Wang Chenglong scratched his head, and he didn't know why the head of the regiment, Zhao Dongxu, decided that remembering the name of a Russian city was a representative of culture.

Regiment commander Zhao Dongxu continued to say to Wang Chenglong: "Now you kid take your 3 companies, Lao Tzu will support you 1 logistics support platoon, and then go to this position, here is a church built by the Russians, just behind the city fortifications we built, the task of your company is to defend this church for me, and this church is a commanding height, your company also needs to use the commanding heights of the church to provide fire support to the troops guarding the city fortifications." Zhao Dongxu said as he pointed to a map on the table next to him.

Wang Chenglong followed the direction pointed by Zhao Dongxu and saw a simple map drawn by hand on the table, which could be seen from the graphics to be a topographical map of the city of Zwutoust, and the church that Zhao Dongxu said was on the edge of the west of the city.

Wang Chenglong nodded without hesitation and said: "No problem, regiment commander, our 3rd company must defend this church, but can you give more people to the regiment commander, I know that the church is not small, and a logistics support platoon can not exceed 20 people, that is, plus the rest of our 3rd company, it is only the strength of a reinforced platoon, and the manpower of such a large church is a little insufficient." ”

Zhao Dongxu frowned and said: "There are not many soldiers that can be used in Lao Tzu's hands, if it weren't for the important location of that church, Lao Tzu wouldn't even be able to give you that logistics support platoon, damn, this battle is over, Lao Tzu's 1st regiment doesn't know how many people are left, forget it, Lao Tzu will try to give you some more people!" ”

Wang Chenglong immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, head of the group, you must get me a few more people." ”

Zhao Dongxu touched his chin and said, "Wang Chenglong." If our fortifications are lost, we will continue to engage in street fighting with coalition forces in the city. This church is made of stone, and there is no way to take this church with ordinary cannonballs. If the coalition forces rush into the city, your company will also defend this church to Lao Tzu, and the regimental artillery company has 4 high-level dual-purpose 57 mm anti-aircraft guns, which can also be fired flat, so they will be pulled to the church and under your command, and there are still a lot of 57 mm anti-aircraft shells, and these 4 anti-aircraft guns are also equipped with more than 30 artillerymen, which are also transferred to you. ”

I heard that I had added 4 anti-aircraft guns for both high and flat purposes, as well as more than 30 artillerymen. Wang Chenglong smiled and said: "Thank you, Commander, as long as I, Wang Chenglong, have a breath, don't want to occupy the church!" By the way, regiment commander, the 2 heavy machine guns of our company were blown up in the previous battle, and there are only 4 light machine guns left in the whole company, and there are only 2 grenades. I can't provide enough fire support to my brothers in the fortifications of the city, and I have to take more ammunition. ”

There are still some gaps between the establishment of the garrison of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire and the main army, and there are also slight differences between the various garrisons. For example, 1 infantry company of the Andong Provincial Garrison, including 3 infantry platoons and 1 fire platoon, the whole company has about 150 people. Each infantry platoon has 2 light machine guns and 2 grenades, and the fire platoon has 2 heavy machine guns, 4 light machine guns and 4 grenades. It is considered very strong in the garrison, but compared to the main army. The equipment and personnel are much worse.

The infantry company of the main army has 3 infantry platoons, 1 artillery platoon equipped with 6 60-mm mortars, 1 machine gun platoon equipped with 2 Type 96 heavy machine guns and 4 Type 96 light machine guns, 1 guard squad equipped with all Type 96 submachine guns, 1 logistics support squad, and 1 medical team of 4 people, with a number of up to 220 people.

The mortars of the Andong Provincial Garrison are only equipped at the battalion level, while the company level of the main army is equipped with 6 60mm mortars, and the personnel and equipment of the entire Andong Provincial Garrison Army, the personnel and equipment of the troops at all levels, are still much worse than the infantry divisions of the main army, but the reason why Li Kai, the commander of the original Andong Provincial Garrison, said that the combat effectiveness of the 2nd Division is not worse than that of the main force, is because the only tank regiment of the Andong Provincial Garrison consisting of 30 Black Wolf light tanks and 60 Z1 armored vehicles is now equipped with the 2nd Division.

Zhao Dongxu nodded and said: "I will transfer 2 heavy machine guns to you again, our regiment's machine guns and grenades have suffered great losses, and you can't pull out more ammunition, you can take someone to that air-raid shelter to get the ammunition yourself, don't empty it for Lao Tzu, that is the No. 1 ammunition depot of our regiment, and one-third of the ammunition of our regiment is there." ”

Then Zhao Dongxu turned his head and shouted to the 1st lieutenant: "Xiao Shao, you take Wang Chenglong to the guard company to get 2 heavy machine guns, and then let the 1st platoon of the logistics support company and the 4 57mm anti-aircraft guns of the artillery company obey Wang Chenglong's command, by the way, take Wang Chenglong to the No. 1 ammunition depot to get some ammunition, remember not to let Wang Chenglong, this kid, empty the No. 1 ammunition depot for Lao Tzu." ”

A few kilometers northwest of the city of Zeutoust, in the forest, there is a large tent made of canvas, which is the headquarters of the coalition forces attacking the city of Zeutoust.

In one of the tents, several fires were lit to make the tent a little warmer, and three coalition generals were surrounding a wooden plank made of wooden piers, on which was a map of the city of Zwutoust.

The three generals of the coalition army were French Lieutenant General Carl Manster, German Lieutenant General Harmanheide and Russian General Pimenovich, and the 600,000 coalition troops who secretly came to the vicinity of the city of Zwutoust were composed of the French Army, the German Army and the Russian Army, of which the French Army and the German Army each had 100,000 people, and the remaining 400,000 were Russian Army forces.

However, although the Russian army had the largest number of troops and the rank of the general with the troops, the commander-in-chief of the surprise army of the coalition army attacking the city of Zwutoust was not held by the Russian general Pimenovich, but by the French lieutenant general Carl Manster.

The commander-in-chief, the French lieutenant general Karl Manster, asked the Russian general Pimenovich: "Is this map of the city of Zwutoust accurate?" ”

Russian General Pimenovich shrugged his shoulders and said: "This is just the general layout of the city of Zeutoust before, and now the army of the Chinese Empire has built many fortifications in the city of Zwutoust, and I don't think this layout map has much effect." ”

German Lieutenant General Harman Hyde then said: "There is a rough map. It's better than a black eye, now west of the city of Zwutoust. The last line of defense of the Chinese Imperial Army outside the city was also occupied by us, and as soon as we attacked it, there would be street fighting. This layout of the city is still very useful. We must occupy the city of Zwutoust as soon as possible and annihilate the more than 20,000 Chinese Imperial troops, the Chinese Imperial army in Ufa City has received the news that the city of Zwutoust has been attacked, and will definitely send troops back to the city of Zwutoust, and we must also prepare to meet the Chinese Imperial army that has returned from Ufa City. ”

The commander-in-chief, French Lieutenant General Carl Manther, sighed and said: "I didn't expect the Chinese Imperial Army guarding the city of Zeutoust to be so tenacious, is our intelligence inaccurate, the intelligence does not say that the Chinese Imperial Army in the city of Zwutoust is only a second-line force of more than 20,000 people, not the main force of the Chinese Imperial Army, but our hundreds of thousands of troops besieged for 1 day." Before we launched an attack on the city of Zwutoust, General Hindenburg had already drawn 15 divisions from the battlefield of Ufa City and rushed to the small town of Miado between Ufa City and Zwutoust City, and these 15 divisions of troops would block the Chinese Imperial troops returning from Ufa City in the small town of Miado to ensure that we successfully captured the city of Zwutoust. ”

Blame Kalmanster sighing, this sudden snowstorm caused their 600,000 coalition forces to suffer very heavy losses, and at least 40,000 people have frozen to death in this blizzard. Tens of thousands of people were temporarily incapacitated by frostbite, and the number of casualties in the attack on the positions of the Chinese Imperial troops outside the city of Ziwutoust must have been at least 6 or 70,000, and this is still the army of the Chinese Empire. There was no result of a stubborn hold on to the positions outside Zeutoust.

German Lieutenant General Hamannheide said with a wry smile: "The 15 divisions sent by General Hindenburg are 5 infantry divisions of the Italian Army, 5 infantry divisions of the Austro-Hungarian Army and 5 infantry divisions of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial Army. These 15 divisions may not hold out for long in the small town of Miado. ”

Although Italy, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, along with Germany, were allies of the Central Powers. However, German Lieutenant General Harmanheide was not very optimistic about the combat effectiveness of his three allies. What's more, only 15 divisions were transferred from the battlefield of Ufa City, which is about 150,000 people, and there is no dangerous terrain in the small town of Miado, and Harman Hyde feels that the situation is very unoptimistic with 15 divisions to block the reinforcements of the Chinese Imperial Army in Ufa City.

The commander-in-chief, French Lieutenant General Carl Manster, pointed to the map on the wooden board with his hand and said: "Now that the defenders of the Chinese Empire have retreated into the city of Zeutoust, we only need to occupy all the cities of Zwutoust as soon as possible and destroy the remnants of the Chinese Empire. In this way, we can block the city of Ufa, where more than 1 million Chinese Empire troops are located, to the west of the Ural Mountains. ”

German Lieutenant General Hamannheide said: "We also have to pay attention to the Chinese Imperial Army east of the Ural Mountains, now we have deployed 5 divisions of troops at the foot of the Ural Mountains east of the city of Zwutoust, is it a little less, there is no need to increase some troops, after all, the entire Siberian region east of the Ural Mountains is occupied by the Chinese Empire, and they can completely draw troops from the Siberian region near the Ural Mountains to support the city of Zwutoust." ”

The commander-in-chief, French Lieutenant General Carl Manster, thought about it for a moment and said: "It is enough to have 5 divisions of troops to defend the Chinese Imperial Army east of the Ural Mountains, after all, from the intelligence point of view, the Chinese Empire has concentrated most of the troops that have entered the Russian battlefield in the city of Ufa, and the Chinese Imperial Army east of the Ural Mountains should not be able to draw too many troops to rescue the city of Zeutoust, and the most important thing we need to do now is to concentrate our forces and capture the city of Zwutoust as soon as possible." ”

Russian General Pimenovich frowned at this time and said: "The next siege battle is not so easy to fight, in order to capture the position outside the city of Zwutoust, we consumed a lot of shells, and now we have not many shells left, and we will not be able to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment of the remnants of the Chinese Empire entrenched in the city of Zwutoust." ”

This 600,000-strong coalition force came to the city of Zwutoust from the city of Ufa, and in order to conceal it, the roads they chose to take were all forests, and they could not carry too much ammunition at all, and even the artillery only carried some field guns with a caliber of 75 mm.

The commander-in-chief, the French lieutenant general Carl Manster, said categorically: "Even if we fill it with human lives, we must also fill the city of Zeutoust for me, no matter what the price is, we must also conquer the city of Zwutoust!" ”

In an ordinary house in the center of the city of Zwutoust, Xu Yong, the commander of the 2nd Division of the Andong Provincial Garrison of the Royal Army of the Chinese Imperial Army, said to Deputy Division Commander Ding Hui and Chief of Staff Gao Yuanpeng: "After more than a day of fierce fighting, We now have less than 15,000 troops in our hands, and a lot of ammunition has been consumed, and the next battle will be even more difficult, our 2nd Division and the coalition army are bound to have a street battle in the city of Zwutoust, and now the troops below are ready for street fighting, in order to ensure the rear road of the main force in Ufa City, our 2nd Division is all gone, and we must also hold the city of Zwutoust and wait for the arrival of reinforcements. ”

Ding Hui, deputy commander of the 2nd Division, said: "The 13th Field Army in Ufa City has already returned to us for reinforcements, and the 3rd Division of our Andong Provincial Garrison in Chelyabinsk City, as well as 1 infantry division and 1 tank regiment of the Ansi Provincial Garrison, are also rushing to us, but I don't think the coalition forces will let reinforcements easily rush to Zwutoust City, and our 2nd Division may need to hold out in Zwutoust City alone for a while." ”

Chief of Staff Gao Yuanpeng followed and said: "I think we can disperse the tank regiment assigned to our 2nd Division by the military headquarters in the city of Zwutoust to help the troops below to fight in the streets with the coalition forces. (To be continued.) )