Chapter 971

The Chinese defenders did not collapse, from officers to soldiers gritted their teeth and insisted, the Chinese were full of willfulness, the cowards were executed by Du Baosan three days earlier, and those who remained were absolutely loyal to their duties despite their apprehension. What made Soviet Russia feel terrible was that the war was so fierce that the Chinese did not think about surrendering. The 16th Army Corps of the Yellow Dragon Regiment had officers who had escaped, but there were no surrenderers, and all the prisoners captured by the Soviets were wounded soldiers who were incapacitated, which was what made Blyukhel feel deeply afraid.

The Chinese would rather die than surrender, a crazy nation, a country that has lost its mind, a terrible national cohesion, Blyuhel lamented in the command of the Soviet army.

On the afternoon of the 26th, the 10th Division finally arrived at the Kizil fortress three days later than originally planned, and the plan for the encirclement of the Chinese troops was officially launched.

The squadron has the Yellow Dragon Regiment (21,000 men), the 3rd Division (14,000 men), the 10th Division (21,000 men), the 16th Cavalry Division (8,000 men), and the commander of the 32nd Division. Rong Hai personally led the 93rd Brigade and six reserve regiments of 20,000 people by train to quickly approach the south bank of the Syr Darya River, and the total strength of the Chinese troops was about to reach 84,000.

And although the Soviet army now has 150,000 people, the supply and morale of the Soviet army are seriously declining, nearly 50,000 wounded soldiers are difficult to get medical treatment, hundreds of wounded soldiers die in pain howls, and every second, three wounded soldiers die in the Soviet field hospital. Of these 150,000 soldiers, less than 70,000 were able to continue fighting. The rest were wounded who could not fight.

"This battle can't go on." As much as Blyukhel did not want to admit it, the fact was that the Kyzyl fortress was like a hard rock. Beat the Soviet Army Eastern Group seven times with them to the brink of blood. Blyukhel looked at the crumbling Kizil fortress with thick smoke billowing from afar, and couldn't help but sigh: "Du Baosan, this man made of steel, almost two-thirds of his army is killed, and he can still fight...... What an iron man. ”

"Shall we retreat now?" Now, even the commissar Melnikov knows that he will not be able to hold out, but who will be responsible for this defeat in the event of a retreat?

"Report!" The guards shouted.

Blyukhel said with a non-determined expression: "What's the matter? ”

"The white bandit Marshal Kolchak shot after inspecting the wounded. Crying bitterly, he snatched the pistol from the detained soldier and shot himself. ”

"What!" Blyukhel's eyes widened. Shouted: "He killed himself? ”

"Yes."

"Did he say anything?"

The guard said: "I don't know, Comrade Commander. ”

At this time, Postshev walked in with a bitter face and said: "I know what he said, he said it before he died." It's all my fault. I killed the children. ”

"What does he mean?" Blyukhel asked, somewhat incomprehensibly.

Postshev said to the other staff officers and signal corpsmen and guards: "Go out for a while, our headquarters has important matters to discuss." "Blyukhel did not understand what he meant, not even Melnikov, and when everyone was gone, there were only five people here, he, the first commissar Melnikov, the commander Blyukhel. Chief of Staff Sollinsky, as well as Blyuhel's henchman Alesyan, commander of the 1st Infantry Division in Smosholmsk.

"He meant," said Posteshev. If he hadn't encouraged us to attack the Chinese, there would have been no such losses, and there would not have been so many brave young men sacrificed. ”

The other four people were not stupid, and naturally understood that Kolchak did not mean this, and Kolchak was saying that if he had not decided to surrender to Soviet Russia, his 50,000 Sakhalin legionnaires would not have died here. But Postshev's words suddenly made them find a reason, yes, to shift the blame to Kolchak. When Kolchak led the army to surrender to the Soviet Russian army, the Moscow Supreme Military Council once sent them a secret letter asking them to treat Kolchak very friendly and polite, but constantly monitored and could not let him command the army. Trotsky even told them that Kolchak was an excellent military commander and that if there was any question of strategy, he should be consulted. Trotsky said that in the future he would make Kolchak a teacher at the CSKA Academy in Moscow, where he would teach Soviet generals how to fight.

"But that's ...... Have we not shifted the blame to the commander-in-chief? Aleyan said worriedly.

"That's why we won't be held accountable." Postshev sneered.

The war between China and the Soviet Union is constantly tugging at the hearts of the Ministry of Defense in Beijing and the Kremlin in Moscow, and both countries are watching hard to see whose fists are hard. Whether the Chinese can hold the Western Regions, or the Russians can swallow the Western Regions in one gulp. Whether this persimmon in China is a soft persimmon or a cactus ball depends on the situation of this battle (the Battle of the Heart of Central Asia).

Within three days of May 25, 26, and 27, the Soviet army saw the sparse artillery fire of the squadron, determined that the Chinese defenders were short of shells, and ordered a continuous attack on the Kizil fortress.

At this time, the troops of the Outer Caspian cluster of the Soviet Eastern Army Sereschev had all subdued the Trans-Caspian region, including the Gimanstau region, the Aral Sea region, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Balkan regions, and were approaching Tashkent and Samarkand.

Sereschev marched east after marching south, intending to take Tashkent, the back lane of Samarkand, and join up with Blyukher's army. However, Blyukher's army suffered a crushing defeat at the Kyzyl fortress, and had no choice but to abandon its plans to march to Samarkand and quickly support it to the north. However, unless they crossed the Great Desert of South Kolzikum directly, they had to go around the desert and cross the Aral Sea, which Seresshev expected would take ten days to reach.

Blyukhel smiled bitterly and said: "In twelve days, we were defeated by the Chinese. But Seryshev's support still made the Soviet soldiers excited, but the left flank of the Central Asian cluster of the Soviet Eastern Army was entangled by Chen Jiongming's Jiaolong Army. Chen Jiongming knew that the key to this Battle of the Heart of Central Asia was the Kizil fortress, and as long as they dragged the Soviet army, it would be the biggest victory.

So Chen Jiongming sent troops to take the initiative to attack and entangled with Saragaev's army, and the Kadistov division of the Siberian cluster of the Soviet Eastern Army Group suddenly went south into the Altai Mountains of our Tessi Province after recovering Omzik, Barnaul, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Kemerovo. Chen Jiongming immediately dispatched 18,000 people from the 38th Division and 7,000 people from four reserve regiments with a total of 25,000 people to support the Altai Mountains and stop the attack of Kadistov's headquarters.

Due to the rapid pace of the Soviet army's southward movement, Cheng Qian's troops met Kadistov's troops as soon as they arrived in Sampalatinsk, which had already been assigned to Chinese territory in the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty. It can be said that the Soviet army has invaded the territory of China, and Cheng Qian immediately sent people to protest to the Soviet army, and Kadistov immediately refuted: "The Kizil fortress is still our Soviet Russian Republic according to the treaty, why don't you hand it over to us?" ”

Niu Yuanteng, a staff officer of the 1st Brigade of the Taixi Provincial Armed Police, who was the negotiator, said: "It's not that we don't pay it back, but it takes a little time. ”

"Excuses." Kadistov sneered, "In the Kyzyl fortress, we have been fighting for ten days, do you want to fight our army here as well?" ”

Niu Yuanteng said: "If possible, we hope to use negotiations to solve the problem. ”

"What if it's impossible?"

"Then it's going to be a matter of whose fists are hard." Niu Yuanteng smiled, "But as far as I know, you didn't carry a lot of ammunition because you were in a hurry to go south to support, right?" ”

"Hmph, we'll see." Kadistov said angrily.

The actions of the Soviet army were guessed by Niu Yuanteng, and the Central Siberian cluster did not carry enough ammunition because of the rush to support the Kizil fortress, and now there are only a dozen bullets on each soldier, which is not enough for a campaign. However, the same was true of Cheng Qian's troops, who also left Akdouka, the capital of Taixi Province, in a hurry, and did not carry enough ammunition with them. The two sides pretended to be strong and had nothing to do, but in fact they were short of ammunition supplies, so they confronted each other here.

In the rear, the baggage troops of both sides are working hard to transport ammunition and supplies, and modern warfare is fought like supplies, and without supplies, neither side will take the initiative to attack stupidly.

In the battle on the evening of May 26, the 12th year of the Republic of China, Tang Shengzhi, a native of Hunan, the commander of the 113th Brigade of the 39th Division, suffered a tragic misfortune. Tang Shengzhi is 34 years old this year, and he is the most enthusiastic and wise man in the years of a soldier, but he has become a famous escape general in history. But now that China is rising, every soldier is proud of the country's rise and sacrifice, no one wants to be a runaway general, and no one wants to be a traitor. Many people have chosen to survive because they have lost their spirits and have lost their confidence. Now this army has a spiritual pillar, that is, the encirclement of 14.6 million square kilometers of great China, and they have the spiritual support, that is, Wang Maoru, the leader of the National Defense Forces; as long as Wang Maoru is here, the war will never be lost, and confidence will never be lost.

Soldiers are not afraid of death, what soldiers are afraid of is the worthlessness of death, Tang Shengzhi's sacrifice here also avoided his infamy in another time and space, and the lower half of his body was condemned by his conscience and died depressed.

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