Chen Yang was still gathering troops. Chen Yucheng's second order came, ordering Chen Yang's mixed brigade to go directly to Elazze without going to Mosul. The battlefield situation changed rapidly, and the Erqi army was beaten by the Russian army on the front line of Elazze. Now he can only rely on the city and the outer defense positions to support him. This was something that no one expected, and the Russian army would burst out with such a strong combat power.

Chen Yucheng urgently dispatched the 66th Division stationed in Mosul to reinforce Elazhe. The road to Elazhe was extremely difficult. Our 66th Division officers and soldiers overcame the difficulties of marching in the desert. After five days of emergency marching, they finally arrived in Elazhe. Before the troops took a breath, the Turkish army sent people to report that the Russian army had broken through the outer defense line of Elazhe and was launching an attack on the urban area.

Russian army, Caucasus Army. Due to the successive victory of the Russian army in the Near East, the Russian army can be highly morale. In order to force Turkey to withdraw from the war and cooperate with the attack of the British and French troops in the Battle of the Dardanelles, the Russian army mobilized the Turkish Army and the newly formed 20th Army to reinforce the Caucasus Army. In this way, the Russian army's troops on this front have reached 22 divisions and 330,000.

After defeating the Turkish 3rd Army on the Russian-Turkish border, the Russian army immediately rushed westward, divided into two groups, and rushed towards the depths of Turkey. With the support of Germany, the Turkish army urgently mobilized two armies and 150,000 people to defend. Due to continuous defeat in the Turkish army, the morale of the army was low. Facing the fierce Russian army, the Turkish army had to fight and retreat. In just one week, the Russian army advanced 350-450 kilometers deep towards Turkish territory. The northern army advanced to Sivas, and the southern army attacked Elazze. Sivas is the gateway east of the Turkish capital Ankara. Once the harvest is lost, the Russian army can directly attack Huanglong. In order to ensure Sivas, Turkey had to draw troops from Elazze to strengthen Sivas' defense, and at the same time requested the Chinese army to urgently reinforce Sivas.

When the 66th Division arrived in Elazze, it was dark. After a day of fierce fighting, the Russian army had already broken into half of the city of Elazze. The Russian army, which became more and more brave, attacked continuously overnight. A unit of the 5th Turkish Army, who was struggling to support, heard that the Chinese army had arrived and morale was boosted. Yu Yong was trying to block the Russian army's attack.

Taking advantage of the night and the cessation of the battle, the 66th Division urgently entered the position and replaced the defensive position of a division of the Turkish army in the area where the Russian army attacked the most fiercely in the east of the city. Before the defense change was over, the Russian artillery fire began to bombard the Russian army, which meant that a new round of attack of the Russian army was about to begin. The Turkish army on many positions had no time to retreat, so they had to stay in the position and work with the Chinese army to resist the Russian attack.

Turkish soldiers obviously showed a strong interest in the semi-automatic rifles in the hands of Chinese soldiers. They all knew that the Chinese Army was one of the most powerful troops, but the Turkish army had never seen it. This was the first time that soldiers on both sides fought in the same trench.

Due to the emergency marching, all the heavy artillery and heavy mortar units of the 66th Division were pulled behind, and now they could only watch the Russian army constantly bombarding the positions with cannons. Soon the officers and soldiers of the Turkish army discovered that everyone was different. The Chinese soldiers seemed very calm in front of artillery fire. On the front line of the intensive artillery fire, the Chinese army only deployed a small number of reconnaissance sentries, and the other troops were hidden to avoid the Russian artillery fire. This tactic was unknown to the Turkish army, and they just lay on the position and were bombed.

Looking at the frontline positions, I observed the sentry calmly jumping from one crater to another to avoid the Russian army's [artillery fire]. Turkish soldiers watched as they secretly praised them, and some even started to do so.

The Russian attack began. The Russian soldiers held rifles and shouted Ula, and rushed towards the position. The sentry on the front position blew a trumpet that Turkish soldiers had never seen before. The infantry hiding behind immediately emerged from the hidden place and quickly entered the position.

The Russian army had just entered the range, and the Turkish soldiers in the trenches were about to start shooting, but the Chinese soldiers immediately stopped them, 300 meters, 200 meters,

The 60mm mortar began to intercept, and the Russian army did not seem to care about the threat of death, and continued to advance in less dense artillery fire, and also accelerated the speed.

The Russian army was getting closer and closer to the position. In an instant, a gunshot was made on the position. The light and heavy weapons in the hands of the Chinese soldiers were shooting together. The Russian soldiers rushing in front suddenly fell to the ground like harvesters cutting wheat.

The Russian army behind did not realize the changes in the opponent, and thought that the Turkish army was still in front of them. They bravely continued to move forward, rushing towards the position regardless of casualties, and kept shooting at the position with the rifles in their hands. The brave Russian army stepped on the bodies of their companions and continued to advance and rushed to about 50 meters of the position. At this time, they seemed to see the possibility of victory. As long as they rushed over, the Turkish army would collapse.

The tenacity of the Russian army exceeded the imagination of our soldiers, but all this was not important. When the soldiers on the position could clearly see the bayonets of the Russian soldiers, flashing with the light of death under the reflection of the fire, a black thing flew out of the position defended by the Chinese soldiers, landing straight in the Russian army. The grenades burst into pieces, and the Russian soldiers were blown up. At this time, they already felt something was wrong, but everything was a little late. The Chinese soldiers on the position suddenly threw another grenade. After the explosion, the Russian army's

The storm formation was blown up, and many light and heavy machine guns on the Chinese military positions opened fire together, killing and injured the Russian army. When the Russian army's charge was curbed and they began to retreat, the position sounded loudly, and the Chinese soldiers rushed to the position and stood up. The semi-automatic rifle in their hands kept firing. The Russian army blocked the enemy invincible. After a counter-charge, many positions that were originally occupied by the Russian army were taken back. The result of the Russian army's charge was unexpected. Not only did it not occupy the expected positions, but it also lost many positions on the front of the Chinese army.

The Turkish soldiers following the Chinese army had never fought such a happy battle. When the Chinese army began to charge back, the Turkish soldiers who had not had time to retreat also rushed over with rifles. In their opinion, this kind of war was really too refreshing. The Turkish soldiers saw the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army for the first time.

Due to the outstanding performance of the Chinese army, the 10th Army of the 5th Army of the Turkish Army proposed that the 66th Division take over all the defensive positions on the front of Elazze and the right wing positions, while the Turkish Army is only responsible for the narrow defense areas on the left wing. Considering that the Turkish Army had fought fiercely with the Russian army for a week before, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, Lin Moran, the commander of the 66th Division, agreed to their request.

Lin Moran immediately redeployed the troops. The front of the central position was wider and defended by a whole regiment and a battalion. Three battalions were placed on the right wing position, leaving two regiments as reserves.

Russian Army Command, Commander-in-Chief Ngu Laevich.

"What? The attack failed? The enemy launched a counter-charge? Has the originally occupied positions been lost? " Chief of Staff Dragevich could hardly believe his ears. When the news was further confirmed, Dragevich looked at the nun Laevich.

Nun Laevich was actually shocked. According to the information, the Turkish Fifth Army dispatched at least half of its troops to Sivas. The Turkish army with at least one army in the Erazhe area. The Russian army attacked Erazhe with two armies for a week. Although the Russian army suffered serious casualties, the Turkish army also suffered a lot of casualties. According to judgment, there is only one Turkish army with more than one division in the city of Erazhe. Where did the counterattack troops come from? Could it be the German army? It is impossible. The German army has only one army in Turkey. It is now cooperating with Turkey to fight Britain and France in the Dardanelles. So where did the Turkish counterattack troops come from?

Due to the changes in the battlefield situation, the Grand Duke of Nun Laevich immediately asked the front army to send detailed battle reports and stop the attack at night.

The battle report was quickly sent up, with mortar intercepting, intensive firepower shooting at close range, a large number of grenades within 50 meters, a clever circular position construction, and a fierce counter-charge. All of this was really familiar to the grand duke of the nun Laevich.

Thirty years ago, in Northeast China, Grand Duke Laevich was just a colonel leader at that time, but he experienced the most painful memory of a soldier's life. The 100,000 Russian troops were defeated in China and he almost became a prisoner. If he didn't run fast, he would inevitably have the experience of levied rice in a concentration camp in China.

Grand Duke Laevich threw the pencil on his hand on the table and said to his chief of staff: "Don't guess, it's the Chinese army!"

"Oh my God! Isn't the Chinese army still in Baghdad? Why did it arrive in Elazze?" Chief of Staff Dragevich's face suddenly became bitter.

"It wouldn't be the German army, and the Turkish army wouldn't have such combat effectiveness. It can only be the Chinese army."

"God, what luck are we?" Dragevich looked at Elazer on the map in front of him in pain.

"What should I do?" Grand Duke Laevich didn't want to hear his complaints. He wanted to know how to fight the battle below. Although he had some thoughts in his mind, he still wanted to hear the Chief of Staff's opinion.

"From the scale and firepower of the battle, the Chinese army has only reached a few troops, and their main force should still be on the front line of Baghdad. Now we still have almost complete five divisions in our hands, and we have enough advantages in artillery fire. I suggest that a large-scale attack be suspended tonight. Send small troops to conduct a tentative attack, first figure out the defense of the Chinese army, and then decide tomorrow's final combat plan. In short, we must take down Elazade before the Chinese reinforcements arrive." Dragevich made a quick judgment.

"Yes, I think so too. According to the intelligence, the total strength of the Chinese Expeditionary Force is about 150,000. As long as we occupy Elazade, it will be difficult for them to fight back. At the same time, they order Sivas to step up the attack. As long as these two cities fall into our hands, the entire battle situation will develop in a direction that is beneficial to us."

That night, the Russian army did not conduct a large-scale attack, but continued to use small troops to test. The 66th Division steadily carried out defensive battles and finally waited for the sun to dawn.

After reconnaissance, the Russian army quickly figured out the deployment range of the troops in Elazze City. After the redeployment of the Russian army immediately launched a new offensive after dawn. In order to achieve the combat goal of occupying Elazze as soon as possible, the Russian army urgently drew two divisions from the direction of Sivas, hoping that these two divisions could play a role in the most critical battle.

The Russian army launched an attack on Elazade in three groups at the same time, with 100 heavy artillery and 280 various artillery fire ready to begin.

The difficulties of the desert road were unimaginable before Chenyang. It was impossible to fight smoothly in West Asia. The Chinese government did a lot of work in the early days, dispatching personnel to familiarize themselves with the desert situation and train their own intelligence officers in the local area. When the Chinese army arrived, the guides and translators were all ready-made. With Chenyang's special identity, the equipment of the First Mixed Brigade was even more sophisticated. But that's it, this damn desert became the biggest enemy of the First Mixed Travel Army.

The huge convoy of one thousand cars is indeed spectacular in the desert, but the logistics supplies for Western medicines in the troops are astronomical. Fuel and drinking water have become the most important combat materials.

Fortunately, Chen Yang was careful. Considering that Chen Yucheng temporarily changed the marching target, the situation ahead must be quite tight. Chen Yang temporarily left the reinforced heavy artillery regiment in Tel Aviv, filled the steam of the towed heavy artillery with water and fuel, and transferred 700 more cars from the Jews, which undoubtedly greatly accelerated the speed of the troops' marching.

But marching in the desert is so difficult. The wheels of cars cannot run fast in the desert. There are still cars that are stuck in the sand. They can only climb out by the push of soldiers and the traction of the cars in front. The average marching speed of only 10 kilometers per hour is really a worry. The section from Tel Aviv to Lebanon is full of intermittent deserts, which is easy to walk.

Just when Shenyang was anxious that the marching speed could not be accelerated, Chen Yucheng kept shooting telegrams, asking Chenyang's troops to speed up the marching speed, and informed that the 66th Division had entered Elazze and was currently facing the siege of the powerful Russian army. Since Chenyang's troops could mobilize enough cars, the task of emergency reinforcements naturally fell on Chenyang's head.

While Shenyang was rushing to help Elazze urgently, Chen Yucheng also ordered the main force of the expeditionary army to go north quickly, striving to defeat the main force of the Russian army in one battle and solve the problems in the Near East battlefield.
Chapter completed!