Chapter 22: The Battle of Cullen (6)

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With the surrender of the Russian army on the high ground, the task of the First Group Army of China has been completed, and what needs to be done later is to clean up the battlefield, after all, there are still a lot of things to deal with here, such as wounded soldiers, sacrificed soldiers, captured Russian troops, and so on.

The battlefield on the other side is now in a fierce collision, and in the face of the crazy attack of the Chinese army, Kulen's Russian army basically used all the square infantry mines to block the Chinese army, because this time the Chinese army's attack was too fierce.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the First Army has completed its combat mission, and the 50,000 Russian reinforcements have just been annihilated by our army. This is Commander Yan's telegram, the base camp of the First Army was attacked by 20,000 Russian troops, but it has been dealt with by the First Army. A communications soldier ran to Jiang Fangzhen with a telegram from Yan Xishan and said.

Jiang Fangzhen stretched out his hand and took the telegram and read it, and after a while, he nodded with satisfaction and exclaimed: "Good job, order them not to attack, let the soldiers rest first, but let them watch the north of Kulen and not let the Russian reinforcements enter Kulen." ”

The reason why Jiang Fangzhen did not specify that Yan Xishan should leave some troops in the base camp to prevent the sneak attack of the Russian army was to see if Yan Xishan's command level had declined, and now it seems that Yan Xishan is not much inferior to when he was studying in Japan.

The Second Army has been attacking non-stop for many years, and they have already taken the first line of trench defense of the Russian army and are attacking towards the second line of trench defense.

The Chinese army is not out of the way to the mines, each Chinese soldier carries a bundle of weeds on their backs, and as soon as they arrive next to the trench, they throw these weeds directly into the trench, and after the weeds are laid in the trench with a thick layer, they gently jump off the trench, so that they will not step on the mine.

Despite this, some Chinese soldiers accidentally detonated the mine due to their weight and the strength of the jump, but fortunately, only a few soldiers were injured.

In this way, the casualties of the soldiers were well reduced, and the mines of the Russian army became like chicken ribs.

Using weeds to deal with mines was the most effective method that Jiang Fangzhen hastily gave after some tests and discussions were carried out by the technicians of the military department after reporting to the military headquarters of the imperial capital.

With the tanks of the Second Army crossing the first line of trench defense, the second line of trench defense of the Russian army was in danger, because they could not deal with these tank units at all, although only more than twenty tanks.

"Chief of Staff, our second line of trench defense is about to be breached, should we send our death squad to blow up their tanks, only then will we have a chance to keep the second line of defense.

If we lose the second line of defense......" The senior Russian official was interrupted by a Russian communications soldier who rushed in before he could finish speaking.

"Chief of Staff, the Second Army has been defeated and has surrendered, and the army we sent was ambushed by the Huaxia Army and was completely annihilated!" The communications soldier said with the last telegram from the Second Army.

The signal corps was followed by a few Russian soldiers who fled back to support the Second Army, but in fact, these Russian soldiers went halfway to the convenience of the way, so they escaped.

"What, you said that the Second Army was defeated, how is it possible?" As he spoke, Major General Sachs snatched the telegram from the Second Army directly.

Major General Sachs almost vomited blood after reading it, and it was a shame that the heroic Imperial soldiers actually surrendered to the Chinese army, and the battle lasted less than a day. What's more, without the support of reinforcements, they simply could not hold out under the frantic attack of the Chinese army until the arrival of another batch of reinforcements.

"Do your best to block the fact that the Second Army has been defeated, and even the news of the defeat of the army sent to help the Second Army should not be spread, just say that they have successfully converged, and the Huaxia army has been hit by Yan zhòng.

The other is to immediately ask the Grand Duke Nicholas for help, and explain the current situation to the Grand Duke, if it doesn't work, we will withdraw from Kulen with the Mongolian ministers and emperors of Kulen, that is, abandon Kulen. Major General Sachs said very sternly.

After hearing this, the signal soldier nodded and immediately went to send a telegram, leaving only a cadre of senior officers here.

The officers present did not have any ambiguity about Major General Sachs's order, after all, it was necessary to conceal the defeat of the Second Army among the soldiers in this situation, otherwise the soldiers would lose their morale.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think we should be ready to withdraw from Kulen, we have no reinforcements after the defeat of the Second Army, and the reinforcements from the Wulianghai area will not be able to reach Kulen in a short period of time.

Go and get the Mongol emperor and ministers ready to evacuate Kulen at once, and you must not let them fall into the hands of the Chinese army. Major General Sachs said with a straight face.

"Yes, Chief of Staff!"

"By the way, let the death squad destroy all those tanks for me, the second trench must not be lost within today, we need time to retreat, we must solve the retreat matter when another Chinese army enters the war." Major General Sachs added.

After hearing this, the officers in the back immediately went out to arrange, this is a matter of their lives, if they are captured by the Chinese army, the empire will not redeem them, as high-ranking officers, they all know the temper of Nicholas II.

The tank units of Huaxia were already close to the second line of defense of the Russian army, and the infantry behind them were also closely following the tanks not far behind.

Suddenly, a large number of Russian soldiers rushed out of the second line of trench defense of the Russian army, who were not afraid of death and rushed towards the tanks.

For the Russian soldiers who rushed out to die, the machine gunners on the tank fired as much as they could, and layers of bullets rained down towards the bodies of the Russian soldiers, and the Russian soldiers fell one after another, but the Russian soldiers in the back didn't care about the tragic situation of their comrades in front of them, and just blindly approached the tank.

As the tanks got closer and closer to them, the Russian soldiers lay on the ground and lit grenades and threw them at the tanks.

"Boom~~~" The tank was blown up by a grenade, and the machine gunner on it was directly thrown out of the tank by the swinging tank, fell to the ground and couldn't move, and the tank also stopped with black smoke.

Fortunately, the tank was not blown up, the grenade just exploded near the tank, and the tank swayed and began to recover again, except that the Heavy seemed to have been knocked unconscious.

Several other tanks were also tricked by the Russian death squads, and some were thrown directly into the tank from the machine gun, and the entire tank was destroyed; Some of them were blown up and the iron sheets outside, although they were fine, but they could not withstand the strafing of machine guns; In some cases, the Heavy is knocked down, and then a new Heavy makes up for it.

Soon, seven or eight of the more than twenty tanks lost their ability to fight, and the Russian death squads in front were still charging at the tanks.

The Chinese infantry finally caught up, they and the Russian army's death opponents launched an exciting battle, the battle was very fierce, the Russian army's death squad just went to the tank troops, but the Chinese infantry was biting them to the death.

The Russian army's death squad couldn't find a tank and fought directly with the Chinese infantry, with the purpose of dying together, they lit the grenades in their hands and rushed to the Chinese army.

Such a scene was soon played out on the battlefield, but the Chinese taxis were not frightened by this, and when they saw the Russian daredevils rushing towards them frantically, they directly shot them and dodged.

There were not many death squads in the Russian army, only about 5,000 people, and with the arrival of the Chinese soldiers behind, these death squads were also eliminated, while about ten tanks lost the ability to continue fighting.

But there were still more than a dozen tanks enough for them to grab the second line of trench defense, and if this line of defense was breached, the third line of defense would soon be breached.

"Chief of Staff, our second line of defense is about to be breached, and the attack of the Huaxia army is too fierce, and we will almost be unable to hold on."

"Hold on for a few more hours, our retreat preparations are not ready, and the third line of defense will not be able to withstand Huaxia's army at all. A few more hours will be night, so we'll take advantage of the night to retreat and hold on. As soon as Major General Sachs finished speaking, he saw his subordinates raise their hands and point to the sky with trembling hands.

He looked up, and then his whole body trembled there as if it had been struck by lightning.

I saw that several huge airships were approaching them quickly, and the flag of the Chinese Empire on the airships was so dazzling in the light of the setting sun.

It was over, this was the only thought of Major General Sachs after seeing the airship of the Chinese Empire, and he sat down on the ground weakly.

The Russian soldiers who were fighting were stunned when they saw the airship of the Chinese Empire, although their empire also had airships but they did not invest in the Far East, he knew the horror of airships, only those Outer Mongolian soldiers were stunned directly after seeing this, because they had never seen airships.

The Chinese soldiers were very excited about the arrival of the airship troops, and they took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's stunned to frantically attack the enemy, and a large number of stunned Russian and Outer Mongolian soldiers were directly killed and wounded, and the Russian and Outer Mongolian soldiers who reacted quickly continued to enter the battle.

Seeing that the morale of the Russian army after the airship unit of the Chinese Empire dropped greatly, many soldiers were fighting and retreating, and more than half of the second trench defense line was occupied by the Chinese army.

The five airships soon flew over the Russian position, and the soldiers of the airship unit immediately began to drop bombs without saying a word, and the explosives continued to rain down on the Russian troops below.

"Boom~~~"

"Boom~~~"

The explosions of the Russian army's position continued to sound, a large number of Russian troops were directly killed, and the artillery was directly blown up to the point that only a pile of scrap metal remained, and the Russian troops in the second line of defense did not care about the orders of their superiors and retreated directly to the third line of defense.

With the help of the airship troops, the Chinese army soon occupied the entire second line of defense of the Russian army, and then they began to attack the third line of defense.

The third line of defense was also broken by the Chinese army two hours later, and the remnants of the Russian army could only retreat into the city of Kulen, while the Chinese army did not attack, but only surrounded Kulen tightly.