From the afternoon of March 9 to the morning of March 10, the main force of the Russian Second Siberian Front had a total of about 430,000 troops, and only less than 170,000 people successfully broke through the road in the middle of the mountain fortification group, and about 100,000 troops and more than 20,000 wounded soldiers were blocked by the accurate artillery bombardment of the Dingbei Army after dawn, and remained in the south of the mountain fortification group, and the other nearly 140,000 Russian officers and soldiers became corpses. The road in the middle of the mountain fortification group of less than 4 kilometers and the slopes next to it were paved, and even many corpses were completely damaged by the shells of the Dingbei Army, which shows how crazy the Russian army's breakthrough operation is.

Even the senior officers of the Russian army, those army commanders and division commanders, many of them were either killed by machine gun bullets or shells by the artillery shells of the Dingbei Army when they broke through the middle road of the mountain fortification group, so that the 170,000 Russian troops who broke through to the north of the mountain fortification group were completely chaotic.

The officers and soldiers of Dingbei who guarded the recapture of the bunkers and dark forts on the 13 mountain fortifications, after the sky became brighter, they clearly saw that the hillside and the road were paved with layers of strange corpses of the Russian army, the whole scene was extremely bloody, many soldiers who had just changed from the militia to the regular army, couldn't help but vomit, but then endured the nausea, and replaced the light and heavy machine guns with new magazines or chains, ready to continue to shoot at the Russian troops who forcibly passed through Guò, and there were still many Russian troops in the south of the mountain fortifications!

As the commander of the Svobod Inner City Defense System, Yu Lichen, the commander of the 14th Division, did not expect that the Dingbei Army had just used the tunnel to recapture the 13 occupied mountain fortifications, and the Russian army surrounded between the mountain fortifications and the inner city of Svobod was so decisive that they chose to break through regardless of casualties.

Yu Lichen received a telegram from the three division commanders of the mountain fortification group about the Russian army's desperate breakthrough. After a moment's hesitation, several divisions of the Northern Army in the inner city of Svobod were not ordered to attack. Launching an operation to encircle and annihilate the main forces of the Russian Second Siberian Front, the current Russian army is tantamount to a trapped beast. And just surrounded, they are not short of ammunition, combat effectiveness is still there, at this time several divisions in the inner city of Svobod launched an attack, not to mention that the casualties will be very large, and if you don't get it right, it will be turned over by the Russian army, you must know that it is to surround the main force of the Russian army, so that the Dingbei Army is in a strategic advantage, but the fact that the Dingbei Army is far less than the Russian army still exists.

So Yu Lichen ordered the three divisions of the mountain fortification group to block the Russian army as much as possible. Eliminate the living forces of the Russian army, and Yu Lichen considers that it is to break through a part of the Russian army, and they don't want to escape lightly, when the Russian army attacked the mountain fortifications on both sides of the 13 roads, the 18th Division was already led by the division commander Li Heng, and the path between the mountain fortifications was secretly interspersed with the past, and it arrived 20 kilometers north of the Russian camp. Now that a blocking position has been established on a hill, the airship unit has also secretly transported the heavy weapons and a large amount of ammunition of the 18th Division, preparing to block the northward retreat of the remaining Russian troops.

Because the special forces brigade has blown up several sections of the railway line from Chita City to Tegeda City, and has also blown up the materials and ammunition hoarded by the Russian army in Tegeda City. Let the Russian army outside the inner city of Svobod, which has not been resupplied for several days, the main force of the Russian Second Siberian Front. Even if you succeed in breaking through part of the mountain fortifications, you may not get much supply.

And it is impossible for most of the artillery of the Russian army to be withdrawn from the mountain fortification group. It is not easy for people to get through the middle road, let alone the artillery that needs a horse-drawn horse! Russian troops without artillery. Escaping from the 18th Division's line of defense had become a very difficult task.

Oleg Lev, commander of the Russian Second Siberian Front, also escaped from the mountain fortification group, and fled to the north of the mountain fortification group with the remnants of 170,000 Russian troops who had been completely disorganized.

The Russian 33rd and 34th armies, which attacked the 137 and 138 heights, saw that the commander Oleg had fled with a large group of remnants of the defeated generals, and also stopped the attack on the two mountain fortifications.

Chekryv, the commander of the 19th Army, who had been following Commander Oleg Lev, asked: "Commander, we still have quite a few troops that have not rushed over, and the entire artillery unit is still south of the mountain fortification group, what should we do now?" ”

After dawn, the artillery unit of the Dingbei Army in the middle of the mountain fortification group directly blocked the Russian army's escape team according to the coordinates of the hilltop artillery observation post, so that there were still 100,000 Russian infantry and artillery, as well as 20,000 wounded soldiers, to the south of the mountain fortification group, and did not rush through the road in the middle of the mountain fortification group.

Oleg Leviv looked at the sky that had already lit up, sighed and said: "They can only rely on themselves, in such a situation, the artillery unit has no hope of rushing over with heavy artillery, I have secretly given orders to the division commanders of several heavy artillery divisions to retreat with the infantry." ”

When Chekriv heard this, he said distressedly: "Commander, what about our artillery?" There can be more than 2,000 guns with a caliber of 75 mm, and there are even many heavy artillery guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm in heavy artillery divisions, so isn't it cheap for the Qing Dynasty in vain! ”

Commander Oleg said helplessly: "There is no way, our limited explosives bags and grenades have been handed over to the troops attacking the mountain fortifications, and the artillery does not even have the explosives to blow up the artillery." Now our immediate task is to quickly reorganize those who have escaped. ”

Chekryv looked at the Russian officers and soldiers in the chaos around him, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Commander, are we still going to attack?" ”

Oleg Leviv understood that Chekryv meant to ask, did they still go to the rescue of Vladivostok by the 2nd Siberian Front? Oleg sighed helplessly in his heart, and then glanced at the road in the middle of the mountain fortification group, which was almost paved with the corpses of Russian officers and soldiers, and the Russian officers and soldiers who rushed out of the encirclement almost escaped by stepping on the corpses of their companions, Oleg Leviv said in a lonely voice: "Let's go back to the camp first and reorganize the troops, and then study the matter of the attack!" ”

Oleg himself has realized that it has become impossible for the Second Siberian Front to relieve Vladivostok, and if the losses of his own army were not small in the previous days, then the breakout operation from yesterday afternoon to this morning has left the Second Siberian Front wounded.

To save Vladivostok, the 2nd Siberian Front had to recapture the mountain fortifications, and this time it was necessary to occupy all the mountain fortifications, and to conduct a carpet search in the occupied fortifications, otherwise the mistakes of the past would be repeated.

Then there is another attack on the fortifications of the inner city of Svobod, the capture of the inner city of Svobod, and then ......

Oleg Leviv thinks that there is no need to go further, that is, the previous 2 articles, with the current Siberian Second Front, it is impossible to complete, what else is there to follow!

Oleg was ready to return to the camp with nearly 170,000 Russian troops who had escaped to regroup, but he did not want to give up the hundreds of thousands of troops south of the mountain fortification group, so he ordered the Russian 33rd Army and the 34th Army, which had stopped the attack, to launch an attack on the 137 and 138 heights again, to draw the strength of the Northern Army, and let the 100,000 troops south of the mountain fortification group withdraw to the north as much as possible.

So after Oleg retreated to the camp 10 kilometers away with nearly 170,000 Russian troops and a small number of steam tanks and armored vehicles, the Russian 33rd Army and the 34th Army began to send troops to continuously launch turns of attacks on the 137 and 138 heights, but the two armies did not have artillery at all to provide fire support.

In the south of the mountain fortification group, there are more than 120,000 Russian infantry, artillery and wounded soldiers, who were blocked by the artillery of the Dingbei Army after dawn and did not succeed in breaking out, and among these 120,000 people, there are only 3 commanders of the Russian army, and the others have either broken through or have become corpses. But there were more Russians to the south of the fortifications, and there were also nearly 30,000 Russian men who helped to transport supplies and artillery, most of which were assigned to artillerymen.

The remaining three army commanders were the commander of the Russian 61st Army, Partoliev, the commander of the 62nd Army, Mokhalnosky, and the commander of the 79th Army, Lazaryevich.

Partolyev smiled bitterly and said to the other two army commanders: "What should we do now?" ”

Moharnosky listened to the sound of gunfire still ringing in the north of the mountain fortification group, hesitated for a moment and said: "The commander has not given up on us yet, the troops in the north of the mountain fortification group are still attacking, and the strength of the Dingbei Army on the mountain fortifications is still being ......."

Moharnosky didn't finish speaking, but the other two people understood what he meant, if they didn't break through to the other side of the mountain fortification group, it wouldn't be long before more than 100,000 people would face the situation of running out of ammunition and food, and then there would be no need for the Dingbei Army to attack, and the only way out for these hundreds of thousands of Russian troops was to honestly walk into the prisoner of war camp of the Dingbei Army.

Lazarievich sighed and said: "Although we have more than 100,000 people now, the sky is already dawning, and the artillery of the Dingbei Army can completely block the mountain fortification group, and our artillery ......"

Around their 3 army commanders, there were 5 commanders of the Russian heavy artillery division, and the commanders of these 5 heavy artillery divisions all showed helpless expressions when they heard Lazarievich's words, and the commander of one of the heavy artillery divisions said with a sad cry: "The shells of our artillery have been exhausted last night, and we don't even have the explosives to blow up the artillery, and more than 2,000 guns with a caliber of 75 mm have been thrown in the artillery positions behind, so we don't have to think about artillery support!" (To be continued......) R1292