"Qiqihar" is derived from the Daur language, which means "frontier" or "natural pasture". The city is located on the Songnen Plain, bordered by Inner Mongolia Hulunbeier to the west and the Great Khing'an Mountains to the north. The Russians crossed the Great Khingan Mountains and headed south, and Qiqihar was their outpost to continue southward. And if China wants to continue its offensive to the north, it must recapture Qiqihar.

Although Ruan Xihao, political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region, did not convey it to the troops, he himself was well aware of the plans of the Military Commission. In the years following the recapture of Qiqihar, a large-scale war in the north is unlikely. At least until the railway was built to Qiqihar, the Guangfu Army had no plans to continue its large-scale northward journey. Judging by the current pace of railway construction, a large-scale offensive will be at least three or five years away.

Ruan Xihao also heard some rumors that he would be transferred back to Nanjing after this battle. In terms of the tradition of the Liberation Army, no one has the experience of dominating one side. It is also normal to be transferred back to Nanjing, as long as he can win, Shangjiang basically can't run. In the ranks of the competition for the generals, Nguyen Xi Hao will also have a high ranking. Even with the radio, Ruan Xihao did not stay in Shenyang, which is 1,300 miles away from Qiqihar, but went to Yushutun, which is about 500 miles away from Qiqihar.

Yushutun is the main road to Qiqihar, and the Songhua River directly connects the two places. If there was a fleet of river boats, the army could reach Qiqihar directly by boat. This matter has already begun at this time, but when the survey of the waterway is really completed and enough shipping experience is accumulated, it is estimated that the railway will be repaired to Qiqihar. As long as Ruan Xihao is in charge of logistics and dispatch here, a large number of military supplies have already been sent to Yushutun, and as long as these materials can be sent to the front line, the war situation will undergo considerable changes.

Major Seryosha led a team of more than 70 Russian horses galloping on the Nenjiang Plain, and it was relatively easy to survive on the Nenjiang Plain. There are so many animals here, those stupid roe deer don't know how to hide when they see people in the past, originally the Russian army still used guns, and later the Russian army didn't bother to waste bullets, and directly hit them with sticks. A roasted roe deer can be eaten for several days, and each Russian cavalryman carries several roasted roe deer in his skin bag. The food was enough to sustain them for more than a week. Even if they don't have enough food, they can easily hunt on the spot, and in fact, they are ready to last for two months when they set off.

The Russian cavalry did not form a large battalion, and the Chinese army on the opposite side also had a small cavalry, which had been pursuing the Russian cavalry. The goal of the Russian army is not to compete with the Chinese cavalry, but to cut off the Chinese logistics line. In July, Qiqihar will enter the rainy season, and the transportation line will be completely disrupted. Until then, Major Seryosha had been tasked with trying to prevent the Chinese logistics forces from delivering supplies to the front.

It's easy to track China's logistics lines, and the Chinese use carts to transport supplies. The big car has wide tires with a pattern, which can be easily distinguished from the traces of passing. For more than half a month, Major Seryosha had seen at least twenty of these convoys, but he had never found anything.

Each convoy was equipped with a horse corps of about two hundred men, and the Russian cavalry of fifty men was simply not hostile. Every 30 miles, there is a huge relay station. These relay stations appeared seemingly overnight. Wooden stakes were hammered into the mud floor, connected by barbed wire, and various tribulus terrestris were placed between the two layers of such walls, and a pit was dug up.

What's even more terrifying is that on the outside of this defense system, human heads are still hanging from the barbed wire. The heads of Russian soldiers. When the Russian troops attacking these cantonments were killed or captured, their heads were cut off and hung on them. I don't know if it's intimidating the Russian army or provoking it. At least Major Seryosha saw these heads from afar, and fear and anger rose at the same time.

There were also members of other units in his unit, who told the horrors of the barbed wire. It was not a simple iron wire, on the main strand of three iron wires, and the iron wire was wrapped around it like a flower. But it was a terrible flower of death, and the Russian cavalry once tried to cut the wire with their sabers in the middle of the night and sneak in to destroy it. As soon as he slashed hard, the bell hanging from the wire rang. The Russians were also brave, hoping to break two barbed wire fences before the enemy guards rushed in, and fight in close combat with the enemy. But the wire looked straight, but it was actually quite elastic, and the Russian army finally cut two layers of barbed wire and opened a very small opening. However, the pillar of light lit up in the camp opposite, the pillar of light first swept randomly, and after a while, it found a breakthrough of the Russian army. Bullets came at the Russian army like locusts.

At this time, the Russian army panicked, and several Russian soldiers were shot at that time. However, what the survivors will never forget is that several Russian troops were crowded when they escaped from the gap, and their clothes hung on the spikes of the barbed wire, and the more anxious they were, the more they couldn't break free, and when the Russian army stood firm and fell on the barbed wire, they let out a terrible scream.

The spikes on the "Iron Flower" pierced their bodies from all angles, and the more they struggled, the deeper they stabbed. The clothes were better, and in the bright daylight only blood could be seen gurgling out of them. But someone's face was tattooed on the "iron flower", and the sharp iron thorns cut through the skin and hooked the skin. The pain made people try to break free from the iron thorns, but the sharp pain caused them to instinctively lean their faces back. It hurts to break free or not, and these guys are bouncing like fish on the barbed wire.

The few escapees didn't say anything about the rest of the story, they were already frightened by the bloody faces of their companions, and they fled one by one.

In the following days, the Russian cavalry did not even have a chance to try to break through the barbed wire, and the Chinese army marched on Qiqihar in large numbers. These armies rested outside their strongholds during the day on the march and camped inside them at night. The Russian cavalry, which numbered thousands, dozens, hundreds of troops, simply did not dare to get over.

"Let's go back to Qiqihar!" Major Seryosha finally gave the order the day before. Cavalry certainly had its own advantage in mobility, but it was nothing in the face of a large army with a solid marching position. Dozens of cavalry defeated an army of thousands by surprise attack, and that was in the age of cold weapons. Now not to mention dozens of cavalry, even thousands of cavalry suddenly attacked, and they were also looking for death in front of the platoon of guns.

Just when the cavalry was about to reach the outskirts of Qiqihar in half a day, three horses came running head-on. Seryosha's cavalry stopped, and the three men could tell from a distance that they were Russians, and closer, they recognized them as outposts sent by the troops. The three of them arrived in front of Seryosha and nervously shouted: "Major! The Chinese have already surrounded Qiqihar! ”

"What?" Seryosha was very puzzled by this information. The total area of the defense system formed by the fortresses around Qiqihar must be at least a dozen square kilometers, and how dare the Chinese disperse their forces. Aren't they afraid of being struck down by each one? And even if the Chinese army dispersed, it would be impossible for them to besiege Qiqihar to death.

"The Chinese have built many positions with barbed wire, and they have completely fenced off Qiqihar. We went around for a long time and didn't see a place to enter Qiqihar. The outpost said anxiously.

Major Seryosha was still not convinced, he personally led the group to lean over, and after walking forward for less than two hours, he saw a familiar stake appear on the horizon in the distance. In the vast plains, the wooden stakes seem to have no end in sight. In the extreme distance, the top of the Russian fortress looms. But if you want to return to Qiqihar, which is occupied by the Russians, you have to break through the layers of defenses, and with this little bit of troops and horses in the hands of Major Seryosha, it is completely fatal to make a breakthrough.

After watching for a while, Major Seryosha shouted to the stunned Russian soldiers behind him: "Let's cross the river from the lower reaches and see if we can return to Qiqihar from the other side of the river." ”

On May 24, Chinese forces used barbed wire to complete the encirclement of Qiqihar. Russia sent cavalry to try to cut off China's transportation lines, and these men became a source of intelligence for China after they were captured. China doesn't care which Russian troops are in the city, what their numbers are, or who their leaders are. After this battle, the troops were not prepared to leave anything alive in Qiqihar. In the war with Russia, China is not prepared to leave Russia with any room for life.

Strategically, it was still so difficult for China to move north, and it was even more difficult for the Russians to get here. If Russia, with a total population of less than 100 million, is really willing to transport tens of millions of elites to the Far East at all costs, China will do its best to kill all these tens of millions. The result, of course, was the destruction of Russia. Weeser didn't think the Russians would do such a thing, and he estimated that if he killed a million Russians, the Far East would be clean. Russia could not afford such losses, and they had no other way but to admit defeat.

Politically, since China did not invite the Russians to China, China certainly has the right to execute illegal smugglers who are armed against the Chinese army on Chinese soil. This is just the basic work of defending the homeland and the country.

According to the Russian confessions before they were beaten alive, Qiqihar's garrison ranged from 50,000 to 100,000. The troops were lenient in anticipation of the enemy, and basically set the number at a level of more than 60,000 and less than 150,000. This is very good news, according to the estimate that there are a million Russians in the Far East, this guy can get rid of a tenth of the Russians, and he is still a well-armed Russian. Compared with the hardships of chasing the Russians everywhere, this kind of encirclement and annihilation battle was too easy.

The Russians came out once, but they did not dare to break away from the fort's defenses. The Liberation Army also calmly met the enemy, and the seemingly meaningless long-range battle between the two sides gave the Chinese side a little understanding of the range of Russian ordinary artillery, at most 12-pounder smoothbore guns. The troops soon built an encirclement network with barbed wire outside the range of Russian artillery. The encirclement network was very thorough, and the Guangfu army crossed the Nenjiang River and surrounded the Russian strongholds on the other side of the river.

Now there is only one thing to wait for, and that is the 200 caliber siege artillery. As soon as four 200 guns arrived, the battle could officially begin.