Age of Rebirth

Not long after Liu Tiehan's telegram was sent, he received a reply from his teacher Tang Qiuli. The content of the telegram was even bolder than Liu Tiehan's.

"Brother Tiehan, I heard from the call. Congratulations on the first battle of the Eastern Finger Army. It ended with the record of annihilating an entire Soviet army. Whether to pursue the retreating main force of the Soviet Army or not, Brother Tiehan will make a decision based on the actual situation on the battlefield. My suggestion is, It’s not rude to come and go, and the East Pointing Forces can take this opportunity to conquer Chita, the Soviet Union’s important town outside the eastern border of Outer Mongolia, and the surrounding areas. The battlefield situation is extremely beneficial to me, and the Soviet Far East Front Army will never dare to send a single soldier.”

"This move has two meanings. First, it can remove the biggest threat on the eastern border of Outer Mongolia. Second, it will cut off the closest passage to the border of the Soviet army Chen Bing. The important assembly point also connects the eastern part of Outer Mongolia with the Ulan-Ude region, so as not to stand out, this suggestion is for my brother's consideration, if feasible, please call back and report the specific plan."

Seeing Tang Qiuli's call back, Liu Tiehan looked up to the sky and laughed, and said to Li Guangjin: "Guangjin, this is the difference between vision and appetite. I just want to eat up this Soviet army. What the teacher thinks is not only to kill This Soviet army still needs to take down Chita and advance the eastern border of Outer Mongolia to the territory of the Soviet Union. Well, call back the division commander. This suggestion is very good. Chasing and destroying the Soviet army and capturing Chita can be carried out simultaneously. Report later!"

"The Operations Department immediately formulates a battle plan to capture Chita! Also, move the headquarters forward and follow the troops!" Li Guangjin responded loudly: "Yes! The Operations Department will start immediately!" Then he whispered: "Okay. The battle is getting bigger and bigger!" [

After Li Guangjin went out, Liu Tiehan said to a staff officer beside him: "Order. The troops pursuing the front should not press the Soviet army too tightly. The troops on the left and right flanks will carry out continuous and biggest blows along the retreat of the Soviet army to continuously weaken the Soviet army. The strength of the army, in order to reduce the pressure on the blocking troops."

"Order. Chen Guozhu's Department of the [-]th Brigade, the cavalry will be mixed into the He Zhu's National Department of the Brigade, and the original mission will be changed. Be sure to block the Soviet army on the Nerchinsk front line!"

"Order, the fleet of the Northern Flying Group, which is assigned to combat, is dispatched to bomb the retreating Soviet army. Destroy all roads! Tell the fleet commander, don't be stingy with bombing, give me a hard bomb!"

An unprecedented pursuit began, and the retreat of the Soviet army was very difficult, as if stuck in a muddy swamp, with every step taken.They have to pay a huge price. On both sides of the road, independent division troops are constantly being killed, and the tactics are exactly the same.First, with fierce artillery fire, it blasted towards the Soviet army for a while.Then dense rain poured over, and the infantry began to charge. After eating part of the Soviet troops, they did not pursue them, but returned to their original positions to welcome the next wave of Soviet troops, and repeated the actions just now.

Liu Tiehan's style of play is a typical wolf pack tactic, with six brigades of 10,000+ people lined up on both sides, with the battalion as a unit, each responsible for a section, taking advantage of the Soviet army's eagerness to retreat and unwilling to entangle, constantly attacking, They did not try their best to intercept and kill the Soviet troops, but made full use of artillery firepower, light and heavy machine gun firepower, and let go after a bite. The casualties of the troops were not large, but the harvest was not small. Cut flesh.

Lieutenant General Yemenchenko has been numb. Since the retreat, he has never stopped the sound of guns in his ears. The sound of guns behind him is normal. Are the troops of the Independent Division chasing him? But the guns on both sides The sound was no less than that of the back, and the most rain-like mortars roared and smashed down. I really don't know how many troops Tang Qiuli used to deal with him?

There are 10,000+ people in my three armies, and the marching queue is at least more than a hundred kilometers long. There are gunfire and shouts of killing everywhere. Why are there troops from the independent division along the line? Could it be that I got into Tang Qiuli's house? in the pocket?Along the way, leaving behind several bloody soldier corpses!

Seeing his 10,000+ troops, like a snowball under the blazing sun, from the initial giant to gradually melting and shrinking, and disappearing on the vast grasslands in eastern Outer Mongolia, Lieutenant General Yemenchenko had a premonition that he and the 10,000+ Soldiers, the chances of returning to the formation of the front army are very slim.

In all fairness, whether it is Marshal Petroshilov, the chief of the Soviet Army's general staff, or Lieutenant General Yemenchenko, the commander of the army, the decision to retreat eagerly after knowing the siege of Liu Tiehan's East Pointing troops is debatable.

If the Soviet army sticks to the spot and fights head-to-head, with slightly more troops than the East Pointing Army, Liu Tiehan will need to spend a lot of effort to eat this Soviet army. In less than a week, he cannot Solve the battle, and the casualties of the troops will increase more than several times.

The Soviet army on the move, heavy firepower can't play a role at all, the artillery can't fire while running, and the Dongzhi troops are waiting for work at leisure, and ambushed in advance on both sides of the area where the Soviet army passed. The artillery has already built a position. After setting the position and coordinates, as long as you see the Soviet troops passing by, you can just fire the guns. When the guns do not miss, one will retreat in a hurry.

On the one hand, it has been prepared for a long time. Artillery, mortars, and light and heavy machine guns form an all-round covering firepower. All the Soviet troops passing by will not leave hundreds of corpses. This is everywhere along the route. How many Soviet troops can withstand consumption?

This is the cleverness of Liu Tiehan's style of play. He deliberately left a hole for the Soviet army, so that the Soviet commander always had hope. Once the more than [-] Soviet soldiers reached the point of despair, they knew how to break through, and had the idea of ​​fighting to the death. Even if the Dongzhi troops won a complete victory, the price they paid would be extremely heavy. of.

The battlefield spread over a hundred kilometers long. On the prairie in the east of Outer Mongolia, guns roared, smashing into a fire net of casualties composed of steel fragments, constantly devouring the lives of Soviet soldiers. Liu Tiehan precisely controlled the attack rhythm of the troops, bit by bit Let the blood of the Soviet army dry and consume its vital strength until it crashes to the ground, while Chen Guozhu's [-]th Brigade and He Zhuguo's cavalry mixed brigade are deployed on the front line of Nerchinsk to intercept the Soviet army. killer.

Liu Tiehan's mood is extremely comfortable. Not to mention the smooth battle, he also gained a lot. The Soviet army just put on a posture of being beaten, sitting in the armored command vehicle, and he kept giving various orders , "Zhou Fucheng, your second brigade is stuck too tightly. The infantry should not attack too deeply, and use more artillery fire. If after the battle, your brigade suffers more casualties than other brigades, you can give me a reasonable explanation!"

"Wu Keren, your fifth brigade has several positions, which are too prominent. Be careful of the 10,000+ Soviet troops who are eager to retreat. They will drown you, retreat three kilometers, get out of the way, and flank! Intercept and kill! Like a wolf, take a bite Just go, this is not a war of resistance, no one will let you block the Soviet army with your life, and if you don't let go, be careful, I will withdraw you!"

Liu Tiehan was yelling in the armored command vehicle, and the staff officers in the vehicle couldn't help laughing. It's been a few years, and I haven't seen the posture of the deputy division commander. It's really weird, and I'm afraid of the troops Commander who hit too hard!

On the eastern battlefield of Outer Mongolia, the nine brigades of the East Pointing Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Liu Tiehan, the deputy division commander and commander, fought fiercely against the Soviet troops who were eager to retreat. On the Baiyinchagan battlefield, a great battle was going on in full swing.

At around 29 o'clock in the morning on September [-], the atmosphere in the Outer Mongolia Campaign Headquarters seemed very calm. The staff members were busy with their own affairs. The troops of the Soviet Transcaucasus Military Region in the encirclement continued to gather together without any attempt to break out of the encirclement. The move was directly under the various brigades of the Corps, and they did not receive orders from the division headquarters for a general attack. The battlefield seemed a bit dull. Only the Soviet troops in the encirclement knew their suffering. [

The artillerymen of the Independent Division fought tirelessly from dark to dawn, continuously pouring thousands of large-caliber grenades on the position. The Soviet soldiers were already numb. When they saw their comrades, their bodies were alive just now, with the sound of an explosion. , a mass of fire and gunpowder smoke rose, and immediately became torn apart, flesh and blood flew, and there was no fear in their hearts. They knew very well that maybe in the next moment, they would become a fragmented corpse like their companions.

Division Commander Tang Qiuli, with a cigarette in his left hand, was reading a telegram sent by Major General Yang Ketian, Chief of Staff of the East Finger, who commanded three brigades and was bound for the south bank of the Selenge River. All right, according to the current marching speed, we can reach the south bank of the Selenge River and set up defenses before ten o'clock in the night of September [-]th, and complete the task assigned by the division to block the retreat of the Soviet army."

"In view of the division's report on the enemy's situation, it was mentioned that the Soviet troops of a division had gone south from Ulanwood and Irkutsk, and seemed to compete with me for the crossing of the Selenga River. I have dispatched two To strengthen the strength of the regiment, form a fast column, advance lightly, reach the north bank of the Selenge River ahead of the main force, and build a position. At the same time, order Zeng Shiqiang of the [-]rd Cavalry Brigade to look for opportunities to delay the speed of the Soviet army going south."

Tang Qiuli smiled slightly and thought to himself: "Yang Ketian is good, he knows how to adapt, two reinforced regiments plus Zeng Shiqiang's cavalry brigade are enough to deal with a second-rate Soviet army division, no matter what Stalin's intentions, this Soviet army division will always be You can't even reach the Selenge River!"

Putting down Yang Ketian's telegram, he picked up the telegrams of Cavalry Commander Liu Chun and Second Cavalry Brigade Commander Tong Batu. A call came in, and the ground radar station reported that Soviet aircraft were dispatched, and it was still a large fleet!"

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