Chapter Twenty-Eight: Tsarist Russia Withdraws from the Trading City
"Report to the general, the city was so badly blown up that we can't transport our supplies out at all, what should we do?" A colonel-level officer, who was organizing the retreat, nervously ran to Major General Yuris to report.
After three bombings, the city was in shambles, and the roads were either blocked by bombed-out buildings or directly blown out of huge deep pits, which could no longer be passed by vehicles.
"I don't care, you must give me the supplies to retreat together, otherwise we will be hungry in the future, and we can transport as much as we can. Hurry, hurry up, or it'll be too late! Major General Yuris said very sternly.
If the supplies are not sufficient, how will they live, and if they run back to Nebuchu, they must have enough supplies, God knows if the madmen of the Huaxia Empire will cross the border and enter the empire to pursue them.
The third line of defense is now crumbling, according to the current situation, Yuris and they can hold out for about an hour at most, and if they retreat into the trading city, they can still buy some time, it seems that there should be enough time to retreat.
The tanks of the Huaxia Empire had approached the third line of defense of the Russian army, and the infantry of Huaxia also followed the tank's butt and slowly moved there.
"Report to Commander Xu, a telegram from the airship fleet, the Russian troops in the city are packing up their things and preparing to retreat, do you want the airship fleet to attack the city?"
"The dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, and let them occasionally scare the Russian army, so that the Russian army will not see it. Hmph, if you want to escape, you underestimate the determination of the empire too much, and order the troops in front to step up the attack and try to consume the enemy's living forces. Xu Shuzheng looked at the third line of defense that was blown up and said fiercely.
The Huaxia airship troops above the third line of defense quickly divided into three ships to bombard the Russian troops in the city who were preparing to retreat, and the Huaxia troops on the ground also strengthened their offensive.
After seeing the movements of the Huaxia army, Major General Yuris realized that his intentions had been discovered by the Huaxia army, and he hurriedly ordered the Russian troops in the city to speed up the transfer of supplies, and also let the Russian troops in the third direction hold on.
The Huaxia army no longer tried to capture the Russian army as much as possible like in Kulen before, here he only needed to destroy the living forces of the Russian army, so there was a lot less restraint in the fight.
In less than half an hour, the third line of defense was captured by the Huaxia army, and only a small part of the Russian army was left to resist, and the vast majority of the Russian army retreated to the trading city while fighting, and they wanted to use the wall of the trading city to resist the Chinese army.
Soon the third line of defense was completely broken, and the Russian army basically withdrew into the city, and they blocked the Chinese army at the city wall.
Immediately after crossing the third line of defense, the Chinese tanks began to shell the walls, but the tanks did not do much to help the thick walls. During the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the city was a military town on the Sino-Russian border, so the city wall was built very firmly, and the city wall was built after the Russian army was stationed, and the cannon could still hold out for a long time.
"Come on, you take a team around the trading city to ambush on the way to the trading city to Tsarist Kyakhta, don't attack them too early, and then feign to pursue them when they are ready to cross the border." Xu Shuzheng said to his adjutant.
"Why didn't the commander destroy them in the empire, even if he didn't destroy them, he could kill most of their troops, why let them go?" The adjutant asked, puzzled.
"Just do what you are told, and if you violate military law, go down." He didn't want to explain much about this, but he was very clear about the plan of the headquarters.
After the Russian army entered the city, the attack of the Chinese army was obviously weakened, perhaps it was really the city wall that gave them a big obstacle.
The weakening of the attack of the Huaxia army greatly relieved the Russian troops in the city, and now their remaining army is less than 30,000, and they have lost more than 20,000 troops in less than two days, which is too painful.
The Russian troops in the city did not feel relaxed because of this, because the artillery of the Chinese army directly shelled the city regardless of the houses in the city, and the aimless sporadic shelling made them very frightened, and no one knew whether the shells would hit them.
The Huaxia airship troops in the sky above are still throwing bombs, probably because they have bombed before, the number and speed of bombs thrown by the airship troops are not as large as the previous bombing, this time their purpose is to bomb those who are moving out and preparing to transport away.
The Huaxia airship unit threw bombs for half an hour and left, because they had no ammunition and the mission was basically completed.
Without the interruption of the Huaxia airship, the speed of the Russian army's transportation of materials has accelerated a lot, and they want to take advantage of the time when the Huaxia airship troops go back to replenish to hurry up the transfer of materials.
The road was bombed so that the vehicle could not drive, so the Russian army directly picked up bags of supplies and ran to the place where they had promised, in order to transfer the materials as much as possible, the Russian soldiers went to the cellars of each house one by one, drove all the local residents to carry the materials, and dared to resist direct shooting.
Groups of residents were driven by the Russian army, braved the shelling of the Chinese army to carry supplies, and they had to help the Russian army under the threat of death.
In another huge cellar, there were most of the big merchants who bought and sold the city, as well as officials of the Outer Mongolian government and Major General Yuris.
"The attack of the Huaxia army is too fierce, especially the bombardment of those airship troops, so we are ready to withdraw from the trading city and return to Kyakhta in the empire, do you want to follow us? Of course, you will be taken care of when you go to the Kyakhta Empire, and we will be able to take it back when the Empire's reinforcements arrive. Major General Yuris swept around the people present with his eyes and said with confidence, "As long as they reach the territory of the Empire, the troops of the Chinese Empire will not chase after them, after all, they have not declared war with the Empire, so you don't have to worry about anything." ”
The people present did not immediately express their stance after hearing this, because going to Kyakhta would mean that their Qiē in the buying and selling city would be gone, so they had to think about it.
"We followed the general to Kyakhta, now the city of trading is like this, what else is there to remember, God knows if the Chinese army will confiscate all our things after they come in." Several Outer Mongolian businessmen looked at each other, and one of them said.
"I'll go too!"
"I'll go too!"
After a while, a third of them said that they would follow Yuris to Kyakhta, and the rest were still hesitating, especially those Chinese merchants who were all bitter gourd faces.
"The Huaxia Empire will not let go of the people who help us, think about it for yourself, it is estimated that you will be cleaned up by them if you stay here." Yuris looked at the hesitant Chinese merchant and smiled wickedly.
After hearing this, these merchants' bodies shook slightly, they just thought that Huaxia should remember to let them go for the sake of Huaxia, but after listening to Yuris's words, they also knew that there was no way to stay here.
One is that they have disobeyed the orders of the Chinese Empire and handed over the supplies to the Russian army, and if they are released, they will not be able to give an account to the dead merchants and the people at home, and the other is that the Russian army is likely to kill them directly when they refuse, after all, leaving them is also a disguised act of capital and enemy.
"We are willing to follow the general to Kyakhta, and we will go and prepare." A group of Chinese businessmen nodded and said.
Yuris was very satisfied with this, and if the merchants didn't agree, he didn't care about killing them like he did last time.
The city is now a busy scene, the people are helping the Russian army to move, and the big businessmen are also dragging their families to prepare for the relocation.
The Huaxia airship force did not appear in the sky above the trading city again, which made the Russian army very excited, and they could better retreat without the threat to the Huaxia airship force.
The troops sent by Xu Shuzheng to ambush were already in place, and although they didn't understand why the commander was arranging them like this, they knew that Commander Xu must have his own intentions.
It was getting late and late, and suddenly a large number of torches appeared in front, and a large number of Russian troops lined up with torches and walked slowly in their direction.
Horse-drawn carts carrying a large amount of supplies followed the ranks of the Russian army, and some people were pointed at guns to push the carriages, and there were many businessmen with their families and children following.
The Chinese soldiers who were ambushed here quietly watched the Russian army walk in front of them, watching the Russian army scolding those people, many times they wanted to rush out to fight the Russian army, but they didn't dare to break the commander's order because of their temporary intolerance, this is to go to a military court.
"Hurry up, hurry up! Damn bastard, hurry up! A Russian soldier with a whip threatened the people who were pushing the cart.
After seeing this, those people quickly gritted their gums and used all their strength to push the cart, and some people had long blood marks on their bodies for several days, and their clothes were also tattered.
The Russian army here is constantly rushing to Kyakhta on the opposite side, and there are still thousands of Russian troops left in the city to resist the attack of the Chinese army.
As soon as it was dark, the Chinese army intensified its attack on the city, and dozens of cannons began a fierce bombardment of a certain part of the city wall, which was bound to blast a gap in the city wall. At the same time, a large number of tanks concentrated on the city gate of the city and began to bombard, and after a while, the city gate was breached, and the Chinese army rushed into the city.
Only a few thousand Russian troops could not resist the attack of the Chinese army at all, and soon the city gate fell, and those Chinese cannons also blasted a gap in the city wall.
With two entrances, it only took half an hour for the Chinese army to solve the Russian soldiers left in the city, and those sporadic resistances were quickly cleared.