305 Break Engagement 2

Wrangel's "Four King Kongs", one died in battle, one defected to the Soviet Union, Miller led the army to guard Temple Street, controlled the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and only the only "loyal" Kutepov was left by his side.

In view of the fact that the White Guards did not completely rebel, the Japanese "invited" Wrangel, who had lost his military power, to Vladivostok, dragged his last "Four King Kongs" Kutepov to Vladivostok to assist in the defense, and handed over his personal guards to Kutepov.

At this point, the Japanese were equivalent to putting more than two-thirds of the strength of the 100,000 White Guards into the hands of Zhao Yun. In this regard, Zhao Yun is of course very "laughing".

And having lost the "shield" of the White Guards, it is obviously unrealistic to expect the Koreans, who are the "strongest army in the universe", to block the red woolly bear. Even the "strongest army in the universe" came to break down the Japanese Bijin defense line.

The Japanese could only retreat to the third line of defense, Twin Castles. It may be that the polar bear has been hungry for a long time and rushed past Bikin, and the speed of the Soviet Russian army slowed down significantly. The Soviet army, which had no logistics to speak of, and the Japanese army, which was in full swing, fell into a stalemate in the Shuangchengzi area near Xingkai Lake.

The two sides fought for a total of ten days, and these ten days can be said to be that the two sides set up a dragon gate formation under the Shuangcheng sub-city.

The first wave of 30,000 Russian troops killed under the city, and the 19,000-strong Japanese defenders fought for the suburbs outside the city.

The commanders of the five divisions of the Soviet Army were captured three and killed one in battle, and the rest escaped by makeup, which escaped from the pursuit of the Japanese

If an ordinary team is hit by such a devastating blow, it is estimated that it will take more than a month to recover. As a result, as soon as the cavalry wing of the Japanese army sang the military song and happily returned to the Vladivostok garrison, the second wave of 30,000 people from Soviet Russia came to Shuangchengzi again.

The Japanese cavalry wing could only trot and reappear in the rear of the Soviet army, but this time Lao Maozi was not the original commander of the Far Eastern Military District at all, but was replaced by some officers "airborne" from Moscow. These officers may have had military exploits and military ideas before, but these troops are not their descendants, so this tactic has changed dramatically from the previous Soviet army.

Their siege of the city this time was not aimed at Shuangchengzi at all, they were feints to attack the city, mainly to solve the cavalry that "decided the victory". However, in that "feint attack," in which more than 7,000 people were killed, the Soviet commanders who fought did not necessarily have no intention of taking the feint as an actual attack.

Anyway, inspired by the Russian iron horn, the Soviet army was like crazy, and when they heard that the Japanese cavalry had arrived, they left the wounded soldiers and corpses on the ground, and turned around and fought with the two Japanese cavalry.

The defenders in the city were still fighting bloody battles with the Soviet army one moment ago, and the next moment, the Soviet army suddenly died down, and this huge contrast made the commander of the Japanese Shuangchengzi puzzled for a while, and he didn't know whether this was a plan, so he could only wait and watch the development of the war in the city.

They sat on the mountain inside the city and watched the tiger fight, but they suffered the cavalry who came from afar outside the city to support.

Fortunately, cavalry belongs to the class of troops that fight if they can't fight, and run away if they can't

Although they were ambushed by the Soviets and suffered losses, the Soviets were almost pure infantry, except for the officers who had horses to walk, and only the heralds could be equipped with mounts. After a bloody battle, more than 700 Japanese cavalry still escaped from the encirclement of the Soviet army.

So how strong are the two cavalry wings?

The Japanese army divided the establishment of cavalry into two types, namely, the cavalry wing belonging to the infantry division and the cavalry wing belonging to the cavalry brigade. For infantry divisions, each wing has only two cavalry squadrons, 123 horse rifles and two heavy machine guns. For cavalry brigades, each wing consists of four cavalry squadrons, each squadron has 119 horse rifles, two light machine guns, and one heavy machine gun squadron, with two squads under its jurisdiction, with a total of 4 heavy machine guns.

These two wings belong to the level of cavalry brigades, with a total of three cavalry squadrons, a machine gun squadron, and a number of units directly under the direct jurisdiction of the wings, with a capacity of 950 men and full personnel.

Before the Russo-Japanese War, Japan organized two cavalry brigades, the commanders of which were Prince Zaihito Kanin and Yoshiko Akiyama, both of whom graduated from the French Cavalry School. In the use of light cavalry to break the relationship, the detour is very powerful. Prince Zaihito was the first to advocate the deployment of light machine guns in cavalry units. In the Russo-Japanese War, after a small Japanese cavalry unit encountered the Russian army behind enemy lines, the Japanese cavalry, armed with pistols, had a great advantage in close combat. Therefore, some people germinated the development of a combat weapon that integrated a saber and a pistol, which were indispensable for cavalry charges, similar to the swords and knives in the hands of the samurai under Zhao Yun's command.

After the First World War, the battlefield practicality of cavalry was widely doubted, and the size of the cavalry wing to which the Japanese division belonged was reduced. Cavalry horseback combat was completely abolished, after the cavalry section of Major General Tokuzaburo Yoshihashi committed suicide in protest. This was not strictly enforced, but only the increase in machine guns and the infantryization of cavalry combat, and later the creation of the Rope Wing and the improvement of mechanization.

Moreover, the war horses of the Japanese cavalry attached great importance to the bloodline of the horses. Each war horse has its own identity card, indicating the horse's birthday, pedigree, and so on. These war horses are also commonly known as "Oriental horses" by the Chinese people. This ** has both the sprinting power of European war horses and the endurance of Mongolian horses, so it is very suitable for long-distance running.

It can be said that the Soviet army paid a huge price in order to kill the more than 1,000 Japanese cavalry. Coupled with the losses of the previous "feint", Lao Maozi's casualty rate has been more than half, and although the Japanese cavalry was not annihilated, it also suffered a major blow, and its vitality was greatly damaged. So, the Soviet commander swaggered and withdrew.

Seeing the Soviet army collect troops and return to the camp, the Japanese troops in the city breathed a big sigh of relief, but the madness of the Soviet army made the Japanese army see what "gray livestock" was.

The name of the "gray livestock" of the Soviet army was not called in vain, it was really like chicken blood, and as soon as the second wave returned to the station, the whole army began to do pre-war mobilization again. The first group of Soviet troops to come out of the mountain totaled 60,000 people, half of whom basically died in the first siege, but there were still many Soviet troops in the mountains, and after these few days, they gathered in Shuangchengzi one after another, and there were seven or eight thousand people in the full battle. The Soviet commander "combed" the "recovered" areas several times, whether they were Slavs, Tatars, or ethnic minorities, as long as they were men over 12 years old, they all gathered together, so that the total size was 10,000 people.

The Soviets gave these people some food, and then pulled them into the ranks, and after some replenishment, the wounded soldiers who could still move plus this group of "new soldiers", the Soviets gathered another 30,000 people, and they were resurrected with full blood on the spot.

Seeing the black pressure of the Soviet army surging again, the Japanese did not have the ease of the first defense, and the second "feint" of the Soviet army could beat the Japanese army badly. True, the Soviets lost more than 7,000 corpses, but the Japanese also lost more than 4,000 people, and the number of wounded doubled. The most important thing is that the cavalry of the Japanese army was greatly injured, these people were originally the "treasures" of the Japanese army's high-level, and seeing so many losses at one time, the army bosses were naturally reluctant to take them out and consume them again. After all, a cavalryman needs years of training to become a qualified cavalryman, and the recovery ability of the "polar bear" is really smacking everyone's mouth.

No one was optimistic about the Japanese defense this time. In the first two waves of Soviet troops, more than 40,000 people were killed and wounded, but their sacrifices were not in vain, and they also took away 80% of the ammunition stock and 40% of the fortifications of the Japanese army.

Due to the frequency of the Soviet army's offensive "like a surging river", the Japanese troops in the city could only carry out rescue repairs on some simple fortifications, and many important fortifications could not play their original role, and the 13,000 Japanese troops in the city who could still move had made the final preparations.

Seeing that the Soviet army, which was "congenital" short of ammunition, and the Japanese army, which was stubbornly resisting to the end and still fighting, was about to come to a tragic urban offensive and defensive battle. A group of "smiling" Mongolian fur merchants appeared in front of the top brass of the Soviet army, and they sold a full twenty carts of shells for 75-mm field guns at the price of firewood to the Russians, who had long had no shells.

Kudryash, the "own man" who was involved in this matter, was directly promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel, who had been wandering for several years, and even filled the gap and became the commander of an infantry division. Of course, this is also a "reorganized division" with serious losses in the early stage, more officers than soldiers, and more soldiers than guns. However, this division was named in Moscow, and it was not an ordinary wartime makeshift division. In this way, it is equivalent to a regular division of the Soviet army under the jurisdiction of Zhao Yun. Since it is the camp's "own people", it is Zhao Yun's!

Regardless of whether Zhao Yun made or lost this business, anyway, the Japanese army in the city was supported by Lao Maozi's artillery fire for less than two days, and the city was broken. After three days of fierce street fighting, Lao Maozi took the city "completely". At this point, the Soviet army pointed directly at Vladivostok.

"Well done!" After reading the military intelligence report, Zhao Yun commented with a slight sourness. Almost at the same time, the two strong armies of China, the Feng Army and the Jin Army, were chased by the Japanese, and it can be said that the Mudanjiang area has fallen into the hands of the Japanese. Look at it again, Lao Maozi also faced the Japanese, but he regained lost ground again and again, beating the Japanese all over the ground to find teeth. This gap, this sourness, Zhao Yun can't help but smack his tongue.

"Hey! Twice as much as the Japanese, but this virtue has been achieved! If you can't annihilate this Japanese army, then Lao Maozi looks down on the Chinese people even more! "Knowing that the Japanese army was deflated in the Far East and could not send reinforcements, the Japanese army in front of him was simply a "lone army". In order to increase the morale of the Chinese people, Zhao Yun reminded the polar bears who had drunk high not to stretch out their claws, and had to "go all out" to accelerate the annihilation of this "task force".