Chapter 209: Capture the Twin Cities
Lin Daxin had been waiting for the news from the front in the temporary headquarters behind, and just after a brief lunch in the headquarters, Wang Hongjun, the commander of the second division, walked into the headquarters. +
As soon as Lin Daxin saw Wang Hongjun coming in, he immediately asked, "How is the attack in front?" ”
Wang Hongjun said: "Principal, it turns out that most of the troops of the First Front Army of the Russian Far East have already retreated when the Russian artillery battle is unfavorable. The Russian army opposite us is the 3 armies that have just been transferred to the 1st Front Army of the Russian Far East, and now these 3 armies have been eliminated by us, and 3 commanders of the Russian army and more than 30,000 Russian soldiers have been captured. ”
Lin Daxin frowned and said: "I didn't expect the Russian army to understand the truth of a strong man's broken wrist, it seems that the commander of the First Front Army in the Far East ...... What's it called? ”
Wang Hongjun said: "Willistov. ”
Lin Daxin continued: "It is that Willistov, who is a decisive commander, who knows that after the defeat in the artillery battle, they have put their entire front army in a passive position, and if he finishes retreating, it is very likely that he will be defeated here by our armored forces." ”
Wang Hongjun nodded and said: "That Willistov retreated in time with the rest of the Russian army, otherwise we should be able to annihilate most of it here, but now the annihilation of nearly 90,000 people in the three armies of the Russian army is also a big victory." Headmaster, are we going to chase after the victory? ”
Lin Daxin thought about it for a while and said: "It's okay, let the armored brigades of the armored division and the guards division pursue in the direction of the Russian twin cities, as long as they chase under the twin cities, the armored troops must not attack the city independently." Wait for the infantry behind to go up before launching an assault on the Twin Cities. ”
The Panzer Division and the Guards Armored Brigade, under the orders of Lin Daxin, began to pursue in the direction of the Twin Cities. Not to mention the real gains, the remaining 18 steam tanks and 16 armored vehicles of the Russian tank armored division, as well as about 2,000 Russian infantry, were caught up by the armored units of the Dingbei Army.
The main reason is that the speed of the steam tank is too slow, and it can't catch up with the speed of the trot, and the armored car that is not slow is also affected. The ensuing battle was uneventful, with the remnants of Russian steam tanks and armored vehicles wiped out, and 2,000 Russian infantry with them.
The retreating armies of the 1st Far Eastern Front. After galloping all the way back to the Twin Cities, Commander Willistov frowned when he looked at the defenses of the Twin Cities. He said to the commander of the 9th Army, Gexam, who had been following him, "It seems that we must give up the Twin Cities!" ”
Gexam was shocked and said: "Commander, in that case, how can you explain to Governor Alekseev?" ”
Willistov said with a calm expression: "According to the fortifications of the Twin Cities, it is impossible to resist the heavy artillery and tanks of the Dingbei Army. Plus the heavy losses of our artillery units. Our First Far Eastern Front Army is stubbornly defending the Twin Cities, and it is only delaying the time for the Dingbei Army to occupy the Twin Cities. If the First Far Eastern Front is completely annihilated in the Twin Cities, then the Far Eastern Theater will face a situation where there are no troops available, and even Vladivostok, the most important city in the Far East, will not have many troops to defend it, and that will be the worst situation. I trust Your Excellency the Governor to understand my distress. ”
The 1st Far Eastern Front, by order of the commander, all withdrew from the Twin Cities and began to retreat in the direction of Vladivostok. Even most of the original Russian civilians in the Twin Cities followed the army and evacuated the Twin Cities. Leaving a twin city that had almost become an empty city to the Dingbei Army.
After the armored division and the Guards armored brigade annihilated the remaining tank armored division and 2,000 infantry of the Russian army, they continued to pursue to the Twin Cities, originally Zhang Daxiong followed Lin Daxin's orders and was not ready to attack the city with armored forces, but he suddenly found out how the Twin Cities were so quiet, so he sent a battle group of the armored division to try to approach the Twin Cities.
It turned out that the Russian troops in the Twin Cities had fled, and only some old, weak, sick and disabled Russian civilians remained in the entire Twin Cities.
Lin Daxin, who got the news later, led more than 100,000 officers and soldiers of the Guards Division, the Second Division, the Fourth Division and the Eleventh Division to enter the Twin Cities, an important town in the Russian Far East.
When the Dingbei Army entered the Twin Cities, the Second Front Army of the Far East was attacking the outer positions of Fuyuan City, and this was already the third day that the Russian army attacked Fuyuan City again.
In an ordinary house in Fuyuan City, which is the headquarters of the 12th Division of the Dingbei Army, Zhang Zuolin smiled and said to Li Yuandong, the commander of the 13th Division: "Haha, Brother Yuandong, you came at the right time, I was about to look for you, let's discuss it and see how to leave all the Russian troops who attacked Fuyuan City." ”
The 13th Division in Harbin was ordered by Lin Daxin to rush to Fuyuan City and join the 12th Division to jointly defend Fuyuan City.
Zhang Zuolin thinks that it is too wasteful for the two integrated divisions of the Dingbei Army to face more than 100,000 people of the Second Front Army of the Russian Far East, just guarding Fuyuan City, and he wants to leave all these Russian troops who attacked Fuyuan City.
Li Yuandong said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, I am looking for you today, and I also want to discuss with you, we can't always be passive on defense, we should take the initiative to attack, with our 2 divisions, the second front army of the Russian Far East, these more than 100,000 people, I really didn't pay attention to it." ”
Zhang Zuolin laughed and said: "Brother Yuandong, it seems that you and my old Zhang coincide, the one that the hero sees...... That ...... ""Slightly the same! Brother Zhang! ”
"That's right! It's just that the hero sees the same thing! Come on, Brother Yuandong, let's discuss how to fight! ”
After that, the two division commanders carefully studied a battle plan for the Second Front Army in the Far East, and began to transfer their respective units separately to prepare for an attack on the Russian army outside Fuyuan City.
The commander of the 2nd Far Eastern Front, Reseklov, was in his front command at this time, standing at the observation port and looking in the direction of the battlefield, and saw that the 6th charge of the 39th Army was repulsed by the Dingbei Army today, sighed, put down the binoculars, he was very worried about the current war, and the Governor-General of the Far East, Alekseyev, added the 39th and 40th armies of the Amur City to his Second Front, and strengthened the Second Front by 1 heavy artillery division.
The Second Front Army of the Far East reached 5 armies, more than 140,000 people, and 1 and a half heavy artillery divisions, and the heavy artillery division under his 5th Army was severely damaged in the first attack on Fuyuan City, leaving only half a heavy artillery division. Together with the own artillery of other regiments, the second Far Eastern side had more than 400 75-mm caliber guns, of which more than 100 were more than 100 mm calibre.
The ambitious Leseklov set out from Boli City with a large army, crossed the border line of the two countries again, and launched an attack on Fuyuan City, preparing to take Fuyuan City, an important town on the northeast border in one fell swoop.
As a result, it has been the third day, and even the outermost Dingbei Army's forward position in Fuyuan City has not been captured, and the Second Front Army in the Far East has not only lost more than 10,000 Russian officers and soldiers, but also suffered heavy losses in the heavy artillery divisions and other artillery of various armies, and this attack on Fuyuan City, the artillery of the Dingbei Army was more fierce than last time, and after a few days of artillery fighting, more than 400 artillery pieces were blown up by the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army, and only less than 150 pieces remained.
Leseklov let 1 army attack in turn every day for the past 3 days, the first two days were the 37th Army and the 38th Army, and today it was the turn of the 39th Army, but Leseklov saw the battle situation in front of him, and felt that it was impossible to continue to let the 40th Army attack tomorrow, and it would be impossible to achieve any results, because his artillery suffered heavy losses and could not give strong support to the infantry, while the artillery of the Northern Army could unscrupulously bombard the charging Russian army.
Coupled with the machine guns on the position of the Dingbei Army, it is really beyond the imagination of the Russian army, how many machine guns are equipped with the army of the Dingbei Army, you must know that a division of the Russian army is only equipped with about 10 Makqin heavy machine guns!
The Dingbei Army's firepower caused the Russian army to suffer heavy losses in every charge, but it didn't even touch the edge of the forward position of the Dingbei Army, which made the commander Reseklov, have the idea of retreating in his heart.
After Reseklov was ready to retreat to Boli City, he continued to ask the Governor of the Far East Alekseev for more artillery, and depending on the size of the artillery of the Dingbei Army in Fuyuan City, he concentrated at least more than 1,000 artillery pieces of 75 mm caliber, of which at least 300 were of 100 mm caliber. According to Russian standards, the configuration of a heavy artillery division is 30 152 mm howitzers and 40 127 mm field guns, which means that 4 heavy artillery divisions must be concentrated in order to suppress the artillery of the Dingbei Army in Fuyuan City.
After putting down the binoculars, Leseklov sighed and said to Paustovsky, the commander of the 39th Army at the command: "Paustovsky, it seems that today it is still impossible to break through the forward positions of the Dingbei Army!" ”
As the commander of today's attack corps, Paustovsky said loudly: "Commander, I will organize and launch the 7th attack immediately, I don't believe that the strength of the 5 armies of our Second Front Army will not be able to break through the forward positions of the Qing Dynasty!" ”
Leseklov shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Forget it, Paustovsky, our artillery suffered heavy losses from the bombing, and we can't provide artillery support to the infantry, every time the infantry who charged, before they rushed to 150 meters away from the position of the Dingbei Army, they were killed and wounded by the artillery bombardment of the Dingbei Army, and then they would be strafed by countless machine guns on the positions of the Dingbei Army, no matter how heroic our Russian soldiers were, there was no way to rush to the positions of the Dingbei Army in such a situation!" ”
Paustovsky knew that what Commander Reseklov said was true, that is, if he organized the 7th charge, he would definitely repeat the previous 6 failures, Paustovsky suddenly became a little listless and asked: "Commander, then our offensive today will stop!" But according to the current situation, it is impossible for the 40th Army tomorrow to capture the position of the Qing Dynasty! ”
Leseklov nodded and said, "So I have decided that early tomorrow morning, we will retreat with all our troops and retreat to Boli City, until we have enough artillery for the Second Far Eastern Front, and then we will come back and capture Fuyuan City!" (To be continued......) R527