rush out?" Karbayev asked a little lonely. At this moment, he seemed to be no longer a general, but a man who had reached his twilight years. elder. 4 days, just 4 days, Vape was breached, which gave him a very big blow.
"General, we still have 1,500 Cossack cavalry, as long as we make good use of them, we can break out." Roplov said confidently. Indeed, with the strong impact of the Cossack cavalry, it is basically impossible to change the situation on the battlefield in this situation, but there is still a lot of confidence in breaking out.
"These soldiers in the city don't care?" Karbayev, who was severely hit, now has a blank mind, and he doesn't know what to do.
"Ah!" Karbayev sighed for a long time, had to accept this fact, and said to Roplov: "That's the only way, you can make arrangements."
Roplov quickly assembled the remaining 1,500 Cossack cavalry, protecting Karbayev and quickly heading towards the east gate of Vape City. Only that place has not yet seen the enemy, but according to intelligence, the French The cavalry regiment should be just outside the city, and it seems that it is specially designed to intercept the Russian army that broke out.
At the east gate, Karoplov said to Karbayev: "General, take care, I will take a step first." After speaking, he led 1,000 Cossack cavalry to break through to the northeast. He had already planned that he would lead an army to break through first, so as to attract the attention of the French army, and told a Russian officer that when he successfully attracted the main force of the French army, he would lead Karbayev to break through from the opposite direction.
"Aren't you going with me?" Karbayev asked hastily. The only answer he had was: "General, we will see you in Bialystok." Karbayev understood Roplov's intention at once, and two drops of dirty tears flowed out of his old eyes. He knew that it would be very difficult for him and Roplov to have a chance to see each other again. Roplov probably had a narrow escape from hiding.
Roplov's breakout really caught the attention of the French army. After receiving reports that thousands of cavalry broke through, Murat immediately realized that the big fish he had been waiting for for so long had appeared, because everyone knew the city of Vape well. Now there are only one thousand five-six cavalry at most. Since there are thousands of cavalry breaking through, the Russian commander Karbayev is probably in this team. Thinking of this, Murat hurriedly left more than a thousand people to continue to monitor the city of Vape, while he took the main force to chase the Russian army that had broken through.
After Roplov successfully attracted the main force of the French army, Karbayev also broke through to the southeast under the protection of more than 500 Cossack cavalry.
In the end, until the evening, Murat lost hundreds of cavalry before stopping Roplov and his party at the foot of a mountain. He proudly asked Karbayev to surrender to him more, but what he was waiting for was the fierce attack of the cavalry led by Roplov.
Furious, Murat ordered his soldiers to destroy the army and capture Karbayev alive. A tragic slaughter unfolded like this, with blood flowing, dyeing the originally pure white snow red. In the end, with a huge advantage in numbers, Murat's cavalry finally slaughtered all Roplov's army, leaving only Roplov alone.
"Bring me Karbayev." Murat shouted proudly. But "Karbayev" laughed loudly, and then directly cut off his own aorta with the sharp saber in his hand. Murat was very annoyed, it was too embarrassing for herself. He asked someone to bring the body of "Karbayev" over, but finally found that the person in front of him was not Karbayev, because Karbayev was an old man in his 50s, and the person in front of him was no more than 10 years old . Murat knew that he had been tricked, and scolded the Russians for being despicable and shameless, and at the same time ordered the troops to rush back quickly, but this was of no use at all, and Karbayev and his party had long since disappeared. Although Karbayev and the others encountered the interception of Murat's remaining troops when they broke through, these people were not opponents of the fierce Cossack cavalry at all. After paying the price of 200 people, they quickly threw off the pursuers. Breaking through the encirclement to the southeast, after leaving the threat range of the French army, it turned to the north. It finally reached Bialystok two days later.
On the evening of the 6th, the battle against Vape was completely over. Since the city of Vape had become a ruin, the French army still had to stay outside the city. That night, the staff of the General Staff Department quickly counted the results of the battle. At this station, nearly 20,000 Russian troops were wiped out except for the hundreds of cavalry who escaped. Thousands of people, most of them seriously injured. Xiao Jie couldn't believe the fighting will of the Russian army today. They were not afraid of death at all, and used their flesh and blood to resist the attack of the French army armed to the teeth. Basically, as long as they can stand up, they will attack the French army at all costs. Most of those captured were seriously injured and had no strength to fight anymore.
For these people, Xiao Jie has both admiration and resentment. I admire them for their backbone, they regard death as home, and they can resist desperately in the face of a powerful enemy. I hate it because their crazy counterattack caused a lot of casualties to the French army. These casualties were unnecessary. Xiao Jie has never been kind to his enemies. Since they are so strong, it is very good that the French army will not provide them with any help and let them fend for themselves. In such a world of ice and snow, throwing these seriously injured captives aside is undoubtedly murder in disguise. Xiao Jie's actions aroused opposition from some people, but more people were in favor, because their good brothers and friends were lost in this battle, and of course they wished for the death of these culprits up. Another important reason is that the current level of medical care is too low. Although Xiao Jie has made great efforts to improve it~www.mtlnovel.com~, the effect is also not obvious, and the medicines are pitiful. The wounded are not enough, how can there be extra to take care of those Russians.
Although this battle was victorious, the French army also paid a price of nearly 7,000 people. Although nearly 30,000 people were wiped out, in Xiao Jie's opinion, this is still not good enough, because the French army, regardless of their numbers or In terms of weapons and equipment, they are much higher than those of the Russian army. But at the same time, Xiao Jie was a little relieved, because most of the casualties were from the 3rd and 5th Army Corps, and the 88th Army Corps only suffered more than 700 casualties from one battalion, and most of them were lost in today's street fighting.
After the Battle of Vape, Xiao Jie saw that the soldiers were exhausted after these days of hard work, so he mercifully let the troops rest for a day, and officially marched towards Bialystok on January 8. Because of the victory, the morale of the French army soared, but Xiao Jie was not happy, because the city of Vape was just a small city with only 30,000 defenders, while Bialystok was a city of Bivape. It is a much larger city, and there are 70,000 troops stationed there, not including the 50,000 Russian troops stationed scattered in nearby places.
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