As soon as the 166th Division liberated Baigawa, it hastily packed up some prisoners and handed over the glorious task of cleaning up the battlefield to the troops behind, and the division commander Hou Xiaoshan grabbed the hitchhiker in the front, took the tanks of the 22nd Armored Division of the Sixth Armored Army, and drove at full speed towards Belyozovy, which was more than 70 kilometers behind Komsomolsk.

"Poof! Burst! ……”

Hou Xiaoshan sat on the tank with the soldiers, and although he wore a mouth cover, he was still choked by the smoke and dust that swept through the armored cluster.

At this time, the sky has been bright, the time of more than six o'clock in the Far East is already a little cold, fortunately, the military uniform is warm enough, and the troops fighting in the Far East can even wear thermal underwear in the autumn and winter, this alone makes the annual non-combat attrition of the Wehrmacht due to frostbite reduced by ninety, and on the other hand, the devil who is not too frozen to say himself, every year he dies of cold and freezes to death or indirectly dies of the devil in the cold winter, no less than tens of thousands, and the most serious year even freezes to death of 100,000 people from frostbite, although it is nothing compared to their small army of two million, but it is still shocking, This is still the result of his large-scale cutting down of trees and demolition of houses to warm up.

"Division commander, this smoke and dust is too powerful, choking people, if you don't tell the armored brothers to stop, you can go in and sit."

Wu Peiqiang is a strong man with a big grin, more than 1 meter and eight meters, and a small 200 pounds, sitting on this bumpy tank, facing the flying dust, he can still talk and laugh.

"What is smoke? When I think of catching more devils, I'm not afraid to eat bullets. ”

Hou Xiaoshan didn't care about any smoke and dust all the way, he had been calculating how many prisoners the 166th Division had captured, calculating the losses of the 166th Division, and thinking about who should report to the battle heroes and who should be rewarded with special extra combat merit points.

Of course, he also imagined for a moment when a division commander like himself, who was not afraid of death and was a little resourceful, would be able to go further.

"It would be great if Lao Tzu could command a group army......

Hou Xiaoshan thought fiercely, when he was a child, his biggest wish was to be a squad leader, at that time, when he saw the soldiers of the militia group, the most shouted in his mouth was "report to the squad leader", he thought that he was a big officer, but now in the blink of an eye, twenty years later, he has climbed from a small soldier to the commander of the main field division who is about to be promoted.

"Xiaoshan, remember? When we were kids, we climbed onto the millstone and drove the lump of stone as a tank, but we didn't expect that today, we can charge with the army in this cluster of hundreds of tanks. Wu Peiqiang saw that his cousin's face showed a bit of expectation in his resolute face, and knew that he was looking forward to being promoted again, and couldn't help but think of when he was a child, Hou Xiaoshan's mother was a model worker of the militia at that time, and the family conditions were good.

"The matter of the old sesame seeds and rotten millet, I still remember, let you shoot, you threw the stone out and smashed it at the third uncle's chicken, but the money was not lost, not to mention, and let us eat a free meal of chicken." Hou Xiaoshan covered his mouth with his hand and looked at the officers and soldiers of the 166th Division on the tanks nearby, all of them closing their eyes and waiting for the next battle.

"The third uncle's family worked as a mason in the militia at that time, and he was rich, and he was not allowed to beat the two of us to the bottom and blossom ten years earlier. It was also in those years that the economy of the entire Lishuping was better, and the Wangshan Cliff was also stained, and our little guys were not less stained. Wu Peiqiang said with a smile, this thick man is still a big man with a little humor.

"When I have time to go back after this battle, I have to pull up a car for gifts, and the little things in the village will line up to receive them." As the division commander, Hou Xiaoshan's combat merit points are very considerable, and the family doesn't need to buy a house and save money to marry a daughter-in-law or anything, what he thinks is that it can be raised a little more, and he doesn't have much concept of combat merit points and money. "Lao Tzu has to tell them one by one, where did the food and play come from? The enemy snatched it back. ”

"Hahaha, you have a kind of hill." Wu Peiqiang said with a smile, this cousin is such a rotten intestine. "When they grow up and join the army, I'm afraid you will become the commander of the group army."

"Alas, I hope so, anyway, I lost the army in this life, and I will return the horse leather shroud if I die, and I will glorify my ancestors if I don't die."

According to Hou Xiaoshan's thoughts, after this battle, he should also move his nest. It's just that in the establishment of the national defense forces, the group army above the division level is the group army, and the division commander to the commander of the group army is a huge hurdle, and if you can't get over it, you won't be able to get through it for the rest of your life.

He estimated that his best luck would be to get a deputy post of group army, deputy chief of staff, deputy political commissar, deputy commander and so on. This is also thanks to the war years, when promotions were fast, military achievements were easy to reap, and troops were expanded quickly.

"Park!!"

Suddenly, the tank cluster slowly stopped, and a staff officer pushed the roof of the tank, poked his head out and reported, "Division commander, the leading armored barrier-breaking company has found a large number of fleeing Soviet troops two kilometers ahead. ”

"How many?"

"I don't know, we are still contacting the Air Force, we should have bitten the tail of a fleeing Soviet army, and a large force is still ahead."

"Go up the hill and have a look."

Hou Xiaoshan and Wu Peiqiang both jumped into the tank and signaled the troops to stand by, and soon, the tank climbed the hill with a small slope.

Raising his binoculars, through the thin morning mist, he saw that about two kilometers ahead, there were indeed Soviet troops fleeing all over the mountains, tanks, cars, artillery, guns and ammunition were thrown everywhere, it seemed that the Soviet troops were fleeing from another direction, but here they happened to intersect with the vanguard cluster of the 166th Division and the armored forces.

"It seems that they fled to the town of Belyozovy, and I heard that the Americans and Soviet troops had set up a line of defense there."

Hou Xiaoshan immediately turned back to the tank cluster and found Major General Zhang Jing, the commander of the 22nd Division of the Sixth Armored Army. The two are both major generals, but Zhang Jing graduated from the Armored Command School in the southwest period, and Hou Xiaoshan is from the Army School, and they didn't know each other before hitchhiking.

The 166th Division also had a lot of armored strength and cars, and Hou Xiaoshan brought them all with him in order to run fast and avoid a high failure rate.

"Division Commander Zhang, what do you think of these Soviet troops in front?"

Hou Xiaoshan spread out the military map, pointing to several possible escape directions of the Soviet army, the news of the air force has not yet returned, so he can only predict first, but there is only one main road from here to Beliaozovi Town, Zhang Jing looked at it and said, "Pursue as fast as possible." At the same time, call in the air force, strike at low altitudes, and slow down the enemy's escape. ”

"Report! The Air Force reported that there were 100,000 Soviet troops in front of us. ”

Soon, the news from the Air Force returned.

"Why are there so many ......?"

Zhang Jing and Hou Xiaoshan glanced at each other, and they both saw the raging war in each other's eyes.

"100,000 routs, I don't know how many routs there are in other directions, judging from the map, the Soviet troops who must flee from this generation are at least 100,000. If we block them in front of the defense line in the town of Berezovi, ......"

Hou Xiaoshan said simply and directly, this is a very tempting idea, the problem is that if you want to act, then as the fastest moving vanguard, the 22nd Panzer Division and the 166th Infantry Division will have to block the enemy's overwhelming deserters and the possible attack of the Allied forces on the defense line of Beliaozovi Town behind them, which is equivalent to being attacked by the enemy on the back.

But as the vanguard, the two divisions were one of the outflanking troops, and the task was precisely to get ahead of the enemy and surround the enemy, otherwise, these soldiers would run back to the northeast of the Far East, and when they turned back, they were armed again skilled soldiers, and all they lacked was guns and ammunition, and they themselves were already very mature veterans.

"Let's do it! My 166th Division cooperates with your armored troops, we take the mountain road from here, the Soviet army fled in a hurry, and did not dare to choose this road, we just bypassed it from here and wrapped him in a big dumpling! ”

Hou Xiaoshan said confidently. This section of the mountain shortcut on the map seems to be difficult to walk, and it is difficult to pass quickly if it is by manpower or Soviet tanks and vehicles.

Although the Soviet army is in a rout, it does not mean that they are running all over the mountains, although the Far East is large, the fleeing Soviet army is still organized, and the Soviet army's cars, armored vehicles, and tanks are still not lacking.

Fleeing along the road, in cars, armored vehicles, personnel carriers and even tanks, was chosen by more than 90% of Soviet troops. And as the defeated Soviet troops poured in from all directions, with more and more troops, more and more chaotic formations, and more and more dysfunctional command, the routed escape route began to be congested, and the speed of escape became slower than that of a snail.

Often the division commander could not find the regiment commander, the regiment commander could not find the battalion commander, the battalion commander could not find the company commander, and several people who knew each other or did not know each other mixed together and ran forward desperately.

Cars are getting more and more congested, broken cars, cars running out of gas, cars with flat tires, and blown up cars piling up on the side of the road, causing the already congested roads to become even more congested.

Even the fleeing contingent at dawn was overrun by the vanguard of the Chinese Defense Forces, not to mention the rebels who were pouring in from elsewhere.

The route chosen by the vanguard was precisely the main road leading to the rear of the Komsomolsk defense line in the Far East, which was now crowded.

"Are you going to report or am I coming?"

Zhang Jing said with a smile.

Five minutes later, the 166th Division and the 22nd Tank Division advanced at full speed, and after contacting the Air Force to carry out counter-bombardment in the opposite direction against the fleeing Soviet troops to hinder the Soviet army's movements, especially blowing up their vehicles and tanks, and seriously hindering the Soviet army's escape, the two divisions abandoned all their cars on the spot, got on armored vehicles and tanks, turned into the mountains, and directly pursued them off-road.

In the air, just over 30 kilometers from the town of Berezovi, the Soviet rout has not yet reached this area, but the strangulation battle in the air has already begun.

A large number of US planes took off from the rear in turn, and as many as 1,000 planes took off one after another from numerous airfields in the northeast and northeast of the Far East, and began to compete with the Chinese Air Force for air supremacy.

The town of Belyozovi must be defended, otherwise about 80% of the strength of the Soviet army outflanked by the rapidly mobile squadron will be lost, and it will be difficult for the remaining troops to return to the army and become combat-ready soldiers even if they become deserters and scatter into the countryside.

The air battle over the town of Berezovi was in a stalemate for a while, but the Wehrmacht air force continued to block the American forces and provided safe cover for bombers, dive bombers, attack planes and other fighters to bomb the fleeing Soviet troops.

"Da Da Da ......"

The thickened armor A45 attack aircraft is a group of attack aircraft developed by the Republic of China to deal with ground armored forces under the absolute air supremacy of its own side.

Within the Wehrmacht, the new attack aircraft was named the Unicorn Rhino.

Often, as soon as a one-horned rhino attack plane flies low, the eight aviation machine guns under its belly and wings are like plowing fields, pulling out a few barrages of death on the ground, and more often it uses the cannons and aviation machine guns with a large bomb load to fire two or at most four at a time while dropping bombs, and flying low and strafing.

"Ah......h

In the face of this new type of attack aircraft, the Soviet army found that the use of anti-aircraft machine guns was basically ineffective, and the most lacking thing for the fleeing troops was anti-aircraft guns.

The raging planes flew over the Soviet troops spreading for dozens of kilometers almost non-stop, and a large number of casualties were being generated, and once wounded, they were likely to be left behind the original troops.

"According to the Soviet communications we intercepted, the Provisional Supreme Commander of the Soviet Far East, General Mariashin, ordered the Soviet troops to withdraw to the defense line of the town of Berezovi set up by the American army. In addition, judging from aerial reconnaissance, about 500,000 Soviet troops are currently rushing to the town of Berezovi. ”

Boehly, Command of the Iron Hoof Campaign in the Far Eastern Theater of Operations of the Wehrmacht.

The staff officer quickly reported, and immediately, Huo Weiguo came to the huge simulated sand table in the middle of the room, and the staff officers had already drawn a map of the battlefield situation according to the dynamic information of the battlefield.

"Among these routed Soviet troops, the most important one was from the direction of Baigawa to the town of Belyozovy, and about 250,000 Soviet troops joined the rout, spreading more than 50 kilometers. The last part of them has already been overtaken by our follow-up troops.

Our two divisions, the 22nd Tank Division and the 166th Infantry Division, were the vanguard of the battle, and according to the dynamic changes on the battlefield, they had already taken the initiative to ask for orders to rush to the town of Belyozovy from the mountains to block the fleeing Soviet troops in front of the American defense line. ”

Chief of Staff Gao Feng said simply, and then said with some concern, "However, at the beginning, this army thought that there were 100,000 defeated troops in front of them, but now it has grown to 250,000, but we have already informed them of the latest situation, and the air force will also increase its support for them and interfere with the air raids of the Soviet army." The responding troops are also rapidly advancing to complete this encirclement with armored forces as the main force. ”

"Well, the key to this encirclement is more than 500,000 Soviet troops, and the key is the defense line of Bereozovi Town, the US army has set up a blocking defense line here to meet the Soviet army relying on the terrain, and the next key task of our army is not to break through here, but to clean up myself, I can only rush in front of this line of defense, and clean up the fleeing Soviet army."

You can't have both fish and bear's paws, Huo Weiguo understands this truth, but he still feels a little pity.

"Order all units and air forces to act with all their might, cooperate with the 22nd Division and the 166th Division, and completely annihilate these 250,000 Soviet troops. Since the U.S. military is unwilling to come to the rescue, we will give him a turtle in an urn under the nose of the U.S. military. ”

Huo Weiguo said proudly.

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(To be continued)