Li Zuochang brandished a saber and hacked to death another Russian captain officer. He had already had a few colors on his body, he had been bitten by a shell fragment on his arm, and the two revolvers that he had been equipped with at his waist had all run out of bullets, and he didn't have time to reload!

Hand-to-hand combat!

The sound of pistol and rifle fire gradually subsided from the battlefield, and one by one the Wehrmacht's triangular tactical groups were overwhelmed by the superior strength of the Russian army. On the battlefield now, it's an absolute white-knuckle fight.

He Wenxiu, the instructor of the battalion, was stabbed with a bayonet in the thigh and back, and he was not yet thirty years old, lying on this land forever. Although Li Zuochang is impatient with teaching and teaching, in the two years that he has been 'partnered' with He Wenxiu, he has quarreled a lot, and he has not been very happy. But when he saw He Wenxiu's corpse, Li Zuochang's heart was really like a stab.

Although he was injured everywhere, Li Zuochang didn't feel pain at all, and the current situation didn't allow him to think about pain.

The two brigades on the front line were almost unable to support them, but the two brigades placed behind his battalion were one step earlier than the two brigades in front that could not support them, and suffered heavy casualties.

A main battalion had four field brigades, fought fiercely for a day and night, repelled six Russian attacks, and the losses of the four main battle brigades were all more than 30%. Although the Russian army was killed and wounded a lot by artillery fire, heavy machine guns, rifles and grenades before rushing into the trenches, it was still able to form an advantage in strength compared to the Wehrmacht defenders!

Li Zuochang's six artillery pieces attacked and knocked out an artillery position of the Russian army, and then opened the position to attack the Russian army. Now there are four left. Countless shells fell near and above the fort, and before the fort collapsed, the people inside were finished. And there was no more artillery in the center. The cannon didn't have any eggs.

At this moment, the rumbling cannon sound sounded in Li Zuochang's ears again. The shells landed in the middle of the positions of the two armies. This is to block the passage of reinforcements of the follow-up troops of the Russian army! But it's only three minutes, and then the mortar unit has to move quickly. The remaining four 75 guns. Even if you are desperate, it is impossible to block the passage in front of the position.

So this white-knuckle fight took a full hour.

When the Russian troops in other positions no longer had the will to fight, a Russian colonel commanded the troops to slowly withdraw from the battle. Years of battlefield instincts told him that this wave of offensive had come to an end, and it was time to retreat with his men.

In a war with the Chinese army, you can't think about a big victory with a wave of charges. The Chinese are not Turks. If they had not fought like this, there would have been no war now.

The hungry wolves in the European and American world have long pounced on him to the ground, divided his body and chewed it.

However, this charge was able to successfully enter the opponent's trench and engage the Chinese in hand-to-hand combat. Or let the pressure go. Colonel Abuto was very satisfied.

"Quick. Hide quickly and enter the defensive hole! ”

Seeing the retreat of the Russian army, Li Zuochang had no intention of pursuing it, and loudly issued an order to the troops to hide. Prepare for the next round of shelling by the Russian army! This is now positional warfare, where charges and artillery bombardments are staged in turn, constantly consuming flesh and blood on both sides with shells, bullets and bayonets! Whoever sheds his blood first will lose the battle.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The Russian artillery group, which had been ready for a long time, opened fire again! Now the Russians' artillery group is no longer fifty or sixty guns at the beginning, but hundreds of them.

The muffled sound in the sky was as loud as if it were in a thunder pool.

Just when the Russian army retreated. A few flares were shot into the air, which was to signal the artillery group in the rear. The Russian artillery group bombarded the positions of the Wehrmacht, and it also allowed the Wehrmacht to shoot their 'black guns' in the back.

Looking at the Wehrmacht positions flooded by artillery fire, Abiaz. There was not a trace of expression on Nemov's face. The scene in front of him was completely expected. The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great.

Two infantry brigades plus two infantry regiments. The number of people has reached 10,000, and with the help of powerful artillery, it is not at all that the Chinese army in front of them can withstand. One could even say. The fact that the Chinese on the other side can hold on to this and continue to resist stubbornly has greatly exceeded his expectations.

"Brigadier General Shatov. The 18th Brigade organized the eighth offensive. Don't stop, don't pause. Attack, attack—"

"Your order will be carried out by the Eighteenth Brigade with all its strength. Your Excellency Lieutenant General. ”

Ogelky. Shatov to the army commander Abiaz. With a solemn military salute, Lieutenant General Nemov turned and descended the dirt slope, below which his guards and attendants were waiting with their horses.

At 2:20 p.m. on the second day of the battle, Li Zuochang's battalion completely withdrew from the station, and the 3,000-strong force was left with less than 1,300 men. Among them, two to three hundred were seriously wounded who could not move on their own.

What a tragic word!

Li Zuochang lost two fingers, fortunately both of them were left-handed. Luo Hu was seriously injured and unconscious, and was blown up by a cannonball, half of his face was torn, and his head was like a blood gourd. Whether he will finally wake up or not, no one can say.

Li Zuochang's battalion instructor died in battle, the four brigade leaders died one and a half, the deputy brigade leader died one and one was seriously wounded, the brigade instructor walked half away, and the battalion chief of staff was slightly injured, because he only picked up his rifle at the last moment, and the rest of the time he was coordinating the troops. Officers above the rank of second lieutenant and sergeant major, with a casualty rate of more than 60 percent, after the withdrawal this time, Li Zuochang's battalion seemed to have lost the ability to continue fighting.

Because of this offensive and defensive battle, the Russian army used two divisions. The two brigades and two regiments prepared at the beginning were not used at all, and they could not be able to fight on their stomachs that night. It was the troops of the Fourth Army that Nemov immediately mobilized to take over, and it was only at 2:20 p.m. the next day that the station was taken.

The Russian army suffered more than seven thousand casualties, including four thousand.

Such a result is still only clear to Liu Xian. He was quite satisfied with this. After all, the Russian army occupies so many artillery superiority. It is quite rare for Li Zuochang's battalion to be able to achieve a casualty ratio of 1:3.

And the casualties of half a division made the commander-in-chief of the Russian army - Mikhail . Grand Duke Nikolayevich was in pain. Although the progress of the Russian army is still very fast, it is constantly approaching the Wehrmacht line later. Nikolaevich himself coordinated all his forces more closely.

Before, it was said that the Russian army was an open palm, but now the Russian army is a claw with five fingers buckled!

The vanguard of the Russian army is still about 10,000 people, but the left and right flanks are two full-strength divisions, and the large troops behind are locked in a circle, always ready to 'claw' to the target.

Liu Xian also set up a second blocking position, which was the Russians' military station in the easternmost part of Alahu. This is another place that attracts the Russian army to fight, but it is also the place where Liu Xian set the decisive battle.

"The Ninth Division is disabled by a battalion, can Lao Maozi be better? They are attacking in turn at the cost of casualties! At least two of their brigades were wiped out in that battle. At least one to two casualties between friend and foe, what can't be done in this deal? Isn't this bridgehead of ours a mill of flesh and blood? If you put Lao Maozi in a tube of blood, it will not be too late for the decisive battle to start. ”

Then the decisive battle of Tacheng was postponed for another three days.

The Russian army wasted the boss's strength and pulled out the second blocking position of the Wehrmacht, with more than 5,000 casualties, which was less than the previous one, because the Russian army used its own 150mm heavy artillery at the bottom of the box.

Those defense works of the Wehrmacht can withstand 75 guns, or even 105 guns, but 120 heavy guns can't do it, and 150 heavy guns can't afford it. The Wehrmacht lost more than 5,000 Russian troops with the loss of one battalion, of which more than 2,000 were killed.

But no one in the Wehrmacht command thought that the war was going on. The performance of the 150 heavy guns of the Russians is still very good. Liu Xian directly concluded in an affirmative tone that the Russian army still has a real ace 200mm caliber cannon. Because the Russians seemed to be more 'rash', they showed the 150mm heavy gun.

It doesn't make much sense. But now that Liu Xian has said this, that's what it is.

On a plain one hundred and thirty miles from Lake Ala, there is a lake, Zarbra.

The armies of China and Russia finally ushered in a decisive showdown.

Countless journalists and field observation groups flocked in, and the scenery was good, the water source was guaranteed, and Lake Zalbra, which was designated as a neutral zone by both China and Russia, became a place where these people gathered.

On the night when Yak and Bred entered the Zalbla Lake camp under the escort of the Wehrmacht on camels and passes, the fierce battle was in full swing between the Chinese and Russian armies!

The sound of artillery echoed across the field. The positions of the Wehrmacht were full of columns of smoke rising high and low. The Russian artillery group was placed in the wilderness, desperately pouring shells on the positions controlled by the Wehrmacht to the east.

The positions on both sides were connected to the north and south for thirty or forty miles, and the flat wilderness on the shore of Lake Zalbra was vertically divided into three parts, one large and one small. The Russian army took advantage of the darkness of the night to launch an attack, showed the strength to eat, and repeatedly attacked the positions of the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Integrated Infantry Division - the 7th Infantry Brigade in the midst of the general attack, but was beaten down again and again by the defenders.

At dawn the next day, the wilderness was littered with the corpses of Russian soldiers, except for the black craters, and the rough lines of the Wehrmacht were full of thick traces of fierce fighting. The hastily constructed field fortifications of the Wehrmacht have all but been flattened.

"Very heavy shelling. The Russians directly used 150mm caliber heavy artillery. Oddly enough, the Chinese seem to have been enduring beatings without taking the initiative to fight back. ”

"The Chinese have no less artillery than the Russians. I stayed in Urumqi for two months, and too many artillery and shells were being brought into Xinjiang. But why don't the Chinese fight back? ”

Journalists can only stay by the lake and watch the scenery. They are not the same as field observers, which still have a certain degree of autonomy. And the officers are more professional in terms of war. I don't bother to answer the questions of the journalists. This is obvious, the Chinese are accumulating a counterattack, and in this process, the more things the Russians show and the stronger the strength exposed, the more unfavorable it will be to the Russian army.

"I'm still not optimistic about the Russians. They are so eager! "The head of the German Military Observer Mission - Alfred Murphy. Feng. Schlieffen said. (To be continued......)