Early in the morning of March 9, the Dingbei Army, which was occupied by the Russian army in the internal tunnels of the mountain fortifications on both sides of the 13 roads, suddenly launched a counteroffensive, and the Russian army, which was caught off guard, quickly lost the 13 mountain fortifications in less than 3 hours.

At this moment, the position of the main force of the Russian Second Siberian Front was awkward, which was equivalent to being surrounded by the Dingbei Army in the middle of the mountain fortifications and the inner city of Svobod.

Commander Oleglev, who felt that the situation was not good, immediately rushed the commanders and division commanders of the various armies to the headquarters, he briefly introduced the current situation, and then said anxiously: "Generals of the Russian Empire, we have fallen into the trap designed by the Dingbei Army, and now there are only 2 roads in front of us, one is to open the road to the mountain fortification group and withdraw to the camp north of the mountain fortification group, and the other is to capture the inner city of Svobod and seize supplies from the hands of the Dingbei Army in the inner city of Svobod, Which path do you say we choose? ”

After listening to the words of Commander Oleglev, hundreds of army commanders and division commanders looked at each other, and a look of horror appeared in their eyes, and they all understood what it would mean if the mountain fortifications on both sides of the 13 roads behind them were occupied by the Dingbei Army, and they would lose the supply of ammunition and materials.

The commander of the Russian 19th Army, Chekryv, saw that no one spoke for a long time, so he first said: "Your Excellency, commander, can we take a detour and withdraw to the camp north of the mountain fortifications?" ”

Commander Oleg shook his head helplessly and said: "The mountain fortifications are surrounded by impassable cliffs, and if we want to bypass them, we must detour hundreds of kilometers of mountain roads, otherwise we will not have to capture the 13 mountain fortifications on both sides of the middle road of the mountain fortifications at that time!" Our supplies here are simply not enough for our hundreds of thousands of troops to travel hundreds of kilometers, and we will not have anything to eat before we get halfway there! ”

After that, there was silence in the command headquarters, and these senior officers of the Russian army knew that the two roads mentioned by the commander were very difficult, and the Dingbei Army was blocking either way.

Finally, Oleg Lev sighed and said: "In this way, our army has chosen to rush through the road in the middle of the mountain fortification complex, and I hope you will understand that if we cannot withdraw to the camp north of the mountain fortification complex, our hundreds of thousands of troops will face the situation, so we must spare no price!" ”

Oleg Lev secretly complained in his heart, he was waiting for the ammunition and food to be transported from the camp north of the mountain fortification group today, and then prepared to continue to attack the second line of fortifications outside the inner city of Svobod, but the sudden move of the Dingbei Army was too ruthless, and now he is trapped here with hundreds of thousands of troops, the food is not enough to eat for 2 days, and there are not many shells left in the artillery unit, if you put it hard, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, it will not take 20 minutes, and the shells will be exhausted, so Oleg Lev looked at the more difficult Svobod inner city, He chose to abandon the road of capturing the inner city of Lower Svobod, after all, it took them all three days to capture the fortifications of the first Dingbei army outside the inner city of Svobod, and the number of dead exceeded 80,000.

Although the mountain fortifications were more difficult to overcome, Oleg Lev planned to rush directly through the middle road and not occupy the 13 mountain fortifications on both sides of the road, so that the losses would inevitably be very large, but it was much better than being trapped here by the Dingbei army until the ammunition and food were exhausted.

Now that the decision has been made, the entire Russian army has begun to act, they must race against time, they cannot waste any time, their food is enough to eat for 3 days.

At noon on March 9, the Russian army dispatched a division of nearly 9,000 troops with little losses, and under the cover of the artillery unit, forcibly passed the road in the middle of the Guò mountain fortification group.

In particular, some of the artillery of the Dingbei Army was in the dead corner of the range of the Russian artillery, and it was even more unscrupulous and constantly firing shells at the head of the Russian army, so although the Russian artillery opened artillery to suppress the shelling, the effect was not great, and the intensity of the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army has not been reduced.

When Commander Oleg saw that there were less than 2,000 men left in the division and retreated, he felt cold in his heart, especially when he saw the fierce artillery fire of the Dingbei Army in the middle of the mountain fortification group, he had a very bad feeling. However, his heart was more determined that he must rush through the mountain fortifications with all his might, and as a soldier's instinct told him that if the time dragged on, they might never have the opportunity to retreat to the camp north of the mountain fortifications.

The commander of the 19th Army next to him, Chekryv, said: "Commander, you can't rush through this way, the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army in the mountain fortification group is too strong, it seems that their artillery was hidden before." And although our artillery is numerous, there are not many shells at all, and it can no longer suppress the artillery of the Dingbei Army. Commander, we can send some troops to attack the mountain fortifications on both sides of the road, draw the strength of the artillery and mountain fortifications of the Northern Army, and then give the other troops the opportunity to pass through the road in the middle of the mountain fortification group and withdraw to the camp north of the mountain fortification group. ”

Chekryv's meaning was obvious, that is, to send the troops to the death, to draw the strength of the Northern Army, so that the main force could rush through the road in the middle of the mountain fortifications.

Commander Oleg had the same idea in his mind as Chekryv, so he transferred 40,000 troops from 6 divisions, ordered these 40,000 people to attack the mountain fortifications on both sides of the road, and even asked the tank and armored divisions to send tanks and armored vehicles to cooperate with the 40,000 attacking troops.

Subsequently, the 40,000 Russian troops, with the cooperation of tanks and armored vehicles, began to launch almost suicide-like attacks on several mountain fortifications on both sides of the road, while other Russian troops began to withstand the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army and forcibly opened the road through the middle of the mountain fortification group.

On the other side of the mountain fortification group, the 33rd Army and the 34th Army of the Russian army, which were fully staffed, were originally guarding the Russian battalion 10 kilometers north of the original mountain fortification group, but suddenly more than 5,000 defeated soldiers of the 31st Army and the 32nd Army fled to the Russian army camp, letting these two armies know the bad news that the mountain fortification group was all occupied by the Dingbei Army.

As soon as the commanders of the two Russian troops discussed, they immediately left a small number of troops to continue to guard the camp, and the main forces of the two armies began to attack the 137 and 138 heights close to them, preparing to help the main forces of the Siberian Second Front to reopen the road in the middle of the mountain fortification group.

It is a pity that there was not much artillery in their 2 armies, and the artillery of the 2nd Siberian Front was taken away by the commander Oleg Lev to the main forces attacking the inner city of Svobod.

Therefore, the two armies attacked the 137 heights and the 138 heights and only had a pitiful 24 75-mm field guns for artillery support, but soon after the artillery was fired, it was suppressed by the heavy artillery of the Dingbei Army, and without much effort, the only 24 75-mm field guns of the two armies were blown into parts.

However, the 33rd and 34th armies still ordered the infantry to launch wave after wave of attacks under the artillery fire and machine guns of the Dingbei Army.

The 31st, 32nd and 33rd Divisions of the Dingbei Army, which guarded the mountain fortification group, also knew that the Russians were beginning to work hard, and constantly mobilized troops to support the 13 mountain fortifications on both sides of the road of the mountain fortification group, and tried their best to prevent the main force of the Russian army from passing through here and retreating to the camp north of the mountain fortification group.

The officers and men of the artillery of the Dingbei Army in the mountain fortification group kept stuffing shells into the barrels of the guns and firing at the Russian troops at the fastest speed.

The main forces of the Russian Second Siberian Front broke through at any cost in this way, even when it was dark, and under the order of Commander Oleglev, two more divisions of troops joined the ranks of the attack on the mountain fortifications on both sides of the road, and the reason why Oleg Lev did this was because he was ready to rely on the darkness of the night to allow more troops to rush over, and if the action was stopped now, the troops that might be south of the mountain fortifications group tomorrow would no longer be able to withdraw to the north, He had just received a notice from the artillery unit, although the artillery unit tried to save shells as much as possible, but the already small number of shells was still about to run out in this fierce battle, which means that they would soon be unable to get artillery support, and the artillery of the Northern Army could bombard the Russian infantry units more unscrupulously without the suppression of the Russian artillery.

Oleg knew that it was time to make a desperate bet, so the Russian army had been desperately breaking through the siege throughout the night, and the road near the middle of the mountain fortification group, as well as the 13 mountain fortifications on both sides of the road, were as bright as day, because the artillery of the artillery unit of the Dingbei Army had not stopped firing, and even the Dingbei Army found that the Russian artillery no longer fired shells to suppress its own artillery, knowing that the shells of the Russian artillery had been exhausted, so the officers and soldiers of the 3 divisions pulled out the mortars of each department, Desperately firing at the road in the middle of the mountain fortifications.

However, the Dingbei Army did not expect the Russian army to be so crazy, launching attacks on the mountain fortifications day and night, and other Russian troops withstood the fierce artillery fire and dense machine gun bullets of the Dingbei Army, and forcibly passed the road in the middle of the mountain fortification group, so that part of the Russian army successfully rushed out and merged with the Russian 33rd Army and the 34th Army on the other side of the mountain fortification group.

It was not until the morning of March 10 that the main forces of the Russian Second Siberian Front broke through at any cost, and the roads in the middle of the entire mountain fortification complex and the 13 mountain fortifications on both sides of the road were covered with the corpses of the Russian army, and the wreckage of some tanks and armored vehicles could also be seen everywhere on the road in the middle of the mountain fortification group. R1152