"This is the third time. This is the third time that reinforcements have been sent to the west gate." Kutuzov looked at those who kept running past the gate of his headquarters in Minsk to reinforce the west gate of Minsk. The soldiers murmured. It has been three days since the French army launched an attack on Minsk. In the past three days, not only the 40,000 Russian soldiers who were originally stationed there were wiped out, but even the nearly 60,000 troops sent to aid later were depleted. The entire building near the west gate of Minsk was flattened by French artillery fire, but to Kutuzov's surprise, the city wall of Minsk was still standing tenaciously. This confused him very much. Although the city wall of Minsk was very strong, it was not so strong that it had not collapsed after being bombarded by the French army for so long. This was indeed very strange. Kutuzov always felt that there was something wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. Looking at the soldiers running westward quickly in front of him, Kutuzov couldn't help but sigh with emotion. How many of the 40,000 soldiers can survive the French attack this time?
At this time, Xiao Jie and a group of marshals were discussing the results of the battle over the past period of time on the artillery positions of the French army outside the city. Since the implementation of Xiao Jie's offensive method, the six legions of the French army have used the daytime to launch uninterrupted attacks on Minsk City in turn, but each time it is enough to stop. Before defeating the Russian army defending the city, Always recedes like the tide. Over time, the Russian army also discovered this peculiar phenomenon. But they didn't pay enough attention to it, thinking that the French army also suffered heavy losses during the siege, so they had to fall short.
"How many troops have we lost in the past three days?" Xiao Jie asked.
Eck, the chief of staff of the 88th Army, immediately replied: "As of the end of our army's last offensive, our army has lost 1,634 people."
"Where are your other legions?" Xiao Jie asked the others.
The chiefs of staff of several other legions also quickly reported the number of people lost by their respective legions. Fortunately, they are all controlled between 2,000 and 2,500. In other words, in the past three days, the French army has lost a total of about 10,000 people. Since the cavalry legion is not suitable for participating in the siege, only the 3rd legion, the 4th legion, the 5th legion, the 7th legion and the 88th legion will participate in this plan.
"According to this ratio, the casualties of the Russian army are at least 100,000." Xiao Jie said. But this is just a guess, and there is no way to get exact data yet.
"It's probably the same number. I learned from the soldiers who once boarded the top of the city that he saw reinforcements from the Russian side rushing here, but they were all killed by our artillery. It is estimated that a group of them would have to pay at least half of the price if they want to move under the city wall." Six immediately explained to everyone.
Everyone still believes in Sikes' words. If that is the case, then the casualties of the Russian army are at least 5 times that of the French army. The tactics adopted by the French army this time are to suppress the Russian troops on the city wall with weapons such as mortars and heavy machine guns, and destroy them as much as possible, and then the carefully prepared French army uses various attacks under their cover City tools boarded Minx City, a bit similar to the siege method of the cold weapon era. After they boarded the city wall, they quickly cleared the Russian army on it, and the Russian army will inevitably send troops to take it back, while the French army's 75mm field guns and 105mm howitzers have already set their shooting targets at 300 meters behind the Minks city wall. In the area of 1000 meters to 1000 meters, once the reinforcements of the Russian army come up, they will be attacked by the fierce artillery fire of the French army. Under such fierce shelling, the lives of the Russian troops who came to reinforce them are quickly harvested. Often, less than half of the people can pass through the shelling area of the French army, and those who are lucky enough to survive begin to attack the walls occupied by the French army. Sometimes they win and drive the French army down, and sometimes they fail , All the French troops who were attacked on the city wall were wiped out. After the failure, the Russian army would immediately "cooperate" to launch the next attack and go through the above process again. After 3 days, the Russian army repelled numerous attacks by the French army, but their own casualties also reached a terrifying number.
On the night of April 20th, the day when the Russian army sent three waves of reinforcements and lost all of them, Kutuzov finally couldn't bear it anymore and called a meeting of all senior officers to study what was going on and why he had come to Russia in the past few days. The casualties of the army will be so large. In 3 days, the Russian army suffered a total of 120,000 casualties, accounting for 30% of the total Russian army. A thick pile of corpses had already been piled up near the west gate. If the Russian army hadn't sent people to clean up the battlefield every night and burn all the corpses, the corpses of the dead Russian soldiers might have piled up as high as the city wall, but As a result of the burning, there is always a disgusting stench in the air.
But after researching for a long time, no one knows why this is the case. Others pointed out that although the casualties were a little higher, Minks City was finally saved and the mission entrusted by His Majesty the Tsar was completed. From this point of view, they were quite successful, but Kutuzov did not believe in this view. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find where it was wrong.
On April 21, the French army's offensive started again, and the Russian army had to send backup troops to the front line again due to heavy losses on the front line. This time, Kutuzov vowed to find out what was wrong, so he personally led 40,000 troops to Ximen to help.
"Retreat, all retreat to me." Kutuzov yelled at others like crazy. This made the others stunned, and they all looked at Kutuzov in puzzlement. In their eyes, how brave their soldiers are, not afraid of the fierce enemy artillery fire, they bravely rushed up and fought with the French. At this time, Kutuzov was sinking into deep self-blame, and it was his mistake again. He once again made an unforgivable mistake at the hands of the French army. Soldiers paid with their precious lives. Seeing that the soldiers were still in a daze, while the French artillery shells were falling overwhelmingly, Kutuzov yelled, "Did you hear that, retreat quickly, all retreat." Although he didn't understand why he retreated, he obeyed the order It is the bounden duty of a soldier, and all Russian troops have evacuated from this dangerous zone where they may die at any time.
"Marshal, why did you order a retreat when our soldiers were fighting bravely?" A young officer asked Kutuzov angrily after the Russian army retreated.
"This is not an attack, it's simply murdering our soldiers. I didn't expect the French to come up with such a lazy strategy." Kutuzov howled angrily like a wounded wolf.
After being yelled by Kutuzov, everyone calmed down. After careful consideration, they realized that this was really a tactic used by the French to deal with the Russian army. Using this tactic, they killed and wounded the Russian army in large numbers at a very small cost. of vitality.
"Then what should we do now?" an officer asked. Since we can no longer fight like this, we must find a way to continue to resist.
"What else can we do? Let's start preparing for street fighting. It is estimated that the French will launch a formal attack on us immediately after knowing that we have not been fooled. Alas, I am really Benz, I didn't even think of this." Ku Tuzov laughed at himself.
"Marshal, it's not your fault, it's because the French army is really despicable." An officer immediately excused Kutuzov.
"Yes, such a vicious scheme must have been conceived by the sinister crown prince of France." Some officers also began to curse immediately. So Xiao Jie's personality has added one more thing besides money-greed and lust: insidious.
While they were still discussing, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com The shelling of the French army began to extend, and they continued to extend from the place of shelling in the past to the center of Minsk. It turned out that after the French army on the city wall of Minsk discovered that the Russian army retreated and no longer launched a "suicide" attack like before, they immediately reported this abnormal situation to Xiao Jie.
After Xiao Jie learned of this situation, he knew that his strategy had been seen through, but he was still very satisfied with such a result. "Gentlemen, the real battle is about to begin. The artillery begins to extend fire, and the infantry prepares to attack."
So the large-scale offensive of the French army began. Under such circumstances, the Russian army could not resist the frenzied attack of the French army at all, and began to retreat one after another. But Xiao Jie ordered the French army to stop attacking after obtaining an area close to the west gate, and built this place as their bridgehead in Minks City, and brought in a large number of heavy machine guns and mortars, Minke The city wall of Sicheng was also well utilized. The French army mounted a lot of heavy machine guns and mortars on it as fixed firepower points, which greatly strengthened the defense here. After this position was consolidated, the French attacked again, radiating east, south, and north from this bridgehead.
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