The breakthrough of the Second and Third Armies has exhausted the last bit of mobile strength of the Russian army, and the remaining ammunition is no longer enough to support the Russian army to break through again. This is what Su Tong thinks before going to bed.

When Chief Su woke up, he saw the rising sun in the sky, although most of the winter sun was gray, but this did not affect someone's good mood. After asking the orderly to bring a bowl of gruel and a few steamed buns, Su Tong ate it in a big gulp.

"Report!" There was a loud voice at the door.

"Come in."

"It turned out to be Boyu, let's have some food together." Su Tong warmly beckoned Hu Lian to sit down.

Hu Lian had already heard of the informality of this chief, he just smiled and said, "Thank you, sir, it's too early to use your humble position." After saying that, he stood straight aside and waited for the chief to finish breakfast.

Hu Lianping said that he is a person who pays attention to the dignity and humility of his superiors and subordinates, and he is also very good at handling the relationship with his colleagues and subordinates, which is much stronger than Sun Liren. In Hu Lian's view, if the boss is casual with you, it is called informal, but if you are a subordinate and casual with your boss, it is not indistinguishable from dignity. Therefore, in later generations, he is also one of the few [***] generals who can die a good death in Taiwan.

"Boyu, is there anything wrong with you coming here so early?" Su Tong put down the dishes and chopsticks, wiped his mouth with his hand, and asked.

"Sir, I would like to ask you to transfer the 102nd Division back to Ulaanbaatar for recuperation, our division is about to be crippled in this enemy breakout operation, this is the list of casualties that the Humble Duty has just counted." With that, Hu Lian handed a list to Su Tong with both hands.

"Twelve thousand casualties!" Although he had been mentally prepared, Su Tong couldn't help but be startled when he saw this set of figures at first glance, the 102nd Division is a large division, with a total of more than 18,000 personnel in the whole division, and there are more than 15,000 combat personnel in addition to logistics support and non-combat personnel, and the current figures show that the combat personnel of the 102nd Division are almost exhausted. The four infantry regiment commanders killed two in battle, one seriously wounded, and one lightly wounded, not to mention the battalion and company commanders below, almost all of them were changed, looking at this list containing the blood of countless martyrs Su Tong was silent.

"I'm so sorry for you!" After a while, Su Tong sighed softly, put the casualty list on the table, raised his head and asked, "You came at the right time now, I was just about to inform you that I plan to reorganize your division into a mechanized infantry division next, what do you think?" ”

"Mechanized infantry division?" Hu Lian muttered a few words in his mouth, and his glasses lit up, could it be that Chief Su had told us that he had completely abandoned horses and livestock and used all tracked vehicles or wheeled vehicles as a means of delivering troops, and increased the equipment of heavy weapons?

"You're right" seemed to see Hu Lian's thoughts. Su Tong said with a smile: "This is an experimental army, it is only a preliminary idea of mine now, and there is still a long way to go to turn it into reality." I have granted your request to go back and recuperate, but not to Ulaanbaatar but to Chahar, our old nest, where the conditions for the reorganization of the troops can be realized. Boyu, do you have the confidence to complete this task? ”

"This is the honor of lowly duty, and it is incumbent on me to be humble!" Hu Lian replied with an awe-inspiring expression.

"Okay, in fact, you can get this honor because you earned it yourself, do you know what I thought when I heard the direction of Lao Maozi's main attack?"

Su Tong gently closed his eyes when he said this, and said softly without waiting for Hu Lian to answer: "At that time, my first thought was, 'Thank you, there is the defense line of the 102nd Division'!" ”

Hu Lian heard that there was still no change in his solemn face here, he just saluted and turned around and walked out, but Su Tong clearly saw that there seemed to be a glimmer of sparkle in his eyes the moment he turned around.

The 37th Army outside the encirclement was busy saving the dead and rearranging the defensive positions, and the Russian troops in the circle were also wailing, and some of the wounded had to be placed in the open air because there was no medicine, not enough houses and tents.

The makeshift hospital was filled with the screams and wails of the wounded, but the cold wind of Siberia would not be polite to anyone, and people were dying every moment in this cold winter of more than 20 degrees below zero. The only thing the living can do is to strip their clothes off their bodies and put them on themselves, and then return the dead to a designated pit.

Looking at the snow outside the window, Admiral Andlupf's mood at this time was as cold as the weather now, since he returned from the failed breakout operation the day before yesterday, Admiral Andlupf locked himself in his room alone.

Admiral Andlupf's house is the house of the former mayor of Amora, which was temporarily requisitioned, because this house is the best in the town, and as for the original mayor, who cares about him? It's a time of war, and everybody knows it.

A roaring fire was burning in the fireplace of the house, but this did not warm Admiral Andlupf in the slightest, and a great sense of fear was already engulfing him.

Since the failure of the breakthrough operation, he knew that the nearly 300,000 troops here would never have a chance to stand out again, and even if the Chinese army now let go of the encirclement and sent them away with military music, it would be useless. Because the sudden heavy snow and the sharp drop in temperature today made him understand that as soon as they left the rudimentary tents and pitifully small fires outside, it would not be long before the hundreds of thousands of tired and hungry troops would freeze to death on the march in one night. The bitter cold of Siberia will never give rise to the slightest pity because they are Russians.

As a veteran of more than 20 years of battle, he will not be depressed or depressed by a momentary failure, because he knows that there is no such thing as an undefeated general in this world. But he was the commander of an army group, and since he and Admiral Molokov had sent 300,000 young Russian lads to this place that deserved to be cursed, it was their duty to bring them home, which was the responsibility of any responsible commander-in-chief.

Does it really have to be that far? Admiral Andlupuf sighed secretly.

There was a knock at the door.

"Come in."

"Comrade Andlupf, I heard that you have been locked in your room for a day and a night, and this is not good." As soon as the door opened, the voice of Admiral Molokov was heard.

"Oh, Comrade Andlupf, why have you lost so much weight?" As soon as the door opened, Admiral Molokov was startled by the sight of Andlupf's deeply sunken eye sockets and jaws.

"Comrade Molokov, you're here, please come in." Admiral Andlupuf did not explain, and closed the door when the people entered.

"Comrade Andlupf, how long do you think we can hold out?" As soon as he sat down, Admiral Molokov asked straight to the point.

"Only God knows about this, but I don't think it's more than a week." Admiral Andlupuf hesitated and replied.

"A week, I'm afraid I won't be able to last even three days." Admiral Molokov smiled wryly.

"What? How can it be? Admiral Andlupuf almost jumped: "Didn't we calculate the other day?" ”

"What's the reluctance, we brought most of the supplies with you when you broke through the siege the day before yesterday, but those supplies were scattered on the way to break through, and the only food we have left now can't last for a few days."

After Admiral Molokov finished speaking, both fell silent.

After a long time, Admiral Molokov and Admiral Andlupuv looked at each other silently, and both understood what the other meant.

"It looks like we're both going to be famous in the world." It was Admiral Andlupuf who broke the silence first with a wry smile.

"But we need to find the right person at the right time." Admiral Molokov sighed softly.

Yes, a suitable candidate may be able to fight for more benefits for the 300,000 Russian troops.

Today's second update

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