Chapter 203: Encirclement and Annihilation

In the Bauhinia Province of the Silver Wolf Empire, the 11 armies of the Barbarian Bull Empire are being ordered to withdraw to their own New Wilk Province to clear out the human resistance forces that have entered New Wilk Province.

Previously, the Wild Bull Empire sent a total of 19 group armies to the territory of the Silver Wolf Empire, in addition to 11 group armies entering Bauhinia Province, 4 group armies entering Tulip Province, and 4 group armies entering Phalaenopsis Province.

According to the army establishment of the Manniu Empire, each group army has 4 infantry divisions, 1 baggage brigade, 2 heavy artillery regiments, and 1 guard regiment, with a total strength of about 80,000 people, and all the officers and soldiers are Niu people.

In addition to the formation of the group army, the army of the Wild Bull Empire also has an independent division with the Ox people as officers and the Horse people as soldiers, and a security brigade with the Horse people as officers and humans as soldiers.

However, this time when he entered the Silver Wolf Empire to clear out the human rebels, the Barbarian Bull Empire did not transfer any independent divisions and security brigades, and only transferred 19 group armies, most of which were drawn from New Wilk Province.

This also led to the fact that when the Silver Wolf Column attacked New Wilk Province, most of the troops guarding the border area of New Wilk Province were independent divisions with slightly weaker combat effectiveness, and there were also security brigades with very bad combat effectiveness.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible for the Silver Wolf Column to conquer 10 cities in New Wilk Province in just three days.

At present, there are about 720,000 people left in the 11 Barbarian Bull Empire Group Armies in Bauhinia Province, including more than 60,000 light and seriously wounded, and a total of almost 160,000 Niu Clan officers and soldiers have been killed in the battle with the Silver Wolf Column.

The temporary commander of these 11 Wild Bull Empire Group Army was Oria Commander, the commander of the Second Army of the Wild Bull Empire.

Among the dozens of group army commanders in the Barbarian Bull Empire, only three of them have the rank of general, and the rest of the group army commanders have the rank of lieutenant general, and Oria is one of the three general group army commanders.

At dawn on January 3, 1543, Oriya, who was still asleep in the marching tent, was suddenly woken up by an adjutant.

It turned out that near the camp of the Barbarian Bull Army, which stretched for dozens of kilometers, there were traces of human resistance.

Prachi, the deputy commander of the Second Army of the Barbarian Bull Empire, frowned and said, "Commander, could it be that the human rebels in the Silver Wolf Empire want to eat our 11 group armies?" ”

Oria sneered and said, "I'm afraid that the human resistance army in the Silver Wolf Empire doesn't have such good teeth.

According to the information sent from China, this time, the human rebels in the Silver Wolf Empire have gathered millions of troops and invaded the New Wilk Province of our Barbarian Bull Empire.

The human resistance army in the Silver Wolf Empire can now have two million troops in the sky, and if you throw away the troops that are pinned down by the Silver Wolf Army, how much strength can you use to deal with our 11 group armies?

Give orders to the other armies to immediately organize forces to defeat the human resistance that appears! ”

To Oriya's surprise, the Silver Wolf Column was really ready to eat the 11 armies of the Wild Bull Empire this time.

Before the joint attack of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Barbarian Bull Empire, the total strength of the Silver Wolf Column had reached more than 2 million, and the population in the area under its control exceeded 70 million.

The reason why the Silver Wolf Column can expand its army so quickly is because the humans in the Silver Wolf Empire have been suppressed for too long.

The human beings living in the Silver Wolf Empire are definitely at the bottom of society, and sometimes even life cannot be guaranteed.

It can be said that what the Silver Wolf Column has done in the past few years has given hope to the human beings in the Silver Wolf Empire, which has made a large number of human young men join the Silver Wolf Column without hesitation.

The slaughter of human civilians by the Silver Wolf Emperor ** team and the Wild Bull Emperor ** team this time aroused the anger of the human people in the control area, if it weren't for the lack of weapons and ammunition, it would be possible for the Silver Wolf Column to expand to tens of millions of troops.

After sending 20 infantry divisions and 26 independent brigades to attack the new Wilk Province of the Barbarian Bull Empire, Xiang Tao, the commander-in-chief of the Silver Wolf Column, dared to attack the 11 Barbarian Bull Empire armies in the Bauhinia Province because of the existence of millions of militiamen.

These millions of militias were formed to resist the slaughter of the Silver Wolf Emperor ** team and the Wild Bull Emperor ** team, if it were not for the help of these millions of militiamen, as well as the continuous replenishment of the regular troops of the Silver Wolf Column, perhaps the Silver Wolf Column would have been defeated under the joint strangulation of the Silver Wolf Emperor ** team and the Wild Bull Emperor ** team.

In this campaign to encircle and annihilate the 11 group armies of the Barbarian Bull Empire, Xiang Tao not only mobilized 12 infantry divisions and 15 independent brigades of regular troops, but also mobilized more than 1.5 million militia units to participate in the battle.

These militias, who lack weapons and ammunition, and most of them are only equipped with cold weapons, although they have not undergone much military training, do not lack courage on the battlefield.

"Brothers, come with me!" A middle-aged strong man with only one arm left, brandishing a large knife with his only remaining right hand, shouted with a roar.

This middle-aged strong man was originally a platoon commander of the Silver Wolf Column, and his name was Sun Liang.

Sun Liang lost his left arm in a battle, and after recovering from his wounds, he was assigned to a village in the area controlled by the Silver Wolf Column, where he was responsible for forming a local militia company.

With Sun Liang's efforts, the militia company that was originally planned to be formed actually had more troops than a battalion, reaching more than 600 people, you must know that the village in charge of Sun Liang had a total population of less than 4,000, and almost all the young students in the village were recruited by Sun Liang into the militia camp.

This time, Sun Liang's militia company was also ordered to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of the 11 group armies of the Manniu Empire, so Sun Liang not only left more than 100 people to guard the village, but also brought 536 militiamen to participate in the battle.

However, Sun Liang's militia company was very shabby in weaponry, except for Sun Liang, who had a Huaxia Type 54 pistol, the entire militia company only had 8 bolt-on repeating rifles, 20 breech single-shot rifles, and 168 gunpowder guns.

Gunpowder guns are all self-made, can be regarded as the most primitive rifles, when firing, you need to use your hands to push the metal hook into the fire door, so that the fire rope ignites the black powder, and then the lead bullet in the chamber of the gun is fired.

Due to the slightly complicated process of loading black powder and lead bullets, it is not easy for ordinary people to shoot 2 bullets per minute.

But even if it is a powder gun, there is no way for the militia under Sun Liang to have one.

At this time, Sun Liang's militia company, which was responsible for attacking a position of the Barbarian Bull Army, had already had other militia units before, under the cover of the artillery of the Silver Wolf Column, attacked eight times, but they were not captured.

The Bull Army guarding this position has been cut off from other Bull Troops, and the original more than 600 Bull Clan officers and soldiers are now less than 100 people left under the continuous bombardment of the Silver Wolf Column's 8 French 1897 Type 75 field guns, as well as the consumption of the previous eight strong attacks.

The army units of the Zhou family, including the Silver Wolf Column, each infantry regiment has an artillery battalion equipped with 24 French 1897 Type 75 field guns, divided into 3 artillery companies, each artillery company has 8 French 1897 Type 75 field guns.

Sun Liang led more than 500 militiamen under his command, armed with rudimentary weapons, and rushed to the position of the Barbarian Bull Army with shouting.

When the officers and soldiers of the Niu tribe who were guarding the position began to shoot, the dozens of militiamen who charged in front quickly fell on the road of the charge, but the militia behind continued to rush over without fear as if they had forgotten life and death.

At this time, the only remaining heavy machine gun on the position of the Barbarian Bull Army was suddenly blown up by the cannonball, Sun Liang seized this opportunity, and finally rushed into the position with the militia under his hand, and started a white-knuckle battle with the remaining officers and soldiers of the Niu Clan.

And before the white-knuckle battle began, hundreds of militiamen had already fallen in front of the position.

Sun Liang brandished a big knife and slashed at a Niu Clan soldier, but although this Niu Clan soldier was not even a low-level warrior, his strength was much greater than Sun Liang's.

As a result, this Niu soldier used a rifle as a wooden stick, and he knocked the big knife in Sun Liang's hand away at once.

Thanks to Xu San, the guard beside Sun Liang, he immediately stabbed the Niu Clan soldier with a bayonet, otherwise the Niu Clan soldier would have smashed Sun Liang's head with a wave of the situation.

It's a pity that Xu San, the guard next to Sun Liang, is far inferior in strength to this Niu Clan soldier, and the rifle with a bayonet was immediately blocked by this Niu Clan soldier.

Just as the Niu Clan soldier picked up his rifle and was about to smash Xu San's head, a gunshot rang out, and Sun Liang took out his pistol in time and killed the Niu Clan soldier directly.

The remaining Niu officers and soldiers on the battlefield are much stronger than the militia in terms of strength and hand-to-hand combat skills, and these Niu officers and soldiers are very tenacious in their will to fight, knowing that they have fallen into a desperate situation, but none of them chose to surrender.

However, the militia under Sun Liang, relying on the superiority in numbers and the same tenacious will to fight, simply overthrew all the remaining Niu Clan officers and soldiers in the white-knuckle battle.

Sun Liang pinned the empty pistol to his waist, and shouted, "Quick! Clean up the battlefield! All the cow cubs on the battlefield have to mend their knives to prevent those who are pretending to be dead! ”

Of course, with so many weapons and ammunition on the position, Sun Liang couldn't eat alone, after all, in order to attack this position, the other militia forces lost more than 1,000 people combined.

However, the biggest piece of meat on this position fell into Sun Liang's hands.

When Sun Liang and his militia withdrew from the position, they took with them a total of 1 serviceable heavy machine gun, 2 damaged heavy machine guns, 100 hitch repeating rifles, more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition and more than 200 grenades.

In order to conquer this position, Sun Liang's militia company lost more than 200 men.

"Company commander, what's the use of those 2 heavy machine guns that were blown up?

You might as well ask for more bullets! The guard Xu San asked Sun Liang with some puzzlement.

Sun Liang glanced back, one good and two bad 3 heavy machine guns, and the depressed mood that was originally due to the loss of more than 200 brothers was also better.

"I've seen it just now, and those 2 heavy machine guns that were blown up can be completely reassembled into 1 good heavy machine gun.

With 2 heavy machine guns, our militia company will be able to form a heavy machine gun squad in the future! ”

Guard Xu San suddenly realized: "I'll just say, company commander, when did you become so generous, I'd rather have fewer bullets than take away the two heavy machine guns that were blown up." ”

Sun Liang slapped Xu San directly on the back of the head, "I saw that the other brother troops were short of bullets, so I asked for some bullets, that's Gao Feng Liangjie, okay!" ”

Under the onslaught of the Silver Wolf Column and the militia troops, Oriya, the commander of the Second Army of the Barbarian Bull Empire, soon found that the opponent's troops participating in the battle far exceeded his expectations.

The development of the battle situation was also something that Oria did not expect at all.

After two days and nights of fierce fighting, the 11 armies of the Barbarian Bull Empire not only did not defeat the human resistance, but were divided and surrounded by the other side.

"Did the two-way attack troops in Tulip Province and Phalaenopsis Province call back?" The commander of the Second Army of the Barbarian Bull Empire, Oriya, asked in a deep voice to the deputy commander of the Second Army, Prachi.

Since the million-strong army of the Silver Wolf Column had already invaded the New Wilk Province of the Barbarian Bull Empire, it was impossible for Oria to get reinforcements from the territory of the Barbarian Bull Empire in a short period of time.

Therefore, Oria hoped that the other two offensive troops in the territory of the Silver Wolf Empire could rush over to rescue the 11 group armies that were besieged.

Prachi said with a solemn face: "The two-way troops in Tulip Province and Phalaenopsis Province are constantly being attacked by human resistance forces.

Although the two attacking forces had changed their route and were ready to join our 11 armies, they could not move faster. ”

Oria pondered for a moment and said, "Send a telegram to the two more attacking troops, tell them the difficulties we are facing, and ask them to join us as soon as possible." ”

At this moment, one of Oria's adjutant took the telegram and hurried into the underground bunker, "The Twenty-ninth Army and the Thirty-sixth Army have called, surrounding the human resistance of their two armies and launching a general attack on their two armies. ”

Oria and Praci's faces changed when they heard this, and the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-sixth Armies were at the back of the marching line, surrounded by human resistance.

Oria then said: "Immediately send a telegram to the 31st and 40th armies, and open up contact with the 29th and 36th armies at all costs." ”

The 31st Army and the 40th Army were the closest troops to the 29th Army and the 36th Army, and these two armies were also surrounded by the Silver Wolf Column, but the connection between the two Army Groups and the two Group Armies had been cut off by the Silver Wolf Column.

Prachi then suggested: "Commander, I think we can also order the 29th Army and the 36th Army to find a way to break through in the direction of the 31st Army and the 40th Army.

If any army group is completely annihilated by the human rebels, with the temper of His Excellency the Governor, he will definitely not give up. ”