Chapter 302: Middle Road (2)

Qi Zhenghong's headquarters was set up on a hillside 30 kilometers outside Harbin, and as soon as the sky was bright, Qi Zhenghong was woken up by a tuk tuk knock on the door.

After more than a year of studying in Germany, Qi Zhenghong developed a rigorous style, put on a military uniform after getting up, and was disciplined in front of the mirror, and then opened the door.

"Commander-in-chief, it's done, Lao Maozi has surrendered." Chief of Staff Sima Jie's eyebrows fluttered excitedly, and Lao Maozi was desperate, so he decided to give up resistance.

The main reason for the surrender of Lao Maozi in Harbin was that there was no food, and the two-month siege could not last at all.

The sun had just come out, and the Maozi in the city waved the white flag, clapped the team out, and dropped the weapons in their hands one by one. Harbin is worthy of being an important town that Maozi has been operating for many years, with more than 20,000 rifles, 30 Makqin machine guns, 122 howitzers, and more than 20 other artillery pieces.

After tossing for a morning, after all the Mao soldiers were disarmed, the Wehrmacht drove into the city. China and Russia seemed to be allies before, so it is not good for these old hairmen to be treated too roughly. Chinese really don't have a good opinion of Lao Maozi, and the words greed, barbarism and cruelty appear very frequently. How to deal with Lao Maozi's 100,000 people in Harbin, don't worry about Qi Zhenghong.

After the army entered the city, the Russians were forced out of the seven or eight makeshift camps outside the city, surrounded by barbed wire. It looks a bit like a concentration camp, not counting in terms of time. Because these camps are temporary.

At the entrance of each camp, a table was set up to apply for identity certificates for Lao Maozi one by one, and those who had a skill could immediately get a job to ensure the food of a family of three. There is no technology. The men went to build roads, and the women went to the garment factories to learn and work.

As for the Mao soldiers who were armed with weapons, they were all loaded onto trains and pulled to Manchuria, and roads were built every day under the supervision of bayonets.

The Eastern Railway has been completely opened, and the entire railway network in Northeast China can finally be put into one. On the day that the Wehrmacht entered Harbin, a long queue of bicycles was speeding across the vast wilderness.

I don't know if it's someone's bad taste, the 53rd Division's vanguard regiment has a bicycle brand called Flying Pigeon. Why not call it permanent? The role of bicycles for the Chinese can be seen from this march. Every truck bike is not short of camels. Blankets, ammunition, half a month's rations, and daily necessities were all loaded in the back. On the highways next to the railways, automobiles, a luxury item that produces no more than 5,000 trucks a year in the whole country, are naturally rare. Most of them are pack horses and screeching tricycles. The entire fifty-third division. There were only 20 trucks in total, all loaded with fuel.

All in all, it was a strange march, with all kinds of transport, and the pace of the march was not slow. Not far from the highway is the long railway, and the rail car is slowly moving forward, all the way to overhaul. Along the way, soldiers occupied the surrounding military stations. Along the way, they passed through the settlements of the Russians, and they were all driven with bayonets, and those who did not obey were killed on the spot.

After a day, the railway safety is determined. Under the path of an armored train, four train guns slowly departed, each with only one giant cannon that was considered a behemoth. This kind of gun was designed by Fang Jianxiong to the Jiangnan Military Industry Group, and French technicians specially designed and produced it according to the requirements. It took a year to produce a sample. The technical requirements of this gun are very high, and the Jiangnan Military Industrial Group produces a total of only four guns a year. This time it was all thrown into the Chita battlefield. With a range of 30 km, it is by far the most powerful piece of artillery in the Wehrmacht. In fact, Fang Dashuai originally hoped to copy the K5 (E) Leopold train gun, but unfortunately it can't be realized at all now, even with the help of the French. I had to come up with a howitzer. I can't help but say that this is a sad thing.

The Wehrmacht has a total of four independent heavy artillery regiments, and the other three regiments are equipped with 210 caliber howitzers produced in Wuhu, which are also equipped with mature technology provided by the French, and are equipped with three regiments, which will also be used on the Shuangchengzi fortress this time.

Compared with the march in the direction of Manchuria and Suifenhe, the march in the direction of Kyakhta was not so windy.

The two infantry divisions under the command of Xu Shuzheng, because there were no railways, could only rely on horses and bicycles to help them march. Fortunately, there is a lack of everything here, that is, there is no shortage of horses. In fact, the most popular is the "28-inch" Feige brand truck bicycle, this bicycle produced by Wuhu, 14 years of finalized production, sales of 20,000 units that year. Good sales performance, has been favored by the bank, a large number of loans support, the first half of 18 production of modified bicycles 50,000, is expected to reach 120,000 by the end of the year. It has become another fist product of Wuhu since the tricycle.

Gossip aside, three days later.

The bicycle of the vanguard company pedaled unhurriedly, and the spy company, which was the pioneer of the road, had a submachine gun in its hand, and the company commander was Shang Zhen, who graduated from the Baoding Military Academy. After the fall of Yuan Shikai, the Baoding Military Academy was upgraded to the Second Army University. The original Beijing Army University was upgraded to a senior staff officer of the army. The graduates of Wuhu Lu University are called Dafang students, and Baoding students are jokingly called aunt students.

This statement is reflected in the graduation allocation. After graduation, Wuhu students directly worked as company commanders in the troops, and Baoding students were normally platoon commanders, and those with excellent grades may be deputy company commanders.

Shang Zhen is a student in the third phase of Baoding, with excellent grades, and after graduation, he was assigned to the 53rd Division as a deputy company commander, and half a year later he was favored by Li Daxiong because of his outstanding performance in military training and was promoted to the commander of the special agent company.

Seeing a green signal flare from a distance, Shang Zhen immediately braked and shouted: "Prepare for battle!" ”

The spy company is a strong general, and Su zhì is naturally the best in the whole army. With an order, everyone got out of the car, and the portable sapper shovel began to fly, and in about ten minutes a simple bunker was dug up. After entering the battle preparations, several soldiers who were pedaling for their bikes appeared in front of them, speeding towards the dirt road, and behind them were billowing smoke and dust, and Shang Zhen visually estimated that there were nearly a hundred horses.

According to intelligence, one division of the Russian army in Chita, plus about 30,000 armed forces in some places. As an important town on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Tsarist Russia built a strong fortress here. In fact, this fortress was not originally aimed at China, but at the possible threat posed by Japan. This is the same as Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok. After the outbreak of World War I and the victory of the Republic of China in Qingdao, Tsarist Russia strengthened the fortresses of Chita, Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok and increased the garrison. After the Russian Revolution, the Russian army in the Far East has been vacillating, and although it recognizes Kolchak, it has no intention of taking refuge. Anyway, these three fortresses in the Far East have no shortage of food and drink, and they have strong defenses, and no one will leave lightly.

The commander of the Russian garrison in Chita was Major General Semyonnikov, a former tsarist nobleman, under the command of a Russian division, a Cossack cavalry regiment. There were also a mess of routs that had escaped from Russia, plus new recruits. Chita was an important transit point, and all military supplies from the United States during World War I had to pass through here. Semyonnikov secretly intercepted a batch of munitions, and after the outbreak of revolutions in various countries, he simply came to a train to intercept one and got him more than 10,000 rifles, more than 3 million rounds of ammunition, and more than 100 heavy machine guns.

With soldiers and guns in his hands, Semennikov's waist hardened, and the internal situation in Russia was undecided, so he simply became the emperor of the soil here. When the red regime was established, they were even more reluctant to leave.

The Chinese government sent a telegram to protect overseas Chinese, which was not a big deal for Semyonnikov. He is not Vladivostok here, and the guns of battleships cannot threaten him. Even if the Chinese come, they can't do anything to him.

Of course, he is also a battle-hardened officer, and he knows that this kind of thing cannot be sloppy, so while strengthening the grain reserves, he also strengthens the fortifications, and at the same time constantly sends cavalry out to reconnoiter and destroy the railway by the way.

The sharp knife squad sent by Shang Zhen encountered a Cossack cavalry company. Finding that Lao Maozi was planting explosives to blow up the railway, the sharp knife squad fired a signal flare, and at the same time turned around and ran. The impression of the Cossack cavalry on the squadron ** was still in the period of the Russo-Japanese War, although the Qingdao War was won by the Chinese and fought well in Europe, all the same for the Cossacks.

Finding that the Chinese had run away, the Cossack cavalry immediately got on their horses and chased after them, and this was nothing polite. Unexpectedly, these Chinese pedaled two-wheeled bicycles and ran fast.

The Russian cavalry stopped when it was about a thousand meters away, and had no intention of leaving, as if they were discussing something. Shang Zhen was also on the battlefield for the first time, and his hands were shaking, but he was a company commander, so he couldn't be cowardly at this time. The military discipline of the Wehrmacht was strict, and if he escaped from the battle, the life instructor of the army could shoot him directly.

It may be that he found that the Wehrmacht on the opposite side was not many in number, and the Russian army had not been there for a long time, so Shang Zhen wished that they hesitated, and then less than twenty kilometers away, it was a battalion of reinforcements. If time drags on, it will definitely be beneficial to Shang Zhen's spy company.

After less than five minutes of hesitation, Lao Maozi finally moved, and the horses began to trot. Shang Zhen saw clearly from the binoculars, and immediately ordered the four 60 mortars beside him: "Fire!" ”

In the sound of the explosion, seventeen or eighteen Maozi cavalry were hit, these cavalry looked like veteran oil, and when they saw that there was a cannon on the opposite side, they immediately formed a scattered formation and continued to trot forward and approach. The four mortars raised the rate of fire to the extreme in the urging of Shang Zhen. The Cossack cavalry suffered constant casualties, but remained unmoved and continued to move forward at a constant pace. According to Lao Maozi's experience, as long as they rushed to the front, these Chinese would definitely scatter and flee in front of the saber.

When the Cossack cavalry approached five hundred meters, Shang Zhen was a little out of breath and ordered light machine gun fire. The Cossack cavalry fell to the ground in succession under the fire of Tatata's squad with a Bren machine gun, but still rushed forward fiercely and began to accelerate.