[261] Su Wu shepherds sheep in the North Sea

Several shells whizzed over the heads of the troops, and the artillery units of Irkutsk were indiscriminately firing in the direction of the Sherekhov Line. General Malinov frowned and said to the herald: "Tell the commander of the artillery of the fortress Augustevich to stop this shelling like a fly without a head." ”

At this time, the Guards Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Column under his command were huddled together in front of a road stone bridge.

The rapids under the stone bridge make a huge sound of rushing water, the water laps against the piers, and the surging through the bridge hole, the arrival of spring makes the snow thaw, exacerbating the rapidity of the river, but the narrow stone bridge can only accommodate a four-wheeled carriage.

The southbound soldiers compressed into a funnel on the north side of the bridge, and it happened that the infantry guns of the infantry regiment, which were dragged by three sets of wagons, collided and rolled over on the bridge, blocking the road for most of the soldiers. For a moment, the horses' hooves clattered against the bridge, the soldiers shouted and cursed indiscriminately, and the officers drew their sabers and crackled the soldiers around them with the back of their swords.

Malinov rode across the bridge first, stood on the south side of the river in stirrups, and watched anxiously at the commotion on the bridge.

This sortie was not so much an adventure as a brave decisive battle.

Malinov judged that the offensive of the Chinese army was very fierce, and if they could not suppress their forward forces at Sherekhov, then once the enemy troops approached the fortress of Irkutsk, according to the power of Chinese artillery, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Lake Belga is Russia's greatest treasure in the Siberian steppe, the world's largest deep-water lake has one-fifth of the earth's freshwater reserves, can be described as a well-deserved world pearl, and the submarine test base of the Soviet Union and Russia was later located in Lake Belga.

Russian monarchs knew that only by owning Lake Berga could they control the entire Mongolian region, and after several generations of soft and hard treatment of the Mongolian region, Russia finally established the Irkutsk fortress here.

Malinov looked at the soldiers crowded at the bridgehead and thought sadly, is Irkutsk going to be lost in his own hands?

Just as the Russian army had not crossed halfway, the vanguard of the Russian army, which had gone south, had an encounter with the Chinese army, and a small group of Cossack scouts discovered the traces of the Chinese army and hurriedly rushed back to report.

General Malinov, with the Guards Infantry Regiment, which had crossed the river first, bravely rushed to the field outside Sherekhov.

According to the report of a group of Cossack scouts, as long as they rode up the hills west of the steppe, they could see from afar that a large force of Chinese was coming from the south.

Malinov knew that the Chinese army was moving fast, they had a large number of cars and tractors, and the mules and horses always had to wait until the next day to arrive with the follow-up troops.

Officers and soldiers of the Guards Infantry Regiment and the Cossack Cavalry Company followed Malinov and waited for the arrival of the follow-up troops on the edge of the junction of the steppe and the forest.

The officers licked their lips and occasionally took out tiny bottles and poured vodka into them, and they loosened the reins in their hands and let the horses munch on the grass boringly. The soldiers stood basking in the sun, chatting absentmindedly about women and wine, while nervously looking around#.

The grassland surrounded by forests is quiet, the afternoon sun lazily shines on the wildflowers and weeds, and the fertile black soil is soft and juicy, as if the water can be squeezed out with a handful.

In the distance, the small town of Sherekhov is shrouded in the shadow of a forest, and a silhouette is faintly visible.

The margins of the forest and steppe were shadowy, and in the depths of the black forest, there seemed to be a hidden enemy, and the Russian soldiers stared hard, but they repeatedly confirmed that they were nothing more than clumps of shadows.

The Cossack cavalry, who were in charge of reconnaissance, spread out from this open field in pairs, radiating in all directions.

From time to time there were gunshots in the distance, and it seemed that the Cossack scouts had exchanged fire with the Chinese troops.

After the officers of the Guards Infantry Regiment managed to arrange the horses in order, the distant gunfire gradually thinned out, and the land fell into a deathly silence again.

"Buzz ~~~~~~"

Suddenly there was a strange roar in the sky, and the Russian troops looked up one after another, only to see a green plane reflecting the dazzling sunlight, piercing through the forest in the distance, whistling at a low altitude, and rushing towards their position.

Malinov swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously, and scolded the non-commissioned officers and students beside him in a suppressed voice: "Calm down! ”

So the Russian troops stood in place, watching the performance of the Chinese plane, only to see that after the plane passed over their heads, it circled back and swept again, forming a cross between the front and rear routes.

"Here is 7006, three kilometers north of Sherekhov, and a large force of the enemy is found to be assembled, and the compass number jù shows the bearing, latitude 52 degrees 15 minutes 16.68 north, longitude 104 degrees 12 minutes 55.85 east longitude.

Repeating, here is 7006, the enemy's coordinates are 52 degrees 15 ...... north latitude" The pilot on the first six mechanically read the number jù.

"Here are 7 sets of air fingers, the coordinates are received, and the artillery unit will be notified to give a fire strike, 7006 Please continue to reconnoiter and assist the artillery fire calibration." The command of the Air Force of the 7th Army responded on the radio.

"7006 understood." The pilot gently stepped on the left rudder, and the plane suddenly tilted and swept downward.

Finally, apart from the humming of the planes, there was a strange whistling in the air.

"Cannonballs!" An officer exclaimed.

Four shells hit the field, less than a hundred meters away from the Russian army's assembly position, and the terrifying explosion power and the accompanying mushroom cloud shocked those Russian troops who had never seen the power of Chinese artillery.

One of the soldiers in front was hit by shrapnel and fell to the ground wailing in pain: "God, for the Lord's sake, save me, it hurts to death!" It hurts to death! ”

Several soldiers next to him tried to move the wounded soldier, so he screamed even harder: "It hurts to death!" Don't touch me! It hurts to death! ”

Suddenly, there was a rumbling roar in the forest leading to Sherekhov in the distance, and a behemoth sprang out of the boulevard, with a semicircular turret squatting on the green hull, and a long barrel growing from the turret.

One, two, three, four, five............ Successive tanks rushed into the plain from the forest road with green smoke, and more than a dozen of them formed a wedge-shaped horizontal column, crushing the Russian positions like arrows, and then countless Chinese soldiers appeared in the forest, one by one wearing steel helmets, and the red flags and sickles on the red flags danced fiercely in the wind.

"Kill!! Kill!!! ”

"Tick tick!! Tick tick !!tick tick ”

The roar of the charge and the shouting of killing were intertwined, and the roar of the tanks shook the land of the Lake Berga basin, and this place of Su Wu's shepherd seemed to have been awakened from a thousand years of sleep, and roared "I am Beihai, the descendants of Su Wu!! I am the North Sea!! ”

Malinov looked at the increasing number of tanks and infantry on the plain, shivered wordlessly, suddenly stood up from his horse on the stirrup, and shouted to the officers of the Guards Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Column beside him:

"The Chinese are going to extend the shelling! We can't sit still!

Brave lads, rush! Kill them all!

The time for the decisive battle has arrived!!

Long live the Russian Empire!! ”