Chapter 165: Unification of China 15

On 2 September, just as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Brigades of the Marine Corps were boarding seafaring ships one after another and rushing to Lushun, in the first theater, the Dragon and Tiger Army had already completed the encirclement of Shengjing.

Nie Yuanzheng, Xiang Zilong, and Pang Wei personally sat in the town and commanded this final general offensive campaign.

At this time, Nie Yuanzheng had already sent a division to the main railway line from Shengjing to Andong, blocking the reinforcements of the Russian army and the Yue army that might come from the Korean Peninsula, and sent the Third Army of the Guards Corps south to the Liaodong Peninsula.

At seven o'clock in the morning of September 3, the Battle of Shengjing began, and the 200,000 Dragon and Tiger Army launched a full-scale attack on Shengjing City, which was garrisoned by only 100,000 Russian coalition troops.

The battle lasted for a whole day, and all the defensive positions of the Russian coalition forces outside Shengjing City fell, and more than 80,000 Russian coalition troops retreated to Shengjing City.

On September 4, the offensive and defensive battle of Shengjing City began, and this time, Nie Yuanzheng invested a full 300,000 dragon and tiger army to launch a general attack from the east, west, north and south of Shengjing City at the same time.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Dragon and Tiger Army first broke through the defense of the Russian coalition army from the north and attacked Shengjing City, and the street fighting in the northern city of Shengjing City began.

At 3:10 p.m., the Dragon and Tiger Army attacked Shengjing City from the south, and street fighting in the southern city of Shengjing City began.

As of four o'clock in the afternoon, all the city defenses on all sides of Shengjing City were broken by the Dragon and Tiger Army, and street battles broke out in an all-round way.

This tragic street battle was lit by moonlight and lasted from the evening of September 4 to 12 o'clock the next day.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Dragon and Tiger Army captured the headquarters of the Russian coalition forces and captured Kuropatkin, commander-in-chief of the Russian army and minister of the Russian army, and Oyamayan, commander-in-chief of the army in China and deputy secretary of staff of the army.

This battle. The Dragon and Tiger Army annihilated more than 83,000 enemies, captured more than 27,000 enemies, and suffered 6,235 casualties, including 5,713 casualties and 522 permanent disabilities.

Of course, the seizures were also rich enough, enough for 300,000 troops to use more than three months of food and grass for military supplies, 300,000 troops for three months' military salaries, and enough weapons to arm 200,000 troops. and three months of ammunition supplies for 300,000 troops. These are all strategic materials of the Russian coalition army in the northeast, and now they have become trophies of the Dragon and Tiger Army.

From the beginning of the Battle of the Daling River, the weapons and ammunition captured by the Dragon and Tiger Army from the battlefield and various places were only in the first theater. The Dragon and Tiger Army seized enough weapons to arm nearly 400,000 troops. and ammunition, food, grass, quarters, and salaries for the 400,000 troops for more than three months.

The so-called war is tragic. The results are rich, maybe that's what we're doing, of course. The premise is to win the battle, if you lose the battle, not only will you suffer heavy losses, but you will also face the tragic end of land reparations.

On September 5, just as the battle of Shengjing came to an end, Xu Jian happened to lead the main force of the Third Front Army to capture the city of Nebuchu, which was garrisoned by only one Russian infantry regiment.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Third Front welcomed the Russian First Siberian Army, and the battle was on the verge of breaking out.

There are a total of six army groups in the Russian Siberian region, with a total strength of nearly 200,000 troops, and the First Army, which was ordered to reinforce the Far East, is actually a temporary army group, composed of three army groups in the former Siberian region, with a total of 90,000 people, of which the first and second armies are Cossack cavalry corps, the third army is an infantry army, and the commander-in-chief of the first army is Stakelburg.

The 150,000 Dragon and Tiger Army fought against the 90,000 Russian army, and both sides had 60,000 cavalry, but the weapons of the cavalry were very different.

The two Cossack cavalry corps of the Russian army basically used cold weapons such as swords, but the cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Army was equipped with both cold and hot weapons.

After the battle began, the Russians, relying on the fierce Cossack cavalry, took the lead in the attack, and soon they paid a heavy price for their recklessness.

Under the command of Xu Jian, the Dragon and Tiger Army used infantry to fight against the Russian cavalry, under the fire of hundreds of mortars, more than 100 heavy machine guns, and hundreds of grenadiers, the Cossack cavalry suffered heavy casualties, and the charge for an hour could not reach the position of the Dragon and Tiger Army, even if some could rush within 30 meters, they would be greeted by mines, grenades, as well as light machine guns, rifles, submachine guns, and sniper rifle bullets.

After losing more than 40,000 of them, the 60,000 Cossack cavalry finally realized that the desperate charge was only to their death, and began to retreat.

However, in this period of more than an hour, the infantry of the Dragon and Tiger Army has detoured back to the two flanks of the Russian army, and the 60,000 cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Army have already detoured to the rear of the Russian army.

20,000 Cossack cavalry and 30,000 infantry had been invisibly surrounded by the Dragon and Tiger Army, but the commander-in-chief of the Russian First Siberian Army, Stakerburg, was unaware.

When the three signal flares rose into the sky, the 60,000 cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Army, led by Yue Fengxian, launched a fierce charge from behind the Russian army.

The shell guns and submachine guns of the cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Army emitted bursts of deafening gunfire, accompanied by the splashing of blood, and the 30,000 Russian infantry were surrounded by no resistance at all, and they were quickly defeated.

The encirclement was slowly shrinking, and by three o'clock in the afternoon, the Russian First Siberian Army had less than 20,000 men left, almost half cavalry and half infantry.

Faced with such a situation, Lieutenant General Starkelburg, who had been in high spirits at the outbreak of the war, surrendered with a white flag in despair.

However, Xu Jian, who had already received Wang Jundao's order, turned a blind eye to the white flag and still launched a final attack, with machine guns and mortars desperately firing at the small Russian formation.

When evening came, on the battlefield, there was no Russian soldier who could stand on the ground intact.

When cleaning the battlefield, Xu Jian looked at all this coldly, and just said lightly: "Make up one more shot on top of all the corpses!" ”

In the end, under the orders of Xu Jian and Yue Fengxian, the Dragon and Tiger Army piled up tens of thousands of still intact Russian corpses and put them into a row of words: "Those who offend me in China will be punished even if they are far away!" "It wasn't until three days later that the Dragon Tiger Army completely incinerated the bodies.

After the battle, after a day's rest, Xu Jian divided his troops into six parts, each consisting of 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry, and the remaining 30,000 infantry temporarily stayed in the city of Nebuchu.

Six armies of 10,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry began to radiate around the city of Nebuchu and attack the territory of Russia at will.

Wherever the Dragon and Tiger Army passed, it did not disturb the people, did not harm the people, only killed Russian soldiers, only killed resisters, only killed rogue bandits, and only killed and annihilated bullies.

As long as it encounters the Dragon and Tiger Army, no Russian soldier can survive, whether it is a resistor or a surrenderer, either shot or killed, when the Russian army in every place is killed, the Dragon and Tiger Army will leave a small force to use these dead Russian troops and resisters as an example to preach the majesty of China around them, and these corpses will not be burned until three days later.

Countless officers couldn't bear it and wanted Xu Jian to change the order, but Xu Jian just replied coldly: "Is it only allowed for Russia to invade China?" Will China be allowed to invade Russia? This is the order of the commander. ”

The officers at all levels who got the reply did not ask any more questions, and the leader of the army killed again, not for anything else, just because it was the commander's order!

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On September 6, Yang Poyu and Long Zhanqin led the 100,000 troops of the Dragon and Tiger Army to attack on the eastern line of the Eastern Railway, broke through the border defense line garrisoned by a division of the Russian army from the Suifen River, and directly entered the territory of Russia.

On September 7, the Dragon and Tiger Army, under the leadership of Yang Poyu and Long Zhan, captured Shuangchengzi, which was garrisoned by only one Russian infantry brigade.

On 8 September, the marines who landed from Lushun echoed the north and south of the Third Army of the Guards Corps that had moved south from Shengjing, and under the command of Pang Wei, they laid siege to a Russian army group on the Liaodong Peninsula at Dalian.

The commander of the Liaodong Peninsula of the Russian army is Lieutenant General Stepsek, the commander of the Russian army, who has the reputation of "often defeated general" and "good name" in the historical Russo-Russian War, still did not escape the fate of his defeat, and in just half a day, more than 39,000 Russian troops led by him were killed and wounded more than 13,000 people, and finally Stepsek "wisely" chose to surrender.

At the same time, in the second theater of operations, the Dragon and Tiger Army, under the dual command of Yang Poyu and Long Zhan, was overwhelmed.

On September 9, the Dragon and Tiger Army broke through the northern defense line of Haisenwei defended by one division of the Russian army, and compressed the Russian troops of two divisions into the city of Haisenwei.

On September 10, the Dragon and Tiger Army broke through the defense of Haisenwei City, after a day of urban street fighting, the Dragon and Tiger Army eliminated the main force of the two divisions in Haisenwei City, and chased more than 7,000 remnants of the Russian army to the seaside, the Russian army could not escape, all of them were shot and killed by the Dragon and Tiger Army, and then the Dragon and Tiger Army captured the Haisenwei Military Port from the land, and turned the Haisenwei Military Port into ruins with TNT explosives, forcing the Haisenwei detachment of the Russian Pacific Fleet to leave the Vladivostok Military Port.

On September 11, Xiang Zilong led three divisions of 50,000 troops to capture the city of Andong, which was garrisoned by only one brigade of the Yue army, and drove the remnants of the Yue army directly to the Yalu River.

After the war, the corpse of the Dragon and Tiger Army was defeated by the Yalu River with a sentence: "Those who offend my Chinese will be punished even if they are far away!" ”

All this was seen by the army stationed on the east bank of the Yalu River, and after three days, no one dared to cross the river to collect the corpses of these soldiers, and the Dragon and Tiger Army burned them all!

On 12 September, in the Third Theater of Operations, the cavalry units of the Third Front of the Dragon and Tiger Army had swept through the entire area south of the Great Khingan Mountains and most of the Amur Oblast, and although the total number of Russian soldiers killed was less than 10,000, the fierce reputation of the Dragon and Tiger Army had spread throughout the entire Russian Far East.

The Amur Governor-General Rodekov knew that the scattered forces would inevitably be broken by the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, so he gathered all the Russian troops in the Amur region to Hailan Paocheng.

Although Rozhkov had already mastered the troops of more than 20,000 men in two divisions, he was still terrified, because the ferocity and ruthlessness of the Dragon and Tiger Army frightened him and made him uneasy! (To be continued......)