Death in battle, death in life - some differences between Tolstoy novels and stories

Last story in the Tolstoy collection "The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories," translated by Pevear-Volokhonsky, is a novella, Hadji Murat (?), about a Chechen rebel leader who, for some reason, not clear (to me) from first third of the story, turns himself over to the Russian army. Not clear exactly what the story/novella is about or where it's going, but does include so many Chechen terms that this edition at least appends a two-page glossary. The best scene so far is a representative Tolstoy battle scene, the Chechens far across a field start shooting at the Russian army, for no particular reason, everyone's just assembled and presumably waiting for Murat to turn himself in. Russians start shooting back, it's all random and almost gleeful, as if everyone likes the sound of gunfire and the soldiers just need something to do, and then a young officer gets a bullet to the gut - and everyone realizes that in fact people are shooting at one another, shooting to kill. The officer says he can't get up - it doesn't hurt, but he can't get up, and the pain of that scene is more intense and comprehensible than any number of gory battle scenes - typically Tolstoyan understatement, attention to detail, sense of phrasing and timing, and feeling for the random realities of battle. Oddly, I think this may be the only scene of fighting in this entire collection, as if war was too complex a subject for Tolstoy to approach in short fiction. His short fiction often concerns a character confronting death (Ivan Ilyich, Alyosha the Pot), but seldom through the sudden unpredictability of warfare.