Baigawa, located more than 30 miles north of Komsomolsk, was originally a Soviet town, after the start of the war, millions of Far Eastern Soviet troops quickly built a long defense line in the Komsomolsk area with Komsomolsk as the core, so the residents of this town were quickly emptied, from a peaceful Far Eastern town to a fortress on this 30-mile defense line.

Before the Chinese National Defense Forces launched the general offensive, two Red Army divisions were stationed here, and due to the high intensity of attrition of soldiers during the war, the actual strength of the two Red Army divisions was only the size of one Red Army division before the war, and the commander was Lieutenant General Kurbatkin, who was responsible for commanding an army before the war.

Rumble! Rumble! …… Explosions erupted on the outskirts of the town, and shells flew sideways, and Chinese planes flying in droves overhead, dropping a string of bombs, and blasting the already battered Baigawa into ruins.

"Report, a large number of Chinese tanks were found in our rear."

"Report that the 421st and 488th Divisions of our right flank positions abandoned their positions and fled, and they brutally broke through our obstruction."

As a heroic general who came from the October Revolution, he also participated in the counterinsurgency war and the war against the Japanese, and he has always performed very well, from a small soldier during the October Revolution to a lieutenant general today.

Is the Komsomolsk defensive line strong? If someone asks Lieutenant General Kurbatkin this, he will answer without hesitation, very strong.

But it is precisely this strong defense line that today cannot stop even a dawn general attack by the Chinese, and it is also this defense line, more than a year ago, under his command, two dissatisfied Red Army divisions blocked the continuous attack of three divisions of the Yue Army, and although the losses were heavy, the defense line was not broken through after all.

But in the battle at dawn, the Baigawa section of the defense line under his command was attacked by a Chinese division, at first, he thought that several Chinese divisions and tank divisions were attacking, but when the sky was getting brighter and the forward positions were broken through one by one, he received a report that there was only one regiment of the [***] squadron attacking this defensive line.

A regiment, supported by dozens of tanks, fought two seriously understaffed Red Army divisions repeatedly in an emergency, although there are Chinese firmly controlling air superiority and fierce ground artillery fire in it, but in fact, Lieutenant General Kurbatkin knows very well that the marksmanship of the Chinese [***] team is accurate, individual fire and regimental firepower are very fierce, and there are many automatic weapons, once the Chinese rush to the position, that section of the position will need to pay several times the casualties of the Red Army to recapture.

Lieutenant General Kurbatkin ignored the Chinese fighters flying everywhere in the sky, and stood on a small high ground and looked out over the perimeter of the Baigawa position.

Behind Baigawa, you can see billowing smoke and the muffled sound of engines, which are a large group of tanks charging.

Position No. 66 on the left flank and No. 64 on the right flank were already in billowing smoke, but the smoke was weakening because the Chinese had already attacked their positions and were collecting the dejected Red Army prisoners.

"General Kurbatkin, we are already surrounded!"

A regimental commander ran to Kurbatkin's side, his left forehead was grazed by shrapnel, a large piece of his scalp was torn off, and the gauze was wrapped in several layers and could not stop being stained completely red by the blood, he had lost too much blood, his face and lips were pale, and his legs seemed to be injured, and he leaned there half-crooked and gasped, and said carefully.

"Is there really no way?"

Kurbatkin knew that the regimental commander was asking for his own opinion, and if he could, he should surrender in time, so that the thousands of Red Army soldiers left behind after the heavy death here would have a way to live. If it weren't for the fact that Baigawa had been lucky enough to survive until now, and with a strong underground fortification and complex battlefield terrain, I am afraid that half of these thousands of Red Army soldiers would not have survived.

When he hesitated, the middle [***] team in front of the position was also preparing to launch an offensive to completely take this Soviet high ground that occupied the geographical conditions.

"Division, it's almost time."

Wu Peiqiang, the commander of the 3rd regiment, came to the division commander Hou Xiaoshan and said with some impatience.

"Wait, the roundabout armored forces should soon break through their rear, and I have a feeling that the enemy is going to surrender."

Hou Xiaoshan is not talking nonsense, although the Baigawa position on the opposite side is not the core position of Komsomolsk, but it has the best way to pass through from here to the north, if the Soviet army loses here, then this entire position will be lost, and the Wehrmacht can enter from this, and from the breakthrough of Komsomolsk, a huge breakthrough will be opened, and the large army will be able to drive straight in.

Hou Xiaoshan's 166th Division was subordinate to Fu Zuoyi's 13th Group Army, and was best at field warfare.

Of course, at this time, there were millions of squadrons on the main defense line of Komsomolsk in the Far East, and as long as the field troops that could fight and run were pulled to the front line, the scale of the general offensive was so amazing.

"However, there are only 20 minutes left before the time to take the position." Wu Peiqiang said with some concern that his cousin has always been adventurous, which he does not approve of, and as the head of his regiment, he thinks that fighting a war is to rush forward and solve the battle.

"I ordered the whole division to concentrate firepower, and I went to personally ask Commander Fu Zuoyi for another fire gathering support." Hou Xiaoshan walked to the radio and said without looking back, "If they don't surrender, we still have enough time to break through the defensive line." ”

"Commander Fu, I'm Hou Xiaoshan. Judging by the enemy's reaction, it is likely to surrender, and I hope to receive the support of an artillery group in an effort to break the enemy's last psychological line with the most concentrated firepower. The effect of the air attack just now and the shelling effect provided by the long-range artillery group are not very good, and the location here is a bit tricky...... Okay, I'll ask the staff officer to report the parameters of the Baigawa position right away! ”

Putting down the phone, Hou Xiaoshan said happily, "Order, the artillery group of the group army will carry out an artillery bombardment in five minutes, and our firepower will be prepared at the same time, the 2nd and 3rd regiments are ready to attack, and if the enemy does not surrender, they will take it in one go." ”

"Yes!"

In Hou Xiaoshan's opinion, when there is enough time, it is best to be able to capture all the thousands of people on the opposite side alive, and he has taken on a good errand, once this place is successfully resolved, then he can get behind the defense line first, so as to capture a large number of Soviet troops.

After a few minutes, the artillery group of the army group had not yet opened fire, but here it welcomed a senior general.

"Salute!"

Several generals in field armoured uniforms walked into the offensive bunker opposite Baigawa, which had been a bunker of the Soviet second line of defense that had been taken by the Wehrmacht and converted into an advance headquarters.

"Commander Ye, why are you here?"

The strength of the 166th Division is not lightning attack, but it is very good at drilling ravines and going into battle in the dark, and is very familiar with field warfare, so it was selected by Fu Zuoyi as a sharp division to attack Boli. Unexpectedly, before the general charge here began, the commander of the Far Eastern Theater of Operations of the armored cluster, General Ye Long, actually came.

"Hou Xiaoshan, right, I heard that you kid has a lot of ideas, and the opposite side is Bai Gava, my main cluster will pass from here soon, you won't wait for them to fight."

Ye Long said with a smile.

"Where, Commander Ye said with a smile, our general offensive will start immediately."

Hou Xiaoshan secretly said in his heart, if the enemy does not surrender, it will only be a few minutes late, but if the enemy surrenders, then, in Baigawa, the 166th Division will save a lot of time, so that it can directly board the tank armored vehicle and follow the team to pursue.

"It is reported that the artillery group of the army group will begin shelling in 1 minute."

"Order the whole division to prepare for firepower, and the propaganda team to prepare for persuasion."

Hou Xiaoshan quickly ordered.

"Hou Xiaoshan, I heard that your surrender team is all composed of captured Soviet political commissars, isn't it?" Ye Long asked with a smile.

"Yes, these political commissars used to be good at bullying soldiers and officers, but now they are also good at persuading them to surrender, and one of the divisions we captured before relied on them. Usually the guard is tight, and it comes in handy when persuading him to surrender. ”

Hou Xiaoshan grinned.

Rumble!!! …… Soon, the artillery bombardment of Fu Zuoyi's group army began, and the firepower of the 166th Division was also added.

The artillery bombardment, which lasted for 3 minutes, was very intense and not long, and as soon as Hou Xiaoshan waved his hand, a propaganda vehicle modified by armored vehicles drove out, climbed to the forefront, and shouted at the Soviet positions opposite with a high-power electric horn.

"Comrades! You have been abandoned by the Soviet political axe, your mission is over, your left and right have surrendered, and you don't have to hold on any longer. I am Major General Lugotsev, political commissar of the XX Division of the XX Army, and I can attest that our Comrade Zhukov has arrived at the prisoner of war camp in Boli, and he has already telegraphed in Boli asking everyone to lay down their arms......"

In the electric loudspeaker, the political commissars of the Soviet army, who were stared at by the Chinese interpreters and pointed at the heads with guns by the gendarmes, worked very hard, and in just a few minutes, they took turns to fight, and one by one true or false numbers were exposed, these people were either political commissars or regiment commanders and battalion commanders, all of them were very statused, some coerced, some lured, and some publicized the Wehrmacht's prisoner policy, explaining some differences in treatment between prisoners and voluntary surrender, and so on.

"Does this work?"

Ye Long looked at this crappy surrender team dumbfounded, he hadn't seen a political propaganda team before, and even the Sixth Panzer Army under his command had such a special propaganda team, but it was the first time he had heard of such a bold use of high-ranking Soviet prisoners and making them willing and impatient to surrender.

This Hou Xiaoshan is really a ghost, a new-born division commander of the Wehrmacht who does not play cards according to common sense.

...... "General, the Chinese is persuading to surrender, and the people who persuade us to surrender are our Soviets......"

A staff officer walked up to Lieutenant General Kurbatkin, who was sitting on the bunker, and said with a low expression: Although the fierce shelling by the Chinese just now lasted for a short time, it was very powerful, destroying many hidden bunkers and flattening several trenches, and an artillery bombardment of less than a few minutes caused more than 200 casualties, which is not unbearable.

"The splendor of the Soviets can no longer envelop the Far East, give the order to surrender."

Lieutenant General Kurbatkin leaned there with a dejected expression, no longer the glory of the past, the general who came all the way from the small soldiers, the legend in the Red Army of the Far East, the role model of the Bu = Erssheviks, he even participated in the military parade on Red Square and was received by the top leaders of Bolsh...... There are too many honors, just because he was a lucky, warlike, brave general, a Hero of the Soviet Union who rose from a small soldier to the high post of general.

Today, these honors have become the dust of the past.

"Comrade Barsukov, I order you to lead the army to surrender to the Chinese, the war has been lost, at least the war in the Far East, your task is to lead them to the prisoner of war camps and strive to let them one day regain their freedom."

Lieutenant General Kurbatkin said to the commissar that he saw in the commissar's twinkling gaze the signs of opportunism in capitulation.

But at this time, what else is important about these things?

Millions of Soviet troops were defeated, and the Far Allied troops were cut into two large parts: the army and the American army plus the remnants of the Soviet army, and the evacuation was the best result, and the worst result was to be surrounded by the Chinese army, and then the entire Chinese would have hundreds of thousands or even millions of more prisoners of war, and build railways, airports and even civilian houses for them...... "Yes, lieutenant general, I will do what you order." ”

"Get out."

Lieutenant General Kurbatkin signaled the crowd to go out, and the bunker even had a wooden door that could not be locked, and the intact house had long since been blown up, all of which highlighted the vicissitudes of the vanquished.

"The Great Bolsh...... ism, can it still be achieved? ”

Lieutenant General Kurbatkin's eyes were filled with despair, and he looked up in the direction of Moscow, where there was his family, his comrades, his superiors, his leaders, and now none of this mattered.

Death is his solution to himself.

Slowly raising the gun in his hand and aiming it at his temple, Lieutenant General Kurbatkin opened his eyes and then shouted: "For the USSR!" ”

With a bang, the once famous Soviet combat hero ended his life with a pistol that had been a prize for more than ten years.

Even though he knew that he could not recover the defeat, he still insisted on his lifelong belief that the soldiers did not have to die in vain, but he chose to die for Su Wei X.

"White flag!! The Soviets are flying the white flag!! ”

Hou Xiaoshan raised his hand high and was about to wave it down, he judged from the change in the intensity of Soviet firepower that the Soviet army might surrender, and immediately arranged for a surrender team to play, but the Soviet army did not move for a long time.

Fortunately, at the last moment, a pair of white underwear floated on the Soviet position, and the battlefield was in shambles.

"The whole division obeyed the order, left a battalion to capture and guard the Soviet army, cleaned the battlefield and handed it over to the brothers in the back, our goal is to get on armored vehicles and tanks, and chase!!"

The surrender of the Soviet army saved a lot of time, and the corners of Hou Xiaoshan's mouth curled slightly, as if he had seen the situation of his army leading the army to pursue the Soviet army frantically in the vast Far East.

More than a million Soviet troops, at least hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing, and the next thing is to see who is faster and who has captured more Soviet troops.

(To be continued)