Chapter 298 Battle of the Trapped Beasts Twelve Nightmares

At the same time when the Japanese and Russian armies were fighting to the death on the front line in Manchuria, a more tragic battle was also being fought in Harigan Tusumu. The offensive of the revisionist army has not stopped since it began in the early hours of November 3. Revisionist and GC fighters fought desperately around several trenches in the grasslands of Harigantu Sumu, which had been almost flattened by artillery fire. The infantry on both sides repeatedly engaged in a brutal tug-of-war.

Although the Russian Red Army was at a considerable disadvantage in terms of firepower and strength, it also had no strong fortifications to rely on. However, the Red Army's will and determination to fight surpassed that of its opponents, and as soon as an important position was lost, it would immediately organize a counterattack. Their infantry, shouting slogans of "Ula", were filled with revisionist fire. The casualty figures of the 298th Battle of the Trapped Beasts and the Twelve Nightmares seem to have reached the point where they are completely ignored by the commanders of the Red Army! In order to deliver cannon fodder to this huge furnace of flesh and blood, Stalin and the Military Committee of the Eastern Front and the Military Committee of the Far Eastern Revolution also made the greatest ruthlessness, and those Russians who drove carts to send all their rations to the front line to "dedicate" to the Red Army soldiers, whether they were old people, children or women, as long as they could pick up rifles to fight, were all incorporated into the Red Army, and a steady stream of them were sent to the battlefield of Harigan Tusumu!

This is probably the first time that the Chinese National Defense Force has encountered such a crazy opponent. Even as crazy as their imaginary enemy, Japan's army! The value of human life in the eyes of these GC activists may be a little lower than that of Japanese militarism, right? The Russians in the Chita area who were sent to the battlefield had some "problems": if they didn't die in a foreign land, they would probably die in a labor camp or execution ground in their country, and their families would have to pay for bullets to shoot! I'm afraid it's still a more economical way to kill them with revisionist bullets now, right?

Driven by the Bolsheviks, the Russians almost used their lives to fill in a passage for the attack of the 12 Nightmare Strips of the 298th Battle of the Trapped Beasts, and consumed the ammunition of the Wehrmacht with the heaviest casualties! The corpses of the Russians are stacked on top of each other, to the point of shocking, and there is no way to count the dead, and no one cares! According to the memories of some people involved many years later, few of the peasants who were forcibly conscripted by the Red Army to deliver supplies returned home alive!

The huge casualties of the Russians were not without gain. During the three-day offensive battle, the officers and men of the "Chinese" National Defense Forces attacked countless times, and were driven back by the crazy Russian fighters. White-knuckle combat is so hard that the bayonet is curled.

However, with the continuous addition of the follow-up troops of the Middle Road Group Army to the battlefield, the scale of the attack of the ** team is also getting bigger and bigger! Their front also continued to extend to the north and south flanks in an attempt to outflank the Red Army. Although the Red Army was able to be supplemented by the Minling or the Mongols, their essence was still being lost. The combat effectiveness of the troops is also becoming weaker and weaker. Later. Even their best white-knuckle combat is at a disadvantage.

In his book How Slaves Become Slaves, Ostrovsky described the fighting of these days as follows: "In the midst of the heavy snow, our company received another order to charge and recover a trench that had been seized by the revisionist army. By this time I was no longer an ordinary soldier, I had joined the party in the line of fire during the battle two days earlier, and I was immediately promoted to platoon commander. The three men who had been in this position had all died in two days of fighting, and I thought I should have been the fourth, but unfortunately my fate was more difficult than I imagined, and I was not destined to die a happy death. The officers died one after another, and the soldiers suffered heavy losses, including those Mongols, and our company, which had one hundred and twenty-six men, lost one hundred and forty-seven in four days of fighting. Forty-two more were seriously injured! Of course. It's not that anyone died twice, but we were replenished three times in these four days, and a total of one hundred and sixty-five people did not know if one hundred and sixty-six had joined our company. There were twelve women among them! Including five very beautiful girls. However, we did not send them to attack the positions of the Chinese, and even our comrade instructor could not commit such a crime, and his conscience was not completely extinguished, so he died in a labor camp in Siberia many years later.

We committed a hundred and five men in this attack, and I was one of them. All of us stumbled forward. Everyone hadn't eaten enough for three days, and they didn't have much energy. All we step on under our feet are the remains of the human body. Some of them are Chinese, but more of them are our comrades. Braving their superiority artillery fire and machine-gun charges would have been a death rundown!

The Chinese shells came again as usual, followed by the sound of machine guns. Many lucky people were shot and fell and died, escaping their tragic fate. But I wasn't one of them, and neither the machine guns nor the mortars of the Chinese people hit me. Soon the remaining dozens of people of our company and I rushed to the vicinity of the positions they occupied! From time to time, there were screams all around, all in Russian, and some of them seemed to be in Mongolian, and those people shouted everything when they were dying, most of them were shouting the names of their relatives, and some were shouting for help, but no one called Lenin or GCD or anything, they were all shouted by people who thought they could live, such as our new company commander, Comrade Khabarov.

He rushed to the front shouting the slogan "Long live Lenin", but was quickly blown off the lower half of his body by a shell, and then collapsed in a pool of blood shouting the name of Natasha, his fiancée, who later died in a Siberian concentration camp on charges of being a Stalinist. Kaczynski, the commander of the second platoon, was also hit by a heavy machine gun from the Chinese, and the whole person was knocked into the air, and a soldier who was very good with him went up and carried him off the battlefield, causing him to survive, and later became a Polish spy, and was shot in the early 30s, and his wife and children died in a concentration camp in Siberia.

I and the remaining dozens of people unfortunately rushed through the firepower network of the Chinese people and rushed into their positions. The trenches were littered with corpses, and the trenches were about to be filled in one after another. We are fighting with the revisionist officers and soldiers on these corpses! I don't know if it's because our stabbing skills are declining, or because the progress of those Chinese people is rapid, this white-knuckle battle almost crushed us! I was also stabbed in the thigh, but unfortunately I didn't get a shot and was able to limp back. Well, I have to run back, and there are still ten years of hellish labor reform waiting for me in my motherland, how can I not go back? ”

Although Stalin, Frunze and Voroshilov were already in command of the operation with the utmost determination. However, they still underestimated the reactionary determination and combat effectiveness of revisionism in China and imperialism in Japan. After consuming at least 100,000 lives on both sides of the war, the battle of Harigan Tusumu finally ended with the final victory of the Chinese National Defense Forces! Both lines of defense of the Russian Red Army (including that of the Red Cavalry Corps) were lost at noon on 8 November.

After twelve days of bloody offensive and defensive battles. The Red Army's East Road Campaign Cluster, which once had 130,000 people, was now less than 65,000 people left, and considering that they had been replenished on a large scale four times, the casualties and missing of the Soviet Russian Red Army in this battle were probably more than 100,000! But their suffering is not over. The retreat from Harigan Tusumu was the beginning of another nightmare!

According to the war history records of China, Japan and Russia, the Soviet Russian Red Army evacuated Harigantu Sumu on a snowy night. At that time, there was another Siberian cold snap passing through the Hulunbuir grassland, and the temperature suddenly dropped to more than ten degrees below zero. The snow field was covered in fog, shrouding everything in snow and dust. Visibility was very low, and it was definitely a test for the Medium team from a warm region. Therefore, the choice of the Soviet Russian Red Army to retreat at this time should be considered a correct decision.

However, after 12 days of hard fighting, the Russian Red Army, which was desperately short of provisions, had exhausted their enthusiasm and confidence in fighting. After being pursued by the armies of China and Japan in the snow. The retreat quickly turned into a rout.

The Red Army, in large groups, rolled in the soft snow. The soldiers stumbled forward step by step, and many fell and could not get up again. Although the current temperature is nothing for the naturally hardy Russians, it is based on the fact that there is enough food to provide their bodies with heat, and these GC warriors are now slaves to hunger and cold! The middle and high-ranking officers and political committee members were all on horseback, all of them looking worried, and they didn't say anything to encourage morale, but they just kept looking back. There was also heavy gunfire there. It shows that the troops behind the palace are still fighting. When the gunfire sparses out, it means that some unlucky people will be sent to block the muzzle of the country or the country itself!

On both sides of the marching procession, there were discarded things, vehicles, guns, supplies, ammunition, and some of the seriously wounded of the cannon with the barrel blown out, and they sat on the snow. Most people looked numbly and helplessly at their comrades who were fleeing. There are also some who are still scolding there.

"Comrade Voroshilov, Comrade Budyonny. Where are you going? There are still hundreds of millions of working people in the East waiting for you to liberate! How do you go west? Are you going to Moscow and Petrograd to enjoy happiness? ”

"Come and see, these are Lenin's GC fighters. Lost a qiē only to know to escape! ”

"I have followed the Bolshevik Party since the February Revolution, and now how can you throw me to the enemy! How can you do this! ”

"Red Army, it's over! GCD, it's over! ”

If such an anti-revolution had been put in the past, the Cheka warriors would have rushed up to take the people. But no one squeaked right now. Our Cheka warriors are also smart people, and it's too late to escape for their lives at this time, so where can they still carry these burdens with missing arms and legs? Even if they stayed and organized the revolution, the military court sentenced them to death, and then shot them, wouldn't it be a waste of time? It's not a joke to let the [China" country or the "Japan" devil catch up! So let these guys freeze to death on the grassland, in case they can't die and be captured, and when they are released and return home after the war, they will also have a good look, I heard that the "Criminal Code" that is being drafted has already made captivity a strict crime!

However, this news is known only to insiders, and most of the Soviet Russian Red officers and soldiers who were captured in this war will later wage the most tenacious struggle against revisionism and imperialism in the prisoner-of-war camps! Some of them also refused green cards from US imperialism, and most of them eventually returned to their beloved homeland and received their own 10 years of labor reform.

And behind these fleeing Soviet Red Army were the advance detachment of the Wehrmacht of China and the Japanese cavalry unit that was the most brilliant in this war. The cavalry pursued more closely, shelling with cavalry, hitting with cavalry rifles, and chopping with sabers. The Chinese infantry, on the other hand, pursued a little slower, and were basically busy picking up things and capturing prisoners, and had little interest in fighting the rear guard units of the Red Army. However, the 10,000 or so Japanese cavalry was enough to crush all the rearguard units of the Red Army. At first, the Red Army rearguards, who had been sent out, were able to seriously resist for a while, but by the time they had completely lost their will to fight. Hurriedly fired a few shots and fled. In the end, there was no rearguard force, and tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers fled for their lives with their heads covered on the snowfield, and were chased by the Japanese themselves. There were even formed units that surrendered to the Japanese army!

Voroshilov was riding on a Don River horse with a cavalry cloak on his body, and the officers and men of the Red Cavalry Corps were at the forefront of the fleeing procession. With tens of thousands of infantry filling the muzzles of the Chinese people in the back, he didn't have to worry about any danger he would have. At least this danger will not come from the enemy! However, it is difficult to say whether Stalin can let himself go, he now does not have the style of the Red Cavalry Military and Political Committee, his face is full of exhaustion, and he asks from time to time: "What are the instructions of the Front Army Command?" What are the orders of the Military Council of the Front? ”

Of course, he did not ask for operational instructions and orders, but whether there were any orders for arrest! When the troops retreated on the front line of Harigan Tusumu. He made a small report to the Military Council of the Eastern Front, and the arrest and command of the battle against Budyonny and Yaquil! But he couldn't wait for a response. This seems to mean that the above is also dissatisfied with him as a political commissar, and I am afraid that it is not only Budyonny and Yakir who will be arrested, but also himself, right?

Voroshilov could only sigh, he really didn't expect that he would be defeated so badly! The army of 130,000 people is finished in just ten days, and I don't know if there are 30,000 people who can run back to Zabaikalsk? Even if you want to arrest yourself, you should also arrest yourself!

"Let's go, when we get there, Baikalsk will report and ask for guilt! Shooting should not be. At best, it is dismissal. As long as you can keep your party membership, there will always be a chance to turn around in the future! ”

However, at this time, Voroshilov and all the defeated soldiers under his command could not have imagined that in such a stormy and snowy weather, there was a Japanese army that was almost like them fleeing all the way to the east! The size of this Japanese army was about 150,000, and there were several thousand officers and soldiers from the northeast of China along with them. They were the main force of the Japanese Xianbeilian Dispatch Army besieged in Manchuria and the remaining troops of the 13th Division of the Northeast Army.

It was only on 7 November that they eliminated more than 10,000 officers and men of the 18th Division of the Red Army blocking the road to the east and seized the eastward escape. However, the main forces of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Russian Red Army refused to let them go! Although this unit has abandoned all artillery baggage. Flee lightly. But their essence is still there, once they are allowed to return to the Far East. With the help of Anglo-American and French imperialism (in the thinking of the GCD people, imperialism is always unanimously opposed to them). These 15 divisions will soon be able to regain their combat effectiveness and will invade the Far Eastern Republic again!

Therefore, the Military Committee of the Eastern Front ordered the military committee to ignore the fatigue and huge consumption of the troops in continuous combat (more than 150,000 casualties), and forced them to launch a pursuit and annihilation operation! However, the retreating Japanese army showed a more tenacious will to fight than the Russian Red Army.

The pursuers of the Red Army constantly rammed into the rearguard positions held by the most stubborn Japanese reactionary troops. The madness and stubbornness of those Japanese troops were beyond the imagination of the Red officers and soldiers. It seems that they are not blocking the pursuit of the Red Army, but they are going to die with the Red Army! I don't know if it's because the ammunition is about to run out, these Japanese troops will often take advantage of the momentum to counterattack after repelling the first wave of the Red Army's offensive, and fight a white-handed battle with the Red Army pursuers who are several times their number! Moreover, all the Japanese soldiers and officers had explosives bags strapped to their bodies, and they would die with the Red officers and soldiers at the first opportunity!

The Japanese artillery also sometimes participated in rearguard operations, but they did not have many shells, and it was impossible to carry out regular fire support, but resorted to the most brutal tactics! When the Japanese rearguard units were in a white-knuckle battle with the Red Army, which was several times their size, the Japanese artillery would suddenly open fire! Cover everyone without discrimination!

Moreover, the Japanese army did not blindly flee, they also seized the opportunity to fight a counterattack, especially the night raid battle that they are best at will be launched on time every night! The night attacks of the Japanese army were all suicide attacks, and the commandos who participated in the battle all strapped bombs into the positions of the Red Army, first attacked with rifles and grenades, and at the first opportunity, they pulled off the explosives and perished with the surrounding Red Army.

This pursuit war between Russia and Japan was carried out in the most brutal way, so that many officers and soldiers of the Soviet Russian Red Army who participated in this war would often dream of a Japanese devil with a bomb strapped to it in their homes or cells for many years to come。!!!