Beiyang 1917

Slavin glanced at Haixin, the big division commander was obviously a commander who was thick but fine. The distance is not very close. On the other hand, it means that the opponent's troop mobilization will take time, and the troop strength may not be as strong as I estimated, but judging from the two contact battles with the opponent's armored reconnaissance battalion just now.

If the opponent has an armored regiment, your own division will not be able to escape. If the opponent is an armored brigade, then there is nothing surprising in the destruction of Aihe's Northern Route Army. There is a huge gap in equipment, firepower and tactics, let alone It is said that the other party will have the support of the air force at any time.

After thinking about it, Slavin made a decision and ordered,

"Three field artillery companies are left behind, and the cavalry battalion under the group army is with you. Of course, the cavalry battalion has only one and a half companies left, and I will leave you with a heavy machine gun company. Your task is to hold the current position. Prepare to cover our transfer with artillery! After half an hour, you will start to chase the brigade, and the infantry will wait for you 5 kilometers to the west. If you have not arrived in an hour, the infantry will continue to retreat westward!"

As a matter of fact, the infantry only walked 5-6 kilometers in the wild in an hour. If everything is normal with Slavin's arrangement, when the infantry reaches 5 kilometers to the west, the cavalry, horse-drawn artillery, and heavy machine guns will be just right overnight. Hurry up, this is a last resort for alternating cover.

In order to hurry up, Slavin's three regiments of infantry turned to the west. Walking north of the team were two battalions of semi-heavy machine guns and three Battalions of Malashan artillery. , The infantry covered their heads and evacuated in concealment, and directly used artillery and heavy machine guns to deal with the opponent's wheeled armored vehicles.At the same time, the field artillery company staying in the rear can also provide fire support with grenades.

The seriously wounded who had been bandaged by the medical soldiers lay silently in the grass and watched the brigade turn to advance westward. Many people choked up and shed tears, and some wounded even cried bitterly. The members and uninjured comrades-in-arms can evacuate without being dragged down, and gradually everyone has silently accepted this reality.

Xiong Shihui's armored reconnaissance battalion retreated another five kilometers after the second exchange of fire. Gu Xiaosi commanded the whole battalion to rearrange their positions, but after waiting for half an hour, the enemy did not catch up. Maozi must have slipped away!It seems that I have been fooled by the enemy, thinking that the main force of the opponent's three divisions is preparing to attack north. Now I have fought twice and the opponent has only one division.

The command given by the teacher is to stick to the enemy and keep in contact. Now what should the fish do if they want to get off the hook?Battalion Commander Gu Xiaosi ordered to report to the headquarters. The enemy did not seem to be the main force of the Fifth Army. Searching and reconnaissance to the east, this guy himself led the battalion, the first company, and the fourth company to turn around and chase back from the original road.

If the heavy machine gun company and the three artillery companies left by Slavin could hold their breath, they should have made a lot of money. After all, their artillery positions and machine gun positions were statically braked in the dark, or if they didn't If the target is exposed, then most of Gu Xiaosi's armored troops have to be beaten before they can find the opponent's artillery and heavy machine gun positions.

But even though Gu Xiaosi is only a battalion commander, before this fellow was in the division headquarters for his distant cousin Xiong Shihui, who was a year younger than him, as the head of the combat staff. Waiting for himself to go back to drill, so his armored vehicle did not turn on the headlights at all when driving, and when it was less than 1 km back to the position of the second battle, Gu Xiaosi ordered his troops to come down for a fire reconnaissance, and sent a chariot to each flank They went directly to the rear of the opponent's position and began to sweep with machine guns, and the mortar squad even launched a rapid attack directly.

Now the artillery company and the heavy machine gun battalion ambushing on the opposite side thought they had been discovered by the enemy, so of course they had to act first. The artillery company turned its muzzle with a huff, and the six heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun company fired first!

Gu Xiaosi saw that there was indeed an ambush, but he saw that the opponent only had six heavy machine guns firing, and the firepower of the rest of the rifles was also very sparse. It was obviously not the main force, maybe it was the rear guard. The armored vehicles fired forward while charging forward, not to mention that the 12.7mm large-caliber machine gun can directly shoot through the shield of the wheeled Maxim machine gun, even the number is completely disproportionate. There are 20 Chinese fd-17ii wheeled armored combat vehicles, and the opponent has only six Maxim wheeled machine guns mounted on carriages.

During the mutual shooting, the heavy machine gun company left behind by Slavin was completely annihilated, while Gu Xiaosi's 20 chariots were almost unscathed. The fire was fired, the problem is that the distance is less than 1200 meters, and the first salvo of the field artillery company was aimed at the position of the opponent's mortar group just now. The opponent's wheeled armored vehicle rushed over nearly 300 meters earlier, and the mortar Squad had already put away his cannon, jumped into the wheeled armored vehicle and walked forward.

The first wave of shells from the 18mm field artillery of the 76th field artillery company fell behind Gu Xiaosi's shock line. Gu Xiaosi commanded the armored company to charge while letting two armored vehicles equipped with 81mm mortar platoons put the mortars on the way. Putting it down, for the artillery, the first is to fire the enemy first, and the second is to find the opponent first. If the three field artillery companies left by Slavin were mountain artillery companies, the results of the battle may be much greater, at least It is his job to aim the mountain cannon directly at the armored target. The field cannon has a slow initial velocity and a curved trajectory.

As a result, Gu Xiaosileng, who was sure that the opponent's main force had already shifted, took the risk to order the armored tanks to sweep all the way and hit the opponent's field artillery position, while the 81mm mortar group belonging to the armored battalion was just moving and shooting separately. At 800 meters and 750 meters, the opponent's field artillery positions were beaten by salvos.

When Gu Xiaosi's 20 armored vehicles rushed up and surrounded the opponent's artillery position, the opponent's cavalry company had already fled to the west, and the artillerymen of the Fifth Army of the Soviet Russian Red Army with less than two companies left had to put down their weapons and surrender to the coalition forces !

Gu Xiaosi's two armored companies captured more than 100 people from the opponent's two artillery companies, and seized 12 field guns that were still in good condition. The remaining 6 field guns were destroyed by his mortars. , There are dozens of seriously wounded people behind the artillery position. At this moment, the Fifth Army left behind the heavy machine gun company and almost wiped out the entire army. In addition to more than 100 prisoners, the three artillery companies also killed more than 20 people and injured 30. Many people, the living Red Army soldiers have become prisoners of the coalition forces.

As a result of the interrogation of the prisoners, it was quickly understood that Slavin, the commander of the group army, only led a division and an artillery and heavy machine gun battalion to attack north. They stayed behind, but the cavalry company had dealt with the armored reconnaissance battalion last time. Seeing that the situation was not good, they dropped the artillery and retreated on horseback. The artillery prisoners of the Soviet Red Army cursed and said that the cavalry company was not loyal!At the same time, he asked if it was true that the coalition forces gave preferential treatment to prisoners?His division is not far from Brigoma in the south, and there are dozens of seriously injured people waiting to be taken in!

Gu Xiaosi couldn't wait to gather the seriously injured for Slavin, so he hurriedly reported to Xiong Shihui's headquarters in Almetyevsk:

Slavin, the commander of the Russian Fifth Army, led the first division of the Siberian infantry to flee westward. Our troops wiped out three artillery companies and one heavy machine gun company of the opponent. The wounded broke out to the west with the lightly wounded. After interrogation, the prisoners of the First Division did not know the whereabouts of the political commissar of the Army Group Blumberg and the other two infantry divisions.

After sending the telegram, without waiting for Xiong Shihui's instructions, he left two armored vehicles to collect and escort the prisoners, and led the remaining 18 armored vehicles to the west to chase after them.It doesn't matter if you let go of the Fifth Army, but if you let that Slavin go, my cousin will never forgive me. Now Jiang Hongyu has caught a Ekh, who is the political commissar of the Army Group, and Lezhevsky who put down his arms and surrendered in Ufa Is an army commander.

So Xiong Shihui's order to Gu Xiaosi's Armored Reconnaissance Battalion is, absolutely don't let Slavin go!Must catch up, stick.