readx; The pace of the next march was much slower, because they had already stepped on the mines, so they had to be cautious for the rest of the day. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Without professional mine detection equipment, the soldiers were left with the most ancient methods to solve the difficulties at hand.

The bayonet slowly plunged into the ground in front of him, stabbing down at intervals so as not to miss the mines.

Over the next half hour, they found more than two dozen mines.

Judging by the mines that have been discovered, the Soviet army has indeed put a lot of effort into this minefield.

The troops walked in a straight line, and they could find more than 20 mines just by forming two rows, and if a large force entered and the troops moved forward on the front line, God knows how many mines they would encounter.

There are many ways to clear mines quickly, but by far the most effective and feasible are detonation, carpet bombing to remove the danger of mines.

But in this case, the action is inevitably a little too big, and the price is too high.

Moreover, their task is only to infiltrate in the early stage and find out the enemy's movements, and when the time comes, the large army will definitely take the main road to attack directly, and they will not go to such a dangerous place as the mountains and forests, which are not conducive to the movement of tanks.

Besides, the Soviets' mines can't blow up tanks, so they don't have to worry about what happens next.

After three hours, the troops were finally about to leave the forest, and at a normal pace, they should have left two hours earlier.

However, because of the demining, the march was delayed for two hours, but despite this, the journey was very dangerous, and many of the brothers who searched for mines almost lost their lives.

As they were about to leave the forest, the troops had to stop again, and the results they faced were a little unacceptable.

"The Soviets would have deployed their defensive line here?"

Second Lieutenant Sun Quanbing crouched in a bush, observed the scene in front of him through the telescope, and his heart couldn't help but become a little heavy.

Immediately, his body began to retreat slightly, and after retreating to a safe enough place, he took out the map and carefully observed the terrain on the map.

Beyond the forest is the fertile field area, which is about ten kilometers away, and there are dozens of small villages of various sizes in the middle of the fertile field area.

At this time, the Soviet defense line had basically begun to dock with the forest, and further back, several kilometers away were the fortifications they had built.

In normal times, it would not be difficult to find these fortifications, but now, the Soviets have destroyed all the crops and dug trenches in the ground, and it is difficult to find them even if you don't want to find them.

And the reason why they came here was also because the air force found signs of a large number of Soviet troop movements here a few days ago, so the troops decided to send a small force to find out the news.

"According to the arrangement of this trench, four or five thousand men are more than enough to defend here, and the arrangement of the trench is also very peculiar, it is a large circular fortification, and no matter where you attack it, you must pass through their defense."

A corporal took Sun Quanbing's binoculars, looked ahead for a while, and then spoke.

"Please come and reconnoiter the brothers of the air force to see if the Soviets have arranged a circular position."

After a long time, Sun Quanbing looked at the map in his hand, then at the Soviet position in front of him, and said.

Now he had no other way, the Soviets put on a defensive posture in front of them, and they had built a circular position, which was very disadvantageous for the attacking side.

In particular, a position with a large range, unless it is surrounded on all sides, anything can happen, and the tactics of the Soviet army have made Army Group North a little unbearable, and the large corps can rarely give full play to its might here.

And the Soviet army was basically broken into pieces, fighting in groups of three or two, exactly like guerrilla warfare, which made people unguardable.

If there is no such circular position, then it is better to say a little, after all, the battlefield is so empty, they have the opportunity to clean up the enemy, it is nothing more than a little more loss.

But now, once it's really a circular position, what does that mean? This will no longer be an open area, and once the main forces rush in, the Soviets will sneak up behind the troops through these positions.

Although it is impossible to annihilate the main force inside, it is still okay to be disgusted, and it is not impossible to defeat them after a long time.

Everyone knows that a sneak attack for a day or two is nothing, but if it is a sneak attack for a long time, the soldiers' minds are in a high degree of concentration, and they will react immediately at the slightest disturbance.

It has been a long time, and it is not impossible to set up camp, so Sun Quanbing must confirm the position in front of him as soon as possible, whether it is a circular position.

In addition to needing the cooperation of the air force, Sun Quanbing did not plan to be idle, and sent two squads of soldiers to the left, while he took two squads of soldiers to the right, and the troops moved separately to investigate the perimeter of the Soviet army's position.

"Old Pi, if you find a position in Chernogorsk, go back the same way, and we will contact you every half an hour."

Soon, Sun Quanbing made a decision.

The map shows that there are two other towns to the north and south of Abakan, and these three places are connected together, both of which are open areas and are also concentrated settlements.

Now Sun Quanbing's biggest concern is that Chernogorsk in the north and Sayanogorsk in the south are also within the scope of this circular position.

If this is the case, then this time the matter is big, and the offensive plan that Army Group North has prepared is likely to need to be changed.

Although Sun Quanbing did not know what the specific plan was, it was basically certain that the scope of the plan formulated by the Northern Army Group would never be so wide, and the real strength of the Soviet army would never be known.

Because at present their main forces are in Kansk and Lesosibilsk, behind them there is only one corps of the First Army, and their main task is no longer on the side of Abakan, but in the Krasnoyarsk region, about two hundred and fifty kilometers north of Abakan.

It is reported that the Soviets amassed about two million troops there, while Lesosibilsk gathered about a million troops.

At present, Army Group North has only four armies on the front line, namely the First, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Armies, of which the Tenth Army acts as a rotating force and reserve force in the rear, and only three armies are used in the front.

But through the current investigation, Sun Quanbing has a feeling that he has been deceived, and the real intentions of the Soviet army do not seem to be what they guessed.

The results of the reconnaissance a few days ago seem to be very different from the situation that is now occurring in Abakan.

But now it's just a guess, and Sun Quanbing can only hope that his guess is wrong, because the battle is about to start, and if something happens at this time, it will be extremely unlucky.

It's just that Sun Quanbing is very entangled, it stands to reason that the transportation here in Abakan is so inconvenient, and the geographical location is also close to Mongolia, and the million-strong army of the Republic of China is also eyeing the border, in fact, they are ready to attack.

At such a time, how could the Soviet Union still have the troops to deploy troops in the Abakan region? Moreover, the railway is still on the line of Tomsk-Krasnoyarsk, and running to Abakan is completely messing around.

Time is going by little by little, because now they are basically advancing by the edge of the forest, so they are even more cautious along the way, and they don't even dare to straighten up, for fear that the Soviet army on the opposite side will find them.

In addition, there were elements of mines before, so when the troops were advancing, they still used bayonets to find the way, and the result was as expected, in just three hours, they detected 200 mines.

If it weren't for the lack of time and the lack of manpower, Sun Quanbing planned to remove these mines and then re-bury them in another place to pit the Soviet army.

Eventually, they had to mark a place where there was a mine and keep walking, which had the advantage of at least coming back much faster.

Five hours later, a squad of elders after the division of troops made routine contact with Sun Quanbing's tenth contact, and this time, they had also arrived at their destination, Chernogorsk, but still found a circular position there.

It is also connected to Abacan, and each trench is only about a kilometer apart, and every other distance, there will be a trench leading between the two trenches, and if you look at it from the air, the trenches here are divided into countless squares, or rectangles.

And there is another noteworthy situation, the situation on Lao Pi's side is similar to the situation on Sun Quanbing's side, which is basically carved out of a mold.

Through the observation along the way, they were able to find that there were not many Soviet soldiers at all, except for some Soviet troops stationed in fixed positions, there were only some patrols left, and the entire front was empty.

This completely stunned Sun Quanbing, and it was incomprehensible for a while, so Sun Quanbing had to report the situation to the upper authorities and let the upper authorities make a decision.

In Jinxi, Liu Ling, commander of the Northern Group Army Group, was also stunned by this situation, and the situation of the Air Force's reconnaissance the day before yesterday was basically like two worlds from what it has detected now.

There are photos to prove it, it is not that the pilot ran in the wrong place at all, or he was blind, and if you put the photos of the day before yesterday and today's photos together, you can see that this is definitely not something that can be done in a day or two.

Such a large position, and it is still an empty position, what is the Soviet army going to do? And in two days, it was impossible for them to complete such a large project.

Nearly 100 kilometers of trenches in three cities, it is more than enough to put down a million troops, where did the Soviet army get so many troops?

Germany has already launched a new offensive in the western region, and the Soviet Union has no chance to transfer troops from the west, and Zhukov has only more than 3 million but less than 4 million troops in his hands.

Even so, what is the use of arranging such a position in Abakan? (To be continued.) )