Chapter 499: How to Rescue
Buying and selling city, the battle is gradually coming to an end, it is already about 2 o'clock in the afternoon at this time, the bright weather, there is not a little less bloody battlefield, the entire trading city is a thick atmosphere, disgusting, countless lives dissipated in these.
The rout troops who fled in a hurry did not have the slightest will to fight, even now, the Russian army combined, there are still more than 10,000 people, and there are only more than 300 people left in the trading city, even Valentin and Andrei in the rear do not know how to continue.
The battle loss was more than 50%, which is probably second only to the loss of total annihilation, and there was no need to care about the morale at all, the battlefield fell into calm, and in the hours before dark, no one moved again, obviously in a fierce battle, there was no fighting emotion, the 173rd and 179th divisions retreated to Kyakhta, busy licking their wounds, almost screaming.
Most of the Cossacks came from several places, friends, brothers, relatives, neighbors, almost everyone around each other, someone died, and an atmosphere of sadness hung over Kyakhta, soldiers and officers, looking for a vent.
On the side of the trading city, there is not much better, the calm Kyakhta, let Wu Jian be bold, the forest where the merchants exit is hidden enough, and it is already 30 kilometers away from Kyakhta, as long as you are careful, do not travel intensively, you can still leave, it is really forty kilometers away, unless you use a special high-power telescope, otherwise, you can't see any movement at all. [
The merchants, who had long been frightened, began to leave, and several bulldozers began to work in the trading city. Countless corpses, even meat sauce. As you can imagine, the focus of the future battlefield. Even in the City of Trading, if these corpses are not disposed of, it is easy to produce a plague.
By the way, I also sent someone to recover the weapons, God knows how long this battle will last, the weapons in the northwest and the Russian army are not interoperable, it is necessary to collect the ammunition of the Russian army in case of later needs.
Kyakhta didn't react, there was obvious movement here. The movement is not small, a day, to be exact, a few hours of fighting, they are completely frightened, as long as there is no army in the buying and selling city, they will not pay attention to it at all.
The battle report of the day was finally summarized by Wu Jian, and he sighed. There are always losses in wars, but today they are very large, not to mention the casualties caused by the protection of the people, that is, about 30. But the first battle in the Red 8th District said that it attracted all the Russian troops, but it was 10,006 Russian troops. 8 ways pressed on, there is an established plan. To get these people into the trap of District 8, there must be a necessary head-on confrontation. Even sometimes, when the Russian army deviates from its position, it is necessary to put pressure on them, and in some places there are permanent fortifications, and in some places, they can only rely on special combat personnel to rush forward, and the casualties are much greater.
The special forces were wounded 192, a total of 72 dead, this is the final number at 3 pm, of which 24 were seriously injured, and the 200 armed personnel under Liang Lingdong were wounded and 137 were wounded, and 75 died, that is to say, the special forces, almost half of them were wounded, and the armed personnel under Liang Lingdong were even more killed and wounded, and it was almost impossible to use them again.
It is a total of more than 600 people, and now more than half of them have been injured, plus serious injuries, now under Wu Jian's hands, the number of people who can be mobilized is no more than 400 people, and it is much more difficult to protect the two-square-kilometer trading city.
The city defense of the buying and selling city, Wu Jian knows that it is trustworthy, no matter how tight the city defense is, it also needs to be guarded by people, and there is a lack of necessary personnel, these city defenses are empty, and the Russian army can break through these city defenses with a little bit of randomness, and in the plan, it is the same as the Red 8 area, which is enough to trap thousands of people, and even more powerful, as today's exchange, they can come a few more times.
As early as last night, after knowing that a large number of Cossacks had arrived in Kyakhta, the base camp was urgently operating, on the one hand, to notify the first division, speed up, at any cost, even if all the motor vehicles were broken down on the road, as long as there was no problem with people, they must rush forward.
After several days of rapid travel, most of the vehicles had problems, Cai Yi's urgent decision, in the reconnaissance force, transferred 3 battalions of troops, a total of 1,500 people, just to carry the necessary ammunition, and then through the remaining cars in good condition and 200 maintenance personnel, with the necessary accessories, most of these accessories are disassembled from other vehicles, two days of marching, in the muddy and bumpy grassland, what is the common spare parts damage, the maintenance personnel are very clear.
At this time, the first division was still about 180 kilometers away from the city of buying and selling, and under the rapid march, a total of about 80 kilometers was rushed in one day, which was the price of all motor vehicles being damaged, but only three battalions, and even in the afternoon, with the help of a rapid march on foot, to achieve the effect.
Such a forced march made the three battalions exhausted, so that even if they arrived at the trading city, they could not play much of a role, the key is that next, the distance of 100 kilometers, in the grassland that is not good for walking, even if it is only a straight line distance, it will take 2 and a half to three days, and even the grassland is normal to lose its way, today's 80 kilometers are actually 110 kilometers, detours and wrong directions, at least 30 kilometers are wasted, and now the motor vehicles are completely gone, what to do next.
The maximum speed of a march on foot may be 60-70 km, but a continuous rapid march will not exceed 35 km per day, which is normal on the steppes, taking into account the partial loss and detours.
Rescue, the military chess deduction of the General Staff, has been clearly expressed, if at this time, the remaining Russian army, the decisive impact, is likely to capture the trading city, of course, with the protection and traps left by the trading city, the remaining more than 10,000 Russian troops, can be left with 1,000 people is too much, think that the other party can not make such a choice, even so, can the trading city hold for three days?
At about 8 o'clock in the evening, another battle report from the Ministry of Intelligence aggravated the worries of the base camp, and the intelligence obtained from Russia that the 156th and 122nd divisions of the Russian Central Cluster were less than 120 kilometers away from Kyakhta, and the distance from the first division was much closer, and the most important thing was that there was to Kyakhta, which was much better than where the first division was located to reach Kyakhta.
The 156th and 122nd Divisions are in the sequence of the Far Eastern Military District, and there are a few first-class divisions, which are not long-distance attacks like the Cossack cavalry, but they carry the necessary artillery, with a caliber of less than 75 calibers, these are first-class divisions, although the heavy caliber artillery is less equipped, and there are 12 guns, but they are Russian-made 120 mm guns.
The reinforced concrete fortifications owned by the trading city can ignore the bombardment of 75 caliber and large areas of 75 caliber artillery, and only a few houses will collapse, but the trading city, which has been attacked to the limit, can withstand the bombardment of 120 caliber heavy artillery, after the arrival of the two divisions, it has increased by about 30,000 people, and at that time, the personnel ratio is even more disparity.
Yang Yuanzhao frowned tightly, he had read a lot of the following plans, and asked in a deep voice: "The first division really can't arrive in the early morning the day after tomorrow!" ”
"Yes, there is no way, if it is within 50 kilometers, it is possible, 50 kilometers, for well-rested soldiers, you can use a round-the-clock march, you can walk 50 kilometers in 12 hours, or 15 hours, but this is 100 kilometers, after walking, you can't walk at all the next day, even if you get rid of the problem of getting lost and wrong direction, it will take more than 2 days, conservative estimates are 3 days, calculated from tomorrow.
Yang Yuanzhao was dumbfounded, that is to say, there is a gap in one day, the trading city, even unable to provide enough personnel, the fortifications on the ground will definitely not work, under the situation that the opponent's superior forces occupy the trading city, plus the advantage of artillery fire, even if they can defend the tunnel, they will not be able to counterattack, at most the garrison in the trading city will be greatly increased, 10,000, 20,000, for the 210,000 Russian army, there is not much impact at all, the Russian army can smoothly wave the army south, pointing directly at the hinterland of Mongolia.
There's no way, according to the military chess deduction, if you can resist the Russian army on the front line of the buying and selling city, not only can you resist the enemy outside the country, but it will not cause losses in the hinterland of Mongolia, what is the Russian army, it is barbaric, slaughtering the same troops, if you really enter Mongolia, maybe Mongolia itself, will not be able to turn over for a few years, the most important thing is that there is less of the defense system of the trading city, you know, the trading city, but it took 2 years to build, the most suitable protection system for Baotou to play, there is a division stationed, If two or three divisions are used as reserves, it is enough to block 200,000 troops, and the battle loss rate will be greatly reduced.
There was a dead silence at the scene, no one had any more ways, as if they had fallen into a dead knot, no one dared to make a decision for Yang Yuanzhao, seeing that the jade of the trading city was shattered, and the carefully prepared defense line fell into the hands of the Russian army, although the trading city had a final damage plan, even if the entire trading city was destroyed, this defense line would not fall into the hands of the Russian army, but the passivity in strategy would make the Russian army more bold, and they would fight more hard.
"Headmaster, I have an idea!" Suddenly, someone broke the silence in the war room, and said suddenly, Yang Yuanzhao looked over, and it was Wang Yibing who spoke, a young man who graduated from the Northwest Military Academy and was pinned on by Yang Yuanzhao.
"Say!" Yang Yuanzhao's attitude was a little calm, and he said.
"Our special combat team has trained in a subject, airship landing!" Wang Yibing said calmly. (To be continued......) R1292