Chapter 21: The Battle of Cullen (5)

The Russian reinforcements of Uriya Sutai did not immediately attack the troops of the Huaxia Empire, because they had already learned from the Russian troops in Kulen City that the Huaxia army had withdrawn, which meant that the Huaxia army had sensed their arrival, so they did not dare to attack rashly.

Now Kulen is surrounded by the Chinese army, and the second army of the Russian army does not dare to directly rush into Kulen, so it is stationed a kilometer away from the city of Kulen.

Yan Xishan was reading the telegram just sent by the headquarters at this time, and the headquarters ordered him to go all out to reinforce the Russian army, and leave Kulun's Russian army alone, and Kulen's Russian army would be dealt with by the Second Army.

Although Yan Xishan did not agree with the order of the headquarters, he could not fail to carry out the order, and in order to prevent the sneak attack of the Russian army in Kulun, he still left some tanks and soldiers behind.

Early the next morning, the First Army, which received the order, rested for only a few hours before immediately launching a combat operation against the Russian troops in Uriya Sutai.

Tanks and motorcycles began to move, and they rushed ahead of the infantry, but not too fast, just slightly faster than the infantry.

"Emergency, our scouts saw the troops of the Huaxia Empire five kilometers away, they are rushing towards us, it is estimated that they will arrive at us soon, damn Huaxia." Major General Knima, commander of the Second Army of the Russian Far East, said sternly to a cadre of senior officers in the camp.

He couldn't understand what the troops of the Huaxia Empire thought, weren't they afraid of the attack of the Imperial army of Kulun? After thinking about it for a while, he knew what it was, Cullen's imperial army had suffered a lot of losses before, and his own troops were the biggest threat to the Huaxia army.

"Your Excellency Commander, since our intentions have been discovered by the Huaxia army, then they are likely to be ready, let's withdraw and enter Kulen from another place." The chief of staff of the Russian army, Heris, admonished.

According to the plan of them and Kulen's Russian army last night, it was to attack the Huaxia army inside and outside, so that they could eliminate part of the Huaxia army, and they were confident that the remaining Huaxia army would be able to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements.

After thinking for a while, Major General Knema said: "According to the marching speed of the Chinese army, we are too late to move, so quickly organize the soldiers to deploy a defense and prepare to meet the enemy." ”

The Russian army had no time to dig trenches or other defensive facilities, they could only find a relatively high place and wait for the arrival of the Chinese army, and the Russian artillery aimed its guns in the direction of the Chinese army.

"Boom~~~" A roar came from not far ahead, they knew that this was the arrival of the tanks of the Huaxia Empire, and there was also the sound of military motorcycles.

The tank units of the Chinese Empire immediately began to accelerate when they were still about a thousand meters away from the Russian position, and the tracks of the tanks crushed the weeds on the ground that were almost half a meter high, and the grass was pressed out by them with deep traces, which at first glance looked like winding roads.

"Boom~~~" A tank was suddenly overturned and thick black smoke came out, and several Chinese soldiers inside quickly escaped from the tank, and after a while, the whole tank burned.

"Boom~~~" "Boom~~~" sounded again, and something like this happened to several more tanks, but the tanks in front did not stop but kept rushing forward.

It turned out that the Russian army hid a lot of mines in this grass with the help of dense grass to deal with the tanks of the Chinese Empire, which they could come out of after getting the hint of the Russian army in Kulen, but they did not have many mines, because mines are not very commonly used as a weapon in ordinary times, so the second army of the Russian army is equipped with very few mines.

Because the tanks of the Huaxia Empire are moving irregularly, many of the mines of the Russian army did not hit the tanks of Huaxia, but the Russian army was also very excited after seeing that several tanks were blown up in Huaxia, which shows that the tanks of Huaxia are not invincible.

"Boom~~~"

Huaxia's tank troops soon shelled the Russian troops on the high ground, and one shell after another roared towards the Russian army on the high ground, and after a while, the Russian army's position exploded.

"Get down, go and find cover, what about the artillery, hurry up and shoot back, what about the death squads, let them blow up Huaxia's tanks, damn it, why doesn't the empire have this kind of weapon." Major General Knema shouted at his men.

Several officers hurriedly ran to let the artillery return fire, and the tank troops in Huaxia were so powerful and powerful that they were simply moving batteries.

The death squads mentioned by Major General Knema were formed on the way to Kulun by order of Grand Duke Nicholas, and the people formed were all soldiers from Outer Mongolia, which was borrowed from the methods used by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, because they had a very deep image of the Japanese suicidal attack.

The formation of a death squad was an order given by Grand Duke Nicholas after thinking about it for a long time, which was a nemesis specially tailored for the tank troops in China, that is, let the Outer Mongolian soldiers risk death with grenades or pretend to be dead tanks close to China, and then detonate the grenades to blow up the tanks.

Just when the Chinese tank troops were shelling the Russian army, the Chinese soldiers in the back rushed towards the Russian army's position along the road pressed out by the tanks, they did not dare to march on this grass indiscriminately, God knows how many mines the Russian army still had hidden in the grass.

The Russian troops on the high ground suddenly rushed down with a large number of soldiers, who shot at the Chinese soldiers while rushing towards the tanks, one fell and the other continued to rush forward.

The machine gunners on the tank frantically strafed the Russian soldiers, and the bullets poured out as if they didn't want money, and one after another Russian death squads fell.

"Boom~~~" The bullet didn't know what hit the Russian soldier, and suddenly it exploded, and the soldier's entire body was blown apart, and blood and broken flesh were splashed everywhere, which was very bloody.

Then the machine gunners of other tanks also encountered this kind of thing, and soon they thought that these Russian soldiers were death squads and wanted to blow up the tank with grenades, because this kind of thing happened to them during the war with the Beiyang Army.

After discovering the attempts of the Russian death squads, they immediately replenished a few shots as long as they found that they could still move after knocking down these Russian troops, and the tanks made a detour when they saw the Russian soldiers who had fallen to the ground.

The Chinese infantry in the back also discovered this situation, they ran and followed the tank, and saw the Russian army falling to the ground and groaning, and went up and shot it in the head.

Although the Chinese tank troops were very careful, several of their tanks were blown up by the Russian army's death squads.

The two armies launched an artillery battle at the same time, and the artillery of both sides shelled each other's positions, but the artillery of the Chinese army was obviously stronger than that of the Russian army, and the number of artillery was twice that of the Russian army, so the artillery of the Russian army was at a disadvantage from the beginning.

As the Chinese tank troops got closer and closer to the Russian army's highland position, there were more and more Chinese infantry behind, and the situation began to be unfavorable to the Russian army, but the high ground they chose was very suitable for them, because there was a long slope close to 90 degrees, so the tank could not go to the high ground.

The tank could not get on and could continue to fire shells upwards below, and the artillery at close range caused the Russian artillery unit to suffer a devastating blow, coupled with the shelling of the Chinese artillery unit, the Russian artillery unit was quickly beaten out of temper, and could only fire a few shells from time to time.

The Russian troops, who did not have artillery support, did not panic, and they used the high ground to concentrate all the Makqin heavy machine guns and light machine guns at the front to stop the Chinese army that rushed up.

The Russian machine gunners frantically launched a strafing fire on the Chinese soldiers who rushed up, and a large number of Chinese soldiers were knocked down, and the other Chinese soldiers fought back while looking for cover.

After receiving the telegram for help from the Second Army, the Russian troops in Kulun City immediately dispatched their troops to flank the First Chinese Army, but when they first dispatched, another Chinese army also launched an even more frantic attack on them than yesterday.

In order to ensure the safety of Kulen City, Major General Sachs only sent 20,000 troops to attack the back of the First Chinese Army, and 10,000 of the 20,000 troops were Outer Mongolian soldiers, because he believed that only the elite of the empire could keep Kulen City.

The 20,000 Russian troops were soon intercepted by 10,000 Chinese soldiers on the way to the first group army of China, and these 10,000 Chinese soldiers were left behind by Yan Xishan.

They met near the base camp of the First Chinese Army, which was a flat meadow with no cover.

The two sides launched a fierce battle, but the Russian army was soon chased everywhere under the attack of more than a dozen tanks of the Chinese army, and those Outer Mongolian soldiers surrendered in large numbers, and the fleeing Russian army was soon caught up by the Chinese army using motorcycles, and they were forced to surrender helplessly.

Yan Xishan's side is also very fierce now, and the machine guns on the high ground have been broken one by one under the precise strikes of the Huaxia artillery, and the resistance of the Huaxia soldiers is relatively small.

Seeing this, Major General Knema was very sad and gave the order to charge, hoping to gain more time to wait for Cullen's reinforcements.

"Ulla~~~"

"Ulla~~~"

A large number of Russian soldiers rushed down from the high ground frantically, shooting at the Huaxia soldiers desperately, and the Huaxia soldiers also bravely rushed up, and the two sides launched a fierce hand-to-hand fight.

The distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and finally they mixed together, and it was very chaotic, and both armies could only distinguish the enemy by their uniforms and skin color, and even such things as wrongful killings happened from time to time.

The soldiers of the Chinese army used bayonets to fight the Russian army after running out of bullets, and most of the Russian troops surrendered after they ran out of bullets, but in this chaotic situation, even if they surrendered, they would be killed by mistake, so many Russian soldiers stood still and shot at the Chinese soldiers.

The number of the Chinese army occupied a very large advantage, which did not they launch a more frantic attack on the two flanks of the heights, and the Russian troops on the front line soon could not support the surrender, because the dead and wounded Russian troops almost covered the entire small slope of the highlands, making the Russian soldiers feel powerless.

A few hours later, only the Russian troops at the top of the high ground were still fighting, but their army was less than 10,000 left, because the Russian soldiers below were either annihilated by the Chinese army or captured.

At this time, the Huaxia army did not continue to attack frantically, but surrounded the Russian army on the top of this height, and sure enough, an hour later, the Russian army above raised the white flag.