Age of Rebirth

Chapter 770

On August 21th, the Battle of Fort Helenburg lasted 3 hours and ended with the capture of the fortress by the corps directly under it. In this battle, more than 3000 foreign defenders were wiped out, of which [-] were killed. More than a thousand people, more than [-] prisoners, and more than [-] people are missing. It is estimated that they were blown up to ashes in the devastating shelling of the artillery group directly under the corps, leaving no trace of their existence.

Lieutenant General Subart, the commander of the garrison of Fort Helienburg, the commander and political commissar of the Second Army of the Foreign Armed Forces, committed suicide. Among the four infantry divisions to which he belonged, three division commanders were captured, one was shot dead, and the four political commissars One was captured, and the others were killed in battle, including Major General Hang Da Dorji, who commanded the [-]st Guards Division to besiege Duan Shude's troops, and other regimental and battalion-level officers, except those who were killed, were all captured, and Choibalsan was divided. , an independent military capital, and the entire army was wiped out in World War I.

So far, in the territory of the foreign army, the government of the foreign army split has no decent military group. The Battle of Fort Helianbo has initially achieved Tang Qiuli's goal of gathering and annihilating the main force of the foreign army, and the casualties of the corps directly under it also exceeded There were more than [-] people, most of them were troops who broke into the fort, and the name of the temporary commander, Major Duan Shude, also became a hero in the hearts of soldiers and officers of the directly subordinate regiment.

Tang Qiuli, the commander of the independent division and the commander of the directly subordinate corps, immediately issued an order to award Duan Shude the second-class warrior medal, and notified the whole army that his family members would enjoy the treatment of martyrs. Only the officers of the directly subordinate corps who received the bravery or warrior medal in the Battle of Helianbo Castle And soldiers, there are more than 100 people. This is a combat group where heroes are born in large numbers, and it is also the soil for cultivating heroes. The spiritual motivation represented by the medal inspires all soldiers directly under the corps to be more brave and tenacious. Warriors have become the envy of everyone. [

On August [-]th, the entire corps rested for a day at Fort Helenburgh. Because the battle ended at an extraordinary speed, Tang Qiuli had plenty of time to adjust his deployment. What he had always cared about was not foreign troops. *The army, not even Kulun, but the movement of the Soviet army, even if Kulun is conquered, the Soviets will accumulate troops and fight to the death against themselves outside the army. geographic location.

He still doesn't know that the Soviet Union's Far East First Army is rapidly forming, and the famous Soviet general Zhukov will become his opponent. However, Lieutenant General Zhukov, the commander of the army, asked Choibalsan to hold out for at least 20 to [-] days. There is a buffer time for the formation. With the fall of Fort Helianburg, it has become an impossible task. This has brought immeasurable losses and difficulties to Zhukov's plan.

Helianbo Fort fierce battle, the Soviet army did not see a shadow, not even a Soviet aircraft came, this itself is very abnormal, at the same time, through contact with Feng Jiwu , the troops were progressing smoothly, and the resistance they encountered was extremely weak. Most of them were local guards with poor equipment, and they rarely encountered regular troops from outside the country.

The Soviets were unusually calm, the more so, the more uncertain Tang Qiuli's heart was, he ordered the special operations detachment to disperse the troops again, and pay close attention to everything around the Soviet army. Move, expand the scope of reconnaissance, set up an airtight surveillance network on the border with the Soviet Union, keep in touch with the division commander for 24 hours, and report all information about the mobilization of the Soviet army directly to the division commander.

On August [-]th, the troops regaining their physical strength and combat effectiveness, after replenishing supplies and medicine, swung their troops straight out of Fort Hellenberger, and rushed towards the last and biggest target of attack, Kulun, and sat in the command vehicle Tang Qiuli, who was on the road, still had the lingering shadow of the Soviet army in his mind. Kulun was the last battle to regain foreign lands, but it was the focus of the battle with the Soviet army, and the Soviet army had not moved for a long time. Is there another conspiracy or other reasons, this time, what kind of opponent is here?

No matter how difficult the road to Kulun was, at [-] o'clock in the morning on August [-]th, under the command of Tang Qiuli, the corps directly under the Independent Division approached Kulun City, which is located on the grassland outside Yimapingchuan. There is no modern defense system, only temporarily excavated field fortifications, which look chaotic in the faint morning light.

Such a city, apart from having a large number of human resources, does not even have decent tall buildings, and does not have the minimum conditions for street fighting. I don't know how Choibalsan can hold the city. Tang Qiuli had every reason to believe that it only took two hours for the artillery group to turn Kulun into ruins and be wiped off the map.

But this is not the result he wants. A ruined Kulun is of no value to Tang Qiuli. He wants to recover the country, not destroy it. The troops quickly took all-round measures against Culun according to the order of the corps headquarters. surrounded.

Helianbo Fort fell so quickly that Choibalsan was shocked and caught off guard. The city residents of Kulun had just mobilized and everything was still in order. Choibalsan knew in his heart that except for a capital guard division that was a regular army defending Kulun In addition, other forces are a group of mobs, temporarily armed civilians, who were instigated to the front by the Communist People's Revolutionary Party. Qiao Basan didn't even want to think about their combat effectiveness.

At the critical moment, Qiao Bashan took sentimental but absolutely necessary measures to suppress the news of the fall of Fort Helienbo to everyone. Two confidential personnel responsible for receiving news from the front line of Fort Helienbo disappeared mysteriously. It is said that they were The spies hidden by the Chinese in the foreign government have been secretly executed. Even the personal secretary who sent the top-secret telegram to Choibalsan died inexplicably.

He wanted to use these few days to take a breather and deploy Kulun's defense properly. The main force of the foreign army had been completely lost. Qiao Bashan's only hope was Zhukov's First Far East Army, but Tang Qiuli didn't even have a chance to breathe. If he didn't give it to him, he only had a day's rest in Helianbo Castle, and then he came to the city.

It was another dawn. Under the leadership of the cadres of the Communist Revolutionary Party, the Kulun people came to the outskirts with tools and continued to dig trenches. The cars surrounded Kulun from all directions, and the countless Chinese soldiers were loaded with guns. Their cold eyes made them feel chills in their hearts.

The Chinese soldiers did not shoot, the crowd scattered and fled back to the urban area desperately. Falling into extreme panic, Choibalsan's lies went bankrupt, and the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city were shaken.

Choibalsan convened an emergency city defense meeting, and implemented comprehensive military control and martial law in Kulun. The temporary court composed of members of the Revolutionary Party of the Communist Party of China adopted brutal suppression measures against the so-called wavering elements, those who tried to escape, and those who dissipated the morale of the army. To stop the panic, Qiao Bashan went on a killing spree, using red terror to tie more than 20 Kulun people to the chariot of the foreign government to split the government, which is also a road of no return.

Throughout the day on August [-], Tang Qiuli did not order the troops to launch an attack. He was waiting, waiting for the reaction of the Soviets, and waiting for Choibalsan to repent at the critical moment and take the correct method to save Kulun from the The flames of war are overwhelming, and it is also to avoid planting seeds of hatred in the hearts of outsiders. The overwhelming army is a deterrent.

Kulun confronted the 10,000nd [-]+ Squadron in anxiety. Choibalsan even sent several telegrams a day to Stalin directly. Communist revolutionaries who can lead the heroic foreign people to resist the Chinese invaders and persist until the arrival of the Soviet Red Army troops.”

If this is not nutritious, if Qiao Basan is sure, can he still be anxious like ants on a hot pot?While Qiaobashan was racking his brains on how to keep Kulun, an undercurrent was quietly surging inside Kulun City. Under the rule of the Communist People's Revolutionary Party, those princes and nobles who had lost their power and status were also brewing great changes.

On August [-]th, the Chinese army still did not launch an attack on Kulun. There were only a large number of tanks and military vehicles moving back and forth around Kulun, which increased the psychological pressure on the people in the city. Tang Qiuli was still waiting. There was still no action, and the various special warfare teams distributed on the borders of the foreign countries and the Soviet Union sent intelligence, and there was no sign of the Soviet army being mobilized.

At [-] o'clock in the morning on August [-]th, around Kulun City, which had been silent for several days, the roar of tanks broke the tranquility before dawn. After waiting for two days, the independent division directly under the Corps finally launched a full-scale attack on Kulun City. There was no sound of guns, only the roar of tank engines, and groups of silent soldiers under the cover of tanks. [

Tang Qiuli's main attack direction was very accurate. It happened to be the only trump card in Qiaobashan's hand, the defensive area of ​​the Capital Guard Division. At a distance, the artillery of the Capital Guard Division began to shell the tank cluster of the Japanese Army.

The sparse guns fell in the attack column of the tank brigade directly under the corps, and smoke columns rose one by one. The small number of light artillery did very little damage to the modified "Izu" tanks. In front of the trench, the tanks stopped advancing, lined up in a horizontal line, and bombarded the defensive positions of the foreign army. This is also bullying the foreign army for not having anti-tank weapons.

Puffs of smoke exploded in the positions of the foreign army, and the hastily built bunkers and bunkers were reduced to ruins of broken bricks and rocks under the salvo of three tank brigades. From the rear of the attacking troops, Dozens of auxiliary tanks drove up, and the huge shovels in front of the cars kicked up large lumps of dirt. The light and heavy machine guns of the foreign army hit the armor of the tanks with "clinking" sounds. These dirt tanks did not feel Generally, work as usual.

(To be continued)