July 5, 19311, 10:55 p.m.

On the battlefield of Lindian Zhaodong, the artillery group behind the front of the Alliance Army slowly raised its muzzle. For tonight's counterattack, the Allied Army concentrated a powerful artillery group composed of more than 800 artillery pieces from 15 divisional artillery regiments, five corps artillery regiments, and two corps-level artillery brigades to support the infantry attack. In several assault points, a wired communication network was installed, and artillery support was directly directed by artillery observers on the front line.

Boxes of shells had been carried out of the ammunition storage, and the shells had been wiped clean and loaded with different fuses. In addition to ordinary high-explosive shells, the Union artillery group has prepared a large number of poison gas shells! These shells were secretly provided by the Armaments Department of the Nationalist "Government" before the September 18 Incident, and they were originally intended to be used in the war against Japan, but they were unexpectedly used by Wang Zhongyi in the civil war! Now all these shells are quietly ready to go. All the officers and men on the entire front had arrived at their designated positions at this moment, and they were all watching the passage of time with trepidation, waiting for the time to attack. The time finally came to the evening of July 5, 1931. Commander-in-Chief Wang Zhongyi, who was at the forward headquarters of the Alliance Army, waved his hand vigorously: "Attack!" Target Harbin! For the sake of victory, fire! "The originally silent coalition artillery group suddenly erupted into a deafening roar at this time! All gun emplacements began to fire at the highest speed. The sound of the cannon has been completely connected into a whole. Only the rumbling roar echoed around the people, and the violent jolting made it unsteady even for people several kilometers away. This overwhelming firepower made the Red officers and soldiers who had already seen the firepower of the Japanese army feel dumbfounded! This time, the way the artillery fire was fired was Xu Jin's barrage "shot" shot. According to the speed of the infantry's advance, which stretched forward 200 meters per minute, the explosion points of the artillery fire were the first to be exploded in the middle part of the battle lines of the two armies, and the landing points were so dense. So much so that in the sight of the two armies, a wall of artillery fire consisting of explosions, shrapnel, smoke, dust, and deadly mustard gas was built into the sky. The counterattack of the Union forces began!

Countless junior officers jumped onto the trenches and stood at the top of the trenches in the face of the Red Army's counterattack, and all sorts of flares fell one after another, making everyone's face red.

"For the sake of GCISM, move forward!" This slogan is almost identical to the Red Army on the opposite side, and it also means one thing, that is, to attack forward! A total of three infantry divisions of the front-line attacking forces poured out of the trenches. The soldiers were all lightly armed. There were only rifles, ammunition, gas masks, and a day's rations. Everyone crawled out of the trench more than one person deep with a heavy face. The artillery fire of the Red Army's counterattack was also quite fierce, and the shrapnel that kept flying in all directions caused many Allied soldiers to fall in pools of blood before they could launch a single charge against the enemy. But many more men had formed a promenade, cautiously following the barrage fired by their own artillery, following the officer's orders. On the top of the wasteland, which had been crumbled into potholes, the soldiers maintained an offensive formation as much as possible, and marched forward in a hurry...... Behind the assault infantry were heavy machine guns and mortars that followed the movement, who would provide fire support to the infantry after the barrage of "shooting".

They were greeted only by the not very heavy artillery fire of the Red Army, and a rain of bullets fired from a few remaining machine-gun fire. The attacking ranks suffered casualties under the Red Army's oncoming fire, especially after the advancing Xu Jin barrage crossed the Red Army's trench line and began to extend. The surviving Red Army soldiers, who had survived the fire of metal fragments and poison gas, poured out of their anti-artillery holes one after another, and set up machine guns, rifles, and 60-mm and 80-mm mortars in the trenches. The attacking coalition officers and soldiers were immediately beaten to pieces.

At this time, the decisive charge of the Union army began! All the officers and soldiers who launched the attack, without any orders, switched from a hasty advance to a brisk charge! Everyone roared with hideous faces, and charged forward frantically with rifles in hand! Barbed wire and minefields have been swept away by artillery barrage, but at a distance of about 100 meters, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are rushing forward with a roar, like an unstoppable torrent!

The front-line forces of the Red Army have been greatly weakened by the evil poison gas of the Union Army! Due to the small number and poor quality of gas masks provided by the Soviet Union, the mustard gas that suddenly appeared in this battle became an extremely sharp killing weapon like the first appearance of gas warfare in a world war! Although the surviving Red officers and soldiers are still holding on, I don't know how the firepower of the troops is relative to the huge attack momentum of the Union Army. The kilometer-long defensive position defended by the Red Twelfth Army was quickly overwhelmed by the influx of Union infantry. The white-knuckle battle immediately unfolded in the trenches, and the infantry on both sides had been trained to fight and stab, all of which came in handy at this time, and what was even more heart-wrenching was that both sides of the battle were shouting slogans of GCISM! The targets of this plane's rebellion are no longer willing to be killed......

Bayonets and bayonets, sapper shovels and sapper shovels, fists and teeth all wrestled together, and even some crazy guys pulled their own grenades in the trenches, shrapnel cut down everyone in the vicinity regardless of faction, and Bobo and Bo Confederate soldiers continued to pour into the trenches. On the first front, the Red Army soldiers finally couldn't resist anymore and retreated to the rear in spite of the strict orders of the political cadres!

More than 80,000 rounds of high-explosive and poison gas shells fired by more than 800 artillery pieces ensured the success of the infantry commando in one fell swoop! Signal flares announcing victory are raised from the front. There was a burst of cheers from behind. At this time, in the first trench, the officers and men of the alliance were busy reinforcing their positions under the command of the officers. A soldier from the ancient grassland of Méng gasped and looked at his bearded company commander: "Brother, this battle is over, right?" Can we go home? The bearded company commander looked solemnly at the front, stretched out his hand and took out a cigarette from his arms: "Go home?" It's still early! The Reds weren't that fragile, they would have organized a second, third line of defense!

And we only have to take it one by one! Listen, the officer's whistle is about to sound,

And organize us to move forward. Next time, there will be no such perfect artillery cover, and those cannons will not be able to hit accurately as soon as they are far away...... If only there were those iron pimple tanks of the Kuomintang! Before the soldiers who had been frightened by the words of the company commander came to their senses, they heard a sharp whistle, followed by the shouts of the officers in various parts of the trenches, and the soldiers of the Union Army were driven out of the trenches one after another, once again forming a line of charging skirmishers......

In the advance headquarters of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Central State in Zhaodong County, there was a noisy, busy, "chaotic" and gloomy atmosphere at this time. Even the Soviet advisers, who were in high spirits in the past, went in and out with a straight face, or blushed around the map and argued. On the map, the black arrows of the Allied Army are constantly advancing, while the red arrows representing the Red Army and the Lindian Zhaodong defense system are retreating! Although many high-ranking members of the Red Army, including "Mao" who came to supervise the battle, were aware that the Alliance Army was about to launch a counterattack, but in just one night, the entire defense line was about to collapse, which greatly surprised everyone present!

Although on the map there are still the symbols of the Red 34th, Red 35th, and Red 36th Divisions of the Red Twelfth Army. But everyone present knows. These three divisions had suffered heavy losses and were facing collapse under the superior forces, firepower, and vicious gas warfare of the Coalition forces.

If the Red Twelfth Legion collapses, then the entire Lindian,

The Battle of Zhaodong will inevitably suffer a crushing defeat! The main force of the Allied Army will also be liberated, and there will be a free reason to use it, either to advance westward to meet the Red Army's Western Front Corps or simply stride south, directly obtain supplies on the Liaoji border, and then wave the army to attack Changchun and Jilin. It seems that the Red Army's Western Front Corps, which is still hiding in the Soviet Union, has no choice but to go south to seize Manchuria and Hailar as soon as possible!

However, there is still a distance of more than 400 kilometers from Hailar to Qiqihar, and it is still necessary to cross the Daxing'an Mountains, and even if the main force of the Western Front travels day and night, it will take at least eight days to reach the battlefield. But can the Eastern Front Corps of the Eastern Front of Lindian Zhaozhao be maintained until then? Once the corps of the Eastern Front collapses, then the corps of the Western Front will face the main forces of the Trotskyists alone!

The phone inside the war room was noisy, and bad news kept coming from the front.

"What? The Trotskyist Army has already broken through to the second trench of the Twelfth Army Corps, and the 105th Regiment of the Red 35th Division suffered heavy losses under the Trotskyist gas attack? How many people are still in the 105 regiment now? How long can they hold out? "The artillery regiment of the 12th Army was completely lost in the artillery battle with the Trotskyist army? How? Why not transfer artillery positions in time? Didn't you see that the artillery fire of the Trotskyist army was strong? "Why didn't the heavy artillery of the Red Artillery Division open fire? What the! Running out of shells? Haven't replenished yet? Good! Please rest assured that we will rush the logistics as soon as possible. "The Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China ordered your department to persevere to the end, even if you hit the last person with a bullet, you must block the enemy in front of you, and you must not take a step back!" This battle is directly related to the success of the "Revolution...... "While the staff officers of the Eastern Front Corps of the Red Army were dealing with the endless front-line battle reports, Zhou Elai, Maobi, Zhu D, and Soviet advisers Berzin, Chuikov, and others sat around a log table covered with maps, looking at the atmosphere like a hornet's nest in the entire headquarters with some blankness.

For these leaders of the Red Army, they couldn't believe that the strength of twelve infantry divisions and one artillery division of four corps was actually suppressed by the trotten army, which was supposed to be a rabble! In just one night, the initiative on the battlefield almost changed hands! The original battle plan of attacking from both sides is about to be completely ruined, and the Eastern Front Corps has fallen into a serious crisis!

Mao, who was not in favor of launching an attack before Zhang Xueliang's troops completed the reorganization, had a cold face and stared at the Soviet adviser Berzin: "Dear comrade adviser, it seems that you have encountered some minor problems in your battle plan, what should you do now?" Should the Western Front Corps be allowed to fly over to save the emergency? "What now? To be honest, Comrade Berzin himself did not know. He was the head of intelligence of the Soviet Red Army before, not the head of operations, and he had only seen and heard of such things as fighting, but he had never done it himself! Just as he was embarrassed, Chuikov's voice sounded on the side: "It's just a little accident, it is inevitable that there will always be all kinds of handover situations in war, after all, the enemy is not rotating according to our baton." As he spoke, he spread his hands and smiled indifferently: "Comrades, the Red Army has not yet been defeated, but it has just lost the opportunity to annihilate the trotten bandits...... We can do it again after Zhang Xueliang's four legions have completed the reorganization. "So what should we do now?" Zhou Elai asked eagerly.

"Order the Western Front Corps to attack Manchuria and Hailar, while the Eastern Front Corps retreats to Harbin in an orderly manner. ..., Chuikov said his own method unhurriedly.

"But as soon as the Eastern Front Corps retreats, the Western Front Corps will have to face the main force of the Trotskyist Army alone." Zhu D said with a calm and swarthy face.

"We can let them retreat into the Soviet Union again! Could it be that the Trotskyist army still dared to withdraw from the Soviet Union? Chuikov pointed to the Western Front Corps on the map, and said with a smile: "Our Eastern and Western Fronts can still echo each other from afar, if the Trotten Army ignores the Western Front Corps, the Western Front Corps will be able to sweep the ancient grassland of Dàng East Méng, and even 'force' close to Zhongyi Fort...... There won't be too many Trotters there. If the main force of the Trotskyist army retreats westward, our Eastern Front Corps can follow and advance, at least recovering all the territory east of the Great Khing'an Mountains. Even...... We can also order the four corps that are being reorganized in Chahar and Rehe to stop regrouping and march together in the direction of Ménggu! At that time, the Trotters will definitely be in chaos, and the only way out is to return to the ancient nest of Méng. ”

The battle plan of the two-front attack soon turned into a series of telegrams and flew to the Red Army units on the front line of the Zhaodian Zhaodong Front and the general headquarters of the Red Army's Western Front Corps lurking in the Abagattu Mountain.

The situation on the battlefield in the northeast has changed drastically again!

July 6 at 9 a.m.

On the Soviet side of the Sino-Soviet border, the Abagatu Mountain lurked for two whole days the Red Army's Western Front Corps, three corps, nine divisions, and nearly 100,000 troops. With the support of more than two hundred cannons from six artillery regiments, a surprise attack was launched on the armed and local forces of the ancient Méng tribe, to which the unsuspecting Union Army belonged!

The fire of field artillery and mortars suddenly hit the mountains and valleys, and all the key points on the Chinese side of the Sino-Soviet border line from Manchuria to Zajinuoer were turned into a sea of fire! The short and fierce firepower caused these ragtags to squeak and scream. This is not the frontal battle between the Union Army and the Red Army, but the border between China and the USSR! After China gradually became known as Chinese imperialism, these border garrisons began to live a relaxed and leisurely life, and they were completely careless about the vigilance on the Soviet side. Besides, if the Soviet Red Army were to fight and the allied forces relying on these Trotskyists would not be able to withstand it, it would have to be done by the Kuomintang Army in the south.

And now all of a sudden, it's under such a fierce attack! All the officers and soldiers thought of the Soviet invasion at once! Well, the USSR definitely can't be beaten, and if it can't be beaten, of course it should run away ... Genghis Khan's descendants are not ashamed to run away! Running away if you can't win is the way of fighting of the steppe peoples.

Even the headquarters of the ancient tribal army of Méng in the city of Manchuria only had time to send a brief telegram on the radio about the Soviet invasion and fled in a hurry! The three corps of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Chinese State suddenly appeared on the front line of Za Fei Nuoer in Manchuria, and after a burst of shelling, 100,000 Red Army roared and jumped across the border line, sweeping all the strongholds of the Union Army from Manchuria to the front line of Za Ji Nuoer! This war between the Red Army and the Trotskyists was unexpectedly reversed!

"Zhong Shuai! Zhong Shuai! USSR... The Soviets are coming! The Soviet army jumped over the border line from Manchuria to the line of Zazhanoer, and came over! The Méng ancient detachment had just lost contact with the urgent telegram. It is estimated that Manzhouli and Zaji Nuoer have already fallen! A staff officer of the Alliance Army almost crawled into the headquarters, standing there with a red face, holding a copy of the newspaper in his hand, pointing at Wang Zhongyi and Lin Yurong, panting as he reported the urgent telegram he had just received.

With a bang, Wang Zhongyi stood up abruptly and brought his chair to the ground: "What! You say it was the Soviet invasion!! What do these old "hairy" people want to do? I can't beat us, they still dare to come!? Lin Yurong sat firmly and said quietly: "Zhong Shuai, the goal of the Soviets should be méng Gu!" We also have eyeliner on the eastern border, and there are also our people on the eastern road, and there is no abnormal news coming now. And looking at the performance of the Sino-G Red Army in person, it does not look like there is a Soviet Red Army supporting them. ”

"So what? Méng is also ours! Wang Zhongyi paced: "No, I have to go back to the teacher immediately to save ......" "No, I can't go back to the teacher!" Lin Yurong shook his head slightly: "It's too late to return to the division now, and we will definitely not be able to defeat the Soviet Red Army!" The key now is to defeat the in-person Zhongg

The Red Army, at least drive them into Harbin, and then we can get out. "Let's go...... That méng ancient don't want it? Lin Yurong smiled bitterly: "The Soviet Red Army is not something we can deal with, it is a matter for the Kuomintang, now we have to save ourselves first." Only by keeping oneself can there be a future Far East! (To be continued...)