Chapter 892: Battle of the Far East - The Power of Mobility

Goxinga not only sent a heartfelt message to Actun, but also sent 10 telegrams to all front-line units in one day, limiting them to complete the rescue of the 7th Division within three days. The wording of the telegram was very harsh, and the charges of delaying the fighters, fighting unfavorably, and waiting and waiting were already listed, and if the 7th Division could not be saved after three days, all the commanders of the departments would have to go to a court-martial.

The overseers are not fools, there are two hereditary princes in the encirclement, and there are a lot of noble children, how can they not work hard to reinforce them. But the situation is really not optimistic, the heavy snow has turned the battlefield into a swamp, and the strength of the Russian army is also unusually strong. Ji Ying, who was on the front line to supervise the battle, after seeing several Russian positions, was very suspicious that the Russians had secretly learned his tactics. At that time, Ji Ying dug a trench nearly five miles deep in Haidian, resisted step by step, and grinded the British to death, and now the Russian army is also like this, but their scale has reached more than 15 kilometers. The front-line departments can break through several lines of defense of the Russian army every day, but there are hundreds of defense lines of the Russian army, and it is really a huge project to completely open up the road.

"The main forces of the Russian army are all gathered around the fifteenth height, and the idea of flowering in the center of Jixing is indeed feasible. However, the general only gave us three days, which was too tight for us. And I would like to remind you that the three days that the general has given us is already the limit, and the Seventh Division may not be able to hold out for another three days, they are already in danger of being destroyed at any time. "There is a lot of pressure on the front-line departments, and the pressure on Acton is even greater, so Surgut held another high-level military meeting, and everyone worked together to figure out a solution.

"The three armored divisions that went north to reinforce and the four bomber formations from Changchun have all been put into battle, and our advance speed has been greatly improved, but in three days, we are afraid that we will not be able to complete the task!" Chengtai is not very optimistic, and the forces that can be used on the northern Xinjiang front are actually almost invested.

"These days, we have annihilated more than 100,000 Russian troops, but the strength of the Russian army is too much, and I am afraid it will be difficult to open the situation within three days! Is there any way on the Air Force's side, can we rescue Ji Xing and other senior commanders first, and then we will find a way on the soldier side! Ji Ying felt that it was already difficult to rescue the Seventh Division, so it was better to get some important people back first.

"The terrain of Plateau 15 is extremely complex, and there is a lack of places for aircraft to take off and land...... I really can't help it. General Jin Enxin, the commander-in-chief of the Air Force on the front line in Northern Xinjiang, gave an answer that everyone didn't want to hear, but the Air Force without helicopters really couldn't do it.

"Doesn't the Air Force have an aircraft that can take off and land vertically without any restrictions on origin?" Ji Ying still didn't give up, he knew that the Air Force seemed to have the equipment to solve this problem.

"The helicopter has a sample machine, but the test flight effect is very unsatisfactory, and the Air Force is not equipped, and it is still in the development of 100 projects!" Kim Eun was a little helpless, he also wanted helicopters to support the army, but he really hadn't done it yet.

"Don't embarrass the Air Force, they've done their best! We also want to think of ways from the land, think about how to break through the Russian defense line, how to complete the counter-encirclement of the Russian army! Acton also hoped that the Air Force would have a way just now, but he also knew that letting Ji Xing, Amba Lingwu and others abandon the army and abscond, even if the future of these people was completely ruined, it was not a good idea.

"Are we too entangled in how to break through the Russian defense line, can we bypass the Russian army, can we go behind the Russian army?" Bo Ritu feels that everyone needs to change their thinking, and the way to bite the Russian defense line is obviously impassable, so everyone should think of something else.

"Vast snowfield! Even if there is no Russian army to stop it, it will be very difficult for us to march, and it is almost impossible to outflank the Russian army from the periphery! "Acton would like to be able to bypass the Russian lines, but the traffic situation really doesn't allow it. The main force of the Manchurian Army at the moment is infantry and armored troops, and they all need a lot of baggage to accompany them, and it is difficult to run in the snow.

"We cavalry can try it. In order to cope with the heavy snow in northern Xinjiang, we brought 120,000 hundred-forked iron-hoof horses from Keshiketeng, which are cold-resistant, coarse-grained, and especially adapted to rugged mountain roads, and can run in the snow, even if they are fully loaded, they can gallop more than 200 kilometers in a day and night. "This is the method that Bo Ritu came up with after thinking hard, if he can save the Seventh Division, Guo Xinga may forgive him for his not very glorious performance in the Mukden Incident.

"I've also heard of the Fork Horses, which have always done well in the snow and in the snow. However, this kind of horse is a little small, and if you cavalry ride such a horse, it will be no problem for you, but if you rely on them to fight, I am afraid that you will suffer a lot. If you go with the Manchurian horses, the Manchurian horses can't keep up with their speed. Acton also knows about the amazing snowhorse breed of the Fork Ironhoof, but the Ironhoof has its own limitations.

"Immediately maneuver, dismount and fight!" Bo Ritu also knew that the hundred-way iron hoof horse was not suitable for charging cavalry combat, but as long as he could maneuver behind the enemy, it would be a victory, and his cavalry was not without the ability to fight on foot.

"To carry out a stormy battle, the cavalry does not have the necessary baggage...... "Acton is still not at ease, the Mongol cavalry of Bozhtu dismounts and dismounts to fight, and there are still many things that are needed.

"We can solve this aspect of baggage, and after the cavalry units set up assembly points, we can implement airdrop supplies!" Acton and the others still have limitations in their thinking, and they will miss some of their existing abilities, so Jin Enxin hurriedly reminded them.

"Hmmm! Feasible! Acton and Ji Ying and the others looked at each other, and finally nodded in agreement with Bo Zhitu's opinion.

At the sound of Bozhtu's order, the Mongolian light cavalry units scattered all over the place began to move at high speed. Their goal is no longer the enemy's defensive line, but the vast no-man's land, where they have to cross the vast snowy fields and launch a deadly attack behind the enemy's back. Acton also mobilized the divisions that were originally advancing in parallel, and mobilized seven divisions and 23 mixed brigades to the perimeter of Heights 15 at one time, preparing to launch a full-scale attack on the encirclement of the Russian army. Rescuing the besieged 7th Division was the first priority, but the focus of the campaign became to encircle and annihilate the main forces of the Russian army.

Goxinga's intended goal was to gather more than 200,000 troops, but Acton felt that it was not enough, and mobilized more than 300,000 people in one go, forming a huge counter-encirclement circle against the Russian army directly on the outer front. The Bozhtu cavalry cluster, which was responsible for cutting off the rear route of the Russian army and at the same time cutting off the supply of the Russian army, became the top priority of this campaign. Whether or not they can disrupt the rear of the Russian army and rescue the Seventh Division depends on them, and whether or not the counter-encirclement can make contributions depends on them. Bozhtu's performance did not disappoint everyone, and on the first night of the Mongol cavalry group, they advanced a full 150 kilometers without encountering any Russian troops.

Although the Mongol cavalry did not encounter any resistance, they were exposed. The Russian army launched a decisive offensive near the 15th heights, and the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder, naturally had to be prepared for emergencies, so he sent a large number of Cossack cavalry to some weak outer line areas to conduct reconnaissance, and soon discovered a large-scale movement of Mongolian cavalry. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder quickly judged the intentions of these hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen, and naturally would not give them the opportunity to outflank the rear of the Russian army, and immediately threw the 200,000 Cossacks that St. Petersburg had just come to support into the battlefield. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder hoped that the Cossack cavalry could use their eagle talons to stop the Mongol cavalry, but this time the eagle's talon touched the Manchurian chainsaw, and the end was very dismal.

The hundred-way iron-hoofed horse was much shorter than the Don hippopotamus, and if the two sides used cavalry to fight a decisive battle, the Mongol cavalry would definitely suffer a big loss. But the best way to fight the Eagle's Talon was not the Mongol scimitar, and Bozhtu was not the one who wanted the scimitar, so the Mongol cavalry moved out the Tongzhi general-purpose machine gun. The Tongzhi general-purpose machine gun is MG42, which was originally nicknamed Hitler's chainsaw, and now it is nicknamed Manchurian chainsaw. This treasure is very light and suitable for cavalry to carry, and the rate of fire is amazingly fast, and it is a sharp weapon for slaughtering enemy cavalry.

Nearly 400,000 cavalry on both sides broke out in an epic cavalry decisive battle in the valley of the remaining veins of the Ural Mountains. The intensity of the battle even exceeded that of Heights 15, where a million troops were being strangled, and the Manchurian Air Force had to send a special transport aircraft formation to airdrop ammunition to the Mongol cavalry cluster in Bozhtu. After thirteen hours of fierce fighting, the Cossack cavalry was completely routed, leaving only corpses that covered the valley. Although Bozhtu's troops were completely victorious, they also suffered certain losses themselves, and had to divide their troops to escort the wounded back to Surgut, and the cavalry that continued to gallop west was only about 100,000.

Bozhtu won, but the situation of the 7th Division was even worse. The defense lines of Laomiaoling and Yingbi Mountain were also broken by the Russian army, and the 7th Division could not but fully retreat to the No. 15 Heights to hold on, and the total strength of the division was less than 15,000. Not only did the front-line officers and soldiers lose more than 7,000, but more than a dozen colonel-level officers from top noble families in Manchuria were killed, and Ji Xing, who has always been hard-mouthed, also sent seven telegrams to the outside world asking for help one day.

At the same time that Bozhtu completely defeated the Cossack cavalry, a white-knuckle battle broke out on the main peak of the 15th height, and the main defense line of the 15th main peak was invaded by the Russian army. Acton had to rejoice that in the era of comprehensive improvement of firepower, Goxinga still did not give up the assassination combat training that he had insisted on for nearly thirty years, otherwise this white-knuckle battle would directly lead to the destruction of the Seventh Division. Even if the soldiers who had been training hard for many years knocked the Russian army down with bayonets, the 7th Division was already on the verge of collapse. The fortress like the Winter Palace built under the auspices of An Balingwu has been beaten into a broken kiln by the Russian army, and the Seventh Division has no last defensive support.