Chapter 205: Frontal Attack (3)
However, the Dalinor Lake area is also more than 200 kilometers away from Chifeng, so the Mongol army can still implement the corresponding tactics developed by the Russian officers when they push the battle line to this area.
So the Mongolian army was stationed in the area of Lake Dalinor, and according to the drawings provided by the Russian officer to arrange the camp, after the People's Army sent troops, the Mongolian army did attack the People's Army along the road, and also launched a night attack, but to the surprise of the Mongolian army, the People's Army was well garrisoned, and the Mongolian army not only did not occupy anything, but also suffered more than 400 casualties, and the losses were not small, so the Mongolian army did not dare to attack the People's Army again.
And now the People's Army is also stationed in the Dalinor Lake area, and has begun to build a large number of buildings, so the chief general of the Mongolian army, Damuddin**, recruited four other people to negotiate countermeasures.
Maksarzabu said: "According to me, no matter what attack he makes, whether it is a sneak attack, he will simply send out a large army and fight to the death with the people's army, we now have more than 20,000 troops, and most of them are cavalry, the people's army is only 15,000 people at most, and the cavalry is less than 3,000. ”
Tao Ke Taohu shook his head and said: "The battle is not guaranteed to win if there are more people on that side, it also depends on the quality of the weapons, everyone has seen the results of our attack on the People's Army two days ago, it is useless at all, the weapons of the People's Army are much better than ours!" I have said before that the People's Army has a strange chariot, which does not need to be dragged by horses and oxen, walks like flying, and is inferior to knives and guns, which is very powerful, and I don't think everyone believed it at the time, but now everyone should believe it, and compared with when I was fighting with the People's Army, this time the People's Army dispatched more chariots, as long as these chariots are there and fight head-on, we cannot be the opponent of the People's Army at all. ”
Babu Zabu said: "Yes, this kind of chariot is indeed powerful!"
Maksarzabu said: "According to what you say, what do we want to fight, we can't fight anyway, it's better to retreat as soon as possible." ”
Haishan said: "You can't say that, although you can't fight the enemy, you can outwit it, and even if we can't defeat the People's Army, we can stay here and prevent the People's Army from passing." ”
Babu Zabu said: "Outwit, how to outwit?"
Haishan said: "I don't think the attack will succeed, it is better to use the tactics of attacking the people's army's transport team, I think this time the people's army is not carrying many vehicles, presumably the logistics and transportation team is following behind, if we can intercept the logistics and transportation team of the people's army, this time the people's army will not be able to stay in the Dalinor Lake area for a long time, it will inevitably retreat, and then we will chase and kill, even if the people's army's chariots are powerful, they will not be able to save their defeat." ”
"I think so too, the Russian officers have already laid out good tactics for us, and we just have to do it." ”
"I always feel that I cannot fully trust the Russians, and we in Mongolia cannot rely entirely on Russia for the establishment of a state. And didn't we also follow the plan of the Russian officers and attack the KPAPA? Didn't we fail to do it, and can we do an attack on the KPA's logistics contingent? Won't the KPA be so stupid as not to send troops to protect its own logistics contingent?"
Haishan said: "It doesn't matter if it works or not, but you always have to give it a try." It is true that we cannot fully believe the words of the Russians at the moment, but now that we in Mongolia want to establish a state, we must indeed do without the help of the Russians, and if nothing else, the rifles and bullets we use now are not all sold to us by Russia? Who else has sold us but Russia, so at least for the time being, we should still believe in Russia. ”
Babu Zabu said: "It's not that I don't believe in the Russians, but the Russians themselves have not been defeated by the People's Army, can the tactics they have formulated for us work? ”
Haishan said: "It's not a way to go down like this, we can't consume the People's Army, although Russia was indeed defeated by the People's Army, but victory or defeat is still a common thing, we can't underestimate Russia because of this defeat, and it is precisely because Russia was defeated by the People's Army, so they must have carefully studied the tactics of the People's Army, and think about ways to deal with it, and attacking the enemy's logistics team is also in line with the way of using troops, so I think the tactics formulated by the Russian officers are still reliable." After a pause, he added: "That's it, Commander, I will attack the logistics team of the People's Army this time." ”
Haishan was born in a Mongolian aristocratic family in the Karaqin Right Banner of the Zhuosuotu League in Inner Mongolia, and served as the Yamen Mel Zhangjing of the Karaqin Right Banner when he was young. He was not a long-term presence at Kulen, but he was highly regarded by Jebtsundamba VIII, as he was one of the few people in the Mongolian hierarchy with a global perspective and had a certain network base in Russia.
In the past few years, Haishan has been forced to flee his hometown and roam various countries due to criminal escape, of course, basically in Eastern European countries, but the experience of these years has not only broadened Haishan's horizons, but also can understand several languages, and he is proficient in Chinese. In the course of his travels, he got acquainted with foreigners such as the Finnish linguist Gustav John Rankiron and the Russian soldier Colonel Siderov, and under the influence of Lanceti, he came into contact with Western nationalist theories, formed a strong idea of national independence, and advocated the establishment of a Mongolian state, and in 1907 Haishan returned to Kulen, because of his relationship with Russia, and he also had a certain understanding of international affairs, so he was immediately reused by Jebtsundamba VIII.
Seeing that Haishan took the initiative to invite Ying to fight, the main general Damudin** nodded and said, "Okay." ”
At this time, Maksarzab couldn't sit still, because he was the only one of the five commanders of the Mongol army who was born as an orthodox soldier and had held a command position in the Mongolian Eight Banners Army. Therefore, seeing that Haishan was asking for battle, Maxar Zabu said: "Commander, last time it was Babu Zab and Tauktahu, how can I let Haishan fight alone this time? I went with him." ”
Damudin** was also quite pleased, and said: "Okay, I hope the two generals will succeed immediately." ”
So in the early morning of the next day, when the sky was not yet full of light, the two of them each took 1,500 cavalry, left the camp, marched in the direction of Chifeng, walked until noon, almost walked nearly 100 kilometers, and the people and horses stopped to rest, and then they had not rested for half an hour, only to see the dust in the distance, and the spies in front had reported back and discovered the convoy of the People's Army.
Haishan and Maksarzab were also a little surprised, they didn't expect to encounter the KPA convoy so quickly, but they did, of course, they couldn't let it go, and they rested for nearly half an hour, although they couldn't fully recover from fatigue, but they also breathed a sigh of relief, so the two ordered their own soldiers to get on their horses and prepare to attack the KPA convoy.
Although the training time of the Mongolian army was not long, Bi Jing grew up on horseback, so his movements were also very clean and neat, and it took less than 10 minutes for everyone to get on their horses, and arrange their weapons and equipment, and then gallop in the direction of the convoy with the two main generals.
After running for more than ten minutes, the scene in front of them gradually became clear, and the two of them couldn't help but be taken aback, it turned out that there were more than a dozen strange-looking vehicles lined up horizontally, galloping towards their side, as fast as a galloping horse, and the dust raised behind the car covered the sky. Neither of them had fought with the KPA, but they both knew at the time that this was the kind of strange car that Tauk Tau Hu was talking about.
In fact, as soon as the Mongolian army was dispatched, it was discovered by KPA scouts lurking near the station, and immediately reported back to the KPA camp. After Ouyang Longxing received the report, he immediately understood that this Mongolian army was either going to attack Chifeng or to intercept the transport convoy of the People's Army, because yesterday Ouyang Longxing received news from Chifeng that the convoy would depart at 6 o'clock in the morning today and was expected to arrive at 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening. The convoy consisted of 80 transport trucks, escorted by a tank company and a motorcycle company, as well as a cavalry battalion, and of course the commander was a tank company. So Ouyang Longxing immediately sent a telegram like Chifeng, announcing that he had found that the Mongolian army was marching in the direction of Chifeng, and asked the garrison of Chifeng, as well as the transport convoy, to be ready.
When Ouyang Longxing's telegram arrived at Chifeng, it was already about 8 o'clock in the morning, and at this time, the convoy had already set off from Chifeng, and the cavalry battalion had already set off from Chifeng yesterday, rushed to the forward post Zhuosuo to station, and at 5:30 a.m., it set off from Zhuosuo.
This is because considering that the endurance of the war horses cannot keep up with the speed of the convoy, although the cavalry of the People's Army is equipped with war horses such as Mongolian horses, three river horses, Hutton horse such endurance of the horse, but compared with mechanized vehicles, is still far from the same, although the speed of the transport convoy is only about 20 kilometers per hour, but it is not horsepower can be compared, in the first 100 kilometers, horsepower can not be strong to keep up, but after 100 kilometers, is absolutely unable to keep up with the convoy, so let the cavalry troops set off in advance, before meeting with the transport convoy, you can rest for a period of time, recover your strength, so as to ensure that you can keep up with the convoy for a longer time.
The company commander of the tank company was named Wei Li, who turned out to be a platoon commander of the Liangqi armored unit. At around 8:30 a.m., he received a telegram from Ouyang Longxing in the communication command car. According to the establishment, a tank company has a total of 12 tanks, of which 3 belong to the company headquarters, and one is commanded by the 1st company commander, deputy company commander, and company instructor respectively.
However, after Wei Li received the news, he was not worried, but was very excited, and it was best to meet this Mongolian army on the way and fight them before paying. At 9 a.m., the convoy joined the cavalry camp that had set off earlier, and by this time it had already gone a distance of about 70 kilometers. The cavalry had been on the road for three and a half hours. So Wei Li ordered the whole army to rest for half an hour before marching.