Beiyang 1917

How far can you run in one night? This question was best understood by the commanders and fighters of the Soviet Red Army armies and divisions retreating across the right bank of the Volga River on the night of July 1918, 7. Sla took him That division turned around and ran west after two encounters with Xiong Shihui's armored reconnaissance battalion.

At the beginning, Sla started to turn westward at 5 kilometers north of Brigoma. The time was 9:25 p.m. After running for three hours, it was midnight, but he couldn't run anymore. Looking at the map, good guy , just ran out for [-] kilometers, and the sound of the engine of the armored vehicle of the coalition army two kilometers away has never stopped. He intends to stop and then attack the opponent. Ke Sula knows that any stop will take Hai Xin's division What if you wiped out the opponent's armored reconnaissance battalion?

The coalition forces must be chasing him from all directions at this moment. As long as he is surrounded, it is basically tantamount to declaring a failure to break out of the encirclement. Gritting his teeth, La ordered the troops not to stop and continue running.

The wounded and soldiers who couldn't run stayed behind and waited for the other party to take them in. This was almost the last effort that Army Sla could do for its soldiers. That was to allow those who couldn't run to surrender their weapons and stay where they were, waiting Surrender and contain enemy pursuers.

Due to running too hard, the Siberian First Infantry Division led by Sla had three regiments of nearly 7500 troops left. After running 25 kilometers, more than 1500 people had been left behind. Considering the tension from nightfall to the present hour Fighting and non-stop retreating, the total division and even the marching mileage in the night are close to 60 kilometers. It is understandable for so many people to fall behind, and many of them are lightly wounded after the original two battles.

The last place where Sla's troops stayed that night was in the village of Shugurovo, 45 kilometers west of Briguma. The team fell behind all the way and has been reduced to about 5000 people. A coalition armored regiment appeared in front of it, with 120 wheeled armored vehicles. The tanks formed a 2000-meter-wide defense line, and the headlights turned on almost at the same time illuminated the wilderness. A regiment of Jiang Hongyu's 80nd Mixed Armored Brigade traveled 40 kilometers in three hours and arrived [-] minutes ago. here.

Sla and Hessing looked at each other, while the Soviet Red Army soldiers behind them fell down on the ground, many of them whimpered and cried, and the coalition forces on the opposite side were already shouting in proficient Russian through the loudspeaker,

"This is the coalition forces of the Allied Powers. Please put down your weapons. Please put down your weapons. The coalition forces give preferential treatment to prisoners. When you meet again, please cherish your life! The future of Russia needs you to live well! The people of Russia need you to live well!"

"Fight it! Comrade Commander, the opponent's formation is scattered, let's grit our teeth and rush over!" The bandage wrapped around Haixin's head was already so dirty that he couldn't see the color clearly. Facing the coalition line 300 meters away, this fellow Roaring and grabbing the shoulder of Army Commander Sla.

"What are you going to fight for? There is at least one armored regiment on the opposite side. 120 wheeled armored combat vehicles are equivalent to 120 large-caliber machine guns. The artillerymen even ran away to kill the horses pulling the cannons. The cannons have already been lightly armed. What are you going to rush over? The soldiers are so tired that they are about to vomit blood, now that the enemy has arrived here, our historical mission has been completed..."

Sla's face was pale, and he murmured, at this moment, he felt that it was a kind of relief instead, the 5000 remnants who ran out of breath, and many of them didn't even know where to throw their weapons, Where else can they go in front of the 300-meter front of an armored regiment waiting in full force? At a distance of 300 meters, as long as the 120 large-caliber heavy machine guns on the opposite side fire, there will only be a one-sided massacre!

The Russian shouting from the loudspeaker on the armored vehicle of the coalition army on the opposite side continued,

"This is the coalition forces of the Allied Powers. Please put down your weapons, His Excellency Sla of the Fifth Russian Army and the soldiers of the First Siberian Infantry Division. Please put down your weapons. The coalition forces give preferential treatment to prisoners. Please don't make fearless resistance. Please don't Do fearless resistance, your relatives and comrades-in-arms are waiting to reunite with you as soon as possible, please cherish your life! The future of Russia needs you to live well! The Russian people need you to live well! Just to see clearly that the path you choose is right Still wrong, you should all live! Please put down your weapons!"

"Pass me the order! All the First Infantry Division of Siberia put down their weapons!" Sla turned to Haixin and said in a voice full of exhaustion.Speaking of which, the guy pulled out the pistol from his waist and was about to fire at his forehead. Hai Xin, who had been on guard for a long time, grabbed his commander's pistol and dragged it out of his hand. cried out in tears,

"Put down your weapon, then put down your weapon! You said that you can keep the green hills without worrying about firewood. I, Haixin, want to see who can laugh last!" Haixin shouted at the security guard behind him,

"Protect me, Comrade Commander. The whole division has them. Listen to my orders and put down their weapons! All political commissars at all levels who disobey me will be arrested! The whole division should put down their weapons! This is the order of the commander of the group army! An order from Hai Xin, the commander of my first division!" Before Hai Xin finished speaking, the Red Army soldiers sitting on the ground behind him burst into tears, and gunshots were heard from many places. The political commissars who would rather die than surrender sent bullets into their own heads.

At 1918 o'clock in the morning on July 7, 12, Sla, the commander of the Fifth Army of the Soviet Russian Eastern Front, ordered the rest of the Siberian First Division to lay down their weapons and surrender to the coalition forces when there were interceptions in front and pursuit troops. The news spread quickly. Xiong Shihui could only smile wryly at the coalition troops on the trembling battlefield in Ufa, watching Jiang Hongyu make another contribution by relying on the high mobility of the armored troops.

At 20 o'clock in the morning, the strength of the two divisions led by the political commissar of the Fifth Army, Blumberg, was surrounded by two armored regiments led by Jiang Hongyu and the 108th Infantry Regiment of Xiong Shihui, [-] kilometers west of Brigoma. The news that Sla was captured by the Siberian First Division and laid down its weapons destroyed the fighting will of the two Soviet Russian infantry divisions, which were almost exhausted by the rapid march.

Army political commissar Blumberg also became the first political commissar to order the entire army to lay down their weapons and surrender. The Soviet Russian Fifth Army has ceased to exist since that night.

In the 48-hour battle, the three divisions of the North Route Army of the Soviet Fifth Army killed 7000 people, wounded and captured 23000 people (nearly 14000 were injured), and the South Route Army killed 5000 people, and wounded and captured 27000 people (the wounded nearly 3000 people).

In contrast, the combined casualties of Jiang Hongyu's and Xiong Shihui's troops were no more than a thousand people. Jiang Hongyu's troops almost annihilated the entire Fifth Army of the opponent. Of course, 48 hours of interspersed and roundabout operations It also exhausted the troops. As soon as Blumberg put down his weapons, many soldiers on both sides fell to the ground and fell asleep.

The opponent's army commander Sla, chief of staff Eich, political commissar Blumberg, and five division commanders and four division political commissars under him all became members of the officer corps of the coalition prisoner camp.