260 interception

Losing the backbone, this time the rout soldiers are even more chaotic, some smart Soviet troops, seeing that two legs must not be able to outrun four legs, so they simply kneel and surrender, so they really didn't bother with them. Many Soviet troops who fell behind the rear of the team and saw that they could not run away saw that this method was effective and followed suit.

After suffering huge losses, the Soviet army routed but was delayed by the armored troops that the White Russian army had just left in front of the position, except for a part of the escape from both sides, hundreds of Soviet troops in the center were never able to return to their positions, more and more Soviet troops began to lose their guys, kneeling and surrendering, more and more Soviet troops were killed on the way to escape, so the courage of the Soviet army was also consumed at this time, and the remaining three or four hundred Soviet troops were blocked on the way home and could only surrender collectively.

Yegorov, who was watching the battle in the second line of defense, was so depressed in his heart! In the blink of an eye, the big victory turned into a big rout, and with the loss of these backbones, the first line of defense has lost the basis of defense, and those recruits alone cannot withstand the attack of the White Russian army. Sure enough, as expected, before the retreat order he gave reached the position of the first line of defense, the Soviet army "herded sheep" under the charge of the White Russian cavalry. The Soviet Russian cavalry on both sides only cared about receiving the defeated soldiers fleeing from both sides at the moment, and they could not join the battlefield in a formation for a while to resist the desperate charge of the White Russian army.

The courage of the recruits who remained on the ground had long since disappeared when the veterans surrendered, and no matter how the officers organized, they could not form an effective resistance, and the Soviets could no longer bear to be slaughtered like this, and fled en masse again towards the second line of defense.

It's to flee, not to retreat! There was no organization to speak of, there was no break, there was no order, and the White Russian cavalry again played the role of "shepherd dogs", driving these "Slavic sheep" to the second line of defense. In the same routine, the soldiers of the second line of defense of the Soviet army did not dare to shoot at their own people, and they were rushed by these recruits, and the order was immediately chaotic.

"Quick! Fast! In front of you is the third line of defense of the Soviet army, which is full of Soviet baggage, defeat them, and every qiē there is yours! Even though he was a little tired after rushing through two Soviet lines in a row, Kulokov still encouraged his men, forward, forward. The honor of defeating the main forces of the Soviet army stimulated every soldier of the White Russian army.

The main force of the Soviet army is too strong, like a mountain pressing on the hearts of officers at all levels of the White Russian Army, usually fighting petty battles, even if they annihilate some units of the Soviet Army in the Far East, but the really sober people in the White Russian Army also know that these are not the main forces of the Soviet Army, although they are also serious divisional establishments, but compared with the Soviet Army in the European part, there is a large gap in weapons, training, and military quality, so the whole White Russian Army feels unconfident about playing against Yegorov.

But when Kulokov wiped out the Soviet counterattack in one fell swoop and "drove away" thousands of troops on the opposite side, Kulokov knew that he had won and that he had defeated the main Soviet army from Europe.

This kind of thought, not only him, but also the attack of the whole thousand people made his entire thousand-man battalion in a state of high morale.

"The machine gun position ahead is blocking the way!" The herald bent all the way and groped for it, reporting loudly.

Although the artillery of the White Russian Army had already plowed the Soviet positions more than three times, the White Russian Army had not yet mastered the technology of running coordination, so it gave the Soviet Army enough time to react.

"Order the infantry to slow down and let the tanks rush first! Crush them! Kulokov waved the Browning M1911 in his hand and shouted excitedly. The pistol in the White Russian Army is already a standard configuration, and generally the soldiers of the White Russian Army who belong to the combat unit can be issued a "unicorn" with rough workmanship, and when they have achieved a certain military merit, they can receive a White Russian five-son small revolver made in the Far East Arsenal, and if they make meritorious contributions, then they can be issued with a beautiful 9MM caliber Colt revolver, and if they can make meritorious contributions, then they will be promoted. And as long as you are promoted to ensign, you can choose from a variety of pistols of your choice. This large-caliber American Browning was chosen by Kulokov himself after he was promoted to battalion commander. Its large-caliber ammunition and large-capacity magazine made Kulokov make great achievements on the way to the west.

And along the way of this charge, such a few people and even a dozen people formed a machine gun position, and there were many teams that dared to block the White Russian army, but they were all defeated by him one by one, and tied up the living people into zongzi and left them for the team behind.

You don't need special support to deal with them, "Sharpshooter, kill them!" Kulokov shouted at a five-man blocking squad on his team. After receiving the order, the five sharpshooters immediately suppressed the machine-gun position. As Kulokov and his team collectively rushed through a small gentle dirt slope, they saw at least ten machine gunners falling next to the machine guns that were blocking them.

However, one or two dozen tanks appeared in the rear of the machine-gun positions. "Tanks?" When Kulokov saw these things, he knew that he was developed.

"Quick, quick, the infantry retreated, inform the anti-tank group that there are one or twenty" turtles "here! Kulokov has seen Soviet Russian tanks and knows that although Soviet Russia claims to have formed armored units, most of them are armored cars, and there are not many real tanks, most of them are left over from the Tsarist period, and this time it is also the French "Renault". For these "iron bumps", Yegorov also cherished them when he used them.

The Soviet tanks that had been hiding in the trenches just now, after breaking through two lines of defense in a row in the face of the White Russian army, did not care about how to survive the enemy artillery fire, and rushed out in one go, preparing to recapture their positions.

"Boom! Rumble! "After the continuous shelling of 37 anti-tank guns, Kulokov could clearly see the black smoke coming out of the two tanks in front of him, lying there and not moving.

But an anti-tank group carried only two 37 anti-tank guns, while the rest of the anti-tank group was left behind due to the rapid advance of Kulokov just now.

"Go back!" Kulokov shouted vigorously behind him, facing the tanks of the Soviet Russian army, the infantry lacking anti-tank weapons is completely delivering food.

"Spit and spit and spit on!" A rain of metal bullets from the heavy machine gun behind him actually burst the flank of the Russian tank.

"12.7 large-caliber heavy machine gun?!" Kulokov saw a four-wheeled carriage appear behind him in time, and the muzzle of the machine gun on the carriage was constantly spitting orange flames.

"It's fierce!" Kulokov, who was lying on the ground, did not know how to admit this situation except for watching the heavy machine gun temporarily block the Soviet tank. In his cognition, tanks should have no opponents except for anti-tank guns, but watching the tanks in front of him being blown up one by one, he couldn't help but feel stunned!

But only half a minute later, the machine-gun carriage was blown apart by the tank's 37-mm guns. After all, an unprotected carriage could not stop the shelling, but the bullets of the two water-cooled Machinks carried by Kulokov's team clanged on the opponent's 22-mm front armor, but they never made a hole.

"Squeak crunch" Kulokov heard a sad mechanical friction sound behind him, which seemed very harsh in normal times, but at the moment it became the most beautiful sound in the hearts of the White Russian soldiers. "Our tanks are up!" Kulokov shouted happily.

"Stupid, how do you aim? The cannon is on your own people? ”

Yegorov had just given the order for artillery cover, but before the herald could inform, the artillery positions behind him began to fire, but the shells did not fall in the White Russian formations, but the first wave of shells fell on the heads of the Soviet troops themselves.

"It's a shell fired from artillery position No. 4!"

"Let's see what's going on!"

"Artillery position No. 3 was suddenly shelled by artillery position No. 4, their ammunition depot was hit, and the current casualties cannot be counted, but they will certainly not be able to participate in the battle."

"It is reported that just now the No. 4 artillery position shelled the command post on the fourth line of defense, and one of the remaining colonels, the regimental commander and several staff officers, unfortunately died in the line of duty."

"Bastard! Come, immediately let my guards go to Artillery Position No. 4 and shoot their artillery commander on the spot! Hearing that the command post on the fourth line of defense was shelled, Yegorov immediately became angry, ten minutes ago, he was the third line of defense from there, if he had just delayed for a while and did not rush to the first line of battle, this time he would not have died a regiment commander with the rank of colonel, he must have been a general with the rank of general.

But soon the guards returned, and without bringing the head of the artillery commander, they told them that the No. 4 artillery position had been occupied by a group of Soviet soldiers with white towels on their right arms.

"Traitor, this is a **naked mutiny!"

There were traitors within the Soviet army, and Yegorov knew this for a long time, and these scattered Soviet troops came to vote one after another, although many of them were spontaneous and voluntary, but it was inevitable that spies from the White Russian army would get involved. But Yegorov did not expect that in just a few days, the captured Soviet troops had exceeded 1,000 people, and this still refers to the regular troops, not counting the miscellaneous militia ranks. After all, even the regular army is not necessarily a combat unit, and the baggage troops and artillery units are also counted in the regular army. Therefore, under the "influence" of the monks, a contingent of about 1,000 Soviet troops, mixed with a part of the elite of the White Russian army, joined Yegorov's army.

At the height of the battle between the two armies, Yegorov was dealt a hard blow from the rear of the Soviet army. First, it occupied the No. 4 artillery position on the right side of the rear of the battlefield, and then took the opportunity to shell the No. 3 artillery position on the left side of the battlefield, destroying the Soviet army's greatest reliance. Then the shelling of Yegorov's command post was carried out, but unfortunately Yegorov left one step earlier, otherwise the battle would not have been fought, and Rokossovsky would have been able to run to clean up the mess at this moment.

"Report to the Commander, there is a small squad of rebels with strong firepower, which is coming towards you, the Commander-in-Chief. It's only 400 meters away. ”

Yegorov listened attentively, and there was indeed a dense sound of gunfire in the distance, even on the noisy battlefield, the non-stop gunfire accompanied by the sound of grenades was still clearly heard, which showed that the enemy was already very close to him.

"Commander-in-chief, let's withdraw!" The Soviet cavalry who came out of Moscow shouted,

"Commander, let's withdraw!" The defeated Soviet troops gathered from all over the country saw that Yegorov's descendants were planning to withdraw, so they did not hide it, and immediately turned around and "persuaded".

"Withdraw?! What about these brave soldiers who are fighting on the front line? Of course, Egorov didn't want to die here, but as the commander-in-chief, he didn't think about himself alone.

A series of I18's unique gunshots had approached less than two hundred meters away. The English crossbow became the front of the rebels, and once the machine gun position stood in the way, the rebels took advantage of the terrain to get closer and end the battle with one shot. And at a distance of 400 meters, how many machine gun positions can stop this elite rebel army!

Seeing that Yegorov was still insisting, several officers who had been secretly instructed by Stalin when they left Moscow glanced at each other, rushed up, and dragged Yegorov off the battlefield.

Seeing that the officials had all "run away", the morale of the Soviet troops, who had been thinking about fighting to the death, plummeted, and they also followed the "retreat" route of the officials, and began to flee for their lives. And Egorov, who came to command, was coerced by the guards carrying Bolo in the middle of the rebels.

Yegorov is not a fool, the battle has come to this point, he can understand that Rokossovsky did his best from the beginning, just to get a quick solution.

At the moment, although Rokossovsky won a tactical victory and wiped out the defenders of the Soviet first line of defense, because the fighting on the first line of defense almost exhausted the strength of the White Russian army, their victory was not able to reverse the situation on the battlefield of the Soviet and Belarusian armies.

The White Russian army can almost be said to have won a crushing victory! No less than 6,000 White Russian officers and soldiers were killed or wounded.

However, the White Russian army on the opposite side did not give up the offensive because of the heavy casualties, as Yegorov thought. Instead, it directly crossed the Soviet position that had been fired by the artillery of the White Russian army, and rushed to the rear defense line of the Soviet army with a victory, and the attacking White Russian army did not divide the troops to occupy the various trenches lost by the Soviet army, but fought like cavalry, and went straight to the command center of the Soviet army, and the whole White Russian army came all the way to the base camp, making it clear that it was to open the posture and fight with the Soviet army, so that the Soviet army departments could turn back and rescue its command center, and could not hide in the trenches and wait for the White Russian army to go to "receive" the bullets.

Moreover, with the development of the war, the cavalry of the White Russian Army also appeared more and more on the battlefield, but compared with the White Russian Army. The Soviet army scattered nearly 10,000 cavalry of all kinds, but Rokossovsky's men were 10,000 pure cavalry cavalry, and they were all equipped with cavalry guns, rather than improvised patchwork like the Soviet army, with long guns and short guns. So with this seemingly same number of motley cavalry to fight against the authentic cavalry of White Russia, Yegorov was not sure at all. In addition to the three thousand elites brought from Moscow, Yegorov did not think that these motley cavalry could cause much trouble to the White Russian army. After all, the target of the White Russian army was the base camp of the Soviet army, and their target was the grain and grass in the base camp, as well as the artillery positions near the base camp.

Once the food and grass in the army are lost, these cavalry may still be able to escape, and the more than 10,000 infantry present will only be wiped out or starved to death except to surrender. And without the infantry, this Ishim city still has reinforcements? Defend the city with cavalry? Maybe there is no chance to return to Tyumen!

Don't forget, there are tens of thousands of cavalry of the White Army on the way back to Tyumen! Previously, Yegorov was counting on the infantry to open the way, and without these infantry would be to block the retreat.

"Retreat! Tell the infantry regiments to bring what they can bring and withdraw to the city of Ishim! The cavalry units lined up with me, ready to attack! Yegorov saw that if the Soviet cavalry and the White Russian cavalry were allowed to fight indiscriminately, it would be impossible to reverse the defeat of the infantry, so he immediately ordered the infantry to retreat into the city.

"Look, there are quite a few of our soldiers who have been caught up by the enemy!" One of the guards beside Yegorov couldn't help but exclaim.

In the rear, about 500 meters away from them, more than 50 Soviet cavalry were covering nearly 100 infantry and driving more than a dozen wagons transporting grain, and they had already fought with some White Russian cavalry.

The situation on the battlefield was indeed carried out according to Rokossovsky's plan, the White Russian army "pressed on the whole army and broke his first line of defense, and the Soviet troops behind were naturally frightened, but the morale of the White Russian army was greatly boosted, and in one fell swoop, they broke through several lines of defense of the Soviet army and stirred them up!! ”

The White Russian army carried out Rokossovsky's order very well, marching all the way and chasing and fighting fiercely.

After dozens of gunshots, more than 20 Soviet soldiers and an equal number of White Russians fell from their horses.

"We can't save them, otherwise we will definitely be caught up by the White Russian cavalry in the rear." Yegorov glanced at it, took a deep breath, and said helplessly. He could see that the more than 50 Soviet cavalry were the elites he brought from Moscow, these people were veterans of a hundred battles, one died less than one, and there was no replenishment at all, and it was not cost-effective to use these elites to protect those miscellaneous infantry. But at this time, many people around him wanted to save those cavalry.

But if you rush back from here, to that place, and save those Soviet troops, what will happen to those infantry? Do you just abandon them on the battlefield? What kind of blow was that to the morale of the army? And the White Russian cavalry and infantry in the rear had already noticed that place. There were as many as two or three hundred White Russian cavalry chasing over alone, and although Yegorov only had more than 100 guards around him, he would definitely be able to deal with it now. But then on the way to retreat, they will definitely have to die in battle, and they will not survive at all.

"The cavalry of the escort team is dead, and the White Russian cavalry has caught up with the convoy..."Yegorov and his party continued to advance straight forward for a moment, and the guards, who had been looking at the direction of the cavalry in the rear, made an unbearable sound.

The speed of the cavalry was extremely impressive compared to the slow carriages, only slightly accelerated, and the White Russian cavalry had already rushed in front of the Soviet infantry.

Compared with the more than 100 cavalry White Russians, the remaining dozens of Soviet infantry at this moment are extremely weak. The Soviet troops, who were caught up by the White Russian cavalry, were also tenacious, did not surrender, did not harbor, and all the bullets and grenades were "greeted" to the White Russian cavalry.

But all this resistance, the White Russians did not look at it at all, and the leading officer swept his saber and directly led the team into the convoy. One of the cavalrymen at the head knocked the three infantry in the way into the air, and at the same time, the snow-white saber swung and slashed the two defenseless infantry in two. "These White Russian cavalry alone, plus those tanks from before, unless the main forces of Europe arrive, they can't stop it at all."

Egorov turned his head and stopped looking at the place, knowing that the remaining Russian soldiers in the next place would also end up with the same fate as these soldiers.

At this moment, the sun has set, the sky is getting darker, and in the northeast corner of the distance, there seem to be some dark clouds, and lightning and thunder seem to be about to rain.

"So what do we do now?" Someone asked as he looked at Egorov carefully.

"Looking at the current situation, the flanks of our army should also be in danger. Break through the first line of defense and reach the second line of defenseThere are not many infantry brigades of the White Russian army in this area for the time being, most of them are scattered cavalry. Those who are still chasing and killing are supposed to be fast guys, and our soldiers who don't have time to escape from the second line of defense will buy us some time. But with the surprise attack of the White Russian cavalry, we have not been able to drive them back, so this line of defense seems to have lost its value of holding on. Yegorov looked at the people around him seriously, and analyzed: "We still reorganize the cavalry, and then pass directly from the direction close to the city of Ishim, there is no large number of White Russian cavalry in that direction for the time being, but it must be fast, otherwise it may be too late in time." ”

After a pause, he guessed that some of the people around him would definitely have the idea of fleeing without a fight, so he continued, "At present, we can only force our way through this chaotic tide of soldiers, otherwise if the opponent's infantry group is pressed, then in the face of the firepower that the White Russia has just revealed, we can only completely collapse, even if we flee to the city, it will be more than lucky." ”

Hearing Yegorov's mobilization, many people glanced at each other, all of them watching the countless black spots spread on the battlefield in front of them, and everyone nodded silently.

"Prepare to charge!" Yegorov gave an order, with his own personal guard as the core, and led nearly 10,000 Soviet cavalry to break away from various positions of the Soviet army, converge on the right flank of the battlefield, and slammed into the left flank of the White Russian army with a ferocious right hook.