On the afternoon of March 8, 1899, the Russian Second Siberian Front captured the fortifications established by the First Dingbei Army outside the inner city of Svobod, after which Commander Oleg Lev ordered the whole army to rest for the night and continue the attack on the last Dingbei military fortifications outside the inner city of Svobod tomorrow.

The reason why the commander Oleglev still had a gloomy face after capturing the fortifications of the Dingbei Army was that in the three days of the offensive, the number of casualties of the entire front army exceeded 80,000, and the number of wounded was not much, because the wounded Russian soldiers rarely managed to withdraw from the battlefield, and the tanks and armored vehicles of the tank armored division also lost more than half because they cooperated with the infantry attack.

And what made Oleg even more depressed was that his artillery unit had suffered very little losses in the past three days, but the shells had been exhausted, and I don't know why the supplies and ammunition supplies for the rear city of Tegeda had not been sent over in the past two days, so that some of the shells stored in the camp north of the mountain fortification group had been exhausted, and if the supplies of materials and ammunition for the city of Tegeda could not be delivered tomorrow, the troops that launched the attack would not be supported by artillery fire the day after tomorrow, although the Russian infantry did not want to be supported by their own artillery fire at all, because this will allow them to charge the Dingbei military fortifications under artillery bombardment, many of the losses of the Russian army are brought by the artillery fire of their own army, but without the support of the Russian artillery, the Russian infantry wants to capture the powerful Dingbei military fortifications, and becomes delusional, and will only leave layers of corpses in front of the Dingbei military fortifications, which is really a very tangled thing for the Russian infantry.

Evening of March 8. In the division headquarters of the 14th Division of the Dingbei Army in the inner city of Swobod, Yu Lichen asked Sun Qingwen, the commander of the 17th Division who had withdrawn from the first fortification outside the city: "Old Sun, how are the casualties of the troops?" ”

Sun Qingwen showed a gloomy look and said, "The casualties are very large. According to preliminary statistics, the number of dead has exceeded 6,500, and more than 4,000 have been wounded, of which more than 1,500 are seriously injured, and our 17th Division can be said to have suffered more than half of the casualties. ”

Yu Lichen nodded solemnly on his face and said: "Your 17th Division is very tenacious, and it is precisely because of your tenacity that it has blocked the main force of the Russian Siberian Second Front. Give us time for the whole plan to encircle and annihilate them, and I have already reported the credit of your 17th Division to the headmaster. The principal sent a telegram instructing that your 17th Division will be on the list of the next batch of expanded first-class integrated divisions, and all the fallen officers and soldiers and disabled officers and soldiers will be implemented in accordance with the pension policy of the Northeast Army. You will also be provided with a list of meritorious officers and soldiers, and you will be rewarded heavily. ”

When Sun Qingwen heard this, he sighed and said, "The officers and soldiers of our whole division are looking forward to the expansion of our 17th Division into a type A integrated division, and there is hope now, but so many officers and soldiers can't see it!" Forget it, let's not talk about it, Lao Yu, how is the encirclement and annihilation plan going? ”

Yu Lichen said: "I believe that the souls of the fallen soldiers in the sky will see that your 17th Division has become a first-class integrated division, and we have surrounded and annihilated the Russian Second Siberian Front, and they will also think that their sacrifice is worth it." Now the special forces brigade has telegraphed. They have blown up several sections of the railway from Ulan-Ude to the city of Tegda, and even most of the weapons, ammunition and various supplies in the city of Tegda, a transit point for the Russian Second Siberian Front, have been blown up by the special forces who infiltrated the city of Tegda. ”

The special forces brigade of the Guards Division of the Dingbei Army had less than 300 people in total. It is divided into 3 squadrons of less than 100 people, and each special soldier is selected by thousands of people, and it can be said that these special forces are all like the king of soldiers with various stunts.

This mission to blow up the railway behind enemy lines and the material transfer station of Tegeda City was personally led by Yang Erwa, the captain of the special forces brigade, on March 1, on the repaired Hercules super airship. That is, on the day when the Russian Second Siberian Front occupied the mountain fortifications on both sides of the 13 roads in the mountain fortification complex outside the inner city of Svobod, it set out directly from Shenyang. Fly straight to the rear of the 2nd Siberian Front on Russian territory.

Although the Russian Siberian Second Front used the strength of two armies to ensure the smooth supply line of their rear routes, and they only needed to guard the section of the railway from Chita City to Tegeda City, and the section of the railway from Ulan-Ude City to Chita City was protected by other armies in the Siberian Theater, but even this section of the railway that the Siberian Second Front Army needed to protect also reached nearly 1,000 kilometers, that is, two Russian infantry corps with a full strength of 60,000 troops, for such a long railway, it is impossible to cover everything. Moreover, one of the 2 infantry corps also has to guard the material transfer station, and the strength of the railway guarding can only be regarded as 1 corps.

Most of the Russian troops of this 1 army are also guarding the various stations along the railway, and in such a cold weather, no one wants to patrol the long railway line outdoors that can freeze to death.

Therefore, after the special forces brigade landed near the railway line by airship, they came to the railway line and did not encounter the Russian army's obstruction, so who was polite to the Russians, captain Yang Erwa waved his hand, and nearly 100 special forces of the first squadron began to install explosives on the railway line, and the air force officers and soldiers on the Hercules super airship saw that there was not even a shadow of a Russian, so they were relieved to help the special forces transport the explosives transported by the airship to the railway line.

It didn't take long for a section of about 3 kilometers of railway line to be filled with explosives, and then dozens of special forces lit a long fuse at the same time. When the special forces and the air force officers and men of the airship evacuated back to the top of the Hercules supership, a series of explosions sounded, and even some rails were blown up and flew up, turning into a zigzag and falling on the snow not far from the railway line.

Then Yang Erwa, the captain of the special forces brigade, and Zhang Guoxin, the captain of the Hercules super airship, discussed it, and they used the airship to fly to the other 3 places of the railway line one after another, and blew up 3 sections of 2 or 3 kilometers of railway line, and even after a section of the railway line buried the explosives and ignited the fuse, a Russian train transporting ammunition supplies happened to come over, and unfortunately when the explosives exploded, the train happened to be on the railway where the explosives were buried, and then the train full of ammunition and supplies was sad. Explosives on the railway line not only blew up the tracks, but also detonated the shells that were being transported inside the train, and after an earth-shattering explosion, the tracks and the train on them were reduced to a pile of wreckage.

Captain Yang Erwa and captain Zhang Guoxin couldn't help but smile at each other when a Russian train suddenly appeared and became the addition to their operation, blowing up these four sections of the railway, it can already be said that the Russians have completely blocked the railway line from the Siberian theater to the Far East, and the Russians will not want to transport troops and supplies to the Far East for at least one month.

So Yang Erwa decided to go to the last place of this operation, the material transit point of the Russian Second Siberian Front, Tegeda City, to blow up the supplies and ammunition of the Russian army there, so that the Russian army attacking the inner city of Svobod completely lost supplies.

Although the Trans-Siberian Railway of the Russians is much faster than the progress in history, the nearly 10,000-kilometer railway from St. Petersburg in Russia and Europe to Vladivostok in the Far East is not so easy to build, and many sections of the road have not yet been completed, the railway from Ulan-Ude in the Siberian Theater to the city of Tegda has been built, but there is a distance of 400 kilometers from the city of Tegeda to the inner city of Svobod, which the Russian army is going to attack, and the railway has not yet been repaired, so that the ammunition and material supply of the Russian Siberian Second Front, It could only be transported by train to the city of Tegeda, and then by horse-drawn carriage to the front line in Svobodny.

On the evening of 6 March, the Hercules supership carried a squadron of the special forces brigade and landed in a relatively hidden valley more than 10 kilometers away from Tegeda City, and then the team leader Yang Erwa rushed to Tegeda City, more than 100 kilometers away, with less than 100 special forces.

When Yang Erwa and the others arrived outside Tegeda City, they did not rush to start the operation, but waited until more than 1 o'clock in the morning the next day before entering Tegeda City under the order of Captain Yang Erwa.

The vigilance of the Russian army in Tegeda City is not strict, Yang Erwa and they entered the city very easily, and they were wearing the cotton clothes of the Dingbei Army inside, and there was a layer of Russian military uniforms outside, plus the weather was cold in the middle of the night, and the patrols in the Russian army did not come out, so Yang Erwa led the special forces to approach the railway station of Tegeda City easily.

The supplies of supplies and ammunition brought from the Siberian theater were placed in rows of newly built wooden houses in the railway station of Tegda, waiting for the Russian people to transport these things in horse-drawn carts to the main force of the Siberian Second Front, which was fighting 400 kilometers away.

The Russian army in the railway station is heavily guarded, not only there are sentry posts, but there are also patrols of more than a dozen people from time to time, but these can't stop Yang Erwa and their special forces with unique skills, the Russian soldiers in the 7 and 8 sentry posts were all quietly solved by the special forces, and even the 2 teams of Russian patrols with more than a dozen people each did not make a single movement, and they were wiped by the special forces.

Immediately, the special forces began to install explosives in the rows of wooden houses filled with supplies and ammunition in the railway station of Tegeda City, and even the railroad tracks in the railway station were planted with explosives.

After lighting the long fuse almost simultaneously, the special forces quickly left the railway station, which was about to become a powder keg, and quickly retreated outside the city of Tegda.

Before Yang Erwa led the special forces out of the city, there was a deafening explosion at the railway station, especially the explosive power that detonated the Russian army's hoarding shells. (To be continued) R466