"Report to the regiment commander, the scouts found enemy troops 20 kilometers west of our army, estimated strength in about one regiment, and did not find heavy weapons?"

After receiving the report, Cai Desheng, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Marine Corps, immediately opened the map, and his current location is called Erdaoqiaogou, which is directly connected to the Russian army, and according to the speed at which the two sides are moving in the opposite direction, they will meet in about 1 hour or so, and the strength of the two sides is roughly the same.

After the KPA attacked, the troops on the northern front sent 1 regiment of the 1st Marine Division to the front, and the main force was delayed for about 10 kilometers. Although I know the route of the Russian army's march, I still don't know the overall operational idea of the Russian army, so this approach is also the safest.

Of course, since the People's Army already knows that the Russian army is dispatching, and the Russian army may not necessarily know the movements of the People's Army, the People's Army has undoubtedly taken the lead, and the 1st Regiment can be the first to discover the whereabouts of the enemy troops.

Now that the Russian army has been discovered, it is natural that it cannot be let go, and now it is on the road that the German army must pass, so the commander of the 1st regiment, Cai Desheng, decided to set up an ambush in the same place, ambush the Russian army, and annihilate this regiment first.

So Cai Desheng reported to the division headquarters on the one hand, and arranged an ambush position on the other. The KPA was already familiar with the work of setting up an ambush, and the mortar units immediately occupied the nearby high ground, surveyed the terrain, and set up firing units; the machine gun crews also looked for a favorable position and arranged machine gun positions, while the rest of the troops assigned the second and third battalions to lay in ambush in the dense forests and grass on both sides of the road, while the first battalion waited on the periphery; as soon as the Russian troops entered the ambush position, they inserted them from behind the Russian troops to cut off the Russian army's retreat. The KPA has set up such ambush positions after many trainings, so it only took a little more than a moment to set up all the positions, just waiting for the arrival of the Russian army.

As soon as the ambush position of the Nachi People's Army was arranged, a report was received from the scouts that the Russian army actually stopped advancing about 16 kilometers away from the ambush position, stopped on the spot, and seemed to be camping in place to rest.

At this time, Cai Desheng was also a little confused, it was difficult that the Russian army discovered that he had set up an ambush, so he did not advance? But it was also not right, if he found that there were enemy troops in front of him, he would either retreat immediately, or arrange a defensive position in the same place, and would never camp to rest. In this way, it seems that the Russian army should not have discovered the ambush position of the KPA, but stopped advancing due to some unexpected event.

Now the People's Army is faced with two choices, one is to wait in place, the Russian army may continue to march tomorrow, and still enter the ambush position, but this choice is too variable, after all, this night's time, there may be accidents; the second is to change the ambush to take the initiative to attack, like the Russian army to attack, but although this can also catch the Russian army by surprise, but it can only defeat the Russian army, it is difficult to inflict heavy losses on the Russian army, after all, the People's Army has no advantage in strength.

Cai Desheng couldn't make up his mind for a while, after all, he was just promoted from the battalion commander at the end of the first phase of the war and the expansion of the Marine Corps, and when he was the battalion commander, he only needed to obey the orders of the regiment, and the regiment commander needed to fight independently and need to have the ability to make decisions, but Cai Desheng obviously lacked experience, so he could only ask the division headquarters for instructions, but fortunately, the communication of the People's Army was very convenient, and it was very easy to communicate with the division headquarters.

After receiving Cai Desheng's report, the division headquarters held after careful analysis that this was the first battle of the People's Army against the Russian army after the Battle of Vladivostok, and it was necessary to inflict heavy casualties on the Russian army as much as possible, which would be conducive to the subsequent battle, so it was better to ambush the Russian army. And the chance of waiting for an accident overnight is not great, and if you find that the Russian army has signs of retreat, you can immediately pursue it, at least you can win the battle.

After receiving the instructions from the division headquarters, Cai Desheng was no longer entangled, and on the one hand ordered the troops to continue to lie in ambush and wait for the Russian army to advance, and on the other hand, he ordered the scouts to closely monitor the Russian army and immediately report to himself as soon as there was a situation.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the scout's report made Cai Desheng breathe a sigh of relief, it turned out that the scout sent a report that the Russian army was receiving supplies, so it seems that the reason why the Russian army stayed in place was to wait for supplies.

It turned out that although the Russian army formulated the tactics of dividing troops to attack, they did not know anything about the deployment of troops and the battle plan of the People's Army, so they adopted tactics similar to those of the People's Army, sending a regiment as the front, and the brigade followed behind, in fact, this is also the usual tactic of fighting in an unfamiliar environment. Russia is a country that is committed to invading other countries, and it has naturally practiced this set of tactics thoroughly, and basically stretches out its hand to come, unlike the People's Army, which has to study and discuss for a long time.

However, the Russian army was formed in a hurry, and the preparation was not sufficient, so when the vanguard of the Russian army came here, the dry food carried by the army had been eaten, so they had to wait in place for the team behind to send supplies.

Sure enough, at 7 o'clock in the morning of the next day, the scouts reported again that the Russian army had indeed set out of camp and advanced in the direction of Erdaoqiao Ditch. After Cai Desheng learned about it, he was also in high spirits, and immediately ordered the troops to be rearranged to prepare for an ambush of the Russian army. Since it had already been arranged once, this time it took only half an hour for the KPA to complete the arrangement of the position.

Although the distance between the two armies was only 16 kilometers at this time, the Russian army's march speed was not fast, and the KPA waited for 2 hours before the Russian army arrived. Fortunately, the scouts of the People's Army always kept a firm eye on the Russian army, and constantly passed the position of the Russian army to the People's Army, so the People's Army did not worry too much.

Seeing that the Russian army finally entered the ambush position arranged by itself, and the first battalion was also moving to the rear of the Russian army, Cai Desheng also breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, since the army, his spirit has been very tight, first, this is the first battle after he was promoted to regiment commander; second, he also got too little information on the battlefield, and he has no bottom in his heart, and now Cai Desheng finally has a feeling of victory.

"Fire!" With Cai Desheng's order, nearly 100 mortars of the whole regiment opened fire, firing shells at the marching Russian army at the fastest speed.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

In just one minute, the People's Army fired nearly 1,000 shells at the Russian army, and the shells rained down on the Russian army's ranks, causing dense explosions and also causing a large number of casualties.

At this time, the machine-gun positions arranged by the People's Army also opened fire, intertwining countless fire nets on the battlefield, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of Russian soldiers.

In just a few minutes, the Russian army's queue was completely defeated, a large number of soldiers fell to the ground and could not get up again, and the surviving panicked soldiers could only desperately flee to the jungle on both sides to avoid the fatal blow on the road, in the eyes of the Russian soldiers, maybe the jungle would be safer. However, the KPA soldiers who were ambushed on both sides opened fire, and the Russian troops who escaped the fastest were killed and fell to the ground one after another, completely breaking the unrealistic illusions of the Russian soldiers, and a battalion that went around behind the Russian army launched an attack behind the Russian army, which also completely forced the Russian army into a desperate situation.

Less than 10 minutes after the battle began, under the fierce fire of the People's Army, the Russian army was already crushed, and suffered heavy casualties. After all, the Russian army is also the vanguard, and if it becomes a protracted battle, it will be difficult to deal with the arrival of large forces of the Russian army.

With the charge of the People's Army, the two sides immediately launched a white-knuckle battle, although a small number of Russian soldiers are still very tenacious, raising their bayonets and fighting hard with the soldiers of the People's Army, but most of the Russian soldiers have been frightened by the blow just now, at this time they have no intention of fighting, when the soldiers of the People's Army are killed, they either take the road and flee, or raise their hands to surrender, even if they are engaged in white-knives combat with the soldiers of the People's Army, they are not opponents at all because they are not cowardly.

Therefore, a small number of Russian soldiers desperately highlighted the encirclement of the People's Army and rushed out, but most of the Russian soldiers were not so lucky, and under the blow of the People's Army, they could only fight and retreat, and the encirclement circle shrank and narrowed, and some Russian soldiers could only lay down their arms and raise their hands to surrender; however, some Russian troops were still stubbornly resisting, concentrating a dozen or dozens of people to form a small position, and with the help of the cover of mountains, rocks and trees, desperately resisting the attack of the People's Army。

Although the number of people in these small positions is not large, it is not easy to break through these small positions, and they still have to pay a certain price for casualties, but of course the People's Army will not use manpower to attack, but will call the mortar troops to aim at these small positions for a few shots, and immediately the Russian soldiers will be killed or wounded, and the resistance will naturally collapse.

The whole battle only lasted more than half an hour before it was over, the People's Army killed more than 1,700 Russian troops, captured more than 1,000 people, and only about 700 Russian soldiers escaped from the encirclement of the People's Army, and the Russian regiment was basically abandoned, while the People's Army itself suffered less than 300 casualties, and only 92 soldiers were killed.

The main reason for achieving such an absolute victory is that the People's Army can first discover the enemy, so it can arrange the ambush position in advance, and when the Russian army enters the ambush circle of the People's Army, in fact, the victory or defeat has already been determined. This also shows once again how important intelligence gathering is on the battlefield.

After the brigade of the Russian army on the northern front learned that the vanguard regiment was ambushed by the People's Army and suffered a heavy defeat, they also knew that they had encountered the People's Army, so they did not dare to continue to advance, but retreated to the area around Chaoyangchuan Mountain to organize defensive positions.